New Apokolips

New Apokolips is the fifty third chapter in the Wombles Eight.

Everybody turned to look at Hermione. Harry protested. “No he is not! I’ve met her father!”

“No, Mr Potter. You’ve met her step-father.”

“No… Green Lantern is definitely not my father.” Said Hermione. “I know my father, and he doesn’t look like that.”

“You know your step-father!” said Darkseid. “Hal Jordan is your father! Hal, do you remember that dream you had which got you locked up? Where Batman was threatening Hermione and you killed him while screaming something about him killing your daughter? You actually screamed ‘You nearly killed my daughter!’. It was a premonition to tell you that Hermione was your daughter but nobody understood it.”

“But then… Who’s her mother?”

“Her mother is Mrs Granger.”

“But I don’t remember ever being with somebody called Granger…”

“You idiot! She wasn’t called Granger before she was married!”

“Then what was she called?”

“How should I know?! Now shut up because the Anti-Life equation is being extracted!”

The crowd watched as a wobbly cylinder-shaped white light emerged from the tip of the key and started to enter into Darkseid through his skin pores. Darkseid closed his red eyes and grinned broadly and then everything went red.

Everybody had emerged back on earth… or had they? It looked like Earth but it also looked very dangerous and red and fiery and not like Earth at all. Darkseid was there.

“A lot of times when you thought you were in hell you were actually in Apokolips.” He said. “But now that place is gone. So I say goodbye to old Apokolips… AND WELCOME TO NEW APOKOLIPS!”