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The colossal demon was waiting in the distance.
Other than Kara no one could truly see it yet.
Only its shadow.
It shadow stretched across buildings.
The first wave of monsters hit them at the edge of a broken intersection.
Demons poured from ruptured storefronts, horned, blade-limbed things dragging chains of bone. The undead followed behind them in staggering masses, bodies fused together in ugly combinations, torsos stitched to torsos, skulls screaming without lungs.
Kara didn't wait for Batman's strategy.
She shot forward.
The ground detonated beneath her takeoff, shockwaves flattening the first rank of demons. She collided with the second wave mid-air, fist driving through armored chests as if they were paper. A spin, heat vision lanced outward in a controlled arc, severing limbs without touching the warped buildings behind them.
"These things keep coming!" she shouted over the chaos.
A massive demon leapt from a balcony above, axe raised.
It never landed.
A grapnel line yanked it sideways mid-air.
Batman redirected its momentum into a shattered bus frame, then planted an explosive gel charge on its chest and vaulted backward.
The detonation was perfectly timed.
Armor cracked inward.
The demon fell in pieces.
"Stay mobile," Batman ordered calmly. "They're funneling us."
"Of course.." Kara replied, slamming another creature headfirst into the pavement hard enough to liquefy the stone.
Behind them, the Shadow Lantern moved.
Construct shadow blades extended from both arms, violet and glowing. It stepped into the undead swarm without fear or hesitation, no wasted strikes, no grand flourishes. Heads separated from shoulders in perfect arcs. Spear constructs pinned charging demons to walls in symmetrical formation.
Winged horrors dove from above.
"Ytivarg esrever!" Zatanna commanded.
The air reversed.
The creatures were flung upward instead, bodies contorting as gravity inverted around them. With a sharp downward gesture, she snapped her fingers.
"Fall."
Gravity resumed.
They cratered into the street in a rain of broken limbs.
She exhaled slowly, eyes glowing brighter as more approached.
"Oh, I am charging overtime for this, Bruce."
A tremor rolled through the ground.
From beneath sewer grates and shattered asphalt, skeletal hands erupted, grabbing for ankles, for capes, for stability.
One latched onto Batman's boot.
He didn't look down.
A small device dropped from his gauntlet, embedding into the ground.
Electro-pulse.
The undead convulsed violently and went still.
But then.
The buildings shifted.
The warped skyscrapers leaned inward unnaturally, windows shattering as demonic artillery launched from within, fireballs and bone spears raining down.
"Above, take cover." the Shadow Lantern warned.
Batman moved instantly.
Smoke pellets burst outward, creating dense visual cover.
The Lantern extended a shield construct over Batman and Zatanna just as a barrage of hellfire struck, impact rippling across the emerald barrier.
Batman didn't acknowledge the save verbally.
He adjusted trajectory mid-run and fired three remote batarangs upward.
They detonated in sequence, collapsing the upper floors where the artillery had formed.
The Lantern dropped the shield seamlessly and formed a long-range construct rifle, firing precise beams that carved through airborne threats before they could reposition.
Kara rocketed upward through the smoke, grabbing a winged demon by the throat.
"You want altitude?" she growled.
She hurled it through three consecutive buildings.
The shockwave cleared half the skyline.
Below, Zatanna raised both hands as the street split open again, this time not with undead, but something much larger.
A hulking mass of fused corpses, hundreds of bodies stitched into a single towering entity, pulled itself upright, dragging rebar and street signs embedded in its flesh.
Its many mouths screamed in discordant unison.
Kara landed hard in front of it, cracking her knuckles.
"Oh, They keep coming even more ugly."
It swung a building fragment like a club.
She caught it.
Skidded back a dozen meters.
The ground tore beneath her boots.
Batman vaulted onto a collapsed streetlight, calculating angles instantly.
"Structural weak points along the spinal ridge. Zatanna.. can you destabilize it?"
She narrowed her eyes, studying the writhing mass.
"Yes, but it'll take a second."
"Take it."
The monster swung again.
This time the Shadow Lantern intercepted construct gauntlets forming around its arms as it absorbed the blow. The impact cratered the street, but the Lantern held.
Kara launched upward along the creature's torso, heat vision drilling into joints and connective tissue.
Zatanna stepped forward, voice ringing like a bell through chaos.
"Nruter ot sdrahS!"
The stitched flesh began unraveling.
Unweaving.
The fused corpses separated mid-roar, collapsing into inert piles of bone and ash.
The giant fell apart.
Kara landed lightly.
"That was gross."
Silence fell briefly.
Then, the shadow ahead moved.
The skyline trembled as something colossal began rising from beyond the city center.
They could see more now.
A horned crown.
A torso the size of a skyscraper.
Its shadow swallowed entire districts.
Batman stepped forward slightly, cape settling behind him.
"That's our objective."
The Shadow Lantern's voice remained steady.
"Demon entity confirmed."
Kara hovered upward, eyes burning red.
"Finally."
Zatanna flexed her fingers, magic swirling tighter around her wrists.
"Please tell me that's the one we have to defeat so we can leave."
The giant's eyes ignited.
A roar rolled through the dimension.
Batman's voice cut clean through the tremor.
"Regroup. Advance together."
Kara grinned fiercely.
"Too bad."
She looked at the towering demon.
"We're not locked in here with you."
She clenched her fists .
"You're locked in here with us."
The demon giant rose in full, stepping forward as if the city were nothing but brittle scaffolding built for its emergence. Each footfall liquefied asphalt. Its skin was blackened red.
In its hands
A weapon.
A colossal trunk of petrified wood, thicker than a subway tunnel, wrapped in chains and burning from within. Flame crawled along its length.
Batman's voice cut sharp across comms.
"We must assess first."
Kara didn't.
She was already airborne.
"Assessment complete!" she called back, grinning.
She became a streak of blue and red, the air detonating in her wake.
The giant saw her too late.
It swung.
The flaming trunk came down with enough force to flatten a city block, swatting at her like an insect.
But Kara twisted midair, the massive weapon grazing her shoulder instead of crushing her. She caught the trunk with both hands.
For a moment, it looked absurd.
A massive-sized monster trying to squash a Kryptonian.
She smiled.
"Oh. You brought a stick."
Her muscles flexed.
The trunk splintered.
Shattered.
The flaming "tree" exploded into a rain of burning debris as she snapped it across her knee and hurled the halves into distant ruins.
The demon roared, a sound that warped the red sky itself.
It swung its free hand instead, fingers closing around her.
Kara's eyes flared white-hot.
Twin beams of heat vision erupted point-blank into its palm.
The smell of burning demonic flesh filled the dimension.
The creature howled, jerking its hand back as molten stone dripped from charred fingers.
Batman stood below, cape snapping in the heat waves.
He watched carefully.
Analyzing.
Kara didn't hesitate. She drove forward again, fists hammering into its forearm, into its jawline, each impact releasing shockwaves that cracked the landscape.
She wasn't pacing herself.
She was enjoying it.
Batman's eyes narrowed behind the cowl.
Too much.
The Shadow Lantern shot upward to assist, constructs forming. Massive shadow chains wrapped around the demon's legs, anchoring it. A spear construct expanded into a beam and pinned one shoulder back against a twisted skyscraper.
The giant struggled.
The ground fractured.
But the Lantern held.
Kara hovered before its face now, breathing steady, eyes glowing.
"Nice," she said, glancing briefly at the Lantern. "Now.."
The demon's eyes burned brighter.
It spoke.
Not in any human tongue.
A grinding, abyssal language. The words vibrated through the air.
Batman's gauntlet flickered subtly.
Recording.
Every frequency.
Every syllable.
Kara tilted her head mid-hover.
"…I have no idea what you just said."
The demon snarled.
She vanished.
To Zatanna and Batman, she became a distortion in the air.
To the giant
She became inevitable death.
Two sonic booms cracked simultaneously as she drove both fists forward at maximum velocity.
They punched through its skull.
Clean.
she disappeared into its head.
For a suspended millisecond, she was halfway through the monster's face
Then she tore out the other side in a burst of black blood and shattered bone.
The demon's body froze.
Cracked.
Then collapsed backward in a catastrophic fall that flattened half the remaining district.
The dimension trembled.
Silence followed.
Kara hovered for a second longer before descending lightly to the ruined street below.
Black, viscous blood dripped from her gloves, from her suit.
She looked down at herself.
"…Ew."
She shook one hand slightly, flicking droplets aside with mild disgust.
Zatanna approached from behind a crumbling vehicle, lowering her glowing hands.
"Finally," she said, exhaling.
The Shadow Lantern released its constructs, letting the demon's corpse settle into ruin.
Smoke curled upward from its remains.
Batman did not relax.
He was watching the skyline.
The sky hadn't cleared.
The red gate hadn't parted.
His jaw tightened slightly.
"Maintain alertness."
Kara glanced over her shoulder, brushing gore off her cape.
"What?"
Batman stepped forward slowly, scanning the horizon beyond the fallen giant.
The city extended far beyond where the creature had risen.
Miles.
Too vast for a single core entity, too vast for this to be the actual obstacle.
The tremor returned.
But this time
It wasn't from the corpse.
It was further ahead.
Batman's voice dropped lower.
"It seems… that was not the boss."
Kara's expression shifted.
From casual satisfaction
To annoyance.
The Shadow Lantern's head tilted slightly.
"Energy signature unchanged."
Zatanna's eyes widened faintly as she reached outward with her senses.
"Oh," she breathed.
Batman's cape settled as he looked toward the distance.
"That was just Phase one," he said quietly.
Kara rolled her shoulders again, wiping the last of the blood away with visible annoyance.
"Oh whatever..."
Her eyes ignited red once more.
"I wasn't done anyways."
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