AN: One more chapter after this...and then ARC SEVEN begins.

AN Fun Fact: Originally, Bane was going to be sent to this world too, but I later decided against it for various reasons. Anyways, ENJOY!

ARC Six: The Watergate City War

Chapter Fifty: All-Out War

The invading force continued charging down the streets of the city, encountering several guards that tried to desperately slow them down. But their actions were fruitless, as they would eventually be mowed down by the invaders.

At least six magical cannons aimed upwards and fired their beams into the distance, causing massive explosions that killed both Witch Cultists and knights.

From up above a small squadron of armor clad men rode atop of flying dragons and quickly descended on the city, dodging fireballs from the cultists and spears from the guards.

Arriving as well, were several groups of heavily armored ground dragons, their steel plates were covered in spikes and horns.

The army slowly continued marching, as Grodd set the floating earth he was atop of down.

"All of you do your best to secure the city! We need a branching off point to further invade Lugnica!"

The five people next to him nodded their heads. Even if it was obvious they were being mind controlled.

The five warriors were two former Nine God Generals and three special operations members from the Vollachia Empire.

Groovy Gamlet, a short, grey furred Hyena demi-human who was number six of the Generals. He had been wearing dark armor and various belts all across his body, all of which to help him carry his vast amount of weapons. His dark brown eyes looked about and scanned his area.

Portugues Mithril, a tall, almost burly, woman with short white hair that was cut as a pixie wedge, who was the former number nine of the Generals. Her purple eyes scanned the area as she held tightly onto her pata sword. Her dark armor accentuated the red scarf she wore that covered her mouth, with it was her red earrings.

Evelyn De Morgan, a short woman with brown hair that was so long it almost dragged on the ground. Her lovely dark mage dress went well with her voluptuous figure. Her pink eyes concentrated on the task at hand.

Kilroy Volvo, a young man who wielded a large grey staff and was one armed, with only his left arm left. His orange eyes scanned the area, even as his long combed back blue hair moved with a small breeze. His dark robes were connected to a pair of golden shoulder pads.

Arda Ming, a female fox demi-human whose right green eye is matched by an eyepatch with green jewels that made a cross shape. Her long dark oriental cloak covered the entirety of her body, almost looking as if it was two sizes too big. On her back was a large razor-rimmed hat that was tied to her body with a simple rope. She sniffed the air to detect anything unusual.

Ahead of Grodd, was an unusually large white ground dragon with bloodshot red eyes and scars all around its mouth. He wore a vicious looking black armor covered in spikes and even wore a helmet with bull like horns, even his tails had armored spikes attached. The name given to him was Guillotine.

Grodd began walking ahead and started barking out orders.

"Remember your main goals! Take down the city defenses! Kill any who stand in your way. But most importantly…"

"..."

"Capture the half elf. We have a bargain with her...and I'd rather not disappoint her with failure. Neither should any of you."

"Yessssss….Grooooodd…."

The mind controlled soldiers were about to move...when they noticed something bright in the sky.

Batman and Al were watching as the invading army was making its way inside the city from the far distance.

"Oi Oi! How the hell did they even get here?!"

"This world is a flat earth with no ocean correct?"

"Yeah, but what-"

"-The rivers. I recall seeing a large river next to the city. They must have made boats and used the currents to make it here."

"Yeah, but that's a huge army! How the hell did no notice?"

"Grodd's telepathic powers must have increased since we first entered this world."

Al furiously scratched at his helmet as he heard this. Batman then took a deep breath as he cupped his hands together and aimed them high into the air.

"What are you doing?"

"Hopefully something that helps turn the tide."

Yellow specks of light soon converged around Batman's hand. With it, an orb of yellow and white light concentrated in his hands. Batman squinted his eyes as he continued...then he slammed his feet into the ground, causing his feet to get stuck in place.

Al saw what was going on and quickly rushed back to Priscilla and the others. Priscilla turned to see Batman's armored arms had steam escaping out of them. Batman continued to the point where the orb was now the size of a watermelon. Vicious winds escaped from the orb of light, as more steam was actually coming out of his arms. Then Batman's metallic eyes widened as he finally roared.

"YANG SPELL: DESCENDING JUSTICE!"

The orb fired out of his hands with such force it caused his body to fall back and cause the ground to break apart from the blast. A massive shockwave followed, which made everyone hold on to the ground.

They then watched as the orb flew high in the air and then curved away...right above the invading army. Then, the orb began to break apart as white light broke through it. The soldiers below noticed it as well...then it happened.

The orb exploded, sending down countless streams of light all towards the ground below. To Al, it looked like fireworks he used to see in his childhood...but the light specks soon multiplied and they began raining down on the general vicinity. Am enemy soldier watched as one of the streams of light landed right next to him...and exploded sending himself and several other warrior flying away.

More streams of light landed on the ground and exploded.

It was a raining bombardment.

Soldiers were sent flying or were simply maimed by them.

Buildings collapsed.

Bridges carrying soldiers were destroyed and the soldiers fell into the waterways.

The magical cannons were hit, causing them to explode and spread further destruction.

The rest of the parties were watching on in shock and splendor of the destruction.

Then the last streams of light hit and all that was left was a gigantic mess of debris spreading far into the sky. A person from Subaru's world would liken this to a vicious artillery bombardment. The resulting destruction was proof of that. Within the destruction, a massive fire had now begun to engulf the houses and was spreading uncontrollably.

Grodd and his five warriors emerged from the cloud of debris unharmed. He roared angrily as he saw that he lost half of his men to injury, and all of his magical cannons were destroyed.

"RAGGHH! Evelyn! Find the source of the attack and kill them!"

"Yesss…"

She then floated high into the air and shot out to fly towards the origin of the attack.

Grodd then slammed his fist to the ground and looked over the remaining four warriors and his trusty ground dragon.

"Arda! Kilroy! Find the half elf and bring her alive!"

"Yesss...Grodd…"

Kilroy seemed to slide his feet on the ground as he sped off into the distance. Arda was not far behind as she used the roofs of the buildings as jumping points.

Grodd then turned to his General captives.

"Groovy and Portugues! Go and take out the resistance. That should be easy for you!"

"Understooood…"

Groovy and Portugeus raced off into the smoke and debris, as Grodd looked at his restless Ground Dragon, making Grodd smile.

"Yes Guillotine, go and make a path for the rest of the soldiers!"

The dragon roared as it too sped off into the distance to battle. Grodd then began charging himself, dragging a rather large battle-axe he acquired from a battle a little over a year ago.

Batman was helped up by Al, after the assault by his spell ended. Al made sure though not to touch his hands as they were incredibly hot. Batman retrieved some X-Potion from his pouch. He removed his helmet and quickly drank it. He coughed a bit from drinking it so quickly, but he felt the potion work as it healed his wounds and restored his drained out mana.

"Hey take it easy."

"No, we still have the Witch's Cult to deal with. Now this has just added to the amount of problems we have to handle."

"Sure, but your hands are probably a mess now!"

"They're healed enough Al!"

Batman quickly put his helmet back on and turned to face the others, first beginning to glance at Kiritaka who was cradling a knocked out Liliana.

"Kiritaka Muse, why are you here?"

"I was trying to head for the evacuation center at the time. But I was quickly surrounded by the Witch's Cult! One of them was the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, who demanded the Book of Wisdom."

"The one we acquired?"

"Yes! But during a scuffle, my hired bodyguards the White Dragon's Scale, saved me! I was able to escape! I actually came looking for any of you, when I saw my beloved Liliana floating in the waterway, I was so scared for her safety! But she's safe!"

Kiritaka waved his hand a bit as he now seemed to be excited in seeing Batman.

"Now I've encountered you, we can get to work keeping the book away from them!"

"...Well, unfortunately for you, we already did?"

"...What...do you mean?"

Kiritaka's face began to sink a bit as his brows raised in concern.

"Simple. We burned it."

"...WHAAAAAATT?!"

Kiritaka's face sunk lower as he gritted his teeth in disbelief. Priscilla whacked him in the head with her fan, disapproving of his gesture.

"Nothing can be done of it. It seemed to be the destiny of that book to be burned away."

"But now the Witch's Cult will be thrown into anger once they learn about it!"

"Regardless, even if the book wasn't burned, they would tear the city apart in search of it."

Batman activated his jet boots and was now hovering over them.

"Either way, we still have to fight them off! Priscilla, Al, stay here and take care of these people, I'll go and help the others with Capella and Roy. After that, we can turn the focus on Grodd."

"Hmph. As if you can tell me any orders."

"It would be helpful, I'm pleading with you to stay put and keep this point. Just in case we may need it against the invading army."

"...Well, that does seem to be a fun option."

Al could sigh dejectedly as he heard this. A young pink haired boy that accompanied Priscilla, in usual manners outside of combat, named Schult, had arrived with more Fang of Iron members.

Priscilla gave him a hug and thus decided to stay behind and focus on securing the area.

Batman nodded and jetted off to hopefully catch up with Subaru and the others.

"Well Al, looks like it's hyper my time! We shall defend this area...and when that's over we shall storm the battle and successfully push back the invaders!"

"...Yeahhhhh, you sure we should do that?"

"Of course, it'll get boring staying here all day."

Al scratched his helmet, with Schult giving a happy salute to Priscilla.

Just then, a shadow appeared above them, causing them all to take offensive stances. Priscilla opened her fan and put it over her face in an elegant way.

Evelyn De Morgan was looking down at them as her soulless eyes stared down at them.

"Grodd...commands….that you….DIE."

"As if I'd be killed by some puppet like you."

Subaru, Emilia and Beatrice were running through the city streets as they heard the magical bombardment end from the far distance. Suddenly, a small group of knights made it around a street corner and noticed them. They charged forward, as to attack them, Subaru reached over to grab his whip...but he got nothing…

"..Sh-Shit! I forgot."

He looked down and remembered his precarious situation of no longer having a left hand, and to complicate things further, his right hand was holding onto Beatrice. Emilia took the initiative and froze the knights in place. However, another knight made it around Subaru, crashing through a window and aiming a spear down at him.

"Murak!"

Beatrice was able to help float away in the knick of time, the knight shifted his body to try and toss the spear at them. But he was shot with an icicle and his corpse fell over.

"Oof!"

Subaru and Beatrice landed harshly back on the ground as they heard a large division of armored ground dragons rushing at them. Emilia ran over in a panic as the ground dragons were getting closer.

Just then, all but one was tackled away by something, and straight through a building. The group looked over and saw a familiar figure fly up and look over at them.

"BATMAN!"

Batman noticed the remaining ground dragon was charging back Subaru and Beatrice, so he jetted down and kicked into the street floor. Blood and dirt flew into the air, as the ground dragon simply died from the impact.

Subaru and Beatrice ran over to Batman as he landed nearby.

"Batman-san, it's good to see you again!"

"The feelings mutual Subaru."

"What was that just earlier? The wall collapsing and the explosions?!"

Subaru even pointed at the frozen knights that tried to attack them earlier.

"And these guys?!"

"Subaru, Grodd is invading the city. He's taking advantage of the Witch Cult situation."

"Damn! If it's not one thing it's another."

Subaru tried to scratch his head...but once again, it was just a reminder of his missing left hand. Subaru could only mumble something as he stared at his arm.

Emilia, Batman and Beatrice could only look concerned over Subaru's predicament. Beatrice herself was the most distraught and was downcast from the looks of it. Subaru gave a fake smile as he freed his hand from Beatrice and held her head close to him.

"Subaru…?"

"It's okay. I'm just not used to this yet. I mean, you really never know how much something is important to you...until you use it…"

Beatrice seemed to relax slightly...only for her and Batman's eyes to narrow.

They leapt out of the way as several beams hit the ground where they were standing.

As they looked up, they saw a man was descending onto the ground and seemed to slide on the ground a bit. He simply stared at them, until he noticed Emilia who guarded herself with an ice barrier.

"Half...elf...capture…"

Just then he turned his attention back to the three others and aimed his staff at them, it began to glow.

Batman realized the danger and grabbed the two of them and flew high up into the air. From out of the staff fired several white beams of light. Each shot barely missed as Batman flew up the side of the building they were adjacent towards. The side of the building was being destroyed as each shot missed.

Batman and the others made it to the roof, then they looked down and saw that the man was sliding up the side of the building to follow them. Batman aimed his arm at Kilroy and from his wrist fired several Batarangs, he simply slid to the side to avoid them and made it to the roof. Subaru panicked as he looked down to see Emilia by herself...but he grew terribly anxious when he saw the fox girl Arda make her way to Emilia.

But he quickly snapped out of it as he looked over and saw Kilroy sliding on the roof and firing more magical beams at them. Subaru rolled on the ground, Beatrice elegantly dodged them and Batman jetted into the air, looking down at his opponent.

Subaru was now free to use his right hand and get a hold of his whip.

"Don't know who the hell you are…BUT…"

Subaru snapped the whip and glared at the blue haired man.

"...to get in my way of being the big hero for Emilia, and trying to hurt my friends...YOU'RE DEAD MEAT!"

Emilia backflipped as the sharp bladed hat spun past her and back to Arda who effortlessly caught it in her clawed hands.

"Give...up...wants you...alive…!"

"I'm not letting you people just go around attacking this lovely city any longer! And I'm especially not following any of your demands!"

Emilia summoned an ice knife as she got in a battle stance. She was ready for her to toss her hat again...but was shocked that she held onto the top of it and spun it rapidly. Once it was spun quickly, she kicked it the ground and the saw-like weapon made its way to Emilia. Emilia dodged it, but it literally sliced the very ground in half, sending water high into the sky. Emilia actually watched as the hat tried to follow her for a while, then for it to get stuck as it lost its momentum.

Emilia then saw Arda actually quickly caught up and grabbed the hat from the ground and started using it as real weapon against Emilia, who could only dodge it for a while.

Then, vines shot out of the ground and tried to tangle Arda up, who sliced them away and jumped back.

"Hey Emilia! Sorry, but I couldn't bare to see struggle any more."

Emilia smiled as she saw a recognizable face emerge from the corner of her eyes.

"We're turning this war around Emilia!"

"Yes, Pamela-san!"

Emilia stood next to her ally, Pamela Isley, who was prepared for battle with her trusty rapier. Arda growled a bit as she prepared to toss her hat again.

Wilhelm and Deathstroke were slicing through the mass of knights that were trying to kill them. Deathstroke at one point, decided to kill two birds with one stone. He ran up the sides of a wall and fired his submachine guns at the knights and several Cultists who were fighting each other. The bullets ripped through his enemies, but he saw several knights riding flying dragons up ahead, so he continued to run up the wall in order to get close to one. Once he did, he jumped on it's back and cut the head off of the rider. He then grabbed the reins and forced the dragon to crash into another one, the impact made them crash into the side of another building, killing the rider and knocking the dragon out. Deathstroke then kicked off the dragon, then using his sword, stabbed into the neck of another dragon. He then used the position he acquired and lobbed several grenades to the ground below. The resulting explosions killed and maimed countless enemy forces. Deathstroke then saw he was quickly losing altitude, so he saw his chance and jumped off, letting the dragon crash into the ground crushing many adversaries to death.

Deathstroke then flipped through the air, and just as it seemed he too would crash into the ground...a large vine broke through the side of the building. This gave him the chance to run on top of the giant vine and used the new vantage point to blast away at several unsuspecting enemies. Even when they noticed him, he effortlessly dodged their fireballs and other projectiles.

Then he jumped off the vine and actually used the new momentum to run down the side of an inn and fire more rounds into the knights. He then jumped off and stabbed through two knights at once. When another knight was coming behind him, he simply tossed his tomahawk at him, impaling him in the chest.

Wilhelm followed suit and did a powerful spinning slice attack, cutting through countless enemies as he made it back with Deathstroke.

"I see you did well old man. Keep it up and we just finish this war ourselves."

"Though the idea of ending this fight early would put me at ease...I'm afraid it might not be that simple."

They then turned their attention to Groovy and Portugeus, who had just arrived to finish the fight.

"...The Hyena is mine."

"Well, the muscular woman would be my opponent then?"

"Of course, she seems...interesting. Unless you're tired?"

"Hah, I'm not that old yet."

Deathstroke slightly chuckled as he readied his sword for combat.

Guoilltine was mowing through guards and feeling citizens as he turned the corner of a street. His eyes then almost shined as he saw several people trying to help a elderly couple were trapped under debris. The ground dragon roared happily as he charged at them, they all screamed and fear and almost accepted their demise...except one person.

"Eat this then!"

A molotov cocktail then flew through the air and hit the side of it's head. It roared in pain and stopped it's charge as it shook it's head in anger. It's glared at the pink haired person who was standing tall with a knife tied to the end of a stick and several molotov cocktails all around her feet.

"I ain't going to let you do what you want!"

The ground dragon roared as he kicked at the ground in defiance. However Linnea was then accompanied by another roar and yet another roar. She looked behind herself as she saw an elegant looking jet black ground dragon make it's way to her. As it got near, she looked into it's sharp yellow eyes...and felt relieved.

"So...you're Patrasche-chan right? Subaru-san told me about you."

"..."

"Come to help?"

Patrasche roared proudly, making Linnea felt confident. Then she got even more confident as she saw another ground dragon come the other side of Guillotine. It was a blue green ground dragon who also roared in challenge to the vicious ground dragon.

The two of them hearing the commotion from their stables grew worried for their loved ones, so they broke out of their stables and made a beeline trying to follow the scents of their owners. There they came across a sight of a ground dragon actually attacking knights and innocent people...and they knew they could not let such a beast encounter their masters. So they made a vow to defeat it, here and now.

Guillotine looked over at his three opponents...and seemed to smile.

Evelyn rained down a barrage of fire blasts all around herself, incinerating several mercenaries of the Fangs of Iron. Priscilla quickly fired a beam of light at her, but the girl who was using fiery jet propulsions under feet, simply flied away.

Al then used his earth magic to try and bring her down to the ground. But his shots missed and she flew high into the air and began firing more fire blasts.

"Ul Dona!"

Al created an earth dome around himself and the others, but the attack caused the dome to collapse. She then blasted a larger fire attack that would have easily blasted them away, but Priscilla summoned her Light Sword and sliced the fire blast in half.

Evelyn leered down at them and used her fire magic to blast back down. Priscilla and Al saw their opportunity.

Al then summoned an earth spike from the ground and Priscilla ran up it and twirled high into the air. Evelyn saw this and quickly launched another fire blast...but didn't see the rock spear launched at her side. It ripped through her side and even showed pieces of flesh rip out of her. Three mercenaries jumped into the air to spear her...but they all were incinerated by another fire blast. Emerging from the fire blast...was Priscilla.

"El Mabakka."

The powerful aura covered her body in a protective shield, she then once again spun in the air...but this time she gave Evelyn a powerful kick to the head, cracking her head open. Evelyn retaliated by causing jet propulsion to form around her elbow, giving her extra momentum and landing a powerful blow to Priscilla's stomach. She narrowed her eyes at Evelyn and used her fan to knock her back down to the ground.

The impact caused a crater to form on the ground underneath her. Evelyn then got up and glared at the rest of her opponents...only for sudden rock spears to impale her sides, keeping her in place.

"Sorry about this lady. Can't have you hitting the princess like that."

Al then ran towards her, even as fire blasts came careening towards him.

Once in a while, a blast would hit him...but then he would reset the situation so he would dodge the blast. It happened again and again...until he finally made it over to her and stabbed her through the neck.

"AGHHHHH!"

Priscilla was falling back down to the ground, but she once again twirled again, which helped her land safely. Priscilla walked over to survey the end result...but even she was shocked by what she saw.

Evelyn was crying and had a face filled with fear.

"Ow...OW...it hurts. Where am I...who are you...I…?"

She moved her eyes back and forth as she could no longer control her emotions and screamed at all of them...even as blood escaped from her throat.

"I...I WANT TO GO HOME!"

"...!"

"...I...I…"

Her eyes lost their color and she died.

Priscilla and Al were standing there...looking at the person they just killed. And even they felt a little guilt for what they had to do.

Batman flew away from more blasts by Kilroy who simply continued aiming his staff at him. Subaru ran over and tossed some explosive throwing stars, with his whip being held by his mouth. Kilory saw this, spun his staff close to him, opened one of his shoulder pads and grabbed white magic stones kept there. With it, he then replaced the red ones that were in place and latched them to the tip of the staff. He then quickly aimed it again at Subaru. A white barrier appeared in front of him and helped him escape the attack. But as the barrier dissipated, Batman made his move and tackled him straight through the roof and inside the building. Kilroy yelled as he whacked him off with the staff, once again reaching into his shoulder pad and this time pulling out black stones and quickly replacing the others.

He then greatly tapped the bottom of the staff on the ground, sending out a massive shockwave that resulted in the rest of the roof collapsing.

"Doryama!"

Subaru took advantage and used his whip to hit Kilroy directly in the face. Stunned he was unable to block Subaru ensnaring his whip onto the staff. He then quickly pulled him in and kicked him in the gut. Kilroy riled in pain only to eat a head-butt by Subaru and then a straight forward kick to the face.

Kilory slided to the side of himself and freed his staff and hit Subaru over the head with it. As Subaru fell to the floor, Kilroy aimed the bottom of his staff at him…

"DON'T TOUCH BETTY'S SUBARU!"

Beatrice leaped down from the hole on the roof, right above Kilroy, and slammed a large rock over his head. The rock broke and so did his skull. Kilory's eyes rolled up...and was tackled through the window and into the street below by Batman.

Batman freed himself from the scuffle and jetted up into the air. Kilroy got yellow stones and placed them into his staff. He roared as a large magical beam shot out at his opponent, but Batman made sure to outmaneuver it away from the building Subaru and Beatrice were in. Batman moved swiftly through the air as the beam tried to catch up. So Batman actually used more jet power and shoot around in the air, and made it to Kilroy who had not expected such speed. He then yanked him by his shirt and grabbed onto the staff and using his jet boots, actually push him through the ground. Then Batman proceeded to head-butt him so many times that Kilroy's face swelled into unrecognizable lumps. Batman shifted his body to kick him into the ground. As Batman flew around in the sky, Kilroy slightly let go of the staff to wipe some blood off of his face.

Only to notice too late that someone picked up his staff.

He could slightly see that the person was now aiming the staff at his head.

"Betty may show mercy at times...but…"

Beatrice made a face very indicative of rage and fury towards Kilroy.

"...Betty will never show mercy to those who would harm Subaru."

"BEATRICE WAIT!"

Batman tried to make it in time...only to watch as Beatrice blasted Kilroy's head off with a magical blast. He landed nearby, as Subaru was now able to catch up.

Subaru looked over at the corpse and his spirit...and could only breath a slight of relief.

"It's okay Beatrice…"

"...Su...Subaru…"

She dropped the staff from her hands and held out her hands to Subaru. He went over and hugged her...as she began to cry into his chest.

Batman then saw that several buildings were about to fall on top of them...most likely the result of their fight with Kilroy. He grabbed them and the staff, and flew high into the sky. They latched onto him as they escaped being crushed, but as they were trying to make their way through the air, Roy suddenly appeared under them and tried to slice away at his underbelly. Batman saw that he was mostly aiming his blade at Subaru. So he lowered himself onto a roof and let Subaru go, using his now free hand to block the attack. But Roy kept slicing, as his face was indicative of rage, all of it towards Batman.

Batman tried to let go of Beatrice, but Roy suddenly had begun increasing his speed rapidly. Batman still had Beatrice when he shot high into through the air, but somehow Roy latched on to his back and was trying stab through the suit.

Subaru could only watch as the two of them got further and further away. Subaru made his way out of the roof of the building and onto the streets. As he kept running...he heard a loud growl come from behind him. From the smoke and debris, emerged a humongous figure that leered down at him.

"So...you're Natsuki Subaru huh? You must know where the half elf is…"

Gorilla Grodd had arrived and was looking down at the young man with vicious smile to his face.

Groovy grabbed a longsword and tried everything he could to try and kill Deathstroke, but his strikes were easily outmaneuvered. Deathstroke even pulled out his ballistic knife and fired it into his knee. Groovy growled as he then pulled out a long spear and attempted to stab right through him, but shockingly Deathstroke allowed it to stab through his free hand and rush towards him. Groovy tried to pull it out, but Deathstroke gripped on and ran forward.

When he got to him, he quickly sliced downward and got the sword straight through his shoulder. Groovy used his legs to kick Deathstroke away and tossed the long spear at him who simply tilted his head and dodged. The spear shooting through a small shop.

Deathstroke then actually grabbed a Witch Cult dagger and spun it towards Groovy who deflected it. Deathstroke then ran close to the ground, dragging his blade, while Groovy got his longsword and attempted to impale him with it, but Deathstroke blocked it with his own sword.

Groovy then retrieved a large knife from his back and was about hack down at him...but Deathstroke then noticed his foot shifted a certain way...and he quickly stomped on the leg, snapping it in two, even making a piece of bone burst out from above the ankle.

This made Groovy lose balance, giving Deathstroke the chance to slice up at his chest, then he spun and sliced at his stomach, then he hit his jaw with the hilt of his sword, sending his face upward. Deathstroke cut off the leg he broke, spinning around him he impaled him through the back. He even went as far as steal a sword from his equipments and cut off his tail, then stabbed him in the lower back.

Groovy then roared as it was obvious he had become enraged...only for Deathstroke to slice his head horizontally in half. The top half of his head fell to the ground...the rest of his body followed suit.

Deathstroke took ragged breaths as he surveyed his own wounds that accumulated on his sides and forearm.

"Damn, you were good. Still-"

Deathstroke sheathed his own weapons before going over and taking a sword and spear from Groovy's corpse.

"-You weren't as good as me."

Wilhelm was facing his opponent Portugeus, who was now missing her left arm. Her determined look made Wilhelm cautious, he himself had a deep cut on his back and a stab wound on his hip.

The two of them were waiting for the other to make a move. The wind blew around for a while...they could hear explosions in the distance, the roaring of combat, and even the sounds of vines rising into the air.

They ignored it.

If either of them even moved or flinched for a second, the other would take advantage of the situation-

Suddenly, Portugues charged forward. Wilhelm let out a mighty yell as he too rushed forward.

In the instant flash of combat, the two opponents stood opposite of each other. They both stayed still...until each of their brand new wounds sprayed out blood.

Wilhelm coughed as several piercing wounds opened up all along his left side and even his cheek.

Portugues eyes widened, when a large slice wound opened up from her throat down to her hip. Blood shot out of her like a fountain, making her body fall over.

Wilhelm walked over to his opponent, who laid there, unable to fight and just stared at him. Portugeus had a simple look to her...until tears began to fall out of her eyes, confusing Wilhelm.

"Th-tha-…."

"What?"

Portugeus gave a weak smile as the light in her eyes began to fade.

"Thank you…"

Her face fell limp, just as her body did as well...dying from her injuries.

Wilhelm gave a small bow as he sheathed his sword. Deathstroke quickly made it over to Wilhelm as he noticed he was beginning to lose his balance. He let him lean on his shoulder as they began to move.

"You alright?"

"Yes, it appears the after effects of the X-Potion has begun. I may need to rest for a bit."

"Man, what a pain in the ass. Alright, let's get you to cat-boy, he might be able to do something."

"Yes, thank you."

Deathstroke and Wilhelm continued for awhile...until Deathstroke said one little comment that would be easily mistaken for a whisper.

"...Good work Wilhelm."

"...Excuse me?"

"I said good fucking work! Losing your hearing now, old man?!"

"...No, nothing of the sort."

Wilhelm lightly chuckled as the two of them made their way to their next destination.

Patrachse once again, tried to kick at Guillotine, but the dragon ducked down, showing his bladed armor, making her jump back.

Verhoe then bit onto a piece of rubble and tossed it at his head, the impact made him lose his composure. This gave Linnea the time to stab at the side of its face with her homemade spear. But the dragon shook his head violently, making Linnea lose grip on her spear. The spear dislodged from it's face. The dragon roared angrily and rushed towards her. Patrachse saw her chance and activated her Divine Protection just as he did. She ran next to him, then tackled him from the side. The wind evasions collided, sending the two of them flying into shops. Guillotine shook its head as it got up, leering at the downed Patrasche.

But he noticed too late that a molotov cocktail was flung at him, hitting him square in the face. The dragon yelped in pain, just as Verhoe used a nearby boulder to safely tackle him without the spikes reaching him. Guillotine retaliated by using his tail which had a knife at the end of it, to slice his sides. Verhoe screamed in pain as he was kicked in the face. Guillotine rolled on the ground for a while as he put out the fire. The ground dragon ran forwards trying to get at Verhoe, but Linnea tossed more molotov cocktails at him, setting almost his entire body on fire.

Linnea turned around and saw that the rest of the citizens escaped...she was glad to see this. She made her attempt to follow them, but turned around when she saw Patrasche running to her side.

She turned her head around and saw a burning Guillotine running towards her. When she lost her balance, Guillotine smiled as he spun his body and...quickly sliced open her abdomen with his tail. She coughed out a large amount of blood as she fell backwards. Patrasche roared loudly as she quickly made it to the side of Guillotine. She kicked up rocks into his eye, distracting him long enough for her to shift her body and kick at his neck, her large talons sliced through the unprotected part of his neck, sending buckets of blood onto the ground.

She used her own tail to knock him into a nearby building, even at the cost of injuring herself. The enemy ground dragon was sent hurling into a light lamp which crashed right on top of him. Guillotine could only shriek his death wails as the fire and loss of blood took it's toll on his body. Then he fell silent...as his life ended.

Patrasche rushed over to Linnea as she clutched her bleeding stomach, she coughed a bit as tears trickled down her cheeks. Patrasche pressed her snout on Linnea's cheek, but this made Linnea smile a little.

"It's okay, Patrasche-chan….haaaa...It's okay…"

Patrsache made a small whining sound as licked her cheek a bit. Linnea petted her snout as she began to cry.

"I...I want to...see him…"

"...?"

"B-Batman...him...see him…"

In her mind, she could see the first time he saved her.

"Please...one last time…"

In her mind, she could see his visits to her shop.

"I...love him…"

In her mind, she could see when they would have conversations about the world and his friends.

"I want...him...to know…"

In her mind, she could see the moment she saw him and met his fellow camp members.

"I….jus-"

.

.

.

.

In her mind she saw a fading image of him...saying something to her.

Linnea's eyes lost their color and she had slight smile on her face, Patrasche tried to budge her...but she didn't move.

Patracshe struggled in getting up, but as she did, she had a saddened look on her face as her comrade lay there...never to wake up again.

"Ohhhhh...you seem like a good one!"

Patrasche turned her attention above her as she saw someone standing on the roof, looking down at her.

"Hehehe! What a scrumptious thing you seem to be! I wonder if you'll be a good snack for me! Just a bit for the road."

Patrasche growled loudly as she leered up at Ley Batenkaitos, who licked his lips while looking down at his next meal.

Emilia held up her ice shield as the hat spun wildly at it, stripping it away. Pamela ran around scraping the floor with her sword, as vines surrounded the rapier. As she charged she summoned humongous vines from the ground that tried to attack Arda. The combatant jumped onto them as she ran forward, tossing several throwing knives at her. Pamela ran up one of her vines to escape. As she ran, she actually aimed her rapier at her.

"Vine Shoot!"

The vines straightened out and actually fired out as projectiles, which Arda summersaulted out of the way...but was unaware of a trap that lay in wait. As she jumped to a new point of the vine, when her foot landed, a large venus flytrap appeared and bit into her foot. She cut the plant off, but it's teeth still did their damage and cut up her leg badly.

Pamela used a large vine leaf to leap over to her. As she ran down the adjacent vine to combat her, she pulled out some small seeds from a pouch she had, and tossed them onto her sword. The vines sprouted around the blade, then she looked at the blade and made an apologetic expression.

"Sorry little guys."

She then focused as fire burned away the vines...but she spun the rapier around several times as it then began to glow red.

"Sword Art: Algernon's Blade!"

The sword was now shining as it was now red hot from the heat produced by the combination of the fire magic and the unique vines she discovered in this new world.

She then dashed forward to come face to face with Arda. Arda looked down and saw that her hat was still spinning against Emilia's ice wall. She had no choice but take on Pamela on with her own extra sai blade. She actually charged at her intending to kill her with rapid strikes. But her hand was wrapped up in more vines. Within the vines, sprouted a purple plant that shot out a light pink mist and blinded the demi-human.

Pamela then wrapped more vines underneath her feet which then kept her in place. She was unable to move as Pamela used a textbook fencing attack to stab through her snout with the heat blade. She then twirled it while it was inside, causing even more damage. She then moved the sword out and used rapid movements to pierce the enemy several times, before Arda used her inhuman strength to rip out of the vines and slam her away.

Several vines sprouted out of a building and caught Pamela, setting her down gently down.

Arda got off the giant vine and made a beeline for her hat which finally stopped spinning. She got it, but the ice wall shattered and Emilia charged her with an ice sword. The two dueled for several seconds, before Emilia backed away.

Arda then noticed a peculiar smell around her...realizing it was some strange pollen. Pamela rubbed something on her lips and then licked around it.

Then she took a deep breath...

"Fire Spell: Breath of the World's Heart!"

Flames flew out of her breath and engulfed the general area where the pollen had spread. Arda escaped for a moment and grabbed her hat...only to get stabbed on the shoulder by Emilia. Emilia flipped in the air and shot several icicles at her. She swiped them away with her hat, but she was then pierced once again, this time in the shoulder by Pamela. As she spun her hat, intending to toss it right at her...her arm was frozen.

Emilia leaped over and kicked Arda in the chin, then she slipped in and grabbed her hat, then tossed it away.

She then got in and stabbed her several times with an ice dagger, before placing her hand on her stomach.

"I'm sorry. But your invasion ends, villain!"

"...!"

"EL HUMA."

Several ice spears shot straight through Arda...the demi-human lost her breath as she fell right in front of Emilia. Pamela took a breath as she ran over to meet with Emilia.

"You okay Emilia?"

"Yeah….But actually what are you doing here?"

"Well, we were fighting Roy, but he turned tail and we chased after him. He led us near here, but we lost him eventually."

"Oh, I see."

Emilia dissipated her ice knife. When she turned around she saw Ricardo, Tivey and Hetaro arriving.

"Hey ladies, sorry we're late! We had to deal with the invading forces."

"That's okay Ricardo-san. We just need to finish this fight and quick!"

"Yeah, I'll be an old man if we take any longer."

Pamela nodded, only to hear a crashing sound behind them. They then saw someone emerging from the crater, though it appeared they were limping towards them. Ricardo and the others got into fighting positions.

"Huh? Who is that?"

Then, emerging from the cloud of debris, was Subaru. He was coming out while most of the debris was still hiding him a bit.

"Subaru!"

Emilia was walking quickly to wards him...only to stop dead in her tracks as she saw his condition. Her eyes faltered...and tears were begining to spill out.

"No...Subaru…"

Ricardo and the others stared as they too held their breaths. Emilia slowly walked over, just as Subaru was losing balance. There she got a good look at his face.

"No...SUUUUUBARU."

Subaru was now missing his left eye, as if it was never there in the first place. His eyelid still there so he could keep the wound closed.

Subaru's footing faltered, until he collapsed into Emilia's arms.

"Su...Su...Subaru...SUBARU? SUBARU?!"

Emilia was starting to panic, so the others were starting to run over to her.

"See? I knew you could lead me to him! Good job boy."

Everyone stopped what they were doing as a large figure emerged from the debris in front of them.

"All I want is the half elf. The rest of you can run away...OR DIE."

Gorilla Grodd had now arrived, intending on taking Emilia away by force.

Batman and Beatrice landed nearby as Otto, Felt, Kon, Chin and Ton were busy trying to deal with Ley. As Batman landed he tossed Beatrice and the staff aside. He then shot his jet boots up as he slammed his back to the roof and crushed Roy who was still latched on. As Batman got up, so did Roy. Roy quickly tried to kick him, but his attack was blocked and he was hit several times int the face. Then he was grabbed by his long hair and forced to get his face smashed by a knee. Batman then spun him around and slammed him into the roof.

Then he clenched his fist.

"AL MATAR!"

His fist glowed bright white and he punched him in the gut. But there didn't seem to be any effect so the young man laughed as he sliced away at Batman's helmet. He then rolled away and smiled.

His helmet had scratch marks, but it didn't bother him as he walked over to Roy.

"Lunar Eclipse…"

A deadly feeling surrounded Roy as his eyes turned slightly black. Then, he quickly disappeared in a flash.

"Super speed, huh? Too bad...I already got you."

Roy then suddenly stopped next to Batman, as the impact from earlier actually activated and his stomach almost flattened from it. Roy spat out blood, but he ate a spinning kick by Batman and it was followed by three vicious punches to the head. Batman then grabbed his face and slammed him through the building. Then he opened his belt pouch and dropped something down into it and when it landed next to Roy...it began beeping.

Batman looked to the adjacent street, watching as the explosion sent Roy's injured body flying out of the building into a nearby one.

Batman launched himself to the other side of the roof, where the rest of the fighting was occurring. He landed in between the group and Ley. Felt seemed to be overjoyed to see him, while the three guys were mesmerized by his Justice Armor.

Batman turned his attention to Ley as the Archbishop tilted his head and smiled.

"Ah! Batman-san! How wondrous to see the ally of my beloved hero!"

"...?!"

Batman could not recognize the voice coming out of his mouth, but he felt comfortable by it.

"Come now, do not look like that towards me. I don't want Batman-san to be angry with someone like me...like Rem."

"Y-YOU!"

Batman realized that the boy standing in front of him was the one responsible for what happened to Rem, to Crusch and to Pamela. He watched as Ley was rubbing the wound he had on his shoulder as he clattered his teeth together.

"She was a really delicious one-"

"-YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

Batman stomped his foot on the ground as he glared at the Sin Archbishop.

He remembered the days Subaru would go visit Rem in her room.

How he would tell stories about her.

How he would look at her fondly.

How sometimes he would talk in his sleep, sometimes, crying as he apologized to her.

How he always wished to save her.

Save her.

Save the girl.

Save Rem.

And standing before him was a...monster. A disgusting awful being that erased her from everyone's memories and sent her to a deep sleep. The pain not only he has caused, but the other Sin Archbishops...no..the Witch's Cult themselves were a group he would never forgive. He couldn't.

"Do you have any idea what you've done?! What you've doing?! How much devastation you've caused people?! ANSWER ME GLUTTONY!"

"...I am merely feeding myself and giving into the desires I have for myself. And my desire is to feed myself with high quality meals. And so I do. I do. Of course I do. I'm not like Roy, who just eats whatever walks into his path. He eats anything! Anything! Anything anything! I'm different! AM I NOT?!"

"...NO. YOU BOTH DISGUST ME EQUALLY."

It wasn't just him, Batman could see Otto was also in a fury over Ley's hideous actions and foul intentions, clutching his hands into fists.

Beatrice walked over next to Batman as she held the staff she acquired from the previous battle. She too was angry, but kept a calm expression.

"This person…this is the one person that we must not let Subaru meet, I suppose. If Subaru meets this person, then he will be hurt. He would definitely suffer a type of damage that would not be able to be repaired. Thus-"

"-Let's bring him down here ourselves!"

Otto let out this declaration, taking over for Beatrice's last words. Even though Beatrice did not turn around, it was understood from her standing posture that she consented to Otto's declaration.

Felt seemed to gather some confidence as she held onto a staff she had. Beatrice noticed it and seemed to immediately recognize it.

"That couldn't possibly be a Metia, I suppose?"

"Metia?"

"My mother…..long ago, a great magician created a staff to pester with a dragon. It's whereabouts should have become unknown, but this is fate, I suppose."

Beatrice asked to be passed the staff, she placed the other one down as she grabbed the jewels from it and held onto them.

She aimed it at Ley, who simply got excited.

"El Minya."

"Oh Beatrice-sama! You show no mercy!"

"I have little mercy today, I suppose! Not for you or the invading fools who are moving through the city as we speak!"

As the spears struck the area where Ley was. Smoke and rubble shot into the area...but Batman turned his attention to the opposite direction of the roof and got into a battle stance, they all turned to see what exactly he was looking at.

What they saw was Gluttony crawling around, moving like a spider with his limbs sticking to the ground. Gluttony smiled, showing frank hostility, and his eyes became bloodshot.

"Hah hah! As expected of Beatrice-sama! Isn't it excellent? Certainly it is excellent. It is excellent! Perhaps it is excellent. Surely it is excellent. So it is excellent. This is excellent! This is EXCELLENT!"

Batman lifted himself into the air as he charged at Ley. The two clashed in the air, sending a slight shockwave around them. Ley then flashed away, intending to get behind Batman. But Batman flipped back and actually burned Ley with his jet fire, Ley jumped into the air at Batman and tried to swipe at his throat. But Batman actually redirected it away and slapped him back to the roof.

"OH NO!"

He realized that Ley got up and charged at Felt. Batman raced down to try and stop the attack...but Ley touched her face and smiled.

But then when he landed, he began to cough and vomit. Batman then realized that Felt...wasn't her real name, but he had no time to think about it, so he crane kicked Ley down and began pummeling him with punches. Ley roared as he knocked him away. Batman flew into the air trying to avoid the next attack.

But Ley charged past Otto, defeating him effortlessly.

But soon, Ley found himself trapped by a purple ring that surrounded him, then it enclosed around him.

"What is this?! THIS?! WHAT IS THIS?!"

Beatrice chuckled as she pointed her staff at the boy.

"Witness the power Betty has for you, I suppose!"

"WAIT! WAIT!"

A large ligth appeared right above Ley, making him start to panic. But the staff was starting to falter in its light.

"No! Not enough for the spell-"

The stones on the staff shattered, and the spell broke apart. Ley was infuriated at the thought that he almost died. So he charged forward and tried to attack Beatrice as she was replacing the stones.

Batman quickly punched him down and grabbed the sides of his head, flipping him into the floor. He then tossed Otto an X-Potion and he drank it. Batman was then sliced behind by Ley, but kicked behind himself at Ley, who flew back a bit.

"We got you!"

"HUH?!"

Ley turned to see Beatrice and Felt working together to aim the staff at him.

"Get ready! Not even Reinhard can avoid this attack you fucker!"

"WAH?!"

A hug white light fired at Ley, with Batman leaping out of the way. Ley ran across some buildings but he soon saw that the beam was following him, even as he activated Solar Eclipse, which seemed to make himself shrouded in a dark aura.

"NO! NO! I CANNOT DIE! I MUST NOT! NOT! NOT! NOOOOOOT!"

Then a voice appeared near him.

"Ley, deactivate Solar Eclipse. You'll be fine."

Ley did so and the beam seemed to follow strands of his hair that fell off instead. Destroying the building he was running along.

As Ley landed on another rooftop, clearly exhausted. A large dark haired man stood next to him. He had dark brown short wild hair, the same eyes as Ley and a dark cloak with a purple suit underneath.

"Greetings everyone. I hope this hasn't caused you discomfort."

The rest of the group stared at them, with Batman flying into the air to confront them.

"I'd suggest against that. If I were to use one of the Eclipses here and now...I could easily kill all of you right here and now. But I will not, the table of dining is not yet ready for that yet."

"I would never let that happen!"

"Oh?"

"I've faced people much faster than you! I'd bet my life on it."

"...Interesting. But still we must take leave, unfortunately, Roy and Ley are simply exhausted...and that could trouble giving birth."

Louis then looked down at the clearly exhausted boy and then back at the others, pointing specifically at Beatrice.

"Oh Ley, my young man. That there, was the spirit we were after in the first place. We'll have to try again in the future."

"Grr."

Ley fixed himself a bit and blew blood out of his nose. Roy soon joined them and the three started to turn away, Batman jetting off again trying to stop them.

"WAIT!"

"These two don't know anything about true eating. It's not what you eat or the quantity...it's who you eat with, that truly gives one pleasure. Until we meet again."

Batman was still racing up the sky to try to catch them...when the Sin Archbishops, noticed a large shadow was forming under their feet.

Batman looked up...and his eyes widened immensely at what he was looking at.

"Oh crap."

Grodd's battle axe collided with Ricardo's large blade as the two roared at each other, then Grodd began invading his mind, causing him to lose focus. Grodd then focused as he added attacked Ricardo with a force beam.

Ricardo was pushed back but the twins made it around him and unleashed their signature scream attack so Grodd put up a psychic shield around himself. This pushed him back, but Grodd caught himself.

"DONA!"

Several earth spikes shot out at them but they were able to dodge. Tivey and Hetaro tried their best to make it around him in opposite directions. But Grodd used his mental powers to attack their minds. Grodd then rushed over and attacked Hetaro first knocking him into the building next to them with his axe. Tivey had enough of this and found a chance to fire a magic blast at Grodd's axe shattering it to pieces.

Grodd roared in anger, releasing a powerful psychic wave at the young boy, his body being crushed by the pressure. Grodd then ran over and repeatedly slammed him to the ground with his fists in a fit of rage. The very ground shook as his hits were causing cracks to form.

Grodd then levitated the beaten and battered Tivey up to him.

He then grabbed his left arm with his large hand, and angrily looked at it.

"IS THIS IT?! THE HAND THAT CAUSED ME TO LOSE MY FAVORITE WEAPON?!"

Tivey coughed up vast amounts of blood, being unable to answer.

"...Then it must be punished."

Grodd bit into Tivey's arm and simply tore it off from the shoulder.

Tivey screamed in sheer pain as tears flooded out of his eyes. Grodd spit out the arm and threw Tivey harshly onto the ground, causing a crater to form under his broken body.

Hetaro was able to get up and tried to fire his own in spell in a pure rage. But Grodd sensed the attack and hit Hetaro with a powerful force beam knocking him out completely, as well as breaking several bones in his small body.

"YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"

Ricardo made it over and raised his large sword at Grodd, with pure rage in his eyes. As the sword was swinging down, Grodd used his telekinetic abilities to move the swords trajectory, so the hit landed away from him. Ricardo then realized he couldn't move.

"NGHHHH! SHIT!"

"Foolish little mutt. Think you could have bested a king like me? KNOW YOUR PLACE!"

Grodd then applied some force pressure on Ricardo, even as the mercenary was trying to force himself up. Grodd laughed at this as he began to lift him up with his mind, then slammed him into the ground. Grodd then did it again and again. Before he fired a force beam with his mind at the floating Ricardo. Ricardo screamed as he was now freed from the attack and charged at Grodd, swinging his mighty sword around several times, but at one point, Grodd then summoned an earth shield against him.

Ricardo smashed through it, but Grodd took advantage and punched him directly in the face. Then he grabbed him and swung him around into the front of a shop. Grodd then surrounded himself in a rock armor, combining it with his telekinetic shield and tackled Ricardo straight through the shop front.

Pamela was guarding Emilia, who was doing her best to heal Subaru.

Just then, Grodd emerged from the destroyed dragging the defeated Ricardo with him by his hair. He then put him down and began stomping on his head, intending to finish him off. Pamela saw this and panicked she looked back at Emilia and gave an apologetic look, to which Emilia nodded in understanding.

Pamela rushed over and intended to save Ricardo. She summoned her vines to wrap around Grodd, but he sensed this and simply used his telekinetic shield to blast them away. Grodd then charged forward intending to fight her off...then recognized her.

"HAHA! Poison Ivy?! You became a hero? How laughable! You too are covered in sins just as myself, even in this world!"

"Maybe! But right now I'm not that person! I'm the person who wants to help her friends!"

"ABSURD!"

Grodd attempted to slam her to the ground, but she used her vines to lift herself up and try to pierce him in the head. Grood then used his telekinetic shield to block it, before levitating her into the nearby building. He then used his mind powers to fling her far away from the battle, seeing her as the most troublesome one yet.

"I'll kill you some other time Ivy! Right now, I have a certain other thing to worry about."

Gorilla then walked over to Emilia, he smiled as he began invading her mind. Emilia struggled to keep her sanity, even as her eyes were beginning to whiten out...then Subaru looked over with his one eye at Grodd.

"In...visible...Providence."

Grodd was then hit in the face with an attack he couldn't sense or understand where it came from, breaking his concentration all together. Emilia shook her head as she was back to her senses. Only to yelp as she saw Subaru walking over to Grodd. Subaru narrowed his brows as Grodd looked over at him in a fury, his eyes literally glowing red.

"LITTLE CUIR! TIME TO DIE!"

Grodd then slammed Subaru away into the wall, a piece of metal stabbed through his right shoulder.

"SUBARU!"

Emilia screamed as she rushed over to him, but Grodd was beginning to invade her mind again, trying to gain control once again. However-

"GRAGGHHH!"

Grodd suddenly had a terrible wound on his right shoulder...similar to the one Subaru had gotten. Grodd was fuming mad at this point, and roared at Subaru...who seemed to chuckle painfully. Grodd then rushed over to him...only for someone to land in front of Subaru.

"Subaru...once again I apologize for the delay. When this is over, I will owe you greatly."

Reinhard was now standing before Grodd with his sword Reid drawn. Grodd was so angry that he had drool and blood escape his mouth as he growled at them.

Then he felt all his psychic connections starting to disappear quickly and he looked around and saw all the dead soldiers around him.

He realized it...this invasion was a bust.

"Time...to make an escape."

Grodd began to run away, as Reinhard chased after him. Grodd levitated Kilroy and Arda's bodies and used them as shields as Reinhard sliced them away. Grodd then levitated countless soldiers in front of Reinhard, who had to deal with them.

Several soldiers followed Grodd as he broke off a piece of the ground and levitated it into the sky. Reinhard was furious at this moment, but quickly sliced through the soldiers.

Grodd screamed out to his soldiers.

"MEN! Half of you retreat back to the ships! The other half stay here and keep them occupied until I escape!"

Many knights and ground dragons ran off, while several others stayed and tried to keep their adversaries busy. Grodd still understood that they were in no way going to escape easily, so he decided to do something drastic.

Emilia freed Subaru from his painful position and tried shaking him awake.

"Subaru! SUBARU!"

"Hey...Emilia.."

Emilia began work trying to heal her friend as desperately as she could. Tears flooded down her cheeks as she tried her best to comfort him, giving him a comfortable lap pillow.

"E-E-Emilia…"

"Don't talk, please just rest you've been working so hard-"

"-Run."

"What?"

Emilia was slightly confused by what he said, until she noticed his face was having a large shadow cast on it...then it took up the space around them...then more.

Emilia looked up and saw exactly what it was…

"...!"

"Run…"

Above them was a large building falling from the sky. In fact, several other buildings from all over the city were falling from the sky.

Gorilla Grodd made it to the entrance on the wall they made as he let out a mighty roar. As he did, he was able to escape into the boats and made it out alive with less than ten percent of his remaining invading force.

Emilia grabbed Subaru in a bridal style and ran with all her might...as the building collapsed behind them. The shockwave sent her flying forward, but she summoned an ice barrier to help them to not fly away further, as well as to protect Ricardo and the others.

All over the city buildings collapsed from the skies, landing in waterways, on top of other buildings, even one landed on a wall and caused it to collapse. The smoke and debris raised high into the sky...to the point it was almost blocking out the evening sun. The city from far away, could be seen easily as having been apart of a grand battle.

In the debris Capella transformed into a large black dragon and flew into the air, flapping her wings viciously as she seemed to be smiling. Her growl was not heard by anyone...as she flew far away from the city.

Meanwhile, the three Sin Archbishops of Gluttony were now separated as they dodged a building that almost landed on top of them. Roy was making his way through the destruction that had just occurred, when he heard something.

"Huh? Now what is it? What could possibly-"

Deathstroke leapt through the smoke and tried to stab him with his sword. He missed but spun his body and kicked him down. As Roy's body flew away, several vines sprouted out the ground and caught his legs, they then slammed him between buildings several times before ramming him into the ground.

"Aughhh! Damn little-"

Roy was then punched in the face and into a broken wall, further breaking the structure. As he got up he looked over at the three figures that arrived.

"Don't think you can get away that easily, punk."

Deathstroke said as got a hold of his swords.

"We need some answers from you Sin Archbishop."

Pamlea wiped some blood off her cheek as she furrowed her eyes at him.

"You're not getting away Gluttony...at least not from us!"

Batman, still in his Justice Armor, walked over in a composed manner as he glared over at him.

Roy spat out blood as he began to smile.

"What tasty. TASTY! TASTY! TASTY! Tasty things you look to be!"

Roy got on all fours, like an animal about to pounce, as his eyes turned black...there he faced the three opponents who would make sure he would not get away.

Emilia was rubbing her head as she gazed around at the destruction that unfolded earlier. She then took a breath and looked down as she called out to her friend. The man who she had cradled in her arms.

"Hey, Subaru, are you okay. Not hurt!?"

He was quiet, which made her panic...when she looked down at his face closely, she saw his eyes were both closed and his face was drenched in blood.

"Subaru! NO! Subaru! Please! Wake up!"

She tried shaking him but nothing worked. She was starting to cry when she heard a voice calling out to her.

"Emilia-sama? What's going on?!"

"Hurry please! It's Subaru, he's hurt!"

The knight made it over and checked on him. He took a deep breath as he gave her a reassuring look.

"It's okay. He's knocked out, but he should be okay. We just need to get him to Ferris."

"O-Okay. We'll do that then...but before I do…"

The purple haired knight, with yellow eyes and three scars that ran from below his eye and down his cheek...looked at her with concern. Emilia could only tilt her head at him.

"Just...who are you?"

"...Excuse...me?"

Julius Juukulius, the most valuable knight, was now forgotten by the world itself, yet another victim of Gluttony.

The smoke was clearing, the living were present, and with one battle left to finish, the battle for Priestella was about to reach its finale.