Chapter eleven has arrived and glad the story is going well. I want to thank everyone once again for the support. I know I keep doing that in a lot of my stories, but I am glad for it. It is a lot of fun to read the reviews and hear from people what they think about the stories.
Also glad I haven't gotten a troll who just reads to hate the stories. Well…I believe I had one, but eh I ignored them. Also, thanks to my friend for his help as well. I appreciate it and glad he also reviews the story whenever he gets the chance.
Now then, last time we saw Kymera in action and yes she is the daughter of Black Panther. Her momma? Well, you got the idea if you saw what she did. Also, no she is not the same Kymera from the comic.
My friend theReaper13 wanted to make it clear that she is a different version in his view. Also, now that Disney owns Fox chances are we will get a reboot. Oh maybe we will get in the future Black Panther film the king getting his queen. You never know.
Anyways, let's get on with the disclaimer. I don't own anything from Guardians of the Galaxy or the DC Universe. Just my OCs, except my friends' OCs. Now then enjoy the chapter and let's see how this goes.
Chapter XI
National City (year 2018)
The team arrived to the city as they begin setting up their defenses to protect the citizens. Jason arrived to help out as he helps the team keep Brainiac's robots back. Earlier they found out where Brainiac is heading and Jason knew they have to finish this fast. So they can join the others to help stop Brainiac.
Rocket joined him to help fly his squadron to intercept any of Brainiac's ships. Meanwhile, Groot, Raven, Arthur, and Hellboy are seen helping with the evacuation. They managed to get half of the people out of the city. All while keeping Brainiac's robots back.
A difficult task due to the fact there are still a lot of people left in the city. They are spread out already and are waiting for more backup to arrive. Until then the group have to hold out. So once their backup arrives they can go stop Brainiac.
Jason is seen shooting some of Brainiac's robots from behind a car. Taking cover as they advance on him. Luckily for him, Arthur arrived and used his weapon to take out the robots. Groot also appeared and summons his vines to wrap around the robots. Snapping them in half as he makes a shield to protect himself from the heat visions from the other robots.
Two of the robots fired their cables at Groot and pierced through the legs. They pull on him and caused him to fall as they try to attack. Jason though used his arrow to help save Groot. Whistling his arrow to fly around to take out the robots around the area and takes them down.
Arthur walks over and cuts the cables off of Groot to free him. "Nice move with the arrow, but could have used it earlier you know."
Jason shrugs his shoulders a little. "Yeah, well I figured you would you're your sword/hammer to destroy the ship already to stop the robots from coming out to attack us."
Arthur knew his friend brought up a good point, but he has his reason. "Waiting for the evacuation to be completed. So, when I go up to the highest building to use my lightning then I won't risk anyone getting hurt."
Speaking of which, Arthur got the all-clear on the building and the evacuation. "Right on time. You guys going to be okay down here?"
Jason nods in response. "We'll be fine. Now, go take out that ship."
Arthur nods as he spins his weapon around and prepares to fly up, when he noticed a strange sound. "You hear that?"
Suddenly they see Groot being slammed into a nearby car. Jason and Arthur look around wondering what just happened. Did they miss one of the robots? No, if they did they would have seen it.
"Did you see…" before Jason could finish he is hit by a yellow suited figure that appeared at fast speed and kicked him across the street.
"Jason!" Arthur as he goes to check on his friend when the yellow suited figure appeared. "Who the hell are you?" he asked noticing the attire and how it looks like Flash. "What are you? A reverse-colored version of Flash?"
"The name is Eobard Thawne, but Reverse Flash will also do," said Reverse Flash as he appears before Arthur.
Arthur recognized the name and knew who it is. "Wait a minute. You're the guy from the future who killed Barry's mom. But you don't belong in this time. How can you be here?"
"Oh believe me I didn't want to be here. This timeline it's all wrong," said Reverse Flash as he used his speed to charge at Arthur and punched him several times in the face before kicking him towards a car.
He charged at him again, but Arthur used his hammer to hit him across the face and knock him into the car in front of him. Arthur threw his hammer, but Reverse Flash dodged it and punched Arthur. Sending him across the street. He charged at him, but could see in his speed that the boy called for the hammer to come back to him.
Reverse Flash sees it and goes to grab it, but the hammer caused him to fall. Due to it not accepting him. He tries to pick it up, but the hammer would not budge. Arthur grabs him and punched him in the gut, grabs his arm, and then swings him around before letting go as he went right through a bus.
"If you don't like this time line then I suggest you go back home," said Arthur as he took out his sword and picks up the hammer. "Or I'll send you back with either two broken or severed legs."
Reverse Flash recovered from the hit and caused the fuel to spill out of the bus. He then lights it and runs as the explosion launched Arthur through a pillar breaking it. He breaks out of it and on all four coughing loudly. He didn't have time to recover as Reverse Flash came back and kicked him right in the gut.
Launching him on the hood of a car. "You think I haven't tried that?! Someone from the Regime killed one of my ancestors—and now I'm trapped in a paradox!" said Reverse Flash upset that he is trapped. "I can never go home, but once I am done killing you and luring Barry to me I will make him pay."
Reverse Flash charged at him, but Arthur brings both feet up and kicks him in the chest. He is send flying, but managed to land on his feet. He charges at Arthur again, but is hit in the face with a car door that Arthur ripped off. Arthur grabs his sword and summons lightning as he sends it flowing through Reverse Flash's body.
Causing him to scream in pain as he is electrocuted. Arthur takes the bottom end of his sword handle and hits him in the back of the head knocking him out.
"Sorry to hear you can't go home, but doesn't mean you didn't deserve it," said Arthur as he grabs two metal pipes and wraps them around the arms and legs. "Now that we took care of you it's time to…"
Before he could finish he is shot by a yellow energy. He is shot towards the car and falls down on the ground groaning in pain. The one who attacked him is revealed to be Sinestro. He flew down in front of Arthur while he is once again wearing his Yellow Ring.
"I was hoping to find that blasted robot for what she did to me. But, I am glad I came across one of her comrades," said Sinestro as he used his ring to create a construct to pin Arthur's hands to keep him from summoning his weapons. "Now then, why don't you tell me where she is and I promise not to kill you?"
Arthur looks up and is surprised to see Sinestro is here. "I thought your cowardly yellow ass was locked up."
Sinestro punched Arthur in the face for his little insult. "I was, but they couldn't keep me locked up forever. I had intended to go to my planet to regroup, but I was contacted by Brainiac who offered me something better. Revenge against your robot friend and Hal Jordan for turning on me."
"I can't blame him," said Arthur as he spat out some blood. "From what I heard you deserved it, especially how you killed a lot of his friends. Like John Stewart."
Sinestro though didn't seem to care what the boy said. "John was a fool for trusting in me and Hal, I was only trying to help him. Show him the power of fear and how we can use it to bring true peace and justice to the galaxy. As for the murders of his friends, well he should look in a mirror. Many of their deaths were on his hand."
"Too bad we can't kill you, but I'll be pleased to know you'll be getting your butt kicked before this is over," said Arthur who seemed confident.
"And who is going to sto..." Sinestro is interrupted by Jason who flew towards him and tackles him to the ground. Sinestro blasted him off as Jason landed on his feet. "Damn you, boy! You will pay for that."
"Not in a good mood to fight you, Sinestro. So, how about we end this now before more lives are lost," said Jason as he took out his blasters.
"Oh I'm afraid many lives will be lost. After Brainiac destroys this world," said Sinestro as he constructs a large sword and thrusts it at his foe.
Jason turns on his helmet and uses his rocket boots to fly off the ground. He opens fire at Sinestro who deflects his attacks with a shield. Sinestro flies towards Jason who took off flying. Leading him away from his friend.
Sinestro opened fire at Jason as he tries shooting him down. Jason managed to dodge the blasts and tries firing back at him. Sinestro dodge the blasts and constructs a giant mace with spikes on them. He swings it at Jason who dodged the attack, but sees it crashing into some of the buildings.
Causing glass to rain down on him. He flies into one of the buildings with Sinestro following him as he constructs tendrils to grab him. Jason lands on the floor and grabs a desk before tossing it at him. Sinestro dodges the desk, but when he did Jason flies up and kicks him in the face.
He then activates his rocket boots causing the flame to burst against Sinestro's face. This burned his face and caused him to scream. Jason pushes off against the wall and tackles him outside. Sinestro blasts Jason in the chest sending him flying into a building causing a large dent and the glass to shatter all around the building.
Jason looks over to see Sinestro who is looking to attack him. He looks down at his hands to find them being covered in the debris. That's when he got an idea. He doesn't know how this works, but if it's anything like with Raven's powers he needs to concentrate.
The material from the building soon began merging with his arms as he began forming what he hopes is something useful. Sinestro flies at him charging up his ring for an attack. He constructs a large sword and thrusts it. Jason finished and moves his right arm creating a large rock fist that collided with the sword.
Destroying each other as the debris created a large cloud of smoke. Jason used his other arm making another large rock fist, but it soon broke apart due to how big it was.
"Damn, made it too big…ah screw it," he flies towards Sinestro and grabs him from behind.
Using his rocket boots he flies towards the ground real fast before the two crashed creating a large crater. A large cloud of smoke and debris covered the area. Leaving glass pieces that were shattered from buildings, cars, and lamp posts. As it begins to settle Jason is seen climbing out of the crater, while coughing loudly.
Looking down he sees Sinestro unconscious below him. "Yep, I am in a lot of pain," he looks down to see the ring he removed before putting it away.
He got out of the crater and groaned loudly. He is just glad he has a healing factor. Otherwise this would have been worse. However, as the dust finally settles he sees he is surrounded by at least 20 of Brainiac's robots.
"Ah crap," said Jason as he tries getting up, but sees them with their eyes glowing brightly. "I take it I make a move and you blast me, right?" he asked as he moves his hands to his guns and sees the eyes getting brighter. "All right. I get the message. So, what do you want?"
He sees one of the robots approach him and shows in his hand a hologram of Brainiac. "How interesting. I have traveled around the galaxy and have come across countless species. All with different abilities and with rare skills that made them unique. You on the other hand you aren't like any of them."
"Yeah, I get that a lot," said Jason who didn't like where this is going. "So, what do you want, Brainy? My autograph or something?"
"Actually, I want you," said Brainiac who seemed to ignore the name the boy gave him. "You see, I managed to gain a sample of your DNA during the attack on the prison. It was a small sample, but it was enough to help me discover what you are. You are human, but you are also something else."
"Well, I do take after my mother," said Jason as he presses a small button within his right glove that send out a signal.
"Yes, you are indeed a hybrid, but there is something else in your DNA that makes you different from the others," said Brainiac as he orders the robots to move their hands up revealing the cable tendrils in their hands. "I must study you some more, but first. Tell me where Kal-El and Kara Zor-El are at and I will make sure you don't suffer during my experiment."
Jason looks around knowing he is fucked, but instead moved his hand up giving him the finger. "On my planet, this means go fuck yourself, Brainy."
Brainiac though didn't seem affected by this. "Very well, take him."
However, before they could attack Jason, Rocket appeared on top of the robot that has the hologram of Brainiac. "Hey there, mind holding this?" he placed a small device on the chest of the robot.
He then begins jumping on the heads of the other robots and begins doing the same thing to them. The robots tried to grab him or even blast him, but he dodged their attacks. Once he finished he jumped over near Jason and pressed a button. Causing electricity to flow through their bodies and caused their heads to explode.
The one holding the hologram soon was destroyed as the transmission to Brainac was cut off. Rocket walks over to Jason and gives him his shield.
"You're lucky your mom is off fighting elsewhere. Otherwise she would be pissed that you let them surround you like that," said Rocket as he checks on the bodies of the robots.
"Sorry, for making you worried. But glad you still came," said Jason as he puts the shield away and checks on his blasters. "Thanks, uncle Rocket."
"Of course I was worried. Just because you are all grown up doesn't mean none of us are going to worry about you," said Rocket as he took some parts out of the robots. "Even when you don't tell us you can go all Celestial and stuff."
Jason stared at his uncle confused. "Celestial? Wait, you mean like grand…like Ego?"
Jason recalled his mother telling him the truth about his biological grandfather. A Celestial named, Ego. She told him what a Celestial are, how Ego came to be, how he formed a planet to protect his brain, and what he was planning to do to the universe. Jason was horrified to find out his grandfather killed his grandmother and used his dad to destroy all life.
She also told him how because his dad was part-Celestial he had powers. However, those powers were gone when Ego was killed. Still, Jason didn't know why his mom told him about the powers and how his dad could do all those things he could do, which were really cool. Well, until now.
"W-wait, so I have powers like dad and…" Jason was now even more confused. "Wait, that doesn't make sense. Mom said when Ego died the light he had died with him along with dad's powers. So, how could I have them?"
Rocket sighed wishing he wasn't the one to explain this. Since they all agreed it would be Gamora who would have to explain this stuff to the kid. It made sense, especially since they weren't good at explaining these sort of things themselves. Not after they explained to him where babies came from.
"Well, you see your folks when to go see some crazy old lady who knew you had those powers in you," Rocket tried to explain from what he remembered the others telling him. "She told them how the light was never gone and it could be passed on to the children. Meaning you and your old man could use those powers."
Jason wasn't sure if his uncle explained this as well as he was hoping he would, but tried his best to understand. "So, wait how come I couldn't use them before? I mean, even as a kid I don't remember being able to do any of the cool things my dad said he did. Like make a giant Pac Man or that skeleton man that he talked about."
"Might have something to do that with crappy drink you drank as a kid," Rocket replied recalling the drink that Gamora and Peter told them about. "They said it was supposed to suppress your powers until you were old enough. Personally I think the taste alone would keep that from happening."
Jason remembered the drink and how many times his mom made him drink it. "Ugh! That thing did taste like crap! So, that thing made me not have my cool powers? Why?"
Rocket chuckled when the kid brought up the taste of the drink, but then stopped when he mentioned why he couldn't use his powers. "I guess they weren't sure if you would be able to control it. Or maybe after telling you about Ego you wouldn't want to use them."
The idea of having these powers did sound awesome and he would like to fight alongside his friends better. However, he did remember all the bad things Ego did and how because of him his grandfather, Yondu died.
"Still, it's pretty much up to you kid on what you want to do with them," said Rocket giving Jason a choice. "You can choose to ignore them and hope they go away or use them to help save everyone. Either way, you should tell your mom about it."
Jason gives him a small nod. "Thanks, but I think for now I'll keep doing what I'm doing. I'll focus on using these powers another time."
"Well, let's get you some rest and then…" Rocket is kicked in the face by Reverse Flash who regained consciousness.
Jason tried to pull out his weapon, but Reverse Flash grabs his arm and breaks it. Causing him to scream in pain before he is punched in the face.
"Brainiac told me if I bring you in I would be able to get home," said Reverse Flash as he stood over Jason who held his injured arm. "Now, be a good boy and stay down. So I can bring you to him or I can bring you to him with all your bones broken."
Jason didn't back down as he moves his hand down to his blaster. Reverse Flash saw this as the boy making his choice and charged at him, before getting hit by a barrier that appeared out of nowhere. Reverse Flash and Jason looked on confused on what just happened. Reverse Flash gets upset and tries punching his way in until Arthur appeared with his hammer.
"Hey!" he swings his weapon and hits him square in the face knocking him out. "Stay down, asshole," he then turns to Jason and Rocket as the barrier disappeared. "Did you do that?"
Jason shook his head and checks on his uncle. "Did you do that?"
Rocket groaned loudly as he rubbed his face where he got kicked. "Do what?"
"No, I did that," they turn around to see a hooded figure appear before them with what sounded like a robotic voice. "It is good to finally meet you, Jason Yondu Quill, Rocket the Raccoon, and Arthur Foster."
"First of all I ain't no raccoon and secondly who the hell are you?" Rocket asked a bit angrily that he called him a raccoon.
"The fact that you know our name and you know who we are tells us you are either a friend or foe. So, like my uncle said, who are you?" Jason asked curious on this guy who just saved them.
The figure removes his hood revealing who he is. He appeared to be in his 20s, with short blonde hair, green eyes, and green skin. "I am Brainiac 5 and I have come from the future. The 31st century and I am here to help."
Metropolis (year 2018)
Brainiac's ship arrived to the city where it began transporting a building inside of it. To begin testing the systems before it takes the rest of the city. All around the city there are destroyed buildings, debris on the street, and bodies of innocent civilians. Batman arrived with Catwoman as they head towards Brainiac's ship. Thanks to Cyborg and Aya they found out that Brainiac's forces are all being controlled from the main ship.
If they take it out they will stop Brainiac's invasion. However, they'll need to first weaken the shield around the ship. Batman is informed the others are on their way. With a plan on weakening the ship and saving their friends from inside the ship.
Jason and the others would arrive as soon as possible. Claiming they came across someone who told them he knows Brainiac and came to help. Batman isn't sure if this person is a friend or foe, but his focused turned to Brainiac's ship. The ship soon begins sending out his fighters to try attacking Batman's Batwing.
As he dodges the attacks, Superman arrived with the others. Superman uses his heat vision to take down the ships, while Rachel used her psychic powers to turn them on them, and Megan shapeshifts into a large dragon as she phases through the ships destroying them from within.
"They gave us an opening," said Catwoman noticing the team weakening Brainiac's forces.
Batman fired rockets, which collided into the shields. The shield repelled the blast knocking it into the Batwing causing it to fall. Superman flies down catching them before they could crash. He lifts up the Batwing and looks up at the shield.
"You knew they had a shield. So, why attack it?" Superman asked knowing Bruce is smarter than that.
"Those rockets weren't meant to damage the shield. They were to determine how strong it is so we know how much power Rachel needs to weaken them," Batman explained as the rockets give him the data they needed. "Brainiac's force shield is creating a concussive feedback loop."
Superman soon realized what this meant. "So the harder we hit it, the harder it hits back," he looks up and sees Rachel using her Phoenix powers to burn down the ships. "What will happen if Rachel uses her powers?"
"Most likely it will repel the attack back, but Cyborg and Aya also calculate that it will most likely overload before it can repel back the attack," said Batman recalling how Brainiac has never encountered a cosmic entity like the Phoenix Force and there's a chance the shields won't take it. "We'll need to give her cover though while she does this. You up for it?"
Superman gives Batman a small confident smile. "Like you need to ask," he flies up to join Rachel and Megan as she puts on a protective suit. "Ready whenever you are, Rachel."
Rachel nods as she closed her eyes and pulls her arms together to her chest. She opened her eyes and unleashed her power as the Phoenix Force took form. Superman and Megan flew back as the Cosmic Flames surrounds Rachel's body. Taking the form of the Phoenix as it lets out a loud screech roar.
Superman has seen many things in his time, but he has never seen anything like this before. It was incredible and at the same time a little intimidating. Megan was also in amazement since she never saw the Phoenix Force at full power. Even in her suit she could feel the heat coming from the flames.
Rachel's focus is turned on Brainiac's ship and fired into it. The shield deflects the attack, but the force of the attack did cause Brainiac's ship to shake. Inside Brainiac is trying his best to stay in control and order his ship to repel the attack. But the force of the blast was too great that it was overloading his systems.
Batman noticed Gamora's ship flying towards them and is informed that her team with her. Along with Aya who is ready to join Superman inside to free the others and take control of the ship.
"Clark, once the shield is down get in right away with the others and take Brainiac down," said Batman giving Superman his orders.
Superman nods as he got ready to fly in fast. However, before he did he hears what sounded like a gun cocking below them. He looks down trying to find where the source of the sound came from. By the time he did he sees where the gun is pointing at.
"Rachel, look out!" Superman flies over to her as the gun fires.
Rachel noticed it, but it was too late. The bullet hits her in the chest causing her to lose focus. The Phoenix Force lets out a loud screech before it vanished. Superman caught her before she fell as Megan flies up to her to stop the bleeding.
The next thing that happened is the shield redirected the blast back at them. The force of the blast from the Phoenix Force send a large wave of energy towards the heroes. That was until Hal, Kilowog, Aya, and Arisia appeared. Thanks to Aya's Blue Lantern powers boosts up their powers as they created a large shield to block the blast.
They managed to hold out as they see more of Brainiac's ships heading their way. Gamora joins the Lanterns as they fly in to attack the ships while Megan checks on her friend.
"What happened?"
"I don't know," Superman looks down and sees the shooter from below. "But I'm going to find out," he flies down towards the city despite Bruce calling out to him.
Superman sees the shooter is running down a building that is halfway where Brainiac is at. He punches through the building and stops the shooter in his track.
"If you are working for Brainiac then you made a big mistake siding with him," said Superman until he stopped when he saw who it is. "Damian?"
It was Damian Wayne who is in his Nightwing armor costume. Holding a rifle in his hand and a sword on his back.
"So, it is true. You are working with Batman," said Damian as he stood before Superman. "You know, Brainiac told me you decided to go back to joining him and you gave up on the Regime. Didn't want to believe it, until I saw you up there with them."
Superman should have known Brainiac would try something like this, but didn't expect it to be Damian that he would use. "Damian, listen to me. Brainiac doesn't care about anyone but himself. He is going to destroy the world and kill everyone on the planet. Unless we stop him. Put the gun down and let's work together."
"So I can get locked up again? Not a chance. I bet Bruce didn't tell you what happened to Diana? If you did then why aren't you going to break her out?" Damian asked.
Superman did know what happened and was disappointed it went down the way he did. He understood why Diana wanted to kill Cheetah, but he made it clear they had to follow the rules this time. Maybe they could have discussed what happens next later, but after his talk with his father and Kara. Perhaps, this wasn't the right thing to do.
"I know what happened and I told her no killing. We had to do what Bruce wanted to get things right and we were," said Superman who admits seeing how the others were handling things showed him they knew what they were doing. "We were also close on breaking into Brainiac's ship to stop him, until you shot our only shot to get in."
Damian was shocked to hear that Superman was actually agreeing with Bruce, especially after all that happened. "Are you listening to yourself? What about everything you told me? What about how we needed to rule in order to bring peace? If we were still in charge we could have stopped Brainiac sooner instead those fools got all those people killed."
Superman would have agreed and probably believe that their methods could have prevented all of this. But then again, the way they could have handled it also would have cost more lives. Yes, Bruce's methods have taken time, but they saved more lives than the Regime could have done. For once in a long time he actually is agreeing with his former enemy.
"The only fool I see is you for costing all those lives they saved for being a damn idiot," said Superman who looked ready to take in Damian. "Now, put the gun down and come quietly."
Damian couldn't believe that Superman is actually doing this. He really has joined up with Bruce and has forgotten everything he taught him.
"I didn't want to do this, but it looks like you left me no choice. Kill him," Damian ordered.
A large metal hand appeared from the ground and grabbed Superman. Pulling him down and into the next floor before tossing him through several walls. Superman is tossed out of the building and into the parking garage next door. He got up and sees something large landing across from him.
Superman look over and sees a large metal robot with parts of his body glowing green. "Metallo, I thought you were locked up."
"I was, until Brainiac freed me," said Metallo as he charges up the green energy in him, which is revealed to be Kryptonite. "Now I am going to enjoy taking my revenge against you and the Regime for what you did to me."
"Not that you didn't deserve it," said Superman as he kept his distance and used his heat vision.
Metallo blocks it and charges at him. He throws a fist, which Superman ducked and flew back. He knew Metallo's body is glowing with the radiation from the Kryptonite. If he gets too close or grabs him he'll be in trouble.
Metallo charges at him again, but Superman uses his super breath to freeze him in his track. It worked, but only for a short time as Metallo's body begins melting the ice away. He breaks free and he grabs Superman before slamming him into the ground. He then tossed him through the pillars until he crashed into a car.
Metallo grabs a nearby vehicle and tosses it at Superman who managed to get out of the way. Megalo blasts Superman with the Kryptonite energy. Superman grabs a broken door and blocks the attack. He tosses the door at Metallo, hitting him in the head.
He then slams his hands into the ground and picks up a chunk of the ground as he charges at Metallo. The robot villain fires again at Superman, but the ground kept him safe as he uses it as a shield. Superman tosses it at Metallo hitting him as he uses his heat vision to blast into his foe's chest causing it to melt away. Once part of the chest is gone Superman sees the Kryptonite and uses his heat vision again shattering it into pieces.
Without his energy source Metallo falls to the ground and is shut down. Superman sighed that he stopped him as he goes to find Damian, only to be blasted from behind by him.
"Kryptonite gun. Brainiac had planned to use it on you, but instead I made him a deal," said Damian as he blasted at Superman again. "Hand over Supergirl and he promised to let you go."
Superman was down on his knees as he struggled to get back up. "W-we bo-both know h-he won't keep h-his promise."
"I'll make sure he does. Now tell me where she is," said Damian as he charged the blaster again. "You don't owe her anything. She betrayed you, they all did! These people were ungrateful for the good you did for them, for protecting them, and for stopping crime. Then she came and took it all away from you!"
Damian walks over in front of Superman and aims his blaster at him. "You don't owe her a damn thing. Now, tell me where she is and we can take back this planet. Bring peace back to it and stop crime. Make the world safe again."
Superman began panting as he looks up at Damian and shook his head. "Bruce was right. I was blind by my rage and grief that I didn't see we weren't making the world safe again. They all hated us and I let it go because I didn't care anymore. Now though I want to change all of that and I am going to start by stopping Brainiac."
Damian sighed as he aims at the gun at him. "That's not going to happen."
Suddenly Megan appeared from behind and grabbed his head as she uses her powers to mentally shock him. Causing him to scream in pain before he passes out from the shock. She grabs the gun and tosses it away before picking Bruce up. She checked on him and sees he is all right.
"Can you fly?" she asked.
Superman nods as he got back on his feet. "Is Rachel okay?"
Megan nods in response. "The Phoenix can heal its host and she is recovering from the attack. However, she still needs to rest."
Suddenly they hear a loud eruption sound as they fly up to see Brainiac has begun to take the city. "Grab Damian and let's go!" Superman ordered as they fly to get away.
Megan grabs Damian and follows Superman as they try not to get sucked up with the rest of the city. The city is soon taken by Brainiac as the two heroes managed to get away from the attack. Looking back they see Metropolis has been taken. Leaving behind a large hole of the city.
Superman was upset that this happened and turned his attention to Damian. If he hadn't cost them the time they had he could have stopped Brainiac from taking the city.
Megan could read his thoughts and sense his emotions. This caused her to try calming him down before he does something dumb.
"Superman, calm down. I know you are upset, but don't forget we can still get the city back and the people inside once we take down Brainiac," said Megan trying to calm him down.
Superman turned his attention to Megan and knew she is right. He soon took deep breaths and tries to calm himself.
"But how can we get in without Rachel?" Superman asked knowing hitting the shields will not be enough.
"Superman! The force shield concentrates its energy at your point of attack. Move faster than it can, and you might break through it," said Aya as she discovered another way for them to get in.
"Got it," said Superman as he flies up at high speed hitting the shield.
He got repealed back, but he goes to another part and hits the shield again. Blood came out from his nose as he wiped it away. Soon began speeding up as he hits the shields all around the ship. Causing it to get damaged as Brainiac watched what was going in from inside.
He punched it one more time, but Brainiac predicted this. He decreased the shield and increased the power to repeal Superman back. The blast knocks Superman towards the ground. To the crater of where the city was at.
"We got to go help him," said Megan as she flew up to where Batman is at.
"We got our own problems right now," said Batman as more ships appeared.
The Lanterns continued fighting against them, but more kept coming. A few of Brainiac's robots attacked Gamora's ship as they try breaking in. They are soon blasted by Supergirl who flew in using her heat vision. She takes them out and regroups with Batman.
"I know you know what everyone knows, but I couldn't stay out of this," said Kara who refused to stay hidden while her friends were in danger. "Now, where's Kal?"
Batman sighed knowing she needed to stay away, especially with her carrying the baby. Right now though they needed to take Brainiac down.
"Down there," said Batman as they see Brainiac's ship heading towards him. "Megan, go with her."
Megan nods as she flies down with Kara to Superman. Superman recovered from the hit as Brainiac's ship began moving towards him. One of the large metal claws aims at Superman and fires a blue energy blast at him.
Soon all the claws aimed at him. Firing more blasts at him as it caused his body to crack. A large explosion erupted and a cloud of smoke covered the entire area. Kara flies down as she tries looking for her cousin. She even used her super visions to try finding him, but he was nowhere to be found.
Kara tried using her super hearing to see if she can find his heartbeat, but nothing. She lost him. He was gone. She fell on her knees and soon felt a wave of guilt flow through her body.
All the things she said to him before he left. All the doubt she had about him and how he didn't care anymore. Yet here he was risking his life for their world. For their home and he was now gone.
Megan tried using her powers to find any trace of Superman, while Batman and Gamora's ships land on the ground. Batman and Gamora walk over to Kara who is on her knees on the ground. Gamora soon realized what happened and kneels down next to her for comfort as the rest of the team began showing up.
"I couldn't find his body. Can't hear his heartbeat," said Kara as she tried her best to hold back her tears. "He's gone and it's my fault. I should have been here. I was supposed to keep him safe. And now he's…"
"I know," said Gamora as she tries her best to comfort him. "But you shouldn't blame yourself. What happened wasn't your fault. He wanted to keep you safe so you and your baby can live. I know because Peter wanted the same thing for our son."
Kara turns to Gamora forgetting for a moment that Aya told the others. "You know huh? And you aren't upset?"
Gamora shook her head and smiled at her. "I'm just happy you are both alive and that you'll have a child of your own. But we first need to work together and finish this. Otherwise your cousin's sacrifice will be for nothing."
Batman kneels down in front of Kara and spoke as well. "She's right, Kara. Despite all he did I will miss him and the man he used to be. But if he was here he would want us to keep on fighting. To save our world and make sure Brainiac is stopped..."
Cyborg's boom tube is heard as he came through it with Aquaman and Aqualad. They are joined by Aya, Megan, and Rachel who recovered from the attack. The Guardians soon join Gamora as does the Teen Titans and the Justice League. They all have come to join together to continue the fight.
"But only if we do it together," said Batman as he extends his hand to Kara. Kara wipes away her tears and takes his hand as she gets up. Batman soon turns to Aquaman and noticed Aqualad's expression. "Atlantis…"
"Gone," said Aquaman who sounded upset, but with himself. "I didn't listen and because of that our home is gone."
"Where is Jason?" Kara asked noticing Jason is missing, along with Arthur, Rocket, Raven, Laura, and Groot.
"They said they are on their way with the others," Drax replied. "They claim they have someone who can help them, but would not say who it is."
"It doesn't matter," the team all look over to see a hologram of Brainiac appear before them. "While your efforts to slow down my Betas is becoming a problem, it won't be long before they take their position. Once they are the planet will have one hour before they explode in unison. Burning the Earth's atmosphere and rendering this planet a barren moon, unless…" Brainiac points to Kara. "…you surrender Kara Zor-El and the one called Jason Yondu Quill."
"She is Krypton's sole survivor and my last opportunity to study the effect of a yellow sun on Kryptonian cells. As for the boy he possesses a power in him I have never seen before and would like to examine. Surrender them to me and I will spare this world."
"Even if we think you'd honor that deal, we wouldn't take it," said Batman who refused Brainiac's offer.
"We will not surrender my daughter-in-law or my son to you, Brainiac," said Gamora joining with Batman.
"You have an hour to reconsider," said Brainiac giving the team an ultimatum before he disappeared.
"All right, so what's the plan?" Cyborg asked hoping with what Batman did means he has a plan. "You do have one, right?"
"Not yet, but we'll find a way to take down Brainiac's shields. We have to," said Batman knowing surrendering Kara and Jason is not an option.
"I will do it once I recover," said Rachel who wanted to give her part another chance.
"No, we'll need you to use your powers to help stop the Betas from destroying the planet," said Batman knowing in her condition Brainiac will not let her get another chance.
"We could try shortening them out," Aya suggested. "But we'd need to generate a large amount of power, but one Brainiac won't see coming."
"Perhaps science is not the answer," the team all look up to see Jason flying in with Arthur, Raven, Groot, Laura, and a hooded figure. "We found out his shields are vulnerable to magic-based attacks. There's an immense magical power from the Rock of Eternity through the gateway in Kahndaq. With the right artifacts we can use it as a medium to take down the shields."
Aquaman seems to agree with this plan. "My Trident of Atlantis can be used and the boy's weapon can help out as well."
"The name is Arthur and we can use it to help out," said Arthur as he sets his weapon down near Aquaman. "We can have Kymera help out too, while Abby joins the others to take down the Betas."
"Once that works we can break into the ship and take down Brainiac," said Rocket before turning to Aya and Cyborg. "You two can make a signal to block his neural network and disarm the bombs if we don't get to them in time."
"Then that's our plan," said Batman before turning to Jason. "But how did you all come up with this plan? Or was it your new friend's plan?" he points to the hooded figure behind them.
"Uh yeah he came up with it and before you all freak out he isn't our enemy. Actually, he is here to help us," said Jason as he motions to the hooded figure to join them. "Guys, this is Brainiac 5."
The figure removes his hood and reveals who he is. The moment the name was said the group all got defensive and look ready to attack him.
"Hold on! Wait, hear him out," said Raven trying to calm her team and the others down. "He is not our enemy. He comes from the future."
"The 31st Century," said Laura as she defends the newcomer as well. "He is a hero in the future that works for a group called the Legion of Superheroes. He came from the future to stop Brainiac so that his kind won't be treated horribly for what his ancestor did to him. But unlike Brainiac he isn't part machine like him."
"It is true," said Brainiac 5 as he spoke to the group. "My race the Coluan have been treated poorly due to my ancestor's past sins and the horrors he has brought to the universe. Because of this I volunteered to come back to the past to make sure he is stopped."
"If this is true then why didn't you go back to past to oh I don't know kill him?" Hal asked wondering why come back to this time and not any further back.
"Because if I did that it would have changed everything," Brainiac 5 explained as he turns to Flash. "You know this to be a fact and that is why I had to choose a specific time to change how things went."
Flash hated to admit it, but the guy made a good point. "All right. So if you came here to help us, then why not come a little earlier? How would that have changed things?"
"Because things have already changed," said Brainiac 5 as he turns to Kara. "In the original timeline you did come to Earth, but years later and you were found by Black Adam. You were trained by Diana and you joined their group to free Superman. However, because of the events from Jason's universe you came to his universe instead. This caused the events to change and this was a more appropriate place to arrive without changing too much of what has changed."
Kara turns to Jason who had the same look he had. Their encounter would never have happened had it not been for the experiment from his universe. If it didn't happen she would have been on Earth, but on the wrong side, and Jason would never have met her. They would never have come to this universe and never be together.
"Time paradox aside how do we know you can be trusted? After all you are related to Brainiac," said Gamora who didn't trust this guy. "Are you on our side or what side are you?"
Brainiac 5 thought about that question as he walks near where Aquaman stood. "I'm on the side of the people, my friends, my people, and good. I don't intend to kill Brainiac, but his faith I will leave it up to all of you to decide. My task is to come here, help stop Brainiac, and make sure this world is saved. But I cannot do it without all of you, together."
The team all looked at each other knowing Brainiac 5 is right. Alone they stand no chance and they need to work together to end this fight.
"I know there might be no way to make you trust me, but I hope we can put aside our differences…" Brainiac 5 leans down and picks up Arthur's sword as he hands it to him. "And work together."
The others looked on shocked that Brainiac 5 not only lifted the weapon, but it actually let him. Even Arthur looked on shocked at this as he took the sword and began looking around the team clearing his throat.
"Right um…shall we get to work?"
Well…technically speaking since we don't know what happened to Thor and his people during the Infinity Wars till it comes out we can assume Brainiac 5 won't be king of Asgard. Still, I hope everyone likes the surprise. For those that guessed it yes it was Brainiac 5. Also, if you guys have gotten this far in the story then safe to assume the Turtles won't be in the story…sorry.
Still, I hope everyone likes how this went. The team now need to find a way to stop Brainiac from destroying the Earth. Will they find a way with their new ally? Or will things get bad like in the game?
Check out the next chapter to find out and thanks to my friend for his help on the chapter. Also thanks to all of you guys for the support as well. I appreciate it so much and glad many are enjoying the series. If you all like the chapter then please leave some reviews.
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