Deadpool maintained his breathing pattern even if drowning was one way to go, he could still breathe, he winced when he saw the fins on his legs. His costume was black from waist down.
"Whoa, I'm Atlantian?"
His sentence was half-finished when an octopus propelled its way past him. He pranced about goofily and his face got plastered by an object. It shrivelled and scattered as ashes in the sea.
It slipped through his fingers before he had the chance to find out what.
"Aw come on!" He said and swam toward the castle, he saw that the guards were equally being manipulated by the forces of Starro.
His eyes rolled up to the colossal star-shaped conqueror slowly overshadowing the castle and the Atlantians under the shadow fled for their lives.
Its star-faced minions had already spread through the corridors and they were heading for the sea king's palace. "This I gotta sea,"
***
Arthur had a stern look on his face, when the servants on each side tensed trying to keep the glass figurine sea creatures from
falling apart.
He gave a belly laugh when the first servant topped the tower with a small seahorse figurine.
"Amazing!" He clapped.
"Give it a rest dad," Garth_his son said, his golden hair drooped over his eye, playing a game.
Mera had a sardonic look on her face as she drooped over the throne.
"Really? Of all the wonders of the world, you chose to find a tower of toys impressive?"
His eyes crinkled "Mera, there will always be something to be impressed by,"
She groaned rolling her eyes.
"Arthur!" Deadpool's eyes bulged at Mera. "Hello, vixen,"
"How dare you!?" Arthur spoke boldly when the servants winced and his tower fell apart.
"Arthur!" Mera scolded turning red obliging him to focus on what was more important.
Arthur Curry had the mind of a child which needed some getting used to. She let out a long suffering groan and sighed then punched Deadpool
BLAM!
She folded her arms, standing up straight when the red fellow fell over.
"I like them feisty,"
"Welcome old chum, say, you must be a friend of Deathstroke," His eyes crinkled in suspicion and Deadpool drooped over him.
"Hello gorgeous,"
Aquaman chuckled nervously "Perhaps a bit too welcome,"
"Mwahh!" He placed a big kiss on his cheek and brushed his chin, tapping his face.
"How could you let this clown treat you with disrespect?" She said obviously infuriated by the 'clown'
"I'm gonna need some of your magic," His hand circled his chest. "Oh and there's a Star psychopath after you and your family, he he"
His son returned to the real world quick enough to hide behind the curtains and continued playing.
A wave of water swished behind Mera and she manipulated them into a spear to slash the stars hurling at them.
"At last! Some action." Arthur hollered and a shield spiralled into his hand and so did a spear. "Hyah!"
Mera dodged the minions and slashed a star leaping over another one. "There's too many,"
Arthur summoned a blue whale into the castle to overwhelm them. The walls cracked as it broke in and they plastered its large body.
"Fall back, chum,"
"Hey!" His son protested when he grabbed him on a seahorse, leaving his game set behind.
"I wouldn't want it any other way," Arthur lured the horse forward while the others brawled, some got overwhelmed.
"Wait," Deadpool sputtered when a star shrivelled on his face.
Mera pushed him forward slicing the minions out of the way. The stars shrivelled.
"Why are you in such a rush?," He drawled.
"You mind telling me how the heck you're surviving this?"
"It's a superpower," He grinned. Indefinitely his mind was too impure to be manipulated.
The column in front of them exploded corroding a few servants and leaving them in the debris.
"My tailbone," He groaned and gasped at Black Manta, his fists clenched.
Deadpool hid behind her "Protect me,"
"Mera, I have not set my sights on your bastard king but I will have to make do with you,"
She didn't hesitate to attack him and he blasted her. She recovered and they collided.
He blasted her, Deadpool swivelled dodging her body "Am I being ignored? Cause I feel like I'm being ignored," He crossed his blades in front of him to ward off the photon beams.
"Hey, some of us don't have time to grow BABY HANDS!" He shook his fist and Black Manta zapped his arm off.
ZAP
He watched his arm plummet to the ocean floor.
"Was The Brave and The Bold more gorier than I thought?" He scratched his head with his good arm.
Black Manta approached him "I don't know who you are, but you're getting pretty annoying," He punched and Deadpool swam up to grip his arm and chomped on it.
"Ahh!" He pushed his head to stop him and Deadpool shoved his helmet into a pillar and one of his eyes broke and spiked revealing a portion of his face. He gasped and made do with his other eye shooting and spinning him. Deadpool clung on to him like a parasite.
Mera who had just recovered from the blast watched in horror as he pulled Black Manta's arm off with a stream of blood following it.
He adjusted his wrist and wiggled his fingers. "What did I say!?" He pointed his severed arm.
She went mute after that and she lurched when a hail of icicles shot stars out of her way to the walls. Getting up to see Arthur on the seahorse and Garth sitting lamely behind him.
"For Atlantis!"
Garth rolled his eyes and mumbled "Can we just get this over with?"
"Never fear, son," He sent a blaze of ice at the other kin and guards. They were set free and gasped when their minds were no longer manipulated.
"That's it,"
The Stars shrunk and shrivelled.
"No!"
On the next door, a sign shimmered before opening up
"Take me with you!" He crawled and his nails dug trenches on the sea floor before getting sucked in.
Mera's jaw dropped "What the hell is going on?"
Aquaman faced the ceiling when it cracked open, he was met with its one eye swivelling above them.
"There's no time for questions, now is the time for action,"