Something changed and I'm not talking about the destroyed cities or few survivors. Something in the heroes changed, my first clue for that was when I resumed my standard human form, ready to make my way to Gotham to visit Leo, when I was suddenly punched square in the face by a red fist.
The hit dazed me for a few seconds which was enough time for Flash to run around the whole city to hit my face from the other side.
What the fuck was going on here? What did I do to deserve this!? Did the heroes finally snap and decide to assault me because I made their lives hard? That would be as fun as it would be a nuisance.
I had enough of being his punching back, so I donned my cape which promptly defended me from any attacks, no matter how fast they came.
"Hey, now wait a moment. If you are going to beat me you should at least give me a good reason why"
The only answer I got was an arrow that exploded before it hit my cape.
"Another one? Why the fuck are you guys trying to gangbang me?"
This time I got an answer from a dark figure that walked out of the shadows.
"The recent event made us realize that there were bigger threats we needed to deal with than someone who is trying to make our lives hard by using the law. We decided to make an exception for you and break the law to deal with you so that we could focus on the really important things"
Now this was interesting.
"So, you managed to convince the whole league to break the law so that they can have an easier life? You guys are hilarious"
As funny as their hypocrisy was, I was getting tired of Flash's constant attack.
"Well, since you decided to attack me, I have every right to defend myself" I summoned my spear "even to kill if the situation calls for it" and threw it.
The spear I threw was far from fully powered but it still retained its most basic functions of Homing, indestructibility, and unnatural sharpness. Flash tried to dodge, only to realize that the spear would change its course according to him.
He barely managed to start running away before it hit his head but even as he ran across streets, cities, continents, and eventually the whole world to get rid of this thing, it was slowly closing the distance.
He tried to slow it down by fazing through buildings and traveling to other dimensions, only for his pursuer to smash through concrete and space like it was nothing.
By the time the spear was just a meter away from him, one of the spectators who didn't want to get themselves involved decided to step in. Superman clearly overestimated himself, like he often does, when he decided to grab the spear, only for it to slice through his arm like butter before burying itself in the speedster's chest.
"The spear is designed to deal with slippery beings like you, you could just have stood there instead of running around the world and gotten a swift death"
The attacks stopped for a moment as everyone watched their speedster take his last breath and the Kryptonian's face went pale from blood loss and his eyes slowly glowing red from rage. He cauterized his arm with his laser before directing it at me.
With the enraged Kryptonian now joining, the attacks I had to face grew more ferocious. This was no longer about them making their lives easier by dealing with me, this was about me killing one of their members, totally ignoring that it was justified self-defense.
As the fight went on, more and more so-called heroes joined the fight and I was forced to use more and more of my armor to deal with them. I was forced to equip my helmet to resist MM's psychic attacks, and the orbs to freeze Plastic Man, and when a Boom Tube opened and many Teen Titans joined the fight, my daughter included, I decided to just equip my full armor, even if it was severely nerved to not kill them all on the spot.
Even Viliana did not know how I looked in human form as I made sure to not tell anyone but she sure as hell recognized my armor, imagine her surprise when she found out that the annoying bastard that made her and her friend's life so hard by using the law was her own father.
Despite recognizing me, we had a tactical agreement to not reveal each other's relationship in front of others. At least that is what I thought but I was proven wrong when I was about to make Starfire a head shorter.
"Dad, no!"
I stopped my attack to give her a blank look and the entire battlefield turned silent as everyone looked between us and then the severed limbs and cold bodies of Superman, Green Lantern, and Flash.
The heroes were stunned by the sudden revelation that one of their strongest and most skilled members was the daughter of the guy who had been killing and dismembering them while I was amused at how she only talked to me when I was about to decapitate one of her best friends and ignored the fate of her other teammates.
"Do you realize what you just did?"
For the first time, I spoke my personally created language in any reality. I had already taught it to everyone in my family but to anyone else. The language did not have a name and it did not need one.
The moment I spoke these words, all lights dimmed, the entire universe started to shake and space-time started to crack. To humans, it sounded like a bunch of inhuman sounds that could make them bleed from their orifices but Viliana was not human and she could also make sounds that no human, or any other being in this universe for that matter, could make.
"Yes…" she answered in the same language
"I will ignore it this time but if you want to save your friend, you will have to take her fate upon yourself, are you willing to do this?"
As much as I spoiled all my kids, I was strict when I needed to be, and going against me was one of these occasions. I didn't mind arguing with my children but stopping me from killing someone who I was fighting was past the line and needed to be punished.
She didn't hesitate for a moment and stepped forward with her guard down. She knew what was about to come.
With a swift motion, I cut her head from her shoulders and watched it fall to the ground. Her allies also watched in shock as I decapitated my own daughter and she didn't even fight back.
It might sound cruel and over the top but she was not a mortal and cutting her head off would neither kill her nor hurt her, it was just a matter of principle. She stopped me from beheading someone so she had to take it in their stead.
Her allies just watched in shock as her body picked her head up from the ground and put it back on.
I could tell she was a bit aggrieved by my actions but I ignored her and gave her one last message before leaving.
"We are leaving in about a year, get your things in order till then" and then I disappeared in an explosion of fire, not waiting for a response. I had other people to find and not just family members, I had not forgotten about White Rabbit or the Lego universe.
I had better things to do than to play with those boring heroes and they paid the price for wasting my time.