Chapter 1713 - A Final Decision and a Large Jurisdiction
Chapter 1713: A Final Decision and a Large Jurisdiction
The most important rule for the Bat Squad was confidentiality.
That was because it ensured the safety of all team members.
Even if one person didn’t care, they had to consider the consequences of getting their teammates exposed because of their carelessness.
So, nobody had any objections.
Frank and Damon had also made a lot of changes to the safety rules to ensure that they were more suitable for the Bat Squad.
Now that Luke said that he would leave some things to peripheral members, nobody minded.
Seeing that, Luke didn’t go into detail about the structure of the external organization. He would have a small meeting with Frank and Damon later.
But there was another important thing that everyone needed to have a say in.
He coughed and said, “I will distribute information on the external organization later. For now, we need to give it a name. If you have any suggestions, let’s hear them.”
Before the veterans said anything, the five kids started to chatter excitedly.
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Names like Shadow Demon King, Twelve Warriors, Hall of the Gods, Wind of Destruction and so on popped up one after another.
The veterans were very calm. They drank their respective tea, beer, coffee, and Coke, and let the kids ramble on for a while.
Five minutes later, Luke coughed and said, “Okay, everybody else, what do you think?”
The veterans basically didn’t say anything. They didn’t care about the name, as long as it wasn’t especially random.
Only Ivan, who was lying on the couch, said lazily, “How about we call it Thieves of the Law?”
Everybody rolled their eyes.
Although the people here weren’t exactly law-abiding, they were still vigilantes who fought for the people. How were they thieves?!
Mikey couldn’t help but say, “We can be considered friends of justice, right?”
Mindy immediately jumped out. “That’s right. Everybody calls Batman the Envoy of Justice or the Messenger of Justice. Why don’t we call ourselves… the Justice League?”
Everybody’s hearts jumped when they heard the name.
Justice meant both fairness and punishment.
What they were doing now matched that description.
Also, it wasn’t a secret that there were Avengers on Tony’s side.
Both sides had their own distinctive traits.
For a moment, the veterans looked at each other and nodded slightly to acknowledge the name.
Luke didn’t care.
Actually, even if it was something similar to the Avengers — like the Punishers or something — he had no objections.
After all, putting people on trial or punishing them fit his definition of this organization.
Otherwise, there was “Avengers of Justice,” which sounded like a fancy ass organization with the moral high ground.
“Then, it’s settled? The Justice League?” He looked around.
Everybody nodded in unison.
“Alright, that’s the official name.” Luke was satisfied. “In the future, however, probies still undergoing training can’t join the Justice League right away. I’ll give them another name first: Pacific Detective Department, or PDD for short.”
Everybody had no objections.
Any organization would have probationary employees. Calling them interns or Pacific detectives was just a gimmick. It didn’t matter at all.
Mindy was curious. “Why?”
Luke said, “Because the Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean, and it’s bigger than all the land masses on Earth combined.”
Mindy still didn’t quite understand. “But that’s the ocean, right?”
Luke shook his head with a smile. “We’re using this name because we definitely have a larger jurisdiction than all the police departments in the world combined.”
Everybody: “…”
After the meeting, everybody dispersed.
Ivan left, and Angel went off to train on her own.
Splinter continued drinking his tea as the five kids chatted with Selina.
This master had nothing to attend to, and didn’t want to discuss “administrative matters” with Luke and the others. It was better for him to act like a recluse and drink his tea.
Alice didn’t come at all. She basically never participated in team meetings.
She just took part in team operations when Luke needed her to – she didn’t care who the target was or why.
Lastly, Luke officially expelled Wade from the core team and demoted him to a PDD probie.
The reason was simple.
What did someone who usually didn’t do anything, didn’t participate in training or operations, and only cared about money, have to do with “justice”?
The Justice League still cared about its reputation – it didn’t have the courage to take the blame for this cheap person.
This guy had only just wanted to be a mercenary to begin with; throwing him into the PDD to help be a scapegoat wasn’t a bad idea.
Luke dragged Frank and Damon to a separate workroom.
He forwarded the information to them and turned on the virtual screen as he explained the structure and progress of the new organization in detail.
The truth was that after traveling around the world for half a year, he had pretty much set up “feelers” at the lowest level of the new organization. What was lacking now were mid- and low-level leaders.
Anyone with some common sense would know that mid- and low-level leaders were very important.
They had to understand the instructions from the higher-ups as well as ensure that their subordinates could act on them.
SHIELD had so much power before because it had a large number of level 3 to level 6 agents who could manage the operations of this huge organization of hundreds of thousands of people.
Luke didn’t plan to use SHIELD’s approach, which had many loopholes.
However, he needed between 50 to 100 people at this level in order to get the entire system up and running.
But that would be at their peak. For now, they just needed to slowly take in people; ten or so would be enough to start with.
Damon and Frank each had a list of names which they could choose from.
After playing on both sides of the law for so many years, Damon had dozens of friends who could gather intelligence and clean up loose ends.
Frank had a lot of old battle comrades who could be used as a security force in general situations.
Regardless of both their opinions, it would be Luke who would use his mental abilities to screen these people and decide whether or not they were trustworthy.
Only after being verified after multiple screenings would they become official employees of the Justice League. If they didn’t pass the screening, they would continue to be probies without any insider information.
So, the PDD was necessary for people like these.
Now that the setup of the new organization was on schedule, everyone would be busy for a while.
Knowing the ins and outs was a matter of skill.
The others just needed to know where they fit into things, and ensure that there were no mistakes.
As the commander, however, Frank had to participate in the setup of the organization so that he had a comprehensive understanding of its situation.
The requirements for Damon were slightly lower, but he still had to participate as much as possible.
After all, these two were the veterans with experience in the core team.
Otherwise, if Luke had to keep using triple mode operation to help out in emergency situations, this Justice League would have been set up for nothing!