Injustice 3: The Might of Magic (Book 3)

Leonard Snart:

I scream as Yellow Lantern hits me with one of his annoying yellow beams. As Lantern's beam hits me, it knocks me off my feet and onto the floor. Groaning as my chest burns, I look at Yellow Lantanter as he flies toward me, his stupid, stupid ring glowing like a fucking sun.

"Give it up, Snart" Yellow Lantern says, bringing up his ring. "You can't beat me. Even with your cold gun."

"Damnit," I say, looking down at my cold gun. My memory is still a bit hazy but I could have sworn my cold gun had some sort of "ice bomb" setting before. "I could really use it now."

Biting my tongue, fighting through the burning pain, I turn around and fire my cold gun at Yellow Lantern. However, Yellow Lantern blocks it with another one of his see-through walls. The wall is quickly covered in ice, all of the ice falling to the floor when Lantern calls back his wall. Grabbing at the floor, I start to crawl away.

"Come on," I say, kicking against the floor and pushing myself away. "Come on. Come on!"

I turn around and fire again but the same exact thing happened. None of the ice from my cold gun even so much as touches Yellow Lantern. With my finger still on the trigger as I shoot, I look behind me and see the stairs leading to the floor above me. Somehow, while fighting, the floor beneath Lantern and I disappeared, turning into dust. While Lantern hovers, I fall down to the next level.

"I have to make sure Lisa is okay," I tell myself. "Lisa needs me! I can't let her down. I can't let her--"

I stop talking to myself when I hear a beeping sound. My head snapping around, I see the lights on my cold gun flickering.

"Oh dammit," I yell, watching my cold gun stop firing. With the battery cells dead and needing to recharge, I'm left defenseless as Yellow Lantern approaches me. He grabs me by the shirt collar and lifts me up.

"Listen to me when I said this," Lantern whispers, placing my ear right next to him. "Give this to him."

Lantern reaches from behind himself and slams something into the palm of my hand. Whatever it is, it's flat and silver-colored.

"What the hell," I say, looking at the thing. Looking like some sort of credit card, I look back up to see Lantern pulling back his yellow ring. Shooting his hand forward, Lantern blasts me with another yellow beam. Screaming as I fly through the air, I expect my back to hit solid ground any second. However, something happens and instead, I feel a strong wind, and then I find myself on my knees.

"Snart," someone in a red suit says. "Snart! Are you okay?"

"Who the hell are you? Wait a second. I know you."

"Of course, you know me," the jackass replies. "We fought each other so many times I have permanent frostbites."

It takes me a few seconds but I think I finally recognize the fucker from the One Earth's most wanted.

"Your name is...Barry," I say. "You're...You're the Flash."

"Yes," Flash says, nodding his head. "It's me. Do you remember me?"

I pull back my fist and punch Flash across the face. He screams and holds his chin.

"Yeah," Flash says. "You do remember me."

"More or less," I say, pushing myself to my feet. "I remember you and I don't get along."

"Stay here," Flash tells me. Turning around, he leaves me, running down the stairs. Letting out a moan as I raise my shirt and look down, I see a large purple bruise near my waist. It's surrounded by some more bruises but I pull my shirt down and look around.

"Flash carried me up a floor," I think. "The infirmary!"

Biting in tongue and fighting through everything, I make my way to the infirmary. My cold gun isn't fully charged yet but it still had enough power to freeze some soldiers I passed. Turning a corner, I stop when I come face-to-face with Wonder Woman.

"Captain Cold," she says, raising her sword and shield. "Come with me! We have the intruders trapped!"

As Wonder Woman swings her hand, I remember what she did to Lisa.

"Wonder Woman," I shout, Wonder Woman stopping and turning to me. I then bring up my cold gun and shoot.

Barry Allen:

"I can't believe it," I say, looking at Hal Jordan. "After everything that happened, after I vouched for you, you've gone back to yellow! Dammit Hal! Why! Why would you go back!"

"You don't understand Barry," Hal with his new yellow ring says.

"Of course, I don't understand," I yell. "Is this because of what The Man did? Is it because of that sword dual?"

"Yes," Hal replies. "Barry, I---"

I don't even bother listening to Hal. Instead, I push off against the floor and charge toward him. Hal summons a wall to try and protect himself but with my speed, I break right through it and tackle Hal.

Kara:

Using my frost breath, I freeze some soldiers, stopping and making a wall out of them. With the frozen soldiers stuck in place, they block more soldiers from entering. Looking behind me, I see about half the team shooting out from the windows while the other half is keeping the other hallway block off.

"Please," I say, looking at where The Man disappears. "Hurry. I'm not sure how much longer we can keep them back."

As I say this, I hear a sound and turn around. A thick cable and claw shoot through the window and grab me. Even before I can do anything, it pulls me out through the window and onto New Metropolis's courtyard. In only a few seconds, One Earth soldiers and tanks surrounded me.

"Kara," Batman says, running up to the front of the soldiers and tanks. "What are you doing?"

"Bruce," I yell. "Listen to me! This isn't right!"

"I know," Bruce yells back but I yell even louder.

"No, you don't! Remember what really happened! Just think! You're one of the smartest people I have ever known! I know you will remember what really happened!"

"What really happened," Bruce repeats. "What are you talking about?"

About to explain everything, I stop when a bolt of lightning hits the ground in front of me, scorching the earth.

"The girl speaks lies," Black Adam says, his hand crackling with lighting. "All! Attack Supergirl!"

With their order given, the soldiers step out of the way as a tank prepares to shoot me.

The Man:

One of the Lords of Order slams his hands together and creates illusions. Summoning more fake Dr. Faiths, the fakes all fly toward me. Jumping from marble platform to marble platform, I place my own hands together. Magical energy gathers in my hands before I swing them out, shooting out a wave that not only destroys all the fake Dr. Faiths but also knocks out the first Lord.

Another one charging toward me shoots out his arms and fires magical golden beams at me. Jumping over the beams, I take out a glass jar from my jacket pocket and throw it at him. The glass jar breaks once it hits him, unleashing the potion inside. The Lord screams as he burns, steam coming off him. Distracted now, I jump up and grab his feet. Pulling him down, I throw him onto the platform before landing on the Lord's back, knocking him out.

Sensing a third Lord incoming, I turn quickly and turn one of my kunai. However, this Lord is more prepared. He holds out his hand and summons a magical shield to block my kunai. Throwing my kunai to the side, the third Lord disappears, teleporting away.

My shoes skidding against the marble as I stop, I look left and right for where the Lord could have gone. As I look for the missing Lord, more Lords tackle me from behind. They pile onto me, forcing me off the platform and into the empty sky.

"Get off of me," I yell, trying to shake off all the Lords of Order as they grab onto me. Putting the palms of my hands together, I chant another spell.

"Leiji," I shout. Pure electricity gathers in my body with sparks shooting out. A few seconds later, the electricity erupts like a volcano, shooting out in all directions, knocking back all the Lords. Still falling through the sky, even after the Lords let me go, I quickly search through my pockets and find my hoverboard.

Throwing my hoverboard into the air, it shoots out with the fans coming on. I land on the hoverboard and steady myself. Once I stop bouncing up and down, I look up at the time sphere. Now with half of the Lords gone, the time sphere is getting even more unsteady. More and more energy is shooting out of the time sphere, some of the energy hitting and electrocuting the few remaining Lords. About to fly toward the time sphere, I stop when I feel power shooting throughout my whole body.

Screaming a little as I look down, I see horrifying black lines travel all over my arms.

"No," I say, pushing the power down. "I have to be careful. I have to be care--"

As I push the power down, trying my hardest not to let it escape, one of the Lords tackles me. The Lord pushes me off my hoverboard and onto a marble platform. We roll around for a bit before I manage to kick him off of me. Reaching into my pocket, I throw a kunai at the Lord. Hoping my kunai would glue him to the platform, the Lord quickly deflects it.

Running toward the Lord, pulling back my fist, I'm about to throw a punch but before I can, all the other Lords from before pile onto me. They force me onto my knees and hold my arms. No matter how much I struggle, I can't break free.

"This is all your doing," the Lord that tackled me says. He slowly walks over to me, his shadow standing over me. The Lord then shoots out his hand. Hands grab and turn my head so I can see a magical window appearing right beside us. In the magical window, I see the others being overrun.

One Earth soldiers placed bricks of C4 on the root walls and detonated them. The explosive manages to break down one of the walls and shockwaves from the explosive knocks both Ivy and Harleen to their feet. As troops flood in, Beetle holds them back while Reverse Flash and Cat grab the two and cover them in the infirmary. The second Beetle steps in, they slam the doors shut and throw their weight against the doors. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman had Captain Cold pinned against a wall, his feet dangling in the air. Even Kara is having trouble. Trapped between firing tanks and Black Adam, all she can do is cross her arms and take the beating.

"You have disturbed the natural order of magic long enough," the Lord states. "With you gone, everything will be in order once more."

As the Lord keeps talking, I feel myself start to pulse with power. I turn toward the magical window and see Black Adam electrocuting Kara. I see Beetle and Firestorm working together to keep the doors shut but jumping back as soldiers shoot through the door.

"My only question is how," the Lord says. "How did you survive the alteration? We literally used our magic to alter the very history of the world, and yet, somehow, you were not affected by it at all? How is that possible?"

I raise my head as I answer the Lord's question. Letting the power flow through me, I feel the teeth grow and sharpen. The air around us drops significantly and the other Lords seem to have noticed. Ice starts to grow on them and all of our breaths are seen.

"What--What is going on," the Lord standing over me asks. "Is this one of yours doing?"

"No," the other Lords answer. "It is not."

"This magic," the Lord says, looking around. "This is unlike any magic I have ever sensed before. What is it?"

As the Lords all look around and not at me, I feel myself start to change. The tips of my fingers are sharpened. My skin is hardened. I feel the raw power cover my face.

"The answer is simple," I say. As soon as I speak, all the Lords seem to have remembered me. They all turn toward me and jump back. Letting out a breath, what is seen isn't a white mist. Instead, what is seems is a pitch-black smoke.

"The reason I wasn't affected by your alteration of the timeline is because," I say, raising my hand into the air and summoning a powerful blizzard. "I too have both the power of order and chaos magic!"

As I scream this, the golden sky is turned white and all the platforms are frozen.