Intraspace -- The "Suicide Notes" finale!

[jla_villains]

Ray Palmer's been freed, but the Justice League and their allies are now faced with both a dying and homicidal Enchantress, and a Chronos from somewhere further in the future that seems Hell bent on trapping everyone where they are in order to prevent some future event -- training his first sneak attack on the Cosmic Treadmill that helped bring

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[jean_loring]

The mystic energy -- constrained by Faust and the Stranger -- burns Jean Loring's body like a phoenix. She screams, and the screams seem to echo across the formless void.

The force of her power buffets the mages' wills ... it's like containing a hurricane.

[og_outsiders]

Faust concentrates and turns on the pressure, lending his strength and will to the considerably more powerful Stranger.

But it's his will here that'll make the difference. It has to.

If Loring dies like this, we all die, and so does June. I can't let that happen.

But he doesn't say that. Instead he says, "C'mon Stranger ... one more push and she's caged."

It'll have to do ... for now.

[grey_walker]

The Stranger's power intensifies to meet the task at hand, his magic interweaving with Faust's.

"I will not falter, Sabastian."

It is always difficult to determine where the Stranger's attention is focused, thanks to his pupilless eyes, but it almost seems as if he's watching Faust, rather than the Enchantress.

[og_outsiders]

Faust falls silent, a sure sign that he's working overtime to strengthen the eldritch binds that are containing the Enchantress' energy. His mind races as he works -- his father selling his soul for power ... his own rebellion, joining the Outsiders ... Slicing the Enchantress' throat to reignite Hell ...

And he doesn't feel any of it. He just knows what he's supposed to do.

Words form on his lips ... inhuman words that have never been uttered on Earth, their syllables alien and disconcerting.

The Enchantress screams as lightning cages Jean Loring's body.

Squirming and screaming, the woman falls, the mystic energy contained ... but not yet gone.

"This isn't over, is it?" says Faust, to no one in particular.

[reducing_ray]

"No," says Ray, spitting blood as he staggers to his feet. "Just a bit more to go."

He rips the mask off Chronos, and reveals a David Clinton who's easily in his mid-'60s, with various mechanical devices embedded in his body.

"He's barely human anymore," says Ray, looking down at the unconscious villain. "This is what our fights brought him."

He coughs, and shakes it off.

"No time. Insane as it sounds, Chronos ... or whomever's behind him ... was willing to risk erasing our entire timeline if he couldn't get rid of me and Jean, and now we need to disarm him."

[og_outsiders]

"What about her," says Faust, nodding at the Enchantress. "She's still ..."

[reducing_ray]

"I know," says Ray, curtly cutting him off. "One problem at a time."