Thank you for the suggestions and I fit into the chapter as many villains as I could handle in one chapter. I might get some flak for how this is going to end but that's how I've planned it when I get the idea for my version of COIE.
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The heroes entered the portal and ended up floating in vast void of space in what seemed to be a giant fortress, all of them scattered across the fortress.
"Anyone copy?" Oliver asked.
"I've rarely seen anything like this before." Clark said.
"Everyone stay sharp and be careful." Bruce said.
In another part of the fortress, Anti-Monitor was with Thawne and Psycho-Pirate in his chamber.
"They are here." Psycho-Pirate said. "I thought we have gotten rid of the Paragons."
"You fail me this time, consider this your last failure ever." Anti-Monitor growled.
"No worry. I plan to make things much harder for them." Thawne promised.
"After all, the bell has been rung." Luthor laughed.
"And all the pieces are in play now." Lex said, moving one of the figures on the chessboard.
"I can't see anyone." Kara D. said., using her X-Ray vision.
"Me neither. I think that the antimatter universe is messing with our powers." Superman said.
Kara D. looked carefully at Superman. "You're a little different from my cousin."
"I have to say, no one told me I had one." Superman chuckled.
"Maybe time will tell." Kara D. shrugged, smiling.
"This was too easy. I think it may be a trap." Kal said as he walked down the corridor with Lucifer, Lena, Constantine and Diana.
"I fear you may be right." Lucifer said, feeling uncomfortable from being with Kal and Lena could say the same about Kal and Lucifer.
"Do I look like someone you know?" Kal asked curiously.
"It doesn't matter. You're not him but I'm willing to work with you but I must admit it won't be easy for me to get past my issues with you." Lucifer said.
"If we're supposed to work together, we need to trust each other, which means, if you have a problem with me, best to get it out now." Kal said as they stopped.
Lucifer took a breath. "You're right. You're not him but perhaps it's best for me not to keep it bottled up. You are aware that I am the Devil and I work with the LAPD, right?"
Kal nodded.
"A few years ago, we had a new chief of police, Lieutenant Marcus Pierce, who happened to be your lookalike, Superman." Lucifer chuckled as he remembered a certain joke. "I even joked that he may have a kryptonite."
"I'm guessing he was a jackass and you hated his guts?" Kal asked.
"You could say that. By-the-book, strict, had no tolerance for disregard of rules." Lucifer said and Kal suspected where was this going.
"Let me guess, your eccentricities hit his nerves." Kal realized.
Lucifer nodded. "That's how it started at first but he also knew who I was. When he first appeared, he had me kidnapped and ditched me in the desert, since I would have interfered with his plans and it was revealed that he was actually a notorious dangerous crime lord calling himself the Sinnerman, who got many people in his pocket by granting them favors."
"Like you?" Kal asked.
Lucifer scoffed. "He was nothing like me, just a human imitation, although, I admit, I was impressed. But I got my wings back as a gift from my father to stop Pierce. Then I figured out why was he doing the charade of a by-the-book chief of police and a crime lord." He then looked at Kal darkly. "I was so stupid that I had not figured it out sooner. It turned out that he was actually Cain."
Kal stared and processed for a moment. "'Cain', as in 'Cain and Abel'?"
Lucifer nodded. "The world's first murderer marked by God to walk the Earth for the tortured eternity."
Kal processed and remembered Clark Luthor, his evil counterpart. "Wow."
Lucifer nodded as he remembered Chloe and the love triangle between them but decided not to reveal too many details, since the pain from leaving her was still fresh. "He wanted to find a way to become mortal and die, so I agreed to help him but then when we found a way to finally kill him, he got afraid and tried to take me and my brother out, so I did what had to be done." He took a breath, remembering Chloe seeing his Devil from after killing Pierce.
"It sounds like this Cain has caused you a lot of pain." Kal noted.
"He has. He has taken things dear to me and my family." Lucifer said, remembering Pierce murdering Lucifer's friend Charlotte and attempting to kill Amenadiel as he looked at Kal. "I know you're not him, but whenever I see your face, I see the pain he had brought."
"If it's any consolation, I'm—" Kal started.
"Don't. It's not your fault. I just…" Lucifer sighed.
Kal nodded. "Some things we need to let out."
Suddenly, the ground beneath their feet cracked and they both flew up and Constantine and Lena did a spell and levitated in the air.
"How did I do that?" Lena stared, surprised that she managed to use Morgana's powers on instinct.
"I told you I would have my revenge, Kal-El!" Zod snarled, pulling out a blue kryptonite dagger. Kal and Zod exchanged blows and Lucifer was about to engage, when he was thrown back by telekinesis.
Lucifer got up and glared at the bearded man, who was also a demon and Lucifer's rogue subordinate. "Dromos."
"You should've stayed back in Hell with us, Lucifer." Dromos smirked.
Lucifer turned into his devil form and flew at Dromos as they exchanged blows.
Oliver, Ollie, Sara, Bruce, Dick, Constantine, Zatanna and Zatara kept walking, when a volley of arrows flew down upon them and Oliver, Ollie, Sara, Bruce and Dick dodged, while Constantine, Zatanna and Zatara summoned a magical barrier, blocking the arrows as from above jumped down Malcolm, Vordigan, Darhk, Deathstroke, Wilson, Felix Faust and Dr. Sivana.
"Two counterparts of Slade and one of Malcolm's counterparts with him. Great." Oliver grumbled.
"You are not getting past us." Darhk said.
"The Anti-Monitor will rebuild the multiverse in his image and I'll take from you everything you've taken from me, Oliver." Malcolm vowed.
"But, right after we kill you, of course." Darhk smirked.
Malcolm and Vordigan fired arrows but Oliver and Ollie charged forward, blocking them with their bows and engaging them.
Bruce and Dick engaged Deathstroke and Wilson and Darhk was about to use his magic but Constantine muttered an incantation in Latin, negating Darhk's magic.
"No mojo for you this time, mate." Constantine summoned an orb of magic and sent it at Darhk, knocking him down.
Darhk recovered and got up, just as Sara engaged him. Darhk dodged as Sara swung her staff and grabbed her from behind. "You may have had years of training but I had centuries!"
Darhk knocked Sara down as she rolled back and recovered, dodging Darhk's kick.
In another part of the fortress, Kara K. and Kara D. and J'onn were dodging as statues came to life and smashed some of them before another statue fired beams from its eyes, knocking Kara D. down.
General Zod flew at Kara K., slamming her to the ground as he smirked, pummeling her. "I don't care if you're not my Kal's cousin, I'll gladly take everything away from any version of him!"
"You can try!" Kara K. sneered, grabbing General's fist as bones cracked and General screamed in pain before Kara K. headbutted him, dazing him and flew with him through the ceiling and slamming him down on the rooftop. General knocked Kara K. back before J'onn flew at him as they exchanged blows
Barry, Bart and the Flash were in a superspeed chase with Thawne, Zoom and Savitar, while dodging Killer Frost's blasts before Cisco blasted her down.
"Sorry, Caity, but you'll be feeling that in the morning." Cisco said before he rolled down as a boomerang flew towards him and flew back to Harkness. "Oh, Captain Boomerang. Can't say I missed you."
Harkness dodged as Cisco fired his vibe blasts and Harry fired with his pulse rifle. Harkness threw more boomerangs but Nightwing threw wing-dings, knocking the boomerangs off the trajectory. Harkness pulled out more boomerangs but Nightwing rushed at him with his escrima sticks, engaging him.
Oliver blocked with his bow as Malcolm swung his sword and Malcolm ducked before Oliver could hit him in the face with his bow. Their weapons crossed, both men exchanging strikes before Oliver spun around, hitting Malcolm from behind, making him stagger.
"What do you get out of this, Malcolm? The entire multiverse is going to die, is that what you want?" Oliver demanded.
"You've taken everything from me. I'm gonna take everything away from you." Malcolm sneered.
Malcolm pulled out a pair of knives and threw them but Oliver blocked them with his bow and then had to dodge, when he sensed a shuriken coming his way as from above jumped down Prometheus and Oliver's blood ran cold as Prometheus put down his mask and hood.
"I've told you, Oliver, I'm always ten steps ahead of you." Adrian said.
Bruce used his bracers to block as Wilson attacked with his sword and they were in a deadlock before Bruce elbowed Wilson in the face, dazing him and pummeling him, going into offensive as Wilson staggered back.
Dick flipped back as Deathstroke attempted to slice him in two. "Doesn't matter if you're not him will make you suffer, Grayson!"
"Well, then, give me your best shot." Dick taunted.
Deathstroke roared in rage and Dick just stood there and in the last possible moment, he dodged and grabbed Deathstroke's sword with his bracers, disarming him and throwing him down. Deathstroke recovered but Dick sent a powerful kick to his chest, sending Deathstroke sliding down the floor as he crashed to the wall and it collapsed, knocking him out.
"Impressive technique, Batman. You're making this job more exciting than I thought it would be." Wilson said as he faced Bruce.
Bruce and Wilson exchanged blows and Bruce dodged as Wilson almost cut his head off, cutting him in the neck, scratching the armor. Bruce threw a smoke pellet, blinding Wilson for a moment and when Wilson recovered, Bruce slammed him to a pillar and pulled out a gun, restraining Wilson to the pillar with bolas.
Bruce looked at Dick, looking impressed as he held him by his shoulder. "I know I'm not your Bruce, but I'm sure he would be proud of you, Dick."
Dick considered. It wasn't his real mentor, but he would take whatever compliment he could get as they shook hands. "Thanks, Bruce."
Kara K. grabbed a giant pillar and slammed General with it, sending him flying away.
Zod and Kal were in the air, exchanging blows before Kal noticed a chamber in which was a blinding glow. "I see something! In the center!"
"You will never get there!" Zod snarled, flying with Kal and slamming him to the ground.
Kara D. and Clark were determined to get there as they flew as fast as they could to the chamber and a blast of energy followed, knocking them down as they faced the Anti-Monitor, who was wearing a thick armor.
"The greatest heroes of the multiverse, you will die here! You will fail!" Anti-Monitor vowed, slamming Clark to the ground and firing a beam at Kara D. as she crashed to a nearby wall. "Nothing will stop me! Not even the last children of Krypton!"
"We'll see about that!" Kara D. said, remembering the vision Father Edward had shown her as she flew at Anti-Monitor, punching him in the face as he fell down but Anti-Monitor blasted her away.
"Not anymore! You maggots will never touch me again!" Anti-Monitor snarled as he got up.
"I'm not afraid of you!" Kara D. sneered.
"You mortals throw these words anytime you face death and they are empty! You will die!" Anti-Monitor said, charging his hands.
"Never!" Kara D. yelled, charging at Anti-Monitor at full speed as she sent him flying into the chamber and a giant explosion followed.
"Kara!" Clark cried out.
Anti-Monitor had recovered, his armor in cracks and next to him Kara D. burned body as he seethed in rage. "You've managed to damage my outer shell…"
"Kara!" Clark exclaimed.
Anti-Monitor did a gesture as he faded in a glow of light. "This isn't over."
The heroes kept fighting the villains until the villains disappeared, much to the heroes' confusion.
"What happened?" Barry asked.
"It looks like they're falling back." Ollie said.
"Kara, do you copy?" Oliver called out. "Kara? Clark? Anyone?"
They rushed into the chamber, where Clark was cradling Kara D. in his arms, on verge of tears.
"Kara…" Barry stared in shock as he saw one of his closest friends so beaten and battered and from the looks of it, she didn't have much time.
"Kara, stay with us. Come on." Clark begged.
"No… I can't… but it's OK…" Kara D. said.
"No, don't give up, come on." Barry begged as he held Kara D. by her hand, also on verge of tears.
"I knew this was the only way..." Kara D. smiled weakly, coughing out. "I've made my peace with that I would die… so that the multiverse can live… and you taught me to do whatever it takes…" She smiled at Oliver and Barry. "No matter the cost… even if it means you have to go against your beliefs…"
"We've slowed the Anti-Monitor down for now but this isn't going to end here. He won't stop." Pariah said.
"For what it's worth…" Kara D. smiled at Clark, Barry, Lena, J'onn and Oliver. "I love you… all of you… and there's no one else I'd rather be here with…"
Kara D. slumped her head as life ebbed away from her in Clark's arms and he sobbed into her chest, while Oliver held Barry by his shoulder as Barry's eyes were getting wet and Lena leaned onto J'onn, who hugged her as she was trying to hold back tears.
It was hard to write in so many fight scenes and juggling between so many characters but I hope you were able to follow and enjoy them.
In case you don't know, Tom Welling from Smallville, who played Clark Kent, also played in Lucifer Season 3 the main villain of the season, Lieutenant Marcus Pierce, who was later revealed to be (* WARNING, SPOILERS! *) Cain, from "Cain and Abel" and Lucifer struck an alliance with him to find a way to kill him for good but Cain later got afraid of being dead for good and betrayed Lucifer and Lucifer managed to kill him. Welling was good as Pierce, a by-the-book hard-ass lieutenant and later a psychopathic ruthless murderer but there was also an annoying love triangle that hit my nerves, with Lucifer/Chloe/Pierce. (* END SPOILERS *)
Also, Tom Ellis who plays Lucifer, also appeared in Merlin as Cenred, king of Essetir, who tried to conquer Camelot with Morgana's help but Morgana betrayed him.
What annoys me is how Lucifer downplays a bit the powers of Lucifer and other celestials, so in this story, Lucifer and other celestials are almost as powerful as the ones from Supernatural show, not just as, since that would make them too OP'd .
Smallville Zod is referred to as "Zod", DCEU Zod is referred to as "General".
Yes, Kara D. is dead here. As much as unlikeable Arrowverse Kara is in canon, I try to make her more likeable in my stories, so I hope I've managed to make you feel at least some sympathies for her. The writers should've killed Kara off and then have the Spectre create a new version of Kara and have Barry disappear and then return like in The Flash: Rebirth, instead of the disrespect to Oliver. Supergirl was a bit better in Season 5 asides from Crisis and Kara was more likeable, but the show in general declined in quality after Season 2. Thank God that the show ends with Season 6 and at least Melissa can then focus on her new motherhood duties and I wish her, Chris Wood and their newborn son a good health.
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.