A Spark

Cheetah:

Shooting out my claws and digging them into the floorboard, I'm able to withstand the super parademon's punch. However, I can still feel my stomach aching.

"Ahh," I moan, holding my stomach. The super parademon roars as it jumps and flies into the air. Snarling as I pull up my hand, I jump into the air and cut the super parademon, the monster falling as my newly enhanced claws tear it apart.

Trying to use these few seconds to catch my breath, I stop when I hear someone screaming. Looking up, I see a super parademon holding Green Arrow by his arm. His bow on the floor beneath him, the super parademon blasts Green Arrow with its laser vision. Green Arrow is knocked into the ship's railing. He is screaming as the super parademon keeps up his laser vision.

Once more, I snarl before running toward the super parademon. Jumping and leaping past a few parademons, I jump and cut this parademon right out of the way. Landing and skidding on the floor, I run and grab the bow before the parademon could fall on it.

"Here," I say, throwing his bow at him.

Shaking his head as he pulls himself up, Green Arrow takes his bow back.

"Thanks," he says.

"Don't mention it."

About to run off, I stop when I see the war machines moving aside. They're clearing a path for something. No, no something but someone.

"Who are they," I ask, looking over the ship to see some old lady with four other women. They're all standing in the middle of war machines, and for some strange reason, the war machines have stopped shooting.

"Furies," the old lady yells, raising some sort of staff. "Attack!"

I watch as one out of the four women grabs a nearby war machine and throws it at the ship.

"Watch out," Green Arrow shouts, tackling me to the floor.

The Man:

Holding up one of my swords, I block Kalibak's mace. While he pushes against my sword, he raises his mace again and tries to hit me. However, in that split second, I reach for a kunai and throw it. It explodes and unleashes a smoke cloud that forces Kalibak back. As he steps back, I spin and push myself up.

Still stunned by the smoke, I run up and punch Kalibak in his stomach before punching him across the face. Knocking Kalibak into the air and through a wall, I turn to see Darkseid looking at me.

"You're stronger than you look," he says, his arms falling to his sides. "No matter. You cannot beat me."

"Believe me," I say, adjusting my sunglasses. "I can, but I won't. At least, not like before."

Darkseid jumps into the air and fires his omega beams. The beams travel in a crooked pattern as they head for me. Jumping and rolling out of the way of the beams, I look up to see Darkseid falling toward me. Once more, I jump out of the way but while in mid-air, Darkseid grabs me. Holding me in front, he punches me with a glowing fist. The attack sends me flying through the air and crashing through the wall, exactly like Kalibak.

Superman:

Kara screams as she pulls her hand before shooting it forward. A bright-red beam shoots out and comes for me. Barely flying out of the way in time, I fly toward Kara as fast as I can. Reaching her before she could react, I grab her neck and punch her in the head over and over again.

"Kara," I shout, "Knock it off! Stop this now!"

"Never," Kara shouts back. Once more, she fires a red beam but unlike before, it hits me. The beam pushes me back. Pulling back her hands once more, she fires a red beam for the third time. Seeing this, I fire off my own beam: a yellow beam.

Our beams hit and push against each other. Using my laser vision, I hit Kara, her beam stopping. With her red beam gone, my yellow beam is able to hit her. Stunned for a bit, I take this opening to fly and punch Kara across the face. Falling a bit, I combine my hands together and slam them down onto Kara.

"Kara," I yell, "Come on. Stop this already. Even with a red ring, you're not strong enough to beat me."

"You're right," Kara says, breathing heavily suddenly. "You are too strong for me. I can't beat you. No matter what I do. No matter how hard I fight. I just can't do it. I can't beat you!"

She slams her hands against her head and starts to scream. As she screams, I notice the device on her head glowing brighter.

"What is that," I think.

Kara's hands fall to her sides and she looks up at me with dark-red eyes. She fires lasers from her eyes. The lasers heading for me, I shoot out my ring and summon a wall to block the laser visions.

As I hold back the laser visions, I see someone flying through the air. He crashes through the wall and is heading for one of these fire pillars.

"Oh no," I say, realizing something. There are only two people in Darkseid's throne room, and the person heading for the fire pillar is too small to be Darkseid.

Darkseid:

I watch from my throne room as the Earthling is falling toward one of my fire pillars.

"There is no way he can survive that," I think, "He'll be burnt alive."

As I wait and watch, something small and blue shoots past my head.

"What was that?"

The Man:

Saint Walker's blue ring reaches me, I grab it while flying through the air. Putting it on, I feel a surge of blue energy rush throughout me. Just as I enter the flame, I swing my arm and call forth an explosion of blue energy. The blue energy completely put out the fire.

All the way from his throne room, I can still see Darkseid. Only this time, his mouth is open a little.

"Surprise, surprise," I say, looking down at Saint Walker's ring. "Thank you again for the blue ring."

Looking back up at Darkseid, I leave him to find Superman and Kara. It doesn't take me long to find them.

"Wait," Superman says as soon as he sees me. "You have a blue lantern ring? How did you get a blue lantern ring? I have never heard of one before."

"I'll tell you later," I answer, "Assuming, of course, the truce still stands."

Seeing Kara still with the red ring on her finger, I hold up the blue ring for her to see.

"Red isn't exactly your color," I yell, "Kara. Give me the ring."

"You're against me now," Kara says, panting for some reason. "I can't believe it. I thought you were on my side. I thought you wanted to defeat Superman!"

"I do," I say, eyeing Superman. "But not like this. This is the wrong way."

"It's the only way," Kara shouts, rising the ring. "And if you can't see that, then I'm afraid I have to fight through you too."

"No," I say, shaking my head. "No. It is not the only way. Remember Kara. Remember the House of El. It stands for hope. So this does ring. Hope may fade but it never dies. There will always be a spark. A tiny spark of hope."

My words seem to be working. The red ring's glow seems to be dying down. However, while the glow is dying down, the glow on the device on Kara's head lights up. She screams as she slams her hands on her head.

"What's going on," I say, backing up.

"I have no idea," Superman answers, backing up beside me.

Before any of us could do anything, the red glow returns and Kara is grinding her teeth against each other.

"That machine," I think, looking closely at it. "We need to destroy it, but first."

I close my eyes and hold Saint Walker's ring in front of my face.

"Keep an eye out please," I say to Superman.

"Uhh," Superman says, "What?"

"Keep an eye out," I repeat, "I'm going to have a talk with Kara."

With Saint Walker's ring, I summon a large bubble to shield Superman and myself. Once safely in, I use a bit of my own power and the power of the blue ring to project myself into a sort of spirit.

"I doubt Kara would answer me like Saint Walker did," I told myself.

With my spirit power by the blue ring, I aim and fire. A tiny blue beam shoots out. Kara sees the beam and tries to stop it with the red ring but it's no use. The blue beam shoots right through the red energy before it hits Kara in her chest.