Beast Boy finally arrived on the South Wing where Raven said that there were still civilians left. She was right. He could smell human beings around the room. There were children being trapped inside a closet. Garfield wasn't so sure why they were staying there, but he was sure that they were trapped.

He managed to get into the front door and he could understand. Ceiling debris blocked the only way to get out and trapped them right inside. He could hear that they were waiting for help.

Children? Looks like a school tour has gone completely wrong.

Garfield could lift the multiple debris out, but he needed to do it from the inside. He transformed into a mosquito, went through the multiple debris, and got inside. That's when he transformed back into a human form, startling pretty much everybody inside.

"That was tight." Beast Boy said.

That's when the adults screamed their lungs out, but the kids widened their eyes and mouths on the sight of someone actually coming in and out and appearing out of the ether.

"Who are you?!" a really scared woman tour guide said.

"Don't worry." Beast Boy said. "You can call me Beast Boy. I'm going to get you out of here. Stay back!"

Beast Boy transformed into a giant gorilla. After he transformed, he grabbed the debris blocking the door and pushed it away. Beast Boy didn't look at how the civilians were scared to death by him transforming into a gorilla and instead focused on getting them out of the area.

The debris was finally cleared up and the way to get out was open. The children downright cheered towards Beast Boy transformed back into his human form and turned back into the civilians.

"Phew. Now you can get away safely." Beast Boy said. "Come on! Let's get out of-"

Beast Boy just noticed the same scared female tour guide had her tazer out and shaking her legs.

"Uh... you can drop that one, lady." Beast Boy said.

"Cool!" one boy stood out by saying it.

"Thanks!" Beast Boy gave the boy a thumbs up. "Now come on! Let's get out of here before the aliens come back!"

Beast Boy redirected his gaze to the tour guide.

"You," Beast Boy said. "Just direct the kids out. I'll be finding others."

The tour guide stopped shaking her legs and went pass Beast Boy, still a bit nervous from the whole situation but managed to regain her composure to get the kids out.

"Right," Beast Boy said. "Guys, do you have any more civilians?"

"Nope. I guess we got them all out." Raven said.

"Do you think that Robin and the rest are going to need our help?" Garfield asked.

"I hope not." Raven said. "Otherwise, we're going to have to deal with those crazy aliens ourselves. They're the only ones who are good at fighting these things."

"Right." Garfield said. "Hey, be careful out there okay?"

"I would've said the same thing to you."

##

All that Robin needed to do was to make sure that the Kryptonian that he fought was completely far away from the Capitol Building and out of the civilian reach. That's exactly what he did. However, he couldn't control the powers of a Kryptonian. He was forced to confront the Kryptonian and bring him into the West.

They both ended up in a rather convenient place: The Lincoln Memorial.

In the Lincoln Memorial, they both landed on the reflective pool. Thankfully Robin's entire armor was made waterproof just in case a battle like that could end up in water. He could get a rather beneficial advantage with him in the water like this including knocking out the Kryptonian if he had to. All he needed to do was to knock him down the floor just once.

"Status report." Robin said. "I'm in the Lincoln Memorial to the East. I guess we destroyed a couple of buildings on the confrontation. Make sure nobody gets hurt or trapped on the way here."

The Kryptonian was far away and charged towards Robin, but Robin dodged it immediately into the right. That's when he controlled his jet pack back to slam the Kryptonian into the water of the fountain area. Robin controlled his jetpack back and all he needed to do was to shoot a highly electric bomb to shock him out of existence and hopefully burning him to death.

Robin shot a shock grenade into the water. Not so shockingly, the water turned into small sparks of electricity. The Kryptonian was charged in with thousands and thousands of volts running throughout his entire body. As he screamed his lungs out in pain, Robin witnessed the slow burning of his body thanks to the armor malfunction and the shock grenade.

The Kryptonian finally gave up and succumbed into his death by electrocution. Robin scanned on the vitals of the said Kryptonian and thankfully, there was no trace of heartbeat left. That shock was too powerful for a Kryptonian like that especially when he wore that Kryptonian armor, which was enhanced with external power that consumed a lot of electricity.

##

Starfire could only redirect the Kryptonian into the North, and so was Conner apparently. However, unlike Conner, Starfire was able to knock out the Kryptonian with her starbolts and destroyed his armor. This was when she landed and walked into the Kryptonian.

"I will give you a chance of mercy." Starfire said. "You have committed the worst atrocity in the Tamaran history and now you have assisted another atrocity for another planet. I shall see that you will be severely punished."

"You don't have the guts." the Kryptonian said.

"Don't challenge her, Krol!" Zod said, clutching and struggling to make his way to him. "Stay away from her!"

"Too late."

Starfire created her dark starbolt. It was enough to burn a Kryptonian let alone a human. Starfire threw her starbolt right into his armor, which caused it to malfunction and caused a significant burn damage to it. She later grabbed his head with both of his hands. His scream has gotten a lot more apparent thanks to her hands burning every bit of his head.

A few minutes later, the scream went silent. A small explosion occurred right near her. She wasn't harmed, but the Kryptonian certainly was.

"Noooo!"

Zod shouted as Kory blasted the Kryptonian's head with her bare hands. He stood himself up from the ruined wreckage and launched himself towards Starfire, but Conner grabbed him to restrain him from his rage.

"Father!" Conner said. "You're not going to-"

That's when Zod turned his laser eye on and attempted to blast Kory with said laser eye. Kory however was fast enough to block said laser vision. However, that caused quite the massive explosion, enough to propel her miles away and knock her out.

"Kory!"

Conner was about to shout even more, but Zod flipped him over from his grab and dropped him on the ground. He faced him once again, but this time Zod was about to crush him.

"I cannot believe that you would concern yourself to the life of your enemy." Zod said. "And I cannot believe that I would be betrayed by my own son."

"You got what's coming, father." Conner said. "I've asked you to stop all of this and you didn't comply. I've given you a chance, but I have no choice."

"Then you have no choice but death when you face me."

Conner didn't widen his eyes on those words. He understood the consequences of going through the entire thing and all he wanted was to make sure that the Earth was safe for the peoples. He closed his eyes for a minute and accepted his face.

"So be it." Conner said. "But just so you know, father. You'll be all alone in this universe. Nobody is going to remember you. Nobody is going to honor you. Me? I've made my friends, peoples who know me as a person who can do good, something that you cannot take hints at."

"Then I will make your death slow." Zod crouched and grabbed Conner's neck. "I will make sure that your 'friends' receive the worst death imaginable before I can finally come into you and torture you for the ungrateful imbecile child that you are. There will be a time in which you will regret trying to face me-"

They both listened to the clicks of assault rifles, machine guns, and grenade launchers provided by the military who finally came into the scene. Both Zod and Conner witnessed the military aiming guns at their behalf, and most of them came from the South, but additional troops came from other directions as well. Zod dropped Conner away, focusing on getting the humans first, but someone else came into the mix.

Robot Robin finally arrived using his jetpack from above the sky. He landed just right in front of Zod and threatened him using his robot suit's sonic blaster.

"Zod," Robin said. "We finally meet."

"Who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am." Robin said. "What matters is who I represent. I represent humanity."

Zod scoffed. "Then to hell with your species. You're too happy on killing each other without a second thought."

"Nobody ever said that we are." Robin said. "We're not the kind of species who are prone on killing others. There are monsters among us, some of whom have the authority to do whatever they want, but so are yours."

"Tell that to the peoples of Fascana." Zod said. "You carpet bombed us with acid and leave innocent peoples die."

"I understand your anger," Robin said. "But our species has been in war with each other for years. That's what makes us to be what we are the same way your species were. We're not so different. We were both in a conflict where not one side was right."

"Not one side?" Zod asked. "I've seen children died, on your hands."

Robin navel-gazed on it. "True."

"And I've seen thousands more suffer in a slow death before they succumb into their fate." Zod said. "If you think that's the right thing to do, then your species deserves punishment."

"That's true." Robin said. "Our species deserves more punishment for all the crimes that we have committed into others and to ourselves. But we don't need a punishment from a self-righteous moral guardian who thinks that he's above all morality."

"What do you know about morality?"

"You know that you're only proving my point by asking me that?" Robin said. "I don't know what's right or wrong. I don't get to decide what's right or wrong. What I do know is that you're about to commit a genocide for our race and we as a species have the natural instincts to protect our own regardless of what we do to ourselves and to others."

It was surprising that Zod didn't laser him to death by this point, but Conner let Robin to complete his speech.

"The reason why Starfire and Conner come to oppose you is because we have shown them what it's like to be human at our best." Robin said. "We're caring, compassionate, willing to risk our lives to protect others and even other species. We're willing to protect you if you're willing to protect us."

"That's a lie." Zod said. "And you're going to tell me that's a lie!"

"If that's true, then can you explain why I haven't stepped in to kill you?" Robin asked. "If you think that humanity protecting their own is wrong, that's your problem to deal with, not ours. And if that means that we have to kill every single one of you, then so be it."

Zod froze still in place. Robin stayed still as well. However, in a moment's notice, Zod crouched himself down on his knees, kneeling and navel-gazing on himself.

"Are you going to kill me?" Zod said. "Are you going to kill me the same way you killed my men?"

"No." Robin said. "If you're willing to be like Conner and Starfire, I'll spare you. If you're going to continue this genocide, then we're going to defend ourselves with Conner and Starfire helping us."

"Defend yourselves." Zod scoffed. "You can make excuses to anything, don't you? Fine then. So be it."

Zod charged himself towards Robin, but that's when Conner intervened. He used his laser sight and blasted the back of Zod's head. Robin could only stand there on his failure on convincing the alien, and what's left of him was a fatally burned nervous system right on his back. After the damage, Zod kneeled to him, and finally succumbed into his death and dropped into the ground.

Conner couldn't see what was behind Robin's face. The one thing that he was certain was that he was quite disappointed. He cannot blame him though. This was exactly the kind of situation that mandated this entire thing to happen. Zod was too much of a soldier to let his past lives go. There was no way this could go in peace.

"Robin..." Conner said. "I'm sorry."

"It's fine." Robin said. "You did what you had to do."

"Starfire?"

"She's alive." Robin said. "And she's safe."

Conner sighed. "Thank god. Thank god this is all over."

"Robin." Cyborg called from the transmission. "We've extracted all the civilians around. We have a few injuries, but not a lot of deaths."

"And for the record, try to be careful when causing a mess to the Lincoln Memorial." Beast Boy said. "Raven and I had to clean a lot of mess up to find anyone injured."

"Sorry about that." Robin said. "I'm just glad that this thing's over. Let's get back to the cave."

"Freeze!"

Oh yes. The soldiers were still there.