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ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Seventy Eight: Zero Hour

The rumbling of the engine, was what the ones inside of the Batmobile could hear as they looked out the windows. What graced them was a rocky terrain, like one would see near the mountains of Gusteko, but above them was what really caught their eyes.

It was a star filled sky with not a cloud in sight. Emilia looked to the east and saw the Pleiades Watchtower, on top a piece of floating earth, but it was quite far away.

"Shouldn't we send someone or a group to protect the tower."

"Well, I'm more worried that Shaula will just attack anyone that gets too close regardless."

"Oh, well that would be a problem wouldn't it?"

Rem looked forward and saw Subaru was with Patrasche racing forward as well. She smiled seeing taking the charge as he did.

"Subaru-kun really is brave."

"I know right? He's really taking his hero position seriously."

"Rem thinks seeing his parents did that for him."

Emilia grinned as she too agreed in that regard.

Batman kept driving when he got a message on his comm link.

"Subaru?"

"Yeah, how is everyone doing back there?"

"Fine, though I can hear Garfiel and Mimi being restless on the top."

"Hehe, as they should be. Pop on some tunes and they'll calm down."

"My Batmobile isn't some luxury ride, I don't have a radio system here nor a audio jack."

"...Poor Bruce, never taking in life with any pleasantries...what a pain."

Batman grimaced, especially when he could overhear Beatrice say the same thing. Then he got another message.

"Hey it's Deathstroke, I'm tossing Garfiel a boombox I found in this helicopter. He should calm down once he plays it."

"Who still has a boombox?"

"Just shut it already. Making me feel old here."

Garfiel caught the boombox as Deathstroke told him to push the red button.

"'Kay let's see then."

Once he did, the song "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due by Megadeth" began playing. Green Arrow looked back as he was driving the helicopter and raised a brow as Deathstroke seemed to be tapping his foot with the song.

"Don't see that too often."

Garfiel and Mimi banged their heads to it as well. Subaru and Beatrice could wince a bit…

"It is an appropriate song for the situation I guess."

"Still, it'll alert the enemy we're coming, I suppose! Shouldn't we use the element of surprise?"

"We would...if there weren't three bad versions of Bruce-san with them, they probably already know we're coming."

As he said that, he glanced up and was surprised to see a plethora of Green Lanterns flying through the air, next to them were yellow ones, red ones, pink ones, blue and purple ones as well. There was even a single orange one.

Rem was astonished by the sight.

"Bruce-san, what are they?"

"Lantern Corps. They police the sectors of space, each color represents a different Corps that works in their own unique way and use their own abilities. Green is for Willpower, Red is for Rage, Yellow is for Fear, Blue is for Hope, Pink is for Love, Purple is for Compassion and Orange is Avarice...so you can see why there's only one of them."

"Wow...um, is that the moon?"

Coming up the side was a planet, one with the symbol of the Green Lantern logo.

"Oh, that's Mogo. It's a sentient planet that is also a Green lantern."

Emilia and Rem were shell shocked to see a planet that was actually alive. Ram and Roswaal couldn't stop staring and had their mouths drop.

"This world is too much for us."

Garfiel and Mimi pointed at the planet with heightened excitement.

"Oh wow! Tha's freakin' cool!"

"Cool! Cool! A world that can fight!"

Subaru and Beatrice stared at Mogo with an astonished expression.

"Batman-san's world keeps on suprising the hell out of me! Almost feel drained."

"Truly, Betty thinks that this world is beyond fascinating, I suppose!"

A Star Sapphire flew down next to the Batmobile and looked inside it, Ram and Roswaal were amazed by the fact that she was flying effortlessly, with no mana usage.

Ram was a little concerned.

"Bruce-san, why is this one getting close to us?"

"She must sense extreme amount of love in here. Most likely she wants to convert that very person."

Ram looked over and made a quite sour look to the Lantern, scaring her away from them.

"Just because there is love here, doesn't mean she should get close...though I wonder who she was looking for?"

Rem put on a smug face of victory, making Emilia pout.

Wilhelm rode forward on his own Ground Dragon when he saw Black Adam flying next to him.

"Do you have any issues Adam-dono?"

"None that would concern me."

"I am told that you have powers derived from gods, that will be an immense help in this battle."

"For all we know just me and Superman can take on the entire Society by ourselves."

"I really wish we could just do that...but I am still a warrior and I must help avenge the lives lost due to the Society's vile actions."

"Hmmm, you are indeed a proud man Wilhelm. If we had met before I would have easily had you as a general in my military."

"The offer is gracious, but I am in servitude to Crusch-sama. So I must act to my loyalty."

"Good, a fine vassal you are Wilhelm. May the gods bring you favor in the battle."

Black Adam jetted forward, catching up with several other heroes, leaving Wilhelm to focus forward.

Blue Beetle kept flying through the air when he flew down next to Julius.

"You guys doing alright here?"

"Yes, though this experience is quite, overwhelming."

"Ha, I guess you have a point. Never thought crazy stuff like this would happen huh?"

"No none at all. This entire ordeal easily flies over all of our heads. The idea of countless worlds, super-heroes, and the concept of us being in space like this. If one were to say these things before, they would think them mad."

Blue Beetle nodded.

"Sure, like if I told you my suit is actually a sentient alien weapon that makes whatever weapon is needed you'd probably call me loco right?"

"Of course...you're not joking are you?"

"Haha, you got a lot to learn in this world, Señor Juukulius."

Julius chuckled at this as he whipped the reins for his dragon to speed up.

Black Canary sat down next to the Teen Titan members that were sitting in the helicopter with them.

"You doin' okay everyone?"

Starfire herself nodded, but glanced over at Deathstroke who was still enjoying the music being played.

"I just...don't understand is all."

"What exactly?"

"Slade...he was one of the most dastardly people I ever knew. I could never bring myself to trust a man so intent on money...and yet, there he is, helping us in this fight with no monetary gain and being part of a group that seems to trust him. I just can't understand it."

"I hear he did a lot of changing over in the other world, they all did."

"Maybe...I should change too."

"Do whatever you feel is best Star."

Black Canary got up and passed by the window, looking out at the vast landscape around them.

Supergirl was flying through the air when she decided to speak with the orange haired girl who was sitting in the Justice Leagues Jet.

"So tell me, how did you get in there?"

"Luck smiled upon me and let it be so, just as it should be."

"Uh, okay. Not a clear answer."

"Tell me something, Supergirl...how do you achieve such feats without using magic?"

"Oh I'm Kryptonian, so being showered in sunlight from a yellow sun let's me do this."

She seemed even more curious by a certain word she said.

"Kryptonian?"

"Yeah, I was originally from a world called Krypton...it's gone now. Only me, Superman and General Zod survived."

"I see...I do apologize about your cumbersome situation, but I am simply marveled by you."

"Uh, thanks?"

"When this is over why not join me? We can make the world a simply marvelous place as I take up my position as King of Lugnica."

"Thanks, but I got a duty of protecting, not serving sister."

"Hmph. Well I tried! Thank you for the exciting story, you can go if you wish."

"In a moment...I want to learn more about your world, if you would?"

Priscilla, winked at her, giving her the glory of hearing more about the other world from the Royal Candidate.

The army continued forward, but everyone noticed it.

It was quiet.

It was peaceful.

No one was attacking them.

Crusch ordered everyone to keep their guards up.

Subaru glanced up again...he saw the stars shining brightly above them. Then he noticed a lot of them seemed to sparkle...then got bigger...almost like-

"OH SHIT! MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!"

They weren't stars, they were beams falling right towards them.

The beams descended down as they pulverized the very ground they hit, Patrasche did her best outmaneuvering of the blasts, one almost did get them, sending them up into the air a bit, however the proud Ground Dragon landed her feet and kept running. The blasts kept raining down, the Batmobile skidding on the dirt as it narrowly dodged a blast. Blue Beetle zipped around several of them, while Superman shot some out of the sky with his heat vision. Supergirl shot at some as well as she protected the jet from oncoming beams.

Crusch held fast to her reins as the beams continued. She looked to her side and saw an unlucky rider get blasted apart along with his dragon, blood and tissue strewn across Crusch's face. She even shook her head to shake off a piece of the man's scalp of her shoulder.

More and more several knights were eviscerated by the beams, even a few humvees were completely destroyed by the blasts, sending burning bodies high into the sky. Subaru then saw a beam head straight towards them.

"E.M.M.!"

Activating his spell, he ordered Patrasche to stop, when she did the beam bounced them and destroyed a nearby boulder instead.

Now, they saw that the barrage of attacks were over.

Crusch turned to look at the horrid scene of death and destruction behind her. Bodies lay about...jaws, eyes and intestines strewn across the rocky field. And fire was high in the air, it's smoke flying high into the air.

The Batmobile opened up it's top and Batman focused, so did the Kararagian Batman, they aimed their palms in the direction where the blasts came from, over a valley that was ahead of them.

"YANG SPELL: DESCENDING JUSTICE!"

Both men yelled this out as they fired huge balls of magic in an arching position. The other heroes were shocked to see it. Superman voicing everyone's amazement.

"Bruce is...using magic?"

Once the yang orbs were over a certain altitude...they erupted and sent beams raining down from the sky. Littering the valley ahead of them in a barrage of destruction. Once it was done, there was nothing but clouds of debris. Crusch unsheathed her sword as she raised it into the air.

"Everyone hold fast!"

There was an uneasy stillness as everyone was waiting to see what was going to happen next.

Suddenly, from the cloud a Shadow Demon flew out straight at Subaru, it's hand reached out to him, but Beatrice blasted it apart with Minya.

Then another one appeared out of nowhere. Only for it be blasted apart by a heat beam by Superman.

Then a vast army of them sprang out of the destroyed valley, right at the Alliance.

"CHAAAAARGE!"

Crusch and Wonder Woman bellowed this out as the two armies charging at each other. The two sides finally clashing together.

Maybe it was appropriate then, that the boombox that fell to the ground earlier, was still working...playing "Tusk by Fleetwood Mac", as if it reign in the battle ahead of them.

Subaru could aquate what he was seeing, as something spoken of in religious texts, the end of days.

From a top of the valley's hills emerged the Apocatastasis Society. Warlock Batman glanced back at Pandora who slowly walked over to him. She gently brushed her hand over his own.

"I believe your time to prove yourself has come."

"Undoubtedly, even if you're not the Pandora from my world...but you still are her."

"What a creative way of understanding…"

She stepped on her tippie toes and spoke softly to him as she rubbed her hands delicately on his chest.

"Win."

"Yes."

Subaru furrowed his brows at them.

"Apocatastasis Society…"

Warlock Batman flew forward, with many of the other members not far behind. Just then, Batman pushed some buttons on his dashboard and the Batmobile sprung up several weapons and fired bullets, missiles and cannons. Many of them missed Warlock Batman, but took care of several Shadow Demons. Everyone minus Batman exited out of the Batmobile and clashed with several Witch Cultists. Garfiel kicking one away as Mimi hit one over the head with her staff. Roswaal and Ram used there magic to destroy more of them, but soon came face to face with Shadow Demons. They were now all locked into battle.

"Hmph!"

Guy Gardner and B'wana Beast made their charge at him. Guy made several swords with his ring, but it was ineffective as he simply dodged it, with ease. B'wana tried to wrap his arms around his neck, only for Warlock Batman to absolutely crush his head with palm thrust.

"You bastard!"

Guy formed a baseball bat and formed chains around him, he easily broke through it and when Guy had the bat to the side of his head...he activated his Speedforce mode and was now behind him. He fired his yang beam out of his finger which shot through his neck. As Guy gasped for air he was punched through the chest.

"I never liked you Gardner."

He removed his hand and allowed Guy's body to slump over to the ground. His ring flying out of his hand.

The other Society members made it to the battlefield and were doing their utmost to kill many adversaries.

Julius used his spirits to block a strike from Justice Enforcer Ram, but almost was blindsided by the Justice Enforcer Rem, who had the Justice Buster's fist careening towards him. The hit was blocked by Halibel. He then spun in the air and tried to kick down the suit, but used it's other arm to block the hit, sending a small shockwave into the air. Warlock Batman then fired several beams of light around himself, destroying much of the battlefield around them. He then made it around and could see his next target...Pamela Isley. But to his annoyance, Julius and Halible charged at him from the cloud of debris.

"Tsk! Worthless…"

Deathstroke was mowing through several Shadow Demons and a Witch Cultist when he saw in the corner of his eye Vigilante and The Wonder Twins sliced to ribbons by the one person he was looking for.

"Okay, there he is."

Deathstroke dodged an explosion and leapt over the corpse of the Crimson Avenger before getting his sword ready and trading strikes with the man in question.

"I had a feeling I'd run into you."

"We do think alike."

Deathstroke was now fighting himself.

He fired at the other version of himself with some assault rifles he had stolen from Cadmus, but of course he was leaping away easily.

He also noticed how his costume was different, including the symbol on his chest.

"So you're a dog to the Witch's Cult?"

"Fuck off, I had to. Otherwise Batman and his fucking Sin Archbishops would've had me killed a long time ago!"

They exchanged a few punches as they continued their conversation.

"So what do you do in their cult?"

"I kill people. Easy right?!"

He tried kicking a windblade at him, but Deathstroke saw this and kicked his own, the two strikes clashed together as the impact caused the very ground to shake and dirt go flying.

They charged at each other once again.

"Are you at least a Sin Archbishop?!"

"Yup, I'm Pride."

"Heh, how APPROPRIATE!"

The two had their swords clash once again, sending sparks flying. Deathstroke headbutted him before Pride jumped back and tossed a knife at him, when he dodged it, he found himself jabbed twice by the electrical staff. Pride fired the electric bolt at him, but he twisted himself, saving himself from the strike. He literally slid across the ground and leered up at him. Pride then slammed the staff onto the ground and balanced himself while holding onto it, kicking around several times.

"Shit!"

Countless wind blades were shot out at random tearing up the battlefield, everyone took some measure to dodge or slip away from it.

Deathstroke carefully aimed his wrist...firing his newly acquired Wrist Guns which he pilfered from Deadshot.

Pride spun his staff and used Wind Magic to send the bullets flying away. From behind himself Dolphin tried to sneak up on him, but he used Chakram Destruction to slice her into several pieces. Deathstroke saw his chance and activated his special move.

"Sword Art: God Killing Severance."

His sword was covered in the wind and he charged forward. Pride saw this and did the same technique...but also grabbed a burlap sack from his back pocket. He tossed it and Deathstroke simply jumped over it..

"Wind Spell: Eviscerating Gifts"

The sack suddenly expanded and exploded sending pieces of metal, knives and glass everywhere. Deathstroke realized he stuffed the bag with those dangerous items then used Wind Magic to cause it to inflate like a balloon and pop.

A magical grenade.

Perfect for killing people from afar.

"Augh!"

Deathstroke was now covered in wounds, but saw that Pride was now above him, so he readied his sword and the two swords clashed.

The resulting attack sent a wind slice that actually cut several Shadow Demons in half and even a nearby hill was destroyed. When Deathstroke looked up he saw that his sword began to crack.

"Fuck."

"There isn't room for more than one Deathstroke! Time to end this little fight!"

Pride kicked him to the ground, hurting his body more than normal.

Deathstroke quickly got back up, but saw his other version raging down towards him. He fired Chakram Destruction at him, but he was dodging them with no problem.

He tried to slice his head off, but dodged...only for him to spin his body and successfully slice off his right arm.

"ERGH!"

Pride then stabbed through Deathstroke's stomach and narrowed his glowing red eye at him...then Deathstroke pulled from his back something that made even this other Deathstroke twinge in fear.

"Oh fuck."

"Pissing your pants now?"

He pulled out the God Killer and with one simple slash, cut off Pride's arms. He didn't panic however and actually landed a kick on his head. Before the God Killer extended it's blade and stabbed through his neck.

"Aughhhh...forgot abou….that sword.."

"You've been a slave to that Cult for too long. It fucked you up in more ways than you realzied. Me on the other hand?"

He pulled the blade out, before spinning around and the sword changed to the size of a hunting blade.

"I GOT BETTER."

He quickly sliced off the Sin Archbishop of Pride's head clean off.

Now there was truly one Deathstroke.

Deathstroke, the Greatest Assassin in the World.

Crusch launched a Sword Strike at Owlman who not only dodged but was mowing through Red and Yellow Lanterns. He finally made it over, only to see Wilhelm try and strike him down...he did a spin in the air and kicked his face. He jumped back up, with his face now covered in blood. Ferris made it over to Crusch, only to see Owlman fire his plasma gun at them…

"Crusch-sama!"

Wilhelm tried to run to them and Ferris put himself in front of her. Then they found themselves next to Wilhelm. They looked around and finally saw who saved them.

"Flash-dono!"

"You guys okay?"

Flash gave them a concerned look before looking in front at a simply annoyed Owlman. He then pressed a button on his wrist and out came his Owl-Wing. It flew over the intense battlefield as it launched something behind him, before it could fly towards them and attack further it was blasted apart by several Red Lanterns, making Owlman snarl at them. Emerging from the crater was a giant machine, stainless chrome steel made up it's body and it had vicious green eyes. Owlman chuckled to himself as he jumped back and entered into it's back.

"Thaaaaat doesn't look good."

The Injustice Buster sprang to life and began attacking them. Flash dodged but suddenly slipped on something and crashed into a nearby hill.

"Flash-dono!"

He shook his head as he got up and looked at the device that was on the floor that seemed to make him slip. Still even as he got up, the crash left him battered and bruised. Wilhelm charged but was easily slapped back onto a nearby hill. Crusch fired another Sword Strike but it only pushed the suit back some. It then charged at them as it's knuckles began to glow lime green.

Crusch narrowed her eyes as she roared at the oncoming attack-

"SHAZAM!"

A lighting bolt fell from the sky and slammed the suit down to the ground. From the sky came Black Adam charging down at the suit. The suit then fired green heat vision beams which knocked him out of the sky. However he just got back up with his clothes singed and a bloody nose, though now he was mad.

From behind Static raced forward on his disc and fired countless volts of electricity at him.

"Got room for one more dance partner? Can't be putting me in the corner."

"Ergh."

The suit spun around and slammed Static to the ground, raining it's fists to slam down on him, but Black Adam punched him away.

"Do not turn your back to me, fool!"

The two began exchanging punches with each other, as Crusch and Ferris ran to check on Static as he stood back up rubbing his head.

"Are you well?"

"Yeah. yeah. You'd be surprised how a good blow to the head clears things up."

"If you're joking that means you're fine. We need to concentrate on defeating OWlman."

"Yeah, but we need a plan!"

Flash then appeared next to them fixing himself.

"Yeah, and I think I got one...but I need you all to distract him for a bit."

"Hey, being an annoyance to bad guys, is like, my second superpower."

Static charged at him, with Wilhelm not far behind. Flash nodded as he concentrated with all might as he began shuffling himself…

Black Adam now had his costume torn up as he continued trading blows with each other. He tried to grab him and toss him into the air, but Injustice Buster fired another beam from his eyes blasting him in the face and then using a haymaker to slam him into the ground.

"Where are your gods now?!"

He haymakered him again and again, crushing the very ground underneath them. Before Wilhelm actually sliced at the back of the suit. This got the suit's attention.

"SHAZAM!"

A lightning bolt hit him from above and Black Adam took the chance to uppercut him off. Then Static fired more electric shots at him, forcing the suit to actually fire a sound based weapon at him, causing Static to flop off his disc and next to Black Adam. They both scrunched over...before Crusch fired another Sword Strike at him, causing him to stop…

"Hey Adam, let's give this guy one hell of a charge!"

"Very well, let him feel the might of thunder!"

The two of them fired a massive charge of electricity at him, causing him to put up a plasma shield, the stray electrical sparks broke apart the battlefield, sending some combatants to dodge.

Then Crusch proudly looked back at an increasingly vibrating Flash.

"NOW!"

"Here goes!"

Flash at super speed made it past Crusch and was now next to the suit...then he used his rapid vibrations to make his molecules pass through the suit and into the riding system. There he grabbed a hold of Owlman and began pummeling him with superfast punches. Owlman's mask and suit was broken apart. Then the suit opened and out came out Flash who had punched Owlman right out. When he got up, Crusch flinched when he saw a man who looked exaclty like Bruce Wayne standing there with his face bloodied...only with bags under his eyes and longer hair.

Flash punched him across the jaw, only for Owlman to make his gloved fingers sharpen and he sliced at Flash's chest. He then tackled him and pulled out his Plasma Gun...only for it to be sliced in half by Crusch's Sword Strike. He glared over at her, but then saw that his suit was torn to pieces by Black Adam. He jumped back to make a tactical retreat.

"Too slow."

He was then stabbed in the abdomen from behind by Wilhelm. Wilhelm then spun around and grabbed another sword and sliced his back open. Owlman roared wildly as he spun as well and used his talons to slice away half of Wilhelm's face off. Wilhelm seemed undeterred by the sheer pain, and used his sword to try and stab him again, only for Owlman to push the blade away and chop him to the ground...then as he was about to use ninjitsu to disappear...he was suddenly sliced in half.

Crusch used her Hundred Man Sword Strike on him.

He looked over at them with an enraged expression as blood poured out of his mouth...then he put on a defiant smile.

"Y-You...will...never...b-beat-"

His top half hit the ground, making his intestines spill out.

Wilhelm was helped up by Flash as Black Adam tossed away the destroyed suit.

Crsuch breathed a sigh of relief, but Flash looked down at the body of Owlman and made a concerned expression.

"D-Did we have to kill him?"

"Flash-dono, we have no choice in the matter. I know you have the same code of honor as Bruce-dono, but right now we have to defend ourselves."

"Next time, I'll make sure we don't have to resort to this."

Just then, as Crusch and Ferris were running to them a group of Witch Cultists were charging at them...only for them to be mowed down by bullets. From the distance they saw Deathstroke firing an assault rifle with one hand as he carefully had his detached arm in his armpit. He then hurried over and met with them.

"Cat-boy, help me out here."

"Okay, Ferri-chan has a lot of work to do."

"Then get to it...this battle is only getting more intense-"

At that moment a Blue Lantern's corpse fell out of the sky and landed nearby.

"See? We don't have a lot of time."

The group looked around and saw that the war was getting more and more vicious.

Subaru and Beatrice were riding through the vicious barrage of explosions and beams. Subaru was even able to grab some Batarangs given to him by Batman tossed them at a Witch Cultist knocking him to the ground. Suddenly a large robot that resembled Batman landed in front of them with the corpses of Arrowette and Artemis of Bana-Mighdall in each hand. It tossed them away before it aimed a punch at Subaru.

"Minya!"

Beatrice fired a spear of light at it, knocking it away for a moment. Then it got back up and began chasing them down. Subaru looked back and took a deep breath as he shot an Unseen Hand behind himself, actually using Patrasche's Divine Protection as an advantage as it sped up and slammed the robot across the face. Then Patrasche did a sharp turn as Beatrice fired another spear at it, damaging it's head. Rem came out from behind some boulders and slammed her Morningstar at it's head, then aimed her palm at him.

"AL HUMA!"

A gigantic ice glacier shot out and crashed the machine into the ground and sent rocks and dirt flying high into the air.

Rem ran over and smiled up at them.

"Subaru-kun!"

"Way to go Rem! You did awesome!"

"Rem likes it when you praise-"

Then they heard a commotion as they saw the machine walk over to them, it's mechanical eyes blinking in and out. Sparks flew were parts of it's ouier armor fell apart...but it was still moving. Rem got in front of them, even as Patrasche roared at the robot to get away. The machine kept moving and was-

"WHOA!"

It was blasted apart by beams from the sky. Dr. Fate flew down to inspect them.

"You are alright?"

"Yeah, thanks for the save Fate!"

"Do not celebrate just yet Natsuki Subaru...we have company."

Behind them, something humongous and growling landed right behind them. It's red eyes shined like orbs of pure hate.

"Oh shit…"

"My sentiments exactly."

Doomsday walked out of the crate he just made, covered in the blood of countless heroes and Lanterns he had just finished killing...with every intention of doing the same to them.

Superman was zooming through the air as he punched his way through countless Shadow Demons before coming face to face with Enchantress who was firing magical attacks from the sky.

"June! This has to stop! Look around you, all this fighting isn't going to save anyone!"

She fired some magic beams at him, but he flew around them.

"I have to! If I don't our world could be erased like all the others."

"If you asked us for help, we could've prevented this!"

"No...if I didn't join…"

She stopped firing her blasts and gazed around, specifically to the ground below and seeing the devastation.

"Oh...what have I done…?"

"It's not too late. We can help you and save the world, together."

Superman was now floating in front of her and reached his hand out to her. She hesitated at first, but took a small breath as she too reached out.

The Master Swordsman Batman stabbed through her with his Dragon Sword.

"AUGHHK!"

"Filthy traitor. I knew it was a mistake letting you into the team."

Superman's eyes widened as he saw the light in her eyes fade.

"JUNE!"

"Hk...Save...th-"

She bursted into blue light as Batman pushed through her ashes and clashed with Superman.

"HOW COULD YOU BRUCE?!"

"She was an inevitable liability for us, don't worry Clark, there will be others to exterminate too."

Superman swung a punch at him, but he quickly dodged and slammed him to the ground with his sword. When Superman crashed into the ground Reinhard ran straight to him.

"Superman!"

"It's alright, I'm fine Reinhard."

He looked up and saw Master Swordsman Batman cutting away several Yellow and Pink Lanterns and even crushing the head of the Green Lantern G'Nort in his hand. Superman could only recoil in disgust.

"What happened to you…?"

Just then, someone appeared behind them, the two men narrowed their eyes at the oddly dressed man.

"Haahhhhh, what's with those angered looks, dealing with them is just an eyesore...sooooo troublesome."

"I can assume you are with them?"

"In a waaaay, but I stick foooor myself."

Superman's eyes shined red as he glared at the man.

"And you are?"

"I am the Warlock of Tristitia, Hector is myyyyyy name."

Hector walked laxed to them, his eyes heavy as if he was bored with their encounter.

Emilia was charging forward alongside Garfiel and Mimi, when they were stopped by someone dressed like how Fortuna would in the past, but with a strange white helmet.

"Get out of the way, or else!"

"Yeh, unless ya wan' a trashin' ass kickin' tha' is!"

The girl removed her helmet and tossed it to the ground. Everyone's eyes widened and they simply stared in utter shock. The girl let out a familiar, but raspy voice.

"You...will not...stand in Batman-sama's way."

Standing in front of them...was Emilia, only older and with a buzzed haircut.

A single burn mark ran below her right eye and down her cheek.

"Oh my god...you are me…"

"No, you are a mistake…"

Ice spears formed around her as he smiled deviously at them.

"A mistake I am about to fix."

Justice Commander Garfiel noticed Black Canary taking a deep breath and readied himself. She then unleashed her Canary Cry, making him guard himself. He then kept stepping forward as he got closer and closer to her. Then she stopped and was hit on the side by an explosive arrow.

"Sorry I'm late honey."

"Took a bit longer than I expected."

Garfiel quickly made it over to them and punched the ground...but as they jumped out of the way he did full capoeira kick and hit the both of them. He then kicked off the ground...and punched Black Canary through the stomach. Oliver Queen's spirit fell into despair by the sight.

"DINAH!"

Green Arrow fired every arrow he could think but he just couldn't get the guy to move.

"GET AWAY FROM HER YOU SON OF A BITCH!"

He fired another arrow...but Garfiel caught it and used his strength to toss it back at him, causing the explosion to make Green Arrow fly back. Garfiel tossed away Black Canary and glared at Green Arrow, only to see two arrows fired at him, but even he was surprised to see them have a white stream of electricity for between them, he was caught off guard when the electric stream wrapped around him several times before the points of the two arrows collided and they released a huge white dome of light, sending debris high into the air.

Green Arrow hurried over and grabbed Dina.

"Hang on honey, I'll get you to one of them healers okay!?"

"O...okay…"

"Just stick with me-"

He was then punched through the chest by Garfiel, while his army was badly damaged, he was only bruised a bit by the explosion. Green Arrow couldn't know about the man's Divine Protection or how it saved him.

"D-Dinah...I…"

"Oll...ie…?"

"...We...jus…"

Green Arrow and Black Canary died right then and there in each other's embrace.

Garfiel looked around as he dusted himself off...ready to kill more people.

Batman got a call on his comm link as he continued driving the Batmobile around and firing his weapons on the Shadow Demons.

"Batman! It's Supergirl! Come in!"

"What is it?"

"I'm looking at that tower you guys are trying to protect...something's happening."

Batman turned the wheel so he could get a better look...and low and behold, there was smoke rising near the tower.

"But...who?"

At the base of the tower, countless men charged forward as several Dragon Carriages were as well and actually firing magical beams at the the Watchtower. Spears of light rained down and killed many of them, but some made it through. Leading the charge was Crusch Karsten...a sickening smile on her face.

"Hurry! While the others are fighting, take the tower!"

Finally, they made it and bursted down one of the walls.

Inside Meilia and Shaula were upstairs hearing the commotion.

"Meili are you ready?!"

"Yeah!"

Meili whistled and out emerged several Juggernaut Wolgarm as they roared defiantly.

"We're gonna chase them outta here in no time!"

"Yup and we can't let these people get away with this…"

For just a second, Shaula shivered and spun her head quickly. Looking around for something.

"What's wrong?"

"N-Nothing, let's go."

But as they charged forward, Shaula couldn't help but shake away her previous feelings.

"I-It felt like...someone was trying to grab me."

Unbeknownst to her, slowly emerging from the white floor was a single Unseen Hand.

Back in the House of Mystery, Frederica was tapping her foot as she waited anxiously for everyone to return, still looking out the window.

"Frederica onee-sama, you okay?"

"Oh, just fine...just waiting for them to return is all."

Petra held hands with her. She was quite cheerful as she was finally given her own clothes, a cute white shirt with blue jeans and a tan coat. But even she was evidently worried about it all.

"It is nerve wracking to think about them going off to fight, but I think they'll be okay."

"...Yes, when Bruce and Subaru-sama are together, nothing is impossible for them."

"Right?"

The two girls grinned happily as they went back to the main room to check on everyone.

Runaway Subaru was sitting in the kitchen table while he tapped a spoon.

"How can I deal with this...even when this is all over, we'll go back home and everyone will be pissed at me."

He tried his best to collect his thoughts, but his mind was wandering through many places. Thinking of Emilia, Rem, Puck, Ram and Ferris. And all the faces they made to him in the past...now replaced with the faces they made to him the previous day.

He was quite depressed with this...but it was when he watched the other version of himself leave with the other heroes through the portal to battle the Apocatastasis Society, he knew what he had to do.

"I can't stay like this."

Subaru shook his head and smacked both of his cheeks, he got up from the table and looked out to the hallway.

"I have to change, I can't keep running from this, not from them not anymore. I need to make amends, set things straight. Even if they still don't forgive me, at least I can say I tried my damndest."

Subaru made the resolve to be brave and actually face the mistakes of his past. So he walked down the halls, so that he could speak to everyone he hurt. He was going to start over.

From the other room Subaru was speaking with Echidna.

"How much longer do you think we should wait?"

"At maximum, ten minutes, in the least five. What do you think, Subaru?"

She spoke soft things into his ears as he rubbed the gem on his necklace...he glanced at the bed next to him and saw the Rem of his world, still slumbering away. He gently caressed her blue hair and closed his eyes...thinking to himself as to what was a t stake.

"Five minutes."

"So at four o'clock then?"

"That's right, that'll be our zero hour."

Subaru opened his eyes...devoid of any light...as it reflected Rem's sleeping figure.

"I'll save you Rem, no matter what the cost."

The war was raging on, even as the dead piled up, neither side was backing down...unclear to our heroes however, was the fact that insidious intentions were forming in the distance, outside of their grasp.