Gather Your Fortitude!

The bright green flames consumed more and more of the grass on the ground, and a fiery human-shaped figure came your way: the Imp. "Your relic of a knight gave me a message, saying you wanna fight me here. Why?" He folded his arms, with a smirk that was plastered on his face since he arrived.

"Why not?" You weren't going to let this guy push anyone around, least of all you. "Scared to fight me?" you goaded. He scoffed in response.

"So not." He then started running at you at Flash's speed, but you replied by running at the same speed and prompted Imp to chase after you. You stopped and waited for him to come running at you, and when he was close enough...

You tripped him!

He tumbled down the scorched hill, quickly recovering and leaping high up into the air like the Hulk and shifted his body to look bulkier, buffer as he was still in flames! He tried slamming his large fists on you, but you went Martian and phased into the ground right before the Imp made contact. He then started digging with his bare hands, determined to get you back for making a fool out of him. "Get back here, punk! We're not done yet!" he roared.

The plan was going well in your mind, and you follow the lit torches along the wall. Your eyes adjust to the dim light as you travel further down amd down, reaching a chamber with sickly green color coming from a pit ahead: a Lazarus Pit that no one knew about, but you pieced together where one might have been. "He's coming, people," he warned. "Man your stations." So everyone else hid behind rocks, waiting for their chance. Except for Vixen and Harley, who chose to fight by your side...

Despite it being a bad idea, you agreed to it.

Finally, after you and Vixen sharpen your claws, and Harley pats down some gadgets of her own in her doctor's pockets, they saw a green light in the tunnel getting brighter. Finally, the Imp busted through the opening into the chamber. "Now it's a party..." he smirked.

"But gonna be over soon," Harley retorted.

"Please..." He again charged his fiery green lasers, and Vixen ran ahead to draw his fire from her. He fired short blasts from his eyes, failing to nail her because of her quick movements. Vixen hopped up the wall, and as she touched her amulet, a spirit of a kangaroo enveloped her for only a second. She grabbed the stalactites on the ceiling and kicked your lookalike in the face.

He stumbled back some, but he regained his composure to blast fire at her! She swung from the hanging pointy rocks like monkey bars, avoiding the emerald flames as little rocks from the impacts rained on him. "Why you..." He was gonna shoot regular Superman lasers at Vixen when Harley threw smoke bombs to blind him. When Imp used his vision to peer through the cover, Ollie fired a green kryptonite arrow at him.

He grunted as it pierced into his pectoral and the arrowhead burst inside of him, releasing an EMP blast that disabled the nanobots throughout the Imp's body. He screamed as the kryptonite began hurting the Superman inside him, weakening him.

"Not so super now, are you?" you sneered at him. He roared at you and began pummeling you with a rapid flurry of punches to the head and the stomach, not leaving you a lot of time to counter. Everyone else watched in horror as you were getting beat to ****. After exerting a lot of energy into the whole fight, fatigue caught up to him as he panted heavily, glaring angrily at you as you looked like Rocky Balboa after getting plenty of hits himself... Imp surprised the others as they watched him grow claws of his own, and made them, surprisingly, flaming claws.

"Die...!" He shouted, plunging his claws into your chest! Harley gasped as tears slid down her cheeks while the others just watched as you hunch over, making groaning and croaking sounds. You grab his wrist as his eyes went as wide as his devilish smile of victory. "You lost. And now, there's no hope left for any of you heroes..."

"Wrong..." you croak. He breathed, 'What...?' and you tell him, "You're the one that bombed..." He narrowed his eyes at your emphasis, then he heard a ticking sound from behind... He turned his head and caught notice of a teleport construct, a time bomb. "We both die." You quickly yet roughly pull away from his flaming claws, screaming harshly from the pain.

Imp was feeling scared now, something he never felt before. ****... The bomb went off and pushed the Imp over the ledge, screaming as took a plunge into the pit. With a splash, only his hand stuck out from beyond the surface before it too sank out of sight, bubbles popping up in its place. In the meantime, the others caught you and Fire closed the wound with her own heat, yelling out your groans of pain.

You felt exhausted. Sleepy... "Did-- did we win?"

"You did it..." Harley smiled tearfully. "You beat the little devil." You aim your smile at her, and then towards the others.

"Couldn't of... done it with-- without you. Guys..." And those were your last words, before you breathed out your last. Your eyes stayed open... They all realized what you sacrificed to save mankind, and Harley just lost it, sobbing uncontrollably as the ladies also shed tears from losing you... The men looked dismayed with scrunched-up eyebrows, and Sir Justin drew out his magical sword, raising in honor of your heroic deed.