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Protocol: Rebirth
Hollow…
That’s all she feels right now. They were supposed to win like they always do.
But as she looks around at the destruction and unrecognizable corpses around her all she can think of is “they were stupid to think they could win”.
She doesn’t know why he didn’t kill her along with the rest of the league. Maybe he had mercy… No that “thing” couldn’t have mercy.
He wanted her to live out the rest of her moments knowing she wasn’t able to stop him. That no matter what contingency plans she had it would have never been enough.
“If it’s any consolation your world will have a quick death”… That’s what he said to her moments before he left the planet. It was a promise.
“Com-computer” the device on her wrist gauntlet whirs to life and beeps.
Should she do it…?
She saw the white blast first before she heard the shockwave. All she could think of was “he really did it… he kept his promise”.
She didn’t care anymore… she had to do it.
“Act-activate protocol: rebirth”…
Her gauntlet beeps in confirmation.
She did it… there’s no going back no more.
As the blast gets closer and closer all she could think of is her parents. How if they would have been proud or disappointed in her. She was glad they weren’t alive to experience this.
She closes her eyes. A single tear falling. She didn’t want to die…
Pain… the worst imaginable pain you could imagine but infinitely worse
She feels like her atoms are being ripped apart and then…
She feels nothing
She must be dead now…
Then she opens her eyes… she sees her mother and father.
“Isn’t she beautiful Thomas” as her mother says
Her mother looks tired like she’s been in pain for hours.
She can’t move…
she can’t do anything
Then she starts crying… she doesn’t know why
But then it click’s. Her protocol worked… just not in the way she thought it would. She really should have asked Constantine for more information.
But none of that matters anymore… only one thing matters now.
The one who destroyed her world… the one she would do anything to stop.
Even avoid death itself.
…
Darkseid.