The Man:
I stare at where the boom tube was. Where it was.
"I can't believe it," I think, "I can't believe it. Kara is gone. Darkseid, you bastard. You're not going away with this."
As I keep staring, I realize something a second later. I'm flying in space.
"Shoot. I hate flying."
I materialize a platform beneath and dropdown. With my feet back on solid ground, I eye the leftover parademons. Despite Darkseid being gone, they're still here, attacking the green lanterns. Neither the parademons nor the lanterns have noticed me. At least, not yet.
Raising the red ring, I focus my anger on a swarm of parademons. My anger causes the ring to glow brighter than the sun. I can feel the heat coming off the ring as more and more energy filled it.
"Boom," I say, tapping my thumb against the finger. The red ball of rage shoots it, flying through space until it reaches the fight with the lanterns and the parademons. Ripping and going right through a few parademons, it reached the center of the battlefield before exploding. All of space turns bright red as the red sun explodes, destroying and incinerating the parademons, leaving behind only little bits of ashes.
As the red fades and the space returns to being black, the green lanterns soon realize that the parademons are gone. While they search for answers to what happened, I take this opportunity to turn and run away.
Summoning one platform after another, I stop and instead summon a hoverboard. Jumping off of the final platform and onto the hoverboard, I fly back toward the Rusted.
"Darkseid had Kara," I tell myself, "No doubt he's taking her to Apokolips."
As I think about Apokolips, I can't help but imagine all the horrible things Darkseid could be doing to Kara right now.
"No," I yell, stopping and slamming my hands against my head. "No. Don't. Don't focus on that. Focus on how you can save her."
As I start to breathe in and out, I see the glow on the red ring lessens. I swallow a sudden lump in my throat and shake my head.
"Focus on how I can save Kara," I repeat to myself. "Yeah right. Even with helps from the others, there's no way we can fight against Darkseid and his apparently endless army of demons. Oliver. Snart. Reyes. They're strong, but not Darkseid strong. What to do? What to do?"
I adjust my sunglasses as I fly through outer space.
"I can't do that, but what other options do we have?"
I'm still sorting through the limited options when I see a yellow dot also flying through outer space. Stomping on the end of my hoverboard, I look at the dot as it seems to be flying to Oa for some reason.
"A yellow dot," I think. Sending back my hand, I summon a red telescope and use it to look. As I thought, it's not a comet or a rogue asteroid. It's Superman. Seeing Superman, a red lightbulb forms over my head.
Superman:
Flying as fast as I can toward Oa, I start to see the planet but before I can fly any further, a red wall forms in front of me and stops me. Almost flying right into it, I examine the wall and recognize it immediately.
"A red ring," I say, bringing up my yellow ring. "Atrocitus."
I look around for the red lantern but instead, I find him.
"You," I say, pulling back my yellow ring and shooting it forward. A yellow beam fire out but The Man in the Sunglasses uses a red ring to block it. Summoning forth another red wall, The Man shields himself.
The yellow beam not working, I pull back my ring and summon forth a giant yellow hand. Throwing it forward, The Man moves fast. He summons two axes in his hands. Using one to knock my giant hand to the side, The Man throws his second axes.
I swing my arm and cut the axe in half.
Once more, I pull back my arm and prepare to shoot again, but something unexpected happens. As yellow energy gathers into my ring, The Man summons a red platform in front of him. He jumps from his flying board onto it and then drops onto his knees.
Seeing The Man on his knees, I stop.
"I need your help," he says, looking at me. "Kara needs your help."
Harleen:
"Laria," Oliver and Leonard scream when they see our fellow green lantern staggering. She bounces up and down as she flies and her green glow seems to be fading. The second they can, they help Laria aboard.
"Don't forget about them," Laria pants, pointing at the bubble behind her. I didn't notice before but in the bubble behind her are Ganthet and Atrocitus. While Oliver and Leonard help Laria, Dinah and I help those two.
"Hey, hey, hey," Barry says when he sees me helping Atrocitus to his big red feet. "Be careful."
"Of what," I say, "I don't know if you notice or not, but Atrocitus here isn't exactly glowing red now is he? Calm down why don't you? Wait, let me rephrase that. Go down to the kitchen and grab some water."
Barry doesn't move for a while, but after I clap my hands in front of him, he nods his head and disappears.
"Hey," I say, looking around Atrocitus and at Ganthet and Laria. "Uhh, you guys are aliens so your anatomy is probably different but do you still drink water?"
No one answers me. It takes only a few seconds but Barry returns with some bottles of water. He hands them to us and we hand them to the three.
"Where is The Earthling with the glasses," Ganthet asks after gulping down his bottle. "I don't see him anywhere."
"Yeah," Laria says, wiping her forehead as she straightens herself. Handing Oliver an empty bottle, she too looks around. "Where is he?"
"Humph," I say with a shrug. I point toward the wheel before moving to the railing. "He was there, and then he ran off somewhere over there."
"He's not with you," Barry asks. "Wait, where is Supergirl?"
As soon as we hear the name, we all start to look around.
"Barry is right," Jason says. "Where is Supergirl? Wasn't she with you?"
"She was," Laria says. She looks around before walking over the ship's railing. "She's gone. Where did Supergirl go?"
"She was taken," The Man says, a series of red platforms forming from outer space. Walking on the red platforms is The Man. Reaching the last platform, he drops down onto the Rusted with us. "Quickly, you three. You need to get below deck now."
Without warning, The Man starts to push Atrocitus and Ganthet toward the stairs.
"Wait, wait, wait," I say, looking at The Man as he pushes the two down the stairs. "What are you doing? Why are you pushing those two?"
"Believe me when I say this," The Man answers, turning around to face the rest of us. "They're not going to want to see this."
"See what," Jaime asks.
A looming shadow answers Jaime as he looks up. As the shadow grows and covers the Rusted, we all turn around and gasp.
"Brainiac's ship," I say. Immediately, we all prepare for a fight. I pull out my guns. Jaime armors up. Oliver and Leonard bring up their weapons while Laria aims with her ring.
"Don't shoot," The Man says, getting in front of us and shooting out his hand. A wall appears in front of us. "Don't shoot. They're friendly. At least, for now."
None of us could answer. Instead, we could only watch as Superman, Black Adam, and Wonder Woman all fly out from the skull ship and toward the Rusted. Somehow, somehow, they were able to fly through the force field, and before I know it, their feet are touching the floor.
"Superman," The Man says, crossing his arms.
"You," Superman says, crossing his own arms.
As soon as the two finish their conversation, we all aim at them but Wonder Woman and Black Adams raise their arms. All of us are ready for a fight but Superman and The Man stops us.
"Stop," Superman yells.
"Enough," The Man yells. "As much as I hate to say this, we have a common goal."
"A common goal," I repeat, my guns still trained on Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman reaches for her sword but Superman stops her.
"I said stop," Superman yells, Wonder Woman stopping. "The Man is right. We do have a common goal. Kara had been taken by Darkseid."
"What," we all say. "Blondie was taken by Darkseid? When?"
"Just now," The Man answers, "And we can't rescue her by ourselves. Darkseid is too strong and Apokolis is too heavily reinforced. That's how I've asked Superman for his help. He agreed, so we're all going to save Kara. All of us"