Looking over a balcony, Batman watched the restless city of Gotham at night. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary; at least not yet in his mind. He felt a breeze and then footsteps inching closer and closer towards him. Acting vigilant, he threw a pair of batarangs at the figure which turned out to be Wonder Woman as she blocked the batarangs. "Sorry Diana." Bruce mentioned. "It's no problem, Bruce. I came here to tell you about several visions I've had the past few nights." Diana inputted. "Do tell." said Bruce. Wonder Woman then revealed all of the details about the cryptic visions she had in previous nights: The "shadow man", the destroyed city, several JL members getting killed, all of it. With all of this new information, Bruce thought for a second and then came up with a conclusion. "I may consider using the Hellbat armor for this other mysterious threat. We also have another power player coming in as well." Bruce said. "Even with Supergirl's great and mighty strength, I don't think she'll be enough." Diana retorted. "I wasn't talking about her." Bruce said. Their conversation was interrupted by a call that Lex Luthor in his warsuit was terrorizing Metropolis. "Get me to the Hall of Justice." demanded Batman and Wonder Woman carried him there.
Countless people were running away from the destruction and terror. Jimmy Olsen ran towards the action to get front-of-the-line pictures for the Daily Planet. One little boy was running away from the carnage but tripped over. A large piece of debris was about to crush him when Superman stopped the rock from crushing him with one hand, thus saving the boy. Olsen made sure to get a picture of that. When Superman noticed that Jimmy was there, he exclaimed, "Get out of here! Go!" and Jimmy took that as his cue to run away like a madman. Superman flew up to the warsuit and punched it across the city into Metropolis Park where no one could get hurt. "Humanity will prevail! We always will!" Lex declared. "By causing devastation and chaos? Really?" Superman questioned. "If it's a small price to pay for a greater cause, then yes. See, ever since the dawn of mankind, we have always evolved over time. Learning more about survival, the world we live in, civilization. How can we improve and advance ourselves into the next age of technology? Well, I've been learning about you and your good ol' Justice League pals. Ever since the League's inception, I've been gathering intel on all of you. Strands of DNA, your fighting patterns, where you come from and your technology. I've been doing this for years and only relatively recently have I begun putting something together that none of you will be able to take on." Lex made. "'None of you will be able to take on' isn't that the same thing you said when you introduced monsters like Bizarro and Doomsday to the world? They've both been defeated. What's your point?" Superman announced. "I've learned from both of those attempts to stop you. My point is, for better or worse, humans are constantly evolving. And maybe that takes a few tries and mistakes but eventually, we make that innovation."
Batman and Wonder Woman both make it to the Hall of Justice and Batman immediately calls for the Hellbat armor. He enters in the passcode, does a retinal-eye scan and lastly does face recognition to gain access to the suit. The suit automatically binds to him with the computer A.I. greeting him. "I still think the Doomsday Buster armor looks cooler." Wonder Woman remarks. This leaves a smirk on Bruce's face as they leave for Metropolis, alerting the other League members of the return of Lex.
After Lex Luthor finished his speech, the Flash sped his way into Metropolis Park and phased through the warsuit, taking Lex out of it and held him against a tree. When Supergirl finally arrived at Metropolis Park, she was smashed out of the sky by a shadowy figure. Superman caught her before she hit the ground and he saw that whoever clocked her packed a serious punch. "What was that?" Flash asked. "The innovation." Lex Luthor calmly said. The figure flew blindingly fast for Superman and then paused right in front of him. The brightly colored humanoid had on the full Belt of Power which owed to his vibrant colors. Superman, in absolute awe, said, "Who are you?"
"I am the Messiah. The saviour of mankind and Master Luthor's servant." Messiah claimed. "You are Superman. The bane of mankind's existence. You shall be terminated along with anyone who is an ally towards you." and Messiah proceeded to clock Superman in the face through several buildings.
Supergirl used her heat vision on Messiah but he waved both of his hands and put up a force field which absorbed the energy and dished it back on her. The Flash quickly intervened and saved her from the oncoming blast of energy which blew up a substantial part of Metropolis. More than half the city was devastated and went up in flames. "Oh my god!" Supergirl exclaimed. "This... thing is insane." She then heard crying and screams where the flames were ridden from the energy blast. "There are people that need help in those flames!" she declared. The Flash did not hesitate to run into the flaming part of the city and save the remaining people. He was able to save a group of people but then the fire rose to the point that he could barely breath. A large wave of water suddenly flooded the area and it's revealed that Aquaman was the one responsible. Batman, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman showed up to meet the Flash and he said, "You guys came just in time."
"Barry, I need you to tell me what's going on. As crazy as Lex is, this can't be the work of him." Batman said.
"Technically, it is. Lex created him." Barry replied back. "I think we can still win against this Messiah guy though. Cisco and Caitlyn made this artificial Orb of Depowerment that could stop all of this. I just need six minutes to power it up."
"We'll buy you that time. Let's move." Batman said and Aquaman and Wonder Woman followed him towards the mysterious Messiah.
Messiah punched Supergirl again which launched her through several more structures. All bloodied up, she struggled to get herself back up. "Your persistence is remarkable, to say the least. But this is where your 'heroic deeds' end." Messiah declared. He attempted to crush her chest but Kara resisted as much as she could. Superman dusted himself off and flew back to the site of the battle. He saw his cousin was barely fighting to survive and shouted her name as he tried to intervene. However, Messiah overpowered her and crushed her chest which effectively killed her. "NOOOOO!" screamed Superman. He just lost his cousin, the last of his family from Krypton. In a nasty combination of grief and anger, Superman flew towards to Messiah to end him. The android threw a punch to his face but he tanked it and struck Messiah way into the sky. In the clouds, Messiah tried projecting an energy beam at Superman but the Man of Steel beat it out with his own heat vision and then smashed him back into the ground; leaving a large crater to where most of Metropolis Park used to be. Arriving at the crater, Aquaman said, "Maybe we won't need that makeshift Orb after all." Wonder Woman looked over to Supergirl's body and gasped. "Oh my Heavens. Look over here you guys." she said in horror. Batman and Aquaman looked over and saw Supergirl laying there lifelessly. "Everything in her chest area has either collapsed or got crushed." Batman remarked. "This isn't Lex Luthor, even his warsuit isn't capable of doing this." Wonder Woman said. "Who did this then, that Messiah guy?" Aquaman said. "Yes, it was him." Batman replied. "Lex made an android that can use the Belt of Power to its fullest extent without sacrificing intelligence and functionality for it. It's ingenious."
Wonder Woman looked back at the half of Metropolis that is in ruins and then looked at Supergirl's body and she lamented that her visions were coming true.