Cry for Justice - The Conclusion

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

As the Canary rounds a corner into a larger hallway, leading to the main monitor room, she feels a sharp, hard knee right into her abdomen, followed by a textbook ipponzei throw that sends her onto her back.

As the heroes whip around, they can see a shape materializing roughly 20 feet down the hallway.

The man that started all this mess.

However, he looks different.   He's clean - shaven.  He's wearing a different version of his long-standing costume.  No fin helmet.  The material of the costume is tougher looking, more combat ready.  

But it's the eyes.  The eyes that show no surprise over their arrival.  In fact, there's a sense of familiarity in them.

This was what he wanted.  This is what they wanted.

Be careful what you wish for.

"Long day?" Light says, smiling.

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[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

She looks to Atom. She looks to Hal. She looks to the ring. She thinks of Allanah.

She runs towards Light.

[itsastretch.livejournal.com]

And around the corner, the battle winding down, Ralph can be heard, refusing to kill Light, and offering, instead, to die, if Light will just end the madness.

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

"You really think I care about the spawn of the world? I'm surprised she even could breed after the times we had."

The Elongated Man has limits to his elastic physique and he's researched them all. Gingold has phosphorescent properties, which means he can use it. Light's hand reaches out, covering Dibny's face. The gingold starts evaporating him, making him normal with all his small wounds still bleeding out slowly. Internal injuries he would have used his elastic body to adjust to slowly start...not...adjusting...Light pins him to the monitor like a frog ready for a high school dissection.

"According to my calculation, you have 45 minutes to an hour. That should be enough time for me to finish my revenge -" His hand sweeps the room taking in his fallen comrades. "And then a dessert of two helpless little bitches."

[itsastretch.livejournal.com]

He struggles, but to no avail. He has no strength left, and clearly, Light has no mercy. He can't even look at the fallen as Light gestures to them... the people he failed because when it came down to it, he couldn't kill Light.

Even speaking just turns up a wash of blood over his lips and a choking sound. He failed, and now Light isn't even going to kill him... just make him hear the death screams... and worse.

For once, there isn't going to be a last second save. It was up to him... and he failed.

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

No. Not today. No one dies today, not even this bastard. But he's so gonna feel this in the morning.

One giant Hawkman mace upside the back of Light's head.

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

He wasn't expecting it or prepared for it. He is knocked flat, but not out. Not even close to out.

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

"Honey, I'll be taking out the trash this evening." She lifts him up with the ring's grip and starts slamming Light against the blast door.

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

No. He laughs. "Oh, ho...You playing hero now?"

The shackles break in a flash of yellow light and a wave shoots out towards her.

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

She's picked up a few things over the years. She ducks, rolls and wills herself a companion for the fight. A green Barry Allen with boxing gloves blasts Arthur Light with a hundred punches at the speed of light.

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

He would have expected the boxing glove. He would have countered with yellow. He would have used one of the many traps to eliminate the Flash. He was not expecting to counter a green glowing rolled into one version, especially not one coming out of the mind of Sue Dibny. One punch after the other, until he focuses his power, gives it shape and form again and backhands the imageacross the room with a yellow bastardized version of Green Arrows projectiles.

He already winded and somewhat depleted from the fight with the JLA and their allies. He hasn't shad time to recharge but maybe he can...Yes, he has an idea.

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

"And this one's from me," she spits.

Above Light's head is one giant can. It looks like a large green version of Gingold soda, only the lable reads:

WHOOP ASS

Allanah's teddy bear from Jesse Quick opens the damn thing and pours all sorts of Warner Brothers cartoon like green objects on Dr. Light's head. She rushes over, grabs his collar and gets right in his face.

"Now, you sick son of a bitch, we're gonna talk cures."

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

"I think not." He starts to absorb the ring's eneergy, the lights in the room, the light energy he can get from the sun up here...Everything.

He focuses his blast on Sue Dibny.

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

It's like her soul is being sucked through that ring. Quickly, she shuts the lights off, as many lights as she can get as for the rest.

"Computer, Atom protocal 3!"

The room, including light from the the stars outside, goes pitch black except for a glowing Dr. Light.

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

"Come on, Suzie Q..." His tone full of lavasious bile. "It's not as fun unless your husband watches."

Normally he could work with the light he has, even in this little, Palmer inspired black hole, but his equptment has been damaged. He's taken a few hits. He needs to focus everything he's got to make more light.

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

The ring may have shut down the light, but it hasn't shut down it's sensors. What it's telling Sue is that the star next to her is going to collapse and turn into a white dwarf, taking out everything within...well, she doesn't get the translation, but it's gonna be huge and kill everything here. She throws up some shielding Light is draining her, but she wills more and more of herself into her friend's safety. She will give until there's nothing and then go into debt.

"Light, you can't focus that much power in one space it will -"

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

He is transending this, becoming the light, becoming what he needs and he can feel it grown and feeding off the Green Lantern ring and what he swears is the light of the battered heroes' souls.

"Can't?" He laughs. and fires out the energy he's bee collecting directly at Ralph Dibny, vaporizing him instantly.

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

Only that doesn't happen. Nothing happens except the glow gets stronger, Sue more drained, and Light becoming the white focus of light in the room. Her ring is reading out reports she can't explain, but whatever "parecs," and "collacteral damage to system," and a countdown until whatever it is happens it cannot be good.

"Light, stand down - Now! You'll die if you don't!"

[dr-black-light.livejournal.com]

He's beyond hearing and there is way too much power in the room.

"No, a won't," he says supremely confident. "I AM light!"

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

"No, you're human, you schmuck!" He doesn't even rate boogeyman and homewrecker anymore. "Never eat an engery source bigger than your damn head!"

She tired. She's trying to protect everyone. She reaches out and tries to keep a star from collapsing in the same damn room and, once more, she feels it starting to work, because she wants it to work just that badly.

[laughing-mage.livejournal.com]

The rules of light and wavelengths were slightly altered here, it was the best he'd been able to do. Not exactly your straight forward mystic here.

Sue was going to save Light. That wasn't the plan.

So he rubbed his foot over the diagram he'd drawn and changed the laws of light back to normal, giving Dr. Light an infinite burst of power which should tip the balance against Sue's will.

"Light's out mate."