AN: Titles for these upcoming chapters...should be a bit familiar to Re:Zero fans. Just saying. Keep a sharp eye folks! ENJOY.

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Eighty Six: The Sky Grows Hazy

Fred Thompson was running alongside some of his friends as they could hear it, the all consuming fear, accompanied with the sounds of destruction and chaos erupting in the city. They had never heard gunfire before except during the Watergate City War, now the sounds were deafening, a jet flew over them, only for something black colored to strike it and it bursts into flames.

They watched the wreckage fall from the sky and crash on top of a building. Mixing with the sea of fire and destruction mixing into the devastated Priestella.

Screams.

Moans.

Cries.

Laughter.

So many voices echoing out around them.

They soon saw a tank crash through a wall as countless undead beings surrounded. They watched as one of them pried open the top and laughed when he looked down at him, his face was a skull covered in hellish flames.

He was called Atomic Skull, and one year ago he was killed by Black Adam.

He pried the soldiers out and laughed as he did...muttering to the others…

"Fear."

As the soldiers tried to shoot him with their pistols, two other corpses punched through their chests from behind and crushed their hearts.

They tossed their bodies away onto the street around them, Fred saw two black objects jet down to them...they soon began to move and quickly got up. Their camouflage changing to black and silver colors, a strange emblem appearing on their uniform. The tank fell into the river below.

Fred grabbed his friends to run for it, when he saw they noticed them…

As he turned around, he saw a face he hadn't seen in so much time.

"...M…"

"My baby boy."

Fred let go of his friends, soon quietly walking towards the woman, even if she wore a dress colored black and silver, he knew it was her. His eyes teared up and he shook his head.

"Mom?"

"Come here son."

Reala smiled at him with a tender look, her orange hair resting on her shoulders. She happily reached her hands out to him, he walked into them as he rested his head on her stomach. He weeped a bit, especially when she began cradling his head, rubbing his hair delicately.

"I...I missed you…"

"I know Fred...I can, SENSE THE LOVE WITHIN YOU."

Before Fred could even speak up or question this, Reala smiled at him, making him lose himself. She then stabbed through his chest and yanked out his heart.

"AUGHHH!"

"It's okay, it'll be ending quite soon."

Fred slumped over and died instantly, his heart was evaporated in her hands as she gave a cute smile.

{Battery Power Level: 0.35%}

With every heart taken, a single 0.1% is raised and thus, thirty five people have died, in just a single five minutes.

A Black Ring flew over Fred.

{Fred Thompson of Lugnica. RISE.}

The ring attached itself to his finger, he soon quickly raised himself up and smiled at his two friends.

"Heeeey now, you didn't do anything to save me? That makes me feel sad."

Reala took his hand as they began floating to them, now both were smiling at their intended targets.

"How...does that make you FEEL?"

Barbara Gordon was firing her pistol as the Black Lanterns were storming the police headquarters, she ordered her men to the roof.

"We need to contact Batman and the others!"

They took and elevator to the top of the roof, from their they could see that at least a quarter of the city was on fire and the skies were still dark.

"Activate the signal!"

The Bat Signal shined into the sky above, but it attracted something else.

"Hey ya Barbs, how's the old man doing?"

"Oh...OH GOD NO!"

Joker flew done to meet her, Harley wrapping her arms around him. Crashing through the roof was Killer Croc who had two officers in his mouth, he spat them away as some rings came down to turn them.

"You put that signal up into the air, and now Gotham's greatest clown prince of crime is here, way to go."

"DAMN YOU!"

She kept shooting at him, but the bullets did nothing but injure someone, that felt no pain.

"Ouch, oof, eek! Careful, you could hurt someone with that...like this."

Killer Croc yanked Barbara out of her wheelchair and slammed her into the Bat SIgnal, destroying it completely and covering her in horrid wounds.

"Ahk. Hukk."

Barbara tried getting up, but she was too injured to do anything, soon Firefly flew down to her and forced her out slamming her to the ground, making her grunt in pain.

"S...top...you…"

"Like I haven't heard that before."

Suddenly a hand shot through the roof and Barbara's chest as well, she coughed out blood as she saw that Man-Bat had now killed her.

"...B...ruce….Dick….I…"

She slumped down and died, a black ring soon attached itself to her finger.

{Barbara Gordon of Earth. RISE.}

"Welcome to the family, kid."

At the main mansion, having been separated from the rest of the group during the conversion; Annerose and Clind found themselves running through the hallways of the mansion. Clind used his trusty whip to smack away a few Black Lanterns, but when he did it again...he was stunned by who it was that stopped it.

"That's not possible. Declaration!"

"Oh but it is."

Heinkel Astrea was using his sword to keep the whip in place. He smiled at him, with black goo spilling out of his teeth.

"But how?!"

"How? Obviously I just died. What an insanely stupid question to ask, can't find any good butlers anymore!"

Heinkel shot some of the goo out of his mouth, forcing Clind to dodge but he used an articulate spinning slice to cut open his ankle. Clind was now able to grab onto a small knife.

"GROOOAR!"

A Juggernaut Wolgarm broke through the hallway walls and stomped on him. As his lower half was smashed to bits, Clind noticed the burnt looking creature had a black uniform on, something similar to what Heinkel was wearing.

Heinkel slowly walked over as the Wolgarm growled above him.

"You should know that when I see a fight get tough, I kind of make my way out of there. Luckily for me, I have some friends in high places...sadly, that does mean I still have to get my hands dirty."

Heinkel sliced his throat open, Clind held his neck...he looked up at Heinkel and the giant Wolgarm staring down at him. Up ahead he saw Annerose stuck with nowhere to go, surrounded by countless Black Lanterns.

She looked back to him, her indigo colored hair swaying as she put on an expression of complete and utter fear.

Only for a black construct of a hand to burst through her chest, her heart being taken as well.

"MY LADY!"

She fell to the ground as Scarecrow arrived with Justice Surveyor Emilia.

"That look of dread was simply exquisite to say the least."

Her heart evaporated just before Emilia launched herself to Clind and flipped him over.

"You have such love and compassion for that girl...it looks delicious."

She proceeded to tear apart his chest, breaking through his muscles and ribs, before quickly pulling out his heart. Throughout the ordeal, he was only whimpering in emotional pain...he had failed his duties, his task…

"A...Ugh…"

He only hoped the others were doing okay.

His eyes lost their color...both master and servant lay dead among the crumbling mansion.

Two black rings suddenly shot through the windows and began attaching themselves to their corpses.

In Knight Subaru's mansion, which they abandoned after Doomsday's attack...countless black rings torpedoed down the clouds and made it all over the area...soon one made it through the giant hole in the wall...and found it's host.

{Petra Leyte of Lugnica. RISE.}

"Ahhhh, Subaru…"

In London, where the capital castle was transported to, the Sage Council was being protected by their guards as the undead were breaching through the castle. But they watched as one by one, they were killed or blasted apart. Black Manta and King Shark mowed their way through their victims, increasing their numbers as well.

Black Manta saw a council member try to jump out the window of the hallways so he fired his eye beams at him, incinerating him down to burnt organs and fried bones. As his corpse was falling to the earth below, a black ring took him and now he was floating in the air.

He looked back and made a hideous groaning sound at them. Before they could even respond, the doors behind them burst open and more Black Lanterns appeared...HOWEVER.

"By the stars...the skies...WHAT IS THIS?"

Looking back at them was Randohal Lugnica, the former king of this country; along with the rest of his deceased relatives.

"I have been dead for such a short amount of time, and this kind of disaster happens with my absence?! I trusted you all with this country! I was mistaken on my part!"

"My...my king…"

Mikoltov trembled at the sight, but had no time to react as he heard Black Manta and King Shark continuing to kill people behind them, soon Black Manta jetted forward and slice three members in half, black rings soon took them. Before Mikoltov could give orders, Randohal created a black construct of a spear and stabbed through him and Bordeaux, the two men gasped in pain as Randohal growled as he yanked them back, and ripped through both of their chests.

"This council is undone...you are undone…"

He ripped out their hearts as they simply evaporated in his hands.

"AND SO IS THIS KINGDOM! NO! THE WORLD! SO ORDERS YOUR TRUE RULER!"

Two black rings made it around him and attached themselves to the two elder sages.

In the streets of Vollachia, Vincent Vollachia raised his hand high into the air as destruction and horror spread around him.

"I am the king of this country! And if I command it to be drenched in death, then it is your duties to do as I command!"

He laughed a bit as he watched Groovy slice away at several guards and Guillotine tore apart a single child to unrecognizable pieces. They all looked back as they saw the castle of this once powerful nation, one that was once unrivaled in it's power of determination, completely collapse into the city below. Emerging from the wreckage was the Blacksnake, it let out a vicious roar as the empire continued to be destroyed.

{Battery Power Level: 37.2%}

Only Ten minutes into the attack…

Subaru and the others finally pulled themselves together as they shook their heads. All of them were hugged tenderly by their loved ones.

Batman squatted down to meet eye to eye with Subaru.

"Subaru."

"I-It's happening."

"Yes...SATELLA HAS BEEN FREED."

A quiet ambiance took the hallways as everyone cowered in fear; the worst scenario had just occurred.

Now they had to contend with the Anti-Monitor and the Witch of Envy. Hope seemed to be breaking away.

Subaru patted himself off as he decided to get up and look around everyone.

"Listen, things seem grim at best, but we can't just sit around and mopp about it! Let's get up and think of something. I know there has to be some way to beat them."

Batman nodded as he too got up.

"Now's not the time to give up. Satella has been beaten before. And we can do it again. Anti-Monitor has been beaten before. We can do it again. SO LET US DO IT AGAIN."

Garfiel slammed his hands together.

"Dam' righ' if th' boss and Bat-Aniki think we got a chance we need to tak' it!"

"Mimi agrees! Heh, let's take em' down!"

Soon everyone seemed to gain some spirit, Rem and Emilia smiled at Subaru...they felt he truly was their hope. Frederica and Sarah looked tenderly towards Batman, they felt pride in him.

"How funny, all this enthusiasm after I died?"

Everyone stopped what they were doing as they all looked back to see the origin of that recognizable voice.

What they saw plunged absolute terror into their hearts.

"What? Stare any longer and you'll burn a hole through me."

"L-Leonard?"

Emilia shook in pain, she was looking at Captain Cold, now in a black and silver version of his outfit, his face pale grey...chuckling at them.

He then aimed his frost gun at them. Batman hit him with a batarang, Nightwing slammed him away with his pole, but the corpse soon floated in the air, as he smiled deviously back at all of them.

"OH GOD, THIS IS-"

"-BLACK LANTERNS!"

Subaru shuttered, he recalled the story Batman told him a long time ago, about the Blackest Night and how these were corpses used to draw out an emotion from their victims, and then rip out their hearts.

"Oh shit! Oh shiiiit!"

"Everyone get away from him!"

Captain Cold charged forward as he let out a roar, only to be pierced by Shaula's light spears, they exploded and made his body parts strewn across the floor.

From behind them they heard another roar and saw Rem charging at them, her suit now black with a symbol on her chest, the crest of the Black Lanterns.

She flung a construct of her morningstar, Knight Subaru appeared from a void behind her and riddled her entire body with orbs of dark light, turning her into mince meat. He rolled to the ground and met with them.

"What the hell is going on?!"

"B-Black Lanterns!"

"Black?"

Deathstroke arrived as well, just so he could inform them the basics,

"They're the Corps that represents death itself, they use corpses as their soldiers and have them to draw out emotions out of us, once they do...they rip out your heart and use it as energy...also if anyone dies from now on, they will become a Black Lantern, it's fucked up I know."

Everyone was shocked to hear such a thing was even possible, it also disgusted them. Emilia was especially angered by it.

"T-The dead should be resting peacefully, this is abhorrent...To be using the deceased like this, I won't stand for it!"

Subaru held her hand as she frowned to the floor….

"Also...those attacks were kind of, useless."

As Deathstroke said this, the corpses were now back up with no injuries to them, they both snarled at their enemies.

"Come on Emilia, let's get our relationship status changed huh?"

Subaru put on his helmet as his eyes glowed. Deathstroke readied his sword. Just then they heard a commotion down the hall.

Roswaal watched as a tear in space appeared in front of him, out appeared a woman. A woman he yearned for, strived for the reaching point. He had suffered and sacrificed so many things and so many people to get her back.

Echidna.

Roswaal fell to his knees as he cried uncontrollably, he shook his head, buried his face into his gloved hands, he has not felt such joy in his entire life, four hundred years of struggle had finally come to an end.

"Roswaal, look at me."

"Yes."

Roswaal smiled up to her, even as tears rolled down his cheeks, she kneeled down and wiped some of them away. Ram kept watching with a frightened look, she was at a loss.

"Roswaal-sama, please...please…"

She felt that it was happening; she was going to lose the man she loved to a ghost from his past. It was scaring her, hurting her. She glared at Natsuki Subaru, whose arms were crossed while still holding the head of his first loop version. She quickly noticed the nonchalant smirk on his face.

Ram looked back to Roswaal as Echidna brushed his hair.

"You took a while, but I say the results yielded the best results, yes?"

"Of course! Having yoooooou back is the one thing I always had! I did it allll for you! Teacher!"

"Yes, eya. Good work my pupil. Very good….you gave your heart out to it didn't you?"

"Yeeees, I would gladly give my heart to you."

Echidna happily chuckled to his vow.

"Then...give me your heart."

"ROSWAAL-SAMA!"

Ram fired a wind blade at Echidna slicing away her neck and sending her flying back. Roswaal saw this and immediately turned to face her, a face clearly crazed with rage. He stumbled over to her and struck her across the head. Ram fell to the ground and Subaru tilted his head curiously at the exchange.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE RAM?! I FINALLY GOT HER BACK AND YET YOU-"

"-USE YOUR EYES ROSWAAL-SAMA, THAT THING! THAT THING IS NOT HUMAN!"

Roswaal picked her up shoulder's making her grit her teeth in pain.

"DO NOT. CALL MY TEACHER THAT."

"...Then turn around and tell me that is human."

He did so, only to see Echidna's wound closing up thanks to some black tendrils that closed off her wounds. She got and simply dusted herself off, smiling at him as she did.

"Oh Roswaal, that wasn't nice at all. And here I was hoping to spend some quality time with my pupil. How saddening...especially I brought some special guests for you, too."

A tear in space opened behind her and she happily clapped her hands, as she would sometimes do.

From it, Roswaal's worst nightmares shambled through.

For the first time in many years, Roswaal ached in perpetual angst and dread. His body shook and he screams internally.

"You...took…"

"No...NO...THIS CANNOT BE!"

"YOU TOOK OUR BODIES!"

Several of the Roswaal's from the past stood in front of him; the people he sacrificed to continue his plans were now reaching out for him.

Subaru tapped his foot as he got in front of the others.

"So yeah Roswaal, I promised you to give you back Echidna...but I never promised to let you live, right?"

"You…"

Roswaal gently set Ram down, allowing her to place her hands on his chest and glare at the undead in front of them.

Roswaal smiled a bit.

"So you tricked me huh?"

"No, Echidna is back."

"I see."

He aimed his palm at him, making Subaru make a playfully annoyed face.

"AL GOA!"

Fire shot out at them scorching the door and out of the room, and out the walls of the mansion.

Roswaal placed his palm down as he looked down with a face filled with regret.

"Roswaal-sama…"

Ram cupped his chin and gave him an affectionate stare.

"It is alright, I am here. Let me take care of it."

"...Ram."

He held her hands tenderly-

"-That is a cute scene, something straight out of a novel."

The two were stunned back to looking at the smoke...there the Black Lanterns were still there, as if nothing ever occurred to them. Subaru clenched his fists to them and howled back,

"Stupid Sorcerer, you really thought something like that would work?! We are already dead! NOTHING CAN KILL US AGAIN!"

They soon heard a commotion all around them, making Subaru smile.

"Looks like some of the others have also awoken."

Subaru chuckled as he looked back to them.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Oh two suggestions really, either run away and try to save yourselves...OR STAND THERE AND DIE."

Subaru and the others charged at them, forcing Roswaal to grab Ram and use earth magic to smash through several walls. He flew away fast as Echidna giggled a bit.

"Such a troublesome student."

Everyone was making their way to the roof of the mansion as they were being followed by Captain Cold and Justice Executioner Rem. Superman fired his heat vision at them, burning them into nothing, only for them to soon get back up. They kept making their way as they soon saw Green Lantern and Red Tornado fly to them.

Both reacted in horror as they saw what was attacking them. Around the corner, Anastasia and Julius saw that they were in trouble.

"Hang on everyone!"

"A-Anastasia-sama, NO!"

The young girl focused as the orange ring floated out of her purse and attached itself to her finger.

"What's mine is mine and mine and mine! And mine, and mine, and mine! Not yours!"

She activated her Orange Lantern Powers and shot right at them, flying over them as she out her orange beams at them, seeing his chance, Green Lantern joined her and tried with all their might to blast them, eventually the Black Lanterns began to lose their momentum and saw that they were eroding away.

"My revenge!"

"Shit, didn't even get one of them-!"

Soon they evaporated away into nothing and their rings shattered. Anastasia began falling from her floating position but was quickly caught by Green Lantern, he quickly saw the orange ring was fluctuating light.

"Miss Hoshin, take off the ring!"

She did as he asked and the ring flew up into the air and went through a wormhole.

"That was…?"

"Your ring ran out of energy, and had you kept it on, it might've teleported you to Agent Orange...he would probably have killed you for even borrowing one of his rings."

"Jeez, and here I thought I was greedy."

He floated down and gave her to Julius who thanked him, just then they saw Roswaal holding Ram flying towards them, they landed nearby and were worried.

"Roswaal, what happened?"

"...It seeeems, I may have made a grave mistake."

Right as he said this, flying from the same section of the hallway, they saw the one person they had a feeling was responsible for all this. Subaru and Batman snarled up at their opponent.

"PRIIIIDE!"

Subaru smiled down at them, as Iris was sitting on his shoulder, his grey eyes analyzed them. His dark cloak floated around, showing them he was indeed a Black Lantern.

They soon saw Echidna fly past them, but did not actually attack them. This confused them, that is until she used a hook construct to grab….the amulet Rigel brought with him. Batman saw this and panicked.

"Stop her! Before she-"

Too late. It was too late. The Portal opened and out poured many Black Lanterns, many of them people they recognized instantly.

"NATSSSSUUUUUKIIIIII! SUUUUUUUBARUUUUU!"

"R-Regulus?!"

Regulus flew forward, his clothes now adorned black and silver, his eyes glowing ghoulish white.

"You and that bastard Sword Saint denied me my right to a fair fight, but now a chance at a restful sleep!? What absolute malicious avarice you have even towards those who wish to be dead! Now I'll have to remedy this by killing you! You and the ones who took my relaxing life away from me! THAT IS MY RIGHT!"

Green Lantern tried to fire beam at him, but Regulus used his superspeed to jump the corner of the wall and kick him to the ground. He clashed with the Flash, but as they did so Linnea dashed to them, Batman's eyes wavered as he saw her again.

"Linnea…"

"Ah, Batman! The man I fell in love with...YET YOU DIDN'T SAVE ME."

Batman felt his guilt return to him for allowing ushc a sweet and gentle girl have to die. But was more horrified to see Sarah and Red Tornado charge at her. Linnea summoned black vine constructs which cut up both of them.

"SARAH!"

Batman kicked Linnea away and checked Sarah, luckily she only had a few scratches, nothing serious. Linnea smiled up at him, making Batman feel terribly despondent again.

Reinhard and everyone else arrived in due time as all the Black Lanterns were being desperately pushed back, even Dark Lord Subaru was proving to be a challenge. But the one the Sword Saint saw amongst the dead, hurt him the most

"Father…?"

"Ah, my useless son has finally arrived, and per usual, it's too late."

Heinkel pointed at him with his sword, while making a scornful look to him.

"The dead have risen and yet here you are, twadling away precious time and power. I don't even know what to say in the least."

"...Father."

Reinhard, for the first time for a long time, had a tear form in the corner of his eye.

Many of the heroes continued battling the Black Lanterns, with Flash surprised at how fast Regulus could be, or how all of his hits were doing nothing. He grabbed him and shook him so fast his molecules split apart and left him a gooey mess.

Still, he reformed and got back up, like nothing happened.

"Red suited scum, get out of my way so I may take the lives of those who took my life, and the rights of living freely as I pleased. Moronic fistfighting will do nothing against me, I am quite invincible as you can see as clear as the sunny day of a spring morning. Fool, bastard!"

"This guy doesn't know when to stop."

Then, a huge bombardment of magic bolts struck across the hallway, then vines wrapped up the damaged area like a wall of protection.

Now everyone, including the citizens and other Subarus were now together again. Knight Subaru demanded to know what was going on to Green Lantern.

'The hell is going on?!"

"It looks like Pride has become a vassal of death and brought back the Black Lanterns! We need to get out of here, before things get out of hand!"

"But where do we go?!"

"...I…"

Even Green Lantern was unsure where this many people could now go to, especially sine it could be assumed that the entire galaxy was no wunder attack. Subaru stepped up.

"Let's head to the city, we can figure out what to do then!"

Everyone agreed with that but saw the vines and doors marking the halls soon broke apart, and the Black Lanterns were charging again. Dark Lord Subaru smiling at them as well.

Dr. Fate opened the portal he usually would and pointed at them.

"Then let us be gone from here! We can no longer use this place."

Mimi was holding hands with Garfiel when a Wolgarm smashed his way to her from underneath the floor. Ricardo did a quick swipe at it and sliced it's head clean off.

"Captain!"

"Don't lose focus Mimi, these undead bastards are a tricky bunch!"

"Okay!"

As they ran forward...Ricardo slumped to his knees, his eyes shrunk and he began drooling, things only got worse as the Wolgarm reattached it's head and snarled at him. He charged at him covered in black energy, tackling Ricardo almost out of the mansion, but Ricardo stopped himself. He then used his superior strength to suplex the Wolgarm into the other Lanterns. He picked up his sword again and hacked away at some of them, but once again lost his footing and began drooling...his eyes almost turning white. Then something jumped out of his ear and once it landed on the ground it grew in size. Everyone turned around to see it and were screaming out in panic for him, even as Wonder Woman identified who exactly it was.

"P-Palmer?!"

The Atom stood over the weakened Ricardo.

"Heh, stepping across that brain of yours actually was more easier than I thought, but still-"

Flash ran to get him out of there, but soon the floor in front of him broke apart as Guillotine and the Guiltylowe roared at him. Flash spun around them, only to eat a punch by Regulus, this sent his body plummeting back to the others. He was caught by Garfiel.

"Flash!"

"I'm alright!"

Ricardo looked over at his group, seeing that the Pearlbatons were ready to charge in to try and save him. He stood back up and yelled as loud as he could.

"THIS IS AN ORDER!"

"YOU THREE STAY WITH JULIUS AND PROTECT OJOU-SAMA WITH EVERYTHING YOU GOT IT!"

The siblings had tears fall out of their eyes, they nodded.

Ricardo grabbed his sword as he yelled again.

"GO! I'LL HOLD THEM OFF!"

The other superheroes were about to rush off but saw in the corner of their eyes more and more Black Lanterns flying to them.

They had to leave.

Ricardo used his sword to slice and chop off limbs and heads off of the enemies, surrounding him, even as his eyes, ears and nose were leaking out blood. He trekked on, soon he was surrounded by his opponents.

They all began making their way through the tunnel...when Mimi, Garfiel, Anastasia and Julius turned back one last time.

"...Ojou-sama, be safe. Don't die….kids, don't ever forget your duty, Julius...protect that girl with your life...and Garfiel Tinsel-"

He turned around and gave his usual jolly smile.

"Take care of Mimi, will ya?"

Linnea then jumped through his body while yanking out his heart.

Mimi just stared, she didn't move really, forcing Garfiel to carry her away...finally Mimi looked back one last time as she saw her captain, the one who took care of her...dead on the ground as the Black Lanterns stood over his corpse.

"C...ap…"

"Mimi?"

"Capt…."

She clawed the back of his neck, as tears fell out of her eyes.

"Mimi-"

"-CAPTAIN RICARDOOOOOO!"

Mimi cried and cried into Garfiel's chest, even as the portal closed behind them. The other Pearlbaton siblings also began to weep uncontrollably.

Anastasia hid her face in Julius's chest, though it was evident what she was doing, Julius shut his eyes as he did his best to be strong.

Everyone else was simply holding back their own tears as they continued running for it.

Regulus watched as the large heart evaporated.

"This demi-human had such love and compassion for those people. How dutiful he was as a bodyguard, it simply as diligent as one would say, either way."

"Yeah, still it led to this right?"

"Naturally."

Linnea looked down as blood leaked out into the carpet.

Subaru made it over and nodded at the demi-human.

"Good work, big guy."

The decomposed head he had with him soon shot out a black ring that attached itself to his finger.

{Ricardo Welkin of Kararagi. RISE}

Ricardo soon got up, his pants were now silver and black, the symbol on his shoulder plate was now that of the Black Lanterns...he smiled as he got up.

"They did care about me ya know? So it'll be easier to get them one they see me."

"Of course it will."

Subaru smiled as he patted Iris on the head.

"That's the point."

Now on the roof of a building on the converged Gotham City and Lugnica Capital...the moment they stepped out they saw it was early morning, but the skies had a hazier hue to it.

"NO…"

Batman and Nightwing saw why this was the case, half of Gotham was a smoldering wreck.

The two men were pained to see this. Their home was taken advantage of. Subaru then felt something off and yelled to everyone.

"Guys! Something is-"

Kadomon, who was carrying Plum on his shoulders, felt the floor underneath him shake, so he instinctively tossed his daughter away to his wife.

"Papa?!"

"Honey-"

A Witch Cultist, killed during the battle against Betelgeuse, was now a Black Lantern and broke through the roof and grabbed Kadomon around the neck.

Kadomon tried to break free, but even he was shocked how strong this thing was.

"Flesh."

Three more popped out and stabbed into his body with constructs of their daggers…

Kadomon spat out large swathes of blood from his mouth. He heard the screaming of his family, he glanced over and saw them being guarded by Crusch and her entourage.

The faces of his loved ones maad ehim instinctively reach out a hand to them.

"P-"

Only for his heart to be stabbed out of his body.

"Love.."

One of the cultists muttered this as they watched his heart dissipate.

{Battery Power Level: 78.9%}

Kadomon's body leaned on the Cultist in front of him, just as his wife lost her voice and tears streamed down her face. Plum's eyes; devoid of any light, stared at her father, her voice shook as she tried to speak.

"P...Pa…"

Subaru screamed out seeing him get killed, Rem and Emilia furrowed their brows at them while Batman rushed forward.

A black ring flew down and attached itself to Kadomon.

{Kadomon Risch of Lugnica. RISE.}

Kadomon helped himself off of the cultist and looked over to his family, he spread his arms wide and smiled at them.

"Hey guys, come on over here. Don't leave me hanging now."

"Pa...pa-"

Raksha grabbed her daughter and held her tight glaring at him.

"GET AWAY! You are not my husband!"

"Yeah, I am. I remember we met at that festival when we were at least seventeen, then after that we-"

"-Stop it! I won't fall for such tricks! Please! Please."

She cried as Kadomon began walking towards her, but he along with the Cultists were slammed away by a giant vine made by Pamela. They crashed into a nearby house, the sight left Raksha reeling, while her daughter just stared, not even blinking once. It was evident the sight was too much-

"UWAAAAAGHHHHHHH!"

Plum let out a deafening cry of pain, making everyone feel absolute misery in everything that was happening. Pamela saw that Kadomon and the Cultist were crawling out of the wreckage.

"Damn!"

"We got a problem!"

Deathstroke pointed to the sky and they saw a tear in space open in the air, jumping out of it was Dark Lord Subaru and his own group. He winked at them, making all of them feel enraged.

He then whistled out, as loud as he could.

From the distance they could see something...then a trembling Otto pointed at the very sight.

"This isn't happening right?!"

Petra ran and hugged Subaru by the waist out of fear, Roswaal's eyes widened at the sight, Wilhelm stood in front of his group, Rom hugged Felt, ready to run if need be and Batman narrowed his eyes under his helmet, his two fiances holding his shoulders.

Led by the White Whale, hundreds of Black Lanterns were flying through the air, straight towards them.

Batman and Subaru stepped forward, Subaru himself putting on his helmet and holding Beatrice's hand. They floated in the air as Batman aimed his palms at the approaching horde.

"Guys! Listen! Until Dr. Fate and Constantine-san find a place to hide in, we have to do this!"

"Some of you stay back and protect the ones who can't fight! The rest of you split up and divide them out! Right now we cannot run anymore!"

Subaru and Beatrice summoned countless Minya spears and Batman was forming a ball of light in his hands.

"We have no choice!"

Mimi was put down by Garfiel, she and him glared out to their opponents.

Superman and Wonder Woman began floating up.

Flash got into a running position.

Rem and Emilia got themselves into battle positions.

Julius readied his sword.

Priscilla had energy form around herself.

Reinhard narrowed his eyes.

Static and the rest of the heroes stared back at the incoming adversaries.

Everyone was prepared…

"WE GOT TO FIGHT!"

The Black Lanterns soon let out sickening roars as they were now about to reach them.

A struggle to survive was now set to begin...and not everyone would make it out in one piece

AN: To the fans asking if this will have a happy ending...have a nice rest of your day. Until next time!