Better Than All of You Vs. Bruce's Bodacious Bullies

Better Than All of You is Aquaman, Aqualad, Aquababy, N.S.-5 #1-3, & Doozer #4 & 6.
Bruce’s Bodacious Bullies are Hydro-Man, Nightmare, Black Alice, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Stranger, & Navy Sailor #57.
　
The Stranger levitates above the water, exercising patience in the face of this first ever inter-league match for The Bullies. Up in the air, The Stranger knows that he is safe from his water-powered opponents, for the time being. Aquaman exercises the same type of caution, not only with himself, but with his entire team. Aquaman is unsure of what aquatic powers his opponents possess, but he is certain that his team, can handle the icy cold depths of the ocean better than any squad out there. Aquaman, Aqualad, & Aquababy have no problem whatsoever diving down into the depths of the ocean. The N.S.-5’s are able to handle it well themselves, although they do require help from their 3 Atlantean teammates to get down there. Only the 2 Doozers are unable to achieve this, but the brave little Fraggles volunteer to stay on the water’s surface where they are floating on a twig. The brave Doozer #4, whose first appearance with Better Than All of You (actually then known as Team Joe) was in Season 1 Week 1 vows that he and his Doozer Comrade will be the first wave of the Betters attack. “We are Better Than All, and we will not be bullied, now take are team into the depths and set up camp. I will not let you down Captain” Doozer #4 says to Aquaman before he begins his aquatic descent. It takes only a matter of seconds for Aquaman and his squad to dive deeper into the waters than any regular human being could withstand. Hydro-Man, although usually more of a henchman type is thrust into a bit of a leadership role which he is actually handling pretty well. The Stranger was considered the leader of this squad, but ever since the team was dropped into the water, the cosmic entity has been somewhat aloof and has shown little interest toward the idea of diving into the icy waters himself. Nightmare, has also taken to the air after having felt the freezing water on his pasty white skin. Black Alice, is treading water behind Hydro-Man and The Creature from the Black lagoon, but without any of the members of Better Than all of You being visible, she is unable to use her powers on them. Black Alice is freezing as she swims thru the icy waters and has no desire to freeze to death in her first ever FFL appearance. Black Alice looks up into the air at her teammate The Stranger; the supposedly all-powerful cosmic being who is levitating above the water parading his apathy toward this league and their team. It is this that is going thru the mind of Black Alice as she steals The Stranger’s powers of invulnerability and energy projection (among many others). It is not that Black Alice had any desire to kill one of her own teammates, but considering the fact that there are no members of Better Than All of You around to attack, she had to do something. Plus, if he isn’t going to use his powers for the good of the team, than somebody should. The Stranger’s powerless body falls into the water, where he drowns without any of his power cosmic to aid him (even though swimming may be considered an easy task by a human, a cosmic being such as The Stranger needs his power to even execute the most simple of tasks). Hydro-Man is about to lead his team on an attack against Aquaman and his under-water lurking crew, but he catches a glimpse of the 2 little Doozers floating on the stick and decide that they should eliminate these 2 loose ends before they begin their real attack. Doozer #4 looks over at Doozer #6 and says: “get ready”. The Creature of the Black Lagoon is sent over to destroy them by Hydro-Man, but when the creature gets there, Doozer #4 jumps into the air and takes his sharpened piece of radish-based construction material and stabs it into the eye of the Creature, killing him instantly. Hydro-Man, Black Alice, Nightmare, and Navy Sailor #54 are in complete amazement at what they have just witnessed. This incredible kill by the Doozer will be remembered in The Fantasy Fantasy archives forever; but in the end it is merely a sacrifice as Black Alice uses The Stranger’s energy projection powers to vaporize both Doozers with a flick of her wrist. Hydro-Man and Nightmare come to the realization, that their team has suffered far to many deaths to a match that hasn’t really even started yet. With this idea being widely accepted by all members of the Bullies, Hydro- Man, Nightmare, & Black Alice are actually working pretty well together trying to decide how they can use their amalgamation of powers to get deep enough to find the “cowardly” members of Better Than All of You when Aquaman and his crew suddenly surface ready to fight. Hydro-Man, who is by far the most comfortable Bodacious Bully in the water attempts to use his powers of water manipulation against the Betters, but he unfortunately finds that his powers, although similar are no match for Aqualad’s. When Hydro-Man tries to use the water as a weapon against Aqualad, he finds that Garth is able to repel the water thru his natural ability to sustain water pressure, but that Hydro-Man, being made of water is much more susceptible to Aqualad’s similar power. Garth basically just disperses the water-based molecules that make up Hydro-Man’s body to destroy him. Aqualad then attempts to use the ocean’s undertow to drown Sailor #57, but Aqualad’s own teammates the N.S.-5s save the life of the sailor because of their programming of the 3rd law, which prevents them from allowing a human being to be harmed. Most N.S.-5’s throughout the league have been programmed to be able to attack non-human opponents (even if they appear humanoid) but they have never been able to program out the basic 3 laws system that runs their basic functions. Nightmare attacks Aquaman mentally by making him believe that his worst nightmare has come true and that Arthur Jr. (Aquababy) has once again been murdered. Aquaman is sent into an absolute rage over this and leaps out of the water to attack Nightmare. Aquaman pulls Nightmare down into the water, where the 2 of them begin battling. Meanwhile Navy Sailor #57 attacks the N.S.-5s. These robots should be more than capable of ripping the Navy man apart, but their programming forbids such action. The sailor destroys N.S.-5 # 2 while Black Alice uses her stolen cosmic powers to destroy the other 2 robots. While Aquaman struggles with Nightmare, believing that Aquababy is already dead, Black Alice dives back into the water and kills Aquababy for real. Nightmare is a powerful foe, but in this particular setting is no match for Aquaman. Aquaman may be very afraid as he is battling with the villain, but it is not enough to tip the scales against him. Aquaman uses his superhuman water-fueled strength to snap Nightmare’s mystical neck. Despite the obvious water-based disadvantage that Black Alice has, she is holding her own pretty well against Aqualad. This pitched battle ends when Aquaman shows up to help out his sidekick. Black Alice blasts both Aquaman and Aqualad with cosmic energy that probably would have killed them, had they not been swimming in the water that fuels their powers. The enraged Aqua-team then swims underneath Black Alice and each grabs a leg. Although Black Alice, with her current powers is extremely strong, she is not quite strong enough to stay above water, as the 2 Atlanteans drag her deep down to the ocean floor until she eventually cannot sustain the depths or pressure. Aquaman and his sidekick then begin swimming back to base when Aqualad asks his partner: “what about that Navy Sailor”? “I took care of it” Aquaman says to his young assistant. They are already about halfway home when the lone sailor begins to be devoured by The Greenland Shark that Aquaman sent there telepathically for an easy dinner.
BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU ARE VICTORIOUS!