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(Jon's P.O.V)
"Any idea to get past the prison of portals?" I asked Grandpa, overclocking my thinking speed to find a solution.
[I have been running calculations based on the Chaos energy scans by the Crystal Pendant and the only way to disrupt the portals is by destabilizing the space around them]
"How?" I wondered, going through the catalogue of abilities at my disposal for one that could do that.
"Come here!" Klarion launched out numerous tentacles from every portal at me moving at speeds faster than lightning. I had to constantly keep moving, made possible by Ki enhancing my speed and One-ness giving me a sort of danger sense.
"Grandpa?" I called out hoping for a response soon. Even One-ness had it's limits, not to mention Raven and Kara needed me.
[I have it! By targeting all portals at once, you'll cause an uniform collapse of their redirection effects that will destroy each from the inside]
"Got it." I dodged the magical limbs and looped back around to the center of the portal prison where I stopped and floated.
"Giving up?" The Witchboy snickered. "Too little too late!"
His tentacles converged in from all directions, the ends molding into sharp tips. An instant before I was turned me into a seave, the tentacles stopped with a sudden halt.
"What did you do bastard?! Why can't I stab you?!" Klarion yelled out.
"What's wrong Witchboy? Unfamiliar with concepts like Gravity or Magnetic fields? That's what happens when you have great power but lack imagination." I tsked, applying my psionic energy as a rotating magne-telekinetic field that copied the repulsion and attraction mechanics of Gravitational bodies relative to me.
As a result, the space around the tentacles was effectively trapped in place by two opposing forces applying incalculable pressure.
"You can't do that! How can you do that?!" He screeched, causing the tentacles to vibrate in place.
"I don't fully understand it myself. You're the Chaos Lord and Illogic is your domain, so you tell me." I shrugged which only angered him more. Leading to the portals to double and the tentacles to multiply, even though nothing could make it past my gravity field.
'Trying to overwhelm me with numbers huh? But you fucked up. Throwing so much power revealed your location.' I thought to myself as a combination of my Ki sense and One-ness alerted me of Klarion's position.
The reason finding him at first was difficult was in part due to him spreading his essence through the portals.
[Do it now. Show this magic leach the strength of a Kryptonian.] Grandpa encouraged.
"With pleasure."
All at once, a purple aura flashed into visibility, covering everything within a zone of 100 meters in a layer of psionic energy. That included me, the Tentacles and the portals.
"Wh- what is this?!" Klarion demanded, his control over the portals lost. The second function of the magne-telekinetic field was to spread out and infuse the 100 meter diameter zone with my psionic energy, effectively giving me full control of everything inside it.
I clenched my fists and crushed the space around every single portal at once. The tentacles wilted and tore apart, ground to ash like dry bark under an industrial hydraulic press.
The repulsion force reversed, pulling in the chaos remains of Klarion and his familiar into a red ball of fragmented consciousnesses that resembled blood.
My vision burned red.
Klarion's mind panicked. "Wait—"
I didn't give him a chance.
I reached out— and with my Ki mastery, ripped out his very Physical Essence from the blood ball. Chaos Lords had no real material presence and only existed on Earth through familiars.
So I was not surprised when his Physical Essence turned out to be Teekl- now a regular cat looking around nervously.
I placed It on my shoulder and refocused on Klarion's spirit, a crimson chaos energy being that was mentally screaming while being banished from this plane.
[Good Job Jon-El]
"But it's not over yet." I grunted, dissolving the magne-telekinetic field just as the Crystal Golem attacked me from the ground.
But this time I knew better than to hesitate. Enhancing my speed with Ki and reducing drag with a Psionic shroud, I weaved around the attack effortlessly.
Child barely had time to react before I was in front of her and her Golem.
Her blank expression shattered into fear. Her mouth opened to say something.—
But I had already cleaved through her familiar's crystal chasis with a wave of pure, unfiltered Death Ki.
The Golem shattered and Child herself fractured, splitting like porcelain and turning into motes of crimson energy that were banished back to the chaos realm.
The only evidence of her presence were the crystal remains of the Golem. Which disappeared into the Crystal Pendant's small spatial storage.
With her gone, the sky returned to normal, the trees stilled and the water shifted back into liquid.
The quiet was broken by shuffling feet and heavy breathing. Raven gave me a thumbs up leaning on Kara's shoulders as they approached.
"I'm seriously getting sick and tired of this stupid rock." Kara growled, kicking the piece of Kryptonite formerly in Child's possession, now currently on the ground into the swamp water.
"Speaking of stupid..." We turned our attention to a stiff Savage.
For the first time during the exchange, I saw something resembling fear flicker in his eyes.
I exhaled slowly, stepping forward. "I should kill you."
Savage straightened in falsed bravado. "You can try but I always come back."
I met his gaze and immobilized him with psionic. "Once again, you underestimate me and overestimate your ability."
Ki brimmed in my palm as I reached into him.
Deep.
Deeper than flesh, deeper than bone—into the core of what made Vandal Savage who he was.
His immortality wasn't just a gift. It was a wound. A scar across time, carved into his very being by the meteor that had made him more than human.
The Physical Energy inside him was old, thick with millenia of stolen vitality. He had lived longer than entire civilizations, watched empires rise and fall, shaped history itself.
And now—
Now it was mine. I wasn't merely copying his Ki Signature, I was devouring it. Absorbing the mutation that had made him unkillable.
"No...-"
Savage gasped, eyes wide, body trembling as raw life was torn from him.
His skin paled and wrinkled, muscles withering, the once-powerful figure unraveling in real-time. I could hear his heartbeat stuttering, slowing—
I saw age settle into his features and dark hair turned gray.
"Jon—"
Raven's voice cut through the haze.
I snapped my head toward her.
She was watching me, concerned. As if letting me know that the option to stop was available.
I exhaled sharply, severing the connection.
My body felt full and unmoored from permanent damage and even death, having absorbed enough of his physical energy that I was effectively Immortal.
Savage had collapsed, gasping, shuddering as his hands trembled in the mud beneath him. His skinned was sagged with the ravages of time and his eyes milky. He physically looked…100 and he felt...mortal.
He lifted his gaze to me, something unreadable in his expression. Then, slowly, he let out a breathless chuckle.
"Who- are you people?" he rasped, voice hoarse. "Have you seen my son Nabu?"
Even his mind had been affected. Without the constant regeneration from his powers, a normal brain would break under the strain of a thousand years memories.
I loomed over him, refusing to feel any pity. "I don't know. Maybe he's dead. Maybe you'll see him when you also die."
Pain flashed across his face. "Dead? I see. Thank you kind stranger."
"Don't mention it." I responded but he was no longer paying attention to me and only kept muttering while seated on the ground.
Raven limped to my side, eyes questioning. "You don't feel Mortal anymore."
"That's because I'm not." I told her, burning my finger with heat vision, only to watch as the flesh knitted back together and new skin emerged, leaving no trace of damage.
"Cool and all but what now?" Supergirl frowned at old man savage. "Should we finish it—?"
"No," I said sharply.
Savage was done. He knew it. We all did.
"Victor first," I muttered.
Supergirl and Raven didn't hesitate.
While they moved toward Victor and his father, I crouched in front of Savage, locking eyes with him.
"This is the end. After this, I will personally go after the other members and by this time tomorrow, the Light will be no more."
Savage blinked in confusion. "Light?"
"Don't worry about it, Old man. It doesn't concern you anymore."
I parted his shoulder before turning away.