Cherry and Atticus: Crisis on Two Earths

chapter 5

Meanwhile, Owlman, Johnny Quick, Lady Sunshine, and Owl-Mite were hard at work with Owlman's plan, though it was mostly Johnny and Owl-Mite who were workinG though, Owl-Mite didn't mind doing slave labor as long as it kept Lady Sunshine happy. Lady Sunshine jumped out to fight Superwoman as she came by, only to be tossed aside like a piece of trash.

"Aren't you supposed to be helping?" Owlman asked Superwoman without looking.

"I am helping," Superwoman smirked. "I'm improving the ambiance."

"In one way, that's what I'm planning to do," Owlman said as he faced her. "After all, what good is a bomb if you don't detonate it?"

"You never had any intention of using the QED for blackmail," Superwoman said as she leaned toward him seductively. "You're going to use it to kill everybody."

"What if I am?" Owlman replied calmly.

"Just tell me," Superwoman prompted. "Why?"

"Why not?" Owlman shrugged a bit.

"I'm serious," Superwoman told him before she backed off a bit. "I'm a murdering psychopath. It's part of my charm."

"I do find it attractive." Owlman said.

"What?!" Lady Sunshine called out.

"But you never make a move without a reason," Superwoman said to Owlman. "Why would you want to destroy the world?" she then asked.

"Because it's the only action one could take that would have any purpose." Owlman replied.

"You lost me there." Lady Sunshine shrugged as Superwoman seemed to feel just as confused.

"Every decision we make is meaningless, because somewhere, on a parallel Earth, we have already made the opposite choice," Owlman explained to them as he showed a map of the planet Earth, among other Earths besides their current one. "We're nothing. Less than nothing."

"How can you say that?" Lady Sunshine asked.

"We're rich. We're conquerors." Superwoman added.

"And here we're poor. We're slaves," Owlman replied as he pointed throughout the numerous different Earths. "And here, our parents never met, so we were never born. Here, the world ended in Nuclear War. Here, no fish was ever brave enough to crawl up on land and humans never evolved. And so on, ad infinitum."

"So even if you destroy the world, there are a billion others, right?" Superwoman asked him.

"I think Owlman is speaking my language," Shocky Boy grinned as he appeared on the scene, startling both Lady Sunshine and Owl-Mite. "What difference would it make?"

"Yes. Somewhere in the multiverse, there is a world I call Earth-Prime," Owlman added. "Every Earth is a variation of this one, the original. And once I destroy it, all reality will follow."

"But why do you want to destroy the world?" Lady Sunshine asked Shocky Boy.

"I want to divide and conquer just because I'm smart enough to, unlike you, Little Miss Sunshine who has a brain as smart as a bucket of mud." Shocky Boy smirked as he pinched her cheek.

"Hands off." Owl-Mite glared at Shocky Boy.

"Are you gonna make me?" Shocky Boy smirked. "Somebody put a pig in an owl suit."

Owl-Mite glared before using his magic on Shocky Boy. Shocky Boy smirked as he used his powers back against Owl-Mite.

Owl-Mite yelled out as that seemed to hurt him.