Disco Elysium (Pre-Crisis)

Team Free Will

### Aliases

The Single Greatest Line-Up of Magicians, The Killers of The Shadow Dog, The A-Team, The End All Be All, Team Free Will, Mystic Force, The Ballroom Blitzers, The Paranormal Investigative Team, The New Lords of Order, They Who Stopped Revelations

## Members

### Primary Members

Chas Constantine
Grant Jones
Death of The Endless
Swamp Thing
Shade
Rose Winters
Zatanna
Robotman
Zombie
Papa Midnite
Etrigan, The Demon

### Allies

Madame Voodoo
Lucifer Morningstar
Phantom Stranger

### Enemies

The Shadow Dog
The Fallen
Revelations

## Creators & First Appearance

### Creators

Morpheus

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The team that retroactively became known as **Disco Elysium** is a mystical supergroup formed by **Chas Constantine** when he sought help defeating The Shadow Dog, who had escaped from his prison, The Garden of Eden. The original lineup consisted of Helena Calstio, Grant Jones, Death of The Endless, Swamp Thing, Shade, Rose Winters, Zatanna, Robotman, Zombie, Papa Midnite, and Chas himself.

This team successfully trapped The Shadow Dog in The Garden of Eden after learning that killing him would break a seal that would have jumpstarted the apocalypse. However, this came at a significant cost as Helena died, and Chas agreed to go with The Second of The Fallen to Hell after making a deal before trapping The Shadow Dog that ensured the team's survival. The remaining team members went to Hell, retrieved Chas from The Second of The Fallen, and killed The Second and Third of The Fallen. However, this was a seal, and it jumpstarted Revelations.

The team would stop the biblical apocalypse by enlisting Lucifer Morningstar, Cain & Abel, Madame Voodoo, and the Phantom Stranger. After stopping Revelations, the group eventually returned to The Forever Lounge for victory drinks. The team would come together in smaller bursts but never to the magnitude it once was. However, Phantom Stranger recently told Chas that the world may need Disco Elysium again.

## **History**

### **Disco Elysium**

After a divination dream of The Garden of Eden, **Chas Constantine** encountered Jason Fields, secretly Swamp Thing, who told him that The Shadow Dog had escaped The Garden. Due to Jason's connection to The Green, he was able to discover this information. During their research into The Shadow Dog, Helena Calstio would contact them, who told him that there was an unnatural storm in California. After learning that it was an omen, Chas and Jason traveled to The Forever Lounge, where he recruited several magicians to help him fight The Shadow Dog.

Zatanna and Midnite would begin searching for The Shadow Dog, while Chas made a deal with The Second of The Fallen to ensure the team survives. In exchange for their survival, Chas would go to Hell with The Second of The Fallen for ten years, the same number of members on the team, and when Chas' time was up, The Second of The Fallen could have his soul but still send him back to Earth. The Second of The Fallen agreed but let slip that killing The Shadow Dog would jumpstart the apocalypse.

The team would find The Shadow Dog and attack it, but Shade would use the M-Vest to send it back to The Garden of Eden but at the cost of Helena Calstio's life. Discovering that The Second of The Fallen reneged on the deal, Chas told Zatanna what he had done then the two devised a plan. So when The Second of The Fallen came to take Chas, Disco Elysium followed Chas to Hell to save him and kill The Second of The Fallen.

### **Too Many Goddamn Sevens**

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In Hell, Disco Elysium hunted for Chas, but it was here that they were assisted by Etrigan, The Demon, who led them to the third province of Hell, The Gull, and subsequently joined the team. Here, the team discovered that Chas was being tortured by Cassandra Motiff, who had become the Queen of The Merchants in Hell. In an attempt to win Chas' freedom, Grant beats Cassandra in a rigged game of Blackjack, but as they free Chas, Cassandra snitches and summoned The Second and Third of The Fallen.

With no other choice, Disco Elysium killed The Second and Third of The Fallen, but Cassandra reveals that their deaths broke several seals and jumpstarted the apocalypse. Just before Beelzebub attacked them, Etrigan teleported himself and the team to Earth. However, Etrigan teleported them to Lux, where Lucifer awaited them. Death called in a favor from Lucifer to help them, who initially declined until he learned that he could settle an old score with The First of The Fallen. Lucifer called upon his divinator, Madame Voodoo, who told Disco Elysium where The First of The Fallen would rise, and the team set off.

Disco Elysium would travel to New Orleans, where God sat in a jazz bar on Bourbon Street. God would tell the group that he was here to see his son defeated and granted Papa Midnite the Lance of Longinus, stating that it was the only weapon to kill Satan. The team would battle The First of The Fallen in New Orleans, and Rose delivered the final blow, stabbing The First of The Fallen in the heart with the spear. After having stopped the biblical apocalypse, Disco Elysium would return to The Forever Lounge, tend to their wounds, and throw a party in celebration and honor of Helena.

### **Equipment**

* **The Lance of Longinus**: God gifted the group The Lance of Longinus to defeat The First of The Fallen. According to lore, whoever holds the lance is seemingly immortal, proven true as Rose wielded the lance and did not die whenever The First of The Fallen attempted to burn her alive. Since then, the lance was returned to Papa Midnite and resided within his club, The Midnite Hour.

There respective personal equipment.

## **Trivia**

* Etrigan was the one who dubbed them "Disco Elysium."
* The Phantom Stranger has a deep fear of this team.
* Lucifer has claimed that this is the only team that he enjoys.
* It is unknown if it was actually God who helped them or not and none of the team members want to find out.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Disco Elysium
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Too Many Goddamn Sevens
3. ↑ The Next Episode