19 Chapter 19

With Mongul in the vicinity of earth armed to the teeth and aim to destroy all life, the many heroes of earth were engaged in combat but evil never rests as even in this dire situation forces of darkness were moving for their personal gain.

One such force was called The Reach.

The Reach was an insectoid race of Aliens that has existed for million years. It is one of the most powerful races in the universe with its technology and hive mindset.

With its overwhelming power this race has conquered thousands of solar systems, which led to a fight against the Green Lantern Corps.

Most would think that they had loose to the galactic enforcers of justice but The Reach was powerful indeed and they forced the Green Lanterns to a standstill.

They made a peace treaty and promised not to conquer any world unless it came to them willingly but of course who said they had to follow the rules of an inferior species.

Through one mean or another The Reach continued to expand its reach utilizing the scarab.

The scarab was the culmination of their technology and was the field operative of The Reach. It gathered data for them and allowed them to take over through schemes.

Initially, the Scarab that Jaime found had been programmed to be obedient to the Reach, and to subordinate its host's will to them as well. The Reach had intended to present the Scarab's host as Earth's protector, before moving to establish their influence over the planet.

However, during the centuries the Scarab had spent on Earth, it had been infused with magic, the magical "corruption" preventing the Reach from controlling it. With Jaime's assistance, it had started to develop free will and independence, overriding the Reach's deepest programming.

Nevertheless, the Reach still intended to take over the planet, even without the Scarab to help them. As far as the rest of the world was concerned, the Reach were peaceful "galactic traders." Their secret bases and technology were hidden away, out of phase with the rest of the world, and Jaime was the only one who could see them.

Since they couldn't show themselves to the public in a violent manner, they had been using The Light for their goals.

The Light being a human supremacy organization that wanted to accelerate human evolution by any means possible.

Watching the Warworld appear on their screen, The Reach operatives were not happy at the disrespect by inferior specie.

"Release the happiness gas" The Ambassador of the Reach commanded as he saw the opportunity provided at the moment

The heroes were occupied by the threat and wouldn't notice their actions. This gas would make the population of earth very much agreeable and easier to fool.

"Green scarab help out with the heroes and black scarab assassinate the magicians while remaining undetected." With that the two field operatives under his command moved out as they couldn't allow any more magicians to undermine their authority or allow Mongul to destroy this planet

The planet had great potential and they still hadn't been able to find a way to replicate the meta-gene.

'Why did he appear in this sector?' Ambassador wondered with a thoughtful expression

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The heroes were occupied by the giant threat and it was decided that the young team would infiltrate the Warworld to defeat the enemy along with Flash as he was unable to help out on the outside.

Cassandra didn't need a call to know the emergency and left the island in a hurry while Donna watched the metallic moon in the sky.

"Are you thinking of going?" Hippolyta asked

"Why would you think that?"

"Because your sister is not here and they are missing many members. I thought you would consider helping them out."

Donna hadn't been in touch much so she was unaware about the members missing.

"I don't know what to do." Donna sighed as she struggled to find the answers

She felt lost since that day and hadn't found herself.

"Why think too much my child? We are a warrior race so follow your instincts. What does your heart want?"

"Is it really that simple?"

"It is complicated as you make it to be. Following the heart is the beginning and soon you can overcome your grief. By living here you are only trapping yourself with those memories and only a dynamic life can bring you change."

Donna looked at her hands and closed her eyes as she the dead. The death caused by this incident if anything went wrong.

"Mother, I will be going out and I will see if I can find the answer." Donna said as she turned around to look at her adopted mother

She was still not the confident girl of the past but there was some hope that she was making small progress.

"I will pray for you success and hope to see the shining smile of yours."

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Back with the Justice League, all of them had argued for some time about the mission details and were very worried since this mission was the most dangerous one for the kids.

The Young Justice members were gathered together as they were to get transported to the Warworld with the JL keeping the space ship safe since Teleportation wasn't working.

It seems the Warworld had defenses against such attempts making the starting point difficult for the team as they could get killed before even boarding.

All members were gathered except for BB but they had the surprise guest Donna to join them instead while Black Adam appeared to help out the JL with the defense of the planet.

Superboy was feeling a lot of pressure from this mission as his big brother wasn't here and this mission could end death of everyone.

The stress brought from the possible consequences was immense and he wasn't alone with such thoughts.

"Connor, don't worry we can do this." Cassandra patted his back and said those words with some confidence while Meghan could only watch as she had been unable to say anything before the other girl made her move

"Of course we will win."

"Kids relax, we will go in and beat up the villain before getting out with style. All done within a flash." Flash said as he stood in front of all of them while the ship took off

Connor felt better hearing the tone used by Flash and looked towards Donna, his old team mate from the time with the Titans.

She had her eyes closed and her expression was neutral.

It reminded him of old times but he didn't know how she was actually feeling. The death of loved ones was the fear for most of them and he couldn't make light of it.

It made it hard to approach Donna as he was afraid of hurting her feelings.

'Why are emotions so hard to understand?' Connor thought as everything was logical except emotions and he could never get the hang of them

Emotions led to actions that you might not even agree with before that moment.

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Supergirl flew into space as she destroyed any missile that came towards the space ship carrying the team.

It was a stressful job as there were so many of these things and she had to stop before they got close as even the explosion would destroy the ship.

She really was missing Naruto's clone technique right about now and felt he would have been a great help in this crisis.

'I wonder what he is doing now.' Kara thought about her new friend while flying through every target that came near and destroying it with her heat vision

If her cousin hadn't been detained, she would have definitely followed him since she liked to travel but sadly duty called and she had to stay.

It was fortunate on second thought since without her the defenses of the earth would be even weaker and might lead to more deaths.

This was also her first time facing of such a enormous threat where the life of the whole planet was on the line.

'Wish I could shoot more than one target at a time.' Supergirl felt annoyed at her limitations as a single beam was making this task very much difficult

'NO' One of the missiles got to close and exploded

She was horrified and almost paralyzed.

"Supergirl don't stop, I can't stop more of this." Kara heard Naruto's voice and sighed in relief

"Why didn't you say anything if you were here?" Kara complained as her heart had almost stopped and she saw the space ship covered in golden energy

"I only woke up now because of my danger sense. I left clones with everyone before leaving just in case any danger to their life appeared."

"What about me?"

"I don't think you need my protection." Naruto said with a chuckle as he stood atop the space ship and looked at Kara while he protected the space ship and shot out wind blades in all directions to cut down the missiles

Kara agreed to his words but hoped that he would have left a clone for company at least but she didn't say anything as it felt so childish.

Naruto saw the brief sad look and understood something new about his friend.

'She really seems to crave company from people that have similar background.' Naruto thought and smiled as he felt happy that he was needed.

"I was kidding. How can I forget my new best friend, the clone is inside your hair but didn't get activated since you aren't in any danger."

Kara couldn't help but smile at his words and didn't mind that he had slipped something into her hair. Even though she was strong, it felt good when others tried to keep you safe.

It was the feelings behind the action that counted.

"When did you do that?"

"When I hugged you my clone slipped into your hair."

"How did you know that I wouldn't notice?"

"I didn't think of it but I guess you didn't notice."

Kara felt her mood lighten with him around but was forced to move as lasers started targeting them and Naruto was forced to create a golden barrier around the ship.

Kara could only watch as the clone inside her hair flew out to help the other one and both disappeared with their energy depleted.

With Naruto's energy used up, the team finally arrived at the starting point safely while the other members blasted a hole into the mechanical moon.

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