XXI
The moment Selina left with Diana I knew something was off, but after blowing Darkseid's son's head off I was surrounded. Several of Selina's goons flanked me on either side.
"Sorry about the mess…" I said with a smirk.
Selina's men didn't reply.
I let out a sigh, "Selina you fool."
Two of her men came charging towards me with blades.
"J'onzz…" I ordered.
He rushed down the hall following behind Selina as I ducked the first guy. I blasted the second guy at point blank range turning him into a pile of ash. The rest of Selina's men took a step back.
"Is fighting for that cheap whore worth dying for," I growled.
A few of the men muttered to themselves.
"What's in it for us?"
I looked over towards Selina's top bodyguard.
"Not dying Ollie," I said.
Ollie raised his eyebrow.
"Traitor…" one of the men shouted.
Ollie swiftly shot the man in the face.
"Dinah comes with me," he said as the smoke still bellowed from his gun.
I nodded.
"Well then let the fun begin…" Ollie slipped another round into the barrel of his gun.
I smiled.
A few of Selina's men rushed at both of us. I ripped a man's arm clean off and beat another in the head with it cracking his skull open. Ollie was headshotting men left and right. While I ripped Selina's men to shreds. After a few moments we were surrounded in a pile of broken bodies and blood.
"We make a pretty good team…" Ollie started to say but, something wasn't right.
A shiver ran up my spine.
"Who is Selina working for?" I hissed.
"Darkseid…." Ollie blurted out. "Darkseid…"
In a flash I rushed down the hall. I saw Selina slamming her office door closed behind her. Rage filled me.
"Selina!" I bellowed.
She reached for her gun and got off three rounds into my shoulder.
"DIE" she hissed.
"You first," I growled.
I unleashed hell fire from my eyes into her face. She barely made a sound as her flesh melted from her face so quickly. Rushing through her burnt body I slammed into the door. The door didn't budge. Suddenly, a rumble of thunder emanated from inside the room. I needed to get inside.
I rammed into the door a few times to no avail. I need something more powerful.
"J'onzz... J'onzz…" I called out. "I need you to phaselock into the room…"
Crackdoom….
"She's doing that," I saw J'onzz out of the corner of my eyes.
"What are you talking about, you green bastard?" I hissed. "We need to get in there and…"
Crackdoom….
"The thunder," J'onzz said as he pointed up to the heavens. "She's causing it. I knew she was powerful but this is fascinating…"
"Fuck you fascinations J'onzz!"
"I'd blast a little to the right of the door," he said. "He's got her pressed up against the door…."
I looked through the door. I saw his stone-like face peering down at her. His hands caressing her body…
"Mine…"
Everything after that was a blur. I blow a hole through the wall beside the door. Darkseid was on the far side of the room smoking.
"Diana," I said from behind her.
I felt reached out and touched her arm. I pulled her into me.
"Are you alright?" I asked.
I wrapped my arms around her. I watched the top of her head nod.
From the far side of the room Darkseid's laughter filled the room, "And so we finally meet Kryptonian…"
I held onto the Amazon tightly as I watched Darkseid stand to his feel.
"So we have," I growled. "I'm asking you to leave my establishment before you lose more than your worthless son tonight…"
"Oh him," Darkseid laughed. "You have done me a favor, Kryptonian. I'm sure the Amazon will give me a better one soon enough…"
A growl left my lips so loud that it shook the walls of the club.
"As I told your son, she's mine," I hissed. "If you want her you'll have to go through me…"
Darkseid raised his eyebrow. He almost looked amused at my declaration. A part of me knew he was amused. Sadly for him he didn't believe me. A fact he would regret.
"Diana," he called out. "Till we meet again…"
I boiled with rage as Darkseid bowed before a massive portal opened behind him. The coward ran. The Amazon buried her face into my chest as Darkseid's boomtube collapsed.
"I'm sorry," she muttered softly. "I didn't mean for…"
The way she buried her face into my chest made my heart tighten.
"He would have come no matter what happened here," I replied.
"He's here for me," she continued, ignoring my words. "I've already put you and your people in danger. I need to leave before he hurts anyone else."
She really couldn't believe this was all her fault. Darkseid had been scoping out my turf for years. I'd killed hundreds of his agents over the years. Her being here just gave him a valid reason to pick a fight.
"... I have to go back home…."
Her voice squeaked out from my chest. I didn't know how to tell her. If Darkseid was here then her family was probably already dead.
I let out a deep sigh, "He destroyed your home Diana…"
"What?"
"Your mother and sisters are dead," I added. "He killed them all…"
"By Gaia," she cried.
Her soft tears burned a trail down my chest.
"I said this was you home now," I added. "We are your family now. And I always look out for family."
The Amazon let out a long deep sob as she crumpled to her knees. I forced myself not to try and stop her. I needed to get her away from this mess.
"Prep the car," I ordered to J'onzz. "I'm taking her back home…"
J'onzz didn't reply. A part of me was waiting for him to try and say something smart. A part of me wanted him to. I was in the mood to murder a few more people. Darkseid came onto my turf and declared war. But J'onzz was smart enough to know now was not the time to press me. At this moment there was thin ice and then there was him. He knew he was on thin ice for putting her into this hot mess in the first place.
As the Amazon cried into her hands J'onzz reached down to touch her shoulder. Without thinking a growl left my lips. It echoed off the walls of Selina's office. J'onzz gaze immediately met mine. He took one look at the fury still burning in my eyes and took several steps back out of the room. I hear him scurry down the hall calling for Arthur to bring the car around.
"Amazon," I called out.
I felt sick to my stomach calling her out of her name but I needed to keep my distance. The way her cries made my heart ache, it was a weakness. At this moment I was at war. I couldn't have a weakness. Weakness got men killed and I wasn't planning on dying anytime soon.
"Amazon," I called out once more.
She still didn't respond. She seemed to be lost in a trance. I reached out for her and touched her arm.
"I should have gone home," she muttered as she turned to face me.
Her eyes were red from her tears. What little was left of my heart broke as her eyes met mine.
"If I had my mother might still…"
My hand moved on it's own and cupped her face. I pulled her gaze to mine. A lone tear slid onto my thumb as I brushed it away.
"He would have taken you and still killed them," I replied.
"You don't know that…" she snapped back.
I knelt down beside her and looked into her face, eyes to eyes. I saw the flames still seeping from my own eye in my reflection of hers.
"Oh but I do," I replied. "That's what men like us do. We don't leave anyone alive…"
"But you aren't like him…" she said.
I laughed. If she only knew.
"Boss…" I heard Arthur call me over the com.
"We're on our way out now," I said.
"Do you want Barry to send over the clean up crew?" he asked.
"Don't move anything just yet…" I said.
Arthur paused for a moment, "You sure about that? You left a bit of a mess…"
"I said don't move anything" I said, doubling down on my harsh tone.
"You're the boss," he replied.
Arthur closed the com. Alone with the Amazon I stood to my feet.
"Come on," I said coldly.
She looked up at me so lost. I was the last person she needed to seek answers from. Something as pure as her shouldn't be here in this world. I needed to show her a bit of that darkness to keep her away from it.
"Let's go home…"
I extended my hand down to her. She hesitated for a moment before she took my arm. Hand in hand I pulled her up right. She followed behind me as we left what was rumble that was once Selina's office. Walking through the hole I burned through the wall Diana stopped in her tracks.
"Selina…" she muttered.
I looked behind me to see Diana staring at the ashen remains of Selina still burning on the
Floor. Her eyes traveled up our joint hand and up to my face. Her bright blue eyes grew wide as she realized what I'd done.
"She betrayed me," I said as I pulled her forwards.
The Amazon's gaze still lingered on Selina's corpse as I pulled her down the corridor. She muttered a prayer of some sort. Why she wasted a thing on Selina I'd never know. As we walked towards the entrance I felt her tighten her grip on my hand. The sight of all the blood and bodies must have gotten to her.
I fought the urge to tell her to not look but as with Selina's body she needed to see that I was a danger. By the time we reached the entrance of the club, Barry and Hal were waiting for us with a grenade in hand.
"Big blue…" Barry said with a smirk.
I nodded as I walked past them.
"And I didn't think that he'd let us try these out…" Hal said.
I opened the car door and told the Amazon to step in. She did so without a word. As I closed the door I grunted to the boys.
"Bye, bye putty cat," Hal smirked.
He tossed the green glowing grenade in his hand into the front door of the Cat's Den.
BOOM!
Green flames flew to the heaven as the ground shook. I watched the flames consume the building. Bruce might be pissed I killed one of his playthings, but Selina was a liability. He understood that much. Joker might work for the cops but at least he loved Bruce's dick enough not to rat him out.
Ring, ring
"She fucked up didn't she," I heard Bruce's voice through the phone.
"Oh yes," I replied.
"Darkseid?" Bruce asked.
I hated when he acted like he didn't already know.
"Did he take the Amazon with him when he left?" he continued.
"No," I growled.
"I see," Bruce replied.
He wanted him to take her. I could tell from the tone of his voice.
"Well then I guess I've got a war to plan for," he added with a hint of glee. "Should I call your wife?"
I looked behind me to see the Amazon still crying through the car window.
"No," I replied. "I don't want her near my house tonight…"
Bruce immediately hung up on me.
"By Rao he better not bring her over," I muttered under my breath as I got into the car.
