Author's notes: It took longer than end of March/early April, school life is what it is, especially busy and it leaves little energy for writing. But at least no one complained.
Friday Act 3
Power levels at 25.34%
So, the world had changed. First with the arrival of Superman, the balance between the wizards and muggles had shifted and today the two groups lived between the power struggle of the superheroes and supervillains. Looking at the tower between the two muggle cities made the Black Hand feel as if his heart would have been broken. Well, it would have been beating, that is.
TZAAPH!
The surroundings of the tower froze and there were tremors at it's foundations. The reject muggles from the darker side of the bay were attacking the tower, which was exactly what the Black Hand would have predicted the muggles to do if they learned about the wizards' existence. Long ago when he had been Lord Voldemort this would have sent him to retaliate, but as the new Herald of the Darkness, this was welcome. The more they would kill, the more they would raise the power levels of the Black.
Power levels at 30.09%
''Red Robin and Midnighter, Ivy is more likely to be in the lower levels at herbology and magical creatures' habitat,'' Batman said assigning missions as soon as he and his allies jumped in to the Circle Tower's lobby through the portals provided by Midnighter. ''Neutralize her and signal Gordon all clear to start sending GCPD over here. Black Bat, you and I go up to join Robin, Red Hood and Huntress to deal with the others.''
''Do I nerve pinch her or do you have a toy for that?'' Midnighter asked as they split up.
''We'll use this,'' Red Robin said showing syringe pistol to Midnighter. ''You're here for ground control.''
''Ground control,'' Midnighter repeated maniacally grinning. ''You people are spoiling me.''
''Bringing you was Batman's idea,'' Red Robin retorted on their way down the stairs. ''We needed a way to get in here and your portals were the first thing he thought up.''
''That is a man after my own heart,'' Midnighter said smiling. ''How deep does this go?''
''We're here,'' Red Robin said as they got down to a small hall with the entrance to what looked like a big greenhouse. ''All the big and nasty plants they have in here, it's bound to be Ivy's Disneyland.''
''Let's turn it into our Disneyland,'' Midnighter said flexing his hands and cracking his knuckles. ''You think the creatures will give us an excuse for exercising? I'm already warmed up.''
''Just make sure I get close enough to Ivy, so I can-'' Red Robin said pulling the door open to reveal the serene habitat of magical creatures and plant life, but not the welcome they had been waiting for.
From the entrance, they could see down to the teaching grounds with the hut and the teachers assigned to the habitat as well as Poison Ivy who looked like she was having seizures.
'' Those are Professors Hagrid and Longbottom,'' Red Robin said briefing Midnighter as they moved down, ''and that's Weather Wizard. The Rogues got hired as muscle when Captain Cold got pardoned.''
''And Poison Ivy is just on her knees in there,'' Midnighter said disappointed. ''I was expecting a fight.''
''Let's just stun her,'' Red Robin said taking the syringe pistol. ''Even if she's in pain, we're here to neutralize her and we don't know what she might do in that state.''
Power levels at 41.29%
CLANK!
CLANK!
CRACK!
''What the hell took you so long!?'' Red Hood asked breaking ice from his, Robin's and Huntress feet.
''We got here as fast as we could,'' Batman said arriving with Black Bat. ''Have you interacted with anyone else except Mr. Freeze?''
CRACK!
''A bunch of Mad Hatter's victims,'' Red Hood said as their feet were freed. ''Hatter is keeping the security and the teachers out of their way while they pull a raid on the tower-''
SMACK!
KAPOW!
NOKS!
Black Bat attacked Red Hood, Huntress and Robin so fast Batman didn't get to react before she said: ''Their body language is wrong.''
''Hatter?'' Batman asked reaching to look for mind control headsets from Robin and Huntress as Black Bat looked around their surroundings. ''Or did they use-''
CRASH!
The wall next to them broke as it was weakened by the ice and the large arms of Bane grabbed a hold of Batman's shoulder, pulling him to the hole and threw him to the middle of that floor's hall.
''Almost too easy, you have gotten soft,'' Batman heard Twoface's voice speaking above him after he had landed from Bane's throw.
''He reacted slower than usual,'' Bane said as Batman got back up and signaled Black Bat to handle the others while he handled with this. ''You are different.''
''And you're still on Venom, Bane,'' Batman said noticing the tubes and tank in Bane's back as he brushed dust of his shoulders. ''I thought you kicked the habit.''
Clink!
''Something is wrong,'' the Joker's voice said as Batman realized he had spoken without the mask's voice filter. ''The stature, the back talk, voice, it's all… it's… it's…''
The Joker, Twoface and Bane all had Batman surrounded and Batman could tell that they knew.
''It's… NOT HIM!''
Power levels at 51.48%
''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAA!'' Poison Ivy screamed between deep breaths she did as if she was having panic attacks.
''Get away from her!'' Red Robin told Neville, Hagrid and Weather Wizard as Midnighter stepped in between them. ''I have a sedative for her.''
''You don't need to hurt her, she didn't hurt us,'' Hagrid said allowing Red Robin to go past her. ''She came down here and was enchanted by the plants at first, but then she collapsed.''
''Mardon has been keeping up the Greenhouse atmosphere while Hagrid has been keeping the creatures away from her,'' Neville said from behind Midnighter who was keeping him and Weather Wizard at bay. ''What is happening to her?''
Ptooth!
''Ivy?'' Red Robin asked after administering the sedative. ''Pamela, what is happening to-''
''They are dying,'' Poison Ivy spoke in a hollow voice. ''My babies… they are dying… all around us… everywhere. The Green is corrupted… and they are going to kill us too.''
THOOOM!
''What the hell was that?'' Midnighter asked as the foundations of the tower suddenly begun to shake and then there was an echo.
''Zoom! Professor Zoom! He is not Doctor Thirteen, He is the Reverse Flash!''
''Midnighter,'' Red Robin said sedating Poison Ivy, ''open us a portal outside!''
Power levels at 59.01%
''You're… NOT! BATMAN!''
Pretending took some serious poker face. Out of all Batman's rogues' gallery, the Joker, Twoface and Bane were the ones who had the most hostile and intimate relationship with the real Batman. The Joker had fought Batman the longest, Twoface had known him long before his face had been scarred and Bane had studied Batman from afar to know he was Bruce Wayne, before breaking his back. It was futile to keep up pretenses with these people.
''Heh,'' Dick smirked while using his left hand to pull off the cowl and his right to apply his old mask, ''I guess the word you're now looking for is-''
''BIRD BOY!?'' The Joker screamed in shocked outrage as Dick laid down his arms and let his opponents see who he was.
''Nightwing!?'' Twoface reacted by pointing his revolvers at him, to which Dick responded with a batarang.
While Twoface was busy unjamming his guns, Dick moved on Bane and used his cape to suffocate him while cutting his air and Venom supply, which considering Bane's size didn't take a lot of effort. By that point, Twoface had taken out his back up and ready to shoot at Dick again.
''Of course, it's so obvious,'' Twoface said pointing his back up at Dick. ''You of all people, who else would he choose?''
''You didn't flip your coin, Harvey,'' Dick said jumping off Bane and ready to face off against Twoface as the Joker stood observant. ''What about you, Joker? Nothing to say? Did a-''
WHIP!
Catwoman jumped down from above with a back pack full of obviously stolen goods and used her whip to disarm Twoface.
''-cat got your tongue,'' Dick said finishing his sentence with another smirk.
''I would hate ruin my already bad terms with your boss by letting you be shot,'' Catwoman said loosening her goggles and used her whip to snap Twoface's hands tied.
''You turncoat bitch!'' Twoface yelled running at Catwoman
BONK!
and was kicked to the face by her.
CLANK!
And then the Joker hit her with his cane.
''Hhhhhrrrrr,'' The Joker sighed, fixed his hair a bit and then turned to look at Dick, ''you know Nightwing, of all the Bird Boys that Batsy has running around, I HATE YOU THE MOST!''
BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA-BUDDA!
The Joker pulled out a custom-made assault rifle and started firing at Dick.
''THE REAL BATSY WOULD'T HAVE JUMPED FOR COVER, BIRD BRAIN!'' The Joker screamed after Dick. ''AND HE WOULDN'T HAVE SENT ONLY YOU CHILDREN TO FACE ME WHILE DRESSED AS HIM!''
''Sorry for ruining a probable joke for you,'' Dick's voice said echoing the room they were in. ''Also, you have any idea what you're shooting!? These are-''
THOOM!
The tower shook of the making things fall to the floor and people lose their balance. Then-
''Zoom! Professor Zoom! He is not Doctor Thirteen, He is the Reverse Flash!''
Power levels at 67.38%
''Here's Ivy for you,'' Red Robin told Commissioner Gordon as he and Midnighter stepped through a portal. ''You can start sending your people in now.''
''What the hell happened in there?!'' Commissioner Gordon asked as uniformed policemen put poison Ivy into a containment pod. ''What was that wave that came out from the top?''
''It felt like thunder,'' Midnighter said as
KARAKA-THOOM!
''and that looked like the lightning.''
Power levels at 73.94%
Top Floor of the Circle Tower
Ron wasn't dead yet. The Patronus sent by using John Constantine's lyrium cigarette and the blood Professor Zoom had brought had created shock wave that had made the dead man's switch fly out of Professor Zoom's hands, but it had not yet sent the signal to the bomb in Ron's neck to explode.
''Where is the dead man's switch!?'' Ron yelled in panic. ''WHERE IS IT!?''
''21st century technology,'' Professor Zoom's voice said echoing around the room. ''Always unreliable. Well now, Ronald-''
ZOOM!
ZOOM!
ZOOM!
''Thanks to your stupidity, we can no longer do this the humane way,'' Professor Zoom continued after running around through the room before the yellow and red streak stopped in front of the stone casket. ''Time for you to make a choice.''
Ron looked up where Professor Zoom's voice was coming from and getting up was faced with an ultimatum. Hermione and Ginny were pushed down against the casket holding Professor Zoom's deceased past self by the living Professor Zoom. They tried to fight back of course, but Professor Zoom's speed was used by vibrating grips as strength to keep them down, making their struggle useless against the Reverse Flash.
''Don't-'' Ron was about to say but-
''You WASTED all that blood taken humanely from multiple WILLING DONERS, Ronald!'' Professor Zoom said, clearly agitated and unhinged with desperation in his voice. ''So, whose blood are we using now? Your wife's? Or your sister's?''
''Thawne-'' Ron tried, but-
''OR SHOULD I KILL BOTH RIGHT NOW AND USE THEIR COMBINED 24 OUNCES OF BLOOD FOR MY RESURRECTION!?''
''RELASHIO!'' John's voice yelled behind Ron.
He was burning blue with lyrium up his nostrils and holding both Hermione's and Ginny's wands in his hands. The strain of using two wands inside the faraday cage had forced John into taking all the lyrium he had been carrying in his cigarettes to use magic against Professor Zoom and help his friends.
Using the Relashio spell, John had managed to release Hermione and Ginny from the Reverse Flash's grips and two Protego spells to create shields to protect them from him.
''He can't get to you now, loves. Help Ronnie up,'' John said, with his voice showing he was fighting the strain of having too much magical energy inside him and being dampened from using it, as he turned his attention Professor Zoom across the room. ''Ronnie did send an SOS out, Professor. Everyone knows you're here and it's only a matter of time before the capes show up.''
''Hah hah hah hah, capes? That is what you call them,'' Professor Zoom said laughing as he got back on his feet at regular speed, ''John Constantine? In the 25th century we all about 'the capes' all of them. The Flash has his museum, Superman his statue, Wonder Woman has a wing dedicated to her deed at the United Nations, but you, John Constantine, you are not mentioned anywhere. The historical records have no mention of you.''
''I'm not surprised,'' John spit out countering the taunt as Hermione and Ginny had managed to get Ron up on his feet and were moving towards the door leading out of the room. ''What I leave behind to this Earth doesn't mean shite to me compared to what I can take from it with me.''
''Demon and fallen angels? As a man of science I refuse to believe in them,'' Professor Zoom said now on his feet and started clapping his fingers and vibrating.
ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM!
Doing so created afterimage copies of the Reverse Flash surrounding the walls, which blocked Hermione', Ginny's and Ron's way out.
ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM!
''See this, John, Ronald, Hermione and Ginerva, THIS is science,'' Professor Zoom's voice echoed from all the afterimages speaking at the same time. ''Not magic, not a cheap trick, this is what I can create with my speed. As Mirror Master would say 'Which one of us is real?'''
ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM! ZOOM!
Professor Zoom allowed all four to marvel at his trick for a few seconds before speaking again.
''Actually, John Constantine, I think I now know why you are not relevant for historical records.''
There was a pause.
''Maybe it's because I kill right now!
THOCK!
''AAAARGH!'' John screamed in pain as he saw Professor Zoom's hand vibrating through his chest.
''JOHN!'' the wizards yelled seeing their friend die.
Power levels at 84.62%
''Another thing I can use my is speed for,'' Professor Zoom said as he let John's lifeless body fell to the floor and took Hermione's and Ginny's wands from it. ''Watch this.''
Professor Zoom took the wands in his hands and started vibrating them.
''At the right speed, I can reach to vibrate their internal molecules and change their compositing, turning them… into this!''
Professor Zoom swung around the red scepter with a lightning bolt on its head, created from Hermione's and Ginny's wands.
''You have no weapons and one of you is dead!'' Professor Zoom said now speaking with a threatening voice. ''Ronald, no more people need to die. Use his blood while it can still be used and RESURRECT ME!''
TSHOOM! as a red and yellow streak beamed past Hermione, Ginny and Ron followed by
KA-POW! as it reached to punch out Professor Zoom.
''Late as usual, Barry,'' the Reverse Flash taunted at the Flash, unfazed by the sucker punch. ''You are the fastest man alive and always late.''
''Batman and his allies have helped the Rogues to take tower back,'' the Flash said speaking to Hermione, Ginny and Ron. ''Head down the stairs and you'll find Potter and Captain Cold heading this way.''
''NO!'' the Reverse Flash yelled throwing the scepter at the door and got it stuck. ''They are not going anywhere until I'm resurrected!''
''What did you do, Thawne?'' the Flash asked looking at the remains of the other Thawne and John's dead body.
''What did I do? You're the one who murdered me!'' Professor Zoom said accusing the Flash.
''You were trying to kill Iris,'' the Flash said ready to fight.
''I was a nuisance to you before you killed me,'' Professor Zoom said like the moment he had waited for so long had arrived. ''But now I'm every worst day of your life.''
''Come on, Snart,'' the Flash said looking at the door waiting to see it freeze and open a hole.
''Try ignoring me all you like, but you can't ignore the day you broke your arm on 3rd grade,'' Professor Zoom continued, catching the Flash off guard. ''The day your home in Fallville burned down because of faulty wiring, the day you forgot lock your front door which lead your family dog run away and get hit by a car.''
''What are talking about?'' the Flash asked alarmed and confused.
''Think Barry, what if every bad thing that happened to you was orchestrated by one person? An enemy you had not even made yet?'' Professor Zoom said triumphantly. ''I pushed you down those stairs, I caused the fire and opened that door.''
''Flash,'' Hermione said cutting between the two speedsters, ''don't give him power over-''
''You… you did it, didn't you!'' The Flash said shaking his head as a tear fell from his eye, before gritting his teeth and
THOOM! KRAKA-KRAKA-KRAKA!
lighting energy started coming out from him. ''You son of a bitch.''
''He did,'' Ron said, silently to Hermione and Ginny, knowing what the Flash was going to ask. ''He made me watch it as he did it.''
''Yes,'' Professor Zoom said admitting to the unsaid crime as red lightings was coming of him. ''I murdered your mother, Barry.''
A lighting storm erupted in the room as the two speedsters begun to fight.
''We need to get out of here,'' Ginny said grabbing the scepter on the door with her free hand and started trying to pull it out. ''Superheroes and supervillains, big help the lot of them.''
''Let me,'' Hermione said grabbing the scepter and managed to pull it out with her Pandora abilities. ''We need to get to Harry and Batman, tell them what's-''
KRIK! KRIK! TSOOP!
''NO!''
''RON! NO!''
Power levels at 95.99%
''Your emotions will be required!'' Black Hand said lowering his power rod. ''Do not bother resisting!''
''YOU KILLED RON!'' Hermione screamed in outrage with tears coming out of her eyes as she took Professor Zoom's scepter and swung it at the Black Hand.
''Keep those emotions,'' Black Hand said sending black goo from his black power ring and used it to restrain Hermione and Ginny.
The Flash and Professor Zoom were still fighting as Hermione and Ginny were restrained, while still fighting to get free, to the wall by the black goo and the Black Hand looked at the three dead bodies in the room before starting to gag. Then he started to spit out the black goo, until three Black Rings were made from it. They all went for the dead as a disembodied voice spoke.
''Ronald Weasley of Earth,'' as one of the rings went for Ron's body.
''John Constantine of Earth,'' as another ring went for John's dead body.
''Eobard Thawne of Earth,'' as the third ring went to the remains of the other Professor Zoom. It caused the living Reverse Flash to slow down his fight against the Flash, who also stopped to see what was happening.
''RISE!'' and the bodies started moving. Ron's right arm grew back to be held by its ring, John got up on his feet and the other Professor Zoom climbed out of its coffin. But they were not them. Their skins were of a blue gray with their hair once red and blond now light grey and their eyes black as the abyss.
Power levels at 100%
''What happened?'' Ginny said looking at what looked like her brother and John, but didn't feel like them as she looked at them.
''Flash!'' Hermione yelled calling for help
''Blackest Night falls from the Skies,'' the resurrected Eobard Thawne said raising his ring hand up as did the other resurrected.
''Darkness grows as all light dies,'' Ron said with his new right arm pointing up.
''We crave your hearts and your demise,'' John said joining the activity.
''And by my Black Hand,'' the Black Hand said, leading to the final unison, ''THE DEAD SHALL RISE!''
Author's notes: The rest of this story will be about the Blackest Night and how the Boy Who Lived lead it's survivors through it. Or if no one is interested about this story anymore, this can be how the shared HP/DC Universe ends. Leave reviews if you want the story to go on and everyone to have an happier ending.