The Breaking Sky

Dr. Crane

It was a terrible thing to see Herman and Amanda as survivors. It was even worse to kill them. According to Sally, while she was carrying Herman to a hook, Herman had told her to never use a mori, as the survivors would lynch the killer while they are not under the Entity's protection.

Crane rarely left his room. He was making a shrine of sorts out of raven feathers and sticks. During his brief time with the Suicide Squad, he was able to learn of a metahuman named Raven. Crane knew that Raven had some sort of demon aspect to her, so Crane decided to build a shrine of sorts to summon her. It was a longshot, but Crane was encouraged when he noticed a faint purple glow to the shrine, that got a little more defined when the shrine was built bigger.

He excitedly reported his findings to his friends, and they all gladly took raven feathers as their reward from the Entity. Crane just hoped that the Entity wouldn't take notice to what he was doing.

Meanwhile, the trials had been different for a while. Instead of four survivors working together, there were two teams of two. This usually made things easier for the killer, but it was still a dreadful thing to see as the killer. Most of the time, neither Amanda nor Herman would even fight being carried to the hook.

Anna's English had improved considerably since Amanda was taken by the survivors. Crane knew that such a thing should of been witnessed by Amanda herself. Crane knew that being a killer was far less terrible than being a survivor, but killers and survivors were still prisoners all the same.

Crane's door opened, and in came Roadhog with a fist full of raven feathers. Saying nothing, the giant gas masked man dropped the feathers on one of Crane's tabled. Crane quickly added the feathers to the shrine in hopes that he would add enough feathers to make something happen. When he added the feathers, something did happen. Something seemed to boil over, and Crane noticed a faint purple tint to all that he sees. In fact, it was everywhere. It was hard not to notice.

Raven

Ever since Raven felt the faint signal from another reality, she had dedicated herself to keying in on the signal. She was sure that if she knew exactly where it was, she could open a rift. She could feel the emotional energy around the totem that was made. In fact, it was hard not to feel it. She felt fear, concern, and for some reason there were even hints of love. Over time, the signal got stronger, and she could sense some of the emotional signatures of the people in the other world.

"Crane." Said Raven, levitating just a few inches from the floor of the JLA watchtower.

"As in…" Started Nightwing.

"Scarecrow." Said Batman, standing just a few feet away from Raven. "What about Gordon?"

"I feel him too." Said Raven. "He's.. Far away."

"What do you mean far away?" Asked Nightwing.

"I can't explain it. It's like he's in a different world in this world."

"Where is he?" Asked Batman.

"There's three worlds. One of them is constantly changing, as if… As if it is bouncing around realities."

"Can you open a rift?" Asked Batman.

"Almost." Said Raven. "The shrine is almost complete. Crane is the one that built it…" Raven squeezed her eyes shut. "I think I can merge the worlds together, but not for very long."

"Can you see anything else?" Asked Nightwing.

"There are many people from different realities." Said Raven. "And there is another reality that is peering into this world, I can't trace it."

It was then that Raven felt another presence near the shrine. The big gasmask man. He dropped the feathers near the shrine. Raven knew that soon the shrine would be complete. "I can open the rift." Said Raven, her eyes slowly glowing red.

"Get every JLA member here." Said Batman, finally showing emotion by speaking loudly.

Winston

By now it could clearly be observed what sort of world this is. Or rather, three worlds. One world for the victims, one for the killers, and one for them to meet. Winston saw that Mei had found herself in the victim world, and Roadhog had found himself in the killer world. Despite all the machinery and research, Winston could not choose where in which world he caught a glimpse of. He saw many thing that he wish he had not seen. The worst part was, Winston could see no way of helping the people in there. However, one of the people in the killer world, a young doctor looking person, had made a shrine of sorts. The shrine was glowing purple, and from the doctor's reaction, Winston could see that it gave the doctor hope.

Bill

It was nice that the trials were only two people now, but that also meant that it was harder to make it through a trial unscathed. However, enough time had passed that beating the two prisoners was no longer a daily occurrence. Jake had begrudgingly built the two of them a little shack, and the only tortures they would endure is being dragged to every trial.

For Bill, and for most everyone else, it felt very liberating to release all the anger on hatred on what gave them so much pain. But, as the time passed, Bill and the others felt another emotion fill them. Disgust and shame. Horribly torturing the killers made the survivors no different from the killers, or even the Entity.

It all happened at once. The sky was different, it was darker than usual. There were cracks, there were spots darker than others. All the survivors, and the former killers looked at the sky with wonder. Usually change was seen as a very bad thing, and for the purposes of the situation, often it was. However, the change in the sky gave hope, a different kind of hope.

Bill found himself next to Tapp, looking up. Tapp was probably the happiest survivor of them all since the Pig was brought back to the survivors. A hard interrogation from Jim and Tapp, and then a trial put on by Tapp is what he needed to get this mood. (From what Tapp told the survivors about the Pig's doings, a trial was generally agreed to be a good idea, even if it was unofficial. It gave Tapp high spirits, and it also gave the other survivors high spirits to see a ghost of justice in this horribly unfair place. It was a surprisingly well received sight.)

The survivors observed the sky for the better part of an hour, as the cracks were becoming more defined. All at once, the cracks formed a bright gold color, and the world went pitch black for a quick second. At first Bill thought he was being pulled into a trial. This fear was confirmed when he saw that he was at the Junkyard. But, instead of three or seven survivors, he saw them all. He saw all the killers as well. The Clown with his knife, the Bushman with his rifle and his knife, everything. Bill was already set to run when he noticed the horrible red glow in the sky. It was the same spider design as the Entity, and it was crashing down. The killers and the survivors stood motionless. As the spider-like appendages crashed down, it was blocked by some sort of black barrier. A woman was floating a fair distance above the ground. She was wearing a purple cloak. Under her, was what looked like a break in the air. Bill's eyes went wide, he was looking into the real world! In a stunned stupor, he felt himself being lifted off his feet in a very quick fashion. All he saw was a quick blur of red before he found himself lying on a medical bed. Before he could even grasp what was happening, he saw a doctor standing above him.

"What have you been through?" The doctor said, wearing sunglasses for some reason. It reminded Bill of Ace.

"Kid, you have no idea." Said Bill.

Mei

Mei was able to see a few things before she was pulled into the portal looking thing. The red blur was taking the survivors through. Mei heard the purple cloaked woman yell "Hury!", and she saw a flying green eyed woman with firey hair pick up the Clown from the ground and to the portal. She saw a man in black armor kick into the cloud of gas that was the Scarecrow. She saw a large green hand grab the Huntress, and she saw that the green hand was coming from the ring of yet another flying person. She saw the Nurse being dragged into the portal by the trunk of a green elephant. In the blink of an eye, she was brought into the portal by the red blur, and put on a medical bed next to the Huntress, who was strapped down.

From the bed, she could see that she was in some sort of medical facility, but unlike the ones from the Entity's realm, this medical facility was clean. She saw the black armored man dragging the unconscious Scarecrow into the room from the portal, and she saw the green elephant turn into a green skinned human man after the nurse was strapped into the bed. Mei noticed that none of the killers had a red glow, and she noticed that the portal was slowly closing. A man that looked to be half machine and half man was dragging the Bushman through, with a knife inbedded in one of his huge arms.

"Raven!" Came the call from the green skinned man, as the black barrier was shattered. The unconscious woman, probably Raven, fell to the ground. The man with the magic green ring made a long hand to go through the portal, but Mei saw one of the Entity's spines impale the poor woman. The shrine later made for Raven would not be able to call her back.

Mei saw that one of the pleasant looking doctors was ushering off Mei's coat to make way for a blood sample. Mei began to cry. It was now over. Perhaps she had survived.

And so ends the last official chapter of my little story. But not to fear, I will not leave you. After this chapter, released in a time convenient to me, I will have a 'where are they now' chapter, since at least one of you would like it.

Thanks again for reading this, I had no idea that people would like this so much. I've had multiple people tell me that this is the only good DBD fanfiction that they had read. From what I've seen, there's not too much competition. (Sorry to all the authors that I've just offended, but you need to learn the difference between 'your' and 'you're'. You also need to get it through your head that nobody wants just a story about Meg's interest in Dwight or your interest in gay relationships.)

Anyway, perhaps one day I'll make a DBD-DC universe crossover as a sequel to this, so if you like, keep an eye out for that. Reviews may encourage me to do such a thing sooner.

That's about it. Thanks again for reading!