(General P.O.V)

"Lady Gaea, what is happening?!"

Yaotl, outfitted in full armor regalia enquired the second Gaea made herself known to all of them.

A realm wide alert was playing in the sky, warning everyone to stay indoors and avoid going outside. The whole world was in a frenzy. All the continents experienced earthquakes and other unnatural disasters caused by two extremes meeting and clashing upon each other continuously.

Gaea had put all her effort into ensuring that the human continent was mostly protected from the worst of the disasters. On the other continents barring the Sconiad Island chain, Aden's home island and the lion turtle island that was at the center of everything, Tornados, tsunamis and earthquakes wreaked havoc across the lands. Stopping them required energy. Energy that was not as readily available as before.

Somehow getting more energy from the source was becoming an issue as the Realm begun to vibrate at different frequencies inconsistently, causing the link the core had to the source to sever. She was working on reinstating it but that seemed to be taking more time than they actually had. She was working on a faster back up plan.

Which is why the sun was dimming.

The sky lost it's blue color. A darkness that seemed almost oppressive even from this far out begun to swiftly overtake everything.

Many animals died. Gaea used their life force as soon as it came through to add to the strength of the continental wide shielding to protect from the space debris and meteors caused by the explosion of the Training planet Aden had been on.

Gaea spared some of her considerable computation power to investigate while trying to contact Aden. The reason for the darkness... immediately shocked her. Apart from her own actions with the sun; draining it's energy to construct a shield around the planet and stop the calamities happening, something else was going on. She dropped her primary objective and warped space to appear before the Cottage, sending an alert before she arrived.

She was glad to see everyone waiting for her in various states of readiness. Yaotl being the god of war was naturally the commander. They all bowed their heads at her once they sensed her presence.

Then they gasped at the way she looked. Gaea was the realm, so any form she took reflected it. And right now she did not look okay. Her whole blue figure was filled with cracks that pulsed with different elemental energies.

"Lady Gaea what..."

"Listen up. Things have taken a turn for the worse. I am engaging protocol Doom Day."

"What?"

Vaatu blinked in surprise. Surprise that was shared by every single spirit around.

"Right!"

Yaotl nodded before turning towards Kori and the Kids.

"My Lady. You and the kids need to leave with Lady Gaea right now. Something is happening and before we figure out what that is, the safest place for you right now is at the core of the realm."

"No."

Gaea told him, just as another tremor rocked the whole island.

"The core has been compromised. They need to get out of the realm incase we can't stop what is happening."

She said urgently.

"Wait!"

Kori interrupted, hugging Kai and Breeze close to herself.

"Where's Aden?"

Sai and the others perked up at that. They didn't know what was happening but that question was the only one that mattered.

"I want Dad."

Breeze whispered in a scared tone to Kai. The other girl patted her head in what comfort she could provide.

"Everything will be okay."

Kai said.

"Yeah. Everything will be okay. Vor and I will protect you. We have been training, right Vor?"

Sai asked his brother as they hovered protectively over Kori and the girls.

"Mmmh Right."

Vor nodded with a confidence he wasn't really feeling.

Meanwhile a mental conversation had been going on during this time.

" What do you mean he is missing Gaea? How can he be missing!? That's impossible!"

Kori replied in anger after what Gaea had told them. The sea was now almost too rowdy and the only thing that stopped the massive Tsunami about to hit the shore and submerge the island was the shield Gaea had constructed around it.

"Please Lady Kori, if Gaea finds out anything about the Master's whereabouts, the first person she is going to inform will be you. Right now we need to evacuate you and the children."

Kori relented upon Yaotl's reasonable words. Nodding in confirmation and agreeing to drop the subject was one of the hardest things she had ever done.

"You will go with Raava. She will protect you all."

Gaea finished, a sleek space ship looking very similar to a Martian bio-ship only bigger appeared on the beach next to them.

"It's similar to a Martian bio-ship but can travel at faster than light speeds due to the core which is constructed from Strangium. I input a galactic map to show you where you need to go. Most of the highlighted planets are places where Aden is worshipped as a god. It will be up to you to choose which one you want. Now hurry."

Yaotl ushered them inside the ship while staring at the sky with narrowed eyes.

"My sister..."

Raava asked Yaotl only for the Panther god to kiss her on her forehead in assurance.

"I will do everything I can to make sure that she is safe."

A yellow portal that seemed unstable appeared under the Bio-ship the second Kori and the kids entered it. Kori looked back before the door closed.

"Good luck."

She told them, her hands over her baby bump.

Then the ship was swallowed by portal.

The minute they disappeared, portals appeared all-around the beach and coming out of them were Earth's heroes led by Superman. The entire Justice League and Justice Society barring those who were outside the realm lined up behind the premier Members of the League, Batman and Superman. The only one missing from the triumvirate was Wonder Woman.

That was somewhat addressed when from another portal, Amazon warriors dressed in armor and carrying weapons came through another portal. The garnered attention as Hippolyta and her people bowed their heads before Yaotl.

"It will be an honor to fight alongside you, Lord."

Yaotl nodded in thanks.

"We gathered everyone here as soon as we could. What is going on?"

Superman asked. Yaotl looked at Gaea and she took that as cue. she launched off into a short but shocking explanation.

"The entire realm is shifting between different layers of the void."

At the clueless looks she was getting, she tried to dumb it down.

"Something ripped a hole in time and space, changing our vibration frequency and now we are connected to another universe."

She pointed to the rapidly darkening sky.

"I am using the energy from the sun to construct a shield around the planet but...we have a big problem. The inhabitants of the universe we are connected to, seem to favor the dark...and they can sense us. They are coming our way."

"Are the civilians safe?"

Batman asked, already connected to the Aethernet using his wrist device. Gaea waved a hand, prompting a projected live feed to appear which showed the wide blue shimmering shield covering the entire world.

"Yes they are but we do not have much time. We need to make sure we hold back whatever is coming for us up until I can fix the positioning issue and hopefully get us back to our own layer."

"Where is Aden?" Red Arrow asked, causing murmurs to break out.

"He is the top dog after all. If anything he should be..."

"The master is facing a much bigger threat than we are. Otherwise he would be at the fore front, ready to face this new challenge with great defiance. Do not besmirch his name."

Yaotl spoke up before Gaea could, his eyes shifting to their feline form. Red Arrow wilted under his gaze, looking away with a snort.

"So what's the plan?"

Superman questioned. The tremors and disasters had calmed down somewhat. The sun had dimmed from the loss of most of it's power. Gaea had gone on total lockdown mode. The sky was still bright, owing to the shield of energy around the whole planet.

Gaea brought out a map of the entire planet. Four huge continents with vast pools of ocean water in between. Batman walked forward and surveyed the map.

"What do your initial scans suggest on the number of enemies we are about to face?"

The map panned out wide, showing the planet and then thousands of blinking red dots coming out of a pulsing blue zone a few thousand miles away from the atmosphere of the planet where a hole in space had been ripped open.

Someone sucked in a deep breath.

"This is going to be fun."

Said Raph, twirling his Sais in his hands.

"Your idea of fun is different from mine."

Donnie told his brother.

The former shrugged.

"All these years together and you still haven't built a taste for it. I'm disappointed Donnie."

Raph joked.

"Shh, Raph let's focus on how we're going to stay alive for the next hour or so."

Leo shushed the both of them.

"How long till they arrive?"

The Flash wondered.

"24 minutes, nothing more nothing less."

Gaea quickly answered, her attention on priming the battle drones, which were only a little bit weaker than the ones guarding the Sconiad tower.

After studying the maps some more, Yaotl came up with a suggestion.

"I propose Lady Gaea open up the shield at this particular location."

He pointed a finger at the farthest continent from the human populated one.

"That will allow them to focus on making it past us instead of bombarding other locations to try and breach the shield."

Batman added, seeing the logic in it.

"Not to mention the opening will be small, they will not be able to bring through their full force. We can then focus on stemming the flow while Lady Gaea works on getting us out of here."

They finished hashing out the rest of the plan, going through details such as placement and how to split the forces.

Before Gaea could warp all of them to the location they had agreed upon, a few grey portals appeared on the beach.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me."

Kid Flash muttered when from within the portal, Michael walked out. Following close behind him was a group of villains like Black Adam, Killer Frost, Deadshot, Shredder and his five mystics.

"Sorry for being late."

Michael told Gaea,

"A few people needed to be convinced that they actually have helping spirits."