Following the events of Victory.
The Batcave, Fourty-Two Years after the bombing of Metropolis.
An elderly Bruce Wayne stands before the computer of the Batcave. The screen growing more distorted as a constant tremor and thudding go off, shaking the whole cave.
"How did it come to this?" Bruce thought to himself. "It can end like this." He then looked to the monitor one last time as an image of the old League appeared on screen before going black.
Bruce clenched his fist and stepped back from the controls. A suit similar to that of the Arkham Knights design then formed around Bruce. It seemed to have surged with Bane's Venom and Bruce let out a loud grunt. He turned and made his way towards the elevator as the tremors continued.
Meanwhile, on the surface, Wayne Manor has become a battle-field.
The Mansion was caved in and front yard decimated. Solomon Grundy stood in the family cemetery, tossing headstones at the armored soldiers that had invaded The Fortress Of Solitude. Most of them were able to swat the headstones apart and continue firing as their armor was already programmed with strength to face off with the likes of Cyborg Superman. Grundy found himself surrounded and being riddled with bullets, but he would not go down so easily. He let out a roar and clapped his hands together, sending out a shockwave that flung back most attackers from the front.
Grundy then ran forward and lept into the sky, landing atop of a wall to Wayne Manor and escaping his attackers for the moment. He glanced up to see a green streak fly over head as three jets followed it. Hal, the reformed Green Lantern, was caught in a dogfight with three F-22's. Pioliting them were three of the armored soldiers and he was fully aware as to what happens once their armor is hit by a Meta's powers. The jets were not attacking him but those below, bombing the Manor and anyone caught down there, baiting Hal to attack. But he was more clever than they had thought.
Hal used his powers on the jet closes to him, by constructing a set of scissors to literally clip one of its wings. The jet drifted to the left and crashed into the second, leaving only one. Hal contructed a weight around the remaining aircraft and watched it plummet from the sky, crashing into the ground and skidding towards the mashed in front gate. As the jet came to a stop, a single figure placed a steel clad boot onto the dented nose of the fallen F-22.
Victory stood at the gate, fully suited. She looked to the sky with Hal reflecting off of her visor.
"Give me all you've got, Lantern." She said to herself.
"To kill the snake, you must cut its head off." Hal thought to himself.
Hal constructed a series of missiles to launch at Victory, letting each of them fly. His eyes then widened as he saw something that chilled him to the bone. Victory's image began to fade as one of her soldiers appeared in her place. His suit had managed to project a perfect image of Victory and mimic her voice perfectly. The soldier was obliterated but now, somewhere, Victory's suit had adapted to fight back the power of Will. Meaning, all of her survivng soldiers were now able to as well.
The forces below discover that they can now construct weapons they think of with their armor as well as power them with the Yellow energy of Fear. Some constructed flame throwers as they pursued Grundy, others with blades as they took swings at The Flash, of whom which has been doing his best to avoid coming in contact with a single soldiers suit. Resorting to tossing debris and redirecting fire back at the soldiers by turning the bullets around. His job just got a lot harder though.
Some of the rubble is then tossed aside as Batman breaks his way out of the Batcave. He storms through, ready for a fight thanks to the Venom. One of the soldiers turns to face him, constructing a massive blade from his gauntlets wrist. Batman blocked him and snaps the construct before spinning it around in his hands and running it through the soldiers stomach. Batman then stumbles back as he's shot in the right shoulder by another soldier. His armor was not phased by this attack but his rage grew. Batman stormed ahead, raring to fight.
Meanwhile, Grundy is leaping from the top of the remaining Wayne Manor structure and slamming into the ground below with his fists parting the earth. Soldiers try to scatter as Grundy hits the floor but stumble as the ground shakes. Grundy grabs hold of one of them by the head and swings him into two others sending them flying into a crypt in the graveyard. The soldier Grundy was gripping onto wound up blowing his arm apart with a beam from his visor that mimiced Cyborg Superman's Heat Vision. Mutant maggots flew out of Grundy's arm as it shattered and he bled black sludge. He showed signs of tiring as he placed his remaining arm over his oozing shoulder. Solomon looked around as more soldiers began to surround him with their visors charging. He then let out one last roar before charging back into battle.
Back with Hal, he continued to lay down some fire from above, maintaining the air advantage with the jets gone. And now that the suits were adapted to his powers already, there was no reason for him to hold back. Elsewhere, Victory herself stood atop of a hill. She constructed a rifle from her armor and charged it with the yellow energy. She took a moment of silence and aimed. With Hal caught in her crosshairs she took the shot and watched through her scope as the Lantern fell back to earth.
The Flash looked up when he heard the shot go off and saw Hal falling from the sky. He watched to see where Hal was falling to and bolted over to him. The Flash saw some of the soldiers swarmming Hal as he neared the ground, each of them with a blade construct readied to skewer him. So he began to viberate his body and discharged enough energy to knock them all out of his way, allowing him to catch Hal before he hit the floor. Flash looked around as he noticed some of the soldiers helms were begining to move and track him while in the speed force. They weren't as fast as him but their power was growing. Back on the hill, Victory looked to her armor as it started coursing with electricity.
"Yes." She said to herself before testing her new speed and running over to the battle-field.
Batman is then seen slamming his way through the wall the had seaperated the Wayne's property from the rest of the world with two of the soldiers being held in each hand and acting as his battering ram. Batman tossed the unconscious men to the side and turned as Flash caught up to him with Hal dying in his arms.
"Bruce, I'm sorry." Flash said.
Flash then dropped Hal as a blade is then stuck through him from behind. Victory was standing behind Flash with a gun pressed up against the back of his head.
"You heal too quickly." She said before pulling the trigger. "And then there was you, Mister Wayne."
"Mister Wayne was my father's name." Batman said as he stood before Victory. "A name you'll never utter ever again."
"My suit is the miracle of modern science. Funded by the Tax Payers money, the results of reverse engineering your former companions, Cyborg, Motherbox and the genetic structure of the monster Doomsday. Atop of that, I was given the same syrum that made Slade Wilson into Deathstroke. What can you possibly hope to do to halt my ascension into godhood?" Victory asks.
"My best!" Batman answered.
The two stormed over to each other, raising a fist up and ready to strike at each other. The two socked one another across their helms. Batman was to hyped on Venom to feel any pain though and followed his punch with an uppercut. Victory reeled back and Batman proceeded his onslaught by dropping an elbow onto Victory's stomach, causing her to collapse to the ground. Batman then went on to stomp on Victory, trying to break her helm but suffered the same fate as Gunrdy's arm when she answered his assault with a visor beam.
The armor around his leg was dented and peeled back for the most part. Meanwhile, Victory stood back up, her armor perfectly fine. She constructed a blade from her wrist and swung it at Batman whom had caught it. He tried breaking it as he did the one before but the hive-mind connection the armors sharred had adapted to his suits strength and strengthened the blade. Victory then delivered a quick and brutal sock across Batman's helm, cracking it. She then forced him down to his knees with another blast from the visor beam.
Victory turned as she heared a rocket thruster go off and was hit head on by the Batmobile. The armored tanks rolled over her and left her to singe in the flames blasting out from behind it. With time to breath, Batman got back up and slammed the device that was pumping Venom through his armor, causing it to change it's color from green to red. He turned as Victory got back up, her suit scortching red from her helm down to her shoulders. Lighting coursed up and down her armor as she charged up for a run. She bolted ahead and locked arms with Batman.
"Going Nuclear, Wayne?" Victory asked. "I'll get back up."
"I have others that'll put you down!" Batman answered.
His suit then began to glow bright red. An explosion goes off, kicking up a mushroom cloud that can be seen from Gotham City.
Elsewhere, Five-Thousand miles away from Gotham City.
Supergirl was listening to everything.
"They're all gone." She said.
Blue Beetle, Firestorm and Starfire all looked to her.
"You can't be serious." Beetle said.
"Damn it, we should've been there with them!" Firestorm shouted.
"They had to buy us time. That was the plan." Starfire answered him.
"Starfire is right." A voice said, catching all of their attention.
Terry McGinnis then steps out of the shadows with Raven behind him.
"They did their job, now it's time we do ours." Terry said.
To Be Continued...