Reaper sneaks in along with the rest of the group.
"I can't believe Hawkgirl and Superman got captured."
"Say that again, we didn't hear you the first thousand times, Lantern."
"Quick question, how are we supposed to tell you two apart?" Flash inputs causing everyone to stare at him. He looks at the others before cringing. "I mean... When we say Green Lantern, how will you know who we're talking to?"
"Great save."
"I'll go by GL." Jordan suggests. Everyone nods.
"Now is not the time to figure out nicknames. We have a one dead and two captured, we need to get serious." Stewart scolds sternly. Reaper glares at him.
"I appreciate you not sugar coating it but you didn't need to raise your voice and let the enemies know we're here." she replies quietly. She was right though, five aliens come around the corner just as she finishes. She raises her hand and burns them mercilessly while letting a cruel smirk form on her lips as they cry in agony and melt away. The smell of burnt flesh fills the air, making everyone nauseous. From the smell and their partner's cruelty. "So, greenie, where are they?"
"I thought you could sense life forces?" John Stewart asks her. She rolls her eyes.
"I can. But for some reason I can't get a read on them. It feels weird." she replies before thinking about it. "It's like they're here but...at the same time... Like they're not. It's hard to describe but... Ugh, you got a read on them, Martian?" she turns to J'onn. His eyes glow before he nods.
"Yes. They're this way." he leads them down a few turns before they come across a room and their comrades are hanging upside down, unconscious. Reaper stops for a moment.
"Wait-" her warning comes late as their "comrades" open their eyes in a snap, revealing glowing red eyes. They shift into the aliens and exit just as gas begins to spray into the room and it seals them in. They begin to cough.
"Can't focus!" Both Lanterns cough out. Reaper opens up a white portal and swallows her friends in it before following them through it.
***
"Errg...where...What?" Flash groans as everyone else around him wakes up as well. They turn to find they're in some kind of room. In walks Reaper and she blinks at them in surprise.
"Oh. Hello!" comes a cheerful voice that causes them confusion.
"Reaper?" they ask. The "Reaper" shakes it's head.
"Oh, I'm not Reaper...well, the original one. I'm a clone!" she explains happily. "Well... Sort of. As you can see, I'm nothing like her!"
"Clone?" Wonder Woman asks, confused. The real Reaper enters next when the clone's eyes glow blue. With a wave of her hand, the clone disappears.
"Glad to see you're awake."
"Where are we?"
"A pocket dimension, you could say. I created it." Reaper replies. All their eyes widen in shock.
Just how powerful was the woman before them?
"I have the location of our teammates if you're ready to rescue them?" She asks.
"We can't waste anymore time! The more time we're in here the-"
"Actually, I sped up the gas' effects on you so you were out for about half an hour." Reaper cuts Stewart off. They stare in shock at her.
"H-how?" Flash stammers in awe. She winks at him.
"A magician never reveals their tricks." she opens another portal with a snap of her fingers. "You'll have to go first because the portal will automatically close once I enter it." they nod and step through one by one.
***
"I want the others caught now!" growls the leader of the aliens. The followers nod and leave. The leader turns back to Superman and Hawkgirl with a cruel smirk. "It seems your "friends" have abandoned you." Superman glares at him with a scowl.
"You're lying. They would nev-"
"Really? Because it would seem that this "Reaper" hates you." Superman looks down sadly. He is suddenly hit by a blue fire making him cry out in surprise and agony.
"I'm not particularly fond of his actions but I don't hate him." Superman looks up with a hopeful expression.
"Reaper!" He and Hawkgirl shout.
"What are we, chopped liver?" Flash jokes.
"Or a Monday?" GL adds. He and Flash fist bump. Hawkgirl shakes her head at their idioticness.
"Untie us!" she hisses at them. Flash nods.
"Uh, right." he zooms over to her and vibrates his hand to break through the goo holding her. She rubs her wrist soothingly before her mace fills her vision. She looks up to see Reaper holding it out to her making her eyes widen.
"You gonna take it or keep on staring at me like a fish outta water?" Hawkgirl closes her mouth and takes the mace before breaking Superman's holdings. Aliens begin to stream in and Reaper begins to burn them. "Supey, open a window, I accidentally burned thanksgiving dinner!" Reaper jokes. Superman smiles.
"I don't see one...is it okay if I make one?" he calls back. Reaper shrugs.
"Go ahead. I think they could go for a little renovating." Superman chuckles as he punches through the roof and back in making two giant holes. "Shit. Forgot about the smoke." suddenly, the smoke clears and they all turn to the machine that created it to find Batman.
"Batman! You're alive!" Flash calls happily.
"I hid him with my mind." J'onn explains. Reaper glares at Batman.
"Note to self: kill him later for playing with my emotions." she whispers to herself.
"Alien invasion going on guys?" Hawkgirl calls before slamming her mace into the face of an oncoming alien. Everyone gets back to fighting until there's only one alien left.
"You think you've won?" it hisses. GL looks around to the destroyed aliens. He then shrugs.
"Looks like it." he replies. The alien growls.
"It's only just begun. He's coming now."
"Who?" Batman growls.
"All hail Darkseid." he then steps into the sunlight and melts himself. Reaper stares at him in shock as she tenses.
"What the hell is a "dark side"?" Green Lantern growls. Reaper clenches her fists.
"Do aliens watch Star Wars too?" Flash asks. Reaper glares at him.
"This isn't a game! Not anymore."
"Woah...wait, do you know what this "dark side" is?" Flash asks as her raises his hands in a placating matter. Reaper nods.
"Not a what, a who. I know of him. He's bad. Very bad. He's the most evil thing on this earth... And powerful too. Even if we were to fight him... We'd just die. Well you guys would, I would just come back to life."
"No way... Can't you stop him?" Reaper shrugs.
"I'm powerful...but I don't know if I am powerful enough."
"But you're stronger than these normal men... and women. Sister, you appear to be a God!" Wonder Woman says in disbelief. Reaper looks at her.
"I'm not a God. Even I have weaknesses. I know my limits." Reaper replies.
"So what do we do?" Superman asks. Reaper shrugs.
"Why ask me? I only know of how powerful he is and other stories of him that I got from- We will only fail." Reaper sighs.
"Tell us all you know about this evil." Batman demands. Reaper nods.
***
"-that is all I know."
(it would take too long to write every single thing.)
"Damn." GL murmurs.
"We're gonna need some help." Flash adds. Reaper scoffs with a roll of her eyes.
"Did you not just listen to my explanation of him??? He's big, bad, and dangerous!" Flash smirks.
"You know what they say, "The bigger they are","
"-"the harder they fall"." GL finishes for Flash. Reaper shakes her head.
"Yeah, well,... Shut up." they high five.
"Yeah!" they cheer in unison.
"You'll just doom your friends." Reaper comments grumpily. She then sighs before throwing her hands up. "But fine! Fine, I'm in." Wonder Woman nods before throwing a fist, that's holding her sword, in the air and shouting,
"Then, let us gather our strongest warriors and prepare them for War!"
Okay guys, the "So It Begins" arc is over and now we'll delve into the "War" one with more heroes appearing. Carry on my wayward readers!
Always Crazy, (and sorry for any errors)
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