At Link's command, the strangest "league of saviors" in history—made up of former mortal enemies, a tyrant, and a mad Harley Quinn—sprang into action.
At Batman's near-roared orders, the heroes pushed down their tangled feelings and streaked into the sky.
Like a golden Valkyrie, Diana was the first to meet the Parademon army above New York. Her Sword of Hephaestus and Lasso of Truth became instruments of dazzling divine judgment.
The Flash turned into a streak of red lightning. Drawing on the Speed Force, he created sonic booms across the globe, knocking swarms of Parademons from the sky.
Cyborg became an airborne data node, processing vast amounts of battlefield information for Batman while using his White Hole Energy Cannon, modified by Link, to clear out the largest concentrations of enemy troops.
Meanwhile, Link's voice reached every unit under his command through Chaos Direction's global network.
"Plan A. Begin."
In an instant, forces hidden around the world revealed themselves.
Armored rooftops opened on buildings disguised as commercial towers, exposing menacing plasma cannons that spat fire into the sky.
Countless Ghost fighters modified with Apokoliptian technology emerged from optical camouflage and joined the aerial battle.
The Joker Legion—a force of captured Parademons carefully "trained" by Harley Quinn—also turned on its own kind. Their faces painted with grins, they showed their former comrades a vicious new side and threw the battlefield into chaos.
The entire Earth became one vast, bloody battlefield.
Yet at the center of it all, at the eye of the storm, Link chose to stay out of the fighting.
Slowly, step by step, he walked on empty air, ascending ten thousand meters into the sky.
The war beneath him—the battle cries, explosions, and screams—seemed no more than background music that had nothing to do with him.
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