... in San Francisco

[jla-extras.livejournal.com]

The City by the Bay is no better off than New York or Philadelphia. Brainiac's plan with this city isn't quite so clean-cut as the prior two... Metallo and his army of replicants appear in San Francisco split into two groups, one on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the other on the shore of Alcatraz.

The replicants on the Bridge start by turning cars over, smashing the doors in so the passengers can't escape. And then the cars are lifted by the cybernetic constructs, and one-by-one, are launched over the edge and into the water.

The replicants on Alcatraz swarm up the side of the prison like rats over a corpse, a Jason Todd replicant leading, as Metallo is on the Bridge. Guards and prisoners both join the fray, as the replicants attack indiscriminately.

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[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

"Die. Die." The Jason Todd replicant repeatedly smashes a prison guard into the bars of a cell, the prisoner himself cowering as the mulched up corpse ends up being forced through the cracks.

Letting go, as there's no longer much left to hold onto, the replicant seeks out new prey.

[starfire-kory.livejournal.com]

From high over Alcatraz, a starbolt strikes a replicant.

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

The replicant is programmed to feel the pain of its underlings. "You two, out there. Take weapons."

[metallocalypse.livejournal.com]

Metallo is on the bridge, yes, smirking with amusement at all these do-gooder replicants causing a mass-murder panic.

Metallo himself, however, is on top of the bridge, tearing off the suspension wires and whipping them off into the city itself, entirely uncaring of where these giant cables might land.

And he's just warming up.

[miraclo3.livejournal.com]

thirty seconds to impact zone...

Hourman takes a deep breath, pacing as the carrier circles above. He takes a moment to offer a few muttered words, and a kiss to the tachyon-filled glass around his neck.

Fifteen seconds to impact zone...

The Golden Gate Bridge is speeding into view as the back hatch opens. Hourman takes a step towards the door, holding a parachute in one hand, and finally flipping it back before diving into the skyline.

He's picking up velocity with each instant, eyes wide open before finally clicking the button on his gauntlet. Newton's law still holds up, as he crashes right into the plated spine of Metallo.

registers on his glove, as he begins to yank and pull on any soft looking piece he can.

[metallocalypse.livejournal.com]

SLAMMMMM!

The impact is tremendous, and it drives Metallo straight down through the bridge spire he's standing on, cracking it deeply. He didn't see it coming.

But this is a guy who takes on Superman. It's going to take a lot more than that. The soft parts vanish immediately as he begins to absorb the very steel of the bridge into his body.

Growing larger by the second, and sending jagged spikes out of his back at his assailant.

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

"Hahahaha!" One of the replicants on the bridge laughs hysterically as Metallo throws cables toward the city. The Huntress replicant rips a door off of a car and proceeds to start strangling the occupant.

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

Another Flamebird replicant has been sneaking towards Ollie, and silently, she raises a sharpened piece of metal above his head as he lets loose at the Mid-Nite replicant.

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

Somehow this replicant got lost. Perhaps it's because something went awry with the programming, or because it wasn't equipped with a weapon, but it doesn't find itself attacking other people. Instead, it just walks down side streets, smiling at shops and houses, reaching out as people run away screaming. It forgets that it already had its face melted off when a Jason Todd replicant set fire to a nearby car.

[plazmania.livejournal.com]

"Now that's creepy!" Plastic Man says as he beams down to Frisco and gets a face full of Melted Mid-Nite.

"I'm gonna guess you're a part of the Big Bad Battallion, aren't you, Sourpuss?"

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

"I just want to help people. I want to fix what's wrong inside..." The Mid-Nite replicant somehow looks sad, even without any semblance of a human face. "Why do they run from me?" It staggers forward, reaching out to Plastic Man.

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

Another Huntress replicant, this one on the Golden Gate Bridge, starts to frenzy. Maybe some wiring came loose, or it's something to do with the combat inhibitors taken by Fire, Ice and the Blue Beetle during their Opal City raid, but she begins indiscriminately attacking anything. Cars, people, the road, the bridge, herself.

[jla-alcatraz.livejournal.com]

Perhaps for no other reason than to kill things, the Red Panzer, having escaped from Alcatraz, leaps from the water and onto the Golden Gate Bridge. With a maniacal laugh, he proceeds to blow the Huntress replicant to smithereens with his equipped cannon, and then targets a civilian running away from the carnage.

[metromarvel.livejournal.com]

His cannon fires, bursting outward...

...only to meet a wall of flesh, wrapped in blue, red, and yellow. Eyes the color of a dieing sun burn in the air, as the Man of Steel absorbs the terrible power meant to snuff out an innocent life. "Your powers cannot harm me." Superman chants, ignoring the pain. Yeah, sometimes the invulnerability's an act-but it's an effective one.

"I've already humiliated one neo-nazi idiot tonight, Panzer." Superman booms, slowly hovering towards the villain, never breaking eye contact. "You are keeping me from stopping this insanity. This is pissing me off. Find a hole to crawl under, or I will find one for you and STAPLE you there until I can spare the attention to properly beat you within an inch of your miserable, hate-choked life."

[all-for-father.livejournal.com]

Talia had just landed in San Francisco, Merlyn, the pompous bastard had contacted her but wouldn't say why. Merely that they should meet about some information. She walked through the airport, none of her annoyance registering on her features.

What he had to say had better be wroth this annoyance.

There were other things she had to do, other places she had to be, after all. But in the games she played, information was what carried the day. She could take some time for that.

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

And what Talia sees is a familiar sight. Oddly familiar, at any rate. One of Batman's old sidekicks by the looks of it... The second Robin, in the airport, smashing into the off-licenses and brutalising customers. He has a knife and is about to draw it across the throat of a stewardess.

[jla-alcatraz.livejournal.com]

An escaped prisoner from the destruction at Alcatraz, Captain Nazi calmly swam across the sea with his temporal might, and began to walk through the streets of San Francisco. He didn't care about the robots, or the heroes battling them. He wasn't going to be beaten down by some alien invasion. Now was the time for National Socialism, and all the patriotism it brings!

Standing on the Preaching Plinth in City Center, Captain Nazi clears his throat and begins to launch into a tirade to get the attention of the citizens of this no doubt fiercely Nazi city.

[metromarvel.livejournal.com]

Captain Nazi can feel something gently touching his shoulder, as if to get attention. "Excuse me?" A mild-mannered, utterly non threatening voice asks.

[xspeedyx2.livejournal.com]

Having been flown in from Star City with the Green Arrow, Speedy didn't have much time to survey the situation. With a freshly knocked bow-taser arrow-of course, she ran to where the action was going on.

"Keep up slowpoke," she said to the person behind her, jokingly of course. "You're not that old yet."

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

"Now, who would you be talking to?" Flamebird, or rather, a replicant designed to look like Flamebird, has got Roy in a lock around his neck and is squeezing tightly. With its free hand it goes for a gun at its hip.

[jl-scoundrels.livejournal.com]

Bursting onto the streets of San Francisco, a fifty-foot tall robot may seem, at first, to be an ally of the invading replicant forces - but that notion is quickly dispelled as the mecha begins to smash and stomp at the false heroes.

"Run, you half-organic abominations! And you're next, Metallo! A-hahahaha!"

Morrow pilots the enormous suit from within, a vodka martini in one hand, and the control stick in the other.

[brainiac-lives.livejournal.com]

A monitor within the cockpit of the robot blurs, buzzes, and is then replaced with Brainiac's face. "Thomas Oscar Morrow. World class scientist and master of cybernetics. You do not wish to battle me. Turn your machine around or I will focus my attention on you."

[jla-alcatraz.livejournal.com]

As if Captain Nazi and Red Panzer weren't enough, Hellhound stalks across the Golden Gate Bridge, trying to find an escape from San Francisco. He immediately regrets donning his costume as soon as he sees the congregation of heroes in attendance.