The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics

‘Okay, let me repeat the plan one more time.’

Robin summarized and refined everyone's brainstorming, then sent it to everyone's minds.

‘First, Plastic Man will attract the typhoon's attention, luring it to the flour warehouse that Kid Flash found. Then, Stargirl will deploy a force field to trap the typhoon and the flour in a sealed space.’

The two whose names were mentioned were already prepared. Plastic Man stood on a nondescript building, stretching his right hand like a rope for a jump rope, as if warming up.

Next to him was Kid Flash, limbering up his legs. He needed to take Plastic Man away after the typhoon reached the designated location to prevent him from being trapped inside the barrier.

Stargirl stood on a building about three hundred meters away from the warehouse, clutching her Star Scepter, taking deep breaths.

‘Then, I'll throw the bomb to detonate the flour, and Miss Martian's heat vision will act as a double insurance to detonate the flour, creating a dust explosion to turn the typhoon back into a normal person.’

Robin crouched on the roller coaster tracks, the highest point he could find closest to the warehouse, providing the best view for throwing the bomb.

Taking advantage of the few minutes spent arranging the plan, he modified his grappling hook into a simple launcher, allowing him to shoot the bomb farther and with greater accuracy.

Miss Martian floated in the air, her mind highly focused, waiting for Robin's command to coordinate and fire her heat vision.

‘Finally, Aqualad will stand by, responsible for using water magic to extinguish the fire after the barrier breaks.’

Aqualad stood in front of the river closest to the warehouse, thanks to the amusement facility that circled the entire park, giving him an ample water source to release water magic.

Everything was ready, waiting for Robin's command.

‘Action begins!’

Through the mental link, Robin's instructions were clearly transmitted to everyone's minds. Almost simultaneously, Plastic Man's body changed.

First, his mouth began to grow larger and wider, looking like a giant loudspeaker. Plastic Man used it to amplify his voice, shouting at the distant, rampaging typhoon.

“Hey! Big electric fan over there!”

The voice was deafening, even in the howling wind, it could be clearly heard. Although he wasn't named, the typhoon knew that the electric fan was referring to him.

Already angry, he was now even more furious. Turning his body, transformed into a whirlwind, he looked towards the direction of the voice and saw Plastic Man, whose image had changed again.

“See if I look like you!”

Besides his head, Plastic Man's entire body had undergone a drastic change, twisting and turning as if to imitate the typhoon's body, except that the shape looked more like an animated turd than a rotating whirlwind.

“Look like you? Look like you?”

Coupled with Plastic Man's cheap tone, it could be said that any normal person couldn't stand it, let alone the mentally unstable typhoon.

“Ah!”

Roaring, the typhoon pounced towards Plastic Man, like his namesake, the typhoon, his speed was very fast, and it only took him less than ten seconds to rush to Plastic Man's side.

Plastic Man's soft body was blown like a rag, Kid Flash seized the opportunity to grab the former and dashed out thousands of meters in the blink of an eye.

‘Stargirl!’

“Hey ya!”

Stargirl raised the Star Scepter high, and cosmic energy like starlight burst out. After the typhoon's body destroyed the warehouse storing the flour, she slammed the Star Scepter to the ground.

“Bang!”

Like the sound of a spring rebounding to its limit, the cosmic energy gathered at the top of the Star Scepter was like a flood that had found a vent, pouring out towards the front.

“Gather!”

Under Stargirl's control, the cosmic energy began to condense from bottom to top, and a translucent semicircle gradually formed. The angry typhoon realized that he had fallen into a trap.

Although he didn't understand what these people were going to do, he absolutely couldn't let them succeed.

The typhoon roared, and the whirlwind under him was twice as thick as before. The constantly rotating airflow brought powerful energy and even stirred the cosmic energy condensed by Stargirl.

‘Not good!’ Stargirl's labored voice reached everyone's minds.

‘My... power... isn't as strong as him! The barrier is about to... lose control!’

Robin gritted his teeth. The warehouse storing the flour had begun to collapse. The steel and concrete structure had no resistance in the face of natural disasters. Before long, the flour stored inside would be swept into the sky.

If the barrier couldn't be closed before the flour was released, the concentration required for a dust explosion wouldn't be reached, and their plan would fail.

‘Looks like we can only wait for the Justice League to come.’ Dick couldn't help but smile wryly. Although Batman's task for him was to hold on for ten minutes, and everything would be solved when they came.

But, if everything is left to the adults, when will they, these fledglings, grow up? Will they have to hand over all the difficulties to the adults in the future? Wouldn't he be like when he was a child, unable to protect anything?

‘Is there any way?’ Dick racked his brains but couldn't think of a solution. Among this group of people, only Stargirl could mobilize cosmic energy. Everyone present couldn't help her. This was basically a dead end.

Although no one said it directly, Stargirl inevitably felt everyone's emotions. She knew these emotions weren't directed at her, but Stargirl just didn't want to disappoint anyone.

So she gritted her teeth and continued to increase the output of the Star Scepter, even though it had long exceeded her capacity, but the effect was still minimal.

Both she and the Star Scepter had limits, and this was a gap that couldn't be crossed by effort alone.

But she wasn't alone.

Suddenly, Stargirl felt the output of the Star Scepter begin to strengthen, almost three times higher than before. Just as she didn't understand what was happening, a voice rang in her mind.

‘Need help?’

Stargirl turned her head and saw Harby standing next to her. She was so focused that she hadn't noticed. He was holding the tail of the Star Scepter, and blue currents were constantly gushing out of him, pouring into the Star Scepter.

‘The Star Scepter is just an energy receiver. Generally speaking, it can accept cosmic energy, but it doesn't mean that other energy can't charge it.’

The Mutant Clone's abilities were numerous. It could use all mutant abilities, including its own power generation. Harby used this to provide energy to the Star Scepter.

The horns on Harby's head bloomed with a luster like red agate, and the soft red light brought Stargirl endless peace of mind. The feeling of having a companion standing beside her was truly wonderful beyond words.

‘Guide me, Stargirl, let's trap this big guy together!’

“Okay!”

Stargirl shouted, her body and spirit were invigorated. The originally distorted barrier gradually solidified and closed at a rapid speed.

‘It's your turn, Robin! Miss Martian!’

‘Already prepared!’

Robin's playful smile reappeared on his face. The launcher, already set up, was aimed at the shrinking opening of the barrier.

Miss Martian gained altitude, her eyes flashing red, her target was also the shrinking entrance.

The typhoon was shocked and angry. He looked at the shrinking exit and increased the output again. At this time, flour had begun to spill from the damaged packaging bags. As a scientist, he immediately understood what these people were going to do.

Afraid of a dust explosion, he couldn't use lightning. The high temperature generated by lightning would kill him. He could only continue to expand the whirlwind to break the shield.

The powerful whirlwind cut open all the flour packaging bags. Robin was waiting for this moment. He gave the order in his heart and pressed the trigger.

‘Fire!’

In the blink of an eye, the bundled bat-bombs and the red ray squeezed into the barrier together, and the barrier closed completely at this time.

Flour, air, high temperature, explosives, these things were locked in a small space together, and the next second the red fire engulfed the typhoon's figure, filling the entire interior of the barrier, looking like a large light bulb from a distance.

“Crack!”

In the face of such a large amount of explosion, the barrier jointly constructed by Stargirl and Harby only lasted for less than three seconds before it shattered. After all, the barrier had been ravaged by the typhoon before bearing the explosion.

It was not easy to be able to persist for a while under such circumstances.

At the same time as the barrier shattered, the exhausted Stargirl fell backward. Facing the fire that attacked her, she had no way to resist. The towering fire occupied her entire vision, until a small body stood in front of her.

It was Harby. The mutant clone, still with remaining strength, used his small body to block her and the flames. At that moment, Stargirl felt everything slow down, and time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Then, Kid Flash took the two away from the scene.

‘Aqualad!’

Robin's voice was full of urgency. Whether they could survive depended on this last step.

Aqualad inserted his water bearer into the river. At this time, he was running his magic at full power, but he couldn't mobilize all of this water by himself. He didn't have that much strength.

At the critical moment, a pair of strong arms grabbed the water bearer from behind him. Aqualad looked back and saw Superboy, who had woken up at some point.

Looking at the other party's firm gaze, Aqualad didn't hesitate, and didn't even need telepathy to communicate. The two exerted force at the same time, like an over-the-shoulder throw, using the water bearer as the fulcrum to throw the water from the river.

Water and fire, since ancient times, have been incompatible. Sometimes it is strong, sometimes it is prosperous, there is no certainty.

But at this moment, good triumphs over evil.

This chapter could not be cut off, so I finished it in one go.