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Clark was inside some spaceship that had a shape of a skull, fighting a green-skinned alien, with some red slots on his head, wearing an armor, with a tube attached to the back of his head as the alien grabbed Clark by his head.
"I know what you're thinking. I have downloaded your memories. And I have created a program to determine your mental state in any situation." Brainiac gloated, holding Clark's head so tightly that blood dripped from Clark's forehead. "You are frightened. Frightened of what I will do to your cousin. They will all live on as well as you will, Kryptonian. In me."
"I won't let you abduct my family…" Clark grabbed Brainiac by his face, attempting to push him away. "…or my home."
"Physically, you are, Kryptonian." Brainiac smirked. "But within your limited cranial capacity, you consider yourself human, don't you?" He lifted Clark in the air. "You are a being born of an amalgam of worlds. As am I." He glared at Clark in condescension. "I would never betray my race as you have."
Clark grabbed the tube attached to the back of Brainiac's head and bit through it, severing Brainiac's connection to the ship as the Coluan screamed in pain.
"Inflicting pain on others doesn't seem to bother you. It bothers me. Usually." Clark punched Brainiac, sending him crashing to a pod as it exploded.
Suddenly, wires emerged from the floor, restraining Clark.
"Brains over brawn. That is an appropriate human phrase, is it not?" Brainiac gloated as he got up. "You believe by simply severing my body from my bio-shell that I am incapacitated? I am this ship. This ship is me. As will be every world in this universe." He neared Clark. "You have caused me great discomfort, Kryptonian. I shall do the same to you and your cousin."
Tubes were attached to Clark's forehead as he found himself restrained in an apparatus, which was similar to the one, with which Brainiac was controlling his ship.
"They call you 'Superman'." Brainiac showed him the pod with shrunken Metropolis. "And 'Super'?" He snorted in disgust upon eying Clark. "There is nothing super about you. Not like me." Clark screamed in pain as he felt one hell of a headache he had never felt before. "It is incomprehensible. You thought you could outthink me. Did you truly believe your mind was capable of such a thing? Your mind is small. How much data will your brain store before turning into sludge? Five words? Two? One?" Clark saw a missile flying in the air through the window as Brainiac neared Clark. "In less than fifty-seven minutes my solar-aggressor will reach your son. It will flare up. And Earth will be incinerated… just like Krypton."
Brainiac then turned to the reduced Metropolis as Clark heard the screams inside the reduced pod with his city. "I believed you were an intelligent being. A perspicacious creature of many worlds like me. But I was incorrect. You are a threat to no one. You dedicated yourself to a planet that has nothing to offer you. It lacks Krypton's advances in science. Its weapons are rudimentary, even compared to that of the barbaric Rimbor. It is devoid of any quantifiable value. Earth is not necessary to my continued evolution. This culture is disgusting."
Clark heard Lois's voice from Metropolis. "Clark, if you can hear me… I don't know what's happening, I don't know if this is the end… but if it is… if it is the end, know please how much I love you…"
Brainiac turned to Clark, glaring in disgust again. "What could this vacuous world possibly provide you?" Clark roared as he freed himself from the restraints and attempted to punch Brainiac but Brainiac grabbed his fist. "Stupid." He tightened the grip as Clark groaned, falling on his knees. "Earth has robbed you of your potential. You are far from a Kryptonian. You are a simple brute."
Clark grabbed Brainiac by his head, putting his fingers into the slots on Brainiac's skull before punching him in the face and then he fired heat vision beams right into Brainiac's eyes as the latter screamed in pain.
"When I was hooked up to all these cities… I could hear then, Brainiac. Crying out for freedom. For vengeance." Clark said. He collected Metropolis and Kandor and flew into the lab, destroying Brainiac's drones before he approached Kara, who was lying on a lab table, shaking her gently and waking her up. "Kara."
"Kal…" Kara came to, groaning and before her eyes widened. "Brainiac—"
"Just fired a weapon into the sun, if it gets there, it's gonna trigger a supernova and that fire will engulf Earth. You need to stop it, I'll handle him." Clark ordered.
"I'll never get to it in time!" Kara protested.
Clark held her by her shoulder, giving her an assuring smile. "Yes, you will. I know you're scared but I believe in you."
Kara stared at him before putting on a brave face and flying out of Brainiac's ship towards the missile.
"Your cousin's actions are futile. She will be incinerated along with Earth." Brainiac said.
Clark whirled on him, glaring and clenching his fists. "We'll see."
"No. I will see. You will die…" Brainiac glared. "Earthman. I hold life at the palm of my hand."
Clark dodged as Brainiac attempted to take the pods with the cities away from Clark's arms before kicking him in the back. "Life can't be controlled. Life can't be bottled." He used freeze breath, encasing Brainiac in ice. "All this knowledge, and you don't know anything about life." He looked around. "This ship isn't life, Brainiac. This ship is your bottle. And I'm gonna take you out of it."
Clark flew through the wall out of Brainiac's ship, causing for Brainiac to fall off the ship into swamps back on Earth. Brainiac crawled out of the water, terrified from being covered in dirt as he saw billions of bacteria cells crawling all over his body as he shook around violently. "Get away from me!"
"You can't face things you can't control, can you?" Clark taunted before kicking Brainiac, knocking him down. "Welcome to Earth, Brainiac." He then remembered that Brainiac's ship could enlarge the cities again before he saw a missile flying out from the ship, remembering what happened next.
Brainiac smirked. "You take away my home… I take yours…" He then overloaded, sparking and then bursting into flames as his form slumped to the ground.
Clark held in his hands the reduced cities, flying towards Smallville towards the Kent's farm but he was unable to get there in time as he saw the farm explode and heard Jonathan's groans and Martha's screams as his blood ran cold. "No…"
"Clark! Help!" Martha screamed and Clark flew towards the Kent farm and was devastated to once again see his mother cradle Jonathan's dying body in her arms, tears blurring his eyes.
After the funeral, Clark stood over Jonathan's grave, knowing what he needed to do as he felt great pain on his chest. "You were right, Dad. I never stopped blaming myself for what happened to you." He glanced at Jonathan's watch in his hand. "It was a way not to have to let go." He took a breath. "That's exactly what I have to do to move on. To get rid of the darkness of my past I've been carrying around. To be there for the people who need me now." He knelt down, tears filling his eyes. "You said to hold on to Smallville. And I will. I will never forget. You'll be with me no matter where I go. But I have to say the one thing I never could."
Clark then picked a handful of grass from the ground before burying the watch underneath it right at the base of the gravestone before placing his hand on the gravestone as a stray tear rolled down his cheek. "Goodbye, Dad." He got up and breathed out, as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders. "I promise to be the man you knew I could be."
Clark then faded a glow of light.
Oliver, Sara, Barry, Constantine, Diana, Clark and Kara were back in the Source Wall.
"We did it?" Oliver asked before they all noticed that the palm of their hands glowed.
"I think we did it." Barry said before they heard tremors.
They heard a scream of rage before they saw Darkseid rising into the air from the platform above them. "No!"
"Uh… I think we should get out of here! Quickly!" Barry said.
Orion stepped up with Bekka and Eddie. "All of you! Stay back!"
Doctor Fate then appeared out of the sudden as the symbol of ankh in a circle glowed on the floor, right at the heroes' feet. Darkseid fired his Omega Beams from his eyes but came upon a barrier that sent him staggering back as the heroes vanished with Orion, Bekka and Eddie.
"They escaped." Darkseid growled.
Thawne then stepped up next to him, wearing the face of Harrison Wells. "They're too stubborn to fall. They won't stop until they die. I expected they might escape with the Life Equation but I know how we can defeat them once and for all. I almost did the last time but I underestimated them. This time, there's only half of them and they are hopelessly outnumbered."
The smirk on Darkseid's face slowly matched Thawne's, intrigued by his plan.
Hall of Justice
They all ended back in the main hall as Lena approached them. "We did it?"
"We did it." Clark said as Lena saw some energy glow from their hands.
"Well, let's get to work." Their blood ran cold as a bald man approached from the shadows. "What's the matter? Surprised to see me?"
"Lex…" Oliver whispered.
Well, I wasn't sure what to do with Clark here at first but some advice from Aragorn II Elessar and Cer1992 gave me an idea, thank you to them both. I always imagine Smallville version of Clark/Superman played by Tom Welling, when involving him in my Arrowverse stories, since while Tyler Hoechlin is a great actor, it's annoying how they nerf Hoechlin's Superman to prop up Kara. Frankly, Arrowverse version of Superman doesn't exist to me, due to how he is turned into a wimp, in comparison to Kara and when I write Clark in my Arrowverse stories, I imagine him with a mixed backstory of Smallville and classic comic books.
I think that asides from his fallout with Lex and them inevitably becoming mortal enemies, Clark's greatest regret would be him blaming himself for being unable to prevent Jonathan's death. For those who don't know, this chapter was a reference to Brainiac arc, where Brainiac invaded Earth and began shrinking cities, Metropolis included and the fight with Brainiac ended up with Brainiac firing a missile on the Kent farm and while Martha and Jonathan are unharmed by the explosion, Jonathan dies because of heart attack.
The grave scene is a reference to Smallville 10x04, 200th episode, where Brainiac 5 forced Clark to face his own guilt and greatest failures to help him forgive himself and move on, which ended with Clark letting go of his guilt for Jonathan's death.
I imagine mixed backstory of DCEU and classic comic books of the character, with Diana being played by Gal Gadot of course, when involving her in my Arrowverse stories but I don't really think there's need to put her through her test in here, since she had let go of her guilt of Steve long ago and at least live-action adaptation of Wonder Woman is an awesome and relatable character and from what I do recall, the latest comic book portrayal of Wonder Woman had become quite just as horrible as Kara in later seasons of Supergirl but at least I make both characters in my stories still relatable and likable and tolerable without them having sticks up their asses.
And we're about to head to the finale soon enough and now I'm going to do the same thing I did in "Age of Injustice" and do a poll here, with various villains showing up later that the heroes are going to face-off, alongside Darkseid, Thawne and Darkseid's followers.
The rules are going to be slightly different this time. I can accept any villain from DC Comics, Arrowverse and that has appeared in The Darhk War series so far, save for the rules that I shall mention. Trigon or any other high-tier supernatural villain is off-limits, since that would be an overkill. From Arrow, the only villains off-limits are Deathstroke, Adrian Chase and Emiko, since it wouldn't make any sense at all to involve them. And I just don't see a reason, why would Joker help Darkseid, asides from being insane, so he is off-limits too.
From The Flash, Cicada and DeVoe are off-limits, due to how lame they both are.
From Supergirl, human supremacist villains like Lilian Luthor, Ben Lockwood, Mercy Graves or Otis are off-limits, since I highly doubt that they would work with aliens at all and as for Lex, it's Earth-1 Lex, not Supergirl's Lex with mixed backstory from comic books, Smallville and my series and as you have noticed, I have my own plans with him here.
Villains from first two seasons of Legends of Tomorrow are acceptable, as long as they are compelling and not lame.
So, what do you guys think about it?
Please review and let me know if you are enjoying this so far and want for me to continue.