"J'onn, Max is speaking to me," J'onn heard Superman say over the comm.

It was too late for him to say anything. J'onn overheard Barda's battle cry and then the connection went out.

"This is not good," J'onn said as Mr. Miracle, Wonder Woman, Rhea walked up to him. The Atom and Ted Kord were walking back to the lab to try and see what they could do. The new information about other multiverses existing was astounding. "Barda has just attacked Max and all three comm. links to the team went dead from the impact. I thought Flash would not be affected, but he was on his way back towards Max when the shock wave knocked him into a grocery store. I can still read Flash, but he is not in any condition to try and do anything at the moment. His right shoulder has been dislocated and he has dislocated his left knee. And I can not get O'Brien at all. I do believe he was in the way of Max's energy wave."

"I apologize for the over reactions of Barda," Mr. Miracle apologized. She is a bit more moody than usual right now. She's…"

"Looks like even Gods have mood swings when they are expecting," Rhea said as she checked over her gauntlet computer. Everyone stared at Rhea. "What? Didn't you notice that her outfit was a bit too tight around her abdomen?"

"We're afraid we did not catch that little tidbit, Rhea," Wonder Woman said to her. She was not looking that pleased over how Barda was acting, but could not really blame her. "And what was Batman talking about? What is it that you need to tell us?"

Batman appeared inside the elevator and began walking towards the group as Rhea began her explanation.

"What you have now discovered, you now have put the planet at risk," Rhea began with a solemn look. She pressed a few buttons on her right gauntlet and a hologram appeared in front of her. "What you see is this multiverse." Then, the picture changed to a large group of blacked out human figures. "This might be better to explain rather than getting into the technical talk; it would just confuse the hell out of you. What you see here is a representation of your multiverse, though it has many more than are represented. Then," another group of figures appeared, this time they were red. "This is another multiverse. There are barriers set up between them so they can not interact with each other." The image changed to show a wall between the two groups. There were barriers between each of the figures in both groups, but they were more like a brick half wall. "Travel between the each universe in your multiverse is possible, though is blocked to some extent. But the barriers between each multiverse can not be broken through. Travel through it is not possible. The barrier is infinitely thick yet infinitely thin between them."

"Wait, what," The Atom asked, confused. "That doesn't make sense. How can it be both?"

"I don't know," Rhea replied, shrugging her shoulders. "That was what my reading said after I passed through the first time."

"You mean you have traveled through the barrier before," Batman said, more of a statement than a question. "How long have you been traveling through them?"

"Since half a continent on my world vanished," Rhea stated, remembering the broadcasts and reports. The hologram's image changed to show her Earth. Rhea's Earth looked much like their Earth except for Africa. "One day, a strange massive wave hit my Earth. And over the course of three minutes, majority of the Sahara and central Africa vanished. All that was left was a jagged mile deep hole that spanned hundreds of miles. Weather soon changed due to the missing landmass. The air over the hole fell, bringing with it cold air that created massive tornadoes all over Africa and for near a thousand miles around the hole. The United States had to evacuate everyone that lived east of the Mississippi due to the rather massive and frequent hurricanes. I did my best to create what we needed to counteract the violent weather changes. Parts of the Mediterranean were buried under feet of snow when I left. And the one picture I still can't get out of my head is seeing the Great Pyramids covered in snow. We lost so much life because of that wave. The earthquakes that followed wrecked hell all over the world. Scientists thought that the amount of land mass lost would have thrown the world off its tilt. It took me two years to engineer global stabilizers and place them in orbit." Everyone looked at her in amazement.

"That kind of engineering would be comparable to that of New Genesis," Mr. Miracle said in astonishment.

"It was all I could do at a moment's notice," Rhea said as her hologram changed to show a massive net of large platforms in orbit around Earth. "It only took me a month to refine my designs. It was the construction of the orbital platforms to build the satellite stabilizers and the construction of the stabilizers themselves that took most of the first year. But by that time over a hundred million people had been killed in massive storms and natural disasters across the globe."

"How could you build such large and technically advanced satellites and construction platforms in such short time," Ted Kord asked in awe.

"Such a feat would barely be possible for the engineers in New Genesis," Mr. Miracle said about the impossible feat.

"Her ability deals with advanced technology," Batman said as he stood listening to Rhea. "She can probably create anything that a situation calls for."

"How did…" Rhea asked, staring at Batman with wide eyes.

"From what I have seen, it was the simplest option to come to," Batman said plainly. "You are surprisingly easier to figure out than Max."

"Why do you say that," Rhea asked him, interested in his observations.

"He has been a mystery that I have been trying to figure out since he appeared," Batman said as he walked up to a console at J'onn's station. Batman brought up some readings of Max. Rhea looked on from Batman's left.

"Your systems seem to be limited," Rhea pointed out as she took in the information about Max. "Slow and not much memory. Have you any sentia-metal?"

Batman turned his head and looked at her, an eyebrow raised under his mask.

"Try my Mother Box," Mr. Miracle said as he began to unclip a small rectangular block from his belt.

"Still too slow and not enough memory," Rhea said as she studied the box. She handed the Mother Box back to Mr. Miracle and began to type buttons on her right gauntlet. Mr. Miracle actually took a step back in astonishment. Nothing was faster than the sentient computer of New Genesis. The box began to ping as if insulted by Rhea's comment, but then pinged again as if curious to what device would be faster. Rhea did not pay any attention to the pinging. When she finished typing her commands, a four inch cube formed out from the armor plate on her right shoulder. She picked it up as a hole opened in one side. Rhea looked at everyone and blushed a little, her green skin darkening some. "You wouldn't happen to know where the nearest singularity would be, by chance, would you."

"Sorry, but we are fresh out," Batman flatly replied. Wonder Woman and J'onn and the rest looked at Batman. He was actually being sarcastic.

"Oh," Rhea said as she shrugged. "No matter, I was saving one of these for an emergency." Rhea reached into her right pants pocket and pulled out a strange crystal with two black marble sized spheres inside. Everyone tried to focus on the two spheres, but it was as if their eyes were trying to look away at the same time.

"What are those," The Atom asked. "I'm picking up very strange sub-atomic readings from it."

"It's what powers my portable computer," Rhea said as she slid the crystal into the opening. The opening closed as the metal seemed to melt in order to close it. The cube glowed for a moment and then faded. She placed it on top of the console. Tentacles shot out of the cube and into any and all ports. "It's a battery composed of one regular matter and one anti-matter naked singularity set out of faze orbit of one another inside a polished white dwarf diamond, hardest natural material other than synthetics. It's also, strangely enough, very light and weighs about the same as a quartz crystal of the same size. But just be careful not to lower the settings below 7.024501 dimensional units, or how many dimensions it works in. I found working with it in anything less complicates the computations." Ted Kord and The Atom had their jaws hanging and their eyes seemed wider than their sockets. "Don't worry," she said as she studied the files Batman had on Max. Surprisingly, she was a fast reader. Even Batman had a hard time keeping pace with her. To everyone else, the screen looked as if it was just a slight blur. "I'll gladly give you the blueprints and schematics. They're inside the computer matrix I set up. And don't worry about making another one, I'm giving this one to you."

Ted Kord and The Atom thought they would orgasm in ecstasy over wanting to exam the new gift.

"Excuse me," J'onn said, bringing everyone out of their trance over Rhea's computer. "Barda, Max, and some fellow League members need our help."

"All ready figured that problem out, J'onn," Batman said as he stood up from looking at the monitor.

"How? When did you-" Ted asked, dumbfounded. No one talked about a plan.

"Rhea will just have to ask Max to stop," Batman said plainly as he walked by Wonder Woman and J'onn. He began typing in commands into another console to activate the teleporter. "but she will need to change first. He won't buy it on how you look now, Rhea."

Rhea and Wonder Woman seemed to be the only one that picked up on what Batman was talking about. Even J'onn took a moment to think about what Batman meant. But when he did, he knew exactly what they needed. A holographic imager to change Rhea's appearance would not work in this situation. They needed something that he knew Rhea could create in moments.

"Rhea, can you adjust your suit to cover your entire body and skin so as to change your appearance," J'onn asked politely.

"Yes," She replied. "It is something I use when I visit other worlds in trade or when they need help. It's more of a psychological thing than anything else. Other civilizations in my universe are not that keen to seeing a creature that does not look like anything like them helping them out."

"Good," Batman said. "You need to change your skin color to match ours and your hair needs to be changed to a slightly dirty blond color."

Rhea nodded and typed in a command into her gauntlet. Areas across her suit began to change. Soon, she was wearing a pair of light brown dress slacks that hugged her hips, a sleeveless baby blue blouse with the top three buttons undone to expose some of her cleavage, tanned skin replaced her green shaded skin, and her hair straightened some as it changed from its crimson red to a slightly dirty blond.

"I have got to get me one of those suits," The Atom said in awe at the change.

"You'll need sentia-metal then," Rhea said as she took in her new look. She turned her head towards The Atom and Ted, "Though I do hope you are conditioned for a neural interface. The feeling is very overwhelming if you are not prepared to feel like you are seeing everything from every point on your body. It was very disorienting even for me when I created it."

"So it's can act like an early warning system when someone is trying to sneak up on you," Ted said as he starred at the small box on the console.

"Kind of, yes," Rhea replied. "Now, why do you need me to be like this, Batman?"

"Mr. Miracle, we'll use your Mother Box and teleport down there immediately," Batman stated more than asked. With a nod, Mr. Miracle opened a Boom Tube. "Make sure we are some distance from the confrontation or we'll blow the surprise and the plan to stop Max."

Down in LA, Barda heaved off a large part of a brick wall that Max had thrown her through. She was mad enough to even go against the Darkseid. The battle energized her like nothing has in a long while. There had been many confrontations lately, but they left her wanting more after she had overtaken the enemy. But this mere human was giving her the fight she has been wanting. She felt energized. With a grin covering her face, she climbed out of the rubble and back towards the human.

"I don't know where you came from," Barda yelled out to get Max's attention, "but I am glad we have met in battle. My club and fists will get their workout today."

"Come get some, baby," Max said as he tried to be serious for just a moment.

Superman and The Flash could do nothing but crowd control. They needed to make sure no one was anywhere near either Max or Barda. Superman was carrying six people towards their safety area a mile away from the fighting when he listened in to Max and Barda. For a moment Max sounded sane. But shortly after, he heard his laughter and then the concussion from their impact.

"Hey tall and beautiful," Max said as they stopped for a moment in the air. Barda was fifteen feet from Max in a fighting stance. She held her club in both hand out in front of her. "Here' something I've been saving for ya," Max said as he stood there in the air. Barda watched as Max threw a punch. There was no way he could reach her, what was he thinking? She was fifteen feet away. But before she knew it, a fist appeared out of no where, connecting with the left side of her jaw.

Barda was loving the thrill of this fight. But something suddenly occurred to her. Why wasn't her hitting her in the abdomen? It was one of the most vital areas to hit during a confrontation. Was this man purposely avoiding hitting her there? Then a thought shot through her mind.

"Did this man know she was with child," Barda thought. "Is he avoiding hitting me there because of it?" That was only one of many questions that Barda has asked herself while fighting this man called Max.

Flash watched over the crowd of people who were unconscious. He had not seen anything like this since the Dream Master began invading people's minds as they slept. That was only a few years ago. Now this was happening and was caused by a friend. Granted he was dosed with two incompatible toxins, Flash was still worried if there would be any lasting affects due from Max.

Ka-Boom!

Flash turned around at the familiar sound of a Boom Tube opening. This would be one bad time if Darkseid or any of his goons decided to take this opportunity to attack. He let out a sigh of relief when he saw the pointed cowl of Batman and the figure of Wonder Woman walking towards him.

"Thank God you guys are here," Flash said as he ran up to greet his fellow League members. Before he could say anything else, he saw a figure that stunned him.

"Wow, this is a first," Wonder Woman said at Flash's silence. She turned to Rhea, "You actually stunned Flash into silence. This is a moment to remember," Wonder Woman said, teasing the Speedster.

"Funny, Wonder Woman," Flash replied. "Is that who I think it is?"

"It's just me Flash," Rhea said to him.

"Wow, Rhea, you look just like-"

"Don't say the name, Flash," Batman warned him. "She is not too kind when someone says the name you are thinking. You can say it, but she will have a blade at your throat in a 'flash'."

"Did Batman just make a joke at my expense," Flash asked. "Great, now there's going to be a snowman building contest in Hell." Flash shook his head as Wonder Woman, Rhea, and Mr. Miracle walked by him with smiles. Batman walked by him with his signature plain look.

"Flash, we will need you to do something for us," Batman said as he stopped in front of him. "We have a plan and we need you to go over and tell Max to get over here immediately."

"You want me to interrupt the fight between Barda and Max," Flash said. He knows that he regularly runs into a situation blindly, but this could kill him.

"All you need to do is get his attention and tell him to get over here," Batman said. "We are going to sedate Rhea and lay her down with the rest of the people here. When he sees her among the crowd, he should be able to take control of himself."

Flash thought this over. His eyes grew wide and gave Batman a smile at the realization of the plan.

"Be back quicker than you can spell Batmobile," Flash said as he took off towards the gladiatorial fighting.

"Batman," Superman called out as Flash ran under him. Superman landed with more people. He had overheard everything. "Is there anyway you can try and make an antidote for Max using his blood? Don't we have some left?"

"It would be pointless," Batman said as he knelt down to check the pulse of the first person Superman laid down.

"Why would that be pointless," Superman asked him. "Just use a small portion of each toxin antidote and mix it with Max's blood."

"Like I said Superman, it would be pointless," Batman said as he checked yet another person's vitals.

"Why, don't you want to help him," Superman said, angry that his friend was not going to do what he said.

Batman stood up quickly and stared Superman down. Batman was the only person that could make Superman feel powerless with a simple look.

"Like I said it would be pointless," Batman said calmly. "His blood is useless now."

"What," Superman asked, confused. "What's wrong?"

"That was one of the first ideas I had. I called up to J'onn and asked him to prepare a sample of Max's blood," Batman explained as he knelt down to another person. "J'onn called me back with bad news. The blood was not tampered with as it was still locked up in the medlab. J'onn told me that the blood looked strange. He checked it under a microscope and noticed that the crystalline was inert, causing the cells to explode. The cells in Max's blood could not survive without the crystalline."

Superman looked at Batman with concerned eyes mixed with shock as he realized what that meant. "So if Max ever had the crystalline removed…"

"He would die almost instantly," Batman finished for Superman. "But he would not die before he went through pain equal to your reaction to kryptonite."

Max stood there in mid air enjoying this new playmate. Barda was breathing heavily, a grin covering her face at the fun she was having as well. Each attack was skillfully blocked or taken in stride. Surrounding buildings were already either showing some damage from the fight or were piles of rubble. Luckily, the Justice League had managed to evacuate all the civilians from the area. With a battle cry, Barda charged Max in a mighty jump from the top of a yet undamaged and only standing wall to a warehouse. Her strength in the jump caused the last wall to finally give way and collapsed onto its fallen brethren. Barda had gone to using hand to hand combat with Max, seeing as it had been knocked along with her and Max into a large pile of rubble that once was a vehicle maintenance and tool storage garage.

Max still had the smile covering his face, but now seemed as if it were there only due to what Joker's laughing gas left in an after affect. Max was concentrating on the fight

Each fighter tossed one another onto and into piles of rubble surrounding them. Clouds of pulverized cement and mortar filled the air in a light fog.

Flash arrived at the outskirts of the destroyed buildings. He had seen a few buildings fall as he was carrying people to safety, but now it was a warzone. Craters pocked the ground where the rubble did not cover. Shockwaves flew through the air as each fighter made contact.

"Why did they have to destroy everything," Flash said as he scratched his head. "How the hell am I going to get through all of this?"

"What's taking so long, Flash," Batman said over the ear comm.

Flash jumped at his voice. "Well, I am trying to figure out how to get through all this rubble without breaking my neck," Flash argued.

"Well, hurry up," Batman said impatiently. "The sedative won't last too long."

"Oh shove it, Bats," Flash thought to himself. He studied the rubble ahead of him and began mapping out a way into the battle field.

"You are definitely a good opponent, Max," Barda said with a bit of a forced grin. "I have not had this much fun since the fire pits of Apokolips." Both Max and Barda charged one another once again. They met with each hand intertwining with the others. "But let us see how long you can keep your strength up little man."

Max stood in front of Barda, grappling with her in a test of strength. Neither one seemed to give any leeway. The ground under their feet sank as each one forced their own power on the other.

"Finally," Flash said as he made it over the crumbling obstacle course. He was fifty feet away from Max and Barda. "Holy crap, he's keeping up with Barda. I don't know if it's because of the toxins or what, but that just seems dumb no matter what." Flash remembered all three times Barda had slapped him on the back for a congratulations on winning the battle. Each time the light slap almost dislocated his shoulder. His left shoulder began hurting just by thinking about it. It was now or never. "Max, come quick," Flash yelled at him.

Max stood there. He heard Flash speaking to him off to his left, but he was not about to lose his concentrating.

"Max," Flash called out again. He had to think quickly. Then it hit him. "Max, another rift opened up, man!" Flash noticed Max's eyebrow raise. He was listening. "She's hurt man, unconscious. Rebecca's hurt!"

Immediately Max's eyes went wide. All strength left him at those two words. 'Rebecca's hurt' echoed through his mind. Had he caused it? Was he the reason she was hurt?

"Oh God no," Max whispered. Max turned his head towards Flash, the look of horror covering his face.

Barda saw this. It was the opening she was wanting. Quickly releasing her hold, she thrust her right fist into Max's abdomen. The impact caused Flash to take a step back. Releasing her other hand, Barda delivered a left uppercut to Max's chin. Max was in shock at what Flash had yelled to him and had no time to block or dodge the blow.

Barda sent Max flying into the air to her right.

"You idiot," Flash yelled out at Barda. "That wasn't needed!"

"You want to have a go little man," Barda asked, thirsty for more.

Flash was glad he was the fastest man alive. He realized too late what he yelled out. Quickly turning, he jumped around through the rubble and back towards the Justice League and where Max would soon be landing, hopefully unconscious.

"Flash better hurry," Batman said impatiently. The punches had stopped for a good five minutes.

"It should not take him that much longer," Wonder Woman said. "The way Max loves his wife he would be here almost as soon as Flash would arrive from delivering the message."

No sooner had she finished what she was saying, two heavy impacts rang through the air. Shortly afterwards, Flash stopped next to Batman, the look of fear covering his face.

"So where is he," Batman asked Flash. Batman saw the look of fear over his face. "And what did you do this time?"

"He'll be here soon," Flash said as he pointed up with his right thumb. "He's flying 'Air Barda'."

"What," Batman asked. He was not in the mood for any games. Batman glanced up. Max's limp body was falling towards them. Everyone watched as Max collided with a small brick tool shed. The impact sent shattered bricks and broken tools everywhere. Luckily the unconscious people were a good distance away. Batman, Superman, Flash, Wonder Woman, and J'onn ran over to the now pile of rubble.

Each league member stopped short of the shed as a large section of a wall began to rise. Underneath, lifting with what strength he had was a beaten Max. The smile was slowly fading, but was still present on his face. But now, Max had the look of fear and horror covering his bloody and grit covered face.

"Rebecca," Max tried to say. His jaw was dislocated. No one could really understand it as Max's voice came out as garble.

"Rebecca is safe, Max," Superman said with a comforting smile. "She was found and was just passed out."

Max limped out of the rubble and slowly made his way towards the unconscious people. Superman, Wonder Woman and Flash all wanted to help Max over to Rebecca, but they did not know what condition he was in. J'onn had tried to get something from Max, but all he got was flashes of memories about Rebecca. One in particular seemed interesting to him. J'onn picked up a stray thought about a strange reptilian being that had an interest in Max. The feelings from that memory were very destructive for some reason.

Superman walked along side Max until they got to the edge of the unconscious victims. Max stared in horror as he spotted Rebecca about a dozen or so people in. She was lying there as if asleep. There was a rolled up coat under her head. Comfort seemed to fill Max as he could not pick up anything that would hurt her. Max fell hard to his knees, dislocating his right knee cap. The pain was nothing but a background noise to Max as he stared at Rebecca's sleeping form.

Max began to shake his head, "Why. Why did we come here Rebecca," Max cried as tears fell to the ground. "Why couldn't we just be left alone." Max knelt there crying, his hands facing up and resting on the pavement to his sides. "Why did you have to be here? Why couldn't those damn rifts leave you alone? Why?" Max knelt there crying as Wonder Woman knelt down on his right. She placed a caring hand on his right shoulder. Max looked up and turned to look at Wonder Woman. "Why?"

Wonder Woman did not know what to say to Max. Before she could, she stared at Max as his eyes became dilated and began to roll up. All strength left Max. In a full body sigh, Max fell off to his left, unconscious, the smile finally fading, replaced by a frown.

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Sorry for the delay. I have been busy getting things done at work and talking over plans fore my brother's wedding next month. Please, if you read my story, review it. I would love to hear suggestions and comments of any kind about the story.

I will be adding in more information dealing with Rhea, Max and the one known now only as The Broker. Trust me, things will be getting a bit edgier from here on in. And maybe some fun times as well.