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Chapter 59 - Sunglasses Off

Kara:

"Kal-El," I shout, waving away the dust in front of me. Hardly doing anything, I instead use my super breath to breathe away all the dust. As the last of the dust clears away, I'm seeing something I couldn't believe.

"What," I say. Darkseid had slammed his hands down. I think he was trying to kill Superman and me. I tried to protect Superman, but he pushed me out of the way and instead tried to take the hit. He tried to take the hit but someone else took it for him.

"You," Darkseid says, looking down at The Man. The Man is holding up Darkseid's hands, and we're both right behind him.

"Enough," The Man yells. His voice sounds different. It doesn't sound like before. He doesn't sound calm or cold. He sounds angry.

"Enough," The Man yells again. He pulls back his head before shooting it forward. As he does, The Man breathes fire. The fire is unlike anything I've ever felt. I can feel my skin burn as The Man burns Darkseid. Darkseid screams and it seems he struggles to break free of The Man but The Man wouldn't let go.

"Father," a tall man with pitch-black hair yells. He runs toward Darkseid and The Man with a mace in his hand.

The Man:

Screaming and unleashing my dragon flame, I see Kalibak running toward me from the corner of my eyes. As he gets closer, I let go of Darkseid's hand and punch him, knocking him through the ground and toward the Rusted. He hits the side of her before falling to the ground.

My mouth is still full of fire when Kalibak reaches me. Raising his mace and trying to hit me, I grab it with one hand and grab his throat with my other.

"I will destroy you," Kalibak screams as he tries to break free. "You are nothing! I will end yo--"

The adrenaline runs from Kalibak's eyes as I stare at him. His boiling blood freezes over. He is no longer in fighting spirit. Instead, he is scared. His eyes are wide as I stare into them.

"When you see your father," I whisper, choking him as I pull him closer. "Tell him congrats. He broke me. Darkseid broke me, and now, I have to use five percent of all my powers."

Kalibak is shaking as I speak. He shakes even further when he sees glowing black lines travel from my eyes throughout my body. As the black lines reach my hand, the red lantern ring I have shattered.

"Too much anger," I say. "And raw power."

Now covered in black lines, Kalibak and I watch as literal parts of my skin open up and tiny bugs crawl out. They crawl out from my skin and right onto Kalibak. He screams and drops his mace. Now trying to hit the bugs off, I throw him to the side.

"Wh--What," Superman stutters as he looks at a wailing and panicking Kalibak before looking at me.

"Look away," I order, "Don't look at me! Both you and Kara cannot look at me as I do this!"

Jumping and flying into the air, I look at Granny and her Furies as they surround Darkseid. Darkseid is holding his hips while pulling himself up. Close to standing fully up, he coughs before dropping to a knee.

"Everyone," I shout, looking at the Rusted. "Close your eyes! Now!"

"Super parademons," Darkseid yells while still on his knee. "Granny! Furies! DeSaad! Attack him! Destroy him!"

He points a shaking finger at me. Immediately, all the super parademons, all the war machines, Granny and her female furies, all charge toward me.

"Close your eyes," I repeat, seeing a few people with their eyes open. "Do it now! Now!"

Finally, everyone closes their eyes. They shut their eyes and hold their hands over them. The second they do, I grab the earpiece of my sunglasses.

"Everyone wants to know who I am behind the sunglasses," I say as the super parademons quickly approach me. "Well here. Have a peek."

I pull off my sunglasses and show everyone what I look like. As soon as the super parademons see me, they all begin to fall. Some of parademons are frozen, turned into ice and shattering when they hit the ground. Other parademons are lit ablaze. They scream and yell as hellfire consumes them, turning them into ashes. Many starts to go crazy. White foams fall from their mouths as they lash out at other nearby parademons. It's nothing but chaos as the super parademons look at me.

A few sneak up from behind me and use their newfound laser visions to try and burn me. However, as I feel the beams hit my body, I begin to absorb them. I keep on absorbing the laser beams, and even when the super parademons tried to stop, they couldn't. I absorb the power right from their heads, destroying them in the process.

Once charge up, I pull in my arms and legs before shooting them out. Shooting out all the power I absorbed, I hit not only parademons but also many war machines. They explode and burst into flames. DeSaad who is among the war machines screams and falls to the ground. He tries to get away but an exploding war machine lands on top of him.

"Darkseid," I say, seeing the bastard still on his knees. Quickly descending toward him, I hear screaming coming from behind. Turning my head, I see Mad Harriet, grinning as she jumps toward me with her energy claws.

Eyeing Mad Harriet, her grin disappears as black lines travel up her body. In less than a second, she explodes

"Mad Harriet," Granny yells, watching from nearby as Mad Harriet disappears into a burst of orange and yellow. She growls and whips the ground before pointing at me. "Attack him! Attack him with everything you have!"

As all three of the Female Furies charge toward me, I show them my eyes. The second they see it, they stop and start to change. Stompa drops to her knees as she starts to age. In a matter of seconds, she is wrinkled and impossibly thin. Lashina struggles to fight it but it's no use. Mini black holes form all over her, sucking her in. She too disappears completely in only seconds. Gilotina falls flat against the ground as she is turned into stone, render completely harmless.

"Your Furies have fallen," I say, stepping toward Granny. "You're next."

"No," Granny says, stepping back. She snaps her whip at me but with one glare, her whip turns into something else. It hisses before wrapping itself around Granny's neck. I walk past Granny as she falls to the ground.

"Your parademon army is defeated," I say, walking up to Darkseid. "Your war machines are ruined. Kalibak is gone. DeSaad is crushed. Granny and her Furies have fallen. You are the last one."

Darkseid must have realized what is going on. He is looking away from me.

"What," he stutters, still holding his waist. "What are you? Who are you?"

"I am someone that shouldn't exist," I answer, swallowing a lump in my throat. "But guess what. I do. I do exist. You, however, did exist."

Darkseid turns and fires his omega beams. They shoot toward me but before they can hit, I slap them away with a swing of my hand. As I hit them, they turn into a sort of glass, the glass beams breaking all the way until they reach Darkseid. He screams as his omega beams break and glass gets in his eyes.

Now blinded, I grab his shoulder and slam him into the Rusted. Once his back is toward the Rusted, I use my tiny hand to pin Darkseid via his throat.

"Listen to me well," I start, "Because I'm only going to say this once and only once."

The same black lines move from my own hand onto Darkseid's hand. He screams as they start to curse it. While this is happening, I stomp my foot against the ground, and the black lines move from my leg into the very ground itself.

"Considered yourself lucky you just lost your sight."

With that done, I spin around and throw Darkseid high into the air, right into space. He screams as he flies. Meanwhile, I look at the ground. As I stare at the ground, it starts to shake.

Green Arrow:

"What is going on," I yell, "Why is there an earthquake all of a sudden?"

Looking around, I see a barren wasteland, filled with the wreckage of burning, smoking war machines. Mixed in with the destroyed war machines are the super parademons. They're all laying on the ground, defeated.

"What happened? Did he do that? Where is he?"

Once more, looking around, I see some sort of black glow coming from over the side of the Rusted.

Walking over to the side, I peek over and see The Man.