Chapter 26: Justice League
Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Cyborg could only watch in horror as Darkseid stepped out of the portal.
He looked down at Steppenwolf's corpse which was behind them.
"You will die for that." He said before two beams flew out of his eyes and hit the rooftop.
The three were hurled off the rooftop as it was blown to pieces.
They landed on the ground in front of the others.
The Ace helped Green Lantern up as he gave a grim look.
"Uh yeah, Darkseid's here." Green Lantern said as they saw him leap down from the destroyed rooftop and land in front of them, making the ground shake as he smashed through the pavement.
"Huh, he doesn't look so tough." Metamorpho said before Darkseid unleashed another blast from his eyes.
The beams moved in a specific direction right into Metamorpho.
He screamed in pain and agony as the others could only watch in horror.
"Metamorpho!" Green Lantern shouted.
When the beams ended they saw Metamorpho's skeleton on the ground.
"Oh my God, he's dead. Darkseid killed him, he just killed him." Captain Marvel said sounding very afraid.
Wonder Woman brandished her sword.
"You will pay for that Demon!" She shouted as she leapt up and slashed her sword across his chest armor and face, not even scratching them.
Darkseid swatted her away into a building as Captain Marvel flew right at Darkseid with his fists surging with electricity, and punched Darkseid's face twice.
Darkside didn't even flinch.
He then slammed his fist into Captain Marvel soared backwards before landing behind them on the pavement.
"Ok, that hurt." He said as Darkseid slowly walked towards them.
"Let's take him together!" The Ace of Spades shouted as the League charged at Darkseid.
Green Lantern projected a steam train around him only for it to shatter as he hit Darkseid and he landed behind him.
Cyborg unleashed his sonic cannon on Darkseid which had seemingly no effect on him as the Ace unleashed explosive rounds, aiming at Darkseid's head, again to seemingly no effect.
Marvel unleashed blasts of lighting on Darkseid while The Flash unleashed a furry of lighting fast punches on the back of his legs while Aquaman unleashed blasts of sharp water over areas where Marvel was hitting with lighting.
None of these attacks seemed to have any effect on Darkseid who grinned an evil grin as his arms glowed red and he slammed them into the ground, sending a shock wave that hurled all of them back.
"How pathetic, Earth's mightiest warriors cannot even bother me." Darkseid said before Wonder Woman flew into his chest, slamming her fist into his chest as hard as she could.
Darkseid slid across the pavement several yards as his looked at Wonder Woman.
"Give me your best demon." She said as Darkseid grinned again, unleashing blasts from his eyes.
The omega beams flew at Wonder Woman before the Flash ran in front of her and made them follow him.
The Flash ran at his top speed but saw the Beams closing the distance.
"Ok think Barry think!"
"Barry those beams lose energy when they make physical contact." Cisco said.
The Flash saw a group of Parademons land and ran through them, the beams hitting all of the parademons before ending.
The Flash turned to see the beams were gone.
"Whew, thanks Cisco."
Meanwhile Wonder Woman slammed her fist into Darkseid's chest again as he was moved back sever yards before she flew at him again.
Darkseid slammed his own fist into Wonder Woman, smashing her into the ground as he raised his other fist.
Before he could, Aquaman leapt into him and smashed his own fist into Darkseid's face, making him stumble backwards a few feet.
"This world doesn't belong to you." Aquaman said.
"It does now." Darkseid said before he charged forward.
Cyborg and Captain Marvel came up beside Aquaman as the three charged at Darkseid and tried to strike him.
Darkseid smashed his arms out and hurled the three back, grabbing Aquaman and crashing him into the ground like a hammer.
The Ace of Spades fired a grapple around Darkseid's neck and pulled himself into him as he transformed into his centurion form, smashing his shield arms across his face, this made Darkseid's head shake a little as the Ace leapt behind him and Wonder Woman flew into his side, punching him and knocking him back.
Darkseid turned around and slammed his fist into The Ace of Spades, hurling him through the air before smashing his forearm into Wonder Woman.
Green Lantern projected a massive suit over himself only for Darkseid to unleash a blast of Omega Beams from his eyes that shattered the suit.
Aquaman and the others got up.
"Ok we aren't doing anything to this guy." Cyborg said.
"Those beams are coming from his eyes." Aquaman said.
"Then we blind him!" Wonder Woman said.
"Good idea, we distract him, Wonder Woman you rip his dam eyes out of his head." The Ace said.
"Get him over the bay, I'll cause all kinds of Hell for him." Aquaman said.
"I can do that." The Flash said as he sped in front of Darkseid.
"Hey ugly, bet you can't catch me." He said as he sped away.
Darkseid unleashed Omega Beams but the Flash sped through more parademons, absorbing the blows as Darkseid followed him on foot.
He reached the bay and saw the Flash run across the water.
Darkseid began floating over the ground and then higher into the air as hundred of parademons flew at the Flash.
Before they could reach him Darkseid saw Aquaman in the water holding his trident up as massive blasts of water flew up into the parademons, dragging them into the water before dozens of Sharks, and Orcas swam around tearing them apart in a violent furry.
Darkseid looked down and unleashed his omega Beams only for Green Lantern to project a massive shield in front of Aquaman .
The shield was shattered but Aquaman was safe as he unleashed massive tidal waves into the at that crashed into Darkseid, knocking him around.
Captain Marvel flew up and blasted the water with electricity as Cyborg flew up and blasted the water with supersonic sound waves.
Darkseid grunted in pain before his arms glowed red and he burst the water away from him.
He felt a lasso get thrown around his neck as Wonder Woman swung across it, avoiding his strikes whole tangling him up and landed on his shoulders before stabbing her sword into his left eye.
Darkseid grunted in pain as the sword dug into his head.
Captain Marvel blasted the sword with electricity that surged through Darkseid before he whipped the lasso off him and smashed his fist into Wonder Woman, hurling her out of the Bay before Aquaman flew up with a jet of water around him and crashed into Darkseid, knocking him out of the Bay,
As he landed he felt a powerful javelin land on his head.
He turned to see the Ace in is Centurion form, hurling javelin after javelin at his remaining eye.
Darkseid unleashed a blast from his remaining eye that burned through the javelins.
The Omega Beam went at The Ace who held his shields up.
When the Omega Beam hit it was reflected back into Darkseid's chest hurling him back as The Ace charged at him.
Darkseid smashed his fist into the Ace, hurling him back before he was punched in the back and knocked onto the ground.
The Ace turned to see Wonder Woman floating there.
He smashed his fist into Wonder Woman, smashing her into he ground as he kept punching her, again and again, plowing her into the ground further and further.
Cyborg blasted Darkseid with his Sonic cannon while flying at him.
Darkseid turned and swatted him out of the air before Captain Marvel flew at him.
"Shazam!" He shouted as he slammed both fists into Darkseid, knocking him onto his back with an explosion of electricity.
Meanwhile on Apokolips, Batman stood over two dead Parademons in front of a door.
He forced the door open when he saw a larger tube with Superman inside and metal tentacles trying to got inside him.
There was a humanoid in front of a large terminal wearing a cloak.
"Ha ha ha, a real , live Kryptonian, I though they were all dead. Ohh he has drank the radiation of a yellow star. I don't think even Steppenwolf has his kind of power. Ohh I will create a new breed of Parademons out of you." The creature said before Batman grabbed him and lifted him up by the neck.
Batman held the creature up revealing he had a gray and very wrinkled face.
"What?"
"Let him go now." Batman said.
"Or what, you'll kill me human, that won't stop Darkseid, he will take your pathetic world, seven billion new parademons will allow the armies of Apokolips to spread across the galaxy, taking planet after planet. Spreading out empire to every corner of the universe. Killing me won't stop it."
"I won't kill you, I'll do something worse. I'll break your neck, in a way that will keep you alive, but paralyze everything in your body. Your mind will still be awake, but you're body won't move at all. You're body will become a prison, trapped wasting away praying for the sweet relief of death."
The creature pressed a button on the terminal as four parademons flew in.
Batman dropped the creature as he hurled two Baterangs into the parademons, blowing two of their heads off before avoiding the strikes from the others.
He slammed his fists into the other twos' heads before he leapt over one, grabbing his head and ripping it off with his sheer force.
He them smashed his fist through the other one's head.
He then saw the creature in the robe trying to crawl away.
He came over and grabbed his head.
"I warned you." Batman said before he snapped the creature's neck.
He walked over to the terminal and used his helmet's visor to scan the terminal for fingerprints.
"H'mm" he said as he tried to figure out how it worked.
He pressed some buttons before the metal tentacles retracted and the tube opened as Superman fell out moaning.
Batman ran over and tried to help him up.
"Clark, come on you need to get up."
Back on Earth, Darkseid slowly got up as Wonder Woman hurled her lasso around his arms.
At the same time The Ace fired a grapple hook around his arms, Green Lantern projected a restraint around him.
The Flash sped around him, hitting his legs as Cyborg and Marvel both blasted him.
"Now Aquaman!" The Ace shouted as Aquaman charged forward.
He leapt up with his trident held up before he screamed and plunged it into Darkseid's other eye, making him cry out in pain again.
"Enough!" Darkseid roared as his arms glowed red and he unleashed another blast that hurled the entire League back.
Darkseid now had an enraged expression on as he charged forward smashing Lantern into a building, then Aquaman, then Cyborg, then Wonder Woman.
He grabbed the Flash and hurled him into The Ace before Darkseid grabbed Marvel and hurled him into the others.
The League was fatigued, wounded, and their morale was nearly broken.
"Both eyes stabbed and he's still going, what else can we do to him?" Green Lantern said before Darkseid smashed his arms into the ground and hurled them all back again.
"We, we can't beat him." The Flash said.
They gave grim looks as Darkseid came in front of them.
Many soldiers and civilians saw this and were horrified, including several video feeds.
"Did you really think you insects stood a chance against me. I am Darkseid, I am the emperor of Apokolips, I am a god, I." Darkseid started before a portal opened behind him.
He turned just in time to see Superman fly out and slam his fist into his chest, hurling him back.
"I don't care." Superman said.
"Clark!" Wonder Woman shouted.
"Superman!" The others shouted before Batman came out behind him.
Darkseid charged at Superman flew at Darkseid.
"Kick his ass!" Green Lantern said before Superman hit Darkseid with an uppercut to the jaw that hurling Darkseid high into the air among the skyscrapers.
Superman flew up and smashed him into the ground as dozens of people saw Superman fly back down.
Darkseid got up and charged at Superman , grabbing his hands as the two struggled to overpower the other.
Superman smashed his knee into Darkseid's head, forcing him to let go before Superman grabbed his head and blasted his eye sockets with heat vision, making Darkseid cry out in pain.
Darkseid slammed his fist into Superman, hurling him back before he charged over and smashed him into the ground.
Before he could strike again he was hit in the eye socket by a grapple hook.
Batman soared into Darkside and crawled across his head, planting explosives as Darkseid tried to get him off.
Batman leapt down as the explosives went off and Superman got up, smashing his fist into Darkseid's chest, hurling him across the street.
Darkseid got up and saw Superman fly at him.
Darkseid's arms glowed red as he slammed his fist into Superman, hurling him back before he grabbed him and slammed Superman into the ground.
As he brought his arms up, he was hit with a series of explosions from The Ace of Spades and lighting fast strikes from The Flash.
This distraction allowed Superman to get up and knock Darkseid's arms away before uppercutting him back into the air.
As Darkseid soared up, Superman flew after him and grabbed his leg, spinning Darkseid around at nearly two hundred miles an hour before hurling him through five buildings and into the pavement.
"Sir, sir can you hear me?" Alfred said.
"I hear you Alfred."
"I'm so relived your back sir, I've been reading that creature's armor and physical status, it appears that attacks from the other league members aside from their attacks on his eyes, they have only done minimal damage to his body. Superman's sheer strength ,however, seems to be hurting him."
"Superman can beat him. Attention league members do whatever you can do distract him." Batman said over the com link.
Darkseid grunted as he got up and saw Superman flying back at him.
He punched Superman into the ground, only for Superman to fly back up and smash his fists into Darkseid's stomach, hurling Darkseid back.
The two clashed again both holding each others arms trying to overpower the other.
Aquaman leapt into Darkseid's back and stabbed it with the trident as he unleashed a powerful strike with it that knocked Darkseid off balance and allowed Superman to grab Darkseid and hurl him across the street.
As Darkseid landed he saw Superman flying at him again.
He raised his arms but they were lassoed together by Wonder Woman who pulled him closer as she flew up and smashed her fist into Darkseid at the same time Superman did.
Darkseid's chest armor began to crack as he was hurled back.
When he landed he was attacked by Cyborg's rockets, Green Lantern's projected missiles, and Marvel's lightning.
Before long Batman came in hurling Baterangs as The Ace unleashed explosive rounds with his weapons, Aquaman unleashed a blast from his trident, and Wonder Woman hurled her lasso around him.
Darkseid grunted as he prepared another blast in his arms.
Before he could, Superman flew from across Metropolis, with his eyes and upper body glowing red. He was moving at the speed of sound before he screamed and smashed his fist into Darkseid's chest armor, shattering it as he hurled Darkseid up and though the Atmosphere.
Superman flew up after him and smashed him back down to Earth.
Darkseid grunted as he flew back down and smashed so hard into the street it made nearly everyone fall to the ground in the city and miles away.
Darkseid came up with blood coming out of various parts of his body and large cracks in his body and armor.
"He's wounded!" Wonder Woman shouted.
"Finish him!" The Ace shouted as Aquaman blasted a tidal wave into Darkseid, Wonder Woman hurled her sword, Batman hurled his most powerful explosives, The Ace did the same, The Flash unleashed speed lightning bolts, Cyborg went full power on his Sonic cannon, Green Lantern projected a massive cannon, and Marvel formed a lightning bolt the size of a train.
The league saw every one of the thousands of parademons in the sky descent upon them and continued to hit Darkseid with everything they had.
Darkseid grunted as he was slowly pushed back.
When the attacks stopped , he breathed deeply but was still on his feet and grinned.
The league looked horrified until they saw Darkseid look up.
Superman was flying through the parademons, smashing through them like they were paper and blasting others with his heat vision.
Superman was glowing red again as he brought his fist back.
"For Metamorpho!" he shouted as his fist made contact with Darkseid's head.
There was another shockwave that knocked everyone off their feet again.
"What happened?" Green Lantern asked.
"Did we win?" Marvel asked before they saw all of the Parademons still over them.
"I don't know." The Ace said.
Wonder Woman and Batman saw Superman floating over Darkseid and came over.
When they were past the dust they saw Darkseid's head had been torn open and his lifeless corpse lay before Superman.
"He's dead." Batman said with his eyes widening.
"Clark! You vanquished him!" Wonder Woman shouted.
"It's over the." He started before Wonder Woman flew up and nearly cracked his spine with her powerful grip as she kissed him.
"I feared you were lost!" She said.
"I'm back, and by the looks of things just in time."
"He was quite powerful." Wonder Woman said.
"Uh guys, not to storm on your victory, but uh what about them?" Cyborg said as they saw the Parademons stare at Darkseid's corpse and then Superman.
"We have to get all of them still." The Flash said with grim determination.
Suddenly all of the thousands of Parademons flew to the ground and landed all around Superman.
In an even more surprising move they all knelt and bowed their heads.
"What the?" Superman started.
"Hail Superman." One said.
"Hail Superman! Hail Superman! Hail Superman!" All of the parademons began chanting in unison.
"Hail Superman?" Marvel asked.
"It's Darkseid, they know he killed him. With Steppenwolf dead, they have no one else to follow, so they're following the one who killed their master." Batman said.
"So they'll do what you say?" Wonder Woman asked.
Superman turned to three of them.
"You, flip that car right side up." He said as the three quickly flew off and did just that before returning to him.
"Cool you've got an army now!" The Flash said as Batman gave a concerned look.
"No I don't, these parademons are too dangerous. I want all of you to go home , and stay there." Superman said.
All of the parademons immediately flew back through the portals before they closed.
Batman was relieved.
"Awww they could have been helpful." Marvel said.
"Superman was right, they're too dangerous."
"Well, having an army of flying demons could come in handy. If you ever need them, I think I can open those portals now. Call em Boom tubes." Cyborg said.
"I'm not bringing them back." Superman said.
Moments later hundred of civilians surrounded them, cheering and shouting out gratitude.
Captain Marvel waved back at many while Batman tried to conceal himself.
"They aren't afraid of me?" Cyborg said.
"You're a hero now Vic, you helped save the world. I don't think they'll forget that." The Flash said.
Several days later, the League were in Germany as a funeral service went on.
The Ace, Green Lantern, The Flash, and Cyborg carried a casket down to a grave sight as hundreds had gathered.
A priest came forward reading from the bible.
"We may have won, but it came at a cost." Batman said.
"Metamorpho's sacrifice wasn't in vain. The world will never forget what he did to protect them." Superman said.
"He fought in a war for humanity , he deserves a soldier's funeral." The Ace said.
"He may have died a soldier, but he lived this life." Green Lantern said.
As the funeral continued, the League gathered around each other.
"The threat has ended, I must return to Atlantis." Aquaman said.
"Yeah I've got an entire space sector to look after." Green Lantern said.
"I don't know, I was thinking maybe we make this a permanent thing." Superman said.
"Make the Justice League permanent?" Green Lantern said.
"I mean I understand we can't work together all the time, but together we stopped an invasion and saved the human race. Imagine how much good we could do if we kept this up when we needed to." Superman said.
"I don't know." The Ace said.
"Look, I'm not one who works well with others, but I think we can agree that this experience has shown us how much bigger this universe is. If something like this happens again, it might take all of us." Batman said.
"I love working with you guys, I'm in." The Flash said.
"Me too." Captain Marvel said.
"I think my best chance is sticking with you guys." Cyborg said.
"I am welcomed to the idea of fighting beside fellow warriors." Wonder Woman said.
"Well, I was raised on land. I do care about it some." Aquaman said.
The others were looking at the Ace.
"I'm a soldier, I always have been. I think I'm in the right place."
"Awesome! So Cisco and I had this idea for a headquarters, we imagined a big space station." The Flash said as the others turned to him.
"Or maybe something else."
Inside Area 51, a hundred U.S soldiers were aiming experimental energy weapons at the corpse of Darkseid which was inside a large containment device.
Several scientists were using robotic arms to examine the body.
"General Swamwick, we can't figure much about this creature." One of the scientists said.
General Swanwick stood in an observation room above them.
"Keep working, I want to know everything about this creature." Swanwick said.
As they kept working they jumped when they saw the body glow red.
"What the Hell?" Swanwick said.
The soldiers raised their weapons before they saw the body disappear.
"What just happened?" Swanwick said.
Elsewhere in a fiery location, a large being laughed as Darkseid's remains floated in his hands.
"Oh my sweet sweet child, they destroyed you. Shhh, it's ok, I'll make it all better. I'll bring you back even stronger than you were before. My sweet child."