In San Francisco, things are torrential

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Jesse Quick has sent out the APB.

But right now, Titans Tower is on fire in half a dozen places, and the torrential storm overhead isn't stopping the fires nearly enough. Lightning sizzles through the sky, and well over a dozen flying figures soar around the Tower, surveilling it and occasionally blasting it with something. Many more are on the ground and in the Tower itself - parts of the Tower explode periodically as the violence escalates.

The Tower is under siege, and the Titans are fighting a losing battle.

But things change, and Weather Wizard turns his head and sees:

Incoming!

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The chanting opens a portal to the whiteness of Limbo. They spent three months scanning the white infinite with magic and science, and eventually they found a trail of his essence - and that led to him.

They didn't get him, of course. This one is crazy, and smart, and deadly. But they figured out how to transport him instantly back to Earth at their command - and how to pull him back to Limbo in the same manner.

He knows none of this. He just sees whiteness, and then - Earth, beneath him, and a man he hates very dearly, the face of the Justice League, and he smiles and thanks whatever gods look down on him.

SUUUUUUUUPERMAAAAAN!

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Superman looks up. Oh good God.

Slade, do you have any *IDEA* what you're playing with here?

He doesn't even try the comm signals, but goes for something else. A subsonic signal that is the JLA equivalent of the panic button.

And then he sees Zatanna out of the corner of his eye.

And heads straight for her. The General is strong, smart and deadly, but he's not as fast as Superman.

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The General lands - leaving an immense impact crater - and gives chase.

I'm going to SKULLFUCK YOU, MAGGOT!

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Superman whips around a corner...in time to see Zatanna and someone else fade from view.

If Superman dropped F-bombs, he'd be doing a strafing run about now.

As it was, he had to minimize body count.

So he doublewhipped back, grabbed the General by his waistband, and threw him as far out into the Pacific as he could manage.

Then he gave chase, hoping that he was far enough out of jamming range to be heard. "JLA/JSA/Titans priority Omega. Somehow the Society managed to get the General out of limbo. If someone isn't at the Tower yet and would care to help..."

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When he lands in the ocean the impact wave is twenty feet high, but that doesn't stop him - the Shaggy Man's body is swimworthy and he makes a beeline for the USA - in an overhand crawl that does maybe five hundred miles per hour.

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But the Flash is a hell of a lot faster than that, answering Superman's call.

He races around the General, starting a huge whirlpool to suck him into, while furiously jabbing rights and lefts, trying to hit him right in the eyes.

He knows this guy's an unstoppable monster. Just slowing this thing down is chore enough.

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Ironically, the punches are just keeping him above water level. Not that he needs to breathe, and not that they hurt - his body feels no pain. But it means it's easy for him to reach out and swat at the speedster. He'll miss the first few times, but sooner or later he's gonna nail the bastard.

And hard.

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It's actually a massive backsplash from one of his misses that does him in. Crashing against his face enough to unsteady Flash's footing.

Then his entire brain is nothing but stars... with the dim sensation that maybe he's not touching the ground anymore... he only manages to focus in time to save himself from being splattered somewhere in Oakland. But he's not getting up from that anytime soon.

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As the General turns to regain his bearings, he finds his face...no, his EYES...awash in heat vision as Superman tries to burn them out of their sockets.

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They burn away, but instantly regenerate, and the General can feel the heat vision's angle - and he uses the water to launch himself in its direction.