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Alert the queen.

Hyah!

Bruce Vayne.

Bruce Wayne.

Talk.

I believe there is a stranger.

Comes to this village from the sea.

He comes in the winter when the people are hungry.

He brings fish.

He comes on the king tide.

That was last night.

You have eyes, so see.

Icebergs in the harbor.

It's four months since the last ship got through.

Well, this stranger doesn't come by ship.

There are enemies coming from far away.

I need warriors.

This stranger, others like him.

I'm building an alliance to defend ourselves.

It's very important that I see this man.

If this stranger exists,

he'll give him your message.

$5,000 American.

Look, I'll give you $25,000

to talk to this man right now, outside.

How dare this dog speak to us like children.

Ooh, magical man from the sea.

We are poor, not stupid.

Get out.

I'm sorry.

Can't do that.

I'll leave after we've spoken.

He said, "Get out."

Arthur Curry.

Also known as Protector of the Oceans.

The Aquaman.

So, let me get this straight.

You do it dressed like a bat? Like an actual bat?

Worked for 20 years in Gotham.

Oh, that shithole.

When the fight comes, we'll need you.

- Don't count on it, Batman. - Why not?

'Cause I don't like you coming here, digging into my business

and getting into my life. I want to be left alone.

Is that why you do this?

Why you help these people out here in the middle of nowhere?

I've read the stories.

Your good deeds you think no one sees.

You'll join us.

"Strong man is strongest alone."

You ever heard that?

You ever hear of Superman?

He died fighting next to me.

My point exactly.

He believed we were stronger together.

We owe it to him.

I don't owe anyone anything.

Dressed like a bat.

You're out of your mind, Bruce Wayne.

Move over, Dusty.

My God, Master Wayne, but this is cold.

Maybe we can catch the next king tide in Jamaica?

Might be a metahuman or two in Fiji.

Costa Rica's nice.

I found him.

He said no.

So the draft stands at naught for two?

Maybe a man who broods in a cave for a living

isn't cut out to be a recruiter. Hmm?

That's $10, please.

Good morning, Miss Lane.

Jerry, hi.

Wow.

You don't miss a day, do you?

Like it here.

Excuse me.

Move!

Move it! Move it!

- No, mate, don't shoot! - Move, move!

Get the fuck over there!

Move! All of ya!

Line them up along the wall.

Keep them quiet.

- Keep quiet! - Shut up! Shut up!

Shut them up too!

We'll be making a statement shortly.

Until then, if I see any movement,

you'll have a lot of dead kids on your hands.

Should I take him?

Hold your fire.

They've got kids in there.

Yeah, he's not bluffing, chief.

St. Brigid's had a school trip today.

Quiet! Shut up!

Down with the modern world.

Back to the Dark Ages.

Quiet!

I said shut your fucking mouth.

Who are you?

The Lasso of Hestia compels you to reveal the truth.

Now, who are you?

We're a small group of reactionary terrorists

who wanna turn back the clock in Europe

- a thousand years. - Boring. Why the hostages?

We have no demands.

We're just stalling the police while we do it.

While you do what?

You're too late. The countdown's already begun.

In a few minutes, four city blocks...

...while the world watches.

No!

Like lambs to the slaughter.

I don't believe it.

Believe it.

Is everyone all right? Are you okay?

Good. It's okay.

It's okay. It's over. You can stand up.

It's all good.

It's over now. Are you okay?

You okay? Good.

Are you okay, princess?

Can I be like you someday?

You can be anything you want to be.

Come on. Let's go.

Any changes today?

No, my Queen.

The Mother Box has awoken,

yet nothing has happened.

It has slept for thousands of years

since the First Age.

Why did it wake at all?

This is the first time it's gone quiet

since the crack appeared.

Maybe it's going back to sleep.

Evil does not sleep.

It waits.

Something is coming.

Prepare for battle!

Amazons, on your marks!

Ready!

Defenders.

They have failed 100,000 worlds.

They always fail.

I've come to enlighten you to the great darkness.

I will bathe in your fear.

Daughters of Themyscira,

show him your fear!

We have no fear!

Gather the legions!

Go with her!

You must seal the cage!

- Go! - Phillipus!

No!

Behind you!

Ahhh!

Epione.

Honor us. It's right.

Seal it.

Ready the hammers!

Seal it now!

Guard it with your life.

- Yes, my Queen. - Keep it moving.

Hyah! Hyah!

Hyah!

Got it! Go!

Hyah!

Oh, noble Queen. Why do you fight?

You can't save her.

You can't save any of them.

The great darkness begins.

Amazons!

Yes, we will find the others.

Draw!

Loose!

He's gone back to his universe.

No.

He's gone to the lands of men

to find the other two boxes.

We have to light the ancient warning fire.

The fire has not burned for 5,000 years.

Men won't know what it means.

Men won't.

She will.

It's toxic.

That's good.

Go!

Follow the scent of the Mother Boxes.

Find the missing two.

Once they are found, The Unity will be formed.

This world will join the others.

He will be pleased.

He will see my worth again.

Hey.

Anything on that kid from the liquor store?

Possibly.

"Possibly."

If I had a dollar for every "possibly."

Yeah, it would make you even more insufferable.

Facial scan might have got a hit on him,

our disappearing man.

One Mr. Barry Allen from Central City.

Might be another false positive,

you'll have to give me a little time

- to confirm. - We don't have any more time.

Master Wayne,

you've been working as if there's no tomorrow

to build this team

of people you can't even find.

I found one. I found two, including Diana.

Just because Lex Luthor says

the planet's in danger of attack?

This has nothing to do with Lex Luthor.

It has to do with him.

I made a promise to him on his grave.

I spent a lot of time trying to divide us.

I need to bring us together and make this right.

Well, it's been some time since Luthor's warning.

No attacks. No barbarians at the gate.

Maybe these barbarians don't use a gate.

Maybe they're already here.

Keep looking. What else do you have?

Lab's all yours, Howard.

11:30.

Early night for you, Silas.

Yes, early night.

Tell your family I said hello.

What the...

Jesus.

The Arrow of Artemis.

It will reach the lands of men.

Sky torch,

hero beacon,

scatter the darkness.

Burn as you burned in days before.

Show her the darkness before the daylight of history.

Warn my daughter that war has come

and protect her.

Return to me, Diana.

What did you do this weekend, Diana?

Nothing very interesting.

That's all you ever tell us.

What can I do? I'm not that exciting.

You might as well disappear when you walk out of here.

Again?

- What is it? - Now what?

Budget cuts, tomb raiders.

Now add to the list "arson."

Yes, good morning

from the isle of Crete.

As you can see behind me,

an enormous bonfire is burning.

This fire has been burning through the night.

We're now into the morning

and we are at least five miles away.

And we can still see it burning as we speak.

This has baffled locals and government authorities alike

here at this historical site

of the so-called shrine of the Amazons.

Now, locals and government officials are baffled as to

- what may have caused this. - Invasion.

Ryan.

- Hiya, Doc. - Is the...

No damage to the electron-laser.

- Uh, Dr. Silas Stone? - Yeah.

- Ryan Choi? - That's us.

Um, who did this? Did they steal anything?

They took whatever was in here.

That? Oh, that wasn't stolen. Was it, Dr. Stone?

No. That was misplaced a while ago.

Object 6-1-9-8-2. Department of Defense Archives.

- Mmm-hmm. - What was it?

I don't know.

You don't know?

I don't know, which was why I was studying it.

What's your rank, Doctor?

Ryan, would you, uh, do the honors?

- Sure. Okay. - Thanks.

Civilian. STARLABS is a private contractor.

We work for the DoD.

We advise them on xeno-science.

"Xeno-science"?

Alien technology.

For example,

the Superman ship.

Eight people

never signed out of the lab last night, Doctor.

Cleaning staff, guards,

a few of your research scientists.

They were abducted.

Are you sure?

Witness saw it all. He escaped.

He's here in quarantine now, working on an ID sketch.

Any idea who or what that might be?

The box isn't safe here.

Victor,

they came looking for it at the lab.

People were taken by some kind of monster or something.

You know a lot about monsters,

don't you?

Especially how to make 'em.

Mayday! Mayday, mayday!

My hull is breached. I'm going down.

Mayday!

Is there anybody out there?

Ahh!

Whiskey.

Tell him to respect the storm next time.

It's on him.

King who would be man.

Son of a human father and Queen of the Seas.

All the time I've wasted

trying to keep the promise I made to your mother.

Are you finished, old man?

You never sleep in the same place twice,

yet you keep coming back here.

I like it. It's quiet.

It's your inheritance.

You're the rightful king of Atlantis.

Our people suffer.

Your people.

A brutal, petty, superstitious race.

Is the surface any different?

Nobody calls me King of the Surface.

What do you want, Vulko?

Guards near the stronghold

have been disappearing.

Snatchers from above.

Talk to King Orm.

- Your brother? - Half-brother.

He's trying to fan the flames of war with the surface.

He lies.

The snatchers have come from the dark place.

They're looking for it.

The Mother Box our people guard is not safe.

Go to the stronghold of Atlantis.

Protect the box.

The time has come.

Take up your mother's trident.

You can't turn your back on the world forever, Arthur.

Above or below.

DeSaad.

DeSaad! I call to thee.

Steppenwolf, have you begun the conquest?

This world is divided.

They are a primitive species.

Unevolved and at war with one another.

Too separate to be one.

Their free will must be ripped from them,

like the other worlds.

Given absolution in one glorious belief,

to serve him.

The Mother Boxes?

I have found one of the three.

The one that woke and called to me.

The other two still sleep,

but the parademons feel their presence.

They fly,

they search, they take prisoners who carry the scent,

while I build a stronghold in the name of his glory.

Yes.

Mighty Steppenwolf,

who might have sat here by the side of the great one.

But undone by his self-pride.

DeSaad...

I fall before you.

Let me make a plea to him

that I may come home

after I take this world in his name.

You betrayed him.

Your own family.

I saw my mistake.

I slaughtered those who sought his throne.

You still owe the great one 50,000 more worlds.

He will hear your plea

when you pay your debt.

The Mother Boxes will be found and united.

No protectors here.

No Lanterns, no Kryptonian.

This world will fall, like all the others.

For Darkseid.

For Darkseid.

You know, I paid millions of dollars

for this building's security.

You got your money's worth.

Took me almost a minute to disable it.

Hi there.

A new toy?

Prototype troop carrier.

I once knew a man

who would have loved to fly it.

The best minds at Wayne Aerospace

couldn't make it fly.

But you can?

I have no choice.

I need more range and I need more cargo.

I think there's an attack coming.

Not coming, Bruce.

It's already here.

From what I've learned,

they are things from another universe.

They serve a dark power.

An old power.

What do they want?

To invade. To conquer.

They came here once before, long ago.

A great armada appeared in the sky,

laying waste to all who opposed it.

The leader of the invaders was a being called Darkseid.

A name cursed and feared in every universe.

Darkseid was met in battle by Earth's defenders.

The old gods, men...

Atlanteans before their descent into the sea...

Amazons before their betrayal and enslavement

and guardians from the stars.

Their histories had taught them

not to trust each other,

not to hope for an alliance.

To fight apart.

As Darkseid waged war on Earth,

he found a secret there.

A power hidden in the infinity of space.

He called forth mystics

who worshipped and controlled three objects...

the Mother Boxes.

Wait, wait, wait.

"Mother Boxes"?

Indestructible living machines,

made from a science so advanced,

it looks like sorcery.

To conquer, three boxes have to synchronize

and join together into The Unity.

The Unity cleanses a planet with fire,

transforming it into a copy of the enemy's world.

All who live become servants of Darkseid.

Alive but drained of life.

Parademons.

Amazons!

With me!

But before The Unity could synchronize,

the defenders of Earth attacked

and fought as one.

Amazons alongside Atlanteans.

Zeus and his son Ares

alongside the guardians from the sky.

A golden Age of Heroes fighting together

to defend life on Earth.

They did what no world had ever done.

Sent the enemies back into the stars.

The three Mother Boxes never synchronized.

The Unity never came to pass.

But, in their retreat,

the boxes were left behind on Earth.

They grew weak. Dogs without masters

falling asleep,

awaiting their return.

Fading from the view of the enemy,

anonymous among a trillion worlds.

The defenders of Earth made a vow.

Men, Atlanteans, and Amazons.

Each would enshrine and guard

one of the three sleeping Mother Boxes

according to the rites and rituals of their culture

in case a box should ever wake again

to call out to the planet Apokolips

to return and conquer

the only world Darkseid had ever lost.

Something woke the box my people guard.

It called out to the dark place...

to one of Darkseid's conquerors.

The enemy is here.

If he's here, where is he?

He'll be searching for the other two boxes.

Hiding until he has all three. Until he's ready.

Then we have to be ready. You, me, the others.

They said the Age of Heroes would never come again.

No, it will.

It has to.

The others. Where are they?

Am I late?

No, I'm so late. I'm very late.

Oh, hey, buddy. Hey.

Oh. No.

Okay, bye. Okay.

I'm so sorry.

I'm late.

- Are you, uh... - I'm...

I'm so sorry I'm so late. I didn't mean to be so late.

I'm me and I'm here and I'm so sorry I'm late.

Essentially, the bus didn't come,

then the bus did come,

but then there was this old woman

counting change for the fare,

like, nickel, penny, nickel, penny.

Like, jeez Louise, let this woman on the bus.

She's 107 years old,

these are some of her last few moments of life.

Resume.

Resume.

Come on.

Come on.

From the French, of course.

"Resume," I believe, is a past participle of...

Uh, wow. That's no good.

It's like, what lives in my pocket, right?

"Paper monster hungry." Uh...

Come on. Supposed to be friends now.

Yes.

Central City College, I'm a criminal justice major.

You said you had experience

walking dogs.

Oh, gosh, I hope everyone's okay.

See, in times of crisis, for dog work,

I always bring a meat snack.

'Cause it makes them feel calm.

'Cause you never know what's going to happen in this city.

I mean, oh, my gosh.

Right? I start on Monday?

You have been near a Mother Box.

The scent is on you.

Where is it?

No son or daughter of Atlantis will ever tell you.

Our people have guarded the Mother Box

for thousands of years.

I will never betray my own people.

You already have.

This was taken in the deepest trench on Earth.

He must be an Atlantean.

A water-breather.

He was breathing air when I talked to him.

Mixed-blood, then.

He said he'll fight with us?

More or less.

More more or more less?

Probably more less.

- He said no? - He said no.

Atlanteans can be tricky.

My people went to war with them once.

I'm not sure we can trust him.

Diana, if we're gonna do this,

you're gonna need to be open

to more things that we didn't...

you know...

- I'm sorry. That's okay. - Sorry. My fault.

Don't worry about it.

- Let's... - It happens.

so...

This is the third person.

Disappears for 1/30 of a second here.

One frame of video, see?

Barry Allen. Central City.

Go to him.

I'll work on number four.

Organic and biomechatronic body parts.

He's a cyborg.

- Ready! - Break!

Three...

eighty...

set... go!

Your son may be captain of the football team

and a certified genius, Mrs. Stone...

Dr. Stone.

...but that doesn't mean he can hack into our system

to change his friend's grades.

Sarah's family lost their house this year.

How could that child pass her classes?

Victor helped her 'cause he's got a good heart.

What did you do to help her?

- Your father... - Mom, Mom, don't.

He got held up at the lab.

Okay. He always does.

He wanted to be here.

You always say that.

Ma, you gotta stop making excuses for him.

You're just as busy as he is, but you still make the time.

He just has difficulty showing it, but...

I know he's proud of you.

We both are, Victor.

Hey, hey, hey.

With everything I know you can do today,

I can't wait to see what you're gonna be tomorrow.

Dr. Stone, I'm sorry,

your wife didn't survive.

I'm afraid your son won't either.

I won't let you die.

I won't allow it.

I won't allow it.

Victor.

Victor, you're not stuck in here.

You still have a life ahead of you.

Your mother would have wanted you to live that life.

If you were there,

Mom would still be alive.

All right, look,

you don't have to give me a second chance,

but give yourself one.

If you can't stand looking at me,

try listening.

What you can do now, Victor.

Your physical strength is just the tip of the iceberg.

The tip of the tip.

In the world of ones and zeroes,

you are the absolute master.

No firewall can stop you.

No encryption can defy you.

We're all at your mercy, Vic.

From our power grids to our telecommunications,

everyone's lives are controlled

and dominated by complex digital networks

that will bend without effort to your will.

The fate of the world

will literally rest in your hands.

Its entire nuclear arsenal,

you could launch with a thought.

The world's monetary systems

and its complex interactions

will seem as easy to manipulate for you

as a child's plaything.

The question... No, the challenge

won't be doing it.

It will be not doing.

Not seeing.

It is the burden of this responsibility

that will define you and who you choose to be.

Now, make a wish.

One more time.

Good job. Wave to Grandma!

Hi, Grandma!

What?

Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God!

Victor...

Victor, these are the words and deductions of a scientist.

That's how I've been speaking to you.

Now,

let me speak to you from my heart, not as a scientist,

as a father.

Hey.

Hey, you!

Because you are holding yourself back.

You're going in circles, man.

Holding down three dead-end jobs,

going on four.

Where do you even find the time?

I make the time.

- I just need one more gig... - Barry.

...then I'm gonna pay for my own tuition.

You can't.

Like I always said I would.

You cannot keep doing this to yourself.

Okay. I really don't wanna talk about this again.

- Please, we have 10 minutes. - And this is all to pay

for a criminal justice degree, huh?

Yeah.

For what?

Huh, let's see. As I talk to my father,

who's still in prison for the murder

of my mother, which he didn't commit.

Yeah, how did I get interested in criminal justice?

I can't remember.

Oh, boy.

This path has clearly chosen me, Dad.

Give me your hand, man.

I want you to listen to me, Barry.

I want you to listen to me, because I mean this.

I want you to give all that up.

And I want you to stop coming to see me.

I am a drag on your life.

Okay. Um...

Please don't ever say that to me again.

Please.

Hey, you know what criminal justice

would be for me?

My son not wasting his life.

You can be whatever you wanna be.

You're brilliant, man.

Absolute best of the best.

I can't sit here and watch you run in place in Central City

for some old dude

who's not going anywhere.

- Dad, that's not true. - It's time.

That's not true.

Let's go, Allen. Allen!

I want you to make your own future.

You're living in the past. Make your own future.

Open gate.

Great.

"You're living in the past. Make your own future, Barry."

Clear. Close the gate.

Barry Allen. Bruce Wayne.

You said that like it explains

why there's a total stranger in my place

sitting in the dark, in my second favorite chair.

Tell me about this.

This is a person who looks exactly like me,

but who is definitely not me.

Somebody... I don't know.

Hippie, long hair.

Very attractive Jewish boy.

Who drinks milk, I don't drink milk.

I know you have abilities.

I just don't know what they are.

My special skills

include viola, web design,

fluent in sign language, gorilla sign language.

Silica-based sand quartz fabric.

Abrasion resistant, heat resistant.

Uh, yeah, I do competitive ice dancing.

It's what they use on the space shuttle

to prevent it from burning up on re-entry.

I do very competitive ice dancing.

Look, man. I don't know who you are,

but whoever you're looking for,

it's not me.

You're the Batman?

So, you're fast.

That feels like an oversimplification.

I'm putting together a team.

People with special abilities.

You see, I believe enemies are coming.

Stop right there. I'm in.

You are?

Just like that?

Yeah.

I need friends.

Great. Great.

Can I keep this?

It's like this layer of dimensional reality,

and it seems to manipulate space-time.

I call it the Speed Force.

Causes me to burn a tremendous amount of calories

so I am just a black hole of snacks.

I am a snack hole.

How many people are on this special fight team?

- Three, including you. - Three?

Against what?

I'll tell you on the plane.

Plane?

What are your superpowers again?

I'm rich.

Oh, Miss Prince, let me do that.

No, that's okay. I can do it myself.

Would you like to have some?

Uh, no, thank you.

If you put the water in first.

- Of course. - So we don't scald the tea.

- Yes. - Great.

No, that's probably enough tea.

All right.

Are you sure you don't wanna have some?

I won't, thank you. And then leave it to mash.

I will. I will, definitely will.

Uh... What are you working on?

It's a gauntlet

lined with specialized polymer solar cells.

- Wow. - Here, let me show you.

We borrowed this from the Kryptonian scout ship.

Oh, maybe you should, uh...

a fraction. Thank you, thank you.

Of course.

Ah.

Ah, now, let's see how that did.

Ha! Yes.

Not to be sneezed at.

A gauntlet that captures and dissipates energy.

It's Master Wayne's idea.

Maybe you should work on a lasso, too?

- In black, of course. - Oh.

All right. Victor Stone.

Something is not working.

Mmm.

Looks like you have a date, Miss Prince.

Why are you looking for me, Diana?

You know who I am.

I know more than you can possibly imagine.

Then maybe you already know I need your help.

The world does.

Fuck the world.

You've obviously been through a great deal.

I can't begin to imagine what.

But whatever happened to you, you have gifts now.

Gifts?

What part of this looks like a gift to you?

We need you, Victor.

And maybe you need us.

I don't need anyone.

Not anymore.

I told myself the same for a long time.

I lost someone I loved once.

I shut myself off from everyone.

But I had to learn to open back up again.

The truth is, I'm still working on it.

And if you asked to meet me...

you're working on it, too.

You were right about the metal sample

from the Superman ship.

When we bombard it with X-rays from the electron-laser,

look what happens.

3.5 million kelvin.

The inner core of the metal becomes superheated.

Hot, dense matter.

You're looking at the hottest thing on Earth.

Exact words I said to my prom date.

She dumped me anyway.

Yeah.

Hey, Doc,

do you think Batman is connected

to the object the CID is looking for?

You know, 6-1-9-8-2?

No...

I don't.

Oh, Victor.

All right! Let's go!

Commissioner Gordon?

Come on!

Your messages.

Hey, hey!

Don't have to see the sky to know it's a full moon.

Half of Gotham's reality-challenged community showed up.

Say they saw flying monsters by the harbor.

You were right, Ma. Police Academy.

What's wrong with dental school?

"Attacked by a flying vampire."

"Looked like a giant bat with huge fangs."

On a possibly related note,

sketch of the suspect in the abductions

at the lab across the harbor.

- Looks like... - I know what it looks like, Crispus.

Come on, you think he fights criminals for 20 years here

and then he goes to Metropolis and kidnaps eight people?

I'll talk to him tonight.

How, Jim?

How do you think?

Silas?

Hey, hey.

Hey, hey!

- Oh, my goodness. - Where's the cyborg?

His name is Victor.

We met, spoke.

Give him time.

You must be Barry. I'm Diana.

Hi, Barry. I'm Diana. That's not right. Great.

- So, this is us. - Yeah, this is us.

Oh!

Awesome! It's the Bat-Signal. That's your...

- Oh, sorry. - That's your signal.

That means we have to go now.

- Yeah, that's what that means. - It's so cool.

Commander Mera, I told the king

the perimeter guards were taken.

He won't send reinforcements.

He says all the reserves are needed in the rebel regions.

He's as shortsighted as he is cruel.

All right, take what men we have left

and form a phalanx around the Mother Box.

You can't escape.

I'm not trying to.

Vulko told me you would come.

The firstborn of beloved Queen Atlanna.

Wait.

Please.

I knew her.

Well, that makes one of us.

My parents died in the wars.

She took me in.

What a saint.

You dare speak of Queen Atlanna that way?

Your queen left me on my father's doorstep

and never gave me another thought.

Your mother left you to save your life.

You cannot imagine how it hurt her.

What it cost her.

But you're not a defenseless child now.

It would have been her responsibility

to follow that monster to the surface and stop him.

Now,

it's yours.

Yes.

Steppenwolf,

tell me what you've learned.

Two boxes found and awake.

With the combined power of the two Mother Boxes,

I've been able to finish the stronghold's defenses.

Where is the third Mother Box?

The parademons sense its presence

and search for the third.

They have taken prisoners

who carry its scent.

Go.

Interrogate the prisoners.

Find the third.

They will tell me what they know,

or I will rip it from them.

How many of you are there?

Not enough.

Dozens of witnesses all over Gotham.

Description matches the suspect

in the Metropolis abductions.

Parademons.

Okay.

The demons must have caught the scent of a Mother Box.

At the lab.

They carried people away to find out what they know.

So the eight may still be alive.

Nine.

Oh.

The head of STARLABS was taken tonight.

Wow, okay. So, another scientist.

So, how do we find him?

There must be a nest nearby.

I plotted all the sightings in Metropolis, Gotham.

No discernable pattern I can see.

The lines on the map don't converge.

On land.

These lead back to Stryker's Island,

between the two cities.

These are air vents.

They all lead down to the tunnel

to a Metropolis project that was abandoned in '29.

The nest could be there.

Uh, is he coming with us now,

because we're not all gonna fit in your car.

I have something bigger.

Do you really think that...

Oh, wow, they just... They really just vanish, huh?

Oh. That's rude.

We're close.

The scent of the enemy.

Of absence.

Darkness.

Death.

Where are we, Alfred?

Stryker's Island.

You should be directly under

the venting tower for the tunnel.

Now look to your left,

you'll see a staircase to the machine room.

Thermal scan shows a cluster of people there.

That's it.

Let's go.

Right. Is there... Is there a plan?

Either of you?

Don't engage alone.

We do this together.

I heard about you.

Didn't think you were real.

I'm real when it's useful.

I grow tired of your silence.

Now tell me, where is the Mother Box?

Please. We have families.

Then you have weakness.

Steppenwolf.

Okay, I'm guessing that's the bad guy.

Good guess.

I'm really, really missing Superman right now.

Circle to the other side.

We'll surround them and surprise him.

You have been near a Mother Box.

The scent is on you.

I don't know what you're talking about.

- Where is it? - Leave him alone!

He... He doesn't know.

Wait, please, please!

You carry the scent, too. But stronger.

I will die before I tell you.

You'll die if you don't.

No!

Victor.

Kill them both.

Ah, Amazon.

But not like your sisters.

Stronger.

Amazon.

Hold!

This one will be mine.

I belong to no one.

Guys, this is not together.

Help get those people out of here.

I'll make sure these things follow me.

Everybody, move!

A little quicker.

- Are you good? - Yeah.

I've got this. Keep moving.

This way.

The energy is dissipating.

My gauntlet worked!

Celebrate later, Alfred. I need the Nightcrawler.

Thought you'd never ask.

Crawler's on the way. Initiating remote mode.

Thank you, Alfred.

Don't mention it.

No!

Whew.

They're safe. Get back to the tunnel.

Tunnel. Right. Aliens, bad guy, sword lady.

My turn.

Catastrophic failure of all systems.

Are you all right, Master Wayne?

Are you all right?

You have the blood of the old gods in you.

You okay?

Mm.

Wasn't sure you'd come.

You're my father.

Go.

No!

Relax, Alfred. I'll take it from here.

Uh, do I know you?

What are we under, right now?

Gotham Harbor.

Who is that?

Come on.

Diana, get on!

What is it?

Show me.

It is here.

On this world.

Sir, you're gonna be in quarantine

for possible alien microbes.

U.S. government protocols require that...

I know the requirements. I wrote them.

It called to him.

The Mother Box.

The one he already has.

He has two. He took the Mother Box from Atlantis.

All he needs now is the lost Box of Men.

If he doesn't already have it.

He doesn't have it.

I do.

Have you finished the conquest?

Not yet, DeSaad.

Then why do you summon me?

I bring news.

Before mighty Darkseid came to the throne,

he searched the universe for the ultimate weapon.

The Anti-Life Equation.

The key to controlling all life

and all will throughout the multiverse.

He found it hidden on a primitive planet, but before...

The story of the defiance is well-known.

I have found the primitive planet.

The world that fought back.

It is Earth.

The Anti-Life Equation is carved

into the surface of this very world.

Are you certain?

I have seen it.

I have looked with my own eyes.

Anti-Life.

My lord.

Oh, Steppenwolf.

My lord, I am but your humble servant.

Can it be true that you have found it?

I have, great one.

The lost world is Earth.

Anti-Life is here.

If it is redemption you seek, find the third box,

synchronize The Unity, and when this world is scorched,

I will come for my great prize.

You will come to Earth?

I have turned 100,000 worlds to dust

looking for Anti-Life.

Looking for those who robbed me of my glory.

I will stride across their bones

and bask in the glow of Anti-Life.

And all of existence

shall be mine.

It shall be so, my master.

So cool.

From the outside, it looks like this building was abandoned.

It wants to fly.

You talk to machines?

I speak to intelligence.

This one's saying she can't fly

because of a software issue,

but I could fix it with a little time.

There's a dark spot in my data stream.

I could feel the other two boxes.

I know they're awake,

but I can't see where they are.

Well, we can't attack unless we know where the base is.

Even if we knew,

I've never seen a being as strong as Steppenwolf.

Maybe one.

Hmm, Superman.

As long as the third box is asleep,

they can't see it, only sense it.

We need to keep moving so they can't catch up.

No. That's just a strategy

to lose more slowly, not to win.

Remind me, are flamethrowers not a thing?

Why don't we just destroy it?

Fire doesn't destroy the boxes.

They're an unknown form of matter.

Oh, they love heat.

They absorb it, hold it in their cores.

Well, you know a lot about these boxes.

Makes you think.

Where'd you find the box, Victor?

Are you trying to say something?

Oh, I'm saying it.

How do we know you're not working for them?

It's a long story.

You got somewhere else to be?

The Nazis found the box

at the end of the Second World War,

buried under an Italian monastery.

The Allies intercepted it on its way to Hitler.

They brought it back to the States in '44.

Unknown object 6-1-9-8-2.

It collected dust in the Pentagon archives

for 70 years

till DoD began to study the Superman ship.

A researcher at STARLABS made a connection

between the ship...

and 6-1-9-8-2.

He understood they were both alien technologies.

Different civilizations,

similar properties.

And though the box had slept for thousands of years,

the researcher formulated a theory on how to awaken it.

And so did.

Then...

I had an accident that should've killed me.

But in an act of desperation or madness,

the researcher harnessed the power of the Mother Box.

He unleashed an alien technology

he didn't fully understand.

He used that power to keep me alive.

Alive...

but turned into this.

The box went back to sleep

and he never returned it.

That researcher was Silas Stone.

My father.

Wait,

your father saved your life with one of these things?

Aren't they psycho murder machines?

They're change machines.

The boxes don't think in terms of healing or killing,

alive or dead.

They rearrange matter at the will of their masters,

regenerate, reinstate.

Reinstate?

A box has the power

to reinstate anterior particle relationships.

So, you mean in the way that particles of matter

can't be created or destroyed,

their relations just transform.

Burn down a house, the particles still exist.

Particles of house become particles of smoke.

Anybody with a match can turn a house to smoke.

But a Mother Box...

...turns smoke back into a house.

I know we're all thinking the same thing right now.

Who's gonna say it? I'm not gonna say it.

Who is it?

Martha.

Hi.

Hi.

I went to the Daily Planet

to finally pick up Clark's things.

I don't know why, nowhere to put them now.

I lost the farm.

I'd been behind on the payments for a while.

Truth is, the house is too big

for me to live in by myself anyway.

Well, you know you're welcome to stay here any time

for as long as you need.

Thank you, Lois. That's very kind.

But I've found a little place that suits me just fine,

right by the diner.

I'm not here for help.

I'm here because

when I saw Mr. Perry, he told me that

you haven't been to work since Clark died.

I can't.

The whole world is mourning.

Grieving over a symbol.

Everywhere I go, everywhere I look, I see that "S."

I hear what people say.

They talk like they knew him.

But they didn't know Clark.

And I can't stop them

and look at them and tell them how proud I am of my son.

You're the only one who knows.

Who feels what I do.

Burdened by a secret on top of grief.

I came all this way because I wanted...

because I wanted to see you.

Tell you...

I understand.

I...

will never love anybody the way that I love your son.

And I just miss him.

I miss him so much.

So do I, sweetheart.

Martha, you know if there's anything you need, I'm here.

There is something you can do for me, honey.

Come back to the living.

The world needs you, too, Lois.

The dead are dead.

The box brought Victor back.

Victor wasn't dead.

Life is either one or zero.

It's to be or not to be. Not both.

Can you operate this box, Victor?

Of course.

But we don't know enough about Kryptonian biology.

There's no telling what's gonna happen.

Okay, but...

I mean, we have to try. Don't we? We have to try.

What do we have to lose?

We cannot try unless we activate the box.

As soon as it wakes up...

...the enemy sees it, comes,

activates The Unity. The end.

So, what we have to lose is the entire planet

to a bunch of genocidal aliens. That's good to know.

Even if Superman could return,

who's to say that he could defeat them?

The Mother Box did.

Victor's father activated a Mother Box

more than a year ago when Superman was still alive.

Didn't call out to Steppenwolf.

None of the boxes did. Not until...

Not until Superman died.

Not until Superman died.

It's like they were afraid of him?

Yes, they were afraid of him.

This is the only way.

There are six, not five. There is no us without him.

Cross this one off the bucket list.

Exhume Superman from the grave. Check.

You know we could do this in a nanosecond, right?

We could.

He was my hero.

All right.

An Amazon working with an Atlantean.

Half-Atlantean.

How many thousands of years since our people spoke?

I don't know. I'm not exactly close to mine.

I hate Atlanteans as much as you Amazons do.

Hate is useless.

Yep.

No, thank you.

You know, my father told me

there's a saying in Atlantis...

"None are taken back from the darkness.

"Not without..."

"Not without giving one up in return."

We say the same thing.

How about that?

Wonder Woman.

What do you think, man?

You think she'd ever go for a younger guy?

She's 5,000 years old, Barry.

Every guy's a younger guy.

Jesus.

Oh, Christ.

Oh, bloody...

Any luck?

If by "luck" you mean

"chance in hell we'll get it flying today,"

then, no. No luck.

It's okay.

It doesn't matter. We're just gonna take the body

to the Kryptonian ship.

It's basically an organic computer.

It can talk directly to the Mother Box.

What? The way it talked to Lex Luthor?

Something like that.

Huh. What could possibly go wrong?

Master Wayne...

you did it!

You put the team together to fight this war.

You've fulfilled your promise.

But to try to do that... I mean...

your guilt's overcome your reason.

Not all the king's horses nor all the king's men...

Alfred, for once, I'm operating strictly on faith,

not on reason.

But if you start playing with this little box of tricks,

I mean, it could be the end of everything.

How do you know your team's strong enough?

If you can't bring down the charging bull,

then don't wave the red cape at it.

You do when it's this red cape.

This red cape charges back.

Okay.

You were right, Dr. Stone. The tests came back negative.

Everyone's clear, including you.

Just to be on the safe side, we swept the entire facility.

Well, thank you, Thomas. That means I'm free to go?

Absolutely.

- Thanks. - Listen up, everyone.

You're all clear. So, gather your things.

If you need more medical attention...

Arthur, yes, your opinion. Less preposterous. Option "A"?

- Definitely not "A." - Okay.

Or... "B"?

Let me see "A" again?

Right. We should get dressed.

I'm always dressed.

ID?

ID.

Aye, aye.

"Aye, aye"?

Okay.

"Okay"? Oh, gee, okay!

Doc!

They let you out of quarantine.

Yeah, I finally got them to listen to reason.

Now, let's take a look and see what progress we've made

with the electron-laser.

We've made some real progress. Let me show you.

Victor, clear this place out.

Done.

Code Red. Contamination breach.

All personnel evacuate immediately.

Bio red five.

The sensor's picking up a microbe of alien origin.

A microbe of alien origin? That doesn't make any sense.

It's gotta be a false alarm.

All right, people, shut it down. Let's go.

- Ryan, we just had it swept. - We have to go, Doc.

Think about it. It's gotta be a false alarm.

- Let's go, Doc. - Think about it.

Full base evacuation! Everyone out!

Look, wait! Wait! Shit!

Remain calm and proceed to the nearest exit.

Attention, all personnel.

Go! Go! Everybody out! Come on! Move!

Move! Come on! Go, go!

Everybody out! Go!

Yes! Gotcha!

Post Commander, this is Dr. Silas Stone, do you read?

- Go ahead, Dr. Stone. - This is a false alarm.

Someone has hacked into the system. We must alert...

Victor.

Dr. Stone, you there? I don't copy.

I was mistaken.

The alarm's legit.

Everybody out. And nobody, I repeat,

nobody comes back inside without my say-so.

Roger that, sir.

Get the civilians out!

Let's go! Let's go!

- Everybody got out okay? - I think so.

- Everybody? - Yes.

This way.

It knows he's here.

Ooh, that's intense.

This is amazing.

This is crazy.

Oh, what? Now it's crazy?

You two lunatics better know what you're doing.

Systems coming online.

Welcome, Victor.

Would you like to assume command?

I'm in.

The ship says the Mother Box is hostile.

I can override the security protocols,

but there's no time to repair all the electrical damage

that Luthor's power surges caused

to the primary capacitors.

English.

There's not enough charge to wake the box.

I might be able to do it.

I mean, I might be able to jump-start it.

I don't like to break this rule,

but when I approach the speed of light, I...

Look, crazy things happen to time,

but if I do it, I create massive electrical power.

I could backtrack, if I can get enough distance,

I can conduct a significant electrical current.

I might be able to wake the box, if that's...

still what we want?

It is. Do it.

Hey, Miss Lane.

Morning.

I didn't think you were coming.

One last time.

I see engines, so this must be the end of the line. So I'm...

I'm in position.

Ready to initiate drop sequence.

The Mother Box is ready.

The ship's begging me not to wake the box.

This action is irreversible.

It's afraid. It knows Steppenwolf will come for it.

We know that already. Continue.

I strongly advise against activation.

Barry, I'm initiating the countdown.

This action is irreversible.

- Five... - Five...

- Five... - Apokoliptian technology

- is hostile. - This is a bad idea.

No, it isn't. Keep going.

Four...

- Four... - Four...

I strongly advise against activation.

- We need to abort, now. - Just do it.

- Three... - Three...

Three...

- Two... - Two...

- Two... - This course is irreversible.

- One. - One.

One.

This action is irreversible.

- Victor? - No.

Go?

The future has taken root in the present.

Get down!

He's back.

Something's wrong. He's scanning us.

What?

Victor?

Victor?

- Shit. - What are you doing?

It's my auto-defense system.

It senses danger.

Victor, no! Victor!

- I can't control it. - Don't!

Kal-El, no!

He's confused. He doesn't know who he is.

Arthur, we need to restrain him.

Kal-El, the last Son of Krypton...

remember who you are.

Tell me who you...

Let's go!

You should probably move.

- You all right? - Yeah.

Get up. Take cover back there. Go.

Please don't make me do this.

Clark.

Clark, no.

Clark.

No.

This world needs you.

Clark.

Clark.

Whoa! Hold your fire! Hold your fire!

Clark.

Please.

Please.

Please.

Just go.

Yeah.

Let's go.

I'm so sorry.

Take cover!

- He's coming. - The Mother Box.

Where is it?

Come on.

Come on.

Attention, security breach detected.

Sector Four, Level Three.

Implement lockdown procedures immediately.

Give me the Mother Box.

No, no, no.

Dad, wait! Don't!

So begins the end.

Victor?

Vic... Whoa, Victor. Are you okay, man? Come on.

Victor?

He's dead.

What?

My father.

I didn't save him. I couldn't.

Oh, my God.

His father's dead 'cause of us.

I told you waking that box was a bad idea.

It wasn't a bad idea.

We needed Superman. We still do.

Well, whatever returned, it isn't Superman.

His body and powers, maybe. But it ain't him.

It is him.

He recognized Lois Lane.

- Who? - The woman he loves.

- He remembers her. - Nah.

He went to her 'cause she wasn't afraid of him.

It's called instinct, Diana.

Wait, where did Steppenwolf go?

He's gone back to his base

to assemble the three boxes.

And we don't know where his base is.

- Or how long until... - Hours.

The boxes synchronize, Unity forms,

we don't get there in time to stop it, the planet dies.

This is not your...

He knew.

He knew, he knew, he knew.

He wasn't trying to destroy the box...

he was trying to superheat it.

He made the core the hottest thing

on Earth outside of a nuclear reactor.

Now, anything that hot would have to...

Blink off the charts

on a thermal imaging system.

Your father sacrificed himself to mark that box.

We have to get back to my lab and use the satellite

to scan the Earth for thermal anomalies.

I'm already on it.

I'm sorry. You have a satellite?

I have six.

Right.

Let's go find the son of a bitch.

You brought us here.

You remembered.

This is home.

You spoke.

Did I not before?

Your mother got behind on the payments.

She never told anyone.

I don't understand.

She's a proud woman, Clark.

Here.

She loved it here.

So did I.

So did I.

Wow!

This is awesome.

Brought some friends.

Oh, gosh, yes! Yes!

Everyone, this is Alfred. I work for him.

- Alfred. - Good day, ma'am.

Oh...

It's badass, Alfred.

Well, I'll put on the tea.

Great.

I don't know where we're gonna find the cups.

There's the Mother Box, right there.

Go to visible spectrum.

Pozharnov.

Ghost city not far from Moscow.

It's been abandoned since

the nuclear accident there 30 years ago.

Not even the army goes in.

Right, it's probably so radioactive

that you grow an extra foot outta your neck.

Not anymore.

He's harvested the radiation to build his base.

Zoom.

What the hell is he building?

The Unity's in there.

We'll attack from above.

Explosives won't separate the boxes,

only strengthen their bond.

What? So we can't blow it up?

Not from the outside.

I want to plug into The Unity, one-on-one.

Fuse with it.

Weaken its bond from the inside

so we can break it back into three.

No, you don't know what you'd be up against.

You'd have to stream into The Unity by yourself.

These boxes together are world destroyers.

A billion years old.

They'll get inside you and find your weaknesses

and your fears, and use them to destroy you.

Just get me in and get me time.

You could die, Victor.

If I don't, we all die. Period.

I got nothing left.

You wanted me to use these gifts, right?

That's what I'm gonna do.

Okay. So...

if Victor wants to try to save the world

by fusing with the doom boxes,

I say we put him in the doom boxes.

But getting him in means attacking that base.

Fighting the devil and his army

in hell.

I mean, this guy's probably fought

hundreds of thousands of other superbeings

on the other planets he's destroyed, right?

And we have to assume he's won.

I don't care how many demons he's fought

in how many hells...

he's never fought us. Not us united.

Take that as a "yes."

What?

The ring.

You're really back.

I have a second chance, Lo.

And I am not gonna waste it.

Are you really you?

I'm really me, Ma.

Listen, Ma.

They wanted me back for a reason.

I need to find out why.

How's Victor doing?

You know, wanted to be by himself.

We're asking a kid who just lost his father

to go up against the most powerful machines

in the universe.

It's not fair.

I thought you didn't care?

I never said that.

What is it?

Uh...

I had a dream, like, I don't know,

almost like a premonition.

It was the end of the world

and Barry Allen was right here

and he said to me, "Lois Lane is the key."

She is... to Superman.

Every heart has one.

I think it's something more.

Something darker.

Master Wayne.

Master Wayne!

You need to see this.

You fixed it.

It wanted to fly.

Flight is its nature.

Yours, too.

He'll be here, Alfred, I know it.

What makes you so sure?

Faith, Alfred. Faith.

At last.

Prepare for his arrival.

My redemption is nigh.

Unite.

Synchronize.

The satellites revealed

he's created a defensive dome.

It's a design flaw.

Take out the tower, the dome will fall.

The enemy never anticipated a frontal assault.

Right, probably 'cause he didn't think

anyone would be that nuts.

Bruce is right.

We've got to destroy the defensive dome

so we can reach The Unity before it synchronizes.

What if the dome's not destroyed?

It'll be destroyed.

Once Victor is linked with The Unity

with Barry's help,

he'll break through The Unity's defenses.

Remind me, how's that again?

Uh, with the power of love.

- Barry. - With a catastrophic energy surge.

Good.

You'll have to run faster than you've ever attempted

to generate a charge of that size.

And then you make physical contact with Victor.

That force should propel him inside The Unity.

And, Victor, it's all up to you.

Take it apart from the inside before it synchronizes.

Whew. We actually finally have a plan.

We have a plan.

The symbol of the house of El means hope.

Embodied within that hope is the fundamental belief

in the potential of every person to be a force for good.

Clark...

That's what you can bring them.

...you were sent here for a reason.

You will give the people of Earth

an ideal to strive towards.

And even if it takes you

the rest of your life,

you owe it to yourself to find out what that reason is.

They will stumble, they will fall.

You're gonna have to make a choice.

They will join you in the sun, Kal.

A choice of whether to stand proud

in front of the human race or not.

You will help them accomplish wonders.

All the hopes and dreams of Krypton live in you now.

I'm so proud of you, son.

Your mother and I loved you.

Your mother and I knew

you would change the world.

Your heart was tested.

I know it's been hard, Clark.

But you gave hope to their world.

You need to show them who you are.

Love them, Kal.

The way we loved you.

Fly, son.

It's time.

I'm gonna take out that tower

and knock down that shield dome.

Whatever you see,

stick to the plan.

It's why I brought you together.

Bruce, pull back. You're not gonna make it.

Just have to knock a little louder.

Kill him!

Get to the carriage. Defend The Unity.

Oh, shit.

The tower's down.

Do you read me?

Uh, yeah, loud and clear.

Are you okay?

Bruce? Bruce?

Get to the reactor.

I'll lure as many of these monsters

- away from you as I can. - What does that mean?

Don't worry about me. Get to The Unity.

They're here.

Bruce?

Comm went dead.

Let's go.

Come on, follow me, you damn insects.

Critical damage.

You really are outta your mind.

You're welcome.

My man.

Yeah, we got this.

You go do your thing.

I'm assuming you're Alfred.

Master Kent.

He said you'd come.

Now, let's hope you're not too late.

Hey!

Remember me?

Round two?

Hell yeah.

Shall we?

Tell me, Amazon,

why did you abandon your own sisters

only to cast your lot with these creatures

clinging to their puny lives?

You weren't there to protect them from me.

And, sadly, you could have.

Barry, I'm in position.

Okay. I built the charge.

You call it.

Barry, on one.

Three, two...

Get the hell off me!

Victor!

Victor!

I watched your island burn,

your sisters begging for their lives.

As did your mother.

Liar.

I can't maintain this!

Victor!

Victor, I can't hold this!

For Darkseid.

Not impressed.

All right.

Kal-El.

Barry, I'm connected to The Unity.

I need the charge to get inside.

Barry?

Barry, are you okay?

Barry!

I got the wind knocked out of me.

Need a few seconds, that's all!

Barry, where are you? It's almost synchronized!

Okay, okay.

Oh, my God. Gotta heal, Barry.

Heal. Heal.

Barry!

It's too late.

Oh, no.

He's here!

Okay.

Just gotta go faster than the speed of light.

Far beyond the speed of light.

You gotta break the rule, Barry,

and you gotta do it now.

Dad...

whatever happens, I want you to know

your kid was one of them, Dad.

One of the best of the best.

Make your own future.

Make your own past.

It's all right now.

We've been waiting for you, Victor.

My broken boy.

You don't have to be alone anymore.

We'll be together again.

we can put it back, Vic.

Make you whole again.

I'm not broken.

And I'm not alone.

Superman!

I told you

Steppenwolf would fail.

Yes. Yes, you did.

My master,

now that the Mother Boxes have been destroyed,

how will you retrieve your great prize?

Anti-Life is found, DeSaad.

And we will stop at nothing to possess it.

Ready the armada.

We will use the old ways.

Your father twice over.

Now, let me speak to you from my heart,

not as a scientist,

as a father.

Your father twice over.

I brought you into the world and back to it.

You can't imagine how proud I am of who you are.

Have always been.

So many years with you I wasted.

So many wrongs I've left un-righted.

Everything breaks, Victor.

Everything changes.

I gotta go see my father.

The world is hurt.

Broken.

Unexchangeable.

Ship's all yours now, kid.

You're the boss.

"Ryan Choi, Director of Nanotechnology."

That's your thing.

Uh, yep.

That's my thing.

But the world's not fixed in the past,

only the future.

The not yet. The now.

Wow. Must be 100, 150 feet.

Must be.

Big round table.

Six chairs, right there.

But room for more.

But room for more.

God help us.

The now is you.

What?

It's actually the worst job you can get in a crime lab.

But, uh, my foot's in the door.

This is like a "job" job?

"Job" job.

Your foot's in the door.

Isn't that a thing people say?

Your foot's in the door.

Yeah, that's something people say, man.

His foot's in the door!

- That's my boy, right there! - Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh.

Taught him nothing he knows.

- Yes! - Dad, you're gonna

get maced again.

No stopping you now.

Thanks, Dad.

Now.

Now's your time, Victor, to rise.

"Thank you" is not enough for what you did.

I just undid a mistake, that's all.

How did you get the house back from the bank?

I bought the bank.

Congratulations, by the way.

Do this. Be this.

The man I never was. The hero you are.

Take your place among the brave ones.

The ones that were, that are, that are yet to be.

It's time you stand,

fight,

discover,

heal, love,

win.

The time

is now.

Ready?

Come on, Stevens.

All right, let's keep it moving.

Keep going.

Come on, Luthor. Let's go.

Luthor.

Open up two, Carl, please.

Luthor.

All right, stop jerking around, Luthor,

or I'm gonna have to come in there.

Ah, there he is.

Welcome aboard.

Care for a glass of Gout de Diamants?

I was just celebrating God's return.

Out of the ground and back up into the sky.

I heard you were a few clowns short of a circus.

I was, thank you,

until the good doctors at Arkham helped me

find some much needed clarity.

Now, you volunteered to destroy the bat

free of charge.

Why the pro bono work?

It's personal.

Ah, let me guess, an eye for an eye?

You said you had something I'd want?

You'd better not be wasting my time.

Ooh. And endure your wrath, Mr. Wilson?

No, I wouldn't think of it.

Uh, I have too much to live for.

And more important things to do.

But if you want the Batman,

here is something that can help you.

His name is Bruce Wayne.

Hmm. On second thought,

we do have something to celebrate.

Good boy.

Clear.

How much further?

We're almost there.

Well, we need to hurry.

We can't be out in the open much longer.

He'll come for us.

Let him come.

Let the bastard come.

I'll stab this through his heart

for what he did to Arthur.

I want to make him pay.

I understand how you feel, Mera.

You have no idea how I feel.

But we have to stick to the plan

to have any chance to make this right.

Who have you ever loved?

Au contraire, my little fish stick.

He knows exactly what it's like

to lose someone he loves.

You know, like, uh,

a father,

like a mother.

Be very careful with the next thing you say.

Like an adopted son.

Isn't that right,

Batman?

Maybe, in a way,

that smelly old flounder is right.

Because how many can die in your arms

before you grow numb to death?

That's not very careful.

And how many dead eyes can you look into

before you die inside yourself?

I've been dead inside a long time,

but even I have a limit.

And if you cross that line, I swear to God, I will...

Before what, Bruce? Kill me?

You won't kill me.

I'm your best friend.

Besides, who's gonna give you a reach-around?

Anyway,

you need me.

You

need me to help you undo this world

you created by letting her die.

Poor Lois.

How she suffered so!

I often wonder

how many alternate timelines

do you destroy the world because...

frankly, you don't have

the cojones to die yourself.

Hmm?

So, as usual,

I'll be the bigger man.

A truce,

Bruce.

As long as you have this card, a truce.

But all you have to do

is tear it in half

and I'm happy to discuss with you

in any way you like, why you sent the Boy Wonder

to do a man's job?

You know, it's funny

that you would talk about people

who died in my arms

because when I held Harley Quinn

and she was bleeding and dying,

she begged me with her last breath

that when I killed you,

and make no mistake, I will fucking kill you...

that I'd do it slow.

I'm gonna honor that promise.

Oh. You're good.

You almost had me.

Where are we holing up?

Somewhere he'll never suspect.

Still think it was a good idea bringing him along?

What do you think?

He's found us.

Can I help you?

I'm sure you know Darkseid is not finished with Earth.

The Anti-Life Equation is here somewhere.

We have to find it before he does.

There's a war coming.

And I'm here to help.

I'm sorry, who are you again?

I've gone by many names

and taken many forms. And like you,

I've realized I have a stake in this world

and it's time I started fighting for it.

Oh.

Well, we could definitely use the help.

So, glad you're here.

You know, I never thought

I'd see the defenders of Earth

united and fighting as one.

It wouldn't have happened without you, Bruce.

Your mother and father would be proud.

I hope so.

Well, I'll be in touch.

Oh, and some have called me

the Martian Manhunter.

I guess I'll see you around.

- Synced and corrected by mrcjnthn -