(General P.O.V)

Varick ran around the lab like a headless chicken, checking over the functions of each of the machines.

"Will you just settle down?!"

Luthor asked, a little miffed. The former billionaire was dressed in a white shirt whose sleeves were folded slightly and fiddling with a loose screw on the huge energy harnessing machine holding within it a piece of spirit vine.

"Shh... I'm trying to think!" Varick turned to Zhue li.

"Do the thing!"

He yelled, lowering his googles and typing out another simulation run. Zhue Li, turned on the switch to begin the process as Varick monitored the rising energy levels.

"Yes! Yes! It's...it's workin..."

His words trailed off as the gauge made it all the way to 70% percent before quickly and swiftly falling down to zero.

"No no no!"

He banged his head on the screen of the monitor.

"What happened now!?"

He looked around, activating diagnostic runs.

"I told you there was an 80% chance of failure."

Luthor told him, stepping away from the machine holding the now dried up spirit vine.

"I don't understand." Varick said, throwing his hands in the sky.

"The machine works. Energy conductivity and storage are at a 100% efficiency level. Only the spirit vine itself is not rising up to task. Untapped clean renewable energy and we can't even use it!"

He raged throwing away the spanner in his hands.

Luthor looked on at the man's antics.

"We can figure something out. No need to act childishly."

"Actually, I have a theory." Zhue Li spoke up, grabbing the attention of both genius men. To his credit, Varrick was too mentally tired to tease her. She tapped a few keys on the pad and sent it to the holographic feed projector.

"The integrity of the energy source decreases once the energy harnessed reaches 60%. In other words, sir..."

"This particular spirit vine is not strong enough to hold in and produce the kind of energy we need."

Varrick finished in a 'Euraka' moment.

"Then perhaps, I can help out."

Gaea's voice came through the comm systems just as she appeared from a portal. Behind her was a green colored girl with cherry red lips, a curvy body and a majestic presence that seemed to wash out into the surroundings.

Luthor, Varrick and Zhue Li felt almost overwhelmed as the girl looked around, a carpet of vegetation beginning to cover their surroundings.

"How about we make the spirit vines stronger then? If they are durable enough to handle the load, then we might just make it out of here without resulting to some desperate measures."

Gaea proposed.

Varrick and Luthor looked at each other, agreeing to work together.

(Elsewhere)

Superman blitzed past a troop of harpy like creatures, his heat beams shooting out of his eyes landing on some of them, lightening the load attacking Black Canary. Canary took that opportunity to flip away from the rest, landing on a platform created by Green Lantern before releasing a wide sonic scream that threw away the harpies and devastated the surrounding areas.

John Stewart completed the construct he was making which turned out to be a fly swatter, swinging it after Canary had jumped away. It landed on a wolf pack whose coats emitted a corrosive darkness that dripped onto the ground.

The swatter threw them away, producing a pressure blast that Fire took advantage of to increase the intensity of her flames. A tornado made up of fire started wreaking havoc on the enemies side, carrying away monsters and burning them into ash.

She then pushed her hands to the ground, turning the tornado into a carpet of flames that covered the ground, flowing to devour blackened twigs and trees growing from the dead corpses of the dark army. Black smoke rose up from the ground.

The author's narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.

Using the cover of the smoke, Batman pressed a key on his wrist watch and the drone on his side started shooting plasma bolts at the dark army. A shield made of blackened earth rose up to block the plasma bolts. However Ice and Killer Frost stepped forward, both having the same idea and pushed both of their arms out. The ground below them was covered by frost before huge chunks of ice speared past the earth dome.

Darken ran forward, using her darkness to travel through the shadows in place. She flashed in between a group of orc like creatures and tightened her hands into fists. Tentacles made of darkness speared out of the shadows, Killing and maiming over 20 of the orcs. She swept her hands to the side and from the dead orcs, shadowy forms rose up, wearing the same armor and resembling the dead orcs.

"Well done Darken."

Michael spoke to her mind. Then he showed her something that lit a fire under her. The mental image of her father in chains atop a peak overlooking a world of lava.

"See me after this. I have a present for you."

Michael added, causing a smile to appear on Darken's face.

Finally.

The shadow orcs begun attacking their compatriots. And each shadow that fell, rose anew under Darken's power.

"Insolent!"

A massive form fell on the shadow orcs, crushing them under it's feet. The new figure was revealed to be a boney giant wearing samurai armor, with a massive katana and green burning eyes.

"An undead one."

Nabu commented,

"He's mine."

He went through a dozen hand seals and the space between the Undead monster and Paige increased dramatically as space folded.

"Lord of Order! Die!"

The skeleton managed to see Dr.Fate's form flying towards it from a long distance away.

It raised the Katana in its hands only for a flash of light to appear in midair. The skeleton found both of it's arms cut off at the elbow. Yaotl's raised hand grabbed the axe that had flown back after the attack. Dr.Fate managed to take advantage of the opening and create an ankh that was shaped into a huge sword. He threw it and watched as it penetrated the Undead's chest before blowing it up.

The Flash managed to ran and jump towards the Massive falling Katana that was taller than him. His hand flashed with scarlet lightning as he pushed the pommel of the Katana towards a gathering army of small imp like creatures.

Lightning covered the Katana in a coat of erratic energy. It cut through the air and dug into the ground before the small creatures. The energy overloaded and an explosion of the built up lightning washed out into the surroundings, frying the creatures and leaving behind a blackened sword.

"Enough!"

A shout escaped from the open rift in space. The fighting ceased as 4 individuals made themselves known. They fell towards the ground and landed in one massive stomp. The whole open plains of where they were fighting rumbled upon their arrival.

The dark army made way for them to pass through. Moving back to separate from their opponents. Body pulsing with the mysteries from the Great Darkness, Darkseid floated forward, arms held behind him. Flanking his sides were Ares, Neron and Doomsday.

"Lady Gaea...how soon until we get out out of here?"

Yaotl enquired, twirling his godly weapon.

"I'm working on it. Keep them occupied for 20 minutes or so."

She answered. Yaotl looked at the new arrivals and smiled.

"We can do that."

He looked to his side at Vaatu. The god was floating in the air, just waiting for Yaotl's order. He had also noticed the new arrivals, his head turned as he stared back at Yaotl. An unspoken conversation occured in between them. A new plan begun taking effect.

Spiritual energy and divine energy started roiling off Vaatu in waves of purple light. The whole battlefield turned to stare at the light show.

Yaotl then turned to his right and saw Michael, removing his black tuxedo coat. Michael nodded at his brother, folding the sleeves of his shirt all the way to the elbows, revealing intricate tattoos that had every sin and immoral act written in black color. He also loosened his tie. If Vaatu was like a walking talking shining beacon of light, Michael's darkness seemed to suck everything inside it.

Allies and enemies alike knew, even without saying anything that something was about to happen.

"Doomsday!"

Superman said, eyes shining with a red light and face scrunched up in anger and fear. Doomsday roared and exploded forward, breaking the ground underneath his foot from the force of the lunge.

"Wait Kryptonian."

Michael told Superman before he could fly forward.

"We will handle this."

Michael's steps were slow and steady. A pair of black gloves appeared around his hands, formed from his tattoos. Announcing sins, immorality and suffering. Doomsday was like an unstoppable force as barreled forward.

The contrast was almost laughable. Doomsday's massive spiked form, eyes full of madness and hate for everything against an unassuming 6,1 young man whose presence scared everyone around.

Doomsday's first strike was a heavy fist that caused the air to scream as it was torn apart. Everyone thought Michael was done for. Everyone except for the ones who knew him. Yaotl smiled knowing that the fight was basically over.

Doomsday's fist landed on Michael's open palm.

Nothing happened. All that power had been sucked away into nothing by one of the countless sins Michael had control of, gluttony. Doomsday blinked it's eyes in shock. Then it pulled back it's other hand to throw another attack. Michael's other hand landed on it's chest.

A curse of murder, the act of taking a life in cold blood, jumped off his right glove and entered Doomsday, destroying his heart and shredding his brain. All his functions ceased as organs failed. Over a dozen more curses attacked it's body, dismembering it's limbs and other body parts.

Everyone was shocked as the rotten body of Doomsday fell to the ground. Michael looked to his front, using his hand to sweep away his long normally groomed hair out of his eyes.

"That ladies and gentlemen..." He smiled a wide vicious grin.

"Well that was just the opening act."

He stepped over the corpse of his foe, walking towards the increasing numbers of the dark army, pouring in from the rift.

"Blasphemy of the highest order." Michael stated, stretching his hands out.

"Thinking that you could dare face off against the forces of the Avatar, master of Chaos and Order, Godkiller, Demonbane, Aden fucking Strong."

Yaotl looked at Vaatu from the corner of his eyes.

"Are you ready, brother?"

He asked. The plan was going off without a hitch.

"Just a few more seconds."

Vaatu answered. If this plan worked then fighting them would become much easier.

Michael stopped a short distance away from the Dark Army. The split between the two forces was a long stretch of land, separating both groups from each other. On Gaea's side there were no more than 1000 fighters, a mix of the worlds' heroes and the Amazonian warriors. On the other side, there were more than 10000 in the force that had made it through the shield.

"So here's my question, what kind of torture do you want for your eternal damnation?"