The entire team watched as they could only stand ideally by as the cities over the world were now being consumed by the ship. The Young Justice and Syndicate just gave all that they have got to take down the Justice League. And they have a feeling that's exactly what Brainiac was counting on them to do.
"No." Karen cried in worry as she watched the rubble of Central City make its way up to Brainiac's ship. She wasn't ready to lose another world to the likes of Brainiac after losing her whole universe to him. "Not this time!"
Karen then flew off and made her way upwards towards his ship alone, despite the objections of her friends:
"Wait!"
"Karen, don't!"
"You can't!"
Karen flew at full blast as she made her way upward towards the ship to break inside of it. But all she did was hit the ship harder than everyone else, ending with a feedback that sent her backward. She, however, didn't give up and she walked it off and flew right at the ship for a second time and try her hardest to break inside.
"Powergirl, the force shield concentrates its energy at your point of attack." Ray was able to inform her from the ground. "Move faster than it can, and there's a chance you can break inside the shield."
"Got it." Karen snarled as she did exactly that.
Flying around the skull ship as quickly as she could possibly move, she sent as much force as she could possibly manage into different points of impact. She kept flying over and over, trying to move faster than she has ever moved before to break inside the shield. But every time that she did, all she did was become weaker and weaker due to the force she was constantly using. Not to mention there was no way to gain residual strength from the yellow sun, even though she's been building it up over years in the pod.
Brainiac was watching her from inside and saw the hologram of all the impacts. He was also feeling all of the impacts of the ship being pushed around by her force. He had to admit that nobody in all the worlds he's visited before have ever tried something like this before.
"Creative." Brainiac had to congratulate them on it. "But insufficient. Decrease shield refresh interval to ten picoseconds."
Karen kept trying to punch through the shield, but it turns out Brainiac changed it so that the feedback would be stronger. When Karen flew in and punched it again, the feedback sent a powerful shockwave that ended up sending Karen falling from the sky, unconscious. But she didn't even have a chance to hit the ground as it ended with Brainiac using his teleport to kidnap her.
The team watched from below as she was kidnapped, seeing that this day had only gotten worse seeing one of their heavy hitters had been kidnapped.
"Powergirl, you hear me?" Armando asks as he taps his comm, trying to get into contact with their friend.
"If she's on that ship...there's no way for her to hear you," J'onn said as he began to wake up, crawling to his feet. "Even telekinesis can't breach his shields."
"Good to see you back, uncle J'onn." Anjelica sighed in relief to see their families back.
But then there were a bunch of shots as they saw Brainiac's robots weren't done with them yet. Getting sick of these guys, Dawn quickly sped over and began to vibrate her hand as she sliced off the head of the robot in one swift motion. She watched as the rest of the body went and fell to the ground.
"God, what did we do?" Barry asked as the rest of the Justice League started to wake up.
They saw they were currently on a rock with their entire city, currently getting prepared to start moving. A lot of people were screaming in fear and were trying their best to figure out what was going on.
"What did we miss?" Gwen wonders.
"Brainiac is starting to shrink the city." Ollie recapped what was happening. "If we don't act fast, we might have lost this battle."
"Well, first things first," Tommy stated as he walked ahead. "The people here. They need our help to get out of here. We signed up to be in the line of fire. They didn't. We figure out a way to help start the evacuation, and we find a way to get them off this floating rock."
"We talking city or the planet?" Francine wants to be clarified. "Because I feel like we should evacuate the planet by now."
"The city." Tula understood they were planning something. "Where do we bring them?"
"Right now, to the edge of the city," Tommy said and looked at Armando. "Mecha-Vibe, can you portal?"
Armando wondered that himself and quickly opened up a breach, quickly running through it. But just as they figured, as soon as he went through it, another breach opened up in front of a lamp post, and he smacked right into it.
"Ow." Armando groaned as he held his head.
"You good?" Maggie asks him.
Daniel placed a hand up and raised one finger to him. "How many fingers am I holding up?"
Armando looked right at him and didn't understand. "What fingers?"
"That's a no." Cessily could tell. "What now?"
They then felt the ground shake and watched as a dozen buildings took the shake and began to suffer. Several building tops started to shake and fall off and onto the ground.
"We still need to protect the people," Tommy stated. "We need to get them somewhere away from the tall structures."
"What about the robots?" Keemia asks the group.
"We need to take them down," April stated as she looked at Dawn. "Dawn, go and see if there are any cops left in this city. Get them on evacuating the people."
"On it," Dawn said as she sped off to get to the police station.
"I'll cover the higher areas." M'gann offered as she started to fly, listening for any thoughts on higher platforms. "Get them to safety before they fall."
"You do that." Mia guessed as she watched the Martian fly off.
"Rebecca, Ray, Viv, the three of you work on finding a weak structure inside of that shield, figuring out how to get the people off of this thing, and finding out how we can lower this city down," Tommy tells the rest of them what the plan was. "The rest of us only have one job. Tear these things apart."
"If you get hurt, then hurt them back," Ashley tells them, extracting her claws.
"You get killed..." Tina thought of what to say about that and shrugged. "Walk it off."
"What about them?" Violet asks as she gestured to the Justice League.
None of them were at fighting strength and had to be caught up on a lot that's happened recently. With the yellow sun blocked thanks to Brainiac's ships, there was no way that Kara or Clark could gain their powers back.
"We'll watch over them." Miles offered as he eyed Frankie and Felicia. "Our turn to watch the grownups."
"Oh, ha-ha." Peter Snow-Parker rolled his eyes. "We'll take five."
"You better, spider." Felicia knew he's gonna be down.
"You'll need twenty," Tula stated, creating a trident out of water. "Let's do this."
And that's when the war for earth finally began.
The fate of their home, the fate of the entire planet, was now resting in the hands of Young Justice.
Dawn en through the streets as fast as she has ever run before, trying her hardest to protect as many people as she could. Roberta ran across a nearby bridge where a handful of people were trapped, slamming her shield onto one of the Brainiac bots that were about to kill someone. Ramming them into the top of an abandoned car, she kept it down long enough to rip the arm with the gun off, then used the shield to cut its head off.
Terry heard screams from the edge and noticed someone was falling off a small cliff at the end of the city and ran to save them. He leaped off the edge just as the ground underneath them shattered, however, it was allowing him a second to shoot the grapple gun out and attach it to his belt. He used as much rope as possible to reach the woman.
Luckily he ran out of rope just when he reached her, able to grab onto her before the rope stopped. The rope and grapple were thankfully strong enough so that it wouldn't easily slip off.
"I got you!" Terry tried to assure the woman he was holding. "Just look at me!"
Ray was currently flying our side of the city as anything flying seems to be able to escape the city. That didn't exactly help them as there was nobody who power could help evacuate the city and fly at the same time.
"The entire city is being held together by a strange magnetic field," Lyla informed the man.
"If it were to fail?" Ray had a good idea but wanted it clarified.
"Right now, the impact could kill thousands. If it were to get high enough, global extinction." Lyla was sorry to say.
M'gann was flying around the city when she heard the terror thoughts of a family. She quickly flew around the building it was coming to locate where it was coming from. Once she did, she phased into the building and found a family of three whimpering in terror in the bathroom.
"Hi." M'gann tried to come off friendly and tried to come up with an idea. "Okay..." then she got an idea when she saw a tub. "Get in the tub!"
Just as the building was collapsing, M'gann managed to fly out of the building with the family. All of them were hiding and holding onto the sides of the bathtub whilst M'gann held onto it from the bottom.
"I've got airborne heading for the bridge!" Lyla warns them.
Terry has just reached the ground again and helped let the girl go when a Brainiac bot came in and grabbed onto him. He managed to free himself using some electrical gauntlets, but that also sent him falling and smacking into the roof of a car.
"Guys, you've got incoming!" M'gann warned the group.
"Incoming already came in." Terry groaned as he crawled out of the car. "Ow. That freaking hurts."
"Don't give up!" Anjelica cried as she flew around, trying to take down the robots from the air. "Rebecca, time limit?"
Rebecca managed to track down a weak point of Brainiac's defenses and was aiming her missing limb robotic arm up to the ship. "I've found a weak spot, but it's gonna be a moment before I can break through the defenses."
"Keep it up," Tina said as she shot ice out ice to create a wall to protect the people. Mia came racing in as she leaped and shot several of the ones that got past in the face. "We'll keep these things off your back!"
"Bot who's gonna keep them off our backs!?" Violet asks as she quickly shielded a group of people, being shot at by Brainiac bots.
Mia then ran as she flipped off a taxi to shoot a special arrow into one of their faces. Then the arrow sent a shockwave that sent several of the robots flying. Sub-Zero then came sliding in as he created an ice pick to stab another in the back.
"I love my life!" Zero cried in glee as he kept going.
In another part of the city, a bridge was starting to collapse while a bunch of people were still trapped on it. They were trapped in their cars and cried in fear as Daniel and Maggie raced to try and help them. The weight of the bars and the base of the ground staring to fall apart, Daniel quickly stretched out his arms and grabbed onto the truck. Trying his hardest to grab onto the ground, he decided to try something and stretched his legs to wrap around the support beams.
Some of the other cases nearby started to fall and Maggie quickly got to work as she morphed herself to transform into a telepathic Gorilla. Racing over to try and grab the cars, she yanked them back and rescued the people inside. She then ripped open the doors to help them escape their cars and get free.
"Mosaic!" Daniel cried as his body was slowly stretching further. "A little help!" Maggie raced over, marching just like a regular gorilla would grabbing onto Daniel and wrapping him around her hands. "Ow! Ow! Ow! I wanna swap partners!"
"Quit whining," Maggie demands him, helping pull the car up to safety. The couple inside the car looked shocked at the gorilla and stretchy man. 'You're safe."
The two then quickly ran away to escape the terror of the situation that they were in and get somewhere safe. Maggie and Daniel did a quick check around to make sure there was nobody else left before they ran off to find others in need.
Across the city, April swung around and quickly dived as she slammed into a group of robots, grabbing one of them by the back and spinning them around to take out the surrounding robots. Then when she finished all but one, she shot it with a web by the back and smashed the two of them into each other. Throwing what was left of them into the sniper bot and shooting ice toward a swarm coming.
"I'm enjoying this a bit too much," April admitted as she saw Roberta surrounded. "Hey, Cap, looks like-"
But before she could finish the statement, Roberta threw her shield and smacked all of the robots that surrounded her in seconds. The shield kept going as it smacked the robots and bounced off them, causing Roberta to call it back and slice off the last one by the head.
"Uh...never mind," April said when they saw a whole group charging at them in a row. "Actually...you mind?"
Roberta saw what she has in mind and shrugged. "Have at it."
Roberta tossed the shield into the air, followed by April webbing it and spinning around before throwing it. The shield went flying through several robots before bouncing off the trucks, then slammed into one last robot before embedding into the car window.
V.I.V.I.A.N. was hard at work trying to find a way to help get the people off, whilst also fighting back to keep them safe. She flew through the streets and fought through the air to take down the air support by using her mass strength against the Brainiac Bots, sending their parts flying around the city like they were nothing to her.
Mia was shooting arrow after arrow, trying her hardest to stay alive, being one of the only few that have no powers in this team. She kept shooting and wasn't entirely sure how many of these things that she had left. It didn't help when she looked back and noticed there were a few arrows left.
"Guys, I'm running low on arrows," Mia warned them.
"Don't worry, air support is on its way," Ollie reported as he came flying and tackled a group, using his mechanical arms to pierce through them. "Mercury?"
Mercury came in as a puddle of goo, quickly making her way through the streets and leaping off the ground as a pile of goo. Once she entrapped herself around one of them, she quickly took control of its systems and fought the others.
"Whoo!" Cessily cheered as she finished off the robots in the area, followed by her crushing the robot from the inside.
There was a smaller secondary swarm coming at them, but they were interrupted by a giant vat of green mist coming in and surrounding them. Misty came flying in and slammed into the ground as she revealed the new Mysterio to the robots.
"Get the hell off our planet!" Misty proclaimed as she sent out green blasts from her hands and shot the robots down.
Francine came blasting through the streets like a blast of lighting as she blasted every robot that she flew around. Tula helped her out as she summoned all of the water in the city, sending it flying at the robots and allowing Electro to zap them, taking them all down in seconds.
"We're clear here!" Carolyn was happy to report.
"Brainiac wants this city for some part of some collection," Ray muttered as he kept flying around, starting to get a terrible idea. "If we sent it in with the city ruptured, it'd cause him to recalculate his plans."
"You ruptured the city, you will completely destroy it." Lyla broke to Ray. "And everyone on it."
"Alright. That should be everyone." Dawn said as she slowed down with a few kids who ran into the nearby buildings.
"Ray, you got something for us?" Ollie asks as he walked around.
"Well... it's not exactly anything great." Ray was sorry to inform them from afar. "Maybe a way to blow up the city. We can stop Brainiac from stealing the next one if you guys can get clear."
"I asked for you to find a solution, not an escape plan," Tommy stated as he looked out to the clouds and how far up the city had gotten.
"The closer you guys get to Brainiac's ship, the closer the Earth gets to complete destruction." Ray was sorry to inform them. "We need to make a choice. Central City, or the earth."
Tina sighed as she knew that her brother didn't want to do this, no more than she wants to do this. But it was either one city or the world. Even if it was their home, there was no chance they were going to willingly let the earth die for it.
"Tommy, these people aren't going anywhere." Tina was sorry to admit it. "If Rebecca finds a way to get inside the ship, we can go from there, but-"
"I'm not leaving this city," Tommy promises as he looked out to the clouds.
"I didn't say anything about leaving," Tina stated, confusing Tommy as he looked at her with a confused look. She knew her brother wasn't going to leave their home or its people no matter what. And there was no way she was gonna leave her brother's side. "There are worse ways to go out." She then enjoyed the view of the clouds. "Where else am I gonna find a view like this?"
The twins looked out to the clouds and knew that she was right. There wasn't anything they could do, but they weren't willing to live with themselves if they left their home to become Brainiac's plaything.
"Glad you kids are enjoying the view." Alex's voice filled their comms, confusing them as they knew Brainiac was stopping communication with the ground. "It's about to get a whole lot better."
They then noticed that something was disturbing the clouds nearby. All of the Justice Leagues members started to make their way to their feet, and the Young Justice and Syndicate made their way over and see something gigantic coming out of the clouds. What they saw was a giant ship coming out from the hidden clouds. It was some sort of ship that had many similarities to that of the Helicarrier of Earth-616.
Inside the ship was the entire DEO running it as well as their friends and family from the base with Alex at the helm. She stood tall at the front, the inside taking a few ideas from the original ship. Caitlin, Ronnie, and Cisco were still watching over Astra as the timeline was still flexing between fixed and shattered. The Silver Surfer was still trying to regain his energy so that he could help, but it didn't seem to be helpful. They managed to pick up Lena and asked her to help out with the Parker-Danvers twins and she was watching them over in the corner of the ship.
"What do you think?" Alex asks from inside, loving the whole ship. "I can see why Parker-Coulson has one of these around. Been working on this baby ever since we returned from Battleworld."
"Alex, I love you." Peter Parker-Danvers said as he helped Kara stand.
"Ooh, Pete, I'm flattered, but you're taken. By my sister of all people." Alex said sarcastically and looked to the men on board. "Send out the life rafts."
The side of their Helicarrier opened up and sent out smaller podlike ships that are sent flying towards the city of Central City. All of the heroes knew exactly what this was for and that the DEO was here to help evacuate the city.
"Let's load them up!" Tommy stated as he ran to help the others get everyone on the boats.
But as they were starting to do that, they got alerts on the ship that Brainiac bots were coming for them. "Ma'am, we got multiple bogies incoming."
Alex smiled and knew that was bound to happen. "I guess it's time to show them what we've got." She then tapped her ear to contact someone outside. "You're up."
The Brainiac bots then started to get shot down by both lasers and missiles coming out of nowhere. They then looked up and saw someone coming in, flying with a giant hammer they swung to smash the last of the robots.
"What, did my invitation get lost in the mail?" The iron man asks the group.
The only one there who knew exactly who it was, was the Man of Tomorrow himself. "John?"
John Henry Irons, Steel, is flying around the city with his daughter, Natalie, both of them wearing their suits. Taking down the robots with help of a friend of theirs, Jordan Kent, son of Superman, using his powers from the ship. Since he wasn't in full complete control of his powers, they thought it would be best for him to use the powers he knew he could fully control.
"What, thought you were the only ones who could save the world, Superman?" Irons asks as he flew around the city.
Natalie flew around as she tackled one of the robots, followed by Anjelica coming up and ripping its head off. The two of them had never met and this is their first time meeting and was a bit surprised.
"So...any chance the team is looking for new members?" Natalie asked with a chuckle.
"We get through this, I'll be sure to put in a good word," Anjelica promised as they flew off into battle.
Rebecca was still underneath the weak spot within the ship and was starting to cause it to crack. "Guys, I'm starting to get somewhere with this shield."
"Let us know when you get inside," Violet said as she opened a portal so that they could move a group closer to the ships.
Rebecca then noticed a group of robots coming for her. Trying her best to change directions, she saw that there wasn't anything that she could do with her hand currently trying to shut off the shield.
"Uh...I might be dead by that point." Rebecca warned them. "Seems Brainiac isn't liking what I'm doing here."
"Hang on, we're on our way," V.I.V.I.A.N. tells her.
"Irons, you think you can get the rest of those people on that ship?" Anjelica asks the Steel hero.
"No worries. I've got it here." Irons promised as he swung his hammer, smashing the robot's head in. "Go save the city."
"You heard the man, Young Justice," Tula said as she blasted off.
"Alright, team," Roberta said as she sprouted her wings. "Time to work for a living."
Dawn was the first to arrive at Rebecca's aid as she sped around the Death Locket to keep back the robots coming for her. Carolyn came in and stretched her octopus limbs to stab them in the face, taking down their systems. Angelica, Roberta, and Natalie arrived next and crashed into a few of them while the others started to show up one at a time. Tommy swings in and lands on top of another one just as Zero comes strolling past and shoots one crawling away. Terry came flying in on his rocket feet and threw several explosive batarangs to blow up the drones.
"Sis, you and Ollie better not be sneaking off for some private couple time," Tommy commented on the lack of the two.
"Relax, butt-brain," Tina stated as she was shooting an ice slide for her and Ollie. "Not all of us can fly if you recall."
Then the two of them made it to see all of the broken robots. Ollie whined to see that none of them were left. "Come on, couldn't keep one for me?"
"Sorry," Francine said with a shrug.
They then watched as a few smaller robots were coming for them and they all felt he was running out of drones. Rebecca just needed a little bit longer so that she can break into the systems and they can take down Brainiac.
"Is that the best you've got?" Mia asked the group of robots with pride.
And that's when they watched as several dozen more troops are charging and come flying from the main ship. There was no telling how many were left or how much longer it was going to take to shut down the shields.
"This is the best that I can do," Brainiac said from his drones. "This is all that I want. All of the knowledge that you can offer. If you are all that the human race has to offer, how could you possibly hope to stop me?"
Zero shrugged as he eyed the friends and family. "We'll do it the same way we started it." April, Ashley, Tommy, and everyone looked towards their friend, none of them understood exactly what he was trying to say. "Together."
All of them looked at one another, seemingly all of them agreed with what he said and got ready to fight. They all started this battle as either friends or enemies, but they were going to end it as a team.
A team that stood together till the end of days.
All of the Brainiac bots came charging at the group as they all did their best to keep all of them away from Rebecca. Mia shot a three-shot arrow and killed three bots at once. Viv flew into the air and took care of the bots that were flying around them. Electro shot out a blast of electricity that left a crater in the charging group. Maggie transformed into a triceratops and swiped her tail to fight back. Roberta leaped into the air and did a spin as she used her shield to crush a robot flying past her. Violet used her powers to grab a few of them and ripped the robots to shreds the moment they got too close.
M'gann flew around and phased through a robot before crushing it from the inside. Daniel quickly wrapped up himself and used Dawn as a way to fight back and spun around at high speeds. A trick that they recalled Barry and Ralph used in DeVoe's head. Anjelica and Natalie quickly used their abilities to slam and crash into several of the robots and tried to keep a fight between them.
Tula shot out a blast of water around the area to try and fight back and Sub-Zero was able to freeze it as well as a dozen other robots. Mia took one of her arrows and embedded it inside one of the robots' eyes before it had a chance to attack. Armando sent our vibe-blasts after the blast to fight back and shatter the robots it hit with accuracy. April shot out frozen webbing that turned deadly on impact and killed the robots quickly. Misty created a cloud of cover to fight back and keep the robots disoriented so that they didn't know where or what to fight for.
Cessily was turning her hands into a multitude of different weapons and using them all against the robots. Going from axes to mallets to hit them over the head, keeping her body in liquid form so that she couldn't be harmed. Terry threw several batarangs that sent an electrical charge to take down several at once. Tina was punching every robot that came in the path of her ice as she spun and kicked everyone she found.
Ashley clawed and used her agility to go for the feet of the robots so that she could fight back quickly and keep them down. Her bad luck powers weren't exactly helpful against these drones, and she didn't want to risk accidentally giving her teammates bad luck. Keemia was using her body as a weapon by controlling all of the sand particles she could to bury the robots from the back. Ollie was cheering as he used his robotic suit's strength to smash in the robot's head and his mechanical limbs to fight back. Carolyn morphed her claws into chainsaws and hatchets to fight and rip theogony the robots with ease, using the strength that came with the arms as help.
Rebecca then finally got somewhere as she sent out a shockwave that sent an ear-piercing screech from her hand. Everyone had to stop fighting and covered their eardrums from the sudden screech.
"Guys, I've got it!" Rebecca cheered as she managed to shut down the shield. "I just don't know for how long."
V.I.V.I.A.N. was quickly able to get back to her feet and flew up to the ship. Tina groaned as she saw her half-sort of-sister race towards the ship, quickly shooting a web to latch onto her. Armando quickly woke up and opened a breach straight into the ship. Mia and Rebecca both ran inside the portal as they saw the inside of Brainiac's ship as Viv and Tina joined them.
"Oh, so nice of you to join us," Rebecca said sarcastically.
"The others can get here using Violet," Tina said as she looked around the area.
"What's the plan?" Armando asks her.
Tina had to think for a moment and was starting to come up with some ideas. "Armando, use the tracker on Karen's suit, see if you can rescue her." She then gestured to the others. "Rebecca, find Brainy using your powers. Once he's free, there will be nothing he can use to fight back against our skills."
"Okay, got it." Rebecca walked off to find him and Armando went for his mission.
"What do we do?" Viv wonders as she gestured to herself, Ashley, and Mia.
"We find Brainiac," Tina tells them the plan. "Once we finally shut him down and put the city back, we-"
"You'll do what?" The said Brainiac in question asked. All of them looked up to see he was floating around on the tentacles of his ship. "I would love to jest your plan."
V.I.V.I.A.N. quickly shot a laser to try and fight back, only for a ray shield to appear and protect the man. Seeing there wasn't a way for her laser to touch him, she stopped to reserve energy. "That's new."
"Seems someone's evolving." Ashley noticed as she drew her claws again.
"Great. So, we gotta find a weakness fast." Tina snarled.
"In time, all the universe will adhere to my superiority," Brainiac promises all of them.
"Unless we stop you," Mia stated as she drew an electrical arrow, shooting it at him. But just as with the laser, it was stopped by one of his tentacles and snapped in half. "Oh. Right."
With Karen, she woke up to look around and see she was on some sort of surgical table of sorts. She was worried about what Brainiac was planning to do to her, which didn't help when she saw several of the robots coming in with needles. She tried to rip her way out when she noticed that there was a red sun generator keeping her weak and powerless.
"No..." Karen tried to get herself free. "No. No!"
Outside of the areas, Rebecca and Armando were both following the tracker they have on Karen to try and locate her. But it didn't seem Brainiac didn't design this ship to be some sort of tourist trap with all of the twists and unexplained doorways. Locating her was a bit difficult, but then the screams from down the hall helped them quickly locate her.
When they ran over, Rebecca turned her hand into a sonar cannon to shoot the door and Armando used his vibe blasts at the eight frequency. The doors were blasted open and the robots were too slow to fight back as Armando punched one with his gauntlets and Rebecca killed the other.
"Karen?" Armando walked over and tapped the girl on the cheek. "It's us."
"What?" Karen looked surprised to see that they were there.
"Come on. Let's get her out of here and come back from Brainy." Rebecca said as she helped break the restraints. "Open a breach."
Armando was about to do just that when Karen groaned and held her head. "Wait!"
"What?" Armando was a bit confused. "What is it?"
"Voices," Karen said as she gestured to the doorway across the room. "Millions of them."
Rebecca was a little concerned by that and kept her arm on shoot and walked over to the doorway. When the doors opens, she was shocked by what she saw inside.
"Uh... Vibe? You're gonna wanna see this." Rebecca tells him.
Rebecca and Armando looked around to see dozens of what looked like oversized snow globes, and in the middle of it, all was Brainy. Armando quickly raced to help get him out of the tentacles he was attached to whilst Karen tried to stand.
"Thousands of languages," Karen whispered as she was hearing all of them. "These..."
"These are all of the worlds Brainiac had conquered." Rebecca took a wild guess, seemingly connecting to Brainiac's systems.
"Brainy?" Armando asks as he shook the alien. "Earth to Brainy!"
"Sprocket!" Brainy jumped to his feet as he looked around the area. He then looked over to Armando and didn't seem completely phased. "I am currently inside of the alien ship of my evil cousin from another dimension, who was brought here thanks to either Crisis or Battleworld, aren't I?"
Armando was surprised with how fast Brainy was able to keep himself caught up on recent events. "Uh...basically."
Karen then recognized one of the languages and stumbled over to one of the domes. "Kandor. Home!" She held the city of Krypton from her world close, surprised that it was still around. "We need to help them."
"We will," Armando said as he looked at Brainy. "Can we?"
"Yes, it should be plausible," Brainy promised as he jumped to his feet. "But first, we need to contain this ship."
"We've got a team on it. We just need to be prepared to keep Central City from falling." Armando said as they opened the portal. "Let's go."
Rebecca however felt like something wasn't right and recognized something. "Uh...get them out. I'll be back."
"What?" Armando asked as Rebecca went running down the corridors. "Where's she going?"
"It doesn't matter how many tricks you have up your sleeve, we're gonna stop you," Mia promised as she raised another arrow.
"I offer nothing less than deliverance," Brainiac tells them as he lowered the tentacles attached to him. "Your environment is poisoned, your civilization has exhausted its resources. The Earth's decline cannot be reversed."
"Someone hasn't been watching P.A.R.K.E.R. Industry recent advancements." Ashley joked to Tina.
"No matter what happens, we'll find a way to come back on top," Tina promises the robot.
"We always do," Viv said as she flew in for an attack.
Bit Brainiac has been studying all of their moves and skills, knowing what type of move they would be using. Viv went in and tried to attack, but Brainiac grabbed onto her by the neck, throwing her away and into the walls. Mia went in for her attack, ending with her bow being ripped from her hands, and Brainiac being punched in the face.
Tina had enough of this and ran with a roar to attack him. But that ended with him sprouting tentacles and grabbing onto her. He started to tighten and wrap the tentacles around her and pulled him closer.
"Soon, I will have your city, and then I will destroy your world with a thought," Brainiac promises her. V.I.V.I.A.N. starts to crawl to her feet and saw her kinda-sort of sister in trouble. "And there will be nothing you can do to stop me. You are nothing. A specimen to dissect. A genus to analyze."
"Hey, plug-brain!" Viv called out to the man insulting her. When Brainiac turned to face the Android, he saw she was at full strength and in flight mode. "You talk too much."
Then a a sudden second later, the Android was shooting herself towards the man and smashed straight into the ship and flew outwards. When Viv took out the controller of the ship, they felt the entire ship start to shake and worried.
"What's happening?" Ashley asks.
"The ship seems to have lost its operator," Tina said as she gestured to the hole.
"If this thing crashes, it'll crater the earth," Mia said as she tried to stand on her own with the shaking ship.
"Nope." Rebecca cried as she ran inside the room. "Central City will do that for us."
"What do we do?" Ashley asks them.
Rebecca looked around and noticed the chair in the middle of the room was what she was being drawn to. She quickly ran up to it and grabbed one of the tentacles as she did a scan of it. She realized this was how Brainiac controlled the entire ship and knew that she could use this to stop Central City from falling and the ship from crashing.
"I've got an idea," Rebecca said as she attached one of the tentacles to her frontal lobe. She screamed in pain as Ashley, Tina, and Mia ran over to help her pry it off her head. "No!"
"What?" Mia asks.
"This ship was being controlled by Brainiac's thoughts. If I can connect it to my systems, then I can control it." Rebecca explained as she grabbed the other two tentacles. "Hopefully."
"This could kill you!" Mia stated.
"Well..." Rebecca shrugged as she remembered what happened to her. "You know what they say: you can't kill me if I'm already dead."
Then without a second thought, she attached the last two at the same time, causing her head to be filled with all of the systems of the ship and how they work. The entire teams of Young and League had to watch as the ship was starting to fall and Central City was starting to plummet. But then there was some disturbance in the form of the beam of light shrinking Central City.
Rebecca started to shrink the whole city to preserve it and keep it from being destroyed. But at the same time, she was trying her hardest to keep the entire ship from crashing into the planet and destroying it themselves.
When she started to get a hold of it, she tried to get a hold of autopilot so that she could keep it in the air. "Okay...I.I think I've got it."
"Good." Tina sighed as she saw there was a crater where the city should be. "Where's Central City?"
"I'm trying to get that part done," Rebecca admitted. "I can feel...Brainiac. He's still a part of the system. It's keeping me from putting the cities back."
Tina walked away and tapped her comm. "You guys get that? We need to unplug Brainiac, for good."
"Oh, I'm afraid they can't hear you!" A cry called out, causing Tina's blood to boil. She and Ashley were the only ones prepared for a fight as they looked and saw Hobgoblin flying in. "But I can't wait to hear your screams!"
Tina snarled as she froze her fists into giant fists so that she could punch him hard. "Oh, I've waited for a while for this."
"We both have," Ashley said as she got up and walked up to her sister. She saw Tina's confused look and smiled. "Blood runs deep, right?"
Tina saw that she wasn't going to let her do this alone and decided to go with it. "Let's kick his ass."
"One little spider and one little kitty," Hobgoblin said as he pulled out a bomb. "Let's see who croaks first!"
Tossing the bomb down towards them, Ashley and Tina both jumped out of the way and scattered to get out of the way of it. Hobgoblin flew down and spun around as he cackled and shot out dozens of bombs everywhere.
Ashley kept using her acrobatic skills to get away from the bombs as she went in for an attack. Hobgoblin grabbed her by the throat and was about to claw her when Tina came in.
"Hey!" Tina shot a blast of ice and a dozen icicles at him, sending Hobgoblin off his board. "Get the hell away from my sister."
Hobgoblin how we weren't done yet as he used rockets on his boots to fly towards Tina. Grabbing her by the throat, he slammed her into the wall of Brainiac's ship and crackled.
"Did you think you could take me alone?" Hobgoblin asks her.
"No. But she can." Tina said as she pointed behind him.
Hobgoblin turned around and came face to face with Ashley, who immediately used her bad luck powers and enchanted him. The moment that she did, all of his techs started to fail on him, the bombs became duds, his glider ran out of fuel, and he went crashing into the ground. Tina walked over and grabbed him by the throat and ripped off his mask.
Seeing the smile on his face, Tina growled and clutched his collar. "Tell me...is that the face you had when you dropped those bombs on us?
Hobgoblin only chuckled and laughed as hard as he could, which ended with Tina punching him in the face. Taking a bit more and more anger out on him, Ashley watched as he was starting to take quite the beating.
"Spinneret?" Ashley tried to get her attention, seeing she wasn't letting up. "Tina!"
Tina stopped punching and she looked down to see her fist covered in blood. Looking down at the man, Tina quickly dropped him and recalled there was bigger fish to fry.
Brainiac stumbled from the crater of Central City as he crawled up to his feet. He looked up and saw that his ship was floating there in the middle of the sky. He knew he was still connected and was just getting ready to purge Rebecca from his systems, permanently. But that's when his back was hit with a powerful blast of heat vision, bringing him down to his knees again. Standing behind him was Karen, her eyes burning with literal anger as her eyes had another shot of heat vision ready to go.
"You captured my city." Karen snarled in anger. "You burned my world to the core."
"So, you think you can take me, Kryptonian?" Brainiac asked as he didn't seem too impressed. "I've already taken the most powerful beings. You'll be child's play."
That's when they watched as a portal opened and Dawn came speeding out of the portal and punching Brainiac at full speed. It sent Brainiac stumbling back a bit, but it didn't do much to harm him as it did his drones. Then Anjelica came flying down and had her arms crossed the whole time. Roberta came down with her shield raised, her wings slowing her descent to the ground and helping her land. Several other portals opened as the entire two generations of heroes and the Syndicate all come out and all with the same look on their faces.
"What if we helped her?" Alex asked with a smile, her gun raised on him.
"Justice League." Peter Snow called them out.
"Young Justice," Tommy called out.
"Syndicate," Carolyn called out.
"Kick his ass." All of them proclaimed as they all raced off to fight off the monster.
Brainiac wasn't fast when Cessily came down and solidified herself against his legs. Deadpool cheered as he ran around and aimed to start shooting headshots at the monstrous alien. Cable was also going for headshots and just ended up shooting everywhere he could. But he put up his arm and stopped the bullets and quickly shot them backward, followed by Electro zapping him in the back as Viv came flying in and shot a laser at his back.
Barry, Dawn, Zero, and Frost came running in and the Speedsters went in to constantly hit the man around as fast as they could. Zero and Frost froze him as they tried their best to not hit their friends. When Brainiac sent a blast off of him, he was immediately met next with a Vibranium shield to the head.
He looked over to his left where it originated from and noticed that it came from Morg'Ann who came running at him. Then he was suddenly hit from the right and Brainiac looked to see that it came from Roberta who came charging at him as well.
"Give him all that you've got!" Morg'Ann tells Roberta as she threw her shield back at him again. Roberta obliged and constantly kept throwing her shield back, the two of them taking turns bouncing their shields off of him. "Don't give him a chance to think!"
Then when they both came close enough, Roberta used her wings to leap high off the ground and Morg'Ann went down lower. Roberta smacked Brainiac in the face whilst Morg'Ann knocked his legs down.
Brainiac fell to the ground and tried to get back up when several pieces of debris came falling and crushing onto him. That's when Miles came charging a venom blast to strike it all, sending an electrical charge on him. Tula then sent an orb of water at them and surrounded Brainiac with it so that Electro, Barry, Dawn, and Misty could use all of their powers to attack him.
Brainiac was able to slip out of the water and was met with Felicia and Ashley coming and clawing at his feet, breaking through his steel armor. M'gann came flying and tackled him down to the ground, Maggie came in as she morphed into a snake, wrapping around his neck. Violet flew and blasts him as Strange appeared and shot a beam of his own at him. Terry and Kate came down as they used their grapple hooks to hold down Brainiac and both Peter's and their kids quickly shot webbing to hold him down. Natalie came flying in and punched him in the face, sending his webbing to stretch backward.
Keemia came and stretched it farther and punch him in the face. Kara and Superman came flying in and grabbed Brainiac by the head to keep him down.
Carolyn wrapped her tentacles around the webbing to give it some extra strength and they waited for the finishing blow. Mia pulled out a virus-fused arrow and shot Brainiac in the head to keep him from his systems.
"John!" Clark cried as he tried to hold the monster back.
John was in the air, carrying his hammer, and was building up momentum. "I'm on it. Just keep him still."
John threw his hammer and it started to build up the momentum that it needed. All three groups were doing their part to keep the monster on the ground whilst the hammer came flying around him at full speed.
"This..." Peter Snow started.
"...ends..." Ashley kept going.
"...now!" Tina cried in anger.
Then the hammer made contact with the Brainiac, there was a gigantic explosion inside of the crater and it covered the sights of everyone. When the dust began to settle, they looked down at the location of where he was and saw nothing but dozens of pieces of what he was on the ground.
"Did we do it?" Daniel asked in shock. "We actually did it?"
"It would appear so," Misty said in surprise as she removed the helmet. "We make pretty good heroes, don't we?"
Tommy looked to Tina who shrugged. "Yeah, you do."
"But what about the city?" Natalie asked as she looked around.
"We'll, if you guys got out of the crater, I might be able to fix it." Rebecca contacted them.
When the group made their way out of the hole, they watched as the Brainiac ship shot out dozens of beams of light which brought back all of Central City like it was never moved.
"Huh. So everyone gets to come back." Wade shrugged. "That's just lazy writing."
"Or good luck," Ashley said with a smile.
Hobgoblin was gone.
Brainiac was gone.
Their world was finally safe again.
