Chapter 66)
Overgirl, or Xara as she had been dubbed by the rest of the group, leaned back. She had not made eye contact with Alexandra after the entire orgy occurred. A fairly sizeable group of women came in. Members of the JSA, members of Team Arrow, the Avengers, Team Flash, The Legends, and various other women came in. It was an entire group and both of the Earth-X women would be insane to try something.
Especially considering pretty much every member of AIM and HYDRA on this Battle World had been wiped out in the war.
"So, the two of you can work together now?" Alex asked.
Alexandra and Xara locked eyes, swallowed and both nodded. They were going to have to. Sara, Gwen, Alex, Kara, Caitlin, Karen, Natasha, and Mia all entered deep conversation in each other.
"So, is the Seer ready to talk now?" Mia asked.
"She wanted to wait until all of the women she saw coming together was in the same place," Gwen said. 'I believe once we recruited Overgirl and the Scientist Supreme, it's time."
"So, we're going after the Beyonder?"
Natasha's question had been cut off in the wind by the arrival of Julia, Madame Webb. The woman dressed in a skin tight body suit and peered over the top of the group of women who turned to them.
"You've all read this situation wrong," Julia said. "The Beyonder was the means to bring you all together. The Beyonder is not the treat which looms over you all."
"What are you trying to say?" Sara asked.
"There is a force of darkness which looms," Julia said. "You've all been tested. Some have played their parts better than others. The Beyonder will meet with you soon. But, I must warn you, there's no turning back right now. We are reaching the final war, the final battle. The Beyonder knew this was coming for thousands of years, before there was even a hint of your existence."
"What is the Beyonder?" Caitlin asked.
"Despite how brilliant many of you are, The Beyonder is beyond your comprehension," Julia said. "And while I can see much, and perceive things which the normal eye cannot see, there are many questions I have. But, we will settle those questions soon enough."
Julia made sure the eyes of every woman in the room fell upon her.
"The final war is at hand. And the journey is dangerous."
"We did not back down from danger before," Karen said. "And we won't back down now."
"So, please stop with the warnings and get us to the Beyonder," Sara said. "Unless, you aren't as intune with him as you say you are."
"Very well, let's all go."
The large army of heroines rose up. Their male friends had dealt with their own situation elsewhere, they were heroes of another story so to speak. But this was the story of these amazing women from different backgrounds and different walks of life.
They made a long treck. Kara, Lena, Gwen and Alex stood further in front them all of the rest. They wondered if they would ever see home again. They had to withhold hope.
"Someone's up front," Gwen said.
Kara screwed up her eyes and spoke in a surprise.
"Indigo?"
A woman dressed in white appeared. She resembled the form Indigo took while in her human guise. Blonde, blue eyes, but yet a silvery symbol, the House of El shield, had been worn upon her shoulder. The woman blinked a couple of times.
"You must have me confused by someone else," she said. "My name is Kara Zor-El. I am the guardian of the Flamebird Entity, and the last survivor of my universe."
"I'm Kara Zor-El as well," Kara murmured. "Actually, there's a growing number of us here."
"Wait, last survivor of your universe?" Lena asked. "Who…."
"The entity destroyed it," Flamebird said. "I was taken in by the Beyonder, and prepared for this great war. He has tested many great warriors and some have risen, while others have failed. I have lost everyone. Friends. Family. Enemies. Complete strangers. I watched them all decay to dust as the flames appeared to consume me as well, but I woke up in the midst of a room ten times hotter than the sun and twenty times brighter."
Flames appeared around her body.
"The Beyonder has prepared me to fight, and we're going to all fight," Flamebird said. "You were right, they would be here on this day, Madame Webb."
"Yes, and we must move forward," Julia said. "The time is now."
"Yes, so let's go already," Nora Darhk snapped.
"Unless, of course this is another one of your cryptic games," Grace said. "The last test made me some kind of puppet!"
"Okay, chill, Grace," XS said.
"THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO CHILL!" Grace snapped.
Caitlin went all Killer Frost and a cool burst of hair hit Grace on the back to jolt her back in the attention.
"She said, chill," Killer Frost said. "All of you. We have to keep moving. Now's not the time to rip themselves apart."
"Right," XS said. "We can do this. We can save the world."
"Not just one world," Flamebird sadly said. "All worlds. Or rather all worlds that remain."
This statement had caused great unrest with every single woman present. Did any of their worlds get ripped apart yet? Were they the last survivors, here against this awful universe destroying entity?
"Come," Julia said. "Your worlds are all safe. Although much of the future has not settled in stone."
"It's like concrete, it takes time to settle," Sara muttered.
With those words, all of them stepped forward.
Time passed into the ether. How long had they been walking? Hours? Days? Weeks? Alex did not know, although she had been at her wits end. They reached what appeared to be the end of the Earth. At least there was nowhere else to walk forward. A large wall made completely of some kind of mystical energy which sealed them into this world surrounded them.
Wanda stopped and her fingers rippled with energy.
"I don't like this," Wanda said. "There's power here that shouldn't be. Something, it is unsettling."
"Yes," Nora agreed. "This is magical power which takes years to even get right."
"Centuries."
A rumbling voice came out. Gwen snapped over. There was something around her, and despite the fact that her spider sense did not go off, Gwen still felt uneasy about the entire situation. She had a sickening sense the Beyonder could get the drop on her and be powerful enough to circumnavigate her spider sense.
"You're the Beyonder," Natasha said.
The Black Widow spoke about as calmly as possible as her gaze fell onto the shadows. The Beyonder appeared to be not present, but at the same time the entity appeared to be present at all.
"Your interactions have been quite enlightening, and no doubt forged a few new bonds," the Beyonder commented in a loud booming voice. "Your male friends have gone onto their own quest. Mr. Queen, Mr. Allen, Mr. Stark, Mr. Rory, Mr. Banner, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Quill, Mr. Groot, Mr. Rocket, Mr. Howlett, and the always entertaining, Mr. Wade Wilson, they have played their parts and have won several small battles. But through those small battles."
"So, after all of this time, why speak to us?"Gwen asked.
"As my Oracle has told you, the final battle approaches. The entity will destroy all and reshape it into their own dark image."
"You know, maybe you should speak to us," Alex said. "Face to face on all level. If you've judged us so worthy to help us."
"So be it."
The Beyonder's energy swirled around and formed.
"I will take in a form which will fit in quite nicely with your group."
A tall dark-haired woman appeared, dressed all in black with curves as far as the eye could see. The Beyonder folded her arms underneath her sizeable chest and even in this form stood over seven feet tall as she peered down on all of the women.
"That's the last thing I expected when thinking of the Beyonder," Daisy said.
"Indeed," Lena said.
"I am anything I wish to be. Or nothing at all."
The entire group did not say any word. Now as the time for the Beyonder to explain anything.
"The Monitors rose up when there was a multiverse created. Their purpose was to observe, and only to intervene during times of great crisis. But there was one monitor who wanted to rise up further than that. He was the antithesis of everything the monitor had been created. He sought to destroy and rebuild the universe in all of his own image. Under one world, and everything obsolete would be deleted."
The Beyonder looked at them.
"As such, he had been called the Anti-Monitor."
"Wow, there's a name which took him all of two minutes to come up with," Xara said. "Wait...is that?"
An image of Earth X appeared above the Beyonder. A large, dark entity approached it and the Beyonder waved their hands before they appeared. The groups of people on the ground, both Nazi soldiers and rebels alike, civilians as well, had been consumed by the hideous shadows which descended down on the planet.
"YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Xara yelled.
"Fuck," Alexandra yelled.
The strongest soldiers in the reich did not have the chance. The prisoners of the nearest concentration camp and their sense of liberation came shortly when the entity came in and assumed them. They all crumbled in dust one at a time.
"You, all gone, just like that," Alexandra said.
"That's how the Anti-Monitor works," Flamebird said. "The same thing happened on my world and others."
"That's bad," Felicity said. "Really bad. I mean I can't be broken up by a bunch of Nazis being wiped out and they got what they deserved."
Felicity stopped short, but the damage had been done. Mia broke out in a sigh. Her mother could mean well, and meant well at times. However, this is one of those times where she put her foot in their mouth.
"Did you not watch that?" Xara asked. "The rebels. The prisoners. They were all wiped out as well. Civilians who never harmed another person in their life. Dead in an instant but sure, because that Earth had Nazis on it, everything deserved to be wiped out. Well, I guess you think that every Earth who has people like that should be wiped out. Best to wipe everything out for the greater good!"
"I never...I never thought…."
"He didn't care about them being Nazis," Alexandra quietly said, although she seethed. "He will wipe out everything."
The image paused and the dark clad moved towards a dark-haired woman. Despite the differences, Felicity stared into a mirror image of herself. Wiped out. Terror in her eyes Mirror images of Thea and Laurel followed and had been wiped out like they were nothing. Despite they stood with the Nazis, it caused a pit of disgust to rise in Felicity's face.
The barren wasteland appeared.
"But, I'm sure because there were Nazis there, they deserved it," Xara said. "Was there a Hitler in your universe?"
"Yes, but he's gone…."
"Your loved ones deserved to be wiped out too," Xara said. "After all, Nazis existed. Everyone's tainted forever."
Her harsh words reduced Felicity into tears. Mia looked at Xara and wrapped an arm around her sobbing mother who broke down into tears.
"You only care about the lives of people around you, when you can feel morally superior," Xara said. "Because, you feel things are being done for the greater good."
The images of Havenrock under nuclear fire thanks to her flooded back into Felicity's mind. Despite the justification of having no choice, due to trying to minimize damage, Felicity realized she made this decision for the greater good. She bluescreened at the fact Xara might have a point.
"ENOUGH!"
Alex finally had enough of this discussion. It would get them nowhere.
"The fighting won't solve anything," Alex said. "The Anti-Monitor doesn't care about ideology. The Anti-Monitor only cares about destruction. And regardless of what your beliefs are, it doesn't matter. Not today. Not when there's a monster who will wipe everything out. And not just Earth-X either."
Flamebird answered with a nod.
"So, what now?" Alex asked the Beyonder.
The Plot Continues in the Next Chapter