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The Despero Intersection	By : Ksennin Category: DC Verse Comics > Justice League Views: 14485 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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"JUST GET HIM AWAY FROM ME!" "Damn it, Guy! We're on a mission! You can't go picking fights with other Leaguers!" Booster said, his force field keeping Guy restrained. "HE TOUCHED ME!" "Oh, for crying out loud! Don't be ridiculous!" "Are you hurt?" Fire asked, kneeling on the airship's floor next to Mister Miracle's fallen figure, cradling his head to her bosom. "Should I?" "Please tell me you aren't hurt." "I am not hurt." "He-He wanted to-to-" "Look Guy, why don't you just fly ahead to help J'onn?" Beetle suggested. "Yeah, anything to get away from that-" "Just go!" "I knew, I knew it," Guy said, heading for the exit hatch. "No one straight could wear that yellow and red costume..." "SCOTT'S ALL MAN, YOU CABRON!" Fire shouted at him. "I KNOW THAT FOR SUR-" "Bea?" asked Tora, her eyes wide open. Beetle and Booster looked at each other, eyebrows raised beneath their masks. "O-key..." they said in unison. ************************************** J'onn winced in pain as Despero's blow struck him, sending him to his knees. It took all of his psychokinetic power to keep the following punch from taking his head clean off. "J'onn?" Gypsy asked, her voice trembling with worry. Despero had seemed to take all that the Martian Manhunter could dish out, and was returning it, with interest. >>>Gypsy, get away.<<< J'onn far-spoke, trying to get back to his feet while Despero approached him again. The creature was smiling, J'onn saw. He had forgotten how powerful Despero was. "I won't leave you!" >>>I'll be fine. Get yourself to safety.<<< J'onn assured her, even as Despero's kick sent him to crash against an overturned train wagon. "But..." >>>NOW.<<< J'onn insisted. He could feel the inner bleeding starting again. As a shapechanger, he was completely aware of every part of his body, and knew exactly what Despero's punishment was doing to him. His body was busy repairing itself, ribs shifting back to proper form and position, torn tissue mending, but he could hardly concentrate on the healing while fighting off his opponent. "YOU GAVE ME FAIR SPORT, MARTIAN, BUT PLAYTIME IS OVER." Focusing his mind on the approaching brute, J'onn struck hard with his PK power alone, making Despero fall back gasping, clutching his throat. Despero coughed twice, and smiled again. >>>USING YOUR MIND, MARTIAN? TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME.<<< J'onn J'onzz screamed. ************************************** "Bea! How could you? Scott's married!" "I know, I know! I didn't plan to, ok? It just happened." "And right after we-?" "Look, I was angry, and he was there. Just a one-night stand kind of thing. It doesn't mean anything." "Then you shall not require my presence at your room tonight like you reque-?" "Shut up, Scott!" Fire cut him off. "Tora, it was just sex, ok? Don't-" "Is it always just sex for you?" "No!" "Does it ever mean anything to you?" "Tora, you know it does. You-I... Tora, you know..." "Yes?" "You know I love you." "Oh, Bea..." Ice said, her eyes clouding. "I'm sorry," Fire said, embracing Ice. "I can be such a bitch at times." "Damn, that's so sweet," Beetle told Booster. "Gotta a tissue?" "PILOT THIS THING AND MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, YOU JERKS!" Fire shouted. "Barda will kill you if she finds out." Ice said, smiling at last. Fire's eyes opened wide. "Shit, I hadn't thought of that." ************************************** "J'onn! Are you hurt? Talk to me!" Gypsy cried, as her slender arms tried to embrace J'onn wide back, while he trembled, fallen in fetal position on the ground, his face twitching spastically. "M-m-my m-m-mind-" J'onn stammered, his voice barely a whisper. "He entered my m-mind..." "YOU, NOW," Despero said, grabbing Gypsy by the neck, and lifting the struggling girl with ease. Glowing plasma began to coruscate around his baleful third eye. "GOODBYE." As the burst of destructive energy was released, it was contained by a glowing green sphere that formed around Despero's head. "AARGH!!!" Despero screamed, releasing Gypsy. A giant glowing green booted foot materialized from thin air and kicked Despero, sending him through the air in a great parabolic path. "Who?" coughed Gypsy in confusion. "Green Lantern at your service, babe," said Guy Gardner, the power ring glowing on his hand. "Green-?" "Lantern, yep. Did the squeeze Red there gave ya made ya deaf or what?" "Wasn't Green Lantern taller, and much cuter?" ************************************** "Gee, I never figured that Scott..." whispered Booster. "It's always the quiet ones," said Beetle sagely. "Barda's going to kill him." "Wonder if I can get his room at the Embassy. Much better view than mine." "You keep the room, I'll go after the widow." "Deal," agreed Beetle. "At least it's a relief to know that Guy was blowing it off his ass as usual." "Uh?" "You know, about Scott being..." "Oh. Well, I never thought Scott'd have such lousy taste, anyway. But why would it be a relief?" "Well, I'm not homophobic or anything, but..." "And just 'cause of Fire? Look, Scott's from a more advanced society, you know. Everyone is bisexual in more developed cultures." "Aw, stop pulling my leg." "Yeah, man, stop being a troglodyte. Everyone in the future I came from was bi, too." "Everyone?" "Sure." "EVERYONE?" "Hey! Did you see some red thing just fly by?" ************************************** "J'onn, you can't! You're hurt!" "I have to," J'onn said, staggering to his feet. "He must be stopped." "But-" "Rest now, child," J'onn said, tenderly caressing Gypsy's soot-stained face. "The nightmare will soon be over. One way or the other." ************************************** "Just why the hell Guy had to throw him at New York?" "Don't ask me. Damn! Booster! Shield those people!" Beetle ordered through the comlink. "There! Damn! GET THOSE PEOPLE OUTTA HERE!" Booster shouted as the police herded people in frantic attempts to evacuate the area. "Oh, crap. Another building." "I'm on it!" said Ice, forming columns of ice to support damaged structures. "Guy! Don't get close to him! For God's sake! Don't fight hand to hand! Just bind or blast him with your ring!" "Why couldn't we get the real Green Lantern?" Booster muttered. "The good one?" "HEY! I HEARD THAT!" Gardner complained. "Oh, fuck!" Beetle spat as Despero tackled Gardner into Rockefeller Center. "Ice! Fire! Get over there! Wait for Despero to come out!" "Now who made you leader?" Fire said, her flaming green figure flying to the spot. "Bea, don't argue!" Beetle spat, running up a flight of stairs, feeling every ounce of the extra pounds he carried. Lack of actual powers and his status as the League's regular pilot had kept him mostly at the sidelines. Since Scott had offered to man the JLI airship this time, Beetle could now feel the results of his sedentary life. "I must get Kilowog off the kitchen..." he muttered. With a grunt of effort, Beetle vaulted over the slab's edge. "Fire, as soon as he shows his red naked butt through that hole, you barbecue him!" "I tried that! My flame hurts the creep, but it doesn't stop him!" "Just do it! Ice, just after Fire toasts him, you freeze his ass. The sudden temperature change may knock him out!" "Hey, that isn't a bad plan," Fire said, with no little surprise. "I'm immature, not stupid. We need teamwork here or we'll get creamed." "You don't think Guy will be able to beat him?" asked Ice. "HA!" Fire said. "Fat chance!" Beetle agreed. "That'll be the day." Booster added. "Here they come!" screamed Beetle, as the noise of the brawl below rose. Suddenly, a green-nimbus-surrounded figure was hurled through the roof slab, several meters to a side of the original opening, barely missing where Ice stood. One second later, Despero erupted through yet another spot, scattering chunks of concrete in his wake. One of them hit Ice on the head, and she fell, instantly unconscious. "TORA!" Fire cried out. "Shit. There goes the plan. Booster! Pick up Ice! Take her to safety!" "YOU GODDAMNED BASTARD!" "AAARGHHH!" Despero screamed as an inferno of green fire enveloped him. "You motherfucker!" cried Fire, amidst a barrage of Portuguese curses. "You hurt Tora! I'll-" "WHAT? He hurt ICE?" asked Guy Gardner, as he rejoined the fight. "THAT'S IT!" Gritting his teeth, Gardner pointed his power ring and channeled his furious will through it. A blinding flash of green light suddenly lit all the surroundings as the powerful plasma blast struck Despero. Despero grunted in pain, but refused to fall. "ENOUGH," he spat. "Guy! Keep your shields up while blasti-!" Despero's third eye unleashed a fearsome energy blast, and Guy Gardner fell unconscious. "Guy's down!" Fire called out, while resuming her own attack. "Damn! How did he do that? Anyone read the files on that ugly bastard?" Beetle asked. "Just what can't that sucker do?" "OH, SHIT!" Fire cried out as another plasma burst barely missed her. "Shit indeed," mumbled Booster. Despero barely seemed to notice his wrist blasters' fire. "Scott! Give us some air support here!" "Despero is very angry, is he not?" Mister Miracle's voice sounded over the comlink. "Maybe I-" "Don't start! Use the airship's weaponry! Do evasive maneuvers to distract him. Buy us some fucking time!" "As you wish. I believed this was not the right time to fuck, though." The JLI airship dove towards Despero, heavy machine-guns blazing, the armor-piercing bullets ricocheting off Despero's thick hide. Two short- range missiles struck the creature full-on. "ANOTHER GNAT," Despero sneered. His third eye glowed. The airship exploded. "SCOTT!" Fire screamed. "NOOO!" "Damn. There goes next year's budget," Beetle grumbled. "Booster! Get Guy outta there!" "BEETLE? SCOTT'S-" "Scott got out just in time. That's what he does, remember? Mister Miracle always escapes somehow. Scott, report, please." Despero roared in fury as Booster picked up the unconscious Guy Gardner an instant before the creature's energy blast destroyed the spot. "Scott?" "SCOTT?" echoed Fire. "Oh, no," whispered Beetle, feeling a cold dread run through him. "It can't be..." "YOU FUCKER!" Fire cried out as she showered Despero with flames. "SHIT! SHIT! Where the hell are the damn reinforcements? We need fucking Superman here!" Booster said. "We can't beat a major villain alone! We're just second stringers!" "J'onn has more damn powers than Superman himself, and he still got pulped," Beetle said, feeling numbness creep in. "And you're the second stringer. I'm just a guy in a costume. I don't even rate." "Doctor Fate, Captain Atom, Captain Marvel, every damn heavyweight! We need major muscle or we're all dead! OH, FUCK!" "BOOSTER!" Beetle could only gape as a building, whose base Despero had just blasted, toppled, sending tons of masonry falling over the surprised Booster. "FALL, GODDAMMIT!" Fire shouted in desperation, her powers straining to the outmost against Despero's inhuman resilience. "YOU FALL, WOMAN." Fire gasped. A sledgehammer seemed to have struck her mind. She blanked out, her flame-form suddenly changing back to normal flesh-and-blood as she fell. "Oh, shi-!" Beetle began as he moved forward in a futile rush to catch the falling girl, knowing that he could never get there in time. Physics just didn't give people those kinds of breaks. "Uh?" Beetle stood astonished as Fire's falling figure slowed down for no apparent reason and came to rest gently on the slab's surface. Almost immediately, Despero grunted, bent over, twisted to a side abruptly, and fell face down. "WHAT-?" Despero began, starting to rise, just before his head was thrown violently to a side, and he began to clutch at his throat. His head began to twist slowly, rotating on the thick neck slowly but inexorably. "What happened...?" mumbled a voice behind the stunned Beetle. He turned to see the dazed Fire clumsily getting to her knees, shaking her head. "Eh?" Fire said, as she saw Despero struggling against empty air several paces away, his head being wrenched around. "You Goddamned asshole..." she muttered as she rose her hands, aiming. "NOOOO!" shouted Beetle, running towards Fire. "Don't you see-?" Green fire shot from her hands towards Despero. "-It's J'onn-!" Two different voices cried out as her fireblast struck. "-He's invisible..." completed Beetle, far too late, feeling his stomach sink. "AARHHHH!" screamed the Martian Manhunter, his voice drowning Despero's roar as flames covered his now visible body, his flesh burning. His malleable Martian tissue could adapt to most damage, but burning was his greatest weakness. "J'onn! NO!" cried Fire, in horror. "PLAYING GAMES, MARTIAN?" asked Despero, dismissing his own fire-induced pain, as he stood up and grabbed his opponent by the neck. "SHREWD. KEEPING YOUR PRESENCE SHIELDED FROM MY SENSES. USELESS, HOWEVER." Despero's third eye glowed and a savage blast of energy struck the Martian hero point-blank. A second blast followed immediately, making J'onn, still in Despero's grasp, shake like a rag doll. "J'onn, I'm sorry!" shouted Fire, stumbling towards them, not knowing what else to do. Despero turned to look at the still confused heroine and casually released an energy burst that would have killed her, had Beetle not tackled her an instant before, throwing both to the ground. The blast's shock wave caught them and sent them rolling among the debris. Despero chuckled evilly as he saw that the two Leaguers were not moving. He turned his gaze again to the Martian Manhunter. "THIRD TIME IS THE CHARM, EARTHLINGS SAY." Feeling himself drowning in an ocean of pain, J'onn still looked up, wanting to look death eye to eye, without fear. He saw Despero's eye glow anew, preparing to unleash the final blast. And then he was gone. J'onn winced as his burned body hit the rough waterproofed concrete surface. There had been the sound of an impact, but then what? His ravaged senses reached out to find out what had happened. And found her. She knelt over him, concern shining brightly on her mind. Her hands felt cool against his charred skin. "Merciful Hera," Wonder Woman said, aghast at the Martian's condition. "J'onn, you need help. I must-" >>Stop him,<< his mind said, burned lips now useless for speech. >>You must stop him.<< "But-" Diana began. >>I can heal myself. But Despero must be stopped, Princess. Please.<< Blocks away, where Wonder Woman's kick had thrown him, Despero roared his fury. "Yes," Wonder Woman said laconically, standing up.
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