Many adversaries existed throughout time that were a constant and ever present threat. One of the more persistent ones would have to be Ra's Al Ghul. The Demon Head walked forward, in a hooded robe, his facial features obscured. Yet, no one could mistake the tone and the posture.

"Soon, my vision will be fulfilled, and soon the world will be changed, for the letter."

The battle below was something that was not worth his interest; in fact, one could say that it was a distraction for the dogooders. By the time they realized what occurred, it would be much too late and Ra's would have won the day.

"What of….Harry Potter….."

"Yes, Ubu, it was quite a shock to find the fact that he still lives, but someone like him is a parasite who is clinging onto life," Ra's commented and disgust burned through his voice when he spoke.

One could get the idea that Ra's Al Ghul had encountered Harry Potter a few times before in his life and one would be right. The Demon Head was extremely dangerous for certain but he had found a foe that could match him there.

Their battles occurred at periodic intervals many times throughout history. Even before Ra's had met the Detective, he had gone against the last wand waver. Even though he had grown far and beyond using that particular limiting tool, he remembered. He encountered other wand wavers all throughout history, but none had been more frustrating that Harry Potter.

"Do not despair for I have a plan, the world is not going to suffer under the watch of those unworthy to breath its air for much longer," Ra's stated, his voice growing in tempo and madness filled his eyes. One could say that sanity had left the building for the demon head a while ago and they would be right.

That being said, one should not discount that they were dealing with a very, very, dangerous man. The type of man who would destroy pretty much anyone who had posed a threat to him. A man like this crushed innocents at a drop of the hat just because the mood suited him.

"Leave this battle, this facility was no longer something that I needed to use anyway."

Ra's Al Ghul formulated many plans, but this plan had been one that had been brewing in his mind for quite some time. He was confident in its success and the power that he would obtain, well it was essentially spell binding. The Demon Head could feel everything come together with precision and the thoughts of the world that he would rule soon follow.

Most would be wiped out but that was the price that you would have to pay for a world that would be a utopian one.

"Master….."

"Power, Ubu, and respect, those are two things that should be appreciated, and those are two things that I will have," Ra's whispered, greed dancing through his eyes. "And now tell Ubu to get ready, for we are almost there. And I will take care of Harry Potter…."

"You're really not going to monologue me to death, are you?"

Ra's head turned around, snapping forward to see the young man standing in the shadows before him. A smug grin was on his face as per usual.

"So, you still haven't learned to stay in the grave? I'm not surprised. This is actually kind of sad at this point. You've been at this with no success for how many years."

The goons dropped to the floor like flies and Harry moved forward.

"Ubu, new change of plans, take care of Harry Potter," Ra's demanded and the large servant nodded his head, cracking his knuckles.

"At once master," Ubu growled, rushing forward, his fist swinging towards Harry Potter but the young man dodged it quite nicely.

"Really, like an obedient dog, he comes after me, well that's just as well," Harry said, dodging the bulky fist of Ubu. It wasn't if he couldn't see these attacks coming.

The large fist of this man monster was dodged and Harry reared his hand back and cracked it towards his enemy.

He struck Ubu in the chest and sent over the rail with a large crash.

"Sit, Ubu, sit."

Harry Potter looked down at the man who had fallen, but one thing was for certain, Ra's Al Ghul had decided to fly the cope. The man didn't seem too keen about a battle with him.

Then again, given how much Harry knocked him around the last time.

'I could…..really use some help,' Karen thought, her thoughts kind of strangled, also her throat kind of was strangled as well. The air nearly was knocked out of her body, as her double was beating her around.

Harry looked down, Ra's could wait, as he had made a clean getaway.

'Just hold on, I'll be done there…..well right about now.'

"Tess, it's Ra's Al Ghul…."

"He doesn't know how to stay in the grave, does he?" Tess asked and Harry shook his head.

"No, he doesn't," Harry said but he could see the fight between Power Girl and his double. "Track the Lazarus Pit energy…we can find our man."

"Shouldn't be too difficult, we got a pretty clear reading from Gotham."

Karen thought that this fight could go a little bit better, okay scratch that, she thought that this fight could go a hell of a lot better.

The blonde shook her head, trying the pinpoint the exact spot where everything just went to hell. She had a couple of ideas as to where, that much was for sure. The sensations around her drove her mind completely numb.

Blood gushed from her mouth, seldom a good thing that was for sure. She lifted her head up, to see her dark haired counterpart. She was pretty sure that her enemy mocked her.

"You've grown soft over the years, you haven't embraced being a true Kryptonian in a long time, child. The very thing that you used to lecture Kal-El about, you've become, pathetic….."

"Hey, she's not that bad, trust me, I know, and you talk too much," Cir-El said and she tried to kick Divine, but Divine caught her foot and whipped her down to the ground like she was nothing.

Diana rushed her way into the scene and she tried to wrap her lasso around Divine, but Divine dodged it.

"Just calm down, no one wants to hurt you."

"Really princess, the pacifist act?' Divine asked, and she used her heat vision on Diana, but she deflected it back with her bracelets.

Divine ducked the searing heat that was sent back at her, the wind knocked out of her lungs and then Karen got back up, flying at her.

A huge forearm drilled Divine right between the eyes and knocked her for a loop.

Divine flew back because of the impact and Karen shot at her like a cork once again. Her head nailed Divine in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her.

"Oh, you know how to play, well you want like it when I play rough," Divine said, jabbing Karen in the side of the throat, and then using a blast of heat vision at her.

Karen dodged the heat vision and used her super breath to knock Divine down. She clapped her hands. The sonic attack shattered every single window.

"Are you alright?" Cir-El asked, with Karen dropping to one knee. Her arm had been burned in the fight with the heat vision.

"Yeah I'm…."

Divine did a super powered soccer punt to her face. The blonde flew backwards, her face hurt. She clutched the side of it, shaking her head.

"Alright, I guess she wants to play rough, I can play rough too."

Karen dodged her attack and grabbed Divine into a rough full nelson, forcing her down to one knee.

Diana grabbed Divine's legs as she tried to kick at her.

"She's a lot more durable than all of the other clones, isn't she?" Diana asked, straining to hold onto Divine.

Divine broke free suddenly, and she swept Diana's legs out from under her. Divine grabbed Karen by the throat and rammed her against the wall. The blonde struggled as her dark haired duplicate wrapped her hands around her throat and slowly began to choke the life from her.

"I'm not amused," Divine whispered, her hands clamped around Karen's throat, nice and tight. Karen struggled against the grip, with the blonde slowly fading her grip. Divine's nails dug into the side of her throat.

"Yeah, that makes….two of us," Karen said, feeling the pressure squeeze against her throat. She tried to avert her eyes upwards,

She shot the heat vision to a chain below and a large metal spike came down to attack her.

Divine had to remove her hands from Karen's throat to catch the spike. Then she tried to hurl the spike into Karen's face, but she ducked it the attack handily.

Diana took advantage of that distraction by using her lasso, wrapping Divine up. She struggled and tried to break the lasso.

"She couldn't…." Diana whispered.

She was growing more agitated the more that the lasso's pull ensnared her mind. Divine tried to break free, but she dropped down to one knee, as she felt a sudden desire to go to sleep.

"There you are, when all of the fun is over," Karen said, but really she was glad that Harry joined them. "She didn't break down…..well not completely. I'm thinking that there is a mental degeneration there….."

"No, I'm sure that they did something to stabilize her," Harry said with a smile on her face. Her anger and rage was gone now that she was in a state of rest. "She could be a valuable asset."

"Of course she could be," Karen said, but she felt a bit of sympathy towards her clone.

It wasn't her fault that she was used as a pawn in a madman's chess game. The blonde felt the urge to help her out, to set what was right.

Harry Potter knew that the person who could best tell him what he was dealing with was one Ra's Al Ghul. The problem was that the Demon Head, crafty as he was, had done a runner, thus putting Harry in a rather perilous position.

That being said, he was always up for a challenge.

"I've tracked the three most probable locations that Ra's Al Ghul might be holed up at."

Harry smiled. "Thanks Tess….."

"You can thank me later, right when you deal with him," Tess said. "I'm also trying to find the real bomb so they can disable it."

Harry made his way outside of the abandoned military base in the desert. Out of the three locations, this looked to be the best place to start.

'Is she….'

'Yes, the Luthor twins are looking over her, to see if they can do anything to her, we'll return when they're done,' Karen said, and Harry knew "we" meant Karen, Cir-El, and Chloe, all of who had gone up.

'Are you going to need back up?' Kara asked Harry, this was one of those situations where she was a nice little bundle of nerves.

'Back up is appreciated.'

Harry decided to pause for a second, seeing the fact that there were cloaked guards all around the base. He went into invisibility mode, flying over their heads. He had to be careful not to fly too fast but he needed to get inside, time was of the essence.

'This is either the base, or a well-disguised attempt to throw me off the scent,' Harry thought, only time will tell which was in fact which it was. The green eyed wizard floated in the air, his ear to the wall.

He dropped down behind one of the guards. He looked to be at the end of a really long shift in the blistering heat, which made him a prime target to be taken out.

A jab to the back of the neck and he dropped down, his knees folding underneath him. Harry dragged him into the shadows.

"Where did he go?"

The guards moved in and Harry summoned the key card from the guard, swiped it, and returned it before he was missed.

Harry had maybe about five minutes to work his magic and to hook Tess into the base. Could this be the one? Well something was going on here.

Harry sent a shadow down the hallway, causing the final set of guards to chase it.

He cracked the door open and made his way to the mainframe. He moved quickly, doing four or five things in the blink of an eye.

"Encryption is difficult, but there shouldn't be too much trouble to crack it," Tess said, hacking into the computer. "According to this, Ra's Al Ghul should be in the next room, holding court."

"Likely giving a speech this is going to bore people to tears," Chloe chimed in, with amusement dancing through her eyes.

Harry smiled, so Ra's was in the next room, well that's where he was heading right now. The emerald eyed wizard kept his movements up.

He slid over the threshold and he could hear their voices coming from the other end. Craning his neck, Harry reached closer to where he needed to go.

"So the world will be purged of all that is unnecessary, for too long it has been a haven for disease, a shelter for the plague and now…"

"Nice speech, Ra's, but I've heard that one before," Harry said, swooped down and with an extremely swift movemeny, he took Ubu out again with a flying kick that cracked his collar bone."

"So, the famous Harry Potter graces us with our presence."

"You know the least that you could do is grace me with your presence, Ra's," Harry said. "Face me properly, I'm a guest in your….."

Harry nailed one of the thugs with an off handed back hand punch.

"I'm a guest in your house."

"Very well, you should remember this face, although not my voice or mind attached to it."

Harry came face to face with Bruce Wayne, the man according to the Legion databases was the god damn Batman.

"I needed a body that was the pinnacle of what a human could achieve," Ra's said in his usual dry voice. "The Detective spurned me in life but his DNA allowed me to create a perfect vessel to continue to live."

"Yes, yes it did," Harry said, in grudging agreement. "But no matter what face you wear, the result is the same."

"I think not, be mindful of your surroundings."

Harry smiled, there were numerous ninjas dropping down, all wearing armor that would repel any magic.

"You've done your homework, bravo," Harry said, with the ninjas rushing forward to attack him.

Ra's watched, making his way to the helicopter, the final bomb had been set and within twelve hours, the world changed around him.

He only knew that this attack delayed Harry Potter, but it would give him plenty of time to escape.

They contained Divine in stasis to the point where she would not be able to break out and go after the ladies of the Legion any time soon. Karen looked at her "sister" it wasn't her fault that she was used as a pawn.

"So, tell me that there is something that can be done with her?"

"Well, all of the other clones, the prognosis looks kind of grim," Chloe commented, looking at her blonde friend and she did feel a bit of sorrow for her. Karen was someone who refused to see the worst of the situation, even when things were pretty bad and right now, one could argue that things were pretty bad.

"But she seemed stronger and….."

"The fact she didn't degenerate does prove promising," Tess said, she was interested. Kryptonian DNA proved to be an interesting mine field to navigate to be honest.

"Yes, it does," Karen said, she hoped against hope that there was something; anything that could point to a positive outcome for her clone.

"I'm certain that some of the clone degeneration properties were negated by what he did….."

"Give credit where credit is due," the second Luthor twin told her sister, a scowl going across her face.

"Okay very well, we're show that the negative properties of the clone degeneration are negated by what he did….."

"But there are still a lot of challenges for her to overcome and we need to keep her in a state of sleep for….."

"She'll go, for lack of a better term, utterly nuts, and attack us all."

"Well, I don't think that we can allow that to happen," Tess said, deciding take charge. She needed to keep her nieces from losing their minds and descending into a babbling fit, of talking over each other.

"No, we can't," Karen agreed with a frown on her face. She really wished that she knew what to do but she found herself unable to piece together even the slightest of thoughts. She felt like a hamster on a wheel, who ran in circles without any kind of purpose.

"We'll figure out a way," Tess told her, placing her hand firmly on Karen's elbow, trying to get her to not be frustrated.

"Yes, I'm well aware, thanks."

Karen could only imagine what she had gone through to be conditioned, the thoughts of the torture, well it made her hope that when Harry got his hands around Ra's neck, he would strangle him something fierce and draw his inevitable demise out.

It was Ra's Al Ghul after all, someone who deserved to be put out of the world's misery.

"Her thought patterns are more stable than they were an hour ago, but without a telepath, we don't know for sure," Tess added.

"Well our resident telepath is out on the field….."

"And I feel that I should be as well," Karen said but Harry interjected.

'Don't worry, you need to be there in case she breaks free,' Harry thought.

He barely heard the Luthor twins squabbling over whether or not their containment case was the most secure on the planet and whose fault it would be if the person inside broke loose. He was mildly amused by what he heard.

Tess could not help, but smile but she could sense that Harry did not have his mind on the usual bond chatter.

'Can't talk, fighting ninjas, ninjas with magic-repelling armor,' Harry thought. 'And I just took out my third Abu of the day.'

'Wasn't it Ubu?' Chloe asked.

'Whatever,' Harry thought, taking the large man down to the ground.

Cir-El could hear the fight, as could Lois who stepped forward, seeing the girl who was in the containment tank.

"What is with people and clones anyway?" Lois asked, not bothering to use any amount of tact in her voice.

"You know, that's a question that people have been asking for a long time, but it never ends well," Cir-El said.

"But you don't own your stripes as a super hero, unless you're cloned, come back from the dead, switch minds with someone, or get reduced to miniature size," Chloe commented, rattling off the key main points that she had in her head.

"Don't forget get framed for a crime you committed by a shape shifting duplicate of yourself."

"Yes, there's that."

Karen's attention turned towards her double, she almost sensed her pained thoughts, crying out for help and then sometimes there were thoughts of rage, murder, and everything that went along with that.

Karen sighed; it was going to really be a long road to stabilize her sister.

"I became stable eventually, and so can she," Cir-El said, placing her arm around her cousin's shoulder and Karen smiled with a wicked grin.

It pleased Ra's Al Ghul when a plan came together. There were a few snags along the way but he bought himself a sufficient amount of time to get everything together.

"Soon it will be at an end, and not even he could stop it," Ra's said, standing out, even though his subjects were very few. An army of Ubus as far as the eye could see looked up with him. "Much like God flooded the Earth during the time of Noah, to drown the wicked, I will flood this world as well, to destroy what is unfit for this world."

Ra's grin grew wicked and more prominent.

"Brothers, it has been a long hard road to get to this point, and the world having decayed to this point….it defies all comprehension," he added to them all and they grunted in excitement. "Soon, the power will be at hand."

They all raised their hands into the heaven and reached for their master.

"And should I perish, I will set the plans in motion, so a new world will live after me."

If his heart stopped, it would set off the explosives prematurely, releasing the chemicals, which would cause his Lazarus Pits to overflow and flood the world. More chain reactions would follow, as what was once dead on Earth would undergo a state of rebirth.

Humans would give in to their inherent savage nature and utterly destroy each other, but that was to be expected. They would retreat within themselves.

"Come forth my brothers, and I will lead you to the promise land, a world that has been cleansed of everything that is wicked, where only the righteous will live and be born strong."

His speech was one that they were hanging upon his every world.

"Master, the Legion of Super Heroes draw even closer."

Ra's was not deterred despite this news that they gave him. "Let them come, if they destroy me in their rash actions, either way I will triumph."

The plan continued to come together and there was only one problem but he was being dealt with.

"If you could only live to see what became of your beloved Gotham City, Detective," Ra's said, looking at himself in the mirror. He saw the reflection of the man that he wished to be his heir but it would never take place. "But I guess we can't live to see the results of our legacy, now can we?"

He was ready, let it begin.

"The world is mine, but those who are not wicked shall be spared. Everything that is wrong will be reset."

There were cheers and Ra's Al Ghul gave a devious smile, that was music to his ears. It was time, very nearly time.

To Be Continued on September 8th 2014.