The queen's protection!

"Has that crazy woman got a death wish?!"

Link watched helplessly as that familiar streak of pink light shot into the sky, his mind blank. He had imagined countless ways the battle might unfold, but never had he expected Harley to take this fatal blow for him in the most brutal, most direct way possible.

There was no time to think, no time to stop her.

The Punchline was like a moth hurtling toward the blazing sun, tiny yet utterly resolute.

The instant it struck the enormous fragment of the moon, the Punchline's Energy Shield, created through a combination of Apokolips technology and Cyborg's ingenuity, erupted with dazzling light, as though an artificial sun had been lit in the darkness.

But that resistance lasted less than a second.

"BOOM!"

An indescribable roar exploded ten thousand meters above the ground.

The Punchline's shield shattered piece by piece like a fragile eggshell. Under the violent friction and impact of the lunar fragment, its sturdy hull was instantly crushed, twisted, and deformed, finally becoming an enormous, brilliant firework streaked with pink and orange flames.

The violent explosion successfully blasted the enormous lunar fragment into countless smaller meteors. The largest piece was knocked off its original trajectory by the blast's shock wave, skimmed past the edge of Wakanda, and plunged into the distant Atlantic Ocean, raising towering waves.

The remaining fragments scattered across every corner of Wakanda like an apocalyptic meteor shower, trailing long tails of flame. Though they still caused immense destruction, compared with the entire kingdom being wiped off the map, this was already the best possible outcome.

Yet the price had been horrific.

With his Super Vision, Link clearly caught sight of a petite figure being flung from the heart of the explosion by the savage blast wave like a kite