What an intense ride from start to finish. The fear level was through the roof for the entirety of the previous chapter, and you could feel Kira's fear. The girl's just been put through literal hell and very nearly got killed twice in one day, first by Twilight and then by the Squad. If she makes it out of this upcoming fight then she deserves the longest break of her life. But that's assuming she makes it out. It's time for the big battle to get underway. Cry and his team, plus the vigilantes taking on the Injustice Squad, now with their new members. It won't be easy for either side. Enjoy!

-POV: Third Person-

Every hero, vigilante, and villain spread out around the empty warehouse floor, each seeming to choose an opponent or two for the soon to be bloodbath. The only two to not move at all were Cry and Markus as they stayed locked on one another. Cry wanting payback for what Markus did to his mother, Wrath Queen, and Markus taking him on because he knew he was the biggest threat.

"So, if you said I did something to your dear old mom, then that must mean you're the son of that bitch, Wrath Queen, am I right?" Markus asked him as Cry cracked his neck and shot a deathly glare. 

"Yes. You are. And I will let you know this now. My name is Tenshonoma Cryshiki. You put my mother into a god damn coma. She trained me to never take a life, to be a real hero. But just this once, I will forget what she taught me." Cry said as his veins began to glow and he went running for Markus. 

Meanwhile, others had already begun to fight. The villains Jade and Ping stood against Holly, both holding knives as Holly cracked all 6 of her fists. 

"The itsy bitsy spider came all the way here to die. God, you are one ugly motherfu-" Jade tried to say as Holly suddenly snapped and shot her super sticky webbing from her back, controlling it with her arms and plastering it right onto Jade's mouth. 

"Sorry, I didn't quite get that. Wanna try again?" Holly jokingly asked as Jade struggled to get the webbing off her face, now using her knife to try and cut it off. Holly then used more weapon to snatch Ping's knife from his hand and throw it away. 

"What now, Wheels? Gonna try and run me over?" Holly taunted to the wheelchair bound villain as he started to move his way towards her.

"I thought you kids were taught to not underestimate opponents. And who ever said I needed a knife to beat you into a bloody pulp?" Ping said as he approached Holly. And when he got within striking distance, he suddenly raised himself up into a handstand using the arms of his wheelchair. The, like a break dancer, he began to twirl his disabled legs around, bombarding Holly with a flurry of quick kicks.

"Ya like that!? Ya like that!? Have some more!" Ping shouted as he then did a front flip, taking his wheelchair with him as he swung it over his head, smashing the back of the chair against Holly's head as he landed on his butt. Holly stumbled back, her head bleeding a bit as she tried to regain her senses. 

"What the hell is up with this dude?" Holly questioned as Ping lifted himself back onto his wheelchair. 

"Ah, jeez, finally!" Jade shouted as she'd finally cut away the webbing on her mouth. 

"Decent quirk you've got there, girl. Now let me show you mine!" Jade shouted as she took in a deep breath and exhaled in bright green smoke. 

"Don't breath that gas in! It'll paralyze you!!" Holly heard Kira shout to her as she quickly covered up her mouth and nose as she then became engulfed by the gas. It acted as a sort of smokescreen for Jade too as her green skin blended in with it. 

"What now, little spider? Can't see, can't breathe. All you can do is wait for me..... to strike!!!" Jade shouted as she came leaping through the smoke, thrusting her knife right for Holly's back. But Holly was able to predict this, as most villains try to stab the back, so she reached back with 4 of her arms, grabbed onto the knife and Jade's arm and threw her over her head and into the ground in front of her. 

"She must be immune to the effects of her gas if she's breathing it in casually." Holly thought to herself as she was now running out of air. She unfortunately had to leave Jade there and rush out of the gas so she could breathe once more. And as she gasped for air, Jade inhaled all the gas back into her as she got back up to her feet. Her and Ping got back together and began to approach Holly. 

"Even just these two are deadly..... I don't know if I can beat them on my own...." Holly said as her fight was only just beginning. 

All the way on the other side of the room, Kira was currently dealing with Molly who seemed to make it her personal mission to kill her. 

"God damn it, stay still, pretty girl!" Molly roared in anger as she shot fluff from her hands at Kira. She used her intangibility to evade it, but using it too much begins to exhaust the poor ghost girl. And with all her experiences earlier in the day, she was already nearing her limit. 

"Oh just shut up, asshole. And take off that dumb coat, it looks trash on you." Kira said to Molly as the Fluff girl became enraged, letting out a scream as she began to form more Fluff from all over her body. 

"Let's see you get away from this!!" Molly shouted as she molded the shape of her Fluff so she was now in a huge ball of it. Easily 20ft in diameter, Molly began to roll inside it, heading right for Kira who turned and ran away.

"If she's inside it, then she can catch me if she catches up and then i'll get stuck in there!" Kira thought as she went right for the nearest wall. 

"I'm coming for ya!!!" Molly shouted with a maniacal laugh as she was gaining on Kira. 

"Hurry! Hurry! HURRY!!!" Kira thought as she came up to the wall and activated her intangibility. She ran right through the wall and then stopped about 10ft outside. She looked back and saw the wall crack a bit, most likely from Molly smashing into it.

"Get back here!!!" She heard Molly shout as she then came right through the wall, breaking it down and continuing to roll for her in her giant Fluff ball. 

"Oh, you've got to be kidding me!!" Kira said as she tried to run around the ball. It took longer for Molly to turn it around so Kira had the time to run past and back into the building. She ran up a flight of stairs that were near her, going all the way to the top and stopping to see if Molly could follow her up. Molly then came rolling back into the building and absorbed all her Fluff back into her body. 

"Pretty girl, it looks like you found my one weakness. Some frickin' stairs. I can't go up them when i'm in a ball like that. So, i'll just have to come up their and shove my Fluffy fist down your throat like I was gonna do before!" Molly said as she ran up the stairs, the two clashing on a catwalk above everyone else. 

Back on the ground, Pein was facing Shield in a fist fight. But with Pein knowing some forms of martial arts, he had the advantage up close. 

"Eat this, you bastard!" Pein shouted as he smashed Shield in the jaw with a flip-kick, sending the crazy villain flying back in the air. But Shield managed to land on his feet and wipe away a bit of blood from his lower lip. 

"I've never fought a vigilante before. I hear people like you are kinda like heroes who make your own rules. That sounds so very interesting to me. And you can actually fight too. Oh, this is gonna be so much fun!!" Shield said as he activated his quirk, creating two light blue spheres on his hands. He separated his arms as far apart as he could, creating two barriers on either side of Pein. 

"Get squished, like a tiny bug!!" Shield yelled with an insane laugh as the two walls came together to try and crush Pein in between them.

"Like hell you're gonna get anyone with that lame of an attack." Pein said as he easily jumped up and over the barriers as they came together. He landed back on the ground safely as Shield began to laugh even more. 

"Something funny? Or do you just have too many screws lose?" Pein asked him. 

"Yeah, there's a couple missing. But that's not the point. The point is how stupid you are! I wanted you to avoid that attack so you'd lower your guard! And now you're right where I want you, vigilante!!" Shield said as he closed his fists, creating a barrier dome around Pein. 

"Shit!" Pein shouted as he tried to punch the barrier, but he couldn't even scratch or crack it whatsoever. 

"No point in trying to bust out. My barriers are impenetrable. Nothing's gonna bust through 'em!" Shield roared with pride as Pein looked over to Twilight who was busy fighting. 

"Maybe I don't have to bust out." Pein said as he raised his left arm up, aiming it at his partner and focusing his quirk on her. He could feel all the pain of her bad memories and he raised his right arm up, pointed it at Shield and began to channel all that pain onto him. And at the same time, Shield began to shrink the dome trapping Pein, threatening to crush him inside it.

"Tick tock, idiot!! Just a matter.... of...... AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!" Shield screamed as all the pain began to set in on his mind.

The two kept on using their quirks, the dome getting smaller as Pein was forced down to his knees, and Shield trying everything to resist the pain and keep up his assault. 

"RAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! I AM NOT GONNA-" Shield roared as he suddenly went dead quiet. Blood started to run down his nose as his hands opened up and he fell flat on his back. His dome disappeared and allowed Pein to stand up again who ran over to inspect his now unconscious enemy. 

"'Bout time you shut up." Pein said as he checked for a pulse, feeling it and ensuring he didn't kill the insane villain. 

Meanwhile, near one of the corners of the building, Amelia was struggling against her opponents. Both Daina and Jake were keeping her pinned with close and long range attacks. If Daina got too close, she could squash her with her quirk, but if she ran too far and stopped using her quirk, Jake would just shoot her. 

"I want some revenge for what that flame kid did to me when we fought in the forest. That stung like a bitch, you know. And it would make me oh so happy to watch as I crush him into atoms. But since he's not here, i'll take it all out on the other person who was with him. Little Amelia, I have waited for this day to kill you with my own two hands." Daina said as she lunged for the diamond girl. 

"Not gonna happen!" Amelia shouted as she took a deep breath and activated her quirk. She sidestepped to her right and avoided Daina touching her, but this only lead into being fired at by Jake, who had turned his hands into assault rifles. 

"Daina, i'll keep her in one place, you get in there and kill 'er!" Jake shouted as he would swap to different guns when he ran out of ammunition. 

"How the hell am I supposed to get close to her without getting shot!?" Daina shouted to her subordinate. 

"Relax, i'll hold up when you get in there!" Jake shouted as Amelia starting pushing her way towards the gunman. 

"If I can knock him out, then i'll be able to actually fight back against Daina." Amelia thought to herself as she put on her oxygen mask, allowing her to hold her diamond form for longer periods of time. 

"Aim for that tank on her hip!" Daina shouted to Jake as he swapped his right hand into the barrel of a sniper rifle. He took aim and fired at Amelia, hitting her lower left chest just above that tank. He may have missed but the shot was still strong enough to crack her diamond skin a bit. He tried several times but the recoil proved too much as Amelia was able to come right up to him. 

"Time to get rid of these!" Amelia roared as she reached out with her hands and covered up the barrels of his hand guns. Jake still fired though, but it resulted in the ends exploding and sending him sliding across the floor. And when Jake stopped, he wasn't moving whatsoever. 

"Little brat! You forget about someone!?" Daina shouted as she came up behind Amelia and grabbed her right arm and head. She began to compress Amelia down, her diamond skin cracking in the process as Amelia attempted to reach behind to get her off. 

"I'm not lettin' you do this to me again, bitch!!" Amelia roared with anger as she whipped her diamond head back, smashing the back of it into Daina's face. Daina let go and stumbled back, holding her bloody face as Amelia turned and ran at her. Daina attempted to reach out and touch her again but Amelia dodged her hand and grabbed a hold of her arm. Amelia yanked it straight out with her right hand and then smashed Daina's elbow upward with her left. A very loud *CRACK* sound filled the building as Daina screamed in pain. 

"That's for ruining our forest training...." Amelia said as she let go of Daina and watched her collapse to her knees and shuffle away into a corner. 

"Get away from me....." Daina said, holding her right arm which was bending the wrong way. 

"I don't think so. Because i'm the one who's gonna arr-" Amelia tried to say as a rocket suddenly struck her, sending her flying across the room, landing near the center. Her quirk deactivated as she remained motionless. She still breathed but the blast from the rocket had rendered her incapacitated.

"Could you have done that before she broke my arm?" Daina asked Jake as she looked over to see him standing again, his right arm in the shape of an RPG.

"Had to swap weapons and line up my shot right, otherwise I could've hit you." Jake said as he walked over and helped her up. 

"Looks like she's out. That's one down. Let's go help the boss." Daina said as the two of them went to assist their leader who was still locked in a duel with Cry. 

Over by the entrance to the building, Stacy's hands were currently full as she was dealing with Gregory. 

"And what exactly can you do, my horned female?" Gregory asked as Stacy pulled out a slingshot she kept strapped to her right waist. 

"Give me a sec and i'll show ya!" Stacy replied as she took out a capsule of gunpowder from her belt and put it in the slingshot. She took aim and then fired, Gregory choosing to let it hit him. The capsule broke apart on contact and the powder scattered everywhere. 

"Is that it? I barely even felt that impact. Some hero you are. Let me show you what a real quick is capable of." Gregory said as Stacy tried to use her heated breath to ignite the powder. But Gregory stopped her with his quirk first, stopping her as he made her freeze in place. 

"My, what a sexy and sleek costume you've designed. It goes well with your red skin and grey hair." Gregory said as he approached Stacy, coming right up to her. He began to pinch her cheeks and inspect her limbs before looking her right in the eyes. 

"You are a remarkable specimen. I would enjoy it very much if I could use you in one of my experiments. In fact, let's begin. I'll cut you open right now...." Gregory said as he pulled out a switch blade from his tuxedo. He began to slowly cut at the skin of Stacy's right arm and Stacy, who couldn't even speak, let out grunts of pain. 

"MMMMMMMPH!!!" She mumbled as Gregory pulled his blade back for a moment. 

"What's that, dear? You have something to say? Alright, i'll bite. Let's hear it." Gregory said as he let up on his quirk a bit, allowing Stacy's blood to flow normally through to her head, giving her free movement and speech again with it. 

"HA! IDIOT!!!" Stacy roared as she inhaled and then quickly exhaled her heated breath, directly hitting Gregory and igniting the gunpowder that had been scattered all over him before. Gregory was engulfed in a small explosion which also blasted away Stacy, smashing her against a wall as she was also freed from Gregory's quirk. 

"Don't think i'm just a pretty face, dumbass..." Stacy said as she slowly stood back up, her back in a bit of pain from hitting the wall.

"Couldn't just let me have my way with you. You just had to go and resist...." Gregory said as he came walking out of the smoke, his suit burned a bit and parts of his face charred from the blast. 

"He took that!? How!? That was like having a grenade blow up in your face!?" Stacy thought in complete disbelief. 

"You see, I didn't have time to manipulated your blood again, so I did it to mine. I hardened my blood flow, increasing the mass of my muscles and allowing me to take much greater hits that would knock out a normal person. Believe me, your attack hurt, but it wasn't near enough to deal with me." Gregory explained as he took control of Stacy once more, freezing her and making her float up into the air. 

"How does this feel!?" Gregory roared with fury as he waved his right arm around, making Stacy fly around the room getting smashed into multiple walls. She let out so many grunts of pain until Gregory whipped his arm behind him, sending Stacy flying across the room and crashing into the ground near where Amelia laid. Now, both laid on their backs, motionless. 

Near where Gregory was, Asami and Killer were duking it out. The two had been in a fist fight for a while now, and Killer had used his quirk so long against Asami that she'd now adapted to it. Her vision, hearing, and smell was cut off either partially or entirely, but since her quirk let her adapt after 5 minutes, it basically made her return to normal. 

"That cap on your head. You from one of those schools in Japan?" Killer asked his opponent as he put on some brass knuckles. 

"That's right. I represent the mighty Shiketsu High. No villain shall defeat us ever." Asami said with pride as she started sprinting for Killer. 

"That's it, come right in close so I can knock that dumb hat off your head." Killer said as he reeled back his right arm. When Asami got in close, he through a straight punch at her, but Asami dodged by front flipping over him and landing right behind him. She then spun around and delivered a strong roundhouse kick to the back of Killer's head, making him stumble forward but still standing. 

"Little acrobatic, aren't ya? That's real annoying, you know." Killer said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"There's more where that came from if you want to continue." Asami said as Killer began to move in. 

"Yeah, nothing you can do will get me to say "stop." So come on, hot stuff. Show me your moves." Killer said as Asami leaped for him, doing a front flip which turned into an axe-kick from above. 

"Not bad, but too slow!" Killer said as he reached out and caught the heel of the leg Asami was kicking with. He then pulled her in close, reeled back his free arm and drove his brass knuckles into her face. He smashed her against the ground in front of him but Asami wasn't knocked out yet. She was still moving and was attempting to get back up. 

"No, no, I didn't say you could stand again. You stay down there until I say so!" Killer shouted as he began to stomp on Asami over and over again, hitting her legs, back, arms and her head several times until she was covered in her own blood. 

"There.....just how I like 'em. Bruised and bloody." Killer said as Asami nearly coughed up a lung, spitting up a bunch of blood as she breathed very heavily. 

"Still ticking, eh? Maybe one more will finish this for good!" Killer said as he raised up his right boot once more and stomped down on her head, smashing it against the concrete floor and cracking it a bit as Asami lost consciousness. She was still breathing, but was now defenseless and losing buckets of blood. 

"Now, let's just put you over with the others so we can deal with you later." Killer said as he picked up Asami by her neck and threw her over to where Stacy and Amelia laid. 

All the way across the building, Twilight and Poppy were still locked in combat. Twilight attempted to shoot Poppy with all the ammo she had in the one gun she had left, but she couldn't land any of her ammo types on Poppy at all who flew through the air like the wind itself.

"Hahaha! You couldn't hit me even if I was flying with my eyes closed!" Poppy taunted Twilight as she ran out of ammo in her current clip. She went to reload but Poppy used the opportunity to swoop down and strike.

"I'm gonna tear out your insides!" Poppy shouted as Twilight realized she couldn't reload in time. Soshe turned and ran away, pulling out a clip of taser shots. She inserted it into her pulse gun and stopped to turn and take aim. But Poppy was gone, no longer chasing her. 

"What the? Where'd that flying rat go?" Twilight questioned as, from the corner of her eye, she saw some dust drop from above. She looked up and saw Poppy dropping down on her, letting out a high pitched screech at Twilight tried to aim up and shoot. But Poppy smacked into her first and flattened her down onto the ground. 

"Get..... off!!!" Twilight shouted as she went to aim her gun with her right arm. But Poppy stepped down onto it with one of her talons so she couldn't. But in that moment, Twilight reached out with her left arm and grabbed her visor, putting it back on her face before Poppy pinned her other arm down with her other talon. 

"I've never actually eaten a person before. But I do still enjoy pecking and tearing them apart with my owl features. A vigilante is special too. Don't see 'em too often. I wonder if you'll scream any different from my other victims?" Poppy questioned as she moved in to start pecking at Twilight's neck. But something made her stop first. 

"Ooooh, it's no fun if I can't see the light leave our eyes. Let's just take off that dumb visor of yours before we begin." Poppy said as she reached down to pull off the visor. 

"Visor Removal Protection: Activate!" Twilight shouted as her visor became electrified on its outer layer. And as Poppy placed her right hand down on it, she received a tremendous shock that made her jump back, screeching in pain as her hand was smoking. In fact, she was in so much pain that she fell down to her butt. 

"I've spent a long time creating an arsenal that no villain can predict. Gives me the edge over them in nearly any encounter. And it seems I've still got that edge now. Goodnight, little birdy." Twilight said as she sat up and fired a taser bullet right into Poppy's chest. Poppy screeched once more, getting an even more intense shock before fainting and collapsing. 

As every battle either dragged on or came to its end, two fighters were nowhere near from stopping yet. Cry and Markus still clashed, taking blow after blow with neither staying down.  Cry had been blasted and battered by Markus' Crush quirk over 9 times now, suffering from cracked ribs, a fractured left forearm, and a minor concussion. And Markus had suffered several burns from both fire and lightning, a couple of stab wounds, and even being crushed under 10x normal gravity.

"Why won't you just die!?" Markus shouted as he coughed up a bit of blood. 

"Because I have a reason to keep on fighting!! I'm fighting to avenge the woman you put into a coma! My mother, Wrath Queen!! And i'll do what she could not!!! I'll take you down right here and now!!! Ultimate Move: O2 Discharge!!" Cry shouted as he created the bubble around Markus and began sucking all the oxygen out of it. Markus began to suffocate but he quickly acted and activated his quirk again, creating white spheres around his fists. 

"This ain't enough to keep me down!! And nothing you do will!!" Markus roared as he smashed his right fist against the bubble, breaking it apart like glass in one shot. 

"No way!" Cry said in disbelief as Markus closed in, throwing a punch right at Cry which was amped up with the power of his quirk.

"Don't think so! Open: Portals!" Cry said as he used his quirk to open up two portals, one right in front of him, and one to the right of the first. Markus' fist went through the first and came right back out the second, ramming him in the face as he sent himself sliding across the floor until he smacked into the side of the crate filled with drugs. 

"That does it! I was hoping not to use one of these, but you've proven to be a much bigger nuisance than I first thought! But with this...." Markus said as he got up, broke open the top of the crate and pulled out a syringe.

"Wait, is that.....!?" Cry questioned as he recognized that type of syringe and the solution within it. 

"This feud ends now!!!" Markus roared as he injected the syringe into his neck, pushing the solution in as he then collapsed to his knees and began to grunt in pain. 

"It is!!! That's Trigger!!" Cry shouted as he realized how bad this situation just got. Trigger was a drug that, when used, it can temporarily increase the output of someone's quirk tenfold. And as Markus finally calmed down, he stood back up and activated his quirk once more. Simply powering up again made a shockwave that was felt by everyone, shaking the entire building. 

"Let's see how you handle me now, kid. You're gonna wish your mom was here to help. But i'm sure not even she could've helped out here. Now, time to find out just how outclassed you are now!" Markus shouted as he raised his right hand up, firing a Crush beam right at Cry. 

Cry went to block the attack but the Trigger drug made Markus' attack speed even greater too. Cry only started to make his right arm into a shield when it was struck by the beam. Effortlessly, Cry's entire right arm was blown to pieces and he looked on completely stunned as the sheer power the drug gave to Markus. But, as he looked at his now destroyed arm, he failed to see Markus had run up on him. 

"Don't take your eyes off the villain, son! That's how you get killed! LIKE THIS!!!" Markus howled as he crashed his fist into Cry's chest, breaking even more ribs as he sent the student hero soaring through the air. Cry crashed through a concrete pillar that was in the room, going right through which made it collapse entirely. Cry landed shortly after, sliding a few feet before finally coming to a stop. The chest portion of his costume had been blown away, and his chest was a dark purple colour, a massive bruise. And to make matters worse, when he went through the pillar, a piece of metal rod which is normally used to support the pillar from the inside broke off and impaled his lower right chest. 

"Agh! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!" Cry wailed in pain as he attempted to pull out the rod. But simply moving it an inch caused monumental pain, unlike almost anything he'd ever felt before.

"Don't worry, Cry. I'll end all that pain for you." Markus said as he began to march over to him. Cry scrambled to do something and focused just enough to form another diamond arm, but this one was more rigged than smooth like normal.

Cry then looked around the building, seeing his students and the vigilantes all struggling or finished. All 5 of the girls, his students had been dealt with. None were dead yet but they'd been piled together, and surrounded by a handful of the villains, they'd all be dead very, very soon. And Twilight and Pein looked exhausted, looking like they might collapse at any moment. 

"Oh, damn it all...." Cry said as he opened up several portals around the room. The first was made underneath Markus, making him fall through and appear all the way on the other side of the building. The next was made underneath his students, having them fall and appear a few feet from where Cry laid. And the last was right in front of where Twilight and Pein ran. They both went through and came out right next to Cry who then sealed up all the portals and used his quirk to make a huge wall of diamond between all of them and the villains. 

"What're you doing, kid!?" Pein asked Cry as he tried to get back up. Cry used his quirk again and made one more portal behind them all. 

"Listen to me, you two.... Take all of my students.... and get the hell outta here!!!" Cry roared in agonizing pain as the two vigilantes helped him stand up. 

"No, we can stay! We can still win!" Twilight said as Cry pushed them away. 

"No, we can't! For god's sake, just listen to me!! There is no winning for us here! Only surviving! We lost once Markus used that drug on himself!" Cry shouted to them. 

"Where does that portal go!?" Pein asked him. 

"To the god damn hospital! Take all of the girls there, right now!! Get them out of this place!!" Cry explained as he placed his hands on the metal rod in his chest again. 

"What about you!?" Twilight asked. 

"We can't let these..... assholes get away..... but none of you have the strength to do anything..... for all of you to survive, one of us must lose. I have to stay...." Cry said as he began to pull on the metal rod again. 

"That's suicide!! You'll die!!!" Twilight said as Cry, while screaming at the top of his lungs, pulled the rod out of his chest and threw it away. 

"THIS IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE!!! FOR FUCK'S SAKE, BE REAL HEROES FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIVES AND GET THESE GIRLS OUT OF HERE!!!" Cry roared at the vigilantes as the diamond wall began to crack. 

"Please..... do it for me..... and let this hero do his job.... and save you all...." Cry said as he took a step away from them all. 

"God, I don't know if you're stupid or just crazy! Fine, we'll get them out of here! But then we're coming back to help you!" Twilight said as the two went and picked up all the girls. Twilight taking Amelia and Stacy, and Pein resting Holly over his shoulders while he picked up Kira and Asami. Cry watched as they ran through his portal and got to safety at the hospital. He saw on the other side that the vigilantes were coming back, but before they could make it, he closed the portal. 

"Not this time..... You two go be heroes for those kids.... my job's done...." Cry said as Markus finally smashed through the diamond wall, breaking it all down as Cry turned to face what villains were still left. Markus, Daina, Jake, Gregory, Killer, Ping, Jade, and Molly all walked over and surrounded Cry, each looking at the near broken hero with full confidence that he's about to kick the bucket. 

"Alright..... you bastards..... who's first....?" Cry said as he noticed his hearing cut out and his sight become blurry. Cry then spun around, swinging his right arm as he smashed it against Killer who had ran up from behind, holding a knife. Cry sent him sliding away a few feet but Killer got up a few second later. 

"No matter, he's all mine." Gregory said as he pointed his right arm at Cry, taking control of his blood and freezing him in place. 

"And that's all she wrote. May I do the honors, Mar-" Gregory tried to say as Cry fired a beam of energy from his right arm, hitting Gregory square in the chest and sending him flying away. 

"No blood in a diamond, dumbass...." Cry said as he went to move in on Markus. But when he went to take a step, he couldn't move. He looked down and saw his feet were stuck thanks to Molly's Fluff quirk. 

"Thanks for stopping him. This'll finish him for good!" Jade said as she spewed her paralyzing gas right at Cry. Cry attempted to focus so he could make a gas mask but he coughed up blood in the process, momentarily making him lose his focus. He inhaled a portion of the gas as he then used his quirk to blow the rest away from him. 

"In a minute, he'll be through. We just gotta wait now." Jade said as Cry aimed his right arm at her and struck her with a bolt of lightning. Jade screamed and then fell face first down on the ground. 

"Too slow, loser!" Ping shouted as he rolled up to Cry, doing his hand stand on his wheelchair and kicking away at him. He knocked Cry down and then flipped forward to smash his wheelchair against him. But before he could, Cry used his quirk to turn the wheelchair into water. Ping ended up falling on his face as Cry crawled over and smashed the bottom of his fist into his face, knocking Ping out. Cry then stood up but then felt a massive surge of pain enter his back. 

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Cry wailed as he looked behind him and saw Molly had stuck a knife in his back. 

"Sorry, cutey. But if the boss wants you dead, then I don't disappoint." Molly said as Cry swung his left arm back, hitting her in the face and knocking her away a bit, but not before she left some of her Fluff on his hand. Cry couldn't get it off so he reached back with his right arm and pulled the knife from his back. But as he dropped it, Cry felt a stinging feeling in has body. His movements were becoming slower and slower. 

"Shit! That gas is kicking in already! Gotta.... do.... something.....!" Cry said as he activated his quirk one more time before he froze. 

"And that's that. Want me to squash him, boss?" Daina asked Markus as he gave her a nod. She then came up to Cry and went to touch him with her right hand, but mere inches before she could, Cry swung his right fist into her face, forcing it down and smashing the girl into the rock solid concrete. 

"What!? How the hell is he movin' right now!? I thought Jade's gas paralyzed him!" Molly questioned as Cry let out some chuckles as blood seeped out of his mouth. 

"I used my quirk.... to electrify my right arm.... and then pulse it through the rest.... of my body..... It's keeping my muscles moving..... so it's countering the.... paralysis....." Cry explained as a knife suddenly came out of nowhere and stuck right into his left hip. Cry screamed once more as he pulled it out and looked to where it was thrown. There stood killer with a twisted grin on his face. 

"Have a taste of this, jackass!" Cry shouted as he fired another beam, hitting Killer and sending him crashing against another concrete pillar. 

"Only.... 3..... left..... which one.... is nex-" Cry tried to say while standing up, but he was soon shot from behind in both of his legs, making him collapse to his knees. He wailed at the top of his lungs as he turned to see Jake there, his hands pistols. 

"You have way too many openings, kid. Easy pickings." Jake taunted Cry as he still found a way to rise to his feet. 

"Try it again..... I.... dare you....." Cry said as Jake laughed at his threat. 

"Sure, this time i'll go for between the eyes!" Jake yelled as he fired again. 

"Portals!!" Cry shouted as he opened two more portals, the bullets flying through the first and coming out the second back at Jake. Jake shot himself in his right leg and left foot and fell to his side, holding his legs in pain as he now screamed from the pain. 

"Okay.... so he's better than we thought. But he ain't beatin' this!!" Molly shouted as Cry turned around and saw she created her giant Fluff ball around her again. She began rolling for him as Cry just sighed and raised up his right hand. 

"Get out of my sight, you bitch. Spark: Flare!" Cry shouted as he unleashed a huge wall of flame that engulfed and burned away all the Fluff around Molly. He then set off an explosion which sent Molly flying against a wall, knocking her out upon impact. Cry then used what flames he had left on his right hand and burned off the Fluff that was still on his left. Then, he turned to face the only villain left standing. But it was the one who'd be toughest to take down. Markus. 

"I'll say this, kid. Your mom ain't got nothing on you. If I wasn't jacked up on Trigger right now, I would turn my ass around and book it for the exit. But just because you took down my crew, that doesn't mean you can't beat the boss." Markus said as he removed his jacket and cracked his knuckles. 

Cry, who could barely stand, let alone stay conscious, had lost so much blood at this point that he was standing in a pool of it. He raised up his head and looked at a hole that was in the ceiling. He saw the moon and the stars in the sky, bringing a peaceful feeling to him as he started to laugh. 

"Care to let me in on the joke, Cry?" Markus asked him as Cry lowered his head back down. 

"No, there's no joke here. With that drug, I can't win.... I lived my life the way I wanted to. I became someone that I and many others could be proud of. A real hero. I would always say, I would lay down and give my life if it meant saving others and stopping villains. And, I guess now is that time." Cry said sincerely as Markus began to look at him curiously. 

"What're you talking about?" He asked Cry. 

"Markus, no matter what I do, I cannot beat you. But, I will give my life to ensure you can't win either. This is the end.... for both of us...." Cry said as he activated his quirk for the final time. His right arm began to vibrate wildly as he charged up his strongest move. 

"This ain't the end for me! For any of us!!! We're just getting started!! The only one dying here is you!!!" Markus roared as he charged Cry. 

"ULTIMATE MOVE!!!!" Cry screamed as he raised his right fist high into the air. 

"DIE!!!!" Markus roared as he threw his punch right for Cry. 

"ABSOLUTE MASS HAMMER!!!!" Cry roared as he, with all the might he could muster, collided his fist with the ground, while simultaneously taking Markus' attack right to his face. The impact of Cry's punch set off a shockwave so massive that it cracked apart the entire building and shook the earth. Markus did not blow back Cry with his attack as his Trigger drug had run out in that exact moment. But the impact was enough to knock Cry out. 

"Say hi to the devil for me...." Markus said as the building began to fall apart. He looked around in a panic and watched as concrete beams and pillars fell everywhere, crushing the crates of drugs and weapons in the process. The entire building was coming down. 

"He knew he couldn't win.... But he made it so we still lost...." Markus said in defeat as he collapsed and sat down, looking up and watching as the remainder of the building came crashing down on him and everyone else. 

"Honey..... I'll see you soon...." Markus said as tons of debris buried them all. 

Only a minute had passed since the steel plant came down, and silence fell over the entire area in that time. But the silence was quickly broken when rubble began to move. It was all sliding off and revealed several dome barriers underneath all the debris. Markus was stunned and chucked a bit as all the domes went away. 

"Well son of a bitch.... Shield! You there!?" Markus called out as his subordinate came climbing over a fallen pillar. 

"Yeah boss..... it's me..... god, that vigilante asshole did a real number....." Shield say as the rest of the Injustice Squad came over to their leader. All back on their feet, besides Ping. 

"You couldn't have woken at a better time, buddy." Markus said as he pulled Shield in and hugged him, crying a bit because he thought it really was the end. 

"Kinda wish you were a bit farther from that guy though. Could've watched him get crushed by it all....." Shield said as he pointed at Cry who was lucky enough to be inside the dome before the debris came down. 

"Might not need to worry. After all the shit we just put that kid through, I'd say it's safe to say he's dead." Markus said as Daina stepped over and crouched down next to the fallen hero. She raised up his left arm and put to fingers to his wrist. Then, in a small panic, she put some fingers to the side of his neck. 

"You're not gonna believe this..... He's still alive. There's a pulse." Daina explained to everyone as Markus just chuckled a bit more.

"Well i'll be damned.... kid's fucking tough, to take all that punishment and keep on ticking....." Markus said in utter surprise. 

"Someone, give me a knife. I'll kill this son of a bitch right now." Daina said as Jade went to give her hers. 

"No, wait a second...." Markus said as everyone looked at him surprised. 

"Gregory.... you said you were a doctor.... right?" Markus asked his subordinate. 

"Yeah..... I was...." Gregory replied. 

"What kind?" Markus asked him. 

"I was a neurologist. A brain surgeon. And a pretty good one too." Markus answered as Markus clapped twice before standing up. 

"Alright then. It's settled...." Markus said as he stood up and wiped the dust off his clothes. 

"What is?" Daina asked him as Markus crouched down, picked up the unconscious and slung him over his left shoulder. 

"He's coming with us."