Lotus: The Waterbender Far Away From Home

Chapter 8

It was night time on the Watchtower, well as much as night it could be in space. Ura was still walking around the halls of the fortified floating building. The light was dimmed, with no one in the building except for Ura and a few other Leaguers, some were being transported back to Earth using the Zeta tubes, leaving Ura and Martian Manhunter on call/watch if an emergency were to ever occur. 

It was only supposed to be Martain Manhunter on watch, but Ura wasn't feeling like sleep due to the frightful spirit world travels. The dark presence in the spirit world made it impossible to contact Iroh or other peaceful spirits, it has been haunting her as Ura doesn't know how to get rid of the dark presence. 

Martian Manhunter himself felt the darkness that immits around Ura, but doesn't question it. It was hard to look into her mind as Ura had strong mental barriers built up. It was as she was stuck in something that he can't logically explain. 

After exchanging greetings, both had started to turn in different directions, when something that emitted eye-spiking brightness made its presence known, which caused Ura to go blinded temporaily. On the otherhand, Martian Manhunter was already in alert, having to reach his ear comms to contact the other Leaguers but was replied with static. There was an interference with the network on the Watchtower. With the bright light emitting of the unknown thing would usually be an angel right? No, not in this case at all...this was a villan. The eyes of the red and glowing destruction, its body massive and muscular in size. 

On the side, Martian Manhunter glowered with eyes widened at the unknown personal. Softly speaking, "Darkseid".

Ura temporaily blinded recovered from the bright light, to hearing Manhunter's voice, "Darkseid".  Ura had only read up "Darkseid" from the League's files, as she wanted to know more of the world's villans and heroes, well the world itself. She knew Darkseid was to be feared, as this person was able to bring so much destruction and pain to the people on Earth. This was going to be a intense fight, Ura knew, there was only Manhunter and her onboard the Watchtower. When the thought occured to her to contact other Leaguers, it was quickly diminshed by the bad news Manhunter brought to her. They had no backup and no help, they were alone to fight Darkseid until other Leaguers found it suspicious. Hopefully Batman would figure it out sooner than later. 

Manhunter and Ura were both in a fighting stance ready for Darkseid to attack, until Darkseid's gaze quickly turned towards Ura who didn't have a mask on. "Who are you?"

Ura scowfully replied "No one of your interest". She quickly gathered water in the air, which wasn't alot due to the fact their wasn't a big enough water source near her and aimed it towards Darkseid freezing his body entirely, quickly shifting gear to run out of sight with Manhunter following suit, they knew this wasn't going to be a winning battle. Both had thought the same, distract Darkseid long enough that the other Leaguers would start to suspect something is happening in the Watchtower. 

If it wasn't suspicios enough, it was only Darkseid, just him. And oh nevermind....things just turned worse for their situation. New bright light emitted throughout the hall, as new soldiers were coming through them.

Ura asked Manhunter in the shadows "Is there a big water source in this building?" 

Manhunter replied "Yes, there is one below this floor. What are planning to do with it?" 

"What I do best, fight."