See! SEE the Bounties of the Glorious Kryptonite!

1. Quinn, who's fallen to the ground with Amazo, will free his shield and *WHAAAANG!* Amazo with it on the head. So, so hard.
2. From where she's wobbily perched, Vina will shoot Amazo with an arrow. The kind that goes boom.
3. "Interesting idea JimBob had", Roy says to himself. "I wonder if it'll have any side affects? Oh well!" Then he goes back to the task at hand, which is weakening Amazo until someone with A Plan finishes him off.
4. So the question of the hour is: can an exploding arrow, an Olympian shield, Sinestro's Power Ring, and Roy's Power Ring overpower the combined toughness of Wonder Woman and all them other guys, although weakened by Kryptonite?
5. (Since there aren't any other assets to hand, the answer better be YES ...)

Yes, they can! Amazo flops over and lies, inert.

Now Sinestro power-beams him with a yellow microscope, locating and extracting pulsating globules of pure super-power.

"My ring is whole again!" he exults, firing an erupting beam of pure triumph skyward. If this is what his full power looks like ... wow, we were lucky to defeat him the first time. It's brighter than the sun!

"And this for you," he says, separating out some green nodules and sending them sliding towards Roy, whose Power Ring absorbs them. Roy suddenly wakes up.

"Who, what, where?" he expostulates, noting that his hand has two arms leading to it.

The ring locks onto the correct Roy, and JimBob remembers that he's JimBob.

"These, I think, are yours," he says, sending a winged lightning bolt and a series of blue and red micro-stars orbiting each other like a yin-yang wheel to Vina. She finds the illness much reduced, and can stand up again.

"The Flash is not here, so this red energy can be allowed to dissipate harmlessly ..." says Sinestro. "Or contained in a vessel capable of storing and extracting the pure essence of Speed! If I can imagine it, my ring must do it!"

It does. Seems a Speed Bottle is oblong, with a long neck bent over on itself that disappears through the bottom of the bottle.

Who knew?

"And this flrey red energy belongs to Atrocitus, head of the Red Lantern Corps. He will live a long and painful life before he sees any of THIS again!" And Sinestro absorbs the red energy into himself. His ring takes on a red tinge, like a flaming red vein running through the gold. It's kind of icky.

"Now that Amazo has served his purpose, I shall disassemble him, so as to prevent any further interference in my plans," says Sinestro. "Unless you replacement heroes have an objection, remembering that Amazo is but a machine, with no more right to survival than a levitation-raft or a seven-tined interocitor?"

Kryptonite Solves Everything

Vina, from a distance, summons whatever birds she can find to smack into Amazo. Hopefully while he is trying to brush them away, she can grab Roy.

"The endurance of Superman..." JimBob looks down at the green, lifeless ring still on his finger. "All of our weaknesses..."

JimBob will, discretely as possible, stretch a hand over to Roy's, and slip his finger into Roy's power ring, attempting to recreate the "bright, searing, sizzling, acid-tinged green WRONGNESS" that Roy attempted on Zipperneck.

Birds attack Amazo from all sides!

"Birds," Amazo correctly states. "Hawkman's power of bird control is a complete solution."

He starts whistling -- wheet! wheet! -- the way Hawkman does. The birds disperse.

During this time, Vina has taken Roy's weight and is lowering him to safety on top of the Roosevelt statue, while JimBob has infiltrated Roy's ring.

And ZZZZZZZ ... the green boiling biting glowing throbbing EVIL that is Kryptonite blossoms forth from the ring!

JimBob feels his shape altering into an exact copy of Roy's. Apparently the ring doesn't want to serve anyone but Roy, so it's updating him to fit better.

When he starts to remember Roy's likes, dislikes, and childhood pets, JimBob thinks it might be going a little too far. But then, Roy would be fine with being turned into Roy, wouldn't he? So JimBob's not all that against it. Soon he'll be Roy, and then he won't mind at all.

Amazo feels faint.

"I feel faint," he says. "What new power shall I -- green Kryptonite radiation! While Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Batman, the Atom, Hawkman, Green Arrow, Zatanna, the Red Tornado, Aquaman, the Elongated Man, and even the Phantom Stranger are invulnerable to its effects, Superman is not -- and none of their powers will stop the death which Kryptonite brings! Although Hawkman does reincarnate over the ages ... a partial solution."

Amazo falls limply as his flying powers ebb. He hits the ground hard, reeling around and holding his head.

"Pain," he describes. "Weakness. Approaching death."

Vina, at the same time, feels a nausea so intense as to cause actual pain, combined with a tingling which begins on her skin and sinks in as a deeper, burning ache. Her vision blurs, and her limbs grow weak, but her Hawk wings keep her airborne, and keep Roy light enough to carry. She is able to make it to the mountaintop, but is in danger of passing out.

Sinestro says, "Now! Strike, for your power, and your glory!" and slams Amazo with a big yellow mallet.

Amazo is driven to his knees, but he's not out yet. He strains against the mallet, resisting Sinestro's power.

A Solution -- And A Dilemma!

Vina flies around Amazo at superspeed (assuming her wings/Supes ability can handle that) putting out the fire and then flies superfast to a perch out of his eyeshot. Then she makes the calls.

JimBob has no choice but to let go, lest he be turned into something resembling the mozzarella topping a pizza fresh out of the oven. He maintains the wherewithal to shout "I RELEASE THE SPELL" as he does, in case he needs to play the "magic" card again later.

Quinn, who is still holding tightly to the shield and now swinging wildly in open space, will try to use his momentum to pull the shield to an angle where it will, perhaps, reflect Amazo's beams back at himself.

Amazo, the One-Man Justice League

While he's doing this he will shout, "whooaaaoooaaa!" and flail about, hoping that Amazo will decide the shield is more trouble than it's worth and drop it.

He does, indeed, tilt the shield just right!

ZZZAP! Amazo's heat beams bathe Amazo himself in fire.

Amazo cuts off the heat beam. Simultaneously, Sinstro and Roy hit Amazo with bolts of yellow and green energy.

"On my mark, Lantern!" Sinestro shouts. "Combine our strength to overcome Amazo's resistance --"

"Impossible!" Amazo declares. "It is for this exact circumstance I was created -- to battle the entire Justice League at once! And as I have all your powers, past and present, it is impossible for you to overpower me, as A cannot be greater than A!"

"Here we go with the objectivism," Roy grumbles. "Sinestro, how about it?"

"This mechanical conglomerate has not the wit for deception," Sinestro declares Shakespeareanly. "His boasting may well be based on fact. How did the League defeat Amazo before?"

This, at last, is something Roy knows!

"Right!" he chimes. "Besides the time Superman used time travel, Amazo's been beaten twice by the League .. once by deliberately losing the battle, and once by using ... hey! They used YOUR ring, Sinestro! Amazo has all of our powers, but therefore all of our weaknesses ..."

And SLAM! Amazo flies right up to Roy and punches him out!

"Martian telepathy allows me to see what you are thinking. And as it may lead to a method to destroy me, I cannot allow you to speak it aloud!"

Sinestro tries making yellow sword blades to slice Amazo up, but they don't do anything.

"You can indeed penetrate my green Power Ring aura," Amazo says, "but I still possess the endurance of Superman, who cannot be harmed by your ring."

Roy, hanging limply in Amazo's grasp, is out. He cannot say anything.

Zzap!

JimBob looks nervously from Amazo to Sinestro, frankly shocked that his plan worked. "Please tell me that'll hold him, Sinestro" he says uncertainly. "Because if it doesn't, my 'Magical Darkness' will be RIPPED IN HALF!"

As a precaution, he will untie his feet from their anchor below, and prepare for the flight of his life.

"Of course it will hold him," says Sinestro. "Due to a necessary impurity in its makeup, Amazo's Power Ring, like the real article, is powerless against the color yellow."

"And as for the combined flying power of Superman and Wonder Woman, I have restrained those selfsame adventurers many a time. I will do so again."

He sounds very sure.

"Psst!" Quinn whispers to Amazo (and thus to JimBob, who I'm assuming has "ears" in every part of his body if he wants to), "let me have this shield back and maybe we can help you rescue Dr. Ivo. Because frankly I'm not a big Sinestro fan myself."

Vina is looking for an access panel for the battery pack. She's also dialing up Arkham Asylum to get ready for an attack--and sends an APB over the Justice communication system--if that's a possibility.

Amazo perhaps intuits what Vina is attempting, and swings around to clonk her with the shield. But Sinestro's shackles hold back his ankle, so the swing doesn't quite come all the way around, stopping short.

So Amazo opens his eyes super-wide, emitting beams of heat so intense they're actually visible in the clear air! The burning is so intense that Vina feels she must let go, or possibly perish.

But, y'know, no flying away ... so no difficulty for JimBob. Except for that his hands are over Amazo's eyes, and are now on fire.

The Four-Man Justice League vs. the One-Man Justice League!

Very much like a hawk, Vina deploys her wings and falls like a thunderbolt and brains Amazo in the...brains...or what passes for them...with her Space Mace.

Amazo's red skullcap is indeed the covering for his brains, but although Vina is blessed with Superman-level strength, Amazo has that, plus the strength of Wonder Woman, and yadda yadda yadda ... so it perhaps not surprising that her strike rebounds harmlessly.

Following on Vina's attack, and assuming Amazo still has a head, JimBob will stretch both arms down to their adversary and wrap them around his face. JimBob keeps his head high above however and, hoping Amazo's sense of touch isn't particularly sensitive, he yells "I CAST MAGICAL DARKNESS UPON YOU!!"

Amazo jerks his head from side to side, trying to see. But his super-strength (as detailed above) is so substantial that he cannot even notice the slight tugging caused by his head swivels stretching JimBob's hands just a little further left and right.

"Magical darkness is a serious drawback, as I do not possess the powers of Zatanna, who is not a member of the Justice League," says Amazo out loud. He may not have absorbed the power of "internal monologue" during his travels.

"Therefore I cannot defeat the Justice League, and therefore I must abandon that mission as impossible, and revert to the next level of my priority scale, which is to rescue Professor Ivo from captivity. Fortunately, I know where the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is located, in the shadowed, witch-haunted byways and cobblestoned streets of Old Arkham, where the sullen Miskatonic River slumps grayly to the sea."

Amazo then gathers his fists into his waist, preparing to fly at great velocity to the East Coast. This will test JimBob's stretchiness to the ultimate limit!

"Hold him!" orders Sinestro. "Amazo has now absorbed all the super-power which Libra stole from us, and upon defeating him, and opening his power storage battery, we can reclaim our energies for our own glory!"

And he shoots forth a power-beam clamp, which fastens about Amazo's neck.

"That feels like a power-beam clamp," Amazo says. "Although enshrouded as I am in magical darkness, I cannot be sure."

Countdown to Danger!

"Well, hold on a minute," Quinn says. "You *could* take the shield ... or you could ask nicely where I got it, and I might just show you. Because there's a lot more where this came from."

While he's saying this, he's very quietly, and behind the shield, preparing that weird alien skin tonfa to strike Amazo on the wrist of his ring hand if he isn't intrigued by the possibility of EVEN MORE STUFF.


JimBob throws his hands up 25 feet in the air in frustration. Then he'll shout "Quinn, how could you?!"

Amazo says,

"Where, nicely, did you get this shield?"

Quinn's face lights up. "Oh man, that is a *great* story! I won't even make you let go before I tell it to you. So OK, do you know what a 'comic con' is? Well . . ."

At this point Quinn will allow his natural exuberance and his story-telling skill to take over. He won't get off track, but he will balance "previously, on Substitute League of America" narration, actual answering of the question but in vague terms, and asking questions of Amazo like, "what do you know about President Luthor?" or "did you know that superpowers can be REPLICATED?"

He will *not* say anything about the Justice League's specific mission (not that he knows much) or the flying whatchamahoozit that gave them the choice of powers, and he *will* end up blaming it all on Sinestro (convenient!), Mr. Mxyzptlk, and Brainiac.

He will under no circumstances release the shield.

The conversation reveals that, yes, Amazo does know that super powers can be replicated. On the other hand, Amazo does not know who the President is, or indeed, what the United States is.

Quinn notices Sinestro looking at him intently.

Vina hears Sinestro counting quietly to himself ... counting DOWN.

"Fifty, forty-nine, forty-eight, forty-seven ..."

Quinn is a Big Fan of teams and teamwork and there being no "I" in team and whatnot. He was also attracted to the Wonder symbol because it was both brave and unorthodox. He is hoping, therefore, that bravely stalling the villain will allow his team to do whatever it is that they do (because he also assumes they've got a better handle on this situation than he does).

His questions are designed to get Amazo alternating between gathering information and correcting error -- both of which androids love to do! At least, if TV and movies have taught Quinn anything. So if he can buy another forty-seven seconds, he'll do it.

His plan to do so, once he feels like Amazo is going to just murder him and take the shield, is to offer to show him how it "works" -- how you power it up and such. Then he'll walk Amazo through a mildly intricate step-by-step process that uses magic words and turning the shield around and holding it up and oops he did those things in the wrong order and so he'll start again but he promises it'll be really easy and basically he's doing the "Fizzban Maneuver" and by the time you realize you've been reading this for too long, Sinestro and Vina and JimBob have already done the Amazing Thing To Defeat You.

At least, that's Quinn's plan.

Vina is watching the proceedings like a... Yeah, well, she is ready to snap out her wings as a shield or to rescue someone when the countdown is finished.

Chin-Su will wrap his feet around the nearest tree/shrub/thing firmly attached to the ground, then flatten his body out until it becomes clothlike and catches a breeze. He becomes a parachute-kite high above the conflict, keeping an eye on the proceedings.

He is not certain why. He just feels better prepared in this situation.

And then Sinestro is counting "four, three, two, ONE -- Get him!"

Sinestro lets go of Vina's arm, sort of nudging her in the direction of Amazo, and dives. His fist jabs out in front of himself, blazing with yellow brilliance and shaping it into a baton with holes drilled in its oversized far end, so that the air whistles through them with a keening screaming sound.

"EEEEEEEE" goes the scream-hammer, and then BTOK as it deflects off Amazo's shield.

But wait! It wasn't Amazo's shield at all. Because he swung Quinn's shield in the direction of Sinestro's attack, and Quinn absolutely wouldn't let go of it, so Quinn was swung around through the air at the end of his shield like a big swinging thing, fortunately not in line with the incoming screamer!

Sinestro's attack has failed. Or was that his plan all along? Regardless, JimBob and Vina are in excellent positions above Amazo to dive-bomb him, or something, and heck, you couldn't get much closer than Quinn is!

Yes, Amazo Is A Real Jerk

JimBob, the boy named Su, looks regretfully from the fight to his precarious situation, and chooses to use the last of the ring's power to protect himself until he's back in fighting form. He is content to have at least removed the power from Amazo, if not to have used it for himself.

Amazo makes a fist to smack down Quinn, the man called Peltast. Upon his fist, another Power Ring crackles into being, hardening into metallic reality.

But still, for a moment there, he was ringless!