[DC Opening Credits]
[Radio transmission sound]
[The DC Films Logo plays as usual but this time, at the end of that logo, the background changes from blue to an orange "omega" symbol. Throughout the logo, a New Genesisian is reporting a distress signal.]
New Genesisian PA: This is the New Genesisian refugee vessel Statesman. We are under assault, I repeat, we are under assault - The engines are dead, life support failing. Requesting aid from any vessel within range. We are 22 jump points out of New Genesis. [The voice becomes more desperate and pleading] Our crew is made up of New Genesisian families, we have very few soldiers here. This is not a warcraft. I repeat, this is not a warcraft! [The ship is being hit by missiles.]
[Inside the ship, DeSaad walks among the bodies of dead New Gensisians. Orion, badly wounded, reaches out as if he would stop DeSaad as he passes, but lacks the strength. DeSaad steps over them with no mind as he speaks, as if they were scattered pieces of dirty clothing on a bedroom floor.]
DeSaad: Hear me, and rejoice. You have had the privilege of being saved by the Lord of Apokolips....
DeSaad: You may think this is suffering...no. It is salvation.
DeSaad: Universal scales tip toward balance because of your sacrifice.
DeSaad: Smile...
[Corvus Glaive stabs one of the lingering Asgardians.]
DeSaad:...for even in death, you have become Servants of Darkseid.
[Martian Manhunter spots Darkseid's Elite. He watches Darkseid, shrouded in darkness and light, looking out the large window we saw at the end of Superman: Exile.]
Darkseid: I know what it's like to lose.
Darkseid: To feel so desperately that you're right...yet to fail, nonetheless.
[He lifts Superman by the neck of his breastplate, the latter struggling feebly.]
Darkseid: It's frightening. Turns the legs to jelly.
Darkseid: I ask you, to what end?
Darkseid: Dread it...run from it...destiny arrives all the same.
Darkseid: And now, it's here. Or should I say...I am.
[Darkseid holds up his hand to reveal the Infinity Gauntlet, which already hosts the violet Power Stone.]
Superman: [Now being held by Darkseid with one huge hand wrapping around his head; blood drools from his mouth] You talk too much.
Darkseid: [To Martian Manhunter] The Mother Box, or the Kryptonian's head. I assume you have a preference.
[Darkseid's Elite heft their weapons or smirks, as appropriate.]
Martian Manhunter: I'm sorry, Clark...
[Darkseid' face expresses surprise briefly before firing his Omega Beams at Superman's left temple. The Omega Beams had a hard time penetrating Superman, who eventually screamed.]
[Martian Manhunter starts to lose his cool demeanor almost immediately as Superman suffers, and breaks after only a few moments.]
Martian Manhunter: No! I'll give it to you!
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Justice League: Final Crisis (Avengers: Infinity War style)
ActionThis story draws elements from Avengers: Infinity War, Final Crisis, Darkseid War, and Zack Snyder's cancelled Justice League 2. After Identity Crisis, the Justice League were left divided and scattered, but a new threat arrives in the form of Darks...