AN: The new year is slowly approaching everyone, which means this series is slowly reaching to the end of the road. But for now, we have to finish some fights...and some crazy things happen. ENJOY!

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Eighty One: A Love That Will Never Fade

Supergirl found herself dodging the ice spears shot out at her, Puck continuing to fire with a face akin to fatigue. It was not that he was physically tired at all, but instead that his spirit waned on him. He would do anything for Emilia...but even he wondered what the purpose of all this was. She had become a Sin Archbishop and had been doing unspeakable grievances upon the world. It was when she froze an entire village at the request of Batman that he realized his loving daughter…was broken.

But he said nothing of it, he would do nothing, except help her. He loved her, so he would do anything to help her, even if-

"HRAHH!"

Supergirl stepped up her speed and was now behind Emilia, she tried kicking her away but it was fruitless, as Supergirl dodged with ease and used her superbreath to blow her away. Puck put up a barrier in front of her, only for Supergirl to punch it away into pieces. Emilia and Puck were wide eyed at what they were seeing, simply not fathoming the strength she had. Puck summoned a giant ice spear at her, but she glared up at the thing and fired her heat vision, breaking it apart.

Emilia tried to touch Supergirl as she was distracted by the initial blast, but she frowned at the half-elf.

"Don't think you can get me so easily."

"Ah!"

Supergirl did a simple light jab so fast it was barely readable...the strike bursted her forehead open. Blood gushed out and Emilia began to lose her balance, so Puck trembled at the sight.

"She-She's too strong...I have to…"

Puck's eyes began to glow as he flew past Supergirl and outside to the desert. He closed his eyes as he began to change.

"Lia, I'm sorry...but I'm doing this to protect you."

Puck broke the contract and used Star Beastification to return into his normal form. He roared out loudly as he looked back at the tower, with every intention of killing everyone inside besides Emilia. The sandy area around him began to freeze.

Supergirl narrowed her gaze at the giant beast and took a deep breath. She flew out to him, leaving a sonic boom behind herself.

She flew fast as she got closer to the giant monster, she felt herself getting cold and ice was actually forming around her skin.

"Er...magic…"

"Give up child, there is no one in this world that can defeat me. You will all freeze to death for hurting my Lia."

However, Puck noticed Supergirl's eyes glowed red as she gritted her teeth at him. She let out a vicious roar as she suddenly disappeared from his sight.

"What?"

Puck was then punched on the side of his cheek, several of his teeth broke apart, including his fang that flew across the desert and actually impaled itself on the side of the tower. Emilia fell to her knees and watched the fight.

Supergirl twirled in the air and did the unthinkable.

Crusch dropped her sword as she watched.

Felix tilted his head in amazement.

The rest of the Partisans simply lost their breath.

Supergirl grabbed Puck by his ear and actually flew him into the air, carrying him higher into the sky. Puck roared and fired countless ice spears at the hero. She let go of him for a second and punched away the spears, Puck fired an ice beam out of his mouth, but she dodged it and flew at him. He roared again as he was in freefall, releasing a shockwave around himself. It actually caused pieces of Supergirl's skin to crack, but she braved through it as she rocketed to him at ludicrous speed.

Puck, began to panic. He was looking up at this woman, a person he could compare to being as strong as the Sword Saint...maybe even stronger.

"URAHHHHH!"

Puck fired countless more ice weapons at her, but she dodged them all, he even summoned a gigantic ice sword that was twice his size and attacked her with it. She headbutted it and it shattered into millions of pieces. She was now heading towards him.

"It's over Spirit!"

"S...S...SUPERGIRL!"

They both roared at each other….only for Supergirl to fly straight through Puck's mouth and out the back of his head. She skidded on the ground for a bit, before floating again. Watching as the spirits body was about to crash into the ground...only for it to dissipate into light.

Emilia sat there, crying her eyes out...a single speck of light floated over to her.

"...Lia...Love…"

"P-Puck…"

The light simply vanished from her hands, she whimpered and choked up horribly. Before she put on a crazed intensely rage filled look. She summoned countless ice spears around herself as she glared at Supergirl.

"I'LL KILL YOU! ALL OF YOU! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE-"

Shaula got behind her and fired a light needle through her chest.

"...Ahh."

Emilia touched her chest as she saw the blood pouring out of it...she began to cry again.

"I...I don't…"

She looked up at the starry sky, one that seemed to twinkle for her.

"Don't...want to die...Puck...Rem...Ram...anyone...help-"

She walked forward a bit, before she fell out of the hole on the side of the wall, her body tumbling down to the sand below.

Cyborg and Red Tornado simply looked back as they had finished defeating almost everyone else in the group, minus Halibel who was giving them some trouble. The two of them felt some sorrow for the other Emilia, the one they knew was a bubbly and sweet girl...to see her like that was quite upsetting.

Felix was walking back when she felt a presence behind her. Meili was narrowing her eyes up at her, Felix simply smiled seeing this, but she soon was hit on the side of the leg by a baton she had with her. Felix grinned madly at this and tried reaching out to her, Meili used another baton to push away his hand, then she spun around and hit her in the face. Felix summoned water and was going to drown her with it. Meili focused used the batons to shield her forearms, she frowned madly at Felix...behind her she imagined Deathstroke and Elsa looking down at her.

"I'm not gonna lose to you! CAT BOY!"

Meili rolled away from the attack and struck his legs several times, before she looked up at his chin and hopped up, striking it in a curving motion. Felix flew back a bit as she put out some blood. He crazily smiled at her, before noticing too late a sword was stabbed through her chest.

"H-Huh?"

"We do not have need for someone crazed like you."

He glanced back and saw a bruised up Crusch stabbing her with her trusted blade. Felix giggled as he looked at her, making even her look away in pain.

She sliced upwards, cutting Felix in half. As his body began falling to the ground, it began to glow white and then it disappeared. Another universe was erased.

Crusch panted and groaned but watched with her crazed eyes as Supergirl had returned, she knew that her presence alone meant they would lose. Crusch roared out in vicious tone, only to see Shaula charge at her, she readied her sword, only for the former Royal Candidate to scream in terror as the Sage punched her sword into pieces. Supergirl tried to stop what was going to happen next, but it was too late...Shaula readied her hand as Crusch screamed bloody murder at them.

"DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! I'LL SEE YOU BURN IN THE FIERY BLOOD OF THE VICTIMS YOU'VE-"

Her head was karate chopped off of her body, it fell to the ground as it rolled to Supergirl's feet. She shook her head at the sight before her. When she was about to scream at her...she noticed Shaula was staring at something behind her...when they looked back they all froze in fear.

"Oh my god."

In the distance they saw the Anti-Monitor staring at them while walking on the other landmass floating in space.

Subaru and the others were making a run for it, he glanced back as countless Lanterns were doing their best to try and stop the Anti-Monitor's approach, only for many of them to sliced away like pests. Subaru took off his helmet and grabbed Beatrice before she used Murak to float them onto Patrasche, as the ground dragon ran he reached out to Rem who grabbed on and got to ride as well.

"Subaru-kun! What do we do?!"

"We get the hell out of here, we can't face him just yet!"

"But what if we can't-"

Subaru cupped her cheek as he smiled at her.

"Don't give up hope yet Rem, we can still do this. We've done impossible things before, this is just another obstacle to be overcome! With everyone having my back, I'll manage something."

Subaru winked at her, which made even Beatrice smile a bit as well. Rem glanced at him before giving him a soft kiss on the cheek.

"Yes, Rem will believe in her hero."

Subaru nodded...only to see two lights fly over to them, they flinched in suprise, but Dr. Fate and Wonder Woman were quite shocked at what they were looking at.

"Truly…"

"That's…"

Subaru and Rem stared at the two objects in front of them….they were rings.

{Natsuki Subaru. You have the ability to instill great hope.}

{Rem. You have great love in your heart.}

The two rings placed themselves on their fingers and they held themselves as both of them were shrouded with energy. Subaru found himself wearing his tracksuit again, but it was now colored black, white and blue instead of his usual colors. Rem was wearing a pink and black one piece uniform suit.

"What is happening Subaru-kun?"

"I think...we just joined some Lantern Corps."

{Welcome to the Blue Lantern Corps.}

{Welcome to the Star Sapphires.}

Ram was doing her best to battle against some Witch Cultists, she glared at them, making some of them back away...only to be killed by wind magic. Ram then saw a wind blade come careening towards her and she jumped out of the way. She looked up to see Justice Enforcer Ram flying in the air in her Justice Armor. Roswaal tried to make it over to her, but was busy helping John Constantine fight off Shadow Demons.

"It'll be quite the pleasure to kill a weak version of myself."

"Utter foolishness, I won't lose to a version of me that relies on a suit of armor."

Justice Ram charged down, only for the kick to be dodged. Ram readied her wand as she fired a wind blast at her, it was dodged and Justice Ram fired her wrist launchers at her. She dodged most of them, but some still stabbed at her sides. Ram furrowed her brows and made it over and kicked downwards at her, she blocked it effortlessly and got tossed to the ground, where she kicked her several times in the stomach.

"My love and justice will defeat you, other me."

"Love?"

"Yes, I am in love with Batman-sama, even if he doesn't know it."

"What?"

"When me and my sister were going to be killed by the village for being born as twins, he showed up and rescued us, even going as far as to destroy that detestable village to the ground."

Ram looked up at her in shock at what the Master Swordsman Batman had done. Even she could not comprehend the levels of sinister deeds he had accomplished, but she took the opportunity to roar at her, making her back away and dodge a wind strike. She flew up and saw that Ram was summoning her horn...making her chuckle.

"I heard you horn was cut. How long do you intend to fight with it?"

"Until you die."

She jumped up and met her in the air, they both kicked at each other, causing a small shockwave around them, but Ram's leg got bruised, making Justice Ram, sneer at her. She then stomped her back to the ground. Ram got free and actually punched her across the face, then she leapt into the air and kicked downward across her neck. She glared before twirling and kneeing her the chest. Justice Ram then slammed her to the ground. She grabbed her by the hair and proceeded to punch her several times in the face.

"You devoted yourself to such empty things that you've become this weak. You lost your horn, your love is going to die, your Rem and the rest of your friends will all die. Because of your complete and utter weakness."

"...Agha…"

Something happened. Ram's eyes gazed into the other Ram's eyes, her eyes became like voids that saw right through her. Justice Ram, flinched a bit when she saw this.

"You…"

"...Wha-"

"-YOU STAY AWAY FROM THEM!"

Ram roared at her, sending wind flying out of her, making Justice Ram let go of her and karate kick her away. She rolled on the ground for a bit before she caught herself and frowned madly at her opponent.

"I'll end you and your foul existence."

"Er."

Justice Ram was about to get ready to fight, when she saw a yellow light fly in front of Ram.

"WHAT THE?!"

"Is this a-?"

{Ram. You have the ability to instill great fear. Welcome to the Sinestro Corps.}

Ram had the ring go on her finger, she smiled a bit as her maid costume changed fabrics and was now yellow and black.

She was a Yellow Lantern.

"I don't know what just happened but it seems I've been blessed with something truly unique."

"Damn you."

"Let's begin then, shall we? I do not wish to keep Roswaal-sama waiting."

Ram flew at her, making the two of them charge at each other. As Justice Ram tried to punch at her, she put up a shield around herself and then created a wolgarm construct behind her, biting into her shoulder. Taking advantage she created a large claw that sliced her into the ground. Then she feared an incredibly large beam at her, which actually began melting the suit in question then a construct copy of herself made it behind her and punched her in the face, crushing her helmet. Then both the original and copy Rams began bombarding her with punches and kicks...before Ram forced the construct back summoned a gigantic hammer made of yellow energy. She roared as she slammed it down onto her. Crushing the suit further. Justice Ram ripped out of the suit with her horn summoned and kicked Ram away. Both of their faces now bloodied, they sneered at eachother, Ram then noticed her legs looked abnormal.

She deduced that she was forced to undergo leg stretching surgery so she could fit in the armor. Justice Ram was in a skintight pink suit as she aimed a fist at Ram, while it did land on her cheek, Ram summoned a construct of the Sizable Hare that ripped pieces of her flesh off. Justice Ram was able to land a vicious karate chop on the back of her neck. Ram made her horn dissipate as blood leaked out her eyes and mouth. She then kicked upward and summoned a Courtesan Bear to tackle her upwards then she jumped into the air and...summoned a flock of bats that tackled her back into the ground. Ram then aimed downwards as she aimed her foot...but not before summoning a Roswaal construct that held her down.

"Damn it! Don't you dare!"

"This is the final action I will take to end you!"

Ram stomped her foot, covering it in yellow energy, the foot went straight through her chest. But not letting her get the chance to get up or counter she summoned a spear construct and stabbed her in the head with it with the pointed edge, breaking apart her horn. She looked down at her opponent who simply smiled at her...whispering her last thoughts.

"The weak are...food for the strong….huh?"

"If that is the case...then thank you for the meal."

Ram did a slight bow before dissipating her construct nad flew up into the air. Leaving behind her other counterpart dead on the ground. She caught up with Roswaal and Constantine.

"Hey love, you're a Sinestro Corps member?"

"Is that a problem?"

"N-No...but I can see why you'd a member."

She frowned at him, making him look away and whistle. The sight of which made Roswaal chuckle a bit.

Crusch and the others were making a run for it when they saw Julius and Pamela, having let Ram take care of her evil doppelganger the two were still trying to deal with her sister who had the Justice Buster. Crusch bravely charged forward even as the others begged her to stop, but she was going to help them no matter what…

{Crusch Karsten. You have great willpower within you. Welcome to the Green Lantern Corps.}

Crusch soon had her usual uniform change to green, with white and black patterns, including her emblem changing to that of the Green Lanterns.

She focused as she summoned several hands to grab at Julius and Pamela, saving them from imminent danger. Rem saw this and charged forward, only to have Crusch summon her own Justice Buster construct that held her back. John Stewart decided to join in and helped push her back with a tank construct, he then ordered everyone to make a run for it. Crusch then focused as she carried everyone on a flying dragon construct that flew away. Rem broke the constructs as she watched them get away.

"Fools."

Batman and the others got themselves in the Batmobile, with everyone catching up to the others, he was simply shocked to see Subaru and Rem were now Lantern Corps members, but pushed that aside as he got close to them.

"Subaru! We need to catch up with the others ASAP!"

"Right, we just have to-"

Then they saw the Anti-Monitor was actually running at them, make them feel absolute panic...so Subaru used his Blue Ring to create constructs of things he came up with in a hurry; giant constructs of The Galient Mecha, Godzilla and Tekkaman were made to push him back, while it worked for a moment, he quickly destroyed them. Rem got her chance and summoned a construct of the Blacksnake to attack, but Anti-Monitor broke through it as well. Both Subaru and Rem roared as they summoned countless constructs of Batman to fly up and distract him.

Up ahead they soon saw Emilia fighting another version of herself.

Garfiel kicked the ground at her, but she simply dodged it and fired several spears of ice at her. Mimi fired her sonic roar at her, but she ran along the ground and came up the side of her. She tried kicking her away, only to clash with Emilia. As she chopped her away Justice Surveyor Emilia mocked her with a grin as she summoned two ice swords...but before she could hit her-

"Nuh uh, not gonna happen."

An ice beam fired at the side of her, she sliced it away but she lost her chance and Emilia kicked her away. Captain Cold rushed over and used his beam to launch himself forward...before taking a deep breath and smirking ahead. Emilia and the others eyes widened as they saw a small speck of light flutter around him.

"Oh! You have a spirit?!"

"Yup, we met just earlier, iked the little guy so I decided to name him Coolio. Cause, you know cool, cold?"

Mimi was the only one cheering to his comment, making him regret saying anything.

Justice Surveyor charged again, making Emilia make a saddened expression as she watched herself seem so crazed and angry. She wished she could help her…

{Emilia. You hold great compassion within you. Welcome to the Indigo Tribe.}

Emilia found her dress was now purple and she had a large tribal necklace around her neck. She had what appeared to be war paint on her cheeks as well. She also had a strange wooden staff with her.

"Wow!"

She then focused as she summoned several constructs of her friends which overwhelmed her opponent, then she got close and did something no one expected...she spat out hot purple liquid out of her mouth making her opponent blind. She then focused again and shot a beam from her staff, she then trapped her with ice shards and moved her staff aiming it at her.

"Yield."

"Never!"

She broke free and summoned so many ice weapons it was unfathomable. She roared as they flew right at her...only for Emilia to force them all through a wormhole. She simply made a sad face at her opponent as Captain Cold made Coolio fire a yang beam at her. She blocked it with a barrier, but ate a punch to the side of the head by Garfiel. Mimi then hit her with an air attack, only for this Emilia to roar as she made ice break out of the ground and stab at them. She screamed at them, before she was going to crush them head on with her ice boulders.

"Kill you! I'll make Batman-sama proud and bring you his heads! YES! That will make him so HAPPY! SO UTTERLY JOYFUL!"

"I am sorry."

Emilia was now right in front of her as she summoned a construct of Puck, one that shot through her neck with ease. She held her open throat and gasped for air. Emilia closed her eyes as she watched her suffer.

"C-CURSeeeee….YyYYyouuuuu…."

Captain Cold froze her in place, her face forever stuck in her hate filled expression. That is until Garfiel ran straight through it, smashing her into countless pieces. Emilia sighed as she saw this. Cold ran over to her as she patted him on the shoulder.

"Thanks for the help Leonard-san."

"What can I say, a hero always arrives at the best times."

"Geez, you people say the oddest things."

Emilia chuckled a bit, while Garfiel hugged Mimi. She had her tail wag a bit, before she shook her head.

"We gotta get going!"

"Righ' tha' gian' dude is coming right at us!"

Emilia nodded her head as she summoned a carpet construct under them that flew them out of there.

Warlock Batman looked around at the countless corpses around him and simply grumble to himself. Pandora came up next to him and held his hand.

"And with this?"

"Yes...we've won."

Everyone was now able to get away from most of their opponents, as for some reason they didn't follow them. Only the Anti-Monitor was...everyone realized that there was no way he was going to let them get away. But soon in front of them, four figures came into view.

"Those are!"

Zarestia. Melakuera. Muspel. Odglass.

Spirits that either once held or still held their titles as great spirits. With them were various other spirits.

Melakuera turned to look directly at Anti-Monitor.

"We have come to end your villainous actions Anti-Monitor! You shall face justice and be destroyed!"

"Ha. Spirits should be groveling at a god, not trying to anger him. But I have been restless. ENTERTAIN ME."

Kararagian Batman breathed a sigh of relief as he saw it wasn't the Tia he knew, but the original one from the other universe. Still, he worried about her.

The Great Spirits arrived to fight him, possibly giving them time to escape, but everyone saw the Anti-Monitor teleported right next to them as they all looked up at him, he leered down at them as if they were nothing more than ants. But as he was about to punch them, Superman was getting ready to charge as well, when Zarestia grabbed him with her humongous arms, several other spirits surrounded him too, making the other Great Spirits all charge at him...Puck came out of his crystal and kissed Emilia on the forehead.

"Lia, keep going. All of you keep up this pace, me and the other spirits will keep Anti-Monitor busy."

"No, Puck NO! We just got back together, please don't!"

Emilia began panicking, but Puck smiled at her, the crystal on her necklace broke apart and Puck flew away from them and transformed into his bestial form. Everyone stared in awe as the giant creatures charged forward, making Anti-Monitor laugh maniacally at what he saw as useless resistance.

Puck glanced back for just a moment, seeing Emilia being held back by Garfiel and Captain Cold, she was obviously screaming for him.

"Lia...my love for you, will never fade. No matter what."

The Anti-Monitor roared as he faced the Great Spirits.

Everyone kept moving even as they felt the ground shake, feel the heat behind them and hear the explosions and roars in the distance. They kept going.

As they flew through the tear in space made by both Batmen, they then saw a blinding light behind them...they couldn't see it clearly...but soon a speck of light made it to Emilia...it took shape and formed Puck. He looked up at her and smiled. He phased around her and to Subaru.

"Subaru...Rem...Betty...Please take care of Lia. I trust you all…"

"Puck…"

Subaru had tears well up in his eyes, Rem looked hurt by what she was seeing, and Beatrice held her face, letting out sobs as she did. And as his form begin to lose shape, he looked over at the Batmobile and smiled.

"Bruce...I hope you help too…."

"Of course."

Batman shut his eyes closed and held back his emotions, the other Beatrice also looked up at him and silently wept.

Puck raised his little arms and looked out to everyone, giving them a cute little wink and meow.

"Everyone...GOOD LUCK! FIGHT!"

He soon broke apart and faded away.

Captain Cold held his own head, Black Adam closed his eyes as he kept flying. Emilia reached out to where he last was. Tears fell out of her eyes, she whimpered and looked as if she was going to die from how much her face scrunched in pain. All she could do was scream.

"PUUUUUUCCCKKKKKKK!"

She grabbed at her hair a she cried uncontrollably...then they heard a booming sound, they all looked and saw all the light fade away and out stepped the Anti-Monitor.

He was actually absorbing their energy.

Emilia saw this and as they were beginning to go through the tear Emilia fired ice, constructs and anything else she could think of. Absolute fury plastered on her face, she gritted her teeth till blood came out.

"ANTI-MONITOR! ANTI-MONITOOOOOR! DIEEEEE!"

"Emilia stop!"

Subaru called out to her, but nothing came to her mind and she just kept firing even well after they all escaped.

Anti-Monitor laughed as he looked at the barrier Od Laguna made to trap him, and one vicious blast he broke the thing apart. Mogo came around and fired it's ultimate beam at him, but Anti-Monitor raised his palms to break the gigantic beam apart. He then roared as he fired his own beams...the moment they made contact Mogo broke apart. The living planet was destroyed.

Anti-Monitor used the resulting pieces of the destroyed Lantern to hop over to the other landmass, his fellow Society members not far behind….

The enraged Emilia kept firing and firing even after they landed. She tried to fly away, but she was stopped by Subaru who used his ring to float after her.

"Emilia please stop!"

"Get off of me Let me go!"

"You have to stop! Listen to me-"

He was then slapped by her, he tried comforting her but she was too enraged to hear or see anything.

"He killed Puck! I have to avenge him!"

"Emilia, don't throw your life away, not after he died saving you!"

He was slapped again, but when she winded her arm again to slap once more, Rem flew over and knocked her out with a chop to the neck. She depowered and was carefully set down back to the ground, by the two of them. He felt angry, sad, maybe even both. But he felt he had to keep hope alive, not just for the ring he was given but also to keep Emilia sane.

He then remembered that the House was in danger, but John Constantine came up behind them and gave them the info needed.

"There's a back exit, I informed them about last time we spoke, Frederica should lead them there!"

"Then we have to make it around!"

Subaru carried Emilia in his arms as the rest of them charged around the House, but they were quiet as they had to realize the insurmountable losses they had just suffered.

Inside the House, Rigel and Spica were dealing with Knight Subaru and Runaway Subaru as they fought them. Runaway Subaru was quite bloodied and bruised but he used his new Unseen Hand to fight as best as he could. He ran forward and used Shamak to blind them, and then hit Rigel with an Unseen Hand clenched in a fist, but Rigel grew enraged and sliced off Subaru's left arm.

"Subaru-kun!"

Rem reached out to him, but her sister moved her forward. She looked back at the one person she wanted to help, but when he glanced back and he smiled at her, she felt she couldn't. Ferris reassured her that he would heal him eventually. Knight Subaru fired several beams at them, but Rigel used his shurikens to hit them back. Subaru glared at him, which Rigel nonchalantly sighed at. Spica somehow made it around the two of them and used her spirits to float around them. Anastasia saw this and was scared at how she was smiling at them.

Then something shot through the window of the hallway and made it in front of her.

{Anastasia Hoshin. You desire everything the world has to offer, you have greed. Welcome to Agent Orange.}

She now received her orange ring and used it to summon constructs of swords at Spica, forcing her fly back.

"Sorry, but I am a greedy person after all and right now…"

"Tsk!"

"I want your life."

The Royal Candidate gave a soft smile.

Then, fiery energy wrapped around Anastasia and her new orange colored clothing, as she flew towards her, she then yelled out her orders.

"Natsuki-kun, get back with the others!"

The two Subaru's knew what to do, Knight Subaru grabbed his other self and jumped through a portal he made. He made it in front of his friends, but just as they did, Ana smiled at the two siblings, even winking cutely at them.

"HEY, EAT THIS WILL YA?"

The fiery energy shot out of her body and completely enveloped the hallway. Making all the windows burst open. Rigel and Spica were saved by a wind barrier, but saw that she was gone and the hallway was smashed in.

Rigel frowned as he got his arm hugged by Spica.

"Let's go onii-san."

"Okay."

They left through a portal and left the damaged house to itself.

The groups made it outside with Anastasia flying not too far behind.

"Still, hahh, using this ring is tiring. And I keep seeing some creepy horse faced guy screaming at me to give him this ring back."

"That doesn't sound fine at all Anastasia-sama, maybe you should take it off for now."

Otto suggested this and she took the ring off and put it in her usual purse.

Outside they saw the others running to them, Batman jumped out of the Batmobile to check on Frederica. He held her close as she hugged in a powerful embrace.

Subaru floated to the others who were now surprised to see so many people returning differently. Normal Subaru held his wife closely as he looked back, but he saw no one was following them. Married Subaru held Rem's hand as they check to see how the kids were doing. Rigel seemed to be shaken up by the sight of himself trying to kill everyone, but he hugged his niece as she cried and wept for her father. Ram seemed to be doing badly as sat on the snowy ground, refusing to get up.

Runaway Subaru was being checked on by his world's Rem, she slowly helped ease the pain he felt from his amputation. She looked away for a moment before she then touched his bruised cheek.

"Subaru-kun…"

"Yeah?"

"Why did you do that just now?"

"I…"

He patted her head and smiled like he would in the past, before he had run away from her at the capital. When he asked her to run away with him and she refused he panicked and ran away...hoping that somehow it would solve something...it did; the Witch's Cult for some reason never attacked, but it tarnished Subaru's reputation. But now…

"What I did to you was unforgivable Rem, I know I can't ask you or your sister to forgive me, but I want you to know I'm sorry. I fucked up badly...though I want to try again."

"Huh?"

"I heard you see me as your hero, if that's true then I can't let you down again. I'll try this again. I'll start again, from zero."

Rem had tears flooding out of her eyes as Subaru helped to clear them away with his finger. She rubbed her cheeks into his palm and smiled happily at him.

"Rem can't wait to see what her hero will do."

"You bet."

Sylvia was brushing some hair away from her face as she looked over the area around them. Her attention fell to the Subaru of her world and how he was checking on his children, hugging a tired Spica. She smiled at him, though she was still in love with him even after all these years, she wouldn't let that love face away. In fact, it would somehow grow over the years.

"Maybe I'll try flirting with him again...heh, though Rem would get upset."

She fixed her shirt.

Then she saw the one named Ferris walk over to Subaru, the one who lost his arm. She hoped what they said about him being an excellent healer was true. He really needed it.

Ferris sat between the two of them as he checked him over.

"That was really reckless Subaru-kyun. Nyou should be more careful in the future."

"Got it...thanks Ferris."

Ferris looked away for a second as he made an embarrassed look.

"Nyo, thank you for saving us."

"...Yeah."

He looked over and saw his Emilia nodding to him, while Ram did a nod as well, but turned away very quickly with a disgusted look. It was a start.

Subaru appreciated the kind words and gestures, like a weight was lifted from him...right as a tear in space opened behind them.

Glancing back at them was Dark Lord Subaru, who aimed Adam Strange's Ray Gun towards the three. He winked as he pulled the trigger. Subaru was shot through the neck, Ferris shot through the shoulder and Rem through her stomach.

Their screams of pain and the sounds of the laser being fired made everyone turn to see the situation unfold. Flash made a run for it...but when he made it, he noticed too late another tear in space forming next to Married Subaru and his group. He watched in horror as Black Hand aimed his cosmic rod at Subaru...smiling at him. He fired, but Sylvia pushed Subaru and Rem out of the way...the beam shot straight through her forehead and she fell over dead. Subaru screamed as Black Hand tried again, but Halibel made it in time and sliced off his head.

"Ah, death...the ultimate...equalizer…"

Halibel was disgusted with the severed head's last words.

Dark Lord Subaru chuckled as the tear in space closed. Flash punched the ground as he wasn't able to catch him.

The other Subaru began to shine white, making Batman panic as he looked back to see the other Beatrice, also beginning to glow. Subaru raced over as he saw Maid Rem begin to glow as well, Crusch ran over to hug the other Ferris as he began to cry.

Batman grabbed Beatrice and looked around trying to find something that could help, anything. Magic? Cosmic Powers? Anything?

"Bruce…"

Beatrice cupped his cheeks as she looked up at him, an affectionate gaze met his.

"Betty has been locked away for 400 years of solitude, waiting for someone to save her from that prison, I suppose. And then, in the advent of this chaotic situation...you reached out your hand to me, even if it was a lie that led to it...you did it to save me. And you showed me a world I could never dream of and held me close and never tried to toss me aside...you just, cared, I suppose."

"Beatrice…"

"You are my "They", the one I have been waiting for all this time...thank you, I suppose. Betty l-loves you."

She gave a almost fragile kiss on the lips, moving away she giggled, tears forming in her eyes.

"Betty will never-"

She vanished into light, Batman's hand touching nothing but air.

"BEATRRIIIIIIIICE!"

Subaru ran with all his might and hugged Rem, he tried to pick her up, but she only wrapped her arms around him in a hug.

"Rem! NO! Hang on! We can solve this-"

"-I love you Natsuki Subaru."

Subaru froze as Rem kissed him he could feel the warm tears roll across his cheeks. Once removed from the kiss, Subaru saw her. Only her, in her eyes reflected his visage. She smiled. The kind of smile he always enjoyed seeing.

"And I will always love Rem's hero, no matter wh-"

She vanished into nothingness.

"R...Re…"

Subaru grabbed his hair as he screamed.

"R-REEEEEEMMM!"

Batman ran with everything in his body to Ram he picked her up bridal style as he carried her over to the others.

"Fate! Constantine! Do something! Anything!"

The two could only give a pained look.

"Sorry mate."

"There is nothing we can do."

Batman held her tighter as he ran through any thoughts he had. Maybe have Beatrice do something? Take her inside the House of Mystery?

What could he do?

"Batman-san…"

"Ram..?"

Ram nodded at him as she looked at Roswaal, she smiled with a tender look, then she vanished into light. Roswaal looked away as Batman slammed his fists into the snow covered ground.

Then both Subaru made horrified expressions as they saw Crusch try and use her newfound powers to try to prevent the other Ferris from being erased. Covering her in a shield made of energy.

It wasn't working.

"Crusch-sama…"

"Don't worry, just hang on, I won't let you be erased! I'll save you."

Right as she said this, Ferris was erased out of existence.

"Noooooo…"

Batman and Subaru got up and ran with any energy they had left in them, they reached their hands out to her. The one person they had to save...otherwise it would be for nothing. They had to save her. The two of them screamed out her name.

"EMILIAAAAA!"

She looked to them as she hugged Puck tightly, hers wavering in fear, she struggled to even reach out to them. The dread was crippling her. But she screamed out to them, as she too tried to touch them…

"Batman-san...SUBARU! SAVE ME!"

As Subaru was about to finally touch her hand, she was gone.

For the two of these men the world around them went dark. They fell to their knees just staring at the spot where she once stood.

"TO ME HURRY!"

Suddenly, Dr. Fate ordered everyone to him, in the distance they could see a vast amount of Shadow Demons descending from the sky to them. Dr. Fate opened a gigantic ankh portal to his secret base and had them all enter it. Married Rem screamed as she was forced away into the portal.

"Sylvia! We can't leave her!"

But they did, they had to leave her body there in the snow capped mountainside…

Batman and the last of the group made it through...but before they left, they caught a glimpse of the man who was responsible for all this.

"PRIDE."

The Sin Archbishop Subaru waved at them with a disgusting smile plastered on his face.

The portal closed as Dark Lord Subaru picked up some snow and tossed it back on the ground.

"A win is a win."

Now in a mansion in another dimension, everyone was catching their bearings, Otto saw his alternate counterpart was almost at his breaking point. Petra went to console Married Rem who was crying non stop for the death of her friend...the other Ram was sitting on a couch staring into space.

Batman noticed that Frederica was still injured so they took her to a spare room and allowed Ferris to look over her.

After a few minutes, Batman was escorted to the room by Sarah...but her expression was bleak and bereft of an emotion.

"Sarah? What happened? Did something happen to her?"

"Incorrect, she is stable now."

"Then, what-"

They were now outside her room-

"AUGHHHHHHH!"

"Frederica!?"

He rushed inside and found Frederica crying uncontrollably as she gripped her bed covers as if she was about to throw up.

"Frederica...it's me...what's wrong."

"UAWAHHHHHHHH-! AUGHHHHHHH!"

But she kept crying, that was when Dr. Fate and Ferris emerged from another door and looked at him with concerned eyes.

"What happened?"

"...Ferri-chan was able to heal Frederica-san fine. She is nyo longer injured."

"Then why is she crying?"

There was a stillness in the room, as Dr. Fate decided to do it. To inform him.

"Frederica was five weeks pregnant wasn't she?"

"...Wait."

Batman suddenly realized why he asked this, he looked back to Frederica and saw, beneath the sheets, were a small set of towels that she hugging.

"...NO."

"By the time we began healing her, it was too late… we could not save the baby."

"...Please…"

"I'm sorry."

Bruce looked at his fiance as she continued to cry and scream.

"My baby….MY BABY...Ahhhhhh….why…?!"

Bruce closed his eyes and shut himself out of what he was seeing, but he forced himself back to reality and went to comfort his fiance. She shoved him away and had opened her eyes that were bloodshot from crying so much.

"GET OUT! GET OUT! LEAVE ME ALONE! JUST GOOOOO…."

"..."

Batman understood her demands and walked out of the room, soon everyone else began slowly trickling out of the room.

Sarah who was now teary eyed as well.

Ferris who looked depressed from everything.

And Dr. Fate, who stayed silent, but never looked away from Frederica.

Batman was in the hallways, dealing with the reality of what just happened. He felt sick, he felt hurt. Angry. Sad. Tired. So many emotions flooding him at once that he wondered if he should throw up to make himself feel better. It had been so long since he felt this way...but it was different. His own flesh and blood. Someone he wanted to raise from the beginning all the way to his own end...GONE. He had to throw up.

No. He knew he had to let it out.

"RAGGHHHHHH!"

He punched a wall with such an intense force, that it caved a good chunk of it in. He roared and yelled as he punched and hit and banged on the wall. Even when his knuckles were sticking out of his flesh, he kept hitting it.

Wilhelm and Garfiel heard the commotion and saw how he was acting they yelled at him, but he couldn't hear them. He didn't notice them being spoken to by Ferris.

Nor did he see the pained looks on their faces when they turned their attention back to him. Even Wilhelm had tears well up a bit in his eyes seeing him like this. Garfiel was unable to hold back his tears, but the both of them snapped out of it as they grabbed his arms. Blood flew everywhere as he continued roaring and doing his best to try and break free of them.

Soon the others arrived hearing the disturbance...they also were informed on what had happened.

Subaru dropped his face into his palms.

Beatrice closed her eyes and did a small prayer for the baby.

Rem and Ram both cried for him.

Roswaal seemed to give his condolences to the man.

Otto hugged a crying Petra, as he did his utmost to hold back tears as well.

Sarah ran to him, her face drenched in tears, doing her best to comfort the man.

Priscilla hid her face with her fan.

Crusch lowered her eyes, as if she had enough.

Felt also ran to him, even when Rom tried to stop her.

Anastasia hugged the Pearlbatons as they were saddened by what they just learned.

Reinhard and Julius could only watch their friend with downcast expressions.

Rom gave his own understanding expression.

Superman and Diana walked over to be near him.

Deathstroke and Captain Cold just watched the ordeal, not saying or do anything.

All the other heroes and refugees gave off their own sad looks.

Emilia arrived and after hearing everything, she ran over and hugged Batman as well...soon everyone in the Emilia Camp went to hug him, even Deathstroke put a hand on his shoulder…

When they could see his face, they saw an enraged expression akin to a demon...but he had tears leaking out of his mask.

He was hurt beyond recognition.

A sense of defeat swept throughout the building.

Anti-Monitor walked through the desert as he saw the Watchtower in the distance, but charging right at him was Supergirl. She was ready to give it her all to stop him, here and now.

Sacrifices were mounting and the pain of loss crept into everyone's hearts, but the war still carried on.