"What a shame. I actually had the tiniest bit of hope that Wonder Woman would be the one to come."
Luthor shook his head, holding his thumb and index finger a sliver apart. He narrowed his eyes to indicate that it really was only that tiny bit.
"Once you're in prison, you'll have all the time you want to fantasize about beautiful women. Now come with me!" White light blazed from Captain Atom's eyes.
"Oh? And if I don't cooperate, you'll kill me?" Luthor spread his arms and burst out laughing.
"I was ordered to subdue you by any means necessary. If you resist, we will kill you." Captain Atom moved toward the window, preparing to smash his way in.
Luthor gave a cold laugh. "Hmph. You can't kill me, because I'll do it myself."
With that, he rapidly pressed a tiny button on his watch. Every wall in his office immediately lit up. The Luthor Reactors embedded within the walls began to overload, and brilliant white light made the entire office shine like the sun before instantly turning purple.
A heaven-shaking explosion rang out. Terrifying purple flames sliced LexCorp Tower into upper and lower halves, while the suppressed mushroom cloud spread across the entire sky above Metropolis like a glowing disk.
Both Luthor and Captain Atom vanished, and the entire city trembled beneath the blast.
Everyone at the Hall of Justice had been following the situation. After news of Luthor's assassination attempt on the president broke, no one could make sense of it.
Barry had returned to Central City to stabilize the situation. Batwoman's whereabouts were unknown. Superman and J'onn were absent as well. The newly summoned heroes could only look hopefully at Diana, waiting for her to say something.
Diana wanted to speak, but she couldn't. If this