DAY of DOOM

By FAH3

According to his watch, he had been driving for over nine hours now. Nine hours, and he could feel it. His ass was numb and his eyes were starting to get heavy on him. Sometimes he wondered why he picked this job. Driving across the country and back, and it took him away from his family was too often. Not to mention it felt like all the excitement was gone. Most of the fast ways weren't fast anymore, and a lot of the scenic spots he liked weren't there anymore. So why was he still doing this?

As he took a sip from the energy drink beside him to give his a boost, he focused his eyes back on the road in front of him. That's when he saw something coming toward him. What was that? He couldn't make it out at first, not even in the headlights. But when it leapt at his windshield, he let out a terrified scream as he closed his eyes and opened them again. It wasn't there anymore, but he knew what it was. Every trucker on the road knew what it was. He had just seen the Black Dog.

There was a reason for his fear to still stay with him. It might be superstition, but it was always a bad omen whenever any trucker saw the black dog on the road. It meant something bad was going to happen, and soon. He was almost calm again until his headlights revealed a large one arm man that was clad in a strange bodysuit and looking directly at him.

He slammed the breaks as hard as he could, but he knew it was obvious he was going to hit the man head on. There was no stopping that now. As the grill of the large truck came closer and closer to the figure, the one arm man launched his fist at the truck and broke through the grill and destroyed the engine. The force of the blow and sudden stop caused part of the cab to crumple like a soda can, causing the trailer to detach and collide with the back of the cab. The sparks from the engine's destruction ignited the diesel fuel within it, causing the truck to explode in a giant fireball that engulfed the load he had been hauling as well as several cars behind it.

Trying to avoid the deadly blast, several cars swerved off the road as another big rig swerved and slammed into one of the support columns of the overpass. The monster that had caused this disaster and chaos walked away, a few bits of his suit burned by the fire. He saw the numerous devices that had begun to pile up and frowned at them. He looked at the column that the larger vehicle had slammed into and began to chuckle. Without warning, he slammed his hard fist against the column of concrete and caused it to start cracking. The sudden impact from the mammoth monster caused the column to completely collapse and brought down one section of the overpass along with several traveling cars, causing a few of them to explode on impact. As he the monster walked away from the horrible disaster, he only did one thing. He laughed.


"Can you believe the size of this thing?" Booster asked as he looked at the view of Earth from the bridge of the Watchtower. He wasn't talking to anyone in particular, but he couldn't help but admire what he was seeing. He didn't know anyone who wouldn't be amazed by the view from up here. It was absolutely amazing.

"Is everything all right?" J'onn asked as he noticed how close to the window Booster had been leaning.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I was just looking at the view." Booster said.

"I know. Before I came here, I used to look at Mars the same way." J'onn said.

"You were an astronaut?" Booster asked.

"In a manner of speaking. I never reached orbit, but I had to travel certain distances to monitor weather patterns. Each time I reached a certain altitude, I would admire everything I saw. It's still hard for me to believe that everything I once knew isn't there anymore." J'onn said as he exhaled a deep sigh. "But I do need to talk to you about something."

"J'onn, I was wondering about something. How,"

"You know that none of the League members are paid to do this." J'onn said.

"Yeah, but what about the glory and all? You must at least get women that want to,"

"No. The only time I'm ever in my Martian form is to help others and that's it."

"Come on. Even you,"

"Booster, not everyone here does this for fame or money. We do this because we want to help and make a difference. And that's what I need to talk to you about." J'onn said.

"What do you mean?"

"Some of your recent actions have angered other League members." J'onn said.

"Like who?"

"Several, including the original members. Ronald Stoppable and Kimberly Possible are close friends to Batman and Superwoman, and you angered them when you announced their engagement."

"But Flash announced it to us. I,"

"He told us because Ronald Stoppable is one of our benefactors and a rare friend that the League can actually trust. We also informed everyone that they wanted to keep their engagement a secret. You violated not only their trust, but that of the League's. Do you know how many enemies Stoppable has, and may target his fiancé as a way to get to him?" J'onn asked the so-called hero before him.

"H-how mad are they?" Booster asked him.

"They were seriously considering the option of kicking you out of the League." J'onn said as he narrowed his red eyes.

Booster was beginning to stutter a response when the alarms started to go off. Ignoring Booster, J'onn flew to the main control console and immediately began to try and fins out what had set off the alarm. Within a few moments, the multiple monitors came to life, showing different emergencies all over the world.

"J'onn, it's Du. What's going on?"

"Multiple emergencies. A volcano is erupting off the coast of Italy, An unconfined forest fire in California, and a massive car wreck on an interstate in Ohio, and we have a large tanker in distress in the Atlantic."

"Let's do them in order. I'll assemble a few members and handle the evacuation of that island. Assemble teams to handle the others." Du said.

"I'm already on it. I'm sending the information to select members now." J'onn said as he began choosing the appropriate heroes for the situations at hand. After he finished assigning heroes the heroes to the most needed tasks, the only emergency left was the interstate accident in Ohio. And there weren't that many heroes left.

"Stewart, can you read me?" J'onn asked into the comm links.

"Stewart here. What do you need, Manhunter?"

"We have an accident in Ohio that needs attention. Can you get there?"

"Affirmative. Let me recharge my ring, and I'll be there in a few minutes."

"I'll send others to give you assistance." J'onn said and looked at the active duty roster. Immediately, he began contacting the ones he wanted telepathically.

"Fire, Ice, Hawk Girl, Blue Beetle, and Vixen. You're all needed in Ohio at once. I'm already sending you the location." J'onn thought.

"J'onn, I can't right now. I'm in the middle of something big already." Beetle thought back.

"Are you sure?"

"Pretty positive." Beetle responded.

"Damn." J'onn thought to himself. As he cast his gaze downward, he saw that Booster was still in the same place he had left him. He was still sulking over their previous talk, most likely doubting himself. Normally, he wouldn't choose him for something this important, but he didn't have a choice.

"Booster!" J'onn called out, making him look up. "This is your chance to redeem yourself. Meet Hawk Girl and the others in the Javelin bay now!" J'onn ordered.

"I'm on it!" Booster said and took off running.


Dr. Angora Lapin, a.k.a. the White Rabbit, felt like she had been thrown around like a rag doll. Her head was spinning as she opened her eyes, and started rubbing her temples to try and make her mind refocus. She looked around and at herself and noticed she was a little worse for wear. Her fish net stockings had a rip in them, and her top looked like it wouldn't hold her bust for that much longer. She also had a few scrapes and bruises, but nothing permanent or life threatening.

She began to take a look at her surroundings, and noticed everything was dark with the exception of the one light shinning over here. Obviously, wherever she was, someone was trying to scare her. They had better try harder than this, because this was just enough to make her laugh.

"About time you woke up." A voice said in the dark that made her pause for a moment. She knew that voice almost too well.

"Miss Gough?" she asked into the dark.

"How nice, you remember my name. You remember anything else about me? Like that little business deal?" Sherri called out.

"Is that what this is about? Listen, I can give you a deal for those now. How about half price?" she asked her former employer.

"HALF PRICE?!" Sherri screamed back. "You were going to sell those designs to me. I was supposed to corner the market on those ordinance, and what do you do? You run off and sell them to someone else!" Sherri shouted back.

"Come on! After that crap with Zod, and Metallo going bonkers? I couldn't risk being found out." Lapin said.

"Do you think I'm that sloppy?" Sherri asked back, but it seemed closer. Like she was circling her.

"Come on, Sherri. We're business women, right? Maybe we can make some sort of deal." Angora said, almost pleaded.

"Actually," Sherri said as she stepped out of the shadows with her hands alight with emerald fire. Hugging her frame as it did so many years ago, was her green and black jumpsuit. And her all to predatory smile.

"Let's just stick with the name Shego." Sherri said to her.

"Holy Crap. You're her?" Lapin asked her.

"You bet your collagen injected ass I am." Sherri said, proud that her former alias was still feared by so many in the criminal underworld. "Now, how about my arrangement?" she asked her "guest"

"O-okay."

"Since I'm the one you proposed that deal to first, I think I should some of that money you've been making."

"How much?"

"60/30."

"Are you crazy?" Lapin asked, but shut up when an emerald fireball narrowly missed her head.

"That's me being generous." Shego growled. "So are you going to accept my first offer, or do I go lower?" Shego asked as her fire began to increase in size.

"I – I think t-that's fair." Lapin quickly said.

"Good." Shego said as she stepped closer and grabbed Lapin by the chin, and raised her up to eye level. "Now let's talk about the new ones you were fixing to manufacture. The ones called BG-80's?"


Stewart used his ring to lift the last of the rubble out of the way while ice was trying her best to extinguish the flames. Booster, Vixen, Hawk Girl, and Fire were trying to rescue as many people as they could while the rescue teams were trying to contain the infernos. Booster was using the energy force field built into his suit to actually walk into the blazing fires, trying to rescue anyone who was still trapped in their cars. Some of the things Booster saw in that blaze made him cringe. A few of the bodies were so severely burned that the mummies in the museums looked better than them. Others looked like they were skeletons with what looked like chunks of tar on them. It was making him sick to realize that it what was left of their skin and muscle.

"Have you got them out?" Stewart shouted as his concentration was starting to weaken from the weight of the heavy overpass.

"Give me a minute!" Booster shouted as he continued ot look for survivors.

"Make it quick, Gold! I can't hold it for that much longer!" Stewart called out.

Booster was able to find only five survivors out of the whole mess, and extended his force field to surround them as soon as he pulled them free. But he knew he had to hurry. Extending the force field to such a limit was stretching his power cells and he could feel the heat around him starting to grow more intense. As soon as he ran out of the flames with the people he had found alive, Shayera immediately turned her attention to John.

"Everyone's clear. Let it go." Hawk Girl said to him through the comm link.

As the emerald force field around the chunk of iron and concrete vanished, the large piece of debris slammed to the ground with an earth shaking thud. A small cloud of dust kicked up as it landed again. Several ambulances were tending to various wounded while there were too many full body bags lining up to the side. It was more than many of these people could bare.

"Any idea on what caused all this?" Vixen asked as she finally got a good look on what had happened. Such mindless destruction was so appalling to look at. The only time she had ever seen anything like this was if a major Earthquake had hit.

"Not completely. A few of the survivors and witness' claimed they saw a large man in a green suit walking away from all this. Some of them said he might have laughing." A police man said as he tried his best not to look at the body bags.

"One man did all this?" Booster asked, unable to believe what he was hearing.

"Yeah. With one hand behind his back." The cop said.

Laughing at all the death? This sent a shiver down most of their spines. It was hard to imagine that someone could cause all this death and misery and actually think it was funny. Only one or two could only think of one lunatic that might find this funny, and he was locked up in Arkham again. But even that scrawny pale faced nut case couldn't cause all this with one hand. That meant they were dealing with something else entirely.

"Does anyone know which way he went?" Fire asked.

"Yeah. He was heading due east."

"Then we can catch up to him in the air. Can you handle everything else down here?" Stewart asked the police officer.

"Yeah, we can. You guys just about did everything else." The officer said.

"Good. Everyone in the Javelin now! We need to find that guy before he does anything else!" Stewart ordered as they all raced back to the small space ship as fast as they could.

Within moments, everyone was situated in their seets with the instrument son their console's up an running. With Shayera and Stewart at the helm


Kim sat inside her old room, looking at all of her treasures she had when she was growing up. She couldn't help but feel a wave of nostalgia wash over her as she kept looking at everything, even her old Kimmunicator. On her dresser and her desk, there were several photos of her and Ron as they were growing up. Back in the good old days. Before Ron – started his night job. A small smile spread across her face when she saw a picture of her and Ron at Bueno Nacho, with Rufus on his shoulder. She always wondered what happened to Rufus, but she never had the heart to ask him. It seemed like Ron was always fighting, like he was trying to figure out who he was. Was he still Ron? Was he the Batman? Or was he something in between the two?

As she looked at the photos, one caught her eyes. It was an old picture of her and her father when she was a little girl at the space center. She remembered when he would take her there whenever she could and she'd pretend she was flying one of the ships her father had created. After all these years, she still missed him so much. Ron had talked to her so many times, and she had tried to reason with herself, but a part of her always said that there might have been something she could have done.

"Kim, are you all right?" Anne asked as she checked on her daughter.

"I'm fine. Just taking a walk down memory lane." Kim said as she let out a deep sigh.

"So where's Ronald at? I thought both of you were going to visit." Anne asked.

"Business, as usual." Kim said to her.

"Which kind?" Anne asked her as they walked back out into the hallway. As they walked, Kim put her hands together to try and form a bat. "So where's Jim and Tim? I haven't heard that much from them since they graduated from college."

"At work, again. Ever since they started working at the space center, they've been spending most of their time there." Anne said.

"At least their inventions are Dr. Hamilton's problem now. I just hope he's not too old to dodge toaster that can go mach 10."

"I feel so sorry for that poor man." Anne said with a bit of a laugh.

When James passed away, the space center replaced him with an old fried of his. A scientist by the name of Dr. Emil Hamilton that had worked with him several times before and had almost went to work for STAR Labs. But out of respect for his friend and a chance to have more freedom to work on his projects, Hamilton went to work for the Middleton space center. He had kept many of her father's old projects alive and well. As Kim and her mother walked back into the living room, Kim noticed that one of the people she wanted to visit was strangely absent.

"Um, where's Kal at?" Kim asked her mother.

"He'll be back in a little bit. I sent him to get a few things from the store." Anne said.

"How's he adjusting? It's been over a year since he moved in here." Kim said.

"He seems to be doing fine now. I'm surprised you got him to learn English so fast." Anne said

"You can thank the fortress for that." Kim said as she sat on the couch.

A year and a half ago, Kim was patrolling over the pacific north-west when a strange object entered Earth's atmosphere and somehow landed in her fortress. It confused her beyond belief since the security precautions in the fortress would never allow anything to land inside it without her permission. When she went to investigate it, she was shocked to discover that the object was a small spacecraft. The bigger shock was that it was of Kryptonian design, and her family crest was engraved into the nose cone. Like her ship, it scanned its surroundings and scanned her thoroughly. After it was finished, an image of a man she never wanted to see appeared before her. Her uncle Zor-El.

"This message was to be activated in the presence of a member of the House of El. That means my theory was correct, and my brother or his family have successfully made it to the planet known as Earth. I understand if you don't trust me upon seeing my image, for the blood that is stained on my hands shall haunt forever. But it is now that I have realized the error of my ways and beg forgiveness.

"As you undoubtedly know, I helped General Zod destroy our home world of Krypton. Like others, I believed in the visions and ideals Zod had for our world and I've realized too late that I was wrong. After the destruction of Kandor, Brainiac sent a transmission to our colony on Argo. Once we received it, we discovered he had sent a virus. All our machines, our computers, everything started to shut down. Even the tera-forming process was terminated. Without them, our colony soon began to revert back to the planet's previous state. Slowly, our city was dying. I didn't have much time, so I only had the chance to save one member of my family.

"Blame me for the destruction of our race and our home, but not my child. I beg of you, please help him survive. He is nothing like me, and I thank Rao for that. I beg of you, save my son. Save my Kal-El." Zor-El said before transmission stopped.

After the message ended, the main hatch opened with a loud hiss. Inside it was a young man. He looked to be in his late teens or early twenties. He had jet black hair, and wore a navy blue body suit with a polished shield of the House of El on his chest in green and black. As he opened his eyes, Kim could see they were an almost perfect hue of sky blue.

"W-who are you?" he asked in his native Kryptonian language.

Kim took a deep breath and thought back to what she had learned of her language so long ago before she answered him. "I'm Kara Jor-El. I'm your cousin."


The creature's footsteps almost sounded like a chant of doom as he walked. No matter what obstacle came his way, it would not block his path for long. He had entered a heavily wooded area some time ago, and he was growing more frustrated by the hour that the trees were in front of him. One tree stood proudly from the ground, having survived the trials of time for over one hundred years. In a matter of seconds, the creature's arm tore through the thick trunk and ripped it from what was left of a stump. Giant splinters of wood lay all around him as he stomped on the shattered stump and split it in two.

He didn't walk far until he began to growl in frustration and anger. His free hand tried to cover where his ear might be as it looked up to the sky. To any normal person, they would only see an odd shape flying with the clouds in the sky. To this mindless monster, he saw it perfectly. And the sound it was giving off was making his ears ring with pain. Glancing downward, the monster grasped a large piece of splintered wood tightly, and flung it at the irritating thing like it was a throwing knife.


"I still can't believe just one person caused all of this." Ice said as she looked at the Javelin's screen.

"I've seen much worse than this before." Shayera said as she and John piloted the ship.

"The only good thing about all this destruction is that he's leaving us a trail straight toward him." Stewart said.

"The sooner we find this guy, the sooner we beat the crap out of him and get home." Booster said.

"Do you ever shut up?" Stewart growled, glancing at him momentarily.

The beeping from her console caused fire to look away from the small pissing contest between Booster and Stewart. She gazed at the readings and was somewhat confused by what they were telling her. It simply didn't make sense.

"What have you got, Fire?" Vixen asked her.

"I'm not sure. It says there's something heading toward us, but the sensors don't know what it is." She said to them.

A large explosion rocked the small ship as the piece of wood shrapnel pierced them like a knife through cardboard. Everyone was gripping onto whatever they could as the ship began to fly wildly and went into a spiraling nose dive.

"The controls aren't responding. I'm loosing altitude fast!" Stewart shouted.

"The hydraulics are shot and the engines are overheating! Emergency eject!" Shayera said as she blew the hatch.

They were all out of the Javelin within moments. Booster was able to catch Ice while Shayera caught Vixen and helped them to the ground. They all looked up to see the tail end of the javelin completely engulfed in flames as Stewart covered in an energy force field. Stewart hovered a minute before he spun around once, twice, then three times and hurled the ship into the sky. The javelin exploded in a massive fireball far enough to where it would cause anyone harm.

"I can't believe that thing knocked us out of the sky." Vixen said.

"Knocked? Lady, we were speared." Booster said to her.

"Speaking of which, did anyone see where that thing went?" Ice asked them.

"I think I've got a pretty good idea." Shayera said as they looked at the pathway of destruction from the creature's wake. If it did was able to do this with one arm, who knows what else could happen if they didn't stop it.

"I'll scout on ahead. The rest of you follow me and make sure no one's hurt." Stewart said as his green aura formed and he took to the air.


It had been seen so many times over the years, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. It was a calm quiet suburban neighborhood that had not yet been touched by the fingers of a big city, or the decay of street violence and gangs. It still breathed with life that so many people wish to have. One home seemed to be straight out of the dreams of so many suburban families that try to escape from the horrors of urban decay. It was a two story ranch home with two cars in the driveway. It also had a fenced in swimming pool that so many of the neighborhood children had spent so many days in the summer. And a backyard that was wide enough to fuel the imagination of any child for days on end.

That sunny day, the daughter of the couple who lived there, Annie Holobrook, was playing with a tea set with her favorite dolls. When she heard the loud boom, she saw the giant explosion that was high in the sky. For only a brief moment, she wondered why they would be shooting fireworks during the day. After she lost interest, she went back to playing with her dolls. However, her parents did take an interest at the fireball in the sky.

"Jane, did you see that?" Donny Holobrook asked.

"I'm checking all the news web sites, now, but I don't see anything."

"Do you think it was a refinery?"

"No, it couldn't have been. They're in the other direction." Jane answered as her husband walked to her. As he stood over her shoulder, Jane felt a slight tremble through the hard wood floors. She ignored it, thinking it was just the dryer in the basement below; until she felt it again.

"Did you feel that?"

"Feel what?" Donny asked her. The tremble was felt again, but it felt more like a shudder. "I felt that." Donny said as the house shuddered. "Is that an explosion?"

"I don't know." Jane said as a harder shudder shook the house. "Where's Annie?" she asked as she began to look for their daughter.

Outside, Annie was still playing either stuffed animals. She hadn't even noticed the tremors at all. To her, everything was still normal and safe. She had no comprehension of time, life and death, or all the complications of the world around her. Everything was still black and white to her. Everything was normal. Until she saw the large shadow stretching over her, her toys, and a large part of the yard. Confusion grew in her mind to the reason of the strange shadow. Then she heard low and deep growl coming from behind her. She turned and saw a large pair of dirty green boots in front of her. She looked upward and squinted as she saw the rays of the sun peeking from behind the man's head. She covered her eyes like she had seen her mother do so many times, and saw the hooded man was looking down at her through the red goggles in his mask.

"Hi." She said to the one armed man, but received a growl in return. "Do you want some tea?" she asked as she held up an empty pink cup to the behemoth in front of her, but only received another growl in response.

"ANNIE!" her father shouted, causing her too look at her father as she saw him looking at her with wide eyes.

"Are you okay, daddy?" she asked him, unaware that the monster behind her had raised its spiked fist and was ready to bring it down upon her with all the strength it had in its arm. The only comforting thought would be that the little girl wouldn't see the final blow coming.

"LEAVE THAT KID ALONE!" John Stewart screamed as he flew in from out of the sky, forming a large battering ram with his ring and hitting the monster as hard as he possibly could.

The force of the blow actually cracked and crushed parts of the energy construct, but was effective in its task. The blow sent the monster flying slightly upward as it sailed over the rest of the houses, and crashed into one of the refinery silos. The impact from the creature caused it to explode in a giant explosion, causing the silo next to it to erupt in a fireball as well and shower the surrounding area in heated metal debris.

"Is she all right?" Stewart asked as both Donny and Jane held their crying daughter tightly in their arms.

"She's okay." Donny said with relief.

"Things are going to get ugly. All of you need to get out of here as fast as you can. Tell everyone else!" Stewart shouted as he took to the air and headed straight for where the creature landed.


Stewart had to strengthen his aura field as he entered the blaze. The smoke alone would have killed anything that got near the inferno. The heat inside was almost as bad as venturing inside a volcano. If it hadn't been for the ring, he would have been the human torch as soon as he touched down. Stewart had to venture slowly through the inferno as he looked for the masked monster. He hated having to kill, but there were some occasions when he didn't have a choice. Many of the missions he went on when he was a Marine, and a few times since he started his service in the Green Lanterns. But right now, after seeing what that thing was fixing to do without hesitation, he hoped to God that he had killed that bastard when he threw him into the silos.

The fire was so intense and the smoke was so thick, he could barley see anything. He would try to create something with his ring, but all his concentration was being used to keep himself from being burned and suffocated. But the worst thing about the inferno was that it was also good cover for something that didn't need protection from the fire and smoke.

John screamed as he felt four jagged claws hit him with enough force to pierce through the protective emerald field and claw him from the back of his head to the lower part of his jaw. The blow sent him staggering forward, barley missing the upstroke of the creature's next attack. Stewart turned and hit the creature with a powerful energy blast, sending him back a few feet. The creature looked up through the smoke and fire, the dark burned patch on his suit still smoking, and began to growl with rage as it looked at the Green Lantern.

"Great. I pissed him off." Stewart said to himself as he felt blood from his wound drip down his neck like it was water.

With a loud guttural scream of unbridled rage, the creature charged with its fist balled. The creature lashed out at him, but Stewart dodged and watched as the creature's fist went through solid concrete. Faster than he could follow, the creature brought his hand upward and backhanded Stewart. John tumbled out of the blaze and struck hard against what felt like a building. He looked up in time to see the spiked fist coming straight at his face and rolled out of the way, only to be kicked in the abdomen and knocked to the ground. He knew he had to get up, but his muscles wouldn't let him as they burned from the impact of the blow. He could feel and hear the creature running towards him, he had to get up!

The creature's foot slammed hard on John's forearm, snapping the bones like brittle twigs. John screamed in pain before the creature's other foot hit him in the face and caused him to begin to tumble. With the creature's foot anchoring him in place, John came to a stop as he felt his shoulder forcefully yanked out of joint and hard! Stewart screamed in pain as the creature only laughed like he had seen the world's funniest joke. The creature reached down and gripped Stewart tightly by the jaw. John was groaning in pain as he felt his arm lay limp at his side and the creature's jagged fingernails dug into the wounds on his jaw from the first blow. His groans were becoming more agonized screams as the creature chuckled and began to squeeze tighter.

"LET HIM GO!" Shayera shouted as she swooped in and bashed the creature in the face as hard as she could with her energized mace. The surprise from the unexpected attack made the creature drop John as he focused on the winged pest before him.

John's legs were weak, and his mind was flooded with all the pain that was in his arm in shoulder. He had to push through it. He knew Shayera couldn't take that thing on by herself. He looked down and saw that the bones were jutting from his arm like knives through meat. He quickly reached down and removed the ring as from his finger as he groaned from the massive pain with his arm only twitching. As soon as the ring was off, he stuck it in his mouth and began to slip his other ring finger through it. After it was on most of the way, he used his teeth to pull it on the rest of the way. He balled his fist and smiled when he saw the ring glow with life. Quickly, he began to tend to his broken arm as he stood back to his feet. He glared at the creature as it narrowly missed Shayera with one swing of its fist.

"HEY ASSHOLE!" Stewart shouted, causing the creature to look up at him. "You looked." He said as a large tank was formed and fired a shell directly at the creature.

The shell sent the monster flying through the metal behind with a loud crash, causing other machinery inside to collapse as the monster plowed through them. Shayera touched down and quickly rushed over to Stewart as the tank vanished.

"My God. He did this?" she asked as she saw the state he was in.

"The bastard – is – is tougher than I – than I thought." Stewart panted.

"You can't fight anymore. We've got to,"

"LOOK OUT!"

A piece of broken concrete shot out from the hole in the building, hitting Shayera directly in the head and knocking her unconscious. The creature rushed out with a scream of anger knocked John tot he side, causing him to hit a pipeline hard enough to bend it and knock him out cold as he fell to the ground in a heap. The creature stomped over to the man and began to raise his foot to squash him like a bug.

With speed of a cheetah, Vixen quickly rushed to the monster and used the strength of a rogue elephant to knock him off of his feet. The creature looked at the woman in the gold suit in confusion, wondering how in the world she was able to do that.

"You want him, you're going to have to get through me tall, green, and ugly." She said to the creature.

The creature stood and tried to ram the woman, only for her to sidestep out of his way and kicked him in the arm as hard as she could. The blow caused the fragment of bone that was growing out of his arm to break off, causing the creature to pause as it roared in pain. If Vixen could have had a moment to gloat, it was short lived. In its anger, it punched Vixen in the face with enough force to send her colliding into another silo with a resounding crack echoing in the air once she struck. She could feel her arm had been broken, and quickly used her talisman for the healing properties of a lizard to mend the bone quickly.

That's when the creature's fist slammed into her abdomen, lifting her a foot off the ground before he hit her again and again. Vixen was on her knees in agony as the monster grasped her firmly by the head and slammed her face first into one of the silos and slamming her in the back. Monique was bleeding from the four puncture wounds caused by the spikes as she tried to turn and fight. The monster's fist slammed hard against her face once, and then another. Her ears were ringing and her vision was blurred. She was slightly dizzy and could barley stand. The monster's fist slammed into her again, making her fall to one foot. Monique was bleeding from the wounds in her back, and from a few puncture wounds to her gut from the earlier blows. She was also bleeding from her nose, mouth, and possibly one of her ears. She tried to stand back up, clinging to the cold and hard silo for dear life. She was almost to her feet when the monster backhanded her, and dragged its claws across her chest.

Monique fell to the ground, barley conscious. Her costume was ripped with one breast exposed, and four deep cuts across her torso and bleeding all over herself. She didn't know where she was, and both of her eyes were swelling shut. She was in so much pain, she couldn't even mumble for one of her fellow teammates to save her. The monster grabbed Vixen by the arm and flung her away from him like a child with a broken toy.

"MONIQUE, NO!" Shayera cried as she tried to take to the air to catch her.

Shayera was only a few feet off the ground before she felt something grab her ankle and forcefully slam her into the ground hard before throwing her against a wall. With Stewart and Shayera crumpled into a heap, Monique flew through the air until she came crashing downward over a pipe with a loud thud. Fire, Ice, and Booster came running onto the scene after evacuating the neighborhood, only to find the horror that was left. They couldn't believe what they all saw before them. Two senior League members, and one of the most skilled heroes they ever saw, were all beaten within an inch of their lives. But it was Monique that looked worse for wear. Ice wasn't even sure if she was still breathing.

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Look what he did." Fire said to her teammates.

"Vixen?" Booster asked as he knelt by the injured woman's side. "My God. I never imagined – I didn't – she needs help. We've got to get her to a hospital."

"No. We have to go after what did this to them." Fire said.

"ARE YOU NUTS?! IF WE DON'T GET HER HELP, SHE COULD DIE!" Booster screamed.

"And if we don't stop that thing, who knows how many others will die!" Fire said.

"PLEASE!" Ice screamed, making them both stop arguing. "There has to be something we can do. We can't just leave her." Ice said as tears rolled down her face.

"I'll do it." Shayera said as she slowly rose to her feet, and wiped the blood from her mouth. "One of those emergency crews can get her to a hospital. I can at least get her that far." She said as she limped over to Monique and Stewart began to wake up.

"But we might need your help." Fire said.

"It'll take more than a mace to stop that thing. You three may have a better chance at him." Shayera said to them.

"Then we better go after him before it's too late." Booster said as he looked at the path of destruction the creature had made.

"I'm going with you." Stewart said as the energy from his ring set the bones in his arm as he did his best to hold back from screaming.

"Like hell you are. You're almost in as bad a shape as Vixen!" Shayera said to him.

"Like you said, their powers may be the only ones to have a shot, and they're going to need my ring. I have to do this, Shayera."

"Then get Du to help them. Or Kilowog,"

"It would take them too long to get here and you know it. I've got to do this."

"Even if it gets you killed?"

"I'm a Marine, Shayera. We don't die, we improvise." He said as he leaned in and grasped her lips with his, kissing her as deeply as he could. "Just make sure she gets help, and fast." John said to her.

Shayera lifted Vixen's limp body into her arms, and watched as the four went after the monster. She just hoped they would be all right. As she took to the air and saw her wounded friend, that hope began to dwindle at a fast pace. Shayera could never recall fighting such a creature like that before, not even when she fought the bounty hunter Lobo two years before she came to Earth. It was almost as if Armageddon had taken a physical form and had been unleashed upon the Earth.


"What's this big news?" Anne asked.

"What's that?" Kim asked her.

"What's the news you have for me? You told me you and Ronald wanted to tell me something."

"Mom, I think the news already said it." Kim told her.

"But is it true?" Anne asked her daughter. A large smile appeared on her face when her daughter raised her left hand and proudly showed the beautiful diamond ring that rested on her hand. "Congratulations, honey." Anne said as she hugged her daughter tightly, "I still can't believe it."

"Neither can I." Kal-El said as he walked in and rushed to the television set.

"What do you mean that you can't believe it? It's wonderful news." Anne said to the young man, making him pause.

"Wonderful? How can you consider something so horrible as wonderful?" Kal-El asked as he wondered if their sanity was still intact.

"KAL!" Anne said sternly.

"Kal-El, I thought you'd be happy that I'm engaged." Kim said to him.

"Engaged?" Kal asked them. Even though he had learned most of the human language, he still hadn't learned all of it yet.

"Kal, I'm going to get married." Kim said to him.

"Oh. Oh! You mean you thought I was talking about?" Kal asked as he suddenly became embarrassed. "Kara, that is great news. Really, it is. But I wasn't talking about your betrothal." He quickly said

"Then what were you talking about?" Kim asked him.

"This." Kal said as he turned on the television and quickly switched it to one of the news channels.

"We've just received word that members of the Justice League were unable to stop the creature that is now being called Doomsday. Wait just a moment." The reporter said as she listened to her ear piece. "Oh my God." She said before turning back to the camera.

"I have just received word that the heroine known as Vixen has just been hospitalized for massive injuries external and internal injuries caused by the creature, Doomsday. She is currently listed as stable, but still in critical condition."

"Monique." Kim gasped as she began to turn pale. Kim rushed to her purse and began digging through it, trying to find her ear piece as her breathing started getting faster. Out of frustration, she turned her purse ver and dumped the contents all over the coffee table. As soon as she found it, she activated it and jammed it into her right ear.

"J'onn? J'onn, can you hear me?!" Kim shouted.

"I'm here. I've been trying to contact you for the past hour."

"J'onn, is true? What they've been saying about Monique?"

"She's stable, but she isn't out of the woods yet. It would appear her talisman is still active, which why she isn't already dead."

"How bad is she hurt?"

"She has internal bleeding and trauma, as well as several stab wounds. She's also suffered severe head trauma and injuries to her spine. If she makes it, they don't know if she'll ever regain consciousness or walk."

"Oh, God." Kim said as several tears began to make themselves known. "They said members on the TV, J'onn. Who else is hurt?"

"Shayera has several broken ribs, a broken ankle as well as a fractured collar bone, and a concussion. From what she told me, John Stewart has several lacerations and a broken arm. She also said that it may also be dislocated. He's currently with Fire, Ice, and Booster pursuing Doomsday right now."

"Tell me where." Kim growled.


"Whoa. That thing's huge." Ice said as they finally caught up to Doomsday as he lay waste to car dealership.

"I still can't believe he did all this with one arm behind his back." Fire said as she saw him flatten a corvette.

"Believe it." Stewart said as he looked at his injured arm. "We need to take this thing down fast, but we need think of a plan of attack."

"I've got your plan of attack. We fry this thing until he looks like a bad order of KFC." Booster said and bolted after Doomsday.

"Stupid punk." Stewart growled as he flew in, hoping he could create a force field around him in time.

Booster charged his suit, aimed, and fired an energy blast out of both his gauntlets in the middle of the monster's back. The monster stood still as Booster saw a thick layer of smoke rising and smiled. He was sure the creature probably had a hole in him the size of a tire by now. The smile quickly faded when he saw he had only burned part of his clothes, and heard the monster growling. The creature turned and Booster saw that one of the eyepieces had been broken, and it revealed an eye covered by several bone spikes protruding from its eyebrow.

"Oops." Booster said as he activated his force field as John came up behind him.

Doomsday landed a swift uppercut to Booster's face, propelling him upwards and hitting John square in the face. As Booster flew higher and higher into the air, John collapsed to the ground and out as a light as blood ran down his face from his shattered nose and teeth. It didn't take the monster long to notice the emerald haired woman, and the woman with the snow white mane.

"YOU SON OF A WHORE!" Fire shouted as she was engulfed in emerald flame, making herself seem she was a living human torch.

She hovered above Doomsday as she unleashed an intense torrent of fire at the monstrosity. She was pouring everything she could into the fire blast, determined to make this creature pay for what he had done to her friends. She knew it was petty and un-heroic to want revenge, but she didn't care. From the torrent of flames, Doomsdays' fist shot forth and grasped fire by her face and shoved her into the concrete as hard as he could. With a growl of frustration, Doomsday lifted a GMC Canyon high above his head and slammed it down upon the fire maiden and laughed as her fire ignited the gas tank and caused the vehicle to explode.

Ice quickly ran forward and extinguished the flames by covering the smoldering vehicle in a large block of ice. With only a moment to act before Doomsday was on top of her, the heroine immediately turned her powers on the monster. More and more ice and snow began to form all over the creature's body as he began to slow. Soon, the creature was entombed in several feet of thick, solid ice. The young woman breathed a sigh of relief as she turned to what was left of the truck and dove next to it. She could see fire was underneath the heap, and that her powers might have protected her from the explosion.

"Fire? Fire, it's Tora. Please Beatriz, wake up." Ice said to her.

By the time she heard the sound of ice shatter, it was already too late for her. Doomsday was screaming with pure rage as he punched Ice in the side, sending her flying over the burned heap and landing hard on her back. She barley had to time to gasp when the heap was destroyed by Doomsday tearing through the wreck and kicked Ice in the ribs, sending her flying through the glass doors of the dealership and into the showroom. Her sides felt they were on fire, and it was painful for her to breath. She could feel pieces of glass in her hands and on her face as she began to feel various places begin to ooze warm blood. She didn't even know how she was thrown in here. The monster was just too fast. She was shaking all over as she tried to prop herself up, until a massive weight slammed into her ribs again. As the second blow hammered on top of her, she realized too late that it was the monster's fist as it came down a third and a fourth time.

Ice was curled up into a fetal position as she felt the pain flood all through her. It was too much for her to handle. It was hurting so bad that she was actually trying to cry, but no sounds were coming from her as she winced, cringed, and wept all at the same time. But doomsday wasn't finished with her yet. Not satisfied yet, the monster let out a loud yell as his fist tore into a wall and ripped out most of it as he yanked his arm all the way across. With out the support of the load bearing wall, the ceiling cracked and broke apart. Pieces of plaster, installation, and ventilation ducks crashed on top of ice, with pieces of office equipment from the upper floor adding to it. With no sign of visible movement, the monster turned and stomped away as he took out the other wall of the showroom.


He couldn't believe what had happened to him. He had barley got his force field up in time before that thing sucker punched him. The force field in his suit could take on many things, but he still felt that punch hit him like a ton of bricks. He wasn't sure, but he thought he had hit someone or something as he was sent skyward. He was trying to activate his gyros to try and gain some control, but his speed wouldn't allow it. This was just so wrong – on so many levels. He knew that he needed some sense knocked into him, but not like this. He had let down the League, and his team. There was no telling what the thing had done the rest of them. What was he going to do now?

"I think this your stop." An all too familiar voice said as something caught him by the scruff of his uniform and bringing him to forceful stop.

"YOU!" Booster said in shock as he saw the flowing red cape and the familiar blue uniform.

"What happened?" Superwoman asked him.

"It's unbelievable. This thing took down most of us with one hand behind his back! He even sent me up here!" Booster said.

"What about Vixen?" she asked him.

"She – it didn't look good. That thing just – I couldn't," Booster said, but couldn't find the words to explain. "Listen SW, I'm sorry about being an ass. I had no idea what you guys went up against." He tried to say.

"Now's not the time or the place. Just show me where you last saw that thing."

"Sure." Booster said as he lead the way with Superwoman following right behind him. Round One was over, and Round Two was fixing to begin.