by J. E. Bright
“Darkseid,” said Superman.
Superman?
Crush
them.
Wonder Woman and Green Lantern gasped.
“I’m guessing that’s a bad thing?” asked Cyborg.
“Oh, he’s just the most dangerous force in the
universe,” replied Green Lantern.
“Is that why you stole the Bizarro ray and created
your own league?” Superman asked Bizarro. “To stop
Darkseid?”
Bizarro nodded. “Bizarro wanted to protect his cit-
izens from big head machine.”
“We can help you,” said Superman.
“Whoa!” Green Lantern warned. “Easy for you to
say, Mr. I’ve-Still-Got-My-Powers.”
“Are you scared, Guy?” Wonder Woman teased.
“Why risk our behinds for meaningless rocks,
Princess?” replied Green Lantern.
Bizarro hung his head. “Rocks my only friends
after Superman send me away.”
“I sent you here because—” began Superman.
“Because you embarrassed by Bizarro!” Bizarro
interrupted. “So you hide him.”
“They may just be rocks,” Batman broke in, “but
I suspect Darkseid wants to harvest their unique
properties for a weapon.”
“Harnessing their power could render Earth’s
defenses useless,” added Wonder Woman.
“If Darkseid is after these rocks,” said Superman,
“then he’s headed to the greatest concentration of
them.”
Whoa!
The Justice and Bizarro Leagues rushed to
Bizarrotropolis.
“I have a plan,” said
Batman. He pointed at the
pieces of his spaceship and
the Invisible Jet. “I’m going
to reconstruct the blocks
of these vehicles to create
a thermodynamic amplifier
of the Bizarro ray. When fired at Darkseid’s weirdia-
tion supply it will create a new opposite form of mat-
ter, and the two will annihilate each other, destroying
his ship.”
The Bizarros blinked blankly at Batman.
Greenzarro held his head. “All I hear is, ‘blah, blah,
blah, science, blah, big word.’”
Batzarro raised his hands. “I have better plan,” he
announced. “First we take nap!”
The Bizarros all cheered that suggestion. . . and
conked out.
“I think we should go with Batman’s plan,” said
Wonder Woman.
CHAPTER 8:
THE KRYPTONITE
BOMB
IN THE CITY,
Superman found Bizarro sitting alone
with a crystal citizen. “Something bothering you?”
“On Earth I bad hero,” Bizarro explained. “On
Bizarro World I bad hero. All I want is save the day like
Superman.” He patted the citizen’s shoulder, and its
head slid off.
Superman turned the citizen’s head over. “The
Justice League will save the day, Bizarro. I promise.”
After Superman flew off, Bizarro took out Lex
Luthor’s bomb. “No,” he whispered. “Bizarro save day.”
At the edge of the city, Darkseid’s destroyer
collected its crystals.
Superman swooped down to Wonder Woman,
Bizarro
save day.
I bad hero.
Green Lantern, and Cyborg. “We’ve got to buy
Batman some more time. Let’s go!”
In the destroyer, Desaad gasped at the heroes’
return. “This is going to make you laugh,” he told
Darkseid. “Nobody was crushed. Please don’t hurt me.”
“I will deal with them myself,” said Darkseid. He
rose on a platform to a hatch on top of the destroyer.
He launched a new battalion of drones.
Wonder Woman, Bizarra, Bizarro, Green Lantern,
and Greenzarro fought the drones while Superman
flew up to face Darkseid.
Bizarra fell into a fighting frenzy, pummeling
drones and tearing them apart.
“By Athena’s gray eyes,” cheered Wonder Woman,
“she is a dog of war!”
“Then why is my guy such a pussycat?” asked
Green Lantern. Greenzarro cowered nearby, afraid to
challenge the drones.
“Why can’t you be more like her?” Green Lantern
asked, pointing at Bizarra.
Greenzarro shrugged, hiding behind a citizen.
“You can do it!” shouted Green Lantern. “I believe
in you! You’re a Lantern.”
Then a squadron of drones whizzed at Green
Lantern. He raised his ring to zap them but it fizzled.
“Still not working,” he moaned. The drones buzzed in.
“No!” screamed Greenzarro. He leaped in front of
Green Lantern and raised his ring, creating a giant
teddy bear around them both.
that’s what I’m
talking about!
The drones bounced off the teddy bear, crashed
into each other, and exploded.
While working on building a ship, Batman glanced
up at the battle. “They better watch for Darkseid’s
Omega Beams.”
“What’s an Omega Beam?” asked Cyborg.
Darkseid shot luminescent rays from his eyes at
Superman.
Superman dodged the beams, but they followed
him like heat-seeking missiles. The rays zapped
Superman, smashing him into the side of a hill.
“Those are Omega Beams,” said Batman.
Superman shook off the painful attack, and
zoomed back up to the destroyer to fight Darkseid.
“We’ll never let you harness the power of this planet,
you space bully!”
“I will,” Darkseid swore. “And after Earth falls the
entire universe will bow to me!” He tossed Superman
off the destroyer.
Superman crash-landed near Batman.
“I need more time, Superman,” Batman said calmly.
i don’t
think so!
Nodding, Superman struggled to fly back into
battle.
Cyzarro and Batzarro impatiently watched
Batman and Cyborg working on the ship.
“I can break for you,” Cyzarro offered.
Cyborg shook his head. “That’s what we’re worried
about.”
Batzarro grunted in frustration, then shoved
Cyborg and Batman out of the way. “Cyzarro, break
now!”
Cyzarro hurtled over Cyborg, and punched his
arm into the ship’s console. A wave of electricity shot
up his arm, blasting everyone off their feet.
But the ship’s engine began to hum.
“He fixed it,” Batman said, amazed.
“Of course,” Cyborg realized. “Only a Bizarro can
make technology work here.”
Batman hopped in the cockpit, piloting the ship
toward the destroyer.
Meanwhile, Superman redoubled his attacks
against Darkseid, punching the villain repeatedly to
little effect. Darkseid grabbed Superman again and
hurled him against a wall atop the destroyer. “Oof,”
said Superman. “Not fun.”
“You’re too late, Superman,” said Darkseid. “I now
have enough of this bizarre energy to rule the galaxy.”
Superman groaned, stumbling back onto his feet.
“Well,” he said bravely, “on Bizarro world, rules are
meant to be broken.”
Darkseid turned around.
Batman hovered behind him in his new
ship, ready to fire.
oof.
BOOM!
“Bizarro save day!” screamed Bizarro, jump-
ing in front of Batman’s ship. He hurled Lex Luthor’s
cylindrical bomb at Darkseid.
It exploded in a blast of bright-green energy.
Superman yelled as he fell off the destroyer,
tumbling down on the rocks below.
Batman’s ship exploded into pieces. Luckily, he
was able to eject in time.
But Darkseid was unhurt. He smiled at Bizarro. “A
Kryptonite bomb,” he said. “Thank you.” He lowered
himself down into his destroyer and sat on his throne.
“Desaad,” said Darkseid, “let us test our weapon
on Earth.”
CHAPTER 9:
BIZARRO: ZERO
OR HERO?
DESAAD PRESSED A BUTTON.
A cannon poked out of the top of the destroyer,
and fired a massive beam of power.
It zapped the moon, transforming it into a cube.
Then the beam whizzed toward Earth.
Suddenly, a ship soared soared into the ray’s path.
It was Hawkman! “Hawk jet, inbound!” he shouted.
“Deploying hawk swords! Pressing hawk button!”
A multitude of giant glowing swords swirled
around the jet, forming a vast bird of purple energy
that blocked the beam.
“Hawkman,” Batman called over the radio, “did
you manage to intercept the ray?”
Hawkman’s jet shook so
badly it felt like it might
explode. “You could say that.”
Back on Bizarro World, the
Justice and Bizarro Leagues
gathered around the fallen
Superman.
“Hawkman is holding off the ray,” Batman reported
to the group, “but I suspect his armor will eventually
fall to the weirdiation.”
“Bizarro tried to help,” sobbed Bizarro.
“Yeah, you helped, all right!” Green Lantern yelled.
“You helped Darkseid! Thanks to you, Earth is toast!
Without Superman, we can’t stop him.”
“Yes,” moaned Superman. “Yes, you can.”
Everyone moved closer to hear Superman’s weak
voice.
“Darkseid’s ship is somehow being protected
from the weirdiation,” whispered Superman, “but if we
overload the ship with those crazy rocks . . .”
Batman threw up his hands. “But that’ll just make
his weapon stronger,” he said. “So this is how you
destroy us all!”
Superman met Batman’s eyes. “You need to trust
me.”
“Trust you?” said Batman. He turned away, biting
his lip, squeezing his hands to fists.
Finally, Batman let out a long breath. “Well.. .” he
said, “if there’s one place I can try trusting you, it’s on
a backward world.”
Bizarro pointed to the crystals. “No!” he cried.
“Those are Bizarro’s people! His friends.”
We can’t
stop him!
Twin
brothers?
Good-bye.
“I know, Bizarro,” said Superman. He waved his
hand at the other Bizarros. “But you have new friends
now. . . and an old one, too.”
Bizarro’s mouth dropped open. “Superman
Bizarro’s friend?”
“Not just friends, Bizarro,” Superman said sincerely.
“Brothers. I should have been a better one to you.”
Bizarro grinned. “Twin brothers?”
Superman nodded. “Fraternal, but yes. Twins.”
Bizarro grunted happily. Then he marched into his
city and tossed his crystal citizens into the hopper of
Darkseid’s destroyer.
“Good-bye,” sobbed Bizarro. “Bizarro miss you.”
Greenzarro, Bizarra, Batzarro, and Cyzarro joined
Bizarro in throwing citizens into the destroyer’s
hopper. The Justice League helped, too.
“I miss you!” Bizarro told another crystal citizen
before hurling him up into the enormous pile. Bolts
of electricity shot through the hopper, crossing over
into the ship as the crystals overloaded the systems.
Fireballs exploded along the destroyer’s sides.
A huge blast launched the head-shaped cock-
pit into deep space, hurtling Darkseid far away from
Bizarro World.
Across the galaxy,
Hawkman had nearly lost
his struggle to keep the
beam from reaching Earth.
“Must keep pressing but-
ton! So hard!”
Umm . . .
Then the ray fizzled out.
Hawkman started to celebrate. . . but the moon
was still a cube.
On Bizarro World, the Justice League and Bizarro
League waited for Batzarro to examine Superman.
“Superman A-OK,” announced Batzarro.
“That’s great,” said Cyborg. “He’s going to be all
right, then?”
“No,” replied Batman. “Batzarro means we can’t
save him.”
Wonder Woman lowered her head. “Good-bye,
Kal,” she whispered.
Bizarro stood next to Superman. “Superman live.”
“Stop with the opposite talk, man!” cried Cyborg.
Bizarro shook his head. “No. Superman live!” He
sucked in a deep breath, inhaling the glowing Kryp-
tonite radiation from the Man of Steel. As Superman’s
complete opposite, Kryptonite was totally harmless
to him. Bizarro let out a big burp.
Superman raised his head. “You.. .” he muttered,
“saved the day, Bizarro.”
Bizarro grinned as his friends slapped him on the
back. “Bad job!” cheered Batzarro.
Batman kneeled beside Superman. “I’m not wrong
often,” he admitted, “but I was about you. You can be
trusted.”
Bad job!
“Really?” Superman asked. “Then I guess you
won’t need that box of Kryptonite anymore.”
“Let’s not go crazy,” said Batman.
Superman climbed shakily to his feet. “Well, if we’re
going to have a wildcard on the team who keeps tabs
on me, I’m glad it’s you,” he told Batman. He stared
at the wrecked landscape. “Whoa, look at this place.”
Bizarro heaved a big sigh. “Bizarro lost whole world.”
“Then we’re going to have to rebuild it together,”
declared Superman.
Both the Bizarro League and the Justice League
put their combined efforts into rebuilding the strange
civilization on Bizarro World.
“Great job!” said Superman, looking around at the
crystal construction. “In fact, the whole place looks
wonderful. I can’t wait to walk through that front door.”
“Hmm,” said Bizarro. “Front door.”
W
hat happens when the Justice League meets the Bizarro
League, a team of opposite versions of themselves?
Their world gets turned upside down! But
whether they like
it or not, the Justice League will have to team up with their
hilariously clumsy counterparts to defeat Darkseid in this
all-new, action-packed adventure!
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