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Superman didn’t know what to do.

Most of the league was out cold, including Batman, the alien invasion was getting heftier and he couldn’t help out everyone at the same time, he needed help.

The emergency button Batman had installed to his phone seemed very tempting but he couldn’t ignore the warnings either.

Batman had instructed The Button to be used only in world ending situations- did an alien army that took down more than half the team down count as world ending? It should count right? If not, Batman was cold down so that should be enough reason too.

Clark pressed the button, trying to keep up with the incoming aliens at the same time. A monotone voice was heard from his earpiece- the AI he knew as Oracle (or more like thought to be AI)

”The JL emergency button has been pressed, everyone wrap up whatever you’re doing and prepare to leave Gotham.” She instructed to- Batmans allies…? Possibly.

“Yes Hood you can kill the Aliens- no Spoiler no glitter bombs! Robin please stay away from the Batmobil- NIGHTWING STOP!” The voice was Orcles but… it sounded more human? Who were these people? Clark was trying to fight aliens and piece together who these people were at the same time- exhausting for him to say the least.

”Batwoman collect Agent A and Robin on your way please, and- NIGHTWING I TOLD YOU TO STOP!” Yeah, this was weird…

Clark was so distracted that he didn’t see the alien attacking him from behind- nor did he see the blonde girl in a purple costume jump on the alien and pull off its head. 

She tapped her earpiece, her eyes scanning the surroundings. “Spoiler arrived at the scene” she announced, Clark heard the voice echo in his own comms, must be one of the allies then.

”Signal arrived at the scene.” Superman heard from his earpiece, the girl jump away and all of a sudden, without Clark even moving his finger, the Aliens around them started to be taken down. 

An old man with a British accent asked where Batman was but Clark could only focus on how the man aimed so… so… precisely. 

The Red Hood, Clark recognised as a crime lord from Gotham, was emptying his ammo on aliens and beating them with the guns when he ran out of ammunition. Again, he was beating aliens with clocks.

And the small child with the yellow cape was cutting through them with a katana, taking down three with one stroke.

The man in the black suit with a blue bird on it was doing stunts Clark couldn’t grasp his head around- how could a human be so… flexible.

He couldn’t see the rest of them but the commotion on the comms and the aliens getting taken down by seemingly no one indicated that there is much more of them.

”Has anyone located B?” a man yelled into the comms.

”I have my eyes on him but too many aliens for me to get there, Batwoman?” Another man replied.

”I will clear the path for you Hood, get B-Man out of here.” A woman with a deep voice replied.

”someone get the other injured JL member!” A girl- the one in the purple outfit, Clark remembered.

Before he could get to any of his teammates, they were all gone and the Aliens were down, when he got to the Zeta tubes, there was a commotion. 

“Are you in, RR?” A guy in a yellow asked the guy kneeling next to the tube. The guy nodded. “Agent A and the injured ones should go in first, Signal, Hood, Robin and Spoiler, stay behind and patrol the area to check on the people, Orphan, Batwoman, Nightwing and I will help with the injured”

Superman approached the woman in the Bat costume- that one should be Batwoman. “Uhm… would you mind explaining who you guys are?” The woman turned to face The Man of Steel. “We are Gothams vigilantes, B installed the emergency button on your phones to contact us if any real help is needed” the woman held out her hand. “I am Batwoman” Clark shook her hand. “Super-man” 

“Zeta Tube is operating, everyone bring the injured in!” The guy they called RR stepped aside to let them in. Clark picked up cyborg, Nightwing was carrying Batman, Batwoman picked up Wonderwoman, Orphan had Flash on her shoulder and the rest of the Justice League was well enough to walk in on themselves.

Red Hood, the guy in the yellow suit- which was weird when Clark now knew they were supposed to be Gotham vigilantes, the girl in the purple costume and the little boy stayed behind, running of to the city. 

“what are they gonna do?” Clark asked towards the new people. Nightwing answered him. “Check in with the people and help out the cleaning crew. You guys don’t usually do that?” His voice wasn’t judging- genuine curiosity- but Clark felt small all of a sudden. These people stayed behind after attacks to check on the citizen while THE Justice league just… left. 

“uhm… not usually” Clark answered the man. Everyone was now in the med bay and the old guy he now recognised as Agent A was patching everyone up. RR walked up to cyborg to fix his broken parts.

”So… you are Gothams heroes?” Clark was fidgeting with his finger, he had to make a good impression, right? Batman trusted these people with Gotham so they must be important. 

Nightwing answered while bandaging a still unconscious Batmans wounds. “More like vigilantes and I am personally from Blüdhaven but yeah, basically, we’re the ones keeping Gotham from completely collapsing” he turned to Superman. “Are you hurt too? Dad said yo-“ 

“Nightwing!” RR yelled. “Secret identities, Secret identities” Nightwing smiled nervously. “Right… Batman said you heal fast and all but you still should get checked.”

Superman scratched his head. Did this grown ass man just refer to Batman as dad?