AN: I swear I just love the idea of the Black Lanterns and even envisioned an actual Volume Cover of Pride with all his Corps members reaching out to get ya. Imagination man! Anyways, hope everyone is doing well. Without further ado, ENJOY.

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Ninety: Each and Every Moment

The fires began to die down and the smoke began to slowly dissipate around them, the rain had finally come to a stop. Subaru and Pride ran towards one another, the blood soaked mud underneath their feet coating them. Subaru fired another Minya spear only for Pride to actually let it shoot through his own neck and rushing over to side tackle past him. Subaru used the momentum of said tackle to shift his body and kick Pride in the back of the neck. The Sin Archbishop broke his own neck to look back at Subaru and spew out black ooze at him.

"Shit, nasty!"

Subaru flung himself back just to escape the attack, watching as Pride creepily twisted his body back to place and created a scythe construct. His grey eyes gleamed with a bright red spark to them.

"Even with these White Lanterns here, they ain't gonna stop what's so inevitable! Everyone here is going to die and I'll use you all up till you're nothing but fucking ashes!"

"Keep talking, it only confirms what I suspected about you."

"Huh?"

Pride was a bit confused about what he insinuated, raising a brow in a disturbing manner.

Subaru shook his head in almost...pity for the man.

"You said you killed a ton of people back in your world as the Sin Archbishop of Pride, right?"

"Yup, all of it was for Emilia. It was so she could win the Selection-"

"-You fucking liar."

Pride took a step back, even he was surprised by his harsh tone.

"Looking at you, even with that hideous attitude of yours...I realized what the real reasoning behind what you did was...You didn't do it for Emilia. You did it for yourself."

"Ah."

"You made Emilia an excuse for yourself. Made her an obsessive reasoning for you to keep going in that new world, I know that, because I did the same thing for awhile...but thanks to Rem and Bruce, I realized what I was doing was wrong, it was damn selfish...egotistical. Prideful."

"You. You're still the same, you haven't changed or learned a damn thing. Lying to yourself that what you were doing was for Emilia's sake. All those deaths. All the suffering you caused! IT WAS YOUR OWN SELFISH DELUSIONS, THAT YOU DID IT FOR!"

"...t..up…"

"A prideful, selfish bastard! That's what you are! Doing it for Emilia and her sake? What a fucking joke! You died just for your own grand-"

"-SHUT UP!"

"...!"

Pride clawed his face with his free hand and snarled at Subaru. Scratching and pulling out chunks of his trademark hair off in clumps. The wound healed, but….the tears running down his eyes were still dropping.

"I died for her! Only her! You have no fucking right to speak like that to me! Asshole! I've died hundreds of times! I betrayed everyone to get that oh so cherished ending I wanted! I...I wanted to be with Emilia...to stay by her side...to give her everything that she desired...but I got nothing."

"I died. Died and got not a fucking thing out of it...THAT WAS UNTIL ANTI-MONITOR BROUGHT ME BACK!"

"Anti-Monitor!"

"Yeah! He brought me back to life and showed me it. The Multiverse. What a fukcing joke. I learned the real extent of my power. All those worlds where I died continued on without me! FUcking bullshit was what it was! All that hard work wasted away?! And then...I SAW YOU."

"Me?"

"Yeah, the 'me' that was with her, holding her hand, hearing her voice everyday...living with her, laying with her, eating with her, hugging her, tapping her, smelling her, fighting her, learning with her, laughing with her...KISSING HER. WHY? WHY?!"

"...I-"

"-IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR! Why did you get the perfect ending?! Everyone is alive, the Kingdom of Lugnica is still around in one piece and you have friends that give you the strength to keep moving! WHY THE FUCK DID IT END UP LIKE THIS?! Why? What…."

"...?"

Heavy streams of tears fell from Pride's eyes.

"What did I do wrong?"

Subaru was quite disgusted in Pride, trying to make himself the victim, even as he heard that Pride may have killed everyone he knew and did something terrible to the Kingdom of Lugnica...yet here he was, trying to be sympathetic in his own vile actions.

It was truly a sin.

"All these fucking worlds. You with that girl Rem. You being a knight. You staying in our original world and having a family. Not fair. Not of it is. So when Anti-Monitor-san told us his plans with Satella, we of course accepted."

Pride wiped away his stray tears and gave yet another twisted smile.

"Me and the Master Swordsman Batman were the first two members of the Society! We were given the opportunity to go across the multiverse and recruit others to our cause. It worked oh so wonderfully...well not always. There were some people we had to kill to silence."

"...?!"

Pride happily put out his hand and counted off the people with his hand.

"Let's see there was a version of you that took the entire camp members to Kararagi. A version of Rem that lost her sister in the village attack and a Roswaal who never met you. And...oh an Emilia that was with some elves in the outskirts of town. They refused my offers, so I got rid of them."

"Y...YOU SICK FUCK!"

A mental image appeared in Subaru's mind of the countless victims underneath Pride's feet, darkness enveloping his face and his eyes shimmering blood red.

Pride took his stance and readied his scythe construct.

"Idiot, I did all this to make a world where me and my real love, the one who actually cared for my existence, SATELLA, can live together. I don't care what the others do in this new world we create...if I have her by my side, I don't care at all!"

Subaru summoned more Minya spears around himself, glaring through his helmet at the insane version of himself.

Just then, Batman jumped over him and fired a chest beam at Pride, it shredded through half his head, but Pride stuck out his tongue and charged anyways, his open wound had black tendrils form like a beehive and pulsated as it began healing his wound.

An awful stomach churning sight.

Batman charged as well, and punched through his chest before slamming him into a nearby wall. Pride knocked him back with his scythe construct, but before he could swing down, something sliced apart his arms. He looked to his corner and saw Felt land next to Batman, her eyes narrowing to an extreme point.

"Little shit, you should just burn to death like the version from my world."

"Cut the crap, you ain't leaving here alive...PRIDE!"

Black tendrils shot out and latched into his limbs, pulling them to him as he healed himself back to normal.

Pride got his scythe ready…a wicked smile and chuckle followed suit.

Minerva dodged a strike by Daphne's claw. She kicked off the side of the wall and somersaulted in the air. She made it behind the coffin riding girl.

"Gonna' knock some sense into you!"

"Try it and I'll just eat-"

Still, Minerva flew at her, the white light enveloping her body and she punched Daphne in the chest, white colored hearts leapt out of the strike.

"Ugh!"

"Eat that!"

Then, Daphne's body began to glow ever so brightly, taking the other witches but complete surprise, even Constantine was rather shocked seeing this.

"No fucking way. BLIMEY!"

{Daphne of Vollachia. LIVE.}

Daphne opened her mouth wide and was truly shocked. She was alive.

Alive.

Breathing normally and back to her usual self, no longer rotting away or adorned with a Black Lantern Uniform.

Minerva took the chance and twirled around, leaving a crater underneath her feet. She was now next to her next intended targets. She uppercutted Carmila and then shifted herself to kick Typhon.

Once again, white hearts bounced off their bodies-

{Carmila of Lugnica.}

{Typhon of Gusteko.}

{LIVE.}

The two witches found themselves back to life and each of them had a different reaction.

Carmila cried happily. Typhon beamed with happiness.

Sekhmet attempted to crush her with a black construct of her former powers, but Minerva braved through the devastating pressure...then a portal opened in front of her, she looked back and saw Constantine forming symbols with his hands, giving her a reassuring nod.

She nodded back and punched through the portal which opened u to Sekhmet's back.

{Sekhmet of Kararagi. LIVE.}

Sekhmet let out a shallow breath as she too was now back to life.

"Still, haaaahhhh, being alive can be such a chore though."

"Knock it off already and help me with Echidna!"

The Witches soon turned to face Echidna who began summoning forth orbs of light around herself. Her dark brown eyes leered down at them-

CRACK.

"What?"

She looked at her hand, and saw that her Black Lantern Ring had cracked, before it completely shattered into nothing.

Soon her hand began to crack. Soon even her face began to break apart.

"No! This is inconceivable! I just came back!"

Everyone stared in utter shock as they were seeing Echidna try flying up, but soon her foot fell off and crumbled into dust.

"This is not right! I came back! What about the knowledge of this world?! What about my-"

Before she could even finish, her face broke apart like clay pot shattering from a fall. Soon the rest of her body followed suit and she crumbled away into nothing.

Minerva slightly trembled seeing this.

"What happened? Why did Echidna?"

Sekhmet brushed her hair as she looked over at Minerva.

"Remember how your Authority healed others, but caused another hahhhhhhh, disaster somewhere else in the world? Huhhhhhhh, this new ability of yours, to revive the dead, hahhhhhhh, seems to work slightly the same. For every person you bring back, someone else doesn't, huhhhhhhh."

"So, that means-"

Sure enough, Beast Boy, Elsa Granhiert, and Annerose let out horrid yells as their rings shattered and they crumbled away into dust.

"Without their bodies, no one can bring them back."

"Yeah, hahhhhh, but what can you do?"

Minerva took some time to think, but shook her head.

"Doesn't matter. I'm going to save as many people as I can! LEt's go!"

Typhon followed Minerva as she leapt out the window and faced off against several Black Lanterns. Typhon took in a deep breath and smiled up at them...two small horns slowly appearing on her forehead.

"Even without my Authority, I can still fight ya know!"

Typhon jumped forward and kicked away a Black Lantern, then Minerva dodged a strike only to punch back with all her might.

{Barbara Gordon of Earth. LIVE.}

Barbara looked around herself...and then stood up.

"My...my legs."

She was now finally healed from the wound that had crippled her so many years ago, she dodged a strike by another Black Lantern, getting behind Daphne.

In the distance, Emilia dodged the whip construct by Clind...only to see him panic as he saw his ring shatter.

"Noooo! Complaint!"

Emilia watched in horror as he had crumbled away into nothing.

Minerva kept up her pace as she punched and kicked away many Black Lanterns, most of them civilians from the many kingdoms that had turned.

Still…

Fourier.

Wilhelm.

Ricardo.

Relala.

Fred.

Ley.

They all let out their final death wails as they crumbled away into nothing. Leaving anyone who saw it, with a sense of distress.

Minerva flew through the sky, in the distance Black Adam was still combating the White Whale, Cyborg was firing missiles at the Blacksnake and Superman was in a punching match with Regulus.

Minerva looked around, only to see the refugees being beset by the Black Lanterns. So she made her way to them, soon facing off against Petra and the others from Knight Subaru's world. She did a powerful spin kick in the air, hitting all of them.

{Petra Leyte of Lugnica.}

{Ram of Lugnica.}

{Garfiel Tinsel of Lugnica}

{Frederica Baumann of Lugnica.}

{Roswaal L. Mathers of Lugnica.}

{LIVE.}

Knight Subaru looked up and almost began to cry as he watched Minerva carry down all of his friends. A sense of happiness filled his heart, he could scream out how happy he was to see them back to life.

But he shook his head and focused on the fight ahead of them. Around them more and more Black Lanterns...began crumbling away into nothing. Including Quark and Temae, who narrowed their eyes at Rem and Ram...soon they were nothing but ashes.

Karagarian Batman continued fighting Reinhard, but soon had Sylvia and Yuuji trying to go around him, he kicked them away and blocked a yang sword by Batman.

"Get out of the way Sword Saint! This is a family matter!"

"Not a chance."

Saia grabbed a piece of wood that seemed to be sharpened, only for her to flinch seeing Crusch make it over to her and make a sword construct. Roy got up and attacked her with his Morningstar...only for her sword to shoot out and stab him through the neck.

"ROY!"

Saia began bawling as she saw him fall over, and then punched through the chest, making Crusch chuckle a bit.

Soon, a Black Ring hovered around Roy.

{Roy of Lugnica. RISE.}

Roy got up and glared down at Saia.

"My love, Roy wishes for you to be together with me."

"Roy...Please."

"And that can only be done with-"

Soon a shadow appeared next to him, seeing it was Minerva. She kicked him across the head, then dodged a sword strike from Crusch. Flippin the air, only to be surrounded by Yuuji and Sylvia, she did a spinning punch which hit both of them, then kicked off the ground a stomped down at Karagarina Batman's head. She landed back down gracefully, making a playful smirk.

"Come back you guys!"

{Sylvia Tanaka of Earth.}

{Yuuji Nijimura of Earth.}

{Bruce Wayne of Earth.}

{Roy of Lugnica.}

{LIVE!}

All four of them were taken back as they felt their hearts beat again and saw the white light envelop them. They had come back to life.

Sylvia and Yuuji ran over to their friends and family. Sylvia hugged her Rem and cried into her shoulders, the group broke out in tears as they had their friends back. Ram and her daughter weep in pure joy as they hugged Yuuji.

Rigel looked up to see Batman walk over to him. He let out his emotions as he ran over to hug him.

"Jii-san!"

"I'm back."

He was then taken aback by a powerful group hug by them, with Halibel even joining in.

He could do nothing but hug them back.

Roy rushed over to Saia, who tackled him to the ground in an embrace. She cried and weeped into his chest, only for him to comfort her with small pats on the head.

"Quickly, Saia-chan, we can't let our guard down...here they come!"

Minerva rushed forward as she saw more Black Lanterns crumbled before her every eyes. Then she released a flurry of punches that struck many of them.

{Kadomon Risch of Lugnica.}

{Liliana Maquarde of Lugnica.}

{Joshua Juukulis of Lugnica.}

{LIVE.}

The three of them felt relieved but shocked that they had returned to the realm of the living. Sadly though, they watched as the gigantic Rom let out a roar as he crumbled away into nothing. Of course, Killer Croc, Grimm, Carol….and a slowly transforming Patrasche, all of them faded away into dust.

Kadomon ran and was reunited with his family, who were so glad to see him back that they just cried and ignored the battle going on around them.

Minerva prepared herself as she looked around, looking for the one she had to face. Sure enough in the distance, she witnessed the fight and made her way to it.

Priscilla shot away a Black Lantern with a beam, tearing it apart. Then she felt someone behind her.

Turning around she saw a familiar face, well, a familiar helmet.

"Aldebaran!"

Al made his way over some crumbled furniture and faced her.

"Yo."

"Where have you been all this time?!"

She frowned at him, seemingly upset that he never bothered to look for her.

He nonchalantly rubbed the back of his head and chuckled a bit.

"Hehe, sorry about that. I got lost in this new world ya know?"

"Surely your sense of direction is flawless."

"Heh, well actually...the truth I met some like minded people...and then, they let me join."

"Join?"

"Yeah…"

Al then unsheathed his sword, his eyes glowing red inside his helmet and a ghastly aura surrounding his body.

"I joined the Society, Princess."

"Y-YOU TRAITOR."

Priscilla summoned her own aura, leering at the man who was once her knight.

Al pointed the sword at her.

"And there is something else...you should know."

Pride swung down his scythe construct, only for it to be blocked by Batman's summoned wings. His red visor reflected Pride's frustrated expression.

Then, he felt fear run across his heart, looking back he saw Minerva flying right at him.

"I hear you're the one causing all this! I know what I'm supposed to do then!"

"Shit."

Pride made two flintlock pistol constructs and fired them at her, only for her to actually punch the projectiles away from herself. Suddenly, the Deathstroke from the Society, tried to stab down at her...only for to actually use her ring to wrap him up in bindings and then punch him down to the ground. He hit the floor leaving a crater in its wake.

Soon, he began to glow white.

{Slade Wilson of Earth. LIVE.}

"Whoa."

Deathstroke looked at himself up and down, seeing that he was back to life. Taking the opportunity, he took the moment to make a run for it.

In the corner of her eye, Minerva watched with some regret as she saw Linnea Helena crumble away to dust. Batman himself slightly reached out for her, and...just for a moment, thought he saw her make a small smile at him.

With the last of the dust flying away, Batman looked back and saw Felt being overwhelmed by Pride's attacks. Batman aimed his palm at him.

"Ul Jiwald!"

He fired a ball of light, forcing the Sin Archbishop to jump out of the way, only to be shot through the chest with a Minya spear. He glared out to Subaru and roared at the man. Minerva ran over to hit him, but he actually dislocated his very own neck to dodge the strike. She spun to kick him, but he put up a shield construct, saving him from being hit...but still sending him flying.

"Stupid bitch!"

"I am gonna make you eat those words!"

Flash ran through the streets and met with Garfiel. The young man seemed to be quite distraught.

"Garfiel?! What happened?"

"My...mother...was here."

"...God."

Flash seemed to be quite understanding of his plight so he went over to comfort the boy.

"Such love for a person...that is quite the thing for someone like me to witness."

The two men were distracted by someone's voice. They looked over and saw exactly who it was.

With Garfiel snarling at the woman.

"Pandora!"

Pandora nonchalantly skipped over towards them, seemingly being flat out ignored by the Black Lanterns.

"Why th' hell are ya here then huh?!"

"Simply to observe things as they occurred and of course to meet that man standing next to you."

She softly pointed to the Flash, making him get into a combat stance.

"What do you want with me?"

"Not particularly with you, but instead that which gives the powers of such incredible speed."

"Y-You want the speedforce?"

"Yes! With its abilities I can further my end goals without worrying about distance or time. That incredible power would let me fulfill my ultimate desires with ease. Don't you agree?"

"No I don't."

"Such a shame."

Pandora moved over to them, making Garfiel slam his fists on the ground and grab a piece of foundation, he leapt into the air and smashed her to death with it.

"Garfiel! What-"

"-Watch it! She's not dead!"

Sure enough Pandora appeared next to Garfiel, caressing his cheeks.

"Now you should-"

Before she could finish, Flash ran to her tackling her away and into a nearby wall. She walked out of the rubble and waved at them. Once again Flash unleashed a barrage of attacks against her, moving so fast Garfiel could barely see any of it.

Flash made it back to him, only to see Pandora without a scratch. She suddenly disappeared and Garfiel looked all around for her.

"Garfiel! Look out!"

"HUH!?"

She was standing on top of his head and he found himself being buried into the ground.

"Grow."

Minerals suddenly stabbed through the earth and stabbed into Garfiel. He let out a grunt as Pandora was once again about to whisper into his ear.

Only to find herself on a rooftop.

"Oh...OH MY!"

She looked behind herself and found the Flash vibrating around at ludicrous speed.

"So that's your ability. Reality warping through words. Too bad for you."

He was then next to her.

"If I concentrate hard enough, I can think in a microsecond, act almost as fast."

He was then behind her. For the first time, he saw he make a slightly muted, but still annoyed look at him.

"...You-"

He was suddenly gone, making Pandora finally raise her brows...only to suddenly eat a powerful punch to the face. Then once again, the Flash disappeared again.

"That...is quite ag-"

Then she found herself being dragged on the streets, the speed of which tear her body apart. Then she was slightly tossed up into the air and had her molecules vibrated to a point where she could no longer keep her usual physical form. Becoming nothing more than blood, bone marrow and melted brain tissue.

Still, she was alive.

"Will you sto-"

Now she was in the air, falling to her death, she looked up and saw the Flash running on the clouds, leering down at her...before disappearing again, in a bolt of electricity.

Her body hit the floor, making her bones rip out of her flesh, blood and fat sprinkling the nearby walls of buildings. She got up like nothing happened. But now...WAS ANGRY.

"How dare you, I would show you such love for you to-"

She was crushed in half by a now free, but bloodied Garfiel, who smashed her with a car. He then stomped on it for a bit, before jumping off it and watching the car explode. He panted and heaved as he wiped some blood off his face.

She appeared behind him.

"If you knew that such an action was fruitless...what was the point of even attempting to kill me? Explain, Garfiel."

"Heh, haaahhhh, well ya witch, bitch...haaahhhhh, Boss says it's called a distraction with a purpose."

"Pardon?"

"...It means...YA LOSE!"

Just then, behind PAndora, a sonic boom shot out, shattering every glass object nearby, she turned to see the Flash running towards her, his eyes literally shining yellow and himself covered in his usual electricity.

As well...as something seemingly chasing after him.

A dark suited man, with a strange metallic helmet...riding on what appeared to be skis, and his eyes shimmering red.

The Black Racer. An embodiment of death itself.

Flash focused with all his might as he let out a yell, phasing through Pandora and pressing his foot forward...grabbing Garfiel and blasting through the streets and away from there.

Pandora turned back to face the incoming threat, her hair fluttering with a turn of her hair.

"You wil-"

She was stabbed through the chest and the Racer ran through her with a vortex of energy around himself. Pandora snickered softly a bit. She realized he thought he killed her, so she opened her joyful eyes….to see her own back.

"...what?"

She looked down and saw her body was transparent and still had been stabbed through. Her eyes widened...and she finally showed an expression of shock, the first time in hundreds of years.

"No...Not possible…"

"I am death. You have cheated such a thing for too many years now, Pandora. I can take the souls of even immortals should I wish….you…"

"Ah."

"You are just a witch. Nothing more. Prepare for the end."

Pandora put a slightly crazed smile as she saw she was getting farther and farther away from her body, soon the city around them slowly disappearing as she seemed to enter a portal.

"Though I was intending to take the Flash for disturbing my duties...I take solace in taking your wretched, cheating soul to the afterlife."

"No...No...NO!"

She reached out, even through there was nothing to grab.

"I was meant to be apart of everything! People would love me and find their lives filled with fulfillment! I was going to create paradise! I was to be paradise! My plans! My goals!"

"...They have come to end."

Her soul began to break apart, she looked on in terror as she felt her strength when.

"No I cannot die! I will not die!"

"That is not your decision to make any longer Vainglory. As a vessel of death, your powers are a hindrance to the order of things...and it will destroyed!"

Her body broke apart further...soon nothing but her head and chest were left.

"But...I…"

"Farwell...PANDORA."

"UWAGGHHHHHHHHH!"

What was left of her now completely broke apart, leaving bits of her head to look back at the Black Racer...only to completely evaporate into nothing.

"Then I must go, my duty is not done yet...the end of the gods may be drawing close as well."

The Black Racer pushed further into the vortex, to continue his duties as expected of him.

Pandora's body fell to its knees...then a Black Ring hovered around her.

{Pandora of Gusteko. RISE.}

Flash tripped with Garfiel in tow, both of them crashing through a storefront.

Both of them helped each other up.

"Hah, can't be doing that again. Too much trouble to be honest."

"Yeh, tha' was some crazy shit righ'?"

Garfiel looked up at Flash as he helped lean him on his shoulder.

"Thanks for th' help."

"Not to worry, just what a hero does."

"Yup."

It seemed that the battle had helped Garfiel to come to terms with seeing his mother and half brother just earlier, though it still hurt him, he had to push it to the side for now.

Then, Mimi and her group arrived. She raced over and jumped at Garfiel. He caught her with one arm as she hugged him around the neck.

"Garf!"

"Mimi, good to see ya."

"Yeah, Mimi was suuuuper worried when you left to fight your...you know."

"Righ, not worry though, Flash-san helped me ou."

Mimi glanced over to Flash and gave a sweet smile to him.

"Thanks."

"Your welcome. Jeez, all these sweet thank yous are a little much. Heh."

However, they felt the ground rumble and saw that many Black Lanterns were moving to a single area ahead of them.

Flash looked to Julius, who nodded in agreement.

"We got to keep moving."

"Of course, lead the way Flash."

The group quickly made their way to what was obviously, the final push.

Pride yelled as he slammed a war-hammer construct at them. Batman caught the weapon in his hands, stopping it from crushing Felt. Subaru then made it over and shot him with another magical force attack. Pride flung back and shot out of his mouth countless globs of acidic slime. Subaru flew back and Batman grabbed Felt and hopped back.

"Fucking damn it! Just die already! ALL OF YOU!"

But...that simple outburst of anger, was all she needed. Minerva was in the air just above Pride, letting out a simple grunt with her teeth gritted, she slammed down a fist on the back of his head. The impact caused the entire ground to break apart, the house they were nearby to break apart and a huge shockwave to shoot out around them. Vast amount of white hearts flew out of her fist...soon Pride's eyes widened to a hideous point.

"NO."

"It's time all this nonsense ended! Pride! Your plans are over!"

{Natsuki Subaru of Earth.}

"NOOOOOOOOO!"

{LIVE!}

Pride's ring shattered and all the color in his flesh returned. His clothes returned to normal and he found himself looking at his burnt black hand with anger.

"I...I WAS SO CLOSE! DAMN IT!"

{Battery Power Level: 98.67% INSUFFICIENT ENERGY.}

All of the Black Lanterns all let out horrid screams and roars, as their rings shattered into nothing, their bodies followed suit. Everyone kept watching on as their friends, family and even rivals began to disintegrate before their very eyes.

Regulus reached out to grab Superman's neck.

"MY RIGHT! MY RIGHT FOR REVENGE! DAMN YOU! CURSE YOU! SUPERMAAAAAAN!"

He broke apart to become dust.

The White Whale roared out in pain as it crumbled away to dust as well. The Blacksnake followed suit.

All of them, at least those that were not revived by Minerva became ashes. Never to return to the land of the living. Ever again.

The battle had come to an end. The clouds parted, revealing the sun.

"Shit. Shit. Shit, Shit, SHIT!"

Pride was now wide open and weak to any attack that would come his way. So he looked over and saw an inn...taking a deep breath, he made a run for it. He intended to break through the window and get inside. Only for Subaru to tackle him through a door of another building.

"YOU ASSHOLE!"

"AGH!"

Subaru tossed away his helmet and glared down at his opponent. Before proceeding to punch him across the face with his sole hand, over and over again.

"All the people you've killed! All for your stupid fucking plots!"

"Ugh! AGH!"

Pride spat out a large amount of blood in Subaru's face befor eheadbutting him off of him. He grabbed a piece of glass with his hand, even as it cut his palm badly. He pounced on Subaru, only for the young man to spin kick him away. Pride snarled at him, his teeth covered in blood. Subaru spat on the ground as he wiped blood off of his face. Instantly, he felt all the other 'heroes' making their way to their building. Then, the wall next to them broke apart and Iris made her way to Pride, hugging his side as she glared at Subaru. Beatrice showed up next and guarded Subaru.

Iris looked up and spat out a huge ball of fire up through the roof. She flew up with an injured Pride in tow. Subaru followed with Beatrice, making sure to grab his helmet. The four of them were now on the rooftop, Iris handing Pride the Ray gun he dropped earlier. He aimed it and fired it at Subaru, he rolled under the shot, infuriating Pride to no end. Subaru and Beatrice nodded to each other as they aimed their palms at him.

"Al Sidoria!"

"Fu-"

Pride realized his movements were slowed down just enough for Subaru to axe kick him on the top of his head, then he uppercutted him before using his stump of a hand to jab him on the side of the head. Pride kicked him in the groin.

Subaru vomited a bit from the sheer pain, before Pride aimed his gun at Subaru.

"Some weak bastard like you, can't beat me-"

"-HAIDARA!"

Subaru screamed out and used his to twist the gun back to Pride, forcing him to pull the trigger as well.

This made Pride shoot out his own right eye.

"EYAGGGHHHHH! FUUUUCCKKKK!"

Unfortunately, it blasted away the side of his face, not through it. He survived the shot. He angrily pistol whipped him away before he intended to fire again. Only Superman to land down in front of Subaru and block the shot.

"Stupid Kryptonian!"

"That's enough Sin Archbishop. You are surrounded."

Pride soon saw he was indeed surrounded by everyone, even Emilia and Rem clenched their fists as they stared him down.

Pride began to sweat. Even if he had Iris with him, he had no chance of beating all fo them.

But the Sin Archbishop smiled with absolute glee plastered on his face.

"Dumbasses, doesn't matter if you stopped this from happening. The rest of our goals are still going to happen regardless of the fact. THE SOCIETY IS STILL GOING TO WIN!"

"...!"

"I'll...see you all again...VERY SOON."

A portal opened up behind him and he jumped back with Iris in tow. Batman ran forward.

"Stop him!"

Iris made fire rain down in front of them, stopping their progress. When the smoke cleared they were gone.

Minutes later...

Subaru got looked over by Cyborg, who quickly made him another cybernetic hand, this one much more silver and fancier looking than his previous one.

"Cool! And you did it super fast too! Thank you."

"Don't mention it, you did good out there, Subaru. Gotta keep you in top form."

"Yeah, sure do."

Finishing the final touches, Cyborg helped Subaru up and had him try out the hand. He was impressed with the fluidity of it and how it felt stronger than the previous one.

"Way too impressive, and so quickly too! You guys are something else."

"I'll take that compliment to heart then."

Cyborg patted Subaru's shoulder and made it over to the others, hoping to discuss more things. Subaru tightened his new fist and took a deep breath.

"We survived huh?"

He then walked over to his friends, showing off his new hand.

Pamela made it over to Crusch and Ferris...seeing the state she was in, she finally let loose and cried painfully.

"Crusch...Wilhelm...Oh god…"

She held her face in utter pain, tears falling from her eyes.

Ferris shook his head then saw Dr. Fate floating down to them.

"AH! FATE. Quick come here and help Ferri-chan. Your magic. Your magic can help Crusch-sama."

Fate floated over and inspected her with magical spheres floating around himself. Then, he let out a sigh, a sure sign of the worst.

"I am afraid there is nothing to be done."

"Wh...Nyo. NYO, help her! Save her-"

"-She is already healed and alive, but her soul has been tampered with. It is in essence, shattered."

"Shattered?"

Ferris trembled when he said this.

"Yes, a wound to the mind or heart is easy to heal. But a wound to the soul is dangerous to meddle with. Should something go wrong, it would do more damage to her. I'm sorry."

"Nyo….WHY?"

Ferris then motioned Pamela to watch Crusch, Crusch held Pamela's hand, staring blankly at her crying face. Ferris made his way in daze, his world spinning and heart racing.

"Crusch-sama...Will-jii...why did this happenyn?"

His eyes lost to the madness brewing inside himself.

He lost the woman he loved and cherished more than anything.

He lost a compatriot and friend.

He lost his king yet again.

His country was nearly in ruins.

What caused this?

Why did this have to happen?

"Ah."

Then he saw it.

The reasoning behind all, he was staring intently at it.

A rage festering inside his heart.

"Ferri-chan understands nyow."

A crazed smile stretched across his once gentle face.

"If...If Crusch-sama nyever met you. Nyone of this would have happened. Yes...YES. It's all your fault."

He finally reached him, he was busy talking to his friends about what to do next, not noticing Ferris was behind him...until it was too late.

"Natsuki Subaru….IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT."

He touched his back. When he healed him back in the capital all those years ago, he felt what he realized were curse incantations in him, still there even after killing all the Wolgarms that placed them on him. He wondered if he would ever have to use them against him, he didn't at the time.

But now he did.

His face obscured in shadows, with only two little dim dots where his eyes were, an utterly spine chilling sight for them.

Subaru screamed as he felt the curses begin to activate, he fell to his knees clutching his chest.

"SUBARU!"

"SUBARU-KUN!"

His two loves grabbed him, while Deathstroke cold cocked Ferris across the face, sending him tumbling down to the muddy floor, before grabbing his neck.

"What the fuck did you do?!"

"Ferri-chan is avenging Crusch-sama."

He insane look, his now disheveled hair, ripped up ribbons and blood leaking across his face, made him look quite unsightly.

"Damn it! What the hell is wrong with you?!"

Vines sprouted out of the ground and quickly wrapped up Deathstroke.

"Pamela! KNOCK IT OFF!"

"Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! EVERYBODY STOP!"

She was hugging Ferris as her panicked face made everyone uncomfortable.

"We can't fall apart like this! Please! Everyone needs to-"

As Subaru clutched his stomach and chest...something dark entered through his back.

Subaru let out a grunt trying to fight the strange feeling flowing through his body. Batman made it to him and held his shoulders.

"Subaru! Hang on! Just hang on!"

But as Subaru looked up at him, his eyes froze and he let out a small breath. He heard it.

"I am free."

Subaru stood back up, surprising everyone. He seemed quite fine and looked around.

"Subaru? Are you alright?"

Subaru gently removed himself from his grasp as he made his way to Emilia.

"Um, Subaru? Are you okay? Ferris did something to you…"

Emilia noticed the black expression plastered on his face. But he soon closed hsi eyes and nodded.

"Yes, Emilia…"

"Huh?"

"I am perfect."

He opened his eyes. Revealing his normal eye turned jade green.

He then put his hand on Emilia's chest, causing her to blush madly.

"Wuh? Subaru, hey that's!"

Then she flinched and fell to into his arms unconscious.

Rem saw this and reached out to them.

"Emilia-sama?! Subaru-kun what-"

He suddenly flew up into the air, leaving everyone stunned to see this. Beatrice let out a scream as she held her own chest. Otto snapped out of it and made it over to her.

"Beatrice, what happened-"

"-The contract."

"Huh?"

Beatrice lifted her face revealing huge droplets of tears falling from her eyes.

"The contract has..BEEN SEVERED, I SUPPOSE."

"Your contract?"

"Subaru...Subaru...SUBARU IS NO LONGER CONTRACTED WITH BETTY!"

She began to weep as she looked up at the flying Subaru, a void opening up in front of him, Batman grew his wings and flew up chasing after him, tossing away his helmet.

Rem reached out to him.

"Subaru-kun!"

Otto and Petra did the same.

"Natsuki-san!"

"SUBARU!"

Finally Subaru looked down and gave a small smirk to them.

"Thank you...for taking care of him all this time."

As the void closed in on him...Bruce let out a vicious yell, with all the power in his body.

"FLUUUUUUGGGGEEEEEL!

The portal closed and Batman lost them.

Batman landed back down to the others, Rem and Beatrice were in tears while everyone else was completely confused as to what occurred.

"F...Flugel took over Subaru's body."

Reinhard made it over to him.

"How is that possible?"

"Subaru has now absorbed the last Authorities minus Envy, it must have given that spirit enough power to wrestle control over Subaru's body...and of course, Ferris activating the curses in his body, made him too weak to fight back."

Rem grabbed Batman's arm.

"So, is Subaru-kun gone...forever?"

He saw the panic in her eyes, but he shook his head reassuring her.

"No I don't think so. There may be a way to save, count on it."

"Alright."

Frederica made it over to him.

"What do we do now?"

"We have to follow the roots of the Algol Tree back to the main source, once we do that, we'll see Flugel."

'Really?"

"I guarantee that's where he's headed."

"And taking Emilia-sama?"

He rubbed his dried and cracked forehead as he let them know his theory.

"My best, but upsetting guess...He wants Satella to possess her."

"...NO."

Everyone realized the severity of the situation at hand. Making things more difficult for all of them.

"I'm going to try and save Subaru, anyone who wants to come can choose if they wish. I don't blame you for wishing to stay at all."

As Batman put his helmet back on, he felt presences behind himself.

Looking back, he saw most of the Emilia Camp behind him. Frederica and Rem stepped forward.

"Subaru-kun has done so much for Rem, Rem wishes to repay him anyone possible. My body, my soul. Anything to bring my hero back."

"Bruce, I can't let my fiance go on such a task alone. I'm coming with you."

Garfiel butted in with Mimi holding his hand.

"We've been thru a lot wit' th' Boss and Bat-aniki, so my amazin' self will be damned if I let ya go on yer own! 'Sides, I got some payback to deal wit' on my other self!"

"Mimi will help too!"

Ram sighed as she brushed her hair, even as Deathstroke made it behind her.

"Even I owe Barusu some favors, so I'll pay them all back today."

"Subaru is still my employer, so I can at least save his sorry ass one more time."

Sarah brushed her hair and smiled.

"Yes, Subaru-sama is my fiance's friend, I will do everything by my family crest to save him."

Soon many others came forward as well.

Reinhard, Felt.

Julius, Tivey and Hetaro.

Knight Subaru.

Karagarian Batman.

Wonder Woman.

Dr. Fate.

Superman.

Black Adam.

Starfire.

Kyle Rayner

Wonder Girl.

And also-

"I found you guys!"

They all looked up as they heard a new voice...the source of which made Rigel almost fall over from joy. A beautiful woman wearing a white short kimono with milky white hair.

"Aunt Tia!"

"You guys should really stay put! I've been searching everywhere for you! Man!"

Tia. Zarestia. The Great Spirit of Wind. From the very world where Halibel and the others were from.

She flew done and gave her family a group hug. She stayed that way for quite some time before letting go and giving Karagarian Batman a whack on the head.

"Ow."

"That's for getting yourself killed! I love you stupid, so obviously only I have permission to kill you. Alright?!"

"Some sound logic there, Tia."

"Right?"

"Yes Tia."

She gave a smug smile as she put her hands on her hips.

"And it looks like you're going on another adventure huh? Well count me in, darling!"

"...Do I have a choice?"

"Not really."

Batman sunk his shoulders as Tia playfully put a finger on his shoulder.

"No one touches you again, understand?"

"...Right."

Tia nodded, she and Batman moved ahead.

"Halibel, you stay and watch the others. If anything...happens, take them as far away as possible."

"Sure sure."

He shook hands with his friend as he once again opened his slant eyes, giving him a friendly gaze.

"Kick some ass, old friend."

"Got it."

Batman hugged Subaru and Rem...before he hugged Rigel and Spica. They both gave him a serious expression.

"Come back, jii san."

"Bad man, come home."

Bruce smiled under his helmet, nodding to the two children. He patted them on the head and moved away, making his way to the team.

Rem, Subaru and the rest of the family...had to let him know.

"We love you!"

Bruce froze for a moment...before he took a deep breath. He raised a fist for them, letting them know, he would come back…

Pamela helped Ferris up and took him to Crusch.

"I'll stay here and keep the others safe. That should be alright, right?"

"Yes, please watch them both."

"Okay?"

She took both of their hands and walked off...even as she pained to see Crusch gazing around with no understanding of her surroundings, drooling as she did and Ferris staring down the floor as if he was losing himself to the despair. She tightened her grip.

Roswaal decided to go as well, claiming he had to make up for being tricked by Pride...still, he knew seeing the other Witches of Sin, without his teacher...meant she did not get revived. So...that meant…

"The tree...with that...there is still a chance…"

Roswaal hid his smirk under his hand, leaving Ram to look away.

But to also notice Karagarian Batman was staring at her master, just a bit too much in her opinion.

Knight Subaru hugged Petra as tight as he could as if letting go would be a tragedy. Her blushing face was evident of her feelings on it.

She hugged him back.

He let go of her and looked to the others.

"Beatrice, you come with me. The rest of you stay here and help each other out, we just got back together...so let's keep it that way. Take the gems holding the Witches souls with ya, they can help out too."

Everyone nodded in agreement. He then gave a sweet kiss to Rem and patted Emilia on her head. Comforting them.

Minerva, still in her White Lantern uniform, and her sisters of sorts, stepped forward as well.

"We're coming along too! We won't forgive some jerks who used our bodies for some nasty stuff like that!"

"Yeah!"

Typhon raised her hands in excitement, Carmilla nodded in agreement.

Sekhmet walked over to face Batman.

"We'll go too...hahhhh, and make this Society learn some, huhhhhhh, manners."

"Do as you please...do you remember me by any chance?"

"...A little, not so much though, hahhhhh. Like we met in the past or something."

"I see, well you are more than welcome to tag along."

Then, Batman was stunned when she put a finger under his chin and stared into his eyes.

"Hmmmmm…"

"Sekhmet?"

"Just...don't remember much...but I know I thought you were handsome."

"Oh."

Sekhmet gave a small smile and shambled over to her sisters.

Bruce took a deep breath, before turning around to speak further.

"Ah."

Only to see Frederica, Sarah and Felt putting on fake smiles, even while a hideous aura surrounded them.

"Please knock it off."

Though Knight Subaru, brought up a further point.

"Shouldn't we also figure out what they plan do? Now that their Black Lanterns plan fell through?"

"I know what it is."

Everyone turned their heads to see the one and only Priscilla, having emerged elegantly from around a building corner. She pointed her trusty fan at them as she made a smug smile .

"I have been properly informed on the matter...by this indicative fool."

"Ouch. Princess, I'm still human you know?"

Also emerging was none other than Al.

"Yo everyone!"

"Al? Where the heck have you been?"

"Oh Batman...um, well...I was with the Society."

Everyone flinched when they heard that, with Deathstroke even going as far as to begin pulling out a pistol.

"Whoa! Whoa! Easy there everyone! You see the thing is….I went to infiltrate them."

"Infiltrate them?"

"Yeah, so please put the gun away, 'kay?"

Deathstroke holstered his pistol and continued to listen.

Priscilla tapped her fan on Al's head.

"This man decided to do so on his own. To learn what the Society was up to...and it's quite the interesting plot."

"Please don't try to belittle something like this...Ahem. Anyways, I don't exactly understand the a ton of the terminology they were using exactly. But what I know was, they used these 'Black Lanterns' to thin us out considerably."

"...And I see we were."

Everyone felt a tinge of sadness course through them as they heard this.

"Right sorry about that. Continuing on, after that they would continue merging worlds into this one we're standing on."

"They said that, they were going to use the Algol Tree to merge and then, puncture through something called the Source Wall."

All of the heroes suddenly reacted in abject shock hearing this, confusing the others, but also making them anxious.

Normal Subaru held his baby as he had to ask them.

"What's the Source Wall?"

Wonder Woman decided to speak up.

"This wall lies on the edge of the known multiverse. Beyond the wall lies what we believe is known as the Source, a cosmic essence or being that is the 'source' of all that exists in reality. Though some have gone through it...we believe they have only been inside the wall and not actually through it. So in essence, no one has actually seen the other side."

"So...them using the Algol Tree?"

"...If it is something that controls space and time, then it is theoretically possible, it might puncture through the wall and let them actually pass through freely."

'And then?"

"...Even the gods don't know."

Everyone was silent.

The machinations of the Apocatastasis Society very well put even their multiverse in complete danger.

Batman finished eating some snacks provided to him by Frederice, getting his metabolism working again. Swallowing quickly and chugging down some water, he put his helmet back on.

"Regardless, we have to act fast. One team will face the remaining members of the society. The other will go and stop Flugel and whatever it is he is planning."

"Then we have to traverse the roots of this tree correct?"

"Yes...I have a connection with it for some reason, so if you hold on to me, we can traverse up it."

"Well, if you are sure about it."

Batman and the rest of his party waved goodbye to the others. They would stay behind at the Batcave with the leftover heroes and compatriots. Al wanted to go as well, but Priscilla dragged him off to join Batman in battling the Society.

"But why?!"

"Because...it sounds interesting."

Al sighed loudly as he scratched his helmet's chin.

"Always something huh?"

Thus, two more members joined the fray.

Soon, Batman looked up at the sheer giant scale of the root they had begun reaching for. Unlike the last times he would see it, this root, clearly the width of a skyscraper was bright white, even if he was the only one who could see it.

He touched it and he felt an electric shock from the initial touch, but he would ignore the pain...all to get to his friends and save the multiverse.

Soon he felt his hand being held by someone.

Looking down he saw Beatrice with a concerned aura around her.

"Don't worry Beatrice, we are getting Subaru back."

"...Betty doesn't want to lose him, I suppose."

She tightened her grip.

"So Betty will help her friend, Bruce Wayne, get the fool back here, I suppose. And teach the idiot Sage a lesson."

"Right."

Frederica held his other hand and everyone else put a hand on his back. Soon he entered the root and they began floating into it...before quickly flying up through the sky still inside of it.

The others watched as their allies flew into the air.

Married Subaru and his reunited group gave a collective 'Good Luck' under their breaths.

Normal Subaru and his wife gave hopeful gazes, watching the spectacle.

Knight Subaru's team nodded watching them fly off.

Saia, Roy and Erick gave them cheerful waves goodbye.

Halibel and the others watched on in silence.

All of them, wished nothing but the best for them.

Still riding the root up, everyone's eyes began to adapt and they could see the white area they were traversing up. Soon they saw they were in outer space, where countless other roots and vines were sprouting around the starry surroundings.

Batman spoke.

"Everyone get ready! This is it, we're going to stop the Society! We're going to save Subaru and Emilia, make Flugel cease his actions! And…"

Everyone faced forward, putting up courageous faces as they did. They were mentally prepared for what was to come next, and the results of it all.

"And we are going to save the world!"

Everyone in the party nodded as they sped through the sky, continuing to traverse to their destination.

Broken Subaru. He was getting up feeling groggy. He scratched his head and looked around, noticing he was shirtless. He yawned a bit, before wondering what happened. He looked to the corner of his eye...and saw Emilia under the covers next to him.

"Did we…?"

He reached over and pulled the sheets ever so slightly from her shoulder. Indeed revealing that she was not wearing anything.

She pulled the sheets back and did a cute mumble.

He brushed her short hair and took a deep breath.

Just then, a portal opened up in the room and out came out Pride and Iris. He panted and heaved as his face was covered in blood. He looked down and saw his black hand disintegrate into nothing.

"Shit. The ring must have been keeping it together."

"I would assume, things didn't go your way."

Pride flinched and he looked over to see the other Subaru getting dressed.

"Yeah, no shit."

He then noticed Emilia sleeping in the same bed he got up from, making Pride both raise his eyebrows in surprise...then narrow them in disgust.

"I see you've been busy."

"...Didn't mean for to happen. Though it was something special."

"Of course it was."

Pride spoke in a scornful tone...before sighing and getting up from the floor. He patted himself off and stared at the other version of himself.

"What?"

Subaru tilted his head as he saw Pride stared at him with his single surviving eye.

"Just…"

"Hm?"

"I need to vent my frustration."

Pride pulled out his ray gun and shot Subaru three times.

One shot through the neck and two through the chest.

"AGHKKKK!"

"...Now that I think about it...this really doesn't help."

Subaru fell to his knees and held his neck as pools of blood flooded out. Pride simply stood over him, looking down with an unsympathetic face. Subaru stumbled around before he crawled over to the bed, noticing too late he was beginning to glow white. He crawled on the bed hugging Emilia, before noticing Rem.

Rem, the girl who gave him courage and power...she was still asleep, and now beginning to glow as well. He used the last of his strength to pull her towards him and hug her as well, not caring if his blood began to cover her. Emilia felt the wet splotches on her and began to wake.

"Geyahhh!"

Petra dropped her tray as she saw that she was glowing white. Frederica fell to her kness, she too knew what this meant. Reinhard zipped past them and made a beeline for where he last saw Subaru and Emilia. Garfiel punched the ground in frustration and fury.

"THA' FUCKER! FUCK! HE GOT US ALL KILLED!"

Garfiel could only spit insults and curses against the man who ruined everything in his life...and now was going to get everyone killed. Roswaal sat with Ram, as she began to panic.

"Roswaal, what is-"

"-It's too late Ram. Let's just enjoy each other's company, okay?"

Ram blushed as she reached out to him...kissing him on the forehead, shocking the sorcerer to no end.

Reinhard made it to the room and looked over at Subaru bleeding to death on the bed, and Pride standing there, smiling at him.

"Well, seeing the Sword Saint get erased will cheer me up."

Reinhard gritted his teeth and dashed to Pride, ready to slice his head clean off with a chop to his neck.

"NATSUKI SUBARU!"

Hate. Hatered. The Sword Saint hated this person to no end. And now he was going to die because of him. He would-

"Buh bye."

Reinhard vanished into nothing. Pride looked over and saw a now awake Emilia caressing Subaru's hair.

"Su-"

"Oh Subaru, guess the fun ends here huh?"

Echidna spoke her melancholic last words...All of them disappeared into nothing. Their universe erased along with it.

Pride took Iris's hand and they walked out of the room, only to run into Master Swordsman Batman.

"Hey now, I though we made a deal with them?"

"Nah, you guys did that, I never made a deal with those guys."

"Fair enough, lessens the people we have to worry about."

They both nodded when he noticed Pride's terrible condition.

"Want Felix to heal you up?"

"Yeah, I need to get back to 100% to get those fuckers back!"

"Yes well, the arm is gone so nothing can be done about that, the eye i easily fixed."

They continued walking and talking.

"We have a procedure that would help you...but cosmetically it would look-"

"-Screw it. I'll do it. As if I care about how I look anymore anyways."

"Very well then...let's get going...old friend."

"Hm."

Pride smirked.

The two men, Natsuki Subaru and Batman walked side by side as they opened a portal in front of them.

After several minutes the procedure ended and they were now in the Augria Sand Dunes, meeting with the other Society members. He looked over the results. His eye was back and much of his wounds were healed up.

"Don't like it? I worked really hard on it you know?"

"No, no, I like it Felix. It's just something I need to get used to is all."

He looked over his new arm. It was the arm of a black Ground Dragon. It's clawed form was quite the sight, but Pride enjoyed it nonetheless. He also fixed up his tracksuit...but also had Omega change the colors to black, white and grey. He also had fixed himself a new cloak with grey chains holding it together.

"Hey, just had to be more original you know."

"It suits you."

"Thank you Felix."

Felix winked at him, making him nod. Iris looked up at her master and nodded as well, earning her a gentle pat on the head.

"Now then, we're supposed to secure the Algol Tree then?"

"Yes, Anti-Monitor wants us to do just that and maybe even get rid of the last remaining Alliance members."

"Sounds fine to me."

Doing the same as the others, they held onto one of the Batmen that were in their group, flying with the root as they looked back down to their bosses.

Then back forward, ready to finish things.

"It's time to kill the multiverse."

"Yes Natsuki Subaru...for the perfect world."

Anti-Monitor and Satella turned to see the Black Lantern Battery crumble away and the skeletal figure vanish out of sight.

"Seems that the Black Lanterns are of no use any longer then."

"...And...we….have more obstacles…"

They both turned back and saw countless spaceships facing them, all from different alien civilizations. Even gods from the Greek and Norse mythology were there. Even New Gods had begun arriving.

"Don't care...don't care...I want Subaru...kill them all...Subaru…"

"Then let us be rid of these pests and get our goals in order."

Satella summoned countless Unseen Hands, had her shadow form domes around herself and a red aura surrounded herself.

"Subaru. Subaru. Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Love, Love, Love, Love you, Love, Flugel, Flugel, Flugel, Flugel, FLUGEL."

Anti-Monitor looked over the corner of his shoulder and shook his head.

"Let us see if they will be more of a challenge than you."

Looking over, it was Volcanica. Beaten to a bloody mess, with his wings ripped to shreds.

"Aghk. We will stop you both. Mark my words."

Just then, Od Laguna, now free from being used as a power source for the Black Lanterns hovered around the destroyed platform they were on. Anti-Monitor raised his fists to the air and had energy leaking out of his mouth.

"THEN COME TO US! YOU WILL ALL DIE AND BECOME STEPPING STONES FOR OUR PERFECT WORLD! A WORLD WITHOUT THE MULTIVERSE!"

Satella shot out her Unseen Hands and the spaceships began opening firing.

Out in the vast reaches of space, or maybe even at the very deep edges of it, a single chair sat in the middle of nowhere.

"Hahhhh, things have taken to the shitter."

A woman with short black hair and wearing a cute white and black short dress got up from the chair and stretched out her arms.

"Now I gotta do something about it, don't I?"

Large bird like wings also sprang out of her back…

Emilia opened her eyes and found herself floating in a bright setting.

"Where am I?"

"Near the base of the Algol Tree, at least that's how I can explain it."

Emilia looked over and saw Subaru crossing his arms looking back, floating as well.

"There is something very important I need from you, Emilia. Something only you could do."

"Su-"

She trembled and saw his jade eye...making her summon icicles around herself.

"Please don't make this harder than it should be."

"Then do me a favor."

Now, thousands of ice spears surrounded herself, including two gigantic ones, as a single tear formed in the corner of her eye.

"Get out of Subaru."

"..."

"Get out...of the PERSON I LOVE!"

The end was nigh and how it would all transpire, was still to be filled with unsettling consequences. This was it...

AN: ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis - Part Two: The Acceptance of Death [END]

Final Part: The Ending of Endearment [BEGIN]