Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox Page #4

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It's not what your pals

at the Pentagon said it was.

Classified information.

We need it and you can get it.

Why aren't you telling him

about me and the timeline?

- I'm not lying.

- You're misleading him.

He has a right to know

what our real plan is.

Don't preach to me.

I got enough misplaced morality...

...to handle with the big metal

Boy Scout on our hands.

He wants to stop the war.

So do we.

That's all he needs to know.

There's something there,

but it's above even my clearance.

I don't hack into government systems,

Batman.

You do now.

If you want me

on your little suicide squad.

I'm cycling the motion sensors

and security cameras...

...but the loop won't go unnoticed

for long.

Early morning skeleton crew.

Well, do your thing.

I'm trusting

that this is absolutely necessary.

That's why we're here.

Listen, I don't know

what changed your mind or why...

...but with you on board,

we can save the world from this war.

Thank you.

Focus on the mission at hand, Stone.

Sir, are you okay?

Is that Clark?

This is the most powerful being

on the planet?

Help me.

Whoa, easy there, friend.

Everything's going to be fine now.

- Friend?

- That's right.

Cyborg here is your friend.

I'm your friend too.

This must be some kind of mistake.

- A rogue division of the government...

- Keep telling yourself that.

We should have left him where he was.

He'd be safer.

He needs the sun.

Don't know if you can understand me,

but what happened to you was wrong.

- Most humans aren't like them.

- They're worse.

No. People are good.

In fact, some of them risk their lives

for the greater good.

- They're called heroes.

- Heroes?

Don't worry, friend.

Everything is going to be okay.

I thought heroes never lied.

Cyborg, stand down!

You have exceeded your authority.

Return the stolen government property

or face immediate fire.

You don't understand.

They were using this man as a lab rat.

I don't think they care, Vic.

So beautiful.

I have orders from the president

of the United States.

- Maybe I can end this peacefully.

- Yeah, maybe.

No!

Ugh. Huh?

Friends.

Superman, close your eyes!

- What's wrong with him?

- He's having a seizure.

Memories collapsing in on each other.

We gotta get him out of here.

Fight it, Allen. Don't forget my son.

Yee-haw!

Hell, yeah!

Highball, this is Papa Bear.

- Cut the chatter.

- Oh, did I say that out loud?

I didn't know.

You're only 1000 miles from drop zone.

- Commence radio silence.

- Happily.

One last thing, Jordan.

On behalf of all humanity...

Oh, shut your hole already.

You're ruining this for me.

There you are, baby.

Hold still for Highball.

Beware my power, a**hole.

Continue invasion preparations.

- Who the hell is this?

- He's with us.

Now shut up. What's the story?

Some kind of failed kamikaze attack

on Aquaman's weapon.

- The pilot was Hal Jordan.

- Hal's dead?

That's not all.

The president sent a coalition fleet

to New Themyscira.

The Amazons decimated it.

Troops are being ordered

to Washington D.C...

...to protect the president

and members of Congress.

Yeah, as our fearless leaders

make a mad dash for the bunkers.

What does it mean?

It means the final battle between Atlantis

and the Amazons has begun.

But we haven't even started yet.

There's nothing we can do now.

Enjoy the things you love

with the time we have left.

There's bound to be looting

in Gotham by now.

I don't want to miss that.

You're just gonna give up

and wait for the inevitable?

Is that what your heroes do here?

Look, you guys may not know me.

But all of us have powers,

skills and abilities.

Where I come from,

heroes use those powers...

...to fight to make the world a better

place, whether it's their world or not.

But Superman...

You said he was our last, best hope.

We're alive, Vic.

And where there's life, there's hope.

We'll go to London...

...fight both sides

and save the world in the process.

Okay. Then we go. Now.

I'll signal the others.

Maybe they can meet us there.

Bruce would have come.

What the hell. Let's do this.

Is the Batplane big enough

for all of us?

The what?

Bruce's Batplane was a little more stoic.

Your Batman

didn't have to ferry high rollers...

...with deep pockets

in and out of his casino.

So he wouldn't need

a fully stocked bar aboard.

Everything is top shelf.

Help yourself.

I don't drink.

Shocking.

I'm glad I could persuade you

to come along.

You didn't.

Ever since I told Cyborg I'd help, I've been

scanning for intel coming out of Europe.

During your little Braveheart speech...

...I heard an intercepted message

you may find interesting.

What?

Lois Lane was an embedded

reporter turned resistance fighter.

She saw something in New Themyscira.

A super being who could move

in the blink of an eye.

Thawne.

If it was him, why let Lane live,

much less help her?

- And if he's as fast as you...

- Why let himself be seen?

Incoming!

Sire, the aircraft has

been intercepted and nullified.

Would that all our shots be so lucky.

We have more than luck, Orm.

Death to the under-dwellers! Unh.

Kill them. Kill them all.

Behold man's final mad disgrace.

He chops his nose to spite his face.

You've got to put an end to this.

You're going to destroy the only world

we've got.

You won't have it much longer,

surface-dweller.

Plan B:
Take down

as many on both sides as you can.

Maybe we can kill enough of them

to call off this war.

Fight your way to the leaders.

Once we have Aquaman

and Wonder Woman, this war is over.

You murdered my wife, Diana.

She tried to assassinate me, Arthur.

I was protecting myself.

Yet you wear her helmet like a trophy.

No. A warning.

I can't believe I ever loved you.

You never did.

Now!

Shazam!

Captain Thunder.

I'm happy to see that a real man is here

to watch the end of man's world.

Fall, damn it, fall!

Sweet.

I like your style, Batman.

A pity we never teamed up

when the world still existed.

Batman and Grifter, the boy idiot.

Take your team up the right flank and...

Don't worry, Batman.

I'll stop the blood flow.

You'll be as good as new.

Don't be stupid, Allen.

I may not be a very good doctor, but

even I know a dead man when I see one.

- They're gonna die.

- We're dead already.

Find the Speedster.

Flush him out.

Change all this.

No.

I won't stand by while people are...

Hello, Barry.

Thawne.

- I love what you've done with the place.

- This is all your fault.

This has worked out so well.

That's why I let Lois Lane see me,

you know.

I knew it would bring you.

Not that you wouldn't have ended up here

anyway, you hero, you.

What did you do to the world?

Oh, Barry.

That's the beauty of all this.

I didn't do any of it.

You did.

Think, Barry.

Isn't there some little thing, some little

good deed you might have done?

- I saved someone.

- Yes.

I saved her. I saved morn.

- That's right.

- No. No.

It wouldn't have changed all this.

It wouldn't have changed

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