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When the Gulag breaks open, the Justice League clash with the bloodthirsty inmates, while Superman and Captain Marvel battle (Marvel countering Superman by summoning lightning with his magic word "[[Shazam (comics character)|Shazam]]!") The Spectre and Norman watch, helpless (or unwilling) to do anything. Batmans forces join the fray, aiding Superman's League is quelling the riot, but also attemtping to stop Superman anfd his allies from imposing their narrow rules upon all metahumans. Batman, wearing an armored battle suit with the power of flight, comes into direct conflict with Wonder Woman. The sheer power of the conflict threatens to destroy the nation...and perhaps the world.
 
As the conditions of the war worsen, shaking the earth and blackening the sky, the [[United Nations]] Secretary General Wyrmwood authorizes the deployment of three tactical [[nuclear weapon|nuclear warheads]], hardened against certain metahuman powers. While this action will destroy hero and villain alike, the UN feels it has no choice in the matter; if mankind is to survive, metahumanity must be destroyed. This genocide is the UN's attamptattempt at saving the world from a inevitable human/metahuman war. As Wyrmwood says; "Listen to me and understand! There is nothing logical about dispatching tactical nuclear weapons into the heart of my own country!...The only way to ensure that future generations remember this as our final option is to insure there are future generations after this day..."
 
===Armageddon===