Buu On You

by Demod20

What happens when an Ancient Terror meets the Clown Prince of Crime? Pure Chaos and Mayhem is Unleashed! Will victory be on the side of Justice or will Darkness finally overlap the world of DC?

10. Chapter 10

Chapter 10 - Our True Form

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Location: Unknown

"The tremors finally stopped."

Those were Amanda Waller's first thoughts as she walked through the lead-lined corridors of Checkmate's headquarters. She had made sure the organization couldn't be detected or infiltrated by any outsiders, let alone be seen by some particularly nosy Kryptonians. But the seismic activity that hit the country was enough to even rattle the reinforced indoors for her new clandestine group. For something like that to happen, she knew it must have gotten bad.

Passing by a number of rushing personnel in dark blue fatigues, they were far too occupied to see their boss bearing a solemnly worried face. Her desire to see the line-up and give orders to Flag was the only thing on her mind. She couldn't weigh the possibilities of what was going to happen and instead focus on the present.

Traversing through an intricately locked pair of titanium alloy doors, she entered a dark corridor filled with scanners and defined readers. By the time she'd finish her walk, the computers monitoring the hall would ensure the system she was the bona fide leader of the organization. When the invisible fields of probing rays were switched off, the door in front of Waller like a key lock being turned, opening up as the stoutly built woman placed her hands behind her back.

Standing before her was an assortment of specialists just under two dozen agents. With the inclusion of Captain Flag, there was a number of individuals whom all have seen the Secretary of Defense's face long before she held that distinguished title. Others were now looking at her with mingled disbelief that this was their superior. Of all the people to control super powered beings and known criminals it was this unassuming woman?

But she had been underestimated before, and those who would doubt fell in line eventually. They always did; one way or another.

"Director Waller," Flag saluted in front of her, rigidly standing in attention unlike the many who stood in squad-like formations next to each other. "All standby agents are reporting for duty."

"Good. We'll need to act fast before our country -subsequently the planet- is damaged beyond repair," She spoke seriously, not holding an ounce of humor in anything related to what she had to say. Turning on her heel she noted the squads from right to left regarded her either with looks of disdain or apprehension. She knew that the latter was the smartest of the bunch while the prior was the more hard-headed or stupid. "Yes, it's probably a good thing these squads aren't deployed when League forces are so concentrated. Make sure we're subtle with setting the troops down where they can be most effective."

"Uh, excuse me!"

Sighing, Secretary Waller turned to look at the squad closest to her immediate right. Sitting down on her haunches was none other than Harley Quinn, dressed in her preferred colorful black and red Harlequin outfit. With her signature hammer, now with upgrades, leaning over her left shoulder the right hand was waving at her impatiently like a child.

"What is it, Quinn?" The Director of Checkmate asked tiredly.

"Yeah, I was just thinkin' it'd be great as to give us a big clue. You know, the kind inside of a big thought bubble. Or something inside a blue pawprint. Or maybe tell us exactly why you dragged us away from our candy theft?!" Harley asked incredulously with a wild range of gestures to an incredibly annoyed expression.

"Harl," Deadshot, in his newer black and red gear, showing his grimly stoic lower face while his upper head was strapped with a black balaclava. "The only one who was hauled on their ass from shoplifting a Baskin Robbins was you. The rest of us were more or less here. In cells."

"Oh!" Harley facepalmed, looking back from Deadshot to her right, now glaring at her begrudging superior. "So...?"

"You will all be debriefed on the flight there, but I guess it won't hurt to tell you all a summarized version," She droned out, placing her hands on her hips as she examined the expressions on all those gathered before her. "Our target is the reason this facility has been shaking for the past few minutes and why most of the United States, along with our allies, are panicking. An extraterrestrial menace has appeared in Gotham and has been wreaking havoc across it -and by extension the whole Eastern Seaboard- with its fights with the League. Since Superman is currently occupied as I am told, elsewhere, it is up to us to relieve Batman and his crew of their current burden. Any other questions?"

"Yeah. Are you fuckin' high?" Killer Frost spoke frankly, the white-haired woman donned in her comfortably suggestive attire of blue and white fur lining. With arms crossed she earned an amused raise of Waller's brow and a glare from Flag. She didn't relent as she sneered at her in particular. "Do all of us look like we can handle something that can shake a continent? Last time I checked, a good third of us are human and very mortal."

"You're all wanted for the death penalty or worse, scum," The Captain retorted in a dismissive tone. "I suggest you check in your rights at the door when you entered this facility. Checkmate gives you an opportunity, not a healthcare benefit."

"Fuck your opportunities!" Frost shouted out loud, barely held back by fellow elemental Volcana, her hands coming off as hissing vapors but kept the two of them from harming each other.

"Let it go, Frost. Best you just go along with it and stick to support. That's how I've lived this long in these suicide missions," The fiery woman, bound in dark fire retardant leather that hugged her curvy body, said as she slowly relinquished her grip on the temperamental ice woman. "Trust me, when this is over, we're going to have some personal alone time to forget about this."

"Don't give anyone else any ideas," The white haired vixen hissed in a whisper, poking the orange-haired woman's sternum just above the top of her generously displayed bosom.

"What if I do want to give people that kind of idea?" Volcana asked with a teasing grin.

"Then I'd have to put you on ice," Killer Frost declared with a challenging smile. "And show that I can freeze Hell over."

"Mmm, I'd like to see you try," The other woman purred.

A loud cough interrupted the banter, causing both women to scowl at Deadshot, but separated nonetheless.

"Damn, I wanted to see what happened next," Harley murmured with pouted lips.

"Tch, sluts," Bane, wrapped in elastic dark fatigues that displayed his muscular, yet not fully buffed form. His eyes turned to look at Harley with similar disdain. "If Lawton wasn't in charge of this squad, I'd have killed you out of principle."

"Aw, you do care!" Harley sang out.

"Someone, shoot her. She won't be missed," Bane asked to no one in particular.

"I'd miss her!" Atomic Skull piped up bluntly, the large man with a constantly irradiated skull of emerald flames a constant reminder of his presence.

"Shut up, Joe," Bane snarled with great irritation, massaging the bridge of his nose to emphasize his mental pain. "I swear, my intelligence is wasted being lumped in with the likes of you."

"Hey! You want to go at it you-!"

"Stand down, Joseph," Deadshot levelly commanded, earning a measure of genuine quiet out of respect and fear for the deadly assassin's wrath.

"Before we keep getting sidetracked," Flag interrupted, taking a step forward to announce each gathered squad. "Suicide Squad: Deadshot, Atomic Skull, Bane, Volcana, Killer Frost and Harley will act as our commando squad. You will do specific set tasks not involved with jumping into the fray immediately. Keep confrontation with authorities, League or our current target to a minimum. Only fight in self defense or when ordered. Understood?"

"Understood, sir," Floyd replied with a sarcastic edge.

Ignoring him, he marched over to the next set of individuals. Immediately he looked over them and gave a similar treatment he did to the first squad, "Renegade Force: Evil Star, Bizarro, Giganta, Nightfall, and Psycho Pirate will act as support to the front line. Make sure to keep the enemy off balance when at all possible. Do not engage directly unless Frontline requires assistance or you are ordered to. Understood?"

"I swear, if you're going to ask everyone if they understand, someone is going to punch you," The genius with a red star imprint placed over a completely black suit that covers him completely from head-to-toe, with lenses of a similar hue glaring at the Captain. His arms crossed and his head cocked to the side. "Go ahead. Keep saying it. I'm sure demeaning everyone's intelligence just because they work for you will earn that kind of response."

"Watch it, Star," Flag responded with a warning, thinly veiling his anger towards the super villain. "I'll make you regret it if you don't respond accordingly. Do you understand your mission?"

"Bark-Bark," Evil Star sardonically responded, smiling underneath his suit at the Captain. "Yessir, Captain."

Grunting with barely restrained fury, he marched on, if only knowing the Director of Checkmate was still present. Stopping in front of another squad, he took a second to collect himself. Looking at the front of the group, he began as he did with the others, "Patriot Patrol: Pariah, Galatea, Amazon, Tsukuri, and Star Sapphire will be the main offensive to take on the designated target. Work with the other squads to detain the threats, if at all possible, or execute it when all attempts fail. Underst-"

Finding himself falling onto his back after a near instantaneous flick of force hit him in the chest, Flag growled. Rising back to his feet, he wiped spittle that had flown from his mouth onto his lips, glaring heatedly at the group. When a measured clap was heard, he looked to none other than Tea, the clone of Kara In-Ze.

"You-!"

"Captain," The towering three and a half meter tall Wade Eiling, aka Pariah, spoke frankly with massive arms crossed over his grey plated chest, complementing his entire body from the neck down to his large booted feet. "I'd suggest moving along and not wasting our time. If you do, I'll be the one to snap your neck out of the principle of you giving me such a distasteful code name."

"Not going to lie," Aresia, aka Amazon, morosely replied as her golden crowned visage glared at him. Having kept her look the same from her days at attempting to wipe out literal mankind, her well-built yet beautiful frame still withheld enough power to compete with Princess Diana. "I feel sorely tempted to do so now."

"Goes the same for me," Tsukuri bluntly commented, her own dark purple plating over her ninja gear matching her own domino mask fixated on her face.

"Yeah, I don't like him, but I'll just say understood if only for his own sanity sake," Carol Ferris, now in a uniform that displayed her midriff up to her collar bone, her bountiful breasts just barely concealed at an angle by the EM energy formed suit. An angular crown with its gem fixed at its center, her gloves and boots matched its tint. "So please move along."

"Do as they say," Galatea ordered, crossing her arms underneath her covered bosom, as her ocean hued eyes stared without fear at him. Her own uniformhad been slightly altered, adding a black cape that's tied to a pair of silver pauldrons fixed on each shoulder. What used to be a revealed hole in her top was now a onyx hued symbol of a planet with a ring circling around angle and the other with two moons on each other side. White palmed black gloves with white shoes accompanied her new image, along with smooth blonde hair now grown down to rest over the lower half of her cape covered back. "Now, Captain."

"You wouldn't be smug if your dad wasn't an important part of Checkmate," Flag hissed as he walked to the last Squad.

The last squad seemed a bit unorthodox in its make, considering it only was composed of one woman. Queen Bee, flanked by what looked like five muscular beings that were a hybrid of human physiology and insect anatomy with golden helms with multiple lens eyes. She stood with her hands on her hips, smiling tauntingly at Flag as he wasn't allowed to get too close to her.

"Team Hornet, you'll form a perimeter and help recover any fallen agents in play. Can you do that for me, sweetheart, without any backtalk?" The Captain drawled out in a rather tired manner.

"Of courze," The Queen buzzed amiss a suggestive pur she could manage with her inhuman eyes blinking at him rapidly. "I'll enzure that your preziouz rezourzez are kept intact."

"God it's painful hearing you speak," Flag mumbled as he walked away. He was all too happy to join Waller's side, just as circular discs hummed underneath the squads' feet readily.

"Teleporters are ready?" Waller asked over her earpiece.

"They are ma'am. They'll be ready to deploy the strike teams on your mark."

"Excellent," The Director replied with little joy left in her voice. With a measure of caution, she inhaled and then asked. "What's the situation like out there?"

"Casualties have increased since you've entered the facility. I don't know what damage was done across the country when that abnormal quake flared up, but since that died down Blüdhaven has been added to the colateral damage. Several thousand are estimated to be injured with hundreds dead."

"Dammit!" She hissed, feeling frustrated that the numbers have only increased on the dead and wounded. "Anything else?"

"Arrivals confirmed as Mary Marvel, Power Girl and Atlee have taken the fight to the creatures. Joker has finally depowered after incapacitating some more Leaguers and killing two others. The latter of which is Blue Devil and Batman."

Everything seemed to freeze in Amanda's mind. All of her concentration, her steeled composure and her will temporarily halt. The one man she counted on surviving through this mess was killed in action? None of this made sense, and it was evident by the look of worry entering Flag as he tried to shake sense into her.

"Director? Ma'am!" He barked out, shaking her out of her daze.

"I...I'm sorry," Waller shook her head, looking him in the eyes. "It's gotten bad. Worse than I imagined."

Grimly nodding, Flag hailed communications and declared immediately, "Send them now! Don't waste another second!"

In subsequent flashes of light, as the teams were launched away, a ghastly look of horror had crossed Amanda Waller's face. It occurred to her that the most horrible thing had happened. People are born and die everyday, buildings can be rebuilt and nations reformed. But there is only one Dark Knight.

"I'm sorry, Bruce," Waller apologized silently, her eyes opening to show a menacing glare at the wall, imagining it was the Joker responsible. "I'll make sure, when this is over, that madman will be living a life of torture and pain when this day is over. I'll help clean up Gotham, like you fought your whole life to do. It isn't much, but it's something. I promise, I'll do what I can...and make a better tomorrow for you."

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Old Gotham (What's left of it)

Etrigan felt like his whole face was hit by a mountain. Blood leaked from his broken nose and leaked from his lacerated mouth. The super powered criminal had hit him so hard he knew he blacked out for a minute, given that he had no idea why he was slipping on his back into the ocean. The whole city seemed to bend forward, tendrils of golden light sporadically flowing from the shattered island.

A low utterance later and he willed himself into the air, avoiding the still electrocuted surface of the sea filled trench of the broken metropolis. Snapping his nose back into place with little more than a twitch, he drew his gaze to the two opposing areas of the sky.

One was a vibrantly lit outline of a woman fighting -he recognized as Stargirl- a frighteningly dark hued beast gelatinous bodied entity -he knew as the recently born dark side of Buu-. On the other side was the recently arrived pair, Power Girl and Atlee, duking it out with the fatter one whom he could tell by looking lost a great deal of his prior luster. He was dangerous, but the real danger was taken out and placed into the body of a hideously skinny freak show.

That's when he remembered what flew him into a fit of rage.

"Batman!" Etrigan cried out, searching the split island, his gaze obscured by large clouds of rising dust. Surprisingly his broken lifeless shell was still intact and had yet to be moved from his placement. He could only guess due to the sheer weight of the armor kept him from budging under the tipping of the fragment he had been laid to rest on.

Rushing down in a blur of red and purple, the old ally of Bruce's scooped him up into his arms and hauled him over his left shoulder. Kicking off the unstable partition of the island that was Gotham City he rose up into the air and solemnly stared at his fallen companion. Turning to see no sign of the Joker he hissed with pent-up rage only to realize that the threat was still existing.

"Don't worry, old friend," He muttered out loud, taking flight across the air to where he knew the FOB for the League and Law Enforcement was. "I'll make sure your body is safe before I work on a way to avenge. AND ensure that bastard occultist gets what's coming to him!"

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Southeast of Gotham's shoreline

"Man, you are UGLY!" Stargirl cried out as she spiraled around the flailing Evil Buu. Streaking through the sky she left sparkling lines in the night sky while her enemy sent dark flames in his wake. Just before he could get within striking distance the light projecting woman disappeared, leaving a flashing pop of herself in replacement.

Whizzing around she landed a spinning kick to its back, causing a thunderclap of visual comparison to a firework of multiple colors spraying across the heavens. As it coughed with abject pain its fiery person turned around and stretched out one arm to punch her from a distance. Missing her by inches, he snapped out another elastic punch to which the super heroine corkscrewed around till arriving just a meter in front of it, uppercutting his jaw with a blast of cosmic light.

Rising up into the air it howled with pain, flailing his arms as he continued to rise upward against its will. He didn't even get to see Stargirl's immediate presence above his body before her attack came.

Smashing his head with a falling elbow thrust, the evil counterpart screamed as it dropped towards towards the ocean. Stopping only bare meters from the ocean's surface, causing a rippling across the water, he was soon finding himself hammered by a large foot shaped construct of cosmic light. Parting the sea with an enormous amount of pressure the Skinny Buu was sent plummeting down till smashing into dark depths' seafloor.

"I'll just keep you pinned down there until Mary gets back from whoknowswhere," Courtney rationalized as she kept sight of the pillar of light emitting from her left sole. She could feel pressure even from her placement in the heavens above the moisture bed below. The clear difference in power was felt but it didn't feel like he was getting any weaker.

The sudden explosion at the seabed reached the surface in a matter of seconds, causing her to loose her hold on him. Surprised at the sudden lost of her enemy Stargirl looked around for any indication where he could have gone. Her fists clenched her bountifully luminous aura thrummed loudly and her emerald gems for eyes blinked rapidly.

And then, a sudden shuffle in the air occurred behind her, followed by four limbs wrapping around each of hers like sinuous serpents. She tried to struggle but found the partitions of gelatinous muscle squeezing harder than she could writhe. Just as her periphery vision gotten sight of her adversary's visage, she saw rivulets of steam emanating from a regenerating skull that matched the rest of his slowly regrowing body.

"He blew himself up to escape?!" The empowered girl thought incredulously.

Her internal dialogue wouldn't be able to be finished, as Evil Buu used his head tendril to wrap around her neck, choking her as the rest of her body was starting to be dragged into his body. Like gum wrapping over flesh, it expanded and contorted, smothering the illuminating form of Stargirl with the intent of suffocating her. Misshapen and distorted, Buu's darkest side continued to sport a mocking grin even as the female's head stretched within it.

The surge of heat followed by a bloating sensation caused the once cocky Majin to display nothing short of shock-induced agony. One ballooning explosion later and the Super Stargil emerged with a limb splayed stance, popping remnants of the Homunculus' flesh could be seen on fire while careening down to the ocean below. Sucking in oxygen she had been so desperately in need of, Stargirl stared down with a wary expression as the flaming fingernail to hand sized pockets of tissue swirled around in a whirlwind before attaching themselves to each other.

What was revealed within seconds of swelling flesh was the instantaneously restored Skinny Buu, now once again alight in a grim mantle of Ki that darkened his overall appearance. His red eyes bore up towards her green orbs, pure hatred and desire to kill emanating from every pore within him. It happened again where his venomously glaring being materialized before her eyes gave her a moment of pause.

A punch across her jaw and she felt herself reeling back across the sky. Winded only for a second she spat out blood from her mouth, just in time to see his rapidly darting blur. Rearing back her hand she let loose a cacophony of majestically lit blasts at him, spraying out in an umbrella pattern. In the storm of attacks Buu seemed to emanate a purplish light around his gloved fists, smashing and repelling the attacks that weren't producing glaring lacerations across his thin frame. His cape peppered with holes, his left eye skewered and his legs torn off, the malicious entity managed to get to her place much to her visible surprise.

A gut punch to her solar plexus, a rising left hook and a rushing headbutt into her chin sent Stargirl twirling across the sky. What the rapidly reforming Buu didn't count on was the seventh revolution bringing about was a wide gleam of light forming. The enormous fist collided into him unexpectedly transforming into a blistering heat wave of accelerated particles.

Screaming out loud with pain the re-knitting tissue of Evil Buu glowered with mounting frustration.

"Ha! That hurt," Stargirl snapped out from the distance, wiping away the liquids dripping from her lips. "But I can take it. Does it piss you off that you're not strong enough to put me down easy, freak?"

As if to confirm her query, the monster's power seemed to spike upward at the mention of such slander. Like an infernal star he rushed forward with every intent of beating the super heroine to death. Such wistful thinking was dashed as surely as an electrified fist blindsided him from the left, sending him soaring across the night sky farther away from the shoreline.

"Sorry to interrupt," Mary Marvel apologized, blowing the steam flowing off her knuckles just before glancing at Courtney's glistening frame. "He was such an eyesore I had to let off some more steam."

"He isn't the one I wanted revenge against," Stargirl admitted with a visible grimace, taking a gander at the distant wrecked city to her right. "What happened?"

"Whatever magical power-up he got from Buu wore off. It seems, no matter how limitless the creature's spell appeared to be, couldn't last forever in him. He's now as helpless as any unconscious man with a concussion could be," She debriefed, taking special care to keep sight of the rebounding Buu in the distance. "But I can't kill him. That isn't what Billy would have wanted. I'll let the law judge him and they won't see him as a mere man with mental issues. This time he'll get what's coming to him."

"Guess I'll have to settle with Mister Fugly to vent my frustrations on him," Stargirl asserted with a roll of her neck, floating in the air to be at Mary's side.

Teleporting behind both girls, Evil Buu stretched both arms to grasp their long haired scalps. Bending forward in unison both girls rear snap kicked the sadistic alien in his chin, causing a bounty of blood and spit flow up from his teeth clenched maw. Twisting on their levitating heels both super heroines came at once with outstretched hands, palm-heeling his frail gut. Following up with the attack that sent him hurtling back to Gotham they unleashed a unified beam of shocking luminous currents of magical cosmic energy.

As if he slammed into an invisible wall the gummy adversary had no choice but take the brunt of a powerful blast of light that consumed him entirely. The shriek was drowned out by the pops of his skin exploding within the maelstrom of electrocuting rays. When it was all finished petering across the dome shaped barrier established by Enchantress, Evil Buu's body was nothing but rapidly regenerating smoke than sturdily built doughy flesh.

Heaving with apparent pain, he was all but ignorant to the nearby seaside battle happening with his counterpart. All he could see was a pair of feminine fists, failing to raise dust-made limbs to block receiving another energized barrage combined with two kinetic thrusts. Repelling off the barrier like a pong ball, Evil Buu flipped head over booted heel across the horizon.

Appearing in a flash, Stargirl palmed a blast on the disoriented Buu's caped backside, sending him descending in a smoking wave to a waiting Mary Marvel. A thunderous collision from her fist hooking into his side created an elliptical flash of magic lightning, sending him skipping across the ocean. Finished with a luminous beam drilling into his writhing back, causing an onion shaped explosion of sparkling pops.

Joining each other a dozen meters above the ocean's surface, they'd be greeted with a distant expelling wave of Ki. The violet-black flames seemed to intensify around the restored Evil Buu, teeth gnashing and eyes glowing a pupiless red. Breathing out nothing but noxious fumes from his own damaged cells being replaced, he let out a violent scream that sent airwaves washing over the shore and lapping against the girls' skin.

"He sure is mad," Stargirl commented idly.

"And loud," Mary Marvel murmured as she picked at her ear, frowning at their opponent slowly approaching them. "But with the two of us, he can't do anything but keep flailing. With Kara and Atlee handling the fat brother, we can keep skinny jeans over there occupied long enough for us to have a solid solution."

"I'm down with that," Courtney quipped with a wry smile.

"Ready for another round then?" Mary asked with an arm pulled back with readiness.

"Oh Hell yeah!" Stargirl punctuated with her own arm reared behind.

When Evil Buu appeared, mouth open wide with fangs bared, his arms would not reach them as a pair of fists crash into his chest. A luminous blast of combined might from both women's powers at the point of impact coated him into a meteor of heated momentum. Howling in pain he wouldn't feel the end as the pair kept hammering their fists and feet across his rapidly regenerating being.

The battle raged on and both sets of women had only begun to fight the pair of menaces. Victory was unseen but their confidence assured them that it would be found in time. The real question isn't whether one would win or lose, but what would happen when either Buu is pushed to the breaking point?

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Northern Gotham Outskirts, FOB for the Justice League

"Unhand me, cretins!" Etrigan shouted with wrath behind his growling tone. His body was held back by the recently recovered Orion, who despite being less than full strength, was able to restrain the burly Demon. Though this wasn't easy, given his rage was unrestrained and the son of Darkseid did sport a layer of sweat across his bandaged muscular frame.

"You wanna kill me because my spell didn't work? Yeah, that's real reasonable of ya. Why don't you also rip apart the floating Golden Egg that told us it was the most valid option to pursue?" John replied dryly, thumbing over his shoulder at Skeets whom hovered fearfully behind Enchantress' annoyed head.

"Why are you insisting on incurring his wrath on me?! I never did anything to you!" Skeets shrieked in his metallic yet very shrill voice.

"When I'm done with the occultist, you're next!" The giant Leaguer shouted with unrestrained venom.

"Please compose yourself, Etrigan," Zatanna called out, kneeling beside the fallen form of the Dark Knight. Her hands had not left Bruce's armored exterior, trembling digits shaking around where the hole Joker had punched through. "This won't help anybody."

"Better do what she says, monster," Orion muttered with strained disdain.

"EMITTAMQUE!" Etrigan murmured out, causing a jade blaze of light to slide across his exterior. In exchange the Apokoliptian's grip on him to loosen, falling back onto the ground with a groan. Coating his hand into flames his crimson eyes glowed brightly as surely as the rest of his hulking frame bristled with angry embers. "I lost the only friend I had in the mortal plane. All because of an upstart bastard of a satanist and an incompetent machine from the future gave us false hope! I intend on providing reckoning on you lot, damn the consequences!"

"Whoa there!" Flash cried out from the sidelines, immediately jumping up with alarm. "Think about what you're doing!"

J'onn, having stood a distance away with Commissioner Gordon tensed at the sight. Looking over at the unconscious heroes lying not too far away he rushed to to their side, ready to defend them from any collateral damage.

"Don't make me do something I'll regret, Demon," Enchantress warned coldly, her hand already raised at his direction.

"Go ahead and try, Etrigan," John replied with a challenging grin, pulling out a knife to hold it bare inches from an exposed palm. "I'll raise a being ten times scarier than you are. I can't guarantee if it'll spare anyone around me, but I'll make it through today. Care to chance it?"

"I'll burn you to ash for daring to challenge me, worthless scum!" Etrigan roared out, pulling an arm back ready to unleash Hellfire at the man and the rest who sheltered the floating droid.

"What are you all doing?! We can't be fighting at a time like this!" Zatanna cried out with disbelieving fear lighting up within her cerulean irises.

"Booster, save me!" Skeets implored out loud, causing a grating creak in the air akin to a microphone going haywire.

Enchantress was about to open her mouth to speak a spell, knowing full well she was the most qualified of the gathered heroes to stop the aggravated hellspawn. But in the space of her mouth opening there was a bright flash of light followed with a sudden appearance of Booster Gold, Robin and Wonder Girl. Having arrived in the middle of the bickering magicians, Booster was within a particular moment he could notice everything before the space-shifting phenomena ended.

This gave him the opportunity to raise his hand towards Etrigan's incoming fist, grabbing it and covering his whole arm in a field of yellow cris-cross particles. Whatever spell he had intended to unleash fizzled out, the limb unable to move and his momentum halted by his shock at the sudden scientific enabled teleportation. All the same, he backed up long enough to regard Booster Gold with a level of apprehension that eased his anger for the moment.

"I just projected a Zero Point Energy field around your right arm. Until I say so, that arm won't move from its given place," Booster announced with a serious glint behind his visor. "Try to endanger everyone else here and I won't hesitate in paralyzing your whole body. Trust me, being restricted in a quantum force field is the worst vice your demon hide can feel."

While everyone, including the arrived Tim and Cassie, just dropped their jaws at the feat of fearlessness standing to a Demon like Etrigan, Orion's eyes bulged as much as Constantine's. Not only was it a happenstance that happened in a literal instance but it was from the most unlikely person to stop the rampaging being. Worse was when Etrigan huffed and turned to walk away, approaching a distant police armored vehicle. Leaning against it, he'd find his arm undone of the ZPE stasis, grunting at the feeling of numbness he felt at being relieved by the super pressure.

"Huh," The Occultist whistled, pocketing his knife back within his coat sleeve while reaching for another cigarette to light. "Who knew that the glory hogging Superstar had a pair that big."

"Have I doubted such a man by a mere glance?" Orion thought with a still back ridden stunned expression accompanied by a slack jaw.

Enchantress could breathe a bit easier, what with Etrigan's temper being nulled by a single act of bravery from an unaccredited hero. Zatanna bowed her head with a wave of relief falling across her tensed shoulders. Even J'onn felt a bit more at ease with the situation averting from a full-on in fight.

"Booster!" Skeets wailed out with delight, rushing headlong to be beside his fleshy companion. "I thought I was going to die! Your arrival couldn't have been more impeccable..."

"Yeah, well, I couldn't let the Troll from under the bridge maul ya. You're my partner after all," The Time Traveler nonchalantly stated, thumbing his chest with emphasis. "Stick with me from now on instead of hanging with crazy magicians, okay?"

"O-Of course!" Skeets asserted with an aerial bounce, the closest he could get to a nod.

"Now, with that out of the way," Booster turned around, trying to get a good gauge of his surroundings. "What did I miss to cause everything to be a mass of hysteria-?"

"Is that-?"

"No!"

Interrupted by the pair of young sidekicks rushing from his side, one sprinting without restraint while the other was jogging to keep up. When he caught sight of what was amiss he felt his own mouth part and his throat get dry at the fallen frame. There was no mistaking the mangled armor for no one than Batman, with his cowl's ears projecting from an impassively stoic helm. Part of his face was revealed from the severe battle he had engaged, eyes closed thanks to Zatanna and a severely large hole speared through his armor covered torso right where his heart was.

Robin's tears were already flowing from his domino mask, his hands shakily held above the still man. Raising his palms he palmed his face just as Cassie joined by the kneeling boy. A loud scream was muffled by his gloved hands, desperately trying to subdue his own breaking heart. The closest he got to a real father was taken from him this day and it ate him that so many others have gone ten feet under with him.

Turning his head to look back at what was Gotham he could hardly recognize it. The city looked like it had taken water in several large gouges, partially indented near the center and many of its infrastructure reduced to rubble or gone entirely. Smoke billowed up from the flames that were still burning, a skyline in the distance showing flashes of light where the thunderous fight was still taking place.

"Yeah, everything's gone down further into shit. Don't know why I decided to think differently," Booster Gold muttered to himself, scratching his head with irritation. "Next thing I know it, we're going to have more tension than can be filled into a mountain."

A loud eruption followed by the air snapping would take place just a mere fifty meter's distance away from the assembled group. Standing upon grassy soil and rattled highway leading away from Gotham City's island from a bridge, stood a number of figures all at once. When Booster saw who they were, his expression became instantly dry. "Nope. Not opening my mouth again. Next thing that'd happen is the sky spilling open and Satan reaching down to drag our asses to Hell-"

"DON'T TEMPT HIM!" Constantine shouted with a fist upraised to cement his infuriation with the Super Jock.

"I know them even from this distance," J'onn stated out loud in a grim manner. "Most of those are villains we had condemned to prison or had disappeared long ago. Not to mention center most was from Cadmus..."

"Waller's lackies," Flash hissed with an aggressive step forward.

"Stay back," Enchantress waved a hand disarmingly at them. "They can't enter so long as we don't accidentally drag them in. It's a barrier I administered not too long ago to keep any further damage being spread here or getting back to us. Unfortunately, attacks leaving this place are harder to contain as you've seen with Joker's attack damaging Blüdhaven."

"What are they doing here?" Cassie asked mixed feelings of resentment and caution.

"Whatever it is, I'll go try and mediate with them," Martian Manhunter offered, already levitating himself into the air. Propelling himself forward he was joined by Enchantress and unexpectedly by Booster Gold. Noticing his presence without even turning his head, the martian implored. "We can handle this without you."

"I know, I just don't like being left with the rest of the injured and spectators," Booster admitted with a sly grin. "And there's no crowd to control this time around. Try and give me an order-"

"Fine," The senior Leaguer relented with a sigh.

"R-Really? Score, I'm a part of things!" The Time Traveler cheered aloud with a fist pump.

"Don't cause any trouble and you can keep it that way," Enchantress reminded with a detached pitch in her voice.

"Right-o, Mistress of Magic," He joked out loud with a halfhearted salute.

"I'm not Morgaine le Fey," The Sorceress replied with venom, looking over her shoulder with a lethal stare at the instantly cold sweating Leaguer.

"It was a joke!" Booster insisted with a rapid wave of his hands. "I swear I didn't mean to insult you!"

"Tch, your words come too quickly," Enchantress huffed with annoyance, landing on the ground with a graceful stride with J'onn, leaving Booster Gold to stumble after them. "Try not to let those lips flap less they sink volatile ships."

"Sure, lady. Whatever you say," Booster replied with a drawn out sigh.

When he approached the edge of the barrier he felt an instant amount of regret of coming with. Before him lied an assembly of around two dozen criminals, all of which could easily be put away for life just by being caught if not get the death penalty. From Queen Bee and her muscular drones, Deadshot and his team of familiars, Evil Star and his band of misfits to the most notorious woman known to the League. Galatea, Supergirl's Clone.

"I see our teleportation didn't put us right where we wanted to be," Tea commented out loud, gesturing with a sneering grin at the three particular heroes standing only five meters away from their midst. "Here I thought, wouldn't it be a shame to see some of the Leaguers get caught in crossfire? I take it that barrier of yours extends past Gotham's shoreline?"

"Has Amanda sent you here? Can you please inform her that your support is appreciated but we need you to stay back. Having too many enemies could prove problematic for the current situation," J'onn tried to urge with no gestures other than his lips moving, proving to look unnervingly like a still statue.

"Yeah, I'm sure we can tell the boss it's Game Over and we can't do jack shit. Oh wait, she'd sooner kill us than pull out, which she has done before," Deadshot snarked out, pointing at the martian leader with an undersandably aggravated shout. "Stand aside before someone here gets killed! I rather it not be me!"

"Nice speech, boss!" Harley clapped with a giggle from behind. "Can I sign your obituary with that?"

"Not helping, Harl!" Lawton snarled over his shoulder.

"You heroes are interfering with Government work," Eiling took a step forward, imposing his threat with a fist cracking knuckles in one hand to prove he meant to follow through with it. "I may have broken some laws, but I am a patriot for my country. I'll take you down if it means getting to my objective."

"Go ahead and try, General," Enchantress goaded with a grin. "I can will my barrier to let anyone I deem fit in or out. I can even widen its radius another fifteen kilometers if I want. How would you like to experience an invisible wall shoving you that far without mercy?"

"Hey, guys! Can we have a time out?" Booster Gold asked with urgency, watching the fist be pulled back by the behemoth of the group.

"Wade, don't be an idiot," Evil Star piped up, looking over at his larger compatriot. "That's a magic barrier. Key word being MAGIC. If you throw your fist at it, all you're doing is breaking your hand."

"Then do you have a plan to get around this obstacle?" Wade inquired with frustration, lowering his arm back to his bulky side.

"If you let me think and shut up, I can," The star-inscribed villain growled out before catching sight Aresia stepping up to the field.

"You-!" J'onn instantly reacted with shock at the woman who appeared.

"I'm flattered you remember me when I thought I was forgotten by the world," The adopted Amazon thanked with a false smile. "I was hoping Diana would be here to greet me but I take it she isn't fit enough to do that?"

"Aresia, you're not helping matters," Evil Star called out with irritation in his voice.

"I must be an eyesore, what with you almost dying from that disease and all," Aresia continued with a venomous grin, placing her hand on the surface of the barrier to use as a prop to lean close. "I must piss you off just by standing here, having attempted to wipe out billions of disgusting males from the face of the planet. Probably want to lash out at me right now, right?"

"Galatea," Martian Manhunter called out, acting completely unaffected by Aresia's attempt at goading him. "I know you might be the one Waller placed in charge of this operation. Pull back and wait for an opportunity. There might be a time when we have no choice but rely on you and that should be the only moment you intervene."

"What a sweet talker," She replied with a thin lipped smile. "You, the Justice League, can't find a way to deal with the menace on your own and you expect us to pull back. Leaving it up to you would be like leaving a bomb in the care of scared pedestrians, hoping they can disarm it. I'd take chances with me rather than with you anytime of the week."

"Moot point," Enchantress brought up with a twirl of her hand. "My barrier. My say-so. And I say no to you all entering. Trusting you lot is the last we need."

"C'mon, Miss," A tall, yet not full height Giganta waved to the magician. "We helped before with Darkseid all those years ago. Can't you trust us again?"

"Yeah! We just want to help, I swear!" Atomic Skull insisted with a nod and raised arm.

Turning to look at his two senior Leaguers, Booster Gold scratching his chin when he brought up audibly, "We are kind of desperate. Why don't we take their word for it? I mean, we're already threatened with global annihilation if we fail."

"What did I say about moving those lips, Gold?!" Enchantress turned on her heel, raising a hand with waiting retaliation.

"Enchantress-" J'onn began to say before his eyes opened wide from a slew of minds coming within "listening" range. Craning his neck to look up he was surprised to see a bio-organic ship only he could truly recognize. Lowering till it rested beside the standing team of Checkmate agents just in front of the trio of Leaguers, it extended its platform and revealed a large company of young heroes exiting.

At the head of them was none other than Kon El, Superman's Clone known simply as Superboy. Trailing behind was Miss Martian, Beast Boy, Blue Beetle, Guardian, Bumble Bee, Herald, Black Lightning, Geo-Force, Halo, Freight Train, Looker, Katana, and Abuse. Coming after them was Static, Artemis and Aqualad.

"Oh shit," Booster thought out loud with the arrival of more people to increase the already palpable tension.

"Here I was wondering where to park and here I see a bunch of villains all lined up. Then I spot with my telescopic vision that you are wearing Checkmate badges. Mind explaining what you are all here for when we got a bigger crisis to avert or are you not in a talking mood?" Connor asked in a nonplussed mood, his eyes already boring with a brow knitted glare at the lot of them with his Titans backing him up on either side.

"Connor," J'onn called out to him. "What are you doing here?"

"Dick gave us a chime and we had nothing better to do. If the Justice League is struggling with a threat, we're the ones to help," Superboy answered readily, finishing with a scowl aimed at Galatea in particular. "These criminal lapdogs shouldn't be here but back in their cages. Where all criminals belong."

"You think I'm the same as them? Get real!" Tea sneered, looking visibly upset for the first time since arriving. "You're not wanted here, punk. I suggest you split or I'll mess up that face of yours."

"You're welcome to try," The Kryptonian Clone declared with hands outstretched, causing the earth to become disjointed and shatter just by gesturing to it. "I promise I won't hold back against you, regardless of our common origin and your gender. Then again, since you're such an insufferable bitch, I wouldn't mind forgetting the prior things and hit you regardless!"

"You talk tough, but let's see how far you get when I'm done-!"

"EVERYONE KNOCK IT OFF!"

Everyone immediately took their attention away to look or glare at the standing Booster Gold. Having interrupted Galatea in her retaliatory remark earned an instant pair of red eyes boring towards him. Still, despite it all, Booster Gold ignored Enchantress' unwillingness to accept their help. Stepping forward through the fold of the barrier keeping him safe he cast a frustrated look at both the Titans and Checkmate's squads.

"How is this helping anyone?! How are we solving the problem?!" Waving his arm towards the horizon, he emphasized his reason with upraised hands clenched fingers into fists. "Right now, we're facing an enemy who's capable of mopping the floor with the best of us. It has the power to turn a deranged psychopath into an unstoppable superhuman. He regenerates from some of the most impossibly powerful attacks thrown his way and he's outfought some of our best combatants."

Seeing that none had went out of their way to shut him up, he gestured to the horizon as he continued. "That bastard will be indiscriminate in who he kills. It won't matter if we're on the same side or the same race. He'll kill us all if we don't stop him! I for one don't want to see the human race end today when we could have done something about it!"

Taking heavy breaths after finishing with what he wanted to say there was a deafening silence that could be felt by all those present. Villains and heroes looked at him then at each other. There was a significant impact with what he did and it wasn't entirely clear if it was positive or not.

That was, until Deadshot spoke up.

"I'm with him," Floyd Lawton announced with a step forward. "You seem to be the only person not out here for himself or out of duty. If we're going to live to fight each other another day I say we go at it together. Anyone who has problems can stow it away for the following operation. Does everyone have a problem with that?"

"It's what we came here to do in the first place," Eiling grunted with a shrug. "I can play nice with the costumed vigilantes, for now."

"Cooperation is fine if we can get this thing killed faster," Evil Star hastily agreed.

"I hazzz no problem withz zzzat," Queen Bee concurred with a nod.

"Bizarro no want help you. Bizarro not your friend while me help good person," The deformed clone of Superman replied in his backwards speech his agreement.

Sooner than Booster Gold thought possible, every single member of Checkmate's deployed squads lined up in front of him. With the Teen Titans looking to each other with confusion they quickly stepped in line, inspired by the change of heart they all had because of the Super Jock's words. The only one who seemed hesitant on stepping forward was Galatea, having kept a look presiding between frustration and hesitation.

"You really going to hold back now, Tea?" Aresia asked, crossing her arms over her bosom with a look over her shoulder. "I may not like them anymore than you do, but what choice do we have? We're Checkmate's chess pieces anyways so placing our personal grievances. As fun as that'd be, we got more important issues to consider."

Groaning out, Supergirl's clone blew at her bangs before taking a few steps to rejoin her squad. "Shit, when you talk about having the odds stacked against ya, I guess this is what it feels like. Fine, I'll play Waller's game...for now."

"Well, I'll be damned," Connor thought with an awed grin at the scene that was provided between his own team and Checkmate's. Taking in the sight of the bewildered Booster Gold he couldn't help but chuckle out loud. "That glory hound actually did a legitimately good thing and got everyone's acts together. Never would have guessed he could."

Booster Gold shook his head, slapping his face to psych himself. Seeing everyone now in front of an agitated Enchantress and a slightly smiling J'onn, he could feel that the tides were about to turn. Spinning on his heels he gave a loud holler as he pointed heroically at the horizon, "Alright! Let's give them back-up and put an end to this!"

In the instant he pointed to the smoldering horizon, a resounding explosion of force that shook the whole city. Seconds later after the quakes subsided, Booster turned to look at Skeets, having floated up to him at eye level with an impassive yet fear-ridden expression in his single optic. With his own mouth pulled back in an apprehensive expression, he croaked out, "What happened...?"

---

Northeast of Gotham shoreline

Kara was feeling exhilarated.

It had been figurative ages since she last fought an enemy, criminal or extraterrestrial, that actually posed such a large threat. She had felt restless ever since arriving on Earth and finding out she was on a parallel Earth, slowly coming to terms with the fact she'd be here most likely for life. Gaining trust of the Justice League after a few occasions of her joining forces or assisting them it wasn't until too long till she had run across the clone of Terra, Atlee, whom immediately identified with her.

The fact they were able to fight such an unknown together was probably the most entertaining thing they had done since beating the rogue General Eiling.

After dodging another series of quick jabs by the creature, Power Girl vibrated her molecules fast enough to phase through it. Using its confusion to her advantage she did a reverse chop to its neck hard enough to distend its chubby neck and head inwards at the triangle impact spot. Pulling it by the head-tendril she rapidly spun around in the sky before throwing it into a particularly large flying piece of city scraped asphalt sent into his body crashing into the sea below.

"Perfect shot, Atlee!" She shouted down to the distant, yet still visible to her Kryptonian eyes, friend of hers.

"I live to please!" Atlee cried out to her.

"Hey, what did I say about dirty talk?" Power Girl laughed with her reply.

"You know what I mean!"

"Do I?" She jeered back, just as Fat Buu reappeared behind her via Instant Transmission. Despite the teleportation, her ears picked up the vibrations of his arrival, earning his face a well-earned backward elbow jab. With his face contorted inwards he was unable to escape the cape-tie grab she had on his neck. Throwing him over her head she firmly palm-heeled into his bloated chest, sending him pinwheeling directly onto the floating piece of cityscape Atlee kept afloat.

"Rumors aren't going to be stopped if we keep up this kind of talk," Atlee conversationally replied, effortlessly twitching her neck to the left. In that moment when Buu landed with a bounce onto the ground, earthen hands made out of concrete from the sidewalk reached out and grabbed him into a vice grip. Smashed into the asphalt street, a yellow-striped boot was formed to kick him into the air just as Power Girl ax-kicked him back into the airborne fragment with a quaking smash. "Don't pretend you don't hear what people say about us."

"Oh yeah. Two girls living in the same apartment, share the penchant to crime fighting, are not the originals of their given template and are attractive? God, it's like people paint the undertones on purpose to tease gullible tabloid viewers," Kara replied in an annoyed tone as she hovered above the dazed Homonculus. "It'd be nice if super heroines didn't get such an exploitative bad rap in this day and age."

"Yeah, look at us," Atlee palmed towards Buu as she kept talking. The result was a wave of street was lifted up in a wave formation, becoming a thick high velocity earth that slammed into him like a wall. As he drug across the floating city segment she sighed out loud. "One of two pairs of kickass gals beating on some world destroying menaces that no one else could handle. It's almost like we don't do this often enough."

"Careful, or you're going to sound meta," Power Girl replied with a barking laugh, racing back to land a kick to Buu's exposed cape covered backside. Smashing the earth and the being outright, she watched him roll forward until he dragged to a halt directly on his face. Putting her foot down she relaxed enough to blow at her bangs, propping hands on her hips. "Maybe when this is all said and done, we can grab a bite to eat somewhere...I'm thinking Kansas."

"Why go to the Flat State?" The Terran Manipulator asked with a cock of her head curiously enough.

"Hear of their Jazz? It's a great place to find plenty of it. Not to mention barbecue capital, at least, I think it is. Been in the mood to get some hole-in-the-wall grub anyways," The Kryptonian explained with a gesture to the closer earth bender from beyond her scope of vision.

"Sounds good to me!" Atlee piped up with a melodious giggle.

Amidst their casual banter and feeling of security the pudgy Majin was feeling the source of amusement. Not only was he not feeling one hundred percent since the evil within was removed but Smiley had been hurt and these girls were keeping him from seeing his friend. Face down in the crumpled street his gloved hands balled into fists and proceeded to smash the street with infuriation.

Such force was enough to unsettle the environment, cause the already ruined city fragment to shake violently. Kara looked on with a serious stare while Atlee nervously looked on as Buu pushed himself up from his punching fit. Taking heavy breaths the primordial being looked at Atlee and then over his shoulder at Power Girl.

Inhaling deeply, he let out a loud squeal that emanated as a sonic cry that caused the Kryptonian and the Clone to clasp their hands over their ears, "YOU MAKE BUU MAD! YOU HURT BUU'S FRIEND! BUU MAKE YOU PAY!"

"Oh cripes," Atlee blinked several times as she saw a rosy light gather distantly on the top of his head. When he threw his skull forward, a beam like lightning struck across the air towards her. It was only due to her reflexes and training that she was able to maneuver a pliable piece of sidewalk to shield herself from the pink light that nearly enveloped her.

What happened instead baffled her to the extreme.

Instead of it being blown to bits or atomized...it was transformed into a large chocolate bar with no markings other than partially undone tin foil. The sight was baffling to her but still frightening. Was she about to turn into candy had the beam hit her?

"A Candy Beam? What are you, five?" Kara jeered mockingly at Buu when she saw Atlee nearly struck by the magic light.

"BUU," Fat Buu declared outright, turning on his heel to attack her next, head-tendril already bowed forward and crackling with magic power. "TURN YOU INTO CHOCOLATE!"

Firing once, the Kryptonian easily evaded the beam by stepping to the left. Growling out the monster unleashed a barrage of coral colored tongues of transmutation. Each one was gracefully dodged and avoided by the short-haired woman, her movements measured never to be wasted with any step or choice in evasion. All the while she got closer to him without him even realizing it.

An uppercut to his chin and he flew up into a neck-hold with one hand as she held back the other fist, "Really should have come up with a better last resort there, Bubblegum."

Snarling out loud, the rotund warrior snapped his head forward and unleashed a voluminously wide Candy Beam Kamehameha from the top of his hairless scalp. It seemed to erase her from his sight, allowing him to spread a victorious smile until the grip on his neck tightened. The light from his attack petered away and was replaced with a unforgiving searing pain that made his whole head pop and become dust. The invisible wave of heat exiting Power Girl's vibrantly crimson eyes was clear on her disposition on the entity she was fighting.

Her readied hand threw forward punching Buu with enough force to shake the city fragment that Atlee was keeping in the air. One after another she hit him with a look of nothing but spite colored across her aggressive visage. Even without a head she wasn't satisfied with the amount of pain she wanted to imbue on him. After wailing on him for a good solid minute she saw his head regenerate back into fullness though not without showing a look of apprehension at the angry woman holding him by the neck.

"Use Magic against me, will you? Try to bring me down with another publicized weakness HE decided to tell that woman? Well good luck on bringing me down," She uttered out lowly with anger, thrusting him into the asphalt street hard enough to web out with impact fissures farther than a city block. "When you're nothing but dust."

"Wow, this chocolate isn't actually that bad," Atlee commented, having gotten over her fear and decided to bite into the earth turned candy bar. "Tastes good.~"

Turning to look over at her friend she was left agape at seeing a compressed vortex of super cooling wind at Majin Buu's street planted body. The result was a frozen blob with what resembled an outline of his shape within the icy shell. A wave of heat vision coming from an aggravated Power Girl and the entire form of Buu was transformed from solid matter into a gaseous substance that clouded up and swirled upward.

Sighing with relief, she coughed as some of the dust remains got into her mouth and nostrils. Taking care to look at her friend she continued to hack as the rest of the colored smoke flowed up and seemingly guided itself into her open orifices. Clenching at her throat she tried to stop the choking feeling she had, earning a look of genuine concern from Atlee.

"Kara!" She called out, daring to move while keeping the fragment suspended.

"I-I'm fine, I just...inhaled some of that...that," She trailed off, suddenly feeling that her lungs weren't the source of a nagging burn from the respiratory invasion. Now her body inwardly felt numb followed by a tickling rush running up and down her spine. Clutching at her abdomen, her hips ground together with her eyes clenching shut at a sudden intrusion throughout the rest of her insides. From her intestines to her muscles and to the tips of her toes she could feel an uncomfortable warmth billow up like a ticklish pillow that wrapped her up from the inside moving out.

Gurgling out, her mouth began to protrude a wafting wave of gummy substance that flowed out like a snake. The mere sight of it caused Atlee to look on with stunned horror, watching her friend's skin slowly sweat out more pink gummy tissue that overtook her like living marshmallow. When her head was wrapped by the oral escaping make-up that Atlee abandoned her regard for keeping the cityscape afloat.

"KARA! Hang in there!" She implored as she skated across the earth as if it was made of ice. Even as the lurching sensation of decreasing altitude hit her, she focused enough to keep it from falling outright. Reaching Kara's position she reached out and tried to pull it off the extended limb. When it became as pliable as the material she thought was covering her, her hopes were dashed; but not as much as the stickiness that had formed on her palms.

A tube of the Buu goo, as it was affectionately called, rolled up her arms till it wrapped around her neck and shoulders. She screamed out only for a few seconds, her mouth smothered by the flesh that wrapped up and over her dark colored tresses, soon dragged into the gelatinous mass of feminine shapes that bulged and struggled within. Nothing was left but a gradually transforming silhouette, crackling with vibrant energy as the whole city fifth dropped into the ocean with a dramatic crash.

Something was about to emerge, catching the eyes of Stargirl and Mary Marvel as they were still battling the thinner counterpart.

"Wait, is that thing holding Power Girl and Atlee?!" The prior of the two cried out with instant worry.

"I don't know, I can't see well from this point," Mary reasoned as she could only see the rosy colored figure from a good ways away. It looked like a dot from the distance they had put themselves from each other. Hearing a sudden war cry from Evil Buu drew her attention back to her front, watching his dark fiery form race towards the two of them. "He's back for more, Courtney. Focus on the task at hand and deal with that lat-"

"I have to help them!" The Super Powered girl insisted, jettisoning herself from placement to the spot she knew that her friends were. Taking only seconds to reach, she knew that from the faint bulges made in the shape-shifting mass that they were inside. Pulling back a pair of hands, she enveloped them with intense stellar energy, ready to blast it to free them.

"WAIT!" Mary Marvel shouted with warning, turning to look at her friend in the distance. What she couldn't see was a sudden tangible limb reaching out from the writhing cocoon and forming a fist. It struck her in the abdomen hard enough to knock the wind out of her and leave her open to a startling backhand motion that sent her reeling all the way through the barrier's envelope into the war-torn city of Gotham. "COURTNEY!"

At that moment, Evil Buu finally landed a punch. It was a solid one, resounding with a crack in the heavens with sheer pressure released from the impact. He laughed in a shrill tone at accomplishing the mere fact that Mary's head was pushed back. The feeling of his fist being pushed back by the unharmed cheek it was smothered against, however, caused his face to look a great deal afraid despite his power shroud bathing his frame.

"I don't have time," She growled out, pulling back a fist that quickly found its mark alongside its right jaw. "FOR YOU!"

An ear-shattering pop lapped the ocean's surface and billowed at the distant form-shaping avarice of Buu goo. Even the city felt tremors all the way to its outskirts, thrumming across the distance as Evil Buu was catapulted away with an incredibly powerful punch. His screams would fall on deaf ears as he pinwheeled out of sight, unseen until he hit a distant island off the coast of Africa itself with a resounding explosion of kinetic impact.

Turning from the enemy she had temporarily dispatched, she felt a sudden wave of Ki lap across her like an immense force being unleashed. Looking over she raced over to the place she last saw Stargirl get struck. A line of decrepit structures were toppled and her lithe body lied strewn across a deep trench she had been buried in. Reaching down she pulled her out of the steaming hole, wiping away the dirt from the blood oozing mouthed girl now devoid of her beautiful mantle of light.

"Courtney. Courtney, wake up!" Mary tried to shake her into consciousness but to no avail. Leaning her head against her chest she breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a quiet heartbeat behind her bosom. Cradling her bridal style, she lifted herself up into the sky before quickly depositing her back where she knew the make-shift hospital was for the JL FOB.

"...you said what happened?!" Booster Gold cried out with apparent panic in his voice, just prior to noticing Mary Marvel's near instantaneous arrival. He briefly caught her eye along with the others gathered. He saw the unconscious girl and immediately felt his throat dry. "Oh no..."

"Enchantress!" Mary called out, knowing she was the only immediate medical expert among those gathered.

When the sorceress was drawn to the spot where she laid Courtney, she immediately cast restoration and curative spells. After a drawn out silence she saw a much more comfortably breathing, yet very worn Stargirl lying across on the magically manifested quilt knit for her. Turning to look look at Mary, she briefed her of her condition, "She's stable but she received a major concussion and internal bleeding in her intestines. I managed to banish the blood from within so it wouldn't cause problems as well as replaced organs that were ruptured. Her brain wasn't surprisingly harmed but I dampened the swelling to her cranial tissue. If she doesn't stress her powers she should be able to make a full recovery."

"That's all I needed to hear," Mary Marvel replied flatly, rising up slowly with a morose look on her face. "I implore you all stay here. I got business to take care of."

Before Booster or any of the gathered heroes protest, she shot off across the sky in an instant. Sighing, the Super Jock rose up slowly after her looking back at the others with a beckoning nod, "C'mon. We can't just leave her to face this thing alone. Is everyone still with me?"

"We were the first time you said something ballsy," Harley commented with a whistle.

"Good, just wanted to know we're still on the same page," Booster chuckled sheepishly, still unsure of his role as inspirational head for this motley crew of Earth's defenders. She noticed everyone who couldn't fly had help from those who could, lifting them outright or giving them support via energy projection. Joined by Skeets they all took off across the burning vista to meet Mary Marvel in the sky.

He just hoped that they could do some good instead of the alternative.

---

"I take it by your reaction you're surprised?"

"That...would be putting it mildly," Mary Marvel replied to her newly transformed adversary. In every way did her enemy change, both for good and worse. What was once a child-minded and physically appearing man-child was now someone she barely recognized.

Taking a feminine build, the new Majin Buu was slender around the limbs and generously proportioned around the bosom and hindquarters. An angular chin was the tip of a crest that possessed plush cheeks that retained strong cheekbones, eyes once beady black now a piercing, radiant blue and where was none now existed a cute nose. A layer of exterior tissue now more resembling to hair formed bangs over her brows, flowing over ears that were still in place of the inhuman conical tubes. The crown attached tendril now looked akin to a ponytail of glossy hair that shined in the luminous glow of the moon shining onto her.

Her attire consisted of finger less metallic blue gloves with form-fitting sleeves of black leading up to a jacket of similar hue with an upturned collar. Her bosom on prominent display would be covered down to the waist with a red dyed top that complemented the knee high boots of a similar leather sheen that allowed her luscious salmon dyed thighs to be on proud display. Unlike most of her apparel, she sported a black outlined red cape hung from her collared jacket, sporting a black M symbol on its center of the fluttering fabric.

Supple lips curled into a grin at hearing as well as seeing Mary's choice of words. She drank in every look, every vocal gasp and every muscular twitch. Her senses were enhanced in every way she could have imagined and her whole being had gained a degree of intelligence she hadn't thought possible. It felt like, on top of her natural reserves of near infinite Ki, that she held a small star in her belly full of power that she swore tickled her periphery senses the higher she ascended.

"What's with the smug look? What did you do to my friends?" Mary interrogated, her power spiking in the form of bolts of magic resonating around her person.

"I absorbed them," Majin Buu replied matter-of-factly. When she saw a look of serious pensiveness cross her current enemy's face, she waved her hands and shrugged. "Let's just say, for the sake of not confusing you, that everything that made up your friends is now mine to use. Intelligence, strength, memories, skill and abilities. I possess them on top of my own natural powers. I rarely ever use this technique as...well, the last time I had I ended up a near mindless simpleton from the person I was goaded into assimilating."

"What the Hell are you?" The sole inheritor of Shazam demanded with a firm glare sent Buu's way.

"That...is a question I don't even know myself," She admitted with a frown. Crossing her arms over her buoyant chest she felt as much as she heard incoming entities head her way. Inclining her head in the direction of the broken city, she explained briefly. "Let's just say, back where I'm from, I'm older than time itself. I love to fight when I'm not eating delicious sweets. Other than that, you tell me what I am cause I have no clue and I don't give a damn. I am what I am and you can deal with it however you want."

"Heh, it seems you inherited more than their smarts but also their quirks too," Mary Marvel muttered lowly, forgetting that she could be heard easily by the new Buu.

"Oi, it's not polite to talk under your breath," She growled out with a sudden redness overtaking her cerulean eyes.

"Oh I'm sorry. Forgive me Miss I-don't-give-a-fuck for trampling over your good graces. I should have forgotten all the people you killed and my two friends you just possessed. Excuse me for having common sense to not treat you like an equal!" Mary drawled out into an exasperated shout.

Twitching, the female Majin waved a hand while glaring at the Shazam empowered girl, "First, don't compare ME to what HE was. When that hideous darkness was extracted from me, I wasn't even the same being. Moreover, I don't even want to kill anyone so long as they don't piss me off. Lastly I absorbed them, not possessed them!"

"They didn't deserve that!" The super heroine declared loudly.

"She was trying to KILL ME after beating me around like a walking punching bag! How do you think I was going to react? Sorry I'm not prone to roll over and let people just wipe me from existence," Buu huffed with a sharp turn of her head, crossing her arms with an indignant air to her. "It's the fault of guys who run headlong at me, begging for me to turn them into delicious candy, get what's coming to you. If everyone just left me and Mister Smiley alone, I wouldn't have toasted those guys with guns, beaten those annoying kids or turned Sparkey into a cookie. Okay, the last one I kind of liked if only because he tasted so good!~"

"You-!"

"Huh?" She turned to look at Mary, stumbling back in the air to avoid a sudden rash thrust of her fist. "WHAT?!"

"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO KILLED MY BROTHER!" She cried out with a damning shriek, her body now vibrantly alight with the constant thrum of magical energies.

"H-H-Hey, calm down there," Buu waved her hands at the enraged, sole member of the Marvel family. "I'm sure we can come to an understanding and work this out without-"

Halted in her bid to talk things out, strangely enough, she felt a searingly hot punch connect to her waist followed by a pivoting left elbow jab to the jaw. Spasming in pain she tried to collect herself far too slowly as a discharge of lightning caused her to scream with agony. With an over the head hammer fist she was sent hurdling down into the half sunken segment of Gotham City, shattering it beyond recognition with a large upheaval of water that scattered across the lower air.

Heaving in the air, Mary kept her sights on the unsettled water slowly receding back to a flatter surface. The time spent reining in her unforgiving anger allowed those who followed after her to slowly approach her without fearing for reprisal. Hearing the variance of apparel on each person, she turned to see those who gone up to meet her were both memorable and unwelcome in their own respects.

"Geez, I kind of wish I didn't have super hearing," Connor casually mentioned, picking his left ear with his pinky. Brows were furrowed into a glare at the look of bare restraint the young super heroine had in her own eyes. Crossing his arms, he sighed out loud. "Then again, knowing the situation at hand in a page's summary, I can't entirely blame you. Anger is useful but only to a point; being blinded by it could get you killed."

"Nice pep talk, Boy Scout Junior," Tea replied, levitating in the air with knees bent and arms nonchalantly crossed behind her long-haired scalp. She cast a taunting smirk at the simmering Clone while passingly made a blink at Mary. "I think anger in this situation is just what we need. Monsters are best destroyed by wrathful fervor, not talk of self control and fairdom."

"BEFORE you two go at it again," Booster Gold intervened, floating between the two while the others hung back in the air. He noticed that Tsukuri and Eiling, despite not possessing the ability to fly, insisted to come up with the rest of their team by way of platforms made by Star Sapphire. A stoic J'onn floated behind him, keeping his attention on the ocean below while the rest looked at Mary. Turning his attention to Mary, he proclaimed in a much more serious manner than he was accustomed to. "We need to face facts. Fighting together is the best method of beating this threat."

There was a few seconds of tense silence as auburn haired woman looked at Booster, those gathered around him and then back at the undisturbed waters. Her clenched fists slowly unfurled into open palms and her unstable cacophony of mystical bolts ceased in display. Looking back at him calmly she sighed sadly.

"I would say piss off, but I know you're right," Mary Marvel replied in a morose tone. "Before the formerly fat blob pulled a fast one on Kara and Atlee, we were easily holding our own. The only thing that kept them from continuing was most likely their inexperience with Buu's unique physiology. Absorbing them, for example, was an ability I never heard of him possessing as you described or displayed before."

"Skeets did inform me something changed within the Positive Half's make-up," Booster turned towards his floating compatriot residing at shoulder level to his left. "He said their signatures were gone and were suddenly composite into Buu's overall energy marker. For all intents and purposes, the three are one in the same."

"So, what, do we have another Composite Superman on our hands?" Connor asked with a dubious wave of his hand.

"Idiot," Galatea turned to glare with annoyance at the mutual Kryptonian Clone. "Composite Superman was a joke that lasted for twenty four hours by bizarre happenstance. This is obviously more everlasting, unlike what you optimistically would believe otherwise."

"Perhaps there's a way to undo it?" Aresia asked out loud with a shrug.

"Unless you know how that monster works, that would be an impossible undertaking," Eiling shook his head, turning to look at the Amazon. "Killing it or imprisoning it somewhere is the most assured way of beating it."

"IF it can be beaten at all," Carol mulled out.

"Yeah, that's the toughie, isn't it?"

"I'll sa-H-H-H-HEY!" Booster Gold instantly recoiled, finding himself but inches away from the recently fused Majin.

Everyone responded similarly, even Mary did a double take at seeing the teleporting nemesis arrive before them. An eerie film of golden light mingled with a rosy hue bristled around the salmon complexioned skin. Her instantaneous arrival coupled with the air waves of aerial movement of her enemies caused the jacket and cape to flutter in sync with her glossy faux hair. Her eyes stared long and hard at each of the agents, including the Kryptonian Clones with Mary being the last she gazed over her right shoulder.

"I'll try to go easy on you," She declared with a hint of reveling behind the toothy grin. "I don't want to kill my new sparring partners, after all."

Of those present, Mary struck first.

Lunging forward she lashed out with a magical infused left hook, this time blocked by swiveling forearm guard. The force was dampened by being struck by a visible barrier of Ki that was erected over her skin that continued to glow constantly around Buu. Seeing that failed she discharged a wide berth of lightning that sent her reeling back a dozen meters that barely avoided those gathered in the sky.

"Good hit," The Majin excitedly replied, instantly kicking off the air with her new found speed, arriving just inches away from Mary's surprised face with an ecstatic smile spread ear to ear. "My turn!"

A left hay maker striking the Marvel across her jaw was followed up with a shocking with a spinning roundhouse kick to her gut. Despite the radiating pop of oxygen that nearly exploded with excess excited hydrogen, Mary managed to right herself in time to return a distant lightning strike back at her enemy. This time it was countered with a left burst of electrified Ki of her own, causing a visible synapse in the space between them.

"You're not the only one with shocking powers!" Buu quipped with a giggle at her own joke.

Her own musing and concentration of Mary's next move left her open to a sudden javelin of violet light crashing into her temple. The attack ricocheted but was powerful enough to jerk her head to the side and make her stumble back. Turning to see who attacked, she was faced with a sudden behemoth of a man, swinging his monstrously sized fist towards her.

Catching his fist with one hand, she twisted his wrist around at such velocity that it tore straight off his arm, letting loose a geyser of blood and bone. During the act of mutilation Tsukuri ducked underneath the two and managed to grapple her target's left heel. Swinging up and over her, she pulled out a pair of kunai and drove each of them into her inner ears.

Buu screamed at the feeling of her acquired human attributes being penetrated, causing her hands to raise up and reach for her offender. Punched in the face was another free hand of Eiling's, allowing the kunoichi to vault over her, leaving the projectiles embedded into the sides of her head that had miniature explosives set off on their hilts. When the pair of explosions rocked her head, tearing apart parts of her skull in a gummy shower of ichor. In retaliation she snapped her forward and unleashed a wide Heat Vision blast from her eyes at Eiling.

When a barrier of protective EM energy crawled up from the platform he stood upon and over his body, the wave was buffeted and splayed over it. This gave time for Tsukuri to roll back on her own levitating field, allowing Aresia to charge forward with Galatea. She only took brief notice at Eiling's five second long regenerative process before returning her attention to the duo fighting Majin Buu.

Both super women engaged the recovered Buu, unleashing a barrage of punches the Homunculus seemed to parry while backpedaling in the heavens. The impacts were enough to shake the earth below, blowing back the water and vibrating the sunken fragment beneath their feet. It was like drawing electricity and fire into breath for milliseconds for every attack made or counterattack made by the trio of incredible entities.

Catching sight of J'onn taking flight to their respective area gave the Djinn an idea. Using her perception of the pair's lunging fists, she grasped one and then the other. Pulling them both into her knees she throttled both rattled agents up over her head. Swinging them around she used them as crude bludgeoning weapons, crashing their bodies over where the swiftly approaching Martian Manhunter would be.

But instead of three otherworldly bodies colliding, only Aresia and Tea rammed into each other. J'onn's body phased effortlessly through them before the offender could make out what happened. That was until a thunderous back kick caused her to fly forward bereft of her grip of the two women.

"That hurt," Galatea growled out as Majin Buu flew past her and the reeling Aresia. Turning her gaze to the flying glowing enemy she unleashed a focused beam of heat from her eyes. When the pair of orange lights fused into a singular fissure of radiating power, the ability drilled her down into the sunken partition of Gotham City with a bright flashing crash of shattering infrastructure and vaporizing water. "BITCH!"

Taking opportunity where she saw it, Mary Marvel pulled back her arms to coalesce a focused quantity of power over each of her hands. Bolts of electricity flowed to and fro, spheres of the concentrated magic swirling into a larger shape. Bringing both hands together she shoved her open palms at the city fragment and shouted with a voluminous fissure unleashed from her hands. Colored in gold outlines with a pure white at its center the attack crashed into the fragment with enough power to erase the sunken city fragment and cyclone the waters around its target.

A target that hovered within the sea's open vortex, hands outstretched to unleash a wide field of shocking Ki energy. Buu's calm aura soon ignited into a fiery torrent of light, reinforcing her effort by way of a growling roar exiting her throat. Unleashing an Electric Kamehameha, the solar hued Ki wave pushed back the magic originated attack all the way back to the heavens.

After a few seconds Buu rose back up, confronting the aerial assembled opponents gathered in front of her. Seeing Mary regain her breath she cast a particular scowl her way, "Hey, you should watch where you shoot that thing. That little blast of yours might have penetrated the barrier your sorceress friend erected over the survivors. Not to mention that city over there might have gotten wrecked by it."

"I don't need a lecture about power loosing from you!" Mary yelled out, body still crackling with energies; a visible way to indicate her anger hadn't died down completely.

"Mary, keep your power in check," J'onn scolded out loud, earning a sudden look of surprise and then shame from the young super heroine. "We can't afford to lash out carelessly. Not against the monster we've all been fighting."

Sighing, the pink skinned Majin stroked the bridge of her nose with visible annoyance, "I keep telling you, that Buu wasn't me. I'm new, separate in consciousness and existence. Just as that piece of dark shit you catapulted across the ocean, I'm as different from the fat blob you knew as one planet is from another."

"Oh yeah," Superboy chimed up, folding his arms over his chest as he finally decided to speak to the creature himself. Cocking his head to the side he rubbed his chin with a curious smile worked over his face. "I don't think I did get your name. All I heard from the others was, The Threat, or from everyone else as Buu. What would you call yourself?"

"Finally, someone with the decency to ask!" She cried out with a relieved smile, waving her arms with dramatic emphasis.

"You're welcome," Connor replied with a smile, watching the Homunculus start to ponder visibly.

"Hey, what are you doing being so chummy?" Galatea queried sharply at her mutual Clone.

"Pissing people off won't help our situation. Might as well act cordial and try to be diplomatic. That's what Kal-El would want me to do, anyways," The Kryptonian by genes replied matter-of-fact with a shrug.

"Tch," Tea hissed but made no move to argue or press the point. Not when she knew how hard that being can hit, still feeling the developing bruise in her midriff.

"Oh! I got it!" The cape and jacket toting Majin fist palmed with decision.

"What?" Booster Gold asked with a few blinks behind his visor.

"Super Buu," She declared with a jutting motion of her chest, placing both hands on her hips to emphasize the super-ness of her statement. "Combine the power of two super heroines with Majin Buu's positive aspect and I become a Super Buu. Whatcha ya think? Pretty cool, right?"

Snickering, Galatea couldn't help but find her amusement of the name chosen. Despite her declaration, she earned a scuffing slap to the back of her head. Turning to see Aresia was responsible, she could do little more than scowl as she rubbed her scalp tenderly.

"I like it!" Booster Gold proclaimed with an overly positive thumbs up. "Your naming skills get an A from me!"

"Really?!" The Djinn practically squealed with childish excitement.

"It's nice. Nothing too long-winded and to the point," Connor added his own two cents with an awkward shrug.

"AWESOME!" The newly named Super Buu cheered, doing an aerial dance as she swooped in and around the vicinity of the assemblage. It was to everyone's surprise how truly innocent and naive she appeared despite her earlier rash choice of talk or her eagerness to fight. Definitely not something missed by the gold-&-blue hero among them.

"I don't get it," Booster gestured to her, causing her mid flight movement of enthusiasm to be cut short. "When it comes down to it, you're not as terrifying as you originally were."

"Course I'm not," Super Buu answered readily, sailing on her back casually around him in idle circles. "As I keep sayin', I'm not the same as that Buu. What you faced had a different mind and was infested with darkness. I may have a temper and love to fight, but most of what I've done was out of ignorant impulse, not out of vile spite."

"This is stupid-"

"Shut up and let them speak," Connor interrupted Galatea with a harsh whisper.

"How did the Joker became your...uh...friend?" Booster Gold hesitated in asking, trying to gauge the exact motivations of this new unusually attractive magic being.

"Oh, you mean Smiley?" She perked up almost immediately, smile playing across her feminine face. But, when she thought back on it her smile diminished into a frown. "Uh, we've been friends since...when that weird lady who gave me a cold fire inside of me and sent me away, far away. I don't know where this is but I know it isn't home. When I arrived I was stuck and I could hear his voice vaguely. Next thing I knew I was blown up and it hurt, but I was free!"

"Skeets?" The visor wearing hero called out to his nearby robotic companion.

"How may I be of assistance?" He inquird expectantly.

"Can you do a backlog of anything that can indicate where Buu was first seen?" Booster Gold asked specifically.

"Of course. Give me a few moments," Skeets declared, audibly turning on what sounded like elevator music to occupy their time.

"Uh...why are we here?" Eiling asked with owlish blinks of his beady eyes.

"I'm starting to wonder that myself..." Tsukuri sighed as she squatted on her platform.

"This is ridiculous!" Shouted Mary Marvel, finding her proximity to the pink skinned alien to be more and more unbearable. Looking to J'onn, her most obvious moral obstacle, she pointed at her while she vehemently stated. "I don't care if she gained a two hundred plus IQ and has the disposition of a hyperactive teenaged girl. She remembers what she did as if nothing changed and knowingly absorbed two of our friends without a second's thought. We can't just forgive that!"

"This is a precarious situation, Mary," The Martian tenderly answered, turning to look at the angry young woman. "This is an entity the Justice League has never encountered before. There may be more going on than we first suspected. It is no coincidence that Constantine's spell split Buu into two and that this one claims innocence whereas the other has hardly any mind to read. From what I've skimmed off her forethought, she is telling the truth and I can see no ill content coming from her."

Turning away, she ground her molars together as tightly as her fists were clenched. Eyes closed as she hissed through her nostrils, using sheer will to rein in her grief fueled anger. Turning to look at Buu, idly twirling her body at a perpendicular angle, she found it harder to hate something that was so clueless. Still, the form wasn't naturally attained and it kept her from putting off her anger at the time.

"But," Mary murmured, staring at the alluring form Buu transformed into as not hers by right. "What about Kara and Atlee?"

"We'll find a solution, Mary. Trust in the League," J'onn soothed a soft smile.

"I will. I know that's what my brother would have wanted," She submitted with a final quiet sigh.

"I found what you're looking for," The Time Traveler's companion announced, gaining Booster's full attention while only receiving part of the contentedly twirling Super Buu's. "It seems that there was a temporal flux, as we originally hypothesized when we got the report of Captain Marvel fighting a new entity. Using a collaboration of satellite imagery and surveillance cameras I can officially state that Buu was lodged into the ship's deck."

"Oh! I remember being on a boat!" Super Buu exclaimed excitedly, recalling the memory quickly.

"So, just to clarify, you were physically stuck inside a boat's deck?" The Time Traveler inquired.

"Yup-Yup!" She nodded her head to the point.

"So?" Booster Gold queried offhandedly. "If you were physically stuck in something, your anatomy wouldn't have been harmed by it like anyone else's. Couldn't you have blown yourself out?"

Long seconds came and went with the wind howling in the background with Buu's blank expression being the only response he got. That was until she clapped her cheeks with both hands and comically exclaimed, "I WASN'T IN TROUBLE AT ALL!"

"It took her that long to get it?" Booster thought with a sheepish open mouthed smile.

"AND...Smiley didn't help me. HE HURT ME AND USED ME!" She quickly put together, balling her hands into fists, her visage contorting from one of shock to rage. Her skin reddened where exposed, steam escaping out of her ears and nostrils with veins throbbing across her brow and limbs to completely emphasize her new found state of anger. With an eruption of coral outlined golden light from her body that made everyone near her reel back, she continued to shout loudly her dark promise. "I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU PAY FOR THAT, SMILEY! NO ONE USES ME AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!"

"W-Wait just a minute!" Booster tried to calm her down, feeling like he might have opened a can of bad feelings. "We got him but he's powerless to escape. Killing him now would be an easy route, wouldn't you say?"

"That's right," She thought out loud, a wrathful smile playing across her face behind the aurora of light being emitted from her skin. "I'll turn him into candy AND eat him!"

"That's, not what I meant-" He trailed off until a far more distant shrill scream was heard. Like a hurricane a wall of sound resonating wind struck them full on. While he couldn't feel what was going on kilometers away the sky began radiating with foul colored electricity that flung itself wildly in all directions.

"No," Super Buu whispered turning to glare in the direction of a unseen yet approaching figure. "Apparently I have to deal with you before dealing with Smiley."

Flying at their midst in a rolled up shape of a ball, Evil Buu returned with a vengeance. A large wave of Ki spread out to give him a shadowy veil of malfested Ki. Like a meteor he aimed on hitting them all at once with his massively spread reach. What he didn't count on was Superboy getting to him before reaching the others.

Catching him with one hand he almost immediately stopped, halted dead in his tracks. Unable to break free of the grip a popping sound could be heard as a invisible field wrapped around him.

"My tactile telekinesis is flawless when it has a complete vice grip," Connor declared in a cool tone, pulling back a free hand to curl it into a fist. "It doesn't break till I let go."

Punching hard enough to emit lightning from the point of his knuckles meeting the surprisingly cold flames of Ki burning off of Skinny Buu he watched him soar back. Rushing back he was met by Galatea's coldly glaring face, unleashing a wide beam of Heat Vision from her eyes. Pushed back by the force of the beam while set ablaze, the dark counterpart was sent flying straight into the path of Star Sapphire's construct hammer that sent him upwards. Eiling performed a leap and double-hammer fist to below to meet Mary Marvel and J'onn's united punch that sent him flying across the sky toward Booster.

"What is this, unlimited tag?" He quipped as he swung an energy infused punch that sent a howling Evil Buu by way of somersault into Super Buu's right flank. Barely acknowledging it, she simply backhanded him to which sent him reeling across the ocean's surface for a good twenty kilometers before dipping beneath the rippling waves.

"His Ki is so low that it's almost pitiful to see him flailing like that," She muttered out with a bored sigh. Pouting her lips she crossed her arms indignantly across her generously proportioned chest. "I'd rather fight you guys. At least you're all strong and fun!"

"Uh, thanks?" Booster awkwardly drawled out at the unexpected comment.

"You're welcome!" She piped up cheerfully.

"Are you bipolar or something?" Booster Gold asked silently with a twitching brow.

Anyone else's musings would be broken as the fiery cloaked being rose up out of the ocean just short of Super Buu's front. Stretching out a punch that was easily dodged with a back step, Evil Buu swung out a rapid combo of punches and kicks at his counterpart. When he felt a handful of slaps go across his face, the rage only seemed to increase as a loud hissing shriek escaped his bodily holes blowing out steam.

"I don't want to waste time with someone so boring or ugly," The Positive half declared bluntly to her Negative half. "Either get lost or crawl under a hole somewhere. I'll kill you if you keep attacking me."

Biting down on his own teeth to the point of incredulous rage, the flames of Ki erupted into a blatant inferno that overshadowed the both of them. Amidst this he howled loudly, all filled with a wordless indication of spite and loathing. With his silhouette submersed within the gout of black and violet, his shape began to transform as well.

"Is he, getting stronger?" Super Buu asked herself while watching the transformation undergo visible only to her eyes while hidden from the rest. Narrowing her blue orbs she focused her vision and saw many layers of thermal, electromagnetic fields expanding before forcefully compressing. An icy smirk played on her face as she realized what was happening.

When the outline began to shrink, Booster Gold felt an eerie sense of dread overlap him. Each and every figure in the skies could feel it too. Like a sudden primal force of darkness was birthed into reality. No one could explain it but the feeling was there and numbing to even consciously confirm.

The flames of dark power died down, revealing what looked like a diminutive grey skinned version of what Evil Buu was. Childish in stature and disposition, his scowl confirmed that he was nothing but consistently foul in nature. Complementing a now bare upper bodied form of miniature height, the prominently red eyes dipped in a sea of black glared up at his positive half. Black gauntlets were wrapped over his wrists and part of his forearms, exposing small dark nailed digits, similar silk slacks leading to black boots with an M insignia as a belt buckle were all the attire he had.

A deceivingly minute glow of purple burned across his small form while his perpetually scowling eyes seethed up. Low hisses escaped his teeth, revealing a snarling expression as his fists clenched on either side of his hip. The response of everyone present was one of confusion and unsettling nerves; all except Super Buu's amused disposition.

"So, that cold power she gave us was passed on to you and it helped you regain our true form?" She asked rhetorically, knowing full well it wouldn't answer him at this point. Chuckling she raised up a hand, cracking the knuckles without effort as her own rosy yellow aura ignited around her own body. "I guess this could be more fun than I thought."

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A/N: I keep getting these bouts of inspiration to finish my stories late at night, I swear.

So yes, this is the 10th Chapter of BOY. Hitting the milestone of the second digit as we -the fans and I- propel this into the farthest part of the story I didn't think we'd reach. With so many developments that have undergone in a single chapter I'm sure you'll have questions but don't worry. I'll answer them through Review Reaction of my next Chapter or by way of PM if you're an official user on site. Either way, I hope you were all satisfied with the end result because I sure was!

Before I forget, yes, this story has breached a 9 1/2K view count and I am ecstatic we're here. Thank you all so much for your continued support and I'll keep acknowledging your participation to keep this story alive. Now, without further ado, let's go to the Review Response section!

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MurphysLaw89: Indeed it does and I hope this Chapter answered your question -w-

Lord of the Weed: I was wondering who was going to call me out on killing the beloved Dark Knight himself. I felt like if he was going to die, THIS would be how he was going to go out in my story. By a long-haired super powered Joker by a punch straight through the heart. I know I may have upset some fans but if I wanted to show that ANYTHING can go wrong, someone of huge significance has to perish like someone from the DC Trinity of Heroes. All in all, glad you liked the choice I made ^^
Evil Buu was in the works for a long time, as well as my own rendition of Super Buu. I wanted to craft a unique identity for my story instead of it being a by-the-numbers DC Carbon Copy of the Buu Saga like some fans may expect or want in any case. Hopefully everyone will stick with me to the end because it's only going to get wilder from this point on.
Also, I may have plans for someone like Cell...elsewhere. I won't say anymore until the story gets closer to its finale but I did want to share I will be using him in some small capacity. For now, though, the Dark Three that is Cooler, 17 and Raditz will aid Towa in her endeavors. Stick around for the next chapter and you'll be honored to see some kickass action!

Perfect Carnage: Thanks for the encouragement, Carnage. Always appreciative of your opinion, for better or constructive criticism. And thanks for the advice but I think I've told him off if this last Chapter's reviews are any indication. See you in the next Chapter Response!

Mdhunter: Your praise is welcome as always. If you could leave your defining thoughts about this Chapter I can appreciate it. Being flowered with thanks is fun but I always like discussing the intricacies of the plot through the eyes of a viewer.

SaiyaStyles: Uh, glad you enjoyed watching Batman die? Ahem, always a pleasure to produce a update that gives you joy. Even if it comes across as a little creepy XD

Guest: I think if you read this Chapter, your question would have been answered now -w-

bsdurler: Hope this was worth the wait ^^

Godzilla327: Superman will show up eventually. He just is busy trying to keep a solar system from being annihilated. No pressure, haha!

Guest2: That would be an interesting AU story to this one, but it may be a bit too redundant to write ANOTHER Buu-in-DC story. I'll keep it in mind but don't expect anything of that nature anytime soon XD

trebeh: How about Kid Buu and Super Buu? IS that better than what you were wanting? If not, sorry but this is the direction I want to go -w-

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Pure Evil Buu has returned to a form as the original Majin Buu and is hellbent on killing his Positive Super counterpart. Meanwhile Towa and her band of AU DBZ villains continue their rampage with their sights set on Oa. Does the planet of the Green Lantern Corps, home of the Guardians, have a chance of besting these nefarious marauders? What goal does Towa have to use the power beyond the Source Wall? Will Superman save multiple solar systems and be in time to rescue Earth from imminent destruction?

Find out, on the next update, of Buu On You!