>>5522562“Why does he have a jungle?” your son asks, looking around at all the captured solitary creatures. “What in the world is this place?”
“It's like a zoo for endangered animals. The Preserver, as the wrinkled frag-sleeve likes to call himself takes species from across the universe on the brink of extinction and adds them to his collection.” Lobo explains, the five of you heading towards that jungle at a brisk yet not running pace. For some reason. “Guy's a nut, but his money was always good. Until the bastich kidnapped me, and for that he's gonna pay!”
“Return to your enclosures, immediately.” the same robotic voices call back, you turning and seeing more than double the earlier drones all flying towards you all. But you're not here to play games, focusing your ki behind your eyes and firing your cutting Eye Beams. With little effort you bisect the swarm of robots, which all collapse into sparking heaps on the ground. Ending your attack you turn back, looking the mercenary up and down.
“Whatever they sedated you with, it clearly suppressed both of your powers.” you say to Lobo and Superman, who both are looking at you as you now lead the way down off the ledge and into the jungle. “Your focus should be on escape, or on a way to restore your powers first.”
“If we had a yellow sun's light, I could restore most of my power within a few seconds.” Superman says, confirming that he is indeed a Kryptonian. “What about you?”
“Unless either of ya's got a way to remove gas from a body, I'm not gonna be a hundred percent for a while.” the Czarnian says, sounding just a touch jealous. “This poison's got me feelin' all lethargic and whatnot.”
Poison? It couldn't be that easy. Could it? Could you actually restore BOTH of their strengths yourself with Hamon? However, before you can ask you sense something moving <span class="mu-i">below</span> you. Then the ground you're standing on collapses, and the five of you start falling.
“Hang on!” you shout, grabbing Lobo and flying back up and out of the hole while J'onn does the same with Superman, your son flying unhindered. You can sense a beast moving down there, something not quite as strong as either of the escapees but could prove a threat in their current states. But as long as it stays down there, it shouldn't be any real threat.
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