Green Arrow cautiously raised a hand.
"This isn't another joke, right?"
No one responded to his attempt to lighten the mood. Shane merely spread his hands at him.
"Oh, God."
Green Arrow sheepishly lowered his hand, pinched his bowstring between his fingers, and began rubbing it absently.
"If Superman doesn't step in, we can't even handle that move you just pulled. How are we supposed to deal with someone who could easily kill an entire planet full of you?"
Shane raised an eyebrow as he surveyed everyone's reactions, suddenly wondering whether he had oversold the severity of the situation again.
How could a three-dimensional universe possibly contain Darkseid's true form? He was a higher-dimensional being, and the boss of the New Gods at that.
If his true form actually descended, that could only mean the entire Olympian Realm, which stood on the front lines of the Divine Domain, had fallen. At that point, they could only wait to die. There would be nowhere to run.
In reality, though, Darkseid rarely went around destroying universes. For most of his conquests, he simply created a projection in three-dimensional space and commanded his subordinates to blast their way through one planet after another.
In practical terms, it amounted to overwhelming people with an army. It was just that Apokolips needed a general and tens of billions of Parademon soldiers to accomplish what a small squad of Viltrumites could usually handle.
Shane decided to recount everything that had happened recently, starting with his investigation into his own death and ending with his discovery of Vundabar and Apokolips. "I killed Vundabar and shattered Apokolips while its defenses were thin, but that wasn't the end. More than half of the Dark Elite Corps' main fighting forces are still out there in this universe, and Apokolips could