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Somewhere in the twisting corridors of Bialya Castle, They snaked through the building, racing back and forth, pursued and pursuer, The only words uttered in this chase were in grunts of the two counterparts, Batman threw a smoke bomb ahead, and the narrow hallway was now filled with dark clouds as Owlman instantly responded, placing infrared lenses down over his eyes, He whipped out a grappling hook and shot it toward a ceiling beam, swinging himself out of reach of Batman's pursuit
But Batman was ready for him, He shot his grappling hook in a heartbeat, aiming himself toward Owlman at breakneck speed, slamming into Owlman! Batman descended as A fist caught Owlman under the jaw, but he hit back with a taser gun, firing a jolt that stunned Batman, as he followed it up with a kick into the stomach
"You're slipping, Bruce." Owlman spoke as he held his gun once more aiming at Batman "How many more mistakes will it take for you to realize you're outmatched?"
"We'll see," Batman said as he acrobatically jumped backward to avoid a second taser strike, he threw a trio of Batarangs, each curving mid-flight directly at Owlman who smirked as he dodged them easily
Before Owlman could get a more smug expression on his face, Batman launched himself forward, starting a barrage of punches and kicks, Owlman armed with almost the same training, started a similar barrage of blocks, parries, and counters with equal force, the sounds of their metals gauntlets resounding through the halls
With a tap, Owlman's gauntlets slid out razor-sharp blades, slashing at Batman's armored suit. He dodged but not quite quickly enough and received a slash on his side, He felt pain but used the momentum to drop a flash grenade between them, The light and sound from the explosion distracted Owlman for just a moment, enough to let Batman strike.
Batman's knee slammed into Owlman's stomach, and he folded over completely out of the way, This was followed by an uppercut from Batman, sending his dark counterpart staggering backward, But Owlman wasn't done yet. Even as he staggered to keep his balance, he threw a small group of pellets on the ground, filled with explosives, Batman's eyes went wide as the pellets detonated one by one, forcing him up into the air to avoid the blasts
"Do you really believe you can stop me?" he said as he predicted Batman would fly upwards and aimed his hand there, from his gauntlet, a wire was released, wire wrapped around Batman, sending bolts of electricity straight through his body, Batman's teeth were gritted against the pain as he used one of the blades on his forearms to cut the wire, then used his advantage of high ground to jump down and attack saying "You are a defunct replica"
The battle continued, turning uglier by the minute, with both men throwing every gadget, every trick, every shred of their skill at each other, matching each other's energy, truly….Counterparts!
Owlman charged at Batman with a killing intent behind his eyes as he drew a blade from his belt, its edge gleaming with a deadly poison. Batman barely managed to dodge it, but Owlman was relentless, he forced Batman onto the defensive, The two men unleashed their attacks at one another
But just as Owlman seemed close to delivering the killing blow, Batman used the last of an opening to twist the blade and drive it into Owlman's ribs with a counter-punch, That blade shattered one of Owlman's ribs, and he gasped, stumbling back in pain.
Before Batman could react, a hail of arrows came flying down all over Batman, which left him with no choice for Batman but to roll aside, but then some sort of blast, threw Batman away as he knew it wasn't a gadget, he could see her flying in the air, with energy in her hands, blasting him with it until he hit the wall and crashed into a different room
"You should've known better, Bruce," spoke Owlman, holding onto his open wound, walking slowly due to the pain behind him, where Archer, Green Arrow's counterpart, and Aurora, an unidentified counterpart to the league "You may be good, but I'm always one step ahead" he then looked around him and said "Look at this, we've arrived at our destination"
Batman looked around, he was in the throne room, it had a large opening, clearly made by Raiden and Firstborn's battle, At the ends of it, he could see Flash and Johnny Quick still running on the treadmills, he didn't recognize them, due to the memory loss, but he was curious to see the treadmills that we placed on the opposite side, he could see the gate was starting to form and open up, close to the treadmill he could see a cage, where a girl was placed there
Noticing Batman's looking around, Owlman taunted more saying "Oh, you're wondering about our fellow speedsters? One runs to the future while the other runs to the past, creating a paradox, the energy then instead of taking us to the past or future, takes us to the origin of life and time, Prime Earth, it wasn't hard to convince Johnny, Just had to place a little speed bomb on his little sister's neck, if he stops running, her head explodes! As for your friend, Flash, well, I didn't even need anything, just seeing the little girl, made him run" he then placed his hand on a bomb that Aurora had been holding with her energy "This isn't fully ready due to you and that assassin's attack, but, it should be enough to destroy one earth"
Hearing Owlman talk, Batman was curios as he asked buying time "Why do all of this? If you destroy prime Earth, wouldn't your Earth be destroyed too?" the question made Owlman frown as he felt disappointed by his good counterpart saying "I had at least assumed you'd figure this out..because it's meaningless" Batman was even more confused to what Owlman had said, but he wasn't done, saying
"It's all meaningless," Owlman started off, his tone cold "When Neil Queen came into my world and told me about multiple Earths, I was disappointed. Every action that I made, every choice, became all meaningless. Whether good or evil, there will always be some other counterpart, doing the opposite. If I were to spare someone, there is another Earth where I didn't. So, it was all meaningless."
He paused, looking up at the ceiling again, a sinister grin crossing his face "And then it hit me: if nothing matters, if there are infinite Earths, possibilities, choices, all redundant in meaning, then there is actually only one realistic choice: destroying everything, Prime Earth is the foundation of the multiverse, Destroy it, and you destroy them all… That "his voice almost euphoric "is the only meaningful choice!"
Hearing that, Batman understood that the man in front of him was psychopathic, unhinged, not a mere evil counterpart, but rather, an abomination, he looked at him in the eyes saying confidently "We will not allow that" Suddenly, a blur of blue and black attacked Owlman with a kick, as he stumbled backward
It was Nightwing, buying time had worked for Batman, swirling his escrima stick, which crackled with electricity from both ends, as he attacked Owlman, Each blow was precise, almost surgical in its placement, almost toying around with Owlman, All his counterattacks seemed useless, as if Nightwing was somehow designed to defeat him, able to see all his moves ahead, and with the injury batman inflicted on him, he was not faring well
Aurora while shocked from the sudden attack, tried to unleash a blast at Nightwing, But before she could, Static was on her, crackling with electricity, and shot a stream of lightning with one hand toward her. Aurora stopped it with a wavering energy shield, but Rocket surged from above, launching a kinetic blast, which took Aurora full-force and threw her against the wall….Nightwing wasn't alone
Owlman regained his balance and fought back against Nightwing, delivering a brutal uppercut, He quickly followed this up by using his leg in a swift motion to unbalance Nightwing, But Nightwing saw it coming flipped back to get out of the move, and with a spinning foot hit Owlman in the chest, sending him back a few steps, ("Batman used the same exact move on me when we were training, and I've thought this counter up for days! Glad that it worked")
"I knew this world's batman kept strays around and taught them, but you aren't as good as you think you are," Owlman said, He wiped blood from his lip and launched a few shurikens right at Nightwing, The shuriken buried themselves uselessly on the wall behind Nightwing, as he had already saw them coming, and jumped with his stick, using his acrobatic movements, he threw his own batrangs at him
Meanwhile, Archer was engaged in a fierce battle with Green Arrow, Their arrows cut through the air, each one just missing its target, as the two archers scrambled about, trying to get the better of each other, Archer laughed as he launched an arrow, splitting into three while still flying, thereby making Green Arrow duck for cover in three directions at once. But Green Arrow was one step ahead, launching an explosive arrow into the air, destroying all three
"Is that all you've got, not much of a counterpart…" mocked Green Arrow, Archer growled in frustration and released another barrage, but Green Arrow was ready and dodged under the arrows, and closing distance with a swift kick that soon had him sprawling "Looks like you don't have experience fighting people like yourself!"
Further across the room, Aurora had recovered and was now raining blows of energy constructs — blades, spears, spikes, at Static and Rocket, Rocket merely used her force field to block them all and protected Static with her, then created an opening for static to attack
Static seized the opening, leaped midair, and sent an extraordinary pure form of lighting, directly straight toward Aurora, The force hit her square in the chest, knocking her out and sending her across the walls, causing a heart attack
There was no way that Batman could have remained standing for an ordinary person, his body just wanted to give in to the fighting that was going on around him, Batman glanced over to see Nightwing fighting Owlman in a no-holds-barred melee, each well-aware and using every one of their tricks, It was Owlman who again became the first to try and create an opening and threw a flashbang into Nightwing's face, Nightwing wasn't phased in the least, merely closing his eyes and activating his sound dampener in his suit, When the next attack came he easily dodged it, and sent a kick into the center of Owlman's ribcage, right when Batman got him
Owlman grimaced in pain but was too angry to care as he lunged towards Nightwing, desperate and furious, Nightwing was faster than that, He turned, avoided the attack, and struck back with a crushing elbow strike right into the back of Owlman's head, who fell face first on the ground
Owlman tried to rise, but Nightwing didn't let up and connected a barrage of fast blows, leaving Owlman bruised and battered, then increased the intensity of the attacks, with his escrima, delivering a shocking amount of electricity to his core!
Owlman convulsed in pain as the electricity ran through his body, his muscles tensing up while falling to his knees. Without releasing him, Nightwing smashed the last knee strike into his face, leaving him unconscious.
Green Arrow had already taken care of his counterpart, and the battle was over, it was a victory for Batman's allies, Nightwing was immediately at Batman's side, he was concerned "Bruce, are you all right? we did it,! We defeated him! But Raiden's still out there, he's the only one left! We need to help him! He needs you"
Batman was in total pain, his battle with Owlman was too tiring, he was in pain, and the extra attacks by Aurora completely shattered his bones, but even still usually this wouldn't stop him, but today, he saw something that did, Nightwing "You go, Dick, I'm done here, I'll release Flash and Johnny and take them back to the watchtower"
Nightwing's eyes opened ever so wider in the weight of the words, knowing full well what Batman was implying, he was…Passing him the torch of leadership, he nodded and said
"I won't disappoint you"
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