CHAPTER 1: AWAKENING
6 MONTHS AGO, A SMALL ISLAND OFF THE SHORE OFF THE INDIAN OCEAN- The salty waves splashed against the shore, puling and pushing the sand in and out of place. Crabs danced and shuffled along the beach, seagulls squawked as they swooped in and scooped up scaly fish, their silver scales shimmering in the sunlight. All was seemingly calm, but it was everything but.
Pressed against the huge lush, green mountain they consumed the majority of the tropical islands space, a small bunker made of concrete stood, drawing no attention to any passing sailors and boats. However, this small building was really a ruse for a larger operation.
The water began to ripple as a black and grey figure emerged from the waves. He stepped his boot onto the shore, saltwater dripping off his helm, the characters red eyes glistening. Black Manta had arrived at the secret base.
With sloshy steps, Black Manta strode towards the small bunker. When he arrived at the door a strong voice crackled from a small voice box beside the door and asked, "This is private property; if you do not proclaim yourself, you will be shot. Who declares entry"?
"Let me in or I'll disintegrate you to dust with my eye-beams," Black Manta threatened, his voice sounding of a robot due to his voice being projected through his helmet.
Lex Luthor's voice interrupted the guard before he could speak again, "Let him in".
A loud click was emitted from the door as it was unlocked; Manta grabbed the handle and pried the heavy door open and stepped inside. Manta stood in the darkness as the door shut with a loud bang. A few moments later, a light turned on and gears went into motion- the inside if the building was really and elevator.
When the elevator reached its destination, another door opened with a pleasant ding and Manta stepped out into the large base; the huge structure was built into the islands underwater sides, only barely visible by a submarine.
Inside the base, over 50 workers sat at large, high-tech super-computers, hard at work with typing things, inputting codes, watching the screen for any fluctuations in data.
On the left side if the room was a glass wall, a perfect view into the ocean; various sea life swam gracefully in the water as if they were floating in the air. In front of the glass sat a huge piece of machinery that looked like a huge cannon- it took up the majority of the rooms space.
On the right a table with the Legion of Doom sitting at it stood. Black Manta walked over and took his seat.
"Glad you could join us, Manta," Lex Luthor greeted, a sadistic smile across his. "Has your team collected enough data"?
Black Manta coughed before he spoke, "My teams scanned the target area and have found no anomalies that would cause and interference during the process. We are good to fire when all other preparations have been met".
Black Manta gazed around at the other Legion members- The Cheetah, Bizarro, Solomon Grundy, and Killer Frost. Some of the most formidable villains ever had been united together.
"Good," Lex shouted in delight as he walked towards a large green super-suit and stepped in it. "All we need to do now is charge the weapon, and the world will be at its knees".
Suddenly, the ground ceiling shook and the lights shuttered. The computers shut off and quickly turned back on.
Lex turned around and shouted at a technician, "Are all preparations still in check"?
"Yes sir," the technician answered. "However, the weapons charge has been set back to 0%. It will take another 45 minutes to charge up completely again. The hardware defenses are now in place though; if the power goes off again, any new charge won't be lost".
The ceiling shuddered once again.
"We should investigate what is going on," Killer Frost suggested.
As the Legion stepped off the elevator and onto the beach, they saw what had been causing the shaking; the Justice League stood on the beach- Superman smashed the ground with a Palm Tree, Green Lantern literally hammered the ground and Cyborg fired his White-Noise Cannon while the rest of the League stood in fighting position around the attackers.
"Look who decided to pop out," Flash joked. "So, you guys going to just run and hide again or are you going to fight"?
"ATTACK"! Luthor shouted.
Black Manta grabbed his machete and stormed Aquaman. He blocked Mantas attack with his trident.
Killer Frost quickly shot a bunch of ice and froze the ground, an odd sight on a humid, tropical island. Flash tripped and tumbled into the water when he started to run on the ice.
Cheetah screeched and slashed at Wonder Woman who blocked her attacks with her bracelets.
Solomon Grundy picked up a boulder and threw it at Green Lantern, who caught it and tossed it away. The two began fighting.
Superman flew straight towards Luthor but was tackled in mid-air by Bizarro. When they crashed into the side of the mountain, dust and rockets were strewn across the land.
Batman grabbed Flash from the water and muttered, "Draw Frosts' attention while Cyborg and I track Luthor," into his ear.
Flash nodded his head, "Got it, Bats". Flash zoomed off and engaged in battle with Killer Frost.
Batman strode towards the large mass of ice generated by Killer Frost, explosions and fights surrounding him and Cyborg. He asked Cyborg, "How are we going to get past the ice. It's too risky to go around".
"I got it Batman," Cyborg said as his hand transformed into a Flamethrower. Cyborg torched a path through the ice and the two ran towards the bunker.
Luthor had already escaped into the elevator and had locked down the doors. Nobody would be able to get in- the bunker was built to stop an atomic bomb and the walls were lined with Kryptonite. By the time the Justice League would be able to break through the bunker walls, the weapon would be in place and already activated. Then the world will be at its knees, and it will be too late to stop the weapon.
Batman and Cyborg went up to the bunker an attempted to open the door but it didn't budge. Large rocket launcher emerged from Cyborgs shoulders which fired several rockets at the building, blowing off all the concrete and revealing a layer off shiny, silver and gold metal.
"My scanners can't detect this metal. It must be alien," Cyborg explained. "It's impenetrable".
"It's Nyth metal," Batman explained. "And it isn't impenetrable".
Batman grabbed some dust from his utility belt and tossed it across the metal layer. He muttered something backwards and the Nyth metal disintegrated and revealed another layer of kryptonite.
"Nyth metal- vulnerable to a specific type of magic. I got the dust from Zatanna," Batman explained before Cyborg could ask a question. "Use you White-Noise cannon to destroy the kryptonite before one of the villains takes advantage of it and tries to attack Superman with it".
Cyborg charged up the cannon and fired it, but not before Batman activated the sound-mufflers in his cowl. The kryptonite was obliterated into dust that fluttered through air like small green butterflies.
There was another layer of Nyth metal behind that, but Batman used the last of his magic dust and destroyed the Nyth metal.
"Uh…Mr. Luthor?" a computer technician shouted at Luthor who was setting up a series of energy rays around the large energy cannon.
"What… whatever your name is, what is it?" Luthor yelled angrily, placing a large shard of kryptonite in a small bomb.
"They've gotten through the defenses," the technician said nervously.
"WHO?" Luthor yelled.
The elevator crashed into the ground, blasting the elevator doors open and sending the nearby guards flying across the room. Cyborg and Batman emerged from the elevator shaft, the elevator crushed by Cyborgs weight underneath their feat.
The guards grabbed machine guns and began firing at the two. Batman threw two batarangs, one into each of the immediate guards' guns, jamming their guns and allowing him to disable the guards in 1 precise hit each. Batman quickly jumped between all the guards and took down all the guards with flips, kicks, counters, and batarangs in a matter of seconds.
Luthor stepped into his super-suit after placing all the appropriate items in each cannon and bomb. "Activate the LexBots!" he cried but to no avail- the computer technicians scrambled around the room as Batman threw canisters of knock-out gas across the room. Luthor huffed. "I guess I'll activate them".
Luthor pressed several buttons on the holographic projection on his suits gauntlets and humanoid green and purple robots popped out of a compartment on the opposite wall of the base and began firing at Batman and Cyborg with their laser-arms. Luthor then activated the shield around his head to protect him from the knockout gas.
Batman placed a breather over the mouth-part of his cowl allowing him to breathe with the knockout gas. Cyborg also put up a large astronaut like dome around his head so he may breathe also.
The LexBots fired rapidly at the two, but Batman threw several smoke bombs, filling the relatively small room with thick, black, smoke around the room.
The androids looked around the room and quickly adjusted their vision to be able to see through the smoke. Batman threw 5 Batarangs that flew into the ground and blew up. The remaining robots were quickly disposed of by Cyborgs White-Noise cannon.
Luthor charged at the two of them; Batman rolled out of the way while Cyborg took Luthor's punch full force and flew across the room into a metal wall with a loud bang, denting the wall.
Batman rolled and grappled out of every one of Luthor's punches.
"What are you planning Luthor?" Batman questioned as he grappled past Luthor's attack.
"You will know soon enough," Luthor responded as he dodged Batman's punch.
"What is the cannon for?" Batman asked again, rolling away from Luthor's laser blast.
"I'm sure you can make your own assumptions.
"A weapon off 'mass destruction you believe will bring the world to its knees'," Batman guessed as he threw a Batarang.
"Quite possibly," Luthor bragged as he dodged the Batarang as he grabbed Batman and smashed him into the floor. "You missed".
"No, I didn't," Batman grunted in pain as the Batarang came back into view and land in Luthor back, blowing up and disabling the force field around his head. "NOW, CYBORG"!
Cyborg charged and tackled Luthor off of Batman; Luthor quickly tossed Cyborg off of him as Batman threw another Batarang, but Luthor's gauntlet deflected it.
Cyborg out his Noise cannon on the lowest setting and blasted Luthor in the face with it, bring him to his knees. When Luthor peered up, Batman charged toward him and karate kicked him in the face, sending Luthor and his suit tumbling across the room.
Cyborg ripped Luthor out of his suit and threw him on the floor. Batman lifted him up by his collar and began questioning him.
"WHAT IS YOUR PLAN?" Batman demanded shaking Luthor around and injecting him with a truth -serum.
"We were going to use the cannon to blackmail the world into obeying us, and we were going to split the world between us," Luthor answered.
"What does the cannon do?" Batman asked.
"It fires a powerful beam of highly concentrated sunlight that can be used to manipulate the tectonic plates, allowing us to cause earthquakes, tsunamis, even literally ripping continents in half". Luthor answered.
Batman glanced over towards Cyborg.
"COMPUTER, ACTIVATE SOLAR-CANNON, GEO-MORPH!" Luthor shouted, activating the weapon.
"You…," Batman glared at Luthor.
The cannon whirred to life. The ground began to shake as the cannon was lifted up through the ground on a metal platform. Rocks and dust fell from the ceiling.
Above ground, the battles ensued until the ground rumbled and the cannon broke the surface of the beach sending boulders flying.
The Justice League quickly defeated their opponents; Green Lantern tossing Grundy through the mountain with a hard-light hand, Wonder Woman performing a brutal blow to Cheetahs stomach, Superman punching Bizarro into the atmosphere, Flash gaining enough kinetic energy to knockout Killer Frost, and Aquaman bashing Black Manta in the head with his trident.
The League flew and ran towards the cannon only for the surrounding weapons to attack them. A series of powerful lasers composed of Kryptonite and powerful energy knocked the League over.
The weapon extended over the beach and fired it laser into the water. The ground began to shake even more, the shaking growing more vigorous every few moments as the beam went deeper into the seafloor.
"How do we disable the weapon?" Batman questioned Luthor.
"You can't," the villain answered. "It was designed to have no off switch. If the beam goes a long about of time without being regulated when first activated, then it will just go up to the max setting, causing random amounts of destruction. The timer should go off right about…now".
The ground began shaking even more.
Batman angrily threw Luthor against the floor and walked towards one of the control panels.
Luthor stood up and ran to an escape pod.
"You're just going to let him escape?' Cyborg asked.
"The immediate fate of the world is more important that tracking down Luthor right now," Batman answered typing things into the computer, glancing back at Cyborg. "You going to help me or not"?
Above ground, the League was too weak from the blast to respond to the lasers increasing power blast.
Cyborg hacked into the computer and explained, "It's too late to turn off the beam like Luthor said. The only way to turn it off is to override the systems, causing a large earthquake that will sink the whole island and may cause small tsunamis nearby".
"DO IT!" Batman yelled as he ran to the elevator shaft.
Cyborg followed orders and overrode the system. The beam grew even stronger and the base began collapsing.
Cyborg flew out of the elevator shaft while Batman grappled out just in time.
MEANWHILE, AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN- The beams disturbance created large cracks and churned up boulders and rocks across the seafloor. The cracks rippled towards a large mountain structure, but oddly enough, the mountain became to shake and rumble.
Batman and Cyborg grabbed each member of the League while Luthor grabbed every member of the Legion he could find in his helicopter and flew off.
The beam grew thicker and thicker until it stopped and the remaining energy flew into the ground creating a tremendous earthquake.
The waves grew huge and began flooding and crashing into the island. The ground began to crack and crumble as the island began to implode.
"CYBORG, TELEPORT US!" Batman yelled as Cyborg teleported the League into the Watchtower in the nick of time.
The island crumpled into itself and was sunk into the ocean. Small tsunamis flooded the shore of Tokyo, causing no serious damage.
Luthor had escaped and still ran his business as usual. Without any incriminating proof against him, there were no charges that could be made.
The League recovered from the weakening blast quickly and all had seemed alright. Except it was anything but alright.
SEAFLOOR, SEVERAL MINUTES AFTER THE IMPLOSION OF THE ISLAND- The "mountain" rumbled once again with the large impact of the final bit of energy from the weapon.
The earthquake appeared to be over until the seafloor began to shake again and the mountain rose from a deep trench in the seafloor and opened its eyes. Its menacing, ancient, monstrous, yellow eyes.
Something had been awakened. Something large. Something monstrous. Something destructive.