The Audience see the DC Universe be introduced to Superman as he battles General Hazel from Amber's perspective to Qrow Branwen's perspective.
Cast
Clark Kent/Superman: Oscar Pine
Lois Lane: Amber Autumn
General Zod: Hazel Rainart
General Swanwick/Martian Manhunter: Lie Ren
Dr. Emil Hamilton: Dr. Pietro Polendina
Faora Ul: Vernal
Jor-El: Ozma
Marth Kent: Kali Belladonna
Johnathan Kent: Ghira Belladonna
Bruce Wayne/Batman: Qrow Branwen
Colonel Hardy: Himself
Perry White: Coco Adel
Jenny: Velvet Scarlatina
Steve Lombard: Cardin Winchester
Jack: The Bull Faunus blacksmith from Volume 4
Teacher: Herself
Students: Themselves
Little girl: Herself
"Let's dive right into the action." Darth Anarchus stated. "You're going to see Superman save the Earth from the Kryptonians for the first time and see it from Amber's perspective as well as Qrow Branwen's."
"Sweet, two superheroes saving the day!" Ruby cheered.
Most of the younger Audience grew excited, the adults worried about the potential destruction, except Tyrian. The crazy Scorpion Faunus was looking forward to the potential bloodbath mainly.
"What just happened?" General Lie Ren demanded in a control room. "The ship just split in two pieces." A soldier reported. "One of them is heading to the southeastern hemisphere, Menagerie." The scene changed to show the World Engine landing in the Shallow Sea by Menagerie.
Most of the Faunus grew worried about Menagerie while Nora cheered that her friend was on screen.
Meanwhile, the Black Zero appeared above Atlas. Many civilians looked to the sky in fear and awe at the massive alien ship appearing above the skyline.
Ironwood, Winter, the Ace-Ops and Pietro were now worried about their home kingdom.
General Hazel was informed that both ships were ready to terraform and he gave the order. Both ships fired a beam down into the ground. With the World Engine, the water began to levitate. With the Black Zero, vehicles, debris and people began to levitate in the air before being slammed down. Hard enough to kill people and flatten the vehicles, shatter glass make buildings shake like the Daily Planet.
Inside the news building, Coco Adel and the others stepped away from the windows with expressions of fear as they felt the building shake. The gravity field was spreading more and more. The Audience could hear people screaming in the vehicles before being abruptly silenced.
Briefly, the Audience had awed expressions when the levitating began before becoming horrified when the vehicles began to crush and people's screaming was abruptly silenced.
Tyrian pouted. It wasn't as graphic as he hoped it would be.
"What are they hitting us with?" Ren demanded back in the military control room.
"It seems to be some kind of gravity weapon," Professor Pietro Polendina answered, looking at the screen monitoring both ships. "It's working in tandem with their ship. Increasing the planet's mass and filling the atmosphere with articulates. Oh my Oum, they're terraforming."
"What's that?" A young woman asked.
"Planet engineering, modifying Remnant's topography."
"They're turning Remnant into Krypton." Ren said grimly. "But what happens to us?" the young woman asked, more nervous.
"Based on these readings, there won't be an us." Polendina replied.
"Sir, Colonel Hardy is in bound and he's bringing in Superman with him," Another soldier reported. Ren rose an eyebrow. "Superman?" he repeated.
"The alien, sir." The soldier clarified. "That's. . . what they're calling him."
Some of the Audience snorted in amusement that the name was catching on. Oscar sighed in defeat. Okay, that name suited his counterpart.
Outside of the base, Amber turns to the General and Professor. "We have a plan, General." Amber said. Polendina looked to the space craft being carried. "Is that what I think it is?" he asked.
"It's the ship he arrived in," Amber answered before Superman walks to them. "This ship uses something called a Phantom Drive. It bends space. Hazel uses the same technology. If we can get the two engines to collide with one another. . . "
"A singularity will be made," Pietro completed. "A black hole?" Ren clarified getting nods from the Man of Steel and Amber. "So, you want us to bomb them with that?" Pietro asked.
Colonel Hardy answered that it was possible to carry the pod in the plane like a nuclear bomb.
"That sounds like a good plan," Ironwood mused. Darth Anarchus rose an eyebrow. "Not going to ask about a black hole?" he asked.
"We have some limited knowledge of singularities." Ironwood exclaimed.
"Oh good." The Host said in relief. "Most variants of Remnant, or at least those that mirror your world more closely, haven't bothered looking at the stars." he explained at the confused looks.
"And if I don't stop that machine in the Shallow Sea," Superman says, glancing over to Amber. "The gravity field will continue to get worse." He turns to Ren who slowly nods.
Amber turns to Oscar. "If that thing is making Remnant more like Krypton," she says in a worried tone. "Won't you be weaker around it?"
Ruby and a few other students grew worried about Oscar's counterpart at the question.
"Maybe," Oscar says uncertainty before steeling himself. "But that's a risk I'm willing to take." Amber slowly nods. Oscar nods back. "You may want to step back." he warned.
Amber stepped back a little. "Maybe a bit more." Oscar adds. Amber smiles and steps back as Oscar takes off. The Audience see him flying high up before he breaks the sound barrier.
The Huntsmen and Huntresses nodded in agreement with Superman's statement. With the world at stake, he had to take the risk.
Ruby frowned at Oscar and Amber's interaction before watching Oscar's counterpart fly in awe.
"Commander Vernal," Hazel called to the Kryptonian soldier. "Take command of the helm. I need to secure the Genesis chamber. . . and pay my respects to an old friend." He gestures to the location of the scout ship and gains a somber expression. Vernal nods as the General leaves.
Superman arrives where the World Engine stands. He flies through the black smoke and loses control, grabbing his throat and coughing uncontrollably. Already the atmosphere was Kryptonian. He regains control and flies back up. The front of the World Engine and a robotic arm shoots out with three claws and attacks Superman before he could reach the ship.
The students grew worried at Superman's coughing and tensed at the World Engine's defenses. Polendina and Watts were intrigued however, with the latter more so than the former while Watts felt like he had some connection.
The scene changed to Colonel Hardy piloting the dropship with a large squad of Air Force jets. The jets fly ahead to asses the threat level of the Black Zero.
Just as the jets arrive, a helicopter with the logo of Branwen Enterprises lowers to a landing pad and Qrow Branwen jumps out before it touches the ground. He looks to the jets flying to the Black Zero before he gets into Branwen Enterprises Security car and drives into the city.
Those were fans of Batman cheered at the appearance of Qrow while a few women, with the exception of Summer, Raven, Maria, Saphron and Terra, blushed at Qrow's muscular build despite his age. The most blushing was Robyn.
"What is he doing in the city?" Tai asked. The Host held up an arm. "Give it a second."
The jets begin to fire missiles at the Black Zero, only for the missiles to fly haywire away from the ship and to the nearby buildings. The lead pilot says they have to get closer.
In the Daily Planet, Cardin Winchester looks out a window and sees a missile fly down and explode. Right in front of Qrow who managed to turn to a different road. He reaches for his Scroll and calls one of his employees. "Jack!"
"Qrow!" Jack replied. "Jack, listen to me! I need you to get everyone out of the building now!" Qrow orders. "You understand?" Jack nods and turns to the people next to him. "Alright, come on, people. Let's go! We need to leave! The boss wants us out of here, so let's make it happen!"
"Jack? Jack!" Qrow calls, wanting to kept in the loop. Gritting his teeth in frustration, he throws his Scroll out and focuses on driving.
"He wants his workers to get to safety," Willow says in surprise before it grew to respect. "And he's coming to the building himself."
"He could have just made the Scroll call wherever he lives," Jacques scoffed. "He didn't have to come to the city experiencing a Oum damn alien invasion."
"Yeah, that's the difference between a CEO like you, Gele, " Darth Anarchus said, narrowing his at the white haired man. "and a CEO who happens to Batman or Ironman."
Willow and her children smirked slightly with Klein and Adam and Sienna laughed loudly as Jacques scowled at being called by his former name.
The students looked the Batman variant on screen while Whitley smiled a little when he heard Ironman being mentioned.
Hazel arrives at the scout ship and takes off his helmet. Instantly his senses are overwhelmed but he closes his eyes. He's a soldier of Krypton. He will conqueror this. And slowly but surely, he hones his senses. He opens his eyes and it's normal now. He walks in and the scene changes.
"Oh great," Roman said. "The Kryptonian who knows how to fight has now adapted to Remnant's atmosphere."
"Why do you say it like that?" Cinder asked. "From what I've seen in the fight in Smallville, the farm boy doesn't know combat."
"He's not wrong," the Host admitted. "While he knows how to throw a punch, he certainly hasn't fought anyone until this day."
So, not that different than me. Oscar thought to himself. Now, now, Oscar. Ozpin chided. You said that you have some combat experience with small Grimm.
Yeah, SMALL Grimm. Oscar rebuked.
Superman is getting overwhelmed with the now three robotic arms that regenerate every time he shatters them. Then they entrap him like a boa and hold him the Kryptonian atmosphere. He begins to cough and choke before he was thrown down to the terraforming beam and hits him the full force of Krypton's gravity.
"Oscar!" Ruby and the other students cried out in worry.
Back in Atlas, Coco, Velvet Scarlatina and Cardin run out of the building. They see the destruction getting worse around them and they try to run away only for the jets to crash behind them and in front of Qrow who drives down an alleyway to avoid the fireball that manages to lick at the back of his SUV.
Qrow's family and close friends sighed in relief at seeing the man's counterpart avoiding the explosion. "Heh. This version of you seems to have better luck than you," Raven stated with a smirk.
"And now I'm sure you just jinxed him," Qrow rolled his eyes.
Coco sees a building crumbling in front of her. "Velvet!" she calls to the Rabbit Faunus who stared up at the building in fear. Cardin sees the building as well and calls out to his boss. Coco and Velvet run to Cardin who directs them to an alleyway and they manage to avoid the building.
Coco looks around when she's alone. "Velvet!" she calls out again. "Here!" She turns and sees Velvet trapped under debris, her arm sticking out. "I'm stuck! Coco, I'm stuck!" Coco runs over to her and grabs her hand. "I'm going to get you out." She assures. She turns her head and Velvet panics. "No, no, please! Don't leave me! Please, don't leave me!"
"I'm not going to leave you." Coco says before turning to where Cardin stands. "Cardin! Get your ass over here and help me!"
". . . Screw it," Cardin mutters before running out of view. . . and coming back with a metal pole. He wedges it between two pieces of concrete. He instructs Coco to push the pole down to lift the debris off Velvet. Qrow was shown driving. He maneuvers around other cars avoids running over people.
Team CFVY and the other students tensed at seeing Coco and Velvet in danger of being crushed before sighing relief that they got to safety before seeing Velvet trapped under rubble.
"Shit," Velvet said, and cursing was a rare thing to come from her. Coco wrapped an arm around her. "Don't worry, Vel. I got your back," she said assuring. Their eyes all widened when Cardin came back and began to help Coco's variant. Cardin himself was glad that he wasn't a complete douchebag.
The scene changes back to Hazel who had put his own command key. Just as the ship comes online, he hears a voice he had not heard since Krypton's destruction. "Stop this, Hazel. While there's still a chance."
Hazel turns around with a bitter frown. "Haven't given up lecturing me, have you?" he asks. "Even in death."
This caused Salem to snort a bit. Yeah, Ozma seems to have a knack for that.
Ozma walks toward him. "I will not let you use the Codex like this." he says defiantly.
"You don't have the power to stop me," Hazel says. "The command key I entered is provoking your authority."
"Our people can coexist, Hazel." Ozma says firmly. "So we can suffer years of pain to adapt like your son has?" Hazel retorts.
"You're talking about genocide," Ozma protests. "Yes, and I'm arguing its merits with a ghost." Hazel rebukes. He turns to walk away but Ozma follows him.
"We're both ghosts, Hazel." he declared. "Can't you see that? The Krypton you're clinging to is gone." Hazel glances at him before turning to the Genesis chamber. "Ship have you isolated this virus?" he asks the ship's AI. When he gets an affirmative, he orders the termination of Ozma's AI. "I'm tired of this debate."
"Silencing me won't change anything, Hazel," Ozma states before declaring, "My son is twice the man you ever were." This catches the General's attention. "And he will finish what we started all those years ago."
"Tell me, you share Ozma-El's memories." Hazel stated. "Can you share his pain?" he asks before he elaborates. "I will harness the Codex from your son's corpse and rebuild a New Krypton on top his bones." he declares coldly before slamming his palm down on the control panel and Ozma's holographic form disappears.
"No. . . " Oscar muttered under his breath. Those that heard him just assumed it was because he was attached to the counterpart of his father.
Ozpin wasn't really affected by his or rather Ozma's counterpart's demise. Maybe a little since he was seeing his death from an outside perspective.
Back in Atlas, the terraforming gravity field is getting closer and closer to Coco and Cardin who still haven't managed to get Velvet out. The two former looked to the impending death by being crushed while Velvet begins to scream in fear. The two look at one another before reaching to grab each of Velvet's hands as a sign of comfort in her final moments.
Team CFVY hugged the Rabbit Faunus and her partner. The two glanced over to Cardin and nodded silently who smiled slightly in response. It was worth a shot, Cardin thought preparing himself to see himself being crushed like a soda can.
The Audience see Superman standing up, his right hand raised and clenching into a fist. He looks up to the World Engine as he hears all the people screaming and dying back in Atlas. He can even hear the ocean life dying from the World Engine here. He tunes them all out and recalls what both his biological father and adoptive father have told him. You will give a people of Remnant an ideal to strive towards. Ozma had said. Whoever you chose to be, good or bad, Ghira had told him. He's going to change the world.
Or save it.
"Come on, you can do it," Ruby and a few others encouraged. Emerald stopped herself from muttering the same. Was she really getting that hooked into a story like this? It looked like Mercury was thinking the same.
"Come on," Oscar muttered. "Make them proud."
For a split second, Oscar's face flickered to appear as someone else's before he shoots up towards the World Engine, flying through the beam. His face scrunches up before he lets out a scream of determination before he slams through the hull. The World Engine cracks and then explodes. It's beam stops both in the Shallow Sea and at Atlas.
"HE DID IT!" The students cheered.
Qrow had stopped his car and stares out at the Black Zero along with a crowd of people. Cardin and Coco look around as Velvet calms down. They look to each other and begin to move the debris again.
The three mentioned sighed in relief.
Oscar slowly opens his eyes and reaches his hand up to the sunlight.
"He did it," Colonel Hardy said to Amber who sighed in relief. She walks down to where the Kryptonian pod is and puts the command key in the slot, only for to hover in place with small bolts of lightning to hold it. She tries to push it in but to no avail. "You got to be kidding me," she mutters.
"What now?" Cinder asked in annoyance.
"We clear to drop?" Hardy asked. "Negative sir." A soldier replied. "What's wrong?" Polendina asked as Hardy moved from his seat and his co-pilot took control. "It's supposed to go in all the way." Amber replied.
Vernal noticed the plane incoming and enters an escape pod to intercept it.
"Oh no," many of the Audience muttered.
"Not good." Penny said, worried for her father.
Pietro studies the pod and tilts his head. He realizes that it was twisted upside down. He grabs it and twists it to be right side up and the command key slides in.
Amber looks out the drop door and sees the two jets get gunned down by the Scout Ship. Hazel is shown sitting in the pilot's seat like a throne. "Target that aircraft." he orders and the Audience see Superman flying into view.
He crashes into the hull, knocking it aside as it fires and narrowly misses but grazes the wing. He rises up, eyes glowing red. "Stop! If you destroy this ship, you destroy Krypton!" Hazel shouts to Oscar in desperation.
Oscar hesitates briefly before his resolve steels. "Krypton had its chance." he replied before unleashing his heat vision on the ship and the General falls to the ground. Amber watches as the Scout ship crashes through buildings. The Audience sees that directly below the ship is Qrow's SUV swerving left and right to dodge the falling debris.
Penny cheered that her father figured out the problem before stopping at seeing the Scout ship arrive and target the plane. Then the Audience got more relieved at seeing Superman arrive.
Many were surprised at Hazel's desperate tone. Some of the adults looked at the screen sympathetically at Oscar's hesitation before his resolve strengthen.
Ruby and her family grew worried at seeing Qrow beneath the ship, Raven would deny it but deep down she was worried about her brother.
"Ms. Autumn, it's not safe for you over there!" a soldier calls to her as Pietro tells Hardy that he fixed the problem. "Ms. Autumn!" Suddenly Vernal jumps through the underside of the plane, knocking the soldier out of the plane and Amber falls down in shock.
"No offense," Amber chuckled nervously. "But where I'm standing seemed to be more safer than over there."
Hardy steps back as Pietro was knocked off his feet. Vernal glares at Hardy as other soldiers fire at her to stall her. Hardy retreats back to the cockpit and Vernal follows after him, killing the soldiers in front of her.
Just as Hardy reaches the cockpit, Vernal breaks through the wall behind him. "Move! Now!" a soldier told him, ushering him to the cockpit. The Faunus gets backhanded by Vernal and the co-pilot fires at her with his sidearm but Vernal grabs and puts him in a headlock before the Audience hear an audible SNAP as she glares at Hardy.
Many grimaced at Vernal killing the soldiers, human and Faunus, like so. Saphron and Terra made Adrian turn away from the screen.
Pietro struggles to his feet but manages to push the command key in and activates the Phantom Drive. Qrow gets out of his car and sees the plane approaching the Black Zero.
"Come on, Father," Penny said urgently before his counterpart activates the Phantom Drive. Pietro himself sighed in relief before steeling himself. He had a feeling that his counterpart wasn't going to last long.
"A good death is its own reward," Hardy said to Vernal, throwing her words back at her. Vernal paused and titled her head at him before he made the plane dive towards the Black Zero. Vernal's eyes widened as the plane crashes into the ship and instantly, the Phantom Drives in both ships react to one another and create a singularity. The Audience see the Kryptonians being sucked in first followed by the Black Zero.
The Atlassians (even Jacques and Watts) saluted the soldiers as did the older Huntsmen and Huntresses and the Faunus in room as well.
Amber falls out the back of plane, screaming before it crashes. Superman pushes debris off him and his super vision sees Amber falling among the debris. He flies up and catches her. He tries to fly off with her before he freezes in the air. The singularity was starting to pull him in. Amber stares at it, mystified before she turns to Oscar's face and sees glowing cracks on his face. No! You can do this! Amber says mentally. Fight it, Oscar! Come on! The world needs Superman!
Qrow and Amber grew worried at seeing the latter's counterpart falling before Superman caught her. Then they grew worried that he'd get sucked into the black hole as well before he didn't.
As if hearing her thoughts, Oscar pushes himself to the limit fighting the pull of the singularity before it vanishes.
Superman and Amber land in the middle of a clear area and nearby Coco and her two employees emerge. "Are they gone?" Velvet asks nervously. Slowly, Coco nods. "I think so."
Velvet turns to look down towards where Superman and Amber are. "He saved us," she said in realization.
Amber reached up to Oscar's face, fearing that he would vanish before Oscar reaches up to her hand with his own and smiles reassuringly at her. Amber sighs in relief before pulling him close and kissing him on the lips.
Oscar stiffened before wrapping his arms around her waist. They pull back a few centimeters away. "You know, they say it's all down hill after the first kiss," Amber panted.
"Uh, I'm sure that counts when you're kissing a human," Oscar replies.
Both Oscar and Amber blush at their counterparts while Qrow and some students tease them. Ruby frowned before shaking her head and luckily Yang didn't see her jealousy.
Summer, on the other hand. . .
The two look over to Coco and the others before they hear a faint rumble in the distance. The Kryptonian Scout ship was still there and that meant only one thing.
"You got to be kidding me," Sun whined with a slump of his shoulders.
"Get people back," Oscar says to Amber before he flies over to a kneeling Hazel. Briefly, the Audience see Qrow running in the streets. He ignored the people running the other way. He had to get to Branwen Enterprise, Atlas. He had to make sure his workers were okay.
The General holds up a handful of dirt. "Look at this." He lets it slip between his fingers. "We could have built a new Krypton in this squalor, but you chose the humans over us. I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born." Hazel begins to shake and tears threaten to escape and Oscar looks to him with pity. "And every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people. And now, I have no people. . . my soul. . ." Anger comes over his expression. "That is what you have taken from me!" He shoots forward, slamming his body against Oscar's and sends him skidding back across the area.
The adults felt sorry for Hazel's counterpart, especially Ozpin while some others were indifferent. The students felt conflicted about the Kryptonian General before his tone became angry.
"I'm going to make them suffer, Oz." Hazel declares, marching to his opponent. "These humans and Faunus you've adopted, I'm going to take them all from you one by one."
"You're a monster, Hazel." Oscar declares before he rises of the ground and turns to face him. "And I'm going to stop you."
"How? You can't access the Phantom Zone like you just did, and there's not a cell on this planet that can hold me." Hazel's lips curl up in a cruel smirk before Superman flies towards him and the General runs. The two meet in the middle and Superman is sent flying back.
Oscar swallowed audibly at that statement. That only meant one thing. Many of the Audience also knew what this meant.
Unfortunately, no one gave Ruby the memo. "Don't worry, Oscar. I'm sure your counterpart will think of something." she said with a hopeful smile.
"Ruby. . ." Summer said before pausing.
The Audience see Jack still within the building of Branwen Enterprises. He must be doing one final sweep for any more people in the building before he sees Superman flying towards the building and landing a floor beneath him.
As Superman rises to his feet, Hazel jumps into the building with him. He closes his eyelids and the Audience see his eyes glowing before he begins screaming and unleashes his heat vision uncontrollably. Superman rises up to avoid being hit while Hazel holds his head, screaming.
Outside, Qrow ran around the corner and tries to call Jack again on his Scroll but the Bull Faunus simply begins to pray. "Heavenly God, creator of Heaven and Remnant, have mercy on my soul." The building begins to collapse.
Hazel jumps out and Superman flies out after him.
"NOO! JACK!" Qrow screamed and began to run towards the collapsing building. Everyone else ran the other way but he ran towards the danger with no fear and disappeared into the cloud of dust.
Many gasped at seeing Jack, some grew sadden at his final prayer. Those that knew Qrow felt their respect grow at seeing his counterpart running to the danger with nothing but himself.
Qrow smiled a little. Well, at least they both have something in common. Robyn also smiled.
Superman and Hazel crashing into a parking garage building. Superman steps out of the smoke and Hazel lands across the street. He kicks the gasoline truck towards him. Superman jumps between the gas tanks. The tanker explodes behind him. He looks at it briefly before Hazel punches him down. He quickly gets back up and the two trade blows and block punches, the blows sending shockwaves with every hit before a car lands on Superman and Hazel kicks him back before he delivers punch and an uppercut that sends Superman flying up. He bounces off the building and steadies himself in the air.
"There's only one way this ends, Oz. Either you die or I do." Hazel said and Superman heard him loud and clear. I'm willing to do what it takes to win. Are you?" He then jumps up and climbs up the building. Superman flies down and delivers an uppercut that sends a shockwave and shatters the building. The General is flung towards a construction site.
Most of the adults noticed that the truck had the brand Merlot Corp on the side. Interesting.
Ruby still clung to the hope that this fight won't end in death.
When Superman arrives, Hazel jumps towards him with a rebar. Quickly, Superman uses his heat vision to melt the bar down but Hazel uses what's left of it to knock the Man of Steel away. Superman collides with a sign and lands on his front.
Neo starts chuckling a little, gaining the attention of those that hear her. He just knocked into a sign that said 106 days left of construction, Neo signed with a smile. And turned it to zero.
Oscar chuckled a little while some teens do snicker in amusement.
"I was bred to be a warrior, Oz." Hazel says. "Trained my entire life to master my senses. Where did you train, on a farm?!" He kneels down, the small debris begins to shake and hover. Grunting, Hazel tears off his battle armor, revealing his black skin suit with a silver symbol. Oscar watches with a grim expression as Hazel's gauntlet falls to his feet and hovers as Hazel rises in the air. The General opens his eyes and looks down at Superman who stares back before flying up and tackling him through the construction site.
"Hey! Don't diss on the farm!" Oscar shouted in defense.
"Yeah, the Compost King can take on aliens!" Nora shouted in agreement.
"Wait, what?" Oscar said, blinking. Nora suddenly gasped. "Ren, Pyrrha, Jaune! Oscar's a farm boy, right?" she asks excitedly. "That means he's the Compost King!"
"What?" Oscar asked in bewilderment. The. . . Compost. . . King? . . . What?
Qrow walks slowly past shaken people and a rider less police horse. He watches a teacher trying to keep her class together. They must have been on a trip when this all happened. He could understand what they went through. He kneels down to help a little girl struggling to pull a stuffed animal out from debris and handed her to another teacher.
Most of the parents and students felt sorry for the young children.
Superman and Hazel fly through the air before Superman punches Hazel twice across the city. Hazel regains control and begins to zoom through the buildings, Superman giving chase. Hazel sneaked behind him and ran his face through many glass windows and buildings before grabbing Superman by the cape and spinning around before throwing him through many buildings. When he stopped, Superman hovered in the air before Hazel tackled him and took to out of Remnant's atmosphere.
Back with Qrow, an employee of his recognized him and called out to him, his legs trapped under a steel girder. "Mr. Branwen! Mr. Branwen! I can't feel my legs! I can't feel my legs!" Qrow kneels down to his side and calls out to men nearby. "We need help over here!" He looks back down to the man. "Listen to me, you're going to be okay." He glances down at his nametag and decided to use it as a distraction. "Wallace? What, do they call you Wally?" he asked in false cheery tone.
The distraction worked. The man looks up to him with a pant. "You're the boss, Boss." he said. Three men came to help. Two grabbed Wally by the arms and the third grabbed the girder with Qrow. "On three. One, two three," Qrow instructs before they lift the girder up high enough and Wally is pulled to safety. "Oh Oum, I can't feel my legs." he sobbed.
Mercury felt the most sympathetic about the man.
Up in space, Hazel had slammed into a satellite. He grabbed onto it and pushed it towards Superman who caught it before Hazel shot through and tackled Superman. Heat began to build at Superman's head as Hazel punched him in the face and the two Kryptonians re-entered the atmosphere.
Now most of the Audience grew intrigued at the sight of the satellite before pausing. On the side was the brand and symbol of Branwen Enterprises.
Qrow looks up from Wally and sees a girl about to be crushed by rubble!
Many parents and students shot up to their feet. "NOO!"
He gets up and runs as fast as he could. He grabs the girl and moves her out of the way in one swift motion just as the rubble came crashing down where the girl was. "Hey, hey. You're okay," he says in a reassuring tone to the girl, kneeling down to her level and brushing some dust off her hair and shirt. She didn't look like a student. "You know what? We're going to find your mom." he states with a friendly smile. "Where is she?" The girl begins to cry and points upwards behind Qrow. He looks up and sees it was the same building Jack was in. He frowns sadly down to her before he hears a sonic boom.
Many covered their mouths and bowed their heads at the girl's answer.
The music changes drastically as the scene changes between Amber looking up to the sky with her colleagues while Qrow glares, hugging the girl close as if to shield her from what looks like debris falling from the sky.
Among the debris was Superman and Hazel.
Rage began to boil beneath Qrow's skin as he glared and being filled with a new sense of purpose. It was time for his mission to begin again. This time with a different reason.
Qrow looked to the screen with wide eyes. This isn't good. At all.
"I don't think my counterpart made a good impression with Batman," Oscar tried to joke. "Don't blame yourself, you're busy fighting Hazel." Ruby said.
"Yet I could have done more to prevent all this destruction," Oscar retorts. "Like take the fight out of the city."
"This is what happens when Gods fall into their clashes," Darth Anarchus said. "Innocents die, and the Knight is the witness to it."
Hazel screams in rage to Superman before the two crash into a massive train station. Hazel hovers when the two crash into a balcony before Superman tackles him to the floor and slams his head into the concrete before getting the General into a headlock.
Hazel struggles before his attention is brought to the humans and Faunus in the building with them. More specifically, a family with a Faunus child that were telling people to evacuate.
"If you love this people so much," Hazel growls out to Superman and the Human father notices the General's glare and tries to move his family back. "You can mourn for them." His yellow eyes glow red and he shoots his heat vision to the wall and moves towards the family. The family tried to move away but one of the pillars had collapsed behind them. They were trapped.
The music becomes somber as Oscar's eyes widen in horror at what Hazel was attempting to do. "Don't do this!" he shouted, trying to speak to the man that was seen as a brother to his father.
"No," Ruby muttered in unison with Oscar. The silver eyed girl now knew where this ends.
The family also began to beg for mercy. "Please, no!" the mother cried out. The father moved to shield them both as the two lasers moved closer to them and the child began to wail.
"Stop! Stop!" Oscar cried out. The Audience see Amber running down the staircase. She paused at the shouting before moving forward.
"STOOOPP!" Oscar begged.
Hazel didn't even bat an eye. "Never." He declared.
Oscar looked to the family as tears welled in his eyes before he closed them and let out a shout before a shockwave was released-
As he snapped Hazel's neck.
Hazel dropped down, his eyes no longer glowing and bearing a peaceful expression.
Oscar collapsed to his knees with a shaken expression. All his life, he had never once taken a life. He always used his life to save lives. Help lives. He looked to Hazel's expression. The General didn't want to live where he couldn't call Krypton and he went out in a warrior's death. And yet, now Oz-El was alone.
The Last Son of Krypton.
Many flinched or covered their ears at Oscar's and the family's shouts and flinched even more when Oscar snapped the General's neck.
Oscar looked down at his own hands. That's how our story is going to go, isn't it Oz? he asked. Either us or Hazel will die.
. . . Yes. It's him or us, Ozpin answered grimly.
His lip began to shake, his eyes watering before he let out one long scream that echoed throughout the station. At the corner of his eye, he sees Amber approaching with a sympathetic expression. She placed her hands on his head as he hugged her. Amber closed her eyes as he silently cried. After a moment, he glanced up to her.
Maybe he wasn't alone entirely.
Ruby saw Oscar's down trodden expression and leaned over to hug him. The former farm hand stiffened before hugging her back. Memories of his timeline came to him along with the events in Atlas. A hug from his friend (He ignores the eyeroll from Ozpin) is what he needs. Jaune and the rest of the students joined in on the hug followed by Zwei.
The scene changed to General Ren and Captain Lambton driving past some satellite dishes when suddenly a large military drone crashed down in front of them. Lambton skidded to a halt and Ren slowly got out and saw Superman standing with his arms crossed.
Most of the Audience were surprised at the sudden crash. JNP worried for their normally stoic teammate and friend but nothing would have prepared them for what was said.
"Are you fucking stupid?!" Ren asked angrily once he recognized what crashed. And apparently so did Superman. "One of your surveillance drones," he pointed out.
Nora gasped and scolded her partner. "Ren! For shame!" As Ren rolled his eyes, Nora wiped a tear. "I'm so proud."
"I didn't think I'd hear Ren say something like that," Jaune said to Pyrrha who stared at the screen with wide eyes.
"That's a 12 million piece of hardware!" Ren exclaimed angrily.
"It was," Superman concurred. "I know you're trying to find out where I hang my cape." he states before shaking his head. "You won't."
"Then I'll ask the obvious question." Ren stated, narrowing his eyes a little. "How do we know you won't, one day, work against Humanity and Faunus' best interests?"
Oscar points to the side. "I could have taken over the White Fang when they started to fight for Faunus Supremacy, General." he said firmly. "Look, I'm here to help. But it has to be on my terms. You have to convince the Councils of that."
"So the White Fang exists in this world," Ghira stated, sadden at the mention of Faunus Supremacy.
"They go by a different name now," the Host replied. "Intergang."
"What makes you think I can? Or will?" Ren retorts. Superman shakes his head. "I don't know. I guess I'll just have to trust you." With that, he takes off.
Ren sighs and turns back to see the captain smiling to herself and trying not but failing. "What are you smiling about Captain?" he asks.
The young woman shakes her head. "N-Nothing, sir." she stutters before shrugging. "I just think he's kind of hot."
Ren sighed again and walks past her. You're probably not the only who thinks that, he thought while ordering her to get back in the car.
Oscar blushed again as some students laugh. "She's not wrong, right Rubes?" Yang asked. Ruby stuttered and Oscar's blushing grew worse.
The scene changed to show Kali and Oscar walking in a cemetery near Smallville. "He always knew you were meant for greater things," Kali says to her son as they near Ghira's tombstone. "And that when the day came, your shoulders would bear the weight." she adds.
Kali and Blake smile sadly at the reminder that Ghira is dead in this world.
Oscar crosses his arms, smiling down at the grave. "Yeah, I just wish he was here to finally see it happen." he muses sadly. Kali just smiled. "He saw it, Oscar, believe me."
A flashback commences. Ghira was working on the engine of a truck and he looks up to see young Oscar running through the yard with a red towel tied around his shoulders like a cape. He stands proudly, hands on his hips as his cape flaps.
Ghira stares at the scene as Kali comes over to him with a basket of laundry. She says something to him inaudibly but he continues to stare at his son. She follows her husband's gaze. She snorts in amusement before walking away.
Some of the mothers cooed at the younger Oscar with a cape, finding it adorable as did some students. Oscar felt like they were looking at his photo album and sighed.
"What are you going to do when you're not saving the world?" Kali asks. "Have you given any thought to that?"
Oscar smiles a little. "I have actually."
The scene changes to show Oscar entering Atlas in a bus. "I'm go work at a place where I can keep my ear to the ground." Oscar narrators. "A place where people won't ask twice if I go somewhere dangerous and start asking questions." Oscar straightens his tie as he enters the Daily Planet. When he gets on the elevator, he puts on glasses.
Cardin was conversing with Velvet and Amber before Coco walks up behind them. She instructs to show the new recruit the ropes. "This is Oscar Pine."
Cardin and Velvet greet him normally while Amber straightens in surprise. Oscar smiles at her as she recomposes herself. She stands up and holds her hand out. "Amber Autumn." she introduces. "Welcome to the Planet."
Oscar smiles. "Glad to be here, Amber." The two stare at each other before the screen went black.
MAN OF STEEL
"You're telling me that no one recognizes Superman because of some nerd glasses?!" Mercury exclaimed in disbelief and incredulously. This was shared most of the Audience, even Tyrian couldn't understand this.
"And because Superman makes himself slouch and stutter as his reporter persona," Darth Anarchus replied. "At least in most parts of the DC Universe." he adds with a thoughtful look. The Snyderverse Superman never did that. "And when he's in front cameras he just vibrates at high speed that the cameras can't get a good look at him."
"Okay, what's next?" Raven asked with a sigh.
"Next is a trailer for the next part of Superman's journey and the dawn of a new age of heroes," The Host replied. "And then we'll take a short intermission."
I used to own a movie novelization of Man of Steel so I added what dialogue I remembered from Zod.
I'm thinking of doing the teaser for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and then do the intermission. I'm thinking of Mortal Kombat trailer followed by a multifandom AMV with the son "My Enemy" by Tommy Profit or something light hearted like Wonka trailer. Not in that order. What do you think?