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Nathan got to his feet, grunting and groaning. "That hurt. Shake it off, Spawn, it's just your bones...your muscles... and your organs." He muttered to himself before looking to see Flash groaning. "Flash, you alright?"
"Yeah...to busy not dying." Flash groaned as he pulled himself out of the rubble.
The two heroes' attention was drawn towards a pair of fighter jets soaring by firing missiles at the alien structure. Darkseid saw this and his eyes glowed red before twin beams of red energy shot out of his eyes in a zig zag motion and faster than a bullet it struck the two aircraft, destroying them.
KAABOOOOM!
"NO!" Flash yelled in horror while Nathan glared at Darkseid.
'Still a big asshole.' The Hellspawn thought darkly as Darkseid turned from the destroyed aircraft to the two of them. "Uh oh..."
"Anybody else up?" Flash asked nervously.
"I don't suppose you have any interest in talking this out." Spawn stated more than asked.
Suddenly Superman threw off the debris he was buried under and gave Darkseid a glare "I'm up...but not to talk."
Darkseid's eyes glowed red again causing the three to tense at the action
Nathan prepared to move and find cover, and out of the corner of his eye he could see Superman and Flash planning the same thing. Darkseid fired of his Omega Beams and as soon as he did, Spawn launched himself to the side while Flash and Superman went in the opposite direction. Darkseid, likely seeing the fastest man alive and the Man of Steel as larger threats had his Omega Beams follow them while he turned towards Spawn with a look of disinterest
"Hey." Spawn said as he tensed for a fight. He saw, out of the corner of his eyes, the forms of Diana, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Cyborg and Batman starting to stir and get back up.
It was then that Flash reappeared, looking a bit winded "Those demons took him. They took Superman!"
"Why?" Batman asked with frown at hearing their strongest ally at the moment was down and out
"Let's ask him." Aquaman nodded towards Darkseid who was still watching them with a guarded expression.
'Strange, the Darkseid I know would've made mince meat out of us right now. So what's his game here?' Nathan thought to himself with narrowed eyes, trying to figure out Darkseid's goal aside from conquering Earth.
"Happy to." Lantern growled as his ring began to glow brighter
"I'm not with you guys." Cyborg said nervously.
"Kid, that won't matter to him. All he sees are the ones standing between him and conquering this planet." Spawn said with a dark glare aimed at Darkseid.
"So, uh what do we do?" Cyborg asked as he looked towards Spawn and Batman.
"We-" Spawn began only to stop as Green Lantern flew towards Darkseid
"Stay back and watch the light show, kid." Lantern said as he formed a mace "Green Lantern's got this!"
The emerald hero slammed the hard-light construct into Darkseid's head who didn't so much as blink at the impact before he scowled and raised both his arms over his head with red energy building in them.
"Oh shit." Spawn said before looking at the others and shouted just as Darkseid slammed his arms into the ground. "TAKE COV-!"
KRAAKOOOOM!
The force of the explosion sent everyone flying back. Spawn crashed into the ground hard and felt his left arm be dislocated from it's rightful place. He yelled in pain as he rolled across the floor and into debris. He coughed and ripped his mask off for a moment to spit some blood out before his mask came back over his head.
He got to his feet, hissing as his dislocated shoulder flared up in pain. He tried shoving it back in but it only hurt him some more. So he slammed it into a big rock to set it back into place and rolled his arm about to get a good feel of it.
"Hate it when my bones get broken or dislocated." He muttered as Diana came to help him.
"Spawn, are you okay?" Diana asked with worry for her friend.
"I'll live." Nathan said as he wobbled a little but Diana kept him up. "Just got a dizzy head now." he shook his head to clear the cobwebs. He then looked around to see that Batman was missing, likely going to rescue Superman somehow and Green Lantern was helping Flash out of a pile of debris while Aquaman did the same with Cyborg.
"What are we waiting for?" Wonder Woman asked as she held up her blade and glared at the distant form of Darkseid.
Green Lantern looked lost at what to say before speaking. "We need to uh...we need to play football instead of going up to bat."
Wonder Woman gave the emerald hero a confused look. "I apologize but I don't know your games."
"What are you talking about Lantern?" Flash asked with confusion in his voice.
"What he means is we need to cut this lone wolf bullshit." Spawn spoke up, getting their attention. "Seriously, the only reason we are getting our asses whooped by that guy is because our egos and pride are making us want to do this ourselves, especially Lantern. We need to put our egos aside and work together to defend this planet or else bye bye Earth, hello death or slavery."
"He's right." Lantern nodded, ignoring the shot at his ego."The beams he shoots from his eyes follow their target, right?"
Flash nodded while Wonder Woman held up her blade.
"Then it's settled." The amazon said with a fierce look. "We blind him!"
"That's easier said than done, princess." Spawn said as he rolled his shoulders "First, we are gonna have to get his attention. Then we have to lure him into a trap and then we can go about trying to blind him."
"How do we do that?" Aquaman looked towards Spawn.
Nathan looked in the direction Darkseid was walking in before a plan formed in his head. He looked at the heroes. "I'll distract him, lure him to you guys, then when I give the signal we strike and blind him."
"He'll kill you though!" Cyborg said in shock that the man could just sacrifice himself so easily like he said he was going to the Dentist or something.
"He's not the first...damn sure won't be the last." Spawn shrugged as he looked at Cyborg. "Kid, this kind of life is something far greater than a normal life. You take responsibilties you never thought you'd take and put them on your shoulders. one of those responsibilities is the protection and well being of this planet. So if yu've got the powers and strength to defend it, will you use them to save the world...or sit on the sidelines? Because if we fail, then we are gonna be asked 'Where were you when they took over the planet?' So, you gonna sit on the sidelines waiting for that question...or you gonna defend this planet and be a hero?"
Cyborg was quite for a minute before he gave the Hellspawn a determined look "Go out and make things better."
"Good choice, kid." Nathan said, giving the kid a nod before he turned and began walking in the direction Darkseid went off in.
"How will we know when to strike?" Wonder Woman asked with some concern.
Nathan pointed to Lantern with his cape without looking. "Lantern will know. Just make sure it's really noticeable and loud."
With that he ran off towards Darkseid...
"Okay Nathan, let's get this fucker's attention." Nathan said to himself as he jumped onto a rooftop and stared at Darkseid' back. Nathan rolled his shoulders before yelling. "Hey Darkseid! Wanna know something good?!"
Darkseid didn't even pause as he continued walking...
"It's the Anti-Life Equation."
Darkseid halted dead in his tracks.
Nathan smirked behind his mask. "Now that i have your attention." He stated as Darkseid slowly turned to glare at him, his red eyes glowing. "If you wanna know what I know about Anti-Life...come and get me!"
With that, he jumped off the building he was standing on just before Darkseid could smash it into pieces with his fists.
"Okay, now run like hell!" Nathan said as he bolted for it with Darkseid coming after him. Darkseid got close and was about to smash Spawn like a bug when he teleported away, causing Darkseid to halt and narrow his eyes as he looked for him.
He was about to level this whole area to ash when suddenly several green fireworks loudly exploded above him, causing him to glare at the green bursts of lights. It was than a golden rope wrapped around his throat and pulled him back just as a green saw rammed into his head
"GRR!" Darkseid growled in annoyance as he was suddenly assaulted by this world's heroes
The Flash quickly ran past Darkseid and used his built-up momentum and wracked the dark god in the back of one of his legs with a metal pipe with a chunk of concrete on the end of it, causing him to lose his balance and allow Wonder Woman to pull him back further. He tried to pull back but Aquaman jumping on his chest and ramming his trident into his chest caused him to stagger again and let out a hiss of pain as the mystical weapon dug into him.
Spawn leaped out of nowhere and punched Darkseid in the face in the hopes it ceases his pulling on Diana's lasso. Green Lantern kept up his assault on Darkseid by attacking him with large green saws while Cyborg blasted him with his sonic cannon at it's highest setting
Aquaman stabbed Darkseid one more time before he hopped off the enraged god
"Speak Darkseid, why are you here!" Diana yelled as she pulled with all of her super human strength
Darkseid gritted his teeth in sheer rage "FOR…HER!"
"Her who?" Flash asked in confusion.
Darkseid then grabbed the Lasso and pulled Wonder Woman towards him and right into his waiting fist-
KRAKOOOOOM!
Nathan leaped up and punched Darkseid in the face again with a Necroplasm covered fist and started laying into Darkseid with lefts and rights.
"Remember me?!" Spawn yelled as he used his chains to strike Darkseid until the dark god grabbed them and threw him off him but Spawn landed on his feet. "Where is Superman?!"
Diana picked herself up from the blow she received and spat out some blood before glaring at Darkseid "Come on giant! We're getting bored"
Darkseid's glowed red for a moment before he shot off his Omega beams at Wonder Woman "He is mine. As is your world!"
Diana was just barely able to bring up her bracelets in time to block the powerful blasts. She gritted her teeth as she planted her feet and held her ground against the overwhelming force of Darkseid's eye beams, but she did slid back a bit from the force of the beams.
"Too many people believe that. That's the problem here" She said with a growl "The world belongs to no one! And everyone!" she suddenly shifted her arms and redirected the blasts into Darkseid's face causing him to growl in pain and stumble back slightly. Diana used the moment to launch herself at Darkseid's form with her blade raised and stabbed him in one of his eyes
Darksied let out a howl of pain as he was blinded and went to reach for Wonder Woman when she was pulled away suddenly by a chain around her waist and into Spawn's arms.
"That's one down!" Spawn said as he put Diana down.
Darkseid stumbled towards the ground and was about to rip the blade from his eye when he looked up in time to see the Flash carrying Aqauamn towards him. The dark god narrowed his eyes and was prepared to attack them when Flash threw Aquaman at Darkseid and stabbed the tyrant in his other eye with his trident
"One to go!" Aquaman yelled as he pushed his trident's blades deeper into Darkseid's remaining eye which caused the dark god to roar in rage and pain
Spawn, Cyborg, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman watched as Aquaman was forced to jump off Darkseid, leaving his trident in the dark god's eye
"A sword and a trident through his eyes and he's still standing? What else can we do?" Green Lantern said in mild disbelief at the sight of the still standing and pissed alien warlord.
"We can send him home" Cyborg said.
"How do we do that?" Wonder Woman looked towards the cybernetic teen.
"Those mother boxes can open a gateway back to the world they came from." Cyborg said as he began to connect to the alien force's network of mother boxes."I just have to connect with them somehow and speak their language."
"Which is what?" Green Lantern asked as he saw multiple Parademons closing in on them.
"Ping." Cyborg said as his hand began to glow with energy "Or whatever the hell that-"
Suddenly Boom tubes began to open and suck in the surprised Parademons
"Whatever you're doing kid, keep doing it!" Lantern yelled at Cyborg.
Spawn watched the Parademons be pulled back to their world and felt himself starting to relax when suddenly Darkseid grabbed him by the left arm and squeezed with enough force to break his arm.
"GAH!" Nathan yelled in obvious pain.
"SPAWN!" Wonder Woman yelled in concern and worry for her friend as Darkseid slammed him to the ground and was about to do so again when Wonder Woman grabbed it and pulled back with all her strength with help from the Flash.
"That hurt..." Nathan groaned on the floor as he tried pushing Darkseid's hand off him with just one good arm, feeling his other one starting to heal.
Darkseid gritted his teeth in rage "You will fall! I am Darkseid!"
Suddenly Superman appeared through the Boom Tube and slammed into Darkseid, fighting him off towards the portal to send him back home. The other heroes joined in and tried kicking Darkseid back to Apokolips.
Green Lantern grabbed Superman with a green hand while Aquaman and Wonder Woman both tried to punch the dark god through the Boom tube. Spawn was firing Necroplasm blasts at Darkseid.
"Now kid, slam the door in his face!" Lantern yelled as he tried to pull Superman back only for Darkseid to grab the Kryptonian's leg. "Shut those damn Boom tubes down!"
"I c-can't" Cyborg yelled as he struggled to send Darkseid back
"You have to" Batman said as he came to stand behind Cyborg
"Batman?" Cyborg looked in surprised at the dark knight
"You opened the doorways. You can close them" Batman said
"Come on kid! We can't keep this up forever!" Spawn yelled as he shot another blast at Darkseid's face, this time hitting him in the eye
"My computer isn't responding" Cyborg said as he tried to close the tube
"It's not the computer in there that's going to do this" Batman said as he placed a hand on Cyborg's shoulder "You are going to do this. You are only shot!"
Nathan threw another ball of Necroplasm at Darkseid when the Boom Tube behind him exploded and caused the ruler of Apokolips to yell in pain
"RAAAAAGH!"
Darkseid felt himself being dragged into the portal but not before sending one last glare at the group of heroes "I will retur-"
BOOOOOOOM!
Darkseid was cut off as the Boom tube exploded and blanked the entire area in a bright light. Soon the light died down and all that was left were the eight heroes…
"it's over." Spawn breathed in relief.
Diana nodded. "it is." She looked at him. "Are you alright?"
"I'll live." Nathan nodded.
"We're being watched" Aquaman said loudly, catching everyone's attention
The heroes looked to see people begin to emerge from the smoke
Flash looked a bit unsettled "Um…should we leave before they blame us again or…"
His worries were quickly put the rest as the crowd began to cheer "You did it!" and "You saved us!" "You're the world's greatest super-humans!" while others merely clapped and screamed in happiness that their world was now safe
Nathan smiled under his mask. 'It's not home...but in time it just might be.'
Three days later in Washington DC, Nathan stood alongside Batman, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg as they were being honored on the steps of the Capital building by the President of the United States himself.
"Today marks a momentous day in human history." The President said to the large crowd of people "In our darkest hour these people donned their colorful costumes and went into action."
"I don't wear a costume. This is my uniform." Lantern muttered out with a scowl.
"And this is Atlantean scale mail. Do they think I'd choose orange?" Aquman said annoyed.
"…These friends used their superpowers to protect us…" The president continued to give his speech unaware of the interaction between the heroes behind him.
"And we're not friends either." Lantern shot the rest a look.
Batman turned towards the emerald hero "We need to let them think we're both."
"Why?" Lantern asked confused.
Batman folded his arms across his chest "It'll keep the Gotham P.D. off my back. The Air Force off yours."
"I don't have time to belong to a team. I've got other responsibilities." Aquaman said.
"So do I." Wonder Woman agreed.
"I have a whole universe to protect." Lantern said with a hint of smugness in his tone which Nathan rolled his eyes at.
"We can do it together guys" Flash said, liking the idea of working with these people again, despite the rough start
Lantern gave Flash a look "Can you fly into space?"
"I can" Superman said with a smirk
"That's not the point." Lantern shot the man of steel an annoyed look "We all have other things we need to do. We're not friends. We're not a team. This was just a one-time thing okay?"
"That won't matter to the Universe, Lantern, not after what we did." Spawn said.
"What do you mean by that?" Lantern asked, as the other heroes looked at him.
"We just stopped what might be one of the biggest warlords in the Universe, the rest of it is gonna hear about it and more powerful, evil guys than Darkseid who are thinking of invading Earth are going to feel challenged by us defending the me Lantern…it won't be long until another comes a knocking, eager to take down the guys who beat Darkseid." Spawn said as he looked towards the sky knowing that Darkseid will make good on his promise and come back…
…And others will come to challenge them…
"Spawn is right" Batman nodded at the man's reasoning, already thinking along the same lines "We need to be ready for the next threat that will come this way."
"What are the chances of that?" Lantern scoffed as a aid ran up towards the President and whispered something in his ear.
After a moment, the President looked towards the heroes. "I'm sorry but we've got trouble. Your kind of trouble I guess. We need your team again."
Spawn and Batman both shot a look that said 'I told you so' at Lantern who growled in annoyance at being proven wrong…again.
"We have a name Mr. President" Flash said
"We do?" Lantern blinked at the fastest man alive.
"You do?" The President looked equally surprised.
"Sure" Flash nodded "You call us…"
"The Justice League." Spawn said as he took a step forward.
Flash shot Spawn a look who responded with a look of his own. "Do you have a better name?"
Flash looked like he was about to say something before he frowned. "Actually, your name sounds cooler than mine."
Batman took a step forward until he was standing side by side with Spawn. "What are we facing?"
In the back of the ground, in his human form, with a cane in hand, Mephisto smirked in dark amusement before he disappeared without anybody seeing him...
"Darkseid has failed in his conquest of Earth. The…heroes have beaten him and forced him back to Apokolips where he now licks his wounds…" a figure dressed in an odd robe with an equally odd mask said with a dark echoing tone as he laid kneeling before a levitating throne that was staring into the vast expanse of space
The figure on the throne didn't respond as they continued to observe the cosmos
The masked robed figure continued. "Our spy as misinformed us of the power these humans possess…to challenge this 'Justice League'…is to court death"
At the figure on the throne stood up causing the robed being to tense and bow his head until it was touching the ground almost
The figure on the throne turned to reveal they were wearing golden armor with a golden helm that exposed a purple face with a dark smirk on it. The being was every bit as large as Darkseid and every bit as intimidating and powerful
"...Perfect." Thanos the mad Titan said with a dark chuckle.
I did say this would be crossedover with Marvel, so Thanos and Mephisto have an appearance in the story. Thanos won't take any action for a while, like the MCU. I may have an Infinity Saga in the works where a few arcs involve one of the Infinity Stones.
Now, I'm still not sure on the pairing but if this does become a harem, this will be it for now.
Wonder Woman, Zatanna, Scarlet Witch, Lady Death (Image Comics), Huntress (Earth 2), Powergirl (Earth 2),