The First stepped back quickly as Ki bolts struck the ground where his feet had fallen mere seconds before, creating tiny craters. The speed at which the bolts had come was severely taxing even his own personal speed. The First growled in rage as the bolts faded away as they hit the ground, doing no more damage to the city of Los Angeles than was absolutely necessary. This angered him. He'd at least hoped that the blasts would have caused destruction. That way he'd at least have some measure of satisfaction. The First mused over this a bit too much however. A fist struck him in his left temple, breaking off a horn and sending him sprawling across the United States. He was then hit again by the same being, who had outran the First's missile like flight and struck him again sending right back to L.A.

    Superman smirked from the East Coast as he saw Goku slam both fists into the head of the First back in Los Angeles. Superman then whistled as even he had problems counting the numbers of punches and kicks that Goku was hitting the First with.

    The First fell limp to the Los Angeles freeway. Superman rocketed back and plowed into with a mighty punt, which sent the First rolling along the ground. The First coughed blood and rose only to see Goku instantly transmit himself in front of him. The Saiyen's now ebon hair seemed to shimmer as it merely pointed at finger at him. A pencil thin blast of energy erupted out of the First's back. The blast flew to Superman who with a swift flick of the wrist deflected it. Using his speed he was in its path again, rebounding it back to the First making it go through the demon's body again. Superman did this again and again until the First fell to its knees, resembling the car that Bonnie and Clyde were finally killed in by Federal Authorities. In short, he looked like Swiss cheese.

    "Give up and you can walk away from this." Goku said calmly, though there was a sneer on his face. Superman joined Goku at his side.

    "We don't like to kill, but you're pressing us. Undo the damage you've done and walk away. It's the only deal you get, you sick monster." Superman growled.

    The First hacked up black viscous blood, "Mercy…is…. for…the…. w-weak."

    "Your call." Superman said unleashing an immense blast of white heat vision. It could more appropriately be called nova vision at this point.

    The area was totally charred, but the First still lived at the heart of this inferno. Grunting in effort it rose, refusing to give up, even in the face of these odds. Smoke rose from its horribly burned body. Energy flickered at its fingertips and lashed out at the two heroes…who had already moved. Twin rights to the back of the head from both men sent the First flying forward, tearing up the earth as he went. Despite this, the First managed to right itself with its wings and fire back at the two heroes. A huge Ki bolt and more nova vision dispersed his blasts. Both blasts in turn hit him hard. The First fell flat on its back. It didn't move.

    Superman walked up the First, examining it. He nudged it with his foot. As he expected the First lurched upwards hissing, its talons aimed at his chest. Superman caught the creature's wrist and snapped it. Shrieking in pain, the First staggered back.

    "That was for that child you killed." Superman growled, grabbing the First's tail, "And this, is for J'onn's grief you bastard!"

    Superman spun the First by its tail, faster than a cyclotron. The First felt parts of his flesh come off from the enormous speeds. He was then released into the air. Split seconds earlier, Goku was cupping his hands. Blue energy gathered.

     "Ka.me.ha…me…HA!" Goku bellowed as a huge blast of blue energy issued out and struck the First head on. The First's wings were practically vaporized and it fell back to earth in a heap. The First Evil then began to pull itself to its feet. It fell over. Again it rose, and again it met with the same results. By the third attempt however, the First was standing. Shakily.

    "You…insects….are…beginning…to annoy….me." the First said to the two heroes in front of him.

    "Then let one more annoy you villain!"

    The First turned and was struck by Thor, battered and bloody but never defeated, and thrown back past Goku and Superman. Thor limped forward and joined the other two.

    "Thor, you look horrible." Superman said in shock.

    The Odinson was horribly bruised, one eye swelled shut, blood pouring from his face staining his blonde beard.

    "Aye. But still better than you." Thor coughed weakly.

    Superman smiled.

    "Back to business?" Goku asked the other two.

    "Aye." Thor said as Mjolnir glowed bright blue.

The Astral Plane

    Buffy had smirked at their handiwork as she closed the trunk door. The First's mind had been defeated. Pierced by hundreds of spears, wrapped in psychic chains, locked within a gigantic psychic box. Buffy walked away with a smirk as Faith finished laying down the psychic brick wall.

    "So when do we take off B?", Faith asked.

    "As soon as Adam tells us that the force out there has killed the First. Then we get to go home." Buffy said to the dark Slayer with a smirk.

    "Five by frickin' five." Faith smiled.

Japan

    Godzilla and the other three Guardians observed the spire in Neo Tokyo. It was huge, much taller than any of them. Godzilla then started breathing fire against it. No effect. Gamera aided with plasma blasts. Still nothing. Rodan joined in firing his weaker radioactive beam. Still nothing. King Seesar, the only monster present without some sort of projectile weapon, studied the spire for he was also the most intelligent monster there as well.

    The spire had a certain smell to it, something the others could no doubt pick up. But perhaps they couldn't place it the same way as he could: given his higher intelligence. Seesar just kept watching as the attacks against the spire failed. Seesar looked to the sky where the spire was creating the field of darkness. He also looked and saw a few Gyaos flying in the distance. He instantly placed the smell. The spires stank of the same stench as the Gyaos. Dark mana was present. This was what this spire was pumping out. That meant that only Light mana could counter it.

    Seesar roared to get the attention of the others. He strode up to the spire and slapped it with his hand. He then strode over and slapped that same hand against the underbelly of Gamera's shell. He did this twice more. Gamera started to cry out with its own roar. It understood! Gamera walked closer to the spire as Seesar motioned for the others to move back with him.

    Gamera began to concentrate, letting the energies in his shell build to a fevered pitch. His underbelly began to glow a golden yellow. Gamera was absorbing all the light mana he could for such a task. There would be consequences in the years to come for using this attack. If any Gyaos survived this day, then they would breed in great numbers and possibly overrun the world.

    Still that was a risk that needed to be taken. A distant death for a present one. The energies shimmered as a huge beam of gold fired out from Gamera's underbelly. The light mana hit the spire dead on and began to consume it. The spire was not being destroyed, rather covered by the golden light. The light mana permeated the spire and without warning bright golden light shot from the top of the spire and struck the darkness and spreading outwards around the world.

Sunnydale

    Thanos waded through the Turok-Han as if they were nothing. Well, to him they were nothing. They turned to ash with a simple energy bolt or blow that effectively decapitated them. Before he had arrived there had been a struggle, with only Gamora and the corpse, Ernie doing any good whatsoever. Now that Thanos had come, there was no struggle. He was single-handedly fighting the entire Turok-Han army. And he was slaughtering the whole lot of them.

    Spike howled in joy as he saw more and more Turok-Han turn to dust. Seconds later however he howled in pain. The sun was shining again. After all it WAS Saturday afternoon in America. Spike and Angel both fell to their knees and began to smoke. Small patches of fire broke out on both of them and then suddenly, they stopped hurting. Or burning for that matter.

    "What the?" Angel asked looking at his hand.

    "You said it Peaches." Spike said doing likewise. They were covered in fields of darkness that seemed to shield them from the sun.

    "I trust that's much more comfortable. Can't have two of our allies turning to dust now can we?" Doctor Strange said, clutching his side.

    "Thanks Doc. You couldn't happen to teach this spell to Red could you?" Spike asked.

    "I could, but it isn't really good for the environment." Doctor Strange replied.

    "Bollocks." Spike said with a frown.

    "All right though. The sun's back. I can work on my tan again." Cordelia said with a smile.

    Nearby Oz began to revert to human form, "Whoa."

    "You okay man?" Xander asked, "Thought you could control your shape shifting now."

    "Yeah, but its harder to be the wolf during the day." Oz replied, rubbing his head.

    "As far as I'm concerned this has been pretty good as far as Judgment Days go." Xander replied watching the Turok-Han that Thanos wasn't killing, turn to dust, "I mean the Uber Vamps are going down, the sun's back, and Cordy can work on her tan. Other that big boom that let the Uber Vamps through, we're getting off pretty easy."

    Tara started to laugh, but then shouted.

    "Oh my God!"

    Xander turned around and saw Anya limping up, covered in burns and bleeding badly. She fell forward flat on her face. Xander instantly lurched forward and went to her side, lifting her head into his lap.

    "Oh God…An…. Anya talk to me here baby." Xander said in fear.

    Anya punched his arm weakly, with a smile, "Guess you have to be my naughty nurse while I recover now big boy."

    Xander smiled, "Eh. I don't look so good in the outfit."

    "I dunno. Fishnets on you might be nice." Anya laughed, before coughing.

    Xander held her close and kissed her forehead.

Los Angeles

    The First could take no more. He was being battered on all sides and worse still, the sun had returned. He merely staggered weakly as Superman punched him again, breaking his other horn. Superman then lifted the demon by his neck and threw him in the air towards his spire at breakneck speeds.

    "Now." Superman said unleashing a potent burst of nova vision.

    "For Midgard!" Thor bellowed.

    "For life!" Goku screamed.

    "Forever." Superman said calmly.

 Goku and Thor also released a large Kamehameha wave and a godly essence blast respectively. All three attacks his the First head on and the arch demon screamed in pain and anger as his body began to burn and melt away. The First's body and the blasts impacted the spire making it collapse. What had to be millions of tons came down on top of the First, burying his remains. Earth's three mightiest champions smiled and cheered because the First Evil was no more.

    "Look out below!" Atom Smasher said as he landed on the ground, at sixty feet tall.

    "Friend Atom Smasher, did you fall from that distance?" Thor asked.

    Superman and Goku looked up and smiled.

    "No such luck." Superman replied.

    Vegeta floated a good hundred feet up in the air.

    "I had to carry that buffoon all the way back down just to find that you had all stolen the limelight again. Typical." Vegeta eyed the others, particularly Goku with disgust, before blasting off in Japan's general direction.

    "Same old Vegeta." Goku said with a laugh.

    "You guys mind if I take off too? That whole being miles up in the sky was more than I care to handle in any given crisis." Atom Smasher explained, shrinking down to normal size.

    "Thor could you please take Mr. Rothstein back to New York. He's had a long day." Superman asked.

    "Aye. Tis within my power. Come Atom Smasher." Thor said, spinning Mjolnir to teleport himself and Atom Smasher back to New York.

    "Bye Supes, see you at the Fourth!" Atom Smasher said as he and Thor faded from sight.

    "The Fourth?" Goku asked.

    "Fourth of July party. The League and Society try to get together on holidays. I know Al's technically not part of the team anymore, but he still won't miss that." Superman explained.

    "Neat. I guess I still have a lot to learn about being in the League. By the way, nice job on Thor there. Getting him to take Atom Smasher back to New York so he'd get medical attention the minute he sets foot on Manhattan" Goku laughed.

    "Thor is proud. I couldn't just let him run around like that." Superman said, looking at all the destruction, "My God. Sometimes I wonder if we don't make things worse. I wonder if it's all worth it in the end."

    "Come to any conclusions?" Goku asked.

    "We do what we have to. And in the end that's where all the worth comes from." Superman replied.

    Explosions issued from the remains of the spire and an ear-shattering roar issued forth. Superman and Goku turned and froze in terror. Something gigantic was coming out of the ruins. It was enormous, kaiju sized, maybe larger. Completely ebon and black. It was the First. Only now it was much larger and much more evil looking. The horns on its head were downright Satanic looking now. Smaller rows of horns traveled the length of its body to the tip of its tail. Its face was more skull-like, with its eyes burning red dots in the eyeholes. New, gigantic wings sprouted out blotting out the sun as the creature stepped forward, shaking the earth with each step.

    "YOU LITTLE PRIMATES CAUSED ME PAIN! YOU ACTUALLY CAUSED ME PAIN! FOR THAT OFFENSE THE PENALTY IS A SLOW ETERNITY OF DIGESTING INSIDE ME!" The First roared in anger.

    "Ka me ha me HA!" Goku said firing, while Superman fired nova vision.

    The First laughed and shrugged it off. It raised a hand and both Goku and Superman were bound to ebon energy constructs.

    "This can't be! We destroyed your body!" Superman roared in anger.

    "DID YOU? YOU'RE A BIGGER FOOL THAN I THOUGHT. THAT WAS MERELY A CELL, A SMALL FRACTION OF MY ALL THAT I CONTROLLED WITH MY MIND. MY TRUE BODY EXISTED BELOW, ABSORBING AND WAITING TO TRULY AWAKEN. MY CONTROL OF MY CELL WAS HOWEVER SOMEWHAT HAMPERED BY ANOTHER CONFRONTATION ON THE ASTRAL PLANE. EVEN ONE SUCH AS I CAN HAVE A HARD TIME DIVIDING MYSELF MENTALLY, BUT NOW ALL OBSTACLES ARE AVERTED." The First explained in the real world, while in the astral world it had escaped its box, left the Slayers broken and now held Buffy by the throat.

    "STILL, DESTROYING THAT CELL CAUSED A PSYCHIC BACKLASH AND THAT, QUITE FRANKLY, HURT LIKE HELL!" the First said as the energy bonds burned into Goku and Superman, who were quite helpless.

    "AND NOW, IT ALL ENDS. THIS WORLD WILL FOREVER END. THIS UNIVERSE WILL DIE AND NO ONE………NO ONE…. WILL STOP ME. NOT EVEN THE SLAYER." The First said as it began to crush Buffy's throat on the astral plane.

    "Hold."

    The First looked up from breaking Buffy's neck on the astral plan and saw Adam Warlock striding forward.

    "Drop her. You have a much more dire battle about to take place and it will require your full attention if you seek to win it." Warlock said, his eyes glowing.

    "DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH WARLOCK. YOU CANNOT INTERFERE, NOT WHILE YOU WEAR THE GAUNTLET. AND WITHOUT IT YOU ARE COMPLETELY HELPLESS BEFORE ME." The First sneered.

    "Very true. But then again I am not the one who seeks to give you battle." Warlock replied.

    "OH? AND WHO IS THIS FOOL THAT COMES BLINDLY TO DEATH?" the First laughed.

    "A contingency plan. Look up, in the material world and you will find him." Warlock said with contempt.

    The First scoffed and looked to the sky. Something was in orbit. A ship of some kind, and he could tell there was something out from it. A platform of some kind. And on that platform stood a lone figure, arms crossed. An eternal sneer on his face.

    "YOU." The First growled. And he was greeted with reply.

    "YES. ME. COME DEMON, YOU CLAIM TO BE A GOD? THEN FACE ONE WHOM GODS QUAKE IN FEAR FROM."

    The First leapt into orbit and wafted a few hundred feet from his foe.

    "YOU ARE SIMPLY OUT MATCHED." The First growled in contempt, "I WILL TEAR YOU TO PIECES AND PICK MY TEETH WITH YOUR BONES IF YOU HAVE ANY. TO CHALLENGE ME IS MADNESS. I AM BEYOND ANY DEMON, BEYOND SIN, FROM BENEATH YOU I DEVOUR! I AM THE FIRST EVIL!"

    "AND I AM THE UNIVERSE'S SALVATION IN THIS DARK HOUR. IN ALL OF SPACE I STAND ALONE! WHEREVER I STRIDE I AM MASTER. I AM THE END ALL AND BE ALL OF THE COSMOS! YOU CLAIM TO BE A DEVOURER, DEMON? THEN YOU MUST FACE THE DEVOURER OF WORLDS! YOU MUST FACE…. GALACTUS!!!"

    And the cosmos lit up in fire, as the battle was met.