Welcome back to The Injustice Wars. Last time, Blaze and her factions discussed the results of their new temporary alliance/ceasefire thing with the Regime. Firstly by questioning Black Diamond's stake in everything, learning he has none but finding Vermillion, who he's tracked to this world. Blaze informs him he's with the Empire and asks Black Diamond to keep an eye on that faction while dealing with the other two. Then Blaze reveals her endgame, once Brainiac and Grodd are taken down, she's going to grab the entirety of the Regime in one fell swoop. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman reveals she's got a plan of her own, releasing Doomsday from the Phantom Zone to strike at their enemies when they least expect it. It's a matter of distrust between both of them evidently. Ordinarily we'd be resuming with them, but there's something I need to do first. There's somebody we need to introduce. Who is it exactly? Read on to discover...

(Our scene resumes in the hole where Metropolis used to be. Brainiac's Skull Ship is still over the scene, and a few of his broken drones are still sparking about. But one in particular appears to still be relatively functional, and is managing to crawl through the ruins despite not having legs anymore. What is driving it is unclear, since Brainiac has arguably left it for scrap by this point. Undoubtedly it's functioning on it's original programming, round up civilians for collection. But Metropolis is already gone, who could it be after? If anybody escaped, they seem to have moved underground, since the drone is moving towards a dripping sewer pipe. But something doesn't seem right about this sewage. It's way too... gray. Almost like the gray goo of nanotech science fiction. But as the Brainiac drone approaches, the sewage does something unusual, it actually reacts to the thing's presence, dissolving it's hand before spreading across it and somehow consuming it like The Blob. But then the blob starts... laughing. And while it laughs, it uses the material it absorbed from the drone to give itself a human form, with a vaguely defined LexCorp logo on it's sleeve.)

?: Finally, I'm out of there! Now to take my revenge on...

(At this point, the humanoid blob looks around and realizes there's no city)

?: I knew they were planning on remodeling some of Metropolis, but this is kind of absurd. Where's the city?

(In that moment, the blob looks up towards the sky and sees the Skull Ship, and somehow it absorbed a bit of the drone's information when it consumed it, as he somehow knows exactly what that is)

?: So that thing just... has... all of Metropolis in it? Yeesh, this is going to be a pain. Worse than when I fell into that sewer while I was still human.

(But at this moment, the blob creature thinks of an idea)

?: If that thing has Metropolis in it, there's got to be more cities. More cities means more sewage, more smog, more acid rain! Everything I need to get stronger! If I can get up there, I can take my revenge on Superman for locking me in that box all those years ago!

(With that, the blob reaches it's hand towards the sky and makes a solemn vow)

Filthnor: Soon this world will tremble before the master of mess, the god of grime, the prince of pollution, the lord of filth that is Filthnor! (Looks around then realizes he's getting nowhere standing in a hole) Well, if we're going to make that work, I'd better bone up on a few things. And since Metropolis is really... nowhere... at this point. Well, only one place to go. The filthiest place on the eastern seaboard, Gotham City! Just hope the Bat and the Boy Wonder aren't still around.

(With that, Filthnor oozes himself out of the hole and over to an old drainage ditch leading out of Metropolis proper, heading towards Gotham City. And soon enough, he arrives, infiltrating their sewer system, and making his way into one of the city's libraries via a toilet, only to find it deserted)

Filthnor: Geez, this place is even more abandoned than usual. Guess Gothamites really don't have time to read anymore.

(Attempting to keep himself loosely together, Filthnor walks through the library and grabs every book he can on recent history, trying to read the thing before the book dissolves in his acidic grip. And he's honestly horrified by what he reads. Apparently, Filthnor didn't know anything about the Regime, the Insurgency, the dragons, any of it up until now. And once he slams the last book shut, forcing his hand through it as he dissolves it, he appears to suffer an existential crisis for a moment)

Filthnor: Yikes, and here I thought the world was rough when Waller tried to get me for her Squad! This place has really gone to pot! (Thinks about it) Sounds like a golden opportunity for me though! I can finally make my name! Nobody will mock me as some Silver Age supercrook anymore! I just need to find some more of whatever Luthor was testing on me and I can get myself powered up! (Remembers one of the books he ruined) And if this is to be believed, LexCorp merged with Wayne Enterprises, so Bruce Wayne probably has everything I need!

(Knowing his mission, Filthnor returns to the bathroom he emerged from and literally flushes himself down the toilet and starts dashing through the sewers, looking for anything that can power him up, but along the way, he catches the attention of a familiar hero in a half shell in an orange mask)

Michelangelo: Whoa. What was that? (Looks again and sees it's gone, then figuring it was just a hallucination) I've really got to lay off the taco fudge pizza. I'm starting to see things!

(And as Michelangelo returns to where he came from, our tale ends for today)

And that looks like a good spot to wrap up for now. And with this, I have officially introduced all of Null's original Fighter Pack characters! Filthnor was the last one to bring in. And honestly, he's one of those characters that I basically forgot existed. It doesn't help that all of the information on his past has been lost. Null had a story detailing his Fighter Pack characters' origins at one point, as far as I remember, but they've since deleted it, along with just about everything on Filthnor's past that I can find going back through the years we've known each other on this site. Though there were a few things I remember. Filthnor in his human form worked for LexCorp and somehow got turned into a literal walking pile of filth, and that both Deadshot and Harley Quinn remarked that he might've been interesting on the Suicide Squad. To be fair, this isn't the first time I've written Filthnor. But the Filthnor I wrote was the one that emerged after the Injustice Wars. I had no idea how he started out here. So I came up with this: He was a forgotten foe of Superman from back before Joker nuked Metropolis, and a bit goofier. Basically he's a Silver Age villain. Don't worry, he's going to get a lot more serious and insane as the war goes on, turning into the guy we met in Age of Miracles. Hope this works, Null! If not, let me know and I can adjust this portrayal. But next time, we're back to the new alliance thing. So how's that going to go? Tune in next time to find out! Same time... same channel!