Justice League: Gods and Monsters Page #4

- He was Darkseid's blood,

one of countless bastards

in a line of endless betrayal.

You are one to speak!

You are blood-soaked in betrayal!

Watch your tongue, granddaughter!

If I had to do it over,

I would have warned them all.

I would have shouted to the skies,

"Trust not the monster Highfather.

He is mad with power!"

Silence!

You can still redeem yourself.

There is no redemption for me.

According to my sources,

the forensic evidence is unassailable.

Fang marks in Victor Fries' neck.

Slice impressions on Ray Palmer and the

truck matching Wonder Woman's sword.

Superman's fingerprints embedded in steel

at the scene of the Stones' murders.

Damning evidence for sure. And what

does the White House have to say?

It would be inappropriate

for the administration

to comment on an ongoing investigation.

I will remind everyone, the police have yet

to find any motives for these killings.

Has the President been

in contact with the League?

No. She expects them to fully cooperate

with the authorities, like any good citizen.

No one is above the law.

Where are you?

The whole world's coming down.

I'll be there as soon as I can.

The only mystery is why

the rest of us are still alive.

The League doesn't want to expose

themselves further. They've been sloppy.

We don't know they're behind this.

They want us to know.

Maybe that's their game.

Maybe they're warning us

to stop the project.

- Fair Play is already done, Sivana.

- I was only there at the beginning.

For Christ's sakes, Holt, you named

the damn thing. You got half of us hired!

It wasn't me. It was Luthor.

And where is he? Does he even

know what's happening?

- Is he even alive?

- Maybe we should go public.

If everyone knows, it'll take the heat

off us. It'll be in the government's lap.

- Yeah, let's make them mad at us, too.

- It's not as if they're protecting us.

Run!

Tina!

Who are you?

No, no, no, no.

Everyone's dead.

No, I hear a heartbeat.

I should have called you when I got there.

How am I gonna tell him about Tina?

Who's to say he'll ever hear it?

- You still have no idea?

- Never saw anything like them.

They were using boom tubes.

Had to come from your world.

Not necessarily.

Ever since she got here, the government's

being trying to replicate the boom tubes.

Magnus told me. Maybe someone succeeded.

So now what?

We got a house full of dead scientists

and we're no closer to solving this thing.

There is someone who could help,

but you're not gonna like it.

Project Fair Play.

I began it years ago in case the human race

needed to neutralize the Justice League.

In other words, Superman,

in case we had to kill you.

I apologize for my bluntness.

Let's face it, the Justice League

may be a three-headed hydra,

but there's only one head

that truly counts.

It's no surprise.

You've hated me from day one.

I hated what you embody.

Unassailable power's

never to be trusted.

Look at the way the government

uses you and you them,

while the world walks on egg shells.

Eventually, you would have had

to come to blows with Washington.

The wonder is that it took this long.

It's only happening

because someone means it to.

If you're pulling the strings, Luthor...

Again, you misread me.

I never really cared for power.

I walked away from it.

What I coveted was knowledge.

I'm mapping the universe,

revealing all its glorious mysteries.

And in a way,

I have you to thank for it.

- What do you mean?

- I suppose you can know now.

Most of this is based

on Kryptonian science,

which I downloaded from the ship

that brought you to Earth.

- Those files were damaged.

- No. We gave you fake copies.

It was my idea. You were powerful enough

without having that knowledge.

You bastard. You had no right.

Those files are mine! They're my legacy!

Yes, they are.

Would you like to see your legacy?

His name was Jor-El,

the leading scientist

on the planet Krypton.

The woman is his wife, Lara,

your mother.

And here comes Dad.

General Zod,

a ruthless commander,

who was taking over the planet.

He drilled into Krypton's core

to power his military machine.

A fatal mistake,

but he would not die completely.

It's not everyone who can witness

their own conception.

A planet dies and you were born.

Why did you keep this from me?

I was afraid you'd emulate your father.

Better you should think he was a hero.

But you're no hero, not really.

You're just a pit bull.

I want those files.

The originals are with Waller.

Maybe you could negotiate a deal,

or take them by force,

that tends to be your method.

But I'd be careful.

Project Fair Play worked.

They can kill you now if they want.

You should have been straight

with me, Luthor.

Things could have been different.

In some ways, I'm as much

your creation as my father's.

NASA confirmed it, Madam President.

Luthor's ship was destroyed

and his last visitor was Superman.

- Then they've killed them all.

- What do we do?

We start Fair Play. Evacuate Metropolis.

Keep it moving! Keep it moving!

We could give ourselves up.

Get a lawyer, or we can beat

the hell out of them.

Someone out there is playing us

and we're not gonna find him

in police custody.

- Gonna be a hell of a webcast.

- If we live through it.

Lois, it's Olsen!

Yeah, I'm in the morgue

with all the dead scientists.

I'll send you some video.

How'd you get in here? Get him out!

What happened to this body?

It was here a minute ago.

Don't look at me. I didn't take it.

Do you realize it's been ten years

since I met you?

I was on the run, everyone after me.

And then you found me,

down at the docks,

middle of the night, a rat in my mouth.

- Why you took me in, I'll never know.

- You were hungry.

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman,

by the authority granted me

by the President of the United States,

I call upon you to give yourselves up.

Someone once asked if I wanted

to save the world or rule it.

Today, it's going to be hard

to tell the difference.

When I get out there, keep the shields up.

No one gets to Magnus.

- I'm going with him.

- If they can kill him, they can kill you.

I've been here before. This time,

they're gonna have to kill me.

Oh, my God. Tina.

If you are under the impression

that we're surrendering,

let me relieve you of that notion.

We have a witness to our innocence

recovering inside.

We know you have Dr. Magnus.

We can assure you

he'll get the best of care.

You'll see him when I say.

Not this time, buddy.

The lasers mimic a red sun's radiation,

like Krypton's sun.

- You're looking better.

- Organic nanites.

Platinum brought them,

with a change of clothes.

Where is Tina?

She's dead. I killed her,

about a year into our marriage.

It was an accident, I assure you.

You see, I always knew she loved you.

Even back in college, she was only really

happy when the three of us were together.

Even after I turned you into a monster,

even after that, she still wanted you.

She married me,

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