Earth's last line of defense!

Interesting?

Interesting, my fucking ass!

Link ranted furiously inside, but outwardly maintained his supremely smug, unruffled pose.

He could feel Darkseid preparing his next attack. After that last all-out clash, however, the energy within him had bottomed out. The three Stones on his gauntlet had also entered a brief "cooldown."

He could no longer win a head-on clash.

He had to find a way to buy time for the Stones and his own power to recover.

Just as Link's mind raced through his options, a familiar, steady voice suddenly rang out over his encrypted comms channel.

"He's drawn all the boss's aggro! This is our only chance!"

It was Bruce Wayne.

Link paused briefly, then used the surviving surveillance equipment scattered across Earth to see what was happening on the ground.

Outside the gates of Kamar-Taj, the "old friends" he had just defeated were struggling to their feet, one after another.

Wonder Woman, Diana, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and tightened her grip on the Sword of Hephaestus once more, her eyes blazing with the unyielding fury of an Amazon warrior.

Superman, whose power Link had briefly partially restored with the Time Stone, was still pale, but his eyes were once again filled with searing red light.

The Flash, Cyborg, and Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, who had just arrived to lend support...

When Earth's remaining heroes saw even Link, this "New God," suffer badly at Darkseid's hands, they felt not the slightest satisfaction at his misfortune. Instead, an unprecedented sense of grim resolve surged within them.

They knew perfectly well that Link was a bastard, a dictator.

But Darkseid was the apocalypse.

If even Link fell, Earth would be reduced to scorched earth under Apokolips.

"For Earth!"

Wonder Woman let out a ringing war cry and