AN: Completely will not lie- I suck at fighting scenes *If you haven't noticed already.* I avoid them like the plague but the ones I do write- it's to help. So. I guess? Anyway- OMGS FATE LAD/AQUAFATE It should've happened. I wish he became the new Dr. Fate forevers Also..
"I feel naked- and not in a fun way"
"Then let us make our own fun"
Oh Kal.. I knew you had it in you baby.
Anyway proceed. Remember Easter Eggs are all up in this piece xD;
The team disperse, no longer trying to bother with stealth since their cover had already been blown. More to the point, the place was shaking and rumbling with rocks falling from the ceiling.
"It's going to collapse any moment!" Robin runs before leaping up and kicks another soldier in the face. "We have to locate Kal now!"
Aquaman only looks ahead, "More to the point, we have to stop the portal from being open."
"What portal?" Artemis reaches back for another arrow and fires it at incoming soldiers.
Aquaman glances at them, "The portal they're trying to open by using Kaldur'ahm as an energy source. If it's opened, the Old Ones will return."
"Old Ones?" Kid Flash laughed, "There's no such-" He stops seeing the dead serious look on the king's face.
Oh.
"We better hurry then." Miss Martian said, " I sense that we might be too late."
Batman makes his way in the shuddering landmass looking around. He knows his team is still alive because of the trackers he had on them. What he doesn't know- which is more worrisome- is if Kaldur was still alive.
No, he must be, otherwise this wouldn't be happening. He grits his teeth, knowing others are on their way but he thinks they'll be too late.
He hopes this isn't for nothing.
"You have to kill the power source."
There has to be another way. Must be.
His way was mostly cleared, but he veers off into another tunnel that hadn't been taken. He has a feeling this may be the right one.
It wasn't long before he ran into some of the few lingering Soldiers. He took them out quickly with explosives, not bothering to even stop as he kept running down the tunnel. It's here somewhere. They might have a crossover tunnel.
He saw them ahead, but says nothing other then a nod to where a third tunnel filled with light was.
Aquaman, breathes out, holding the trident in his hand tightly. It had been used before to close the portal to another realm. Hopefully it could be used again.
"Holy..." Robin mutters seeing the strange otherworldly creatures coming out of the portal with Siren laughing manically in front of it.
"What is that!" For once Kid Flash couldn't even fathom where such things came from. It was-for the lack of a better term- otherworldly. Everything in him screams 'not possible' but it was because it was in front of him and the want of running away was strong within him. Instead, he grits his teeth.
Siren only looks over at them, laughing still, madness clearly marked every feature she had from her eyes to that wide unnerving smile and...tears?
It didn't matter, they spring into action, trying to stall the creatures from getting out. But that's hard considering they don't have as much room as they'd like to fight them.
While the team does that- and more are joining the fray- Batman moves over to where Kaldur was strapped to a table of sorts with the Atlantean items still glowing brightly and in time with the boy and the energy that was being released.
There has to be another way to-
"No!" He barely manages to get out of the way of Siren's lethal rays from the little gun she held.
If it hadn't been for her protest, he probably would've been far more injured.
"You will not ruin this! My master will come! They will come and cleanse this world!" She cackles madly firing at him again, "It is too late anyway. The Little Fish must be dead by now." She doesn't stay still, even as she speaks she runs at him, her nails sharp as she sought to claw at his exposed skin only.
Must be poisoned, Batman though, blocking the shots and kicking her in ther side. It didn't do much to slow the apparently insane woman down.
"Fucking hell." Red Arrow hadn't been too far behind. He was just lucky to have caught up. Armed with fresh arrows, he moves to help the rest of the team as more leagues filled the cavernous room.
The creatures were getting bigger and stronger, just as the portal seemed to be growing.
Icon and Rocket double teamed in killing a particularly vicious creature with flames coming out of its 'mouth hands' injuring another hero that had been on the ground.
Robin flips over green acid that was being spewed from another creature before throwing his explosives at it.
Kid Flash and Miss Martian were trying to keep the others from coming in, with the help of Martian Manhunter and Red Tornado, but it was difficult- actually nearly impossible, even with Captain Marvel's help.
Aquaman was trying his best to keep the others from actually dying in this battle. But they had to close the portal for any chance of success to occur.
Seeing Batman having issues to Siren, he only growls and makes a move to handle her but was beaten to it.
As unlikely as it seems, Black Manta had all but been forgotten about by everyone in the situation- a deadly mistake on Siren's part.
Her back had been turn towards him, she hadn't even noticed him at all until a sudden pain erupts from her back and she stops in mid-action. She staggers forward, towards Batman before toppling over onto her side, gasping.
"Pity." Black Manta said, "It hadn't killed you." He turns towards Aquaman, his red glowing 'eyes' of the mask brighten as if to prepare for another attack.
Aquaman braces himself for this confrontation, "I knew you were working for her." He hisses, "You foul-"
He doesn't finish as he had to shield himself from the red lasers that soars towards him- and then pass him to another one of those otherworldly creatures.
Surprise would be an understatement at this point as he looks behind him and then towards Black Manta, who's attentions have wandered in other things that he didn't see another one- a smaller slimy looking crab with a long stinger- crawling towards him.
Aquaman can't believe he's doing this but he raises the trident and fires at the insolent creature.
"We're even." Aquaman said before turning away from him to help the others try to close the portal.
Black Manta hates this, but still he 'looks' at Batman, "Do what you've come to do." He turns slightly to make sure there were no further interruptions, "Even I do not wish to be conquer by some cosmic scum."
Batman doesn't trust him- not one bit- but has little choice as he rushes back over to the table. He tries first to removes the items from where they were place, but was zapped by a powerful force of energy that blew him back towards the nearest wall and down. His muscles twitches as he groans getting up.
"Batman?"
He knew that voice, and was somewhat surprised to see Static with Gear helping out.
Has word reached as far as Dakota?
No time to think about it, "Help me remove them." He says moving again even though his body is protesting against such a thing. "We have to shut down the power source."
"Watch our backs Gear." Static says moving to help Batman. "Just grab these?"
"See if you can." Another way is to at least get a few of them out and it would hopefully collapse. He didn't want to go to his plan C yet.
Static only nods, pulling his protective goggles down and went to removes them. A blast of energy sizzles and spits at him as he grits his teeth trying to remove the crystal and coin in his grasps. They had to come off. They had to.
"V- you may want to hurry it up." Gear calls, his voice getting a distinctly higher pitch that's full of fear, "It's getting bigger!"
Not only that, something else was lurking in the depths of the portal. It peers out with deep red eyes, glowing softly.
Artemis is kicking one of the creatures in the face. Just stomping on it, trying to make it let her go. A sonic blast forces it off her and she looks up to see Black Canary give her a small smile before she rushes off.
"When will this end?" She mutters to herself but takes off again, running past Superboy to help another hero that had fallen down.
Superboy didn't rely too much on finesse in situations like this. Instead, the boy of steel simply kept ripping into things. He relied mostly on his invulnerability to keep him in one piece but it was hard. Also, another one of his shirts has been torn. Again.
But that doesn't matter. What matters now is that he helps Icon and Superman with the biggest of the lot. He only wonders how long they could keep this up.
Flying by him were two of the Green Lanterns- John Stewart and Guy Gardner. They were having some difficulties with their own monster that kept drooling acid everywhere that took the form of black goo.
"Now!" John yells at the red head as he made a cage with his ring.
Guy didn't need to be told twice as he basically 'drills' a hole in the damn thing hearing it's death cries as it flops around.
Sadly, there were still more.
And this is only made more unfortunate when Static finally gotten blasted back into Batman, who braces himself for this when he catches the boy.
"Static?" He shakes the teenager, who could only blink a few times at him but otherwise seemed alive. Batman hates Plan C. Because Plan C is iffy.
It may or may not work. Zatara had said 'kill' but...
He lays Static to the side and moves quickly back to the table.
Now or never.
He jabs a metal cylinder into the side of Kaldur's neck, pressing down on the top of it that injected the serum. The light flickers before blinking out of sight.
The Portal, losing it's source of energy, lost it's shape becoming distorted and strange. This was just what Aquaman needed.
With the help of others in the group, they seal the portal away.
The problem after that, is escaping the collapsing grotto.
With little to really no time to spare, the bedraggled heroes picked up their injured and unconscious members and hurried out of the collapsing tunnel.
Over his shoulder, Batman ran with the others but in the final few years, the tunnel collapses ahead of them, sealing them off from there.
"Hold on!" John said, using his ring to create a shield around them as the entire place fell to pieces.
When the dust finally clears- after having some of the powerhouses from the other side (Superboy, Captain Marvel, Superman and Icon to name a few) - they were safe outside in the open air of a new day.
"We..fought all night." Kid Flash laughs softly but groans leaning against Flash. "Remind me never to do that again."
"Is everyone alright?" Superboy looks at the team covered in things that probably were and weren't human. He really became worried seeing Miss Martian being cradled in her Uncle's arms. "M'gann?"
"She will be fine." Martian Manhunter said, "After some rest."
He relaxes but suddenly his eyes caught Robin and Aquaman near Batman and a body. With some that had left to give immediate care to the more critically wounded- Red Arrow being one of the unconscious ones taken away with only Green Arrow to accompany him- he cautiously made his way over to them.
"Kaldur..is he...?" He knows the words. Logic dictated this, but that doesn't mean he knows what he's looking at.
Robin only looks up at him for a long moment but simply drops his head. It wasn't fair. It wasn't...
"He's dead."
AN: Easter Eggs Galore in this.
Aside from the obvious- Icon, Rocket, Static and Gear- all from Milestone showed up here. *Why no I was not inspired by Revelations. I was actually planning on putting them in in the first place.*
The Trident- This is JLA canon along with the story behind it. It was used by the Mage-Warrior King of Atlantis. Was used once more in the same episode with Aquaman using it to help close the portals and being a general badass.
Is Kaldur dead? Maybe. I've been known to kill people off and keep them dead.