The Justice Society Of America
Prologue
In the opening credits we are taken to ancient Egypt, we see mountains of pyramids and views of vast temple cities sprawled along the sandy plains. (The opening soundtrack is from an anime series called ‘Yugioh’ and the theme is called Transformation).
We then focus on a huge city off in the distance, clearly bigger in both size and wealth, during this process there is a voiceover.
Nabu: ‘In the golden days of old, when peace was not achieved by war but through leadership, when soldiers fought to build not destroy and when a man’s respect was earned what they achieved reigned Prince Khufu, soon to be king and whose reign had already brought his people further than any leader before him…. And though his reign as Prince was great, his reign as King would be short, for one night his future shall be tested and his fate will be forever sealed'.
Chapter 1
The credits end in the open courtyard with the great city and the focus is on two men walking through, one is fairly young and dressed up in gold and fancy clothing, clearly someone of great importance while the other is much older, very frail and though wears some gold is more covered in simpler robes. These two were the more important and without doubt most powerful men in Egypt, Prince Khufu himself and his royal advisor and trusted friend Seer Nabu.
Khufu: ‘It’s calm tonight’.
Nabu: ‘You seem troubled by calm my Prince’?
Khufu: ‘What is it they say old friend, its only calm before the storm’.
Now at this point the pair look up towards one of the stretched balconies and standing there are three beautiful woman above them but the one in the middle, slightly more beautiful than the other two looks down towards Khufu and their eyes meets sharing an equal smile.
Nabu just looks towards the Prince.
Nabu: ‘Would it be no dangerous to open your heart Khufu, there can be no king without a queen and the only thing missing in your life is what is of greatest importance for any man’?
Khufu’s eyes leaves the woman’s.
Khufu: ‘I cannot just force my mind to love Nabu, when I find the right woman I have no doubt a wedding would be in order but I shall not give my heart to someone just because Egypt needs a Queen, she will find me my friend’.
Nabu: ‘No my prince, you are about to find her’.
Chapter 2
The scene immediately switches to earth’s atmosphere and storming towards it a burning spaceship.
The camera then goes back to the pair in the temple and as they look up in the night sky can see the burning light plummeting towards them.
Nabu remained perfectly still however the prince sensing dangers calls out to his guards, calls for his army and instructs the woman and children to run to the temple in safety.
As the ship quickly approaches there is much panic spreading around the city but under Khufu’s charge the defence was readied and within seconds he had an entire army rallied to him prepared to take on whatever there gods had cast upon them.
They gazed as the ship flies over them and crashes in the sandy plains of the desert, with that the Prince calls for his horse and with Nabu mounting beside him leads the charge out of the cities gates towards the crash site.
When they get there the entire Egyptian army surrounds the mysterious object and both Khufu and Nabu approach what looked like to them the gate of the ship, suddenly a bright light emerges from the wreckage a figure could be seen from a revolving door, it look humanoid but also something else, as the Egyptians looked on the figure walked out of the light and into the clearing. It was a woman but nothing like any of them had seen before she wore strange armour and possessed wings resembling a bird.
The army armed themselves in confusion, Nabu remained silent and completely unfazed by anything that had transpired that night but Khufu lowered his defences completely in awe by what he was seeing, she’s beautiful he thought.
Suddenly the woman turns towards Khufu.
Woman: ‘You there, who is the general of this army’.
Khufu stepped forward half acknowledging what she said and half to get a better look at her.
Khufu: ‘These men are under my command and by order of my ruling of this land command who you are’.
As Khufu spoke the woman suddenly clutched her side and fell to her knees as Khufu rushed towards her he could see she was bleeding a lot and calls for his army to take her to his palace immediately to be cared for, then he feels the woman grab his arm.
Woman: ‘Who are you’. She asks.
Khufu: ‘Just a King’ he jokes…. ‘Khufu’.
The woman nods ‘I’m Shayera. She then collapses in the princes arms.
Chapter 3
Once again we skip ahead a few weeks and another voiceover from Nabu emits from the background.
Nabu: ‘From that moment Egypt experienced a peace it had never known, Prince Khufu and the Lady Shayera fell in love from that night and soon after a wedding was commissioned giving the Prince a wife…. and Egypt a King’.
'The Queen Shayera soon shared with the King and their people some of her peoples secrets about her technology and salvaged contents from her ship which she called Nth metal, with this knowledge and resources the Egyptians became near invincible compared to any of its enemies with weapons defences and strategies overwhelming any resistance, but the greatest secret of the Nth metal she only shared with her King, and through otherworldly construction she made him an armour of fine craft and two giant wings much like her own attached to the back, with the ability of the Nth metal he could defy gravity and thus giving the king the power to fly alongside her’.
Nabu: ‘Egypt became a paradise, but like all paradises it was soon to suffer a terrible fate, for my eyes were unfocused and though I have hidden my true identity from these mortals even the King himself , I was unaware of the danger that lurked within the cities walls and through all my power was not prepared for what fate was to deal me’.
We see the old man Nabu alone in his chamber deep in thought, suddenly the flames on the candles spread around the room blow out as a strange wind carries itself across the room.
The old man sensing danger turns around and glares at his dark chamber, something was there and Nabu readied himself, to long had he hid in this old mortal form and whatever was in the room with him, he would need all his power to protect him for he was no mere priest nor was he a mere man, he was the true Lord of Order Nabu and there were few things in the universe that gave him cause to be wary, but on this occasion he was.
Suddenly a dark mist sprawled around the floor and took a humanoid shape directly opposite Nabu, shrouded in darkness apart from a pair of glowing red eyes and a deep creepy laugh echoing from the mist.
Voice: ‘You still remain here deity among these savages, these rodents you actually pretend to be one of them thinking you can help them to their salvation, but I can see in their hearts and it still holds much darkness…. My darkness, make no mistake Nabu humanity are my play things not yours’.
Nabu: ‘I know who you are and as always you are wrong, no longer are these people savages they are civilised, they no longer hide in the dark they walk in the light and you demon will never claim them’.
In that second the image of the old man is surrounded by a blinding light that blazes the darkened room and reveals the being in the chamber much more clearly.
Then through the light a different being has replaced the spot where the old man was, and unlike his old frail disguise he had before he know reveals his true form…. Doctor Fate.
The dark being just laughs once again.
Voice: ‘You dare call me a demon, you fool know now that I am nothing but a God’.
And with that the beings red eyes begin to glow and shoot out to blood red rays out of his eyes directly at the Lord of Order.
Doctor Fate: ‘No you are nothing but evil, and you shall not interfere with my work here agent’.
As the omega beams hits Fate he utters a chant and is able to absorb the beams to go directly through him, although it is obvious that he is slightly fazed by the attack, in seconds the two are locked in a battle of magic and might blasting the both of them out of the chamber and through the walls of the palace.
(It is important however that throughout the fight the being obviously being Darkseid should never be completely revealed but instead is constantly covered in shadows or conjured dark mists only his face should be somewhat revealed.)
As the fight continues the pair exchange words.
Darkseid: ‘You cannot kill me, I am everlasting and eternal’.
Fate: ‘It is not death that awaits you demon but whatever your purpose here, you will not succeed and no harm shall be brought to my king by your hand’.
Darkseid laughs once again.
Darkseid: ‘By my hand you fool, that matter has already been taken care of my only purpose here was to distract you’.
At that moment Nabu realises that Darkseid is just distracting him but during this pause the dark God unleashes his full power against him and though causes Nabu to fade and disperse the sorcerer manages suck his opponent into the energy blast resulting in them both disappearing.
The next scene is in the Royal Palace chamber with both King Khufu and Queen Shayera in their Nth metal armour and weapons spread across the stone units throughout the room.
Khufu: ‘What is it my love’.
Shayera: ‘My people would be wondering were I am, at some point they will come to find me, I just don’t think when they realise what I’ve done and what I’ve given you and your people they would understand’.
Khufu: ‘I’m sure they shall, what you’ve done is helped us, made us better than what we were, you’ve given us peace’.
Shayera: ‘Not just that, I’ve done something with humanity that goes against the laws of my people’.
Khufu: ‘What’?
Shayera looks towards her husband, ‘I fell in love with you’.
As the two embrace a servant bursts through the chamber doors.
Servant: ‘My King, we are under attack advisor Nabu calls for your help’.
Khufu’s face turns to horror, grabs his Nth metal battle mace and rushes out the door leaving Shayera alone with the servant.
Shayera: ‘I must go too’.
But at that moment the robed servant gave a menacing smile and blocked the Queens path.
Shayera: ‘What are you doing, let me through…. Now’.
Servant: ‘Apologies my Queen but your interference with my lord’s plan has gone on long enough and cannot continue’.
From this point Shayera gets concerned and flies out of the servants way to the other side of the room and grabs her mace but in doing so leaves herself open to an attack and a great beam shoots out of the servants hands and hits Shayera.
Although most of the dark magic gets absorbed through her mace it’s clear she too feels a part of the pain and drops her weapon and kneels in defeat.
Shayera: ‘What are you’ she gasps.
Servant: ‘Me… merely a servant to a power even your race couldn’t possibly imagine, Lord Darkseid’.
As the dark sorcerer gloated Shayera took a deep breath and screamed for the king hoping he could hear her.
The scene then moves to King Khufu flying through the temples halls but upon hearing Shay era’s scream turns back and quickly flies to her realising he had been deceived.
Servant: ‘Your screams won’t save you, together I could not have possibly matched your strength but separated, confused and lost in mind, I can take you down without breaking sweat’.
He once again unleashes more dark energy from his fingertips and through the screams King Khufu could hear as he approached his chamber he knew it meant only one thing, as he swooped inside he saw Shayera laying nearly lifeless on the floor and held her once again in his arms just like when they first met only this time he knew she wouldn’t recover.
Khufu: ‘Shayera…. Shayera please speak to me’.
Shay eras eyes opened slightly and whimpered ‘behind you’.
With the kings defences down the servants appears and attacks him from behind hitting him with the same amount of power as he did Shayera, but Khufu proved stronger willed and did not accept defeat so easy and whilst been struck by the sorcerers magic again and again he slowly rose to his feet picked up his battle mace and closed in towards the warlock.
As the King got close enough he lifted his mace and just before succumbing to excruciating pain he screams and swings his mighty weapon crashing it at the sorcerers head causing him to explode into a black mist.
Khufu collapses in his victory but as he looked upon his wife his victory became short lived, no longer did she breath, no longer did she move in pain…. His beloved was dead.
As he picks up his wife’s lifeless body he cries in disbelief and calls for his advisor Nabu to help him but as the guards rush in not one of them were his priest.
Khufu: ‘WHERE IS NABU’ he screamed at one of the guards.
Guard: ‘Disappeared my king, no one has seen him once all night, he’s just gone’.
Khufu: ‘THEN JUST LEAVE ME’ he roars.
As his guards leave him to mourn a laugh can be heard and a spiritual form of the dark sorcerer appears behind him. Everything had happened exactly as both he and his master wanted it too and with no Nabu to give him help and no Shayera to give him hope the King was a broken man.
At this point the dark plans are realised and after this moment Khufu’s reign was about to end and Egypt and all its glory were about to fall.
After that the spirit lets out a shrieking wail and disappears for good, but drops a small dagger from where he once stood.
As the king gazed at the small weapon he knew what the spirit wanted him to do, he knew that his people still needed him but he didn’t care, his pain gave him anger, his grief made him selfish and without the wisdom of his advisor and friend he was lost.
He picks up the dagger and whilst looking once more at his wife he thrusts the blade into his chest and falls next to his wife taking in his last breath and dies in his chamber.
But all was not lost suddenly the symbol of Nabu glows just above the fallen King and Queen and a voiceover can once again be heard by Doctor Fate.
‘Love remains until undone
Death will strike only one
The one alive shall feel their pain
Until they too would be slain
Then reborn and found your past
Your love will kindle at long last
But this curse must know no end
And in time your hearts shall break again’.
The scene goes black.