CYBER ASSASSINS & PANIC IN THE LIGHT
1. DAMIAN'S TRAINING OF THE NEO-LEAGUE
The training grounds of the League of Assassins had always been silent, deadly, disciplined.
Now?
They hummed.
Machines whirred.
Sensors scanned.
Cybernetic limbs locked and released with precision clicks.
Damian stood in the center of the courtyard wearing black training armor lined with glowing lines of blue—same energy as Sandevistan tech.
Behind him stood:
20 augmented assassins
Each fitted with cybernetic arms, legs, spinal supports
Eyes glowing faintly from neural enhancers
Reflex boosters humming underneath skin
Ra's al Ghul and Talia watched from the balcony.
Toothless lay beside them like a giant cat, tail swinging menacingly at anyone who dared step too close.
Training Phase 1: Reaction Speed
Damian snapped his fingers.
Ten drones activated and shot laser-precision rubber rounds at the assassins.
POP-POP-POP-POP!
"Dodge!"
Damian yelled.
The assassins moved—too slow.
Half were hit.
One had both legs shot out from under him.
Damian instantly appeared behind the fallen assassin—
Sandevistan flickering across his armor—
And kicked him back onto his feet.
Damian:
"If you were fighting Flash, you would be dead.
If you were fighting Wonder Woman, cut in half.
If you were fighting me—you'd already be unconscious."
Toothless nodded in agreement, which made it worse.
Training Phase 2: Strength Control
Cybernetic strength was dangerous.
Too weak—useless.
Too strong—limbs ripped from bodies or walls shattered.
Damian placed three objects in front of the trainees:
A steel rod
A concrete slab
A glass sculpture
Damian:
"Break the steel rod.
Crack the concrete just enough.
Do NOT break the glass."
The first assassin went up—
shattered all three.
Damian kicked him into the sand.
Damian:
"You fail. Next."
The next assassin broke only the rod—
but crushed the concrete slab too hard.
Next.
Next.
Next.
Ten more failures.
Shiva folded her arms.
Shiva:
"They are strong, but sloppy."
Talia nodded.
Talia:
"They have power but not control. My son is forging both."
Training Phase 3: Combat
Damian stepped into the ring.
Damian:
"All of you.
At once."
The assassins hesitated.
Damian (cold):
"Do not insult me by holding back."
Sandevistan activated—
time slowed for Damian, not for them.
In less than a second:
He grabbed one assassin by the wrist
Threw him into two more
Used the momentum to flip over another
Landed elbow-first into the spine of the fourth
Toothless watched proudly and shot a small plasma blast at an assassin sneaking up behind Damian.
Damian didn't even look.
Damian:
"Good boy."
Five minutes later… every assassin was on the ground.
Damian stood over them.
Damian:
"You have the power of machines.
But you lack the will.
The instinct.
The killer focus."
He pointed to his head.
Damian:
"Cybernetics enhance the body.
I'm here to enhance the mind."
And they listened—because the son of the Bat, heir of the Demon, had earned the right to command.
Ra's smiled for the first time in years.
2. THE LIGHT'S PANIC MEETING
On the other side of the world…
The Light gathered.
Vandal Savage
Lex Luthor
Queen Bee
Ocean Master
Klarion
The Brain
Talia's seat remained empty
(She had an excuse: her son brought a dragon home).
A screen flickered on showing footage of the League of Assassins training:
Assassins moving faster than normal humans
Cybernetic limbs
Neural-linked reflex boosters
Damian slicing through twenty assassins with superhuman speed
Ra's al Ghul smiling like a proud father
And a dragon breathing plasma in a courtyard
Silence.
Pure, absolute silence.
Then—
Lex Luthor:
"…This is bad."
Vandal Savage:
"This is worse than bad."
Ocean Master:
"They've upgraded assassins with—what even IS that technology?"
Brain:
"Impossible…
they have neural cybernetics better than anything in the U.S. military…"
Queen Bee:
"Where is this coming from?
Not from Earth—that I guarantee."
Klarion was the only one amused.
Klarion:
"HE BROUGHT A DRAGON.
A DRAGON.
YOU ALL SHOULD BE PANICKING HARDER."
Lex pulls up the scan results.
He highlights the implants.
Lex:
"These cyber-enhancements aren't just advanced.
They're decades beyond Earth science.
Maybe a century."
He zooms in on Gronckle Iron alloy.
Lex:
"And this metal…
I still can't identify it.
Not even with Apokoliptian algorithms."
Vandal's eyes narrowed.
Vandal:
"The League of Assassins now has—
Dragon support
Cybernetic super-assassins
A future heir who wields fire like a god
And access to impossible resources."
He stood.
Vandal:
"We may lose the global balance of power."
Lex spoke softly—terrifyingly calm.
Lex:
"What concerns me is not that the League grew stronger.
What concerns me is why."
Silence again.
Then:
Lex:
"Damian Wayne is preparing for a war.
The real question is—
Who is he preparing to fight?"
Everyone froze.
No one had an answer.