Justice League: War Page #3

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Oh, oh.

Are we okay? What's going on?

By the gods.

You're strong.

I know.

Can't feel my hand.

Can't feel anything.

What's happened to me?

You mind is now a quantum computer, son.

There's buzzing in my ears.

Make it stop, please.

I can't. At least you're alive.

Ugh, you call this living?

This half man, half machine.

This is what it took

for you to finally care about me?

You had to make me

just another one of your experiments.

Don't you hear the buzzing?

You know what,

I think I am needed downtown...

...and you two clearly need to talk,

so I'll just, uh...

Yeah.

Unassimilated data detected.

Commencing Parademon indoctrination.

Download initiated.

Translating command.

Locate inhabitable worlds.

Harvest organic material.

Process organic material.

Repurpose organic material.

For Darkseid.

Download complete.

Darkseid.

Excuse me, but this is the hole

these wigglers crawled out of, right?

Vic Stone?

What the hell happened to you?

That wasn't so hard.

- Looks like you could use a hand.

- Flash, my boy. Great to see you.

Oh, yeah, and that's Batman.

- Batman's real?

- Yeah, he's over there.

Wait, what?

It is a real honor to meet you, sir, Batman.

Sir, Batman, sir. Ahem.

Don't bother. The guy's a total tool.

I followed your efforts in Central City, Flash.

You do tight, efficient work.

Hey, Barry, you, uh,

got a little something on your nose.

Get ready. Here they come.

For Darkseid.

Holy...

Greetings, warriors.

Dibs.

Hi.

Oh, it's good to be back in the heat of war.

Yeah, you better run.

No, they're assembling, waiting for whoever's

behind this to launch the attack.

All right, now what?

I don't know.

Incoming.

Mine.

Defense mode activated.

- Damn it.

- You're done.

No, I'm not with them.

Hold on, I can vouch for that.

He was at S.T.A.R. Labs.

Huh?

Hey there. What's up? Shazam.

I'm with him.

He's not with me.

And who the hell are you supposed to be?

Mr. Roboto?

Who I am doesn't matter. What I know does.

- Which is?

- I've talked to their technology.

I know their plan.

They're terraforming the Earth.

It's about to get ugly.

- That fits.

- How do you figure?

Well, for one thing, the water's on fire.

- What are they doing with them?

- Can't be sure, but I know this.

They're not killing anyone.

- They're harvesting them.

- This isn't an isolated incident either.

It's happening across the world.

We're too late. He's here.

- I'm guessing that's the bad guy.

- Lucky guess.

Hmm, he doesn't look that tough.

No.

I am entropy. I am death.

I am Darkseid.

Stand back and peep the light show.

Green Lantern's got this.

That all you got? Not all I got.

I'm not through with you.

Is that your boyfriend?

- No.

- Cool. Watch this.

Hey, Blackheart the Deatheater, or Whatever

your "World of Warcraft" name is, suck on this.

- Now what?

- Now you die.

Wait, no!

- We're gonna have to move fast.

- Not a problem for me.

- They're splitting up. They can do that?

- They're locked on us.

Come on, Barry.

You're moving fast, so think fast.

Ooh, never had to catch my breath before.

Oh, no, Superman.

Finally, the Kryptonian is ours.

Master will be pleased.

They flew off with him. I saw it.

They took Superman.

- I'll get him.

- Lantern.

- Out of my way, Batman.

- Your arm is broken, you idiot.

I can handle this. Get out of my way.

- You're gonna die.

- Then I die.

What are you trying to prove?

I'm not trying to prove anything,

you phenomenal douche bag.

Don't act like you know me. You don't.

- We're just somewhat alike.

- We are nothing alike.

We're fighting alongside an alien,

an Amazon...

...a human lightning bolt, a cyborg

and a speedster.

As far as I can tell, Hal,

you and I are the only normal people here.

- I never told you my name.

- Saw it on your flight suit.

You're pretty south of normal, spooky.

You know that, right?

My name is Bruce Wayne.

When I was 10,

my parents were murdered in front of my eyes.

I've spent my life training to fight the same

sort of criminals that took them from me.

But this, this is different.

This isn't about me.

Uh, you're telling me this why?

This is bigger than I am

and it's bigger than you are.

Get out of your own way.

Focus on what's important here.

Everyone else. Regroup with the others.

- And do what exactly?

- You're loud.

They'll listen to you

if you got something to say.

Try to at least sound smart.

Keep them alive.

Keep Darkseid busy till I get back.

"Get back"? From where?

We won't win without our big gun.

Where the hell are you going?

Hey!

I'm going to get Superman.

Bruce Wayne, huh?

Moron's crazier than I am.

You guys okay? Good. Listen up.

Uh...

We need to, uh...

We need to play offense

instead of all coming up to bat.

- Um, what?

- I apologize, but I don't know your games.

I think what Lantern is saying

is that it's time for some teamwork.

So let's pull it together.

Yeah, baby, clap it up.

What's the plan, then?

Well, he blast those beams out of his eyes,

right?

It's settled, then. We blind him.

That's as good a plan as any.

Yeah, we follow and we stay out of sight.

I'll turn on the fireworks to get his attention.

Princess, you get in striking distance

and stab that son of a b*tch in the eyes.

Like poor damned Oedipus.

Yeah, what the hot Greek chick said.

And the invasion of monsters

raining from the sky, what about them?

I might be able to send them back

where they came from.

Good enough for me.

Here we go, team.

We got this.

"We got this"? That's your big battle cry?

Don't worry about it, smart ass.

Stick to the plan.

This is awesome. Like that Parker game

in overtime where you ran the ball the last--

- Who are you and how do you know me?

- What? I'm a fan.

Everyone around here knows Victory Stone.

- I'm not that guy anymore.

- Sure you are.

I'm not. I'm a Terminator. An android.

Some kind of cyborg.

Now I'm gonna have to worry...

...about operating systems

and computer viruses.

You won't get to do any of that stuff

if this guy eats the world.

Don't you get it?

I don't have a place anywhere anymore.

Looks to me like your place is with us.

The Parademon hives on Earth...

...were ill-equipped to process your flesh,

my prize.

But here in my personal laboratory...

...I can splice your Kryptonian genetic code

to create a new form...

...a super-Parademon

in the service of Darkseid.

And once we have our champion...

...we will seize the other supers

and break them as well.

All hail Darkseid.

- Okay, remember, I'll distract--

- Darkseid.

What the. . .?

Get him out of there.

His showboating is gonna ruin the entire plan.

Oh, great, now I'm Batman.

What's the big deal? I had him.

Dude, you had squat. We had a plan.

Heads up, guys.

- You are a warrior, not a child. Act like it.

- Yes, ma'am.

Now, follow me to victory!

She digs me.

Attack!

True, the metamorphosis is painful.

But soon you will never feel anything

ever again.

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