Marvel couldn't recall the last time he saw the League losing, or at least to THIS extent, they were never captured before, well, not ALL of them AT ONCE to specify, so when Lex Luthor of all people (wow, what a shocker) found a way to capture all of them with the help of bribing their respective villains, it didn't take long for him to do so.
"Ah the Justice League, how nice of you to join me, well, more like be so easy to capture, but who cares about that," Luthor went on a monologue, as usual, so this gave Captain time to think of a quick way to see and understand his surroundings.
The first question is, where were they, and second, why is Lex Luthor holding a weird spell book-
The first question was easy to answer as Marvel looked around and noticed all of the expensive interior and gadgets, computers and servers that probably cost more than any money and items Billy has ever owned in his life combined, ugh, rich people.
The second was a bit trickier, he has already seen the League in different cells, Superman surrounded by kryptonite, Wonder Woman in a specialized cell that looked like it was surrounded by some glyphs that Marvel couldn't make out because of the distance between them, Batman was in a cell that didn't look that secure, but maybe it was indestructible, scratch that, it probably was, Flash and the others were in special cells too, many of them had magical properties to hold them back, and none of them had any of their equipment on, meaning something happened along the way.
With that, Marvel concluded at light speed that the spell book was the reason they got captured easily, and that Lex probably bought it from a dealer of sorts, Marvel will have to deal with that after he beats Luthor up and gets everyone out, so he-
He couldn't move, there were magic restraints on him, he didn't notice until he tried to get up, the restraints themselves didn't look that strong, so he could easily just break them with sheer force from the strength of Hercules, until Lex Luthor stopped his monologue and spoke directly to Cap.
"ah ah ah, Captain, not so fast, I still haven't finished my monologue." With that cheeky comment, Luthor started chanting in tongue, the Gods screaming in his ears to do something, Marvel quickly realised that this was very, very bad news, because he knew this language from the knowledge of past Champions, and this chant was a spell designed to transform him back to being mortal, to being Billy Batson.
The others were screaming something muffled, worried faces looking towards him, the cells were muffling their voices, so he couldn't make out what they were saying.
What Lex Luthor didn't think about, however, was the events that happened before Marvel got captured.
Today is Sunday morning, and Billy woke up at 6 am because he was on duty at the Tower yesterday for a day and night shift, but unfortunately, when he got back to his hideout, he couldn't sleep well and woke up early, so his first plan of action was to go around and do small errands for money, Fawcett wasn't religious, but it did have a church where old ladies went to pray on the Lord's Day, and Billy Batson, professional street rat, has been going around the church's vicinity and getting free money and small jobs out of the pitying elderly people, really it was a win win because today was his day off and there were lots of people at church on Sunday.
After a few hours of doing errands and getting paid or donated money to, Billy set out to get a meal at his favourite diner, the cheapest and nicest to street rats there was, Fawcett Diner, hilarious, he knows.
After taking a short cut, he turned a corner to the alley leading to the Diner, and lo and behold, there was a fucking Gun near the dumpsters, truly, the Gods are testing him, because what the actual fuck?
Speaking of Gods, they were talking non stop to him about the Gun, some said to throw it away, some said to keep it, and some said to hand it in to the authorities, the latter was Solomon, everyone else booed him for it.
Billy, however, liked the last option best, so he picked up the gun and turned around to go and transform into Marvel and hand in the gun-
His communicator started buzzing like crazy, Billy quickly grabbed it out of his pant pocket and saw that it was a message from both Batman and Superman, which was terrifying in it's own way, both of the messages said to come to Metropolis immediately.
Taking a deep breath, Billy put the gun in his pocket with his communicator, he'll hand it in later, right now he has a mission to do.
And with that he flew at light speed to Metropolis as Captain Marvel.
When he got there, the first thing he saw was a giant robot with smaller robots destroying everything, the League's fastest members were already there, the batmobile sat on the edge and was firing mini rockets at the robots, Marvel has to ask Batman to shoot them later, how can he not??
Captain quickly started punching and ripping the robots apart, Flash passed him by, "FLASH, WHAT'S THE SITUATION??"
The speedster quickly came back after breaking at least five robots, "Lex Luthor," he sped back and kicked a robot, "he is trying to kick Superman off planet, again."
That was all he needed to hear, "Thanks!"
Soon enough, all the robots were down, and only a couple of buildings were destroyed, thankfully Flash, Marvel and Lantern were there to swiftly evacuate the citizens.
The Leaguers gathered to plan their next course of action, Superman being the first to speak "Alright, the robots have been neutralised, so we should go and put Luthor in prison, again." He sighed as he added 'again' to his sentence.
Nodding, everyone went to Lex Corp tower, for what felt like the hundredth time this year, seriously this guy's money should be taken away.
When they got there though, the doors and windows all shutdown and a gas started to spread in the room, Marvel being immortal and immune to poisons, quickly realized that this was sleeping gas, "EVERYONE DON'T BREATHE IT IN"
Lantern and Flash already passed out, shit, Supes and Bats had their faces covered in masks, Batman probably had some on hand, everyone else was okay-
Marvel felt dizzy, oh no oh fuck what the hell, he could hear Solomon and Zeus screaming to fly away, guess this isn't ordinary sleeping gas, he couldn't muster enough strength to fly up though, resulting in him to fall, before passing out, he saw everyone else knocked out cold, and a set of polished shoes walking into the room.
So yeah, Sundays are crazy for Marvel.
Luthor finished the spell, and the Divine lightning shot down, transforming Marvel to his mortal form, the noise of sparks remaining for a few seconds longer before completely vanishing.
"what the, well this is a surprise, the mightiest mortal is a child? What are you, like 6 or something? Oh this is good, this is amazing actually, I can't believeâ"
The restraints were broken by the lightning, the cell wasn't shut yet, and Billy Batson, professional street rat and member of the Justice League held Lex Luthor at gun point.
"I'm 12 you bald bastard."
Billy shot the spell book out of Lex's hands, walking closer he slid it to the opposite side of the room with his foot and didn't take his eyes off of Luthor.
Luthor was in shock, he almost got shot, he-
He quickly scrambled back on his feet
Lex made his way to the cell, but walked in, his face soon becoming a scrutinizing glare, "you will pay for this, brat."
A cheeky grin crossed Billy's face, "sorry, I don't donate to corporate pigs." and with that he pressed the button to lock the door.
Taking the spell book he shot a hole through, he mumbled a spell, and the book turned to ash in his hands, better safe than sorry.
With swift movement he tapped into the computers, Gods bless super intelligence, he hacked into the system after a few tries, and unlocked the cells that the others were in, leaving Luthor in the cell.
Batson chanted different spells to break the magical restraints, completely freeing those who were trapped in them, the Kryptonite was dealt with by Batman, Billy sighed in relief, all's well that ends weâ
"Marvel." Batmans voice sounded out in stern.
Batson stiffly turned to the Dark Knight, still holding the gun, he looked at the firearm, then Bats, firearm, bats, firearm, bats, he started to sweat bullets, no pun intended.
"ahahaa.. hi Batman.. I can.. I can explain-" he threw the gun and knocked it across the room, "I uh, I didn't steal it, I.. came across it and well, the mission happened and everything and well-"
The JL looked at each other, unsure how to react to this tiny child, being their coworker of 3 years.
"Marvel, I am not trying to reprimand you for possessing a firearm, I just.. are you really 12?" The genuine confusion of Batman was a phenomenon Billy has yet to experience, and it sure as hell was freaking him out even more, super intelligence isn't gonna help out if you're freaking out!
"okay yes, but I'm also a demi god so like, it doesn't count??"
The Gods were laughing, they were laughing and there was nothing he could do.
