Chapter 4: Invasion 3

"talking"

'thinking'

Metropolis, March 10, 2010

Thousands of portals opened in the sky, gigantic hordes of parademons came out from there, their purpose was to terrorize the population and prevent anything that could prevent the motherboxes from coming together. A portal away from them opened revealing five people with solemn faces, these were Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash and Victor Stone, whom Flash kindly told him that he would call him Cyborg, something to protect identity and loved ones, Victor didn't complain, he had other issues that were more worrying than a strange name.

The plan was simple, Flash and Batman had to distract the parademons, and Superman and Green Lantern would take care of giving Cyborg time to connect to the motherboxes and make them separate, Cyborg believed that if he reversed their polarity and restarted the flow of electrons could undo the fusion, but the problem is that it needed to arrive as soon as possible, because with time, the fusion was going to be inevitable, even if the flow was reversed, it would not be reversed.

They were working against the clock, but would they be enough to achieve their plan? It was something that everyone wondered in their minds, but no one wanted to express it out loud, they didn't want to make the moment worse than it already was.

The parademons were no longer hundreds, they were thousands, they were all in one place and it was going to be very difficult to achieve it, Steppenwolf was another matter, Superman knew he was strong, but was he capable of fighting a god? He had never thought about it, now was the time when Clark wanted to be just a normal person the most, helping his father with the plow and then eating the homemade cake his mom had baked after work. 'If everything goes well, I should go visit my mom, I haven't seen her for a long time', Superman thought, at this moment he was a little scared and he didn't even want to imagine what would happen to his loved ones if he failed, 'NO!!', he couldn't fail, that thought was unimaginable.

Superman charged towards Steppenwolf with Green Lantern following behind him, his speed was supersonic, reaching where he was in a few seconds, however, Steppenwolf had already seen him and in a quick movement generated a force field that repelled the Kryptonian's attack. Steppenwolf was a being with great battle experience, his weapon, a scythe forged by the best blacksmiths of Apokolips, allowed him to absorb entropic energy, generating force fields or attraction fields, in short, he had a quasi-perfect command of its environment.

His thoughts were interrupted when a giant green hand hit him sending him away from where he was, yes, he could generate these fields, but he needed to recharge his weapon every time, short time, but still, not instantaneously. Green Lantern didn't give the god time to breathe, his ring, a device that could quickly analyze a lot of information, had told him about the capacity of his weapon and the best way to avoid it was not to give him time to use it.

Superman recovered and charged again, but now, his focus was on his hands, he wanted him to drop his weapon and make him fight melee. Steppenwolf was not left behind and sent out a horde of special parademons, unlike the others these were twice the size and had shiny bronze colored armor, they could be easily distinguished from their yellow armored counterparts, these were few, only a few dozen , but his improved characteristics allowed him to fight against beings with great strength like that of the Kryptonian. Superman couldn't help it, he had to fight these beings since he knew that Batman or Flash might not be able to defeat them. Green Lantern was irritated, he also couldn't avoid these beings.

Every time the desperation was seen more, they needed to get closer to Cyborg, and time was running out, Superman's mind was working at full capacity devising a plan to get rid of these beings and return to Steppenwolf when he could see that a trident was flying in the direction of address of these. The high-speed aimed trident impaled a pair that was bothering Superman.

Superman turned his head and saw a person with blond hair, dressed in an orange suit with green trimmings, his handsome and dignified face showed the charm of a ruler, this was a person who would not let himself be looked down on. "Greetings Superman, I am Arthur ruler of Atlantis, I come to help", 'Is Atlantis real?', Superman thought, but he did not express it, these were not the moments to ask these questions.

"Keep them busy Arthur, please, I need to get back to the big guy", Superman conveyed his plan quickly and Arthur agreed, Arthur knew he wasn't strong enough to fight on an equal footing with that god, but he had heard of Superman on the news and he knew that if there was anyone who could match the God in strength it was the Kryptonian, he would help him against these special parademons.

Superman did not delay and quickly went to Steppenwolf, but the god did not remain idle, his weapon was loaded and ready, but instead of repelling the Kryptonian he attracted him with his attraction field and impaled him with his weapon, Superman for the first time Once in his entire existence he had been badly hurt, and he didn't like the feeling. "Superman!" Lantern yelled, he made a machine gun with his ring and attacked Steppenwolf with his bullets, he couldn't hurt him, but at least he managed to distract him long enough for Superman to get out of his impalement. They needed help, with Arthur it was not enough.

...….

Batman was having a very bad day, he knew he was only human, yes highly trained and lethal, but only human, he had no powers and yet here he was, standing with the gods fighting for his survival.

Throwing an explosive batarang, he managed to destroy the face of one of the parademons that were attacking, with his hook, he impaled a couple and approached them to give them a strong kick, his suit was made of a special alloy of various metals, it made it very light but strong, it certainly gave him enough strength to be able to hit these guys.

He had a rule not to kill, but he also knew that these beings were no longer people, they were monsters that followed orders and this gave him all the conviction to do everything possible to kill them.

In the distance, he could see a blur too fast to distinguish with his eye, but where that blur passed, the bodies of the parademons fell one by one, no doubt Flash was also doing his best, he just hoped it was enough. Because no matter where I looked, it seemed that the horde did not end.

"Shit", he couldn't help but exclaim when he knew he was distracted enough, and from behind a parademon attacked him, he jumped to avoid it, but the parademon grabbed his leg and threw him away, Batman rolled and got up quickly but two others attacked him, preventing him from taking out his tools to fight them, out of the corner of his eye he saw how three others were approaching quickly, Batman was in trouble.

When he thought it was the end, a sword managed to go through the bodies of these beings like butter. Batman was stunned and for the first time, he couldn't help expressing it, the one who had helped him was an extremely beautiful woman, dressed in a red and silver warrior leather suit, she had a crown on her head, a sword and a shield in her hands. He could also see a golden lasso hanging from her waist, Batman had never seen such a beautiful woman, his playboy attitude almost came to the fore, but quickly, like a master of the mind, he mastered it and was able to control himself without being noticed. "Greetings warrior, my name is Diana de Temiscira, princess of the Amazons, although you call me Wonder Woman, I come to help."

Batman knew that under his beautiful appearance there was an experienced warrior, his posture and his handling of weapons gave him away, quickly his head worked to its full capacity and formulated plans, finally he commented with his voice distorted by his suit, "it's a pleasure to meet you Princess Diana, but if you want to help, I need you to support Superman against Steppenwolf, we need to distract him so that Cyborg separates the motherboxes" Batman said pointing his hand towards the sky where Superman and Steppenwolf were fighting fiercely, Diana seeing this did not stop anymore time and crossed the skies, since as the daughter of Zeus she also had the ability to fly, which her Amazon sisters sometimes envied of her.

Superman saw a beautiful woman coming to the battlefield at full speed, although it couldn't compare to his fast flight, it was still fast enough and in no time she was by his side. Wonder Woman did not have time to say hello when she was attacked by the new god, "Amazon, you have come to die", "I have come to defeat you Steppenwolf, you will never achieve your goal", "ha, little scum, I almost did it, and nothing could stop it". Superman knew that whoever this woman was, she was an ally and he didn't need a second opinion when he decided to join her in fighting with Steppenwolf.

Superman matched the god's strength but lacked combat experience, Diana didn't have his strength but was very experienced, together they made a perfect combo and attacked in almost perfect synchronization, at last, Steppenwolf was being dominated, when the god thought he couldn't been worse, a green hand joined them, sending him further away from where the motherboxes were, and if that wasn't bad, a trident was quickly thrown at his shoulder, causing a deep wound "aggggg!", the god exclaimed in pain, he grab the trident and threw it away from where it was, four guys were now fighting against him, and he had no longer any special parademons to help him.

Steppenwolf knew that he would be defeated but even so it would last as long as it took for the mother boxes to finish merging, just a little more, a couple of minutes and the inevitable would come, however, as he ranted in his mind, he saw a new portal opened right next to the mother boxes. From there a half man half machine person came out, and with a series of extensions of his arms, he connected to the mother boxes, "nooooo!", Steppenwolf didn't know who this person was who arrived but whatever he is, he did not bode well.

Steppenwolf charged desperately, but Superman avoided him by sending him away with a punch, Steppenwolf took his weapon and began to charge it with energy but a lasso took his arm avoiding his mission, later a series of green chains immobilized him and finally as icing on the cake, he ended being impaled again by that golden trident, Steppenwolf could only watch in horror as the motherboxes stopped emitting the flow of energy and began to vibrate again, they were decomposing and becoming three again.

Cyborg finished with his mission and was able to reverse the electron polarity, 'finally it's over', Darkseid would not come, at least, not soon, he knew there were other ways for Darkseid to invade, but this was the fastest and easiest method, however, they would be ready, when the inevitable came, the people would not go without a fight, of that he was sure.

Victor not only disconnected the motherboxes, he also used his technology to summon the self-destruct code of the parademons, each parademon began to fall from the places where they were, their bodies motionless as if they were statues, the most relieved by this were none other than Flash and Batman, mountains of corpses of parademons could be seen next to each one, without a doubt, they had fought bravely against these beings.

They had won, the heroes of the earth had won, together as a team they achieved the impossible, at this moment is when a team was being formed, a team of superheroes that faced these types of threats, that were the guardians of the Earth.