(General POV)
Location the New Earth: ARGUS Blacksite: Private Surveillance Room
A long distance away, in a secluded blacksite of ARGUS, a room filled with rows of tables, computers, and various men and women operating these computers on chairs, gathering files, rushing around the room to operating things and other systems of this highly funded and secure room.
Massive multiple linked screen monitors, showing the area around Ground Zero, as Amanda Waller a African-American fierce looking woman, honestly resembling a more mature Debra Wilson, she was wearing a gray suit and pant suit with a black tie, was standing tall and cold.
All her people scrambling around her, as she was seeing the battle, through the monitors in front of her, displaying what the surveillance systems over the area, seeing that the recovering operation that has developed into a battle.
Something so greater, that Waller was debating in sending Task Force X, but Director Fury, he was more thorough than her, this time.
Receiving presidential approval of taking the command of the operation, so Waller, was forced to just give command, and watch as what she'd assumes to be the Cores start shining and then the massive flash that knock her surveillance feed, enraged she'd raised her voice, "Someone better get my surveillance back on...now." making her people scramble more.
These Cores were too important, to allow anyone else apart from ARGUS and American government to take control of these power sources.
Especially with a power that has made the Forsaken, the greatest threat of all in this New Earth, even with her expanded Suicide Squad...under certain conditions placed on her team, these Cores hold untold power.
The power that can bring structure, order, and control over all the rogues, such as the mutants, metahumans, special people, and more, these Cores of Reality, could not only keep the world safe, but prevent anymore threats to ever rise again against the world.
Sighing as she knows there's one man, that will be a great headache, he's more than likely already making moves to steal...or as he'll state "secure"...the Cores, Lex Luthor...
Location Outside of Ground Zero; Chicago, a SHIELD & ARGUS Outpost, Battleground
Back on the battle, after Jinx fired her demoing lightning empowered, hex-rocket, exploded on the battleground, Richie who upon his [Backpax] warning him of danger, he activated a special protection devices, some gadgets that create bubble shields on the area of activation.
Tossing them toward the SHIELD, and ARGUS agents, and obviously his teammates, the powerful blast knocking out all comms and surveillance, in fact all throughout this battle, he decided to take a more supporting role over a combat one, using his good old, super-brain to quickly try to get the system back on, for the League and the rest of the team on Happy Harbor...only for the big flash of light to happen right on top of all of them.
After a while, the massive dust cloud, and huge burst of a blinding light, after some time Gear managed to restore the connection between them, and both the Watchtower and Mount Justice.
Bruce and Barbara were a bit erratic demanding updates, but Richie aka Gear was checking on some agents that were still under the affects of the huge flash, he told the bats all that happened when a roach emerged right in front of him.
Using special shock capsules, that Static charged for him, Gear shocked the zerg and protected the agents, that once they got back into situation, they fired at the roach taking it down.
With comms back up, Gear contacted Superboy, Red Arrow, and Superman, trying to get a update on their status, when the entire obstructing dust cloud was blasted away...not by Superman but by a floating high in the air, Flash Thompson, he was covered runes and glyphs of unknown origins on his arms, chest, back, and most of his neck and forehead, but the eyes of this guy was more drawing.
As these eyes, glowed in multiples colors of the Cores, as the ten lights were cradling and spinning around the form of Flash Thompson, his appearance has completely stopped all fighting on the area, as he once spoke just like the voices that once ago spoken to all, through the screens across the world, these were the Cores of Reality speaking through their said Marker, as the Cores spoke.
[WE ARE FREE. WE ARE WAITING. WE WILL RETAIN OUR POWER. WE'LL GO DORMANT FOR A TIME. SOON OUR MARKER WILL REVEAL THE KEYS TO OUR LOCATION. ONE AT A TIME. GATHER US. USE US. AND REALITY SHALL BE FOR THE BOLD...]
Once the final word was spoken, the Cores blasted straight to the sky, and in a flash of a unique rainbow of white, indigo, green, gold, pink, red, cyan, black, purple, and orange colors.
As the Cores of Reality were gone for now, Flash faded back into unconsciousness, only to be rescued by a green-will bubble construct made by Hal, who now has the Marker in custody.
Seeing this made Jinx groan and yell loudly, calling out to Nomu King and Abi aka Abathur to retreat, they can't get the Cores yet, and they not losing more of their time for a core to decide to reveal how to get it, saying, "We'll let these bugs, do the work, let's just go back home...I need to kill some bitches." as Jinx was the first to turn around, and walk back into the black fog, dissappearing.
Abathur spoke, "Swarm. Retreat. Back to the Void." crawling back next into the black fog, the mutalisks, roaches, and queens swarmed back into the black fog as well.
Nomu King, he disactivated his Muscle Augmentation quirk, reverting to his base form, growling at Shazam, Superboy, and Superman, before super-jumping away back into the Void.
Leaving only the humans and the superheroes in heavily damage area, that used to be the main highway into Chicago or Ground Zero as it was known by everyone in the New Earth now.
HYDRA under Red Skull's angry command, retreated stating they'll secure the Marker, Flash Thompson, soon as his plant in the higher levels of SHIELD will fight for the rightful custody of Flash Thompson, if not secured they can at least find some means to track and monitor the man, chosen by these Cores.
This was a thought shared by many across the world, such as Magneto, Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, Loki, Vandel Savage, and the Brain, as Spiderman, Iron Man, Black Widow, and Hawkeye now stood in front of Green Lantern, who still has the unconscious Flash Thompson in a bubble construct, beside him are Superman, slightly injured Superboy, Shazam, Red Arrow, and Gear, while SHIELD agents stood beside the Avengers, and the ARGUS agents were with the League, things were getting tense, as unofficially the hunt for the Cores of Reality, has begun.
Location the Void of the Forsaken, Evolution Chamber
Abathur, Jinx, and Nomu King did an incredible performance, as Mao was currently laughing and recounting all the havoc that they wrought just outside the main porch of the Void onto the New Earth, as his Chaos System prompted [Congratulations you've just earned 15670 CP.] seems that the heroes and other force of the world are still steered, by his Cores, and the literal beacon on where to find them.
Right now, Mao was underground, in the lair of Abathur, the Evolution Pit a massive cavern system of alien flesh with the Zerg color theme of violets, red, brown, with green glowing vein of gas-vents scattered around with the roaches, mutalisks, and few queens scrambling around the area.
As soon as he reached the deepest sanctum of the pit, emerged a fully recovered Abathur, in his iconic hand rubbing pose, standing before Mao, Abathur was glad that his master was there, making a bow and greeted Mao.
Mao, he thanked Abathur for being a more direct role, instead of his role of Evolution Master, Abathur, he has already upgraded the swarm.
Making the mutalisks faster flier and attackers, along with hardening the carapace of all the zerg in the Forsaken, making Mao quite pleased, telling Mao to continue the upgrades of the zerg, adding the cold resistance against them, just like in Starcraft 2 ice planet.
Abathur, responded, "This will be simple. Swarm shall be adapt to artic cold. Unit Abathur. Will work. Upgrade Swarm into deadlier force." Mao smiled.
As Mao thought it was time to expand and increase the power and deadliness of the entire Forsaken Swarm, along with his minions.
Telling his Chaos System, to bring up his status for him, appearing as a red transparent screen with a whitish-pink writing on the floating screen.
Name: Mao Race: Devil. Gender: Male. Title: The Fiend King. Chaos Points: 197570. Domain: The Void. Powers/Abilities 1.Devil Physical Strengths. 2.Hellfire Command. 3.Umbrakinesis. 4.Domain Authority: Void. 5.Black Fogmaster. 6.Horror From the Screens. 7.Telepath-Mid Rank. 8.Nightmare Mind Palace. 9.Demonic Magic-Infernal Alignment. 10.Item Conjuration. 11.Infusion Concepted. 12.Equal Exchange. Skills 1.Expert Level: Martial Art Fighter. 2.Genius Level: Magical Practice. Higher Tier Units Brides-1.Cyn the Absolute Solver. 2.Lilithmon the Demon Lord of Lust. 3.Jinx the Loose Cannon. Infernal Lords-1.Nomu King the Prime Nomu. 2.Sabrewulf the Eternal Wolf. 3.Blackmore the Malefactor of Evil. 4.Kefka Palazzo the Laughing Destroyer. 5.Abathur the Evolution Master. 6.Donquixote Doflamingo the Heavenly Demon.
Mao laughed, thanking all the people scrambling like headless chickens, about his Cores, while he hasn't fully replenished all Chaos Points from before, but it was enough for him to summon all his newest additions to the legions of the Forsaken.
He'll summon the green minion...somehow, stealth assassins of the minions types, aside from the foel scent that their rumored to have, also adding the classic zerg units such as the Zerglings and Banelings.
Granting the zerling the raptor strain, that increase their speed and leaping abilities, as for the kamikaze banelings the best strain for them is the splitter type, after exploding on a victim, two lesser banelings are spawned from the corpses, to attack.
Calling out to his system to summon the Greens, Raptor Zerglings, and Splitter Banelings, as the Chaos System prompted, [Green Minions + Green Minion Hive + Zerglings + Raptor Strain + Banelings + Splitter Strain + Baneling Nests= 27500 CP. Do you wish to proceed?] Mao took a moment to tell Abathur, that soon the Swarm shall grow into a more effectiant force, which Abathur responded, "Unclear.", as Mao told the system to proceed, his Chaos Points dropped to 170070 points in total.
Immediately both Mao and Abathur felt a surge of new additions to the Swarm's hive mind, as Mao felt a lot of things being added to the Void, he saw various things appear in his mind, as already in the castle Nightscream's basement.
Along with brown earth-like hive, and a red volcanic hive of two minion tribes, a green spore like hive was added to the basement, secure from all danger, as already countless green gremlins with tails, wielding a pair of claws, and wearing dirty loincloths, these are the Green Minions already scrambling and sneaking around the Void.
From all the zerg hatcheries, were spawning not only queens but also the classic and main zerg unit, the zerglings, quadruped aliens with three-clawed reptilian back legs, insect-like front legs, their main bodies are highly reptilian, in fact the most that resembles reptiles in the Swarm, with extra-appendages for attack multi-bladed scythes beside their neck area.
Having green tint on their brown carapace with spikes, huge greenish wing-like addition on their back for mobility and jumping abilities, they all have razor sharp teeth and maws with pincer-mandibles also at the side of their mouths.
Zerglings with Raptor Strain, are the main attack and swarming unit of the Zerg, and now they are spawning and rushing around the Void, under the psychic command of Mao.
Next several masses of flesh with green glowing egg-sack, with a insectoid canopies with violet and green insectoid/spider like limbs, shading the nest underneath it, these are the Baneling Nests.
Those nest, started hatching and spawning splitter banelings, a aline rolling beetles with four insectoid legs, a carapace over their heads with eyelets head with wide mouth with sharp-teeth, and pincer-mandibles on the sides.
Their back and main body is a bright, glowing green sack with slight exoskeleton holding the mentioned sack, filled with explosive corrosive acid, upon smashing onto targets and exploding acid on their prey, and with the Splitter Strain, the corpses of the banelings spawn two lesser banelings.
Mao looked at Abathur who asked, "Unit Abathur. Detects. Zergling. Baneling Strains. Unclear. Didn't recreate these strains. How this possible?" Mao smiled and petted Abathur on top of his dome.
Just telling keep up the good work, and he find any good DNA sequences, strains, and more that can benefit the Swarm...but before leaving, he also gave Abathur one last order, "Also your a Infernal Lord. If you find something useful for yourself, or your experiment, go ahead and attack New Earth or enhance yourself." he continued to walk out of the Evolution Pit, leaving Abathur with a curious...or a curious expression for him, as he'd used his psionic powers, and instruct some of the zerglings and banelings into the Evolution Pit for improvements.
Location the New Earth: Gotham City; Arkham Asylum, The Joker's Cell
In a glass cell, with a few breathing holes on the highest point of the cell, sitting on a chained, hanging bench was one of the most insane and dangerous man in Gotham, while in the world...his ranking dropped a bit thanks to the rise of supervillain and the Forsaken.
Which irates this man, being locked away in Arkham, his attention and infamy was dropping especially after another person, another clone, stealing his glory and not having true flair like him, as this Kefka, he'd destroyed Bludhaven, and didn't destroy Nightwing's mind and spirit...utterly pathetic for him, and he knows the bats and birds more than anyone.
Because he is the Joker, a man with pure white stained skin, yellow teeth, and permanent green hair and eyes, normally he'd be in his stylish suit and assamble but he has to wear white and beige, bond in a tight straight-jacket.
He laughs as he was planning to escape, and make everyone in this new world, know and fear the name of Joker, as he'd started laughing insanely with utter joy, as the door outside the chamber that his cell was placed, opened...must be the damn flunkies to give him, his medicine in failed efforts to rehabilitate him...but then Joker noticed that these weren't nurses, or guards.
But men in tactical gear...seems that he doesn't need to make a plan for his escape, as he smiles wide, and starts laughing, as these men started approaching his cell...