Injustice 3: Rings War (Book 2)

Chapter 49: A Common Goal

The Man:

I stare at where the boom tube was. Where it was.

"I can't believe it," I think, "I can't believe it. Kara is gone. Darkseid, you bastard. You're not going away with this."

As I keep staring, I realize something a second later. I'm flying in space.

"Shoot. I hate flying."

I materialize a platform beneath and dropdown. With my feet back on solid ground, I eye the leftover parademons. Despite Darkseid being gone, they're still here, attacking the green lanterns. Neither the parademons nor the lanterns have noticed me. At least, not yet.

Raising the red ring, I focus my anger on a swarm of parademons. My anger causes the ring to glow brighter than the sun. I can feel the heat coming off the ring as more and more energy filled it.

"Boom," I say, tapping my thumb against the finger. The red ball of rage shoots it, flying through space until it reaches the fight with the lanterns and the parademons. Ripping and going right through a few parademons, it reached the center of the battlefield before exploding. All of space turns bright red as the red sun explodes, destroying and incinerating the parademons, leaving behind only little bits of ashes.

As the red fades and the space returns to being black, the green lanterns soon realize that the parademons are gone. While they search for answers to what happened, I take this opportunity to turn and run away.

Summoning one platform after another, I stop and instead summon a hoverboard. Jumping off of the final platform and onto the hoverboard, I fly back toward the Rusted.

"Darkseid had Kara," I tell myself, "No doubt he's taking her to Apokolips."

As I think about Apokolips, I can't help but imagine all the horrible things Darkseid could be doing to Kara right now.

"No," I yell, stopping and slamming my hands against my head. "No. Don't. Don't focus on that. Focus on how you can save her."

As I start to breathe in and out, I see the glow on the red ring lessens. I swallow a sudden lump in my throat and shake my head.

"Focus on how I can save Kara," I repeat to myself. "Yeah right. Even with helps from the others, there's no way we can fight against Darkseid and his apparently endless army of demons. Oliver. Snart. Reyes. They're strong, but not Darkseid strong. What to do? What to do?"

I adjust my sunglasses as I fly through outer space.

"I can't do that, but what other options do we have?"

I'm still sorting through the limited options when I see a yellow dot also flying through outer space. Stomping on the end of my hoverboard, I look at the dot as it seems to be flying to Oa for some reason.

"A yellow dot," I think. Sending back my hand, I summon a red telescope and use it to look. As I thought, it's not a comet or a rogue asteroid. It's Superman. Seeing Superman, a red lightbulb forms over my head.

Superman:

Flying as fast as I can toward Oa, I start to see the planet but before I can fly any further, a red wall forms in front of me and stops me. Almost flying right into it, I examine the wall and recognize it immediately.

"A red ring," I say, bringing up my yellow ring. "Atrocitus."

I look around for the red lantern but instead, I find him.

"You," I say, pulling back my yellow ring and shooting it forward. A yellow beam fire out but The Man in the Sunglasses uses a red ring to block it. Summoning forth another red wall, The Man shields himself.