5.6

Location: Gotham, tearing the enemy to shreds,

Time: Invasion Day 9:20 PM (~6 hours since it began)

The gloom has only gotten deeper as time passes under the endless eclipse. Martian Manhunter joins me in the air, it seems he has succeeded in infiltrating the ground forces and has their main bases of operation in the city. No one can really prepare sufficiently for a telepathic, shape shifter spy.

While less effective in the air, he is still quite powerful crippling the ships with telekinetic waves and changing the perceptions of the alien pilots to view the other ships as hostile. Several vessels are downed by 'friendly' fire and a few more when he lures them close enough I can reach them.

Seeing all of these flimsy space fighters I have a suspicion they are disposable, they probably don't even have a hyperspace drive on-board. Now the Mothership on the other hand is probably essential, acting as carrier and possibly home to their species. I'd lay even odds these are raiders of some kind, trying to batter us into surrender by targeting the major nations and civilian population centres.

[Magnus, I require you to destroy this structure.] Martian Manhunter sends to me. I suppress a grin as I look down at whatshername's bar before sending the nearest alien ship on a kamikaze run. As she so ridiculously tried to tell me not so long ago… welcome to the big leagues.

The resulting explosion and destruction flushes several aliens into retreat, the power lines I send after them make that more permanent as I string them up by their necks for all to see. As long as they continue to fight, even Batman can't argue with the fact that they are asking to die. Besides as the Chinese used to say, 'kill one man to warn a thousand'.

I turn to look over the city and find a new threat, a sniper nest on the roof of a particularly large building. They seem to be attacking anyone on the streets below, but a few take some potshots at me that Gunnr blocks with dismissive ease with her shield.

Eh… screw it. I just rip the entire top of the building free, giving the aliens a good look as they run and panic like ants before they fall into gravity's arms and smash on the road below with the rubble. Rebar is my friend.

I spot the massive troop transport in retreat, which causes me to blink.

On it's tail a glowing green figure.

Oh my gosh, it's a Green Lantern.

Yes. (fist pump) Just what we need.

He raises his hand and from the ring projects the construct of an artillery piece, which strikes the ship and slams through the shields to tear through the hull. Dozens of aliens fall from the wrecked section along with debris.

Huh. I thought they couldn't kill by design.

Wait, I've got it. It's Original Green Lantern from WW2.

He's come out of retirement to kick ass and take names. Interesting. I guess in a situation like this he would be motivated to help. His ring's AI is damaged, so there wouldn't be any limiters on his actions.

Yes, the older look is very obvious as I move in closer.

Unfortunately the damaged vessel escapes, but not that important.

He swings my way, ring raised before lowering it and smiling. Tiny mask that covers nothing but his eyes. Typical Lantern, barely hiding their identity.

"Good to see a friendly face! These nasty blue men started shooting up my neighbourhood, so I really had to do something about it." He grinned. "Ring still works and I've got enough juice in it to send them crying back to mama!"

Huh, so he lived in Gotham too?

"Green Lantern, right?" He nodded at my words. "I'm working with Wonder Woman and Batman as well as other heroes. We're banding together to push them back where they came from. Any help you can provide we would appreciate!"

"Diana's with you? Well in that case I'm in this to the hilt!" He responded cheerfully. "If any of the other old codgers crawl out in their walking frames and wheelchairs, say hi from me!"

Okay, these aliens have really knocked over the hornet's nest because everyone is crawling out to fight back.

I receive a request for air support from Batman, surprisingly at this moment.

"Hey, I'm needed elsewhere. If you see a green alien guy flying around he's with us." I added. Didn't want a friendly fire issue of our own.

He nodded. "Get going then. I'll find a way to keep myself busy."

As I flew away he turned to face a strafing fighter and channelling his will formed a baseball bat construct that smashed it into burning debris.

I followed the signal to find the majority of the Gotham PD and their officers pinned down by several aliens in what looked like pillboxes? They have fabrication tech that can make static defences? That could be bad if they employ it on a large scale to dig in.

I see Wonder Woman is taking shelter under her shield and seems to be their primary target.

The structures don't seem to be metallic, which is a shame. They also don't seem to be heavy duty either.

Gunnr needs no urging to leap from her mount and plummet down in a kick that shatters the dome and sinks her into the guts of the structure. Several moments of very heavy impacts you could feel even at my distance and she burst out again, brushing herself off.

The second pillbox received a hail of sharp steel that curved inside through the small windows and sliced the occupants to ribbons.

I came down beside Diana.

"I found an old friend of yours helping out, Green Lantern? He says hi." I explained.

Her face, changed from grim to a pleased smile. "Truly? It has been quite a while. When we have time, I must seek him out for a chat. Your aid was well executed and timely, also."

I looked around but couldn't spot Batman at first, only noticing him by checking for life signs.

Moving to him, perched on a roof edge beside a gargoyle I reported. "Manhunter has learned all he could of their current movements and has explored their motivations. I also have found Green Lantern from the old days fighting and recruited him."

"Good. I was aware of Green Lantern in my city, but not that he was still able to use his powers. I will need that information from Martian Manhunter asap. Simply reacting to their feints we fell into this trap." Batman replied. "We need to do better than this or we'll only be bogged down."

I nodded, Gunnr materialising at my side as we flew back toward where we last saw J'onn.

He was busy, playing matador with fighters and beam weapons utilising his phasing ability.

With a cry to Odin, Gunnr charged on her wolf. She lowered Gungnir like a lance as she aggressively advanced at supersonic speeds.

The impact of mystical weapon and mounted Valkyrie tore through the nearest vessel like paper and continued on, turning to strike a second and third. The last bugging out, seeing the carnage she could inflict and wanting no part of it.