Injustice 3: The Might of Magic (Book 3)

Kara:

"Daddy," I repeat. I look closer at the little girl. The girl can't be more than six, maybe seven years old. She has long black hair and wears a pink shirt and blue jeans. She also wastes no time and throws another rock at me.

The rock bounces off my head before falling to the ground.

"Daddy," I repeat. I look at the thug I'm holding in my hand.

"Michelle," the thug yells. "Get out of here! Now! Go! Run!"

"No," the girl, apparently named Michelle, yells back. "I'm not leaving you!"

Michelle picks up another rock and throws it at me. This time, I drop both the man and Lady Shiva and catch the rock. The second his feet touch the ground, the man runs over to the little girl.

"What are you doing here," he yells, "This isn't safe! Go home! Now!"

The man turns around and looks at me. He reaches behind and pulls out a pistol.

"Stay back!"

"Hey, hey, hey," I say, putting up my hands. "I don't want to hurt you!"

I step back while holding up my hands.

"You don't want to hurt us," the man repeats, still holding his gun at me. "No! No, that's true! You don't want to hurt us! You don't want to have anything to do with us! That's why you left us all alone to die!"

"What are you talking about?"

"You left us," the man repeats, shaking his gun. "You left us all alone to die. We didn't have anyone. We couldn't do anything to keep ourselves safe. It was just us. All of us. Left alone." But Black Mask came! He came and he offered us everything!"

"Again," I say, "I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not Superman. I'm not one of his regimes or with his One Earth Government. I'm a part of the Insurgency--"

"None of that matter," the man screams, cutting me off. "One Earth Government! Insurgency! None of that matters! What matters the most to me is protecting my daughter! And I will do anything to protect her!"

As the man shouts this, his daughter hugs him.

"Daddy," Michelle whispers.

"Michelle," the father says. "Quickly! Get behind me!"

Hearing this, Michelle runs behind her dad. Despite hiding behind her dad, she still peeks out and looks at me.

I don't know what to do. Everything inside of me is telling me not to hurt the man or his child. He's pointing a gun at me but even he had to know it won't do anything against me. All I can do is just stand there with my hands in the air.

As I stand there, however, the ground starts shaking. It shakes violently, causing everyone to lose their footing. Dropping to my knees and placing my hands on the ground, I look around and see bright lights coming from behind some nearby buildings.

"Black Mask," I think. "Whatever he's doing must be causing all of this! I have to stop him!"

I push myself up and am about to launch myself into the air when I hear the cry of a little girl. Turning, I see Michelle on the ground. Her father drops his gun and quickly picks her up. Not wasting a second, Lady Shiva picks up the gun and aims it at me.

"Go," she shouts, the gun pointing at me but Lady Shiva looking at the father and his daughter. "Get back to the others!"

"Thank you," the father says before he runs off with his daughter.

"Others," I repeat. "There are others here?"

With the father and daughter gone, Lady Shiva can now entirely focus on me.

"You will not harm them," she says, holding the pistol in both her hands.

Harleen:

Screaming as I raise my giant hammer into the air, I scream even louder as I swing it down, crushing the freaking robot's head.

"Ahh," I sigh, looking at the guardian's eyes as they turn off. "Is that the last one?"

Cheetah, using her claws, rips the wires out of the head of another guardian.

"Dear god, I hope so," Cheetah answers. "I can't believe kids play with these!"

"Normally," I say, using my suit to transform my giant hammer into dual revolvers. "The robots kids play with are a little smaller. Also, they don't attack people."

As Cheetah, Dinah, and even I catch our breath, the whole city starts shaking, knocking us off our feet.

"Oh, now what," I yell.

The Man:

Dropping down onto my knees, I steady myself as the ground starts shaking.

"What's going on," Cold says, he and Ivy dropping onto their knees too. Ignoring them for now, I focus on my phone call right now.

"We're heading there now," Reverse-Flash says.

"Hold on," I shout, trying to be louder than the shaking ground. "Hold on! Do not go there by yourself! Wait for us! Thawne! Thawne! Can you hear me? Barry! Oh, for crying out loud!"

In their message, Thawne mentioned something about lights coming from south of Old Gotham.

"Strange lights," I repeat to myself. "That goes with what I'm sensing."

I turn my head toward the south of Old Gotham.

"Whatever Black Mask is doing, it's giving off a lot of dark magic. I sensed nothing but unrest and anger, and for once, it's not coming from me. Black Mask. What are you doing?"

Raven:

Flying through the air, chasing after Reverse-Flash and Flash, I stop when I sense an incredible surge of dark magic.

"This is what I sensed before," I tell myself. Hovering in the air, I concrete and locate where the surge is coming from.

"This way," I shout, looking back at the three as they teleport from rooftop to rooftop. Klarion, Mordru, and Morgan all nod their heads before disappearing again. Preferring to fly instead, I reach the source of the dark magic in only a few minutes.

As I approach the surge, I stop when, instead of seeing the man in the sunglasses, I see Black Mask standing in the middle of a massive rune. The rune is drawn into the ground and is glowing. It is filled with holes. Despite how far away I am, I can still hear Black Mask chanting.

I don't know what spell he is chanting or the rune he is standing in but I recognize the dark magic being used.

"Summoner magic," I think. I watch from high above as large arms shoot out of the ground. One by one, undead soldiers, made from blackened, broken bones, pull themselves up. They quickly assemble themselves and in only a few minutes, Black Mask has a whole army of them.

"Bow before me," Black Mask shouts, spreading out his arms. As he orders, his army of undead soldiers bow before him, dropping to their knees. As they drop to their knees and Black Mask laughs, I see a little bit of leftover dark magic climbing onto his face. They climb up his face, and now his "black mask" is covered in red lines.

Still watching as the red lines travel all over Black Mask's head, meeting up on the top, I hear someone shouting.

"Sir," one of Black Mask's goons shouts, pointing at me. "We have an intruder!"

"What," Black Mask asks.

Turning to the goon, he picks up a rocket launcher and aims it at me. Firing the launcher, the rocket flies toward me but using my own magic, I catch it. The rocket, now encased in a black grow, turns around and flies back toward the goon. The goon, along with the other ones surrounding him, all jump and run as the rocket hits them, unleashing a fireball.

"Attack them," Black Mask orders. His undead army wastes no time and gets up. They turn around and charge toward me.

I roll my eyes at this and swing my hand. Coming forth my own army, of red-horned minions, they too pushing themself from the ground, my army clashes against Black Mask's army.

My minions use their powers to fire beams of magic at Black Mask's army. However, Black Mask's undead army can quickly put themselves together after being blasted.

Flash:

Skidding to a stop when I see a bunch of red demons fighting black skeletons, I look at Reverse-Flash.

"Do you...know what's going on here," I ask.

"No clue," Eobard answers with a shake of his head. "What did we just run into?"

"I don't know but I think we should call The Man."

I nod my head and raise my wrist.

"A little head-up," I say after tapping my wrist and bringing up my suit's screen. "Uhh, Raven's here!"

"What," Dinah shouts.

"Oh seriously," Jason screams. "Like we don't have any issue!"

"That's not all."

"Of course not," Deathstroke adds. "What there now?"

"I can't be sure," I start, "But I think Reverse-Flash and I are looking at an army of 'black skeletons' fighting against red guys."

"Red guys," Cold repeats. "Flash, do these red guys have horned, white hair, and multiple limbs?"

"Yes," I say. The red guys vary from person to person but a majority of them do have horned, white hairs, and at least two extra limbs. "How do you know?"

"The Man and I fought them before! They're, come on, what are they? What are they? They're Raven's minions! Her demon minions!"

"Raven can summon a whole army now," Reverse-Flash asks.

"Barry," The Man shouts, now talking over. "Did you mention something about black skeletons?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Barry! Listen to me. I need you and Thawne to look around. Do you see anything like a rune, a magical rune drawn into the ground?"

Reverse-Flash and I look around for a few minutes before seeing a massive glowing rune. As The Man said, it's drawn into the ground, and the inside is filled with holes.

"Yeah! Yeah! I see the rune! It's where the strange lights are coming from! Do you know what the rune is?"

The Man says something but the ground shaking cuts him off. It shakes so violently this time Reverse-Flash has to grab and pull me out of the way of a falling rock.

"You okay," he asks.

"I'm fine," I quickly answer. "I'm fine."

Reverse-Flash and I look as more rocks fall from the ceiling, crushing Raven's minions and the skeletons.

"What the hell," I shout, watching as some of the skeletons that were crushed start putting themselves back together. As I step back, something hits me in the back of the head.

"Ouch."

I turn around and see Reverse-Flash.

"Don't swear," he says, pointing a finger at me. I roll my eyes and shake my head.

"What do we do," I yell, bringing up my wrist again.

"Nothing," The Man answers.

"Nothing?"

"Nothing! Everyone, listen to me! All this fighting, all this magic, that rune, it causing Old Gotham to fall apart! This place is falling apart! We need to get out or we'll be buried alive!"

Lady Shiva:

"What," I think, still holding the gun at Supergirl. "Is the man in the sunglasses lying? No! He cannot be!"

I look around and see cracks in the walls and in the ground. As the shaking intensifies, whole buildings begin falling.

"The people," I shout. I drop the gun and run to where the families are.

"Hey wait," Supergirl yells, flying after me.