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Chapter 60 - Let the Games Begin: Final Stretch

(General POV)

Location the New Earth; Lincoln, Maine

Lincoln is a town in Penobscot County, this northern area of Maine is known for having over 25 lakes and ponds, this town is peaceful, people passing their daily lives, they were lucky to avoid most of the chaos, from what the game that Mao announced.

While some stores were selling, the villain group that they least expect attacked the town, it's the Masters of Evil, a team consisting of Beetle, Fixer, Goliath, Moonstone, and Screaming Mimi.

Raining down missiles it a recently escapee, the Beetle in a silver and burgundy theme power-suit, that resembles a insect, the shining green lenses, mouth-piece, flight wings, and spikes on the helmet, he looks like a actual beetle.

A silent criminal, that is also mercenary, as well as a old adversary of the Web Crawler, after the Ryker's Island breakout, he escaped the city, regained his suit and rejoined this rackband of supervillains to keep his freedom, and rack point of Chaos, together to save themselves.

Fixer also known as Paul Norbert Ebersol, a bald man in a mainly red, and black accent suit, but the biggest trait is the chrome and red glowing cybernetics implanted on his body.

A robotic eye visor, connected by tubbing to a massive fully cybernetic right arm, while his left he only has a armor of the same style equipped, he has a power core strapped across his chest and wrapped around his waist.

He was leading the Masters of Evil, with a wicked smile, as he sent out special, floating, explosive disks, flying off and exploding on the building and cars around the town.

The Goliath in his giant size, was stomping and smashing everything in his path, his real name is Erik Stephan Josten, wearing a copper sleeveless body suit with yellow accents and a headpiece that exposes his face, and red hair, also wears a pair of copper pauldrons, and gauntlets.

Laughing as he crushed a van on his hand, and throw it into the town courthall, causing a explosion, as he said, "That's right, run!! The Masters of Evil, are here and ready to stake a piece of the piece!!" a blonde woman in a silver colored body-suit with a diamond pattern yellow accent on her chest, with a yellow sapphire on the bellybutton area, a special headgear with a mostly exposed face in a domino pattern eye-parts.

She has a pair of yellow gloves, she is villainess Moonstone, her real name Karla Sofen, flying nearby Goliath acting like a moron...she sighed, as her fists were covered in yellow photon energy, she fired a blast onto the town back, flying in to steal all she can.

And the last member of the group is a woman with a clear unhinged aura, with spiky white hair, with white face paint with some black pointed marks over and under her eyes, dressed in blue green leotard with neon green ruffle, elbow length gloves, and lastly some blue green boots with white tuffs on their edge, she is Screaming Mimi.

Her real name is Melissa Gold, but prefers the name Mimi, she was using her sonic screams were destroying everything, this was utterly fun for her, as this attack was made by Fixer, attacking one of the most undefended, and peaceful spot on the country, rack up some points, and getting some easy money.

Just as they were nearly ready to leave, a unfamiliar ship came soaring through the sky...Mimi mentioned that it resembles...a bat.

Just as she finished saying this and Beetle was about to blast rockets and other weapons at the Batjet, when Beetle was suddenly punched, sent flying and smashing into a local store, being hit by a red blur with yellow lightning streak, then as Moonstone left the bank with bags of money, she was suddenly bond by some glowing, golden lasso.

Moonstone, she was surprised by the golden lasso around her leg, when something pulled her down, and the world started to spin, and then she was sent flying crashing hard against Goliath, as both of them slammed onto the ground, causing a small shake of the town.

Only two left standing were Fixer and Screaming Mimi, as a man in a bat armor and cape, a red dress man with lightning surging through him, and a beautiful woman in gold, red, and blue were standing together, Fixer immediately recognized them as one of the other-earth superheros, Batman, the Flash, and Wonder Woman.

Batman, stepped forward and with his glare looked at the cybernetic man, and the green clown girl, he'd recognized with his drastically enhanced database, as Fixer and Screaming Mimi, he said in a cold and menacing tone, "Surrender now..." Screaming Mimi started laughing hysterically, as Goliath, Moonstone, and Beetle were all getting back up, as she calmed down she wiped a tear from her eye, and said, "Ohhh man, I've haven't heard something that funny in a long time...here I'd thought the Avengers, actually came to this backwater place. Instead we get idiots, that don't know how to count. Hey Bat-guy, their's five Masters, and only three dumb heroes, why should we be scared?" her words embolden the rest of her group.

As she, combine with Fixer, Beetle, and Moonstone attacked the three Leaguers, only for a huge green-will construct wall to form in front of the three heroes, blocking the combine assault of the Master, as three more Leaguers showed up, two men in green glowing super-suits, the Green Lanterns Hal Jordan, and John Stewart, and right in between them a man in red with a huge lightning bolt in his chest, and a white hooded cape, Shazam.

As the Masters saw the new arrivals, their faces paled, as Flash with his arms crossed, said in a mocking tone, "I'm sorry, whom is outnumbered again?" as the Masters screamed to run, the Justice League pounced.

All heroes and villains, were doubling down with Mao's deadline just a few days away...

Location London, England

In the United Kingdom's capital, London...it's burning, as one of the main heroes of the country, Captain Britain aka Brian Braddock a muscular man, wearing a full body suit resembling the flag of Britain, was laying dead on some rubble, with a burning hole on his chest.

As a robotic almost skeletal in design, a notorious criminal, with a green power core of kryptonite, his name is John Corben, Metallo, stood over the defeated hero, a burst of blue lightning, soared across the many broken down light posts, as a woman of light bluish skin, blue hair, on a black long-sleeved leotard, ensensuating her figure, this is Livewire, Leslie Willis, she was currently toying with a man in a full body black tactical suit, even covering his face, that suit has on Britain flag on front, this is Joseph Chapman, also known as Union Jack, shooting his guns at Livewire, that ignored those bullets, and with a wicked smile, lifted her gloved hands, and blasted electricity at the street-level British hero.

As he screamed in pain, this was happening allover the city, as stone and brick buildings were destroyed, asphalt torn up, cars burning, and much more destruction.

Allover this chaos is happening, as this was the plan of Malcolm Merlyn, he was investigating on the more weakly defended countries on the New Earth, with the large number of heroes and villains, loyal to Russia, most of the heroes, and renowned mercenary are protecting the borderline, hence leaving the United Kingdom's capital weak.

So convincing Luthor, he made some arrangements to set loose Livewire, Metallo, Toyman, Reactron, and more to attack, and cause as much destruction to the United Kingdom, this won't only rack up points, weakened the number of potential threats outside of America to the Legion, and as a incentive that secured Luthor's full support, once the Metropolis Rogues finished their paid job, the UK will need the aid of Lex Corp to rebuild.

Plus Black Archer with Luthor's help, hired many other low-level criminals to keep the Avengers and the League busy...in truth, the reason for the Fixer's boldness was instigated by the Legion in secret.

All throughout the world, more chaos is happening than the first days that Mao announced this twisted game, through Pincushion, currently the whole Legion, Black Archer, Luthor, Joker, Scarecrow, Capt. Cold, and Cheetah watched everything happen through some drones built by Luthor himself.

While Snart felt a bit of regret that all those treasures, antiques, and art being wasted, as he already knew about more than thousand of "clients" who pay for these things, Cheetah only regretted that she couldn't hunt down this prey on her own.

Regardless the villains, are pulling out all the stunts to win, but just as the Metropolis Rogues were about to take out another British hero, a massive airship, the SHIELD tri-carrier was entering the burning London city, several agents riding on many aircrafts, flying down to fight against these supervillains and protect what remain of the city, the ones leading this assault Agent Coulson, and Peggy Carter armed with advance energy weapons to fight against these criminals.

SHIELD has also been dragged ragged around the globe, but Fury refused to let the villains win, and billions of people to suffer, but even if this is a surprise for the Legion, they don't expect that SHIELD would do much, as Luthor and Meryln weren't worried, as the points for chaos, should be greatly higher than justice at the moment, so they'd watched, as SHIELD and what remained of British heroes fight against Metropolis Rogues...

Location the Void of the Forsaken

Mao was walking through the vine crawler filled abyssal landscape, he was marveling at his Void, as he looked over his shoulder, seeing demodogs, zerglings, banelings, maulers, and much more other monsters.

He smiled, enjoying his nightmarish realm, Mao started thinking to himself at all the destruction, chaos, and anarchy being brought by the villains, but to his pleasurable surprise the heroes are desperately fighting to win...only two days remain, until he can play with a billion souls, and if the heroes lose, majority of the love ones will be also apart of his games...but then Mao's smile disappeared.

Cause something utterly unexpected happened...even with all struggle, they're still evenly matched, 50/50, even with Luthor, Joker, and Red Skull's schemes, he forgot that superhero villains, like many other villains they don't follow through.

They had soo much advantage to gather soo many points, heck Luthor killed, even if indirectly killed several side hero-characters, Captain Britain, Death's Head, Spitfire, and Lionheart, honestly aside Peggy Carter, Captain Britain, Death's Head, and Union Jack, are the only UK Marvel characters that he knew.

But regardless finally heroes are dying, and villains are being more ruthless, so his game did sparked what he wanted...utter chaos, but still the heroes and villains are like usual caught in stalemate...like usual, meaning that if this continued he'll have to announced a damn tie...he sighed with annoyance.

Well he never expected a tie, if that happens that 500000000 good civilians, and 500000000 criminals will be taken at random...and a condolence mercy, only 20% of the heroes close aids, friends, and love ones will be taken.

Plus he'd promised also that a new roster of heroes and villains from another multiverse, they'll be brought over and merged to the New Earth, if this tie remains for the final two days, both the most researched heroes and villains, will be the new additions to the fun and havoc that is the New Earth.

Before that there need for him to have something to bring these characters to this world, he reached his clawed-gauntlet fingers up to his chin, thinking about this.

Coming up with a idea, a artifact that let him go to other worlds, cloaked from super higher beings, and rip characters and some places from those multiverses, severing fate, timelines, and alternatives from the connection of said multiverse, he knows it'll be expensive but soo worth it.

Plus bind it solely to himself, such a multiversal class artifact should only be his to command, and activate, with his decision done, Mao stopped on a large forest that resembles the Upside-down, and activated his Chaos System.

Telling it what he wants to summon, and the system in a red transparent screen showed him this prompt, [Artifact: World Ripper + Single Soul Bind; Mao= 300000 CP. Do you wish to proceed?] that his artifact to bring forth the heroes and villains of another world, without pulling the entire Earth, just the characters and the main base of these groups, Mao was happy.

He commanded his Chaos System to proceed as 738060, plummeted to 438060, a spinning vortex appeared above Mao making the dark, starless, red lightning surging sky ripple.

A burst of violet, and scarlet energy burst out of the vortex, striking Mao as a horned skull, with three pairs of horns of various type, having nine eye-holes burning with a eerie greenish fire, as the jaw is split on the bottom, and all the skull's teeth are sharp fangs of various sizes.

Mao feel the power of the World Ripper, now connected to Mao, plus it has a awesome design on it, placing it on the base of the jacket's collar, merging with it, and now apart of his clothes.

Before finishing this summoning session, he still needs to summon Scarface, Bendy, and Arakune, as for the first two, he'll summon them later, Arakune is a most to summon now, as he's insect can spy on the targets of now and the future.

As for abilities that are absolutely useful to the lesser Black Beast, and one of Mao favorite characters on the Blazblue world, first rid his broken manner of speech...Nomu King, and Abathur are enough, give Arakune access to his previous self intellect, experience, and abilities, and lastly expand his arsenal of insects, his transmutation of insects, and enhance all abilities concerning insects, with that he was ready, as he commanded his system to give him what he wants, and it prompted, [Arakune + Clear Communication Ability + Roy Carmine Intellect & Capabilities Awaken + Insect Transformation & Transmutation Enhancement + Wild Insect Conversion + Insect Legion Expansion= 24750 CP. Do you wish to proceed?] telling the system to proceed, again the Chaos Points have been depleted to 413310.

Then almost immediately, Mao heard a huge number of buzzing, skittering, and scrambling around him, as eldritch like insects started to approach Mao, beetles, roaches, centipedes, and flies all around him...then in a couple of meters away from the Lord of the Forsaken, they bowed in respect to him, as these insect minions were answering the order of the tenth Infernal Lord.

And speaking of said Infernal Lord, a black mass with some tints of red, came crawling and slushing forward with a blank white mask, with only three small holes to make a slight imitation to eyes and a mouth, this is Arakune, Mao's tenth Infernal Lord.

Once they'd meet, Arakune molds his slime like mass to form a makeshift arm to respectfully bow to Mao, and speaking in a almost glitched sounding, male voice, "Arakune, has come my master." Mao smiles, as things have gotten much more interesting for the Forsaken.

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