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Chapter 97 With the Great Battle Imminent, Time to Get Down to Business

"How about we name the team Harley Quinn?"

On the outskirts of Gotham Forest, Harley Quinn spoke to the women beside her.

Harley Quinn's figure remains the same, but her skin color has turned bluish-gray. The Ash of Withering has been extracted by Poison Ivy through violent means and absorbed by Harley Quinn.

However, this meant that the zombie Grandi could no longer be a qualified puppet fighter and could only become nourishment for Gotham Forest.

Faced with Harley's suggestion, Poison Ivy adopted a nonchalant attitude, playing with the vines on her arm.

Selena Gomez, who plays Catwoman, shook her head in disagreement:

Why not call it the Catwoman Squad?

"I think the Magicians combination is pretty good," Zatanna suggested tentatively.

Cindy Moon, nicknamed "Spider Silk," remained silent. Her spider-sense had lost track of Connors, plunging her into unprecedented panic.

But Connors's presence didn't disappear completely; it was intermittent, like a bad signal.

When Harley Quinn approached her and proposed forming a team to raid the alien stronghold, she was the first to step forward.

As for the team's name, Cindy didn't think it mattered.

"Harley, you need to think this through. Leading your sisters to attack the alien lair is a one-way street," Ivy kindly warned.

She learned from Harley Quinn that Connors had turned into a white Martian, and was even more extreme than Harley, about to go on a killing spree immediately.

But Harley suggested that they should find a few more people to join forces, and Ivy, unusually, did not refuse, thinking that more people would make things easier.

"Ivy, you've reminded me. Since anyone could die in this operation—well, except me, I'm immortal now." Harley Quinn, carrying a large wooden mallet on her shoulder, had a sudden inspiration:

"How about we call it the Suicide Squad?"

"As long as it's not called the Harley Quinn Alliance, it's fine." Selena nodded.

I still think the Magicians combination is better. Zatanna silently gave up the idea of ​​wasting too much time on the name.

On her way back to Gotham, Harley Quinn found Zatanna paying respects to her father and brought her back. The magician, seemingly having lost her purpose in life, vaguely agreed to Harley's plan.

Poison Ivy didn't say anything. Instead, she looked into the distance with a wary expression as plants rose from the ground, lifting her body into the air.

In the distance, five or six thick tentacles rolled on the ground, rapidly approaching the edge of the Gotham Forest where they were.

"Sisters, prepare for battle!"

Although they couldn't see what was happening, the loud noise of the tentacles moving on the ground still reached the women's ears. Harley Quinn gripped the mallet tightly and shouted excitedly.

Zatanna didn't even bother to wave her magic wand; with a thought, she cast "force field shields" on all five people and then used "levitation" to fly into the air.

As the tentacles drew ever closer, dark clouds loomed overhead, crackling with lightning.

After seeing her father's body with her own eyes, Zatanna buried him with tears in her eyes, and finally discovered that the book her father recorded about magic was hidden in her memory.

She is now finally a powerful magician, not just a stage magician who knows some minor magic tricks.

Cindy Muen clenched her fists, watching the tentacles that had come into view, ready to launch spider silk and weave a giant web at any moment.

But the tentacles surged across the ground and reached the women, yet instead of attacking, they strangely stopped.

Harley Quinn, with her sharpest eyesight, was the first to spot the creature standing on the tentacles and exclaimed in surprise:

"Little Pa?!"

The newcomer was Connors. After entering the White Martian smoke factory, he used his "Master Pilot" ability to turn the factory back into tentacles.

The tentacles inside the meteorite were not living beings, but rather vessels used by the White Martians to transport biological weapons and transform into factories—theoretically, the tentacles were vehicles.

Therefore, Connors used his tentacles to "amplify" his "spider-sense" and spotted the five women gathered together, then rushed over.

He wasn't there to take on five people at once; rather, he was using this opportunity to form a team of five.

"Connors?" Ivy looked at Connors on the tentacle with some surprise. How long had it been since they separated? Less than a day. Where did they get ten-meter-long tentacles from?

"How about it, am I handsome?"

Connors, looking slightly smug, waved his tentacles in the air and asked them.

Women:

"......"

They didn't find anything cool about tentacles that were entirely black with disgusting red spots.

"I noticed you all gathered together, so I brought you here right away. What are you planning to do?" Connors asked Zatanna.

The magician was still dressed in fishnet stockings, a white shirt, and a black tuxedo, but his skills seemed to have improved by leaps and bounds; he was now flying into the air.

"We're going to rescue you, and while we're at it, we'll wipe out the alien creatures," Zatanna said.

Connors: ".—

He ignored the psychological impact of turning into a white Martian in front of Harley Quinn, a crazy beauty, to the point that he had already turned into a blue-gray-skinned person after only one moment apart from Harley.

(Referencing Elden Fahrenheit's skin tone)

"But now that you're alright, that's great. Do you know how worried I was about you?" Harley Quinn looked aggrieved.

Cindy curled her lip; she didn't need to communicate with Connors through language and facial expressions, her spider-sense and body language were enough.

"It's okay, since everyone's already gathered, why don't you guys form a squad too? How about we call it the 'Raptor Squad'?"

Connors suggested.

Poison Ivy continued to slack off, ignoring everything Connors said, and even wanted to take him along to do some serious business.

Cindy was indifferent to this, and Zatanna was thinking about the Magicians, but she had no choice but to nod when Connors suggested it.

"Why?" Harley didn't understand why she was called that.

"Because you've all played with birds with me," Connors said with a strange expression. Since there was no leader in the comics called "Black Canary," he just made up a name for it.

Harley Quinn clapped her hands and cheered:

"Little Pa, you're really wicked, but I agree with the name!"

Poison Ivy looked at Harley with amusement:

"If that's the case, I think the raptors should belong to me, Poison Ivy, not you."

Selena and Zatanna nodded in agreement, recalling the scene of "Poison Ivy" Ivy's wild and passionate blowjob.

"But I'm not bad either!" Harley blinked her blue-gray eyes and retorted. "You should call me 'Bird of Prey' Harley."

Is this considered a competition?

Connors felt like he had led this group astray.

But it doesn't matter. In any case, the "Birds of Prey" team is now complete. Connors doesn't intend to command them and lets the five of them do their own thing.

As for Connors himself, having witnessed the formation of the "Birds of Prey" team, he had achieved his goal of being a bystander and was now ready to stir up trouble—driving those five or six thick tentacles.

Just as he turned to leave, Poison Ivy suddenly called out to him:

"Wait, Connors, Harley has already absorbed the Ashes of Wither. Since you're going to act alone, the Green of All Things should be stronger too."

After she finished speaking, she turned to the other four people and said:

"You guys go first, I need to boost Connors's strength."

Harley Quinn had no suspicions. Even though she knew what Ivy was going to do, she didn't care and skipped away carrying the mallet.

Cindy's face was covered by a mask, and she unconsciously stuck out her tongue to lick the corner of her mouth, but she was not thirsty after a day and night of fighting.

Zatanna looked at Harley Quinn's bluish-grey skin and had no doubt about Poison Ivy's words.

Catwoman Selena's body tensed; she instinctively felt that this was not a simple matter.

But Connors jumped off the tentacles and walked to Ivy, "Poison Ivy":

"With a major battle imminent, we really need to get some serious business done."

Selena immediately understood when she heard that they were going to get down to business.