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Henry groaned as he got up, noticing he was in some sewer area as Barbara helped him on his feet.
"What the hell just happened?" Henry asked.
"I don't know." Barbara said.
Oliver got up as he looked around. "Everyone alright?"
"I'll be fine." Diana assured as they recovered.
Barry groaned as Kara gently smacked him on the cheek. "You OK?"
"What… what happened?" Barry asked weakly as Kara helped him on his feet.
"He's here…" Kara realized as they looked outside to see Darkseid.
"Darkseid." Clark realized and Barry realized that the Hall of Justice had been turned into rubble, with Oliver and Clark helping Laurel and Sara on their feet. "And looks like he's brought company."
"He just doesn't know when to quit, does he?" Oliver groaned.
"You have no idea what one can achieve, with a tremendous amount of willpower." Lex said, actually seeming impressed as they saw Darkseid coming out from the Boom Tube with his lieutenants and then they saw red and blue bolts of lightning speeding around.
"Oh, not again." Barry groaned upon seeing Thawne and Zoom.
"Thawne." Oliver realized.
"And Zoom." Eddie nodded.
"Help! It's all flooding here! Help!" Iris screamed.
"I got this!" Ray put on his Atom suit and reduced himself, flying down.
"Guys! Ollie! Laurel!" Henry called out.
"Sara! Clark! Anyone!" Barbara yelled as they picked their flashlights before they heard cracking of ice as part of the rubble shattered and next to them was the Mother Box.
"You guys OK?" Caitlin asked, now in her Killer Frost form.
"We'll be fine." Henry assured as he looked around.
"We need to find a way out of these tunnels." Caitlin said.
"Oh, Cait… finding your way out is going to be least of your concerns."
Caitlin's blood ran cold (no pun intended) as she recognized the voice. "Oh, no."
"What the hell…" Barbara stared as they aimed their flashlights and saw people with pitch black eyes and black veins appearing all over their bodies, slowly approaching them.
"Crap. Run! Get out of here! Go! Now!" Caitlin ordered, creating an ice wall to block the path to the zombies.
"What the hell was that?" Henry demanded.
"Nothing good." Caitlin said.
"Nothing good?" They stopped, when they faced an Indian with short dark hair and a beard, whose eyes were pitch black. "I once told you, you will accept my cure, Caitlin." Ramsey Rosso smirked.
Henry picked a nearby rifle from the rubble and fired at Ramsey, but he was unfazed.
"That's not gonna stop him! Run! I'll handle him!" Caitlin ordered as Ramsey and his blood brothers, people infected with his blood, ran at them but Caitlin raised her hands, using her ice beams to slow them down as Henry and Barbara ran off with the Mother Box, with Ramsey's blood brothers running after them. "Whatever happens, don't let them infect you with their blood!"
Lena groaned as she staggered on her feet, with Harry and Jesse helping them. "Damn. Should've known this was not going to be easy."
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Harry's and Jesse's blood ran cold as Thawne sped in. "I'll take the box, if I may. Where is it?"
"Well, aren't you a handsome devil?" Harry quipped.
"Oh, Wells." Thawne smirked. "Quick with the quips. Always so brave. You're in real danger now. Well, I'm gonna make you a deal. I can spare your life because you are a man of superior intellect. So there will be a place for you in the new universe Darkseid will make."
Harry considered. "Thank you for the offer." Thawne nodded before the smile vanished off his face as Harry continued. "But I'd rather die."
Thawne seethed. "Well, that…" He raised his hand, vibrating it. "That can be arranged."
Thawne was about to plunge his hand into Harry's chest, before Harry raised his hands. "Wait, wait, wait!" Thawne stopped as Harry took a breath. "Think this through, Thawne. Killing a different version of yourself from a different Earth, that can have unforeseen consequences as we both know, not all of them good."
"Right." Thawne shrugged. "But there's only one way to find out." He tried to plunge his hand into Harry's chest but was shocked when his hand was pushed back by an invisible force, much to his surprise as he stepped back, groaning in pain, clutching his hand.
Harry then smirked. "Yeah, so… I forgot to mention. I loaded millions of bio-compatible miniature robots into my body, OK?" He laughed before continuing. "And then… I programmed those robots to attack any foreign cells speeding their way into my system." He pointed at Thawne. "That's you." Thawne glared, infuriated that he had been outsmarted. "Because after Zoom, after Savitar… after how you took over my body, I promised myself no other speedster would ever hurt me… ever again."
Harry winked and picked a pulse rifle from a nearby worktable as Thawne sped off, with Jesse chasing him.
"You alright?" Lena asked.
Harry nodded and groaned, rubbing his chest. "Just because he can't kill me, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt like hell."
A moment later, a dark-skinned man in robes appeared. "Give me the Box and Lord Darkseid shall spare you."
"Well, too bad for you because we don't have it, Tezumak." Lena said.
"Then you shall perish." Tezumak said as in his hands appeared fireballs and he threw it at them and Harry and Lena covered their faces with their hands but much to their shock, a dark-haired man in blue leather jacket with a domino mask appeared, with some hi-tech gauntlets in his hands, forming an energy field.
Lena widened her eyes in shock. "Winn?"
Winn charged his gauntlets and blasted Tezumak, sending him sliding across the floor before he turned to Harry and Lena. "You guys alright?" Lena laughed as she hugged him tightly before he returned the hug. "Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to see you too, Lena but we can hug and cheer later."
Lena pulled away and nodded, getting ahold of herself. "Yeah, yeah. Right. We need to get out of here."
Harry picked another pulse rifle from a weapons locker and handed one to Lena as they followed Winn. "So, looks like your future exploits with the Legion have brought fruits, have they, Toyboy?" Harry cracked.
"Stop calling me that." Winn rolled his eyes. "Look, the rest is on their way here, we just need to hold on a bit longer."
"How much long?" Lena asked.
"Hopefully not too long." Harry noted before he sensed something. "Get down!"
They ducked, when a metal boomerang almost cut their heads off as Harkness appeared, catching the boomerang that returned to him.
"Looks like Darkseid has managed to take a page from my playbook." Lex noted.
"And with Thawne's help, recruited many of our enemies." Oliver said.
"What have they been doing?" Sara asked.
"Absolutely nothing." Clark said.
"Where's the Box?" Kara asked.
"Underneath all that rubble." Laurel said.
"As long as they don't have it, it doesn't matter." Diana said.
"We need to make sure it stays that way." Sara said.
"You do realize this is a trap, right?" Lex asked.
"Yeah and honestly, I don't care." Oliver said, clenching his bow as he eyed Malcolm.
Lex nodded. "Looks like we've reached a consensus." He put on his exo-suit. "Let's put them down."
"All of them." Clark said as they descended down from the rubble, facing off with Darkseid and the villains surrounding him.
"You couldn't live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me." Darkseid smirked.
"You will resist. You will always resist. It matters not." Zod said as he and Clark were locked in heated stares.
"You, working with Thawne and Darkseid? How the mighty have fallen." Clark said.
"You would have the gall to undo my work, which I cannot tolerate." Darkseid said as he gestured at the heroes. "Once I crush you, with the power you've taken from the Source, I shall reshape the universe in my own image and they shall never know what they have lost but only what they have been given. A paradise I shall rule, as a benevolent god."
"You're nothing more than another cockroach with delusions of grandeur, no better than anyone we've ever faced. He's even worse than you." Oliver glared at Malcolm.
"I don't care what Darkseid is going to do, as long as I can finally kill you and your friends for taking everything from me. Tommy. Thea. My vision of the city." Malcolm notched an arrow. "First Diggle, then Felicity, I'm going to enjoy taking away everyone else you love, Laurel, Sara, your daughter."
Oliver clenched his bow and reached for his quiver.
"What you're offering, isn't a paradise, father." Orion said, reaching for his sword. "It's only an illusion."
"They'll never know. Because none of you will live to tell." Darkseid charged his Omega Beams and fired but Orion deflected them with his sword.
Oliver fired but Malcolm dodged as they rushed at each other and their bows crossed before they exchanged strikes.
Laurel and Sara dodged, when Lacroix fired arrows and then Lady Shiva rushed at them, with Laurel and Sara pulling out their batons, briefly holding their own before Shiva jumped at them, wrapping her arms and legs around Laurel's and Sara's heads, slamming them to the ground. Laurel and Sara got up, with Sara kicking Shiva in the groin as she staggered back but she raised her arms to block as Laurel attacked with her batons.
"Where's your honor? Siding with Darkseid?" Laurel sneered.
"There's no greater honor, than your student surpassing you." Shiva said, pushing Laurel back but before she could hit Laurel in the throat, Laurel dodged and tried to knock Shiva down but Shiva quickly regained her footing and dodged as Sara swung her batons again.
Kara engaged Non and they exchanged blows before he punched her away as he flew towards her.
Caitlin had shattered the last one of Ramsey's blood brothers as Ramsey glared. "Is this the best you've got?"
"No. But I do." Icicle said as he appeared and Caitlin had to create a barrier to block his ice beams but the next thing she knew, a man in a red suit with a blue cape appeared out of nowhere, blocking the ice beams with his cape before the man punched Icicle away as he smiled at her.
"Long time no see." Mon-El smiled as he picked Caitlin up, flying her away from Icicle and Ramsey onto the rooftop.
"What are you doing here?" Caitlin demanded. "Not that I'm ungrateful but—"
"Let's just say backup's coming." Mon-El said.
Henry and Barbara jumped across the gap on the destroyed catwalk, swinging on chain as they were on the other side but dodged, when gunshots rang out.
"You're not going anywhere." Diaz said.
"The Box. We're gonna take it." Isabel Rochev ordered.
"Over our dead bodies." Henry sneered.
"That's the plan." Diaz smirked as he fired from his gun but Henry took cover behind a crate before Barbara threw a batarang, disarming him.
Isabel pulled out her swords and attacked, when Barbara blocked with her batons. They exchanged strikes and sparks flied, until Barbara dodged, when Isabel aimed at her head.
Henry pulled out his gun and fired, grazing Diaz but Diaz threw a knife, causing for Henry to drop the Box as it slid down the floor. Diaz rushed towards the Box but Henry tackled him to the ground as they struggled.
Isabel cut Barbara across her arm before Barbara blocked Isabel's sword as their weapons crossed. Barbara headbutted Isabel, dazing her before throwing her and Isabel screamed, falling to her demise.
Henry got up, blocking Diaz's kick, grabbing his leg and kicking him in the chest as Diaz staggered. Diaz pulled out a knife but Henry dodged and grabbed him by his wrist, knocking the knife off his hand before elbowing him in the face as Diaz spat out blood. Henry dodged Diaz's right hook and kneed him in the groin before pummeling him in the face, leaving Diaz bruised and bloodied. Henry then grabbed Diaz, throwing him towards a nearby fuse box as it exploded in sparks, engulfing Diaz in flames as he screamed, writhing violently, running away, until he fell to the ground, unmoving.
"Son of a bitch." Henry muttered.
"The Box!" Barbara noticed that it was on the edge of the catwalk, tipping and falling but Barbara jumped towards it and caught it as Henry grabbed Barbara by her pant leg, while holding onto a pipe.
"You got it?" Henry asked.
"I got it!" Barbara called out as Henry groaned, pulling her towards him.
"We need to get out of here with that Box before more of them show up." Henry said, walking down the tunnels until they heard an inhuman roar and loud stomping, with tremors shaking the tunnels.
"You just had to say it, did you?" Barbara breathed out as she turned to another tunnel and saw a giant grey muscular monster with bone spikes protruding from its body nearing them. "Run!"
They ran like hell, with Doomsday right behind them as Henry fired from a grenade launcher on his rifle but it had no effect on Doomsday as it roared.
Barry, Jesse and Wally were engaged in a superspeed chase with Thawne, Zoom and Savitar, exchanging blows before Barry slammed Thawne to nearby rubble.
"Even if you killed me this time, I'll find another form to take over. Face it, Barry, I win." Thawne gloated.
"You are not winning this time!" Thawne's eyes widened as Eddie appeared and his hands glowed and Thawne dodged before Eddie could reach him.
"Impossible!" Thawne shouted.
"I'm part of the Speed Force now. As you can see, anything is possible." Eddie said. "You once told me I'm a failure forgotten in history. Looks like the history's wrong again."
Thawne glared as Barry and Eddie rushed at him, exchanging blows and Thawne then sped around, creating time remnants but Eddie suddenly charged his hands, disrupting Thawne's connection to Negative Speed Force, as Thawne fell down, rolling on the ground before he recovered his speed as he glared.
"No time remnants this time, Eobard." Eddie said. "We may not be able to kill you but I know how to make sure you can't hurt anyone, ever again."
Thawne recovered as Eddie blocked his punches, while Barry hit him in the face as Thawne spat out blood and Eddie kicked him as Thawne staggered. Thawne's eyes pulsed with red lightning and he sped away as they resumed their chase.
Zoom was reaching for Jesse but out of nowhere, Jay Garrick appeared, tackling Zoom to the ground and knocking him out and dodged, when another Zoom attacked with his claws. Zoom pinned Jesse and grabbed her by her throat.
"I enjoyed torturing you so much, when I took you. It'll be more enjoyable, when I take away your speed." Zoom growled.
Out of nowhere, Accelerated Man showed up, punching Zoom and pinning him down and before he could recover, Accelerated Man phased his hand into Zoom as he stilled before pulling away.
Accelerated Man helped Jesse on her feet. "You alright?"
Jesse nodded as they rushed to help Wally.
Darkseid raised his arm to block as Orion swung his sword. "You would rob everyone of freedom?"
"Freedom is an illusion!" Darkseid sneered, punching Orion, sending him staggering back. "There is never going to be a consensus among anyone of them. They need to bow to one true deity, since they'll each have different views on what being free actually means. The peace you so desperately seek does not exist!"
Orion ducked and sliced Darkseid in his side. "No! Together they can forge something better than what you offer!"
"You're a fool. Deep down, they yearn to be told what to do." Darkseid said, glaring down at Orion in disappointment. Orion absorbed the Omega Beams with his sword before the pulse of energy pushed Darkseid back.
"And who better to rule than Darkseid, the God of Evil?" Orion snorted. "It's a poor offer. Rather to die as free people, than live as your slaves."
"So be it." Darkseid said as they fired beams at each other and the following explosion of energy knocked everyone around down. Darkseid and his followers slowly marched towards the heroes. "In all my years of conquest, it was never personal. But what I'm about to do to your annoying, stubborn, puny race, I'm going to enjoy, very, very much. You're all outnumbered." He smirked as Grail, DeSaad, Kalibak, Steppenwolf, Granny Goddess, Malcolm, Darhk, Thawne, Zoom, Jade, Takeo Yamashiro, Richard Dragon, the Longbow Hunters, Non, Reign, Bane and more villains, who were the former members of the Injustice League slowly marched towards them.
Oliver, Barry, Sara, Laurel, Clark, Kara, Diana and Lex groaned, getting up on their feet. How were they supposed to win?
"Oliver?" Oliver froze, not believing his own ears. "Kid, do you copy?" Oliver tapped his earpiece. "On your left."
Oliver slowly turned his head to see a breach open and they all panted out in relief as from one of the breaches went out Slade Wilson, Thea Queen, Roy Harper, Black Siren, Tommy Merlyn, Rene Ramirez, Rory Reagan, Dinah Drake, Helena Bertinelli and Mia Dearden.
From another breach went out Cisco Ramon, Ralph Dibny, Allegra Garcia, Gypsy, and Breacher, J'onn J'onzz, Nia Nal, Imra Ardeen and Conner Kent.
From another breach went out Batman, Nightwing, Red Robin, Red Hood, Catwoman, Spoiler and Black Bat.
From another breach went out Arthur Curry, Mera, Vulko and an army of Atlanteans.
From another breach went out Artemis, Donna Troy and an army of Amazons.
From another breach went out Hal Jordan and a small group of remaining Green Lanterns.
From another breach went out Nyssa al Ghul and a small group of her assassins.
In the sky suddenly appeared Waverider as on the ground teleported Leonard Snart, Lisa Snart, Nate Heywood, Mari McCabe, Carter Hall, Kendra Saunders, Nora Darhk, Mick Rory and Zari Tomaz and from another portal appeared Jonah Hex and his outlaw comrades with the Justice Society of America.
Constantine widened his eyes to see from another portal appear Zatanna Zatara and Rachel Roth and Garfield Logan.
From another portal appeared M'gann Morzz wielding the Staff of H'ronmeer and a small group of Green Martians.
From another portal appeared Jefferson Pierce, also known as Black Lightning.
"Is that all of them?" Rip called out on the comms.
"What, you wanted more?" Cisco snapped as he looked up into the sky.
Darkseid glared as he saw the united heroes.
"Outnumbered? You might want to rethink that." Kara said as all heroes got in the line.
"Darkseid…" Oliver notched an arrow. "You have failed this multiverse!"
An unintimidated Darkseid just glared as both armies rushed at each other with loud roars echoing through the battlefield.
The battle for the fate of the universe had just begun.
Hope you liked seeing Legion of Super-Heroes with Winn showing up here. As much as Season 5 of Supergirl gradually lost steam post-Crisis and was only worth watching because of Lex, Legion Winn making a guest appearance was amazing and it was one of the highlights of the season.
And quite frankly, I've always found what Arrowverse did with JSA, quite stupid, I mean scattering them all across the timeline to protect the Spear of Destiny would probably make sense but I felt like if they were screwing with the timeline more, considering how most of the members ended up, so I'm always imagining that with Thawne's death in Season 2 of LoT, the timeline resets somehow.
Thank you for the suggestions of the villains but it was a bit tricky to involve them all in and write in so many fight scenes and the next chapter, which is the finale, is going to be just as tricky.
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.