James Kent was the big gun of the Resistance. He was a Kryptonian-Human hybrid but he had access to all the same powers and weaknesses that his father and brother had. He was also the best at hand to hand combat out of everyone who lived in Wayne Manor. The only one in the Manor who could defeat him was Tejay and in their last four sparring matches he had been brutally close to winning. Tejay was just a monster whose power was unparalled and even exceeded his own. He stretched in his King side bed and looked next to him and saw Alexa Luthor, the love of his life curled up, snoring, and drooling on her pillow. From the time he was five years old, his father Clark Kent had always said never trust a Luthor. The first day he met Alexa, was two years ago They crossed paths on a mission and she tried to kill him and had shot him in the back with Kryptonite arrow. At that point, she had been one of Damian's triple agents deep undercover and she couldn't take it easy on him without blowing her cover. Once she accomplished her mission, she returned to the Manor, and as payback for shooting him with the arrow, he smashed a pie in her face in front of everyone, and then promptly asked her out on a date. Everyday after that first date had been an adventure. They'd done everything from stealth missions to assassinations together. He had trouble convincing his friends they were okay at first: Crassius was skeptical for about an hour, Damian about a month, but Tejay took the longest about six months before he finally warmed up to her. James gave her a quick kiss on the forehead, and grabbed his workout shorts. He quietly exited their room and made his way to the Batcave. Damian had agreed to let Doctor Fate change a good portion of the Batcave around: Tejay had his forge, Crassius had a swimming pool, and for James there was the perfect gym to workout in. James headed straight to the squat rack and loaded it up with 1000 lbs. Ten sets of twenty for just his warm-up, and then he would move on to the really tough stuff. James finished his first set no problem, when the door to the gym opened up. In walked the new guy Kerchak, whom he had met a day ago. They hadn't spoken just a quick head nod. He could tell just from looking at him, Kerchak was about 16-17 years of age. He had enormous biceps, and was built almost strangely enough like Grodd. Kerchak went straight to the dumbells, grabbed some and began to curl them. James wasn't really a talker, he mainly kept to himself. But seeing as how Kerchak had lost his father, and he knew how that felt, the least he could do was try and make conversation.

"How's it going," he asked walking over.

"It's going," said Kerchak shrugging his shoulders.

"The Manor have everything that you need?"

"I have a bed, plenty of food, privacy when I take a shower, and I'm not trapped behind bars."

"How did you get trapped behind bars?" Kerchak looked a little taken back by the question. "Look I don't want to get in your business, if you want to keep it a secret-"

"It's not that it's secret," sighed Kerchak sitting down. "I've just never talked about it. Grodd found me when ten. I was trapped with a Vampire nest of five members. They kept me and about five other children just to feed on and gave us barely what we needed to stay alive. One night, the nest leader made the mistake of attacking Grodd and the Ultra Humanite both who had been traveling together to ward off attacks. Their attack went wrong, and nest was wiped out, but they also fatally injured the Ultra Humanite and he died from his injuries the next day. Grodd was injured too, and it was about three days before he was healed enough to travel again. The other children were too afraid to get near him, but I wasn't. I brought him water from the stream we lived by, and all the food the nest had gotten for us. Once Grodd was healed, he made a call and an hour later Batman arrived."

"Damian?"

"No his father Bruce. Bruce gathered all the children and promised he would do his best to find them a safe environment. He tried to persuade me to stay with him, but I wanted to stay with Grodd, and strangely enough, he wanted me to stay with him."

"Kerchak isn't your name is it?"

"No, my real name is Milton McClean, but I figured if my adoptive father was going to be a gorilla, I should change my name to a gorillas name as well. Growing up with a gorilla, you learn somethings. I can climb virtually anything, have a good sense of smell, pretty damn strong, acrobatic, and I can communicate with other animals as well."

"But I'm guessing you can't swim."

"I can too swim."

"Rule number one when talking to me: I can hear heartbeats skip when you lie and yours just did. You can't swim." Kerchak looked away slightly embarassed. "It only makes sense you grew up with an ape and apes can't swim. But we have people who literally breathe water in this place, you'll learn how to swim fast."

"But are we actually ready?"

"For what?"

"To take back our world?"

"Damian said our numbers are getting better, our last few raids have been successful with no casualties or injuries, our food processing plants are safe, we're communicating with Georgia again, but this isn't ever going to be a fast process man. We lost our world to horrible individuals whose job was to destroy it. Now we're trying to restore it to what it was, not an easy task. But we're getting there, we just have to have faith."

"I love how people invoke the word faith when they have no true answers to question. That is one thing that has always annoyed me about Humans."

Definitely inherited Grodd's temper. Not wanting to debate with Kerchak, and preferring to workout alone, James grabbed all his workout equipment and exited the gym. But what he saw when he exited wasn't what he was expecting. Damian was sitting at his keyboard dressed in his Batman suit, looking frantic his fingers going a hundred miles an hour over the keys. Alexa was strapping guns to her thighs, had four around a holster on her waist, and he could already see the hilt of two knives sticking out of her combat boots. Crassius was wearing a yellow and black wetsuit with his arms crossed, and Mari next to Crassius her hands on her hips. Kitana, Stephanie, Apollo, Shawn, John and CK were all watching as well.

"The hell is going on," asked James walking up.

"EVEROYNE LISTEN UP," ordered Damian standing up. "One of our biggest food processing areas just got hit by Vampires and it's being overwhelmed. I've already sent Black Adam, Tejay and Team T ahead to try and do damage control but the island is too big for the four of them. James, you're the fastest out of everyone here; they'll rendezvous with you once you arrive. We had soldiers incoming as well, but this is going to be a Wayne Manor Cell mission solely. In other words, its all hands on deck except for Kori, Hex, and the younger team members."

"That's BS," growled Kitana. "We live in this house too and we deserve a say!"

"She's right," agreed CK.

"You have no foot to stand on right now Kryptonian," replied Damian. "In case you had forgotten, your wrists are still bandaged from when you sliced them open and nearly bled out over my bathroom floor. And as for you Kitana, yes our mission to Kwa Bulawayo was very successful, but we got extremely lucky and that's not going to cut it this time. Besides, Tejay, Crass, James and myself are all going to be out of the Manor the first time in a very long while. We need to have people here to protect the Manor and protect Kori. You're staying here, and that's that."

"Well what about the rest of us," asked Stephanie. "You speak for everyone here as well, yet you haven't forbidden Rex or Kerchak from going."

"First of all: Rex is of fucking age by Thanagarian standards. Kerchak doesn't want to go and if he did, the answer would be the same...NO! You guys aren't ready for a mission of this caliber, therefore you're NOT going. You shall stay here and protect and the house. Am I clear?" Everyone one all glared at Damian, but one by one, they all nodded their heads yes in compliance.

"How the hell did they get through that barrier," asked Crassius. "Tejay and I just went and modified them last week."

"It's irrelevant how they got through, we just need everyone to get there and stop them. At his top speed, Tejay is still at least thirty minutes away, and Team T is going to portalling in, so James by the time you fly there, you should at least meet up with them."

Like lightning, James grabbed his Superman suit from its stand and slipped into it. "Which food area is it," he asked.

"San Francisco," replied Crassius.

"Oh shit! That's the one where we have all the livestock stored!"

"Exactly," snapped Damian. "This will affect a good amount of people if this goes to hell. So seeing as how you're now dressed for battle, why the hell are you still here?! If SF falls millions of people are going to starve. Get in there, and kill anything that gets in your way, we'll be right behind you."

James grabbed an earpiece, soared into the air and made his way to San Francisco. He knew that he was outside of the barriers around the Wayne Manor and Gotham City because the environment was totally different. There was far more decay and ruin on the outside of the barrier than he liked to admit. It took him a good three minutes to cross over into the California borderline, and as soon as he did, he crossed over into a lightning storm with pouring rain. Crassius had long enchanted his suit to withstand extreme heat, pouring rain, and freezing snowstorms which along with his own partial invulnerability came in handy. James quickly soared across the Bay Bridge, and through a thick fog before finally slowing down. The city of San Francisco was ablaze despite the storm. To the East, James spotted Black Adam in the air surrounded by three Vampires that were firing off what looked like magical beams at him. Black Adam dodged, and dodged, before finally tackling one of the Vampires while shrouded in lightning. The other two followed him closely still firing beams of energy. James knew that he wouldn't need to worry about Black Adam, the city was his priority and he needed to get these flames out and save as much livestock as possible. But as he looked at the ground, he saw hundreds of Vampires destroying the city, some feeding on the livestock, others just were running from spot to spot wreaking havoc. A cold breath tornado combined with the force of the wind, would be just what he needed to put the flames out. He was about to speed away when something hot blasted him right in his back. James crashed onto the ground placing a hole in the concrete. Somehow and someway that had actually hurt. Looking up James saw his assailant, a young female Vampire covered in blood from the mouth down, coming at him at 100 mph her eyes glowing red. As he assumed, she fired heat vision from her eyes right at him. He sprung off his back the heat vision just missing him, and cutting through a glass window of an old shop.

"Well well what have we here," she drawled. "I thought I killed you years ago, with your powers that I had inherited. You were even wearing that same exact suit."

"Wh-What did you say," James asked back in shock.

"Don't you remember me sweetie? The Battle of Russia all those years ago, we were fighting and I distracted you by going for a small child, and ended up biting you and getting these beautiful powers."

"It wasn't me that you fought."

"Well whoever I fought, I know for a fact that I killed them."

"Yeah you did." James felt tears spill down his cheeks along with the rainwater as the enemy across from him let out a cackle. "You killed someone very important to me when I was young and began the end of my fucked up childhood. And don't let these tears fool you, because I'm not sad. I just never believed I would find the person who killed my father. So tell me your name so that for the rest of my life every time I think of you, I can think of how I tore you apart with my hands."

There were flashes of lightning as the Vampire came closer into view. She looked to be late 20's to early 30's, blond hair, with a couple of scars of her face. She was about 5'8 but she her eyes was what made her dangerous. She had ruby colored eyes but there was something in them that made James feel uneasy to the point that he knew if he showed her mercy that she could potentially kill him.

"Call me Racquel," she purred. "I was one of the first hundred thousand to become purified of my humanity by the great Kali."

"Kali?"

"The great mother from whom all Vampires are created from."

"And where did she come from?"

"Enough questions. I was weak and powerless before the great mother liberated me. I will not betray her to you."

Racquel sped forward and went for a right punch, but James was ready and blocked it with his left hand catching her punch. The force of the punch created a small shockwave that split the concrete they were standing on. Using his right hand, he thrust the palm of his hand right into her nose and sent her flying back into a rusty old bus.

"I'm gonna make you pay for everything you've done to me," James growled through gritted teeth. "I promise you that you wont live through this day."

As James eyes glowed red, he saw a vampire speeding up the street right at him. He released his heat vision towards him and connected. Then another came and James used his cold breath. They were coming from everywhere fangs barred, some holding weapons, and others ready to use powers that they had stolen from heroes and villains who were long dead. In a matter of seconds, the Kryptonian found himself surrounded by an army of monsters that could kill him. James sighed and did something that he loathed to do. He un-clipped his cape and tossed it to the side so that the enemy wouldn't pull it and then he took his Tae Kwon Do stance. Bruce Wayne began teaching him that form of martial art after his family was gone in order to channel his rage that he was always feeling. One year after that he was better than Bruce, and five years after that he was teaching the soldiers in the Resistance Army. James watched as Racquel slowly flew her way to the front of where he was surrounded, her eyes red with heat. Racquel didn't speak a word, she just pointed a finger and they all charged at once. But no Vampire was quicker than a Kryptonian, and James smashed his fist on to the ground creating a fissure that rumbled concrete. A Vampire flew at him from the side and James did a spinning heel kick and caught her in the face, but grabbed her by her ankle and as hard as he could, he smashed her body onto the ground and it exploded spraying him with her blood. James let out a roar and just went on a warpath. Every Vampire was headed for him but was just a nuclear bomb of destruction. He punched their heads off, kicked their limbs off, used his heat vision into their eyes, and literally tore them apart. Once or twice he was unfortunately bitten, but he didn't have time to check if they were going to gain his powers. As a Vampire tried to launch at him, he caught it and tossed it into the air only for it to be swallowed by a void of black darkness in the shape of a bird. First thing out of the darkness was Tejay wielding Hinotama. The red blade was covered in black flames and Tejay was falling out from the sky roaring. He made a hand sign and with his left hand fired out an arc of lightning electrocuting a good portion of the enemy. But Tejay wasn't the only person who came out of the dark void of energy, Team T also came out of it. Team T consisted of the remaining active members of the Teen Titans which consisted of Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven. Cyborg came out firing from his sonic cannon, Beast Boy had turned into a roaring Tyrannosaurus, and Raven cast a spell which created a giant black claw which came from the ground crushing five of the enemy.

"Sorry we're late," cried Tejay impaling a Vampire and then cutting its head off. He was only wearing black combat pants with no shoes. His torso was covered in cuts and he looked like he was bleeding from everywhere. "We've been rounding up all the livestock since we arrived, and teleporting it all to Georgia."

"How much did we lose," shouted James. He grabbed someone by the head and gave a devastating DDT to them putting their head through the ground. And then with a brutal kick, he sent a Vampire flying into the air for it to be snapped up by Beast Boy.

"About 1/8 of the livestock was consumed but that's it," replied Raven.

"Focus on the battle," ordered Cyborg. He looked the worst, he was sparking with electricity and had been impaled with several rods. "We can talk about the farm animals later."

James scoured the battlefield quickly for Racquel because while some of the Vampires were escaping, he was hell bent on making sure that she didn't. Racquel was hovering in the sky and out of harms way when she made eye contact with him. James shot into the air and tackled her, and struck her right across the face, but as he went for his next punch she dodged it and then using his weight she tossed him back onto the bridge where he was immediately swarmed by Vampires and big several times.

"Azerath Metrion Zinthos," chanted Raven.

"Ganzu Biraitus," cried Tejay.

Despite using different incantations, their spells were exactly the same. Tejay and Raven both cast spells which released several beams of green and black from their hands blasting the Vampires off of James. Racquel crashed back into the fray and punched Cyborg right in the chest leaving an enormous hole in his armor. The half man collapsed to his knees and the blue lights on his body began to flash red over and over. Raven ran over to his side but Racquel kicked her into a car knocking her out. James could see that the tide of the battle was quickly shifting with two of the Titans down.

"Damian where the hell are you," asked Tejay. He stabbed Hinotama into the concrete blade first and pulled two daggers coated in ice out from his boots charging forward.

"South side of the island," he replied. "We underestimated just how bad this attack was. There are Skall on this side of San Francisco. We're already getting ready to fall back."

For the first time, Beast Boy shape shifted back to his regular size and retreated back to where Raven was knocked out. "Then what do you propose that we do," he asked. "We need a plan."

"We have to destroy this island," came Crassius' voice. "It's the only way to takeout the Vampires and the Skalls at the same time."

"Raven is knocked out and I don't have the energy alone for a spell that big Crass," growled Tejay. "You gotta get over here and help me."

"No I'm drained too, and even together it would take James and Black Adam time to level this city. What we need is a bomb."

"Yeah well we don't use bombs," grunted James holding a Vampire by the throat.

Initiating Neutron Bomb Sequence... explosion commencing in five minutes

The battle stopped for a split second, and everyone looked behind them. Cyborg was still on his knees but now the parts of his armor that normally were blue, were glowing red. James didn't need to know much about science to know the decision that Cyborg to know what was coming next.

"Damian get off the island," ordered Tejay. "Cyborg's going to explode."

"Then it's time for us to begone." Everyone looked into the sky to see Black Adam floating above them with his arms folded, covered in blood, his suit ripped to shreds, but other than that unharmed. "Tejay Durham now...SHAZAM!"

The clouds gathered together as the thunder began, the lightning struck more, and the rain fell harder. A lightning bolt hit Black Adam's body but instead of him returning to the Theo Adam form, he was using his body like a lightning rod, and the lightning from the sky shot from his towards Tejay. The black dragon on Tejay's arm began to glow as Black Adam's lightning attack his Tejay in the chest. The Atlantean yelled, and his tattoos lit up bright yellow as he absorbed and channeled the lightning strike.

"Bao Zakeruga," bellowed Tejay jumping into the air. He opened his mouth and he fired lightning from his mouth that took the shape of a dragon. James went over to the Titans and forced them down and protected them with his body. Tejay's dragon hit Vampire after Vampire incinerating and exploding them until there were none left in the area. James could see Racquel in the sky out of harms way looking horrified at the destruction that Tejay had wrought. Black Adam caught Tejay's knocked out form and landed on the ground.

"We have to go now," he shouted. He walked over to Raven and with his index finger gave her a little jolt. She woke startled and quickly stood up.

"What's happening," she said groggily.

"Rae you gotta portal everyone home," groaned Cyborg.

"Victor what've you-"

"I'm doing what I needed to do so that you guys can live."

"Victor-"

"Raven," sighed Beast Boy. "There's nothing we can do."

Raven looked away and waved her hands, and a portal of darkness opened. Black Adam not wasting a moment flew through it holding on to Tejay. Beast Boy looked at Cyborg along with Raven, and James watched them stare at one another.

"We'll miss you," sobbed Raven.

"Titans forever," grunted Cyborg giving them a smile.

Neutron Bomb Sequence primed

Beast boy with tears in his eyes walked through Raven's portal, and she waited for James to do the same. But James looked up at Racquel who was still shocked that her army had been destroyed. James had made her a promise on that he had every intention of keeping today. With one large breath, blew Raven through her own portal and it closed. James then flew at Racquel and before she could stop him, he put his fist through her heart. She coughed up blood and it landed on the front of his suit. James put his lips up to her ear.

"I did warn you," he whispered. "I warned you that you wouldn't live through this day."

James removed his bloodied fist from her chest and then grabbing her by the back of her head he flew her down to the concrete smashing her face into it. Racquel tried to get to her knees but James just kicked her multiple times until she had rolled right over to Cyborg.

"My death," she gasped. "My death... will not bring... you peace."

"Not at all," admitted James. "But it'll make me feel a lot better."

"Your father is dead."

"Indeed and because of that deed you will die as well."

"I'm just like...you. This garbage cans bomb... you know it isn'- strong enough to kill me."

"True, but I'm pretty sure he's strong enough to."

James from a far enough distance watched as Cyborg shifed his hand into a Kryptonite blade and with powerful force brought the blade down across her neck cutting her head off. From where he was standing, James could see Cyborg still glowing, and even though the immediate danger had passed, he knew that the island was covered with danger and could no longer be allowed to stand. James gave Cyborg on last look and, the Titan gave him a thumbs us. James soared into the sky as Cyborg exploded. He soared high enough so he could see the explosion but not so that he'd be caught in it. San Francisco went up in a blast of bluish white that engulfed the entire island and destroying a part of the Bay Bridge as well. When the smoke cleared, there was only a large crater that was filling with water.

"Booyah," said James with a smile. "Rest easy Victor."

Wayne Manor

"You all left him to die," snarled Kori. They were all in the Batcave and when Kori heard of Cyborg's death, she became less that consolable. "He came to help you and you all left him to die. There isn't even a body for us to bury."

"Do you realize how stupid you sound," Tejay yelled back. "None of us wanted Victor to die but incase you forgot this is war. And in war there are casualities. Victor knew what the cost would be to protect us all!"

"I swear Tejay, you'd better thank whatever Gods you believe in that I'm still pregnant."

"And you Kori, best best believe, that when you get like this, the love I have for my brother, and that baby is the only thing keeping you and me from having a knife fight. Take care to remember that, when you aren't pregnant anymore."

"Enough," said James with enough force that they both looked at him. "Victor hasn't been dead a whole 24 hours yet, you two aren't going to do this. Damian were there any other casualties besides Victor?"

"No," croaked Wayne. "I made sure that this battle was strictly meta only with who I could scrounge up." Damian looked around at everyone and James watched him smile for the first time in a while. "I'm proud of everyone here, we did damn good work today."

One by one, everyone left the Batcave until it was just James and Damian. The two were virtual mirror images of their fathers in looks and personality. James often made sure Damian came up for air, and Damian made sure that James wasn't always trying to self-sacrifice in a mission because he could take the most damage.

"So now what's your plan," asked James. "What happens to the livestock?"

"We have to establish a new safe location for it," explained Damian. "Gotham has too many refugees, as does Bludhaven, they'll be expecting us to try Metropolis or Coast City."

"Then leave the livestock in Georgia?"

"And let Gladys have that kind of leverage over us?"

"Stop Damian she's on our side, and the livestock isn't just for us but it's late, I'm tired, and I've had enough for today."

"Yeah I'll see you in the morning."

As Damian went for his chair, James grabbed him by the arm leading him up the stairs out of the Batcave. Damian didn't try to fight just because he knew that James would knock him out to make him sleep. They exited the Batcave and Damian headed up the stairs to sleep, while James made himself a quick cup of tea with some heat vision. James sat at the table with his tea, reflecting when Black Adam walked into the kitchen wearing a pink bathrobe.

"No black bathrobes," asked James.

"Plenty," he replied grabbing a grapefruit. "This one however was the most comfortable."

"Wait a damn minute... that belongs to Alexa."

"She was not wearing, and I needed something to use after my shower."

"Apparently."

"Why are you reflecting about the battle?"

"We lost someone."

"It is not your fault, the Cyborg made a decision to help save us all. Are you perhaps feeling your mortality?"

"No."

"Now you lie. You and I are the strongest in this house and at times you probably believe yourself invulnerable, but today you were reminded that anyone can be killed: man, machine, or god yes?" James didn't say anything just nodded his head yes. "My advice to you: become stronger and leave this day behind you."

Black Adam stood up and very lazily floated back upstairs, and leaving James to reflect. James sighed, and sat back in his chair. Becoming stronger was what he would have to do regardless, because the Resistance needed him if they were going to keep winning battles. But leave this day behind him... James Kent believed that he would be able to do that but doubted that it wouldn't happen for a very long time.