AN: Well, the Society makes its move. See if you can recognize some of these...ENJOY!

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Seventy Three: Glamour Profession

Rem used her chopsticks to feed Rin a piece of fish, he happily opened his mouth and chomped down to eat it playfully. Rem giggled as she watched this.

Ram sipped on some tea as she held her niece happily, Rem's son walked over and hugged his mother.

"Oh my beautiful son, Rem is so glad you look like your dad. One day, a girl will marry you no problem."

"Hahahaha, momma is funny."

Rin watched as Rem kissed her son on the cheek, he was so absolutely happy that he thought he was dreaming. He was glad he wasn't.

Their son wiped his mouth and saw a butterfly, so he tried to catch it. The family happily watched the boy race off after it, luckily they were all in a clearing of the forest, so they could watch where he was going.

The boy suddenly stopped playing with the butterfly and pointed out into the forest.

"Huh? Momma, Papa…"

"What's up, son?"

"I think I see somebody...over there."

Rem looked...then she sniffed the air.

"...Wait a minute."

She took bigger sniffs catching everyone else's attention.

"Honey, what's wrong?"

"My dear...don't you smell that?"

Rin took big sniffs of the air...then his eyes widened, sweat formed on his forehead.

"Wait….this can't be right-"

"-There is no mistaking it my love! This smell, Rem would remember it not matter how many years it's been!"

Rin and Rem stared into each other's eyes and looked over at their son who was pointing into the foresrt.

Rem charged towards him and summoning her Morningstar, a weapon she stopped using for so many years...now she had no choice but to do so.

She made it to her son, grabbed him and swung her weapon in a curve. Sure enough, a Witch Cultist appeared and was ripped apart by the flail. Ram and Rin's eyes shrank as the saw it, a Witch Cultist.

"That's impossible! They were wiped out years ago!"

"Look for yourself Ram! They all didn't die out."

Ram held her niece tightly and watched as Rin summoned his two horns and raced forward. Rushing out of the forest were more Witch Cultists and armored men. Rem jumped back with her son in tow as the Witch Cultists launched fireballs at her.

Rin put up an earth dome around them, but it broke apart from the blasts. Jumping down at them was an armored man with a battleaxe, trying to swing it down at them. Rin kicked it away and stomped on the man's neck, killing him. Two more Witch Cultists made it around him and pulled out their daggers. The very sight of those daggers made Rem's blood boil.

"Huma!"

She fired two icicles at them, stabbing them through the head. However a armored grunt used that moment to take some more of them around to where Ram was. She frowned as sliced them away with Wind magic.

"Don't you dare harm my family!"

More enemies poured out of the forest, ready to attack the family trying to defend themselves.

"Rem, stay close!"

"Yes, Rem will not leave your side!"

They soon were getting ready to fight them-

"Enough, stay back."

The Cultists and armored men held back, and even slowly walked away from them. The entire family saw their chance and ran back to Ram and their daughter.

The enemies soon got on one knee and bowed to the forest behind them.

Rem covered her mouth and Rin's expression twisted, Ram noticed this quickly.

"What's wrong Rem?!"

"...This smell, unlike anything Rem has ever smelled before...someone literally drenched in the stench of the Witch."

Walking through the forest was the Master Thief Subaru and Owlman. Owlman glanced back at their men.

"All of you go back to the base, but also watch for anyone that tries to save them."

They got up bowed and ran off into the forest.

Owlman and Subaru looked at the family with dissatisfied faces. The family was on guard...Subaru scratched his half gas mask.

"Alright, we really to finish things here."

"Agreed."

Subaru pulled out his carving blade and began to float up. Owlman stepped forward slightly…

Then they dashed forward, Rem aimed her palms at the man who stunk of the Witch.

"El Huma!"

Ice spears shot out at him, but effortlessly flew by them. Rem aimed her Morningstar at him, but flew by it and ran on the ground...then he tossed something at them. It bursted and sent tear gas spreading around them. They coughed and gagged, while the children began to cry from the stinging pain. Ram used her wind magic to blast it away...only to eat a knee to the face by Owlman, causing her to drop her niece. He then kicked her away and backflipped to kick at Rem, she blcoked it with her forearm. Rin was going to try and reach out to him, but Subaru used his slingshot to fire a magic stone at him, he tried to block it with an Earth dome, but it exploded and flashed a bright light, binding him. Subaru twisted in the air and fired another one this one hit Rin's arm and completely severed his arm from the elbow down.

He screamed out in pain, this let Subaru jump up and fire a ballitsic knife into Rin's eye. It struck, but got stuck inside and didn't penetrate the skull fully. Subaru sighed as he then summoned his spirit.

"Omega better have done good by me."

Black energy formed around him, as a necklace with a red jewel he had under his cloak glowed.

"Come out, Patrasche."

Emerging from the darkness was young girl with grey eyes and cute features. Her luscious jet black hair was twice the length of her own body and she wore what essentially was a trench coat with a yellow "N" embroidered on the left hand side of the chest. She narrowed her eyes at Rin.

"Patrasche, let's take care of him."

"Yes….Subaru."

Her voice sounded dreary like that of a ghost, going against her cute visage.

She aimed her palms at him.

"Minya."

Purple spears fired out at him, Rin got back...but one stabbed him through the leg and then exploded. His right leg was now gone. Subaru and Patrasche raced forward to the injured father.

"DONA!"

He fired a rock at them, but they lowered it's speed and sidestepped around it...he then tossed a jar over to where Rem was trying to fight Owlman off.

Rem swung a fist at Owlman, he used a free hand to lead it away from him, before he punched her directly the face, making most of her front teeth fly out. Rem spat out large quantities of blood and tried to chop him, but he dodged the chop kicked her in the chin. She flew back before he tossed several Owl-shaped boomerangs at her, stabbing her all over her abdomen. He then used his claws to slice her belly. Then drop kicked her away to Ram's side. Owlman looked back and smiled...he jumped back and a jar of orange liquid flew under him and shattered in front of Rem, her daughter and Ram.

They coughed as the jar released some sort of gas. Rem rubbed her eyes and saw a Witch Cultist trying to sneak up on her, so she grabbed his head snapped his neck. She saw another one coming right behind her so she punched him through the stomach.

"Huma!"

She caused spears of ice to rip out of his body, she then kicked him into a tree.

She walked towards him and breathed in pained moans. She then turned around and saw Owlman shaking his head at her.

"You don't realize what you've done, huh?"

Rem shook her head as she felt the effects of the gas subsided...that's when she glanced to her side, and saw her daughter dead. She ran over to her and had tears flood out of her eyes. She looked at her child and saw that her neck was snapped in two. Her mind was going blank as she turned her head around saw her sister's corpse...a hole was through her chest and her body was riddled in holes.

"No…"

She hugged her daughter with all her strength…

"NOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOO! NEE-SAMA!"

She was now crying uncontrollably, her words now becoming muddled through her bawling and screaming. Owlman stood behind her and sighed.

"If only you didn't mess with our plans…"

Owlman pulled out a Plasma Gun and shot her through the head. Her body fell over ontop of her daughter.

Rin saw this and was now crawling on the ground...trying to reach his wife.

"REM! REEEEEEEM! REM! REM!"

He was now crying uncontrollably as well, his tears soaking his cheeks. He saw his son run over to his mom and hug her tightly, the boy was clearly tearing up at the sight.

Subaru walked over and pulled out a simple pistol.

"Consider this world...cleansed."

He fire three shots into Rin's head, making his body no longer move.

Owlman rushed over and grabbed onto his shoulder.

"We need to get out of here."

"Yeah...Patrasche use the spell now."

Patrasche closed her eyes and the space around them distorted and they faded away from sight.

The young boy then noticed everything around them began shining white. The boy shivered at the sight…

"MOMMA WAKE UP! MOMMA!"

He tried shaking her awake, but nothing could be done.

"MOMMA! PAPPA! PLEASE! I'M SCARED!"

Then everything was bright white.

"UWAAHHHHH! MO-"

Everything was then erased.

From space, one would see that a small chunk of the new world was now gone, as if plucked out. It was. The peaceful universe that housed the joyful family that lived their lives with great love in their hearts….WAS ERASED FROM EXISTENCE.

Here, Beatrice and Subaru escaped to Subaru's original world.

They lived a peaceful existence with his parents, relishing in days free of battle and conflict. Subaru loved seeing Beatrice take in the world around her. She was overtaken by the greatness of the technology around her.

Now, they were off to a trip to the beach. Subaru was excited to see how Beatrice would react seeing it as they waited by the car for his parents.

"So Beako, you excited yet?"

"Not really, I don't see why the idea of getting wet and covered in sand for you humans, I suppose."

Subaru chuckled seeing her so analytical about it, he even found the pink tracksuit she had on very cute. Beatrice then held Subaru's hand, she smiled up at him.

"But...if it's with Subaru, I think I'll have fun."

"...Thanks Beatrice."

Beatrice blushed and looked away from him, trying her best to hide her smile.

His parents came out of the apartments and hurried over.

"Yo! Hope we didn't make you wait long!"

"Beatrice, Subaru I got all the snacks, so we're ready to go."

Subaru and Beatrice sighed at the tardy adults coming out with their beach clothes. Naoko knelt down and hugged Beatrice.

"N-N-Naoko?"

"I'm so excited to go to the beach with you, it's been so long! Plus I get to see you in a cute bathing suit!"

Beatrice blushed intensely, making Subaru and Beatrice smile happily. Keiichi walked over and patted Beatrice, making her put on a hissy fit. Subaru smiled seeing.

"I'm so glad I brought her with me."

He glanced over his shoulder up at the crisp afternoon sky...and saw some Unseen Hands staring back at him.

"...OH GOD."

They jetted down letting out their usual ghastly wail as they aimed for Subaru. Beatrice saw his panic so she created a barrier around them, she then saw it began to crack. She ran over and grabbed Subaru, making his parents confused.

"Subaru what's wrong-"

The barrier broke and Rigel swooped down and sliced off Keiichi and Naoko's heads clean off. Rigel glared at Subaru and Beatrice as they both cried seeing the corpses of their beloved family.

"HOW DARE YOU!?"

Beatrice fired some spears at him, but effortlessly dodged them all, he fired a windblade at them. Beatrice used Murak to float them out of the way, though it sliced the car clean in half. Subaru held onto Beatrice as she fired more Minya spears at him, but he ran through them all and ran around them.

"Subaru stay behind me and-"

A claw shaped Unseen Hand stabbed straight through the both of them. They both spat out blood and fell to the ground.

Once on the ground, Subaru clutched his stomach wound and it reminded him of the pain he felt when he faced Elsa. He looked over at Beatrice who was reaching out to him.

"Subaru….h-h-hang on...Betty will save you…"

"Bea...trice…"

She reached out to him as she tried to crawl towards him, then he was stabbed thriough the neck by Rigel.

"I've had enough of seeing you."

Beatrice was now mumbling incoherently as she watched the blade yank out of Subaru's flesh, spilling blood everywhere. Rigel turned his head and saw Scarecrow walking towards him.

"We done here?"

"Why yes, those faces of fear frozen on their faces were more than enough to quench my desires. We need to leave before we get caught in this blast."

Rigel pulled out a small device that opened a portal behind them. They nodded to each other and walked through the portal just as everything was turning white. The portal closed just as Beatrice made it over to Subaru, she hugged his head and cried with expressionless eyes.

"Subaru…"

She wiped away his tears, even as her own fell on his face. She leaned her head closer to his face.

"Betty loves you…"

She put on a crazed smile as she kissed his lips….then, everything was erased.

Here, Fourier Lugnica did not die from the disease that wiped out his family. He accepted Ferris's request to cure him and he was able to survive. They tried the same method on the others of the Lugnica family, but it didn't work.

And so, Fourier was the only one to survive, the last of the Royal Family.

Crowned as the Lion King, he married his childhood friend Crusch Karsten, they were now happily married for two years.

Now in the courtyard of the castle, Fourier was reading an interesting book he found on sale by some author named Natsuki Subaru.

"Hmm...a knight saving an elf girl huh?"

"Whatcha reading Fourier?"

Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw his trusted knight Ferris walking over to him.

"A new book by this new author everyone is talking about, Natsuki Subaru."

"Oho! Ferri-chan has actually met him before."

"Really?!"

Fourier closed the book and turned his full attention to him.

"Yeah, that guy is really nyice. A little meek, but he has a wild imaginyation."

"I concur, this book is so strange but fascinating, it's odd how he just appeared about two years ago."

"Hm, he looks like he might be from the country."

"Well, I suppose so. Anyways if I ever need someone to write my biography, I will be sure to ask him to do it. Ferris please take note of that."

"Nyah! Yes sir!"

She saluted him happily, making the king smile.

Coming out of a door ahead of them, was his Queen Crusch Karsten.

She happily nodded to them both and took a seat across from him. They stared lovingly at each other, with Crusch putting out her hand to him. He snickered and took her gloved hand, then pulled her in for a passionate kiss. She allowed it and cupped his cheek with her free hand. They let go of the kiss and smiled at each other.

"So my king, what's on the agenda today?"

"I'm supposed to have a meeting with the Sword Saint tomorrow so I need to prepare for that."

"Oh, the Sword Saint? Any particular reason?"

He put out his arms wide and smiled.

"We are planning to make a Subjugation Force to take out the White Whale, hopefully with him leading it, it'll be quite the winning team."

"...I concur, if there's anyone who is able to defeat the White Whale, it's him."

Ferris nodded to this.

"Reinhard will be the right choice my King."

"Then it's settled, we'll have to do our best tomorrow."

Crusch then leaned over and whispered someting to him, whihc made his entire face red.

"O-Oh...you want to do that then?"

"Tonight…"

She smiled seductively at him, making gulp loudly. Ferris laughed at the sight, making the couple slightly embarrassed...then giggle at each other.

Just then something crashed down behind Ferris. Ferris quickly turned around and saw who it was through the cloud of dirt.

It was the Justice Commander Garfiel and what appeared to be short woman covered in scars with a large red scarf covering her lower half of her face. She wore black pants and a black buttoned up vest...with a black ribbon across her forehead. Her buzzed blonde haircut matched her dreary red eyes.

"So who is it…?"

"...The one with the white suit."

"The king huh?"

Garfiel charged forward, punching Ferris away from him. The girl saw that knights were rushing through the doors in order to protect their king. She grumbled as she dashed at them with incredible speed and pulled out a curved blade. She sliced away at them, cutting throats, severing hands and piercing tendons.

Garfiel kept charging, Crusch launched her Sword Art, the Hundred Man Sword Strike, but he slapped the attack way as it destroyed a wall next to him instead. She tried to slice at him with his sword...but he punched her head clean off.

Her decapitated head slammed into Fouriers face, distracting him enough so he could be punched through the chest by Garfiel. He snarled at the dying king and threw him away, straight through some windows.

Ferris slowly stood up in fear and dread as he saw the two people he cared for the most were dead.

"NYO! NYO! Crusch-sama! Fourier-sama! Ple-"

He was stabbed through the chest by the woman who was now finished killing all the knights. Ferris fell forward as the woman stomped on the back of his head...then stopped as she heard her name being called.

"Felt. We need to go."

"Hmph...Alright then."

She put her knife and cracked her neck...she walked away from Ferris and was picked up by Garfiel, he then pushed a device and they jumped through a portal as everything began to shine white. When the portal closed, Ferris clutched the grass he was laying on.

"I'm sorry."

Everything was then erased.

Here, Emilia had lived a peaceful life. She lived in Elior Forest with her Aunt Fortuna and her father figure, Petelgeuse.

She spent her time studying books, playing in the river and crafting beautiful jewelry. She sopent quite a bit of time with Arch, whom they found great comfort with each other. Emilia would blush everytime she remebered when she shared her first kiss with him and soon they always walked around together holding hands.

Fortuna and Petelgeuse were more than happy to see her in a relationship, many of the elves whistled at the two love birds everytime they passed by...but they didn't mind. Everything was simple and humble.

….So why was the village now on fire?

Everywhere Emilia looked, there were corpses littered all over the place. Houses were on fire, screams drowned out the natural sounds she used to hear. An entire family she knew since she was a child, was in front of her, burned to a crisp.

She looked up and saw a giant icicle fly down the sky and crash into the ground.

"Aunt!"

She ran forward, but Arch came around the corner firing wind magic back at his pursuers. He saw Emilia and grabbed her hand, leading her away.

"Arch! What are you doing?! The others-"

"-We have to go Emilia! We...we…"

Emilia saw the panic and fear plastered on his face.

"We have to run...we cannot beat them…"

"Who? Who can't we beat-"

Right in front of them, a corpse fell out of the sky and landed in front of them, it's body broken beyond recognition.

Emilia's eyes sunk as her eyes became drenched in tears.

"J-J-JUICE!"

Petelguese was now dead and his mangled body lay there for them to see. Arch kept running with Emilia in tow.

Fortuna was panting and heaving, her right arm was now useless and her entire right face was burned away. Blood drenched her entire body.

"Look lady, just tell us where Emilia is."

"Forget it...I'LL NEVER FOLD TO YOU WITCH CULTIST!"

Subaru sighed as he fixed his cape, scratching his nose. His spirit Iris held onto his sleeve and frowned at her, but as Fortuna was about to fire another blast he entire right side was torn away.

"AGGGHHHHH!"

She was then stomped to the ground by Master Swordsman Batman. He still had the Dragon Sword in it's sheath, soi it was obvious he sliced at her with a sword he pilfered from a corpse. The blade itself disintegrated into nothing.

"Fortuna, you little scum...where is Emilia?"

She glared up at him and spit blood on the ground.

"Hopefully long gone by now!"

"You are so infuriating, but I commend you for fighting us so earnestly. Sadly though, I know Emilia is with the elf boy and they are heading westward near the river."

"No...YOU STAY AWAY FROM HER!"

He then pressed his foot on the back of her head. She summoned large ice spears...only to have them melted away to mist by Iris.

Subaru stuck his tongue out at her, just before Batman completely crushed her head into paste with his foot.

"Hey Batman-san, we should get her attention before we catch up to her."

"How so?"

"I'm looking at it."

Batman looked down and nodded.

Emilia and Arch were still running-

-then Fortuna's headless corpse fell in front of them.

Emilia screamed with pain in her voice, Arch held his breath...but a fire blast shot through his neck and he fell to the ground.

Emilia looked down at him….then she slowly formed a smile.

"Arch, what are you doing? Get up."

She shook his hand that was still holding hers.

"Come on, we need to go. Once we're safe we can talk about what happened."

The two men and the spirit were now behind her.

"Aw man, she's totally lost it."

"She didn't really have the strongest mental strength around, I should know."

"True...welp, let's finish this and get to the next place."

Batman nodded he clenched his fist over her head, but Subaru shook his head.

"Nah, I'll take care of this. Want to try out this new toy, anyways."

Batman lowered his fist back as Subaru mumbled a song to himself, he then pulled out a ray gun that belonged to a guy namde Adam Strange. He was given this gun by Warlock Batman after he killed him a few hours ago.

Subaru continued singing the song to himself, which Batman recognized as, "Glamour Profession by Steely Dan".

Subaru fired the beam into the back of Emilia's head, and would you know it...a beam of light shot through her face and her body fell to the side, right on top of Arch's.

"Cool, it does work! Okay, let's move on out of here."

"Sure thing…"

Batman opened a tear in space behind them and they made it out of there. Soon everything turned white...everything was erased.

Here, a grown up Rigel who grew up in the modern world...was clutching his stomach after it was shot open by Spica, several spirits floated around her as she smiled down at him. She then turned her head over and was facing an entire hospital that was on fire, even if she couldn't see it, due to her being blind, she knew it was happening. She could hear the screaming.

Spica then heard familiar loud giant footsteps coming behind her.

"Ah, welcome back Rem-san."

The Justice Buster came up behind her and looked around.

"Rem sees you've taken care of the Prime, Spica."

"Yes...I especially wanted to get rid of this fake Onee-chan."

"Rem understands."

The Justice Buster carefully let Spica sit in its hand as a portal opened up behind them. They left as Rigel clutched his stomach wound. He cried as he looked ahead and saw his own family and his siblings family, dead in a crushed car.

"Why…?"

The light in his eyes faded and the world around him turned white….even after Subaru grew old with Rem in this world. Even after being summoned back to his original world years ago...dealing with a madman named Okabe, he got back with Rem. He had a family, he had joy, he had friends. And now, his sacrifices were for naught...and just like that...everything was erased.

A young Subaru, maybe only seven years old who was playing in the park near his home….was sliced in half by Justice Executioner Ram. Afterwards she flew up into the air with the help of her Justice Armor and went through a portal. Naoko screamed when she saw her son dead...but everything turned white...everything was erased.

Black Hand, one of the few villains from Batman's world who joined the society he wiped his hands clean as he whistled to himself. He tossed the towel away and walked away from the classroom where Subaru, Rem, Emilia were attending...they were all dead. Black Hand walked through a portal just as the classroom shined white….everything was erased.

A world where zombies suddenly appeared in the modern world was now saved...that was because Subaru was now dead along with his fellow survivors, frozen in ice. Emilia fixed her dark cloak and happily petted Puck who sat on her shoulder. She opened a portal behind herself, just as the zombies outside the shed barged in, they began to shine white….everything was erased.

Napoleon Bonaparte, the famous French leader who found himself in a strange new world, was panting as his neck was sliced open and he stared up at the blue sky. The white outfitted girl with the white helmet kicked him away and fired more ice spears into his chest. She sighed at the sight and opened a portal behind herself. She walked through it as the world around her began shinning white. The portal closed and Napoleon began muttering to himself.

"How did it end like this-"

His eyes went dark and the world around him shined...the last things heard by anyone were the confused screaming of the populace….everything was erased.

And like that, from the Watchtower, Mr. Terrific and several other heroes stared down at the world, their mouths frozen in shock...their eyes trembling and their thoughts screeching to a halt.

"What in god's name is happening?"

They watched as chunks of their new world were being erased, piece by piece. Millions of lives lost in a manner of minutes.

The Pleiades Watchtower stood tall….on a piece of floating Earth in the deep reaches of space. The Anti-Monitor stared at it from his spot on another larger piece. He reached out for it, only for the barrier in front of him to shock him back.

"It is a vain effort Od Laguna, I will break through this barrier and free the Witch as promised."

He began to chuckle to himself…

"And when I do...the final steps to purifying reality, will be ours."

His eyes glowed, he could see in the far distance his machinations coming together….his society was right at work, cleansing the new world.

Dr. Fate looked out the window and began to float in the air. Ram and Otto walked over to him.

"Dr. Fate?"

"...Is it time?"

He looked back to them, and nodded cautiously.

"Ram, Otto...yes, it is time."

His hands began to glow.

"It is time we gathered our forces."

With entire universes now erased, Dr. Fate begins his preparations to gather our heroes and prepare them for the conflict against the Society. All the while, the Anti-Monitor begins his plans to reach the Witch of Envy...