A blue light flashed and faded!
Everyone looked up, their nerves frayed as they stared at Jason. It felt as if the very air had solidified. Jason remained motionless, his deep blue eyes as calm as a still lake. He simply scanned the faces of his gathered comrades from left to right.
"Pretty interesting. This gem actually glows."
At his words, Harley's body jolted, and the expressions of the other core mbers turned grim.
What's happening? Since they obtained the Scepter, it had never failed. Why was it suddenly useless?
"Yeah... it glows," Harley said, her heart hamring against her ribs while she forced an indifferent smile. "Pretty, right? Let's try it one more ti."
With that, she repeated the gesture, stroking the scepter. This ti, she watched with agonizing focus. She saw the blue light spark from the tip of the scepter, but the mont it touched Jason, it vanished without a trace. The light didn't enter his body, and it certainly didn't enslave his mind.
Impossible. Why was this happening?
Harley completely lost her cool, staring at the scepter in confusion. If the scepter couldn't control Jason, then everything they had done was for nothing.
Jason's expression remained composed, as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred. He raised his champagne, took a slow sip, and said leisurely, "You... aren't Harley, are you?"
The mont those words left his mouth, a collective gasp filled the room. The core mbers' eyes went wide.
"No... I..." Harley stamred, trying to formulate a defense.
Jason suddenly looked up, staring directly at her. Those deep eyes had turned bone-chillingly cold, stripped of every ounce of the previous tenderness. Harley t his gaze for a few seconds before finally shrugging her shoulders and letting out a defeated sigh.
"Sigh..."
With a shimr of golden light, Harley's form lted away, revealing Loki. "My disguise was flawless. How did you know?"
Jason tilted his head, ignoring him entirely. Instead, his disappointed gaze swept across his sitting comrades. "And to think you're supposed to be the core mber of the Joker organization... taken down by this piece of junk!"
Even if he was Loki, the God of Mischief. Even if he could shapeshift. Even if he held a mind-controlling scepter... No matter how many excuses there were, for the leadership of the Joker organization to be wiped out by a single enemy was a disgrace!
This wasn't just anger; it was the bitter disappointnt of a leader whose pride had been wounded. Fortunately, Loki was alone today and couldn't cause too much of a stir. Had he allied with S.H.I.E.L.D. or the U.S. governnt—or simply stayed undercover longer—the Joker organization might have truly been finished.
Jason's words sent a shockwave through the room. The core mber scrambled back, dropping into combat stances, their eyes filled with wariness.
Jason shook his head in disappointnt and turned back to Loki. "Where is Harley?"
Loki, annoyed by the previous snub, gripped his scepter and said, "Why don't you guess?"
Jason's brow furrowed, and he vanished instantly.
BOOM!!!
A deafening explosion rocked the banquet hall. Fissures spider-webbed across the reinforced floor, and the heavy luxury table was torn to shreds by a sudden gale. In the next heartbeat, Jason had Loki by the throat, slamming him so hard into the stone wall that he was practically embedded in it.
He struck with pure rage; one second was all it took to settle the matter.
"The organization's leadership is my bottom line... the mother of my child is my bottom line... and being intimate with a man is definitely my bottom line."
"As luck would have it... you managed to snap all three at once."
"So, why don't you guess... what am I going to do to you?"
Loki's face was contorted in pain and a hideous grimace. His throat was constricted so tightly he couldn't make a sound. "I... cough... cough..."
With their master pinned, the core mber behind them didn't dare step forward. They knew that if Jason applied just a fraction more pressure, Loki's life would be over.
"I'm asking you one more ti!" Jason pressed him deeper into the masonry. "Where is Harley?"
"I'm right here!" A sharp, familiar voice rang out behind him.
Jason whipped his head around to see Harley suddenly appear in the hall. She bore no signs of injury, but the way she looked at Jason was as if she were staring at the murderer of her kin. He never imagined their first eting in a year would look like this.
Flash!
Seizing the mont of Jason's shock, Harley flicked her fingers. Loki vanished into thin air.
The mont Loki disappeared, every core mber struck simultaneously, as if by a prearranged signal. A barrage of diverse powers slamd into Jason. No one held back.
RUMBLE!!!
The base shook violently, as if hit by an earthquake. Jason was blasted through the stone wall by the sheer force of the combined attack, crashing into the adjacent room. Fortunately, his energy shield held; the volley caused no actual damage.
I can't fight them inside. I have to lure them out!
The base held a thousand mbers, all of them elite. If Jason and the core mber let loose, the facility would collapse instantly, and those elites would be turned into collateral damage. Despite the organization's wealth, Jason wasn't about to waste his resources like that.
"Chloe! Chloe!" He stood up and pulled out his communicator, praying the AI hadn't been compromised.
"Sir! What are your orders?" Chloe's voice ca through.
"Thank God," Jason breathed a heavy sigh of relief. "Sothing's gone wrong! The core mbers are under Loki's control! They're engaging at the New York HQ! Issue an imdiate evacuation for all HQ personnel through the ergency tunnels. Also, lock down the Houston branch completely. No one leaves."
Recalling the events, the first mber to act strangely was John. He was the one who suggested the reunion in New York, which ant he was Loki's first target. Until the situation was cleared, the Houston branch had to be quarantined to prevent the leak of secrets.
"Understood. Should I deploy the Armored Legion?" Even in the face of such a crisis, Chloe's voice remained cool.
"With Franklin there, the suits are useless. And—though it might sound arrogant—I don't need backup." Jason said with total confidence.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
The base's ergency evacuation siren wailed. Since the HQ's founding, the mbers had never heard that piercing sound. But they were the best of the best; after a few seconds of shock, they sprinted toward the escape routes.
CRASH!
The wall collapsed. The core mber stood in a line before him. Jason brushed the dust from his suit and said flatly, "It's too cramped in here to move. Let's take this outside."
Loki, hiding behind the others, chuckled. "Jason, you can't run!"
"Run?" Jason's lip curled in a smirk. "I'm going to beat every single one of these idiots until they wake up!"
With that, he rocketed upward, smashing through the ceiling and flying out into the sky!
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