AN: Surprise! Another new fic which I got done early.

Just so you know, this is a crossover involving the 2008 DS game 'Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier' (quite a mouthful, I know) and its sequel Endless Frontier EXCEED.

I'm pretty sure that not many people are aware about these games but you can take it from me that you don't need to know much of the 'Super Robot Wars' franchise to understand the story so feel free to look it up. If you played the 3DS game Project X Zone, you may remember some of these characters.

That being said, let me clarify that since Endless Frontier EXCEED never released outside of Japan, I'll be using the fan-translation patch that was released by Artema last year as a source.

There was supposed to be more written in this chapter but it was already getting too long and I was having trouble juggling so many characters so you can expect the next chapter when I'm done updating my other stories. Without further ado...

Justice League and all related characters are owned by DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Batman is created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga is owned Bandai Namco Entertainment. Endless Frontier, Xenosaga and original Project X Zone related characters are created by MONOLITHSOFT.


CHAPTER 01: Crisis on a Strange World

Among the myriad of dimensions and multiverses lies the Endless Frontier, a strange settlement where worlds normally apart are connected by portals of unknown origin called 'Cross Gates'.

Lost Herencia, a world with advanced robotic technology.

Kagura Amahara, a world where humans and Oni live in harmony with nature.

Elfetale and Dunopolis, a mystical land where Elves and Beastmen co-exist.

Varna Kanai, a place where aquatic life forms dwell at the bottom of the sea.

And Formido heim, a land in the skies where demons thrive.

Like a sudden community of nations, the citizens of the these worlds interacted with one another with unease until peace was maintained through a delicate balance of power.

However, all that changed when Formido Heim suddenly invaded Elfetale and instigated what would now be called the 'Ten Year War', a war that mysteriously began and mysteriously ended.

Three years have passed since then and the Endless Frontier found itself facing a new threat. Mysterious crystals called the "Mild Keil" have appeared and spread across the worlds, causing chaos. And among that chaos, remnants from the last war began to resurface.

Our story begins with a young Bounty hunter and a rag-tag group of misfits seeking to investigate these disturbances. But this is not the beginning of their journey. Rather, it is the intersection of another's.


As seven individuals traversed past Albuleta Fortress, they could see it in the distance near the shores. Hovering over the shallow water, it looked like a large black metallic ring with a few pointed segments while a blue field of energy swirled in its center.

"Look! The Kouki-Mon has stabilized by itself. We can finally leave Elfetale!" Kaguya said cheerfully.

The term 'Kouki-Mon' is what a native of Kagura Amahara refers to as a Cross Gate. But Kaguya Nanbu was more than just a native, she is also the brave and yet naive princess of Taketori Castle who set out on a coming-of-age journey which has led her on this adventure.

She was definitely a very attractive girl with blue eyes and very long black hair with red tips tied in a high ponytail and adorned with a golden headdress.

Her outfit was white and black with gold trimmings; Her arms covered with billowing sleeves that had encircling golden ropes near her shoulders, her legs with stockings and a pair of boots at her feet and over her torso was what resembled a strapless bodycon mini-dress that did little to hide her huge breasts: her unavoidably most noticeable feature.

"Urgh! It's about time!" A shorter girl next to her huffed wearily.

Her name was Suzuka and she was also from Kagura Amahara and a princess as well. But unlike Kaguya, she is an Oni from Megi Castle: a tell-tale feature being the horn and red markings on her forehead.

Also unlike Kaguya, she had a more petite frame with golden eyes, long white hair in a 'hime-cut' and was wearing a black crop-top under a small blue and gold jacket with blowing sleeves, long skirt cut in a way that exposed her legs and hips and tabi-socks with red sandals at her feet.

"We've been adding so many new problems to our worries, we might have forgotten why we came at all." Suzuka continued to rant.

KOS-MOS, the android with light-blue hair whom they encountered in Esmeralda Castle, displayed a rare moment of emotion as she glanced downwards.

"I'm sorry to be a burden." she said remorsefully.

Suzuka quickly turned to her a reassuring smile.

"Oh, I don't mind you at all, KOS-MOS. You're honest, beautiful and strong."

The Oni-Princess then unfurled a fan and covered the lower half of her face while giving a sideways glance.

"If there's anyone here I'd like to toss into the ocean, it'd be the dude with black and white hair and that perverted fox." she muttered.

The people she was referring to were Reiji Arisu and Xiaomu the Mystic Fox Sage (Though she's more of an otaku than anything sagely), they are agents of a peace keeping force called Shinra.

Along with KOS-MOS, they are actually not from the Endless Frontier but from another universe called the 'Substance World'. In the case of KOS-MOS, she is from a different timeline far in the future.

Reiji and Xiamou have had their own experiences in world-crossing hi-jinks and have previously teamed up with various characters from different worlds to battle the Ouma organization.

In fact, it was the pursuit of a certain Were-fox from Ouma that brought them to this world.

"Don't even try it." Reiji said tersely.

"Yeah! I'll launch YOU into the ocean with my patented Xiaomu Suplex!" Xiaomu added with outrage.

"Can we please not fight right now when we're so close to getting home?" Haken sighed.

And of course, there was Haken Browning, the white haired bounty hunter from Lost Herencia who had been on this quest since the beginning. But there was also someone else that had been with him all the way.

Haken glanced back to see Aschen Brodel, a combat android with green eyes and a hair of the same color. She was quite voluptuous looking with metallic silver and purple parts along with skin tight green fabric.

He noticed her looking down with troubled expression on her face and so slowed down to match his walking pace with hers.

"Still thinking about Cardia, Aschen?" he asked.

Aschen blinked, snapping out of her thoughts and then shook her head.

"Not quite, Captain. Do you recall our fight with the Phantom?"

Haken frowned and nodded. The 'Phantom' was their Bounty and one of the reasons they set out on this journey.

Made from outer-worldly tech, it was a "Personal Trooper" type mecha used in the Ten Year War. There were reports of it running amok in both Lost Herencia and Kagura Amahara. After following its trail, they finally encountered it inside a structure on Ziegle Road. Unfortunately, it escaped after they battled but both Haken and Aschen noticed that there was something...off about it.

"Yeah. It was acting kinda weird, wasn't it? That strange symbol on its chest...those robots fighting alongside it had them too."

"They were similar to the androids that were with Cardia." Aschen noted.

Haken sighed for the umpteenth time as he palmed his cowboy hat, hiding his eyes with its brim.

"Didn't the Serena Pirates say that Cardia was chasing after the Phantom? I gotta say, strange things have been going on aside from the usual. Something tells me that this thing is going to be far more than just grabbing a bounty."

The bounty hunter noticed his android companion wearing a troubled expression on her face. It was quite out of character (or out of programming) for her but he understood what she was probably thinking.

The truth was that Haken and Aschen weren't originally from Lost Herencia, Haken was discovered as a baby in a wrecked battleship called the Mia Tierra. It came from another universe and crashed twenty three years ago. Aschen was also found along with him with her memories erased and she had been by his side ever since.

But they both sought to learn about their past and their next lead came from Cardia, another android they have encountered who happens to be the same model type as Aschen. She seemed to know something but she wouldn't tell them but she did drop a keycard when she fled.

Aschen wondered if it had been on purpose.

"Relax, little Cinderella..." Haken said to her reassuringly.

"We're almost there. Once we get back to Lost Herencia, we'll recuperate at the Zeit Krokodil and then head to the Mia Tierra to see where that Level 2 keycard leads us."

Just then Suzuka's voice called out to them loudly.

"Oi, Cowboy! Are you and your uncouth Karakuri joining us or what!?"

The 'uncouth' remark made Aschen glare as a vein on her head throbbed while Haken chuckled.

"Okay Miss Shake-de-hips, we're coming."

The team finally stopped a distance from the floating black ring.

"So that's a Cross Gate, huh?" Reiji remarked.

KOS-MOS suddenly spun around and switched to her combat mode as she spoke in her usual robotic voice.

"Multiple hostiles detected. Battle systems online."

They all turned towards the forest clearing and from behind the trees sprung out a large group of bandits comprising of men and women armed with uzi guns, there were even some Beastmen with them.

Despite the enemies approaching them, the seven heroes didn't seem fazed by the situation.

"Yup. Sure looks like it, probably staging an ambush." Haken said nonchalantly as he pushed up his hat.

Xiaomu grinned as she cracked her knuckles.

"Perfect timing! I'm gonna imagine Princess Horn-head's face on them as I pound their asses!"

"Same here." said Aschen as she put up her dukes.

Kaguya readies herself with her own weapon, a large sword with an intricate handle, gold etchings and multiple moon shaped sickle blades attached along the spine. It was called the 'Goshiki Zankantou'.

"Wow, you've gotten popular all of a sudden Suzuka-chan." she said to her friend in amazement.

"Oh, knock it off!"

After snapping at all of them, Suzuka unfurled two fans with both hands and a large figure materialized before her. It was her personal 'Karakuri' called the Jyaki-GUN-Oh, a horned head blue mecha that was about two, maybe three meters tall. Small long and thin wires shot out from her fan and connected to the large robot, allowing her to control it like a puppet.

"Blow them away, Jyaki-GUN!" she commanded with gusto as she danced and twirled her fans.

The blue mecha moved into action with its forearms opening to reveal gun barrels that opened fire. And with that, the battle began.

Haken exchanged gunfire with one of the bandits using his custom composite rifle "Night Fowl". Another bandit tries rushing him from behind with a machete but Haken parries it with a blade that flips open at the back of the gun like a switchblade before dealing with him in close quarters combat.

Rather than using firearms, Aschen fights like a brawler and engages with several opponents using her kicks and punches, some of which have long reach thanks to her 'Genbu Spike' function which allows her forearms to detach with connected wires.

Reiji engages with a few bandits with not just one weapon but several. In fact, he carries with him a small rack consisting of two Katanas, one powered by fire and the other lightning as well as a shotgun and a magnum. He can handle all these weapons because of his expertise in 'Gogyo Sword Drawing', a fighting style that involves rapidly drawing his weapons and then sheathing them again.

Xiaomu was also armed to the teeth and dealt with her opponents using a combination of her ceremonial sword staff "Suiren" and twin pistols.

For Kaguya, her Zankantou was all she needed to not only slash and bash the two bandits who attacked her but was also able to keep many more of the ruffians at bay with the moon sickles that detached from her sword and spun around her.

KOS-MOS dealt with her aggressors with calculated efficiency using her right arm which morphed into her signature 'F-Blade' and handgun.

In the end, the band of bandits were strewn on the ground, down for the count. But before Haken and co. could rest, more bandits rushed out of the forest clearing. They were of a much larger number than the bunch who were defeated, it was like a literal army.

The heroic seven backed up to each other as they were surrounded.

"Reinforcements!" Reiji called out as he readied himself with his Katanas.

"Dang, I guess they didn't like us what we did to their friends and brought the whole posse along." Haken remarked.

But then, things took an even stranger turn as KOS-MOS suddenly spoke up.

"Dimensional disturbance detected. Unknown objects inbound."

Reiji followed KOS-MOS's gaze towards the sky where he could see that indeed, a number of objects suddenly teleported above them in a flash of light. In that brief moment he could make out that they were large orb-like structures made of dark blackish steel with ridges along the surface like a curled up pill bug.

They fell just behind the bandits, causing them to startle but that was only the beginning of the horror that would come.

Spine-tingling whirrs and clicks sounded out as the orbs immediately unfurled, rearranged and transformed into sinister looking skeletal robots.

Before one of the bandits could even react, his forehead was impaled by a metal stinger connected to a long metal tentacle that was shot out of one of the robot's hand.

Clicking sounds emitted from the machine's skull-like face as it retracted its bloody metal tentacle and with that as a que, the other robots attacked.

The surviving bandits panicked and tried to fight back, unloading their bullets on to them, but their attacks proved ineffective against the metal skeletons and were incinerated by beams shot out of the robot's glowing red eyes.

Reiji's expression went aghast as he saw one by one every bandit being slaughtered by the metallic interlopers.

"What in the world!?" he gasped as he stepped back with his guard up.

"What messed up hentai did these guys crawl out of!?" Xiaomu balked with a grimace.

Like the others, Kaguya was horrified at the sight and nervously held up her sword in defense.

"W-who are those Karakuris?" she asked. "They look different from the ones we've faced."

"Captain! Those symbols!" Aschen pointed out with widened eyes.

Haken saw them as plain as day; the same symbol on the Phantom and those androids they fought were displayed proudly on the chests of skeletal robots. Three glowing discs connected with two lines and arranged in a 'V'.

One of the robots spoke in a cold metallic voice.

"SURRENDER TO BRAINIAC."

Xiaomu scratched her blonde hair while looking at them weirdly.

"Wha? 'Busty-Rack'? Are they talking about you, Kaguya?"

"Get your head out of the gutter, Xiaomu or you'll be getting a spanking!" Reiji scolded.

"Why did I have to be saddled with these odd-balls." Haken sighed as he palmed his face.

The Brainiac Probe that spoke lunged forward but Suzuka reacted quickly and twirled her fans while dancing.

"Jyaki-GUN, Go!" she commanded.

The blue mecha sprang into action and jetted forward to meet the probe by catching by the neck and choke slamming it to the ground. Naturally since it was a larger machine, it was able to overpower the skeletal robot...or at least that's what it seemed: The Brainiac Probe didn't seem phased by this and retaliated by firing its eye-beams while it was held down, striking the mecha on its head and causing it to stagger back.

Through the Probe's analytical vision, it was able to detect the wires connected to Suzuka's fans and so decided to attack to source. The Oni Princess yelped and jumped out of the way, leaping on Jyaki-GUN's shoulders where she commanded it to jet away backwards while firing with its shoulder guns.

Meanwhile, the remaining six heroes scrambled and engaged with their own opponents as more Probes teleported on the site.

KOS-MOS summoned two gatling guns and let loose a volley of gunfire on a few approaching Probes but the bullets ricocheted off their bodies. When they were within range, she switched it up by summoning her 'Dragon Tooth', a long beam saber, to slash at them only for it to be deflected by a powerful force field.

"Advanced Nano-tech. Similar to myself." she mentally noted.

"Here I come! High speed Xiaomu!" Xiaomu cried out as she rode a wave of conjured water.

She would've knocked down a few Probes had they not raised their hands and fired high intensity beams at her, forcing her to abandon her ride.

"Damn. These things at tough!" grunted Reiji as he was struggled with a Probe who was gripping at his Katanas.

Luckily Xiaomu and Suzuka came to his rescue, with Xiaomu blindsiding the bot with an overhead slash and Suzuka's Jyaki-GUN smashing it with its fists.

While this was going on, Kaguya and Aschen found themselves ensnared by two hovering Brainiac Probes who used their metallic tentacles to hold them high in the air.

"YOUR DATA WILL BE ASSIMILATED BEFORE YOUR DELETION." one of the Probes declared.

The tentacles coiled tightly around their bodies, particularly around their breasts and crotch which made them both moan.

The lewd sight caused Xiaomu's nose to bleed.

"Snap out of it, Xiaomu! They need our help!" Reiji yelled.

Unfortunately, more robots intercepted the remaining heroes before they could rush to Kaguya and Aschen's rescue. Haken could only watch helplessly as the stringers readied themselves over the girl's foreheads.

"Damnit! What should we do!?" Haken thought with panicked frustration.

"Not that I'm not worried about their dire situation or anything but has anyone noticed that the Kouki-Mon's acting kinda funny?" asked Suzuka.

The remaining party members looked towards Cross Gate and sure enough, they noticed the whole structure began to vibrate as lightning arced over the blue sphere of energy, like how it had been previously unstable. What KOS-MOS announced next gave an idea why this was happening.

"I'm sensing another Dimensional Anomaly. Stronger than the last one."

BOOOOOOM!

With that thunderous sound, a pulsating funnel-like doorway opened near the Cross Gate, the brightness from it was enough to be almost blinding.

Before anyone's eyes could adjust to it, a large streak of blue, red and yellow smashed against one of the robots and then punched the other one. The blur turned out to be a well-built man in red boots, red cape and a blue suit which had his iconic yellow shield on his chest with an 'S' symbol.

With the two robots blown away, Kaguya and Aschen were dragged along with the stinger/tentacles that wrapped around them but it immediately slacked and caused the two girls to fall towards the ground.

Aschen's fall was broken when she landed what appeared to a Catcher's Mitt made of green light.

"I gotcha!" came a voice.

She looked up to see that the light from the mitt came from a glowing green ring worn by a brown haired man in a green bodysuit and domino mask.

Kaguya screamed as she fell a further distance away with her body facing front side up and the ground rushing to meet her back. But just as she was about to hit the ground, a shadow beneath her dashed to intercept and before she knew it, she was caught.

It happened so fast that Kaguya took a moment to breathe and only then did her mind process that she was she was being carried by a pair of strong arms as if she was a bride in a fairy tale happy ending. The situation made her blush wildly on the spot.

"Are you alright?"

She looked towards the voice but what she saw made her almost gasp in fright. The brightness of the Boom Tube cloaked his face in shadows and all she saw was a pointy eared silhouette with white angular eyes. It honestly scared her a little.

But the scary looking person set her down gently before walking away.

"Get to safety." he said in a deep voice before running to join his comrades, his black scalloped cape trailing behind him as she looked on with slightly parted lips and tinged cheeks.

While this happened, a red and gold streak with trailing yellow lightning zoomed towards where Haken and the rest were blocked off and zig-zaged in between the Brainiac Probes, striking them with punches strong enough to knock them away.

"Scuse me! Pardon me! Coming through...!" the streak said with each robot struck.

When the streak skid to a halt, Haken and co. could see that it was actually a man in red bodysuit, mask with gold ear pieces and an emblem on his chest which had a lightning bolt within a circle.

"Heya, don't mind us." he saluted at them with a smile and then zoomed off towards where the rest of his comrades where.

Haken could see three more people have entered through the pulsing portal: A blonde man in gold and green armor carrying a gold trident, a raven-haired woman in a red torso armor with a gold chest plate, silver bracers and a kind of of blue battle skirt and finally, a young African American man in a complete cybernetic body except for some parts of his face.

What they didn't know was these people were collectively the greatest superhero team of their home universe; Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg. The Justice League.

"Who are these nut jobs!?" Suzuka balked.

"Heh, They kinda remind me Bravoman and Wonder Momo." Xiaomu said with a grin.

"Who?" asked Haken.

Reiji chuckled.

"Long story but believe it not, we've met a whole bunch of people from other worlds who make these guys look normal by comparison."

"I'm wouldn't exactly consult you about what counts as 'normal'." Suzuka sniped.

Before any of them could comment further, more Brainiac Probes teleported in the battle.

"They keep coming, Kal!" Wonder Woman said as she roped a Probe with her lasso and flung it against a few more approaching her.

"I know." Superman responded as he fired his heat vision on one of them. "I've never seen Brainac use this kind of teleportation or manufacture Probes at rates like this."

Aquaman trashed his way through multiple Probes using his strength and skills with the Trident and even used his powers to summon a large fish creature with razor fins from the waters to attack any near the shore. He had been listening in the conversation through their open Comms.

"And Whatever Brainiac wants with this world, it looks like he's pulling all the stops to get it." he said.

Cyborg held his ground by firing his white noise cannon on any robot that rushed towards him.

"Well, we better wrap things up here quick. The tachyon activity is crazy here! We're probably breaking a whole lot of laws of physics just by being here."

Barry Allen, The Flash, continued to zigzag all over the battlefield; attacking and dodging the Probes while looking towards the Cross Gate in fascination.

"I get the feeling it has more to do that machine over there, Victor. It doesn't look very stable."

During that time, Kaguya and Aschen have rejoined their party members and it was then when Reiji spoke up.

"Well, I'm not standing around doing nothing. I say we get back into the fray. You with me, Xiaomu?"

"Aye aye!"

"Might as well." Haken said. "Since our only way back home happens to be in the middle of it."

And with that, the group of seven rushed towards the other group of seven and then split up where each of them paired up a League member; Haken, Reiji and Suzuka laying down cover fire while Xiaomu, KOS-MOS and Aschen helped with close-range attacks. Needless to say that the Leaguers were surprised at the sudden assistance.

Kaguya sought out one particular person and she found him being surrounded by a few Brainiac Probes.

Now that she had a clearer look, she could see that what she thought was his face was instead some kind of mask that covered the top half of his head while the exposed part looked young and clean but his lips were pressed in a grim line. She also took note of his gray armor and the black cape he wore that curtained around his shoulders and hid his arms as he stood battle-ready.

The surrounding robots held their palms towards him with the stingers ready to fire but he didn't look concerned about his predicament. Despite that, Kaguya felt that if she didn't act now he wouldn't stand a chance.

And so with her sword ready, the Princess from Kagura Amahara flipped into a high leap like a gymnast and landed in the ring of robots. Her sudden appearance caught Batman off guard and his white eyes widened in surprise but before he could say anything she made her move.

"Moonlight, become my power. Nanbu Ittouryu technique!"

With a grace swing of her sword, the moon-cutters on its blunt edge detached and spun around her and Batman in blinding speeds. The Probes were not only blitzed by the sharp projectiles but the speed created an actual whirlwind that lifted them in the air.

With his cape fluttering, Batman stared weirdly at the whole thing as Kaguya jumped up the air, the winds pushing her upwards, before slashing at the enemies a few times while flipping her body with elegant kickovers.

Her performance approached its closing climax as the Skeletal robots were gathered in one spot where she then she then raised her sword high, her breasts bouncing in the process...

"Goshiki Zankantou...Aku wa tatsu tsurugi desu."

She said before swinging her blade down hard on them.

"Gekka Bijin!"

Batman jumped out of the way as all the Probes were sent crashing down and drew his cape over his face when the sand was kicked up from the impact.

Kaguya landed a short distance in front of him and then shifted her blue eyes towards him to see him releasing his cape and then regard her with a suspicious look.

"Um,...hi." she greeted bashfully while waving her hand.

Batman didn't respond to her but instead sweeped his sights over the battlefield where he noticed the new group of people fighting alongside them. Seeing them made his eyes narrow as he soundlessly turned around and walked towards Superman who was talking to Haken and Reiji.

It was an action that made Kaguya's expression fall.

"He doesn't seem too friendly." she thought with disappointment.

"You need to leave, It's too dangerous here." Superman said.

Haken grinned as he picked up and tipped his hat towards the Man of Steel.

"Danger is kinda our thing, Mister Blue. Whadaya say we lend each other a hand?"

"We shouldn't let these people get involved with our problems, Superman." Batman said as he approached them with Kaguya trailing behind him.

"No offense, Guy-who-wears-black-devil-hat..." Aschen spoke up.

"But those things attacked us and nearly performed disgusting acts to me and my companion. So they are OUR problem too."

Before Batman could respond, Wonder Woman approached them after dispatching another Brainiac Probe with her sword.

"If you ask me, they look capable and..."

Diana looked back to see more skeletal robots teleporting in the battlefield.

"We could use all the help we could get right now." she finished.

Batman internally groaned. He knew that Diana had a point and plus she always had a final say in team decisions but he didn't feel comfortable about dragging other people into their own messes, he didn't know anything about them and even if they had the best of intentions, he didn't feel right about unnecessarily putting them in danger.

"Alright, but stay close." Superman said as he readied himself.

Reiji took a samurai-like stance with his rack of scabbards held to his hip as his other hand hovered over their handles.

"Roger. Name's Reiji Arisu by the way."

"Superman." the Man of Steel responded with a smile.

"Let's save the introductions for later, guys." Hakken said, reading his Night Fowl.

All fourteen of them dispersed against the robotic army but as valiantly as they fought, the new Probes from Brainiac proved to have better combat abilities and to make matters worse, more were teleporting by the minute.

Even Superman with his godly might wasn't faring any better, the skeletal robots were not only expertly evading him but blasted him with beams of red-sun radiation. It didn't weaken him like Kryptonite did but it nullified enough of his strength to be overpowered.

Unfortunately, before he could recharge with this world's yellow sun, two of the Probes shot out mechanical tentacles from both their palms and wrapped around his arms and neck, holding him in place in mid-air.

"Damn! Brainiac isn't just manufacturing Probes rapidly, he's making them adapt!" Superman thought as he gritted his teeth.

One Probe hovered in front of him with its palm raised and its stinger ready. Although it had no facial expression, its glowing red eyes looked like it was sneering at its prey and it spoke with words that Brainiac particularly programmed in it.

"YOU WILL FALL LIKE ALL THE REST, KRYPTONIAN."

Down below, KOS-MOS was assisting Wonder Woman fight off some of the other Probes with Diana using her Sword and Shield and KOS-MOS using her F-Blade. The blue haired android then noticed above Superman being held and in danger.

She immediately reacted and activated a function which opened a component in her abdomen which drew in energy from the air.

"Charging complete. Disabling auto-safety. Activating X-Buster!"

And with that, she aimed herself towards where Superman was and a barrage of beams fired from her abdomen.

The Probes quickly took noticed and abandoned their intentions by withdrawing their tentacles and scrambled away from the beams. Superman also flew out of the way as soon as he was released.

Unfortunately, the beams hit the swirly blue mass of energy at the center of the Cross Gate.

All hell broke loose after that. The vibrations from the large ring intensified to the point where ground and surrounding water shook with foreboding as lighting shot out like uncaged beasts while the mass of energy grew and engulfed the black ring that housed it, brightening the whole area.

"What the hell is going on!?" shouted Aquaman.

"This is bad! The Cross Gate's gone haywire!" said Haken.

Green Lantern Hal Jordan pointed his ring towards the machine and yelled with urgency.

"Ring, give me an analysis!"

[DIMENSIONAL GATE MALFUNCTION CAUSING RUNAWAY ENERGY BUILD UP. CRITICAL MASS IMMINENT.] the ring responded in his mind.

"Shit!" Hal swore as the white eyes within his domino mask enlarged.

He then raised his ring, which began to from a green protective bubble around him and his companions.

"Everyone huddle up!"

Unfortunately, Hal wasn't able to secure everyone.

TBC