AN: MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTHY ANIMALS! I kid, I kid. But really, happy holidays. I am super hungover right now, but I still got this chapter done. So here ya go! ENJOY!

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Eighty: Decimation

Silence filled the corridors of the House of Mystery, this was because the denizens residing in it were petrified with fear, they couldn't even make a peep...the enemy was in front of them.

Dark Lord Subaru bit off a piece of his fingernail and spit it on the ground. He smiled elegantly as he muttered to them…

"Die."

Him and his group charged forward, making Knight Subaru move as well.

"Get everyone out of here!"

He summoned a dark sword which clashed with Master Thief's wrist blades. Everyone ran out of the room, while Rey, Roswaal and Broken Subaru's group escape through a void...the sight made Roy hold Saia as he tried not to cry.

"Onii-sama."

They ran down the halls with all their might.

"Is this really necessary?"

"Bastards, do you have any idea how many innocent people you've killed?!"

He swung him away, only for his opponent to float above the ground and levitate to him.

"Fool, I fought Batman and the Sword Saint. You are nothing to me!"

Knight Subaru then dodged both a fire blast and a shotgun blast. He looked over at the insidious smile of Dark Lord Subaru.

"The rest of you, go!"

Rigel, Scarecrow and Spica made a mad dash out of the room, and as Knight Subaru tried to get back...Felt went and struck him with her blade. He blocked it but furrowed his eyes at her.

The rest of the refugees were being led by Frederica and Petra...only to hear a loud scream behind them.

They looked back and saw Scarecrow crawling on the ground like an animal to them, his eyes wide with insanity. Maid Rem fired an icicle shard at him, but something caught it mid air and tossed it to a wall. Married Subaru's eyes widened as he was able to see what it was.

"Fuck! He has the Unseen Hands!"

"I was warned that Natsuki Subaru could see them, but I'm sure once you're dead, that won't be a problem."

He sprung up six Unseen Hands, the maximum amount he could summon at a time. Still, each of them took a different form. An octopus tentacle, a spider leg, a skeleton hand, a talon, a venus fly trap and a scorpion tail.

"Do you like what you see, Natsuki Subaru? IT'S THE LAST THING YOU'LL SEE!"

His hands shot forward...then a dimensional warp happened in front of them and KNight Subaru sliced away the Unseen Hands. Scarecrow glared over at his opponent.

"That is clearly not a nice thing to do. They all had such wonderful faces of dread."

"Shut it, I'm taking you down Scarecrow! And the rest of you Society members as well! Including the traitors!"

"By all means...TRY."

Scarecrow summoned more Unseen Hands and shot them out at Knight Subaru, he successfully sliced them away. This gave Frederica the chance to lead the others away. They ran down the halls as they heard the battle continuing behind them.

Sarah got next to her as they ran.

"Where do we go?!"

"There is an exit at the back of the house, Constantine-sama told us tha-"

Just then a door broke open ahead of them and out stepped Rigel.

He used Wind Magic to fly at them and tossed several shurikens at the group. Sarah cut them away with her forearm blades, but noticed too late that Rigel made it past her. He pulled out his katana to slice off Married Subaru's head clean off. Frederica change her arm and made a paw, she struck against his sword...this made Rigel so enraged he summoned his horn.

He then flipped in the air spun his sword.

HE THEN SLICED OPEN FREDERICA'S STOMACH.

"AHK!"

"Bitch, do not get in my way."

Sarah roared as she charged at Rigel, he simply turned his head, avoiding her strike. However he was blindsided by a sudden punch by the other Otto, giving Sarah the chance to slice upwards at Rigel. He flew back but landed gracefully...looking down at the trickling blood falling from him, he growled at them. From behind them, Felt ran across a wall and snarled at them.

Otto and Normal Subaru helped Frederica to her feet and they made off to escape. Felt screamed at them like a wild animal, before she was kicked away by Sarah. Rigel then did his best to slice her arm off, but she did an exuberant twirl and actually not only dodged but karate chopped him in the back of the head. She then dodged a slice by Felt and sliced open her shoulder.

"Agh! Fucking whore!"

"Incorrect! Watch your filthy mouth! I am betrothed to the greatest man in the world! I will not have my honor sullied as such!"

She then noticed Felt glaring at her with an intensity she couldn't comprehend.

"WHY THEN?!"

"Huh?"

"Why did it have to be that way for you HUH?!"

Rigel stopped his charge, as he too was confused by her sudden outburst.

"I saw the other me, short as hell...but she was happy!"

"...?!"

"She has a nice dad, gets to live a comfortable life, and even has a guy she is interested in! So why? WHY DID I HAVE TO BE THE OTHER?!"

"Other?"

"When I was abandoned in the slums, it wasn't that old man that found me...it was a nobleman's servant. He took me home and they groomed me…"

Tears fell out of her eyes as she made a crazed smile.

"They stuck me in some closet and made me exercise...heh, to, 'Keep you looking pretty'...but I knew it was for another reason...when I was only twelve years old...that nobleman had his way with me."

Sarah held her breath as a stunned expression froze on her face. Even Rigel made a disgusted face when he heard her struggles.

"Then...when I was fifteen he had some of his friends do the same to me...they even cut my skin to 'mark me'. Look! LOOK! See the marks?!"

This explained the scars littering her arms and neck. Sarah now realized the severity for the concept of the multiverse.

For every world where someone was happy, in another one it was the exact opposite.

She even wondered if there was a world where she too met unfortunate circumstances.

"But when I turned twenty...I got out of my room, I snuck into the kitchen and grabbed every knife I could carry...and I killed everyone, PAINFULLY."

"...Felt."

"The nobleman, his servant, the maids that ignored my cries for help, his friends...HEHEHAHAHAHA! I tracked down all his friends and killed them too! Their families, their children and more!"

"...!"

"I had their sons and daughters sodomized and their pets burned alive! I killed hundreds of people, before the Anti-Monitor found me and the rest of the Society, showing us all the other worlds! Disgusting. UNFAIR."

"Felt-sama."

"SHUT UP! I'm not the short girl from your world! I'm the real me! I...I…"

She began to claw her face as she painfully wept.

"I...don't even have a name…"

She then insanely glared at her and kicked off the ground as she charged at Sarah.

"RIGEL! GO!"

"Fine then."

He made it around as Sarah was busy fighting the broken woman.

Knight Subaru kept trying to slam Scarecrow with his Ex Namus, but he was quite the slippery foe and did everything to get closer to him...then Master Thief fired his pistol at Knight Subaru, making him put up a barrier.

"Fucker.."

"I take no pleasure in killing all these people, but to make a world where I can be with Satella, there has to be sacrifices."

"I can't believe you are another version of me."

Master Thief fixed his half gas mask before tossing several canisters of Fear Toxin at him. Scarecrow laughed maniacally as he saw this.

"Oh dear, yes yes! Let us see his fear!"

Knight Subaru coughed loudly as the gas entered his body...when he looked around he saw Garfiel, Roswaal, Ram and Frederica staring at him.

"YOU FAILED."

Subaru panicked when he felt someone behind him, he looked and saw Petra. He eyes black and blood escaping her mouth, she smiled up at Subaru.

"I DIED BECAUSE OF YOU."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Subaru was then sliced up by several Unseen Hands. He coughed out blood as he saw Scarecrow swim on the floor, as if it was liquid and spat out cockroaches at him. Subaru covered his face, but was hit with a magic stone, burning up his arms. Master Thief flew to him with his wrist blades ready, Scarecrow used his Unseen Hands to get closer to him.

His vision bright orange and the House seemingly breaking away as he saw corpses of his friends reaching out to him from the cracks. Subaru was about to lose his mind.

Then, he knew he couldn't just die. Emilia, Otto, Beatrice and Rem. They were still alive and they needed him.

"RAGGGHHH!"

Subaru charged forward, but missed his strike as Scarecrow crawled up a wall and punched him down with his Unseen Hand. He then formed spider legs and stabbed at his back.

"What does the brave knight fear?!"

"NOT YOU!"

Subaru summoned his own Unseen Hands and knocked Scarecrow away, Master Thief fired another magic stone with his slingshot, but Subaru summoned a black sphere around himself and saved himself. He pushed the sphere out and broke every window in the hallway, letting the gas escape outside. Subaru panted and held to his sword fast...only for Scarecrow to kick him in the face and shoot a single bullet into his left knee. He then used his Unseen Hands and formed worms that wrapped around him and began crushing him. He screamed as he could feel his bones crack and blood escape his nose.

"After this, I'll be going after your friends next! DOES THAT SCARE YOU?!"

Subaru watched as Master Thief was flying around them, making his way down the hall. He grit his teeth as he could think of one person he could not fail...above all us.

"DON'T TOUCH MY REM!"

Subaru used his Invisible Providence to break out of Scarecrow's grasp and then aimed his palm at him.

He fired a white beam out of his hand, but Scarecrow dodged it and fired his pistol, Subaru returned fire. Subaru was hit twice in the shoulder, while Scarecrow had his left arm and both of his sides torn apart.

He fell to his knees before Subaru slumped forward at great speed and raised his sword. As the blade descended downward, Scarecrow summoned more of his Unseen Hands to block the strike.

They were ripped to shreds.

"Al Sidoria."

Subaru found himself slowing down, then saw a spirit flutter around Scarecrow, the madman smiled up at him as he aimed his gun at his face.

"SCARECROW!"

Subaru summoned his Unseen Hands that were able to pull the safety on the gun, making it so it didn't fire.

The spell wore off but Scarecrow jumped out of the way. When his sword collided with the ground Scarecrow began to fly away...only for Subaru to create a black square and fire it out at Scarecrow. It ripped apart his legs, before he saw Subaru now actually behind himself.

"S-SHAMAK!"

He fired out his smokescreen...only for him to fly out of it with Subaru shooting a harpoon made of magic through his chest. Scarecrow actually grabbed the chain and pulled him. Once he was close enough, he actually bit his shoulder. Subaru screamed in pain but snarled at his enemy.

"INVISIBLE PROVIDENCE!"

His Unseen Hands punched through the Sin Archbishop's chest as the light faded from his eyes.

"Aha, that's some scary tenac...i..tyyyyyyyy…"

His body fell to the ground and blood soaked the carpet and walls around him. Subaru landed on the ground and spat out some blood. He then made a dimensional void, hoping to make it to the others.

Rigel charged at the group as some of them began firing magic at him, only for him to dodge effortlessly. Astronomer Subaru then found himself being the closest to Rigel along with Young Rem and Ram, he grabbed the both of them and tossed them to Yuuji, who caught them with ease.

Frederica looked back...seeing the older gentleman winking at her. Before his head was sliced off by Rigel.

The child versions of Rem and Ram could only scream out at the scene behind them.

His corpse faded into a white light, as his entire universe was erased.

Yuuji held the children tightly as he ran with all his might, then the top of his exploded leaving only his lower teeth left.

His wife Ram screamed in horror as she watched his body fall to the ground.

"YUUJI!"

Her tears fell at an alarming rate and she was pulled away by the her realities Emilia, Sylvia grabbed Ram's daughter and held her close, as she too was beginning to cry. The child versions of Rem and Ram freed themselves from the corpse...only to be patted in the back of the head.

"Shhhh. It's okay, it'll be all over soon."

Master Thief activated his wrist blades which shot through their skulls and ended their lives.

Their bodies faded into white light, ending their universe. A sense of guilt washed over Subaru's conscience, but he quickly got over it.

Rigel and Master Thief kept going as the group were desperate to escape them, Frederica was even thinking of going back to fight them, but Knight Subaru teleported behind them and began his fight against the pair. Rigel clashed swords with him, while Subaru and Patrasche went around him, but he wouldn't allow it.

He formed a black wall ahead of them, stopping their advance. Master Thief then turned back to face him.

"Real shitty response."

Subaru roared as summoned countless black squares around himself and fired them in different directions. Suddenly, Master Thief got next to him and stabbed him in the ribs, but Subaru summoned his Unseen Hands and punched him across the face. Then with a mighty roar he had a black aura surround his arm and he chopped open his chest. Master Thief then fired his wrist blade at Subaru which sliced open his mouth, but he fired another one which stabbed into his gnawed shoulder. Rigel tried to take advantage but was knocked away by an orb of light. Master Thief aimed his pistol at him, but Subaru got low and sliced his sword upward, the resulting attack sliced Master Thief in half.

He coughed a bit before he fell back and crashed onto a counter. Patrasche panicked and rushed over to her master. He opened his eyes to look at his spirit and affectionately cupped her cheek with his bloody hand. She was then stabbed through her chest by Subaru, the blade reaching all the way to stab Master Thief through the stomach.

Patrasche smiled down at him as she felt the weight of her existence fade.

"Subaru...I love you…"

"...Me too…"

She knelt down and gave him a kiss on the forehead, before removing his half gas mask and revealing his chapped lips to her, they both began to glow.

Subaru now realized the folly of his mistake, he had just killed a Prime Subject.

Master Thief received a kiss on the lips by his spirit, he finally smiled as took her hand and kissed it.

"I liked...my first...kiss.."

"Me too Subaru."

They then both vanished into light, their universe being erased. The remaining Subaru held his head and regretted what he had just done...now he had to carry the burden of erasing countless lives. But he would and he did, so he ran with all his might to the others.

Sarah clashed blades with Felt, but she was clearly getting the edge as she sliced apart her armor. She gritted her teeth trying to think of something….

"Yes, then it is time to do it."

"Quit talking to yourself and die!"

Felt snarled at her opponent, before she saw Sarah give a polite bow and take a deep breath. Once Felt was near her, she saw it, Sarah got incredibly fast. Then her eyes opened wide as Sarah danced elegantly around Felt at literal supersonic speed. She then was behind Felt, covered in sweat and clearly out of breath.

"Le' Amore."

Slices appeared all over Felt, the resulting cuts to the air formed an image...the image of a certain man's chest symbol. Felt's body almost fell to the ground but she kicked off the ground and roared at Sarah, Charging at her, her eyes bright white.

Sarah was tired but put away her forearm blades and got into a judo stance, as Felt made it to her, she quickly grabbed the sides of her head, doding the knife in her hands and snapped her neck.

Felt rolled to the ground, paralyzed from the strike. Sarah walked over to her.

"Yes, why do all this?"

"Because it's unfair."

"Huh?"

"Why do you people get to love in peace while we have to suffer? The mistakes you avoided we have to take the blunt of? How is that fair?"

"...I see."

Felt began glowing white as she glared up at her opponent. Sarah now realized she had now doomed an entire reality to being erased from existence.

"I'll just say one last thing.."

"...FUCK YOU ALL."

Felt made a sadistic smile before she forced her neck to turn further.

"If I die, I'LL TAKE EVERYONE WITH ME!"

"WAIT!"

Sarah reached out to her, but it was for nought. Felt broke her own neck and her body fell limp...she then vanished along with her own universe.

Sarah shook her head in disgust at what she had just seen.

The group saw their exit but coming up fast behind them was Spica, she summoned several spirits to attack them...then Otto had an idea.

"THE DOORS! OPEN THE DOORS!"

Everyone realized what he meant, so they opened every door nearby as they ran. Spica frowned as she saw an assortment of monsters and demons rush out.

She had the spirits fight her way through the army of monsters as Rigel caught up with her.

"Oniisan, what about the fake you were fighting?"

"He teleported out of there, probably with the others already."

"...And where is everyone else?"

"I don't know where Pride is, but the others are dead."

Spica nodded as they continued forward, Sarah was trying to catch up but she saw a dimensional void open up ahead and took her with the others. She was now with the group that was near the exit...but she put on a panicked face as she could see Frederica with pain on her face.

"Frederica! Are you well?!"

"...It hurts."

She bit her lower lip and began to panic as she could hear the destruction behind her...Rigel and Spica flying to them.

In another room, where Constantine kept all of his magical belongings, Pride was searching for something in particular. Iris then tapped his sleeve, he looked down at her and saw she had a small box in her hand. He knelt down and carefully took it, he opened it up and saw the contents inside.

"Yes."

He made a disgusting smile as he patted her on the head.

"You always make me happy Iris, thank you."

She smiled with intense pleasure as he enjoyed her reward. Subaru then used his device to open a portal out of there. The two of them left, with exactly what they were looking for.

Rigel and Spica kept charging as they saw their intended targets ahead of them. Otto tossed a magic stone at them, but a spirit blocked it and absorbed the explosion. Rigel came up the side of the hallways and aimed his blade at Maid Rem, who took up a battle stance.

"DON'T TOUCH REM!"

An Unseen Hand shot out and hit Rigel, giving Rem the chance to kick him away. But he caught himself only to eat a punch by the person who used this attack to save Rem.

Runaway Subaru.

"You ain't touching any of them, you hear me?!"

"Subaru-kun..."

Rem's eyes widened as she saw the brave face he was making to him. Rigel scoffed at him as he prepared to attack once again.

At the Watchtower the superheroes were making quick work of the knights and soldiers attacking them. Many of the knights lost their fighting spirit when they saw Halibel get knocked out with one punch by Supergirl.

Crusch was enraged by the sudden developments, when she noticed that a knight was stumbling away from the fight.

"Do not retreat! Get back in there!"

She then saw how his face had no expression and was actually drooling from his mouth. He then dropped something to the ground and a dimensional tear appeared in front of him. Everyone was now staring at the void in utter shock.

Emerging from it was Overlord Felix and Sin Archbishop Emilia.

Felix walked over and rubbed his hands on the head of the knight he had been controlling.

"What a good boy you were!"

Crusch's eyes widened as she saw the one person she hadn't seen on so long.

"Ferris?"

"Hm? Oh, Crusch Karsten...hello there."

He happily waved his hand at her, but Crusch shook her head at him.

"You're with the Society?! How could you?! WHat about the years we had together!?"

"Huh? What are you talking about there? I only met you a few years ago, right before I finished taking over Lugnica."

"So...I...never found you?"

"NOPE."

Crusch realized this Felix Argyle was from a world where she never freed him from captivity, and in that time he had gone insane, using his water magic to take control of all the citizens in Lugnica.

"Now then, let's complete our task."

As he said this Emilia faced forward with Puck and they began forming ice spears around herself.

Batman got a call on his comm link as they ran to the Batmobile.

"Otto?!"

"Bruce! The Society, they're in the mansion! We've been betrayed!"

"What's happening?"

"Several people have died and they're catching up! We need help! FAST!"

"Frederica and Sarah! How are they?!"

"F-Frederica is injured but we Ferris healing her as we run, Sarah is fine."

"...Okay, we're on the way!"

Batman realized that this entire battle was set up to attack the House and possibly the Tower as well, he was more than furious at this notion.

He pressed on the Comm Link as he contacted Subaru.

"Subaru, this is Batman, we need to retreat!"

"Why?! What happened?!"

"The Society made it to the House! They're attacking the remaining Prime Subjects."

"No...THEN WE NEED TO LEAVE AND FAST!"

Batman nodded as looked around at the resulting destruction.

"Subaru, have Dr. Fate telepathically message the others. We have to abandon the fight!"

"Got it!"

All of a sudden, Batman noticed a large shadow casted over them, he looked back and saw exactly what was the cause of it all.

"Oh no."

Subaru ran to and gave him the info he needed, so he telepathically told everyone the situation and they knew they had to retreat. Just then, Subaru noticed a large shadow appear, he glanced back and trembled at the sight before him…

"Oh shit."

Even Beatrice was frightened by what she was looking at, Dr. Fate and Wonder Woman froze as they looked up. Rem shook her head at the sight.

"Su-Subaru-kun...is that-"

"-It has to be."

Subaru trembled, even with his helmet on he felt fear overtake him.

"It's the Anti-Monitor."

The Anti-Monitor stood atop a mountain and looked down the battlefield; his very presence made all the fighting come to a screeching halt.

"Now it is my turn to rid us of this filth."

Ram and Roswaal simply stared up at the humongous figure, Roswaal could see mana literally bending around him, it was a horrifying sight to behold, even for him.

"You will not escape."

The Anti-Monitor then walked down the mountain and raised his hands in the air, causing a shockwave that killed every single living being within a one mile radius of him.

Subaru clenched his fists as he looked up at him. Batman gritted his teeth as he too looked up at him.

Anti-Monitor simply walked forward as his yellow eyes stared down at them.

"I am the beginning...I am the end...I AM EVERYTHING."

The Anti-Monitor let out a mighty roar...and with the thunderous shaking over, everyone began running for their lives.

Death and destruction flowed throughout reality, as the Society began to prepare for their final push to victory.