*CNN Breaking News*
"In what can only be described as a miracle, the invasion in Metropolis has been aborted. Three meta-humans, Superman, The Green Lantern and The Batman infiltrated and destroyed the factory producing poisonous fumes that the invaders built. The Army reports that after their mission, the amazon princess Wonder Woman joined their group. They are currently on route to Central City to destroy the emplacement there. Current reports coming out of there that the local meta-human, The Flash, has managed to stave off the invaders. CNN will have up to the minute coverage on this situation as it progresses. In other news, Meta-humans around the world have band together to fight this invasion off, Russia's Captain…
(Batman)
They were close now. Bruce prepared to put his mask on, when he saw it. There was no factory here. And despite it being pitch Black, there were still signs that Central City was still standing. They landed right outside the city and convened. It was night, but it didn't matter. Between Lantern radiating light and the glow coming off Wonder Woman, darkness wasn't a problem. He hated it. He was used to being a man of the Shadows. All this light made it hard for him to hide. But he had the ability to organize better than them, and that made him important.
"So wheres this Flash guy you were talking about Batman?" asked Superman
"Right here." A man clad in crimson with a lightning bold on his chest. He looked exhausted. He was bouncing on his toes. He was what Bruce thought, a super speed hero. To the Others though, he was a marvel. They all looked surprised when he just, appeared. Funny, out of the 4 of them, the one without superpowers was the only one unsurprised
"Where did you come from?" asked Lantern.
"Oh, I'm all around. I move pretty quick. Here one second, there another. They call me the Flash." True to his word, he was next to each of them after each bit of speech. Bruce wondered to himself just how fast this guy was. "And you are?"
"Superman."
"Green Lantern."
"I am Diana of Themyscira, you may call me Wonder Woman."
"Batman. What's the situation here?"
"These things are everywhere, I've been running around all day putting out fires. The more i take out, the more come back to replace them. They had This smoke machine but I took it out. Wasn't easy though."
"Wait you took out the smoke making machine alone?!" Superman asked.
"Yeah why?"
"It took all three of us to take out just one."
"Well I just vibrated my molecules through walls and those things, and bang, they exploded. Just vibrated through the mainframe and destroyed the thing. Fell apart and they haven't been pushing that hard since."
"Well right now I can see some bad news heading this way right now."
"What is it." asked Batman
"A massive spaceship heading this way."
"How can you see that?" asked Wonder Woman
"Telescopic vision."
"Well I would like to know more of what you all can do after this crisis is averted."
"Sure thing."
"Id like to show her some of my abilities if you know what I mean." Said Lantern to Flash. The two men seemed to be getting along fast. Wonder Woman gave him a strong glare, before turning her attention back to Superman.
"Can you see whats on board?" asked Batman
"No, its lined with lead. But its bigger than most ships in orbit.
"Then we need to get ready for them. Lantern use your ring-" But he was cut off by a plasma blast whizzing by him."
"We have incoming." Said Lantern.
Flash zipped forward, barely visible to the others. The "incoming" was massive. Flash started to punch through some of the invaders. Superman flew forward to, blasting the enemy with heat vision pouring out of him. Lantern made a shield for him and Batman. Wonder Woman unsheathed her short sword and flung herself into battle.
"Give me your worst foul beasts!" slicing through enemy after enemy. The cuts didn't seem to matter, the enemy was able to re-attach itself after.
"Wonder Woman, your sword isn't working!" yelled Batman
"Understood." Dianna replied. Sheathing her blade, she grabbed her lasso. The lasso coiled itself around her arm. She swung it around and pulled it around one of the enemies. It writhed in pain, its skin began bubbling from the heavenly Olympian glow the lasso had. Wonder Woman started to spin, faster and faster until she was moving like a blur. she was swinging the Enemy around and it was smashing into several other enemies.
"Lantern go, we need to get rid of theses things." ordered Batman
"What about you?"
"I have an idea, just go!"
"All right batty boy. Good luck."
Bruce actually didn't have any idea what to do, but he needed to think. Sunlight was the weakness of these things. Only downside was it was about 8:00 and even if the remainder of this smog, whatever it was wasn't blocking the sun, the sun would be down. So Bruce looked in front of him, and began to fight. Several of the things took up a firing position at him and he ducked behind some rubble surrounding him. He rushed the lead and raised its rifle to the right. He took the weapon discarded it. He spun and punched hard across the 'head' of the thing. Over the course of the last few weeks, he had added a few features to his armor, specifically his gloves. These ones were slightly thicker, and they also had a nice electric shock that he could use. Of which, he decided it was time to use. He flipped the circuit on his wrist and went to work, he cracked two of the things hard. Their bodies convulsed with what he imagined with pain. Bruce looked ahead, and despite all of their efforts, there was no end in sight. Bruce looked around. Superman was the closest to him right now, currently holding a building up as several civilians escaped. He grappled over to him.
"Superman, where is that ship?"
"Unhh… Right now id say its 5 minutes out. Why?"
"We need to clear these things out, and Lanterns almost out of power."
Superman let the building fall. From what he could see, his armor looked worn out and he looked even worse.
"If you guys can hold out for a few minutes without me, then I can get above those clouds."
"What would happen if you did?"
"My strength and powers come from sunlight, and I'm running on empty. I haven't had sunlight in about 14 hours and ive been fighting that whole time. So I'm pretty tired if you can imagine."
"How long would you need?"
"Hard to say. 2, 3 minutes at the very most."
"Do you have enough to find the Flash?"
"What about me?" Damn. That was annoying. Now he knew how those criminals felt when he did it to them.
"Flash, relay to all the others that we need to hold out for 2 minutes."
"Why?"
"I need to gather my strength. Actually I have a pretty good idea."
"Ill be off then." Flash said, and in that instant, he was away.
"Whats your plan?"
"If I get enough strength, and flay as fast as I can, maybe I can put a hole in that mother ship."
"And if you cant?"
"Then ill have wasted our time and well probably be sunk."
"I cant think of anything better." In flat honesty, He was lying. His plan was the exact opposite, he intended to go inside the ship, and use a special virus he had on it to shut the whole thing down. Now some would say this was a cliché, having a computer virus that will destroy the alien menace, but to be fair, Bruce never intended to use it for something like this. It was a plan to shut down power in any of the buildings he owned on command. It was a long shot, but Bruce couldn't see any other way this was going to happen. Supermans plan was therefore far better.
"Well, lets get on it." And at that, superman flew above the clouds and into space. Bruce turned and continued to fight. He just had to hope that Superman would get back in time.
(Wonder Woman)
Diana was alive, despite being surrounded by death. She was slaying all variety of foe, big and strong, small and cunning. Obliterating them with her strong punches, her lasso burning the very soul of their enemies. But she could not go on forever. Her short sword, how desperately she wished she could un-sheath it and slaughter her enemies.
As if on cue, Diana charged forward against another wave of foes, the sky blackened with smoke from around the world, Gaia herself was sure to be weeping over the damage caused to her. As she wash charging, the enemies, and even her allies slowed to a near stop. Even Flash, normally a red blur, was still. She knew who it had to be.
"Lord Hermes?"
"Diana of Themyscira, Father Zeus and Lady Hera have seen your plight. Hephaestus has brought you a new weapon, specifically for this war."
"My thanks Lord Hermes. Please be sure to extend this thanks to Hephaestus. I will pray to lady Hera when this crisis is averted."
"Good luck Diana, this crisis, will need all 5 of you to work together to end it. Have faith." And he was gone. Unlike the Flash, who you could see a little bit with some slight concentration, Hermes was pretty much teleporting. His speed was unequal to any in the universe.
Diana felt a warmth in her hand, and saw that her sword was now glowing with the radiance of the sun. as she looked up, she saw things were starting to speed back up, she began to charge forward, slicing her enemies. The golden radiance in her hand destroying them, making it impossible for them to reform. She looked around, The green lantern was using his magic ring (And no matter what he said, that ring was magic; science, even advanced ones were just a byproduct of magic.) to create a giant fist that was smashing through several of the walkers, and some of the flying beasts. The Flash was saving lives from the menace and punching the things. Having no armor or supernatural strength, his hand was probably broken or going to break.
Speaking of not having supernatural strengths; or any powers for that matter, The Batman was… Talking to Superman. Flash popped in and out quickly.
"Wonder Woman, this is a radio. Let's Batman talk to all of us."
"What are he and Superman talking of?"
"Don't know, gotta run." And he was away.
Diana flew quickly over to Batman, arriving a moment after Superman flew off into the clouds. He was beyond the clouds in moments.
"Batman" She yelled 10 meters out "Where is Superman going? Why has he abandoned us in our hour of need?" She said with quite a bit of anger
"No, He's going to try and save us in fact."
"How? By cowardice!?"
"He gains his powers from the sun, and currently needs some of Apollo's help."
"You believe in the Olympians?" she asked curiously. In the modern day of patriarchs world, most men had abandoned the old gods.
"No. I went around the world and studied many things. Among others included Greek, Hindu and Norse Mythology."
"Why?"
"I was bored."
And at that, she became very surprised. A man who studied religion, especially hers was deem ably impressive by her count.
"We, need to get moving. Wonder Woman, there are civilians trapped on 5th and Kentucky avenue."
"Where is that?"
Batman looked a bit annoyed. He pointed to a place that had a serious fire burning. There were several walkers attacking the National Guard, desperately trying to hold them back. Diana Used her gift from Hermes and flew quickly at the monsters. As she was cutting away through her enemies, she decided to use her communicator device that Batman had given out. She was busy cutting away through swaths of enemies. The building looked dangerously unstable. Flash needed to get here faster than Dionysus got intoxicated.
She put two fingers next to her ear, the one that had the device in it. It made a quick beeping. She started talking, and just hoped that the device was letting everyone else hear her.
"Flash, I need some help here."
The device started talking back. And it sounder like the flash but there was something about it. "Sorrydiannaimabitbusyatthemomentyouronyourownforalittle."
"What was that?"
"IMMMMBUSSY" He yelled, as she pulled back from how loud the noise was.
"Diana, when flash is busy, his molecules are vibrating. Unh… he cant stop moving, and so his words get jumbled."
"Ill fix it later. Superman will be smashing the Mothership in a few minutes. We need to hold out for 2 minutes. Diana, come to the park, where we just were. The Army is here, and they need help. Lantern, anything in the air, we need you to take care of."
"Alright, but im at about 20% on my ring, you better tell Superman to hurry up."
"Why?'' She asked
"When my ring dies, im useless."
"Flash, there's civilians trapped around the city, I need you to do what you can to help."
"Sure thing Bat's."
"What about you Batman?"
"Don't Worry about me. Ill be Fine."
And with that, Diana went into the park, to the defensive line that the Army had set up. The men were set up behind a shallow trench and sandbags. Several tanks were firing. Diana found the middle, and pulled out the long slender sword and the smaller hoplon that Hephaestus had forged for her. Hephaestus was possibly her favorite among the pantheon (Although she would never let Hera know, forbid if that were to happen.) He was the one responsible for creating the most current mantle armor. He had done well with his mothers but as soon as she won the tournament, defeating Artemis, the previous Wonder Woman who held the title for about 200 year's, the 2nd longest streak. Mother held the 1st. She was the 1st Wonder Woman, and had held the title for almost 1,000 years, and only stopped being Wonder Woman when she grew bored of it. Until Artemis took the title, and even then, only very late in her reign, it was only a title that displayed the best fighter on the island. Dianna won the title, a full 12 months ago. When the Bana-Midgal and Amazon Games happened, she, according to her mother, had the most dominating display in the history of the game. But her accomplishments were getting to her head a bit. She needed to inspire these men, and lead them to a victory. Possibly the most important in the history of the world.
"What is Fear? What is it to be afraid? A farce. The Eyes of the world are upon us, all of us. Will we shrink from this moment? Will we let these invaders take what is ours?! Stand, and Fight, fight until your last Breath. Do not give an inch, Do not surrender. Fight on, and we will prevail, We Will WIN!" and so she charged forward like a bullet. Actually faster than a bullet because she pushed off just as all the men on the line erupted in fire, the bullets were just as fast as she was. The tank rounds however were not. She made her impact at the same time as the high explosive rounds around her. The bullets were hitting harder than the ones the National Guard were firing. She cut through hordes of enemies, melting them away. The army started blasting, Heavy caliber bullets, explosive rounds, armor piercing rounds, all sorts of different rounds cutting the enemy down. Diana looked back, but only when The Martians stared to pull back. She raised her Sword, and all the men cheered. She turned around, only to be met with a massive ray of light. It obliterated her shield that was built into he, and her physical armor splintered. The pain was more than immense, like nothing she had ever felt before. She fell to the ground. The Walkers started to come forward, and drones were flying overhead. Why though? Where was Lantern?
"Batman… Where is… Where is Superman? She barely managed to get out before she slipped, mercifully, into unconsciousness.
But just before she did, she heard from in her ear, Green Lantern saying "Im sorry… Batman Im Sorry."
Author's Note
Sorry if that speech isn't very good. I tried, really i did haha.
The white Martians in this are vulnerable to sunlight. That blade that Wonder Woman is given has the power of Apollo in it, so that is why it is effective at permanently keeping them down.
If you have any thoughts or opinions, share some ideas with me, go ahead and leve me a review. I really will read them and take them to heart.
And if your reading this, and read the prior chapters, hoestly thank you. You really dont understand how much it means to me. Thank you. Have a great day
