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ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Seventy Nine: Event Horizon

The explosions continued around them as they locked eyes with the vicious being Doomsday. He charged forward as she grinded his fangs to them, they all moved out of the way of his strike, but soon even Patrasche was surprised by his superhuman speed as he nearly grabbed them, Rem jumped into the air and aimed her palm at him.

"AL HUMA!"

The giant ice spear, was shattered into pieces by Doomsday. As he roared up at her, but when he leap to crush her Dr. Fate fired beams at him, sending him flying to the side of a boulder. Doomsday actually jumped down and tossed the boulder at them, only for Fate to focus on it and then levitate it away from them. Subaru hit with batarang, but it of course did nothing.

Subaru looked at the hopeless situation as Dr. Fate landed in front of them...with him speaking some sort of incantation. As Doomsday was now only a few yards away from them…

"Dr. Fate!"

"Fate-sama!"

Dr. Fate then shot out his hand...and spoke the last of the canto, one Beatrice instantly recognized, making her mouth drop.

"AL SHAMAK!"

A large dark void formed where Doomsday was, it dissipated as he was sent to another dimension.

Dr. Fate breathed heavily and even got on one knee, making the others rush to check on him.

"Fate, are you okay?!"

"Yes, that spell took out a good chunk of my mana but I should be fine."

Beatrice walked over and squatted down a bit to look directly into his eyes.

"How did you know that spell?"

"Betty is possibly the only person in this world who knows about that spell, I suppose."

"...True, you would be the only current person who knows this spell...unless there was a book that described details about it."

Subaru and the others thought about it. Then the realization came crashing into their heads, they knew only way he could do it.

"T-The Forbidden Archives."

"You are correct."

The library in Roswaal's Mansion that was lost forever in the events of the Sanctuary, only...there was another world where the Mansion did not burn down and the Forbidden Archive was still there. And it was there for anyone to see.

"Y-You broke in there?"

"Nothing of the sort, I merely went inside. I seem to have an affinity to Yin and Water Magic. So I was able to break the Gate Crossing spell. There I read up on every book I could."

"I see."

"You do not seem upset by this."

"No, you did it with good intentions. Besides it saved us too."

Beatrice got up and raised her hand to him.

"Betty also forgives you, at least those books were finally put to good use, I suppose."

"Thank you Great Spirit."

As he took her hands to get up...a crack appeared in the space ahead of them.

Breaking through space was Doomsday, freeing himself from the spell Dr. Fate casted. Everyone could not believe what they were seeing, with only Dr. Fate narrowing his eyes.

"I had hoped the dimensional structures were stronger, but I guess not."

"The fucker can punch through dimensions?! This is absolute bullshit!"

"No time to dawdle Natsuki Subaru! Here he comes!"

Doomsday quickly dashed to them as the space behind him repaired itself and they had to fight him again. Rem used her Morningstar to hit him, but completely shattered into thousand of pieces...Rem flinched in fear seeing this, making Doomsday smile up at her, he jumped up and had the perfect position to kill her.

"REM!"

"Al Meganaus."

Dr. Fate summoned several Minya spears and wrapped them in ice magic, the combo then made the spears vibrate rapidly and they fired countless beams out in front of him. Doomsday was bombarded with these attacks, giving Rem the chance to land back down and jump away from him. As Doomsday landed and faced them all, he saw more of the same beams firing rapidly at him...so he punched them all with incredible speed and ferocity. Giving Dr. Fate the opportunity to think of a plan…

"Wait, I think I know of a way to defeat this beast."

"LEt me guess you need us to distract him?"

"No, not quite."

He pointed at two people.

"Natsuki Subaru, Beatrice, I need you two to help me."

"What?"

He looked over at Rem with an intense aura.

"I need you to distract him."

"If it's to help Subaru-kun, Rem will keep Doomsday away from Fate-sama."

Subaru was not sure what to do, but soon saw thay Doomsday was now done punching away the beams and roaring viciously at them.

Wonder Woman then appeared and drop kicked him into the ground and flew over to Rem.

"Rem are you okay?!"

"Yes, thank you Diana-sama!"

Dr. Fate then nodded as he spoke up, marking the area in spiritual patterns.

"Listen well, we need you two to distract Doomsday while we prepare the very thing that will stop his advances."

"Alright then, Rem let's go!"

Rem nodded but ran back to Subaru for a good luck kiss to his cheek...making Subaru kiss her forehead. She blushed intensely from it but smiled and dashed off to face Doomsday, summoning her horn as she did.

"Quickly Subaru!"

Subaru ran to Dr. Fate as he and Beatrice began speaking a canto. He was then told to stand in the middle as he held hands with both of them. Subaru felt it...the mana flowing through all three of their bodies, their gates were now exposed to the raw power. They funeled it between themselves and he saw a small ankh symbol float around them over and over again. He looked ahead of himself at how Wonder Woman and Rem were both bloodied and quite tired fighting an uninjured Doomsday. He focused on the monster.

Then he felt his heart skip a beat. Dr. Fate and Beatrice both finished their cantos.

"NOW! BRING DOOMSDAY TO US!"

Rem and Diana jumped back behind the three and Doomsday ran to them with a vicious leering sense to him.

"GROOOOOOOARRRRR!"

Subaru, Dr. Fate and Beatrice now had the purple ankh enlarge and face Doomsday.

Subaru spoke as his eyes glowed purple.

"Eat this you monster."

Beatrice looked down at the raging beast, with eyes glowing as well.

"Face the greatest Yin Spell ever created, I suppose."

And so Dr. Fate raised his hand to him, with the other two following suit.

"Bask in the grace of defeat."

Doomsday leapt in the air at them-

"AL NABU MAGORIA SHAMAK!"

As they spoke this, the purple ankh flew out and went below Doomsday's feet, and quickly shot out a black energy upwards to the sky...then it condensed and was now nothing more than a small orb...then it evaporated into nothing.

The three of them collapsed as Rem and WOnder Woman worked to heal them.

"Subaru-kun what did you do to Doomsday?"

"...We sent him away."

"But where?"

Dr. Fate sat up and looked up at the sky.

"To another universe, one in our multiverse. Specifically one where all life has already died out. He'll float around with nothing to grasp onto to for at least 10 billion years."

"What a cruel fate...but appropriate for a monster like him."

Subaru got up while holding Beatrice as he looked around the battlefield..then handed him something.

"Natsuki Subaru, you have earned my respect from that battle so I will give this to you."

"A helmet?

Wonder Woman instantly recognized it.

"Wasn't this one of your experiments Fate?"

"Yes, a helmet similar to my own. I was looking to find a pupil to raise one day and train in the mystic arts...but I see now that this young man will need it instead. Take it, it's yours now."

Subaru took it and saw that it looked exactly like Fate's helmet, except it was pitch black instead of gold.

"Wow."

"Hm, this is the Helmet of Divinity. It will help draw in spiritual energy...or in this case, mana into your body."

"Like how Onis do it with their horn?"

"Yes, however, what you don't have to worry about is your gate overloading by the excess mana...instead the helmet will keep it all as a reserve."

"Wow, that's so cool. Thank you Dr. Fate!"

He bowed respectfully to him and so did Rem, which made Dr. Fate turn his attention to Beatrice.

"And to you Beatrice, you are an artificial spirit, is that correct?"

"That is indeed correct, I suppose. I was created by Mother long ago."

"But her creation in you was...quite limited."

"What are you spouting off about."

Dr. Fate then summoned three books and used his magic to make the pages turn rapidly...the words and letters floated around her.

"W-What are you-"

"-Beatrice. Spirit of the Witch Echidna and Master of Yin Magic...it is time to unlock your full potential."

"I-!"

Her eyes turned white and a large beam of light shot out of her. Subaru and Rem panicked, before being eased by Wonder Woman...the light vanished, and what they saw surprised them…

Now reaching the top of the hill Subaru and Rem looked over the explosions springing up all over the place and the smoke rising. The dashes of light flying through the air, and the forms of thunder high in the sky.

"Okay, ready Rem?"

"Of course!"

Rem now wielded her new Morningstar, given to her by Wonder Woman to replace her old one for the moment. Dr. Fate and Wonder Woman caught up and hovered in the air. Patrasche made it over and growled ahead towards the battle waiting for them. Next to Subaru he smiled down as he fixed his coat, and prepared to put on his helmet.

"Ready Beatrice?"

"Hmph, what a silly question. Betty is always ready to handle a few miscreants, I suppose."

He looked down and saw her...Beatrice was now different, her clothes were reversed now with it being bright white with red fur and buttons and what one would call a pink halo floating on her back.

She had ascended.

"The Great Spirit Beatrice, is ready to show this Society what happens when you mess with us, I suppose!"

"THEN LET'S GO!"

Subaru put on the helmet, and his eyes changed to look like Fate's only his were bright yellow.

"Let's win this thing people!"

The party of six now charged forward into the heat of battle.

Supergirl, Cyborg and Red Tornado flew over to the Pleiades Watchtower in order to check who was attacking it.

"You think the society got through, Supergirl?"

"No, we've been keeping them all busy! It's gotta be somebody else!"

Just then spears of light shot out at them forcing them dodge to dodge, even making Supergirl fly low to the sandy ground and get a good look at the soldiers that didn't make it. She soon flew up the side of the tower and dodged more and more spears until she made it to a hole on the side of it.

Shaula glared at her and was prepared to fight.

"Whoa! Whoa! I'm not here to fight! I'm here to help, I swear!"

"Liar! You're here with the intruders, trying to defile this sacred tower!"

"No, Batman sent us here to check on you guys!"

She flinched when she heard a recognizable name, then Meili ran upstairs when she too heard it.

"Wait, Batman jii san? Then is Slade with you?!"

"Slade...he's back there fighting the Society, you know the guys who are responsible for all this?"

"...He's alright!"

Meili was more than relieved to hear he was doing okay, this made Shaula lower her stance and realize they probably knew Subaru.

"Then Subaru-sensei is oaky?"

"Last I heard he was, he's in the fight too."

Just then Cyborg and Red Tornado made it in, sparking the little girls interest in them. But she got a little nervous when she touched Cyborg and felt how cold he was.

"Ew, just like Subaru onii san."

"Little kids being scared of me hurts you know."

[Do not take it personally Cyborg, children are quite perceptive, even for the misconception humans give their ages.]

Just then they heard the Juggernaut Wolgarm die and the army that was invading march up the stairs. Everyone there got ready to fight, then Supergirl widened her eyes when she saw exactly who it was leading this army.

"Ms. Karsten?"

"...You were supposed to be busy fighting the Society."

She narrowed her eyes at Supergirl as Wilhelm, Julius, Halibel and Chin got ready to fight.

"S-Stop this! Why are you doing this?! We need your help back there with the Society!"

"Fools, once we reach the top of the tower we will be able to make a wish and this will be settled."

"...And what do you want to wish for?"

"Simple. THE DEATH OF EVERY SINGLE BATMAN IN EXISTENCE!"

Everyone in the room in front of the them were stunned into silence, even Red Tornado raised his head in surprise for what they just suggested.

"That's ridiculous! How could you even suggest that-"

"-IT'S YOU WHO ARE THE FOOLS!"

Supergirl saw the crazed anger on Crusch's face, as she did her best to hide back her tears.

"We've been at war with that tyrant for so long...less than three years and it feels like an ETERNITY! I have had to watch good people die to that scum and his Justice Elite for too long! Even after hearing of all the terrible things that he has done, you would still stand against us?! Have you no heart!? No shame?! He is a cancer that must be rooted out of all of reality! ALL OF IT! His existence will bring despair and destruction wherever he goes! When need to do this! We have to save everyone! WE WILL SAVE MY WORLD!"

She lost her breath as she stared insanely at Supergirl. Waiting for an answer...and she got one.

"I'm sorry I can't let you do that."

Crusch put on a absolutely mortified expression before she shook her head and pulled out a sword and pointed it in front of herself.

"MEN! WE MUST MAKE IT TO THE TOP OF THE TOWER AT ANY COST!"

The mean readied their weapons, as Crusch glared viciously at them, the veins in her eyes reddening.

"And as for these five-"

Superman and Reinhard were pushed down by Hector's powerful gravitational abilities. He sighed loudly and walked over to Reinhard. The Sword Saint walked over to Hector, but slowly as gravity was still pushing him down.

"Sooooo….you are the Sword Saint, I heard you were powerful, but thiiiiiis is disappointing me a bit. I thooooought you'd be more capable."

"Curse...you…"

He then sighed again and looked back at Superman who was on his hands and knees.

"And I dooooon't know who you are, but I seeeeeem to not care in the slightest."

"Then, I'll just wait until you are all….crushed…"

Hector's eyes widened as he saw Superman slowly getting up, even with the gravitational forces pushing him down, he glared up at Hector with an enraged expression, making the monotone man actually show a tinge of fear. But he focused harder and made the gravitational force more extreme, making Superman lose balance.

"No one, aaaaaand I mean no can beat me, such an anticlimax, makes me sad."

"I...will….not!"

Hector glanced and once again saw Superman narrowing his brows at him, he grit his teeth and made his eyes glow red. He fired heat vision beams, but they fell to the ground, making Hector sigh again.

"I...will...NOT LOSE!"

Superman roared this out as his costume had parts of it ripped out and his cape tore apart. Hector's expression changed to complete surprise...as he saw Superman get into a running stance.

"Foooool! You won't be able to get to meeeeee! My Authority, Event Horizon, cannot be beaten! Especially nooooot by some weirdo like you."

"I'm no weirdo...I'm…"

"Huuuuuuh?"

"I'M SUPERMAN!"

Superman kicked off the ground and charged straight at Hector making him visibly scared, he tried to back away, only to see Superman was much faster.

"HRAGGGGGH!"

"NO!"

Superman punched Hector's sides, but since he somewhat struggled to control his powers in the gravity field, he completely caved it in. Hector's arm was flattened and his eyes were almost shot out of his skull. The gravity field dissipated and he was flung far away and into a nearby hill. He struggled to get back up as he looked around in his putrid state. He tried getting up as one of his lower organs had actually popped out of his anus and he was sitting on it, the pain was excruciating.

But a shadow appeared and Reinhard was glaring down at his opponent.

"...S-Sword…"

"Prepare yourself Warlock, it is time to go to hell."

Reinhard pulled out the sword Reid and stabbed him with it. The blade began to glow white as Hector spoke his last words.

"Underestimating people and being sooooo overconfident….I surely haaaaave sinned, haven't I-"

A large pillar of light shot out of him and ended his life forever. In the end, there was not even anything left to bury.

Superman flew over and saw the crater where Hector was. Superman looked over at Reinhard who bowed to him.

"Thank you for your help Superman."

"No worries, I honestly wish you didn't kill him….but I can't just stand around and lecture you. We have more important things to worry about."

"Yes, let us be going then."

Superman and Reinhard nodded to each other. Superman flew forward while Reinhard used his speed to keep up.

With that, the Warlock of Tristitia, Hector, had died….

Master Swordsman Batman made it over to Kilowog and several other Lanterns who were with Ricardo and the rest of the Fangs of Iron.

"Looks like we got us a new playmate."

"Weaklings like you should kill yourselves and save me the trouble."

Batman charged forward and tried to chop away at one Green Lantern but he dodged...only fo him to throw his sword which went straight through him.

Kilowog summoned spiked gloves and made it over to fight him.

"Ha! You lost your sword, without it you ain't enough to take on a Green Lantern!"

"Well Kilowog, if I was weaker I'd agree with you...however…"

He opened a tear in space and reached his hand inside, pulling out another Dragon Sword.

Ricardo and the rest of his team could only stare at it in utter shock.

"He's got two of them?!"

"Did you all really think I had only one sword?! DO YOU REALIZE HOW MANY REINHARD'S I'VE KILLED!?"

He used his sword to slice Kilowog away, he rolled to the ground clutching his abdomens as he watched Batman slice away at his enemies. Then he made it to the sword he tossed earlier and picked it up...he turned and gave them a sight to be fearful for.

He was wielding two Dragon Swords...one in each hand.

"I'll kill you and a billion more lives, before I lose to anyone!"

"Sh-Shit!"

Ricardo took a step back, but someone rushed past him and angrily called to him.

"BRUCE!"

He stopped as he saw the girl in front of him...he knew her well.

"Felt."

"Please, please stop this."

She had a pleading face on, almost as if she was ignoring the explosions and gunfire in the distance. She could only stare at the man she loved...this version of him who looked terrifying and weld two legendary swords. His vicious red eyes stared her down.

"...You want me to stop?"

"Yes, no more...okay?"

"...NO."

He charged forward, with every intention of slicing the girl in half.

Ricardo and his soldiers charged forward.

"Felt-sama, get the hell out of there!"

Felt closed her eyes, before someone grabbed her and rolled out of the way, Batman tried to kick after them but was stopped by Reinhard and Superman who both clashed with his swords.

Felt opened her eyes...to see her hero holding her close.

"BRUCE!"

"Don't worry I'm here!

She hugged him tightly, and almost started crying as she was patted on her head. He looked over and saw Master Swordsman fighting with Superman and Reinhard. Batman carried Felt with him, the other Beatrice not far behind as he yelled out to Ricardo.

"Move back! Reinhard and Superman will take care of the Master Swordsman!"

"Right! Everyone fall back!"

Master Swordsman saw them run for it, but chuckled.

"Doesn't matter, even if they get away now...I'll find them later and kill them."

Reinhard got mad and sliced away at him with a ton of his strength, only for Master Swordsman Batman to block his hits with one sword. Superman took the chance and punched him across the face, but as he flew back he was able to kick Reinhard and Batman away as well. Batman caught himself as his helmet landed at his feet, having come unbuckle by the hit.

Reinhard and Superman shook themselves ready...only to be petrified by what they were looking at.

"Go ahead, take a good look at the face that will save everyone!"

Looking back at them, was face that looked to be Bruce Wayne and Reinhard Van Astrea.

Morphed together like some sort of disgusting jigsaw puzzle.

Ripped and cracked.

He had blue eyes, black hair with red streaks.

Superman and Reinhard continued watching as he stabbed a word onto the ground and put his helmet back on, making his red eyes the only things visible again.

"Now, we just need to keep this going a little longer...care to do that for me?"

Superman and Reinhard charged forward as Batman retrieved his other sword.

"And when you two are done, I'll find the others and-"

Back at the house, Runaway Subaru got the courage to finally enter the main room and looked over at where his world's people were sitting. He saw as they angrily looked at him...so he swallowed his breath and put on a brave face-

"Everyone, maaaaay I have your attention please!?"

The female Roswaal clapped her hands happily as everyone seemed to be surprised by it.

Saia sat up from the couch and looked at Erick who simply shrugged his shoulders. Even Roy shook his head.

"We have recieved some important news froooom the battlefield! So I think we shooooooudl all gather around and hear it!"

Soon everyone sat or stood by as Roswaal was in front of the fireplace. She happily brushed her hair as her blue and yellow eyes gazed around. She looked to her side at Rey, who nodded back. Then to her other side, to the Subaru from the Broken timeline, he nodded as well.

Astronomer Subaru was holding hands with Child Rem and Ram as they looked at her expectantly.

"Well Ms. Magrave, what was it you were supposed to tell us?"

"Oh please Ms. Magrave makes me sound sooooo old. But yes, there is that."

Otto and the others from the original timeline were at the doorway confused about it all.

"D-Did Batman-san give her a comm link Sarah-san?"

"Incorrect, I did not see ehr get one. Only Slade-san, Subaru-sama and you got one."

"Then, what is she…?"

Runaway Subaru walked over to behind Rem, she noticed this and looked at him with expressionless eyes.

"Rem, after this I want to talk you. I have a lot of things to say."

"Rem...is not interested."

"Sorry but I'm not taking no for an answer."

Rem was quite surprised by his tone of voice, so she turned around and looked at his eyes….seeing the kind of eyes she had not seen in a long time.

"Subaru-kun...what do you-"

"-When she's done, we'll talk. Okay?"

"O-Okay."

She turned back around to see what this Roswaal had to say, leaving Subaru out of breath but happy that he was getting somewhere.

"Nooooow then, the reason I have called you this attention is to let you know that the Alliance is doing well in their fight against the Society."

"...!"

Everyone seemed to be overjoyed in hearing this stream of news.

"However the Society is fighting back tooth aaaaaand nail for victory! So all of their members are mustering their strength to defeat them."

"Yup, and thaaaat would include me!"

Silence filled the room as everyone was slowly processing what she just said.

Soon absolute fear swept across the room.

Roswaal smiled beautifully, making it almost disgusting to look at.

"You didn't think we wouldn't seeeeend spies to infiltrate yoooooour group did you? It's not just me of course! My servant Rey haaaas also been part of this process."

Roswaal pulled out a small device along with Rey who stood next to her. Roy looked at his brother in denial and disbelief.

"And soooo had this Subaru-kun over here."

The Broken Subaru walked over and took out his own device and grinned ever so slightly, even with his tired looking eyes.

"Nooooow then, let's begin, they dropped the devices to the ground and they rolled behind them...it opened a dimensional gateway, and eight individuals began walking through.

"So this is where you bastards have been holed up in huh?"

Dark Lord Subaru and his spirit Iris.

Master Thief Subaru and his spirit Patrasche.

Murderer Felt.

Sin Archbishop of Sloth, Scarecrow.

Natsuki Rigel.

Natsuki Spica.

These eight made it through and all of them leered at the others, looking at them with intense panic on their faces..

"Remember, grab the female me and the one with the normal looking kid and wife."

He rubbed his chin as he saw everyone realizing the severity of the matter...THEY WERE BETRAYED.

Scarecrow opened his mouth wide as he let air escape, making Pride scratch his burned mark and making a disgusted face.

"And everyone else, Pride?"

"Heh, that's easy!"

He then pointed his finger at the terrified, huddled collection of people, with a sickening grin on his face.

Crusch Karsten, crazed from traumatic events, Natsuki Subaru, driven mad by willingness into evil actions and Bruce Wayne, a monster driven to kill by past sins; had given their declaration on what they had intended to be the fate of those their eyes set upon.

"-KILL

THEM

ALL!"

It was death.

Betrayed and seen as the enemy, tragedy rears its ugly head upon our heroes.