Red, Blue, and Yellow

The Man:

Once more, my eyes snap open and I find myself alone.

"Superman," I say, "Superman. Hello? Where are you? Where did you?"

I look around and notice something off. The blue bubble I summoned before. It's gone. I'm exposed.

"Someone must have attacked while I was in Kara's mind. That's why Superman is gone, but who? Darkseid."

I turn around and look through the hole in the back of his throne room. The throne room is empty.

About to fly off to find Superman, I stop when I hear a familiar voice. Turning around, I see Kara holding her hand and shaking as she tries to stay in the air.

"Kara," I say, flying over to her. "Hey, easy there."

Looking down, I realize I'm flying instead of using a hoverboard. Using Saint Walker's blue ring, I summon a hoverboard and stand on it. I make sure to summon an extra-large hoverboard so Kara can rest on it. That darn thing is still on her head so I grab and crush it.

"Ahh," Kara moans. She is still shaking despite standing on my hoverboard. Shaking her head, she finally looks up at me and smiles.

"Is this," she starts, "Is this real?"

"Yeah," I say, "It's real alright. Why do you ask?"

"Because you're still blue."

"Oh yeah. That's because of this."

I show Kara Saint Walker's ring. As I show her the blue ring, I realize something. Kara is still wearing the red ring. Without the device on her head, Kara lost her rage and anger. She isn't wearing the red lantern armor anymore and the ring seems to have lost its glow.

"Let's trade," I suggest. "Give me your hand."

Kara is hesitant at first but nods her head and gives me her hand a second later. Her hand on mine, I take the red ring off and slowly slide the blue ring on.

"This is more your color," I say, stepping back as Kara is slowly encased in the blue lantern armor. A massive burst of blue energy knocks me off the disappearing hoverboard.

"No," Kara says, looking down. However, as I fall, I put on the red ring and encase myself in red lantern armor. Now summing a red hoverboard, I fly back up.

"This feels better," Kara says, spreading out her arms.

"Yeah," I say, clearing my throat and looking away. "As I said, blue is more your color."

While looking away, I hear screaming and the sound of a fist fight.

"Come on," I say, nudging my head. "This way! Superman may need our help!"

"Wait," Kara says, flying after me. "Superman!"

"Oh yeah," I say, tapping my head. "Uhh, we're in the middle of a truce. Basically, this is what is going on."

Superman:

Screaming as Darkseid grabs and throws me into one of the war machines, I crawl out of the war machine only to have Kalibak runs up and hit me with his mace. He hits and knocks me to the ground.

Kalibak roars as he jumps and tries to hit me with his mace again. Swinging and holding out my yellow ring, I summon a barrier to protect me. Hitting the barrier, Kalibak's mace bounces off of it. He's stunned for only a second, and in that second, I hit him with a yellow beam. This time, it's me who knocks Kalibak to the ground.

I don't even have time to catch my breath before Darkseid appears in front of me. He raises both his hands and slams them against the yellow barrier over and over. I can feel each hit and it's not long before the barrier starts to fade.

"You grow tired," Darkseid says, slamming the barrier once more. "You can rest when you're dead."

My barrier flashes as Darkseid raises his fist once more. Preparing for it to shatter and Darkseid to grab me, a blue wave from nowhere hits and knocks Darkseid back.

"Thanks for the help," I say, turning around. "Where's Kara?"

"I'm right here," Kara answers while holding up a blue ring. I rub my eyes just to be sure I wasn't seeing this.

"Kara," I say, "You have a blue ring?"

"It's all thanks to him," Kara says. She points at the man with the sunglasses, only now, instead of a blue ring, he had a red one. "He explained everything to me by the way. I know about the temporary truce. So for now, we're going to fight together. At least, until we can leave Apokolips. Understood."

"Understood," I reply. The barrier fading, I jump into the air and fly up to the two. Turning around, we face Darkseid.

"Three rings," the man says, holding up his red ring. "One Darkseid. Let's see how he handles this."

The man looks toward Kara and me and nods his head. I nod my own head and Kara does the same. Together, we charge toward Darkseid.

Supergirl:

The first to reach Darkseid, The Man jumps off his red hoverboard and sends it flying into Darkseid. Seeing this, Darkseid uses his laser vision to destroy the hoverboard. His lasers cut right through the hoverboard and straight for The Man.

"Watch out," Superman yells, just as The Man jumps out of the way. As he jumps, he summons two axes that form in his hands. Landing and spinning around, he throws the axes and they both hit Darkseid.

Darkseid screams as the axes hit him, one against the shoulder and the other on his arm. They shatter when they hit Darkseid but despite breaking, they are able to force Darkseid to cross his arms. With his arms crossed, he couldn't do anything when The Man pulls back both his hands. A massive hammer forms in them, The Man throws it and hits Darkseid.

Darkseid is thrown into the air, and while in the air, Superman flies in from the side and rams into Darkseid. Pushing and throwing Darkseid into a dragon-shaped tank, Superman flies back.

Seeing an opening, I use my new blue ring and blast the tank with Darkseid in it, the whole thing exploding.

The three of us regroup and look at each other.

"There's no way it's that easy," Superman says.

"Agree," The Man says, "I fought Darkseid many times before, and have seen him survive worst."

"Fought Darkseid before," I repeat in my head. "What are you talking about?"

I can't ask The Man. I hear a bunch of familiar voices and turn around.

"Dinah," I shout, seeing Dinah on the Rusted. She's looking badly beaten up. She and everyone else; Cheetah, Reverse-Flash, Selina. Even Cyborg and Hawkgirl. They were all beaten and laying on the floor, surrounded by parademons. Standing on top of them are four women and an elderly woman.

"Granny," The Man says, "And her Female Furies: Stompa, Mad Harriet, Lashina, and Gilotina."

"You know them," Superman asks.

"Again, I've fought all of them before. They killed me a few times."

"Wait," I say, "What?"

Before The Man could answer, he turns his head.

"Watch out," he screams, using his red ring to push Superman and me out of the way. While doing so, I see a tall and skinny man in a cloak standing beside one of the war machines. The war machine he is standing beside fires at The Man, only it not fires the war machine is shooting. It's a rocket. A rocket so powerful, it hits and knocks The Man out of the sky.

"Noo," I cry, trying to fly to The Man after his sacrifice. However, something happens to Superman. Something hits him and knocks him out of the sky. He falls to the ground and I follow after him.

"Superman," I say, looking at Superman as he holds his chest. "What happened? What was that?"

"That was my omega beams," a voice answers. I shake my fist as I turn around. Standing before me and Superman is Darkseid. Despite everything we did, he looks completely unharmed.

"I see you managed to break free of DeSaad's device," Darkseid says. "Well, too bad. If you would have kept it on, you may have survived this."

Darkseid's eyes turn dark red. A second later, he shoots his laser visions. Using my own laser visions, I try to push back against Darkseid but his omega beams are stronger. As they get closer, I shoot out my hand and summon a barrier to protect us.

The barrier manages to protect us but it shatters after a while. Darkseid's own omega beams disappear, I try to use this small opening to grab Superman and fly away but Darkseid appears in front of us and knocks me down.

Hitting the ground, I rub my head as I look up. Both of Darkseid's hands are glowing. He is staring down at us with a smile.

"This is the end," he says, rising his hands. Slamming them down, I rise my arms to protect Superman, but Superman comes up from behind me and gets in front.