"Okay, who wants to say it?" Cody asked. He looked at everybody. "Come on people, Harvey's got a gigantic army and there's no chance in hell we can face these odds. One of you has to say it."

"Why don't you just say it?" John snapped. His concern for Jackie left him in no mood to play along with Cody's games.

"Because they get all pissy at me when I get too pessimistic," Cody replied.

Christina sighed. "Fine, I'll say it. We're fucked."

Cody nodded. "Thank you. We are so fucked that we don't even know which way is up."

"If we could eliminate Harvey, most of the army would disband itself," Jake said. He stepped out of the corner he had been brooding in. "The fear of them is one of the few things keeping them all together."

Damian snorted. "Well that's great Jake. That's just great. But the only person here who even has a shot at taking Harvey out is not looking too good at the moment."

"I'm right here you jackass!" Jackie snapped. She pushed Rupes away and tore off the bandages he had been putting on her for the past ten minutes. She glared at Jake. "You know, I had a shot at killing him before you interfered."

Jake glared back at her. "He had the upper hand and you know it. Excuse me for not wanting you to die."

"What do you care? You left me. Don't start acting like you suddenly care again."

"I've always cared and I always will. Don't start acting like a bitch just because you had to be saved."

"That's enough!" Rupes shouted. He looked pissed at both of them. "We don't have time for this! Harvey and his army aren't going to wait long to try to kill everybody so we need to come up with a way to kill them first."

Chris raised his hand. "I don't know about Harvey, but I think I have an idea about what we can do about that army. We call a Code Black."

John frowned. "What's that?"

"A Code Black is what we use when the situation is as bas as it can get. Everybody in the city that can fight will join us, which will give us the numbers advantage immediately."

Rupes nodded. "It's only been used a few times within the past three decades. Usually the city just goes through it's share of protectors. First it was me and my friends and now it's all of us. The situation has to suck really badly to get everybody fighting."

"Well this qualifies as truly sucking," Jackie muttered. She stood up and stretched. She was already partly healed from the fight. "But that just leaves Harvey. We can kill his army until the cows come home but it doesn't really matter because he can still end the world all on his own."

Lita tentatively raised her hand. "How hard is he to kill exactly?"

"Like almost impossible," Jackie replied. "Like me."

"Well what if you just took away his power so he would be incapacitated and can't hurt anyone else? That might buy you time to find a way to really kill him."

"Yeah, but his power is so much in him now that taking it away would just…" Jackie suddenly stopped. It looked like a light bulb had just gone off over her head. "That would just kill him." She picked up Lita and spun her around. "You are a fucking genius! That really will kill him if I can just pull it off." She set Lita down on Chris's lap and then kissed him. "Thank you for knocking her up." She let out a whoop and then ran upstairs.

John looked at Rupes. "Do you really think she can pull that off?"

Rupes shrugged. "If anybody can do it, it'll be her. The only problem is that those kinds of spells are really only effective if they're done face to face. And her being face to face with Harvey…well, it's only going to get nastier from here."

Jake smirked. "Trust me Rupes, that's exactly how she wants this. She wants the nastiest fight possible so she can feel even more vindicated when she finally kills him."

"And how do you know that?" John asked.

"We all know that," Leslie answered before Jake could. "Jackie may be a freak, but when it comes to Harvey, she's a freak with a mission. She's going to kill him for killing her parents and ruining her life. It's a story as old as time."

"I like stories," Spike said suddenly. "Somebody read me a story."

Rupes shook his head. "Not now Spike. Maybe later if we're still alive. Right now, we've got a Code Black to announce."