Chapter 12
A/N: Well People here it is, the big one, this chapter has been nothing frankly than the bane of my existence, I've redone,, and redone, and redone….
…..and redone this chapter so many times, I don't even believe this is my best one, but if I don't publish this then I know eventually im going to forget it, the hardest thing was getting the atmosphere right, the whole planet is under assault, not just the league, and I mean everywhere, from the largest cities to the smallest towns, and there is a colossal battle like something straight out of star wars going on right over there heads, but when your concentrating on a select number of characters, it makes the situation seem focused around those individuals.
A/N2: I'm seriously in denial looking at the dates that its been a year since I updated this, all I can say is sorry for the huge delay, a year at uni flew by and this just faded I'm afraid. I have every intention of finishing at least this story. This is the chapter that stumped me so badly I initially left it to come back to...went well. Even so in the year i've been gone I had new followers join in vague hope of something happening so thank you. If any original followers read this, once again I apologize, now however on with the show...wait what was my plot again?
Also the speech at the start was completely of the top of my head, literally if I had to make a speech on the spot, this is what I came up with so its not the best, but its real...wow that sounded cliché.
Above the Earth - Horizon
"Again Sir, everything is in place, everything is ago, we are locked on an awaiting your final command sir?" Came the reply over his ear piece.
Katar relaxed ever so slightly.
"Sir, are you okay, we've never seen you this on edge" asked one of his officers on the bridge. Katar smirked inwardly "Of course, there expecting a speech" he mused.
"You all know what is at stake here, you all know how much rests on these opening exchanges…..I know, many of you are eager for revenge and it has taken a lot to restrain myself from going out in a blaze of glory. But, there is a planet down there, that has no place here, that should not be caught up in this, Darkseid wanted us, and he is going to make an innocent planet suffer for it. I am no liar, not one to hide the truth, and I know full well of the rumours doing the rounds, of how we are outmatched, of how we are outnumbered and how we a merely delaying the inevitable…a weak man would deny this, he would tell you we have a good chance, but we don't" many looked around confused, some angry, some down right terrified ""Is that what you will say when you face the enemy, will you go out there with the stench of fear, ready to embrace the inevitable, no you won't" silence still permeated the air as the entire fleet listened in "if the worse should happen today, and the last remains of the Thanagarian empire fade, then you can be sure that Apokolips falls with us! Our race has kept one secret, one that was rumoured for years, that every person in my position was bound to keep unless the worst was to befall us, Thanagar is gone, but in a matter of minutes so will Apokolips, and may you all get a sick sense of enjoyment, when Darkseid arrives, in time to watch his planet burn, then Phase one shall start, and now hopefully you can begin to see, we may not have much of a chance, but it still means there is one for the taking, no matter the outcome whether we win or lose everything, this our last war, so one last time, I ask you all to fight till the last, to die as if the Earth below where Thanagar itself and to take down as many of those bastards as you physically can" a wave of laughter could be heard "Ladies and Gentleman of Thanagar….and any earthlings sneaky or smart enough to be listening in now, Batman, it has been my absolute honour to serve with you all, all these long years, remind Darkseid why he left us alone for all these centuries, give no quarter and good luck to you all" a fairly large cheer rang out across the fleet.
Somewhere in Gotham Batman allowed a small grin to himself.
"Sir the enemy are dropping out of hyperspace"
Katar quickly entered and extremely long code "Set the countdown for sixty earth seconds, I want a little chat and I want to give him, what the Earth call a two figured salute to that bastard before we obliterate his planet"
As if on Cue a ship nearly a black as the void of space itself, and as large as the Horizon appeared before them, Darkseid himself clearly visible on his Bridge sat smugly in a Throne of the remains of those worthy enough to have provided a challenge for him.
Katar accepted the transmission from the opposing fleet and played it out across his entire fleet.
"Well well General Hol, we meet at last, and I must say I was hoping to add you too my throne, your wings would go nicely don't you agree…..No?, well never mind, it's not as if you have a choice in the matter, but I reserve the honour of taking the remains of worthy adversaries, and this ramshackle fleet you've managed to drag from Thanagar, is frankly pitiful, in fact im considering sending my forces home, had I have know this, I would've simply came on my own. Alas my forces will at least get some training exercise out of-
"Oh do be quiet for a moment lord Darkseid, you see I have something to tell you, and you really want to hear it"
"Oh, are you going to beg forgiveness, plead insanity or attempt to bravado me to death, really, by now I've heard every heroic speech in the universe.
"No, i'm giving you one chance to turn away" Katar stated bluntly
The reaction was as expected Darkseid burst into laughter and his force, believing it safe to do so quickly followed suit.
"Oh General, im afraid you forced us into a longer trip than necessary, we've made such a long trip, I simply cant return"
Katar smiled causing Darkseids smug grin to falter in the slightest. "Well Darkseid, if you have no intention to return to Apokolips, then I guess you won't be needing it anymore" spoke Katar as a large weapon appeared from its cloaking device.
"10 seconds general"
"What is that General?" asked Darkseid rigidly rising from his makeshift throne.
"An eye for an eye" responded Katar Smugly
"All ships fire on that weapon" ordered Darkseid as massive volleys of fire power bombarded the newly appeared structure
"Darkseid, the weapon, its absorbing our firepower" yelled one of his higher ranking Parademons
"Cease Fire" Ordered Darkseid snapping the neck of the Parademon as he did "and its Lord Darkseid"
"Hey Darkseid" Katar called
Darkseid looked to his screen in time to see him give Darkseid the two fingered salute just in time for a colossal burst of white light bright enough to make the sun itself fade from view momentarily, then the most eerie of events took place, a shimmering pool of black appeared in space between the two fleets, Apokolips itself came into view. Darkseid remained completely static, entranced by what he was witnessing. Then the weapon fired the huge ball of light through the shimmering black tear in space. Everyone could only watch as a silent explosion, shattered the planet to atoms, the resulting explosions racing towards the two fleets before the black tear in space faded, leaving nothing but the space around the earth as it always had been. The weapon itself slowly collapsed on itself and faded to dust, the terrible weapons deed finally done.
Katar looked back from the Space where the rift was and expected to see Darkseid shocked, perhaps a hint of fear, shock or at least speechlessness, but he was laughing? His surrounding Parademons were wide eyed and shocked, but Darkseid just laughed.
"Oh my General, I appear to have underestimated your tenacity, but the facts still remains, I out number you by five to one in vessels and a hundred to one in manpower, I outgun you, oh, and I am immortal, I can't lose" replied Darkseid grinning more than ever.
Katar smirked to himself briefly, allowing Darkseid to catch a glimpse, causing his smirk to drop a fraction.
"One man cannot take a planet"
"On the contrary General, its how Apokolips fell to my reign in the first place, even if you could hold me, I'd outlast you, my victory is inevitable, and now, thanks to your actions, the Earth shall not be destroyed, I will eradicate your race on Earth, I will spare you till the end, I will take everything from you general, your honour, your pride…..your family, and when you beg me to finish you, I'll throw you to the humans, who I will now enslave as oppose to exterminate, then you will see, how pathetic and desperate a race you have chose to stand beside, they will tear you apart like savages, under my orders"
Now it was Darkseids turn to be surprised, as Katar and his surrounding troops laughed at him.
"Lord Darkseid, you don't truly believe that what you see is all I brought to this do you?…One" on the word one, more ships appeared out of cloaking, almost tripling the numbers of the Thanagarian fleet "your intelligence is severely lacking, two" on two, more appeared from cloaking, flanking the Apokoliptian fleet on both sides, bringing there numbers pretty much even, with the Thanagarian with a positional advantage to counteract the numerical advantage of Darkseids armada. Darkseids face had contorted to one of blinding anger. "you've severely underestimated our experience of war, three" Darkseids face reverted from anger to bewilderment then back to anger, many weapon discharges flew from the Earth and from Darkseids position, momentarily looked like the Earth was about to attack the Thanagarian fleet, only for every discharge to sail between the gaps of the fleet and impacting the Apokoliptian fleet with varying degrees of efficiency, Darkseids ship suffered not even a minimal drop in shield structure, whilst smaller vessels failed and exploded rapidly. "I may have ever so slightly, set up some minor defences without permission, ,accidentally of course, oh and number four" Darkseids fleet braced itself for something to happen, yet nothing did instead Katar just stared it out with Darkseid, before whispering, "you are powerful indeed, but we know, you are not, a true immortal" the comment went straight over Darkseids head. "hmm we shall see General, I'll be seeing you, very soon" Warned Darkseid cutting the link.
"Lord Darkseid, they have us surrounded, what should we do" asked another high ranking Parademon
As Darkseid turned his attention to the Parademon, he flinched under the tyrants gaze before attempting to pitifully hide it.
Darkseid seized on immediately and promptly erased him from existence with a quick omega blast.
"The Thanagarians are overconfident and foolish from year of war against opponents of a far lower standing than i, they believe they can win…..Charge the fleet forward, open fire, and ram any vessel stupid enough to hold its ground, begin transportation of ground troops, and unleash the fighters!"
Katar ordered immediate retaliation, as multitudes of weapons from ion cannons and plasma rounds, to more standard kinetic weaponry and explosive cannons exchanged between the two sides, lighting up the void of space like a truly horrifying fireworks display.
Katar stared in complete shock as the Apokoliptian fleet under fire from all sides continued to approach at an alarming rate "They cant be serious…..the fools! All Stations brace for impact!"
The two fleets collided with major damage to both sides, as the carefully planned frontline, was shattered into a tangled web of Thanagarian and Apokoliptian vessels as volley after volley of fire traded between the two sides.
"get the vigilant on comms now, I want that destroyer to flank us as we go in to engage their capital ship, and get me a location on that too…..Brace!" ordered Katar as they smashed through the exploding remains of a Apokoliptian frigate.
"Vigilant here taking flanking position alongside- Dive the ship, Dive the-" the signal cut dead as a massive explosion shook the Horizon.
"Vigilant, come in Vigilant, I think we just lost them, Sir!" yelled back one of the officers.
Katars eyes widened slightly "lower shielding from the port and transfer over to the Starboard we have an enemy vessel pulling alongside us-"
It's the Capital sir, Darkseids trying to get the jump on us" yelled the officer as the horizon shook violently as explosions rocked the giant vessel.
"Don't await my orders return fire on any enemy ships, concentrate on Darkseids ship" Ordered Katar again, as an alarm blared throughout the ship.
"Sir where disengaging from the battle, its just us and Darkseid and where headed for earth, we'll begin manoeuvring to avoid it"
"No! cancel that"
"..Sir?"
"Our shields are better than theirs, reduce speed and allow there ship to take a small lead, we can press there ship along the atmosphere of Earth, the re-entry conditions should wipe there shields before ours giving us a free shot at them, the rest of the fleet is more than capable of taking the rest of there fleet down"
"Sir this is the indomitable here, a large portion of fighters and transport vessels have broken of and are headed for the Earth" came another ship over the Comms.
"All ground forces, containment of the Apokoliptian fleets has not gone to plan, All forces to stations, get fighters up and in the air, you have vessels and transports coming in. Its about to get very noisy down there!" Yelled Katar yet again as the Black space around the Horizon turned to glowing red, signalling the beginning of re-entry and dull shaking permeating through the ship, the Capital ship ahead shaking noticeably more as the re-entry took a much greater effect on the Apokoliptian flagship.
Metropolis
Superman, walked the streets, as nerves racked his body, this was a new feeling, now superman knew why some said waiting for war was often worse than the war itself.
As the generals message came through, action was immediate soldiers on both sides, Human and Thanagarian took positions, behind erected concrete walls, blocking the streets, corners of building, and within the massive skyscrapers of metropolis itself.
Clark looked to the sky as black dots, by the hundreds, if not thousands, became clearer and clearer, a large swarm of Thanagarian fighters flew over the tops of the skyscrapers at a lightning pace and veered vertically upwards to meet the oncoming vessels, another swarm of Air force fighters blasted past after them.
Reports came through of identical scenarios playing out across the major cities across the world.
Clark stood and gritted his teeth, desperate to help but knowing that it was on the ground where he would soon be most needed. In the sky he could make out two humongous vessels, that currently looked like enormous meteorites streaking across the sky
"….And We have just got word from New York City, that the empire state building has just collapsed, after a Thanagarian fighter was shot down and crashed straight into its foundations, Thankfully the city has been evacuated and it is not thought that there were any casualties at this time…"
Clark frowned at the report annoyed that the pilots weren't considered casualties, despite his personal opinions of Thanagarians. Begrudgingly Clark had to accept they had been right so far, they would attack the major cities to dishearten humanity and now it was playing out as they had said.
"Incoming!" yelled a voice amongst the soldiers, snapping Clark out of his thoughts as a Thanagarian fighter crashed into a building above the soldiers showering them with debris, as Superman blasted the more lethal chunks to pieces with his heat vision.
The cockpit windshield of the downed fighter burst open, revealing a clearly deceased pilot slumped over the controls, shattered console equipment protruding from his blooded torso. The co-pilot dropped down from the fighter to the street below, landing awkwardly and clearly disorientated, pistol hanging loosely in hand as she gathered her senses and begun limping quickly towards the defensive line, she vaulted over the concrete barricade, once again landing heavily on her feet, a Superman noticed a metal bar embedded in her thigh and poking through the other side.
"Whats the matter, Kryptonian, never seen a fucked up leg before?" she sighed heavily, dropping her pistol too the floor.
"Are you okay?" asked Clark stupidly as she bent over her leg.
"looks worse than it is" she snapped as she took a breath and quickly yanked the bar out of her leg, giving an involuntary yelp of pain as she did so "Everyone take your last few good breaths of air, they'll be here any moment now, there's to many for us to stop them all landing" she waved of an encroaching Thanagarian "save it, I can still fire my pistol, save it for someone who actually needs help" she muttered as she propped herself up against the barrier pistol in hand, a look of determination replacing that of pain.
"How many will land?" asked Clark hoping that the fighters may have took a large number down.
"Thousands" she replied simply "Just remember the other soldiers are our job, don't waste your energy on the fodder, your battle is with the big guy" she added as she checked her side arm over.
Clark just nodded as he resumed his watch, in time to see a black mass approaching "aren't you going to open fire yet?!"
"We have people up in the buildings, let them get closer and they'll be surrounded on all sides" answered a human soldier.
"We now have reports that Chicago, Detroit, L.A, San Francisco, St Louis….with reports coming in from Europe, Australia, South America, Africa and Asia, it is now official, the planet Earth is under siege-" The report cut off abruptly leaving only the sound of static, One of the Human soldiers shut the Radio off muttering "I never liked that station anyway" and receiving a small chuckle from everyone else.
Central City
Time slowed as it always did for Wally West as he picked up his speed, a Thanagarian who was in admiration of Flashes talents offered him a sword, saying wielding such a weapon and combining it with his speed would turn him in to a pretty much invisible killing machine to the Parademons. The same Thanagarian had been left fuming as Wally politely declined unable to stomach the thought of tearing the unsuspecting asunder with a sword, no matter how much he hated them nor how often he'd been tempted to steal Shayeras mace. Instead Wally took up a more assistant than war hero role, racing throughout the city and simply moving those out of immediate danger, whether it be civilians that had refused to leave, human soldiers about to perish or on a number of occasion a Thanagarian that had got themselves in a mess, which usually lead to the sort of death Glares both Batman and Shayera would be proud of. Wally had heard how in moments of terror and Chaos how it could bring out the best in even the wrong. He'd witnessed Giganta bat aside a squad of parademon tanks before sprinting off and Weather Wizard freezing an entire street that had been over run. He could even have sworn he saw gorilla grodd ambushing a unit.
He snapped back to action as he saw a grenade of some kind hurtling toward a soldier taking cover behind a concrete barrier, he pushed himself to as fast as he dared, seeing the device already beginning to rupture, grabbing the soldier and running him over to the other side of the crumbling city street.
"Wha-What!?" She stammered, Wally only just noticing rarity of a female soldier on the frontline.
"Keep your head down, I only crossed the street, a grenade was about to get you"
She simply blinked not even seeming slightly fazed by how close she'd been to death "Your on fire" she added sternly
"Yeah I am on a bit of a roll if you don't mind me saying of-"
"No seriously your on fire" she added barely suppressing a laugh
Wally looked over to see his left shoulder smoking away a small flame eating away at the fabric. Hearing another explosion, Flash shot of again, the flame extinguishing under the sudden acceleration. Knocking a team off Parademons aside as he did so.
"…..Shocking footage coming through showing both the capitol building and the White house, have been obliterated in Washington, the city itself has seen some of the largest numbers of invaders, with that number rising all the time, the president is safe in an undisclosed location"
John finished pile driving yet another group of parademons, earning yet another cheer from the Humans, and some glares from the Thanagarians, nothing he seemed to do impressed them in the slightest, even though the humans seemed to impress them, albeit slightly. If there was one person making a statement, it was Hro, he was fighting like a man possessed, landing impossible shots, giving immaculate and amazingly productive orders every time, and tearing the enemy down with terrifying speed and efficiency. He was making his fellow Thanagarians look tame in comparison, some like Faldur even seem apprehensive of him.
He could see some starting to tire severely as they kept up to his pace, he'd already seen a number of Humans drop to catch breath and take fluids, and now even the Thanagarians were getting in on the act.
Yet Hro Marched on ignoring calls to slow, not even one bead of sweat lined his face. Even John was in a state as continued use of the ring exerted him more and more each time, deep in his mind he knew it was only a moment before something bad happened.
Yet on it went, Reports were coming in thick and fast of defensive lines falling back, regrouping, in cities all around the world, yet in Detroit they were pushing the Parademons faster and faster out of the city.
Unspoken nerves were spiking, amongst both sides, it was going to well, something had to give...
"Ambush get down!" yelled an unseen voice.
Everyone instinctively got to cover though not everyone was so lucky soldiers on both side were cut down as incoming fire tore at them from all sides.
"we need to fall back sir, regroup" yelled a younger officer to Hro over the fire.
"We have them on the run! If we break this ambush, we'll cripple them!" yelled back Hro as an explosion rocked a building nearby.
"We've lost to many sir, look around, we pushed to far, where exhausted we need to fall back to our lines, we'll be over run!"
Hro looked around the battlefield silencing in his mind soldier both human and Thanagarian struggling to get shots off under the constant stream of fire, the exhausted faces too loyal and trained to admit their plight. His adrenaline finally cooling allowing normal thought to resume "I've been a fool"
"Sir?!"
"Captain Raynols on my orders begin a full retreat back to our lines, do not stop do not pause for those who fall, I have brought us too far forward, we'll be cut off bring as many as you can back with you"
"Sir? That's your duty, you have to lead-"
"You have your orders, I have a few surprises yet, i'll be right after you all, I'm just buying a window for us" cut Hro
"...Yes Sir, you have my word" replied Raynols not liking this one bit.
Hro Crept forward to the makeshift front line of the holdout spying the two plasma launchers he would need for the diversion, and taking hold of them both.
"Now!" yelled Hro throwing himself up and fire shots in all directions.
"Fallback, everyone fall back to forward base, now!" there was a momentary pause, just a second as everyone waited for the commander to cancel it, but seeing him lay the cover fire meant they knew exactly what was expected. Hro took a momentary glance back now isolated in his cover seeing the troops a fair distance already with obstacles obstructing line of sight meant he knew he'd done right, though he was under know illusion of making it back with them.
Just a he spotted a shot heading towards he thought it was finally over until a green wall stopped the shot.
"Your suppose to be falling back with the others!"
"Im sorry, I was told to never leave a man behind" answered John taking out the parademon who attempted the shot"
"An honourable yet foolhardy rule at that, if one dies so others can live surely its better than gaining casualties trying to save anyone who falls" returning fire of his own.
"Well now its me and you and where both alive, I intend to make sure-"
"Down!" cut Hro diving towards John
"John threw a shield around them both seeing the Parademon tank fire straight at them both having been flanked.
The explosion knocked John and Hro through two blocks rather luckily assumed John as they were no longer surrounded.
"Well, not a conventional esc-"
John was cut off immediately Hro was laying there struggling for breath blood casually flowing from the mouth and his under arm. A shot a found one of the few vulnerable areas on the armour a shot had slipped through the unprotected arm and probably destroyed his chest and surrounding organs. Hro was trying to slip something off his neck, helmet now removed, John helped him remove a necklace perhaps, alien dogtags, John didn't know.
"Fuck...Fucking crap...Shayera...giver her it...tell her i'm sorry...and you John...you take care of her" tears fell freely and mixed with blood as Hro realised he'd never see Shayera again or be able to make amends for his reaction "if you ever hurt her...in anyway...I'll be waiting for you in this hell you believe in" he gasped out with his dying breath.
John stood there shocked, he seen soldiers fall both human and Thanagarian, but Hro, he'd torn the battlefield apart, no one could touch him and now just like that, gone.
Another explosion alerted John to the reality of his situation, he knew he had to leave to fall back, it was wrong, he didn't want to leave Hro in some wreck of a building behind enemy lines, but such is the way of war. With the shock still in his system John blasted out of the building to catch up with the unit that was falling back to front lines for the defence of Detroit.
Under Metropolis
Another distant boom rattled the room, dust fell from the ceiling a distant twisting of metal followed buy a long continuous crashing could be heard.
"Whatever I say, however I look, no matter if I beg, cry or scream, do not disconnect"
Batman eyes narrowed
"This is not necessary, Superman can hold Darkseid"
"And should he not?"
"We distract him-"
"With what, he just defeated superman why would he lower himself"
"Then why would he fight you?"
"Because he made it personal, I can challenge him and he will see it as a moment of triumph to go full circle, I will make an offer he won't refuse, he will fight me, he will want to prove he is superior"
"Even if you succeeded, the odds of survival-"
"Chess Bruce"
Batman remained silent for a moment "a sacrificial play, one that gives us a moment where he would be vulnerable...checkmate"
"It's how I beat you Bruce, you try to do everything yourself, you don't like using others, your greatest strength and possibly weakness in one... he took everything from me, I want to return that favour, I want to see his triumph turn to fear, he has never known fear, he believes he is truly immortal"
"You don't deserve-"
"its not about that, its not about righting wrongs, or proving myself, or redemption. It is simply what we have to do, Will you help me do it?"
"Shayera-"
She simply cocked her head a bit cutting him off
Batman gave a slow curt nod, Shayera grimaced a bit and returned the nod, understanding reached.
Horizon – Outer Earth Atmosphere
"Sir their shields have gone off-line"
"Our status?!"
"twenty percent and falling fast, ships this size are not designed for this sir"
"I'm well aware...cut engines and begin full braking on the left portion of the ship all braking systems on my mark"
"Sir! That will cause us to crash-"
"Right into Darkseid, a shielded vessel of this size comprized of Nth metal at this speed...we should tear straight through, as we pass through fire all weapons"
"A ship this size even if we fire all engines the momentum will be gone, we'll be facing the earth not the sky, we'll crash"
"Indeed, then I suggest strapping in, we take that out the fleet can handle the rest" he looked around grim determination etched into everyone's faces "Now!"
On-board Darkseids ship things were not to stoic, Darkseid still sat upon his throne fuming, his attempt to out manoeuvre the Horizon had spectacularly backfired.
His Parademons were attempting to divert power to the shields but the ship wasn't having it, they were going down.
"Lord Darkseid, we cannot re-engage the shields, what are your orders?"
Darkseid ignored his subject as the horizon suddenly dropped dropped tremendously fast and Darkseid grinned to himself. "It would appear our adversary have run into trouble of a more severe nature, engine damage from the looks of thing, once we are clear-"
A tremendous crash unlike anything Darkseid in all his years of warmongering had heard racked his ship, he stood up fury boiling over.
"They crashed right though us, we've lost all communication with roughly half the ship its gone, lord-" the Parademons voice was drowned out as a much different explosion was heard, followed by a roar, Darkseid knew that one, an oncoming wall off fire "well played General" he muttered turning to embrace the fire like an old friend as his soldiers screamed and crumbled to ash around him.
The Thanagarians let up a massive cheer aboard the Horizon as Half of Darkseids vessel fell to the ocean whilst the other half they'd fired within as they passed through exploded into mere shrapnel.
"Do you think he's dead" Katar heard mutterings aboard his bridge
"No" silence descended as everyone realised it wouldn't be that easy "we just really pissed him off"
Alarms blared as the clouds faded to reveal metropolis before them "...Sir!"
"I see it!"
"If we crash there we'll wipe out half the city"
"I'm aware full braking engage all braking now!"
"Were at full sir"
Katar looked in horror trying to formulate and idea "Disable braking maximum power to engines"
"Sir? we wont break the atmosphere"
"I'm not look to break the atmosphere, put her over the city and into the ocean"
The engines thundered into life again now able to make out the ground, Katar held his breath and could only hope.
Metropolis
Superman heard the massive explosion, it drove him to the ground such was the force of the blast. He looked up to see Darkseids flagship torn asunder, he could also make out the gigantic Thanagarian ship dropping towards the city, engines roaring uselessly, the ship came so close, knocking the globe of the top of the daily planet, Clark could see soldiers unaware of the impending debris heading towards them. He flew over and caught the giant decoration he looked forward the see an enraged Darkseid barrelling towards him, he threw the globe at Darkseid but it was swatted aside and Clark was punched through the daily planet, which collapsed around him.
A/N: Its over!...it's finally oveeerrr! (other side of brain) you just have to write part two now ;) (back with me) wha...but this took a bloody year...i...Noooooooooooooo-
Yeah so part 1 is finally done with and it only took the week I originally said it would...yeah, wow this got out of hand. Basically guys I had to post a chapter, this isn't perfect and i'll probably revise it later, but I want to move on I've been staring at the same page 57 of open office for the last year!
