Bubble Boy

Los Angeles – Veyna vs. Seaman, Void, Construct, and Bolt

There were no shadows in Los Angeles anymore. Only red light.

And at its center, Veyna hovered, arms outstretched, the winds around her spiraling in silent reverence. Her eyes burned with molten red, hair weightless and wild. Her body pulsed not just with power...

...but legacy.

Starman's power. All of it.

"I see now," she said, her voice layered, celestial. "He was never meant to be the final bearer. Just the bridge."

Her fingertips glowed with dense particles of collapsing matter. Her skin shimmered with a golden undertone, the same as Starman's once had before his fall.

Below her stood five of Earth's greatest defenders.

Seaman, shoulders squared, ocean water rotating around him like twin serpents.

Void, eyes black holes, swirling with dark energy and silent purpose.

Construct, reinforced armor plating clicking into place as he shaped jagged weapons of steel and kinetic force.

Bolt, electricity coiling around his body like a nervous heartbeat.

Gladiator, standing with her sword drawn.

"We hold the line," Void said coldly.

"Even if it kills us," Bolt added.

Global Newsfeed – Real-Time Comments

@LARisingAgain: She has Starman's powers?? HOW?

@VoidEyesOnly: I've never seen Void look this serious. Not even during the Dravus War.

@Construct4Life: Come on, Big C! BUILD SOMETHING THAT STOPS HER!

@QueenVeyna: Let it happen. She is the storm, and we are the rain.

@BubbleBoyWhereRU: No Troy. No Jace. Just death.

The Battle Begins

Bolt flew first, pure lightning across the sky.

He hit her center mass. Dead-on.

Veyna didn't move.

The lightning danced over her body like curious pets before being absorbed.

She blinked and punched Bolt and Bolt was thrown backwards by an unseen force. His crash left a crater in the broken street.

"Friction," she whispered. "I command it."

Gladiator tried slashing her from behind but is slapped into a building.

Construct hurled a skyscraper's worth of steel and stone. Veyna waved her hand against the object.

The materials deconstructed mid-air, atom by atom, falling like shimmering dust.

Construct's mouth opened in horror. "What the hell..."

She reappeared before him, grabbing his chest.

His entire exo-suit folded in on itself, crushing him. He screamed.

"Compression," she said. "Pressure. Energy. Mass. All mine."

Void stepped through a dark gate behind her, an ancient spell in one hand, black nova in the other.

Veyna paused.

"I remember you," she said. "The coward who watched Dravus burn the helpless."

She didn't dodge the nova.

She inhaled it.

Void's eyes widened.

"No," she whispered. "That's not..."

She struck with a palm to her chest.

And reality shattered.

Void fell, coughing stardust, barely able to teleport away in a haze of glitching space.

Global Newsfeed – Comments Exploding

@VoidLost: SHE ATE A STARFIELD. SHE ATE IT.

@SeamanStronghold: Seaman's the only one left. Oh god. He's alone.

@EndofLACountdown: We're watching titans die. One by one.

@VeynaAscended: The Queen does not fight. She concludes.

Last Stand

Seaman stood alone. The Pacific churned behind him. His trident shimmered in his grip, coated in seawater and sorrow.

"You don't scare me," he said, voice low.

"I should," Veyna replied.

She breathed in and blowed out freezing the entire ocean.

The ocean stopped frozen.

Just… stopped.

Seaman blinked in confusion. The waves, the tide, frozen mid-motion, like time had paused.

"You thought water would obey you?" she said. "I am gravity. I am thermodynamics. I am pressure and release. And I've inherited divinity."

She clenched her fist.

And shattered the frozen ocean, it dropped like a stones.

And Seaman dropped with it, crushed beneath gravity so intense the ground cracked for miles.

He didn't rise.

Global Newsfeed – Final Reactions

@EarthFailsLive: They're...all down.

@PrayForBolt: Is he breathing? Can someone check?

@QueenVeyna: One city falls. Many more follow.

@EyesOnTroy: Troy… please…