September 23rd - 2014 - Earth 1

The meeting room was filled with nearly a dozen heroes in various costumes. From Starling city came Oliver Queen - The Arrow, and Sarah lance - the Black Canary. From Central City were the two members of Firestorm, Professor Martin Stein and Ronnie Raymond, as well as Barry Allan - the Flash. From Bludhaven came the former protégé of Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson - Nightwing who'd been recommended personally by him.

From Earth 38 came Clark Kent - Superman, as well as J'onn J'onzz - the Martian Manhunter the two not on the best of terms but putting things aside due to a major threat to all worlds. Finally, despite his protests Kara Danvers Clark's Cousin and fellow Kryptonian had tagged along to act as extra muscle under the watchful eye of her cousin as well as his friend who rarely left their earth's Gotham Bruce Wayne - The Batman, which both intrigued and confused Nightwing since both were gruff, grumpy, but for some reason this Bruce seemed uneasy around him.

The entire group had just gone through a training exercise preparing to make the transition to Earth 2 with Cisco monitoring both the unstable breach and the modified communications with Zalost and the earth 2 freedom fighters. Who apparently several had been liberated or saved from certain death when his doppelgänger was going around killing heroes as part of his takeover. Cisco had been trying to stabilize the wormhole and re-direct it to the location of the tracking beacon when an alert indicating another breach had been opened somewhere in Central City went off. The burst of Tachyons a huge clue as to the location of the anomaly.

Cisco quickly brought up the news feeds before the screen showed a series of rockets firing outwards and upwards into space with an unknown nature. Followed by a series of shadows that quickly materialized into what looked like an army of machines marching in line with each other, the Doppelgänger stepping through last along with what looked like another version of Caitlin with sharp blue eyes, and nearly a dozen other strangely dressed people with collars on their necks. Suddenly the news feeds cut out and a single video feed replaced them, some sort of camera drone zooming in on the Dopple-Zalost.

"People of Earth, hear me! Your world has been chosen as the next colony of my Grand Ascendancy. Submit and you will be rewarded, Resist and you will find it quickly futile. You have twenty-four hours to make your decision." Suddenly the screen shifts to a countdown with a timer indicating how much time the world had left to surrender.

"You weren't kidding about the whole world conquering thing" Kara quipped as she began stretching, getting ready to take the fight to them instead of waiting. The rest began checking their equipment, with time now having run out for a chance to stop him. Cisco also quickly fired off a message, only to learn that it was broadcasted on earth two as well. Zalost having let them know that they were working on a plan C to stop more machines from coming through as dozens more began marching through the stabilized wormhole.

In high orbit over the earth, the rockets had deployed a series of satellites with large communications dishes. Their position allowing them to relay the signal across the globe in every language, as well as jamming all communications. Next they began transmitting a signal to shut down every electronic or computer controlled defense system before deploying a series of probes out to any nearby asteroids for mining purposes, the goal to prepare a rapid strike response from orbit against anyone who'd stand against the new order. Clark and J'onn quickly launched to go investigate the satellites, while the rest began making their way to the staging point to at least put up some resistance against this new foe.

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Earth 2

Zalost was desperately trying to come up with a way to destabilize the wormhole. He'd been studying this topic since it was key to his getting home, but somehow his Doppelgänger was years ahead of him, likely from whatever had brought him to this earth nearly two decades ago. He noted that they didn't even have the same powers, if what he had could be called powers given his strength was in that power suit that seemed related to the one he'd seen Lex Luthor wear in a few different appearances. Still there were resistance cells on the various earths his counterpart had conquered, and earth two had come up with a way to communicate between them, but most couldn't spare aid right now as the breaches were being guarded more heavily than usual. He just hoped they could find a way to shut down the breach generator without destroying it, since it could be his only way home.