The Dark Multiverse, a place where your darkest nightmares are reality, where the stories that shouldn't be are real as real can get, and the headquarters of the dark army of Barbatos
BWL: Stop me if you've heard this one. Worlds will live, worlds will die, but imagine if your every fear, each bad decision, gave birth to a malformed world of nightmare. A world that shouldn't exist, and desparite as it fights to survive in the light of the true multiverse far above. These worlds are doomed to rot apart and die, because they are wrong at their core. Welcome to the Dark Multiverse. Home to stories that should never be. It's all one big cosmic joke. Except no one on this side is laughing. Well almost no one. Listen close. Now is the story of a world's end, and a world transformed.
Central City, Earth -52, the sky is red with Central City falling apart at the seams, with people getting sucked up
BWL: Witness the rise of a Dark Knight.
The flash of this world (Voiced by Yuri Lowenthal) is running through, panicing
Flash: It's getting worse, Central City is coming apart! We shouldn't be fighting! Time is running out! You're the smartest person I know! This is bigger then either of us. We have to do something before it's too late!
A blast of lighting hits near Flash and he dodges, followed by a blast of fire and ice
Batman (Voiced by Michael Dobson): As usual, you're already late, Flash. It's time you let someone else have the speed force.
This batman, the one who would become the Red Death, has all of the Rogue's tech, pointing the cold gun at the fastest man alive
Flash: Batman, I told you! I won't give you the speed force. I've lost people I loved, too, but.
Batman: THEN YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND! If you don't help me willingly, I'll make you.
Flash: You know the things I've done. The mistakes I've made with these powers in the past. It's impossible to be everywhere at once.
Batman: Unlike you, I tried to be, and it cost me my family.
It shows the grave of his sidekicks, Dick, Jason, Tim and Damien, in the present, Batman, using Mirror Master's Mirror Gun, jumps through a portal
Flash: Using one of Mirror Master's old tricks, really? All the rogues weapons. Why do you think you'll succeed with all of them when they couldn't?
Batman: You're right, my toys are better. It didn't have to come to this. I asked you for help and you rejected me. If our roles were flipped, I would have used every tool at my disposal to get you what you needed.
Batman shatters through on a gigantic battank
Flash: I said no because of your plans for the speed force! It is a dark path to run! I can see you're desperate and hurting!
Batman: After my parents were murdered, I travled the world to learn everything about science, martial arts and the supernatural to become Batman and it wasn't enough! Not for Jason, Tim, Dick and Damien. Gotham did what it always does. It takes and takes and takes. I need ot find a way to stay one step ahead of it. But with each day, I feel myself getting older and slower. I NEED the speed force
Batarangs and lasers blazing, Batman chases after Flash
Flash: You can't turn back the clock!
Firing a blast of red wind, he knocks Batman off his toy
Flash: I'm sorry for what happened to your family. I am. But it won't end there. We have to figure how to save everyone, everything, together!
Batman: You're right, you're a good friend, Flash, I could always count on you and your Compassion.
Flash walks up, hoping to console batman, but he injects something that freezes him
Batman: You've just been injected with the crysostasis formula developed by Dr. Victor Fries. It's what he uses to keep his beloved Nora alive. I estimate your increased metabolism should burn it off in 3 seconds, but I won't need them
Batman straight up drills Flash right in the face, knocking him out. He then comes too, strapped into the Batmobile with heavy chains
Flash: Ugh… Wh-Where am I?
He then sees that he's moving at ludacrous speed
Flash: Oh… My… God… WHAT ARE YOU DOING!
Batman: I studied your designs for the Cosmic Treadmill and repurposed its engine to let me harness your connection to the Speed Force. I will race into the Speed Force and steal it from you!
Flash: Bruce… Don't!
Batman: The mistake I maid when I vowed to my parents that I would save Gotham is that I was thinking too small. I should have promised to save the world
Batman floors it on the accelerator and drives INTO the Speed Force, as the Scarlet Speedster screams bloody murder
Flash: You can't access the Speed Force this way! You can't force it! It will rip us both apart!
Batman: I know
Flash: No!
Batman: I'm sorry, Barry
Flash: Please
Batman: But now we can save the world
Flash: Bruce!
Batman: Together
Flash: You can't give up like this, Bruce. Th-There's hope. There is always…
Flash slowly begins to disenagrate down into a skeleton alongside Batman as they meld into what is now the Red Death, meanwhile, in Gotham, all hell is breaking loose with rioting in the streets
Satan: Ever since the red skies appeared, crime has escalated at an unheard-of rate in Gotham with no signs of slowing down! Riots! Looting! Worst crime wave in Gotham City history It's time we blow up the bridges and turn it into a no-man's land and finally kill Gotham once and for all
Man (voiced by David Vincent): This way. I know a back way out of downtown
Woman (voiced by Erica Mendez): I'm so scared!
This earth's scarecrow lands down, his arm mounted scythes gleaming
Scarecrow (-52 and voiced by Corey Burton): What you're experiencing is a form of is a form of Thanatophobia. A particularly harsh case of the doomsday blues. It's perfectally natural in times like these. But let Scarecrow assura you. The end is nothing to be afraid of. Trust me.
He raises his blades up
Scarecrow (-52): I'm a doctor
Red Death punches a hole right through the "good" doctor's chest, gripping his still beating heart
Red Death: My name is Bruce Wayne.
Flash (muffled): No, Bruce!
Red Death: I am Vengeance.
Flash (muffled): Stop. Please. Don't do this. Please listen to me
Red Death: I am The Red Death! Before I used to spend so much time alone on rooftops, dwelling on my actions, but now I don't have time to think twice with the Speed Force. It's released me. I have saved Gotham. Now I will save our world. I finally have all the time I'll ever need.
It shows Riddler crucified, half of his body reduced to a skeleton, and Penguin with his face grinded off into the pavement, and Man-Bat with both his wings gruesomely torn off, and his jaw torn off as well, as Red Death heads to Wayne Tower and sees it coming apart as well
Red Death: Wayne Tower… Is falling? What is happening? The sky. The world, it's breaking apart. I'm not fast enough to save it. There is a part of me, something deep inside that still gives me hope that I can save this world.
He then hears a chuckle and sees BWL, who walks up
BWL: Even if it means the destruction of another?
Barry pops out
Barry: Bruce! It's Barry, stay away from him! Don't listen-
They refuse
Red Death: Who… What are you?
BWL: Someone very much like you. Someone who lost his world simply because it was born down here.
Red Death: Down?
BWL: Our worlds aren't meant to last. They are destined to die. It's a cruel law of nature in this place. You can feel it yourself, can't you? Your time is meant to end now. But what if I told you there was a world far far above us, that was destined to live?
Red Death thinks it over, and flashes a slasher smile
Red Death: Tell me more.
BWL: My master Barbatos sent me and Satan here. To find a few good heroes who could conquer that world and make it a home for all of us orphaned by the Darkness.
Satan: What do you say? Do we have a deal?
Red Death shakes his hand, as the scene shifts back to Earth-0, mainly Central City, home of the Scarlet Speedster, the Flash, and 3 days removed from the baddies of the Sperg Crew showing up alongside Challenger's Mountain, Iris Allen and Wally West are having lunch
Wally (Voiced by Josh Keaton): Thanks for meeting with me, aunt Iris.
Iris (voiced by Cherami Leigh): It's okay, Wally. I've been covering the incident on Gotham and needed the break.
Wally: Well, off the record, but Superman sent a message to every hero to keep an eye out for Batman. Even Robin reached out and he HATES me. That means whatever is going on is real bad.
Iris: Doubt Batman would ever come to Central City
Wally: True. We have our hero, Right?
Iris: Wally…
Wally: Barry should be here. With us
Iris: I asked Barry for some time
Wally: What if you wait too long- What is that?
Iris: It looks like…
Soon, red bolts of energy and hellfire appear from the sky, as the Red Death blitzes past, aging people into the dust while Satan and his organization, Los Diablos, are unloading on others
Iris: What''s happening to the city?
Wally: Wait, are these bats- GAH!
Satan walks out, his gun barrel smoking after kneecapping Wally
Satan: My… The Flash's Family. His love and his sidekick. Reddy? You know what to do.
Red Death: Just know, Satan. We are only Lord Barbatos' vanguard.
Flash (Muffled): Don't you dare hurt them! Iris, RUN!
Iris walks up, pissed ass all hell
Iris: Look, you two, I dunno who you are and I couldn't give less of a damn. The last speedster who hurt my nephew ended up dead, so I don't care how scary you two are. You leave Wally-
Wally (now voiced by Steve Kramer on acount of the speed force rapidly aging him): Iris…? Something is wrong with the speed force… I'm so slow…
Iris is shocked as she begins to rapidily age
Iris: Wally!
Wally: Iris… Your hands…
Iris (now voiced by Tress MacNeil): It's okay, Wally… We'll be okay…
Red Death: This world's Flash, Satan. He'll understand that in tiems of crisis, there must be a sacrifice.
Satan turns around, ready to say something, but then gets suckerpunched by a heroic speedster
Satan: GUH! Can somebody get me the number of that car?
Satan's goons all get drilled, disarmed and straight up wrecked as our world's scarlet speedster, the Flash, as his hometown falls apart at the seams
Flash: I don't know who the hell you think you are, but there won't be any sacrifices in MY city!
Satan: Spits out a tooth That bat god, Bar...something or other was right. Barry can't resist a good ol fashion crisis. Especially not one on an infinite scale. Boys?
The mooks that AREN'T TKO'd raise their AK74s at the Flash
Satan: Mulch 'im.
They open fire, with Flash evading and knocking out each of his goons
Satan: Right, connection to the Speed Force. I kinda forgot.
Satan summons a hellfire portal
Satan: Well, Reddy, it's been a blast turning Central City into a hellhole, but I got deals to make, goons to train, and a certain Red Demon to kill. Ciao.
Satan walks away, as Red Death cracks his neck, before gunning it
Flash: Running is sort of my thing, so there's no use trying to escape!
Red Death: Once upon a time, I was jealous of yours and Clark's little races, but it doesn't matter.
Red Death summons his bats as he drifts around and clocks Allan in the jaw
Flash: Your drift, those bats.. Everything hurts… Feel… Old…
Red Death: There will be no more racing, Barry.
Flash: That voice… Bruce? Is that you? Is this what happened after you left Blackhawk Island?
Flash gets a shotgun dropkick to the face from GR-666 (Voiced by Dolph Lungren) sending him sprawling back, as Red Death circles around, and does a mule kick, knocking him to the pavement as he and the corrupted UniSol stand over him
Flash: If there is a part of you inside that armor, Bruce. Then you're still my friend, and if there is anything I can count on, it's your compassion.
Red Death: WHAT?
Flash: (muffled): Bruce, listen to me.
A soul portal opens up as Shang Tsung walks out
Shang Tsung: Through here. Quickly!
Flash: Shang Tsung? What're you-
Flash gets grabbed by the sorcerer and they head through to his Island
Red Death: Go ahead. Run, Barry. RUN! IT WON'T SAVE YOU! WE'LL FIGHT AGAIN, FLASH! LORD BARBATOS FORETOLD THE END OF OUR STORY! I will turn Central City into the home I lost…
Everything starts falling up
Red Death: And save my Gotham.
Flash (Muffled): Bruce, no!
BWL: Let me tell you a secret. All it takes is one bad day. One moment that should never happen, and the ground beneath you starts to crumble. Trust me. I know firsthand. All of us do. And now the seven most dangerous Batmen that never were are here to drag you into the dark. So yeah, one bad day will kill a world, but a bad week? That could kill a Multiverse.
The Batman Who Laughs rolls his head back and laughs, the sound traveling as Barry, who look like he went through hell, is deposited at the Forge of his island
Shang Tsung: My humblest apologies, Barry. But our wish was to save you from the monsterous Dark Batman who wished you harm.
Flash: At the cost of my ribs?
at that moment, a girl pops her head out, her hair all cut and medical suplies all over the place
Ultimate Nurse (voiced by Stephanie Sheh): U-Um… Mr Tsung, sir? He looks injured. I shall tend to him right away!
Shang Tsung: Go ahead… Tsumiki Mikan.
Mikan tends to the Scarlet Speedster
Flash: Okay, why save me? So you can suck my soul?
Shao Khan: You are one of the ones that can save all of reality, alongside the one who longs for Mileena…
Flash: And that guy is…?
Kojin walks out
Kojin: That'd be me. Name's Kojin Shinigami. Summoner of the Sperg Crew.
Flash: Yeah, not a big fan of your methods though.
Kojin: I should've seen that coming-
John puts a hand on his shoulder
John: Sorry for Kojin, he can be a bit… Yeah. helps Barry to his feet
At the Courtyard
John: So, you had a run in with Satan, eh?
Flash: He was no problem, it was his robotic BFF that gave me trouble.
John: You mean GR666… Yeah, that guy's a beast and a half.
Flash: What WAS that thing though? I thought he only was skilled in magic.
Shang Tsung: Sorcery is not my only vocation. I am also an inventor. While a modest endevor, this forge is my finest. It can transmute materials into items and weapons all can find more… Useful.
Flash looks around and sees King, John, GB, Both Joshes, Michael Luckyfoot, Chris, and others