Author's notes: Apparently this site took the original title of this chapter too offensive and now I was forced to change it. What would be better than the original? Think... Think... think...
And a Happy New Year to everyone! I didn't get to finish this story in 2014, but I managed to post this chapter in that year.
Mind over Muscle
Happy Harbor
Resistance was thrown at Voldemort immediately. Recognizing the threat and hostile intentions Voldemort presented at them, Mera pulled all the water she could and threw it at Voldemort, who vaporized it to steam with his lightning magic. Sinestro and Starfire opened their fires at Voldemort as Black Manta and Arsenal also fired with optical lazers and incendiary arrows. Not enough to stop Voldemort, but enough to slow him down for Black Adam to grab a hold.
''DO IT, ADAM!'' Sinestro yelled, holding Adam's jaw together with his ring. ''FOR YOUR PEOPLE, FOR KAHNDAQ!''
''SHAZAM!''
KRA-KA-THOOM!
Watchtower, Engine-room
''ELEMENT WOMAN! CLEAN AIR!''
The Joker was right about few things. Batman had spent countless hours in his career to inject himself with nonlethal dosed of different forms of Joker Venom to boost up his immunity. The gas filling the Watchtower had no affect on Batman, but could affect those not prepared. Owlman's helmet had a mechanism that lifted a glass cover to protect his breathing from the gas and Deathstroke's mask served the same purpose. Even Lex Luthor had a rebreather in his powersuit and Cyborg's lungs were no longer organic to consume the gas. Green Arrow and Black Canary were also prepared and once Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein united again as Firestorm they were once again on the clear. Element Woman's powers also managed to cover most of the people in the engine room from the Joker Venom. But not everyone, since John Constantine, Stargirl, Zatanna, Captain Cold and Weasleys begun to show their skins beginning to turn white and their faces to show maniacal grinning and chuckling.
''What is happening to them!?'' Pandora asked horrified.
''It's the Joker Venom,'' Batman replied pulling an antidote from his belt. ''This is not enough for everyone. Get all the infected to outside to a non-contaminated area and start creating more of this.''
Those who had not been infected thanks to Element Woman's powers took the infected, tying them with Wonder Woman's lasso and pulled them to the cloud of clear air where opened a Boom Tube to teleport them outside. Luthor's geniuses and Cyborg's intelligence could tell Element Woman the chemical compound for the antidote and multiply it to heal the infected. It was the best Batman could think in short notice.
''It was the Joker,'' Batman said realizing it. ''The Joker was the one who had entered the Watchtower before us, but Granger took all the attention from him and what is happening outside also gave him the opportunity to gas everyone inside.''
''Devious,'' Owlman grunted, before setting to move out. ''If Cyborg took Grid out, then the Joker must be in the conference room monitoring us.''
''Thank you,'' Pandora replied before speeding away.
''That is all your lightning can do?'' Voldemort said after Black Adam's lightning had hit him with little effect. ''Pathetic.''
Voldemort threw Black Adam to the ground as Ultraman charged at him and pushed him up to the sky.
''Why didn't I kill you when I had the chance!?'' Ultraman asked Voldemort with his eyes burning.
''You did,'' Voldemort replied with his eyes sparking with electricity. ''You killed both of us, Ultraman. You killed Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort, but not fast enough. We tried to kill you and as our killing curses rebounded, they created a horcrux for both of us in Alexander Luthor.''
''BURN, YOU SON OF A BITCH!'' Ultraman yelled firing his heat vision on Voldemort.
''You can fry first!'' Voldemort replied sparking electricity on Ultraman, before a lasso was bind around his neck and pulled down towards the sea, where a giant Kraken was waiting to grab Voldemort with it's tentacles.
''We know who you are,'' Aquaman said, standing on the Kraken's head, to Voldemort. ''And you are not taking this world like they would have.''
''There was a Seaking in the Crime Syndicate,'' Voldemort said sparking more lightnings from his hands. ''Like you, he was weak against electricity!''
TZAAAAAP!
Voldemort used his lightning powers to cut the tentacle off the Kraken and released himself, shocking Aquaman in the process as well. He would have been fried if it wasn't for Wonder Woman lifting him off the current and reflecting the lightnings with her bracelets. Then Voldemort was attacked by Firestorm.
Watchtower, Conference-room
They would be fine. Justice League had them and Batman had the cure for the poison. But the Joker had to die. As she made her way up from the engine room to the conference room Owlman had said the Joker would be. There was a large table with chairs by it and a lot of monitors in the room. And by the monitors, one of the chair and the Joker sitting on it, having a good perspective of what was happening inside and outside of the Watchtower.
''You wanted to kill them?'' she said as a she took up two scythes and was ready to throw them.
''Constantine told me what had happened to you,'' Batman's voice said as she was stopped from doing anything yet. ''And just because of that you shouldn't do anything morbid.''
''Annndd, DING!'' The Joker said turning around in his chair and pushed a clicker with his thumb. ''Another live or die situation and the King lets the Jester live. The count is-''
CLICK!
Owlman threw an owlarang to grab the clicker and bring it to him so he could crush it to his gauntlet.
''-and we'll never know,'' the Joker said disappointed.
''As my brother was saying, you have been given the burden of this world's one of greatest sinners,'' Owlman told her, while keeping his attention pointed at the Joker. ''Taking a life would only make it worse for you, but I already have blood in my hands.''
''No,'' Batman said.
''And I already killed him in my world,'' Owlman continued, actually making the Joker look interested. ''I can do it again.''
''No one is killed here as long as I'm breathing,'' Batman snarled at everyone. ''Not by him, not by her and not by you!''
''AND THAT IS WHY YOU ARE THE KING!'' The Joker yelled spreading his arms and twirled around. ''No silly swords in the stone or slaying the dragon, THE KING ACTUALLY SERVES HIS PEOPLE WITH HIS RULES!''
''You didn't kill anyone on board the Watchtower!'' Batman yelled at the Joker. ''The Crime Syndicate was everyone outside and those infected in the engine room are being treated with my antidotes.''
Thanks to Cyborg, Luthor's team, Justice League and the infected were now outside the Watchtower where those who could joined the fight against Voldemort. Cyborg and Luthor took the antidote for analysis while Element Woman created a cloud of coagulation agent in the area holding the infected. Green Arrow, the Flash, Black Canary and Deathstroke stood by to keep them at bay if they got away and Martian Manhunter used his telepathic abilities to nullify the minds of the infected to keep them from protesting.
''The Joker Venom consists four different compounds all tied together with three elements,'' Cyborg said running the visual analysis on the sample taken from the Watchtower through his cybernetic eye. 'Hahnium, Helium and Holmium.''
''Ha, He, Ho,'' Luthor muttered. ''Sick sense of humor from a sick minded clown. Ms Sung, how long until the toxin takes fully over them?''
''I don't know, I can only turn my body into different elements and keep the toxin from from spreading further into their bodies,'' Element Woman said.
''That means hurry up, eggheads!'' Deathstroke said pointing a hand gun at the cloud and keeping his sword ready. ''I have killed more people than all of you have fingers, but even I'm against putting down underage children!''
''Just tell me the chemical compound so I can let them go!'' Element Woman yelled nervously. ''This is a VX-nerve toxin and those things are so strong that I don't even know if I can withstand it this long!''
''Then we need to inject it into you!'' Luthor said taking Batman's antidote and looking at Element Woman. ''Once it enters into your system, you can feel how it's formed and reform your body to resemble it to heal them! It's the only way!''
''What is the only way!?''
Luthor, Cyborg and everyone else turned to see Harry Potter fly to the side of the cliff by his broom and would have probably questioned his arrival, if it wasn't for Ron's jokerized laughter responding to his friend's arrival.
''Hahahhah… Harry… hahahahah… where…''
''What in Merlin's name is happening to them!?'' Harry said horrified and angered seeing the victims of the Joker Venom.
''Joker Venom poisoning, but we are handling it!'' Luthor said grabbing the vial of Batman's antidote from Cyborg, thanks to Harry's distraction, and injected into Element Woman's right leg, the one which was mostly just blood vessels. ''Feel the antidote coursing through you, Ms Sung. Learn how it feels, what form it is in and remake it in gas form to heal these people.''
''Luthor, what did you do!?''
''Leonard Snart, Courtney Whitmore,'' Luthor told Element Woman reminding her of the victims and looked at Harry, ''John Constantine, Zatanna Zatara…''
''Ron, Hugo and Rose Weasley,'' Harry said telling Element Woman who she was supposed to save. Their lives are in your hands, Ms Sung. Don't fail them. Create the antidote and save them.''
''Professor Stein, is that you in there!? '' Voldemort asked answering to Firestorm's attack. ''You became the Deathstorm in my world by uniting your body with a dead one. Who do you have in there with you!?''
''The Professor is riding the shotgun!'' Firestorm said shooting fire from his arms against Voldemort's lightnings.
''He IS sharing the Matrix with another?!'' Voldemort said surprised, when suddenly a tree branch and vines grabbed onto his legs and begun to pull him towards the ground.
The Swamp Thing was still present and fighting against the enemy by using the Green. The nature of the planet Earth itself was fighting against Lord Voldemort, who was attempting to take over from the defeated Crime Syndicate. But even as the Green was attempting to take and kill Voldemort, the anger, greed and stupidity of Ultraman was what stopped it from happening.
''NO! I WILL KILL HIM!'' Ultraman yelled while using his heat vision to burn through the vines. ''I WILL BURN THIS LOOSE END LIKE I SHOULD HAVE BURNT HIM YEARS AGO!''
''You are fool, Ultraman,'' Voldemort said zapping himself free ''and you just killed everyone here!''
''Tell me, brother,'' Owlman asked Batman while looking at the Joker, ''why is he still alive? Even if your antidote does cure everyone, he will only do it again, until you find everyone you care about cut in pieces and put in six different boxes in their former shapes.''
''Oohhoohoh, that was good one,'' the Joker said taking the position where he was imagining about it. ''definitely adding it to the 'To do' list.''
''And now he has the idea,'' Owlman said disgusted, spitting it out. ''So what is standing between any of us killing him now?!''
''For you and her, there is me,'' Batman said snarling as he kept Pandora from doing anything, ''and for me, the idea of turning into you. I have not properly realized it until you said you killed him in your world.''
''That did not turn me into a killer, brother,'' Owlman said turning half of his attention towards Batman and Pandora. ''I had already killed a lot of people before that and killing was nothing.''
''I WAS NOTHING TO YOU!?'' The Joker screamed charging at Owlman with a large knife.
It got Owlman off guard as his attention was divided and he was too slow to counter the attack. His armor protected him from the Joker's stabbing long enough for Batman to pull him off and Pandora to
''DON'T!''
Too late. Batman didn't manage to both pull the Joker off Owlman and stop Pandora from hitting her scythes to the Joker's chest. The Joker coughed a few times until his body fell down lifelessly on the floor.
''Not how I wished it to happen,'' Owlman said getting up as he looked at Pandora and then at the Joker's body, ''but at least he is dead.''
KA-POW!
Batman punched Owlman to the face with enough strength to break the class covering his mouth. Owlman responded by grabbing Batman's mask by the ears and pulled it off returning the punch at him. But the face of Bruce Wayne wasn't calming Thomas Wayne Jr down anyway. Both brothers fought one another as former Hermione Granger stood by the body of the man who had almost killed her family.
Everyone coughed a lot after having laughed for so long before calming down and color returning to their skin. Captain Cold and Stargirl rubbed their throats as Ron held on to his children, Zatanna took stance at the rocks and Constantine dug his jacket for more cigarettes.
''Light… anyone?'' Constantine asked breathing heavily as he put the cigarette between his lips.
''Incindio,'' Harry said pointing his wand at the cigarette and lit it. ''Shazam is flying Superman to the Sun so he can charge up his powers.''
''How convenient,'' Luthor said looking at the battle between Voldemort and the Justice League. ''Owlman called him 'their version of me'. What did he mean by that?''
''When the flare hit us, me and Superman back in Cardiff, we were sent to their Earth,'' Harry said, telling where he and Superman had been. ''We met different versions of my friends in there and a man called Alexander Luthor.''
''What?'' Luthor asked turning to Harry.
''He helped us getting back here, but when we got back, he yelled some magic word and turned into Voldemort by a black lightning strike,'' Harry said telling more. ''Something like Mahzas.''
Thoom!
As Harry said that, the sky gave them the sound of thunder.
''Mahazs?'' Luthor repeated and
Thoom!
It happened again.
''What are you not telling me?'' Luthor asked. ''What does that mean?''
''It means…'' Constantine said inhaling his cigarette, ''that Voldemort… is a horcrux inside 'your body'… mate. But considering how the black lightning is responding to both of you calling to it, it's dumb enough not to know the difference.''
''The black lightning that turned 'their me' into Voldemort responds to our voices,'' Luthor said to Harry and nodded to his broomstick. ''Grab your broom, Potter. We are bringing him down!''
''WHY-DO-YOU-CARE!?'' Owlman asked punching the unmasked Batman to the face again and again. ''HE WAS MURDERER AND YOU WANTED HIM TO LIVE!''
''KILLING SOMEONE AND LETTING SOMEONE KILL SOMEONE ARE TWO THINGS I SWORE NEVER TO DO!'' Bruce yelled back fighting Owlman. ''I SWORE THAT I WOULD NEVER KILL ANYONE OR LET ANYONE BE KILLED AS LONG AS I COULD STOP THEM! THAT IS WHAT I HAVE DEDICATED MY LIFE TO! SAVING LIVES!''
Bruce punched Owlman to the mouth hole again, pulled the goggles back and released them to hit back, temporarily blinding Owlman.
''And that moral could have kept her from turning into an actual sinner instead of just having her wear former sinner's clothes,'' Bruce snarled pointing at Pandora standing over the Joker's body as Owlman had to remove his helmet to see again. ''She is condemned because you kept telling her more reasons to kill the Joker. Only if Luthor and Cyborg did manage to heal everyone, including Constantine, she may have a chance of being purged. OR NOT!''
''Is that what you keep telling yourself, Bruce?'' Thomas Jr asked gritting his teeth at Bruce. ''Any possible excuse to not have blood on your hands or to just keep the Joker alive?''
''I am not a murderer,'' Bruce said with anger in his voice.
''AND WHAT ABOUT PROTECTING YOUR LOVED ONES!?'' Thomas Jr yelled. ''I killed the Joker in my world after he murdered my Annataz. After he left her cut up corpse in six different gift wrapped boxes for me to find. She is alive in this world, hopefully cured by now, AND I WOULD HAVE KILLED THE JOKER THOUSAND TIMES AGAIN JUST SO HE WOULDN'T KILL HER AGAIN!''
''Zatanna is not your Annataz,'' Bruce said walking towards his cowl laying on the floor. ''She is her own person and not your replacement for her deceased counterpart. You need to understand that, Thomas.''
''AAARGGHH!'' Thomas Jr roared charging at Bruce, who was picking up his mask and was putting it back on.
BOCK!
But then he was stopped by a kick to the stomach, to that weak spot the Joker had tried to stab him earlier, by a figure in black, then punched to the face by the back of a gun and pushed to stay on the floor by red, sharp wings.
''Red Hood, Red Robin and Black Bat,'' Batman told his proteges having arrived and taken down Thomas Jr, ''keep him down.''
''Why did you want us to stay hidden while shit went down?'' Red Hood asked pushing his gun at Thomas Jr's owlsuit's weak spots. ''Can't believe I'm actually saying this, but the Joker could still be alive.''
Batman didn't respond before kneeling next to Pandora sitting next to Joker's corpse. The scythe had pierced through his ribs and punctured the heart. Batman didn't pay any respects to the madman and was about to help Pandora up to take her to Constantine, until he noticed the strap and strings.
''This is not the Joker!'' Batman said grabbing the face and pulled it off. ''This is the Joker's old face attached to Valeyard!''
''WHAT!?''
''The hair is dyed and the skin below jawline in painted,'' Batman said biting his teeth while showing the Joker's old face and the Valeyard's face on what they had thought to have been the Joker. ''He is long gone.''
''But not forgotten!'' the Joker's voice said from inside the Valeyard's black suit, where Batman tore out a voice-box. ''Hey, Bats. Sorry for leaving so soon, but a much as I would have loved to see you and the Owl King come to knight me, I thought that would have been ruined by what is going on outside. So I left the other guy to greet you all with a little memento from me and some of the compounds I have been working on with a colleague of mine from Japan. Wonderful fellow, he and I will create the perfect-''
CRASH!
Batman threw the voice-box to the wall and looked at Pandora, who had not said anything since she had killed this man. True, Valeyard was not a saint of any kind, but the Joker had used him to make her a sinner. Batman helped her up and pulled back her hood, revealing the face of Hermione Granger that was now fully covered by forced tattoos and her hair's purple shade was now even darker.
''We should take you to Constantine,'' Batman told Pandora helping her walk in her state of shock. ''If there is anything left of Hermione Granger, he should know how you can be salvaged.''
Voldemort was still fighting Ultraman until he threw him back to ground and unleashed a mighty lightning attack that nullified everything in close proximity to being unable to fight him. For one person it would have been deadly, but shared to so many, it barely put them down for count. Everyone with powers had no chance of fighting him and those without powers couldn't stand a chance against him.
''Crime Syndicate is defeated, the Justice League is defeated, WHO ELSE WANT TO OPPOSE LORD VOLDEMORT!?''
''CARPE RETRACTUM!''
Harry Potter flew close to Voldemort and cast the rope spell to grab him while Luthor and Bizarro pushed him to the ground. On their way down, Voldemort looked at his assailants and recognized Luthor as his host body. He was about to fry him, but Bizarro took the shock pushing Luthor away. As they all fell down, Luthor kept trying to stay focused and ready for Voldemort's next attack, but saw him above engaging Harry. Before Luthor could use his suit to fly up again, he saw Bizarro's body.
''Creature, get up,'' Luthor told it. ''Creature?''
''Bizarro… try,'' the creature said struggling, but couldn't do it. ''Bizarro… tried…''
''Creature?'' Luthor asked shaking Bizarro. ''Bizarro!?''
''You actually named it?'' Voldemort's voice said surprised and mocking behind Lex. ''Alexander Luthor wasn't sentimental about anything or anyone.''
''You are their version of me,'' Lex said turning away from Bizarro's lifeless body and faced Voldemort holding Harry by his neck. ''No, you are inhabiting the body the their version of me, with some bits of Harry Potter in your mind.''
''I knew exactly who you were when I looked into your eyes, Lex Luthor,'' Voldemort said hovering towards Lex. ''But the fact that you even tried to fight me after I showed I'm more powerful than you, that was stupid especially for you.''
''I may not be as powerful as you are,'' Lex said walking closer to Voldemort and shared glances with Harry, ''but compared to the body you have, there is that one similarity.''
''And what is that?'' Voldemort asked as Lex grabbed onto his arms.
''We sound exactly the same,'' Lex said and then yelled with Harry in a mighty roar:
''MAZAHS!''
KRA-KA-THOOM!
The black lightning stroke from the sky and turned Voldemort's powerful form of Mazahs back to the old man Alexander Luthor, who couldn't fight against Harry's wand and Lex's powersuit.
''He may not be as powerful as you are,'' Harry said keeping his wand on Alexander Luthor's throat and Lex covering his mouth with his suit's glove, ''but he is smarter than you. CONSTANTINE!''
''Everybody form a circle!''
John Constantine, Cyborg, Stargirl, Zatanna, Captain Cold, Weasleys, Green Arrow, Black Canary and Deathstroke formed a circle around Harry and Lex holding Voldemort's host body as Constantine begun his exorcism on the evil spirits inside.
''Mali spiritus, morte fugit condemnans turpis et polluit illud sacrificium. Peccatum satis longa, in Inferno, ubi ego iudicabo vos!'' Constantine spoke and as he spoke, a fire pit begun to form on the ground under struggling Voldemort. ''Vade ad Infernum, et youll 'terminus sursum illic, dicere Lucifero, salutem dicunt John a Constantino!''
The firepit fully formed and Harry and Luthor barely managed to jump away as hands of the damned grabbed onto Voldemort and dragged him down to Hell.
Author's notes: All the episodes of Breaking Bad I have watched and I still ended up having the antidote being created that way. There could have been so many other ways, but I wasn't smart enough.
And I don't know Latin at all, I used Google Translate, but when Constantine exorcised Voldemort to go to Hell, he finished it by saying, ''When you go to Hell, tell Lucifer that John Constantine says hey.''
And then there was that other reason I managed to come up with on ''why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker''. Good or bad? Oh, and the friend the Joker said he has in Japan, it's a reference to a manga comic Batman: Child of Dreams.
Final chapter(s?) will be posted next year to tie up all the loose ends(like what happens next)and maybe set up another sequel.
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Guest: Gary Oldman himself was asked, since he had acted with monsters like Hannibal Lecter, Voldemort and the Joker, who was the worst one. He said the Joker made Voldemort look like one of the Muppets from Sesame Street. Although he was talking about Heath Ledger's Joker and this was supposed to Jared Leto's Joker.
Tiger5: Some are immune, some were not. Although in Scott Snyder current Endgame story arc, the Joker managed to infect the whole Justice League with his new version of the Joker Venom. And for the Weasley children, traumatic experience. They are going to need therapy. Lots and lots of therapy. And so is... is she Hermione anymore?
Miss Singing in the Rain: THE WHOLE SHOW AWESOME! WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MINDS WOULD THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD IDEA TO CANCEL IT IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR STORY ARC!? And I think I'm going to start using those Next Times more when I find it fitting.