Superman: Sounds like a job for me.

Superman jams the tendrils into his head, screaming as they attach to him.
the ship drops into the athmosphere, aiming for Gotham (which had not been
digitized yet). Batman holds on as Superman pours his thoughts into the
ship, fighting against the programming Brainiac installed in it. Just as its about destroy Gotham, the ship flies back up. Superman is still hurting from what he is doing.

Batman: Create a bypass loop. Put the ship on autopilot.

Superman: Hrnn! Trying!

Suddenly, from where he should be out cold. Brainiac turns and looks at the duo

Brainiac: My Ship! You will not destroy my collection!! (punches Batman several times, knocking him cold. To Superman) Reliquish my ship!

Superman does no such thing.  Just as Brainiac is about to charge at Superman, a heat beam hits him from behind. He collapses to show it's
Supergirl who fried him. She then collapses herself, still weak from the Kryptonite exposed to her earlier.  Brainiac is not out yet; he stands and
grunts as he looks to Supergirl.

Brainiac: You will regret that!!

Brainiac extends his tendrils to tear Supergirl however you run in saying "Ryūjin no ken wo kūrae". You slash his left arm clean of and he drops to the floor. He tries to get up but you point your dragon blade at his neck. He summons his tentacles to get you of him.

Brainiac: You are only a Cyborg. Swords and Shurikens cannot save you!

Maybe not, but the fact that Brainiac is still weakened from his fight with Superman, getting blasted by Supergirl and having his left arm chopped of helps Y/n. Still, it's a rather tight fight; even a weakened Brainiac is still some what strong. Y/n uses his Dragon Blade and training from the Shimada clan to put Brainiac down again!

Y/n: No one tries hurting Kara.

Batman was checking on Superman, whilst you were fighting. Supergirl stands and goes to the downed body of Brainiac the murderer of her people. She then goes to Superman, watching him struggle. You only looked at Brainiac's arm which you cut of. You weren't going to let Kara get hurt.

Batman: We need to get you out of there!

Superman: Not. yet. the cities.

Superman starts to think harder.  As he does, many of the cities digitized by
Brainiac disappear from the globes and re-appear on Earth. As Batman, Genji and Supergirl watch the cities and people return, the rest of the League, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Flash board the ship to watch. Superman breathes heavily until he collapses off the chair. Kara and Diana take a few steps to help, but Superman gets to one knee.

Wonder Woman: You're OK!

Just then, Aquaman and Black Adam appear.

Aquaman: I thought it was too late, but. I can feel the heartbeat of Atlantis!  Brainiac's work is undone!

Superman: (shaking his head) Not all of it. I couldn't save everyone.

Batman: Some cities are still trapped in the collection. Others were lost, wiped from the ship's memory. Metropolis, Coast City.

Green Lantern: But we can still save them, right? Carol? My family?!

Superman: I'm sorry, Hal. (Wonder Woman and Supergirl help him up)

Wonder Woman: First Krypton, now Earth?! No other world should suffer this!

With sudden resolve, Superman looks over at the still-rebooting body of
Brainiac. He walks over, preparing to finish the job. But Batman intercepts
him.

Batman: Clark, no! Even if I agreed that he should die, you can't. We need him alive to save the rest of our cities.

Superman: No, we don't! With more time and Cyborg's help, the Ship will obey me!

Batman: or we could lose more cities.

Flash: Bruce is right. We can't be sure.

Aquaman: What we can be sure of is that Brainiac puts everyone else at risk!

Wonder Woman: This is no different than Joker. If you'd killed him, we might have---

Batman: It was never that simple, Diana!

Superman: Yes, it is, Bruce! Metropolis and Coast City are gone! How many more innocent people die before you accept that some lives need to be taken?!?

Batman slices a gold dagger across Superman's chest and he bleeds!  He groans and hits the floor in pain. He sees his his own blood on his suit

Superman: My powers?! How did you?!?

Batman: Gold Kryptonite, courtesy of Firestorm.

Wonder Woman: Get up, Kal!

Batman: Stay down! Enough exposure and you'll be de-powered permanently!

Superman: This madness has to end, Bruce!

Alright which side do you want to win Batman or Superman. Which ever one wins the vote will be the ending of the story. Also there will be another chapter after who ever wins so I hope you enjoyed this chapter and see you all in the next one.

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