***

---San Francisco---

Doomguy walks down the rubble as the ash settles, holding out his Kryptonian plasma rifle with his railgun on his back as he figures that he will need something with a lot of punch and something to provide constant damage to the Hunters.

There is so much on his mind that he is worrying about, Jon being alive is the first thing as he shot down Luthors helicopter to prevent him from escaping, then there’s the civilians being killed, and now he has to fight three Doom hunters.

He stops in his tracks and takes a deep breath in, releasing the uneasy gut feeling as he breathes out as he feels confident again to face the enemy once more as just as he exits the ash, staring the all new Doom hunter right in the eye as it says “Doomguy identified: Lethal force engaged.” With no emotion or care in its voice.

Doomguy leaps to his right, narrowly avoiding the laser as he swaps to his railgun, firing a quick shot from the hip as the blue beam exits the sniper esque weapon, bypassing the energy shield entirely as a small hole appears in the shoulder.

He can see the other two Doom Hunters activate, shooting their weaponry but missing most of their shots unlike earlier when they were not giving him any breathing room.

His onboard AI, ASH, starts analyzing the doom hunters, explaining their combat effectiveness “The third doom hunter is serving as a command and control since the other two have lost a majority of their sensors from earlier, thus the targeting data is split in three ways which makes their overall efficiency at one third of original capacity”

“Revised stratagem is recommended: take out the ‘healthy’ hunter” ASH recommends.

Swapping to his plasma rifle, Doomguy starts laying fire on the third Hunter, following the recommended strategy that ASH gave him while completely ignoring the other two hunters, no matter what they throw at him.

“Doomguy, I’ll be there in a minute. Need to rest up” Superman says on comms.

Doomguy tenses his body in mid-air, using the dash ability on accident again but it allowed him to dodge several missiles.

While surprised using it a second time, it allowed him a brief moment to swap to his ballista without the Doom Hunters shooting at him since they have to track him.

Firing the ballista at the hull of the Doom Hunter, taking out several exhaust systems, reducing its mobility by a significant margin as it slows down, unable to move as fast as it was.

Seeing how much the Doom Hunter slowed down, Doomguy swaps to his minigun made by Batma, splitting the three different barrels as they start revving.

Within a few seconds the miniguns barrels started spewing lead at a fire rate so fast that it would look as if it was shooting lasers as Doomguy strengthened the weapon in all aspects, stopping power and fire rate alike.

Swaying the minigun side to hit all three of the Doom Hunters, Doomguy shouts over the hail of gunfire, just incoherent shouting as he lets out the rage he feels against the cybernetic abominations for causing hundreds of deaths.

They all collectively activate their energy shields but it was coming to little avail as the previous damage ruined the protection of the shields as a lot of bullets still pass through

Noticing the trio of Doom Hunters prepare another attack as their arm lasers charge up, Doomguy puts away the minigun and throws a grenade while swapping to his combat shotgun as he lands on the uneven ground, removing its barrel and frame and replacing it with the sticky bomb modification.

“Eat this” Doomguy says with anger in his voice, cocking back the slide on shotgun as then squeezing the trigger, firing out a sticky bomb which was seen with its distinguisible red flashing, indicating the time left before exploding.

The bomb lands on the remaining arm of the Hunter that Doomguy damaged heavily earlier in the fight as the sticky bomb explodes, it releases a cluster of smaller bombs whilst blowing up the remainng arm of the doom hunter.

The explosions rip and tear through the Hunters body as the remaining weapons on its arm explode, consuming the entire Hunter in a ball of fire.

This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.

The explosion rings out as the other two hunters are caught within its proximity as the shockwave from the explosion hit Doomguy but thanks to his strength and praetor sut, he remained completely unphased.

As the explosion dies down, Doomguy can see nothing exiting the plume of smoke, confirming the destruction of one of the Hunters.

The remaining two hunters had similar levels of damage, reduced mobility from the damage to their chassis, and reduced power as hinted to the lack of using their laser weaponry and energy shields as they started using more kinetic weapons.

“One down, two to go” Doomguy smirked under his helmet, he could see the Doom Hunter knockoffs reprogramming themselves to attack him again.

He grabs his rocket launcher and places the burst homing missile modification, using his AI to program the missiles to follow a top-down attack pattern.

Locking onto both hunters, he fires two volleys of missiles, three in each salvo as they streak toward the sky,

He wishes he could use the sun as a way to cover their track but the pouring rain is there instead, allowing the Doom Hunters to use their machine guns to shoot down the missiles but it still served as a perfect distraction.

Realizing he has one final shot to finish this fight, Doomguy pulls out his ballista, equipping the destroyer blade mod on the crossbow as he aims.

Squeezing all the trigger, the orange energy emanates throughout the ballista as he lets go of the trigger as an orange blade of energy exits, increasing in width the farther it went out.

The energy blade slices right through the necks of the doom hunters, tearing through the flesh and bones as the heads fall off.

The chassis of the Doom Hunters come to a halt and crash onto the ground, flipping over as they no longer have their heads.

“Argh” Doomguy shouts to the skies after killing the three Doom Hunters, happy that it is over as he falls onto his back, taking in deep breaths.

“Did you get ‘em?” Superman asks, sounding more real than over comms.

Doomguy then goes on comms before looking over to see Superman standing right over him “What took you so long?” He asks.

“Needed to take in the sun, it’s how I recover” Superman says, reaching out with his hand to help Doomguy up.

Doomguy grabs his hand and gets pulled back up to his feet as he hears comms from the other heroes.

“Deathstroke has been apprehended,” Batman says, tired and coughing.

“Circe has also been apprehended, thanks to Raven” Wonder Woman says, probably just arriving to help Raven.

Superman eyes widen as he remembers “Quck, lets get Jon!” As Doomguy grabs onto his shoulders, he immediately takes off and heads straight to the port where they immediately spot the helicopter wreckage that carried Jon and Lex Luthor.

Upon landing, they see Lex Luthor trying to drag Jon away with his security detail as they turn to see the two powerhouses.

The remaining six security men immediately aimed with their kryptonite-loaded pistols, knowing that if they can’t kill Doomguy, they could at least kill superman but before they could fire, all six men were shot in the head.

Luthor looks over to see Doomguy with the rhino revolver he took from an intergang goon, aiming from his hip as if he were a gunslinger in the old west with his left hand over the hammer to press on after each shot.

“Hand the kid over” Superman said with confidence while Doomguy reloaded.

Luthor chuckles as he pulls out a detonator and says sinisterly “Remember that bomb from earlier, superman” preparing to press the button as a Batarang hits it out of his hand, slicing it in two in the process.

Luthor looks at his hand in shock as he turns around to see batman right behind, receiving a punch square in the face, knocking him out.

Superman immediately runs over to Jon, trying to pick him up in his arms but was forced to drop him after feeling the burning sensation from the kryptonite cuffs.

The cuffs then glow with purple energy as they break thanks to Ravens magic, allowing him to pick his son up “I’m so sorry, Jon” Superman said, tearing up slightly as he wipes them away with his free hand.

“Let’s get the kid back to his mother” Doomguy says with a hint of shame in his voice, knowing his carelessness allowed Jon to get kidnapped in the first place.

They see the jet with similar features to the batwing land on top of the deck of the heavily damaged and abandoned cargo ship as it opens its ramp in the back, allowing Superman, Doomguy, and the rest of the heroes to enter.

Doomguy can see Wonder Woman in the pilot seat as the rest of them take seats while Batman starts treating Jons wounds.

“Is he gonna be okay?” Doomguy asks.

“Yes, but he’ll have PTSD after all this” Batman comments as he starts stitching up the cuts to prevent scarring, even if he uses his Kryptonian healing factor.

“It wasn’t your fault, Barnes, that he got captured,” Wonder Woman said, sensing the regret in his voice.

“How so? I promised him safety, he’s gonna hate me” Doomguy replies but then Superman speaks up.

“He’ll learn to forgive you” Superman says.