The YJA Finale - End of Worlds

Mary would set the tone for the conflict, sending the remains of the Sanctuary III crashing down upon Darkseid, destroying his Palace-City, and crushing him under tons of metal and wood.

Exploding from the debris angrily, he lunged towards the Avengers was held at bay but repeated blows from Superboy, Supergirl, and Mary Marvel; who delivered vicious fly-by attacks.  This allowed a pincer movement by Ken and Mel, who gravely pierced him with their weapons - The Sword of Power and the Sandblade of Dreams.

Reeling from the attack, he launched Omega Beams at Kentauride, but she barely deflected them away with her Sword. She returned that with impaired him in his stomach with her artifact blade.  Even the god of Apokolips could not withstand the might of these wounds.  As a cloud of ash borne from Unicron's attack covered the sky in further darkness, Darkseid collapsed to his knees.  A surprised look appeared on his face.

With Orion erased from existence, he had assumed there was no one who could defeated him.  Superman, one of the most powerful heroes in the galaxy, had tried and failed on numerous occasions.  How was this Olympian, Centaur, and young Human able to best him in this way.  Attempting one last time to fire his Omega Beams, he was instead quickly dispatched by Kentauride and Melinoe.

Then Darkseid, son of Zonus, Lord of Apokolips, died.

With his death, Apokolips also was in its death throes.  Feeling compassion for the parademons and other former slaves on the planet, Mary Marvel used the remaining power of the White Lantern to generate a wave of Lifebringer energy.  This wave turned Apokolips into a verdant world and transformed the White Dwarf into a main-sequence G-Class star.  The parademons, now freed of their conditioning and implants, began the process of creating a new civilization.

From the corpse of Darkseid emerged a sickly black stone, wreathed by the red energy of the Anti-Life Equation.  Thane, who had quietly joined the battle with his Chitauri honor guard, stepped past the collected heroes to claim his birthright.  He reached out and grabbed the Entropy Stone, tearing it from the crimson halo in which the stone was suspended.  The Anti-Life Equation screamed as Thane drew the power into himself, sending the thing-that-should-not-be scurrying back to the dark fringes of reality.

Thus Thane, son of Thanos, became The Destroyer, the Final God of Entropy, and the master of New Apokolips, also known as Wraithworld.

A YJA Moment - Dark Fractured by Daylight

Unicron bit deep into Apokolips, shattering a portion of the planet's crust, spilling fire and debris out into space.  In complete disarray, the Army of Darkness attempted to concentrate their fire but were hindered by a counter-attack by the reinvigorated and regrouped Army of the Light.  Then Unicron transformed into his humanoid form and plunged his hand into one of the Hell-Pits, as the other one swatted away Shadow vessels and Star Destroyers.

Then Darkseid floated up from the planet, his eyes flaring with energy.  His Omega Beams cut through Unicron repeatedly, causing terrible damage to its systems.  Despite being heavily wounded, the giant Transformer repeatedly struck the world, threatening to split it completely open.  Eventually, it could not stand the attack any longer and mighty Unicron retreated, and its scarred and wounded form left the battlefield and entered Hyperspace.

The damage was done.  Apokolips was in ruins and the Army of Darkness was in full retreat.  The mighty swarms of parademons swiftly moved to the fore and were able to momentarily stem the advance, but the fleets of the Light, backed by the massive firepower of Warworld Nul, seemed unstoppable.  The bodies of hundreds of thousands of Parademons burned up in the Apokopian atmosphere, a literal rain of fire in the sky complimenting the inferno on the surface.

The Mythic Avengers had been trying to seek out the Lord of Apokolips to confront him, but the massive scale of the planet had initially made that task very difficult.  With his emergence to deal with Unicron, they knew exactly where he was.  But was the Sword of Power, the Whtie Lantern, and the Mark of Cain enough to deal with the Omega Beams?  With the combined power of the Mark and her godhood, she could probably survive a singular blast...but would they need to put that to the test?

As they descended towards the Palace-City, they saw Darkseid standing on its roof.  He looked out into space and gazed upon his fractured armada and the unrelenting advance of his enemies.  With little visible emotion, he turned to the arriving Mythic Avengers and smiled darkly.  

"You wish to end this and so do I.  The Fourth World is ending; Let us decide who chooses the Fifth". 

With his eyes glowing with the Omega Effect, he clenched his fists and readied himself for combat. The final Battle was about to commence.

A YJA Moment - The Titans Emerge

 When things seemed to be lost, the Army of Light's reinforcements arrived.  A fleet of ships from previously-neutral species emerged from FTL to flank the swelling ranks of Apokolips. Klingons were joined with Romulans and Cardassians, while Kree and Skrulls united in order to strike hard against the Dark Fleet.  Even the Sinestro Corps and Red Lantern Corps joined the fray. They were led by the Millennium Falcon, piloted by Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

As soon as the Falcon entered realspace, it broke away from the others and set a course for Apokolips.  Sinestro and Atrocitous and a handpicked force of starships cleared a path towards the planet.  With covering fire from Battle-Sphere Nul, plunged into the Apokolips atmosphere, dodging the planetary defenses long enough to drop a beacon onto its surface. It dug deep into the surface as the Correllian vessel assumed escape velocity and rejoined the front lines.

The reasons for these tactics became clear minutes later when another metal planetoid appeared. The beacon had been broadcasting a signal resembling the emanations of the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. The Autobot Hot Rod had been using this signal for weeks to draw the enemy of all-Cybertronians across Known Space, so it could be used against Darkseid.  The planetoid growled angrily, as it crashed into the front lines and consumed thousands of vessels into its gigantic maw.

Unicron had arrived.

Crashing through the front lines of the Shadow War, Unicron consumed anything in its way regardless of their allegiance.  The Army of Light knew of its threat and mostly were able to move out of the way, but the Army of Darkness suffered heavy losses.  Spaceships were not the goal of the planetoid, however, and it went straight towards the planet Apokolips.  It opened its great maw to its farthest extent and descended on the world.

A YJA Moment - Sanctuary Fall

The Mythic Avengers continued making their way through the Sanctuary III.  The group split up, with Kentauride heading towards Engineering, Melinoe towards Weapons Control, and Mary Marvel heading to Life Support.  While Ken and Mel created much chaos within the ranks of the crew, Mary did the most disruption - Using the power of the Lifebringer, she birthed a giant vine lifeform in the center of the ship, its tendrils snaking through the air ducts to cause damage on a mass scale throughout the ship.

When it looked like the New Army of Light was holding its own, tragedy struck. A giant Boom Tube appeared behind the Sanctuary III, causing gravimetric waves across the entire battlefront.  Emerging from the portal was a blackened world, covered in deep volcanic pits.  A singular gigantic pit at its rear, propelled it forward, as it spat forth swarms of parademons and hunger dogs to reinforce the lines of the Army of Darkness.  Apokolips has arrived.

The fleets of Light were initially overwhelmed by the onslaught, hundreds of ships torn apart before they could reinforce their defenses.  The Army of Darkness pushed forward, driving a wedge in the alliance's front lines.  Split apart, and struggling to survive, the forces of the Light attempted to strategically retreat and regroup but found themselves outflanked and outmaneuvered.

With parademons spilling into Sanctuary III, the Mythic Avengers were aided by Green Lanterns Guy Gardner and Kilowog in escaping, leaving the starship as Mary's lifeform burst through the hull like a giant oasis in space.  Though the flagship of the Dark Fleet had been destroyed, the tide was not in their favor, even with Warworld providing supporting fire against the onslaught of the Fourth World.

Kentauride had the Lanterns send them toward Apokolips to seek out Darkseid and end this once and for all.