This chapter feels way better when you play Into A Dark Dawn. The YouTube channel HDSoundI posted it and I would recommend listening to that one (because I haven't listened to the other ones). Enjoy!
The second comet falls through the sky, orange and red fire blazing around it. It heads toward a large skyscraper in Metropolis, crashing straight through it, leaving a large hole in its wake. Not long after, the tower toppled over, bringing a shorter one with it.
The inferno crash lands at an intersection, a ripple of earth and stone spreading outward. Everything around the intersection is set ablaze. Cars are flipped over and sides of buildings have been nothing but destroyed. Fire engines roar down the streets and pedestrians inspect the crater timidly. Heat waves radiate from the crater.
One particular pedestrian peered over the edge. She gasps. "There's a person down there!"
Murmurs broke out among the people, all if them inching closer to the edge. One man stiffens. If there is a person down there, they must need help!
Ignoring the how and the why, the man vaults into the crater. Many people attempt to stop him. The fire engines come to a stop, firefighters jumping out and holding back any more people who wants to join the other guy.
The man is confused. The glass should be scorching hot, but it is cool to the touch. It gives off heat, but feels as cool as a cold glass of milk.
He inches his way down the crater, approaching the figure draped in black. He stares down at the young...woman? A girl lays on the ground unconscious. Her long straight black hair is spread out beneath her, her bangs hanging in her face. Her eyelashes are long, and her skin an almost unhealthy pale. Her ears are pointed. She looks like a normal teenager, despite her outfit. What a strangely beautiful woman. She's very...under dressed...but beautiful nonetheless. She almost looks like a fallen angel.
Inching closer to her face, the man can't help but examine her up close.
Restarting systems…
The girl's eyes snap open, revealing deep red threatening orbs with white crosses in the middle. She looks at the man above her, eyebrows furrowing slightly, black bangs in her face slightly shifting to the side.
"Hey, you just fell out of the sky. Are you okay?" The man's face expresses concern.
'Vertex, options.'
Most effective tactic: Exterminate the lower life form.
The girl's hand suddenly closes around the man's neck.
"Tell me, naked rat," she slowly stands up, picking the man up with her. "What planet am I on?" Her eyes glow beneath her bangs.
"E-Earth…"
"Tch." With a twitch of her fingers, the man's neck snaps in two, effectively ending him.
Umbra, a more effective tactic would have been to burn him and get rid of the evidence.
'No time. We must eliminate the Justice League.'
"Where did she go?!" Jaime, as the Blue Beetle, grunts in frustration.
Unable to track heat signature.
"What do you mean you can't track her heat signature? You just did."
Unable to determine.
"Oh por favor."
"Everything okay, Blue?" Bart looks up at his friend, a little concerned.
"The Scarab can't track her."
"She's heading for the other comet right? She must be heading in that direction."
"Where did it land?"
Metropolis.
"It landed in Metropolis," Jaime relays to Bart.
The two quicken their pace, moving as fast as they can to catch up with the alien.
Meanwhile, said alien, is flying at breakneck speed, wings tucked in, the fires of Metropolis in sight. Her eyebrows furrow. So, the Nether has already attacked. Aurora's eyes glow gold.
'Cortex, enhance vision. Zoom by 1600%.'
Enhancing…
Her vision zoomed in deeply, her seeing the other alien hovering in the air, great shadowy wings outstretched from similar disks like hers.
'Switch to infrared.'
Switching…
Her vision switched to a gold, green, orange, and blue, blue being the most heated objects. Examining the surroundings and the other alien, her vision switched back to normal and she propels forward with a new burst of speed.
Blue Beetle and Kid Flash race into Metropolis. They look around, seeing people running everywhere as police and firefighters attempt to control the chaos. Blue Beetle flies into the air and aids in calming down the population, sending them down the road leading out of the city.
A blast of black energy destroys a nearby building, blasting it apart and sending debris in every direction. Some hit people, making them drop to the ground and not get back up.
"Evacuate faster! Kid, what's going on?"
"I don't know. Some super villain or death ray."
"Can you go check it out?"
"Sure, hair-man-o." Bart's improper pronunciation makes Jaime sigh. Kid Flash races off, evading the black energy blasts before they hit him. He rounds a corner and gasps at all the destruction. Buildings are torn apart, the asphalt is in pieces, bodies lie almost everywhere, and a swirling mass of darkness rotates in the center of it all. Speeding forward, Bart takes refuge behind a car sitting on top of itself somewhat close to the storm. Using his goggles, he zooms in and sees...Aurora? A really dark version of Aurora? No. That's not her. But she looks similar to the alien they met earlier.
Bart zooms back to where Jaime guides pedestrians. He stops in front of the armored teenager as he finishes guiding the people to safety.
"There's some dark lady on a rampage. She looks like Aurora but it's not Aurora but she looks just like Aurora but it isn't her so...whaaaaat?"
"Find more people and evacuate them. Then call the Justice League. I'll check it out."
Just as he was about to set off, Bart grabs his wrist. "Wait, dude, it's seriously crash over there. Maybe we should wait for the League?"
"If it's Aurora we need to stop her. We found her. For now I'll check it out." And so Blue Beetle takes off towards the Aurora look-alike. He stops in front of the tornado of black, the alien's back towards him. Her long black hair whips around her, and large black wings similar to the golden alien's protrude from disks. The pale woman turns around to face him, the bangs partially covering her her right one more than the left, moving with the wind. Jaime gulps. She looks evil. She looks deadly. Her red eyes glow within the blackness, giving off an evil aura like any other mad villian. She sneers.
"Who are you, tiny rat?"
"Uh…" Jaime is stunned. Aurora can't speak perfect English, yet this alien can. The woman's eyes narrow in annoyance.
"Speak!"
Blue Beetle stiffens. Bossy alien. What did he ever do to her? "I'll tell you if you tell me."
"Moron. I don't have to tell you anything."
"It's my planet."
"But you are of the Reach. Is this your planet? Do you even belong here?"
Jaime sighs in frustration. How much longer will he have to keep telling people he's not controlled by the Reach anymore? "They don't control me anymore. I am a hero of Earth and Earth only."
"I see. Very well. I am Umbra, warrior of Nether Rubicon. Now state your name and affiliation."
He can't tell her about The Team. Might as well state only half the truth. "I am Blue Beetle."
"No affiliation?"
"Si."
'Vertex, define 'si.''
Unknown. Sub language of Earth. Not learned. Presumed to mean yes.
"You mean you are not of the Justice League?"
"No."
The alien turns her back. "Then you are of no interest to me."
The Scarab enhances Jaime's vision, making him able to see through the dark smoke. He sees the alien dressed in similar armor as Aurora's, but grey and slightly more revealing.
"Wait, what do you want with the Justice League?"
Jaime Reyes, based on hostile intent I believe she intends on eliminating the Justice League.
"What?!"
Umbra's eyes flash. He knows too much. She raises an armored arm and her hands glow purple and black. Eyes flashing a dim crimson, a blast of energy shoots from her hand. Jaime barely manages to dodge it. This alien came to Earth to destroy their heroes. Can she even do that? Is it even possible a teenager can do such a thing. She looks so young, her body possessing the qualities of a sixteen year old. But even so, she has the mentality of a soldier in their late twenties. She seems so dedicated to fulfill her mission.
Jaime frowns. He will stop her.
"I won't let you kill them!"
"Irrelevant. There is no way you can possibly stop me." The crosses in Umbra's eyes turn a bit and enlarge.
Target acquired.
Spreading apart her wings even more, they seem to grow in size. The tornado widens. Umbra raises both her arms, back of her fingers tilted down. She opens them up so her palms are shown. An invisible force pushes Jaime back, sending him crashing into a nearby building. He growls. She snaps, feathers shooting out of her wings and sticking halfway into the concrete around Jaime. Turning his arm into a sonic cannon, he manages to deflect most of the feathers. One impales in his left thigh. He pulls it out, hissing in pain, and flies into the air. Umbra's dark red eyes follow Jaime's movement, her expression unfazed.
Those things pierced his armor! It's time to get serious.
Jaime's weapon switches to a plasma cannon. He shoots at the disks of Umbra's wings. The wings suddenly coats itself with metal and turns into a large grey shield with black trimming and purple gems. The plasma blast melts against the surface of the shield, which instantly turns back into wings.
Can Aurora's wings do that too?!
Jaime Reyes, that tactic will remain ineffective as long as the wings are intact.
"How do I get rid of them, genius?"
Best tactic: get in close range proximity and disable with sonic cannon.
"How am I supposed to get close?"
You figure it out.
"Ay, mi amigo. Fine."
"Are you talking to the mech on your back?" Umbra's face keeps its neutral expression. "The Reach once came to my world. We drove them and their mechs away. We used the mech that tried to turn against us to learn their technology and build our own mecha."
Umbra gestures to her own armor: a grey strip around her upper torso, exposed stomach, large shoulder guards, full armor down her arms, a piece on her collar bone, and a low hip guard. Slates of metal hang from the hip guard by thick hinges, like an armored skirt. She's wearing black bikini-like bottoms and mid-thigh armored boots. Jaime squints.
"There's no way you made that based off of Reach tech."
"It's not based off of Reach technology. It's made to destroy Reach technology. We've simply improved it for other purposes since then."
"That's how you pierced my armor."
"Yes. But no one else will know once I've eliminated you. Good bye, naked rat." Umbra's extended wings glowed a light purple and so did her outstretched palms.
A bright golden light suddenly shone. Jaime looks up and sees a bright orb in the sky.
"Sh-Stop, Nether!"
The light dimmed and Aurora floats in the sky, golden wings spread in an angel-like manner. Her hair blows slightly in the wind as she stared down Umbra. Reaching an arm out, light starts radiating from her palm. The dark alien copies Aurora's action and aims her other at Blue Beetle.
"If you shoot, Sun Rubi, I will make sure this rat is finished."
Aurora's face contorts to a conflicted expression.
'Cortex, best option.'
Remove the victim from danger and proceed with attack.
Aurora's hand flicks, Jaime suddenly being pulled to the side. A bright white beam shoots from the golden alien's palm, propelling Umbra back. The dark alien growls.
"I will come back! I will eliminate your chance at help. I WILL destroy the Justice League!"
With that, the alien shoots into the sky, zooming off in another direction. Jaime looks at Aurora, who states after the other alien. She slowly descends and touch the ground. Jaime lands next to her. He studies her face. Its very neutral, pretty much expressionless. Her eyes move to look back at him, the white cross tilting and enlarging.
Aurora, Kryptonian life form detected. Approaching fast.
Aurora's face brightens up. She turns around, seeing the man with the famous S shield on his chest. A small smile graces the golden alien's lips. She walks forward and does an awkward bow once Superman landed. The Kryptonian raises an eyebrow. The rest of the League begins arriving group by group, the strange alien bowing to each group. The Team arrives soon after. Aurora stares at them, unsure of who they are.
"L-League?" she asks somewhat tentatively.
"Uh, sort of," replies Nightwing.
"O-Oh." She performs the awkward bow.
Batman approaches. Aurora gives him a bow and stares him straight in the face.
"Me…nume...name...is Aurora." She speaks the sentence slowly, awkwardly. "H-help...me…please."
Batman's eyebrows furrow. "We will take you to a place for questioning. Then we will see if we help you. Understand?" Aurora nods. "We will need to knock you out. Are you okay with that?"
"L-Let me." The crosses in her eyes grow large and then completely disappear. She suddenly collapses, Blue Beetle lunging forward to catch her. Her legs make a thud, her wings tucking themselves into the disks which then reattach to her back. Superman and Batman give each other looks, exchanging unsaid words.
Batman turns his attention back to The Team.
"Take her to a secure location at the Watchtower. We will be there soon."
Nightwing nods and turns to the rest of The Team. "Let's go."
Hey! Sorry I updated a couple days late. This past week has been super tiring! Hope this chapter turned out to be better than the last. Between chapters I will edit the previous ones a little bit according to helpful criticism. I love learning how to write better.
Fang, did I do better with the description or did I drag it out too far? Let me know!
Please review! It lets me know that people are reading my story XD And thanks for reading!
~Slayer