Gotham City

Bane and Scarecrow came back to their city. After failing to retrieve Batman, the two were forced to come back and plead to their master for mercy. Their master would have its mood change into a way much worse than anyone who'd be in a bad mood. The two servants have tried their utmost on expressing how sorry they are for failing to retrieve the Batman. In everyone's viewpoint, this Batman would've been easier to get since the latter is weary and almost breathless over the impact of the air in this world.

Omega leisurely walks past Bane and Scarecrow, the both whom have kneeled before their master. Omega wasn't too easily caught on forgiving them, and not at all desiring them to seek redemption by having them bow down and repeatedly apologise. "You expect me to accept your forgiveness just by kneeling down like dead mice, and appealing me due to your failed attempt in capturing the one man that could easily have been taken had you not wasted your time toying with him like I asked you to not to?", Omega rhetorically questions. He stands behind Bane and Scarecrow, not really having his head turned on looking at the two, even though his focus is precisely on them. "Don't step into my city until you complete the task. As far as I can shoulder on admitting something on this broken planet, I know survivors are still slithering around like worms. It won't be long till the Batman assembles an insurgency to take on my forces. Or at least try to form his own resistance".

Bane and Scarecrow are afraid to roll their heads. They're shivering, scared they might get obliterated at anytime soon if one single mistake occurs in front of Omega.

Finally, Omega tilts his head, only a little, to roughly eye at Bane and Scarecrow. "Do not fail me!", the being shouts at them. Afterwards, he energises his hand enveloped in dark red light, instantly teleporting Bane and Scarecrow out of Gotham City, and, as a result, out of Omega's eyesight.

Following Bane and Scarecrow vanished off sight, Omega turns around, subsequent to heading to a certain point.

Coast City

Batman, Kara and Sara are in an abandoned bar, which like everything else is in ruins, and broken. Most of the ceiling and walls, especially the chairs and tables are gone. The trio had no choice otherwise to hide out in a store since they didn't want to draw themselves out in the opening with hundreds of demons and monsters lurking beneath the dune. From the start in time, when they arrived in the ruined bar, to now, the three have been talking about their perspective histories they underwent. Sara and Kara's perspectives are different to Bruce's.

"Gathering up your side of the history, Lex Luthor plotted a kyptonite meteor showering on our planet, otherwise now exploded because you destroyed the meteor before it touched the Earth. You were caught in that explosion, which somehow transcended you to the year 2040, thereby meeting Oliver and Kara's future children, as well as the remaining members of the Justice League and other survivors. You helped the year 2040 rebels against a darker version of Supergirl, which ultimately led to Barry's daughter, Oliver and Kara's children, and you inside the Speed Force. And that was the last thing you recalled before blacking out", Sara sums up Batman's partial history.

"That's correct", Bruce assures her. His cowl is finally out of his head, now laid on the table. "At first, when I woke up, I had two beliefs. One, I could be back in 2018, but realised Lex's attempt in blasting the kryptonite had successfully destroyed most of mankind and most parts of the world. Two, I thought I still remained in the 2040, and got separated from the others".

"Well, you no longer have to state what year you're in cuz you're in the year 2050. A post-apocalyptic world where our worst nightmare had laid waste across the world, killing potentially 98% of the population. I could be wrong, considering we aren't sure what the victims have been thrown into", Sara explained.

"Didn't the Justice League help?", Bruce asked, inadvertently triggering Kara to accidentally blast heat vision nearly at Bruce's head. The blast went straight at one fractured wall of the bar. Bruce didn't notice he triggered Kara's anger.

"I'm sorry about her, Bruce. This whole world was long turned into a shitty hell hole", said Sara, placing two hands on Kara, soothing her till Kara became a little silent.

"It's fine", Bruce reassures her. "You were saying?". Bruce had a feeling Sara was about to respond, on the other way came Kara's interruption.

"A lot of things have been happening, Bruce. Dark times. For us as people who experienced battling against tons of foes. Even dealing a crisis involving demons, zombies, aliens, godlike creatures. This one dark event was a huge extension of our suffering", said Sara.

Bruce begins to think it was something that started off with his death, subsequently leading to much of the madness flung upon the team Batman frequently affiliated with. He turns to Kara. "You said I died from an incurable heart virus", he recalled.

"The beginning of an era of darkness. 30 years ago, right after your death, secretly, there have been countless officials replaced with duplicates to cover up and block on any boundary crossed by reporters, investigators and detectives. If any of them found out the truth, their consequences would lead to punishment, imprisonment or execution. Not just that, those same duplicates used their power to pursue their agenda: remove the Justice League", Sara explained.

"We weren't paying much attention on what's been happening because we were so deeply affected by your death. A lot of people felt empty, beaten, almost dead. Clark, Barry, Dick, Barbara, Lois, even Diana was hurt. She was broken the most. Countless more had also been affected. A lot more than that they became lost. Because we all weren't ourselves, we didn't give much focus on reality. Just succumbing to our emotions", Kara explains.

Bruce began sympathising for Kara and Sara, in addition to everyone deeply affected by this reality's version of Bruce, died from a deadly virus. He wondered how he wasn't attacked at the heart. At some point, Bruce will have to examine his body, and by some means develop a cure if he figures out what can prevent the virus from enveloping a disastrous blow around his heart. It's a one shot bullet to the heart.

Just after any one of the three were about to speak, the three hear a nearby sound as if part of the land pushed up. Hearing that noise prompted Bruce, Sara and Kara to check on where the noise came from.

Thanks to Kara's super-hearing, the three reached up to where the bar's entrance is in. The entrance, like the rest of Coast City, is dismantled.

Kara's x-ray vision detects dozens of creatures approaching the bar. She predicts the time for these creatures to arrive in herself and her friends' spot isn't for long. "A dozen of Slingers heading our way. I calculate in estimate less than minutes for them to appear", Kara addresses to her allies.

"We have to move to the teleporter pod", Sara announces the plan.

"Shouldn't Kara be able to buy us time? Unless I'm missing something, am I?", Bruce questions. He has his mask worn on his head, despite knowing he doesn't need to have his identity concealed. During this instance, Bruce feels Batman is more what is necessary than Bruce Wayne.

"I'm sorry to break in the bad news, Bruce, but there's a lot you don't know about this world", Sara claims, indicate whatever Bruce saw so far is just the first wave of the situation.

"Now can we be quiet?! Those things are almost here", Kara addresses them.

The three make their way out of the bar, intent on staying undetected.

The Slingers arrived close to where Bruce, Kara and Sara occupied in the bar. They cast about throughout the left behind remains of Coast City. They are on the lookout, acted to be a monstrous human-eating flesh zombie. While they're in the midst of literally breaking stuff, in the same way that they always do non-stop, unbeknownst to them, there are three people sneaking past them.

Bruce, Sara and Kara, quietly moving ahead, reached up to a turn over broken car, in course due, hiding behind it. Their safest option is to walk away with less blood on their hands. Not a tip of their fingers can land one blow on them. Their trickling feet is the trail of their anxiety.

"What the hell are those things?", Bruce exclaims, whilst each time glancing back and forth on the Slingers. "They appear to wield the Green Lantern rings. No one such as them should have access to this power. It's impossible and impractical". Bruce knows about the function of the rings. He fought alongside Hal Jordan and John Stewart respectively and together at many times over the years since the day the Justice League banded together.

"We can discuss about the impractical shit later. We have to find that teleporter pod fast", said Sara. She is preoccupied on pursuing an opening in order for herself, and her friends, to make their way down to the only place. The one place that took them in here. Right now, Sara perceives a swarm of Slingers marching on the road, lifting up piles of rocks and smashed vehicles. Her quivery eyes see no opening path as of now. Sara hopes there is some kind of miniscule opening located around them like an alleyway, a nearby store where the entrance is tightly fit to permit one person at a time to suit in passing.

Bruce fishes about Coast City, shortly later noticing something hovering above Coast City seemingly. He nearly thought it was a moon that surprisingly became very close to the Earth's crust. He was wrong as soon as Batman realised it was actually a source that would power all the Green Lantern rings. "The battery?", Bruce wondered about what the source is doing floating up there. He swiftly turns to Sara and Kara. "What happened to the battery? Why is it grey?". Bruce ascertains difficulty figuring out how the Slingers can wield the power of the rings when the battery is out of commission.

"A terrible stain to mark the end of the Green Lantern Corps", Sara proclaims. She glances up at the floating battery, recalling the time it happened, time when all was shown to everyone's eyes that hope and peace have relinquished themselves from existence. "35 years ago, after the world was finally turned into a deserted, sterile land, the Green Lantern Corps opted to arrive in Earth to stop the crisis from extinguishing more destruction across the world. That led to many of the Lanterns' deaths being pretty grisly".

"The grisly part was only the beginning. That madman, Omega, after being victorious, punished the Lanterns by sending Braniac to leech Mogo to death, furthermore causing rings to drop to the Earth like rain", Kara explained, adding more to what Sara explained to Bruce. She also came to subsequently look up at the battery. "Omega contaminated the rings, implanted them forcefully on his victims. That was how the birth of these Slingers came to be. Monsters. Many have known him as the Darth Knight".

Batman is left with nothing but to think this world has lost hope. Before he could approach Kara and Sara closely, he feels the ground shake.

The ground quaking prompted the three to properly and fixedly hide behind the over turned car. They peeled open their eyesight out to the Slingers.

The green monstrous baby avatars are almost reaching up to the car, though not intentionally trying to life the one car Bruce, Kara and Sara are concealing themselves behind. The Slingers are sharpened on pursuing the other cars, seeing as there are a hundred trashed vehicles.

"They haven't spotted us yet", Bruce noted, catching out that the Slingers went past the car.

During the moment, Sara discovers a road that the Slingers had blocked Sara's sight from catching it. She knows Kara would've found it, and knew the latter is still heavily low because of one bombarded moment that would plant the memory inside her for a long time. "I see a street across", Sara addressed, watching it due to her head slightly elevated over the car, whilst the woman bends one knee down. She bends her upper half body down, clearing the way gifted on bringing about her eyes met with Bruce and Kara's. "We should be able to get across so long as a distraction is set off".

Soon after Sara mentioned 'distraction', herself and Bruce looked at Kara, the latter whom noticed the look on their faces.

Kara, hearing Sara and Bruce giving her a look to provide distraction, accepts their request, preparing to have her heat vision set on somewhere the Slingers, moving up front, are closing on a certain spot where Kara could shoot a laser at one of the vehicles.

The Slingers march to wherever the wind pushes them to go. As they move closer to shift to the next road, they shortly noticed a truck exploded beside them. The output shoves them back, including the wielders. This drew the attention of more Slingers to arrive at this point. While they're surveying the aftermath of the explosion, it was unknown to them that a heat vision was what caused the explosion to transpire.

Meanwhile, Sara, Kara and Bruce managed to reach up to other side of a new street they took upon via running. No big impact such as shin splinters or stretch fractures. The distance they ran up wasn't too big, compared to the long path Bruce took to run from the time he awoke up to reaching Central City. They ended up at one store, caused by Kara addressing her allies they've reached where they're supposed to be in.

When Bruce came across, he began to think how safe it is in a store where it's plainly distinguished as being very ruined presumably caused by the Slingers. He is considering the possibility of any dangerous creatures lingering in the shadows in that store they are entering. He wouldn't want to imagine the League of Assassins empowered with Green Lantern rings. It would lavish the chance the three have of escaping a city filled with baby avatars. Now, Batman chooses to enter the store, trusting Sara and Kara they wouldn't be bestowed upon a sneak attack.

Entering the store, Batman follows Sara and Kara as they begin leading him to the other side of the area. Each foot swinging forth, passing the wasted, scrunched up items remained in shelves.

Every foot travels the path to the deeper darkness, that would, in the end, lead to one way. One way fully filled with a wide range of possible outcomes. In the daylight came the bright illumination over the store mostly because the sun shines outside. In the night, and in this current time, there is only darkness for the store once no light beams down. The trio slowly walk, making sure their thuds don't alarm the presence of anything, indicating there's likely little creatures creeping inside.

Sara, Kara and Batman have finally made it to the other side of the area. Their slow pace didn't seem to bring out the vigilance of anyone, implying the creatures never heard anyone walking inside the store, or there never was one hiding in the shadows. They ended up closed on the wall.

Batman observes Sara focused on the code panel, typing the code.

Sara finishes typing the code in. She steps back, watching as the panel begins to process the code, ultimately resulting it displaying a sign being valid.

A secret door reveals in front of the three. It then proceeds with the door opening itself, providing an entrance to a lair.

The trio hurl their legs, rendering their stout, warm bodies to proceed going forward. They enter the door, making their way inside a dark hallway.

Bruce notes the corridor being gloomy, tarnishing, and a poor texture. The walls date back to their resemblance to the texture of the old caves. Cobwebs affixed on the corner of the cave ceilings. He himself walks across a dismally dark hallway, unafraid of it. Pushing his feet up forward, he walks and walks. His eyesight grasps visibly on the other side.

On another part of his head, Bruce thinks about the teleporter pod that Kara and Sara carried on talking about. "A straight bet, presuming the teleporter pod is a device used for teleportation", Batman said.

"Yep, that's right", Sara responds, unsurprised as she knows it's not difficult to tell what function a teleporter pod does "It's actually how we got in and out of Coast City".

"In and out?", Bruce wondered. He reflects via having flashback on a dying man Bruce found in a house. He mentioned about a rumour of an assembled league in Coast City. Batman didn't have the right moment to speak about it with Sara and Kara. Now he does. "A rumour has been going around an assembled league of defenders in Coast City. Are they alive?".

"Yeah", Kara replies, stopping her movement, turning to face Bruce. "We were apart of them".

"Were?", Bruce thinking about what that meant.

Sara sighs, not wanting to remember an occurrence, though she had to tell Bruce. She swirls around, meeting Bruce in the eye. "A few months ago, our base of operations in Coast City had been nested by demons, tagged with the Slingers you saw up there". Exactly after Sara says, she turned around to move ahead to reach to the other side.

Bruce and Kara soon followed on route.

"We as a team called ourselves the Insurgency. We were this world's last chance in stopping Omega. Soon we failed. Most of our Insurgency died", Sara said. She flashbacks the deaths of her allies Ray Palmer, Amaya Jiwe, Nate Haywood and Cisco Ramon, as well as multiple resistance fighters who became apart of the Insurgency. "Our only escape was the teleporter pod. We used it to travel to the Fortress of Solitude. But the impact from the demons cause a slight malfunction that made each and every one of us end up in different locations. The only people I know that are alive are just me and Kara".

"Mmm", Batman acknowledges what Sara and Kara divulged him. "What happened to Diana, and Clark? Are they alive?".

The mention of Clark and Diana's names caused Sara and Kara to stop.

"Bruce. About Diana", Kara begins to think about their current status, feeling greatly conscience-stricken for bringing up something she never got to rid off due to it always haunting her back and forth. She shortly stops, turning to face Bruce once again. She didn't want to disclose what happened to Diana, knowing the toll it would put on Bruce, that is if the latter really loves her like the same Bruce Kara knew of from her world.

Bruce finally realises the status of Diana, his wife. He face shaping a sad expression.

"I'm sorry", Kara tried to show her sympathy for Bruce's loss.

In Bruce's composure, the latter tries to retain his unfazed look, and keeping his heart beats controlled so that Kara wouldn't hear her via super-hearing. Admitting the status of Diana's is that she's dead, Bruce decides to pass through Sara and Kara, heading towards the end of the hallway, leaving trails picked up by the two women as these two moved forward.

"I'm presuming Clark is dead too?", Bruce asked the women. He has sentiment this world metamorphosed into because the death of Superman defined a purposeful chance for evil to pledge their completion in their agenda. Bruce had less of a tense reaction of hearing about Superman current status. He may have feelings. In a different way, he keeps those feelings locked inside. Despite having a less effective reaction on what he learns about Superman, deep down, Batman would feel hefty sorrow and grief for Clark Kent, his best friend, and his favourite superhero.

"Clark was one of the people that died on that same day the Justice League died", Kara replied, making Bruce sure he is right.

"Mmm", Bruce interjected.

During their conversation, the three had now landed up to the other door. They slid it open, afterwards, entering the room.

Unbeknownst to Bruce, Kara and Sara, a particular being stands atop a ruptured building. He is outside, gazing at the store Bruce, Kara and Sara entered in. He made no decision to come inside. Although he seems to be prepared, distinguished from red sparks flowing around the humanoid being's entire body. A red aura enveloped his entire body. The suit he wore is a darker red armoured bodysuit with pointy ear pieces on both sides of his ears, as well as a split-apart bat symbol embedded on his chest. He shortly blasted off, precisely after taking note of Bruce, Kara and Sara happening to be in there.

Bruce, Kara and Sara have now come inside the room.

Sara turned the lights on.

After the lights are on, the trio perceive one of the lights flickering. They ignored it for the reason that it didn't bother them. Sara and Kara aren't planning on staying in here. They never were.

The radiant photons cause expansion of illumination widely over the whole room, outreached to every end of the room. It finally lit the consent in terms of eyesight that were blocked by the darkness.

Bruce quickly surveys the room. He gets to know that there is nothing in the room except slightly broken furniture, vandalised equipment most likely caused from the things that are present in this world. As his eyes turned to his very sharp front, Bruce perceives what appears to be a physical stoned-like doughnut structure.

"That up there is the Teleporter Pod", Sara introduces, standing up close beside Bruce, and gesturing the latter to look at which one she is referring to.

Bruce acknowledges the name, though he had never seen this technology before when he was in his own present timeline. "Never seen that Teleporter Pod in my time", Batman addressed.

"That's because you haven't seen it yet. 2 decades from your time, species known as the Highbreed will launch an attack, a war, for reasons regarding their beliefs that their DNA is the purest of all alien species. Blah blah blah, the racial gossip. Long story short, they ultimately lost the war. But it didn't mean happening to be taken down with these bad boys, and the good news is that it still works".

Batman would surely want to know about the Highbreed invasion. Though he is less decisive on desiring to know the future, he does need to anything that would endanger the world. If Bruce finds a way back to the present, he could prevent any of this from happening, or maybe somehow contact someone he feels he can trust.

Since the time shrouded in Bruce and Sara's short talk, Kara has been preparing the Teleporter Pod using knowledge she gathered from how to use the device without any tutorials or an instruction manual to help her. A few moments later, Kara has finally completed the Teleporter Pod, subsequent to setting its course to a certain location.

"What did you come back to Coast City?", Batman questioned Sara.

"We figured maybe there might've been survivors hanging around, but too weak to stand. At this point, your only allies are the ones you rescue. We took our time finding one in every broken building in this city. No sign of someone happening to be alive. Just dead corpses we were forced to cross through, until we saw a jet crashing down Coast City", said Sara.

"Which was me?", Batman says.

"Yeah", Sara replied.

Both Sara and Bruce arrived at Kara's side. The three are set to throw themselves into the portal. Prior to readying their positions, they felt the room shake, rendering them all subsequently staggered. The trio speedily revolved around, in due course, perceiving giant green hands smashing down, extending down to nearly Bruce's reach.

A green baby hand attempts to extend its hand further, attempting to capture Batman. Soon, the green avatar figure pops its face in Bruce, Kara, and Sara's respective sights. It roared at them.

A deep continuous cry fears the three, knowing they are out of time, and they are needed to get through the Teleporter Pod.

"Quick! The Teleporter Pod", Batman orders Sara and Kara, in which they complied.

The three swiftly turn their heads, rushing inside the target.

An craving hand extends more and more towards the three's separate backsides. The tip of its finger almost reaching up to them space covered by another space as the line draws closer.

After swinging their legs straight further across, the three finally get set to jump. Pushing themselves off the surface, they all threw themselves into the portal.

The green hand, rather than having to seize any of the three, grasps on the portal, thus causing intense electric sparks flying outwards at an intense rate. Seconds forwarding, the collision between the portal and hand spirals out an enormous outburst, reaching its vibrations all over the whole lair until all of it begins to shatter and explode from the Teleporter Pod.

Gotham City

Omega undergoes a brief sharp itch shot in his head. He senses something that happened. A touchy feeling he can no longer identify clearly as if the presence has instantly vanished. The air becomes light around, looking like there never ever was that thick pressure surrounding him. "You're not dead", Omega comments on someone in particular to suddenly no anymore be in his conscious radar, indicating he had a similar way of vanishing from being detected. Under his mask, despite understanding the presence of someone, he never smiles. In his case, it's hell that clouds inside him. Very different from all the evil who use theirs powers primarily on satisfaction.