"Listen Mr. President, I assure you that the league has no intention of starting a war, the message the sisters spread around the world is unclear, and is definitely not a prophecy or premonition of some sort" the rest of the league waited patiently for Superman to finish speaking on the phone to the president, "Yes, I understand that the "The man of steel is one of the names by which the press refers to me; yes, I've also heard the rumors that Miss. Goodwin has been spreading about the league; Yes, positive, all right Mr. President, as you wish"
"So? How screwed are we?" Flash asked sarcastically, "The president says he trusts us, and that he'll defend us at a meeting with the UN in three days, but he's going to want to have the building fully inspected, just to be on the safe side"
"Well, we have nothing to hide" Spiderman said trying to look positive.
"Incoming Transmission" a female mechanized voice spoke over the briefing room and a TV screen appeared as a bookshelf moved from the wall behind superman and Robin appeared on the screen, "Nightstone was right, we're having trouble, the infection is out, we're getting reports from five outbreak points!"
"We have to hurry! The infection has to be contained before it spreads too far!" Iron man said as he stood up and smashed his fist on the table, "Robin where are the outbreaks?"
"Gotham city, Wayne enterprises; Capitol City, Central Square; Metropolis, Daily Planet; Dakota City, Freeman Community Center; And Jump City, Titan's Tower Ruins!"
"All right! Split up, you know the formations, J'onn and Jean, I want you two to stay here and maintain telepathic contact with everyone until all this is over, and try to hurry with the antidote for original virus!"
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Capitol City
The human torch flew over a set of street setting them in fire, "So Sis, do you think we really have a chance this time?" Susan made a shield protecting several people from the charging zombies while Flash carried them to safety one by one, "I hope so, at least we're better organized this time!"
Flash quickly finished with the civilians, leaving only the Zombies to be taken care off, "Yeah, and we have people with experience, if this had happened to us with out you guys, I don't know what we would of done"
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Jump city
Robin started shouting out orders, "Raven! Make a dome around the tower to keep them from infecting the water, Danny and Kitty! Look for any civilians and take them to safety! Starfire, Magma and I will take care of the zombies that escaped the dome!"
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Gotham city
"The infection is locked up inside the building, we have fifteen minutes, set the charges and look for survivors!" Batman spoke through a radio as he, Spiderman, Ben and Brooklyn entered the building on different levels.
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Metropolis
"J'onn says this is where the infection has spread the most, John! Can you contain it with the ring?" Superman said as they flew over the city, "I can try, but It's a big area, I don't know how long I'll be able to contain it!"
The Green Lantern flew on to the top of the Daily planet, raised his hand and a green dome begun to form over the city.
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Dakota City
"Gear and Kitty! Try to get everyone out of here! Static, Storm and me will try to force the zombies back in to the community center!"
"Sorry Scott, there's something I have to do first!" Static yelled as he flew over them "Gear! Where's he going?" Scott shot at a zombie, "The community center, he knows someone that works there!"
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Superman and Nightwing were flying a woman and two kids out of an apartment building, "John is reducing his shield, he's trying to force the zombies in to the Daily planet"
"Superman? I have bad news" J'onn spoke telepathically, "I've been analyzing the virus, it causes cell deterioration, the people that are infected are practically dead; there is no cure!"
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"Charge 1 is set!" Batman spoke through the radio, "So is number 2!" Brooklyn added, "Three, ready!" Spiderman said as he set the charge, "Four, all set!" Ben spoke lastly.
"Five minutes till detonation!"
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"Dad! Dad!" Static flew in to the in door basketball court, "Dad? Are you in here?"
"Virgil? That you?" a voice came from an office in the far end, "Dad! Hold on! I'm gonna get you out of here!" Static Charged at several zombies, shocking them as soon as he flew close by, and smashed the door to his father's office, "Dad? Are you ok?"
"Static? Virgil, you're Static?" Virgil smiled and walked up to his dad, "Now's really not the time dad; are you all right? Did they bite you? Where's Sharon?"
"I'm all right son, you're sister was going to the mall, is she…?"
"She's all right, the infection didn't spread that far"
"Infection? What is going on here?"
"No time to explain, we have to get you out of here!"
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Capitol city
"I've torched the whole place, there's no way there's any trace of the infection left!" the human torch landed next to his sister and Flash who were watching part of the city burn in flames, "Such a shame" Flash said as he saw the flames burning through the buildings, "We'll let it burn for a couple of minutes then we'll put it out!"
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Jump city
"We got all those that escaped" Starfire landed next to the others, "And we got all the survivors out!" Danny added.
"What should I do with these?" Raven asked, pointing at the zombies she had captured, Robin looked at Magma who quickly understood what he was thinking, she nodded and placed her hands on the ground next to Raven's dome, the floor begun to melt and the zombies disappeared in a pool of molten rock.
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Gotham City
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" the building blew up just as Brooklyn glided out, "That was easy" he said as he landed next to Spiderman, Batman, and Ben.
Batman looked at the demolished Wayne industries building, "Yes, too easy!"
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Dakota city
"Nice to have you back!" Scott yelled as Static flew past him and started shooting jolts at the zombies, "We almost have them cornered inside the community center!"
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"Ok, time to turn off the fire!" Flash said as he begun to run around it at a fast speed, suddenly something tripped him, "I have a better Idea, how about we let the city burn to the ground!" Mr. Fantastic said as he wrapped himself around Flash.
"Reed! No!" Susan yelled, she tried to form a field around flash but Emma frost appeared behind her and punched her, "Sue!" Johnny ran to his siter's side but quicksilver begun running in circles around him, turning off his fire.
"Time to see what we're all about!" Mr. Fantastic said as he stretched his head up to Flash's neck and bit him, "you to candle boy!" Pietro caught Johnny before he fell unconscious to the ground and bit him.
"Looks like the last of the fantastic three is mine!" Emma walked slowly to where Susan was lying on the ground, "No!" Susan placed a shield around herself, "Come on girl, there's no way out, and it's three against one, actually soon it will be five against one, so why don't you just stop fighting it and accept the power that we're offering you!"
"Never!" Susan held tight to her shield, looking at his brother turn pale as quicksilver sucked his blood, "Never!"
Suddenly she jumped at Emma who quickly used her psychic abilities to turn her body in to a diamond hard material, Susan wrapped her shield around the blonde woman, "You'll never do anything to my protective skin!" Emma laughed, Susan continued pressing her shield down on Emma, suddenly the psychic begun to succumb to the extreme pressures of Susan's shield, until finally she was crushed.
Dr. Richards let go of a now unconscious Flash and charged at her but it was too late, she became invisible and escaped; now there was no way they could find her.
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Jump city
"We should get back to Metropolis, they need our help there!" Robin said as he begun to walk away, "and who's gonna help you?" a voice came from behind them, suddenly a boulder flew at Magma but she was able to melt it before it hit her, Terra jumped on a flying boulder and charged at Raven who barely dodged her, Danny flew after her but he was suddenly thrown to the ground by Nightcrawler who appeared above him.
Slade jumped at Robin and they begun fighting with a pair of staffs, "Why are you one of them?" Robin asked as he fought him off, "Maybe, but I'm not!" he suddenly morphed in to Mystic and she kicked him, sending him flying several feet.
Kitty and Magma were fighting against Lexington until Kitty grabbed a hold of Lexington and pulled him down, leaving him buried up to his neck, "One less!" Magma shouted, she jumped and placed her hands below the boulder Terra was floating on, causing her to fall to the ground and Kitty hit her on the head, leaving her unconscious.
"Nightcrawler! Retreat!" Mystic yelled and Nightcrawler disappeared, "You won't dishonor them like you did Nightwing!" she took out a handgun and shot Lexington on the head, then aimed at Terra, "No!" Raven placed a shield around terra just as the bullet was about to hit her, Mystic turned in to a crow and flew out in to the sky.
"Raven! Grab Terra! We're taking her back to the tower, we're going to give her the antidote!"
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Gotham city
"Hello Batman!" they all turned around and saw Ebon walking out of a portal, "I brought a few playmates, I hope you don't mind!" three more portals opened at his side and out came zombie versions of the Joker, the penguin and the riddler.
Ebon jumped at Batman, pushing them both out of the edge of the rooftop, and then entering another portal and exiting on a destroyed Arkham asylum, "Here it will be just you and me"
Ben turned in to Heatblast and quickly burned the three zombies in to ash, "that still was to easy!" Brooklyn said looking at the small black piles where the zombies used to be.
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"They're all in the community center!" Static yelled as he circled over the building, "Then let us handle the rest kid!" Magneto said as he flew past him, "Hot-Streak! Will you do the honors?"
"My pleasure!" Hot streak appeared over an adjacent building and begun shooting flames at the community center.
"Dad's not going to like this" Virgil said as he watched the community center burn down, "Hey, it was the only thing we could do" Gear patted him on the back.
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Arkham asylum
Batman continued trying to punch Ebon but he kept evading him easily, "I'll end this soon!" Ebon jumped at him and placed his hand on Batman's head and opened two portals, "Your head is here, but your body is way down there!" Ebon said pointing down below them where he could see Ebon's body standing next to his own, a portal on their necks each, "What would happen if I close your portal?" Ebon laughed, "You won't get the chance!" Batman stabbed him with and explosive battarang then ducked just as the portal closed above his head, but the battarang exploded before he could walk away and was sent flying against a tree and he fell, injured and unable to get up, suddenly a shadow fell upon him, "Look what the Bat dragged in!"
Thailog unsheathed a sword and laughed.
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"Batman!" Brooklyn, Ben and Spiderman arrived shouting but then fell silent at the sight of the Black Knight's final battle, "At least he went down fighting" Ben walked up to the tree and removed the sword that was pinning him to the tree from his chest.
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hope you're liking the story, it was a hard desicion to kill of Batman but it was something that had to be done, it's something that will have huge effects further in the story. please review.