The hunter and the hunted.
Third pov...
'Hmmm damn Waller and her damn meta-humans' thought Slade as he aimed his sniper to the distant building and through the infrared he watched as a girl was brushing the hair of a boy on her lap in the living room.
"what's so…. Hmm..?" he thought before noticing the boy stand suddenly and rushing and packing up
"interesting" he muttered before aiming at the girl and firing a bullet but then ....
Poof..
The bullet didn't just go through the girl but she disappeared in a puff of smoke, Slade was flabbergasted as his eyes narrowed before aiming at the boy who now from the visual he received back was smiling at him.
Instincts took over Deathstroke at the last moment as he moved away from he stood immediately as Alex appeared right above him with a heavy punch striking the ground where he was moments ago. The punch destroyed the asphalt as smoke rose.
'how did he know where I was, its like he staged this ambush and knew where I would pick' Deathstroke analyzed the situation within seconds but as he pulled his pistons aimed at Alex firing immediately.
Alex weaved and dodged the bullets through following the trajectories using his eyes, two clones appeared by his sides but one standing on the ceiling the other from the side as they fought and moved against Deathstroke.
'clones?!...' thought Deathstroke as he changed tactics and pulled his short sword, charging into the fight, Alex clone transformed into a bow staff and he moved in too as sparks filled the room and Deathstroke fought back still not losing and holding his ground.
Alex didn't give him a break once but being the trained fighter and tactician he was, Deathstroke fought back and in between the exchange tossing a flash bang giving him space to jump away and reanalyze his assessment and Alex threat level.
'this is more troublesome than I thought!' Deathstroke thought as he took things more serious than before. This wasn't time for thinking about collateral damage even if a certain cape crusade would show up soon or Waller reacting about government programs.
"stop.. i am watching what is happening at your location now Slade and I said don't" Waller's voice cracked to life through the comms on Deathstroke's ear. In a room filled with consoles and computer screen showing drone footage and satellite images.
'what this just got harder' deathstroke thought to himself but that didn't mean he was out of options, he just had to control the environment. He dodged an attack sent his way by Alex's clone as he fired bullets at the clones who dodged them easily.
'checkmate' thought Alex as he moved in when Deathstroke fired using his piston, it was game over or at least that was what he thought!
Boom....
An explosion caught Alex from the back 'what how did he do that' Alex asked as he used his clones as meat shields to take the full impact of the explosion and heat as he back away into a crouch. His eyes immediately transform to pale pupils.
'Another cocky mistake, he was shooting at me but the gas pipes!' Alex though as he used his dojutuse to see his surrounding, pipelines gas tanks and grenades
'wait when did he?....' Alex was shocked 'come one why is this guy more than what I remember him to be' Alex mentally screamed. I should finish this first before a local hero or whatever decides to show up.
"pause there!" Waller's voice echoed in the silent monitoring room as the drones had zoomed onto Alex's face. She saw the explosion, she had seen the battle till now and she noticed the fight analyzing what she could and one thing was she noticed the pale eyes.
Alex Pov…
'Please work please work please work' I thought as I stood looking at the environment and entire battle field before pulling my sleeve down to look at my wrist
[2 – 1 live remaining….]
[18 : 30 : 45s]
'This is the second loop, I can't repeat the mistake of the first loop and reveal too much! Not when Waller's pet sniper is just waiting for the call' thinking about the second loop where I beat Deathstroke easily only to be shot by that damn Deadshot!
'I got damn full of myself and Lois was killed because of that' breathing in as I calmed down 'am not very good at acting but I sure hope my desperation is believable enough'
I moved in running towards where I saw Deathstroke thanks to the byakugan dojutus seeing him through the smoke, weaving through gunshots and making more clones to support me but just as we were about to clash
"Stop! That's far enough Alex Quill." A female voice I have heard enough times through two pervious loops spoke up.
"Alex, my name is Amanda Waller and right now the one person who is your best only opportunity away from a life sentence and someplace worse!" a holographic projection was projected into the room from one of the drones that was recording and seeing the entire fight.
"before you reject the offer I would like you to know we have Lois in our hands and know is isn't exactly normal as well!" she spoke calmly as the projection showed Lois in restraints.
"for now I suggest you give in otherwise… let's just say we have no need to make things more complicated as they are!" she added and I stared at her eyes before stepping back and my clones disappeared at once.
"glad you made the right choice!" Waller spoke calmly and three minutes later men in special swat uniform entered the place with meta-human restraints which were useless on me but they didn't need to know that.
'finally phase one done! I honestly thought she wouldn't take the bait' I thought as I was escorted out of the building. Outwardly I maintained a stern, half angry expression, the kind of face one does when someone close to them is threaten.
'I really need some sleep after this!" that was my last thought as I was entered into a van and taken.
Third Pov…
"what do you think?" Waller asked Deathstroke whose healing factor was already working repairing his wounds and cut wounds he got.
"He is strong, I have faced many opponents but few improve midbattle and even then it is a gradual improvement. He was skyrocketing and I have a suspicion that he wasn't experienced, all the skills he used were mine" Deathstroke answered as he sheath his sword.
"it was like fighting a mirror of myself just still less refined, if I fought with all my skills…." He didn't complete his analysis, he didn't need too because the implications were clear enough for even Waller to understand