"Good! Wait -- good. No broken means broken. The antennas are broken," says Starman, reasoning his way cautiously through Bizarro World.
"And this," he says, displaying the multi-sphered ray gun, "is the copying gun, apparently. Which could have been worse."
"Okay, Bizarro-Brainiac, what now? Are you gonna put this robo-village back where you got it from?"
"ALWAYS!"
"Always means ... never. Aw crud. You're gonna do this the hard way, aren't you?"
Bizarro-Brainiac shakes his head fiercely, then runs away, back into the brass mechanical wind-up city.
The windup people shoot him just as resolutely as they have the heroes, but Bizarro-Brainiac runs on, trying to reach the big power station/cathedral/library/whatever in the center. You know, the one that has all the stolen electricity running to it.
But Green Arrow cut the power line, you say! And yes, he did.
But suddenly the mechanical beehive-like structure comes to brilliant electric life, whirling and flashing and emitting signals of green coherent light!
"Waaah! Gasp! Sob!" laughs Bizarro-Brainiac. "Me am in trouble now!"
Actually, he IS in trouble now.
Because a gold-and-copper disc ship drops down from the heavens, links up with the robot city in a visible rainbow of green energy data, and opens its rim. Mechanical bees flood forth, in torrential numbers, seizing and binding and lifting Bizarro-Brainiac, hanging him from a convenient gargoyle in a web of sticky golden wires.
The alien disc ship revolves, lands, and lights up. A teleporter cloud crackles into life, and out steps a blank-eyed War Drone with stinger cannon and web carbine, looking around dully at Opal/Robo City and its defenders.
(Though not the Shade. Can't see him!)
"You," buzzes the War Drone. "Human in green clothing with bow and arrow. Take me to the one called Green Arrow, or lose your will forever to the Drone Toxin."
He hefts his stinger cannon as additional War Drones begin materializing, one by one, from the disc ship.
Monkey King appears suddenly and punches the Bizarro-Brainiac. Assuming he is the oppose of the evil giant capture demon machine, he racks his brain for what Brainiac was good at.
Force fields! that's it!
he then says "okay super smart well-functioning maniacal marvel, how about you keep taking the buildings of this city and I will hit you again!"
Then he realizes that Brainiac has already lost and floats there looking foolish.
Ah, but has Brainiac lost? For the blow dealt by the Monkey King has torn the brass network holding him captive. He drops to the pavement, face first.
"Yay!" gasps Bizarro-Braniac as he goes down. But he bounds right up again, green fists clenched!
"Me am easy to clobber, because Brainiac no have glass jaw!"
"And now, me am use my copying ray pistol, which Starman has taken away!"
He doesn't. Instead, he lunges at Monkey King and tries to hit him with his green stony fist.
This has virtually NO chance of working ...
THE SHADE:
The Shade will quietly untie Green Arrow and slip away into the shadows...more.
But Green Arrow has not told the Drone Soldier where Green Arrow is, so the Drone Soldier shoots Green Arrow with Drone Toxin.
"Now your will is fluid, draining into the vast ocean of obedience which is the Hive," the Drone Soldier explains. "Now you must reveal where is the Green Arrow human being."
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