Chapter 1
Bruce and Diana were walking together in the watch tower.
"So does Bruce Wayne have any plans this weekend? Or is Batman going to be too busy brooding?" She asked.
"We both know the answer to that."
"Don't you ever get lonely?"
He let out a heavy sigh. "You have no idea."
"Maybe you should take a girl dancing." she suggested. "Maybe with a girl you still owe a dance with." She said flashing him a smirk.
She was right. Bruce still owed her a dance after one mission where he helped her. It was the same night she figured out his identity. She wasn't such a bad detective herself.
Bruce and Diana both had feelings for each other. He was to afraid to show it, while she was a little more open about it. She felt that there could be something between them. He felt that she would get hurt by his enemies even if she was an Amazon.
The watch tower then shook. As if somehow there was an earthquake in space. Diana and Bruce looked at each other. "That's not good." They said in unison.
They ran to the bridge to see J'onn. "What was that?" they asked again in unison.
"We haven't been hit. But i'm getting anomalies and figures on the radar. The jumps we are feeling are in sync with their appearance on the radar but i can't them visually. The scanners detect them on the far side of the earth." J'onn explained.
Bruce approached the large window overlooking earth. With another jump a ship appeared just outside of the watchtower. It was a large ship in the shape of a skull. Bruce recognized it instantly. "It's Brainiac! He's returned!" He shrieked.
"Preparing weapons." J'onn announced.
"It won't work. Our weapons aren't strong enough. It's not going to hurt his ship. Send all power to forward shield's and evacuate the tower." Bruce ordered.
J'onn pressed his hand on the intercom. "All personal evacuate the tower. I repeat evacuate the tower. This is not a drill, we are under attack." He announced.
Clark showed up at the bridge. "What going o-." He was unable to finish his sentence. "Dear god no." He said as he saw Brainiacs ship.
"Why aren't you firing?" Clark shrieked.
"Well for one they haven't fired at us." J'onn said.
At that moment Brainiac opened fire on the tower. The tower shook and took damage. The shields weren't nearly strong enough to give them the time needed.
"Now they've fired at us." J'onn said.
"Yeah i noticed." Clark quipped. "Fire back."
"Are weapons can't hurt a ship like that. The only thing we can do is use all power to shield the ship and beam everybody back down to earth." Bruce said.
Another hit caused critical damage. "We won't survive another strike like that." J'onn warned.
"Tell all members who can go into space to meet me out there. I'm going to draw there fire." Clark said as he headed to the airlock.
John Stewart met up with him there. "Clark. We have been receiving reports of ships just like this one coming in all across the globe. It's full on invasion."
"One thing at a time Lantern. First we need to defend this station long enough to evacuate everyone." Clark said as he opened the airlock. He, Lantern and the other hero's who could fight in space engaged Brainic's ship.
"There're unleashing fighter and boarding ships!" Lantern warned. Bruce saw that after each lifeboat left the Tower, a boarding ship showed up were and boarded from were it took off from.
"They're using the airlocks of the escape pods. We go out and they come in." Bruce said.
"Clever bastards." Diana growled.
"Diana come with me. We're going to run these guys off the tower. J'onn you stay here and keep the ship alive." Bruce ordered.
"Let's show these creatures they're messing with the wrong warriors." Diana said as she crackled her knuckles.
Bruce and Diana saw a group of enemy forces coming around the corner. They saw large droid with Brainiac symbol's on them. But then they saw something that unsettled them even more.
Parademons. The vile creatures that once served Darkseid now wore Brainiac's symbol as they fought side by side with his droids. Diana and Bruce had great chemistry when they fought together. They made short work of them.
"Braniac and Darkseid have joined forces?" she asked.
"I don't think so. Darkseid wouldn't work well with Brainiac. Neither would he let his pawns wear his symbol. I think Darkseid and him had a clash of personalities, and Braniac came out on top." Bruce guessed.
"Which is what makes him more dangerous now, more than ever." Diana said softly.
A feeling of hopelessness crept over them. The last time they faced Braniac, they almost died. Now he had to be more powerful to have defeated Darkseid and take over his army.
"Batman do you read me, over?" J'onn asked Bruce over the comms.
"I hear you. What is it?" Bruce asked back.
"I'm getting a large power signature from the lower levels. Not sure what it is. But the power readings are sporadic." J'onn explained.
"What is it?" Diana asked.
"It's a bomb." Bruce guessed. "We have to get down there now."
As Bruce and Diana made their way to the bomb, Clark, John, and the other took out the fighters and tried to keep Brainiac's warship focused on them.
"Light'em up!" John yelled as he took down as many ships as he could.
Clark tore threw the ships like the were tissue paper. "Keep fighting we can do this!" Clark motivated the other hero's. But deep down even he wasn't so sure they could.
Diana and Bruce saw the bomb. It was a large casket shaped device.
"Here's our plan of attack-" Bruce started.
"I have a plan. Attack." She said as she charged the pawns guarding the bomb.
"God, i love that woman." He thought to himself as he followed her.
He and Diana took out the men and began to hear the bomb make some very menacing sounds.
"You should probably defuse that thing now." She suggested.
Bruce pulled out his remote hacking device and shut it down.
"How much time was left?" She asked.
"You don't wanna know?" He answered.
"Batman, the station is barley holding on. We need to take out that ship." J'onn warned.
Bruce looked at the bomb and got a crazy idea. "J'onn permission to leave the station?" He requested.
"For what purpose?" J'onn asked.
"To give Brainiac back his bomb." Bruce answered.
J'onn got an idea of what Bruce was planning. "Permission granted.
He and Diana dragged the heavy bomb to the elevator and took it the bottom level. When they got down there they put on space suits.
"I know what you're thinking and it's crazy?" Diana warned him.
"So stay here." he suggested.
"Unfortunately for us both... i like crazy." she said flashing him a grin.
Bruce walked over to the lever and got ready to pull it. His eyes were a dead stare at the bomb.
"One question. What if you miss?" She asked.
"I won't." He growled as he pulled the lever.
The large airlock opened. The vacuum of space pulled the bomb out of the tower. Bruce reach out and was able to grab the bomb as he flung was out into space.
Diana followed him and was tasked with keeping the ship off his tail. She used her lasso to throw some of the ships away from him, into the other ships.
Clark and John made an opening for him. They cut a hole in the ship large enough for Bruce to fly into. His moment stalled as they entered Braniac's ship. There was still no gravity. He activated the bomb. It began to buzz menacingly again. He placed his legs on the bomb and pushed off of it out of the hole, into Diana's arms.
"Gotcha." She said as she caught him. She then flew them a safe distance away as the bomb destroyed Braniac's ship.
"For a reckless billionaire, he flew pretty good." John quipped to Clark.
Wally pulled up in a Javelin. "Diana, Bats, get in. We're taking this fight to the surface."
Diana and Batman joined the Flash, and Hawgirl in the jet. Superman and Green lantern followed them.
There was a Warship over every major city in the world. London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Metropolis just to name a few.
Diana could see the shock in Bruce's face. He didn't know what they could do without another bomb like the one they just used.
"So what's the plan bats?" Wally asked.
"Why are you asking me." He growled.
"Because if you don't have a plan then we're all screwed." Hawkgirl said.
Bruce shook his head. Diana reached out and held his hand. "You can do this." She assured him.
Bruce nodded and turned to Wally. "Where's the largest ship located?" He asked.
"Metropolis, why?" Wally answered.
"That must be the flagship." Bruce replied.
"So do you have a plan now?" Wally asked.
Bruce nodded.
"We're going in."