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"Why are you helping me, Mr. Luthor?" Malefic asked as he was in Lex's laboratory. "Has my brother or his allies…"
"…wronged me?" Lex asked as Malefic nodded. "Well… not directly. But they have stuck their noses far too often into the business of my associates. And it cost me a lot of resources and money. To be clear, I have no interest in killing any of them. But I will, if I must." He showed on the screen footages of Batman, Superman, Green Arrow and other heroes in action. "They see them as shining examples of hope. Something to look up to. I want to destroy that legend. Break them. Humiliate them. If you want to defeat a god, you must first make their followers lose faith in them."
Malefic stared, looking intrigued.
"I've studied every member of the Justice League for years. And if not for me and my… associates, you'd be still in the Phantom Zone." Lex said.
"I fail to see how does destroying this League benefit you." Malefic noted.
"You will see. They will all see soon." Lex promised, smirking. "You have the ability to do great thing, Malefic."
"I do not want to do great things. All I want, is for my brother to pay." Malefic said, losing patience. "Martian biology prevents a brother from harming his brother."
"That's why you've decided to target the people closest to J'onn J'onzz." Lex realized.
"Remove the barrier in my brain, so that I can finally kill my brother, I will do whatever you want." Malefic said.
"Deal." Lex smiled.
A.R.G.U.S.
"Is this going to work?" J'onn asked as Harry put a device on his own head.
"Only one way to find out. J'onn, try to command me to do something." Harry said.
J'onn attempted to enter Harry's mind but he groaned in pain. "It's like if I hit a wall."
"Keep trying. We need to test the limits." Harry ordered.
J'onn groaned, struggling to use his psychic powers until the device sparked and overloaded and Harry groaned as he dropped it.
"Damn it." Harry muttered.
"Sorry." J'onn breathed out. "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine." Harry assured, while clutching his head. "I think we need to make this a bit more durable to endure the strain of a psychic attack."
"If we can't kill your brother, maybe we can contain him somehow. I might have an idea." Cisco said.
Kara was walking down the hall as Barry accompanied her.
"How are you feeling?" Barry asked. Kara smiled, trying to get ahold of herself until a red light from one of the rooms shined on her as she shivered, getting a flashback as Barry held her hand. "Hey, hey. It's OK. I'm here, Kara. I'm here."
Kara took a breath. "I… I'm trying not to let it get to me."
They entered Conner's room as Conner was still in an induced coma.
"Is he alright?" Barry asked.
"We've tried to help him as much as we could and fix his brain but…" Caitlin sighed. "Look, we're not sure if we can risk waking him up and attacking someone again. Under any other circumstances, we'd ask J'onn to restore his memory but with Malefic interfering with his powers, it's too risky."
Kara and Barry sat next to Conner. "Hey, there, buddy."
"We're gonna fix you, Conner. I promise." Barry said as he and Kara held Conner's hand.
"They've been stealing biotech this whole time. Trying to duplicate metahuman powers somehow." Bruce said as he went over the reports.
"What, they want an army of metahumans?" Oliver asked.
"Or a small squad." Bruce noted.
"We're gonna have to find a way to stop Lex somehow." Clark said. "If your Lex is anything like my Lex, he wants to use the powers somehow. Duplicate them. We need to be careful."
"They just hit another target." Lyla said upon entering.
Palmer Tech, Star City
"Stealing from my company? Shame on them." Ray quipped as they snuck in, seeing the mercenaries steal the equipment.
"Technically, it was my company first." Oliver noted as both him and Ray chuckled. "Let's be quick and stealthy."
Wally sped in, knocking out some of the mercenaries before Atom flew in, blasting them down. Tommy, Roy and Thea engaged the mercenaries with their bows, beating them. Rene and Dinah took cover before Dinah engaged them with her staff, while Rene fired with his guns.
"Ground floor's clear." Roy said.
"What exactly are they stealing?" J'onn wondered as he was in the lab area with Curtis, Nia and Alex.
"We're about to find out." Alex said, loading her gun.
Nia flipped to avoid the bullets before raising her hands, sending energy blasts and knocking down the mercenaries. Curtis threw his T-Spheres, taking down more mercenaries.
"You're not going to believe this, guys." Barbara said.
"What?" Bruce asked.
"I've got eyes on Luthor. He's on the rooftop."
"Are you sure it's him?" Oliver asked.
"I checked him with thermal imaging. Unless it's another shapeshifter, it can't be Clayface. Although I don't like this. Him coming out in the open like that?"
"Something's wrong." Clark said.
"It's obviously a trap. He wouldn't be waiting for us out in the open like that if he wasn't up to something." Barry said.
They went up on the rooftop, facing Lex, Thawne, Malefic, Clayface and Harkness.
"Well, well, well, look who the cat drags down." Thawne gloated.
J'onn flew in as Barry sped in.
"I've always suspected that Lex on every Earth is dirty but you just took the cake. Kidnapping my cousin? Experimenting on her?" Clark sneered.
"Unfortunate but necessary, Clark." Lex said, taking him aback. "Yes, Thawne told me." He turned to the speedster.
"The age of heroes is at an end. An age of injustice is coming." Thawne gloated.
"Why are you doing this? Thawne and the rest, I can understand but you, Lex?" Oliver demanded as he turned to Lex.
"Nothing personal, Mr. Queen." Lex smirked. "But… I've tried to play along with your buddies. But you are simply too idealistic to cross the lines you need to cross. This is the only way to make you understand. You need to be ready to sacrifice what you believe in."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Alex demanded.
"Why don't I show you?" Lex offered.
"Let me show you what happens, when you mess with my family." Barry sneered as he rushed at Lex in superspeed about to punch him.
"Barry, wait, don't—"
Barry was about to deliver supersonic punch but to Barry's surprise, Lex caught his hand like nothing. "What the—"
Suddenly, Barry groaned in pain as Lex twisted his wrist and bones cracked.
"Thank you for this." Lex said, smirking before he threw Barry back with no effort, while the speedster rolled down the ground.
"How the hell did he do that?" Oliver demanded, all of them staring in disbelief.
"Doesn't matter." Bruce said.
Harkness threw his boomerangs, forcing them to dodge and Malefic attempted to use his psychic powers but nothing happened, realizing they were blocking his powers somehow.
"I won't let you hurt anyone else, brother." J'onn said as he flew in.
"Don't worry. The only person I'm going to hurt, is you." Malefic said, attacking J'onn mentally but J'onn barely blocked his mental attack as he held his head, grunting and realizing his brother was much stronger than he had expected before J'onn and Malefic flew in the air, exchanging blows.
Clayface formed axes in his arms as he swung them.
"Move!" Tommy ordered as they dodged before Clayface could cut them down and Tommy and Thea fired explosive arrows, but Clayface quickly recovered. Oliver fired an arrow that formed some ice in Clayface's chest, immobilizing him.
Harkness threw his boomerangs as Alex and Rene dodged, while Oliver and Tommy attacked him. Harkness blocked with his boomerangs as Oliver and Tommy tried to strike him. Harkness spun around as they jumped back. Tommy fired an arrow but Harkness blocked it. Bruce threw batarangs at Lex, who, to their surprise, dodged with superspeed and knocked the rest of them down. Oliver, Bruce and Tommy recovered.
"Get down!" Nia ordered, using her precognitive abilities as they barely had time to dodge, while Lex fired energy blasts from his hands.
Malefic grabbed J'onn by his throat and slammed him to the ground. Malefic pummeled J'onn but J'onn pushed him back.
"I thought you couldn't kill me." J'onn said.
"There are no strings on me this time, brother." Malefic sneered before he suddenly touched J'onn's head and J'onn screamed in pain before passing out and he fell down, as Malefic let him go and flew up. Clark attempted to follow Malefic but suddenly, Malefic opened a portal, into which he entered with Clark as both of them disappeared as the portal closed.
Thawne rushed towards Barry and grabbed him before throwing him off the rooftop but Barry recovered as they rushed down the windows, exchanging blows and glass shattered, while Thawne smirked. This was not the naïve young boy Thawne had met years ago. This was him. The Barry Allen Thawne had hated to the core, his sworn arch-nemesis he had fought so many times before, which was only going to make Thawne's victory more satisfying.
Barry suddenly pulled away from Thawne and sped around in a circle before he threw lightning but Thawne dodged before an explosion followed, sending him plummeting to the ground. Thawne managed to recover as he ran down the windows onto the road as he was burned but healing fast before he faced Barry on the other side of the street. They were about to rush at each other before Thawne screamed in pain, falling on his knees as a heat vision beam hit him in the legs as Kara showed up, landing in the middle of the street as the road cracked, while she glared hatefully, her eyes flashing red.
"Get away from my husband." Kara sneered.
Tommy and Oliver rolled back to avoid Harkness's boomerangs. As the boomerangs returned back to Harkness, Thea fired an arrow and Rene fired, to knock the boomerangs off their trajectory before Harkness could catch them. Before Harkness could do anything else, Tommy shot another arrow into Harkness's chest as he fell down, coughing blood as light left his eyes.
"Pity. But no matter." Lex smirked, flying in the air. "Don't you see? You cannot defeat me!"
"What did you do?" Bruce demanded as they stared at Lex. He wasn't a metahuman, so how did he gain metahuman powers?
"I've become what I've aspired to be. Faster, stronger and superior than you. I am the savior of this world, not you!" Lex shouted.
"Savior? You've killed innocent lives! Experimented on people!" Oliver yelled, all of them shooting him incredulous looks.
"I am the savior of humanity! I am the pinnacle of human species!" Lex snarled madly. Clayface had freed himself from the ice in which he was encased before he formed a hammer in his hand, about to smash them all before Lex turned to him. "Karlo! No!"
"You promised me to get a shot at them." Clayface said, turning to Lex in confusion.
"I said 'no.'" Lex said.
"Screw you." Clayface sneered as he turned to heroes, about to crush them, when suddenly, Lex reached out with his hand and fired some energy beam at Clayface, who screamed before he evaporated as they stared in shock.
"You killed him…" Tommy whispered, not believing he had just seen.
"I don't take kindly to traitors." Lex said.
"We'll stop you." Bruce sneered.
"We shall see about that." Lex smirked as he opened a breach and disappeared in it as it closed.
"So, now we know why he stole all the biotech." Oliver realized.
"He's found a way to replicate powers." Bruce finished.
"How are we gonna stop him?" Tommy wondered.
"I don't know." Bruce said.
Kara and Thawne rushed at each other in superspeed as they exchanged blows. While Thawne was faster than Kara due to his complete mastery over Negative Speed Force and managed to dodge most of Kara's blows, his lack of any formal combat training gave Kara a clear edge. Kara managed to hit Thawne in the leg, breaking it as Thawne yelled in pain and fell on his knees before Kara punched him in the face, knocking him down.
Thawne looked up and laughed sadistically as he saw the look in Kara's eyes as she seethed, glaring at him hatefully. "Don't. I know who you are, Kara Zor-El. You don't have the guts for this kind of justice." He gloated.
"You experimented on me. Tortured me. You killed Barry's mother. You've tried to kill my friends and brainwashed Conner." Kara sneered angrily. "With Rhea, Reign and the other I had a choice. This time, I don't."
The smile suddenly vanished off Thawne's face before Kara grabbed him by his throat and lifted him in the air as Thawne choked, gasping for air, when suddenly, loud, sickening 'crack' echoed as Thawne went limp and Kara dropped his lifeless body to the ground as she breathed out.
"Kara…" Barry stared as he neared her, while she held his hand and suddenly, Thawne glowed green as he vanished in a glow of light.
"What the hell…" Kara whispered, both her and Barry looking completely confused and realizing that they had not seen the last of Thawne just yet.
"Where's Clark? What did he do with Clark?" Diana asked.
"It's a dimensional breach. Pocket dimension." Bruce realized as he reviewed the footage.
"Like with DeVoe. That's why we couldn't find Lex." Barry realized.
"But now we can. We just need the right equipment." Bruce said before he turned to them. "Barry, call Cisco. We're going to build a portal and plan an attack."
Elsewhere
Thawne put down some goggles as he smirked. "Well, that hurt. For a clone."
"The Amazo virus worked. It duplicated your and their powers." Lex said.
"Well… why settle for just one? Let's bring in some friends." Thawne said as the door opened to reveal various villains, while Clark was trapped in some containment cell as Snart entered.
"I did what you wanted. All the items are yours." Snart said.
"You've upheld your end of the deal. Thank you, Mr. Snart." Lex said.
"Your speedster friend saved me after that hellhole blew up. I owed you one. Now, is our business concluded?" Snart asked.
"That depends." Lex said before he readjusted his suit as he turned to Snart, giving him a pointed look. "I suspect your sister and Mr. Rory will be coming here soon. If you can convince them to go with you, then 'yes.' Otherwise, I cannot guarantee their safety. But try to do something ill-advised, such as turning on me, that will not end well." He lifted his hand and it glowed red as Snart narrowed his eyes.
I'm now going to do a poll here, and am about to include various villains later on. And to go through the rules, the villains can be any villain, who has appeared in this series or DC Comics or Arrowverse.
The limitations are: Any alien or supernatural villains that are very high-tier, such as Zod or Trigon are off-limits. Tough villains are acceptable but should not be too overpowered, such as Reign, Psi, Metallo, Icicle, Zoom, Bane, Jade Nguyen, the Joker etc. The villains can be any villain that has appeared in Arrow Seasons 1-5 (except for Adrian Chase, obviously), The Flash Seasons 1-3, Supergirl Seasons 1-3, Legends of Tomorrow Seasons 1-2 or this series, such as Takeo Yamashiro, John King, Richard Dragon, the Longbow Hunters, Joe Wilson etc. If it is a compelling villain, such as Malcolm Merlyn, China White etc., they are acceptable but not Ra's al Ghul, since I just don't see what I could do with him here.
So, what do you guys think?
Please review and let me know if you have been enjoying this and want for me to continue.