(Green Lantern)
Hal Couldn't believe his luck. 10% battery, Superman was supposed to be here and he was going to die without saying anything funny to Barry. Right now sitting in a bubble, with 4 AA guns surrounding him. Even now, he was missing shots. Aircraft and Walkers were going by him.
As if on cue, the Martians started to attack his shield. Round after round after round, and blast after blast, his shield started to crack. The god damned Guardians… They could all go to hell. 20 minutes ago, they sent him a response to his distress call. The Earth is now a quarantine zone. The only solution to the problem of White Martian's is to allow their target to die, cut it off and starve it out. Anything it had would die for the greater good of the Galaxy. Thank you for your valuable service to the core. You will be remembered as a hero of the core, Goodby Hal Jordan of Earth.
They talked to him like he didn't matter. As if his life wasn't important.
In that one moment of distraction however, his shields cracked, the death rays of the walkers smashed through his shields.
"Attention Ring Bearer Jordan, power at approximately 1% battery."
"I thought you said 10 a second ago!"
"Use required to maintain life support after break of Ring Bearer's shield resulted in a loss of 9%."
Before Hal could move, a drone swooped by. A white fluid attached itself to him. He tried to get it off, but as the drone flew by, it attached to his skin over his armor, and pulled him away. He couldn't move. His ring had an automatic deactivation period, when it dropped to under 1%, his armor locked itself. He couldn't make any constructs. He was out of the fight. He looked down, only to see what happened when he was out of the fight. Diana was blasted, knocked out he hoped. He saw the Zoom that was Barry scoop her up. Hal wanted to cry, but he was almost to tired to do anything. His bones ached, muscles were sore beyond any feeling. He looked down, and tapped his comm device Batman gave him. He said the only thing that he could possibly say in a situation like this.
"Im sorry…. Batman I'm sorry" He received an electric shock from the drone, and slipped mercifully into unconsciousness. He wished he was dead.
(Flash)
Wherever Superman was, he needed to get down here and now. He was sprinting everywhere. He saw Hal get shot down. That couldn't be a good sign. Then in the Central City Public Park, several walkers were hammering the tanks and defensive trenches the Army had prepared. Batman was ducking behind a wall and Wonder Woman… Oh God. Those things were concentrating on her back. He prayed that being gifted by the gods gave her the ability to take a hit. He didn't care. This woman had risked her life, trying to save lives, the lives that he was supposed to be saving, and protecting, something he was doing a very poor job of at the moment.
He pressed towards her, before those things could grab her like they did Hal. He was pissed he couldn't get to his buddy. But he couldn't think about that. They were going to win this, someway, somehow, they would win. Superman was Superman, and Batman had a plan at all times.
Barry reached her just as some of the drones came in, like a pack of vultures. He sprinted to the only place he could. Batman. Batman was in a different state. His gloves were crawling with static, his batarangs were being whipped around, exploding with force. He had one in his hand, and it was a bit bigger than the others, almost like a knife. He was going to work. This man was no man, he was fighting like a beast.
He pulled up next to him, Diana in his arms. Bruce turned, almost to quickly. The blade stopped a mere few inches from his face. Batman was breathing, heavily. Exhausted from all that he had done.
"Flash. Where's Lantern? Why did he say he was sorry."
"His ring ran out of juice. They captured him. They were about to do he same to Wonder Woman, but I got to her just in time."
"I'm fairly surprised that shes still alive. Those rays have killed just about everybody they hit."
"More serious question, whats the situation. Central City is on fire, and Superman is nowhere to be found. Two of our biggest guns are down and that mothership is..."
"Here."
Looking up, the flotilla of Martian ships parted and on that was numerous times larger came down form the clouds and smoke.
"Where is Superman?"
At that moment, they became surrounded. Rifles were trained on them, and from what he could see from the growing smoke coming in on them, there were many many walkers behind them, distinguishable by their one eye glowing red.
"I trained myself to escape from any conceivable trap, but this is not a conceivable one."
"What are our options?"
"Fight and die, or surrender and probably die."
"So were fucked either way?"
"Essentially"
Just then, static came in from the headsets. It sounded like Superman, but it was very broken
"get down… Get down NOW!"
Batman grabbed him and pulled him down, Diana was between them. He pulled his cape over them all, primarily facing away from the center of the park. In that moment, a streaking force, a blur of heat and blue came hurtling down towards them. It made impact, 30 yards from them, sending ash and rubble everywhere. When it stopped, They looked to see Superman, bleeding and breathing heavily. His Armor was damaged, missing from his hips up. Superman was jacked, he was ripped up, cut up, every definition of the word strong. He had, by every definition, a perfect body. He was standing over the crumpled remains of a grey body, just as large as he was.
Batman was up first, leaving Barry holding Diana. He looked furious.
"Where were you?! you say 5 minutes, and 10 minutes later you come back down? What happened up there?"
Superman looked down and then back at Batman. "This… Thing. They sent it to fight me."
(Flashback- Superman)
Clark was going as fast as he could, He wanted to be in time, he wanted to end this, or at least he hoped it would.
After passing the troposphere, his solar visor deployed, and he could feel his energy coming back. He looked around and could see the Earth below him. Many cities were burning, and the smoke was coming of miles into the Atmosphere. He looked to the right, and saw a ship that looked like a wheel and axle. The ship was large, maybe the size of the mothership. He flew over to it, and found a hatch on it. He immediately knew it was a martian ship because it was dark. The ship had jar's of what looked like different varieties of gasses and liquids. The Fortress had a wide spanning knowledge of medicines, sciences and information from across the cosmos, but nothing on Martians as best he knew.
After being on the ship for barely 2 minutes, he stumbled on what looked like a mainframe. he was going to pay no mind to it, but then
"Kryp...Tonian" it said. It did not sound much like a Martian, with one constant yell and a shriek that came after it. He walked over to the mainframe.
"How do you know what I am?"
"No… need… to concern… yourself with… that. Concern yourself… this." at that moment. A large capsule emerged from the right of the Mainframe. It was a large grey skinned humanoid looking creature. it was in black pants and shirt, and on its chest, it looked like…
A Kryptonian symbol. This thing was from Krypton.
Clark was furious. "Where did you find him?!"
"Goodbye… son of Krypton."
Clark turned, and the thing in the pod was no longer in the pod. it was in his face. He was being flung around the ship. Lefts and rights, just as fast as his. Clark got in one hit of his own, pushing the monster off him. Those fists hurt, bit he could tell that he hurt the thing more than it was hurting him. This ship was a danger, these chems could not be allowed to exist. for all he knew they could kill people. He charged forward, grabbing the thing and crashing. The mainframe was first. destroyed before it could slowly spill out any extra information. He crashed through the walls off the station. He wanted to look out and see that the cems were gone. But right now, his life was in danger. He used his heat vision, and poured it out. Even now, wile using his heat vision, he still felt like he was getting charged up.
The creature countered, and grabbed Clark by his collar, cracking the armor in several spots. He was thrown towards the moon. As soon as the creature let go, it turned on him and accelerated towards him. Moments later they hit the moon. They both bounced around, and for a moment, Clark could breath. His solar visor was reading he had oxygen to spare, but the amount of time that he had was considerably less so. Even now, his allies on the ground could be dying for all he knew. He had to win, and he had to do it fast. He flung himself forward, summoning all the speed that he could, he drove his fists into the thing, and started hammering. Around the moon, they came to the dark side, but Clark could still see, thanks to the heat bubbling out of his eyes, and pouring off the monster. Around the moon, they started going back planetside. Clark pushed, and pushed and pushed. The re-entry heat was building, but it was nothing comparable to the heat he was pouring on to his adversary. His visor came off when they entered breathable conditions. Clark aimed himself towards where central city was, and in particular the center of town. 100 miles above the surface, he summoned all the speed he could muster. The beast he was fighting was clearly intelligent, and started to fight back. It had heat vision of its own, and started to blast Clark with it. His armor started chipping away, his cape was long gone, somewhere on the moon probably. His armor gave way, his skin was exposed, and the visor had a gap in it. He was losing oxygen, and the rate he was going, he was loosing his breath. His heart was racing, but he had no choice but to keep going.
And then bang. Just as he was about to make contact, Clark pushed, harder than he ever had previously. the beasts back cracked, almost assuredly killing it. He would have felt bad about it, and he did, merciful Rao did he, he just killed someone from his home, and he had no idea how many were left in the whole universe. But right bow, it was a mercy. From what Jor-El told him, Kryptonians were like humans in the sense in the fact, that they both shared an ideology; the desire of freedom. And this thing was under the control, it was not free. He would work out the moral qualms of "killing" later, because right now, Batman was u and walking towards him, and he looked less happy than he did before. ANd that was saying quite a bit.
"Where were you?!" he said grabbing him by the throat and pushing him to the ground. "you say 5 minutes, and 10 minutes later you come back down? What happened up there?"
He peeled Batman's hand off of his throat and sat up, gasping for air. "They sent this… Thing to fight me." he said in a heavy breath. He was exhausted. Not from a lack of sunlight, but right now it was from a lack of breath. Pushing his body to the breaking point, up to this point in his life, he had not experienced anything like it before. Not to mention the man who wanted to rip his head off grabbing him as soon as he landed.
Batman looked down at the remains of what was once a kryptonian. Then back at him. "Well that cost us some time. The Mothership is here, and they have Lantern."
"Where did they take him?"
"We don't know."
From behind him, Wonder Woman stirred. Her corset was charred, and she looked extremely tired. Flash was trying to make sure she was ok, but she just put a hand up, and sat on the ground, to collect her thoughts. Flash walked over, and he actually walked, not, for lack of a better term, flashed.
"I saw some drones pick him up. It looked to me like they took him towards the mothership. I have no idea what they want with him."
Batman stopped and thought for a second, his hand over his mouth
"What about his ring?"
"What about it?" asked Flash
"What if they're trying to take his ring and use it as a power source?"
"Arent but why would they do that? theyre afraid of the light?" He asked
"Maybe they're trying to make a weapon of sorts. Something they can use because their smog machines failed."
"Might be."
"Either way, we need to get him and take down that mothership."
"I concur." said Wonder Woman "But how to get in?"
Clark looked at his chest, or rather the quickly reforming now, the 'S' logo and some of his pectoral armor was returning, with most of his back covered.
"From what I know Wonder Woman, your pretty strong." He said with a grin
"And?"
"You and I can make a hole in the ship. We need to match speeds and hit at the same time."
"It does seem like our best opportunity. One moment if you will." She said. She walked towards a collection of Rocks, and from what he could tell, started to pray.
"Ill be right back" said Flash, and he zipped away.
Batman started to walk towards the Army command post. The soldiers started to return to their defensive positions, but they all stood clear of Batman. Clark followed him. Batman walked up to a computer, and popped a cap off of his Gauntlet, revealing a computer of sorts.
"What are you doing?"
"I have a virus on my computer that I originally intended to use in Gotham. It was designed to shut down the electrical grid, or the water system if a criminal was to take control of it."
"How compatible is it with a Martian Mothership?"
"No idea, but Lanterns Ring is spent, and we can't find the battery, You didn't gain enough energy to smash the entire ship, Wonder Woman is injured, and I don't think Flash can do the same thing that he did to the factory again."
"Those are some good points."
"After we find Lantern, I'm going to need about one minute."
"Do we have any idea if it will take out the martians?"
"No, but even if it doesn't, we should still assume that their leadership is on that vessel, and if we can take them down, we should gain a major advantage from it."
"I thought you were against killing?"
"I am. People. Either way, these things are mindless killers, there is no way to reason with them."
"How can you be sure of that?"
"Its a hive mind, when one talk, they all talk. Something about that tells me that these things, aren't people. And i thought you had the same rule?"
"What are you talking about?"
"That thing that you came down with, it doesn't take a doctor to know that it was dead when it hit the ground."
"Its a long Story."
"Maybe we can talk about it when this is all over."
"Sure." he said with a grin. Clark turned to walk out.
"Oh and one more thing." said Batman "Good Luck… Clark." He said with a grin.
And at that, Clark was stunned. This guy knew who he was. But that was fine with him, if he was being fully honest. This man seemed like someone he could trust, not like somebody who would betray his secrets. In fact, everybody here seemed like a trustworthy friend. Even Lantern.
Besides, a quick flash of X-Ray showed who he was. Bruce Wayne, were you serious? The billionaire. Clark turned before he could let his expression show. Now that was something. A billionaire beating up criminals in the streets. A modern day Robin Hood if there was one.
Clark walked over to Wonder Woman, Who was just getting up from the rocks. Batman came out shortly after him, and Flash came in a moment later. Hmm, he wanted to race him one day, maybe they could race to raise funds to help rebuild.
"So what is the plan?" asked Diana
"You two need to make a hole in the ship, and then one of you needs to come down here and bring us up top. Then we find lantern and get him to safety. After that, we need to find the mainframe, a machine that controls the ship Wonder Woman."
"Thank you."
"After that, the other aliens should shut down, and this crisis should be ended."
"Well then, Wonder Woman, if you will, Lets go make a hole." Clark Said
"Alright, try to keep up." and she was up and away
"Maybe you should take your own advice." And he was right behind her. They matched speeds, and; Bang. They not only popped the hull of the ship, they forced that wall to implode.
"Ill go and grab Batman and Flash."
"No need." came a voice from behind him. It was the Flash, and he was on the top of a vortex of sorts, his arms were swirling, fast to the point where they were barely visible to the naked eye. Batman was there a second later, his grapple gun extended in his arm.
"I thought you guys needed assistance?" He asked
"Nope, didn't realize that i could do that, never knew until i tried." said the Flash
"I found a tall enough building, just enough reach."
"Ok then, lets proceed."
Batman opened his wrist mounted computer, and then around at his surroundings.
"Lantern should be this way."
"How can you possibly know that?" He asked
"The headsets i gave you all have tracking devices in them."
"Paranoia" the Flash said to him, "guys chock full of it."
"Come on, we need to find Lantern. The quicker we find him, the quicker we can end this, less people need to die. Lets go." Said Batman
As they were walking,Wonder Woman flicked her wrist, and all of a sudden, a small shield appeared. She then unsheathed her xiphos.
"Thats some impressive technology there." He commented to her
"Not technology, Magic." She responded
"Cant be, magic isnt real."
"Yes it is."
"No it's not. People call it magic when they cant explain the technology around them."
"You two can have this philosophical conversation later. Now if one of you wouldn't mind opening the door so we can get our friend."
"I shall." Wonder Woman said. She walked over, and split the door down the middle with her sword that was most certainly
not magic. This sword had some properties about it, it seemed to be radiating heat, when the sword pierced the door, it looked to have the same effects as if he were having heat vision on it. Either way, the door opened, and rather quickly at that. Behind the door, was the depowered man that he assumed was Green Lantern. He had a jacket on, that looked like an old Air force jacket, a bomber one. He was looking severely depressed at the moment. His ring wasn't on his and his will looked completely broken.
"Man am I happy to see you guys, where have you been?"
"What happened? Wheres your ring?" asked Batman
He pulled out his ring from his pocket. "Its dead, it ran out of juice."
"Anyway we can recharge it?"
"Not unless we can get to Ferris Air Force Base like right now."
Flash looked puzzled, and then he asked. "Ferris Air Force base?"
"Did i stutter?"
"You do remeber that were in Central City right? Ferris is just outside the city."
"Well what are you waiting for, get going!"
"Where is it?"
"In the locker that says Jordan, In Hanger 3. Big green Lantern. Hurry."
And he was off.
"Guys listen, I know i messed up, ANd i wanted to"
"It is fine, you are forgiven." said Wonder Woman. She placed a hand on Jordan's shoulder.
"How long do you think Flash will be gone?"
"I'm not sure, Ferris Air Force is 6 miles from here."
"Hope he hurries up."
As if on cue, Flash returned,
"Here you go."
Lantern put his ring back on, and held onto the lantern core. The core began to glow a bright green. He cocked back his arm and punched the core. His uniform began to reform, and literally glow. When he was done, He used his ring to open up what appeared to be a pocket dimension, just big enough to hold the battery. He put it in closed it and grinned back at everybody else.
"Alright, is everybody ready?" Asked Batman
"Lets go." said Lantern
"Ready when you are." said Flash
"Lead on Captain." He said
"To War." shouted Wonder Woman
And they were off.