ISSUE #8 (June 2018)
Written by John Cheese Featuring: Mister Twister
Killer Croc
Mayfly
Fatality
Neutron
Green Lantern
Wonder Woman
Batman
Onomatopoeia
Martian Manhunter
Hawkman
Flash
Green Arrow
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"THE FINAL PUSH"“Your enemies are at the gates, you need to act now or Kal-El won’t be the last member of the Justice League to fall to the Legion!” Hawkman called as he watched Diana, John and Bruce bicker about their response to Mister Twister’s ultimatum. Unheard he turned away to face Onomatopoeia, the villain snickering to himself as he watched the chaos erupt around him.
“It’s clear we need to sally forth and put an end to the Legion once and for all!” Diana yelled as Carter placed his hand on the reinforced glass of his cell. “Perhaps but we’re not at full strength in both numbers or body.” John replied as the Flash skidded down into the room and looked at his fighting teammates. “Perhaps the reserve initiative could be put into place.” “There’s not enough time.” Batman replied as Carter slammed his fist into the glass separating him from Onomatopoeia. “We need to act quickly; this building can take the storm force winds but the pressure sensors are picking up a destabilisation of the ground under the foundations.” “Uh guys.” Barry gulped as Carter broke through the glass and grabbed Onomatopoeia dragging him through the glass. “Not now Barry!” Diana, John and Bruce yelled as Carter unfurled his wings and slammed Onomatopoeia into the ceiling, the tiles buckling. “Can we defeat them with the numbers we have?” John asked as Carter burst through the roof dragging his prey with him. “Fatality, Neutron and Tar Pit are all heavy hitters.” “Guys.” Barry sighed as he gestured to the now empty cells. “What Barry!” Batman snapped as he followed Barry’s outstretched hand to where Carter had been. “We need to go now, before Carter gets himself clear.” He added as Diana and John turned to look at their missing comrade. “We can come back to the issue of the League’s future once we’re done, assuming we come back at all.” “Here they come.” Killer Croc snarled as he hefted the M230 Chain Gun into a firing position and took a deep sniff from the air. Almost as if conjured up the Hawkman appeared and threw his ad-hoc missile at the Legion of the Doom forcing them to scatter as Onomatopoeia hit the ground hard with a half uttered <BANG> before falling unconscious. In the few seconds it took the Legion to recover Carter had taken the fight to them, tackling the Red Witch and knocking her aside before turning on Mister Twister, the armoured villain taking flight to get some range between him and his attacker only to be dragged back to the ground with a slam. “You wanted to take on the Justice League!” Carter roared as Mayfly sped towards him and dragged him off Mister Twister, only for her target to dig his heels in and flip her over onto her back in a single violent movement. “You wanted to kill Superman!” He hissed as Neutron blasted Carter, the Nth metal feathers on his wings igniting and giving him a terrifying appearance as he turned on the long-time Superman foe. “Thanagarian, leave these scavengers and fight a true warrior!” Fatality yelled as she slashed out with her pole-axe, the blade cutting through Hawkman’s chest. Roaring in anger, Carter took to the air and divebombed Fatality, forcing her to flip acrobatically away from her attacker, the tip of her axe looping round his leg as she pulled him to the ground. “You will pay for those you killed today!” Carter snapped, his anger magnified with every blow he took. “There will be blood!” “And it will be yours my love!” The Red Witch purred as she extended her own blood-stained wings and summoned up a scimitar. Rising the blade up for a killer blow she brought the blade down, only for a hawk of green energy to swoop down and snatch the blade away from her. Circling overhead, the Legion saw the League spring into action and those that could opened fire. Unfortunately, they had all taken their eyes off Hawkman and with a bone chilling scream he unfurled his burning wings and soared up into the skies, knocking those closest to him off their feet. “Surender now and tell me who put you up to this!” Batman snarled as the League moved in on the Legion of Doom. “Yeah like we’d tell you that!” Tar Pit wheezed as he ignited the road and began to melt the tarmac, forcing those League members on the ground to abort their attacks ang get to higher ground. “It wouldn’t do you much good anyway.” He added as Mister Twister sent a wall of wind to stall the flying attackers long enough for his team members to recover. “We’re doing this for ourselves!” He snarled as a crack of lightning lit up the sky. “Then we’ll see how well you can talk when you all have broken jaws!” Batman snarled as he threw a salvo of Batarangs down at the Legion as the Red Witch reached out with her powers and turned the projectiles into living bats that immediately arched round and swarmed him giving the Legion time to scatter and pick their preferred partners in battle. “Lantern, you will pay for the death of my world like the rest of your corrupt order!” Fatality roared as she leapt up-towards John Stewart only for a golden lasso to wrap round the alien warrior’s neck cutting her strike short. “You and I have unfinished business.” Diana stated as she flew back into the building, dragging Fatality behind her through the rubble and splinters of destroyed brick and plasterboard. “Yes, I believe we do.” Fatality stated as she stabbed her pole-axe blade first into the floor, the sudden inertia of the stop causing Diana to slam face first into the concrete floor. “You may have taken one trophy from me but you supplied something great in return.” Fatality hissed as she began to reel Diana back towards her with the lasso, her free hand reaching for her blaster pistol. Firing a quick salvo of shots, she watched as Diana intercepted the blasts before tugging back on the lasso until it went taunt round Fatality’s neck. “You can’t win!” Diana growled only to see Fatality smile in response as she flipped her pole axe round and used the blade to tug Diana off balance before delivering a brutal strike with the pommel of her weapon. “I already have!” Fatality hissed as she grabbed Diana by the hair and threw her through one of the walls before shucking the lasso from around her neck and coiling it round her wrist. “You can have this back.” She stated as she threw the ear on a chain after Wonder Woman. “This is a far better trophy by far.” Barry Allen knew he might be the fastest man on Earth, but Mayfly through some means was outrunning him by a good twenty miles per hour. Darting left towards the canal Mayfly turned around and fired an entire clip of quantum rounds at him, the bullets glowing purple before vanishing ready to strike again at some random time and angle. “Having fun, I know I am!” Mayfly called as she ran up the side of a building with Barry in hot pursuit. Reaching the roof Barry saw Mayfly leap off back towards the Justice League Headquarters. Following her Barry felt the wind pick up as a downdraft slammed him into the road. “Oh, I am!” Tar Pit wheezed as the tarmac under where Barry had fallen came alive and began to smother him, fire licking at his face. “I’m not.” Barry coughed as he began to vibrate his molecules and phased out of the sticky tomb before being sucker-punched as Tar Pit jabbed him in the face before he could start running again. “If you wanted to be in a gang couldn’t you have just joined Snart and his Rouges rather than people who actually wanted to kill me.” “I could have.” Tar Pit howled as Barry ran away from his foe only for a sticky web of tar to erupt from his mouth and nose anchoring him to the ground. “But I decided to stick around!” He added as walls of tar rose up around the anchored speedster and began to cave in around the Flash, effectively entombing him. “We’ve tried this before, we know it doesn’t work!” Barry spluttered as he tried to phase out of his prison. “Fun fact, with my tar inside you it effectively phases with you.” Tar Pit announced as his face appeared inside the tar bubble Barry was trapped in. “You’re about to become a permanent addition to Hub City.” Mayfly streaked past where Batman was fighting Killer Croc before coming to a stop to admire her handiwork as the purple sheathed quantum bullets emerged back into reality and impacted with the Dark Knight’s body armour, the energised rounds setting the armour plating alight. Disengaging from his current battle Batman ejected the damaged sections of his bat-suit before standing defiantly as Killer Croc glowered at him. “Gotham wasn’t enough for you Croc?” Batman asked as Croc opened fire with his M320, the rounds causing his target to scatter. “Ain’t about power Bat, it’s about what you were planning.” Croc grunted as he rotated, keeping the Dark Knight in his gun sights as Batman leapt to shelter behind some rubble. “And to go behind your allies, backs that was low almost criminal.” “I know right!” Green Arrow stated as he popped up from one of the balconies and fired an arrow into the M320, the arrow head breaking off inside the chain mechanism and causing the gun to jam. Spinning round and throwing the weapon like a shotput Croc watched as the Emerald Archer shot the weapon out of the sky before turning back to see that Batman had covered the gap and felt the punch delivered into his jaw. “I’ll get to you in a minute boy!” Croc snarled as he swung at Batman with one hand, forcing the Dark Knight to give him the room he needed to draw the machete sheathed at his waist. “Why wait a minute.” Mayfly buzzed as she charged Green Arrow and snatched his quiver away from him before speeding towards where Neutron was blasting the Martian Manhunter with radiation. “I have party favours, one for you.” She announced as she jabbed an incendiary arrow into the Manhunter’s back, the projectile exploding and liquifying his form. Heading inside the now ruined auxiliary Hall of Justice she jammed an arrow into Diana’s forehead, the electrical discharge causing her to convulse in pain as it detonated “One for you.” She stated as she headed upstairs and leapt up at Hawkman just as he was delivered a brutal punch to Mister Twister. “One for you.” She added as the sonic arrow let out a screech that sent both combatants falling to the floor. “Audio off.” Mister Twister ordered his armour as he took advantage of the situation and fired a burst of lightning at Hawkman before following Mayfly’s progress as she headed towards where Tar-Pit had imprisoned the Flash. “One for you.” Mayfly stated as she phased through Tar-Pit and dropped an inertia arrow at Barry’s feet, the gravitational waves causing him to collapse to the floor. “And finally, two for you.” Mayfly finished as she ran past Green Arrow and slashed an inch-deep gash across his left cheek down to his mouth with his own arrow. “I really am having a…ugh!” Before she could finish a green tripwire snaked out in front of her and sent her tumbling into the canal. “You’d be the only one.” Green Lantern sighed as he spun round and summoned up a green boxing glove as Onomatopoeia went to stab him with a shard of glass. “And I’ve had enough of you.” He added as Neutron used the opportunity to blast his exposed back with high energy radiation, the discharge forcing him to his knees. Before Neutron could land the killing blow another John Stewart swept down at him, only for a golden length of lasso to loop round his leg as Fatality dragged him to the floor. “Keep on the Martian, I have the Lantern!” Neutron ordered as tumours erupted on one of the Stewart’s face and his skin turned pale as he transformed back into the Martian Manhunter, his head alight with golden fire. “His ring is mine!” Fatality hissed as Killer Croc sunk his machete into Batman’s cape, the fabric ripping as its owner twisted and escaped. “I think that’s clear.” Mister Twister buzzed as he threw Hawkman to the floor. “Is this all of them?” “The Amazon is missing.” Fatality snarled as the golden flame engulfed the Martian Manhunter’s body until he fell unconscious, drool leaking from the corners of his mouth. “And the Bat and Archer are still standing.” She added as Killer Croc managed to grab Batman by the leg and slam him into the ground before tossing him skywards. “Not for long.” Neutron stated as he fired a radiation blast at Batman, the Dark Knight’s smoking body plunging into the canal as Mayfly pulled herself up out of the water and quickly injected herself with a syringe before spinning at superspeed to dry herself off. “Mayfly, find the Amazon and bring her out on her knees!” Mister Twister ordered as he summoned a tornado round Green Lantern’s head. Cockily saluting him, Mayfly darted inside the building as Killer Croc joined his comrades and brought the machete down across the wrist of John’s damaged hand, the appendage slicing off with ease. Rising the blade to take the other hand Croc span round and opened his mouth and caught the arrow flying towards him in his jaws. “A futile attempt Archer, you are outnumbered and outclassed.” Neutron snorted. “Maybe but at least I gave Leatherface there a toothache.” Arrow replied as the projectile in Croc’s mouth detonated causing him to stagger backwards his mouth smoking. “He’s mine!” Croc roared as the other members of the Legion of Doom gasped and parted to reveal a blonde-haired woman dressed in a futuristic knight like costume holding a helmet in her hands. “Dinah?” Arrow gasped as the woman brought the helmet up to her face and smiled. “Actually, he’s mine.” Dinah stated as she placed the helmet over her face, her voice distorting as the voice masking software activated. “And you can call me Prometheus, Ollie.” She added as she removed the tonfa on her hip and took up a defensive stance. “None of you interfere, this is between me and my boyfriend.” “Dinah what is wrong with you?!” Oliver asked as he placed his bow down and took a step towards Dinah, only for the woman to lash out with a combination of moves Oliver had last seen while fighting Lady Shiva and Richard Dragon. “Nothing, I’m just tired of playing this part.” Dinah stated as Oliver lunged for her, only to be met with a Deathstoke esque grip and parry that sent him tumbling to the floor. “Don’t think that you didn’t mean anything though Oliver, I really do love you please stand down and I can make sure that they don’t hurt you.” “Well this stinks, I was all ready to break some bones.” Killer Croc snorted as he picked up his machete. Moments later the door to the building was kicked open and Wonder Woman emerged dragging the Red Witch by her wing in one hand and Mayfly with the other before throwing them at Killer Croc’s feet. “Well you can start with her!” Mister Twister ordered as he opened fire with a shower of hailstones that bounced off Diana’s armour as Killer Croc charged into the fray, his machete slamming down only, for the blade to shatter as Diana brought up her shield. Roaring like the animal he was named after Croc threw a punch at the Amazon only for his enemies’ sword to stab into his hand. Staggering back Killer Croc waited for Diana to follow up her thrust before grabbing the blade and wrenching it out of her hand, thick green blood oozing down the metal. “Always wondered how I’d stack up to Wonder Woman, now I’m going to find out.” Killer Croc hissed as he jammed the broken blade of his machete into Diana’s shoulder before being picked up and thrown into Mister Twister, the pair collapsing into a heap. “Now you know.” Diana replied as she locked eyes with Fatality. “You took something of mine, I want it back.” “You didn’t deserve to keep it.” Fatality replied as she coiled the lasso round her pole-axe. “Any warrior who can’t keep her weapon must fight to retrieve it.” She added as off to her left Prometheus brought Green Arrow down to his knees. “If that’s how you want to play it.” Diana sighed as she charged towards Fatality only for her foe to step to the left as a waterspout whipped up from the canal and flung a motorboat at the Amazon princess. Taking to the air and smashing through the missile Diana descended towards Fatality only for a blast of light to streak up to her, ripping the speed out of her charge and sending her plummeting to the ground with a thud. “You can’t even take these lesser warriors.” Fatality sighed as Neutron, Mister Twister and Prometheus all formed up around the alien bounty hunter. “But still I will grant you a warrior’s death!” She snapped as the energy of the lasso round her pole-axe erupted from the tip of the weapon, followed seconds later by a salvo of lightning, radiation and sonic discharge, all slamming into Wonder Woman and blasting her into the shell of the Hub City Justice League Headquarters, the building collapsing on top of her. “And so, the Justice League falls.” Neutron crackled as dust radiated out from the destroyed building. “Now all that’s left is the executions.” He added as he saw two red glowing points glowing off to his list. For a second, he wondered what they were before gasping as the body they were attached to lurked out of the dust. “No, you’re meant to be dead.” He gulped as the dim outline of an inverted S could be seen through the haze. “You can’t be him, we killed him!” “Oh, I am him.” Superman answered as he towered over Neutron. “And I am done playing your games.” |