@Murderworld
[BZZZZ--CHKK]
The light atop C.O.R.I.'s A.I. pod flickered out. Her generators stopped humming. Her screens slowly flickered to black. A single light upon its console continued to blink.
[Failsafe A127Z Initialled. Destruction of Lower Levels initialled. Evacuation procedure initiated.]
The doors to the bunker flew open, providing the Doll with some much needed oxygen. She could see the server room in all its blazing glory. Server boxes had burst into flames. Light bulbs had overheated and exploded. Pipes and tunnels had collapsed. Metallic plates were falling off the ceiling. MurderWorld was dying.
Blue Fireflies swarmed her skin they danced around her. They danced around Vantias. They danced around Alice. They danced around Eli. They danced around Henry. In their warm glow, the Underworld faded away. A shimmering white light filled their eyes, and the island faded away...
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"This looks like a job for.... ah screw it!" Calling upon all the strength left within him, Superboy leaped towards Shazam. Together, the pair did the best they could to brace the great ranges and raise them mere metres above the Earth. Despite their great strength, even they couldn't hold back the world for long. With a snap of his fingers, the stones of the mountains became lead. He charged them with harm magic. He pushed them with his own hands. Despite their best efforts, they couldn't hold back the mountain. They couldn't they--
"You're only still standing because I have chosen to let you life! I could turn you all inside out one by one! Or all at once! I could drown you all like ants!" The seas around the island began to swell and range. "Or melt you beneath my magnifying glass!" The air grew hotter by the moment. "Or perhaps, I could liquify y---"
Arcade flicked his fingers down towards Laura. He realized swiftly that nothing had happened. He looked down at his hand in confusion. He tried again. Nothing.
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"Curious... It looks like I've lost my---"
With a stumble, Arcade began to fall from the skies, his magic and his powers scattered to the wind. The Great Ranges collapsed into black sand. The afternoon breeze was enough to part its particles.
"I've got him!!" Conner cried as he raced into the skies. He took Arcade by the neck of his shirt and dragged him across the sky, before tossing him onto the rocks near the safest clearing- the waterfall. His fellow champions jogged up to meet him.
[VZZ-BOOM] [VZZ-BOOM] [VZZ-BOOM] [VZZ-BOOM] [VZZ-BOOM]
5 small balls of light appeared beside the river. Jianyu. Alice. Eli. Vanitas. Henry.
The Champions, reunited, closed in around Arcade.
"My dear friends..." Arcade muttered, dusting of his jacket. "Together again, at last!"
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"It's over, nutjob!" Conner cried, his eyes ablaze. "It's Game Over! You've lost!!"
"Not yet..." He smiled. "Not just yet... the penny hasn't dropped quite yet..."
"What are talking about?" Wally spluttered. "You're beat. You're done... Just tell us where out friends are and--"
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"Oh... who could have imagined defeat could be so sweet... Would you like to tell them, Miss.Jianyu, or shall I?"
The madman erupted into a fit of laughed. His eyes were creased and red.
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"I. Lied."
"You what!!??"
"You friends and families being trapped beneath MurderWorld? Lies. Me knowing where the hell they are? Lies. Me torturing them for fun? True under a technicality. I built a few robots. Built a few clones. All to test the psyche's of your friends and how best to hurt you through them. But even that doesn't matter now. Jianyu shut down my dear, sweet K.O.R.I. and Henry terminated my data, so they're all dead now anyway... Of you could even say they were alive to begin with."
"No... that's..."
"It's many things, Mr.West. The word that comes to mind is... spectacular! I promised you a show, didn't I? I promised you blood and gore and spectacle, and I delivered! I broke you all. Each and everyone of you."
Arcade slowly stepped forward, his arms outstretched.
"I turned Jianyu into a vengeful beast!"
"I turned Shazam into a corrupt demon!"
"I turned Hyakkimaru into a raging loon!"
"I turned Henry into the tool of a Spider-Monster!"
"I turned Laura into my Trigger-Spell puppet!"
"And I turned Alice into my-- FUCK!"
Arcade fell to the ground, cradling his knees. Superboy's eyes were still smoking from the precise blast of heat visions.'
"You're telling me... that this was all for nothing??"
"Not... for nothing... It sure was entertaining..."
[CRACK]
Wally struck Arcade in the chest with his good arm, sending ripples of electricity across the man's body.
"Who's next...?" Conner spat. "Who wants to go next...?"
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"Of course you were." Laura looked down at the now defeated Arcade. "You're a liar and a coward, and I know for a fact if my sister had been on this island then well...you would've had your hands full."
She turned and looked to Wally. "You'd like her, she's fast, like you." Then Arcade got her attention again when she knelt down and looked him straight in the eyes. "I was fantasizing about this ever since you turned me into a puppet and forced me to fight for you." Her claws popped out one by one. "I'd carve you up. Starting with your legs and ending with your arms. Just a torso with a head on top."
She pulled back her claws to strike only stopping a few inches from Arcade's body before popping them back in. "But then I realized, that you don't deserve it. You don't deserve my vengeance. You pitiful waste of a man." With that Laura stood up and let anyone else say or do their piece.
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