Chapter 2: The Start of a League (Part 2)

"Let the invasion begin!"

Those words were what the Parademons, the golden alien creatures, were waiting for. Throughout the world Parademons have been following their master's order, placing mother boxes in specific locations for their incoming invasion.

A couple of mother boxes were in possession of different people. One were in the hands of the team of Superman, Batman and Green Lantern.

However there was another group of people that had the mother box. They were scientists down at Star Lab who were trying to figure out what exactly does it do. The scientists were thankful that the city's own hero, Flash, was able to capture a Parademon and give them the mother box the creature was holding.

"We're maxed at power ceiling." A scientist said observing the monitor that was attached to the mother box.

"Cycle the pulses." Another scientist said taking a look at the box.

"Dr. Stone." Getting the scientist attention. "Your son is here."

Dr. Stone looked at his son who was wearing a blue football jacket and jeans. He then looked back at the mother box. "I don't have time right now." The leader of the lab looked at the person on the monitor. "Do the cycle again."

"Make time." Dr. Stone's son said walking towards his father.

Dr. Stone let out a sigh. "Victor, I'm in the middle of very important work." He walked towards the other side of the lab.

"You mean, more important than me." Victor corrected, staring at his father with disappointment.

"That's not what I said." Dr. Stone said, his tone was getting harsher.

Dr. Stone walked past the mother box and towards the other side of the lab. Victor followed his father and said. "There were scouts there today, dad. They offered me a full ride, all of them."

"No!" Dr. Stone said, stopping his son from talking any further. "I told you I'll pay for college. You don't need to be sniffing after a scholarship."

Victor clenched his fist in frustration with dad. "That's not the point!" He pointed to the outside of the lab, imagining all those people who cheered for him. "They think I can hold my own with the best of the best." He then pointed a finger at his father. "Why don't you?"

"Open your eyes, son! Look at the world we live in today." Dr. Stone pointed at some posters of different superheroes that were on the wall. "We are witnessing the birth of a new race of Superhumans, beings who can fly, tear through buildings and outrun race cars. They will make what you can do obsolete. In that world, throwing a football is a joke!"

Victor eyes widened and his mouth was left open unable to believe what his father was saying to him right now. "You're never going to come to one of my games, are you?"

Dr. Stone looked at his son real hard and said the word that Victor did not want to hear. "No."

While the two were arguing, small faint noise could be heard from the mother box. A female scientist took note of this and ran towards Dr. Stone. "Dr. Stone, something is happening." She said, getting him to follow her back to the mother box.

"We can talk about this later." Dr. Stone said to his son before focusing his attention on his project.

Victor stared at the floor in disbelief that his father would never consider him important. He took a couple of steps forward until he was face to face with the mother box that was floating in the air held by a machine. The red dot on the mother box quickly turned white and started to blink quickly.

"It's transmitting." Dr. Stone said.

"Silas, look at these readings!" A scientist shouted getting everyone's attention except Victor who was still staring at the mother box.

"This thing is more important to you then your own son?" Victor shouted grabbing the mother box and pulling it out of the machine.

"Victor stop!" Dr. Stone shouted.

"Oh so now yo-" Victor couldn't finish his sentence as the mother box let out a bright white light before exploding in the hands of Victor, causing the football star to crash into a wall.

"Victor!" Dr. Stone was about to run after his son, but his attention as well as everyone else was focused on a circular yellow wormhole that just opened up in the middle of the room.

His eyes widened as familiar golden creatures started to fly come through the wormhole.

"So why are you two here? Metropolis is my turf." Superman asked looking carefully at Batman while Green Lantern used his power to hold the mother box in a green bubble.

The trio managed to find a secluded area with multiple abandoned buildings. Avoiding to be seen, they agreed to stay in one of the buildings in order to get things sorted out.

"There have been reports of mysterious kidnappings across the country." Batman replied.

Superman looked at the ground. "We had those problems here too." He shrugged his shoulders. "I figured that was life in the big city."

The Man of Steel noticed Batman eyeing the mother box and pieced it all together. "You think the disappearances and these alien box are connected?" He now asked.

"They're connected."

"Wait so these monsters, they're..." Green Lantern started to say.

"They're soldiers, expendable soldiers at that. Planting these devices at all costs." Batman pointed at the device. "That's military tactics. We might be staring down the barrel of a full-Scale invasion."

Green Lantern couldn't help but rolled his eyes. "You're paranoid." He raised his arm creating a large hammer that was above the floating mother box. "Let's just crack it open and see what happens."

Lowering his arm down, the green large hammer was lowered too almost colliding with the mother box, but the hammer stopped moving as Batman grabbed Green Lantern's arm. "Hey!" The surprised Green Lantern said.

"You want to crack it without any idea what might be inside? That's idiotic." Batman said holding a firm grip on Lantern's arm.

Green Lantern lightly pushed Batman hand off his own arm. "I'll show you idiotic."

As the two were staring each other down, the mother box started to glow white in the middle. "Ahh. I didn't touch it!" Green Lantern said quickly waving his hands proving his claim.

Superman raised a brow while Batman took a step back and Green Lantern was freaking out. The mother box started to let out a tick sound, sounding just like a bomb.

"It's going to blow!" Green Lantern shouted.

He quickly created a green hand from his ring that wrapped around the mother box and threw it down the hall.

The mother box let out a small explosion, but instead of disappearing it turned into an orange wormhole. Strong gust of winds were coming from the wormhole, the three heroes simply stared at it trying to figure out what was going on. A second later all of them got in their fighting stances as Parademons were coming in bunches from the wormhole.

Superman led the charge, unleashing his heat vision right down the middle destroying the front line of the Parademons. Still the numbers of Parademons that were destroyed were soon replenish as more came from the wormhole.

Batman punched a Parademon, but was overwhelmed as six others jump on him. Superman saw the hero in a tight situation and quickly used his heat vision to cut through the Parademons. Batman jumped up and landed next to the defeated Parademons.

"You're welcome!" Superman said, while holding a Parademon in a headlock.

He quickly threw the trapped creature to another Parademon, the two collided into a wall. Before they could get up, Green Lantern used his ring to create a fist that crushed the two dazed Parademon into the wall making them blow up as a result.

Green Lantern quickly unleashed small blasts from his ring to incoming Parademons blasting them away from him. However one of the Parademons managed to evade his blast and grabbed Lantern by his legs and threw him down on the ground. Again the number game as more and more Parademons piled on top of Green Lantern.

Batman used his grappling gun on a pillar and swung his way over the Parademons grabbing Green Lantern by the arm and pulling him up. Being dropped down, Lantern created a large green mecha robot. The shoulders of the mecha robot created green missiles that struck all of the Parademon surrounding him. Batman quickly jumped down on the shoulder of the mecha robot watching the destruction.

"Still think I'm paranoid?" He asked.

Green Lantern shrugged his shoulders while firing green bullets at incoming Parademons. "Maybe a little less now."

"Seriously, how hard is it to find super powered heroes." Ben muttered.

He went around Metropolis three times, but couldn't find them. Now walking on the streets of Metropolis, as he waited for the Omnitrix to recharge, he couldn't help but think about the situation.

"It's not just that one alien, there's multiple of them." Ben mused as he was standing in front of a golden globe. He stared at it for a moment, enjoying the way it looked before walking across the street. "

But what's the game plan. Kidnappings for what?" He now thought trying to solve this whole thing.

"We now bring you a crucial update." Ben was now standing outside of a large television store, with multiple televisions in display showing the same news. "There have been various monster sightings in different parts of the world." A second later, an image of the a Parademon baring it's teeth was shown. "These creatures seem to be multiplying by the minute and is kidnapping civilians off the streets."

Ben crossed his arms as now a map of the country was shown with multiple blinking dots in nearly every state. "Luckily there have been these superheroes with powers that are trying to fight back against these creatures. But please, it is recommended that everyone go into their homes and wait this out."

As the news reporter was about to repeat his warning, Ben walked down and looked around making sure no one was following him. Sensing that the coast is clear he made a sharp left turn and ran down an empty dark alley. A bright emerald light shined in the alley, but went away a second later. Flying up in the air was Jetray who was now moving south at quick speed.

"There's one place that I know that doesn't have a hero to protect them from those things."

It was a beautiful night in Washington DC, home of the famous White House where the current President resides. Outside the White House were a lot of tourist and regular civilians. In particular was a tall dark haired woman who wore a leotard that was red in the middle and dark blue on the top and bottom. On her forehead was a silver tiara with a red star on the middle. She also had half sleeves that starts from her biceps and ends by her wrist. Complementing her sleeves were silver bracelets that seemed to be for protection. What stands her out from the rest of the crowd was her long silver sword.

Her name was Diana, but to citizens her name was Wonder Woman. It wasn't that long ago that she arrived to this country. Under her mother's orders she was to be here as an ambassador, representing all of the Amazons. One of her duties was supposed to be meeting the President of the United States, but after waiting for nearly two hours with boredom and no meeting she just gathered her things and left the White House.

"So do you like the ice cream?" A little petite girl said.

Diana smiled. "Yes, I've never had something like this before." She replied taking a lick on her strawberry ice cream.

"Diana!" A man's voice shouted behind the two.

Now standing in front of them was a blond man who was as tall as Diana. He wore a blue navy jacket that had multiple badges of his accomplishment that he did for this country. His name was Steve Trevor.

"You need to come back to the White House. The President only has a few minutes to meet you." He said.

"Steve." Diana said before taking another lick of her ice cream. "I grew weary of waiting for him, so I left." She looked down at the petite girl introducing her. "This is Hannah."

"Very pleased to meet you." Hannah said politely.

"Could you excuse us, Hannah?" Steve said pulling Diana the other way, far from Hannah's hearing.

"You can't walk out like that, Diana. Remember you are now a political envoy."

Diana shook her head. "I am a warrior."

"With responsibilities!" Steve shot back pointing at the White House. He noticed Diana taking another lick of her almost finished ice cream. "And how about after the meeting I take you to the best homemade ice cream in D.C."

Cries and yelling was heard from the White House as people within were now running out all panicking for their lives. Steve and Diana were both confused as to what was going on, but a second later golden creature, Parademons, were flying out of the White House and coming straight towards the civilians on the street.

"There is my true responsibility." Diana quickly gave Steve her ice cream. She then pulled out her silver sword and pointed it at the incoming Parademons. "Combat. Leave these things to me!"

"Come on is that all you guys got." Jetray said blasting another Parademon down with his neuroshock.

His eyes widened now behind him were even more Parademon all ready to tear him apart. Jetray soared high in the air with the Parademon following him, the red manta alien quickly used his tail and shot another neuroshock at one of the Parademon hitting the creature on the body pushing it back to three other Parademon, those four were now tangled up giving Ben more breathing room.

"Alright I gotta be more careful, don't want anybody being attacked by these guys." He said now mid-air watching the Parademon trying to get in order. The three creatures looked at each other, nodding their heads before racing towards Jetray.

Jetray's eyes glowed green ready to launch another neuroshock, but stopped when he noticed that all three Parademon's were glowing red in the body.

"For Darkseid!" They yelled.

All three managed to get up close to Jetray before exploding themselves at the same time with Ben in the middle of the impact. The explosion was powerful enough to send Jetray flying back down to the streets towards a telephone pole breaking it in the process.

Jetray transformed back to regular Ben, he sat on the broken telephone pole. "Okay, didn't see that coming." Ben said as he got up. Looking around he gave a soft smile, no one was around.

"Die!"

Ben quickly looked up to see a couple of new Parademon coming down toward him, they were obviously mad seeing their comrade destroyed. Quickly activating the Omnitrix, Ben transformed once more. The alien was one of his new favorites. It was a plant humanoid alien, that had an overall green and black colored body with a flame patterened head and root like feet. The Omnitrix was on his chest.

"Swampfire!"

The transformation didn't stop the Parademons coming which was what he wanted. Quickly bending down and picking up the broken telephone pole he waved it high in the air as if he was playing baseball. Stupidly, the Parademons flew right in front of Ben. Using the back of his feet for more strength, Swampfire struck all the Parademons sending them across the street, the telephone pole broke in half in the process.

"That's a home run." Swampfire said proudly, dropping the broken pole to the ground.

Unfortunately for the young hero, more Parademon were coming out of nowhere. He let out a sigh as he now he had to deal with 10 more of these things. Shrugging it off, his palms had small fireballs ready to be launched.

One Parademon got too hasty and soared down towards Ben, it's mouth was forming a fireball of it's own. But in a moment later, a grappling hook was tied around the neck of the Parademon causing it to close it's mouth. Someone cloaked in black came down from the roof and stomped the Parademon in the face with high heels crushing it down to the pavement of the streets.

Standing on top of the fallen Parademon was someone dressed in a similar costume as Batman. The only difference was this person was a girl, her wavy red hair could be seen coming from her hood that was connected to her black cape. Attached around her waist was a golden utility belt. The girl turned around to face Ben, her crystal blue eyes could be seen.

"Thought you could use some help." She said before looking back up to see the remaining of the Parademons.

"Yeah. Thanks." Swampfire said.

The Parademons didn't say anything except a cry for attack. Swampfire quickly delivered an uppercut to one Parademon in which the newcomer took advantage as she used her grappling gun to tie around the body of the stunned Parademon. Using amazing strength she managed to pull in the Parademon towards herself and within striking distance she delivered a high kick on the back of the head crashing it down to the pavements of the streets.

"Wow." Swampfire said, impressed with her flexibility and strength.

Shaking off his thoughts, Swampfire unleashed multiple fireballs at the remaining of the Parademons. Each Parademon matched his fireballs with one of their own causing a huge explosion. Smoke appeared mid-air resulting from the fireballs colliding.

Parademons flapped their wings to blow the smoke away, though that didn't end up well for them as two golden batarangs. A Parademon managed to catch them in it's hands, but the batarangs exploded on contact destroying the one holding it along with two others.

Swampfire and Batgirl stood side by side as they watched the remaining Parademon landing on the ground. Touching the Omnitrix, a bright emerald light blinded everyone for a second.

In place of Swampfire was a small white alien whose suit was made of silicon. The alien had a square appendage resembling an MP3 player on his back with a 10 symbol.

"Echo Echo!" The new alien shouted.

Batgirl eyed the smaller alien now, through experience she knew to never underestimate a person because of their size. In a second, the single Echo Echo duplicated itself into five Echo Echo.

"You better cover your ears." The original Echo Echo said.

All the Echo Echos had their arms above their mouths. Thinking where this alien was going with, Batgirl covered her ears as she anticipated the attack.

"Sonic..." Echo Echos dropped their arms and their mouth's were wide open. "Scream!"

The loud powerful attack destroyed windows as it reached towards the Parademons. The Sonic Scream attack forced to go on their knees, all let out a cry trying to fight through the scream, but were knocked out a second later.

"And that's how it's done!" Echo Echo said, giving a thumbs up as the copies returned to the original.

"Impressive." Batgirl said her hands were now on her waist. "Didn't think I would bump into a shapeshifting alien in Bellwood."

"I also didn't think I would bump into a female version of Batman in this town either." Echo Echo replied, remembering helping Batman out against Superman.

Batgirl rolled her eyes at the comment. "You can call me Batgirl. And before you ask, I do work with Batman he is my mentor."

"I kinda of figured." Echo Echo replied before adding. "But what brings you here? Isn't Gotham your territory?"

"True, but I had to go help a friend out. While coming back I noticed these flying creatures and saw you fighting them." Batgirl answered eyeing the unconscious Parademons. "So is this your true form?" She now asked.

If he was human, Batgirl would've noticed him sweating. Ben wanted to keep his identity a secret, not even telling a comrade. Fortunately for Ben, something was ringing from Batgirl's utility belt. She quickly took out a golden PDA, one that Ben never saw before. She pushed a couple of buttons before reading what looks to be a message.

"Golden creatures appearing all around the world." She read, before looking up at Echo Echo. "The news is just repeating itself. We know that these creatures are coming in huge amount of groups."

"Yeah, but the question is why. What do they want?" Echo Echo asked.

Batgirl simply shrugged her shoulders. "All I know is that they aren't killing people, just kidnapping them. But I can't figure out where they are taking those kidnapped." She put her PDA back in her utility belt. "Majority of the attack is in Metropolis."

"I was just there." Echo Echo thought to himself. "Well that is Superman's city, so it should be safe for now." He said.

"Yeah for now, but the creatures are all going there for some reason. Even Superman can have some difficulties handling with all of them at once. I think it's best if you go there while I clean up the aliens around here." Batgirl advised as she pushed a button on her utility belt. "Maybe we'll meet again after this crisis is over. Who knows."

Echo Echo tapped the Omnitrix on his chest, this time Batgirl was prepared to cover her eyes. A second later in place of Echo Echo was an alien that resembled a semi-armored black Velociraptor. Black wheels underneath the feet were ready to roll.

"XLR8!" He shouted.

"Take care!" He said quickly before speeding off in a blur, not wasting a minute to leave.

In less than half a minute he was out of Bellwood, but before he truly left he looked back at the town. It's been a while since he was here, memories were flooding back to him.

"No stay focus. This comes first." Ben muttered as he sped off leaving Bellwood behind one more time.

Back in Metropolis at the secluded area where the three superheroes were still trying to hold off the incoming Parademons. Green Lantern and Superman flew through a window while Batman walked through a hole that led to the outside. He was currently occupied with the Parademons attacking him.

One Parademon flew down trying to scratch the Dark Knight, but Batman saw it coming and managed to roll underneath the incoming Parademon. He threw a batarang on the back of the Parademon exploding it into pieces as it touched the creature.

Three more Parademons swooped down on Batman, but he managed to evade each strike. Batman caught one of the Parademon's arms and used the falling momentum to flip the Parademon over. Quickly he placed a small black box on the chest of the Parademon and jumped away. A second later that Parademon exploded.

The cries of Parademon coming from the building worried Batman. He spotted Green Lantern flying right towards the new fresh of Parademons.

"Lantern plug that hole." Batman ordered.

"Yeah yeah. I got this." Green Lantern said using his ring to place a transparent green wall covering the hole of the broken building preventing majority of the new Parademons from coming out.

Those Parademons that were outside target Green Lantern now, but Lantern created a green hammer on his open hand and swung rapidly at the Parademons that were flying towards him. Each one would be knocked down to the ground by his hammer.

Seeing more coming towards him, Green Lantern used both hands to create a miniature green machine gun. He let out a barrage of bullets at the Parademons causing a huge explosion followed by smoke.

Batman looked behind him and saw Superman handling the Parademon in his side very well. By the corner of his eye he noticed the green wall that Lantern placed was fading. " Concentrate. Your constructs are fading. Your mind is scattered." He said.

Green Lantern still shooting bullets from the machine gun he created turned around and looked down at Batman. "Worry about yourself. You're the one without powers." He shot back.

A Parademon was a claw away from scratching Green Lantern from behind, but Batman quickly threw a batarang on the head of the creature. Lantern managed to float away as the batarang exploded taking the creature with it.

Recreating his green hammer, Lantern smashed three Parademons to the ground creating a crater in the process.

"We need to take a step back and regroup." Batman advised as he elbowed a Parademon in the neck. "There's too many of them just to barrel through."

Batman narrowed his eyes as he found himself surrounded by four Parademons. The creatures slowly walked up to him, trying to time their attacks. Before anyone can do anything, in a blink of an eye a black and blue creature came in a blur knocking all four Parademons down to the ground.

The newcomer stopped in front of Batman. "Did you miss me?"

Batman raised a brow at this newcomer, he never saw this alien before.

"You know.. The guy who saved your butt when you were fighting Superman." XLR8 said reminding the Dark Knight.

Batman nodded his head, taking note of the transformations this alien has done so far. He quickly threw a couple of batarangs at the roof of where the wormhole was in. An explosion could be seen as the roof caved in a second later trapping whatever was still inside. XLR8 let out a low whistle as he watched it.

Green Lantern floated down after taking out his batch of Parademons. He eyed the newcomer.

"Who the heck are you?" Lantern asked.

"In this form you can call me XLR8." Ben said before looking to the left where he spotted Superman fighting against multiple Parademons. "I'll be right back."

As he sped off to help Superman, Green Lantern just looked at Batman. "XLR8... What kind of name is that?"

Superman was having a field day against these Parademons, none of them were a match for him. The Parademons knew that and so they tried to use the number game on him. All of them soared down at once trying to overwhelm the Man of Steel. They were able to make Superman bend his knees, but a second later he blasted all of them away with his heat vision.

Two Parademons were charging up fire balls in their mouths, but a second later they were knocked to the wall by XLR8. XLR8's visor went up as he looked at Superman.

"Hey Superman. Just so we are clear, I'm on your side." Ben said, remembering what happen the last time he stood in front of this man.

Superman simply smiled. "Watch out." He advised as he flew above a gas truck. Picking it up with both hands nearly bending the roof of the truck, he used it to smack the incoming Parademons into the ground. After smacking one more, he threw the truck down right on top of the bunch of knocked down Parademons. Without giving it a second thought he used his heat vision on the truck creating an explosion on top of the Parademons.

"Wow. Talk about overkill." Ben commented.

A couple of Parademons tried to sneak up on him, but Ben noticed some movement behind him and quickly sped behind the Parademons. Placing one claw on the Parademon on the left side and another claw on the right he smashed their heads together. They slumped to the ground from the impact.

More Parademons came out of the wormhole that was inside the building. A good amount of them were on the ground running towards XLR8. Letting out a sigh, his visor went back down as he ran towards them at supersonic speed, instead of just going through them, he ran around them creating a small tornado. The tornado twirled all the Parademon around and around, all of them were colliding against each other. A second later an explosion occurred in the small explosion.

Green Lantern and Batman were still on the other side of the area and continued to beat down the incoming Parademons. Batman liked their odds a bit more, with the new alien that came to help them it really even everything up. But still, he needed to figure out why these creatures were coming through the wormhole and if there were any others. He couldn't name anybody that he knows that has the capacity to pull this off.

After Superman punched a Parademon to the sky, he started to hear some disturbances happening in the other side of the country.

"Mayday. Mayday. The capital is under attack." Only Superman was the only one who heard that due to his super hearing.

Looking to the right he heard another disturbance. "Please! If anybody can hear this, we need help! There's an invasion in Star Lab!"

Floating down, Superman he looked at XLR8, the alien's speed could be useful for this situation. "Hey. How fast can you go?" He asked.

XLR8 was confused, why ask the question while fighting a bunch of monsters. "Uh. Well fast enough to get the job done." Ben answered, not really knowing his limit since it's been a while since he used this alien. "Why?"

"I can hear people pleading for help. I would go to them myself, but they're literally in the opposite directions." Superman said. "I'll take the farthest one and you can take the one that is near."

"Uh, sure. But what about those guys?" XLR8 pointed towards Batman and Green Lantern who were finishing off a couple of Parademons.

"They'll be fine. Besides they need to hold the fort down while we're away." Superman replied. He was now floating up in the sky. "I need you to go down to Star Lab, it seems those creatures are also appearing there and the scientists needs help."

"Star Lab." Ben repeated in his head.

"Okay leave it to me." He replied, in one motion his visor came down covering his face as he sped off from the area and going towards Star Lab. Superman simply flew higher in the air and took off towards the direction where the Mayday signal call was from.

"What the.." Green Lantern said as he created a green truck that ran over some Parademons before looking back at the spot where both Superman and XLR8 were standing. "Great you come for a few minutes and then leave us." He muttered.

Batman didn't show any emotion, based on the information he gathered he had a gut feeling that Superman didn't leave his own city unless it was something important. But for the other alien, Batman had no knowledge of him. The only thing he could do was hope the shapeshifting alien would come back to help.

Silas, the leader of the scientists group in Star Lab, was extremely worried for many reasons. His son's body was nearly blown up and aliens came from the Mother Box were now trying to hurt him and the remaining scientists. Though it was a last resort, he took them all to the Red Room and placed his nearly dead son, Victor, into a test tube.

Parademons cries can be heard from the other room, but he wasn't focused on that right now. He was focused on getting his son back to health. Pressing a button a computer the test tube now closed itself with Victor inside.

"This has to work." Silas said as he pressed another button on the computer.

Inside the test tube, robotic pieces started to come out from within the test tube and was being placed into Victor. His body was covered with blue liquid that came from the explosion of the Mother Box and was helping the robotic parts come together. Victor cries as the pain was getting to be too much for him and his nearly broken body.

"Silas stop, he is in pain. I don't think he can take it!" Sarah, an assistant to Silas, said.

Silas continued to press more buttons. "The pain will subside as soon as the promethium finishes replacing the damaged tissues.

"Promethium skin grafts?" Another scientist questioned. "But his body could reject them completely."

Silas continued to type something ignoring the warning of his fellow scientist. "It won't. I've injected the nanites. Activate them." He said.

The same confused scientist looked at Silas with confusion. "They're untested. We don't what exactly could happen."

"Do it!" Silas shouted.

The scientist looked at Sarah for help, but she simply nodded her head in compliance with Silas. Take a deep breath the scientist went to the other of the test tube and pressed the button for the activation.

Inside the test tube, Victor still feeling the robotic parts merging saw multiple needles coming out towards him. A second later all needles were inserted into his bodies and it caused him pain feeling the injections, but after it passed through his body system he fell unconscious.

All the scientists that were in the Red Room watched in amazement as the test tube turned black and had lines of a cyan color similar to the lines of the Mother Box. The red dots on the test tube suddenly turned bright red as if it was just turned on.

Silas was next to the test tube, observing it closely hoping that his son was going to make it through the procedure.

Victor was now conscious as he felt something in his head saying "Upload completed. Recalibrating memory."

Opening his eyes he was able to see his father and other scientists, but through a red vision. His mind was feeling numb, and he started to hear some unknown ringing.

Unfortunately for everyone in the room, the door that was protecting them from the Parademons was about to broken down as multiple Parademons were head-butting against it shaking the whole foundation of the building.

"What's happening!" He shouted through the test tube.

His father looked through one of the red dots. "Stay calm son, it's going to be alright."

Victor saw his dad clearly, but in the bottom left of his vision he noticed something written only for him, "Audio Source : Silas."

Silas heard his phone ringing and quickly picked it up. "Hey Doctor Stone, I-" Silas recognized the voice, it was Flash.

The door of the Red Room was suddenly broken down and Parademons swarmed through the room ready to take their prey.

"We're in trouble! Flash help!" Silas shouted through his cellphone.

Silas dropped his cell phone and got down on the floor to avoid a Parademon clawing his head. Picking up a fire extinguisher he quickly got up and hit a Parademon on the face causing the extinguisher to go off letting out foam of compressed nitrogen. The Parademon however was unfazed by the hit and punched Silas back. Silas nearly fell to the ground from the blow, but was caught by Sarah.

The Parademon let out a roar and was nearly inches away from grabbing both Sarah and Silas, but luckily the right side of the test tube exploded and out came a mechanical arm that gripped the neck of the Parademon and held it tightly. The arm threw the creature across the room like a rag doll. Both Sarah and Silas were astonished and looked at the test tube noticing that it was moving!

The test tube got up and was now looking more like a robot with a huge red dot in the middle of the head covering Victor's face. As three Parademons charged towards the test tube, Victor heard something in his head. "Offensive mode activated." In his sights he noticed that red circles appeared on each Parademon like a crosshair. Suddenly his arm grew a hand and he turned it to a fist. He punched through one of the Parademons holding it's body he used it as a weapon hitting other Parademons with it.

But the Parademons number were too much for him as they managed to scratch through the metal covering his face, destroying half of it in the process. Half of his face was now visible, but that didn't bother Victor at the moment as he continued to fight back. Picking up another Parademon he again used it as a weapon this time slamming down each Parademon that came towards him to the ground. Two Parademons however got Victor from behind unleashing multiple fire balls on making him lose his balance.

More and more Parademons unleashed their own fire balls on him pushing him towards a table. One Parademon took the edge of the broken table and slammed it on Victor's stomach sending him flying to the wall.

"Victor!" Silas shouted, worried for his son who was being pounded more to the concrete of the wall.

"Coming through!" A new voice said.

In a blink of an eye the Parademons that were hitting Victor were taken to the other side of the room. While everyone watch the newcomer take down the Parademon with quickness, Victor's back started to absorb nonfunctional weapons that was on the floor and putting it inside Victor.

"Installation Complete." Victor heard in his head.

XLR8 stopped in the middle of the room and his visor went up as he checked up on everyone. "Are you guys okay?"

"My head..." Victor groaned as he kept hearing noises. He slammed his fist on the ground in frustration of not having full control of his body.

"What the.. A robot?" Ben mused as he looked at Victor.

"Die!" Parademons shouted as more entered the Red Room.

"Oh come on, how many of you guys are -" Half way through Ben's sentence a red blur came and easily picked off all the Parademons that were about to come in the room.

XLR8's eyes widened as he watched the quickness of this newcomer. He was definetly faster than any aliens he got in the Omnitrix. The speedy hero was quickly next to Silas.

"I came as quick as I could." He said to the scientist.

The newcomer wore a red costume that had a white circle in his chest with a yellow lightning bolt on it. Ben recognized the hero from watching the news one day, this was the Flash, the fastest man on Earth.

One Parademon was not knocked out and crept behind Flash, but before the creature can do anything about it, Victor felt his arm being controlled.

"Offensive mode activated; White Noise Cannon Enabled." His mind said as his right arm turned to a cannon.

Before anyone knew what was going on, Victor's cannon unleashed a bright cyan blast that disintegrated the last Parademon into dust. Flash and XLR8 were impressed with the blast and accuracy of the hit.

Victor's cannon turned back to a regular mechanical arm. Victor looked carefully at his right hand. "I can't feel my hand."

"I can't feel anything!" Victor said, he was on his knees frustrated with the whole situation.

Silas took out a scanner and bent down next to his son. "What's happening to me?" Victor asked as his father scanned his head.

"Your mind is now a quantum computer, son." Silas said.

The procedure seemed to work as his son was still living and regained the limbs he lost with robotic parts. Still Victor was upset as the buzzing sound was still in his head.

"Make the buzzing stop! Please!" He pleaded his father, Victor still held his own head tightly.

"I can't, I'm sorry." Silas said frowning. "But at least you're alive." He added.

Victor stood up in disgust, he touched his mechanical body and then looked back at his hand. "You call this living? This half-man, half-machine?" He looked down to his dad. "This is what it took for you to finally care about me?"

Ben felt bad for Victor, though he doesn't even know the guy, he understood what it was like for your life to change so drastically in a short period of time. But right now he can't worry about that. XLR8 turned towards Flash, the red speedy hero saw the alien hero looking at him.

"Flash right?" XLR8 asked.

Flash simply nodded his head.

"Okay look I don't know if you know this, but these things are happening in lots of cities. But it seems the majority are in Metropolis. There's some superheroes over there, but we need more help." Ben said, hoping the fastest man in Earth would help.

Before Flash can respond, Victor suddenly got up and ran out the room shouting something about locating the sound.

"Yeah I'll go there right now." Flash replied, he then appeared next to Silas. "Doctor Stone, you have a lot on your plate, but if anything like this comes up again, you know how to reach me." He said before leaving Star Lab in such quickness.

XLR8 still amazed by his speed quickly sped off as well, but stopped when he saw Victor staring at the wormhole. He ran and stood next to the mechanical teenager.

"Hey, are you okay?" He asked.

Ben waved his claws in front of Victor's face, but he got no reaction. It was like Victor was immersed with the wormhole.

"I see it now..." Victor said softly his eye was still fixated at the wormhole.

"See what?" Ben replied, he heard footsteps and saw Silas and the other scientists by the door.

A moment later, the wormhole was turned back into the Mother Box and was laying on the floor in front of Victor.

"Darkseid." Victor muttered.

Victor was on his knees as he picked up the Mother Box with his left hand and surprisingly the mechanical arm opened itself up and took in the Mother Box. After taking it in, the mechanical arm closed itself as if nothing happened.

"Darkseid? I've been hearing that word for nearly the whole night." Ben said placing a claw on Victor's shoulder. "What does it mean?"

"Darkseid is the mastermind behind all of this." Victor said, now stood up. "And I know his whole plan."

XLR8 was close to ask what the plan was, but suddenly a Parademon dropped from the sky and landed on a pile of destroyed pillars. Everyone looked up and were surprised to see someone flying above them holding another knocked out Parademon.

This superhero wore a red costume with a white cape and hood. What sets him apart was the electricity that was literally flowing out of him.

"Excuse me, but this is the hole where these wigglers crawled out of, right?" The newcomer said throwing the Parademon on top of the other unconscious Parademon.

As the hero floated down towards Victor and XLR8, he looked carefully at the former almost as if he recognized him from somewhere. A second later his eyes widened.

"Vic stone?" The newcomer pulled down his white hood backwards revealing his young face. "What the hell happened to you?"

Victor could only stare at the newcomer, surprised that he know his name.

"Okay can we save the talking for later? Literally a swarm of these creatures are popping out from everywhere and we still don't have a plan to stop them." XLR8 said getting the attention of the newcomer.

"There is a way to stop it." Victor finally said looking back at Ben. "We first need to go to Metropolis. I'll explain everything on the way."

With that said, Victor managed to produce two small jump jets on his back and used it to propel up in the air. It was obvious that he couldn't truly control as he nearly bumped into the newcomer. But still he was now in the air and flying out of the Star Labs with the newcomer trailing.

"This back and forth thing with Metropolis is really getting annoying." XLR8 thought as he sped off and was now running back to Metropolis.

Batman and Green Lantern, though the latter disliked the way how Batman orders him around, but he must admit they were holding their own against these Parademons.

One of the remaining Parademons that were on the streets of Metropolis came running towards Batman ready it's body glowing red, meaning it was ready to explode at any time. Batman already saw this trick before and quickly gave a kick to the head of Parademon making it turn the other way. The Dark Knight then kicked it in the back pushing it to the ground. The other remaining Parademon came down and stood in front of Batman, but suddenly was pushed on top of the other Parademon by a green military truck created by Green Lantern.

Green Lantern then used the truck to push the two Parademons into a wall of a building, a second later a small explosion occurred destroying the two Parademons taking the wall with it.

"That wasn't so hard." Green Lantern said, smiling for the first time tonight.

Unfortunately for him, a sound of another wormhole was heard in the building behind them. A second later a huge hole was created as another huge swarm of Parademons appeared all fresh for battle. Green Lantern simply slouched and let out a sigh of disbelief.

One of the fresh new Parademon landed behind Green Lantern, but was easily taken out in quick series of punches by a familiar red speedy hero.

"Looks like you can use a hand." Flash said.

Green Lantern smiled again, recognizing the hero. "Flash! My boy. Great to see you." Lantern awkwardly smacked fists with Flash as he greeted the hero. Lantern then moved to the side. "Oh yeah and that's Batman."

"Batman is real?" Flash asked.

"Yeah. He's over there." Lantern said pointing at Batman who was currently getting back his grappling hook from a defeated Parademon.

"Wait what?" Flash eyes widened.

In great quickness he sped past Lantern and was now behind Batman. A bit nervous of meeting the infamous Batman he rubbed the back of his head.

"It is a real honor to meet you. Sir, Ba-Batman, sir." Flash held out a hand as he got the Dark Knight's attention.

"Don't bother the guy is a total tool." Green Lantern advised, remembering his first encounter with Batman early this night.

Batman ignored Lantern's comment and shook hands with Flash. "I've followed your efforts in Central City, Flash. You do tight, efficient work." He complimented, which got Flash smiling while Lantern simply frowned.

"Hey, uh, Barry. You got a little something on your nose." Green Lantern teased.

Flash simply narrowed his eyes at the comment, but looked back at Batman who was now facing the other way.

"Get ready. Here they come." Batman warned as he saw the first of many Parademons approaching them.

"For Darkseid!" The Parademons yelled as they landed on the street.

The three superheroes were ready to fight this new batch of Parademons, but suddenly heard a fighting cry coming from the other side.

"Hah!" Wonder Woman shouted as she landed in the middle of the Parademons destroying whatever was in her way.

Not losing a beat, she elbowed a Parademon with such strength that it was knocked to ground in that single hit. Another Parademon came down and nearly scratched her, but she evaded the blow. Taking a step back she threw her golden magical lasso around the neck of the Parademon. Using her strength she threw the Parademon to a tree, knocking down the tree in the process.

Seeing three more Parademons running towards her, she reeled in the tangled Parademon and threw it at the incoming Parademons. They all exploded in contact.

"Holy..." Was all Flash could say.

Wonder Woman then took out her silver sword and jumped on top of a Parademon. She managed to deliver a severe cut on the shoulder, but somehow the creature was still standing and was now about to explode. She quickly jumped of it and pushed the damaged Parademon to another Parademon. A second later the two exploded.

She turned around to face the trio of heroes. "Greeting, warriors!" She said, raising her sword up high.

Green Lantern looked at Flash. "Dibs." He said quickly before floating over to Wonder Woman.

"Hi." Green Lantern said extending his hand, but unfortunately Superman arrived between the two and simply stared at him.

"Oh it's good to be back in the heat of war." Wonder Woman said as she connected her golden lasso.

The remaining Parademons all flew away from the heroes, not even one bother to look at them. Green Lantern took this as a victory as he said.

"Yeah, you better run!" He grinned.

Batman shook his head. "No. They're assembling, waiting for whoever is behind this to launch the attack."

"Okay. Now what?" Superman asked, as he looked around.

For the first time in many years these words came out of Batman's mouth. "I don't know."

As if coincidence everyone heard a small buzzing sound, they looked up to see someone flying towards them. Everyone noticed that the person flying had no control as he was bumping into trees and walls back and forth until he finally landed on the streets in front of them. This was Victor, the same person from Star Labs, he was relieved that he finally made it to his destination.

Wonder Woman eager to fight, took Victor's metal body as if he was part of those Parademons. "Mine." She said charging towards the mechanical teenager.

"Defense Mode Activated." A voice in Victor's mind said as his arm involuntarily was raised up and was turned in the cannon that was used earlier. The cannon charged up quickly and blasted Wonder Woman into a car.

"Dammit" Victor said, frustrated that he didn't control his full new body.

Superman glared at Victor, his eyes were glowing red ready to unleash his heat vision. "You're done!"

Victor managed to turn his cannon back to a regular arm. "No!" He waved his arms. "I'm not with them!" He said as he pointed at the unconscious Parademons.

Superman ignored Victor's plead and was about to unleash his heat vision until a familiar black and blue blur was in front of his target.

"Wait. He is telling the truth." XRL8 said, putting up his claws.

Superman raised a brow as he looked back at Wonder Woman who was still reeling from the blast. Flash quickly got next to Superman.

"I can vouch for that. He was at Star Labs." Flash said.

Another hero came down from the sky, this one had electricity around his body. His face told he was angry for some reason. As he landed on the streets in the middle of all the superheroes, his expression changed into a friendly smile.

"Hey there!" He greeted. "What's up. You can call me Shazam." Shazam then pointed behind him towards Victor and XLR8. "I'm with them."

Superman and Batman looked at XLR8 to see if this new hero was telling the truth. XLR8 simply shrugged his shoulders. "I guess."

Green Lantern then looked at Victor. "And who the hell are you supposed to be, Mr. Roboto?"

"Who I am doesn't matter." Victor said walking up towards the group. "What I know does."

XLR8 noticed some of the heroes were still not believing Victor and said. "He's not lying. We've been fighting these things all night, yet they just come back through another wormhole. What he told me is important."

Victor nodded at the alien. "I've... talked to their technology. I know their plan. They're terraforming the Earth." Victor looked at where the Parademons were flying to. "It's about to get ugly."

"That fits." Batman commented.

Green Lantern raised a brow. "How do you figure?" He asked.

"Well, for one thing. The water's on fire." Batman pointed towards the open sea.

All the heroes looked and were astonished to see a circle of flames on water and it was not being distinguished. What worse was that a lot of Parademons were circling around that area as if they were waiting for someone. The ground of started to shake as a huge alien towers were coming from underneath the ground and water.

"This escalated quickly." Ben commented as the ground continued to shake.

"I know this much, they aren't killing anyone. They are harvesting them." Batman added.

Flash nodded his head. "And this isn't an isolated incident either. It's happening across the world." He informed everyone.

The ground finally stopped shaking as the towers reached their peaks. However what really got everyone's attention was the single tower on the war that was now letting out more Parademons along with white bright light.

"We're too late. He's here." Victor said, pointing at the tower with the bright white light.

Out of the white light came a giant, the mastermind behind these Mother Box and Parademons. The rocky giant with his dark evil red eyes looked down upon the city of Metropolis as he floated towards it.

"I'm guessing that's the bad guy?" Green Lantern asked.

"Lucky guess." Batman said.

Superman folded his arms across his chest. "He doesn't look that tough." He commented.

Everyone had mixed thoughts about this leader of the Parademons. Ben in particular was quite nervous, his heart was pounding rapidly. He can just feel the evil coming from this giant. The giant's eyes reminded him of his old nemesis, but he knew this alien was leagues beyond anything he ever fought. He narrowed his eyes as he slowly calmed himself down.

"We can do this." He thought to himself as he looked at each superhero that was standing next to him.

Author's Note: Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I had to give different attention to all the heroes that is going to be in this battle (Next chapter) against Darkseid. I've also received a PM from a follower asking why I skipped the first time Ben used the Omnitrix again. I'm just going to answer here that it was skipped intentionally. After this arc is complete, you will see what exactly happened as well as Ben's first experience of becoming hero again. At the moment, I just don't want to give any type of spoilers.

Until next time! Also reviews are appreciated!