Justice League V: Eclipse

Chapter Sixteen: New Metropolis

New Metropolis, 5/9/18, 10:14 PM

Diana raised her gauntlets at the monster relentlessly attacked her. It was nonstop, the attacks, the fighting, all it wanted was to kill. 

"I could really use some backup!" Diana pleaded, but her comms weren't picking any signals up. Everything was down, "Please!" She grabbed the monster's arm and forced her elbow down, but the creature's skin was too tough. It reared around throwing Diana into a concrete wall. It charged at her now with its spikes ominously gleaming in the city lights, but suddenly it stopped as a red flash appeared surrounding it.

"Barry?" Diana asked slowly standing, but she watched as the creature was hit by a blue plasma blast. She looked up as Blue Beetle flew in as well with her maces ready to slam into the creature, but suddenly the monster let loose another heat vision blast hitting the speedster directly sending him flying away and Blue Beetle's maces were caught by the monster's massive hands. It brought her in close slamming its fist down on her head knocking her to the ground unmoving.

"NO!" Diana screamed, but the monster was again hit back by a green train construct from Kyle Rayner. He flew in landing next to Diana.

"Don't worry Wonder Woman, we've got this." He smiled, but Diana shook her head.

"This isn't a game, you know that." She scolded him for his overconfidence and suddenly the monster flew at them smashing Diana to the side and knocking Kyle up into the air. Kyle turned to raise his ring, but the monster caught him again and threw him down into the ground landing on him as well. Doomsday raised its arm forming a massive spike readying to use it on Kyle, but the creature was hit by a slab of rock smashing it against the nearby skyscraper. Terra landed by Kyle along with Kid Devil, M'gann, Cassie, Supergirl, and Aquagirl.

"So this is my backup." Diana noted moving over to them, she felt herself weakened by Doomsday, but she had to keep going for the kids' sake, "Be careful kids."

"We're not kids anymore, Diana. You should go help the rest of the League!" M'gann shot back turning towards Doomsday as it emerged, "Team." She smiled gazing at her friends standing beside her, "Let's do this."

***

"Guys!" Shazam yelled as he flew above the wreckage of the Argus headquarters, "We have a problem here!" He watched as the Kryptonians flew towards the wreckage, "Zod and the other Kryptonians are going for the staff!" He saw the staff laying dormant in the middle of the rubble.

"The Team is preoccupied, I can't leave them to fight Doomsday!" Diana's voice yelled through the commlink, "Leaguers, converge on Shazam's position and retrieve the staff at all costs!"

 Shazam flew downwards towards the wreckage as the Kryptonians flew down landing across from him. The staff lay between the two sides. Zod, Faora, and Non all landed in a line, Nam-Ek and Quex-Ul were both in handcuffs within the Phantom Zone already. Now only three more remained.

"Give us the staff and escape with your life!" Zod yelled to Shazam, "You can live to fight another day!"

"I doubt you'd let me escape alive." Shazam closed his eyes and clenched his fists, "You're not getting the staff, and if you do, it'll be over my cold dead body."

"So let it be then." Zod smiled and glanced at Non. Non smiled and turned towards Shazam, but before he moved their eyes glanced up. Shazam looked up in confusion as he saw a lightning strike coming down, but it wasn't his. The lightning strike revealed itself to be Black Lightning landing to the left of Shazam.

"Billy!" He smiled putting his hand on Shazam's shoulder, "I have some unfinished business with this man here." He pointed his finger towards Non, "Leave him to me."