The surface of the Warworld/ Unity Sphere shifted as its frontal segments pulled back, numerous cannons the size of a double-story house extending from beneath its surface.
The barrels shifted and twisted until they were aimed at their target and with a thought, a dozen colossal energy beams were fired at the same point.
The blasts tore through the atmosphere of Earth and impacted the ground within the span of a second, Raven creating a bubble of her aura around the ground just as they felt the impact.
Chris was silent as he observed the gigantic mushroom cloud expanding upward, evaporating the vapor clouds above and eviscerating the ground it struck.
The Titans stared wide-eyed at the devastation in front of them, Chris shutting the beams off with a thought and letting the energy fizzle out.
"M'gann?"
"...Two minds. One is definitely Klarion, but the other one is...hard to place."
"Most likely Queen Bee. Titans, I know I am no longer a hero or a member of the Justice League after the shit I did, but would you guys like to help me apprehend two villains?"
"More than happy to," Kaldur replied and I smiled as the rest of the group nodded. "We let you down once by not fighting to defend your name. Never again shall we be forced to watch, my friend."
"Thank you," Chris replied as Raven dismissed her aura, both him and Wally immediately shooting forward.
"Wally! Go for Klarion!" Chris shouted and the speedster nodded as he sped up, racing down the gigantic crater. The speedster's eyes flickered rapidly as he processed the destruction in the blink of a second, soon focusing on the dome of chaotic energy that began to fade away.
Right at the bottom of the collapsing temple was Klarion, Wally noticing Queen Bee beside him before the Lord of Chaos immediately focused on him.
The air distorted as he went full speed, Klarion's eyes widening as Wally palmed his skull and threw him at a piece of falling rubble at supersonic speeds.
Queen Bee herself looked as if she was stuck and moving by only an inch every few minutes, but Chris flew over the edge and down to the ground as Wally took off after Klarion.
The Kryptonian clone's hands wrapped around her throat as her eyes widening, soon rolling into the back of her head as TTK ripped through her brain and shut it off for a second.
He then let her go and caught her, flying back up as Wally rused up beside him.
"Rae!" Chris called out, tossing the villain to Raven as she caught her and then dropped her unceremoniously to the ground. "Aqualad! Aquagirl! Give me a lot of water with some electricity! Velocity! Tornado! Robin, Artemis, Red Arrow, Arsenal! Fire any flashbangs or supersonic weapons that can disorient them the moment the tornado is formed!"
"Right!" Kaldur grunted with a smirk as he swung his water-batons, unleashing a burst of water before Tula dipped her hands into said water and fired a stream of electricity into it.
The water came down onto Klarion's position as Wally raced around him, containing the electrified water inside of it before the speedster took off as Artemis, Red Arrow and Arsenal fired their supersonic flashbangs into the tornado.
It exploded with a high-pitched shriek, Robin aiming and throwing his bird-a-rangs through the air. They curved through the falling rubble and towards Klarion as his head snapped up, bursting with a bright flash of light that made the Lord of Chaos snarl.
"ENOUGH!" His voice distorted as a pillar of crimson red energy exploded outwards, tearing apart the ground before Klarion rose to his feet.
Sparking red energy rippled from his hands as reality distorted around his form, glaring directly up at Chris who stared back.
"You, my puppet, dare to igno-"
"Shut up," Chris cut him off, making Klarion pause as he tried and failed to find the mental chain in his mind. "It took me going to Mars to get rid of that thing, but man, am I glad I did."
"You believe that you've rid yourself of it? Not in the slightest, little clone," Klarion replied, his gaze fixed on Chris as the two stared at each other. "I was there when the meteors fell on those oversized lizards! I was there when Atlantis sunk to the seas because I did it!
I was there for every important disaster to your insignificant little speck of a planet, child! Do not dare believe that simply going to an inferior race on a red speck of dust beside your own would be enough to remove a spell of my creation!"
"Then, try it," Chris replied, a calm expression on his face as Klarion's eyes blazed with crimson energy. The next moment, Chris felt the chaos lord's hands touching his mind, but with a thought, Klarion flinched when his grasp was pulled away.
The chaos lord looked surprised before he tried once more, the results staying the same as Chris raised an eyebrow.
"You having performance issues there, Klarion? Need some help? I know a wonderful Martian service that will get you up and ready within mere moments."
"Do not insult me, fool," the chaos lord snarled and Chris smiled before he lunged forward. The air exploded behind him as he pulled a fist back, feinting a jab.
Klarion ducked away from it only to catch a leg to his side, Chris continuing with the move and sending him barrelling off to the side.
The lord of chaos impacted a wall, but recovered just as quickly. A sneer adorned his face as he glared at Chris before vanishing with a flash of scarlet, reappearing in front of the Kryptonian with a hand raised that was sparking with chaos energy.
The air distorted and Chris dropped down as reality was ripped open thanks to the large explosion of chaos energy trying to rip him apart.
"Come now, boy. You were so tough before," Klarion spoke with a smug smirk and Chris chuckled as the control helmet to the Warworld activated.
"Find his anchor," Chris commanded as he activated the inter-planetary scanner before skating through the air with his fist raised.
Ducking to the side, Klarion caught a scorching hot blast of green flames from Koriand'r before Chris moved in, ducking under his grab while delivering a sharp uppercut.
The blow snapped his head back as Chris threw a haymaker, impacting his jaw again and leaning to the left.
As he did, M'gann rushed in and threw a heavy hook, knocking him back right as several arrows impacted his body. The following series of explosions obscured his body from view, but only for a moment before Raven's aura burst through it and pushed him out.
Chris lunged forward as Kaldur leapt from the ground, his water tendrils pinning the lord of chaos' hands to his side as a TTK-enhanced chop tore into Klarion's neck.
The Lord of Chaos wheezed as the air was pushed back into his lungs, but Chris was not done as he lifted his fists above his head and swung down.
The blow cracked onto Klarion's skull and sent him spiralling towards the ground, the chaos lord impacting the ground with a deafening boom.
The world then slowed to a snail's crawl as a sparking yellow figure raced through the dust, Wally sliding to a stop in front of the lord of chaos with a smirk.
With a grunt, his body blurred as he delivered hundreds of punches in the blink of an eye, each aimed at his upper body before, with a final kick, he pulled back and raced back up to the others.
The moment he stopped, Klarion's body convulsed as the blows impacted him all within the same second, the final blow to his chest rocketing him back with a spiral.
He bounced across the ground and burst through a large boulder, but it was not moments later that reality was dyed a blood red as a snarl came from him.
"You...have irritated me for the last time, children," A raspy voice whispered, a clawed hand tearing through the rubble and blasting it away with a simple swing.
Klarion's form was obscured by an ever-changing sheet of crimson energy, his limbs twitching sporadically as a pair of dark horns protruded from his skull.
"Rae, you're up," Chris spoke and Raven floated closer, her eyes a pure white and she took off her hood to reveal the glowing red crystal in her forehead.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos."
"Tenalp siht etacidare (Eradicate This Planet)," The group's vision went for a moment before even the red vanished, revealing the world having no colour other than black with everything having white outlines.
The only source of colour was Klarion's true form as chaos energy ate at everything in its vicinity, but it was kept contained thanks to Raven's own magic clashing with it.
"Anchor Found," Chris felt the Unity Sphere's response and immediately locked onto the coordinates, taking a quick scan of the area and finding no sign of life for the next three hundred miles.
"Choose the best weapons and eradicate it."
"Affirmative. Activating inter-planetary city destroyer missiles. Activating anti-teleportation field," Chris could feel it as he looked up, sensing the numerous drones and missiles being fired from the Unity Sphere.
"Rae! Two seconds!" Chris shouted, Raven nodding as she raised her arms to the side before bringing them in. Klarion gritted his teeth at that and forced his magic out as well, but his eyes widened as he felt his connection to his familiar being cut off.
"Hey, Klarion!" Chris shouted, grinning at the baleful glare the lord of chaos gave him. "See ya."
The moment he finished speaking, Klarion let out a pained scream as Chris felt the missiles impact their target. He watched as the Lord of Chaos' energy weakened considerably and for the first time, he enjoyed the look of unadulterated fear on Klarion's face when Raven's magic wrapped him in a cocoon.
"Begone!" Raven growled in a distorted voice as she clapped her hands together and they watched as the cocoon collapsed in upon itself. With a soft sigh of exhaustion, Raven pulled her energy back and colour returned to the world.
For a moment, there was no sound other than that of the hole slowly filling in, Chris rubbing Raven's back as she threw up her hood to hide the tired expression on her face.
"Where'd you send him?"
"My father's been feeling a bit lonely," she replied in turn and Chris kept his surprise from his face as he nodded.
Sending Klarion to be Triton's personal plaything? Oh, he wouldn't wish that on his worst enemy.
'Wait, Klarion is my worst enemy. ...Eh, he deserved it,' As he finished that thought, Chris looked up just in time to see Flash stopping in front of them, his head a blur as he looked at them all and then the crater.
"...Klarion?"
"Somewhere we won't have to worry about him," Raven replied and Flash paused at her words. However, he didn't say anything back and simply nodded.
A moment later, the man was gone along with the unconscious form of Queen Bee beside Wally, but Chris narrowed his eyes at the card that appeared in his hand.
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Watch-Tower. Same code. Fifteen minutes.
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'That's Bats' handwriting,' he thought, tearing the card apart to atoms with his TTK before looking to the group as they all looked at him.
"What did they want?" Robin asked and Chris shrugged as he crossed his arms.
"For me to be at the Watch-Tower in fifteen," Chris replied and everyone other than Raven, Koriand'r and M'gann were surprised by the spaceship that appeared from thin air above their heads.
"You mind if we tag along? You kind of destroyed our jet in the chaos."
"Eh, sure. I don't mind," Chris replied and Wally looked excited as he was the first inside of the ship, Chris waiting a few moments before he laughed at the speedster being shot back out.
"You tried to use the controls, didn't you?"
"...Let me guess, only you can use them?" Wally asked, letting out a groan when Chris nodded. The Kryptonian then turned to everyone else, all but Red Arrow and Arsenal nodding in agreement.
"I have things to do, but we'll catch up later. Clone to clone."
"Wouldn't mind that. Arsenal?"
"Don't want to. That and I want to enjoy my time out," the archer replied with a shrug, making Chris chuckle at his words.
"Well, at least let us give you a lift to a city. Everyone else, get on board."
"I won't say no to that," he replied and Chris nodded before turning to M'gann.
"I just got a message from my brother. They have successfully captured the villains and every member of the Light."
"Since when is M'gann so...formal?" he heard Artemis whisper and shook his head as he saw M'gann giving a smug smirk.
"That is because I am now his girlfriend so I have to act as the girlfriend to the ruler of the Warworld."
"Unity Sphere," Chris corrected, M'gann nodding with a smirk as everyone else looked between the two.
"You two are finally dating?"
"Yeah, and all it took is me losing every bit of mental clarity I had. Who knew?" Chris joked with a smirk, walking onto the ship with the girls following closely after.
"Wait, but what's the Unity Sphere or Warworld or whatever it is you guys call it?" Tula asked and Chris just peeked out for a moment before pointing up, everyone looking up at the moon-like structure in question.
"...You're telling me that that's yours?!" Robin exclaimed, Chris giving a thumbs-up as he walked back into the ship. "Oh no! We have so much more to talk about!"
"Sure, Robin. Fire away."
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'All of my allies, gone the very second he appears,' Vandal Savage thought with a frown as he sat inside of his office. In front of him were his various monitors, all filled with information of the Light's systematic arrests as well as the arrests of those in cahoots with them.
As he expected, even with allies that he considered good enough, they could not follow the simple procedures he had in place to make sure that their victory was swift and efficient.
'That fool Klarion is banished, Queen Bee, Ra's al Ghul and Brain are now in a prison on the Watchtower never to see the light of day again and Luthor is dead. That leaves just myself to pick up the pieces,' he thought, folding his hands in front of his face.
Project Krypton was now in full rebellion against them and given that the Light has been reduced to just him, it appears that he will have to continue with the more dangerous countermeasures.
Tapping a button on his desk, the sound of a phone ringing echoed only once before it was picked up, the monitor in front of him twisting to show an elderly woman with white hair and dark skin.
"Father? Is there a reason for your call?"
"There is, Olympia. Give Cassandra my novel and continue with Project Insight."
"Understood," she replied, the call ending before he pressed another button. The large monitors on the side sunk into the walls before lifting up into the ceiling.
Vandal pushed off of his desk and walked into the centre of the room, glancing at the seven figures that walked out towards him before they fell to a knee.
"Let's begin Operation Injustice."
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In the vast cosmos of space laid a singular planet. Its surface was a barren wasteland, fire pints spreading across vast areas while the only notable structure was a gigantic castle that overlooked rivers of lava.
Stood atop the largest of the castle's balconies stood two figures, the first being the most notable as he towered over the other with an imposing figure.
His skin was a dark red and his eyes an even brighter crimson, dressed in a simple blue tunic with black accents and a belt around his waist.
Stood behind him was a humanoid figure with pale skin and sunken red eyes, the right side of his face deformed as he wore a purple hooded robe with a metallic neck covering.
"And your information is accurate, Desaad?"
"Yes, Master. Godfrey confirmed it himself," Desaad replied with a frown. "Your long-time nemesis, Vandal Savage, has lost to this youngling and has even recruited the help of weaker men to fight."
The large figure didn't say anything as he continued looking out before nodding.
"Call Goodness and inform her that she and her Furies are to pay a visit to Vandal Savage. Should he refuse, inform him that I will give him one last chance to prove himself worthy of the war between us two."
"As you command, Master Darkseid," Desaad spoke with a bow, shuffling off while Darkseid continued to look out into the cosmos of void.
'I have let you live time and time again. Do not disappoint me with your weakness, Savage.'
A/N: And we end it off here~!! Vandal is making the final moves while a new contender shows up for the next arc.
Next chapter: Compensation.
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Ba-Bye~!!