Green Lantern Kilowog soon began to fight against Persuader while Jessica moved herself out of the way of their crossfire. Mano lunged at Energex, but Quad Star caught his wrist before he could grab her.
"Ah-ah-ah!" The young hero chided. "Always keep your hands to yourself!"
"Didn't your mother teach you better?" Energex smirked from that.
Mano struggled to get free until Quad Star threw him like a rag doll into the wall. Felicity chuckled a bit darkly as her eyes glowed red.
"What is with you?" Mano asked Felicity.
"What's wrong?" Felicity grinned darkly as dark shadows loomed over her. "You're not afraid of the dark, are you?!"
Mano seemed to gasp in horror as the shadows engulfed him. Felicity laughed a bit darkly as Mano was engulfed by the shadows.
"Yeesh! That's a little creepy." Energex remarked.
"It ups the intimidation factor," replied Batman Beyond. "So it gets the job done."
Jessica tried to grab onto a door, but struggled with it a bit. "Come on. Re-lock. Re-lock!"
Mano got free as he tried to go after her only to get shot down by another green blast.
"Stand down!" The being glared sharply. "You are under arrest by the Green Lantern Corps for abetting an escape attempt by-" That guy soon had some company of his own, much to his dismay. "Fart nuggets."
"I'm a little confused though," Felicity remarked. "I thought there was only ever one La lanterne Verte?"
"Actually, there's an entire organization," Quad Star explained. "It's just that Jessica is the most recent recruit."
"Well, I learned something new," Felicity shrugged with a small smirk. "Enjoy the darkness though, foes."
Mano tried to feel around to make a way out, but he was trapped in a seemingly endless void.
"I'm glad we're at least on the same side now." Energex said to her sister.
"We always were," Felicity gave a small wink. "Black Silver just had a funny way of showing it."
"Funny... If that's what you wanna call it, sure." remarked Quad Star.
"Hey, you know I wouldn't ever hurt you guys." Black Silver reassured.
"Yeah, after we found out." Her brother replied.
"Get this thing off me!" Mano complained.
"Sorry, I don't take requests." Black Silver replied as she took out another dark ball to hit him with. Just then, she was grabbed around her neck by the guy with the visible brain as the cell door opened.
Inside was what looked like a metallic coffin, and inside was the visible face of a human female. Well, humanoid, in this case. She then opened her eyes a bit dramatically. This did not look good so far as Persuader fought his foe while Green Lantern Kilowog did the same.
"Get back in there, you ugly poozer!" Kilowog glared as he fired bullets firmly.
Just then, a ray of green energy pierced him through the chest, and he went down. It was the Emerald Empress, with her evil floating eyeball. Trust me, it's more intimidating than it sounds.
"Kilowog!" Jessica cried out for him.
The two Green Lanterns were soon shoved against each other, about to fall. Luckily, Jessica was able to cushion their fall before they would hit the floor which would most likely kill them. Kilowog groaned as he had a deep wound as Jessica flew down to check on the guys as this looked pretty bad.
"Guys?" asked Quad Star. "I don't think Kilowog is gonna make it... And we might just be in the motherload of all trouble."
"Poor Kilowog." Energex pouted.
"Yes, poor Kilowog." Batman Beyond added.
"Yeah... Him and the rest of the universe!" Quad Star exclaimed. "We gotta scram!"
"Come on then." Batman Beyond said as he took charge.
They soon went to leave, though someone seemed to be missing.
"Wait... Where's Jessica?" Energex asked.
Black Silver looked around before groaning. "Argh! Those fiends got her!" she then complained.
They came back for Jessica only to see her cleaning house with the villains for the killing of Kilowog. That was, until Persuader used his ax to cut down against her ring to stop her winning streak. This sent Jessica flying back from a green blast and she hit the wall, making her hit the floor as that looked quite painful. Jessica groaned as her Green Lantern uniform vanished.
"So much for the legendary Jessica Cruz..." smirked the Emerald Empress.
"We have to get her out of here, pronto!" Quad Star exclaimed.
"Hmm... Let me see..." Black Silver paused as she tried to see what she could do to help. "Maybe I can help solve this somehow."
Just as Emerald Empress was about to leave, she turned back and blasted the roof, causing pieces of it to fall on our heroes. Quad Star turned rubbery and stretched himself over the group to protect them from the falling debris.
"Way to go!" Energex approved.
"Now to save Jessica." Felicity said as she summoned dark shroud to collect the fallen girl.
Quad Star grunted visibly as his body seemed to buckle under the weight of the debris. "Good on ya, Felicity. Because personally, I doubt I can hold up this stuff any longer before I collapse." he replied.
"All right, this way then!" Black Silver replied as she grasped him with the dark sphere to make them all get out in time so that Quad Star could rest and so that they could all leave in one piece.
They soon made it out, but a bit too late, as Emerald Empress had used her floating eyeball to absorb the power of the Lantern Corps' central battery, and there were several Green Lantern corpses strewn about the area.
"Guess those creeps scrammed on back to Earth..." Batman Beyond remarked.
"Yeah, but not without leaving behind plenty of reminders of their visit." added Energex as Quad Star readjusted his bones.
"Poor Green Lanterns..." Black Silver sighed as she did a respectful gesture. "I'm not giving up that easily."
"I love that spirit." Batman Beyond approved from her motivation.
"Same..." Quad Star replied as he finished returning to his normal shape. "Guess that's why you were such a tough opponent all those times we fought."
"I did what I had to do," Black Silver reassured. "I'm glad you're alright though."
Quad Star nodded. "As am I... Though we'll have to deal with that after we return to the future." he replied.
Meanwhile, back on Earth...
Mr. Terrific's T-spheres had taken all of the remaining explosives into space. "Well, that's the last of the bombs," he noted. On that note, Superman used his laser eyes to detonate them harmlessly.
"And that ends that." noted Bat-Mite.
Superman and Saiya Man both nodded to that.
"Not quite," Batman replied. "We have a problem."
"I bet it was those kids." Lady Gothika added.
"Now, now, let's just try to stay positive." Saiya Man told her.
Back at the Hall of Justice, the group decided to question Star Boy.
"I'm tellin' you, they're gone!" The future young hero exclaimed. "I don't know where they went; the whole building was empty!"
Bat-Mite found a note in the meantime. "'Dear Mom and Dad, we went to help Jessica'," he read. "'Please don't be mad, we only did this because we knew she would need our help, and you guys were already tied up with the situation down here'."
"At least we have some sort of lead." Lady Gothika remarked.
"They said they would stay..." Saiya Man complained.
"Yeah, well, they're kids," Lady Gothika told him. "Kids say a lot of shit."
"Besides, they couldn't just stand around and wait while their friend was in danger!" Bat-Mite retorted. "I guess they do take after us in that regard..."
"They have Jessica, so what will they do now?" Thunder Boy asked.
"Their time machine," Batman remarked before asking, "Where is it?"
"Someplace safe." Mr. Terrific replied as he crossed his arms.
"And I'll help you all out!" Thunder Boy called out. "Nothing will stand in my way! I won't get distracted! I'll stay here all night if I have to! I-"
A magical beeping sound was then heard. Thunder Boy took out his phone to see a text from his mother.
"Time to come home for dinner and stop playing with your friends."
"I gotta go." Thunder Boy smiled bashfully.
Bat-Mite sighed, then gave him a hug. "Alright, go ahead and take off. We'll handle our thing here, and then help with your thing afterwards," he replied. "Catch ya later, Storm Cloud."
"See ya... Uh... Um... I don't have a special name for ya yet, but maybe I'll come up with that later." Thunder Boy said as he had to leave now.
"Give it time," Bat-Mite replied as he kissed him on the cheek. "It'll come to ya."
"Heheh... Yeah... I'll see ya guys tomorrow." Thunder Boy chuckled as he waved and decided to get back home.
The group waved as he vanished.
"Alright, since that's done with, now we can get back to the main situation at hand." replied Patch.
"All right... Where were we?" Saiya Man asked.
"Time machine." Lady Gothika prompted.
"Ah, right." Saiya Man then nodded.
SHORTLY AFTER EXPLANATIONS ARE MADE...
The JLA and their allies were now inside a jet heading to the location of the time machine.
Mr. Terrific pushed a button on the main panel a few times, but nothing happened. "No one's responding to our call," he said. "I don't like it."
Suddenly, Persuader's axe ripped straight through the hull and cockpit.
"AND I LIKE THAT EVEN LESS!" Bat-Mite shrieked as the plane began to go out of control, veering towards the ground.
"Mayday! Mayday!" Lady Gothika cried out.
Persuader continued to hack against the jet which had Mr. Terrific, Lady Gothika, Bat-Mite, and Batman falling through the air.
"Laser eyes?" Saiya Man asked his adoptive father.
"Of course." Superman replied.
Both soon shot laser eyes at Persuader while the others tumbled through the sky. Validus (the guy with the visible brain) flew up and blasted Superman, knocking him back and causing him to drop the plane. Luckily, Superman recovered and flew back to fight Validus.
Saiya Man soon flew out to help out Superman. "You're ours, Super Brain!" he then glared mockingly.
Meanwhile, the plane was still falling out of the sky.
Bat-Mite shrugged. "Guess we can't rely on Atticus for everything!" he remarked as he snapped his fingers and turned the ground below them into a large marshmallow, cushioning their fall. "Geez, it's like he forgot that we were FALLING OUT OF THE STUPID SKY!"
Lady Gothika shook a bit as her face looked deathly pale.
"Ooh, the nerve of that guy!" Bat-Mite fumed. "I am going to have a serious talk with him after we're done here!"
In the sky above them, Wonder Woman and Persuader were battling, as Black Sliver and the others returned to Earth with Jessica in tow. Star Boy seemed to be knocked out from the fall.
"Aw, buddy..." Bat-Mite sighed at him.
"Ugh... What happened?" Star Boy asked.
"Don't worry about it." Lady Gothika replied once she calmed herself down.
Batman came to a door with no way in before facing Mr. Terrific and Miss Martian. "Get us inside." he then commanded.
Miss Martian began to do her job.
"Ooh... Don't let them see us..." Energex gasped as she looked worried about getting in trouble.
"Alright, alright..." Black Sliver sighed as she lowered them to the ground.
"Phew..." Energex sighed in relief from that.
Batman looked over before shrugging as Miss Martian allowed them to come inside with her.
"We're open for business." Miss Martian smiled at the two men only to get shot down by a blast right behind her.
It was Tharok. Mr. Terrific used his T-spheres to distract him so Batman could rush him, thus allowing Mr. Terrific to deliver a knock-out uppercut.
"I got this one." he told Batman, who went ahead.
The future group peeked out a bit from what was happening without them. Finally, Batman came face-to-face with Mano.
"The Dark Knight..." The villain smirked. "I think I'll disintegrate you slowly."
Batman glared. "Bring it, Skeletor." he remarked.
Quad Star snorted at that. And so, Mano and Batman came to square off.
"We probably shouldn't interfere unless we absolutely need to." Black Silver told the others.
"Good idea," replied Energex. "Although I didn't know Batman knew what He-Man was."
"We could recap what happened before we got back..." Quad Star suggested as the screen began to ripple.
In the Lantern Corps holding cells, Black Sliver helped dig Jessica out of the rubble.
Jessica woke up, and saw Kilowog's body nearby. "KILOWOG!" she exclaimed. "Call the others... Do something!"
"Sorry, but I doubt he's getting up," replied Batman Beyond. "Especially with that huge hole in his chest..."
"You should come with us," Black Silver told Jessica. "We'll help you out of this scrape."
Jessica grunted. "In brightest day... In blackest night... No evil shall escape my sight..." she recited. As she spoke, the broken pieces of her Power Ring began to put themselves back together. "Let those who worship evil's might... Beware my power... GREEN LANTERN'S LIGHT!" she finished as her ring put itself back on and reactivated her uniform.
Black Silver held out her hand.
"Just let me do what I must do first." Jessica said to her.
"Hmm... Very well..." Black Silver allowed.
"Thank you..." Jessica said as she came to take care of the other Green Lanterns with her power.
Black Silver and the others soon joined her to the outside as she set the two down after removing them from where they ended up.
"Take... Take me home..." Jessica said wearily before she soon passed out into Black Silver's arms.
"We shall," Quad Star said quietly, before glancing at the fallen Lanterns. "And we shall always remember your great sacrifices."
Black Silver soon came to help reach out to Jessica to help take her to safety.
"You're almost like a Green Lantern yourself with your powers." Energex said to her older sister.
"I do what I can," Black Silver replied. "I've had a pretty good teacher."
"Yeah, we're probably gonna need to meet your 'teacher' so we can hash out the fact we're all on the same side," Quad Star replied. "Besides, I prefer working with you to working against you."
"I feel the same way." Black Silver smiled softly from that.
And so they headed back to Earth.
"And that's pretty much how we got back," Energex replied, ending the flashback as Batman defeated Mano.
The other Justice League members arrived in the room, and Star Boy looked down at Mano. "Wow... You are scary." he told Batman.
Batman Beyond shrugged. "That's my dear ol' dad for ya." he remarked.
"I still think Mother can be pretty scary when she wants to be though." Black Silver muttered to her siblings a bit.
Quad Star paled visibly. "Funny you should say that... Considerin' she and Dad-1are right behind us." he stated.
"Oh..." Black Silver said.
Lady Gothika raised an eyebrow at them.
"Hello... You look well..." Black Silver grinned sheepishly.
"PLEASE DON'T BE MAD, MOM AND DAD!" Quad Star begged. "Like the letter said, our pal needed our help! We couldn't just leave her in the lurch!"
"Kids these days..." Lady Gothika sighed a bit. "I can't be fully mad though since you were helping a friend in need."
"No, you can't," Energex added. "We understand though if you are mad."
"Hmm... Well... I'm not," Lady Gothika said. "I just hope you don't do this often in the future of doing the opposite of what we say. What is this, The Cat in the Hat?"
"Don't punish us by making us watch that movie again." Energex begged.
"Oh... Heh..." Lady Gothika chuckled. "I wasn't aware of a movie."
"It exists," replied Quad Star. "And it. Is. NOT. GOOD!"
"All right, I won't punish you for this, I'm just a bit steamed you didn't listen to me." Lady Gothika stated.
"Aw, they did it for a good reason," replied Bat-Mite. "Besides...not like we haven't done the same before."
Quad Star nodded. "Mm-hmm; Dad-2 likes tellin' stories about that." he added.
"Dad-1? Dad-2?" Lady Gothika asked. "What the...?"
"We'll explain later." Energex replied mysteriously.
Quad Star rolled his eyes. "I meant Dad and Uncle Thor!" he replied.
"Okay, I need to sit down..." Lady Gothika groaned a bit as she held her head.
"Trust me, time travel does that." Batman Beyond said to her.
"By the way, thanks for ditching us to tangle with Brain Boy!" Bat-Mite told Saiya Man. "It's not like we were plummeting to our deaths in a destroyed jet. Oh, wait... YES, WE WERE!"
Saiya Man just listened to him with narrowed eyes as he got scolded.
"What were you thinking?" Bat-Mite raged. "We're all lucky to be alive!"
Saiya Man let out an agitated sigh as he listened to the angry lecture.
"You DITCHED US!" Bat-Mite exclaimed, angrily fuming.
Saiya Man walked away from him as he didn't say anything now.
"What?" Bat-Mite glared. "You too good to talk to me?"
Saiya Man just kept on walking as he kicked a rock down his path.
"Fine! Go ahead and ditch us!" Bat-Mite snapped. "You're getting great at that now!"
"Don't you think I have enough on my mind already?" Saiya Man glared. "It's not like you have to decide between two families of who you wanna live with now for the rest of your life after you thought your parents were dead and now they want you to come home with them... Oh, wait, that's right... You don't even have parents!"
Everyone gasped at that and the field went silent.
"Oh-ho, drama!" remarked Tharok. "Shouldn't have gone there!"
"Shuddap!" Saiya Man snapped which was a bit scary to see from him of all people.
"So... That's how it is, eh?" Bat-Mite asked, trying to stifle his angry tears. "Then FINE! BE LIKE THAT! ARRIVEDERCI!" And in an explosion of energy, he vanished.
"You started it, you jerk." Saiya Man grumbled to himself.
"Hoo boy..." sighed Quad Star. "That's not good."
"Should we do something?" Batman Beyond asked.
"Probably not yet," Black Silver replied. "We'll help them with the Fatal 5 and let things cool down as much as they can."
"Hopefully so," replied Quad Star. "Otherwise we'll never be born... Or something."
"Paradox..." Energex gulped. "Let's just hope the Fatal 5 can still be stopped."
"Then you'll have to stop them without me," Saiya Man said as he decided to leave. "Now I wish I never found my parents."
"Dude, you realize they plan to blow up the sun, right?" asked Star Boy. "I dunno if you have a plan for that, but it might affect you too. Look, I know you're going through some difficult stuff right now, but I doubt any of it will matter when we all freeze to death."
"I just mess everything up anyway..." Saiya Man said. "You don't need me around... I could've saved you all, but I just had to help Superman instead... I tried to tell him and Wonder Woman what happened to me, but they were busy saving the day... Something's wrong with me lately. I gotta go."
"Well... Okay," Star Boy replied. "Hopefully you can get your affairs in order. Also... You might wanna get jackets. Really heavy jackets."
Saiya Man didn't say anything.
"Aw, buddy..." Lady Gothika sighed.
"He should let that dark side flow through..." Tharok remarked. "It seems to work better for him."
Emerald Empress shrugged as she came into the room with her eyeball and the time bubble. "It won't matter what he does," she remarked. "Once our plan is complete, he'll perish with the rest of these so-called heroes."
"Not so long as I'm around!" Lady Gothika glared bravely.
"Oh... How cute..." Emerald Empress chuckled. "Your friends are splitting apart and there's not much that you can do. Face it, we've won."
"So you think!" Lady Gothika glared. "Little do you know, I have a special plan!"
"Oh? And what would that be?" asked Emerald Empress smugly.
"You don't know it yet, but when it strikes, it'll blow your brains out like THAT guy!" Lady Gothika replied.
Nature Girl sighed. "She has no plan, does she?" she asked the others.
"From what it sounds like?" replied Quad Star. "No. We need to find Dad and Uncle Atticus and get them to stop being mad at each other before we all get wiped from existence."
"Why would you talk like that?!" Nature Girl asked Lady Gothika.
"To buy us some time so we can get those two make up and get a new plan!" Lady Gothika replied. "As long as they don't know about that, we should be fine."
"Well, they seem pretty distracted with the other heroes, so we can at least get to tracking their energies and getting them to be friends again!" Nature Girl replied.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Lady Gothika told her. "The sooner, the better, then we can leave and hopefully never see his Freakish 5 ever again."
"Great timing," noted Energex as the heroes fought the Fatal 5. "Now we should split up into two groups. One goes after Uncle Atticus, the other goes after Father."
"Gosh... I sure am torn now." Lady Gothika said.
"Well, I'm going with, erm, your Uncle Atticus." Nature Girl offered.
"I'll go with Bat-Mite." Batman Beyond replied.
"I'll go find Uncle." Quad Star replied.
"Hopefully they'll both be okay," Nature Girl said. "It's always sad to see friends fight."
"I just hope we have enough time otherwise I just bit off waaaay more than I can chew." Lady Gothika replied.
"Wouldn't be the first time." Nature Girl chuckled as she activated the energy tracking device.
"Hm..." Lady Gothika muttered with slight embarrassment.
Everybody split up to buy some time to settle things with Saiyaman and Bat-Mite.