Author's notes:So, the filming of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is now officially done. It's just one year, four months and 15 days until it premieres. And then after that, Suicide Squad.
By the way, I don't speak Latin, so what John Constantine says while doing his exorcising is what I wrote to Google Translate to make it sound authentic.
The Green
London, Ministry of Magic
FOOF!
Superman, Harry Potter and Alexander Luthor flew through the veiled portal and landed in the Department of Mysteries. Harry and Alexander let themselves fall of Superman's arms as the trip through whatever it was between universes and their veiled portals.
''Nnngghh'' Superman grunted rubbing his eyes as he landed in kneeling position. ''That felt…''
''If you're weak, we need to get you to the Sun,'' Harry said helping Superman up. ''Just need to get to outside.''
Alexander had already walked ahead of them, apparently taken by the different surroundings compared to where they had just arrived from. Everything was cleaner and less apocalyptic, but as they walked closer to the surface they found aurors in critical condition and near death state.
''What happened here?'' Harry asked coming to the other still alive and some what unharmed Ministry personnel.
''Harry, where did you come from?'' Seamus Finnegan asked seeing Harry and Superman. ''And what happened to Superman?''
''I'll be fine once I get some Sunlight,'' Superman said still rubbing his eyes before seeing the wounded. ''Dear Rao, what did this?''
''Power Ring and Deathstorm,'' Alexander said declaring. ''It is easy to see. No one's wands are working and the wounds have faint green glow.''
''Who's that?'' Seamus asked.
''He helped us back here after we were thrown to where your attackers came from,'' Superman said. ''Please tell me the Sun isn't turned red.''
''No, it's just being blocked by the Moon,'' Dean Thomas told.
''Okay,'' Superman said taking deep breaths as Harry let him stand on his own feet and flexed his limbs. ''If I jump in the right angle, I might get over it and recharge myself.''
Happy Harbor
'' Food… ''
'' There is food…''
TZAAAAP!
Captain Cold fired his Cold-gun at the humanoid piranhas approaching him and managed to stop the first few rows of the herd, but as he did the ones behind them climbed over declaring:
'' More food for us…''
The more Captain Cold shot at the piranhas, the more they got closer as he could only fire at one direction at once. Making a mental note to if he were to live throught this, he would build himself another Cold-gun for future heists.
''This why Rogues work as a team!'' Captain Cold yelled frustrated as
SLAM!
a large yellow hand slammed the piranhas and another hand picked him up, taking him to Batman and Luthor. Mera, Black Adam, Black Manta and Bizarro charged at past him at the piranhas as Sinestro dissolved the hand construct around Captain Cold.
''What took so long?''
''Improvising a plan against the Trench,'' Sinestro said creating another construct around himself, Batman, Luthor, Deathstroke, Constantine and Element Woman. ''The Crime Syndicate set them as the second wave of defence that I will join after dropping you to the entrance.''
''Take us there,'' Batman told Sinestro pointing at a maintenance door done for the repair crew after the Watchtower had felled of the Orbit. ''Keep the yellow glow at minimal and Element Woman, create mist and smoke to hide us from the view.''
Element Woman nodded and turned herself to mists around the yellow orb. They got to the maintenance entrance swiftly and as soon as they did, Sinestro joined the fight against the Trench.
''Someone has been through here,'' Batman noticed as they entered the Watchtower. ''Be ready for anything.''
''Someone has been through here?'' Luthor asked following Batman's lead.
''Someone has barged through here in a haste,'' Batman said kneeling at a terminal at the door. ''When the Watchtower fell off Orbit and crashed here, the repair group was assigned with key cards to register comings and goings. But the Crime Syndicate has modified it to work as a silent alarm system.''
''So, someone came through here before us and alerted them?'' Deathstroke said assuming that to be the case.
''Correct, and whoever that was, he or she has their attention,'' Batman said working to make the terminal not to register them entering. ''And now we can get in undetected, if we do it under ten seconds and not alerting Grid of tampering with their security.''
The next ten seconds were spent rushing in through the doorway. Captain Cold and Deathstroke kept guarding their back as Batman and Luthor read the way ahead of them and Element Woman scouted the further areas in gas forms. Constantine kept his head down and, maybe due to withrawl from smoking, was nervously shaking his hands.
''This is far from improvising,'' Luthor said observing the way Batman moved forward. ''You have practiced in breaking in here and making it a routine.''
Batman said nothing.
''You have planned ahead in breaking in here and taking the Justice League out,'' Luthor continued, with surprised delightened look on is face. ''You see them as much of a threat as I do.''
''There are worse things in and outside this world than them,'' Batman grunted at Luthor between his teeth as Element Woman reformed in front of them. ''Which one?''
''Deathstorm,'' Element Woman said, ''but there is also some strange woman in there with hostages.''
''Perfect,'' Constantine said rubbing something in his hands. ''I need to refresh this trick before I do it to Firestorm.''
John Constantine rushed past Batman and Luthor to the hallway, where Deathstorm was standing in a doorway talking to someone.
''OY! CANDLEMAN!'' Constantine yelled running at Deathstorm and slammed his hands on the burning skeleton's skull and chest before beginning to recite a spell in Latin. ''Im 'etiam in entitate intus. Et verba mea in nomine Domini creatoris recedemus. Per sanguinem hominis, et non sequere!''
Deathstorm fought back, but whatever Constantine was telling him seemed to be working as the smoke coming from the flames in Deathstorm's head and arms had begun to turn into steam. As Constantine kept on exorcising, Captain Cold and Element Woman ran to his aid while Batman, Luthor and Deathstroke stepped into the room Deathstorm had been watching to.
''Anima eius negavit reliqua, liber ex vobis cruciatus et vade in domum tuam!'' Constantine recited as Deathstorm looked as if he had begun to divide in two. ''Pater, et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus docebit vos in caelum. Vade cum istis, et libera!''
WHOOSH!
Deathstorm split into two people, one alive and one dead person as Constantine finished his exorcism. The alive one charged at him enraged, only for Captain Cold to beat him down with his Cold-gun's back handle.
''Thanks, mate,'' Constantine said picking out another cigarette and was searching for his lighter before remembering he had lost it. ''Bollocks. Well, at least this poor bloke is freed of 'is torment.''
''They always turn into that?'' Captain Cold asked when the dead person begun to shine white light and dissolve.
''No, this poor bastard's soul had been tied to whoever Deathstorm is and denied of it's peace,'' Constantine said turning around to where Batman and Luthor had entered. ''By separating them I released it and now it's free to go where it's supposed to.''
''Where's that?'' Element Woman asked.
''Where do you think?'' Constantine asked sarcastically as he saw the contraption holding three people and hooded familiar woman in purple. ''Who the devil did that to you!?''
Using her hydro-kinesis, Queen Mera lifted water from the ocean and directed it to the Trench, forcing them to stay where they were by trapping them inside. Sinestro used his ring to create a construct of a gigantic fish bowl aroud the water, keeping those of the Trench trapped inside while Black Adam used his powers to throw lightnings in and electrify the piranhas, while Black Manta impaled those left and burned with his optical lasers. Which was exactly what the Crime Syndicate had been expecting.
When all of their hands were tied handling the Trench, Ultraman, Superwoman and Atomica attacked with more of the Trench beside them. Superwoman threw her lasso at Black Adam and used him to whip Sinestro at Mera. Atomica jumped for the legless Johnny Quick crawling towards the Watchtower.
''I'll help you there, Johnny,'' Atomica said lifting Johnny to her arms and begun to turn them to Atom size, retaining her fullgrown form's strength. ''Professor Stein can create you new legs.''
''Nope!'' a voice said and a shining red arrow
''AAAIIIGGH!''
flew through the air into Atomica. ''Arrow to the knee.''
Arsenal slowed Atomica down and purple fire flew from the skies as Starfire shot it at the Trench, assisting Black Manta. Sinestro and Black Adam also resorted into blind fighting having lost the higher ground. For Sinestro it became harder as the Trench felt no fear to power his ring, only hunger, and it was basically draining itself so he had to save it's energy by not flying. Black Adam also still had his jaw broken and held together by a construct from Sinestro's ring, which was now losing it's power. Arsenal and Starfire also fought through the Trench, with Starfire having advantage of being able to fly and Arsenal using incendiary arrows on the Trench.
''This is all you managed to get?!'' Sinestro questioned frustrated as the cavalry had not been what they had expected.
''Constantine gave us one of is contacts and that was all we needed,'' Arsenal said as he got to them.
''One!?''
''The land is about to fight the sea, SO GET OUT OF THE WAY!''
On survival instinct, Sinestro used his ring's few remaining energies to get himself, Black Adam, Black Manta and Arsenal clear from the middle of the Trench herd as the land they had been standing on begun to morph. Gorges, chasms and ravines begun to form as the rock cracked open, first causing the Trench to fall to them before being surrounded by the Green. New trees, bushes and even tropical vines turned on the carnivorous sea creatures and pushed them back to the ocean where the Atlanteans ready to take them on were expecting them. With the Trench back off land, the Swamp Thing materialized from the Green and releasing the legless Johnny Quick and wounded Atomica to Sinestro, Black Adam, Black Manta and the Outlaws.
PTOOTH!
Starfire shot Atomica's shrinking-belt, destroying it and taking her ''powers'' away from her. Arsenal, with Sinestro, Black Adam and Black Manta, aimed their weapons at them, telling them they had nowhere to go and no chances of fighting anymore. It was now just Mera fighting Superwoman and Ultraman fighting Bizarro.
Deathstorm was gone, but her dilemma wasn't. She was still standing in the room with Ron and their children hooked to the Deathlocked machine. And now Batman had found her with Lex Luthor's team and John Constantine. How was she going to explain this?
''Help me,'' she simply said with her other hand on Ron's chest and other on her children's heads. ''Help me save them.''
''What is this thing?'' Luthor asked looking at the structure of the Deathlocked machine.
''They are locked in it,'' she said with her voice desperately asking for help. ''He… Deathstorm said if I free them he dies and if I free him… they die.''
''That's not how it's supposed to work,'' Batman said kneeling to see the heart-monitors. ''This was never built for more than one.''
''What?!'' she asked responding to Batman's words. ''How do you know their machine is supposed to work?''
''Because I built it and just like the door monitor, it has been modified beyond it's original functions-''
SLAM!
She didn't think, she reacted and realized justifications. Ron and her children had been hooked up to this Deathlock machine that Batman had created. Batman was the reason why Ron, Rose and Hugo had been locked into it until either Ron would die or her children would die. This was Batman's fault. That was what was going through her mind when she grabbed Batman and slammed him against the wall, with the original Pandora's twin pistols aimed against his head.
''You created this death machine to hold my family until their death!'' she told him, while her voice begun sound foreign.
''I BUILT IT TO CONTAIN DOOMSDAY!'' Batman roared at her face furiously. ''DOOMSDAY IS AN UNSTOPPABLE KILLING MACHINE! I BUILT THIS MACHINE TO HOLD HIM WHEN CAPTURED, SO HE COULD SENT TO THE PHANTOM ZONE!''
'''Mione?'' Ron's voice asked behind her.
She looked at Ron, barely conscious, and then at Batman, whose furiously angry gritting teeth, before being brought back to reality. She backed away flinching with her pistols aimed at the ceiling before her feet let go. What was happening to her?
''Batman,'' Luthor asked looking at Ron, ''when she called this machine Deathlocked, how dead does the prisoner have to for it to unlock?''
''As dead as no heart beating and no breathing,'' Batman looking down on the children. ''I never meant for this machine to be used on anyone besides Doomsday. He can't die so it would only unlock when his body would be sent to Phantom Zone.''
''But there is another way,'' Luthor said before pushing his powersuit's mechanical arm against Ron's face.
''MMMHHHHH!'' Ron begun to protest realizing what Luthor was doing to him and She responded to it immediately.
''WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?'' She yelled alarmed as she was Luthor attempting to suffocate Ron.
''Saving you family,'' Luthor said when She redrew her twin pistol and aimed them on Luthor's bald head. ''Him aswell.''
''Take your hand off him NOW!'' She told threatening him, with her voice changing again. ''I WILL-''
CLANK!
THONK!
Deathstroke had taken out his large sword and used it to hit Her pistols of Her hands before kicking her of Her feet and stepped on Her.
''He knows what he is doing!'' Deathstroke told Her while keeping his sword pointed at Her on the floor. ''Simulated death by stopping and restarting the heart before braindeath. Batman, take the Exorcist and go stop Firestorm from killing us all. We can handle this!''
Getting outside, Superman first looked up to see the eclipse the Crime Syndicate had forced on Earth.
''This shouldn't take long,'' Superman told Harry and Alexander as he took kneeling position similar to one hundred meter runners. ''I'll just need to charge my powers to full strength and then-''
''MAZAHS!''
KRA-KA-THOOOM!
Superman didn't even get the chance finish his sentence as suddenly Alexander yelled out a strange word that called dark black lightning to strike to where they were all standing and for that fraction of a second, Superman used the remainder of his speed to cover Harry from the blast.
''Thank you for bringing me here,'' Alexander's voice said, but sounding like it was mixed with two different voice too. ''All those years I was holding myself alive inside Alexander Luthor, until finally discovering the most divine magic that allowed me to live again.''
''Luthor,'' Superman said in weak, betrayed voice lifting his head, ''I should have known…''
''Alexander Luthor is not here, Superman,'' the mixed voice of three people said and seeing Alexander again, Superman and Harry saw what the lightning had done to him. ''Even when he was in charge, he had to hide me inside him, not letting anyone to know-''
''No,'' Harry said in denial, seeing two lightning bolt shaped scars over Alexander's that eye that had earlier been covered by an eye-patch and recognizing the two other voices. The other was Harry's voice and the other, cold and cruel voice of-
''-that Lord Voldemort is still alive.''
Author's notes: Swamp Thing. This chapter's name was referencing to Swamp Thing who, as I have understood, is part of or the avatar of the Green, that Arsenal and Starfire brought to fight against the Trench. And if that last bit left you surprised, confused and curious, Alexander Luthor of Earth-3 has been a horcrux ever since both Earth-3's Harry and Voldemort tried to kill Ultraman together.
Replies to Reviews:
Tiger 5: No one, okay some, can make that kind of choice. And unfortunately my imagination couldn't create a villainous version of Rose Weasley/Granger. But when it comes to happy endings, today they always cost something(unless it happens in a Marvel movie, there happy endings are a giveth).
Guest: There! Okay, well, she didn't use them yet, but she has begun to change to someone/something else, as she was already to use those twin pistols to kill Batman and Lex Luthor.
Exodus5: As long as the plan goes along without anyone getting killed, Batman is okay with it. Johnny Quick was only crippled, Atomica's tech is destroyed and Deathstorm was already half dead. Power Ring's death happened only on Sinestro's account, Batman didn't sanction it. And if you want to stay on board as the story goes on, tag yourself as a follower.
Miss Singing in the Rain: Hermione is slowly turning into Pandora more than herself. ''To gain is to loose and to loose is to gain.'' She is gaining more power when she is wearing Pandora's robes, but she is loosing who she herself is the longer she wears it. It's not dying, but there are worse things in the world than dying.