The New God's Entrance, Time's Cruel Joke!

"Both at once, or one at a time?"

By some means beyond human understanding, Link's voice rang clearly through the sky ten thousand meters above the ground and reached every hero listening below.

That was... quite a boast.

Yet somehow, coming from him, it sounded perfectly reasonable.

The two gods of Apokolips facing him clearly lacked humanity's rich internet culture. They missed the nuance of the taunt and heard only contempt.

"Mortal! You'll pay for your arrogance!"

Kalibak, a hulking brute built like a giant ape, flew into a rage first. He had inherited none of his father Darkseid's temperament, but every bit of his headlong recklessness.

That guy's skull must be packed with muscle. No matter the universe, all brawn and no brains still held true.

Link watched him turn into a black streak and charge through the atmosphere with a piercing shriek. He felt nothing. If anything, he wanted to laugh.

Kalibak swung the massive scepter in his hand. The energy storm it raised could have flattened a small mountain range. The blow carried the raw God Power of the New Gods, violent and direct.

Link merely raised his left hand, the one wearing the Infinity Gauntlet.

He could not even be bothered to snap his fingers.

The green Stone set into the index finger—the Time Stone—flared to life.

Let's see what new tricks I can get out of that spell Stephen Strange has already played with.

A thought stirred in Link's mind.

Hum—

An invisible force of the Laws, beyond the speed of light and thought, instantly enveloped the charging Kalibak.

To Kalibak, Link vanished before his eyes. His world-shattering blow struck empty air. He stopped short, his massive body stumbling comically under its own momentum as he searched for Link.

But to the other combatant on