It all started when a crystal dropped into existence, punched a hole in time and space and landed into the lap of one the most insane men to ever walk the Earth. At first, the clown didn't know what he had been gifted with, stuck in his cell in Arkham, staring at the reddish purple crystal laying innocently on the dirty stone floor. And then the voices started, telling him of another universe, talking of power and chaos beyond what he could have ever dreamed. Joker followed through, wanting to know where this would go, wanting to find out just how much fun it would be.

With a little strong armed help, a machine was rigged to harness the power in the little crystal and much too eager for the party to begin, Joker tossed the switch. In a sudden, disorienting flash the maps of the world had changed, people and things that had never even been seen in a dream suddenly blinked into existence, the clowns world had collided with another. It's only been a few months since then and uneasy alliances have formed between the heroes of either word, the villains though, oh those crafty villains, they have a trick or two up their collective sleeves.

Brought together in an admittedly shaky truce under one man, their goal was to bring the SHIELD organization and all heroes associated with it to their knees. And they did. Loki got his scepter back, and in the aftermath of the commotion, while the ruins of facilities still smoldered and the dead were still being mourned, the real reason reared its ugly head. The tentacles of the once thought dormant HYDRA moved, and in a plan both brilliant as it was disturbing, they let loose a mutagenic virus on the world. Some people were naturally resistant, some have begun to mutate, some simply died from the strain on their bodies.They framed the mutants for it, but what no one planned on was the mutagenic virus reanimating the dead.

All of this served to catch the eye of Black Hand, the Lantern of Death. Black Rings went out to some as he quietly began to build an army. The heroes were preoccupied trying to clean up the mess left by the virus. A new world meant new recruits to add to William 'Black Hand' Hand's silently growing army of zombies, all brandishing Black Lantern Rings. He means to throw everything into perpetual darkness with no way for light to ever cut through to the people of Earth again. In hopes of stopping this darkness before it spreads across the universe, chosen few are being sent Lantern Rings from all colors of the spectrum. It's time to join a side and show the world we wont back down.

that they won't back down