They arrived in Kandhaq and made their way as quickly as they could toward the pyramids where Black Adam said the device was. Arthur wondered whether they would have enough time to achieve what they wanted. They'd fought off robots by the dozen to get here, seeing Shaera die as well, fighting to protect them. Arthur knew Katar had been devastated by that, but he had continued on his way. This was it, the moment they'd all been waiting for, the chance to finally end the fighting amongst one another and achieve proper peace.
"Here." Black Adam said. The device was big, shaped into the eye of Horus. "I will unleash the energy and then you will need to place your trident right in the middle." Arthur nodded and made to move that way, when a voice came.
"I think not." Arthur looked around and found Grodd there, looking at them both. "You will not ruin what I have worked for so long to achieve."
"Step away from there Grodd." Arthur snarled. The monkey refused and so they engaged. Grodd fought with his mind and his fists, Arthur was expecting such a thing and so moved as quickly as he could, dancing through and shifting and breaking. He hit the monkey as hard as he could, whilst Black Adam got the machine going. When Grodd attempted to move toward the machine, Arthur dragged him back.
Eventually, after much struggling, and much fighting. Arthur had the beast on the ground he stared at the monkey and asked. "Why? Why would you side with a monster like Brainiac?"
"For power." The monkey replied.
Arthur snorted, and plunged his trident deep into the monkey's chest, keeping it buried there until he was sure that the monkey was dead. He removed it then and Black Adam nodded, the machine let out the blast of energy, Arthur stood and planted his trident firmly in the ground. The energy hit the trident, then spiralled out and Arthur turned to watch the world machine fall, and shatter bringing down the evil with which it had been created. Arthur smiled.
Diana strolled down the street, Cheetah was dead, she'd killed the woman who at one point had been her friend, the guilt weighed heavily in her heart, but she kept going. The monsters were losing, the society was broken, though the cost to them had been something else. Dinah had died, fighting alongside her, killed by her own sister, Batwoman had died as well, slain by some beast or the other. Black Lightning had been killed as well, his head removed from his body. Still, the society had lost considerable numbers today.
She stopped and stared at the being before her and sighed. "I knew you would come back. You never stay dead for long."
The god of war laughed. "This is my last stand. The world has stopped fighting." He drew his sword, and she drew hers, the days of old came back to her, they engaged, there was fighting, swords clashed against one another. The God of War laughed. "You have gotten stronger since the last time we did this." They pulled apart, then continued fighting once more.
Diana swung her sword, Ares ducked, and then swung his own, Diana blocked it. They kept one another locked in a firm embrace. Diana looked at him and said. "You could have sought a reprieve from the all father at any point. Why didn't you?"
Ares laughed. "Because war is just too good to be stopped. I could not give up this addiction. What will you do if the world returns to never-ending peace?"
"Ensure that you can never return." Diana snarled. They broke apart, before returning into their duel. She managed to take off his hand, he opened up a wound against her arm. They joined together. "Give it up Ares, you are finished."
Ares said nothing he merely kept fighting, and then, Diana parried his sword, knocked it out of his hand, and buried her sword deep within his chest. She then moved to his neck, and pressed her hands deep against his throat and kept pressing until his neck exploded. A way to kill a God, something Hades had once taught her. Diana watched as his body decomposed, then made her way to helping the people.
He sat inside the ship, and thought through his options. The World Machine had been brought down, and whilst he had not expected it to fall so easily, he had always suspected that Grodd would be no match for two Gods of the world. It did not matter, he would have what he wanted soon enough. There would be time to reclaim the world machine from the dirt. The humans might have thought they'd scored a victory, and whilst the society was gone and finished, its leaders slain, he was not. He could not be killed.
The ship was hit by blasts. He smiled. "Turn on sector 15 protocol." The machines whirred and he knew then that the time he had been waiting for was fast approaching. That was good enough for him, he was growing tired of having to constantly handle the messes of lesser beings. As the machines whirred into life around him, he considered what he would do to the Kryptonian, draining him of energy would be too easy to do. He wanted experimentation. The life equation was out of reach, that was true, but once he had Kryptonian knowledge he could then defeat the kryptonian son and move onward.
The ship continued to rock backwards and forward, he laughed. "Initiate revenge protocol." The machines blasted into life, destroying what semblance of control the humans might have had. There was a almighty scream that issued from within his ship. He smiled, he wondered how the Kryptonian would react if he showed him another one of his people. Indeed if he showed him his cousin to be frank, that reaction alone would generate something worth noting. The ship was torn open and the Kryptonian stood before him. He looked up and smiled. "Welcome to your death, Kal El."