EDL (part five)
Second Wave________________
after the intermission ~
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Constantine rolls the coffin out on a dolly in front of a green screen for filming. He wipes sweat off with a handkerchief, leans on the coffin and lights a cigarette.
Off camera - Echoing in the empty studio, "Hey put that out !"
Constantine - Toward the voice, "Hey _fuck_ you !"
He looks at the camera, looking it over as if judging the audience.
Constantine - "Yeah, I guess you're alright. Come on in."
He walks off the screen flicking the cigarette behind him before the coffin explodes open.
Solomon Grundy - Roars _"!!! GRUNDY !!!"_ clicking the backdrop to the very active battlefield.
Solomon Grundy's original nursery rhyme (19th century) angrily chanted by a children's choir, repeated with increasing intensity through the scene :
Born on a Monday
Named on a Tuesday
Married on a Wednesday
Sick on a Thursday
Worse on a Friday
Dead on a Saturday
Buried on a Sunday
That was the end of
Solomon Grundy !
(mixed with 'Mama Said Knock You Out' by LL Cool J)
(:! Try it !:)
(:! Try it !:)
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Twitching zombies haul themselves from the ground aggressively around Solomon Grundy with his roar. They all charge past the wall of Lanterns and Legends into the wave of invaders, more crawling from the ground in their wake, all seeking to devour on both sides.
Behind their charge, the 'Legion of Doom' base (the classic one, with the big red windows) rises over the hill. Spinning slowly as it moves, firing at the troops atop the carriers and showering the hovering parademons.
The large windows are lined with jeering and taunting villains in black turtlenecks and caps, all randomly spray painted 'Scum'. Middle fingers and mooning, shaking their guns. At the center, Lex sits in focus in at console stabilized not to spin with the rest.
On the ground a bat tank rolls, surrounded and followed by Arkham's inhabitants, many with a bat sprayed across their eyes, some branded.
A military air squadron bombs from overhead, taking immediate fire. One jet takes a hit and heads low toward the gate. Then fires the after burner over the field on the way where Darkseid's army gathers. (Afterburner is when a pilot dumps fuel behind the plane and ignites it, _Boom !_ gives the burst of speed or in this case ignites everything at the gate on both sides)
He ejects before it makes the gate, loading two pistols in their push holsters (they exist) before drawing as the chute pulls, then shooting his way to the ground. The other jets are downed around him, the invader refocusing on the defensive wall.
Beneath the descending pilot an alien Lantern fights a mob of invaders fleeing the explosions from the gate, and the pilot joins him back to back as they fight them off together.
The Lantern has a broad plate across each of his knuckles, generating lance like blades through his approaching targets, occasionally drawing one back as a shield, responsive around both to incoming fire and a shard of debris from the explosion.
The alien takes a stray shot from the last to fall. As he dies their bodies are pulled into one nearly as a spirit. While the alien's skeleton falls, the pilot now wears his rings. They assimilate forming system gauntlets with readouts of the data around him, with variable preloaded options, forming a basic translucent armor with readouts over the face with projections and targets marked over the field.
In a rage from the power, blood-lust and revenge sought, he pounds his fists to the ground and springs to the center of combat, tearing through the invaders. He lances forth through the lines toward the gate.
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Windows on the Legion carrier slide open dropping rope as it spins. The villains descend, one after the other, shooting all in the path in their slow turn, Deathstroke leading the attack.
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Ivy, clutching an armload of chemicals and seed (evidence tagged) walks up behind Swamp Thing at the edge of the battlefield as he tangles the feet of the walkers.
Ivy - "What are you doing ?" She watches the vines grow.
Swamp - "I'm thinking about ... what I want to do to their cities." He looks at her, "To yours, I mean."
Ivy - Looks at him from his arms into the ground and catching distant walkers, weaving a forest between. She throws the seed into the field and charges over one of his arms into the field, sprouting vines between the limbs as he grows them.
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Trees and vines fill the feet and joints of the Darkseid's walking craft (these, like all of his tech, are imagined to be _very_ basic, as they've recycled the same technological resources over thousands of years, only augmented every thousand years or so with a conquest. Essentially rectangular troop carrying buckets with legs and cannons).
A thick dark forest is woven between them as they struggle and shoot until completely immobilized while zombies continue to attack underneath. Troops atop the walkers fire desperately down into a panic.
The ropes from the Legion carrier drag over the stalling walkers as the villains drop down, clearing the remaining invaders from above, covered by carrier guns, while the zombies sweep the ground troops below.
Vines grow seemingly wherever they need to spread while in the distance the swamp thing has become deeply rooted. Deathstroke commands the security teams, supported by the random villains.
Bruce rises from his tank, armor still dented from Clark's shout, sparking at the neck. He leaps forward into the woods, followed by the charging Arkham inhabitants.
Past the mechanical forest is a clearing where Darkseid's troops amass, behind them is the crashed cruiser, partially obscuring the gate behind that. Seen into the gate is a seemingly endless gathering of Apokolips' citizens gathering and moving through, more walkers towering over them into infinity.
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As if plucked from the field, Jordan is somersaulted backward to behind the Lanterns wall, still being pounded hard, Lanterns struggling against the impact, directing it to the ground behind them.
The apparent leader of the Lanterns approaches and looks at the name on the uniform.
Lantern - "What are you ?" He grabs Jordan's hand and pulls at a knuckle ring, then smiles as they watch it glow dangerously in response, rebuilding the translucent shielding around him. He looks up again "What are you ?"
Jordan - "A man."
Lantern - Laughing into his eyes, "And what is that to me ?"
Jordan - Smiles as his hand goes to the gun, "I think that's a good question too."
Lantern - "Yes ! Yes let us do that. We will ... 'draw'.. This is how we train our children. I will show mine. They will then be proud and emulate me I think, so Yes ! _Draw,_ cowboy."
Jordan - "... seriously ?"
Lantern - "... yes. I do actually mean it. It will help you throw those away when we're done."
Jordan - "... these were my dad's." New clips, then holster loaded.
Lantern - "... oh ..."
12 shots, blocked in a wisp of blades from the commander's rings.
Lantern - "Oh Yes !" He peers into the the readouts on his wrist "Did you see ?"
Children's voices - "We love you daddy !"
Lantern - "Yes ! A real cowboy !"
Children - "Yay !"
Lantern - Looks at Jordan, "They love me. Well you do in fact seem _somewhat_ worthy of the rings ... and getting them off would require murder and or dismemberment at this point ... but unfortunately you have no idea what you're doing and so we really don't need you here. We'll check in. You may _resume_ whatever ... ground pounding mayhem you had previously intended, I'm sure I've distracted an _extraordinary_ display of your ... 'man-ness'. Enjoy."
He taps a virtual button on his wrist, and Jordan is flipped back to the field.
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Young Orion with Darkseid and the DeSaad.
Darkseid - "But these deployment planks ... why do they slope inward at the bottom? It looks to waste disembarkation space."
DeSaad - Smiles, "Ah yes ! _That_ is so that the ship's massive weight may _gouge_ the planet's surface," shaking his fist, _"scarring_ it as you deploy."
Darkseid - Smiles "Ahhh ... yes. Of course. I like that."
Orion - "But _why_ does it scar the surface ?"
They look at him as though he were insane.
Orion - "Ah. Yes. Of course." Meanders and leaves the room, returning to replace the model back on the table and leaving again while they stare in confusion.
Darkseid - After Orion leaves, "... it's his mother."
DeSaad - "Ah ... yes. I understand ... my ... daughter ... she ... she just became a superhero."
Darkseid - Stares gravely, putting his hand on his shoulder. "I am so sorry."
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The planks fly open on the upside down craft spilling dead and wreckage across the site.
Darkseid - Pulling himself from the pile, _"! Second Wave !"_
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Cautious invaders wander the deep woods ... a black horse flies past behind a squad.
Scarecrow - "Chemical experiment !"
They turn as a poof of powdery smoke hits the face of one in the middle spreading among them. The invaders look around around drugged as images turn to horror.
Scarecrow - Peering from shadows, "Oh well _that_ is _very_ good to know ..." He hears the sound of bats. "Oops ! Time to go !" He flees fast on horse into the mechanical woods.
A modulated voice from the shadows around the huddled invaders ...
"I ... am the terror ... which _flaps_ in the night ..."
Amanda laughs over the comm, unknown if she's aware it's on speaker ... "Oh my god Bruce you have stop !" She trails off laughing.
Bruce - Laughing on speaker and trying to compose himself, (modulator off) "Okay okay just wait, hang on ..."
The invaders stare all around them at the shimmering and growing woods.
Bruce - (Modulated) "I am ... _! The Batman !"_
A cape flies over view to mad laughter and horrified screams.
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Jordan flies screaming back to the commander and lands hard, obviously having been knocked there.
Lantern - Watching him get up, "So you've met Darkseid I see."
Jordan - "Fuck ! Yeah ! That big blue mother ..." goes running back into the field while Lantern rolls his eyes.
Lantern children voices - "Oooo ..."
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Amanda - Sitting at the console watching, "So where the hell is Alfred ? Isn't he supposed be bringing me your tea by now ?"
Bruce - On the comm with the sounds of aliens getting hit. "He's been gone for a while."
More pounding in the background "I surrender !" "No you don't."
Bruce - "Anyway he's a ..." while hitting, "Very ! Complicated ! Man !"
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Alfred jolts awake in a hammock, wearing a safari hat. He looks around confused while scratching his forearm.
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Amanda - Pulling a photo from the manila envelope. "Yes ... I've got his service record right here. The real one."
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Alfred in an old photograph sneering close at Adolf Hitler's face, fingers in the old 'V' sign up between them.
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Bruce - "You probably know more about him than I do then."
The sound of breaking bone and alien screams.
Amanda - "Probably."
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The rest of the photo shows Hitler's head is on the end of Alfred's bayonet in a South American jungle.
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Jordan - Getting up again from another hard landing, "So why'd the _other_ guy break formation ?"
Lantern - "Oh. Well ... he was stupid like you. We really didn't know him very well ... or long ... we think your rings might be broken actually, but they're horribly expensive to replace and they keep jumping to someone else _equally_ stupid before we get can to it anyway ! But never to anyone we really feel the _specific_ need to kill or dismember so ... we just go with it." He glances suspiciously at Jordan's rings. "Though they _do_ tend to veer toward this sector ..."
Jordan - Giving a dirty look, "You know I think I'm just going to try shooting him this time." Draws his guns walking back to the field.
Lantern children - "Yay !"
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An invader turns terrified into the shadows and thumps into Bruce's armored chest, still sparking.
Bruce - Leans over staring hard at the invader until he begins to cringe, then through the modulated voice, "I'm Batman !"
He and Amanda break out laughing unmodulated as the invader flees in terror and confusion.
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Darkseid thuds down next to the Lantern commander, gets up and dusts himself while the surrounding Lanterns look panicked. He sneers at the commander, who shrinks a bit, before he turns back to the battlefield, tossing a wall bearing Lantern in his way (Lantern Wilhelm).
Lantern children - "Woooow ..."
Lantern - Whispering, "I got a picture !"
Children - "Yay !"
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Near Darkseid's wrecked cruiser, Clark and Kara stare at Jordan a bit confused and looking tired, the surrounding army looking equally surprised and in pause.
Jordon - Pistols extended into rail guns running up his arms, "... hi ..." He waves the arms a bit, "Desert Eagle." They stare, heads cocked. "... Copper jackets ... ?"
Heat beams tearing ground to plug the hole, guns shooting back the carriers, they try to hold back the hoard.
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Darkseid tears angrily through the vines, tossing zombies, then is hit in the face with a puff of smoke. He grunts and rubs his eyes.
Scarecrow - Jumping out of the brush, "Boo !"
Darkseid - "What ?"
Scarecrow - "Oh. Well. Never mind then." Jumps back into the brush.
Darkseid looks around, cracking a zombies neck as it still grabs for him. Screams and vines growing, gunfire and blasts, explosions in the distance.
Darkseid - Tossing the zombie, "Madness."
Amanda's laughter in the distance with the sound of bats ...
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Jordan - Fighting near Arthur, "So what's _your_ deal ?"
Arthur - "I'm from Atlantis"
Jordan - "You mean like the conspiracy ?"
Arthur - "Conspiracy ?"
Jordan - "Yeah you guys built the pyramids for aliens and put eyeballs on all our money."
Arthur - "That does sound like something my queen might do, yeah."
Jordan - "Who's your queen ?"
Arthur - "She's there."
He points to Mera slaughtering through the field with her guard.
Arthur - Smiles, "I marry her if I live."
Jordan - "So you'll be king then ?"
Arthur - "That was yesterday."
Mera smiles at Arthur across the field between kills.
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Walking through the forest ...
The sound of a cracked whip and Darkseid trips onto his face. Looking up from the mud, he sees a cute kitten.
Twitching zombies haul themselves from the ground aggressively around Solomon Grundy with his roar. They all charge past the wall of Lanterns and Legends into the wave of invaders, more crawling from the ground in their wake, all seeking to devour on both sides.
Behind their charge, the 'Legion of Doom' base (the classic one, with the big red windows) rises over the hill. Spinning slowly as it moves, firing at the troops atop the carriers and showering the hovering parademons.
The large windows are lined with jeering and taunting villains in black turtlenecks and caps, all randomly spray painted 'Scum'. Middle fingers and mooning, shaking their guns. At the center, Lex sits in focus in at console stabilized not to spin with the rest.
On the ground a bat tank rolls, surrounded and followed by Arkham's inhabitants, many with a bat sprayed across their eyes, some branded.
A military air squadron bombs from overhead, taking immediate fire. One jet takes a hit and heads low toward the gate. Then fires the after burner over the field on the way where Darkseid's army gathers. (Afterburner is when a pilot dumps fuel behind the plane and ignites it, _Boom !_ gives the burst of speed or in this case ignites everything at the gate on both sides)
He ejects before it makes the gate, loading two pistols in their push holsters (they exist) before drawing as the chute pulls, then shooting his way to the ground. The other jets are downed around him, the invader refocusing on the defensive wall.
Beneath the descending pilot an alien Lantern fights a mob of invaders fleeing the explosions from the gate, and the pilot joins him back to back as they fight them off together.
The Lantern has a broad plate across each of his knuckles, generating lance like blades through his approaching targets, occasionally drawing one back as a shield, responsive around both to incoming fire and a shard of debris from the explosion.
The alien takes a stray shot from the last to fall. As he dies their bodies are pulled into one nearly as a spirit. While the alien's skeleton falls, the pilot now wears his rings. They assimilate forming system gauntlets with readouts of the data around him, with variable preloaded options, forming a basic translucent armor with readouts over the face with projections and targets marked over the field.
In a rage from the power, blood-lust and revenge sought, he pounds his fists to the ground and springs to the center of combat, tearing through the invaders. He lances forth through the lines toward the gate.
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Windows on the Legion carrier slide open dropping rope as it spins. The villains descend, one after the other, shooting all in the path in their slow turn, Deathstroke leading the attack.
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Ivy, clutching an armload of chemicals and seed (evidence tagged) walks up behind Swamp Thing at the edge of the battlefield as he tangles the feet of the walkers.
Ivy - "What are you doing ?" She watches the vines grow.
Swamp - "I'm thinking about ... what I want to do to their cities." He looks at her, "To yours, I mean."
Ivy - Looks at him from his arms into the ground and catching distant walkers, weaving a forest between. She throws the seed into the field and charges over one of his arms into the field, sprouting vines between the limbs as he grows them.
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Trees and vines fill the feet and joints of the Darkseid's walking craft (these, like all of his tech, are imagined to be _very_ basic, as they've recycled the same technological resources over thousands of years, only augmented every thousand years or so with a conquest. Essentially rectangular troop carrying buckets with legs and cannons).
A thick dark forest is woven between them as they struggle and shoot until completely immobilized while zombies continue to attack underneath. Troops atop the walkers fire desperately down into a panic.
The ropes from the Legion carrier drag over the stalling walkers as the villains drop down, clearing the remaining invaders from above, covered by carrier guns, while the zombies sweep the ground troops below.
Vines grow seemingly wherever they need to spread while in the distance the swamp thing has become deeply rooted. Deathstroke commands the security teams, supported by the random villains.
Bruce rises from his tank, armor still dented from Clark's shout, sparking at the neck. He leaps forward into the woods, followed by the charging Arkham inhabitants.
Past the mechanical forest is a clearing where Darkseid's troops amass, behind them is the crashed cruiser, partially obscuring the gate behind that. Seen into the gate is a seemingly endless gathering of Apokolips' citizens gathering and moving through, more walkers towering over them into infinity.
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As if plucked from the field, Jordan is somersaulted backward to behind the Lanterns wall, still being pounded hard, Lanterns struggling against the impact, directing it to the ground behind them.
The apparent leader of the Lanterns approaches and looks at the name on the uniform.
Lantern - "What are you ?" He grabs Jordan's hand and pulls at a knuckle ring, then smiles as they watch it glow dangerously in response, rebuilding the translucent shielding around him. He looks up again "What are you ?"
Jordan - "A man."
Lantern - Laughing into his eyes, "And what is that to me ?"
Jordan - Smiles as his hand goes to the gun, "I think that's a good question too."
Lantern - "Yes ! Yes let us do that. We will ... 'draw'.. This is how we train our children. I will show mine. They will then be proud and emulate me I think, so Yes ! _Draw,_ cowboy."
Jordan - "... seriously ?"
Lantern - "... yes. I do actually mean it. It will help you throw those away when we're done."
Jordan - "... these were my dad's." New clips, then holster loaded.
Lantern - "... oh ..."
12 shots, blocked in a wisp of blades from the commander's rings.
Lantern - "Oh Yes !" He peers into the the readouts on his wrist "Did you see ?"
Children's voices - "We love you daddy !"
Lantern - "Yes ! A real cowboy !"
Children - "Yay !"
Lantern - Looks at Jordan, "They love me. Well you do in fact seem _somewhat_ worthy of the rings ... and getting them off would require murder and or dismemberment at this point ... but unfortunately you have no idea what you're doing and so we really don't need you here. We'll check in. You may _resume_ whatever ... ground pounding mayhem you had previously intended, I'm sure I've distracted an _extraordinary_ display of your ... 'man-ness'. Enjoy."
He taps a virtual button on his wrist, and Jordan is flipped back to the field.
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Young Orion with Darkseid and the DeSaad.
Darkseid - "But these deployment planks ... why do they slope inward at the bottom? It looks to waste disembarkation space."
DeSaad - Smiles, "Ah yes ! _That_ is so that the ship's massive weight may _gouge_ the planet's surface," shaking his fist, _"scarring_ it as you deploy."
Darkseid - Smiles "Ahhh ... yes. Of course. I like that."
Orion - "But _why_ does it scar the surface ?"
They look at him as though he were insane.
Orion - "Ah. Yes. Of course." Meanders and leaves the room, returning to replace the model back on the table and leaving again while they stare in confusion.
Darkseid - After Orion leaves, "... it's his mother."
DeSaad - "Ah ... yes. I understand ... my ... daughter ... she ... she just became a superhero."
Darkseid - Stares gravely, putting his hand on his shoulder. "I am so sorry."
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The planks fly open on the upside down craft spilling dead and wreckage across the site.
Darkseid - Pulling himself from the pile, _"! Second Wave !"_
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Cautious invaders wander the deep woods ... a black horse flies past behind a squad.
Scarecrow - "Chemical experiment !"
They turn as a poof of powdery smoke hits the face of one in the middle spreading among them. The invaders look around around drugged as images turn to horror.
Scarecrow - Peering from shadows, "Oh well _that_ is _very_ good to know ..." He hears the sound of bats. "Oops ! Time to go !" He flees fast on horse into the mechanical woods.
A modulated voice from the shadows around the huddled invaders ...
"I ... am the terror ... which _flaps_ in the night ..."
Amanda laughs over the comm, unknown if she's aware it's on speaker ... "Oh my god Bruce you have stop !" She trails off laughing.
Bruce - Laughing on speaker and trying to compose himself, (modulator off) "Okay okay just wait, hang on ..."
The invaders stare all around them at the shimmering and growing woods.
Bruce - (Modulated) "I am ... _! The Batman !"_
A cape flies over view to mad laughter and horrified screams.
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Jordan flies screaming back to the commander and lands hard, obviously having been knocked there.
Lantern - Watching him get up, "So you've met Darkseid I see."
Jordan - "Fuck ! Yeah ! That big blue mother ..." goes running back into the field while Lantern rolls his eyes.
Lantern children voices - "Oooo ..."
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Amanda - Sitting at the console watching, "So where the hell is Alfred ? Isn't he supposed be bringing me your tea by now ?"
Bruce - On the comm with the sounds of aliens getting hit. "He's been gone for a while."
More pounding in the background "I surrender !" "No you don't."
Bruce - "Anyway he's a ..." while hitting, "Very ! Complicated ! Man !"
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Alfred jolts awake in a hammock, wearing a safari hat. He looks around confused while scratching his forearm.
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Amanda - Pulling a photo from the manila envelope. "Yes ... I've got his service record right here. The real one."
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Alfred in an old photograph sneering close at Adolf Hitler's face, fingers in the old 'V' sign up between them.
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Bruce - "You probably know more about him than I do then."
The sound of breaking bone and alien screams.
Amanda - "Probably."
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The rest of the photo shows Hitler's head is on the end of Alfred's bayonet in a South American jungle.
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Jordan - Getting up again from another hard landing, "So why'd the _other_ guy break formation ?"
Lantern - "Oh. Well ... he was stupid like you. We really didn't know him very well ... or long ... we think your rings might be broken actually, but they're horribly expensive to replace and they keep jumping to someone else _equally_ stupid before we get can to it anyway ! But never to anyone we really feel the _specific_ need to kill or dismember so ... we just go with it." He glances suspiciously at Jordan's rings. "Though they _do_ tend to veer toward this sector ..."
Jordan - Giving a dirty look, "You know I think I'm just going to try shooting him this time." Draws his guns walking back to the field.
Lantern children - "Yay !"
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An invader turns terrified into the shadows and thumps into Bruce's armored chest, still sparking.
Bruce - Leans over staring hard at the invader until he begins to cringe, then through the modulated voice, "I'm Batman !"
He and Amanda break out laughing unmodulated as the invader flees in terror and confusion.
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Darkseid thuds down next to the Lantern commander, gets up and dusts himself while the surrounding Lanterns look panicked. He sneers at the commander, who shrinks a bit, before he turns back to the battlefield, tossing a wall bearing Lantern in his way (Lantern Wilhelm).
Lantern children - "Woooow ..."
Lantern - Whispering, "I got a picture !"
Children - "Yay !"
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Near Darkseid's wrecked cruiser, Clark and Kara stare at Jordan a bit confused and looking tired, the surrounding army looking equally surprised and in pause.
Jordon - Pistols extended into rail guns running up his arms, "... hi ..." He waves the arms a bit, "Desert Eagle." They stare, heads cocked. "... Copper jackets ... ?"
Heat beams tearing ground to plug the hole, guns shooting back the carriers, they try to hold back the hoard.
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Darkseid tears angrily through the vines, tossing zombies, then is hit in the face with a puff of smoke. He grunts and rubs his eyes.
Scarecrow - Jumping out of the brush, "Boo !"
Darkseid - "What ?"
Scarecrow - "Oh. Well. Never mind then." Jumps back into the brush.
Darkseid looks around, cracking a zombies neck as it still grabs for him. Screams and vines growing, gunfire and blasts, explosions in the distance.
Darkseid - Tossing the zombie, "Madness."
Amanda's laughter in the distance with the sound of bats ...
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Jordan - Fighting near Arthur, "So what's _your_ deal ?"
Arthur - "I'm from Atlantis"
Jordan - "You mean like the conspiracy ?"
Arthur - "Conspiracy ?"
Jordan - "Yeah you guys built the pyramids for aliens and put eyeballs on all our money."
Arthur - "That does sound like something my queen might do, yeah."
Jordan - "Who's your queen ?"
Arthur - "She's there."
He points to Mera slaughtering through the field with her guard.
Arthur - Smiles, "I marry her if I live."
Jordan - "So you'll be king then ?"
Arthur - "That was yesterday."
Mera smiles at Arthur across the field between kills.
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Walking through the forest ...
The sound of a cracked whip and Darkseid trips onto his face. Looking up from the mud, he sees a cute kitten.
(Dueling Banjos by Roy Clark and Buck Williams)
Catwoman - Curling her whip from the tree above in the shadows, "I've caught one."
Penguin - "Well, lets take a look then." He shoots him in the head.
Darkseid tries to leap up and falls again with a crack of the whip.
Penguin - "Bulletproof."
Scarecrow - Walking from the brush, "Smoke free generation, too."
Catwoman - "Do you think he might be their king ?"
As he pulls himself with an eye to the tree a vine flips him on his back, burying him in growth.
Ivy - "He may well be ... Still stupid."
A log drops on his head and he furiously tears from the vine and leaps up looking around, seeing nothing. He turns annoyed, continuing to the field and hears the sound of bats behind and shudders a bit, turning back, seeing nothing again.
Tuning back toward the field his face hits Bat-fist. He stops and winces his eyes in broiled rage and punches.
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Bruce - Sailing through the air, "So ... he hits really hard."
Amanda - Paging through the envelope, "Do _you_ know of any kind of ... wonderful kryptonite type weakness ? There's nothing in here on that."
Bruce - Still sailing, "I looked at some ... (muffled) books ... I couldn't find one. There's a bunch on a younger ... pinker version though."
Amanda - Defensively, "It's _fuchsia !"_
Cratered with a one second sound clip from the song 'thriller' leading into the next scene.
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Hades - "Orion is right."
Persephone - "They _are_ feared."
Hades - "Brutal."
Persephone - "Vicious to all things."
Hades - "One another and beyond."
Persephone - "With no idea how many watch."
Hades - "Or from how many places."
Diana - "They are warriors."
Hades - A laugh, "Murderers with reasons."
Persephone - "And without ... no. Diana, I'm sorry."
Hades - "We cannot help you."
Persephone - "We see little difference between them and whomever may win ..."
Hades - "We see the same."
Diana - A pause then tersely, "I will take your wisdom to my meditations ... but they will be your last words if you stand in my way."
Persephone - Draws her sword and places it ready in her lap. "Diana, think about this."
Diana - "I needn't as clearly you have for too long. Yet you _still_ misunderstand. I came to release the Gargareans from your prison. Not to discuss the philosophy of human evolution."
Hades - "Diana of Amazon, do you not consider your meaning, if even you do not bluff the gods ?"
Persephone - "Your people will stand by you no more. They give us honor. But you ..."
Hades - "You come like a beggar then thief."
Persephone - "A murderer."
Diana - Drawing her sword, "Do we fight or do I pass ?"
Hades - "And why would you kill for killers, then come begging life from death ?"
Diana - With impatience, "Because you are right. Because they are warriors and will _always_ be warriors. They need guidance. Honor. Teachers. Gargareans. Amazons."
Persephone - Staring, "... and here too you are right. Everyone is right and so there will be blood, to be yours or ours."
Hades - "Or all of us together but still ... we cannot let you pass."
Persephone - "The dead are dead."
They lean back in their thrones staring, weapons in their laps, while Diana's path lay between them.
Diana - "And there will be death long after you're _gone !"_ She leaps forward to the door past, unknown if stopped.
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