AN: To let ya all know, the costumes I'm using as visual references for the new DC characters are specifically the Rebirth outfits they currently have. Well, all except Aquaman, Captain Cold and Cyborg; they have the costumes featured in Injustice 2...I just like them better. Heretic is basically the Arkham Knight from the video-game of the same name, except with a red scarf...BECAUSE SCARFS ARE COOL.

Oh, and yes...more fan-fics are in danger of being erased. So keep your eyes out for them...

Regardless, I hope you all have a good time. ENJOY.

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Seventy Five: Chaos at Project Cadmus

The alarms sounded off as Garfiel suplexed a guard through a wall that was ahead of him. The hole made by the impact revealed more security forces armed with rifles, they prepped them to fire.

"HUMA!"

Rem put up an ice barrier, blocking most of the oncoming fire, as it shattered away, Emilia and Beatrice put up their own barrier and blocked them out. Batman jumped from a adjacent wall and tossed several Batarangs, hitting the guards in the hand. Subaru rushed over and hit one guard in the face with his Unseen Hand. The other, attempting to knock Subaru out with a punch, but Ram kicked him down to the ground. Frederica and Sarah mowed through more of them, eventually looking down the sight of a rocket launcher. It was fired, but the rocket was hit with a Minya by the other Beatrice, it exploded in the middle of the hallway, giving Heretic the chance to knock the guard out in one punch.

Deathstroke saw a door burst open with more guards on the way.

"Hmph!"

He ran over and grabbed two assault rifles from the ground and fired while running to them. All of the guards legs were torn up by the bullets. They fell onto the ground and screamed out in pain.

Emilia saw this and put on a sour look.

"Slade-sensei!"

"Don't worry, I'm not killing them! See? Just the legs!"

Emilia nodded with an annoyed look, a guard with a baton tried hitting her across the face, but she ducked under him and kicked him across the face and into a wall. His body impacted the wall and actually bounced off of it and hit another guard.

Mr. Miracle dodged several hits before uppercutting a guard off the ground and kicking him through a door. He then pulled out some sort device that fired a shockwave , knocking out some reinforcements.

"Let's keep moving!"

However Subaru signaled them to wait for a second as he went to a guard and grabbed a his dark aura.

"Fanatical Snatch."

He now ate the memories of this guard and quickly got the information he needed.

"The cells are down the hall and our right!"

"Okay, let's keep this up!"

Subaru nodded only to grab another piece of aura from the person.

"Fanatical Commandeering."

Subaru ate the aura and took a deep breath, he grabbed the guards bullet proof vest and put it on, he then grabbed the rifle...and showed absolute mastery in reloading it and grabbing the spare ammo.

Batman saw this and had his eyes wide open. They continued down the halls as they

"Subaru, is that a new ability?"

"Yup, looks like I got Gluttony's powers too!"

"Well it might be useful in the-"

Subaru saw in the corner of his eye a guard ready to assault them...so he rolled ahead of them and shot the guard in the leg. The guard scrunched over and ate a kick by Batman, another one ran around, but was hit across the head with the butt of a rifle by Deathstroke.

Beatrice saw a heavily armored security guard with a gatling gun approach down the hall, but Garfiel jumped over to him and punched him to the ground. The strike was so powerful it cracked the ground and surrounding walls with ease, Garfiel saw anothe one break through the wall next to, so he used one of his shields to slam him across the face, destroying the helmet in one hit. Garfiel then grabbed the gatling gun and whacked across the face with it, making his body fly across the hall, before it reached the others, Heretic jumped up and tossed him to the ground, he did a spin in the air and tossed a blade at a guard that tried to sneak behind them, the blade struck him the shoulder and he was punched to the floor by Frederica.

Deathstroke ran with all his might and tossed the rifles away, he then snapped his fingers.

"Garfiel! Pass!"

"Ya got it!"

He tossed him the gatling gun, and in the air he caught it and fired down the hall at some android guards that were pouring out at them.

"HAHA! I so missed this!"

The weapon fired with an intensity that amazed everyone, Garfiel turned his head to see more of them coming up the other way...so he grabbed the other gatling gun on the floor and looked at it curiously.

"'Kay, let's see how thi' thing works."

He pressed the button, and low and behold, Garfiel was firing the weapon out at the onslaught of robots.

"OH! WAHA! Thi' is totally coo'!"

Garfiel laughed wildly as he mowed down the ensuing machines until there were none left. The men tossed aside the now empty weapons, leaving behind the mountain of robot corpses littering the halls.

They soon made it to the main door that would lead them to the holding cells. Subaru ate the info out of a security guard and entered the code. But as the door slowly opened-

"MOVE!"

Batman grabbed Subaru and Beatrice, making Emilia and Rem put out another ice shield, blocking the oncoming fire. Heretic pulled out two twin pistols and fired back, making Subaru do the same with his rifle, the firefight quickly ended and they were the edges of the door as cover. Beatrice then took a deep breath and nodded at Subaru.

"Okay, let's do it Beatrice."

"Very well, I suppose!"

Subaru held Beatrice's hand, making the other Beatrice do the same with Bruce. Batman saw what they were going to do and accepted it.

The two spirits raised their free hands and motioned them towards the door-

"EL SHAMAK!"

The guards were now struck by the yin spell, making them lose themselves in the darkness. Batman took advantage and ran forward knocking the five guards out, each with a vicious punch to the chin.

Heretic was silently observing this and whispered to himself.

"I wonder if I can do such a thing…"

They soon made it inside the laboratory and gazed around. Emilia held her breath as she saw a vivisected Ground Dragon on an operating table. It's organs separated into bowls and it had wires connected to it's open scalp.

"H-Horrible."

They moved further and found a female fox demi human was about to be operated on, but Batman knocked out all the doctors. Sarah cut her free of her restraints as she cried into her chest. Sarah could only comfort the girl as best she could, they asked her to wait there, until they found the others. She complied, thanking her saviors.

They were now heading through a stairway, deeper into the holding cells.

A bullet was flying to Ram's head.

"AL MABAKKA!"

Batman held Ram and activated his Yang Spell, causing the bullet to bounce off his own shoulder, he then tossed two explosive Batarangs. They exploded and Batman and the others moved back.

"Now you got some new tricks, Batman?"

Emerging from the darkness of the dimly lit hallways was man clad in white and red armor. His white steel mask was quite the thing to see...especially with it's one single red right eye.

"Deadhsot."

"You still remember me after six years? I kind of feel impressed you would."

He aimed his rifle at them, and from behind the rest of his team arrived...the rest of the Suicide Squad.

"Can't let you go any further though."

Captain Boomerang, twirled his usual weapon while carelessly whistling at the ladies in front of him.

Killer Frost licked her lips as ice formed around her arms.

Black Manta readied his special rifle as he mumbled to himself.

Black Spider cracked his knuckles as he was staring daggers at them.

El Diablo summoned fire all around his body as he slowly walked next to his fellow members.

Cheetah crawled on the ground as her namesake would, before she stood up and revealed her vicious fangs at them, playing with her claws as she did.

King Shark roared as he slammed his fists to the ground, in a show of might.

Parasite cracked his neck as he twisted his shoulders, ready for a fight.

Count Vertigo tapped his cane several times, before scoffing at the sight of his opponents.

Deadshot pulled the trigger, setting off the two teams to charge into combat.

Garfiel and King Shark's fists collided, causing the very ground they were standing on to form a crater. Garfiel kicked at him, but he was able to block it using his forearm. The monster roared at his opponent, using his weight to tackle him away. Garfiel stopped his momentum and pressed his feet on the wall, he jumped to the charging Shark, twisting his body to kick him...but saw King Shark opening his mouth wide to bite his leg off. He used his shield mid air and blocked the surprise attack. Garfiel was then sliced across the chest, but he punched downwards and hit him on the top of his head. Garfiel leapt back and grabbed him by his leg and slammed his body to the wall. Garfiel then punched him several times in the gut, before he was sliced back by King Shark. As he flew back, King Shark once again tried to snap his jaws onto the young man, but Garfiel twisted his foot, pushing his own body away from the bite.

"Fucker! My amazin' self will show you a bite!"

He bit the Shark's neck, causing him to roar loudly at this. He tried to slice away at Garfiel, but the boy would not let up. So he decided to slam him to the wall multiple times, after doing this at least six times, he let go, but not before kicking King Shark away. Now landing on the ground, King Shark had saliva escaping his mouth as he roared back at him.

"GONNA KILL YOU KID!"

Garfiel soon took deep breaths, even as King Shark charged at him...he continued this...breathing in and out...in and out-

"GROOOOARRR!"

Garfiel quickly transformed into his Tiger form...but he was in control. Over the past years or so, he trained himself using techniques Batman taught him. To meditate, to control the burning powers inside him, so he could use his full potential.

The giant tiger allowed King Shark to get closer, before he sliced his throat open with his claws, then swiping him down to the ground. Kind Shark tried to kick him away, but he was too slow in doing so and Garfiel punched through his stomach.

"GRAAAAGHHH-!"

"GROOOOOOOAAAARRR! DIE!"

Garfiel bit around the open wound around his neck and completely beheaded the beast with his own fangs. Blood sprayed all over the place as he then prssed his paws down on the twitching corpse of King Shark.

Garfiel spat out the head in mouth and allowed all the blood to escape his mouth. Garfiel slowly changed back to his normal form, he looked at the now destroyed shields on his forearms and tossed them away, he fixed his clothes and ran back to the others.

Cheetah continued her attacks on the transformed Frederica, even at this size, she was having a hard time coping with her opponent.

"Yes! The goddess will be pleased with your sacrifice!"

Sarah then blocked her strike with a forearm blades, she then twirled around and kicked her away. Cheetah then was slammed away by Frederica. She leapt off the wall and dashed to Sarah...who took a deep breath and moved herself in a gorgeous ballerina pose, her eyes shut.

"If you're going to dance...then dance to the movements of death."

"..."

Cheetah made it over to her.

Unbeknownst to her, Sarah was not simply just standing around...she was performing a special strike she created while training these past six months. She never used it, but it was the perfect opportunity to test it out. She created this move...in order to protect the people she saw as her new family. Soon a small gust of wind made her hair move-

"Pirouette."

She twirled past Cheetah at incredible speed, her feet touching the ground...just as Cheetah's left arm and tail fell off.

"IMPOSSIBLE!"

Soon her words were cut off, as spiral shaped wounds now formed on her body, covering her in blood. Sarah took another pose..she then twirled and danced to her opponent. Cheetah then reached over to claw her face off...only for Sarah to dodge it and slice her other arm clean off.

"Assemblé"

Her body now below Cheetah in elegant move, she looked over and took a deep quiet breath.

"Yes, This dance has ended."

Before Cheetah could even lash out, Frederica slammed her paw right on top of her, crushing her to death.

Frederica slowly changed back, but realized she was now nude...Sarah quickly grabbed a spare lab coat and had her put it on.

"Yes, just for now!"

"Thank you Sarah."

She gave her friend a quick hug, making her blush a bit. She released her from the loving hug and gently took her hand.

"Yes, We have to go to the others!"

"Of course!"

The two ladies ran off as they could hear the battle still going on ahead of them.

Black Spider ran forward as he used textbook kicks and punches against Batman. Though he simply dodged them, effortlessly.

Black Spider was about to pull out a knife and strike him across the face.

"Al Sidoria!"

But his movements slowed down considerably, he looked over and saw the culprit behind his predicament.

"Little bitch!"

Beatrice furrowed her brows at him, but then chuckled deviously a bit as she watched Batman unload a furious barrage of punches on him, his mask literally tearing off from the strikes and his face swelling up to a disgusting point.

Batman finished him off with a spinning crane kick to the back of his head. His body falling over with no grace whatsoever.

Batman landed nicely as Beatrice ran over and happily hugged him around the neck.

"Betty is amazed by your skills, I suppose! You truly were meant for me!"

"Um, thanks?"

Beatrice stepped down and got control over herself.

"Let us be going! We have to meet with the others, I suppose."

"Right!"

Batman took Beatrice's hand and the two of them raced off...not noticing the bright red face the little spirit had.

El Diablo blasted at Rem with his fiery powers but Rem jumped around it and fired some ice spears at him. He rolled away from the attack but didn't see the Morningstar that charged at him…

"Oh shit!"

It was a dark colored orb of death, covered in spikes...with yellow circles around it's spiked death spears.

He barely escaped the strike...but his shoulder was ripped to shreds. He launched a huge fireball at Rem...who summoned her horn and ran across the ceiling and jumped down behind him.

"The fu-"

He couldn't even finish as Rem let out a vicious roar and fired an ice spear through his head, killing him.

Ram then flew past her.

"Nee-sama!"

"Careful Rem!"

Parasite charged at the two sisters, he punched the ground, making them dodge the strike. He reached his hand out to grab Rem, Ram made it over and kicked his hand away. Then clenched her gloved hands and fired an attack at him.

"FULA!"

The wind strike sent him flying back and into a wall. He grumbled as he clutched his head in pain, not being able to block the hit from the Morningstar from Rem. Rem summoned more mana into her horn...this made Ram use her own horn.

The two sister focused as they held out their palms out at Parasite, who rushed at them. But even he could see something was not right...he saw the energy forming around was starved for energy, he wanted to consume that power...but he did feel fear from seeing it.

The two sisters at the same time smiled at him...making him want to run away.

"Al Fula."

"Al Huma."

A giant wind blade and a gigantic ice spear fired from them, the two attacks crashed into the fleeing Parasite's back. The destructive force sent him flying through many rooms and crashing through the walls, it arched upward making him smash through the entirety of the Cadmus building. He screamed as he was being torn apart by the attacks, until finally he was above the building, having been cut in half.

"N-Need...energy..or-"

Ram grabbed her wand, fired one last wind blade at Parasite, cutting his face in half. His corpse fell helplessly back down to earth.

The two sister nodded to each other, before taking each others hand and dashing off to regroup.

Subaru was hiding behind a desk as Captain Boomerang was looking around for him...Beatrice was holding onto Subaru's hand, aiming to kill Boomerang once he got close enough.

But Subaru tapped her shoulder, winked at her and let her know what he was planning by whispering to her. She was not happy about, but they both kept their voices low.

"Are you insane, I suppose?"

"Maybe, but I really want to take this guy out...they way he was looking at you all, really pissed me off you know?"

Beatrice seemed to be so surprised by his declaration, that her cheeks turned pink.

"O-Okay...then I'll help."

Subaru nodded happily, before reaching over and grabbing a lab coat.

He put it on and took a controlled breath.

"Seraphim Mimicry."

Boomerang was now, right at the desk, when he noticed someone behind it...hiding.

"Alright step on out! Nice and easy now…"

Emerging from behind the desk was a woman with long black hair and nasty looking cyan eyes, but she would be described as cute. She clung to her lab coat and was obviously afraid.

"Hey now, do ya work here love?"

"Y-Y-Yes! I was working on some brain scans when those guys with Batman attacked...I was soooo scared!"

Her voice sounded like a child's...one would say it sounded like a certain reddish brown haired maid the others knew.

"What's yo name?"

"Oh y-ye-yes! I'm Professor Natsumi Schwarz! P-Please get me out of here!"

Natsumi held onto Boomerang, making the man make a lewd face, as he did his best to hide his blushing expression.

"F-Fine, let's get you out of here."

"My hero…"

As Captain Boomerang was walking with her...he hadn't noticed her face making a mischievous grin. From her chest, emerged an Unseen Hand, it aimed carefully before making its target and striking him right in the face. Natsumi grabbed onto his shoulder and tossed him on top of the desk, making the thing break in two. Now enraged, he tossed a boomerang at her, it stabbed her shoulder. She winced in pain, but as Boomerang was grabbing another one, she formed a smile on her face.

"Revenge Counter!"

Boomerang dropped his weapon as his shoulder was now cut open, Natsumi then had her arm change into a very buff arm and she walloped him right in the face, knocking the guy out.

She let out a victorious roar as she threw her hand out in a pose.

"VICTORY!"

Quickly enough, her hair receded, her eyes changed color and her arm was back to normal...back to being Natsuki Subaru. His metal hand, his cybernetic eye and everything else back to normalcy.

Subaru was smiling awkwardly as he clenched his fists in excitement.

"I did it."

She grinned with such a powerful happiness, it would almost be infectious. He raised his arms up in the air and let out his excitement. Beatrice came up behind him and used her healing magic to take care of his wound.

"OH YEAH! I beat my first super villain!"

"Yes, yes, congratulations. Now let's hurry! The others might need our help, I Suppose!"

"Right, let's get to it Beako!"

Subaru took hold of his spirit, carrying like he would a bride,making her blush a bit.

"S-Subaru! Betty can walk on my own, just fine!"

"Sorry, but I'm just too energized to let things be like this! Let me carry you for a while my little princess!"

"...Betty sees she has no choice, I suppose."

Beatrice allowed him to continue carrying her, leaving the defeated supervillain behind, dreaming of the lovely lady he was able to meet.

Heretic was walking over to the beaten Vertigo. He tried to use his powers of disrupting balance, but Heretic found a way against it. He was able to use a form of drunken fist, to work around it. Thus, laying on the ground, with most of his teeth missing and his eyes swollen to the point of blindness.

"Damn you...to think I would be disgraced like...this!"

"You relied to much on your powers Vertigo...and besides, this Yin Magic I found out about was quite useful."

He spread his arms out as black smoke formed out of him, only to dissipate as he pulled out his sword. He pressed a button as the sword extended and flames swept around it.

"Now, go to hell and meet the people you've killed, Vertigo."

"...Damn you...DAMN YOU HERETIC!"

He was then stabbed in the back, the flames burned away his skin and shot out of his eyes and ears, nose and hair. He couldn't even scream, as the heat bursted his vocal cords...he was simply dead.

Removing his sword and deactivating it...he sheathed the blade and mused to himself.

"Magic...this'll be quite useful in the long run."

Stretching his muscles a bit...he made a mad dash forward, leaving the burning corpse of Vertigo where it lay.

Killer Frost fired blasts of ice at Emilia, as they continued in the completely frozen area around them. Frost was clearly doing her best to kill the girl, but she simply couldn't freeze her due to her contract with Puck. Puck floated around and fired tons of ice spears at her. But she was able to dodge them one by one, she flipped over to kick at Emilia, but formed an ice shield, blocking the strike.

Emilia then raised her arms up.

"Ice Brand Arts: Melody of Destruction."

Surrounding Frost, was an Iron Maiden made of Ice, she tried to get away, but it quickly closed in on her. The force of it closing on her, shattered it into nothing. Falling out of the ice was a bloody Frost, who screamed down at the girl.

"Stupid girl, I'm gonna fucking kill you!"

"Not my daughter you won't."

Puck was behind her and shot her down with an icicle shot, her body hit the ground with extreme force, making her whine in pain.

She flipped herself up, only to face Emilia head on, she tried to punch her away, then fired an ice blast. Only fro Emilia to get low and leap to her side.

She pulled out a silver dagger and stabbed her in the back.

"Fuck!"

Emilia focused as she grabbed onto the blade tightly.

"HUMA!"

A red ice sword shot out of Frost's body, she trembled for a bit, before she stopped moving altogether...then her arms and legs slumped over. Emilia took the blade out of her and watched as her body slid to the frozen ground.

Emilia cleaned her blade as Puck sat on her shoulder. She put the blade back in it's holder, but noticed that her clothes were ripped up pretty badly. She frowned a bit seeing it like this, but she calmly sighed as she peeked at Puck.

"I hope we can find some spare clothes soon."

"We should be fine in that regard, but for now let's hurry Lia."

"Got it!"

Emilia ran through the door, but turned around as she saw everyone was catching up.

"Everyone! Thank goodness you're all alright!"

Everyone was now huddled together, but everyone noticed that their clothes were either ruined, burned, torn up or just gone.

Frederica sighed loudly as she was in nothing but a buttoned up lab coat.

"This mission has been quite the arduous task."

"Forget it, we're almost there….wait...where's Deathstroke and Miracle-san?"

Ram brought up a good point though...that was until they could hear the noises up ahead. And see Black Manta charge straight at them.

"Any friends of Aquaman are certainly going to die!"

He fired a humongous beam from his helmet at them all, they dodged but the attack shattered the floor and completely eviscerated Frost's body.

Black Manta pulled out two blades and attempted to strike at Sarah, but he was hit in the chest by an Unseen Hand. Subaru rushed forward, only for him to fire a hook at him. It stabbed Subaru in the stomach, pulling him to the villain.

"Subaru-kun!"

"Subaru!"

Emilia and Rem panicked when they saw him being pulled towards Black Manta, but Subaru frowned at him...

"I'm ending all your lives today!"

"REVENGE COUNTER!"

"UGAHH!"

Black Manta now had the same stomach wound, making him flinch just enough for Emilia and Rem to make over to him, the two of them both having incredibly enraged faces.

"HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO SUBARU?!"

They both punched him, away. Batman cut the line, freeing Subaru from the hook. Garfiel grabbed a piece of the ground and slammed it down on Manta, but he fired his beam out, making him back off. Black Manta then jumped up and tried to retreat, but Heretic was now facing him with his flame sword. Black Manta blocked it with his twin swords, then he was able to knee him in the chest away from him and prime for a stabbing. Batman activated Al Mabakka on his son, saving him from an injury and breaking the blade into pieces. Black Manta turned his head and fired his eye beams again, but didn't see Beatrice use Murak to float around him and…

"SHAMAK!"

Black Manta found himself in a dark void...but he concentrated and broke through it. Only to find himself stabbed through the chest by an ice sword made by Emilia.

He screamed as he punched Emilia to the ground, before he was palm-thrust away by Batman, then he was struck in the face by the Morningstar, sending him flying back. He fired his eye beams again, but didn't see both Beatrices floating behind him.

"MINYA!"

Two pink spears shot into him through the neck and stomach.

"HAKKK! DAMN...FUCKING...BASTARDS-"

He fell back and the spears exploded, destroying his entire abdomen and breaking apart his helmet. He was now dead.

In the room up ahead, Deadshot had his rifle cut in two, but he was able to fire his wrist guns at Deathstroke. Mr. Miracle tried to go around him, but the assassin spun in the air as he fired more rounds at him, forcing him to dodge.

Deathstroke then punched at the assassin, who blocked it easily.

"Miracle! Go I'll handle this! Free the captives!"

"...Yes, right away!"

He dashed through the doors and made it to the holding cells. Deadshot chuckled at his opponent.

"Don't think you're surviving this Deathstroke, in the last six years, I've gotten better!"

Deadshot uppercutted him, then chopped his neck, stabbed him in the shoulder and then shot his leg with a wrist gun, all in rapid succession.

Deadshot then pulled out a pistol, but Deathstroke kicked it out of his hand and pulled out his sword, trying to strike him. Deadshot backflipped away while firing his guns. Deathstroke ran through the barrage of bullets, even allowing some of them to hit him. His right eye glowed red as he made it over to him...but he suddenly stopped his momentum, he jumped back and kicked the air before landing.

"The hell was that-"

Deadshot then saw both his arms get sliced off by something.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!"

"I've changed these past six years too, Lawton!"

Deathstroke charged forward and successfully stabbed him through the chest. The assassin gasped for air as he grabbed at the blade. Deathstroke stabbed him further…

"Now everyone will know. KNOW THAT I AM THE GREATEST ASSASSIN IN THE WORLD!"

"YOU SON OF A-"

Deathstroke used his free hand to fire a wind slice, upward at his head...his face sliced in two, the front half sliding off slowly before landing on the ground. Deathstroke kicked him off his sword, just to watch his body fall to the ground.

He wiped his blade clean and put it back to its spot.

"Now I really don't regret it."

Behind him, the others had arrived, having just defeated Black Manta.

"Well, took you guys long enough."

Batman then glanced over and saw Deadshot's corpse.

"So Lawtons…"

"Yeah, it couldn't be helped."

What Batman said next, sent chills down the Heretic's spine.

"I suppose there wasn't. Let's keep going."

As they ran off to meet with Mr. Miracle, Damian was watching his father's back...now even he wanted to know what happened to him these past six years.

Kadomon and his family were now free from their confines, but were on guard. Even though this Mr. Miracle got them out, they still didn't know he was, they simply couldn't trust him.

Plum held onto her father, her eyes closed shut. She was scared. Panicking. She called out to the ones she wanted to see. The ones who would obviously save them. She believed it. They all believed they would come. They had to.

Their heroes.

"And we have arrived!"

Plum's eyes shot open, tears still flooding them...but her precious smile returned as she saw them.

"They came!"

Natsuki Subaru.

Batman.

They had come to save them all.

The citizens cheered happily as they saw them rushing through the doors, men raised their fists, women cried happily and children were jumping with joy. Plum got off her dad and ran to them. Subaru was then jumped on by Plum, who cried into his chest.

"I-I knew you two would come."

Batman patted her head tenderly, easing her worries. Kadomon walked over with the others...they all bowed to them in as respectful manner as they could. Even Mr. Miracle was bowed to…

"Thank you for saving us. We'll never forget what you all did for us."

The citizens expressed their happiness at being rescued, but that was the way it was...it was the only true way to express it to the heroes who risked their lives to help. Saying that they would be indebted to them, would minimize how they felt.

Batman and Mr. Miracle eventually brought out more captives, and brought over the one they left behind, she was of course to see everyone else was safe. They all agreed that they rescued everyone...then they noticed it.

"Hey….the other Beatrice, the one who was with you, where is she?"

Batman looked around when Miracle asked him this, and even he could see she was nowhere to be found, and was another person.

"Where's Slade?"

Amanda was making her getaway as she loaded her pistol.

"I can't believe this! The entire Task Force taken out by a bunch of amateurs!"

She huffed and panted as she ran with all her might, she saw the secret doorway that would lead to-

"Leaving so soon?"

Her legs were suddenly sliced in half, making her fall on her face, breaking her nose and chipping some teeth.

Deathstroke emerged from the shadows, before flipping a switch. Behind him was the other Beatrice, and next to her were the higher ups of Cadmus; Mickey Cannon, Dubbliex and various others, all of them dead.

Beatrice walked over to her as slow as can be, her dark dress matching the hideous aura she had for the woman she was in front of her.

Waller aimed her gun at them, but Beatrice slowed her reaction down and fired a Minya spear at her hand, obliterating it. She screamed out in pain, and now Beatrice and Deathstroke were standing over her, even as she held onto her stump of an arm.

"You tried to kill us, to kill Betty's Batman, I suppose...I CANNOT FORGIVE YOU."

"Brat...hahhhhhh, hahhhhhh….you won't get away with this!"

"Betty does think that we will...afterall, who is going to avenge a sinner like you?"

"P-Plenty...of people…"

Beatrice aimed her palms out at her, mana swirling around her hand.

"If so, Betty will kill them too, I suppose."

She fired blast at her, creating a huge hole where her heart would be, it even made a hole behind her on the ground. Waller gasped for air, even as blood was leaking out her mouth, Deathstroke silenced her by impaling her face with his sword.

Her body now was free of motion, she just lay there.

Beatrice nodded and walked away.

"Let us be gone from here, I Suppose."

"Lead the way."

The two of them were teleported back...just as the secret door opened, for no one to enter.

Back with the others, Beatrice made up a lie for why they were gone.

"This one over had to go to the bathroom, so Betty was forced to keep watch, I suppose."

"Damn brat…"

Of course, Deathstroke hated how he was thrown under the bus.

With everyone gathered together, Batman used Al Ermac to open a tear in space back to the House of Mystery, leaving the destroyed Cadmus to fall apart.

Now back with the citizens, they could see the room was much more organized and...music was playing.

Emilia and Rem held Subaru as they didn't understand what they were hearing.

"S-Subaru, is this music?"

"Subaru-kun?"

Subaru chuckled seeing them so cautious, so he hugged them closely, making them blush.

"Yeah, it is. It seems this is-"

"-I recognize it Subaru, this is Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers. It's a good one."

Subaru made a wry smile at Batman's knowledgeable answer. The two ladies smiled as they hugged him back. Seeing him blush immensely made the two girls laugh bashfully.

Even Batman was hugged from behind by his fiance's, it would seem the song was making them feel romantic. Batman cleared his throat just as Fate and Constantine came into the room.

"Groovy, you got them back! Congrat mates!"

"I assume you wish to house them somewhere, very well...Follow us we shall provide you all with some housing for now."

The citizens were eased by a smiling Subaru, so they made their way to follow Dr. Fate, but before they all left Plum waved at them all and smiled brilliantly.

Soon, the citizens were taken to their rooms.

Subaru sat on the couch with Emilia, Rem and Beatrice. He sighed loudly as it was obvious he was beyond tired. But he was woken up as they listened to the next song which was Automatic by The Pointer Sisters, which seemed to be a song that they were enjoying.

Petra rushed through the doors with Patrasche and Otto not far behind. She sat on the couch as she was more than glad to see Subaru and the others back safe and sound.

"Did you have a good time while we were gone?"

"Yup, after cleaning up a bit, Constantine put on his music. It's amazing how there is so much music in this world, all of it so different!"

Subaru smiled, so Otto continued the conversation.

"So many musicians were able to listen to. Ummmm, let's see...there was Toto, Run DMC, Salt-N-Pepa, um what else...Neil Young and oh, Asia! I really liked those ones."

"Wow, you guys really had a calm event, even while we worked hard and everything. Nope, don't like it...gonna have to do something about it."

"That mischievous grin leaves me flustered you know!"

Following his actions, Emilia, Rem and Petra made the same smile, making the poor guy panic more. Everyone laughed at seeing this usual occurence.

Batman met with Dr. Fate outside the room as he let the rest of his friends continue listening to music. He looked back one last time as he saw everyone bopping their heads to Bust A Move by Young MC, he smirked at the sight.

Now in the hallway, Batman asked him how things were going with the others.

"Good news and bad new I'm afraid."

"Lay it on me."

Dr. Fate crossed his arms as he floated closer to Batman.

"We have found the Prime Subjects, and are currently getting them to safety. That's the good news."

"And the bad news?"

"...We are facing heavy resistance."

Those words were laced with a sense of dread, making even Batman realize the severity of the situation.

"EX NAMUS!"

A Natsuki Subaru in grey and orange knight uniform fired a beam at his opponents, the trees in front of him collapsed. Rem fired her ice spears at them, and from behind Captain Cold fired his gun. But he grabbed Subaru by the shoulder and motioned him back with his head.

"We need to fuck off outta here! NOW!"

"But we he'll still come after us!"

"Nah man, let's go…"

The trees were collapsing in front of them...making even Snart start to chatter his teeth in panic.

"Oh fuck me."

"Here he comes!"

Two red eyes shined viciously from the woods, Cyborg got his weapons ready as well, as he mused to himself angrily.

"Why did he have to come?! OF ALL THE PEOPLE, HIM?!"

"GROOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"

Blasting through the woods was an enemy no one there could even hope to beat.

A monster in every shape and form.

A walking disaster.

Death.

SOMETHING CALLED….DOOMSDAY.

The citizens of Lugnica have been saved, but now the battle to save the Prime Subjects has begun...and it is off to a disastrous start.