.Location: Warhammer 40K Universe (W40K)

The Emperor of Mankind was watching over humanity from every part of the galaxy, guiding Imperial ships through the warp and on occasion, giving his miracles to his people, keeping the Webway sealed, powering the Astronamium and constantly fighting against foul daemons and the Gods of Chaos themselves. For ten thousand years he has been desperately trying to keep them from destroying humankind. He could hear their cruel laughter, mocking his attempts to protect his people. Every day, the Imperium lost more territory and blood to the likes of the Tyranids, Orks, Ruinous powers, Necrons, Dark Eldar and more. Every day, Guardsmen died in the millions, every day the tyranids devoured countless worlds as they approached Holy Terra. Every day, the Orks tore down planets too great to count; Necrons awakening, ready to harvest all life and the Chaos Gods preparing to take the universe for their own liking.

"Your time is at an end Anathema, soon we will destroy you and your pathetic empire!" Tzeentch said with glee, enjoying every moment of this.

"I won't let you win". The Emperor replied with fierce determination. He could hear Khorne promising he would turn all of his worlds, including Holy Terra herself red with blood; Nurgle elated that he would descend upon humanity with many plagues and diseases, tormenting them in their end days; Tzeentch over excited that his plans are coming to fruition, and finally Slaanesh promising him beyond pleasurable things if he just gave up.

The Dark Gods just continued laughing in their own arrogance and misgivings.

Suddenly, a rift in the warp appeared, and before the Chaos gods could do anything, the Emperor's body disappeared from the Golden Throne along with his mind and soul.

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Location: Justice League Animated Universe (JLAU)

A man awoke on the floor of a mountain.

And then he took his first true breath in over twelve thousand years.

The God-Emperor of Mankind looked around him and saw strange looking crafts flying through the sky. Then he saw even stranger looking individuals in colorful uniforms fighting the crafts. A woman with wings destroyed the crafts using a mace.

"Hawkgirl, what is she doing here?" A man in bat themed outfit asked. It reminded the Emperor of his son, Konrad Curze and his Traitor Space Marine Legion, the Night Lords.

"I called for her help, I will go and get them" A humanoid green skinned alien in blue tights with a cape replied as he soon joined by this Hawkgirl and man in red & blue tights, wearing an 'S' on his chest with a red cape; and another man glowing with a green uniform and a green lantern on his chest.

"Sorry about arriving late, had to deal with an uprising on Rigel 9." The man in green replied.

The individuals broke as they went on attacking the fighters.

The Emperor regained himself as he went through their minds, gathering information.

His eyes went wide, apparently he was on Earth in another dimension in the far, far past and these people were fending off an alien attack from the planet. The Emperor transformed from his godly form to one of that of an Imperial Lord Inquisitor, face hidden behind a mask and hid his presence in the warp. He got up and prepared to give assistance. A small time later, a stray shot hits the side of a mountain, stunning the Hawkgirl and sending her crashing to the ground.

Then a strikingly, captivatingly and almost ethereally beautiful raven haired woman with a perfect, athletic figure and deep captivating blue eyes blue eyes, wearing a red and blue swim suit-like uniform, red boots, silver bracelets, the old American stars on her bottom and a tiara; flew down and replied.

"Allow me." Even her voice was beautiful as she blocked the energy attacks from the alien ship, deflecting them and sending at the fighter destroying it but was now on a collision course with the two. The green uniform man blocked it and saved them.

"Who's the rookie with the tiara?" Green Lantern asked.

"I don't know." The man with 'S' on his chest replied as he hefted the alien fighter into a mountain, destroying it. They were joined by a man in red costume carrying a large piece of metal bat wing in his hands, he handed it to the Batman. Then he spotted the raven haired woman and decided to try his luck.

"Whoa...where have you been all my life?" The man in red costume asked.

"Themyscira." The raven haired woman replied, not understanding the flirtation of his words.

"What?" He asked, confused.

"That's the name of the all-female warrior culture of the Amazons; I thought it was just a myth" The Hawkgirl replied.

"I assure you it is as real as the ground we are standing on. I am Diana, princess of the Amazons." Diana said.

"We've got company!" The Batman replied.

More fighters appeared and got ready to attack. The Emperor then decided to act as he unleashed psychic bolts at the fighters, annihilating them for a lack of better word.

The heroes looked over and saw a man in a trench coat with a mask unleashing energy bolts from his hands. Reaching out with one hand, forming it into a fist, thus crushing the other fighters like soda cans. He then ran towards the edge of the mountain and waited for them to come.

The heroes were wondering what he was doing with Diana speaking.

"What in the name of Athena is he waiting for?" Diana asked.

He used the power of the warp to bend the laws of physics to his will and launched himself through the air at speeds stunning even the Flash as he latched on to a fighter. Lightning surrounded his body as the bolts lashed and covered the alien fighters in warp energy, before making them explode into debris and clouds a split second later. He turned and set out for fighters more distant from him as he used his mental power, tearing them apart before anyone had time to process his actions. With all other threats gone, the Emperor launched himself off the fighter he was latched on, performing a backflip and descending towards the ground to alight the heroes as the fighter he previously rode on exploded into a fiery explosion

The group was just stunned, this stranger just destroyed all the aliens without trying and they barely saw him. Lantern regained himself and aimed his ring at the stranger.

"Hold it! Get on the ground!" He commanded threateningly.

The Emperor replied by saying "I will not surrender nor am I here to fight you USMC Gunnery Sergeant John Steward."

John was momentarily surprised this man knew his name but recovered.

"Forgive me if I'm not convinced, now get down now!" John said.

"No, I will not Gunnery Sergeant, you are not above me and thus, I will not take orders from you." The Master of Mankind replied, curtly but calmly.

Superman then decided to cut in. "Easy Lantern we don't have the time to argue and he did help us after all." He said.

He lowered his ring, reluctantly.

The Emperor then walked over to the raven haired woman and asked. "Just who are you?" He asked.

Diana replied with a smile.

"I am Diana of Themyscira, I came here to help the world of men because I felt that even with me and my people protected by the gods, I had to act."

"I see then welcome aboard Princess, now who are you?" He directed at the Martian, despite already knowing who he was.

"I am J'onn Jonzz, I telepathically summoned everyone here except you." He said.

The Emperor quickly came up with a false identity. "I am Lord Inquisitor Hobert Fenger of the Ordo Xenos of the Imperium of Man. All you need to right know is there is an invasion and that I can help you."

J'onn then realized he couldn't sense anything from this man's mind. He would deal with that later.

"Look, I'm usually the kind of guy who's fast on the updates, but can someone at least tell me what the heck is going on." Flash said.

J'onn then began to tell them what happened on Mars a thousand years ago. How he had a great civilization and his people were a peaceful race. That all ended as the invaders came and attacked. They abhorred the idea of killing anyone but to save the life of their people they began to learn the ways of war. However, as time passed, they grew weaker and their enemy grew stronger and they even took their ability to shape shift.

He and his fellow surviving Martians launched one final desperate assault, it was successful but came at a fatal cost as J'onn was now the last of his people.

Flash didn't like this in the slightest and replied.

"Wait a minute, if that's the case then why didn't those astronauts on Mars didn't say anything about finding life on the planet?" He asked.

Lantern snorted at that and replied.

"Some pencil pusher back in Washington must have flagged the information "Top Secret." John said.

"No." The Emperor said simply as he shook his head slightly.

They all looked at him as Batman replied.

"What's your take on the situation then Inquisitor?" Batman asked.

"Two space explorers find life on Mars, only for the said life to be a parasite and not get Intel on it for it to be dealt with? An invading force of aliens are not going to allow themselves to be discovered before they can mount their invasion on a world. They would have silenced anyone who found them and made their move."

"You...mean that...?" Superman began to ask.

"Yes, J'onn did say the invaders had the ability to take their shape shifting powers and no doubt they used this ability to disguise themselves to infiltrate Earth by impersonating the space explorers and dismantling any weapons dangerous to them." The Emperor said.

"Senator Carter..." Superman muttered.

"Senator Carter never left Mars, no doubt he was killed and replaced by one of their own." The Emperor concluded.

Lantern growled at that and said. "Like hell they are! If they think we are going to let them set one foot on this world, they have got another thing coming!"

But the sky was soon being darkened and an unnatural cloud covered up the sky.

"What the heck is happening now?" Flash asked.

J'onn filled in.

"The Invaders are nocturnal creatures and do not operate in sunlight, that is why they are currently deploying special factories that releases a specially made ion particle field that helps block out the sun. They did the same on my planet and that aided them considerably at driving my people to extinction." J'onn said.

Flash decided to try and lighten up the mood, even though he knew it wouldn't sit well with others.

"Friends of yours?" Flash joked at Batman.

"This is not a time for jokes Flash." Batman replied, glaring slightly.

Flash went towards the Martian and said.

"Why are we worrying anyhow? All we have to do is make some of that gas and then knock them all out with it and finish them off before they can be the wiser, right? And I bet you have the gas with you as well right J'onn?" Flash asked.

The Emperor replied in a normal tone, but with a slight hint of sarcasm.

"Do you really think an enemy force is going to let that happen once they catch the one being who could warn us and stop them?" The Emperor said.

"Huh" Flash asked.

"What the Inquisitor means is that there is no way I can use the gas. When we developed it, we used several rare Martian plants to do it. They do not grow on Mars anymore since the invaders ravaged my homeworld. The samples I had used that were still viable were destroyed along with any sources that could be usable. There is no way to make the gas, at all." J'onn said grimly.

Flash didn't like that one bit.

"So, umm what is plan B?" Flash asked.

Diana then replied in her own way.

"Then we must focus on destroying the factories." Diana said.

The Emperor agreed with the logic of Diana's plan and spoke.

"I agree with Princess Diana, if we deprive them of those factories, we hamper their ability to move and fight, that makes it easier to take them out before their invasion is in full operation." The Emperor said.

Diana looked at the Emperor with a smile on her face, it was somewhat surprising for her to hear a man agree with an Amazon. Usually, she would hear the men say no or that her idea was foolish just because she was a woman, as what her mentors told her.

'Perhaps man's world is not as bad as Mother said.' Diana thought.

Stewart, however was not very happy with that and replied.

"This is no time for amateur ladies, or hotshots with fancy magic tricks." Stewart said.

Diana was angry at that and was about to confront Lantern, but was beat to it by the Emperor.

Stewart found that he suddenly could not move, then he was telekinetically pulled to the Emperor's position, being held in place by the Emperor's psychic powers.

"Hot shots with fancy magic tricks? My dear boy, I have lived for longer than the people of this planet had discovered fire. I have fought against monsters you wouldn't have believed existed; I have stared deep into realms of eternal madness; I have fought against star devouring beings that could destroy entire civilizations and galaxies. Don't EVER call me a hotshot with fancy magic tricks." The Emperor said, narrowing his eyes with a slightly dark tone as he let him go.

The Lantern got up and backed away from the Emperor.

"Now, apologize to the Princess for your comment, the Earth needs every able body combatant it can get Gunnery." The Emperor commanded.

Lantern did just that, as he was still slightly frightened by the ancient psyker.

"Fine...sorry to you Princess." Lantern said.

The other members were bewildered by what just happened.

Batman was somewhat, but not all that surprised by the Emperor's reaction, though his face was neutral.

The Emperor then spoke.

"Now, here is what we are going to do. We are going to split into teams to handle the multiple objectives at hand, so we have a greater chance of taking them down. Going as full force would be a fool's errand as we would attract too much attention and likely get ourselves killed." The Emperor said.

The Emperor then brought up a psychic picture of Earth and the enemy invasion.

The Emperor pointed to a factory location in Egypt which was recently made, deep into the desert with no civilians in it and only two walkers guarding it.

"This factory in Cairo is newly established and not yet fully defended, if there is a weakness to be found on them, it would have to be there if we cannot use the gas J'onn had with him." The Emperor said.

Superman replied.

"That plan is the best we have at this point, now we have to decide who is going with who." He said.

Flash was fast to reach Diana and replied much to her surprise.

"Dibs on the Amazon." He said.

The Emperor saw Diana was not very comfortable and walked toward them than said.

"I believe that it is the Princess's decision on who she goes with Flash, not yours. Besides as an Amazon I have a feeling Princess Diana is not used to being around men and might take offense to what you're doing. Add to the fact her mother is the Queen and that she and her Amazons might... cut off a certain part of you if they find out. Well...take your pick." The Emperor said, somewhat joking at the end.

Hawkgirl smirked at the look of worry and fear on Flash's face as he moved away from the Amazon princess. Superman shook his head, it was time to move out.