AN: Now it's time to assemble...wait, that's the wrong team. Um, time for Justice? I guess that works. ENJOY!

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Seventy Four: Together Again

Cyborg watched as several helicopters flew over them and were helping out seep through the city.

"Won't those frighten the citizens? They've never seen those before."

"Probably, but it can't be helped Crusch. We need to allow the government observe the cities and get as much information as possible."

"I suppose so."

Crusch sighed as they continued standing on the shorelines, watching as the combined city of Priestella and Coast City was being searched through by both the US government and Knight stationed in the city. Many citizens watched as tanks and humvees drove in conjunction with knights riding Ground Dragons.

Soldiers stared at the large dragons with bated breath.

Knights shook from the thunderous noises the tanks made.

It was the meeting of different planes of existence. Science and Magic.

No one knew whether they would be able to work together...or simply bump heads and lead to a dire clash of cultures.

Aquaman jumped out of the ocean and flew over to meet with the others.

"Atlantis is sequre for now...but-"

"-Something's happened hasn't it?"

"Yes, Ivy. Some of my men have described seeing bright lights going off around the world."

Cyborg clenched his robotic fist as he began to grit his teeth in frustration.

"Damn, that means the society is already on the move now."

"Yes, we need to wait so we can be summoned together with the others."

Crusch stepped forward with a hand on her sword.

"Once we're there we need to find out some ways to track the Prime Subjects and protect them."

"But even if we do that, we still gotta find a place to keep em' safe."

"You spoke of a watchtower in space, correct? Why not keep them there?"

Cyborg rubbed his chin as he sighed tiringly at her, Ivy patted her friend on the shoulder.

"The issue with that is...if we have some evil Batmen running around, we need to worry about them getting past security."

"Cryborg, why don't we house them for a short period and then have Fate and Beatrice make us a seperate dimension."

"You know what...that actually work Ivy. We could just have them do that."

Aquaman squatted down while still holding onto his trident.

"It's too bad Atom is gone. We could have used his help."

Those words caught her attention, as she lowered her brows and looked down at the pristine sand under her feet.

"So, he's dead too huh?"

"...We've lost a lot of friends since you were gone these past six years. It's been hard on all of us."

It was quiet then. The two heroes looked down at the sand under them, while Crusch and Pamella looked up at the sky above them.

All of them somehow came to an agreement on how they felt about it.

Then a yellow ankh symbol appeared a few feet away from them. Cyborg scratched his nose seeing this.

"Guess that's our cue y'all."

Everyone nodded as they made their way to the portal, hoping that the city left behind would be alright.

Anastasia was sitting, with Mr. Miracle across from her as they were contemplating what they had heard earlier by Dr. Fate.

"Ms. Hoshin, that girl…"

"...No doubt about it, she's the other Natsuki. She's the Prime Subject for this world."

"Then if that's true, we need to keep her out of sight from the Society."

Roy walked over as he held his chest tightly with a face filled with concern.

"Um, excuse me."

"Yeah, what is it?"

"A-Are you both saying that...Saia-chan is in danger?"

They could both tell Roy was trying his best to hide his panic with a quick fake smile. Anastasia sighed silently and nodded, letting the loyal butler realize the severity of the situation. He looked away from them to Saia, who was chatting away to Erick. His blues reflected the girls visage and he relented in it.

"Roy kindly asks you...to take Saia-chan away from here."

The butler did a humble bow as the two could only flinch a bit seeing this. Miracle shut his eyes for a moment and decided to get up, he walked over to the still bowing butler and put a hand on his shoulder.

The butler didn't expect this, so he looked up and saw a smiling Miracle.

"We're not just going with her, we're taking all of you with us."

"Truly?"

"Yes, it's too dangerous for all of you to stay here, it'd be best if we all went together to meet with the others. That way you can help keep Ms. Saia safe."

Roy smiled and gave him a proper thanks. As he went over to Saia, to stand next to the girl he obviously had feelings for, Anastasia winked at Miracle.

"Aren't you a nice guy?"

"Well, I try to show kindness where it's deserved to be shown."

"You sure we can bring everyone in the mansion though?"

"I'm sure, I have faith in Dr. Fate."

Roswaal came back into the dining room, announcing something.

"Allllright everyone, let's get prepared to abandon the mansion, we shall go with thiiiis Fate person to a safer place."

Rey bowed to her decision.

"Very well Roswaal-sama, we will do so with great haste."

Saia played with her hair a bit and looked up at Barda who was crossing her arms looking over the whole event.

"Um, Barda-san?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, I just wanted to know something, it's just...so you think we'll be safe where we're going?"

"...I'm hoping so, but if worst comes to worse, I'll slay anyone who tries to mess with us."

She lexed her arm, showing Saia her toned muscles. Saia couldn't help be amazed at her. The young girl never really had a figure she could look up to in her life, but Barda was too cool not to notice. She was beautiful, tall and strong looking, her unusual armor made her stand out and she seemed to be proud of her strength.

"I wish I was confident like you Barda-san, I just don't have the strength to be proud like that."

"...Look Saia, the thing one must remember more than anything is that everyone is strong in their own right."

She playfully bumped her shoulder with her elbow, almost making her fall over; the sight made Barda chuckle.

"Find that strength of yours."

She nodded as she went over to speak further with her husband Mr Miracle.

Saia spoke softly to herself.

"I hope I can."

Then the ankh portal appeared and everyone, minus Borris went through who decided to stay behind. While against it, Miracle was convinced to allow this as they said Borris could escape to another dimension if need be. Barda then pulled him by his cape to leave the little boy alone. They walked through to their next destination.

As the portal closed, Borris sat up from his seat and looked behind himself.

"There, they left...now you can find them."

The Teen Titans were now freed from their constraints. However they were still fuming mad at the individuals who beat them, they could only frown as Deathstroke sat on their couch.

Reinhard walked over to Starfire, who was still cautious of the man who defeated her.

"You...don't seem to be malicious in anyway Mr. Astrea."

"Please just Reinhard is fine, and no, I held no malicious intentions towards any of you, however you attacked us first, so we responded in defense."

"...The main issue with that is you're with him."

"Oh, Deathstroke."

They looked over and saw Deathstroke watch as Felt played a video game with Chin, it was obvious both of them were doing terribly as they had no idea what they were doing.

"Me crashing into things is okay right?!"

"It says I'm fifteenth, is that like a points or what?!"

Deathstroke sighed angrily as he crossed his legs trying to get more comfortable. Static slightly grimaced at the sight.

"I still can't believe you're sayin' that Deathstroke is a good guy now."

"Not precisely, he's merely a bodyguard now. He still has his nasty tendencies."

"Man, I feel like this is a dream or somethin'!"

He rubbed his hair as he sighed dejectedly. Raven was meditating as she was trying to find out what else was going on in the world.

"Well Raven?"

"...It's bad. That Society Dr. Fate was talking about, has already started, they've begun wiping out entire universes."

Everyone was quiet as Raven stopped using her powers to relax a bit. Beast Boy walked to her.

"Can't we do something about it?"

"We shouldn't go in blind like that. If we did we might run into someone we don't have the strength to face. Honestly, I think it's a good idea to meet with the others and plan ahead."

"I guess."

Beast Boy scratched his head, clearly annoying Raven as she grumbled seeing him act this way. Deathstroke got up and walked over to the rest of them, all of them ready to fight him if need be. Reinhard chuckled at the sight.

"Deathstroke, you've given these people a really hard time in the past haven't you?"

"I had some run-ins with them, but I pushed it to the past. Had a feeling it wasn't worth it."

"People can still keep grudges though."

"Sure, I can see that."

Reinhard smiled at the assassin, further confusing the Titans, Wonder Girl shook her head and pointed at them.

"You're an idiot Sword Saint! That guy is not the least bit trustworthy!"

"Oh yes he is, this man is well respected by his peers in my country...though he was an assassin beforehand."

"See?! He kills people for profit!"

"My job is to protect the kingdom from danger, and so I have killed people as well. The difference being in who the two of us killed."

"Regardless, Deathstroke has helped us defeat many enemies and is even highly praised for killing a Sin Archbishop."

"What? He-He's been praised?!"

The Titans stared back at Deathstroke who twirled his finger around.

"Yup, up that ass."

"Ugh.."

Wonder Girl seemed to drop the subject, but it was obvious on her face, that she couldn't find it in herself to trust the man in front of her.

Just then, the ankh portal appeared behind them. Deathstroke turned around and yelled at the others.

"Felt! Punks! We're outta here!"

Felt and the Three Stooges raced over to him and put on mischievous grins. Reinhard took the first step.

"Let us go."

"Yup."

The Felt camp and Deathstroke first went through, leaving the Titans with their own thoughts, but Starfire, leader of the team made her decision.

"Let's go."

They all agreed and went through the portal.

Green Lantern was in the air looking at the strange country that combined itself with Central City. He then used his ring to send out an emergency signal.

"This is Green Lantern of Sector 2814, we have a universal scale event happening. Requesting backup as soon as possible. Over and out."

He floated down to the others, he was more than surprised to see Spica patting Beetle's face, which he didn't seem to mind. Rigel walked up to John as he had a question for him.

"So, you knew Bruce-jii san before right?"

"Yeah, he was a different kind of person than he is now."

"How so?"

John scratched his chin, trying to think of how to explain it.

"Well, I guess the best way of putting it...is that he seems more happier. I've known that man for a long time, he's been doing this since Hal Jordan's time as the Green Lantern. He was always broody and standoffish, sometimes even hard to work with."

"T-That sounds nothing like my Uncle."

"Guess it just means you and your parents changed him…"

Rigel took some time to consider the facts, he turned around to see Bruce speaking with Halibel...he smiled a bit.

"He's stupid I guess."

Just then green energy shot out of building at them, Green Lantern took notice and put up a dome around them, it was able to bounce the energy around them. Everyone was stunned that someone tried to attack them, Beetle held onto Spica as he saw the person emerging from the destroyed wall. He narrowed his eyes at their opponent.

"Enchantress."

Enchantress floated over to them.

"Why the hell are you doing this?! We've helped each other in the past!"

"I'm doing this for our sake! We have to join the Society or else we'll be killed as well!"

"Is that June talking, or the Sorceress?!"

She frowned at him and blasted down green beams at them, Batman created a tear in space behind himself and jumped through. He was now behind her, and haymakered her to the ground. She got up and spat out fire from her mouth he dodged it, while Halibel tossed several shurikens at her, she melted them away with green magic.

Green Lantern was about to rush in, but Sarah tossed Petra away and pulled out her forearm blade...blocking a suprise strike from Rigel.

"Incorrect, you will not harm anyone here!"

"Get the hell out of my way you bitch!"

He was able to kick her away a few feet, he sliced at the air and sent windblades right at the family ahead of them. Green Lantern made a shield in front of them, breaking the wind attack apart.

Rem's eyes widened as she looked at their assailant.

"R-Rigel?"

"Don't talk to me, just do me a favor and die."

They could hear his voice shaking when he said this.

He picked up his pace as he ran over to them. Rem was feeling absolutely confused, she couldn't comprehend it...but she knew that the young man racing towards them with a glimmer of killing intent in his eyes, was in fact their son.

A mother always knew.

Green Lantern created several guns around himself and fired at him, Rigel used his sword to strike them away and dashed closer to Green Lantern.

"RIGEL STOP!"

Rigel flinched when he heard his mother's voice, giving John the chance to punch him away. He then created a sniper rifle and shot at Rigel, when the shot hit him...a puff of smoke appeared and a log was now in front of him.

He turned his head and saw Rigel with sword in hand aiming to slice his head clean off. The red light in his eyes glowing intenesely.

Sarah kicked him away, saving Green Lantern from further harm. Rigel got up and roared at them, summoning a single horn on his head.

Rem walked in front of the two…

"Rigel, stop this."

"Shut up...YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER! YOU'RE A FAKE! JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHERS!"

"No, Rem is your mother, and Rem loves you no matter what."

Rigel seemed to calm down, but he turned his gaze over to the young Rigel who was holding his sister...the vicious killing intent came back.

"Why...why is like this?"

"Rigel?"

"SCREW YOU! WHY DOES HE GET TO LIVE LIKE THIS?! WHY?! Why? Why….?"

"My son?"

Rigel had a single tear fall from his enraged eyes.

"I won't allow it."

Rigel charged again, but it was Blue Beetle who sprung insect claws from his back that stood in his way, the claws stopped his blade, but he ate two kicks to the face and was hit by a powerful punch to the ground. Rigel then blocked a chainsaw strike by Green Lantern, but the impact still sent him flying back.

Just then the ankh portal appeared next them.

"Everyone! We're making a run for it!"

Green Lantern created two different giant hands and grabbed the Natsuki Family. The other hand grabbed Halibel and Batman. Sarah took hold of Petra and they made it through the portal.

"NO!"

Rigel screamed this as he ran at them like a wild animal trying to catch up to his prey. Enchantress joined him, but Blue Beetle slammed the ground with his spiked fists and sent a shockwave to push them back a bit. Blue Beetle jumped through the portal and they made it out safe.

Rigel spat at the ground and bit his fist.

"Bastards, I won't let you get away."

Enchantress floated over next to him and frowned as she continued staring at where the ankh portal was.

"Let's go and report this."

"Sure."

The two Society members opened a portal behind themselves and left the battlefield they were just in.

John slowly looked around and saw that they were in some sort of mansion.

"Where the hell are we?"

"My humble abode Green Lantern! Kick your boots off and relax a bit!"

John looked back and saw Constantine with a smug smile sitting in his chair, next to a standing Dr. Fate. Patrasche soon saw them and raced over. The Natsuki Family was initially stunned seeing a Ground Dragon going over to them, but they noticed it was staring at Subaru while wagging its tail.

"Rem?"

Rem recognized that voice, she hadn't heard it in so many years, but she knew it well. She glanced over and saw Ram staring back at her.

"Nee-sama?"

"Rem, is that really you?"

Rem had tears falling from her eyes as she raced to her sister. She hugged her tightly crying into her shoulders.

"Rem."

"Nee-sama! Nee-sama! Rem missed you! Missed you so much!"

She couldn't help but hug her sister back, then she glanced back and saw Subaru with Batman and a lot of other people.

"Rem, I see Barusu over there...but there's kids with him."

Rem giddly let go of her sister and ran over to be with them, she squatted down and hugged them tightly.

"Nee-sama, this handsome young man is Rigel and this precious little angel is Spica. They're my and Subaru-kuns' children."

"...I see."

Ram suddenly began slowly falling backwards and was cuaght by Otto.

"Get a hold of yourself!"

"I can't, I feel like I just saw the inner reaches of hell just now."

Ram rubbed her head as she got back up. She glanced at the kids who were her famiy members, then she gave a nasty look to Subaru.

"Barusu...to think you would do such vile things to Rem, even if we're not from the same world...I'll beat some sense into you!"

"Ram…"

Subaru chocked up a bit, but held himself as he looked at Ram.

"I...see you've been doing well."

"Naturally, I wouldn't fall into helplessness like you would."

"Hearing those harsh words coming from you, it's so nostalgic."

Ram walked over to be in front of Rem and the children. Rem smiled up at her.

"Rigel, Spica. This is Ram, she's my sister. This is your aunt."

Rigel was shell-shocked in learning his mother had a sister, even looking at her, the boy could see how she looked a lot like her mother.

"Hi."

"H-Hello."

Rigel decided to hold out his hand to her, Ram was hesitant, but took a deep breath and took his hand giving it a light shake.

Spica ran over and hugged Ram in the leg, laughing as she did. The sight of this, made Ram smile wholeheartedly.

More and more portals opened around them and everyone that was separated was now together again.

Ferris and Wilhelm made it through and saw their Crusch come out of a portal with Ivy in tow.

"Crusch-sama! Pamela-san!"

"Wilhelm! Ferris!"

The four of them got together, with Pamela giving them a big group hug.

Cyborg and Aquaman still couldn't believe it.

"That's just plain crazy, Ivy has never been so...well, attached to people before."

"It seems this world that she was sent to may have humbled her greatlty."

Crusch, Wilhelm, Petra and Julius came through the portal as well, all of them held their breaths seeing so many recognizable faces, either unharmed or still alive. But it was one face in particuar that made their hearts beat almost out of their chest.

"Batman…"

They saw him speaking with several others...Julius and Wilhelm grabbed their sword hilts, but Crusch motioned them against it.

"No...not yet, not here."

Reinhard and the rest of the Felt camp made it through waving hello to Ram and the others. They waved back to him...back were more than happy to see who had come up behind him. Petra rushed herself to bow to him.

"Welcome back Slade-sensei!"

"Hey, didn't cause any trouble for anyone?"

"Nope, I did pretty well all things considered."

"Good."

Deathstroke nodded and walked over to be with the others. The Titans coming up behind him, were still in disbelief, Static voicing the obvious.

"Yo, even that little girl seemed to be buddies with him."

Starfire still narrowed her eyes at this.

"Keep your eyes peeled. It may still be a trick."

Anastasia and her group made it through and saw impressed with the interior of the mansion they were in.

"Nice and cozy."

She glanced over and saw Priscilla and Julius walk through their portal with some strange armored man...who reminded her of Batman.

"Julius!"

"Anastasia-sama!"

He raced over to her and knelt down to be with her.

"I am glad to see you are alright."

"Yup, these fine people were with me."

Julius looked up to see Mr. Miracle and Big Barda nodding him.

"You have my thanks."

Ricardo and the others were not far behind and gazed around at the slowly filling up room, he laughed to himself as he was looking at people he had never seen before.

"It's a real party up in here! Haha!"

Mimi came out last, behind the residents of the mansion they had come seemed to be downtrodden from not seeing Garfiel yet, it made her heart ache and she wasn't paying attention to anything around herself.

"Mimi?"

Mimi eye's widened as she heard a voice call out to her, she tunred her head to see Garfiel exiting a portal with two other people. She held onto her staff tightly as she tried not to cry, but she couldn't and she ran towards him.

"Garf!"

She tackeld him to the ground and hugged him tightly, making him turn beet red all over his face.

"H-Hold on Mimi! Th'y c-c-can see us!"

"Mimi doesn't care! No! Nope! None! Mimi wants to be with Garf right now!"

"Jeez...you can be a real pain in th' ass girlfriend."

Mimi blushed madly when she heard that and got off of him, she helped him up and gazed at him affectionately.

"Garf is a handful."

"Yeah I am."

As they laughed a bit, Mimi looked back at and gave him a big small and nod. He couldn't help but smile back.

Priscilla walked over to sit on the couch and saw Dr. Fate observing everything.

"So when will this meeting commence?"

"When the others arrive."

"How dull."

She sighed as she got more comfortable on the couch, as she played with her hair and wondered aloud.

"Where could Al be?"

Subaru and Batman were now arriving through their portal, everyone turned to look at them.

"Looks like we made it last."

"I hate being unpunctual you know?"

"Can't help going against that today, I'm afraid."

Behind them arrived everyone else as the portal closed.

Rem ran to him and hugged him ever so tightly, raising him from the ground.

"Subaru-kun! Rem missed you! Rem has been worried sick about you!"

"OW! Yeah of course I missed you too Rem."

He hugged her back as best he could, smiling down at her gleeful self. She set him down and hugged his arm.

"Hey Rem, that outfit you got on?"

"Oh, Diana-sama gave it to me as gift, until the uniform I had is fixed."

"Oh, so it got damaged?"

Rem nodded and out on slightly displeased face.

"Rem didn't mean to-"

"-As long as you're okay then I'm more than happy."

He patted her on the head and she soon melted into the warm touch of his hand. She then glanced up and smiled at the return of her old friend.

"Batman-san, you have a new suit!"

"Yes, I was able to find a spare in my old home."

"Rem is happy to see you back to normal."

When Batman smirked, many of the superheroes around couldn't help but stare back, in their minds the sight of Batman even smirking at someone was almost out of the question. No one was able to process correctly the things they were seeing.

Batman being conversational.

Poison Ivy being friendly with normal humans.

Deathstroke actually working together with people that seemed to fully trust him.

It seemed that the six years they were gone for, changed them.

"Subaru!"

"Emilia-tan!"

Emilia rushed to his side and hugged his shoulder, with Beatrice jumping to sit on his shoulders.

"Everyone's here! I'm so happy to see our team back again!"

Now the entirety of the Emilia Camp was gathered together again, reunited after the insane day they had.

Behind Subaru's group Ram and Rem from the other world were simply watching in disbelief.

Garfiel was outside the Sanctuary and Subaru was seemingly respected by his peers, having never run away from them all.

"This is just, unbelievable isn't it Rem?"

"..."

"Rem?"

Ram saw how her sister was gazing at Subaru's back with longing eyes filled with two emotions...jealousy and sadness.

"Rem?"

"Rem is fine...it's just, Rem thinks that Rem is very lucky. Very lucky...too lucky."

It was obvious even to Ram that her beloved sister still desired Subaru, and her small time with this alternate Subaru only made her want him more. Ram held her hand and rubbed her shoulder. Too make matters worse, when Rem tilted her head to the side...she saw the family.

It was her with longer hair in a lovely pink kimono, helping to rub something out a little girls face, next to them was a blue haired boy with blue eyes, who looked a lot like Subaru.

Even she could tell what this meant.

"Nee-sama."

"Yes, Rem?"

"...It's not-"

She wiped away a single tear from eye as she looked down at the floor,her voice slightly shaking.

"-It's not fair."

Ram hugged her sister as she silently wept into her chest, Ram couldn't help but so sad for her sister.

Subaru was chuckling along with Emilia, when his own gaze landed on the family that was walking towards them.

"Wait a minute."

"This is so unreal."

The two Subaru's stared at each other up and down.

The married Subaru could wince a bit at his other self and all the odd features he exhibited, especially his eye and hand.

"A-A lot happened to me huh?"

"Well, that's an understatement."

Rigel made his way over and looked up at the other version of his father, quite wide eyed and confused. He was wearing a suit he knew his father kept in his closet, but never wore for some reason. The strange eye and hand he had and the fact he actually looked stronger than his regular dad.

"Are you really Natsuki Subaru?"

"Y-Yeah, and who are you?"

"Um, I'm Natsuki Rigel."

"Ah, I see-HUHUHUHUHUHUUH?!"

Subaru lost all composure and looked at the other Subaru, the long haired Rem standing next to him, then to Rigel. He did this at least four times, before the entire camp raised their brows and had thier mouths wide opened.

"You're Rem and Subaru's kid?!"

Rem blushed madly as she hugged her husband.

Otto pointed over at the small girl holding hands with Subaru.

"And I can guess that is your daughter as well?!"

The two parents nodded, making Otto rub his eyes.

Halibel tilted his head at the odd looking Subaru and the Batman standing next to him, who still had his suit on him.

"This whole day is going over my head."

"You and me both."

Back with the others, Subaru was shaking a bit, while the married version rubbed the back of his head.

"Well, alot has happened as you can tell."

"Tell me...did-did you two leave to Kararagi?"

"...So you can tell huh?"

The two Subaru's looked down with guilt ridden faces, both of them understanding what they both insinuated. Subaru sighed, he figured that there might've been a world where Rem did run away with him that fateful day, but he didn't think they'd have such cute kids in that time.

Beatrice was sitting on his shoulder still and looked at Rigel.

"Hm, he looks a lot like you Subaru, it's quite amazing, I suppose. Still, it just means he might end up being quite the ardurous person you turned out to be."

"Damn kid, talking about me like that."

Rigel frowned up the girl talking smack in front of him. The sight made Rem giggle, but it made Subaru's feelings swell up immensely. He wished he had done more...maybe just maybe...had he done something, then his son could've know his aunt, been friends with Beatrice and maybe even got to know where Rem and himself lived...but he kept his emotions hidden.

It was too late.

The evidence of which was speaking with his son, Beatrice laughing down at a clearly agitated Rigel, Garfiel trying to speak with Spica, only to make her tear up, thus forcing Frederica to pull him away by the ear.

Rem happily smiled seeing this, then Emilia went over and waved at her.

"Emilia-sama!"

"Hey, Rem. I see this version of you is suuuuper lucky! You have so adorable kids with you!"

"Thank you Emilia-sama, it is good to see you again."

The two ladies put on happy smiles. That's when Emilia felt her skirt get pulled on, she looked down and saw the little angel that was smiling up at her.

"Aw, so cute!"

She patted the girl on the head, making her giggle excidetly.

"What's her name Rem?"

"Spica."

"Oh, you're such a cute little girl Spica."

Spica grinned happily, making her mother very happy to see that she was reunited with everyone she desired to be with. She looked at her husband and gave him the most joy filled smile she could. That sight alone made Subaru relax just a little.

Green Lantern and Flash went over to speak with Batman...when they noticed both Sarah and Frederica were holding him affectionately, the two glanced at each other before they went to ask.

"Um, Sarah...didn't you say you were engaged to Batman?"

"Yes, That is indeed correct John-sama, I did say that."

"Then this lady here is-"

"-She is also his fiance, we are both set to marry this man."

Batman put a slightly pained expression.

John and Flash nodded their heads, arms crossed and-

"WAIT! YOU'RE A POLYGAMIST!?"

"DON'T YELL THAT OUT LOUD!"

Diana who was sipping on some water, spit it out and it hit Subaru in the face.

"W-Why is everyone doing that to me?!"

All the heroes now huddled around Batman, making the other version of Beatrice get in front of the man, sensing some danger.

Constantine was chugging down his drink, holding back laughter.

"Golly, that's fuckin' hilarious! Can't believe you'd fall down that route Bats!"

"A lot happened over there."

"Sure sure, what, did you fall over and sleep with them too?"

Batman and his two fiances shot death glares at him, making the man raise up his hands in defeat.

Diana had to voice her opinions.

"Batman, did you really...you know, fall in love with these two?"

"...Haaahhhhhhh, I first fell in love with Frederica, there's no doubt about it. Sarah here got me engaged to her through some shady means."

Sarah frowned a bit, but Batman looked at her and nodded calmly.

"But...I'd lie if I said I didn't like being with her."

"...Yes."

She hugged him tightly...making Superman the only one who saw Diana make a gloomy face for a split second. She then shook her head and collected herself.

It was actually Black Adam that voiced his own opinion.

"I can't judge you for who you fell in love with Batman, but I wonder how this matter can be resolved."

Frederica and Sarah hugged him tighter.

"We already resolved that matter!"

"Yes, we...consummated the marriages."

The two were blushing...making all of the other individuals take one giant step back.

"Hey, you guys are going too far…"

Flash waved his arms around, while putting on a goofy grin.

"Nah, nah..who are we judge, right? It was a different world you were in after all! Hahaha!"

Batman sighed as he was comforted by the two girls who loved him dearly.

With all the shenanigans out of the way, everyone was now together as Dr. Fate let them know the severity of the situation. That indeed, the Society was beginning to wipe out worlds and have destroyed at least twenty of them so far.

Snart tapped his foot on the ground to ask Dr. Fate further.

"Okay, so we just need to get rid of this Society and put these worlds back together right?"

"If only it were so easy, unfortunately, I have detected powerful individuals amongst them, some from our very world as well."

"Yeah, Beetle and GL were sayin' that Enchantress was with them."

Aquaman then decided to step in.

"Then we should make it a priority to protect the Prime Subjects, to prevent more universes from being erased."

"Me and Constantine are working on some amulets that will teleport and guide you to whoever a Prime Subject is...we can expect that our enemies have the same tactics."

"Then, we need to contact more help, I'll work on gathering my forces to aid in this emergency."

Diana was also questioning on the matter.

"Can we not contact outher universes to help aid us?"

Cyborg raised his hand, getting her attention.

"No good, something is blocking signals to the other worlds, even U.A. systems are all out of commission, we're stuck solo on this thing."

Mr. Miracle and Big Barda also came forward.

"We lost contact with New Genesis as well, we might be able to use our Mother Boxes, but it seems that's the case for help."

"Knowing them, they won't help. They're probably on high alert just in case Apokolips tried anything."

Dr. Fate then asked…

"Those who know themselves as the Prime Subject please come forward."

With that, Subaru gently put Beatrice down and patted her head. The two Subarus and Saia stepped forward and stood across Dr. Fate, then the two men stared wide eyed at Saia.

"Wait! You're a girl?!"

"Yeah, what of it?!"

"Nothing...I just mean, it's so weird, y'know?"

Saia put her hands on her hips.

"Well excuse me, but don't you think it's weird to see dude versions of me? It almost creeps me out...especially the way you're looking at me…I bet you're alrready imagining me nake or something, GROSS."

"W-What the hell? What kind of crap are you spouting on about! I got Rem and Emilia to ogle at, and this me has Rem to himself!"

The three ladies in question blushed madly at this, also making Bruce facepalm a bit.

"Subaru, don't just say that out loud…"

Saia humphed at Subaru, making the other two narrow their brows a bit.

"Whatever, like I care about your excuses, it's not that hard to keep your eyes off a pretty gal like me you know?"

"God, this version is the worst! Besides that, looking at you would be like looking at sibling."

"...Are you into that sort of thing?"

"NO! Not at all!"

Subaru bumped her on the shoulder, making her wince in pain. She retaliated with her own, making the two of them narrow their eyes at each other.

"Stupid."

"Moron."

They both looked away from each other, making the other Subaru riase his brows.

"Wow, just like siblings."

They both grimaced at their idea. Making them further look away from each other with sour looks on their faces.

Dr. Fate cleared his throat, getting the threes attention.

"Let us continue please?"

"Sure, sorry."

Fate's eyes glowed for a moment and he crossed his arms.

"I must tell you, that you three being the Prime Subject is not a laughing matter...Natsuki Saia, you seem to be under the assumption you could still use that ability to reset things to normal."

"Well yeah-"

All three of them seemed to hold their breaths and Batman himself had trembled a bit hearing this.

"Wait, Dr. Fate, what are you-"

"-That ability of yours is out of the question. It is no longer able to be used…"

"You don't mean…"

"Yes…"

All nose from the room seemed to fly away as Dr. Fate spoke his warning.

"You can no longer use Return by Death."

Emilia was the first to ask.

"Um...I recall Batman-san and Subaru said something like that...do you know what that is?"

Dr. Fate raised his head and looked at the three of them, they were all trembling with fear.

"You never told them?"

"...N..NO."

"I see, then I'm sorry. But I feel like they must know."

Dr. Fate then saw Batman rush over while looking at the ground.

"I'll tell them."

"Be quick then."

Batman looked over the gathered crowd and took a deep breath.

"...R-Return by Death is...an ability that Subaru and in this case Saia, has had since they arrived in the other world."

"The ability to re-do time in a loop."

Everyone was quite surprised to hear such a thing. Deathstroke looked at them curiously, Rigel was simply shell-shocked that his dad had an ability like that.

"But...But as the name says...HE COULD ONLY USE IT WHEN HE DIED."

Rem and Emilia's expressions froze and the Emilia Camp members were wide yes at what they heard. Subaru felt like crying. The other Subaru felt like throwing up. Saia wanted to outright disappear.

The Rem that came with Bruce stumbled over and put on a hollow smile.

"H-How many...Su-Subaru-kun…?"

"...?"

"How many times h-have you died?"

Subaru gripped his shirt tightly, he wanted to lose his ability to speak, but he had to.

"...TWENTY FOUR TIMES."

Batman himself felt disgusted in the number of times Subaru had died on his watch, it did genuinely hurt to hear it.

Emilia and Rem began to tear up, while Roswaal seemed angry with himself, Ram figured he felt guilty about what he had heard.

But that was far from the case.

"Had I known that was his ability...I could've done something to stop this...maybe even use him."

Dr. Fate relented and spoke further about the matter at hand.

"Your ability was actually the power to transfer your consciousness into the mind of another Subaru from a small temporal timeline."

"What?"

"Every second a new timeline is created, only a few will actually continue to move on and become universes of their own; however what your power did was astounding. It would actually keep that very insignificant reality from fading away and stay as its own world, what would have been simply erased was now operating in its own way. However, that is also the problem."

"You mean...because there are no realities to jump to?"

"Correct, your mind would transfer out of your current world and jump into one that was connected by the forces that controlled your own time and space...but with the worlds converged that is no longer the case. And with you being a Prime Subject, if you were to die, not only would you die, but anyone from your universe would perish away into nothingness."

"That's…"

"Simply put, you cannot rely on Return by Death...as you can see, I can say it without any ill effects right?"

The married Subaru then put on an enraged face.

"Why did you tell everyone that?! They didn't need to figure out the stuff we had to go through!"

"They did...and that is simply because they needed to see for themselves."

"WHAT EXACTLY?!"

Batman then walked over and put a hand on his shoulder.

"How much you had to go through."

"No they didn't."

"Yes, and with them understanding how you accomplished the things you did, we can in some way hope to keep you safe. To not sacrifice yourself any longer. Subaru, you've done the work, now it's our turn."

They then allowed them go back.

Subaru walked over and was group hugged by everyone minus Deathstroke and Roswaal.

"G-Guys?"

"Subaru-kun...we had no idea that he had to go through something like that. E-Even when Rem was around, you still died."

Rem was clearly crying into his chest, feeling terrible of the occurences that befell her beloved. Emilia put a hand on his cheek.

"Why couldn't you tell us?"

"There were reasons...in one of the times, I told Bruce and, he died."

"He died?"

"Yeah, just fell over and died. I didn't want that happen again, so I left it as is."

"I'm so sorry Subaru...you died for all of us. That's why you knew all those disasters were coming before right? You died over and over to save us…"

Emilia had tears falling down her cheeks. Everyone was giving Subaru a look of understanding. Crusch and her camp seemed to all slightly bow at Subaru. They hadn't imagined that someone had to go through so much suffering to accomplish the things they did, and to learn he died twenty four times to do so, was quite upsetting. Reinhard and Felt couldn't help but look away at their ally and his companions, how they had come to realize what Subaru was capable of, it made the Sword Saint nod to him. Priscilla looked over at Subaru with a curious fascination. Anastasia and Julius were quiet as they both pondered the bravery Subaru had, any other man would have given up and ran away from all the strife he faced, but he bit through it and made out on top.

Julius now truly felt he was worthy of being a knight.

Subaru sighed loudly as he hugged everyone back with his Unseen Hand. Everyone knew it was Subaru even if the couldn't see it.

"Thanks guys, but I did all that so I could live with you all. I wanted Rem and Emilia by my side. I wanted Garfiel and Otto to be safe and sound. I wanted Petra and Beatrice to continue being my friends. I wanted to see Fredrica and Sarah go on to live fulfilling lives. I wanted Ram to show much of her wit. To ride like the wind with Patrasche. For Roswaal to learn something about humility and Slade to actually not be one hundred percent a jerk and to help Bruce as he did for me...I did this cause I love you all!"

Everyone was stunned by his words and they all felt themselves being emotional from it, so they stayed hugging him for quite a while.

The married Subaru returned back to his family, looking down to the ground. Afraid fo how his family would react to his situation. Only to feel Rem hug him tightly.

"Subaru. Subaru. Subaru, my love."

"Rem."

"I love you. I love you, no matter what. I love you. So please...please let Rem help you."

"Rem…"

Subaru held her back and looked back at Batman and Halibel, both of them giving him reassuring nods. Then Spica hugged both of her parents tightly.

"No cry."

"It's okay Spica, we're okay…"

He patted her on the head, just as Rigel looked up at his dad in a bright new light. His goofy antics, his carefree persona...it was all a farce to hide the pain of his troubled past and to keep everyone around him happy. He begrudgingly hugged his dad as well, he didn't say anything...but the gesture alone made Subaru tear up in happiness.

Saia walked over to her group only for Roy to hug her tightly.

"R-Roy?"

"Roy cannot believe Saia-chan died while Roy was around. Roy is a failure as a butler!"

"No, no you're not, things happened and they were outside of our control…"

She patted his back and hugged him. She smiled a bit as she recollected the many times she too was killed, especially in on of the timelines where Roy killed her by accident when they were fighting the Ma-Beast.

"Roy you're my friend, and I did this to protect you and Erick and everyone else I hold dear. So please, don't be so emotional about it."

"Very well Roy understands."

He wiped off any extra tears he had and smiled down at her. She gave her usual wink and smile, comforting everyone on their side. All except Rey and Roswaal, they seemed to be in deep thought about it.

Dr. Fate then informed them all on two matters that had now come to his attention.

"We have completed the medallions, each of these will help identify a Prime Subject in that world, once that happens press the jewel on the middle of it, I will locate your position and bring you back here."

The medallions floated over to several heroes and a few other Camp members, they looked over the golden medallions with a red jewel in the middle. Most pocketed them while others wore them around their necks. Then he placed tips of his fingers together and looked out to everyone.

"Another problem has arisen however."

Constantine himself shuffled himself upright and fixed his suit.

"The two of us lads have been keeping watch over the civilians that came to this world with you. Did a little spectating and found some...wee troubling things."

"What are saying Constantine-sama?"

"Ram, the thing is, we think some of the civilians have been taken away."

He tried to chuckle it off, but everyone now had a serious look on their face. Superman himself flew over to speak with Constantine.

"Are you saying they've been kidnapped?!"

"Yeah, well it's not that simple either."

Dr. Fate floated over and nodded in agreement.

"It appears while most of the civilians were taken to refugee housing or even allowed to return to their homes...several others have been taken away to some sort of facility, specifically those that were in Gotham."

Subaru glanced over and felt himself panic.

"But wait! Kadomon-san and his family were there!"

"They also may have very well been taken."

Subaru was shaking nervously at the thought of that happy family as well as many others, terrified in a world they understood nothing about and being taken away by total strangers...but Batman soon made himself clear.

"Where are they?"

"They are in a secured location outside of Metropolis."

"Who did it…?"

"...Project Cadmus."

"WALLER."

Batman grit his teeth at who was responsible for this, so he looked back at his friends for a few moments.

Back to looking at Dr. Fate, he decided to do the right thing.

"Teleport me there, I'll free them."

"Are you sure of this?"

"Yes, I personally know some of them."

Batman then looked over at the ohters in the mansion.

"The rest of you, go out and bring the Prime Subjects back here to saftey. We still need to prevent more lives from being lost and further more-"

"-Like we'd let you go alone."

Batman was surprised when several of his friends came up next him. Garfiel whacked him across the back and smiled.

"We ain' gonna le' ya go by yourself Bat-aniki, we alway got yo back!"

"Garfiel, this isn't some kind of field trip-"

"-We know tha' dumbass! But nothin you say is gonna stop us from comin' along!"

Batman looked at the party that was willing to come with them.

Garfiel and Frederica nodded proudly at him. Emilia and Rem put their hands on their hips, accerting themselves. Ram and Sarah put up small smiles for him. Deathstroke cracked his knuckles and chuckled.

And Subarand Beatrice put up their usual thumbs up.

Batman groaned at this, but even he knew there was no stopping them.

"Alright, but everyone needs to be careful, this is a secure base we're heading towards, we need to be absolutely cautious."

"Right sir!"

Dr. Fate watched as he spoke to himself.

"He should be in good hands."

Then, Batman turned again and froze when he saw the other person who wanted to tag along.

"Hello father."

"...Son."

Heretic was now face to face with his dad, the both of them not moving an inch. THat was however, until Frederica and Sarah got in front of Bruce, shielding him.

"We know of you! The traitorous son who stabbed his own father."

"Yes, you stay away from him, you've done enough damage already!"

Heretic tilted his head a bit at the two ladies who deeply cared for his father, he chuckled a bit seeing this.

"I see, you really did change, didn't you father?"

"I did."

"It appears for the worst though. You've tied yourself down with all these unnecessary restraints. That's why you're still weak."

Even Subaru was getting upset the way Heretic was talking to him, but Batman shook his head.

"In the past I would have agreed with you, maybe even understand some of what you were saying. But now, I have even more reason to fight, whether it's to keep Subaru or the others safe or to keep them close by...I have gotten stronger for it."

"...Whatever you say then."

Heretic walked by him, still showing he was coming along. Batman clenched his fist, but Frederica slowly held it, calming him down.

Mr. Miracle came to the group as well.

"I would think my expertise would come in handy as well?"

"Thank you, that would help a lot."

Sarah questioned Bruce on why they were bringing along Mricale.

"He is an expert escape artist, if there is anyone who could help us in this sitation it'd be him."

"Yes, I understand."

She bowed politely to him.

"We thank you for assistance, Miracle-sama."

"Oh, um, you're welcome."

Dr. Fate opened the ankh portal as the party made their way to it. Batman had the other version of Beatrice with him, she refused to let him go alone.

"Are you sure Beatrice?"

"Betty will go wherever you go Batman, to do the best in protecting you, I suppose."

"Thanks."

She smiled up at him, making even him surprised to see her smile in such a fashion.

"No...thank you."

But just as they were about to enter the ankh portal, Subaru turned around and raised his fist.

"Okay everyone! Let's do this, we may have things stacked against us, we have a ton of bad guys to fight, but we can do this! We are going to do this! Together we're gonna save these people, kick the asses of everyone in the society and then...we'll eat pizza or something…"

"That brave speech of yours quickly fell apart Barusu."

"I know! I'm not used to talking in front of a bunch of superheroes!"

But suprisingly, everyone else in the room raised their fists high into the air and roared out in appluase.

"It worked…"

Subaru smiled brilliantly as Constantine raised his glass to him.

"Yeah! We're getting pizza after this!"

"THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE CHEERING TO?!"

Subaru scratched his head a bit, before smiling again and looking back at those who were staying behind.

Petra and Otto waved at them.

"Good luck eveyrone!"

"Come back safely!"

Patrasche let out a mighty roar, letting them know she too wanted them back safe.

Subaru slammed his fists together and grinned.

"As of today, this JUSTICE ALLIANCE is going to save the world!"

Batman then nodded in agreement.

"Then let's go! The Justice Alliance will split up into three teams! Ours will be the Infiltration Team, most others will be the Rescue Teams and those staying behind will be the Trauma Team. Everyone, good luck."

The Infiltration Team ran through the portal and it closed.

Soon everyone else split up into teams as they ran through their own portals.

Petra and Otto saw that only a few others stayed behind, including Saia's group, the other Rem and Ram and the Natsuki Family.

"Well, I think I should use my skills as a miad to clean up and make this place look more presentable."

"I guess I should help Constantine and Dr. Fate with whever they need."

Petra walked over to a closet, but when she opened it an overweight mummy with green eyes looked back at her, he pointed at her and began groaning.

"Curse! Cuuuuuurse! Cuuuuuuur-"

"OOPS!"

Constantine slammed the door shut and rubbed the back of his head. Otton squinted his eyes at the owner of the house in question.

"Hahaha! I completely forgot to kick that moocher out. My bad!"

"Constantine-san you are the absolute, WORST!"

Otto rubbed his head as if he was sick of his antics, meanwhile Petra actually gave the grown man a vicious scolding. Everyone around had a good laugh about it.

All except the other Rem, whose eyes were gazing at the other Subaru, with eyes filled with pain.

Subaru and the rest of the infiltration team made it to the outside of a large business structure, they also saw the sign "Project Cadmus" near the entrance, making them glad they made it. Batman then focused as he tossed some sleeping pellets at some guards, they were instantly knocked out and they made their way to an entrance through the side. All of them made sure to be quiet as possible. Heretic saw a guard get to close, so he put him in a headlock covering his mouth and knocked him out.

"Still remeber your training…"

"As if I could forget."

Now they made their way through the shadows, but they soon saw a doorway that needed a password and eye scanner. Subaru then decided to do something about it.

Batman grabbed the guard from behind, and knocked him out with a single punch. Subaru used Fanatical Snatch to get the memories of the code. Then he touched his face and concentrated.

"Seraphic Mimicry."

He touched his face and everyone was surprised that his normally robotic eye changed to look like the guards. Subaru went to the door and let the scanner view his eye and entered the code.

The door opened.

Subaru turned around and showed his eye was back to it's usual cybernetic self.

"Come on, we got some people to save."

They all nodded in agreement and rushed in to rescue the citizens.

From her control room, Amanda Waller knew that Batman and some other people he brought with him were storming the facility. She rubbed her short hair and groaned.

"Of all the people, it had to be Batman."

She then narrowed her eyes and turned her chair around to look better at the group who was standing behind her.

"I brought you all here to make sure they don't get to the holding facilities."

"...And why do we need all these people and animals?"

"We need to find out who these people are, what they are capable of...and of they are a threat to our nation. They say they were brought here unwillingly, but we can't be too sure if they're not part of some invasion force...that's why we'll study them for further research. Know your enemy before you strike, as they say."

She now got up from her chair and aced her hands behind herself in a powerful pose.

"I want you take care of them...by any means necessary."

"Got it."

From the shadows emerged Deadshot, with several other silhouettes behind him. He cocked his rifle, and gripped it tightly.

"Consider it done, Task Force X is on it."

He looked at the footage of them making their way deeper into the facility.

"Coming straight to us huh? Heh, better get this over with…"

The Suicide Squad was now ready to take out the intruders.

And so, our heroes begin the arduous task of saving the innocent and battling against injustice, as the forces around them begin to move as well.