Sorry for the relatively short chapter, I'm tired and have been writing a lot today... Hope you all enjoy nonetheless!
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Each bullet punctured the air as cordite exited the chamber of the Uzi. Yuna's perception of time shrunk to such an extent that she could watch the flames of her teleportation as it flashed up around her and consumed her entirely. By the time the light refracted off of her eyes once more she could see the bullets sluggishly propel themselves towards the innocent family inside the car.
A hunger to save them came to the forefront of her mind whilst an equal desire to utterly purge the Joker fought it at every step. Luckily for her, her abilities allowed her to multitask... Raw unfiltered magic crawled across her palms and out through the air, a raw green haze. Simultaneously two streams of power extended beyond her.
One targeted the bullets, crushing them and then redirecting them into the stonework below.
The other... Well, it struck like a serpent against a black and gold haze of power. The Joker cackled as his powers fought hers. A basilisk versus a shadow demon. If anyone from the wizarding world was to see this fight they would instantly liken it to two ancient entities attempting to dominate one another.
"Ha-HAHAHAHA I see you brought some friends BAT," His mad raving ceased for a moment as her magic receded, "AND she's FUN!"
The family quickly fled from the madman and his goons, their tears painting the pavement with hope and thanks. Yuna slowly breathed in and unleashed her Kryptonian genetics, her strength and speed increasing to entirely new levels; her perception staying at the same level of detail and coordination.
"Get away! Now! He is dangerous... And he is mine to take in." Batman growled out through his voice changer as the referenced madman smiled widely and executed a defenceless woman.
"Fuck off you useless prick." Yuna stated numbly as she focused on her eyes, feeling the heat build within her irises.
Batman attempted to step forwards but failed as Yuna unleashed the heat inside her eyes, a lava-orange beam of pure plasma perforating the cold weather of Gotham.
The Joker immediately pulled up his hand, his back arching in defiance as a crazed cackle escaped his lips once again. His makeup and clown costume almost seemed to flex at the same time as the beam struck into the golden-black haze of power, skewering it and pressing it inwards toward the Joker himself.
A grunt shuddered from the insane man's throat, as if he were physically exerting effort to defend himself. The effect was immediate and harrowing. Two entire lines of plasma, constantly projected by Yuna, were swallowed and consumed to power the defence of the man.
"HAH! You can't defend against chaos dearie! No, no, no, you can't..." He waggled his fingers in front of himself as a small flower on his lapel popped out with a simple 'Bazinga' sign. "Now, go away, me and the Bat have other things to TALK about."
More black and crimson seeped into the stones and earth below. The corruption she was sensing, the fetid infection of chaos, became a siren's wail to her sixth sense. She gritted her teeth as bile fought its way upwards, failing to do so only through sheer power of will.
In response to the off-handed shooing her eyes turned into mini-suns of heat and radiation, her breath misting as sub-zero frost curled along her lips. Her vision swam with the images of the Joker's muscles and bones, her x-ray vision blurring between fully active and inactive. Small pops resounded from her fists as she tensed her hands, the air popping alongside her knuckles with the sheer kinetic force of her tensing. A small psychic field shattered the pavement below her causing cracks and divots to naturally spread around her. In many ways she resembled Kal-el, or Superman, if he was filled with rage and hatred... She didn't specifically understand why she was so angered by him and what his powers were doing, but she couldn't help the emotions that fluttered inside her heart.
"Don't, don't do it..." Batman spoke, but it was too late...
Her entire body coiled with power in less than a second, her musculature condensing instantly, before her body exploded forwards in a concussive shockwave that shredded the nearby statues and gardens.
Her right fist reared backwards as she unleashed the full might of her Kryptonian DNA and the sun itself. "FUCK OFF!" The sound wave struck moments after her body did, the sonic boom shattering glass for several hundred metres as her fist impacted the black-gold miasmic haze that had stopped her plasma beams previously.
A resounding cacophonous thunder strike shredded the eardrums of every unprotected human with a mile as the miasma fled backwards in the shockwave. A shriek of torture escaped the substance before it shattered into hundreds of shards and floated around the Joker... He was perfectly protected from her strike.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk! You can't get the last laugh, HAHAHA, that's reserved for me!" The stars that were her eyes blazed in fury as multiple bolts of plasma shot from her eyes.
A small roll of his eyes and the shards floating around him winked in and out of existence, springing up before each bolt and snuffing it out with a tendril of nothingness. The miasma seemed to almost cackle alongside its host as her attack failed and she was left surrounded by pure chaos.
"Fuck, get back!" The Bat tried to speak up again, his batterangs exploding into errant shards of the Joker's power as he dodged around the man's minions.
Yuna huffed and pulled on the source of her genetic powers. In an instant hundreds of different genetic traits filled her body with their strength.
"You think you'll survive long enough to get the last laugh? Pathetic." Yuna's voice echoed off of the nothingness as dragon horns slowly sprouted from her brow. The jawline that was once soft on her became nigh-demonic as fire crawled across a second set of horns below her dragon horns. At the same time her entire body crackled with the force of a thousand lightning bolts, her eyes looking akin to supernovas as the power of Lightning God Slayer Magic suffused her mind, body and soul. Massive wings made from bright green magic splayed out behind her as the speed of wind, lightning and fire itself conjoined to enhance her already powerful capabilities.
"Yes, I will, dearie." Each fragment of his power lashed out with tendrils of nothingness, the very air around them being polluted by proximity.
"As I said, pathetic." She waved her right hand in a discarding manner and watched as the nothingness was vaporised by hundreds of lightning bolts. Tendrils of electricity melted cars behind the attack whilst chaos vanished and re-emerged behind her.
In another huff a demonic burst of flame consumed a spherical bubble behind her, the nothingness being purified in unholy flames. "It that all you can manage? Tentacles? Are you into Hentai...?" She chuckled at his grimace before vanishing from the visual spectrum.
The Joker spun around as if he were dancing, his eyes clinging to every hint of movement as she up and vanished. His lips curled into a half grin, half grimace as he growled into the open air around the two; the minions and civilians having long died or escaped.
"YOU! Haha, you are merely comic relief! A simple joke that has gone too far! A JOKE CAN'T KILL THE COMEDIAN!" His sclera turned obsidian as his chaos-born powers coalesced around him and then exploded outwards. It covered everything and infected everything it touched, the Bat surviving the blast as he dropped into the sewers.
A few heart beats later a simple whisper entered the Joker's ears.
"No, but the comedian can die mid-performance." The sharp hissing of oxygen being converted into hydrogen followed as the Joker felt his body being punctured by the force of a thousand storm fronts. "Say hi to the crazy fuckers down there, my wife will probably be coming for them in the future..."
Bright luminescent sparks blazed around his chaos-wreathed form as her arm stuck out through his chest... Where his heart used to be, its sopping wet and crimson form currently beating with her stretched out hand.
"This, isn't the last laugh. I will, have an encore..." He sputtered out as life slowly left him and chaos overtook the remainder of what he was. She merely smiled.
"I count on it." She snarled and yanked her hand back through him, his body leaning forwards and collapsing onto the ground.
Silence followed in the climax of battle. The entire square was rubble and ruins. Civilians were hurt and crying, the Joker's lackies were dead or rocking on the floor having severe mental issues. All in all, the battle could have gone worse.
Now she just had to deal with the corruption before it spread.
'Hmmm, I wonder...'
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SHIELD HQ
Nick Fury watched as the Joker was executed by one of Freya's women, his fists tightly closed together as his singular eye tracked the damage their fight had caused to Gotham.
"She's like a nuclear bomb... Worse than Superman."
His words rung hollow inside his own mind as he considered the death toll that could have occurred due to the Joker. He wasn't wrong to build towards the Avengers initiative... In fact, it may be needed more now than ever before.
"Maybe it's time?"
A message bleeped on his glasses, his avatar currently sitting within a small coffee shop inside the French District of Freya's new hub. Opening the message his eye opened wide in surprise before a curse escaped his lips.
"Seriously? More demonic incursions...?" Sighing tiredly he finished his virtual cup of coffee and logged off.
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