The Last Stand

                                    

                                          
    After a mission with the Green Lantern Corps, Hal Jordan wanted nothing more than to just sit back and relax. However, he was called to assist his fellow Leaguers and he can't abandon that. As he flew closer to Metropolis, he noticed quite a few things: Half of the city blown to smithereens, a large crater where Metropolis Park used to be, and a floating figure up in the sky. "Damn, this is serious." he thought to himself. He approached the floating figure, ready for combat but noticed it was Superman. He saw that the Man of Steel... was crying. Loudly crying. Green Lantern went over to comfort him. They both hugged as Clark wept even more over Hal's shoulder. "Hey man, I'm here for you." Hal calmly said. They both slowly descended from the sky towards the ground. 
                          
    The artificial Orb of Depowerment finally finished powering up with Barry doing a fist bump. He quickly raced back to the crater but then noticed that Supergirl was dead. "Holy sh*t... Messiah killed her!?" Barry exclaimed. Batman nodded his head. "I can't believe it." Barry finished. Messiah opened his bright yellow eyes and found out that part of his face and body had been desecrated. The ground began to rumble and the android made a great leap out of the crater and floated above it. "Geez, this guy is an uber Terminator." Barry remarked. Aquaman smirked when he said that. "Comparing me to the likes of Terminator, Flash? Come on, that thing doesn't hold a candle towards me. Your termination, however, is at hand. I will..." Messiah talked before being hit with a couple EMP grenades from Batman. "Quick Diana, lasso him up!" Batman ordered. "Already on it." Wonder Woman replied. She lassoed the android up and spun him around towards Aquaman. He followed up with landing a few good hits with his Trident before sending the android back to Wonder Woman to impale her sword into his chest. Messiah looked down at the sword and then looked back at Diana, smiling. He pulled it out of his chest and threw it upward. 
                          
    Superman saw the sword coming for Green Lantern in slow motion and caught it in time. However, Messiah bashed Superman back down to the ground. Before Green Lantern could react to Messiah in time, the android snapped his neck and killed him. After that, he threw the sword downward which ended up skewering Superman's right arm; rendering it useless. The living heroes saw the fallen Green Lantern make his untimely descent to the cold, hard ground. With the death of both Supergirl and Green Lantern, the mission now is to destroy the android at all costs. Messiah flew down to the ground and Batman confronted him. "You've went toe-to-toe with the likes of Darkseid in that armor. Impressive, but it won't be enough." Messiah remarked. "Don't be so sure." Batman replied. The two traded blows with each other, seemingly being equal in power. Batman used the suit's impressive speed and strength to keep up with the android, but it was only a matter of time before the suit would drain all of Bruce's energy. At one point, Messiah grabbed Batman and brushed him across the remains of the park before landing a great blow on his face. The Flash took the powered up artificial Orb and managed to "depower" one piece of the Belt of Power. However, Messiah shot an energy blast that effectively destroyed the Orb. Barry's face became a mix of shock and horror. "The person or people that made that makeshift Orb did a pretty good job... except that the thing was super flimsy. No matter, I can still take all of you with just two active pieces." Messiah said as he swatted Flash away. Wonder Woman and Aquaman attacked Messiah together to try and overwhelm him. "Bruce, what are we going to do now? This thing is going to kill everyone." Superman asked while holding his useless arm. "J'onn is coming right now." 
                          
    As Messiah defeated both Wonder Woman and Aquaman, he looked up into the sky and saw a figure fast approaching him. "Now this'll get interesting." Messiah said. Superman used his heat vision to distract Messiah giving Martian Manhunter the opportunity to land a clean blow on Messiah. "So, you're the one that killed Supergirl and Green Lantern? You're just as sick as your creator, if not more." MM said. "Humanity most evolve to defend itself from outside threats. Don't you see? So many people depend on him and his cohorts to defend the planet, but what if they all went rogue? What then? I am the answer, the saviour, the Messiah, and I will make sure that will never happen by getting rid of them now." Messiah responded. Martian Manhunter then showed Messiah the destroyed city and the dead League members. "You call this being a Messiah? Batman has made sure that there are contingencies if any of the League members were to go rogue, even a contingency for himself. The Justice League will never go rogue, period. We're just a team of people, aliens, and gods, who wish to do good in this world and protect it from destruction." MM said. "Well, maybe it's time that humans and only humans protect themselves." Messiah said back. The android and the Martian flew up and got into a heated battle. Messiah tried to land multiple blows on Martian Manhunter but he was intangible to it all. MM went tangible again and gave Messiah two more clean blows. The Martian, then, densified himself to literally crush the android on the ground. With more damage being done to him, Messiah realized that he could not play around anymore. If he did, he's toast. He kicked it up a notch and got serious in his fight with Martian Manhunter. He shot a barrage of energy blasts at the Martian but none of them hit home. Messiah turned around and saw MM before he got thrown across the park telekinetically and shot with heat vision. 
                          
    Messiah resorted to scare tactics to get Martian Manhunter off of his back. He summoned one energy ball and made it so it looked like a bright fire. MM was about to hit the android again but then halted due to the fire. MM stared into the fire, not realizing that Messiah was approaching him until the flame was shoved into his stomach. While this didn't kill Martian Manhunter, this greatly handicapped him. Messiah flew up into the sky and began to make a sphere of energy that would gradually grow larger and larger. "Barry *cough* you need to travel back in time." Batman said. "Bruce, the effects it could have on the timeline could make this even worse." Barry replied. "Worse than this? Lex has won, this android has beaten all of us and will soon kill all of us unless you go back in time. The Orb that Cisco and Caitlyn made got destroyed because the material used to build it wasn't durable enough to withstand Messiah's power. None of us even knew about this Messiah character until it was too late and he got us. Tell our past selves about all of this so we will be better prepared and beat this son-of-a-b*tch. Go!" Batman said. The Flash took a deep breath and began running to gain speed. Messiah noticed this and hurled the gigantic sphere of energy at the rest of Metropolis. A weakened Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Martian Manhunter attempted to hold it back as long as they could. "Direct all internal power into speed." Messiah uttered to himself and his eyes turned from bright yellow to bright orange. He zoomed off in pursuit of Barry, trying to catch up to him. Messiah inched closer and closer to the Flash but right when he was about to catch him, the scarlet speedster managed to go back in time.