VOLUME 5
Clouds parted above new York, revealing the stars and planets of space.
Superman and Thor, both bloodied and bruised, stared at each other as they hovered high above the city.
Superman clenched his fists as Thor gripped his hammer.
They gritted their teeth and flew at each other. Superman fired red beams from his eyes, Thor blocked the beams with his hammer; red lightning crackled in all directions.
Thor swung his hammer at Superman's head as they neared. Superman ducked under, quickly flew past Thor and sent a kick into the God's back. Thor shouted out, then swung his hammer back into Superman's side.
Superman felt his left arm go numb. He looked at the hammer, still in Thor's grasp.
He knew he couldn't use that hammer for himself. However…
He took Thor's wrist, the one that held the hammer, and jerked it up. The hammer went smashing into Thor's face, Superman was amazed teeth didn't fall out.
Thor leaned back in the air. He almost lost the hammer when he gripped it again, shot a look at Superman then summoned a large lightning bolt at the Man of Steel.
Superman knew he was fast as a speeding bullet, but intentionally. This time, he was being forced to go that speed, forced by the lightning bolt.
He shot down towards New York. He didn't realize it until it happened, but Superman smashed straight through a building. Then another, and another before he hit the fourth one, someone swung by and grabbed him out of the air.
The buildings collapsed and crumbled behind them, toppling over like dominoes. A great cloud of dust spread and rose through the city.
"Damn Thor, that guy is really giving you a beating" said Spiderman.
"Wha…" Superman groaned.
"hm?"
Spiderman swung onto a rooftop and set Superman down.
"Hey, your not the mighty Thor" Spiderman said.
Superman came to his senses and found Spiderman.
"I have no quarrel with you" Superman said.
"You have a quarrel with my universe, so that's enough for me to kick your…"
Spiderman ducked. Something silver flew over him. He turned around to see two more hero's from the other universe no doubt, both of them very similar.
"Robin, Nightwing, how did you get here?" Superman asked the newcomers.
"That's what we want to find out" Robin said.
"But that'll have to wait" Nightwing added. "So, Spidey is it? Who's kicking who's what?"
Superman flew off, leaving his allies to take care of Spiderman.
"Well, at least it's not three on one then" Spiderman sighed.
"Two versus two" someone said from a higher rooftop.
They looked up, and watched the red clad Daredevil leap down to the lower building, joining Spiderman.
"Which one do you want?" Daredevil asked, reveling his nunchuks.
Robin and Nightwing revelaed their fighting staff and twin nunchuks respectively, swinging and brandishing them.
"Um, you can have the one with the stick" Spiderman gulped. "I got the one with the twigs"
Out in Egypt, Apocalypse laid bruise and bleeding.
Everything he had in in his power, all his powers, was useless against the monster Doomsday. The said monster towered over Apocalypse, who laid in the sands beside the great Pyramid.
He raised his arm, summoning up a sphere of energy. Doomsday stepped on his arm and the sphere dispersed.
"So, this is death" Apocalypse muttered as Doomsday picked him up by the throat. "Interesting, so this is what so many of experience. Depressing"
Doomsday raised a clenched fist, the final punch to finish off Apocalypse.
Then something slammed into Doomsday's back. Doomsday's flew forward as he dropped Apocalypse, crashing into the sand. He turned over to face a green giant standing over him.
"HULK"
The Hulk picked up Doomsday.
"SMASH!"
And threw him at the great Pyramid. Doomsday smashed through the stone of the ancient wonder, and the pyramid crumbled on top of the giant.
Hulk walked up beside Apocalypse, who began to get up
"I am…in your debt" Apocalypse said. Hulk snorted, and kept focus on the fallen pyramid as a grey hand punched through the rubble.
Doomsday was not finished.
Green Lantern swung giant fists from his ring at Silver Surfer.
The Silver Surfer, on his board, simply blocked them with his hands as he glided closer to the Green Lantern.
The surfer grabbed Lantern by the throat, Lantern felt his energy being drained away from him. His arm was free, he summoned a green boomerang in his hand and threw it. The boomerang flew out into space at such speed, then came back, flying into the back of the Surfer's head.
The Silver Surfer lost the Green Lantern and keeled over on his board. Lantern grabbed the boomerang, turned it into a sledge hammer and swung it upwards into the Surfer's jaw. Surfer almost backflipped, but kept his footing on his board.
The Silver Surfer summoned up two spheres of crimson energy in his hands, and fired beams of crimson light into the Green Lantern.
Lantern was blown back, then formed a green shield in front of him that the beams sparked off. Green Lantern struggled under the power that was blasting against his shield. He could see cracks beginning to form in it, small rays of crimson energy peaking through the cracks.
One of the rays hit him, the power was enough to make him falter. His shield shattered and he was hit by the full blast of the crimson beams, the Green Lantern yelled as he was engulfed in crimson light.
The Silver Surfer ceased his attack.
The Green Lantern just floated there, in space. He raised his head, burnt and smoking, his mask half torn.
"You have done well, Surfer" Galactus, who watched the entire fight standing from his ship, complimented. "It's a shame you are no longer my herald"
The Silver Surfer turned to face Galactus, and the Green Lantern took his chance to form a sharp, green tendril from his ring. He thrust his arm forward, and the tendril stretched out towards the Surfer.
The Surfer turned in time to move away from the attack. The tendril shot past and went through the torso of Galactus.
The giant world eater stumbled back, and then fell. The tendril retracted, Galactus was left dead.
The Silver Surfer looked on in shock, the Green Lantern was much less caring.
Lantern shot out the tendril again, and The Surfer barely dodged this attack and was left with a gash across his shoulder. He put his hand to the gash, and used his free hand to send a volley of crimson spheres at the Green Lantern.
The Green Lantern retracted the tendril. It turned in a small sphere on a chain, which he sent flying towards the rain of crimson sphere's invading towards him. The green sphere turned into a number of green, stretching fists that flew out further into the crimson sphere's
The green fists punched through the crimson sphere, dispersing them. The fists continued towards the Silver Surfer, who was dealt a full blow by the many, endless punches. He was taken of his board and sent backwards into Galactus' ship.
He was put against the giant throne, the fists continued punching him. Some missed, putting dents into the throne, but the majority of the fists hit him everywhere on his body and they did not cease in attacking.
The Green Lantern flew forward into the ship, keeping up the attack.
Then, he pulled the fists back and they formed into one, giant fist.
The Silver Surfer had been pushed back into the throne, stuck there. The Green Lantern punched with the giant, green fist and the Silver Surfer was sent through the throne.
The surfer flew back into the wall, and fell to the floor of the ship; he didn't get up.
The Green Lantern breathed heavily as the green fist dispersed. The battle was won.
Galactus was dead, Surfer lay defeated. Even his enemy Parallax was defeated, for good.
Green Lantern dropped to the floor of the ship, and sat there. He was bruised, tired and burnt. He breathed heavily as he laid back.
It seems that the so aptly named DC universe is winning. So far.
But, it is still early in this war to assume one side is winning already. The Marvel universe has yet to unleash some of their more powerful individuals…I think, soon, I will merge, truly merge, one of the most iconic places that both universe share.
Oh yes, New York. How chaotic would the cities of both universe be right next to each other, all the hero's and villains gathered in one place. The destruction, the chaos, the death…
And speaking of death…
Captain America lay on the road.
He was in a city, Gotham City. He laid there bruised, bleeding, near broken.
He tried to get up, his bones cracked. A hand grabbed his throat and pushed him back down, Batman kneeled over him with a pair of batarangs in his hand.
Batman, in no better state than Captain America, was going to stab him, and end his life.
This was death.