Wild Cat and several of the senior members of the League had been shown the tape and were currently sitting with the core members in their private meeting room.

Flash was the only one who had not joined them and had instead gone down to the medical bay to sit with the comatose Phoenix.

He sat, just holding her hand in silence for well over two hours. Green Lantern finally found him and just stepped into the darkened room.

"Have they figured it out yet?" Flash asked, looking up.

"Not yet. The best we can gather is something's coming and we'll all die horribly if we fail." He said simply.

"Same old." Wally barked a laugh, it sound unnatural and sarcastic, more forced than he remembered it being.

"Yeah" John agreed, sitting next to Wally. "How you doing?"

"Okay." Wally said, not quite believing it.

John was at a loss when the Tower suddenly shook, sending Wally and John crashing to the floor. They picked themselves up and sprintedover to the windows.

Another portal had opened, but this one was black and swirling even darker.

"Batman?" John belted into his Comm. Link. "What's happening?"

"Readings are coming from a different dimension." Batman said back.

Wally and John watched in shock as a large shape appeared through the portal. The portal closed behind the monster, but John and might never have noticed, because the monster was the same one from the tape.

"Oh my God!" John gasped, running for the main control room, Wally beside him.

"What is that!" Flash yelled, still dressed in Gabriel's coat.

"I have no idea." Superman gasped.

The monster was made of rock, with curled horns upon its head. It spread its leather wings out behind it and even through all the metal, every hero heard the deep roar that ripped out into space.

"What is that?" Supergirl asked.

"I don't want to know!" Hawk shouted back. Suddenly the comm. links were inundated with calls from every hero, both on the Tower and down in Earth.

"Enough!" Batman bellowed over to them all. "Emergency meeting." He ordered to everyone.

Just as the hero's started to gather together the large screen clicked to a close up of the monster.

"All shall tremble before me!" it bellowed.

"Who are you?" Superman ordered.

"I am Dyren!" he barked back. "You will bow before me."

"How about no!" Shayera shouted back, her wings spread out in anger. Superman held his hand up to calm her.

"Move on." He told him. "We will not allow you to take over our world."

"You have no choice, and I don't want to take over 'your world!'." The heroes frowned. "I want to destroy it!" he growled, turning and speeding towards Earth.

Superman began ordering people what to do.

"Gather everyone together. The core members will go down and assess the situation. If he's too much or there are others then we will call teams down to help." He said.

Wally flashed away and returned dressed in his costume. He pulled on his mask and waited for Superman to set senior members at different posts where they would run the Watch Tower and help out.

Batman and The Martian Manhunt were both on the platform waiting to be transported down. Green Lantern and Shayera Hol both flew over to join them. Wonder Woman touched Flash on the back and virtually walked him to the platform. Finally Superman joined them and they beamed down to intercept Dyren.

Wild Cat saw them off and then watched over the last of the heroes that were still being beamed up. He led them back to the main control room and stood at the front of the crowd to watch the fight before them. He looked up at some of the older heroes and a thought seemed to pass between them.

They were ready for the worst.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Dyren is Norwegian for The Beast.

sorry its so short, they will get longer later, especially by chapter 7! tell me how its going?