[Whatever. If you're confident you can end my life ahead of schedule, go right ahead.]
[But you'd better consider what will happen if you fail.]
"Of course I know," Luthor said.
[Heh... I look forward to seeing what you do.]
The dying Luthor closed his eyes after speaking, his thoughts a mystery.
"What, you're just going to watch from here?" Luthor asked. "Aren't you going to help them fight that shadow Luthor?"
"Do I look like I'm in any condition to fight?" the dying Luthor said with considerable effort. Even amplified by the life-support pod, his weak voice was barely audible.
"Oh, please. Don't play games with me. We're both Luthor. As far as I'm concerned, you're extremely dangerous right now."
[Perhaps.]
An electrical hum came from the life-support pod, and its transparent screen went black, concealing whatever was happening inside.
Meanwhile, under attack from all sides, shadow Luthor summoned his own Legion of Doom.
But its members weren't Sinestro, Cheetah, Grodd, or the others. They were the Crime Syndicate!
"Isn't this the bunch of losers Roland wiped out in a single day?" The Flash set his sights on Johnny Quick. "No wonder Luthor wanted new henchmen."
"Idiot! You have no idea what happened!" Johnny Quick sneered, firing black lightning from his palm at The Flash.
"Oh, the still force?" The Flash recognized the black lightning for what it was. Golden speed force lightning blasted forward, canceling it out. "I've spent a lot of time mastering the speed force. Your understanding of the still force is nowhere near mine."
"Compared to me, you're a relic in this field." Johnny Quick slowed to a crawl, yet The Flash simply couldn't catch him.
The two began trading blows. Beneath them, the wielder of the power ring, now empowered by the invisible spectrum,