Justice League: Darkseid War

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## Darkseid's Invasion

[*DC Opening Credits*]

[*Radio transmission sound*]

**Amazonian PA:** This is the Amazonian refugee vessel. We are under assault, I repeat, we are under assault - The engines are dead, life support failing. Requesting aid from any vessel within range. We are 22 jump points from Earth. *[The voice becomes more desperate and pleading]* Our crew is made up of Amazonian families, we have very few soldiers here. This is *not* a warcraft. I repeat, this is not a warcraft!

*[Inside the ship, Desaad walks among the bodies of dead Amazons. Madame Xanadu, badly wounded, reaches out as if she would stop Desaad as he passes, but lacks the strength. Desaad steps over them with no mind as he speaks, as if they were scattered pieces of dirty clothing on a bedroom floor.]*

**Desaad:** Hear me, and rejoice. You have had the privilege of being saved by the New God of Tyranny... You may think this is suffering... no. It is *salvation*. Universal scales tip toward balance because of your sacrifice. Smile... *[Glorious Godfrey stabs one of the lingering Amazons]* for even in death, you have become Furies of Darkseid.

*[Circe stands with the Furies. He watches Darkseid, shrouded in darkness and light, a vague silhouette.]*

**Darkseid:** *[Looking out the large window we saw at the end of* Wonder Woman: Armageddon*]* I understand the agony that loss brings. To *believe* with absolute certainty that you are destined to win, but rejected by the cosmos at the last moment. *[Lifts Diana by the neck of her breastplate. She struggles feebly.]* It is a sorrow that we are all struck by. You cannot fight the inevitable curse of destiny. It comes without warning or mercy. And now, it's here. Or should I say... *I AM.*

*[Darkseid holds up his hand to reveal energies from the Unwritten Book, which contained Motherbox Shard Zeta.]*

**Diana:** *[Now being held by Darkseid with one huge hand wrapping around her head; blood drools from her mouth]* You talk too much.

**Darkseid:** *[To Circe]* Give me the Spellbook or I will end your sister. I will not ask again.

*[The Furies heft their weapons or smirks, as appropriate.]*

**Circe:** I care not for her. You may do as you wish.

*[Darkseid's face expresses surprise briefly before pressing his fist to Diana's left temple. His fist glows brightly with red energy. Diana screams hoarsely.]*

**Circe:** *[Starts losing her cool demeanour almost immediately as Diana suffers, and breaks after only a few moments]* *ALRIGHT, STOP!*

**Diana**: We don't have the Spellbook. It was destroyed on Themyscira.

[*Circe glances at Diana like she knows something she doesn't. She lifts her right hand into the air and the Spellbook reveals itself.*]

**Diana:** You really are the worst, sister.

**Circe:** *[While holding the Spellbook out to Darkseid and advancing]* I assure you, sister... the sun will shine on us again.

**Darkseid:** Your optimism is misplaced, Amazon.

**Circe:** Well, for one thing, I'm not an Amazon. And for another... we have a cyborg. *[This is a reference to a line in* DC's Justice League*]*

*[Darkseid looks to his right just as a metal-plated mass slams into him. Circe dives for Diana, pulling both of them out of the way as the Spellbook slides across the floor, and Cyborg charges Darkseid. He pummels Darkseid, forcing him backwards and shoving him into the wall of the ship. Desaad stops Mantis from interfering.]*

**Desaad:** Let him have his fun.

*[Darkseid pries Cyborg's hands away; an expression of surprise and fear crosses his face. After several hard blows, Darkseid picks up Cyborg and slams him to the deck, defeated. Diana slams a metal bar across Darkseid's back to no avail, is kicked across the deck by Darkseid and is promptly bound in metal debris by Desaad to keep him from interfering further.]*

**Madame Xanadu:** *[Prays]* Old Gods… let the magic flow through me one last time...

*[Xanadu summons Order Magic, which carries Cyborg away; she meets Diana's eye.]*

**Darkseid:** A foolish mistake.

*[Darkseid borrows Glorious Godfrey's glaive and stabs Xanadu through the heart, twisting the blade in the wound.]*

**Diana:** *NO!!! [After Darkseid kills Xanadu] You're going to die for that!*

**Desaad:** *[Shuts Diana's mouth with his telekinesis]* Shh.

**Desaad:** *[Kneels before Darkseid, offering up the Spellbook]* My humble personage… bows before your grandeur. No other being has ever had the might, nay the nobility, to wield not one, but two shards of the Motherbox. The universe will lie within your grasp.

*[Darkseid crushes the Spellbook, revealing the Shard inside. He blows some of the flakes of burnt paper away, his armour absorbing the Shard into itself, and is momentarily rocked by the surge of energy that pulses as his armour subtly reshapes itself.]*

**Darkseid:** Two Shards remain, on Planet Earth. Acquire them and bring them to Apokolips.

**Granny Goodness**: *[Kneeling]* My liege, we will not fail you.

**Circe:** *[Emerging from behind the Furies]* *[cheerfully]* If I might interject… if you're going to Earth, you may want a guide. I do have some experience in that area.

**Darkseid:** *[Unimpressed]* Your invasion of Earth was pitiful.

**Circe**: That's a bit harsh. But my liege Darkseid, I... Circe... Princess of Themyscira... *[looks significantly at Diana]* Daughter of Zeus... the rightful Queen of the Land of Fables... the Weaver of myth... do hereby pledge to you, my undying fidelity.

*[Diana squints and notices a dagger materialize in Circe's hand. Circe braces herself, thrusts upward with lightning speed and attempts to stab Darkseid, but is telekinetically frozen in place by him before the point could strike home.]*

**Darkseid:** "Undying." A pathetic lie from a pathetic worm!

*[Darkseid twists the dagger out of Circe's hand with his right hand, then takes hold of Circe's neck with his hand and lifts her to eye level. Circe struggles, kicking, as her throat is squeezed. She makes eye contact with Diana before Darkseid increases his force on Circe's neck.]*

**Circe:** *[Giving up on fighting against Darkseid]* You can... never stop... those who... are good. *[Darkseid crushes Circe's neck, killing her. A solemn yet contempt look covers his face]*

**Darkseid:** *[Walks over and drops Circe's body in front of Diana.]* She had a second chance at life. She should have taken it.

*[Darkseid shoots beams from his eyes, with the energy wriggling into the ship, and summons a Boom Tube to teleport away with the Furies.]*

**Diana:** No… Circe….

*[Diana is released from her bonds. She crawls over to Circe's body -- which, unlike in* Wonder Woman: Underworld*, has not returned to its Queen of Fables-esque form -- and lays her head down on Circe's chest, shedding tears for all that she has lost. The ship explodes.]*

*[Xanadu's Order Magic continues its journey, bringing Cyborg across space to Earth.]*

**[House of Mystery, New York City]**

*[Zatanna Zatara, Mistress of Magic, proceeds down the main steps of the House with Bobo, the Detective Chimp.]*

**Zatanna:** *[Dressed in casual American clothes.]* Are you kidding? You don't have any money?

**Bobo:** *[Dressed in formal detective clothing.]* How am I to study the spiritual if I am too connected to the physical?

**Zatanna:** The spiritual cannot save you from food cravings.

**Bobo:** Oh, wait, I think I have 200.

**Zatanna:** Dollars?

**Bobo:** Azarath coins.

**Zatanna:** Which is?

**Bobo:** Same price as a human soul. So, two bucks.

**Zatanna:** *[Zatanna sighs, but not in an unkind manner.]* What do you want?

**Bobo:** Would it be racist to say bananas?

*[Cyborg crash-lands through the House's stairs. Zatanna magically dons her magician outfit and jumps over to the hole alongside Bobo.]*

**Victor Stone:** Darkseid is coming. He's coming...

**Zatanna:** *[Sharing a confused look with Bobo]* Who?

**[Title Screen: *Justice League: Darkseid War]***

## Bruce Meets Zatanna

*[Public Park, Gotham City, day. Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle are walking and having a conversation.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** Slow down, slow down. I'm being serious.

**Selina Kyle:** *[Laughing slightly and talking over him]* You're being weird.

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Also talking over her]* No, I'm not.

**Selina Kyle:** You've lost me.

**Bruce Wayne:** Look, you know how you're having a dream, and in the dream you gotta pee?

**Selina Kyle:** Yeah.

**Bruce Wayne:** Okay, and then you're like, "Oh my god, there's no bathroom, what am I gonna do?", "Oh! Someone's watching," "I'm gonna go in my pants."

**Selina Kyle:** Right. And then you wake up, and in real life, you actually have to pee.

**Bruce Wayne:** Yes.

**Selina Kyle:** Yeah. Everybody has that.

**Bruce Wayne:** Right! That's the point that I'm trying to make. Apropos of that, last night, I dreamt we had a kid. And it felt so real. We named him after your uncle. Uh, what was his name?

**Selina Kyle:** *[Nodding in understanding]* Right.

**Bruce Wayne:** Terry! Terry.

**Selina Kyle:** So you woke up, and thought that we were...

**Bruce Wayne:** Expecting.

**Selina Kyle:** Yeah.

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Becoming excited]* Yes?

**Selina Kyle:** *[Shaking her head]* No.

**Bruce Wayne:** I had a dream about it. It was so real.

**Selina Kyle:** If you wanted to have a kid, you wouldn't have done that.

*[Selina unties his jacket sleeves and taps Bruce's bat-shaped chest attachment.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** I'm glad you brought this up because it's nothing. It's just a housing unit for nanoparticles.

**Selina Kyle:** It's not helping your case, OK?

**Bruce Wayne:** No, no, it's an attachment, it's not a-

**Selina Kyle:** *[Insistently]* You don't need that.

**Bruce Wayne:** I know. I had the surgery. I'm just trying to protect us. The future us, and that's it. Just in case there's a monster in the closet, instead of, you know...

**Selina Kyle:** Shirts?

**Bruce Wayne:** You know me so well. You finish all my sentences.

**Selina Kyle:** You should have shirts in your closet.

**Bruce Wayne:** Yeah. You know what? No more surprises. We're gonna have a nice dinner tonight. Show off this Harry Win-stone. Right? And we should have no more surprises. Not ever. I should promise you.

**Selina Kyle:** Yes.

**Bruce Wayne:** I will. *[Bruce kisses Selina.]*

*[Zatanna comes through a portal.]*

**Zatanna:** Bruce Wayne, I'm Zatanna Zatara. I need you to come with me. Oh, and congratulations on the wedding, by the way.

*[Bruce and Selina are understandably shocked.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** What the... you wouldn't happen to be a Jehova's Witness, would you?

**Zatanna:** *[Zatanna chuckles slightly, before resuming her serious demeanor.]* We need your help. It's not an exaggeration to say that the fate of the multiverse is at stake.

**Bruce Wayne:** And who's "we"?

**Victor Stone:** *[Emerges from behind Zatanna, visibly shaken]* Been a while, Bruce.

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Looking surprised]* Victor?

**Victor Stone:** Selina.

**Selina Kyle:** Hi.

**Bruce Wayne:** Are you... okay?

*[Victor gives Bruce a desperate hug, not answering. After everything he has been through, we understand.]*

## The Six Shards

*[Back at the House of Mystery.]*

**Bobo:** *[Using magic to show the universe and a complete Motherbox.]* From the dawn of the universe, there was nothing. Then, boom! The Godwave, or what you would call the Big Bang, created the universe. Among the first creations were the first gods, and they found a way to contain the power of the Godwave in a machine called the Motherbox.

**Zatanna:** *[The Motherbox breaks into five out of six shards, which become different objects.]* Fearing the power was too much, the gods split the Motherbox into six shards, which later became six powerful artifacts. The Spellbook. The Sage Force. The Unwritten Book. The Anti-Life Equation. The Spear of Destiny. And the Ruby of Life.

*[Zatanna reveals the amulet around her neck, the aforementioned Ruby of Life, which glows a soft red.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Very attentive]* Tell me his name again.

**Victor Stone:** Darkseid. He's a plague, Bruce. He invades planets. He takes what he wants. He wipes out half the population. He sent Circe and Roger Hayden. The attack on Metropolis, 2012, he was behind it!

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Speaking to himself]* This is it... What's our timeline?

**Victor Stone:** I dunno. He has the Unwritten Book and Circe's Spellbook, which makes him the strongest creature in the entire *universe.* If he gets his hands on all six Shards, Bruce...

**Zatanna:** He can destroy life on a scale hitherto undreamt of.

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Leans against a treadmill, stretching like he's about to go for a run.]* Did you *seriously* just say "hitherto undreamt of"?

**Zatanna:** Are you *seriously* leaning on the Cosmic Treadmill?

**Bruce Wayne:** Is that what this is...?

*[Bobo smacks Bruce's arm, surprising him.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Looking offended]* *[Straightening himself]* I- okay. If Darkseid needs all six, why don't we destroy the one around your neck?

**Zatanna:** That's not an option.

**Bobo:** We swore an oath to protect the Ruby of Life.

**Bruce Wayne:** And I swore off dairy, but then, Ben & Jerry's named a flavour after me, so...

**Zatanna:** Batman's Blueberry Explosion?

**Bruce Wayne:** It's not bad.

**Zatanna:** A bit *chalky*.

**Bobo:**  Victory Stone Velvet is our favourite.

**Victor Stone:** You're serious? That's a thing?

**Bruce Wayne:** My point is: things change.

**Zatanna:** Our oath to protect the Ruby of Life cannot change. The Ruby may be the best chance we have against Darkseid.

**Bruce Wayne:** And still conversely, it may also be his best chance against us.

**Zatanna:** Well, if we don't do our jobs.

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Slightly condescending]* What is your job exactly, besides making balloon animals?

**Zatanna:** *[Completely calm]* Protecting the multiverse, douchebag.

*[You seriously can't tell who's sarcasm is better.]*

**Victor Stone:** Okay, guys, could we stop this fighting right now? Thing is, we have this Shard. We know *where it is*. Red Tornado is out there somewhere with another one of them, and we have to find him *now*.

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Awkwardly]* I'm afraid that's going to be a problem.

**Victor Stone:** What do you mean?

**Bruce Wayne:** Two weeks ago, Red turned off his transponder. He's offline.

**Victor Stone:** What? Bruce, you lost another super bot?

**Bruce Wayne:** I didn't lose him. He's more than that. He's evolving.

**Zatanna:** Well then, who can find him?

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Quietly to himself]* Shit. *[To the others in a normal tone]* Probably Clark Kent.

**Zatanna:** *[Sighing in exasperation]* Wonderful.

**Bruce Wayne:** Maybe. But... *[Sighs]*

**Victor Stone:** *[Missing the events of Superman: Gods Among Us]* Well, call him.

**Bruce Wayne:** It's not that easy. You've been in space for the past two years, you've missed some things.

**Victor Stone:** What things, Bruce?

**Bruce Wayne:** The Justice League broke up. We're done.

**Victor Stone:** *[Rather surprised and slightly let-down]* Broke up? Like a band? Like One Direction?

**Bruce Wayne:** Supes and I fell out hard. We're not on speaking terms.

**Victor Stone:** *[Almost pleading]* Bruce, listen to me. Diana's dead. Darkseid is coming. You and Clark have gotta get over this, or else... everyone dies.

*[Bruce hesitates, before pulling out the cellular phone Clark mailed him, muttering 'flip phone'. It seems as though he brings it everywhere, always ready to call his lost friend. Before clicking "Call", he pauses, distracted by an unusual rumbling.]*

## The Furies' Invasion

**Bruce Wayne:** Zatanna, you wouldn't happen to be moving your hair, would you?

**Zatanna:** *[Looking to her left, seeing her hair shaking]* Not at the moment, no.

*[Bruce looks at the Cyborg-made opening through the ceiling and sees debris flying by outside. He exits the House through the front door and scans the chaotic surroundings, the camera shaking around in this following long take to illustrate the chaos -- people running and screaming in alarm, traffic becoming impossibly tangled, a litter-filled wind like a nor'easter's. A woman falls nearly at his feet and he helps her up.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** You okay?

*[The woman ignores him and runs away. A car crashes in on a pole behind Bruce.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** Help him! Bobo, Zatanna!

'*Victor Stone'***:** You guys go, I got it!

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Putting on his sunglasses]* ORACLE, what am I looking at?

**ORACLE:** Not sure, I'm working on it.

**Bruce Wayne:** Hey! You might wanna keep that Ruby safe, Z!

**Zatanna:** *[Waves of lilac magic radiate from her hands and eyes.]* I might have to use it.

*[A mechanical hum grows louder as Bruce approaches the intersection. As he turns the corner, he sees a huge circular ship floating over Burton Street.]*

*[On a school bus, the hairs on Barry Allen's arms flicker with gold lightning. He looks out the window and sees the ship.]*

**Barry Allen:** *[Tapping his best friend in the seat in front of him]* Manny, hey. I need you to cause a distraction.

**Manuel Lago:** *[Turns around and sees the spaceship]* Holy shit! We're all gonna die! There's a spaceship!

*[Students scramble to the windows in the back to see the spaceship.]*

*[Barry puts his mask on and quickly phases out of the emergency exit on the opposite side of the bus.]*

**School Bus Driver, Geoff Johns:** What's the matter with you kids? You've never seen a spaceship before?

*[Barry jumps out the window, ridding himself of his usual clothes, and runs on the water beneath him, making his way hastily towards the ship.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** ORACLE, evac anyone south of 43rd Street, notify first responders.

**ORACLE:** Will do.

**Zatanna:** *Pots ni ecalp!*

*[A burst of blue magic comes from Zatanna, trapping the ship in place. Zatanna playfully smirks at Bruce. The dust clears. Bruce is begrudgingly amused for a split second.]*

*[Then Desaad and Mantis exit the ship by transmat.]*

**Desaad:** Hear me, and rejoice. You are about to die at the hands of the Furies of Darkseid. Be thankful, that your meaningless lives are now contributing to...

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Echoing the familiarly defiant 2008 Bruce Wayne]* I'm sorry, Earth is closed for today. You better pack it up-- now.

**Desaad:** *[Looks at Zatanna]* Shardkeeper... *[Gestures to Bruce]* Does this chattering animal speak for you?

**Zatanna:** The only one who speaks for me is myself. *[Magical shields are readied with her fists, stepping forward.]* But you’re trespassing in this city and on this planet. *[Bobo emulates her.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** It means 'get lost', emo!

**Desaad:** He exhausts me.

**Mantis:** *[Two untranslated syllables]*

**Desaad:** Bring me the Shard.

**Mantis:** *[Three untranslated syllables]* *[He drops a huge, green alien hammer and drags it along as he obeys his brethren.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** Vic, we could use you.

'*Victor Stone'***:** Y'know, no one ever asks me to help as myself, it's always-

**Bruce Wayne:** Not the time.

*[Victor attempts to summon his more mechanical, stronger form. Instead of him coming out easily, the most that happens is that Victor sparks with electricity.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** It's been a while. Good to have you.

**Victor Stone:** I just... I need to concentrate here for one second. Come on, come on, man.

**Bruce Wayne:**: Well, where is he?

**Victor Stone:** I don't know. He's having a thing, I think.

**Bruce Wayne:** There's no time for a thing.

'*Victor Stone'***:** Yeah, no shit.

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Points at the approaching Mantis]* That's the thing right there. Let's go.

*[Victor gives out a loud grunt but fails to release Cyborg. Zatanna stares at Bruce and Vic in disbelief.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Glances at Zatanna]* You're embarrassing me in front of the wizards.

'*Victor Stone'***:** Bruce, I'm sorry. *[Stammers]* Either I can't or he won't--

**Bruce Wayne:** It's okay. No shame in standing down. *[to Bobo]* Keep an eye on him. Thank you.

**Bobo:** Will do.

**Victor Stone:** Aw, frick, man.

*[As Mantis approaches the team, Bruce dons his nanotech Bat-Suit in the space of three steps. He grows a shield on one arm to protect himself, then grows a set of blasters that easily throw Mantis back to Desaad, who gestures and deflects his massive companion into some cars.]*

'*Victor Stone'***:** What the frick is that?

**Bruce Wayne:** Nanotechnology. Like it? A little someth--

*[Desaad creates a spike of concrete that throws Batman far up, then proceeds to attack the rest of the team with uprooted trees and other debris. Bobo summons a shield of magic.]*

**Zatanna:** Mr. Stone, if you won't be joining us...

*[Zatanna teleports Victor to a nearby park along with half a taxi. Batman returns and joins the fight, pushing a car thrown by Desaad back at him. Desaad cuts it in half and lets the pieces fly past him, untouched.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** Get the Shard out of here, now.

**Zatanna:** It stays with me.

**Bruce Wayne:** Exactly. Bye.

*[Batman flies through Desaad's obstacle course but is cut short by Mantis' hammer, sending him through a building and into the park at high speed, plowing into the ground and fetching up against a tree.]*

**Victor Stone:** *[Rushing over to Batman]* Bruce, you okay? How we doing? Good? Bad?

**Bruce Wayne:** We're not doing so hot. Do you plan on helping out?

**Victor Stone:** I'm trying. He's not coming out.

*[Mantis arrives at the park and throws his hammer at Victor and Batman.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** Hammer. *[Pushes Victor out of the way.]*

*[Batman throws an electric Batarang, which deflects off of Mantis' shield, slicing down trees before it returns to Bruce. Victor barely evades one.]*

**Victor Stone:** *[Crawling out from under the branches. Desperate and confused]* Cyborg! Come on, work! What are you doing to me? *[Starts slapping himself multiple times]* Come out! Come out! Come out!

**Cyborg:** *[Victor temporarily turns into Cyborg.]* Access denied. *[Victor falls back exhausted into his tree.]*

**Victor Stone:** What do you mean, *"access denied"?!*

*[Batman is knocked down by Mantis, who is about to deliver a decisive blow, but the alien's hammer is easily caught by Flash.]*

**Barry Allen:** Hey, man. What's up, Mr. Wayne?

**Bruce Wayne:** Kid, where'd you come from?

**Barry Allen:** Field trip to Gotham-.

*[Mantis grabs Flash and throws him away. Flash quickly runs back to the fight.]*

**Barry Allen:** What is this guy's problem, Mr. Wayne?

**Bruce Wayne:** He's from space. He came here to steal a necklace from a magician.

*[Bobo and Zatanna fight Desaad. Desaad rips a pothole from the ground and splits it into a flurry of metal spikes. He sends them towards Bobo and Zatanna. The two make portals and boomerang them back towards Desaad. Desaad expertly dodges nearly all of them, but one spike still hits his head, creating a cut. Angered, he uses a broken fire hydrant's water stream to knock Bobo back several meters, rendering him unconscious.]*

*[Zatanna snaps a whip of magical energy to bind Desaad's hands and yanks, but Desaad flies forward with the pull and pins Zatanna upside-down against a building, using the bricks to trap her.]*

**Desaad:** Your powers are quaint. You must be popular with children.

*[Desaad tries to grab the Ruby containing the Shard but jerks back when it burns his hand.]*

**Zatanna:** It's a simple spell but quite unbreakable.

**Desaad:** *[Vehemently]* Then I'll take it off your corpse.

*[He pulls Zatanna away from the building and throws her to the ground. Zatanna starts the gestures to use the Ruby of Life, but utility cables first pin her arms, interrupting the spell and deactivating the Ruby, while another cable winds around her torso, swiftly tightening around her throat.]*

**Zatanna:**  You can't remove... a dead man's spell... that easily.

**Desaad:** You'll only wish you were dead. *[Zatanna falls unconscious and to the ground; Desaad raises a portion of street pavement to use as a carrier, but Bobo comes in at the last minute on a flying carpet and takes her away.]* NO!

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Still fighting Mantis, as Zatanna passes through the park.]* Kid, that's the magician. Get on it.

**Barry Allen:** On it!

*[The Flash chases Desaad, floating speedily and upright on a small platform of burbling debris leaving a deep rut in the streets, who in turn chases Zatanna and Bobo through New York; Desaad attacks him, throwing a Big Belly Burger sign at Flash to be rid of him.]*

**Barry Allen:** *[Untangles himself]* Not cool!

*[Desaad bends all the utility poles in the path of Bobo, finally snagging him and ripping him from Zatanna. He lands on the ground, clearly worried.]*

**Bobo:** No...!

*[Flash catches Zatanna before she hits the pavement, but before he can get away with the unconscious magician, a cone of red light starts pulling her inexorably upwards. Flash tries to run downwards through the air, but Desaad shoots a dagger at him, sending Zatanna and the teenager on their way to his ship.]*

**Barry Allen:** Uhhh, Mr. Wayne? I'm being beamed up!

**Bruce Wayne:** Hang on, kid. *[Mantis' hammer doubles as a claw, pinning Batman to the ground and shorting his suit. As Mantis jumps towards Batman, blades ready to end this fight, he is sent through a portal instead. The alien turns and leaps to return the same way, but Bobo closes it rapidly -- only Mantis' severed hand makes it back to the park. Victor kicks the hand away with a noise of disgust.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Batman shakes himself free of Mantis' weapon, now powerless.]* Bobo, you're invited to my wedding. *[Batman activates thrusters on his feet and begins to fly towards the large ship]* Boost the thrusters, ORACLE. *[The Bat's foot thrusters morph together into a single larger jet and increase his speed considerably.]*

*[Desaad walks towards the controls of the ship, Zatanna's unconscious body floating face-down behind him, and prepares to leave Earth's atmosphere.]*

**Bruce Wayne:** *[Still in pursuit of the ship and his protege.]* Unlock 56-O. *[A pod launches from the upstate Hall of Justice and curves up to the accelerating circular ship.]* Barry, let go. I'm gonna catch you.

**Barry Allen:** But you said save the magician! *[Flash, gasping from lack of oxygen, pulls off his mask]* I can't breathe!

**Bruce Wayne:** You're too high up. You're running out of air.

**Barry Allen:** Yeah! That makes sense.

*[Barry passes out, free-falling, but not for long before the pod reaches him. It attaches itself to him, becoming a nanotech version of the Flash's New 52 suit. Now being able to breathe, Flash lands on a bottom part of the ship, standing up heroically.]*

**Barry Allen:** Mr. Wayne, it smells like a new car in here!

**Bruce Wayne:** Bye, kid. ORACLE, activate parachute.

**ORACLE:** Yep.

[*A large parachute extends from the new suit, making Flash trip up and seemingly fall off.]*

**Barry Allen:** OH, COME ON!

*[Batman latches onto the hull and cuts a hole to board the ship, looking for wherever Zatanna and Desaad went.]*

**ORACLE:** There is an incoming call from Ms. Kyle.

**Selina Kyle:** *[Sounding heavily worried]* Bruce? Oh my God, are you all right? What's going on?

**Bruce Wayne:** Yeah, I'm fine. I just think we might have to push our 8:30.

**Selina Kyle:** Why?

**Bruce Wayne:** *[While looking at the ship around him]* I, uh... don't think I'll be back for a while.

**Selina Kyle:** Tell me you're not on that ship.

**Bruce Wayne:** Yeah.

**Selina Kyle:** God, no. Please tell me you're not on that ship.

**Bruce Wayne:** Honey, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, I don't know what to say.

**Selina Kyle:** Come back here, Tony. I swear to God….

**Bruce Wayne:** Selina, I-

**Selina Kyle**: Come back here right now! Come back! I'm p-

**ORACLE:** The call is being lost.

*[Flash is revealed to have managed to stay on the ship, phasing his parachute from his suit, and clambers inside a slowly-closing chamber.]*

**Barry Allen:** Oh my God! [*Looks at the rapidly-receding planet behind him*] I should have stayed on the bus...

*[Desaad, hands engaged in the ship's steering mechanism, accelerates into hyperspace.]*

*[Meanwhile, back in New York]*

*[Victor finds Bruce's flip-phone in the debris on the street and picks it up thoughtfully. Bobo opens up a portal to the ship.]*

**Victor Stone:** Where you going?

**Bobo:** It is my duty to protect the Ruby. I must follow Zatanna and Wayne, to ensure its protection. What will you do?

**Victor Stone:** [*Holding Kent's cell phone]* I think I'm gonna make a call.

*[Bobo nods in understanding and closes the portal. Victor holds Clark Kent's cell phone and makes a call.]*