The titanic struggle between the Sea-King and the giant robot continued on even after Robin had left to finish her mission, both sides vying to end the temporary stalemate. So great was the robots effort to crush Aquaman that the metal beneath his feet had began to give, bending under the force. [i]It'll break before I tire. Long before [/i]Arthur told himself, setting his shoulders and working himself into his task. 

[b]BOOM! [/b]Another mighty explosion, louder than the others, seemed to rock his position. It was so close that he could feel the heat from the blast. [i]Queen or Bruce? [/i]It took him a second to realise that the pressure from the arm had suddenly decreased dramatically. He took a quizzical look round to realise that the explosion must have detached the robots arm at the elbow, so now the only thing holding the tattered remains in the air was Aquaman himself. He tossed the now useless appendage into the water underneath them, slightly annoyed that his contest with the robot had been interrupted. He could have beaten the alien machine on his own, even if it would have taken longer. Still, that was what the League was about, supporting each other, even if the support wasn't appreciated. 

"Now we're even!" So it WAS Bruce who had intervened. A tight smile broke Arthur's grim visage. Bruce hated being in other's debts so much that it probably almost physically hurt him to think that he might owe Arthur for saving Robin. The thing was, Batman would have fired his missiles even if Aquaman hadn't just saved his sidekick, just now he could shrug it off as 'repaying the favour'. 

"Are we counting Batman? Because if we are its four to three in my favour, or have you forgotten when I stopped Amazo from kicking you into the sun?" Arthur replied as he dived off the side of the robot into the sea seconds after Superman ended the fight. He resurfaced just in time to see the machine crash into the water, watching silently as it sank between the waves. The King of the Seas would later approach Batman, offering his help in locating and salvaging the mechanical menace. The thought of something that alien in his oceans was a worrying one, not knowing what damages it could cause to the waters or local marine life. He would be much happier once it was out of harms way.

[i]But that is the way of things. The Justice League comes together to face these kind of threats, but it is left to me to protect the waters of this planet. All the leagues combined might to serve the barest fraction of our world.[/I]

He heard Green Lantern say the machine was from Colu, a planet Arthur had never heard of. Not that he knew much about any of the planets past the borders of his own solar system, but he was surprised Green Lantern had never heard of it. Hal had once told him that his ring could tap into all the combined knowledge of the Guardian's of the Galaxy, and they were supposed to be all knowing. The fact that she couldn't shine any light on the robots origins lended the confrontation an even more sinister edge. 

"The machine seemed fixated on you Superman," noted Arthur "Have you any ideas why?"