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Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Two
Chapter Two of Five
He sat on the edge of the roof of the hotel feeling extremely uncomfortable in the clothes he’d been given. He knew it being the past though not his past which was still a head trip that they wouldn’t be what he was used to. He still felt slightly silly though and he especially hated the sunglasses they were just too small compared to what he was used to. It was a stupid thing to be obsessing over but it kept running threw his head.
“Oh I didn’t know anyone was up here,” Wonder girl said when she saw him. “I’ll leave,” She said and started to turn away she looked really upset so he called out for her to stop. She hesitated on the edge of the roof looking unsure before she slowly turned and set down.
“What’s wrong?” He asked deciding his worrying over the stupid little differences in clothes could wait. “You look like your having a bad day.” He waited for her to say something trying to ignore how much she looked like his girlfriend Karen.
“I just found out that my dad is Zeus,” She said after a moment. “I’d suspected it before but mom and Diana, everyone I trusted told me I was wrong.” She looked away and a tear rolled down her face. “I just heard Diana talking with the older me from the other world about how they asked her father Zeus to reveal Superwoman’s fate and he couldn’t.” She looked away. “How do I live with knowing I have a god as a dad.”
“It doesn’t get much easier,” he said to her causing her to look at him. “My dad isn’t a greek a god but he’s Superman which is pretty close.” He saw her smile and it once again reminded him of Karen. “My dad vanished when I was young and since I didn’t have any powers my mom just let me believe he was simply a missing reporter.” He looked out from the edge of the roof. “After a solar flare triggered my powers my first thought was that my mother had cheated on her husband with Superman.”
“I bet that was embarrassing.” She said laughing slightly. “You didn’t confront your mom about it did you?” She laughed even more when he said that he did but then she looked upset again. “I don’t know how to talk to my mom about being being Zeus’s daughter.” She then looked away. “Plus, I’m most likely going to forget everything after the next time everything finishes falling apart.”
“It’s supposed to begin tomorrow isn’t it?” He asked trying to remember what he’d been told about the situation he found himself in. “Do you think the changes will be as bad this time?” He only had a vague memory of being told how things had changed.
“I don’t know last time things happened pretty quickly but who knows what will happen this time.” She looked extremely uncomfortable. “I wish Kon wasn’t so busy with his future self doing whatever it is that they are doing.” She said after a moment. “I mean we haven’t even had a chance to talk about what’s going to happen when I forget all about our kiss.”
“They flew off in that direction a short while ago,” he pointed out where he’d seen them flying off. “You can probably catch up with them if you leave now.” He looked down. “If he won’t come to you go to him.”
“Thanks,” She said and lifted off. “I’ll see you later Jon,” she said and flew off. He settled back down on the edge fo the building and did his best not think about how much she reminded him of Karen.
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“Ready to try it again,” He said to his younger self who nodded. He said the code phrase and watched the boy froze and began trying to find something to shave his head. “Snap out of it Kon El use what you’ve been taught.” He waited and for a moment he seemed to be coming back to himself but then he snapped back into seek out and obey Luthor mode. “Okay M.B. bring him out of it.” The mother box Metron had given him complied and knocked his younger self out freeing him from his programming. He was glad the box had somehow stuck around threw the reboot as it allowed him to actually trigger his younger self and reverse it without too much risk.
“Why can’t I get this,” He said after he woke up. “No matter how hard I try whenever you say that phrase I go puppet and can’t do anything despite seeing and hearing everything.” He could see how frustrated his younger self was.
“You are getting better but mastering these techniques takes time,” He said. “You shouldn’t expect to master it in just a couple of days.” He recalled how much trouble he’d had mastering the technique. “I didn’t get it for a while and it’s taken years of practice to get to where I am now with it.” He heard someone approaching. “We have company coming, it’s your world’s Cassie,” He said identifying her. “You still haven’t told her have you?”
“How can I face her,” He said after a moment. “How can I tell her that I’m a ticking time bomb, that Luthor could set off against her and the rest of the team at any time.” He looked down. “I mean Robin knows he can keep the others safe if I snap after all he’s got access to Kryptonite.”
“I thought Robin could keep the others safe if something went wrong too,” He said turning away. “I broke his arm.” He watched his younger self look away. “Most of the final options Tim has against us would have to be fatal to work and Tim has trouble pulling that trigger.”
“Kon there you are,” Cassie said finally showing up. He watched his younger self still staring at the ground. “Kon is something the matter?” She asked worry starting to creep into her voice. “Kon talk to me?” She asked clearly agitated.
“I’ll leave you two alone to talk,” He said and rose up into the air flying far enough away that he would only hear them if he concentrated. He had no desire to listen to them discuss their relationship. He had no desire to revisit that part of his life so he closed his eyes and just let the wind blow against him.
“How dare you,” Cassie screeched loud enough that he had no choice about hearing her. Once his attention was gotten he couldn’t miss the sound of a slap that followed. He opened his eyes and looked over to see Cassie flying away in tears and his younger self sitting there looking horrified.
“You didn’t tell her?” He asked quickly approaching his younger self. It was a statement not a question because even Cassie at her most unstable being manipulated by Aries wouldn’t have slapped him for mentioning he was cloned from Luthor.
“No, I just couldn’t do it so I did the next best thing,” His younger self said looking away. “I broke her heart that’ll keep her away from me and safe.” He shook his head. “I know your going to say that was stupid but it was necessary I don’t want her ending up like Tana.”
“It’s your call,” He said and he shook his head. “Cassie, is most likely going to forget all this anyway maybe next time around you’ll be able to tell her.” He said but he knew that wouldn’t be easy for his younger self he remembered just how hard a time he’d had with it.
“I need to get back to the apartment building I’ve got some work that needs doing,” His younger self starting to leave. “I don’t suppose you can give me any hints to deal with that Run Riot gang that’s been a pain in my backside since I moved into the neighborhood.”
“Cooper, is Run Riot Yellow,” He said watching his younger self turn in shock. “Just go talk to him about it don’t fly off half cocked he’s had major second thoughts and in my world died a hero saving everyone from a bomb.” He saw his younger self staring at him in shock. “Just go talk to him with his help you can take the gang down without anyone getting hurt.”
“All right I’ll give him a chance to explain,” He said and took off. He considered following after him to make sure things turned out all right but stopped himself. He couldn’t solve every problem for his past self and if Metron was right and things were going to restart anyway his younger self would have a couple of chances to get this right.
“I see that you are putting the mother box I gave you to good use.” He turned to see Metron sitting there. “I have been going over my data and I believe that the reactions this time will be much more severe because there are two versions of Cassandra Sandsmark on the same hypertime plane.”
“Why are you just telling me,” He asked annoyed. “If your expecting me to break the bad news to the others I’d rather not be your messenger.” Metron ignored him and a screen appeared that showed several strange lines converging together.
“I am telling you because I will continue to need your services dealing with temporal anomalies.” Metron said turning back toward him. “By my calculations there should only be two to four anomalies this time but they will be much larger in size.” Metron turned toward him. “Each of them could involve multiple individuals and will require quick response time on your part to ensure the chaos does not get too bad.”
“So will they stick around like Jon and Doomsboy did or will they vanish when things reset again?” He asked wondering exactly how many extra people would be around before this was over. “Well Metron any idea?”
“Those that do not have a direct counterpart will most likely remain with us until the final reset,” Metron said looking at something his chair was displaying. “There is no way to know who will emerge from these temporal anomalies so an estimate on how many will remain is impossible.”
He didn’t have a reply to that so he just floated there wondering if Metron was going to say anything else. “You should return to the hotel and rest the first anomaly will probably occur shortly after the first break.” Metron then paused.
He nodded and left hoping nothing too dangerous would show up because he was not looking forward to finding out if the reset would heal any injuries he suffered or not. He thought it could go either way since Tim’s cowl was pulled back up when the reset was over with but he did have the mother box Metron had given him still strapped to his bicep.
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She made it back to the hotel and collapsed in her room on the bed furious with herself for ever thinking Kon cared about her. She could still see him smugly saying that the kiss they shared wasn’t special enough to do again. “Hey Wonder girl what’s the matter,” Doomsboy said standing in the doorway.
“Shouldn’t you be out with Slo-bo getting into bar fights and causing another riot.” She said angrily. She didn’t have the patience to deal with the ass hole clone of Doomsday right now. She frowned when he didn’t say anything just walked into her room and set on her bed. “Get out of here.”
“Hang on I need to be sitting for this or I’m going to give you a show,” He said and she nearly gasped in shock as he began to shrink with a grimace of pain. She stared at him as the bone spurs withdrew into his skin that was rapidly losing the grey color to be replaced by a more normal skin tone. His goatee and hair changed from the stark white to a rich red as he finally finished. “In my world you always liked me better like this.”
“I didn’t know you could take human form?” She said a bit surprised. He also looked a great deal like Kon only with red hair instead of black. He leaned back and she noticed how loose fitting his clothing was now and finally got what he’d meant by giving her a show if he wasn’t sitting down.
“I don’t like doing it much,” He said shaking his head. “I’m pretty much powerless like this and it hurts like hell to change between forms.” He leaned back and she avoid staring down at his bare chest. “You always seemed to like it though insisting I changed into it before you’d sleep with me.”
“Is that why your doing this trying to sleep with me on the rebound,” She said angrily. She resisted the desire to hit him and the fact he was just laughing at her was making it hard to do. “What now your going to claim you don’t want to sleep with me I’m much better looking than your Cassie.”
“I did this to get your mind off my idiot brother dumping you,” He said his mouth curving into a wicked grin. “If you wanted to sleep with me I wouldn’t say no,” His grin got even wider. “We’d have the best sex of your life and all but as pissed as you are at my stupid brother you aren’t that mad at him.”
“Your right I’m not,” She said shaking her head. She wasn’t ready to sleep with anyone let alone someone like Doomsboy despite how nice he seemed to be being. “I think you should change back and leave now.”
“Your loss,” he said and she watched as he grimaced in pain and the changes reversed themselves. “If you ever decide to have a wild night of sex that you’ll forget all about look me up I’ll change back for you.” She watched him go before laying back on the bed and trying to think.
To be continued.
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Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Two
Chapter Two of Five
He sat on the edge of the roof of the hotel feeling extremely uncomfortable in the clothes he’d been given. He knew it being the past though not his past which was still a head trip that they wouldn’t be what he was used to. He still felt slightly silly though and he especially hated the sunglasses they were just too small compared to what he was used to. It was a stupid thing to be obsessing over but it kept running threw his head.
“Oh I didn’t know anyone was up here,” Wonder girl said when she saw him. “I’ll leave,” She said and started to turn away she looked really upset so he called out for her to stop. She hesitated on the edge of the roof looking unsure before she slowly turned and set down.
“What’s wrong?” He asked deciding his worrying over the stupid little differences in clothes could wait. “You look like your having a bad day.” He waited for her to say something trying to ignore how much she looked like his girlfriend Karen.
“I just found out that my dad is Zeus,” She said after a moment. “I’d suspected it before but mom and Diana, everyone I trusted told me I was wrong.” She looked away and a tear rolled down her face. “I just heard Diana talking with the older me from the other world about how they asked her father Zeus to reveal Superwoman’s fate and he couldn’t.” She looked away. “How do I live with knowing I have a god as a dad.”
“It doesn’t get much easier,” he said to her causing her to look at him. “My dad isn’t a greek a god but he’s Superman which is pretty close.” He saw her smile and it once again reminded him of Karen. “My dad vanished when I was young and since I didn’t have any powers my mom just let me believe he was simply a missing reporter.” He looked out from the edge of the roof. “After a solar flare triggered my powers my first thought was that my mother had cheated on her husband with Superman.”
“I bet that was embarrassing.” She said laughing slightly. “You didn’t confront your mom about it did you?” She laughed even more when he said that he did but then she looked upset again. “I don’t know how to talk to my mom about being being Zeus’s daughter.” She then looked away. “Plus, I’m most likely going to forget everything after the next time everything finishes falling apart.”
“It’s supposed to begin tomorrow isn’t it?” He asked trying to remember what he’d been told about the situation he found himself in. “Do you think the changes will be as bad this time?” He only had a vague memory of being told how things had changed.
“I don’t know last time things happened pretty quickly but who knows what will happen this time.” She looked extremely uncomfortable. “I wish Kon wasn’t so busy with his future self doing whatever it is that they are doing.” She said after a moment. “I mean we haven’t even had a chance to talk about what’s going to happen when I forget all about our kiss.”
“They flew off in that direction a short while ago,” he pointed out where he’d seen them flying off. “You can probably catch up with them if you leave now.” He looked down. “If he won’t come to you go to him.”
“Thanks,” She said and lifted off. “I’ll see you later Jon,” she said and flew off. He settled back down on the edge fo the building and did his best not think about how much she reminded him of Karen.
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“Ready to try it again,” He said to his younger self who nodded. He said the code phrase and watched the boy froze and began trying to find something to shave his head. “Snap out of it Kon El use what you’ve been taught.” He waited and for a moment he seemed to be coming back to himself but then he snapped back into seek out and obey Luthor mode. “Okay M.B. bring him out of it.” The mother box Metron had given him complied and knocked his younger self out freeing him from his programming. He was glad the box had somehow stuck around threw the reboot as it allowed him to actually trigger his younger self and reverse it without too much risk.
“Why can’t I get this,” He said after he woke up. “No matter how hard I try whenever you say that phrase I go puppet and can’t do anything despite seeing and hearing everything.” He could see how frustrated his younger self was.
“You are getting better but mastering these techniques takes time,” He said. “You shouldn’t expect to master it in just a couple of days.” He recalled how much trouble he’d had mastering the technique. “I didn’t get it for a while and it’s taken years of practice to get to where I am now with it.” He heard someone approaching. “We have company coming, it’s your world’s Cassie,” He said identifying her. “You still haven’t told her have you?”
“How can I face her,” He said after a moment. “How can I tell her that I’m a ticking time bomb, that Luthor could set off against her and the rest of the team at any time.” He looked down. “I mean Robin knows he can keep the others safe if I snap after all he’s got access to Kryptonite.”
“I thought Robin could keep the others safe if something went wrong too,” He said turning away. “I broke his arm.” He watched his younger self look away. “Most of the final options Tim has against us would have to be fatal to work and Tim has trouble pulling that trigger.”
“Kon there you are,” Cassie said finally showing up. He watched his younger self still staring at the ground. “Kon is something the matter?” She asked worry starting to creep into her voice. “Kon talk to me?” She asked clearly agitated.
“I’ll leave you two alone to talk,” He said and rose up into the air flying far enough away that he would only hear them if he concentrated. He had no desire to listen to them discuss their relationship. He had no desire to revisit that part of his life so he closed his eyes and just let the wind blow against him.
“How dare you,” Cassie screeched loud enough that he had no choice about hearing her. Once his attention was gotten he couldn’t miss the sound of a slap that followed. He opened his eyes and looked over to see Cassie flying away in tears and his younger self sitting there looking horrified.
“You didn’t tell her?” He asked quickly approaching his younger self. It was a statement not a question because even Cassie at her most unstable being manipulated by Aries wouldn’t have slapped him for mentioning he was cloned from Luthor.
“No, I just couldn’t do it so I did the next best thing,” His younger self said looking away. “I broke her heart that’ll keep her away from me and safe.” He shook his head. “I know your going to say that was stupid but it was necessary I don’t want her ending up like Tana.”
“It’s your call,” He said and he shook his head. “Cassie, is most likely going to forget all this anyway maybe next time around you’ll be able to tell her.” He said but he knew that wouldn’t be easy for his younger self he remembered just how hard a time he’d had with it.
“I need to get back to the apartment building I’ve got some work that needs doing,” His younger self starting to leave. “I don’t suppose you can give me any hints to deal with that Run Riot gang that’s been a pain in my backside since I moved into the neighborhood.”
“Cooper, is Run Riot Yellow,” He said watching his younger self turn in shock. “Just go talk to him about it don’t fly off half cocked he’s had major second thoughts and in my world died a hero saving everyone from a bomb.” He saw his younger self staring at him in shock. “Just go talk to him with his help you can take the gang down without anyone getting hurt.”
“All right I’ll give him a chance to explain,” He said and took off. He considered following after him to make sure things turned out all right but stopped himself. He couldn’t solve every problem for his past self and if Metron was right and things were going to restart anyway his younger self would have a couple of chances to get this right.
“I see that you are putting the mother box I gave you to good use.” He turned to see Metron sitting there. “I have been going over my data and I believe that the reactions this time will be much more severe because there are two versions of Cassandra Sandsmark on the same hypertime plane.”
“Why are you just telling me,” He asked annoyed. “If your expecting me to break the bad news to the others I’d rather not be your messenger.” Metron ignored him and a screen appeared that showed several strange lines converging together.
“I am telling you because I will continue to need your services dealing with temporal anomalies.” Metron said turning back toward him. “By my calculations there should only be two to four anomalies this time but they will be much larger in size.” Metron turned toward him. “Each of them could involve multiple individuals and will require quick response time on your part to ensure the chaos does not get too bad.”
“So will they stick around like Jon and Doomsboy did or will they vanish when things reset again?” He asked wondering exactly how many extra people would be around before this was over. “Well Metron any idea?”
“Those that do not have a direct counterpart will most likely remain with us until the final reset,” Metron said looking at something his chair was displaying. “There is no way to know who will emerge from these temporal anomalies so an estimate on how many will remain is impossible.”
He didn’t have a reply to that so he just floated there wondering if Metron was going to say anything else. “You should return to the hotel and rest the first anomaly will probably occur shortly after the first break.” Metron then paused.
He nodded and left hoping nothing too dangerous would show up because he was not looking forward to finding out if the reset would heal any injuries he suffered or not. He thought it could go either way since Tim’s cowl was pulled back up when the reset was over with but he did have the mother box Metron had given him still strapped to his bicep.
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She made it back to the hotel and collapsed in her room on the bed furious with herself for ever thinking Kon cared about her. She could still see him smugly saying that the kiss they shared wasn’t special enough to do again. “Hey Wonder girl what’s the matter,” Doomsboy said standing in the doorway.
“Shouldn’t you be out with Slo-bo getting into bar fights and causing another riot.” She said angrily. She didn’t have the patience to deal with the ass hole clone of Doomsday right now. She frowned when he didn’t say anything just walked into her room and set on her bed. “Get out of here.”
“Hang on I need to be sitting for this or I’m going to give you a show,” He said and she nearly gasped in shock as he began to shrink with a grimace of pain. She stared at him as the bone spurs withdrew into his skin that was rapidly losing the grey color to be replaced by a more normal skin tone. His goatee and hair changed from the stark white to a rich red as he finally finished. “In my world you always liked me better like this.”
“I didn’t know you could take human form?” She said a bit surprised. He also looked a great deal like Kon only with red hair instead of black. He leaned back and she noticed how loose fitting his clothing was now and finally got what he’d meant by giving her a show if he wasn’t sitting down.
“I don’t like doing it much,” He said shaking his head. “I’m pretty much powerless like this and it hurts like hell to change between forms.” He leaned back and she avoid staring down at his bare chest. “You always seemed to like it though insisting I changed into it before you’d sleep with me.”
“Is that why your doing this trying to sleep with me on the rebound,” She said angrily. She resisted the desire to hit him and the fact he was just laughing at her was making it hard to do. “What now your going to claim you don’t want to sleep with me I’m much better looking than your Cassie.”
“I did this to get your mind off my idiot brother dumping you,” He said his mouth curving into a wicked grin. “If you wanted to sleep with me I wouldn’t say no,” His grin got even wider. “We’d have the best sex of your life and all but as pissed as you are at my stupid brother you aren’t that mad at him.”
“Your right I’m not,” She said shaking her head. She wasn’t ready to sleep with anyone let alone someone like Doomsboy despite how nice he seemed to be being. “I think you should change back and leave now.”
“Your loss,” he said and she watched as he grimaced in pain and the changes reversed themselves. “If you ever decide to have a wild night of sex that you’ll forget all about look me up I’ll change back for you.” She watched him go before laying back on the bed and trying to think.
To be continued.
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