You came to me
In a Dream last night
You were standing
In a brilliant light
One minute here
But the next you were gone
I thought you could stay
But I was so wrong
The End is here
The game is over
No more pretending
No more, NO MORE
The End is here
The End is here
The End is here
THE END IS HERE
THE END IS HERE
My name is Xander Harris. I'm twenty-two, work in construction, and for the last seven years I've been helping to try and save the world a little bit. Seeing as how I'm witnessing the Apocalypse, I've done a shitty job. As I sit here cradling the woman I love and watching the sky lit up by such a gigantic fight, I'm afraid. I'm afraid that everyone and everything I know is about to end. I'm afraid for Anya. She's bleeding, burned, and crying.
"X-Xander…. I'm scared." Anya cries to me. I run my hand through her hair, now dyed back to blonde, and kiss her forehead.
"I am too An. I am too. But it'll be okay. We always pull through. We'll win this." I say, lying through my teeth. And she can see it. I know she can. But she doesn't say anything about it. She just looks at me with those eyes, those eyes I can't resist and says…
"I love you Xander."
"I love you too Anya." I say holding her close and kissing her as my tears of fear start to fall. Where did it all go wrong? It must have been Saturday. Yeah, I know it was because we were watching cartoons and…
"That Road Runner pisses me off." Xander sighs as he switches the channel from bed.
"Well he is pretentious, but if the Coyote was really so hungry he'd use all that money he spends on trying to kill the Road Runner and just order a pizza." Anya says, running a hand over Xander's chest.
"Yeah you're probably right." Xander said as he suppressed a yawn.
"Not that I don't root for the Coyote, I mean yay capitalism and all. But he just needs to use common sense. And a gun. A big friggin gun to blow that damned bird's head off." Anya pouted.
Xander smiled at her. The last few days had been good. Since nearly being killed by Caleb, sex was happening again. Good, hot, sweaty sex. With Anya. Maybe things weren't too bad. Yeah the break up had been rough and there were various shouts and attempts made on the lives of others, but it was all good now, because sex was back. And so was the love. Xander moved into kiss Anya, when she bolted straight up and they bumped heads.
"OW!" They said in unison. Anya then started turning up the volume as she rubbed her head.
"An what is it?" Xander asked.
"Shhh, listen!" Anya pointed. Xander looked at the TV screen and went full Keanu.
"Whoa." He said.
Scenes of devastation filled the screen. Buildings were wrecked; fires raged, people were being rushed to the hospital. A news reporter came on the screen.
"This is Cat Grant reporting for WGBS. Thirty minutes ago tragedy struck Honolulu, Hawaii. Eyewitnesses, what few remain, claim that a massive earthquake struck, followed by an ear splitting screech that I'm told is now being played over the television."
A horrible screeching sound filled the speakers of Xander's TV and forced he and Anya to cover their ears.
"Immediately after, bolts of what can only be described as plasma began raining down upon the city and other surrounding islands. NASA even reports that some "plasma" bursts have hit as far away as Japan, Washington state, and Mexico. Authorities believe that-OH MY GOD!" the news woman said, "GET A VISUAL! GET A VISUAL!"
The camera panned to the skies were intensely bright blasts looked to be scattering into the sky before their trajectory changed, and spiraled downwards towards the already ruined city. One in particular was headed straight for Cat and her cameraman.
"OH GOD! OH GOD! OH GOD!" Cat exclaimed as the bolt neared her. Seconds later an intense light lit up the picture on the television. And soon the flash faded and the screen returned to normal.
Cat had survived! Xander smirked as he saw what had saved her and her cameraman. A giant green, wall, which was on closer examination a giant Catcher's mitt.
"Green Lantern." Xander laughed out loud.
"J'onn I want the team in constant communication. Telepathic uplink on" Superman said covering the distance from California to Hawaii in about 3 seconds.
"Understood." J'onn, more commonly known as the Martian Manhunter replied mentally with a deep, calm, voice.
"Justice League Role Call." Superman thought aloud as he slammed through another plasma blast, dispersing it.
"Martian Manhunter here." J'onn replied.
"Green Lantern on the scene Supes. What took ya?" Green Lantern's voice entered Superman's head.
"Traffic." Superman thought back, smirking.
"Tell me about it. Oh yeah, Flash here." The Flash thought as the fastest man alive zipped around clearing people away from the blasts as they came down.
Superman caught two more figures with his telescopic eyesight. One was deflecting a blast with their wrists and the other was sending out blasts of his own.
"Wonder Woman present." The Amazon said, deflecting the blast.
"Son Goku here." The alien warrior said as he deftly cut a blast in half with his own.
"Alright. I just got done talking to Batman. He's monitoring the situation and in fluxing aid from his fortune to help out. Plastic Man and Aquaman are on reserve. Okay people, let's do this. J'onn, mental scan stat. See what's behind this and don't get too close. Those blasts are akin enough to fire to hurt you. The rest of us will take care of them. Kyle, domes now." Superman said mentally.
"You got it Supes." Green Lantern said as he covered Honolulu in a giant green energy dome.
"Mental scan complete. Look at the volcano." Martian Manhunter replied to Superman. Superman focused his eyes and saw the large spikey object on the mountain some miles away.
"Broadcast this to the others. I want them to see what we're up against." Superman ordered. J'onn complied and instantly the Justice League saw the object on the mountain. It was huge, crustacean like and had a large, spiked shell. One hideous cyclopean eye peaked out from beneath it.
"Whoa, hedgehog of death." Green Lantern joked.
"Thing's kaiju sized. What's the deal Superman?" the Flash asked.
"Goku, Flash, and Green Lantern will keep damage to a minimum. J'onn, I want you to keep scanning. I'll send you some mental x-rays of it when I get closer. Diana, you're with me." Superman responded.
"Right." Wonder Woman said flying behind Superman.
"Join us when you can." Superman thought to the others, "J'onn, lay us down some cover."
As Superman and Wonder Woman darted for the, twin energy blasts emitted from the eyes of the Martian Manhunter fired on the creature on the volcano. Lavos shrieked as the blasts hit it, and as the two powerful beings flying straight at him, tackled him at mach two.
"Damnation! That was intense!" Green Lantern said as he heard the sonic boom and saw smoke rise from the volcano where Superman and Wonder Woman had flown.
"Keep your mind on the job Kyle. At least act like you're a pro now." The Flash thought to him.
"Yeah and what are you doing that's so professional now Wally? Other than giving me the fastest lecture alive?" Green Lantern replied as blasts harmlessly splashed off the giant green dome he had made.
"Gee I don't know. Maybe I'm stealing the speed from those blasts now so that they slow down enough for Goku to instantly transmit around them and cancel them out with his own blasts." The Flash mused.
All above the island, the blasts were dispersed in mid air, as the Saiyen martial artist Goku teleported to them one by one and in various poses, sometimes upside down, dispersed them with his Ki blasts.
"You show off too much Wally. That's your problem." Green Lantern said, spitefully.
Superman and Wonder Woman were having quite the time with the creature known as Lavos. Superman was repeatedly slamming into the giant alien, breaking off the huge spikes on its shell, while firing high doses of heat vision and scanning its internal workings with his x-ray vision. Wonder Woman on the other hand was kicking and punching as hard as she could, pummeling the creature. She also used her unbreakable lasso of truth to rope some spikes and rip them off. Lavos screeched in pain when she did that and fired several blasts of plasma at her. Using her bracelets, forged of the indestructible Aegis, she blocked each and every blast that was sent her way. Well almost.
Wonder Woman cried out in pain as a stray blast hit her. She fell to the ground limply as Superman roared in rage.
"Diana!" the Man of Steel shouted.
"I'm alright Clark, I'm just pissed." Wonder Woman thought back as her head snapped back up midway in her fall. She landed on the ground and with the speed of Hermes, ran to the giant form of Lavos, "I'd move out of the way Clark."
Superman smiled as Lavos was suddenly lifted into the air. Beneath the immense beast, Wonder Woman stood, her feet sinking into the ground as she held the creature above her with a look of murder on her face.
"I very much prefer classical wrestling maneuvers, but remind me to thank Kyle and Wally for convincing me to watch that WWE pay per view at the Watchtower." Wonder Woman said, under little strain, as she shifted the giant and slammed him down hard performing Goldberg's signature jackhammer maneuver. Lavos screeched in anger as it lay on its shell.
"It's not Greco-Roman, but it'll do." Superman mused with an impressed whistle.
Lavos then roared again after Superman rammed it and sent it rolling down the volcano slope.
"Clark, your scans of the creature have given me a few ideas." J'onn suddenly spoke up in Superman's head.
"Let's hear them J'onn." Superman said exhaling his super cold break to form large chunks of super dense ice to throw at Lavos.
"The creature is immensely powerful. I believe you've kept it off balance. From what I could decipher from the thoughts it was guarding is that it's an extremely ancient alien that essentially feeds on planets at their core and stores various forms of DNA at its own core. Here's the interesting part. The core from what I can ascertain is not organic like the surface. It's mechanical. Super dense alien metals." J'onn began.
"Go on." Superman said firing heat vision at Lavos.
"There's also a path behind its single eye that apparently leads up into the core. If something hits that eye with sufficient force, I believe it would travel through that path up into the core. With the proper trajectory it could rebound off the walls repeatedly and destroy the inner workings." J'onn finished.
"I'm on it." Superman said flying into position.
"Clark those metals could be more dense than you. You could be killed."
"Wouldn't be the first time." Superman replied.
"There is another option." J'onn said.
"Lay it on me." Superman responded.
"You and Wonder Woman just get out of the area." J'onn said.
"What have you got cooking?" Superman asked.
"Trust me on this Clark." J'onn replied, "Now move!"
"On it. Come on Diana. J'onn has a plan." Superman signaled to Wonder Woman who flew into the air beside him.
Miles away, J'onn saw them clear the area.
"The stage is yours Goku." He said to the blonde, spikey haired man behind him.
Goku exhaled and brought his hands back.
"Ka…Me….Ha…..Me…."
Blue energy gathered and begged for release.
"HAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"
The intense blue blast spiraled out and closed the distance between Goku and Lavos in mere seconds. Lavos saw the blast coming and screeched. The blue Ki energy ripped through the eye of the immense space monster and cut a swath through the creature's body, widening the path behind its single eye. Upon reaching the center, it hit the metals therein at such an angle that even the powerful Kamehameha wave was deflected. Then it deflected again off another wall. And then another. Faster and faster it traveled, doing extreme damage to the Lavos core. It was not unlike an immense game of pinball. The energy grew and grew damaging everything within the alien. Metals dented and burned, biomechanical circuitry exploded and burned. A chain reaction built and built and built until…
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
"Tilt." Goku smirked.
Within a few moments, the entire Justice League was at the scene. Lavos lay still, its eye gone and its shell cracked and filled with holes.
"Nice move my man." Green Lantern said high fiving Goku.
"Eh. I just took the shot. J'onn lined it up." Goku smiled in the Martian Manhunter's direction. The large green Martian however looked transfixed at the shell of Lavos.
"It's…it's not dead. At least not yet." J'onn said wide-eyed, "I can feel its mind reaching out."
"J'onn? Are you alright?" Superman asked placing a hand on his friend's shoulder.
"I think it's trying to communicate with me." J'onn said, opening his mind further.
He began screaming and clutching his head in pain. The others were shocked at this turn of events. Superman began to shake him.
"J'onn! J'onn! Speak to us damn it!" Superman said trying to get a response from his friend. J'onn just kept screaming and started flailing wildly. Superman had no choice and with a mighty blow knocked the Martian Manhunter out. J'onn fell, being caught by the super fast Flash and placed on the ground.
"Give him some air." The Flash said as the team began to crowd around.
For five long minutes, J'onn lay silent and still. Then his red eyes opened and he looked up with fear on his usually reserved face.
"J'onn? Are you all right? Did it stop communicating?" Superman asked.
J'onn rubbed his face and nodded, "Yes. It's dead now. And we're going to join it soon."
"What?" Superman asked.
"Hell is coming Superman. And it won't be turned back."