Answers to reviewers' questions or statements:

treyalexander63917: No Peter did investigate the Scarab to a degree or at least he's heard what it is and what it can do and decided to try and replicate it to an extent, but not to the point where's the suits are completely similar.

Harbinger of Kaos: No, it's not Barda but you're on the right track in that she'spowerful. Yes, that was Gamora

gunman: Yeah Diana still misses earth and that will be explored more after this is over and she's back on Apokolips and what her life was like in flashbacks, but as time goes on she won't necessarily come to accept Apokolips as her new home, but more like she'll realize that whining and crying won't make a real difference so she'll just make do with the situation at hand, doesn't mean she won't stop looking for a way out just yet. Zunn wasn't who Peter was going to call, he was gonna call another sibling of his that he'll prefer to Zunn.

cabrera1234: Yes it is

justafan: As to why Peter hasn't really succumbed to what's going on around the ship, that will be explained a bit in the next chapter.

Chaos Sorcerer: Yes there are a few siblings that Peter actually likes, one is Kalibak and the other three are the two other daughters of Darkseid that will be revealed soon and one half-brother that will show up for the upcoming wedding between Darkseid and Mortalla. No Peter is actually fairly powerful by New God standards, it's just compared to some of his own siblings and his father who are planetary destroyers he seems weaker but compared to an average New God, he's stronger than them by a bit. No Peter doesn't possess the Enigma force.

Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel or DC or Dead Space characters seen, mentioned or used in this story


Peter and Diana were tossed across the ground from the force of En Sabah Nur's canon tearing through the hull of the Agooma. When the two came to a stop Diana quickly rose in time to raise her sword and block a swipe from Sabah who transformed his canon into a serrated blade of sorts

"NGH" Diana gritted her teeth as she felt her muscles strain under the sheer strength of Sabah's blow, she was right tin assuming his strength rivaled hers, in fact it might be a bit above her own. Not up to Clark's level but enough that she won't be able to win this fight with sheer strength alone

She quickly pushed back with her own blade before delivering a powerful kick into his chest, creating a small shockwave and sending the large son of Darkseid flying into the wall

KOOOOOM!

The force of the impact shook the hull and rattled Peter's teeth as he stood up and began to incase his more powerful half-brother in a massive cocoon of webs.

"Will that hold him?" Diana asked as she kept her blade at the ready and watched as Sabah stared at the webs covering him in rage

"Not for long" Peter said with dread as he could already see the web lines beginning to strain in an attempt to keep Sabah secured

Diana's eyes narrowed as she watched Sabah tear his way out of the web cocoon before turning his sights on her and Peter. She gripped her blade's handle harder before letting out a war cry as she lunged at Saba whose eyes glowed even brighter as he brought up his arm to parry the god forged sword, sparks emanating off his armor as the enchanted metal sliced through several inches of his advanced armor

"Grrrrrr" Sabah growled in annoyance before he smacked Diana away

KRAKOOOOOM!

Peter watched with dread as Diana was sent through the wall and into the adjacent tram rail on the other side before he felt his sixth sense flare and turned in time to narrowly dodge a punch from En Sabah Nur

"come on Sabah, fight it!" Peter yelled as he blasted his brother in the face at point blank range with every ounce of energy he had, causing the hallway to be illuminated in red and black lightning and the walls to begin smoking from the hundreds of thousands of volts bouncing off the metal

Sabah didn't even so much as flinch as he grabbed Peter's arms and-

KRAAAKK!

"AHHHHHHH!" Peter screamed in pain as he felt his wrists break under the sheer strength on En Sabah Nuer before he was lifted into the ceiling, and nearly sent through it by a growling Sabah

"Make…us…whol-" Saba began only to be interrupted by Diana kicking him in the face which in turn caused him to let go of Peter and send him flying down the hall with a loud crash followed by a slight tremor as his bulk rammed into the ship's hull

Diana glared at the momentarily stunned New God before turning her attention to Peter who was on his knees, holding both broken wrists close to his chest and hissing in pain

"Son of a bitch that hurts" Peter growled as he felt his suit begin to reset his bones, rather painfully he might add, while he looked up at Diana "…Thanks for that…"

"My mission is to rescue you, plus I feel I'd make a poor wife if I let you die at the hands of your possessed half-brother" Diana said as she kneeled down and quickly examined his injures to the best of her ability "Can you still fight?"

Peter snorted in grim amusement "No…it's why I've been hiding for the past two days in the air ducks"

Diana looked up at Peter's covered face with a quirked brow "…Your joking"

"Nope" Peter said with a shrug "Like I said, I'm not really a fighter though after this situation I'm starting to consider taking some more advance lessons"

Diana hummed at that before the monstrous screams of numerous altered Parademons caught her attention. She looked to see dozens of the enhanced monstrosities rushing towards them from both ends of the hall, while En Sabah Nur was rising to his feet, a dark glare on his face as his arms morphed into two large double canons

"We need to move, we're surrounded" Diana said as she grabbed Peter and then flew into the whole made by her earlier

"Whoa wait, the com room is-"

"We'll find another route!" Diana said as she rocketed through the dark tunnel with Peter in her arms

'This is not how I thought being married would turn out for me' Diana thought a little annoyed as she and Peter raced away from the howls and roars of the undead crew members and the possessed son of Darkseid

Peter scanned the tunnel with narrowed eyes as he tried to figure out where in the ship they were at currently, if they were near the medical wing, big of a joke as it may be, then it'll be a near straight shot to the communications room

'Then again, it won't matter too much unless Warbird and Psylocke don't complete their objectives' Peter thought as he saw a distant stop up ahead and quickly read the markings to see what section they were at

Medical

"Stop here, we can cut through to the communications room" Peter pointed towards the still lit station

"Medical?" Diana said in surprise to see a place of healing on a ship from Apokolips

"Trust me honey, it ain't what you think" Peter said as they came to a landing "In fact, aggressively thorough examination is a more appropriate term for it"

"What do you mean?" Diana asked with a sense of foreboding

"You'll see" Peter said as he gestured for Diana to follow him…all the while ignoring the faint whispering in his mind that kept repeating over and over again ever since this whole nightmare started…

Make us whole

KA-KOOOOOOM!

Carol held in a scream of pain as Barda's fist connected with her face and broke her nose and sent her spiraling through the darkened halls of the Agooma. For the past several minutes that energy absorbing woman has been trying to get around Barda and to the engine room only for the towering armored woman to block her attempts at every turn

Carol spat out some blood that leaked into her mouth s she clutched her bleeding nose and reset it while glairing malevolently at Barda "Barda, I wish I could say I'm sorry for what I'm about to do…but no one ruins my looks and walks away from it!"

She built up the energy she absorbed from the punch delivered painfully to her by Barda and blasted the woman back with a powerful photon blast

JVVVVVMMMMMMM!

Barda roared in rage as she was sent skidding back by the nuclear force level blasts that caused the entire hallway to crack and buckle under the sheer force of the energy being released

Carol gritted her teeth in rage as she saw Barda dig her armored feet into he hull of the ship and with great effort on her part, began to advance towards Carol

"Damn fuckin bitch!" Carol hissed as she increased the power of her blats until the yellow golden energy was almost white in appearance with whips of gold mixed in

Barda's armor began to glow under the extreme heat while it began to crack along the arms and shoulders. Barda's face showed that while she was in pain from the seemingly unending wave of energy she was still determined to get to Carol

Barda then brought up her arms and then slammed her hands together in a powerful thunder clap

KRACK-THOOOOOOOM!

The sudden shockwave from Barda disputed the energy fired from Carol and caused it to rebound on the shocked Fury, causing a massive explosion that tore through the hallway and destroyed multiple levels and sent the golden blonde woman flying

'…I really hate her now' Carol thought as she came to a painful landing and saw her vison beginning to darken

Carol tried to resist as she pushed herself up and tore off the now cracked and dented armored chest plate she had on and held in a wince as she felt one of her ribs shift under her skin, indicating it was broken

'That hit caused more damage than I thought' Carol thought as she pushed herself up and looked to see Barda whose own armor was just as scorched and cracked as her's approaching with a snarl

"Make us whole…"

Carol spat out some blood a she raised her arms and glared at Barda "Make you whole Barda, I'm going to tear you apart for not only being weak enough to fall under another's influence but for also pissing me off!"

She than leaped at Barda who met her half way and both women slammed their fists into the other, creating a shockwave that tore apart the room they were in as the two powerhouses laid into each other with a savage primal fury

Each woman sending punch after punch into the other, kick after kick

Barda thanks to augmentations was able to wheatear Carol's blow without too much effort while Carol was hard-pressed to absorb the kinetic energy being rammed into her by the physically more powerful Fury

Carol ducked under a kick from Barda and quickly blasted the taller woman away with a photon blast powerful enough to level a twenty story building and was about to press her attack when suddenly she was blasted in the back by what felt like a plasma bolt

"AGH!" Carol shouted as she stumbled forward before glaring over her shoulder to see Lemenus approaching with a still smoking Plasma rifle

"Make us whole…"

'Hope Kalibak doesn't mind I'm about to tear his beloved in half' Carol thought darkly as she flew out of the way of another plasma blast, this one hitting a rising Barda and blitzed the exoskeleton wearing alien woman and slammed into her at high speeds

SPAKOOOOM!

On the other end of the ship in the hanger bay, Betsy was doing slightly better in her fight with the unknown hostile green woman. So far, their fight has centered on trying to disarm the other and a few non-fatal but painful gashes on each other's bodies as they tried to impale the other on their sword

Betsy had tried to tend the fight quickly by shutting down the woman's mind but found her mind heavily shielded to the point it would take too long for her to attempt such a feat

'Then again, I've always preferred the old ways in killing a person…there's just some…erotic about killing another slowly with a blade in my hand' Betsy thought as she sliced the green woman across the arm which caused her opponent to growl in anger before she kicked Besty away with a powerful and painful heeled kick

Betsy held in a yelp of pain as she felt her jaw almost break under the force of the blow as she was sent skidding across the floor and nearly into the darkness that was housing the undead crew members who have oddly resorted to watching the two women fight to the death

Betsy slowly rose to her feat as she glared at the green woman and raise her blade "I'll ask again, who are you!?"

The woman smirked "Gamora…"

Betsy's eyes widened at this before they narrowed in rage "Why are you here daughter of Thanos, your father and my lord Darkseid agreed to a non-aggression pact centuries ago. Being here and attacking this ship is in direct vio-"

"I no longer serve my father" Gamora hissed darkly before she gave the purple haired woman a savage grin "I serve someone far more powerful than that old Titan ever could achieve"

Betsy narrowed her eyes at the woman "Who, tell me and I can promise that at worse you'll serve as a concubine for the dregs of Apokolips…assuming your father doesn't butcher you for betraying him in ways that defy imagination"

Gamora smirked at the threat "Tempting but no…besides you'll be too busy bleeding to death to decide my fate little girl!"

Gamora then leaped at Betsy with a savage war cry and slammed her blade into Betsy's psionically re-enforced sword, creating a shower of sparks as the woman exchange blows at blurring speeds. While Gamora had more physical strength and reach then Betsy, the telepathic Fury had speed and slightly more skill than the former assassin for the mad Titan Thanos

Betsy gritted her teeth as she felt Gamora's blade slice across her cheek, leaving a bleeding gash

'By the source, why do they always go for the face!?' Betsy thought with annoyance as she blocked a swipe from Gamora before headbutting the woman and sending her back several meters with a blast of psionic energy

Gamora stabbed her blade into the ground to halt her momentum and keep her from going to far. Betsy narrowed her eyes at the woman as she built up a sort of psionic field around her as Gamora removed her sword from the ground and it the blade began to glow red, heat pouring off the metal in an ominous glow

Betsy's gripped on her own sword tightened as she channeled her psionic energy into her sword, causing the blade to turn dark purple and lengthen slightly

'I'm going to have to be careful, Peter still has yet to perfect the dampers in this blade so it can hold even more of my psionic power…' Betsy thought as she noticed for a brief moment her sword vibrated slightly in her grip

She then returned her attention to Gamora and snarled at the woman as she slipped into an advance swordsman stance as did Gamora before they both leaped at the other, the metal of their blades clanging across the hanger as they engaged in a series of cuts, swipes and stabs in attempt to incapacitate or better yet, kill the other

All the while the undead crew watched on with watering mouths as they slowly began to enter the light and approach the women with a dark twisted hunger all the while whispering

"Make…us…whole"

"By the gods" Diana said in horror as they entered the medical wing of the ship, though from what Diana was seeing, torture would seem far more appropriate

"Like I said princess, medical isn't what you think" Peter said as he and Diana passed a chamber that housed what once was some sort of alien who was now strung up against the wall by restrains and appeared to have been carved open and had it's organs removed

"Some of the planets mined or harvested that the Agooma and other ships like it visited would sometimes have life on them" Peter said as they passed more chamber and examination tables "Sometimes the science officers on the ships might want to take a few samples from the local population to see if they might be suitable candidates for Parademon production…and sometimes just to tear them open and see what happens, see what makes them tick and all that"

Diana glared at the back of Peter's back "You seem to know quite a bit about these sort of things Peter…"

Peter looked over his shoulder at Diana with a hidden confused look "Well yeah…I've done it loads of times-ACK!"

Peter was interrupted by Diana grabbing him by the throat and lifting him in the air with a dark glare on her face "You mean to tell me that you would abduct innocent beings…torture them…experiment on them…because you could?!"

Peter tried to loosen Diana's grip as he choked out "To…be fair…some o-of my e-experiments…weren't too b-bad! Most tested reflexes or their senses…m-most of the…t-time!"

Diana then released him and stared down at his prone form as he let out a cough while clutching his throat "So you justify your crimes against others by saying your experiments on them were harmless compared to others…your despicable!"

At that Peter snorted in grim amusement as he looked up at Diana's glare "Yeah well I like to think I could be worse…much worse"

He then stood up and examined the space they were in with a curious expression "Interesting that these things haven't gotten here yet…I mean with all these corpses to use to make themselves bigger, you'd think they've cleared this place out by now"

"Then, why haven't they?" Diana asked as she folded her arms across her chest and tried to ignore the sight of what looked like several children of some multiarmed alien species in a cell that have had their skin removed and their limbs amputated…

Peter shrugged "Don't know…maybe they need fresh bodies to turn…from the looks of a lot of these things, they've been dead for weeks"

"Lucky us" Diana said as she brushed past Peter "Let's get to that damn com room and leave this horrid place"

"Yes dear" Peter said in a sing song voice

"To hades with you, you bastard!" Diana shouted back in anger as she kicked a door off it's hinges before entering the hall without pause and was only just able to bring up her bracelets in time to block a powerful red beam of energy from hitting her in the face

"NGH!" Diana growled as she was sent skidding back and right into Peter who let out a yelp of surprise as he was knocked down

"Ow…" Peter said as he pushed himself up on his elbows and paled at what he saw that attacked Diana "Oh come on!"

Standing there was Grail, her eyes glowing a mixture of red from her Omega Beams and yellow from the something that's taken it's hold on En Sabah Nur and Lemenus

"Make us whole" Grail muttered darkly as she raised her ax and leaped at the two with a yell

"Oh for fucks sake" Diana groaned as she drew her sword in time to block Grail's ax

Peter fired of a venom blasts at Grail's face, blinding her briefly and allowing Diana to kick the daughter of Darkseid away. The former Amazon princess looked towards Peter and gave him a nod of thanks before chucking her blade past his head and right into an undead Parademon that tried to sneak up on him, the blade impaled the monster to the wall, causing it to flail wildly

Peter looked over his shoulder at the at the creature with narrowed lenses before he turned his gaze back to Diana who was now engaging Grail in a brutal hand to hand fight

'Interesting…she doesn't like me, even less now from that little slip up and yet she's still willing to save me…very interesting' Peter thought as he grabbed Diana's blade from the wall and quickly rushed to aid his wife with his more powerful sister


And done.

Next chapter Diana and Peter face down Grail as they make their way to the communications room, meanwhile Betsy learns a bit more about what's happened on the Agooma and Carol is pushed to her limits as she faces down two of some of the most powerful Furies in Darkseid's service

Now as for Peter alluding that he would torture and experiment on other's, he is a son of Darkseid so yeah his moral compass might as well be tossed out the window at that point, and he's a scientist on Apokolips of all places and surrounded by some of the most brutal abd cruel beings in the DC universe. He may not be the most evil of Darkseid's spawn but he's no saint, wheatear he'll change over time be it for better or worse remains to be seen…