With Superman joining the fight, the battle at the satellite space station quickly entered its final stage. Superwoman's invasion plan failed, and she and her three lackeys were wiped out and imprisoned by the Justice League in a temporary prison.
After the battle, Aquaman, bruised, swollen, and dressed in rags, gave the enemy high praise. They were a formidable group of supervillains. Without taking his clothes off, he really could not have beaten them.
That said, Firestorm, Black Lightning, and the others still had perfectly intact clothes. Black Canary in particular did not even have a single tear in her fishnet stockings.
"Luthor, what is this, and why did you put it on my turf?"
Batman held the Quantum Accelerator and questioned Luthor with a grim expression. The Crime Syndicate had crossed parallel universes to obtain it, so its importance went without saying.
As his tone grew colder, Firestorm and four others lined up. At a single command, they would beat Luthor into a pigheaded mess.
Superman also glared furiously at the words. He had long known Luthor was no good, but he had never had any proof.
"Everyone, I can explain..."
Luthor raised his hands in surrender and explained the Quantum Accelerator's function with a bitter smile. He had been forced into doing this because he did not want the Crime Syndicate to complete the Quantum Bomb and hijack every human on Earth.
"You should not have put it here. You endangered our world!"
Luthor might have meant well, and perhaps everything he did was for justice, but Batman could not accept it at all. That was Luthor's justice, not his.
The conversation ended. Luthor pleaded desperately, but Batman remained unmoved. He loathed Luthor's act of shifting the danger elsewhere and told him to take the Quantum Accelerator and