50,000 years ago, A lizard is running through the desert sands, over 3 symbols, one of the Wolf, another of the Bear, and one more for the Bird
Carter Hall: Lost to history is a story. A story of how, in these lands, during the Age of Stone, there were three great tribes of man. Tribe of the Wolf, of the Bear and of the Bird. All were nomadic, and shared a grand dream, a dream of discovery.
A batlike silhouette hovers over
Carter: But soon, a forth tribe rose. A dark tribe unlike the others. One of twisted dreams, turned inside out.
Blood splatters on the runes from Liu Kang fighting Shang Tsung in the First Mortal Kombat tornament, as well as Sub Zero killing Scorpion, only for Scorpion to come back to get his revenge
Carter Hall: And so with its terrible rise, so began the age...Of Metal
2019, The Justice League, armed with armor and weapons provided by Mongol (Voiced by Keith David) having just taken down monsters
Mongul: Behold! Your mighty Justice League. Mighty… HA! What deat design should they face next? Something special, eh?
Batman: It doesn't make any sense. Mongul was being kept under watch by the Braalians after his fight with General Zod. How he built a new War Moon…
Superman: Focus, Batman. What we need to do is figure a way out of here.
Wonder Woman: What we need to do is win.
Mongul: Just look at them. Hobbled so easily! Made weak by the very armor I fastened to them!
As the League realizes their predictament, Kronika is observing the hourglass, noticing something is awry
Ben (Voiced by Tom Holland): Grandma, what's wrong?
Kronika (voiced by Jennifer Hale): It's my hourglass, the timeline where Shao Khan won… It's being corrupted by something, as if something is forcing its way through.
John (voiced by Todd Haberkorn): That's not good
Back at the War World
Mongul: Take note, friends! All you need is the dust of a few thousand crushed red suns, Some Vibranium Domination Boots from our friends the Dominators, A lock from Stheno, the elder gorgon, Venom Infused, a few more trinkets for the rest, and suddenly these "Heroes" are forced to fight for real, eh? So what shall they battle? Let's ask my favorite resident slave, Mr. Hiro, the Toyman. Now speak up, boy! What comes through my gates?
Toyman (voiced by Ken Jeong): I call it Fulcum Abdomius.
Mongol lets out a hearty laugh
Mongul: Fulcum Abominus. I LOVE IT! And now, my friends. It's that time! Time… Too…
With a chant from the crowd of "Go to war! Go to war", machines lumber up from the gates
Mongul: Yes! War! So enter, Fulcum Abominus!
Flash (Voiced by Talisen Jaffe): And we're fucked…
Wonder Woman: League! Aegea Formation! Now!
They take a battle formation and fight these machines, getting trounced
Mongul: Ha! Look at them! Hoping to escape Mongul's pit! What do we say to THAT?!
The crowd chant "Do not run! Pain is fun!"
Mongol: Now, let the battle BEGIN!
Batman: Cyborg, can you hack their-
Cyborg (Voiced by Khary Payton): Already tried, Thye're each built to our specific-
Victor Stone, the Cyborg, gets sent flying by a laser
GL: Aquaman, we need these wheel chocks off! This gauntlet's micro black hole is killing my ring's- WOAH! he dodges a fireball
Aquaman: I'm at half strength, too, Green Lantern. These blasted sleeves… Some kind of Pit Glass from the fires of Apokolips… The heat. Wonder Woman, Maybe the beasts… Can be tricked into breaking this armor off of us!
Aquaman winces in pain
Wonder Woman: Well, mine has a Cassandra Engine. Every move I make… Superman, can you...?
Superman: Already trying! No go! They avoid the armor and go for the flesh.
He charges, dodging gunfire, wincing in pain
Wonder Woman: Still, they're just machines! They HAVE to have a weakness! Everyone. Back in formation while we strategize! Iphito this time!
Batman winces in pain
Batman: Affirmative back to… Formation. Hmmm.
Wonder Woman: Batman, formation! What are you-
Batman: Playing a hunched! That's right! Come on! Open up you piece of…
The machine opens wide as Batman smirks
Batman: Heh! Everyone! Follow my lead!
Flash: YOUR lead?! But-
Batman: Just do it, Flash!
Batman reaches for a button
Batman: Come on, come on, Come…
he presses it, and tendrils erupt out and put Batman in
Flash: Either we help him, or he's gonna need your old harpoon hand, We have to move now! I'm too slow with these boots but I'll cover you
Aquaman: Alright, Going in Three, two on-
Batman: NO! I said winces Follow my lead, damnit. There are symbols inside the mouths. Activate them now, however you can
Aquaman: And then?
Batman: You let them eat you!
Wonder Woman: You heard him! Then let them… Wait, WHAT?
They smash the symbols and tendrils wrap around them and bring them in
GL: See, THIS is why we vote on strategy!
Cyborg: Good plans? They don't hurt this much. IT's tearing into my- GAH!
Batman: Quiet, Cyborg. Listen to me. Be calm, let it happen. It's all in the name. Fulcum Abominus. Abdominus, like something that defies the order of things. And Fulcum from the late Roman period. A warrior formation cry made from deep in the throat. A call to lock shields. Toyman was giving us a clue. His way out of this, a trick he played on Mongul.
Flash: What trick?! Why are these things absorbing us?
Wonder Woman: I know this cry. It means "Come together as one"
GL: Come together as one WHAT? Metal?!
Aquaman: One warrior.
Superman: Bruce, please tell me you're kidding.
Cyborg: Heh. Please tell me you're NOT?! Becuase if what your saying is what I think you're saying…
Batman: The crowd wants war… LET'S GIVE THEM WAR
Cyborg: Booyah!
Mongul sees a… Justice League mega mech. Yes, dear reader, you read that right.
Mongul: No… Not now!
Mongul high tails it out of there
Batman: Aw, look at Mongul, trying to run. What do we say to that?
Another "Do not run! Pain is fun!" chant erupts from the crowd
Flash: Wait, why do I have to be the FOOT?
Batman: Simple, Barry, so you can kick his ass.
And the DO kick Mongul's ass and get the hell out of there
Batman: Get ready, Atmosphere approaching in thirty seconds.
GL: You DO know you're not flying that thing? Right?
Flash: I liked that little strike I dropped.
Both Aquaman and WW: And that's why I choose to ride outside the ship in cold, dead, space.
Superman: Batman, what you said about the Braalians, you're right. They wouldn't lose track of Mongul, unless something seismic was going on. Does this have anything to do with what you've been investigating? With why you came to the Fortress? What happened in the cave? Batman? Bruce?
Batman says nothing
Superman: Hey, listen, I know you've been going through a lot lately. If you want to-
Batman: I'm not ready.
Superman: Fine, just know that-
Batman: I wasn't talking to you, Clark. All right, ready now. Connection secure? What is it?
Alfred (voiced by Martin Jarvis): Sir! Thank god. I've been using every possible line of communication-
Batman: Slow down, Alfred, what happened?
Alfred: It's Gotham, sir.
Batman: What about Gotham?
Alfred, the ever loyal servant of the Bat-family, is seen looking at a massive moutain that erupted from underground with the Sperg Crew's arch nemesis on top, with dark energy pouring out, as well as dark purple lightning strikes
Alfred: I'm… I'm afraid you're going to have to see it for yourself. A mountain, a bloody mountain in the middle of-
Batman: Start from the beginning, Alfred.
Alfred: There was some kind of… energy storm in the city center… Dark Lightning everywhere. They evacuated the area and then… Then the city, it seemed to make room to create space and then this… This mountain appeared. How are we ever going to… The devastation!
Batman lands on the rubble that was once the street
Batman: I'm standing in it. Scramble the family. Batman out.
They look around the rubble and see the Sperg Crew, now with Chris William, the Master Archfiend (voiced by Lucien Dodge) and Ben alongside the others
John: Batman, you saw it, right? That mountain?
Wonder Woman: John, We're all tapped into the Watchtower's warning system. Whatever this is, there's no way you could've known the signs alongside Bruce.
John: There are always signs, Diana. We just didn't see them yet.
GL: Guys, the energy coming off that mountain!
Freddy: Yeah, I see it, Greenie. It's like what ya felt from that machine back in the cave.
Aquaman: The stone is not volcanic. It didn't come from beneath the surface. That mountain came from somewhere else.
Kronika summons sand portals, where the likes of Doomsday, Lobo, and others head up
Predator: Whatever it is, Aquaman. it's hollow. My scans detect a bunker of some kind. Ber-
Flash: Already on it, ugly!
Flash blitzes past
Flash: Doordoordoor.
Flash sees a big door
Flash: Whoa. Big door.
Reverse Flash (Voiced by Liam O'Brien) walks up
Reverse Flash: I'd say…
Flash sees the yellow speedster and shakes it off
Flash: Vic, I'm sending you the image.
Cyborg: Got it, Berry. I've run it over a thousand times already, but it keeps coming up unknown.
GL: Man, look at all this. What is this, some kind of laboratory?
Kojin Shinigami, the wild card of the sperg crew, walks with the others
Kojin: I'd like to think so. Most of this tech is not from this year, but is pretty advanced for it's time.
Ben: If you think that's nuts, Lantern's right. This whole place is crackling with that same energy he told grandma about from the cave.
Cyborg: Yeah. And my sensors can't quantify it, it's like off the electromagnetic spectrum
Kojin: English please?
John: What Vic is saying is that we don't know what the hell we're facing. And why it brought our greatest enemies together.
Aquaman: Maybe there are answers inside that. Look.
They see a space pod
Cyborg: Huh, that's titanium alloy. Must be some kind of space pod.
GB: But there's no engines for flying. Which begs the question I'm asking… What the hell is this place?
They head inside
WW: This must be the core. I can feel the energy coming off it myself.
Superman: Me too.
John: My god, there's people in there. Five of em. And… They're alive? In some kinda
cryochamber. We have to-
Batman: Wait. Cyborg is right. The readings here are troubling. We have to know what this place is first
They investigate the craft
Cyborg: Guys, this energy… It's scarring me. Hal said he felt something like that in the cave?
Kojin: This is wayyyyyy worse, Vic. It's-
Cyborg: Getting stronger by the second. I can feel it.
GB sees Red Tornado (Voiced by Corey Burton) in sleep mode, in a way
GB: Vic, look.
Cyborg sees the android in question
Cyborg: This android. If I can activate him, we might be able to find out what's going on here and where these guys have been.
John: Yeah? Well whatever it was…
John sees "It's chasing us, run!" written in blood
John: It wasn't good. Look.
The others see it, before they see guns pointed at them
Lady Blackhawk: Stop! You there!
The Sperg Crew get their summon devices ready
Lady Blackhawk: Step away from the C-Pod! Now!
Josh (Firecracker and voiced by Vic Mignogna): And just who the hell are you?
Batman: She's called Lady Blackhawk. She runs the Blackhawks, some kind of damn covert anti-apocalyptic team. They've been watching me. I've been watching them, learning their secrets.
Lady Blackhawk: Believe Me. There's Plenty you still don't know
John: And why should we listen to you?
Lady Blackhawk: Becuase I'm not just Lady Blackhawk, Red Demon. My name is Kendra Saunders. And you don't know me, but I know all of you. So I need you to come with me now.
King: Come with you? COME WITH YOU?! There's a bloody city outside. Broken. Thousands of people terrified. You can't hear them, but the boy scout can!.
Josh G.: Besides, how do we know this isn't the start of something bigger?
Lady Blackhawk: It IS, Josh. This is the first shot fired of a full scale invasion. One that's been planned for centuries.
GB: By who?
Lady Blackhawk: I won't speak the name here. It's too dangerous. For the city, maybe for the whole multiverse, but if you come with me, I'll show you everythign I know.
At the south pacific, Nami and co, see the Sperg Crew, and the JLA, where Raiden (Voiced by Richard Epcar) explains to the league and the Sperg Crew
Raiden: There are places in the realms that lie outside the normal maths of things. Some exist at what mortals call "phantom frequencies", spots where cosmic energy conducted through the earth's metal core cancels itself out, creates a kind of static that disrupts space-time. A hidden pocket, some are magic-induced, some are naturally occurring. Dinosaur Island, Themyscira, Skartaris, Nanda Parbat, and this place, a refuse for the forces of light. Blackhawk Island.
Superman walks up to the god of thunder
Superman: Raiden, Blackhawk spoke of an invasion. She promised to tell us who was behind it. Every minute we spend in this place.
Raiden: This place is our only hope, Superman. For many years, it was a base of operations for a great detective of history. A hero named Carter Hall. Hawkman.
John: What?
Lady Blackhawk: Our story sounds crazy, but thousands of years ago, we were stabbed with a dagger with a mysterious substanced and entered a cycle of reincarnation the spanned history. For many lives, we fought together as partners, protecting the multiverse from evil, but Carter never stopped searching for answers about the material that started the whole cycle
Shao Khan (voiced by Ike Amandi): What are you on about, woman?
Lady Blackhawk: Shows the Emperor a piece of the metal in question Nth Metal. This fragment is one of the last pure pieces left in the universe. It's the only material capable of givign vastly different powers to those who possess it. Eternal life, flight, mystical vision. It defies all rules of science and magic. And at certain times, it seems to broadcast a strange kind of energy.
John: Like what we felt in that mountain...
Raiden: Yes, Johnathan. Carter came to believe that Nth Metal was from somewhere beyond the multiverse. He searched for clues about its origins in history, folklore. What he found were warnings, claims that the metal came from evil and lead to evil, but Carter wouldn't accept it. Over the years, he recruited the best people he could find to his search. Pilots, heroes, inventors, adventures who would challenge the unknown with him.
As Raiden continues, John is a bit tense
Kojin: John, you're shaking.
John: That energy, it's getting worse here, something's getting closer.
Raidne: They fought over it,, but not long ago, he felt his team was ready to get answers, to travel to the other side.
Superman: Stop being cryptic. What are you getting at, Raiden?
Raiden sets down a map of the Multiverse
Raiden: This is a map of the mutliverse, Superman. Not just this realm, but all realms made of matter and antimatter in existence. Your realm has 52 realms. They relive that to be a set number. However, the energy coming through Nth Metal, Hall couldn't trace it to any known part of the Multiverse on this map.
Flash: Look, Raiden, I've studied the Multiverse for years, and that's all there is, there's nowhere else for it to come from, is there?
Raiden: No.
Shinnok (voiced by Troy Baker) flips the map over
Shinnok: Unless it came from here. A dark Multiverse.
Ben: All we see is the back of a map, uncle.
Lady Blackhawk: Until recently, that's all any of us saw, everyone believed the building blocks of reality were matter and anti-matter, but not long ago, astronomers discovered a third material, and the scary thing is, it turns out dark matter and dark energy actually make up the great majority of the multiverse. This stuff we can't see or feel.
Raiden: So now look at the map and imagine Nth Metal connecting us to a realm much older and vaster then ours, an oceanic subconscious realm our multiverse floats on.
Flash: If this is true, it would change everything we know about everything. What proof do you have?
Lady Blackhawk: Proof? Ha! You sound like I did. Carter sent a team to prove me wrong. The entire mountain was ripped from our reality. The last trasmissions we got from them were screams. Screams about whole worlds of nightmare, of evil. Pleas to shut the door and never open it again, and a warning from Red Tornado just before we lost contact. A warning about a… Thing down there. He called it a "Great dragon", a beast that prowled the dark and had a name.
Baraka (voiced by Steve Blum): What name, Earthrealmer?
Lady Blackhawk: Carter had a journal, Baraka. It's been lost ever since he followed the challengers into the dark, but I searched theclues he left here, and what I found is record of a beast seen in visions, trasmissions though high metals. An original being. Matter, antimatter, and now darkness. I found many names for it in history. A dark-horned god of nightmare, of cursed stories. I see it hidden in other deities. Set, lord of the rabisu. All prayed to through metals be y the dark tribe, enemy of the birds. The modern name comes from Barbarus and Aes, foreign metal. Barbatos.
John: Barbatos…
Lady Blackhawk: Legend is it comes here through a human doorway, someone treated with five divine metals by its followers. Metals off the periodic table, A hero whose nightmares it collects as its army.
Monokuma: So that's the name, Barbatos. Now how the hell do we stop it?
Lady Blackhawk: That's the great evil. That's who we're fighting, but that's not the name I wouldn't speak before, because I found another word that came up over and over again with mentions of Barbatos. A traveling vessel. References to the wagon that would carry the beast here. Wagon, the root of the name? "Wayne". Batman. The one who let him in.
Freddy: Hang the fuck on, your theroy is that a being as old as the multiverse has been targeting Batman for thousands of years from a dark multiverse? Please tell me this isn't what he's been investigating.
Batman says nothing as Lady Blackhawk pulls out a G18 pistol and aims it at Batman
Lady Blackhawk: I'm sorry, Batman, but after Carter's mistake, I destroyed my wings and devoted my life to ending Nth Metal. It's my mission, and now today challenger's Mountain appears on your home turf with some of the Sperg Crew's worst enemies-
Red Tornado: THE DOOR! YOU OPENED THE DOOR!
Red Tornado smashes the glass, destroying it
Red Tornado: I WARNED YOU!
The likes of Kung Lao, Ai and Naotora get wrecked as the others retreat to the Batcave with their comrades
Goku: We'll meet you all at the cave!
Goku teleports everyone there with his Shunkan Ido
Red Tornado: HE'S COMING! HE'S COMING FOR US ALL
He curbstomps the league, as Lady Blackhawk looks around for the Nth Metal
Lady Blackhawk: Batman. He must've triggered Red Tornado, all to- The Nth Metal! Where Is it!?
GL: Let me get this straight, you brought us here, did all this, so you could trap Batman? That was your plan?! You obviously don't know him very well. Guy probably had a ride ready the moment we landed here, and I can promise you, It's something state of the art.
Batman is riding a dinosaur, trying to keep it quiet
Batman: Quiet, boy. Quiet! Alfred, I got what I came fore. Ready the Hyper Sub, fast.
Carter Hall: I told you how it begain, this story. Now let me tell you how it'll end. How it'll end if I'm wrong and the dark is a place of evil, as the Immortal and Kendra suspect. The end will begin with a shot fired from the dark, something to tear a hole in reality. And then, as dark energy pours into this world, the visions will start. Visions to those attuned to the power of Nth Metal. A glimpse of what's coming, a dark army, already on its way here. On its way here to find the one Barbatos has been after all these years. The wagon for the dark-horned god, son of the house of Wayne. And if Wayne has been prepared by the Judas Tribe, if the agents of Barbatos have set in motion its coming, then there will be no running for him. No running for any of us. Barbatos has been after its target since the dawn of man. It first saw him in the final moment of crisis And now, if you are reading this, a second moment is upon us. I have left this journal for you, in your house, the house of the family I trust most. Turned from Tribe Bat to Tribe Bird. The Waynes. Left it in a secret place that will make itself known to you through metal should I be wrong. Should energy from the dark rise to fortell the coming of Barbatos. You may feel it coming already, you may have felt it your hole life. Watching. Shaping from the dark. The final case. I give this journal to you for a simple reason, to say that I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I was wrong. And I'm sorry for everything coming, but tonight I still have hope that you will never find this book, that it will stay hidden. Now, I venture into the dark myself. Explorer, detective, proud member of the Tribe of the Bird. I follow that first great dream of the true tribes. Signed, Carter Hall
Meanwhile, Fate (Voiced by David Sobolov) and Steel (Voiced by Crispen Freeman) are also having nightmare visions, not only of both the Dark Knights and the enemies of the Sperg Crew, but of other big bads and evildoers
Doctor Fate: What are these? These… Premonitions?
Steel: What in…? I don't understand. Something's getting… Closer?
In the Batcave, Batman is studdying the Nth Metal
Alfred: Sir, I'm begging you, tell them-
Batman: Please, Alfred. I'm too close to the answers and we're running out of time. The false energy signatures I left behind won't fool the league for long. I need to protect them. I need to protect everyone. I've never seen a pure sample, not since before the purge. The dark energy coming through it. Incredible. It must be why the Braalilans weren't watching Mongul. Braal is heavily magnetic. I amagin if we look at planets with heavy metal cores, we'll find those damn signs we missed.
Alfred: Sir, look up from that, something's happening. Listen, humming, it's like a…
The lizard from before is hauling it, as Alfred and Batman listen to the humming
Batman: Tuning form, yes. It's coming from upstairs.
It then shows bodies and fire from the dark multiverse (AKA, the Original MK timeline) as several demons, and Kuroinu, lead by Volt, (voiced by Travis Willingham) carve bodies left and right, before it cuts to the current timeline, where Batman heads up to the study, seeing the iconic bat symbol, in the wooden floor
Batman: Here? In the study all this time?
He opens it and sees Carter Hall's journal. Reading the pages, he is straight up spooked
Batman: The journal of Carter Hall. My god, so it's all true.
Dream of the Endless (voiced by Robbie Daymond): Yes, Batman, yes, it is, I am Dream of the Endless, and I have come to tell you that this nightmare… Has only just begun.
Dream of the Endless hovers down, and walks up to Batman
To Be Continued
Part 2
Carter Hall: From the journal of Carter Hall. I've lived many lives and have heard varying stories about the beginning of our great multiverse. The story I've heard most often, first from an old friend named Abin Sur, was about an ancient scientist, Krona, who wanted to explore the great mysteries of creation. Krona devlopled a machine to peer into the very core of the universe, to see what lay behind it all and what he saw was a great hand so far back that the very act of looking at it opened up millions of worlds. My point is, the actual origin story of our entire multiverse is about exploration, about discovery about searching for that one thing you have to find no matter what, Whatever it may be.
Superman is flying through the vacumm of space, with Kronika and Ben in tow
Ben: Tell me you're getting this, Diana.
WW: All over the world. I see it. Batman. We need to find Batman. Right. Now. Teams, report in.
Gorilla City, Green Arrow (Voiced by Alan Tyudic) is being chased by a group of REALLY pissed off Apes
Superman: Green Arrow?
Green Arrow: Nope. His heartbeat was a transmitter. Just monkey business! No offense back there!
Ape chasing him: GRAARGH! (We're APES, you dick!)
Meanwhile, at the House of Mystery
Superman: Zatanna, Constantine?
Zatanna (voiced by Lacey Chabert): Just another slight of hand, Superman. Nerdlich fo eht evarg, eb enog.
Using this spell, hands appear around them
Constantine (voiced by Matt Ryan): How the bloody hell did he hide a transmitter in walls made of souls?
Superman: Becuase he's been planning. Blue Beetle
Lexcorp HQ. Metropolis, Jaime Reyas, AKA, Blue Beetle, is carving through Fiends and Monokumas like a experianced Sushi chef
Blue Beetle (voiced by Anthony Del Rio): Sorry, no luck here! But so I'm clear. Why are we hunting Batman again?!
Superman: For one, because he's our friend, and he's in trouble, and for another? If Kendra and the Blackhawks are correct, he just stole the most dangerous weapon in the multiverse and we need to find him. Yesterday. Cyborg, we got dark energy rising, causing storms everywhere. Bat Symbols lighting up in hidden metal across the globe. Stories of a cosmic demon coming for Bruce. Please tell me you-
The Amazon Rainforest, the Sperg Crew and JLA are chasing Batman
Cyborg: We found him! I have eyes on him now.
Superman: Thank god. Just pin him down. Remember for all his tricks. He's only one man.
Cyborg: Thanks. We'll keep that in mind, Superman
They land on a massive Bat-Hummer
John: Pull over now, Damien, there's no winning here.
Damien Wayne (voiced by Scott Porter) looks at John, glaring a hole through him
Damien: Listen, pal, I'm 18 years old and driving a bat-hog through the amazon on a Tuesday morning, I'm already winning. Family, evasive action, NOW!
Aquaman is chasing one of them
Superman: Cyborg, can you-
Cyborg: They're blocking me! I can't tell which is him. And I can't tell who has the weapon in his bag. We need to-
Aquaman: Net them all, we're on it.
Kojin summons Jurrac Velo, as Chris summons Hakaishin Reiju to go after one of the Batmen
Batman?: (voiced by Troy Baker): Family, I have one on the line, now all I have to do is reel him...In?
Aquaman tosses his Trident as Reiju and Velo fires flames, before Kojin traps him in a Hammerlock inverted armbar
Kojin: Fish jokes? Batman would know better.
Batman?: Technically, "net them all" is a fish joke- GACK
Kojin moves his arm up
Aquaman: Unless I make them.
WW: Anything, Kojin, Aquaman?
Aquaman: NO weapon, Wonder Woman. Just bait.
Flash is with King, who is riding his Mirage Dragon
WW: Time to speed this up, Flash, King.
Flash: Done. Hey batman. Flash Fact about the human brain, the fastest neurons in it travel at about 120 miles per second.
King's dragons unleashes a blast of rainbow colored blast at another Batman
Flash: That's about the limit of the speed of thought. So yeah, you're smart as hell, but I literally move faster then you think.
Batman? (Voiced by Cameron Bowen): Bat fact about the human brain. It weighs 15 lbs when encased in ice.
Flash: Wh-?
His head freezes and he beefs it into the water… Or does he
Flash: Har-de-har. 120 miles a second. And now you're the last man standing.
Cyborg: I cracked their code. I see you, Nightwing, and you Batwoman, Batgirl, Red Hood, Batwing.
They holograms wear off
Nightwing: Okay, you guys win.
GL: Listen to us, Nightwing. If he took what they say they took, and it's in that bag, it's far too deadly for any one being in the Multiverse to possess.
Kojin: You need to give it to us, now!
Kronika's keep, John is keeping tabs on the hourglass, seeing dark energy pour from it thanks to not only Shao Khan's failed invasion of Earthrealm and Shinnok failing as well, but also Liu Kang's death
John: Man, it's getting worse and worse.
Nightwing sighs
Nightwing: Alright, Lantern, you win. Here
He shows him a plant
King: What is this? Is this a joke?
Nightwing: you're looking for the deadliest weapon on the planit. This is, to plants, It's and Exfolliant. It was in all the bags you snatched. The villagers around here burn it for fear of it's effects. They call it Insert gibberish here, which roughly translates to "the terrible green beat-down". Why? I couldn't guess.
They hear the earth tremble
GB: Wait, Cyborg, what are our coordonantes? Fast?
Aquaman: The ground, it's shaking…
Cyborg scans the area and realizes they're in hot water with Swamp Thing (Voiced by Fred Tatasciore)
Cyborg: We're… We need to get out of here right now-
Swamp Thing: Who dares?! Who dares attack the green here, at the Parlament of Trees?
He erupts from the ground and throws down with everyone, an elemental throw down to be exact
Damien: Basic strategy, father. Seperate, distract and regroup. So, what's the rendezvous?
Batman? (Voiced by Rick Wasserman): Don't be cocky, slow down before you...hit…Something.
A red fireball hist the Bat-Hog, and a black blur grabs the fake batman, before he sees Red-Eyes grab him, with John riding on the back
John: Enough. You and Clark have been friends for so long, and I've associated with you and the others for so long, I know your body language as well as Neith's. I understand that what Kendra said scared you, and I know you're trying to figure this out yourself, but taking what's in that bag and running off, you need to let us help! Whatever's coming for you-
Batman? Get the hell of me before-
John: Damnit, look at me! It's me, John. We're comrades. Now what in god's name is going on?!
Batman?: All right, you don't understand! I'm the only one who can stop it! This… Thing, Barbatos. It's been targeting me for year! I've even felt it, watching from the dark, shaping things. It first saw me when I went back in time. It saw me and it's been preparing me, they've been preparing me.
John: Who?
Batman?: The Judas Tribe. The Mantling has already started. It's been done to me.
John: What are you talking about? You're not making a lick of sen-
Batman?: Damnit, I'm talking about metal! Heavy metal! Just like Kendra said! Barbatos has its followers treat its prey with five impossibly heavy metals. It's called Mantling. When the prey is prepared, Barbatos' hih priests, the Strigyade read the ancient rites and the prey becomes the doorway.
"Metals that weigh down a soul" That's what Carter Hall wrote in his journal. First, Electrum, when I was lost in the Owls' labyrinth. Dionesium when I fought Joker to the death. Promethium, present in my final machine, which I used to make me batman again after I died fighting the Joker. And now, Nth Metal, which I exposed myself to look into the dark myself, with Green Lantern and Duke. There's only one metal left. I don't know what it is, but if they infect me with it, I'll become the doorway. A cosmic counterweight. I go there, he comes here with whatever nightmares of mine he's pulled from the dark!
John: How do we stop it?
It shows dark matter everywhere, energy storms and black lightning erupting from all over the multiverse
Batman? I don't know that we can! It's happening now. In Metropolis, and over the world, metals laced by the Judas Tribe, conductors, they're screaming out that Barbatos is coming! Getting closer!
John: There has to be a way.
Batman? There might be, but the key is far from here. Very far. Come with me, we take the bag and-
WW: Enough. He's still lying, I don't need my lasso to tell me that. He's stalling us.
John: Red-Eyes… Dark Fire Bullet.
*Red-Eyes fires off a blast that burns a hole through the fake batman, revelaing Clayface
John: More damn tricks
WW: John, calm down.
Clayface: Easy, hellblazer. Just playing my part. Got him down pretty well though, eh?
John: I'm sorry, it's just… I meant what I said earlier. I know his body language, and he made these by transmitting his own heartbeat. But the rhythm. He's scared, guys. More scared then we've ever seen him. And I'm scared for him. For all of us.
King: We'll solve this, dude. If it takes us to the ends of the earth. We will.
Finnistere, the Ends of the earth, Vandal (Voiced by Phil Morris) walks up
Vandal: Pardon the décor, Kendra, I'm building this place for another purpose but with our need for secrecy, it's the best there is.
Kandra: Enough, I would never associate with you if this weren't dire, Vandal. None of us would, but Batman is still missing and the Visions have started. Doctor Fate, John Henery Irons, they have seen Barbatos' army. And the one called Plastic Man, the unstable cells that make up his body are vibrating at frequencies we've never recorded before. He could be the key to understanding what's coming. If we can find him…
Entity (Voiced by Robert Englund): There is no time. They are the oldest beings on the planet, immortals. Many of them descended from the original tribes. We have faced this threat before, and we must use the ultimate option if necesssary.
Kandra: But if we use the brain-
Mr Creepypasta (voiced by Derek Stephen Prince): If? You mean when. We voted, Kendra. While you were searchign for Wayne. It was decided.
Darkness (Voiced by Gerald C Rivers): You will take the Anti-Monitor's astral brain and you will fire it through the core of the Multiverse, at the Rock of Eternity, and destroy the Dark Multiverse Army once and for all.
Kandra: Mr Creepypasta, Darkness, Carter warned us, mixing anti-mater and dark mater, it could.
Ogoleithus (voiced by Jim Cummings): It shall be done. And what other choice do we fuckin' have?
Kandra: We keep looking.
Ogoleithus: The time for that is over.
Ra's: Forgive me, Demon God of Chaos. I know I am the youngest here of the Multiversial delegation, but I do know the detective well. And what he would be doing right now is finding a way to fight this. He'd be trying to take Barbatos on himself, head on. Is there anywhere that impulse might lead him?
Kandra: No. The only way would be to go back to the start. And for that he'd need to find the ancent resting place of… Oh no!
Valley of the Kings, the Tomb of Hath-Set, Batman lands there, ready and keeping his eyes peeled
Batman: I can feel you there, Dream. Please tell me my plan is the right one.
Dream: I cannot speak to your plan, Batman. I've done what I can for you in this realm. If the nightmare army succeeds. If the world goes dark, call to me in the place of the black sun. I wish you luck.
He vanishes
Batman: Wait… Dream. Dream! Am I doing this right?
Superman: I don't know who you're talking to, Bruce, but to answer your question, no.
WW: You're not doing the right thing, not by a long shot. Now give us that bag.
Superman: Please. You know what it's capable of. It's destroyed entire worlds before, killed people we both cared about.
Batman: I know…
Batman gets out a Baby Darksied, (The fully grown one is in Shang Tsung's Island with the others)
Batman: And I'm here to use him. Now, stay back!
WW: Darkseid? Bruce. Just because he's been transformed into a baby doesn't make him any less dangerous.
Batman: You don't understand. Darkseid's Omega Beams once unhinged me from time itself, sent me back to the beginning of man. Barbatos saw me then. He set all of this in motion at that moment. The multiverse is in danger, it's my fault and I endanger it every moment I stand here. We don't have much time. Grail wil be looking for him. I have Hawkman's mace now. Barbatos was beaten with it once before. The only time he walked the earth. I'm going ot use the Omega Sanction to go back and do it again.
WW: The omega sanction?! You only escaped that time becuase-
Batman: Becuase Barbatos wanted me to.
WW: It's pure madness, Bruce. You go back, you'll erase yourself from the world. You'll erase Batman Forever.
Batman: You don't think I know that?! I know it's just a one-way, just.. Just please. Watch over my family, all of them. And Damian, help him become a better man then I ever was. And tell him I'm sorry. Tell them all. Now when I remove these Godwave Goggles, we'll all be at risk. I need you both to stand back!
WW: Batman, please…
Kendra: It's Kendra, Wonder Woamn, do you hear me? Did you find him?
WW: Not now, Kendra.
Kendra: No, listen dammit. He thinks he's in the tomb of Prince Khufu, but he's not. I destroyed that tomb decades ago. They misdirected him and walked right into their trap. He's in the tomb of Hath Set! You've beem set up!
Batman: No…
Both of then get hit by gunfire and Kytin bugs, complements of Satan and D'Vorah
Satan: Hehehe, Miss us, boy scout?
D'Vorah: This One will consume your Kryptonian flesh, Kal-El
Superman: AARGH!
WW: What is…?
Both league-rs gets shot with a blast of blood from Samuel Townsend
Samuel: I suggest you stay down…
All 3 vanish into the Dark Energy, to get the others ready, as the horrifying preists of Barbatos show up
BC 1 (voiced by Brian Drummond): It's been so long, so long since our eyes have rested on you, great traveler. We, the ancient priests who serve the dark god Barbatos in your name. So long have we Strigydae waited for this day. For the Mantling. And now it is upon us!
Batman: How.. How did you do this?
Owl 1 (voiced by Robin Atkin Downes): Oh, hiding in history has always been the greatest talent of the Court of Howls. Since our ancestors broke from the Birds for the bats and were condemned as the Judas Tribe, we've helped our dark brethren. All these years we've been preparing you for him, my boy. Infecting you, weighing you down, each step bring you closer. Now our pact is complete, and we have woken the ancient Strigydade so they might bring the bat god here from the dark.
The Sperg Crew evesdrop on this, faces pale with fear, as one of them takes the Baby Darkseid
Batman: I'll stop you.
Owl 1: No, Batman. That time is past. We've spent generations hiding our nests in Wayne buildings. Did you really think we didn't know where Carter Hall hid his journal? All we needed to do to lead you here was change the coordinantes of the tomb. Your reckless obsession did the rest.
Owl 2 (Voiced by Troy Baker): Hush now, baby Darkseid. We think you'll like this bedtime story. Now, the final step of the Mantling was a challenge. The Last Metal didn't exist in our world. We funded the science, but it was the great powers collider in the Gotham that finally did the trick. Stories so often rhyme in the most interesting ways. We should have known that the finle metal would be forged in the heat of the cosmos beneath Gotham City
Batman: Stop this! Stop this now!
Owl 3 (voiced by Jeremy Sisco): The final metal, the one to drag you down into the dark, named perfectly. Batmanium
The element in question drips down, creating a circle as the other 2 land down
John: Shang, get us outta here…
Owl 4 (voiced by Peter Onorati): Your whole life, your time as Batman. It has all lead to this, Bruce Wayne. Let him through you. Be the doorway!
Batman: No, no. Don't do this!
Owl 1: It's too late for that. Strigydae, begin!
Ominous chanting can be heard as green energy pulses through the room, showing Shang Tsung (voiced by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), who creates a soul portal, as Batman gets engulfed in the element, becoming the very doorway
Batman: No… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Owl 2: It's opening! He has become the doorway!
Owl 3: The bat god comes!
Owl 1: Hail Barbatos! He will reward us!
Owl 4: He will chain the world, and we shall rule with him!
Owl 3: I see something! Look.
Owl 2: I can hear him!
Owl 1: He's here! He's he-
They hear screatches as Crows, demented Robin demons lunge out and maul them, ripping them to shreads and gnawing on their internal organs
Crows: Crow! Crow Crow! Crow Crow Crow!
They see something out of Hellraiser mixed with Batman walk out, The Batman Who Laughs (voiced by Troy Baker) walk out
BWL: Bar.
They stand down
BWL: That's right, heel boys.
Superman: My god…
WW: Bruce.. WHERE IS HE!
Barbatos (voiced by Bruce Greenwood) lumbers out
Barbatos: You want Bruce Wayne? Look around!
They see The Drowned (voiced by Kari Whalgren) strut up and stab her trident to the ground, followed by the Devastator (Voiced by Robin Atkin Downes) lumber up, snarling as green mist drools out of his mouth. Followed up is a red blur, the Red Death (voiced by Michael Doboson) who stops, red bats surrounding him. Next was Murder Machine (voiced by Roger Craig Smith), who walks out, shifting his arm from a blade, to a cannon and then back to an arm. Next was The Merceless (voiced by Michael Ironside), who spins the Godslayer before resting it on his shoulder, Followed up with the Grim Knight (voiced by Kevin McKid), who loads up his guns, and finally the Dawnbreaker, (Voiced by Rino Rommano) who hovers down, his eldrich constructs snarling.
Devastator: I'm right here
Murder Machine: I'm right here
Drowned: I'm right here~
BWL: I'm right here.
Merceless: I'm right here
Red Death: I'm right here.
Dawnbreaker: I'm right here
Satan then walks out of the shadow, adjusting his tie, followed by D'Vorah, who has her stingers out, Samuel then walks out next, his glasses off and he puts them on, unsheathing his claws. Armstrong and Taurus then walk out, the former hardening his fists with nanomachines, and the latter pointing Wilt at the downed heroes. Vigo then walks out, his eyes glowing with power, as Kamoshida walks out, shifiting from his demon form to his shadow form. Beo and Phobos then walk out, Demons and Makku walking out behind them, as Drakkon leads up the pack, his Sentries behind him
Carter Hall: But I didn't tell you the whole story. The Origins of the mutliverse. Becuase the thing is, as much as I fight the truth, the fact is, the story of Krona, it's also a tragedy.
Superman: Barbatos. We will beat you.
WW: We've beaten gods and monsters before
Barbatos: Becuase I let you. Welcome to the dark.
Before he turns them into husks, Shang bails them out with his magic, transporting him to his island's ruins
Carter Hall: See, Krona was reviled for his hubres, for going too far. He became the most hated man in the Multiverse. That great hand, it might as well has pointed its finger at him and accused him itself. The origin story of our multiverse, it's a cautionary tale. It says explore too far, and you may just become the villan of your own story.
BWL: This is gonna be fun… We got a who's who of the worse! D'vorah and Satan, Armstrong and Beo… HehehehehehHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
Shang Tsung's Island, well, the ruins of it, Clark and Diana slowly wake up, seeing the Koei Coaition, and their allies, plucked by the soul vampire, who appears, in his movie gear
Shang Tsung: Welcome, friends. I am Shang Tsung, and this is my island. I bid you welcome to explore. Hidden among the island's ruins are magic, monsters and the methods to defeat Barbatos and his minions. Take what you want, within reason. You'll find that time spent here will be well rewarded.