Detroit, Michigan, the Motor City. The birthplace of Motown and Techno music, where every GM, and American vehicle was made with the blood, sweat and tears of a long days work. Inside S.T.A.R. Labs, Silas Stone (voiced by Marz Timmz) is exceedingly busy on the phone, talking with his son, Victor Stone, the half man, half machine hero, Cyborg
Cyborg: Dad, what's that ringing?
Silas: Just one of a thousand alarms that go off in here every day. Probably some punk M.I.T. student who thinks he can get a job if he breaks into my work station. Don't give it a second though.
Cyborg: Dad, I told you, you need to get out of S.T.A.R. Labs now. Something serious is going on. Some kind of invasion. Cities are falling.
Silas: That is precisely why I'm staying put. I want to understand what's going on here. I can help you. It's the metal, isn't it? That's what you said the Blackhawks told the Leaguers, Metal vibrating at the frequency of of an undiscovered plane of Existence. In case you've forgotten, Victor, I've worked with otherworldly metals in the past. A few of them are right in your chest.
Cyborg: Hard to forget, Dad.
Silas: I'm an old man sitting is probably the best protected laboratory in North America. You're the one with missing teammates. I can protect you from my office. Put all the power of S.T.A.R. Labs behind you.
Cyborg: Dad, I promise you, I'm in a very safe place.
The Watchtower, a massive space station, King is with Cyborg, the former training, at the behest of both Shang Tsung and John
Cyborg: Look, dad. Gotham as we know it is gone, replaced with something I can barely understand. I came up to the Watchtower to study it, but now Central City is changing too, Detroit could be next. I want you to promise me that you're going to go home, now!
Silas: Okay, so you're pulling data on all of the cities of the Justice League to see if a pattern's Emerging? I can work with that.
Cyborg: Okay, fine. If you're going to help, patch me into all of the telemetry you can pull on Metropolis, Amnesty Bay, Coast City, Washington D.C., and Detroit. We're looking for any kind of energy signatures out of the ordinary.
King hears the watchtower beeping
King: What's that, Vic, one of those Dark Knights? That hellraiser reject? That dark flash?
Cyborg: No. One of the members is teleporting in!
Cyborg sees something that confuses him
Cyborg: Says… Batman? Well, looks like we'll need less of your help then I thought, dad. I'll keep you posted.
Cyborg and King walk up, as another figure appears behind him, no, several figures
Cyborg: Batman? Man, are you a sight for sore, cybernetic eyes, but where the hell-
Murder Machine blasts the cyborg hero aside, as Samuel Townsend slashes at King's leg and kicks the Essex based sperg aside
Samuel: It's been a while… King.
King: Samuel!
Samuel: And I brought some friends along
Benilda Pypat (voiced by Carol Bach y Rita), Quain Carver (voiced by Jeff Bennett), Eldrich Surge (voiced by Sean Chiplock) and Boudica Hegensen (voiced by Diane Salinger) walk out with the Nightmare
Murder Machine: Don't worry, Cyborg. We're here to help.
Samuel's bulky second in commmand lifts King up by the throat, as the Nightmare walks up to him
Samuel: We've been keeping tabs on you since Blackhollow… King. Watched you claw your way back from the edge of sanity. Watched you master the very monsters that failed you 13 years ago. And now here we are, reunited after all this time… Now then, time to pear into the maw of the Murder Machine.
Samuel takes off his shades, and creates a black bog that surrounds Cyborg, King himself, and his minions, before it shows Earth -44, where a who's who of this particular batman's rogues are pumbling Alfred (voiced by JB Blanc) into a pulp
Killer Croc -44 (Voiced by Ron Perlman): I dunno about you, Jeeves, but I can do this all day
Harley Quinn -44 (voiced by Laura Post): Nuh-uh, Wally Gator, save some for the rest of us.
Two-Face -44 (voiced by Travis Willingham): Enough of this. Now tell us where Batman is before we really get rough.
Alfred -44: Ugh… Batman? What, pray tell… Croc cracks him in the stomach GAH! Is a Batman?
The Bane of Earth -44 (Voiced by Jason Lieberchet) hoists the bloody butler up and King watches in fear
Bane -44: Perhaps there is another way I can be of service.
Bane snaps his back fatally, killing him, as the bog shifts to the batcave, where the Batman of this negative universe (voiced by Roger Craig Smith), is hurting, when the Superman of that world (voiced by Adam Baldwin) walks up
Batman -44: Play again.
Superman -44: Bruce, this has to stop
WW -44 (voiced by Laura Bailey): Clark is right, Bruce. We're concerned.
Superman -44: Watching this over and over again, it's not healthy
Batman -44: I'll tell you what's not healthy, Clark. It's not healthy to stand here knowing that the man who raised me like a father is in a casket upstairs with 36 shattered bones. That we couldn't have an open casket because he was beaten to a pulp six feet from where you're standing now. My whole life, he's been there for me. No matter what I had done, no matter how angry I made him. I would ring, and he would 's not healthy to know that he won't be there anymore, and that it's my fault
Superman -44: But now you have the responsibility to honor him by putting him to rest. Bruce, what happened to Alfred was horrible. The rest of us are going to be upstairs at the wake. I hope you'll join us.
As the suited leagues head up to say their goodbyes, Batman stops Victor Stone
Batman -44: Vic, wait. A few years ago, I began a scan of Alfred's mind to create an Artificial Intelligence that might outlast him. But it was never finished. I called it the Alfred Protocol.
Cyborg -44 (voiced by Bumper Robinson): What are you asking me, Bruce?
Batman -44: I can't bring him online by myself. I need your help… Please Vic. I need him. He was like a father to me.
Samuel dismisses the bog , bringing all of them back to the watchtower, and right into a brutal lariat from Murder Machine
Silas: Victor?! Victor, what's happening?!
Murder Machine: Hello, Dr Stone.
As Murder Machine changes his right arm into a razor sharp blade, King, with Dark Magician out, is deftly dodging the tree trunk like arms of Benilda
Murder Machine: You know, your son victor was one of my closest friends. He helped me when no one else would.
Dark Magician unleashes a blast of energy that knocks the overgrown pile of lard on her back, before the Sculpture and the Senderman charge in, Eldrich using a weapon key to unlock a portal, getting out a pair of Kama as Quain lunges at King's Dark Magician
Murder Machine: He reunited me with my father after I thought I had lost him. It is strange, I admit, seeing Cyborg again.
Silas: Don't you hurt him! I… I can help youI can give you anything you want!
Alfred Protocol: How can I help you?
Murder Machine: Mute transmission.
The feed goes dark, as Cyborg slowly gets to his feet, a second wind forming in the former all-American turned cybernetic superhero, as the metalic menace turns is attention to King, who is in a full nelson hold thanks to Boudica, while Samuel walks up
Samuel: You really should thank me. I did inspire you to be a better man, didn't I? Think of all we could acomplish together, serving under Barbatos…
King: Fuck you, and fuck Barbatos.
King headbutts Samuel, knocking the Nightmare back, before flipping the Boo Hag over his head
Murder Machine: Your father will learn his role soon enough, as will you-
Cyborg blasts him into Carver and Eldrich, knocking him, the Sculpture and the Senderman on their asses
Cyborg: Yeah, I don't know who you are, or why you're pretending to be Batman, but you or your little freakshow friends are NOT getting near my father!
Cyborg fires a series of different projectiles from his body, the dark knight
Murder Machine: You always understood, Victor. Even on my world, the power between Fathers and Sons. When I lost mine, you were the one to bring him back to me, give him shape and form. A powerful machine, capable of performing any tasks I might need, with the heart and soul of the man who loved me. With your help, we would never have to part ways again. He would be a with me, a part of me, forever. Now all I have to do is ring for him and he arrives
Tendrils jut out of Murder Machine and hack into the Watchtower and the Alfred Protocal appears
Alfred Protocol: How may I help you?
Cyborg: What the hell… Alfred?
Alfred Protocol: How may I help you?
As the pile of 1's and 0's that is the Alfred Protocol takes aim, Samuel creates another nightmare bog, hoping to break King's fighitng spirit again, this time, starting with the protocol repeating "How may I help you", "Ring the bell" and "Let me in, sir"
Bane -44: L-Look, I'm not going to go after Batman anymore, see? I'm going to the airport now. Going home to Santa Prisca Y-You don't have to kill me, too. I'll leave-
The clones open fire on Bane, leaving him with holes in his flesh
Cyborg: Bruce, what the hell is going on?
Batman: It's him, it's Alfred. He started spreading once he was activated. Creating more and more of himself. Nothing seems to be able to stop him.
Cyborg: But why?
Batman: He's trying to protect me. Take away everything and everyone that might hurt me. Bane wasn't the beginning. He was the end. Last night, the Alfred Protocol systematically murdered every inmate in Arkham Asylum.
Cyborg: Damnit, Bruce. The whole point of this was to build you an A.I. that could stitch you up and make sure you ate your dinner. We have to stop this before it goes any further. We need to deactivate the program.
Bamtan: I agree, and I'm still his blind spot, Victor. He's doing all of this because he cares about me. If I let him back into the cave, I can reprogram him, stop him from doing anything like this again.
Cyborg: No Bruce.
Cyborg grabs the Dark Knight and makes him look into his eyes
Cyborg: You can't do that. This is a hungry virus looking to feed and spread. We need to come up with a way to destroy-
Batman breaks the iron grip of Cyborg
Batman: I already lost him once, Victor. I can fix this, make it better and keep him.
Cyborg: Look, Bruce. Figure out a way to break through. I'm going to find a way to fight it from the outside, without letting either of us get too vunerable. Whatever you do, don't let them in
From SAMUEL'S blind spot, a claw hits him in the shoulder blade, brekaign the bog
Hayden: You're not hurting him, Samuel.
Murder Machine: He was wrong, King. The best thing I ever did was let him in. I still remember the fear when they surrounded me. I realized quickly that my plan was not going to work. I would not be able to affect the program in time. And when they grabbed onto me, started to spread through my entire body, I was foolish enough to scream in fear.
Cyborg is getting the snot kicked out of him by Samuel Townsend, who is laying it on him with claw strikes and kicks
King: You think I give a rat's arse what he-
Murder Machine kicks the Englishman while he is down
Murder Machine: That was the first thing my father fixed in me. He took my ability to feel fear away. My ability to feel sadness. You know, to the point where I had spent my life obsessing over my lost birth parents, ignoring the one who was there right in front of me. I was free of that as well. Next came my weak, human flesh, it was growing older and more brittle by the day, he rebuilt me, made me stronger-
Cyborg blasts the Murder Machine in the back and helps King to his feet
Cyborg: I remember what it's like being rebuilt from the ground up. Been there, done that.
King: But we can promise you one thing. You can throw every bloody monster and robo-Alfred in the world at me, but you're not getting access to the Watchtower's computer system. Vic's been outmaneuvering every bloody attempt you've made to hack the system in the last few minutes.
King summons out Vorse Raider, who slashes the Alfreds to ribbons
Cyborg: You're not getting in. I built these computers. If anything, you've opened yourself up to me.
Murder Machine lunges at King and Cyborg and knocks their heads together, before sending them flying
Murder Machine: I don't have any weaknesses to exploit, Victor. My father made me that way. I am sorry that your father didn't do the same for you.
Samuel: You failed to realize, King, is that we have no interest in your computer systems. We wanted the computer systems in S.T.A.R. Labs in Detroit. And in an instant, Cyborg, you have crippled your nation's military and given up your hometown of Detroit to me and my compatriots to remake as I see fit.
A person who became a Dr Salvador from RE4 is chainsawing through Silas' legs, splattering blood all over the place
Cyborg: No, dad!
In Detroit, Alfred Protocols and monsters alike were killing civilians in horrific and bloody ways, ranging from disembowelment to perforation, all while the former is saying "how may I help you?"
King: NO!
King summons all 3 Blue-Eyes and uses Polymerization to fuse them into Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, who roars
King: I won't let another Blackhollow happen, you metallic son of a bitch!
Murder Machine: I'm sorry, King, but how could you and Victor hope to stop me here when you couldn't stop me on my world?
Samuel decides that 3rd times the charm, showing the league, dead, all except one
Murder Machine: After I became one with my father, you gathered the league to try and fight back, but I couldn't allow that, could I? They fell, one by one. Until you were the last man standing.
Cyborg -44: Listen to me, Bruce. I know you're still in there. I know you can still hear me. The protocol is trying to shut me down, but I'm still alive because you WANT to listen to me. The best part of you is your humanity. We can stop it before it rewrites you entirely, you can just have to want it. It will do what you want, Bruce. You can let go of alfred and be yourself again. You don't have to let yourself be some kind of horrible Murder Machine.
Murder Machine: Victor, I am precisely who I want to be.
The metalic monster that was once Bruce Wayne, wealthy man around town, lumber up to Cyborg, and grips his hand
Cyborg: Bruce… No…
Murder Machine plunges his hand into Cyborg's chest with inhuman strength
Murder Machine: My father will always be there for me, and I will always be there for him. Everyone else is a weakness.
He tears out the spine and head of his world's Cyborg
Murder Machine: A weakness I am ready to shed.
Samuel: His death should have heralded my tin friend's great beginning, but by a cruel trick of the cosmos, his world could not survive. He would later learn how it was destined to collaspe into nothingness. And he would learn of another path, another world. This world that is allowed to live while so many others die.
Samuel gets blasted by Cyborg's blast, as King's fighting spirit remains strong, if not stronger then ever
Cyborg: Hey, man. I didn't write the rules of the cosmos!
Murder Machine: And that is your great folly, Victor. You are the weakest of the league, because if you were willling to cast off the last of your humanity, you would be the strongest. You have no comprehension of the power that resides within you. And so we will take it and rewrite your world into something better in the name of Barbatos.
King: You're not takin' fucking anything, tin for brains. Blue-Eyes, lay waste to this tin moron! Neutron Blast!
Blue-Eyes Ultimate charges up a blast of energy from all 3 heads and fires off a blast of energy at Murder Machine, sending him flying
Cyborg: Booyah.
Murder Machine sits up like a certain hockey masked killer
Murder Machine: You believe your love for others makes you stronger? Let me prove you wrong.
Cyborg and King hear footsteps
Murder Machine: I will unmute your father now. I would like him to hear this.
Cyborg: W-What?
Devistator grabs him and Adam Taurus slashes at his torso, before the hulking rock monster lifts him up and chokeslams him.
Silas: V-Victor, is that you? Victor? Victor, what's going on?
Murder Machine: Subdue him
Samuel: With pleasure…
Samuel rushes at Cyborg and then grabs his head with his claws. Sending nightmarish images into their head and causing them to scream and actually popping a few bits of the brain. He'll then squeeze to stab his claws into his head, breaking the skull. He'll then let go before stabbing two of his claws into the opponent's sockets, piercing through the eyes and into the brain even more, followed by Carver bearhugging rebar pierce into their body, having it wrap around several bones and organs to crush them. He'll then go and bite down on top of the opponents head, caving in the skull before taking out his rebar and then poking them through the eyes, piercing the sockets and the back of his skull.Satan then bear-hugs Vic Stone, crushing his ribs and spine, before Draken and Phobos pile on the assault, alongside their comrades, ending with D'Vorah extending a stinger-like barb from her palm and stabs the nearly dead thigh with it, extending another barb from her other palm to stab through the opponent's head. She then flip-kicks her opponent into the air and flies up after them, using two of her ovipositors to impale the opponent through his torso and the other two to stab both of his temples before kicking his nearly lifeless carcass to the ground
Silas: Are you okay? Say something? Tell me! Is there something I can do?
Adam chops off Cyborg's arm with Wilt, after the Daemon Inferna (voiced by Brandon Potter) holds him in a rear naked choke
Samuel: Thank you, Dr. Stone. You have been a great service to us. One of our associates will be gathering you soon, so you will continue to be.
King heads back through a portal to Shang Tsung's Island, or rather, limps back, leaving a trailer of blood
Silas: No! I won't let you-
Murder Machine: Terminate call.
They hear footsteps as Beo and The Batman Who Laughs walk in, the latter clapping, impressed
BWL: He really had no idea, did he? Just think how much trouble that metal could have caused us if he had any idea how to wield it. Good thing he's got some friends to show him the way.
Cyborg slowly lifts up his head, his vision fading fast, as Beo slams his foot onto his chest, forcing up more blood
Beo: Oh hush now, Victor. Don't try to speak. I know our new friends must seem like cruel mosnters of nightmare, crawling out of the abyss to run over your world, and in a way, they are.
Cyborg: W-Why…?
BWL: The truth is, we're only here because the world was dark enough to dream us intoe existance, because deep down, it needed us.
It shows Detroit, now like Blackhollow on a much larger scale, with monsters and Alfred Protocols running the show
BLW: To protect them from from themselves. We all heard it, echoing through the cosmos. Through the very firmament. A great ringing, And we came, not with a question of how to help you, but with an answer. HEHEHEHEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The others join in a orchestra of bone chilling laughter as it shows Shang Tsung's island, with Nightwolf (voiced by Daniel Lujan)
Nightwolf: Be wary, King. Our enemy were tougher then your spirits could handle
King: They're called "Duel Monsters", but thanks for tendin' to me.
The defender of the Matoka helps King to his feet. As he sighs, before King feels John's hand on his sholder
John: The best part was that you're alive.
Nami: John's right, my King. I couldn't ever… I…
The dragon queen breaks down into sobs as King goes to console her, however, at the courtyard, Kojin who got wind of D'Vorah attacking Cyborg, is berserk, screaming and punching the wall until his knuckles bleed, when Rikion calms him down a bit
Kojin: That god damned bug siding with Barbatos… He'll answer for this, and then, I'll watch as the life drains from that damn Kytin's lungs as my hands wrap around her fuckin' throat and throttle her.
Rikion: Kojin, there must be something else you can think about other then her. You have to let this go…
Kojin: Huff… What I wouldn't give to see her again, Mike… What I wouldn't give…
meanwhile, back in the hourglass, Kronika sees worse things ahead for our heroes
Geras (Voiced by Dave B. Mitchell): Kronika, the Multiverse portal plans are here in the Keep.
Kronika: Impressive, Geras. Does Joker have them?
Joker: Of course I do.
Ben: Nice to see mom's not picky on hired help.
Two more folks step out from the shadows, one being the T-800 (voiced by Arnold Schwarzenegger) and the other being Al Simmons, AKA, Spawn (Voiced by Keith David)
Spawn: You better give us a good fuckin' reason to interrupt us, kid, becuase as far as I know I'm already dead. Which means I'll be waiting for your sorry ass in the afterlife.
Ben: There's something unbalancing the multiverse, it's been making my mom restless and my grandma even more out of it then before… Mikan and the others are safe in Shang Tsung's Island, well, what's left of it, anyway.
Joker: Yeah, that's all well and good, Benny, but what about US? Huh? We got priorties too.
A woman in a white robe walks out and undoes the hood, showing Frost (voiced by Sara Cravens)
Frost: You might want to put that on hold, unless you want me to put you in a cold unfeeling metal body, Joker.
Joker: Yeesh, talk about an ice queen…
T-800: Do not worry. I shall protect the future alongside the hellspawn and the clown.
Ben: I'll hold you too that, big guy. And I'm sure my pals will feel the same. Mom? Grandma? If it's fine with you two, I'd like to join my comrades in the island. I wish to make sure HE is kept in check.
Cetrion (voiced by Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn) nods approvingly
Cetrion: Very well, my child. May the sands of time watch over you always.
Kronika creates a sand portal and he heads to the island
John: Ben, you took your time.
Ben: Family issues, my guy. So, Kojin snapped?
John: Yeah, but Rikion took care of that crap.