At the same moment Doomsday fled, the three alien ships fired enormous plasma beams more than ten meters in diameter at the superheroes. They had not been sitting back and watching earlier; they had been quietly charging their attacks.
In truth, the Arachnis Zerg were not weak. Their earlier heavy losses were mainly because the superheroes were too powerful, with abilities so incredible that the Zerg had never encountered anything like them.
"Shit."
The superheroes, who had been about to give chase, blanched. Superman and Mary immediately crossed their arms in front of themselves to block the beams, which drove them backward through space.
Fortunately, that was all the beams did. Powerful as they were, they were not lethal to heroes who could withstand nuclear bombs.
Tony raised his Defense Shield and fired the Thrusters in his feet at full power, flying rapidly upward. He could not retreat. If he did, the White Kryptonite would activate, and that process could not be interrupted.
"You're not getting away."
Diana did not defend herself. Golden lightning flashed in her eyes, while the War God's Armguards on her arms shone with dazzling electricity.
Then Diana roared and slammed her arms together. Hundreds of lightning bolts surged outward with a shock wave, instantly shattering the plasma beam before sweeping toward the sixteen Doomsdays.
The Defensive Shields around the sixteen Doomsdays shattered instantly, as flimsy as paper. Then the raging lightning blasted their bodies, forcing agonized screams from them.
Worse still, Tony's green light washed over them. Their bodies rapidly weakened, and before long, all sixteen Doomsdays had been burned to ashes by the lightning.
Diana let out a breath. Even she felt a wave of exhaustion after unleashing such a powerful attack.
But its power was beyond question. Even after breaking through the plasma