![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raze_flynDisclaimer and notes on master post
Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Two
Chapter Three of Five
It was strange standing there waiting for the end to begin. She had no idea what to expect as the counter Metron had installed shortly after he showed back up was counting down. Kara had tried to describe the experience to her but she couldn’t seem to find the words. She would know what Kara went threw soon enough there was only about twenty seconds left.
She braced herself for the worst and then it happened. She dropped to her knees as her world exploded with pain. She felt as if she was being pulled in multiple directions as hot and cold sensations raced across her body. She very nearly lost consciousness and as the dizzyness faded she opened her again to see Tim holding her. “Where’s Connor?” She asked and Tim pointed toward a screen that was showing a large whole opening in the middle of no where.
“He’s on his way to Minnesota to deal with a temporal anomaly.” Tim said helping her stand. “Metron has placed Satellite probes in orbit to scan the entire world at once this time around.” He looked at her darkly. “We also lost Bart again.”
“I believe it is a side effect of his resistence to alterations in the time stream,” Metron said as he lowered down. “I believe once the changes are too severe he is warped directly to the moment of restoration.”
She ignored Metron and focused on the screen where people where beginning to take shape. “There’s an older verison of Lara,” She said seeing her in a Super girl out fit dodging a blow from a familiar monster. “Doomsday,” She said and turned to Metron. “Can you tell if that Doomsday has faced Connor before or not?” If he hadn’t then Connor would be fine if he had then things could be very bad.
“They aren’t from our future,” Tim said drawing her attention back. “None of the others with her are from our world.” She saw what he meant immediately. There was a dark haired guy in what looked like a male version of her current outfit with pants instead of the skirt. There was also a female Robin in a red and yellow version of the outfit the younger Tim wore. The final two helping them take on Doomsday were a dark skinned guy wearing a verison of the younger Kon’s outfit and a blond guy in a white and gold outfit.
“Nightwing has arrived,” Metron said and she watched as Connor dropped down. “I should be able to supply sound to the images through his mother box.” The screen shimmered for a bit and then she could suddenly hear.
“Well Well Kon El it appears that spatial distortion has moved us back in time,” Doomsday said and she was startled. Then she recalled that for a time Doomsday had shown intelligence but it had been lost some how.
“Not Quiet,” She heard Connor saying to the creature. “This isn’t your past or mine but another world where there’s a crisis in time it would be best if you and your opponents stopped fighting and came with me.” Connor stepped forward. “The longer we are outside of proper shielding the more danger we are all in.” She noticed the group of teenagers exchanging wary looks between Connor and Doomsday.
“How interesting I almost believe you son,” Doomsday said with a sick smile. She saw Connor start at that statement. “However, I can’t pass up the chance to pay you back for destroying my original body Kon El and now I have a body that killed Superman.”
“Luthor,” Connor said and she saw the creature nod before dashing toward Connor. She was about to turn to Metron and demand he transport her there when Doomsday stopped. “Unfortunately for you Luthor it seems this Doomsday has never fought me.” Connor’s voice said with a dark edge. “So last chance agree to work with us or I’ll kill you and just store your corpse until this is over.”
“You can’t hold me forever,” The Luthor Doomsday yelled. “And even if you could kill me I’ll come back this body always comes back stronger than ever.” She saw Connor narrow his eyes and place his hand on Doomsdays chest.
“Yeah you will but hopefully Metron can keep that from happening until we can send you back home,” He said and then turned toward the others. “You all might want to stand back this is going to be messy.” She looked away she’d seen the result of what Connor was about to do before. She glanced at his younger counterpart and saw him turn green as Doomsday’s cry of pain carried threw the monitor. She glanced back to see the bloody mangled corpse collapsing at Connor’s feet.
“What did he just do?” His younger self asked clearly horrified by what he’d just seen. “I mean he just touched him and he ...” He stopped talking and looked sick. “I can’t believe he just did that.” She glanced around everyone looked horrified. Doomsboy especially looked horrified at what he had just seen.
“You know what you can do with machines,” Tim said completely in the Red Robin persona as he watched. She saw the younger Kon nod still looking sick. “That’s what happens when you do it to something organic.” She watched as Red Robin turned to Metron. “Can you keep that version of Doomsday out of commission until the reset?”
“Yes, I will begin preparing a containment cell immediately.” Metron said and moved away. “The next break will occur in sixteen hours and thirty seven minutes.” He said directly to her. “I suspect it will be worse than this first break so everyone should prepare.”
____
“I’m hauling this corpse to Metron,” The older Kon El said as he hefted the bloody mess that used to be a version of Lex Luthor with his mind in Doomsday’s body. “Why don’t you make your introductions to everyone and then they can tell you what’s going on.”
He watched the older Kon El leave still hefting the bloody carcass aloft with his TK abilities. He noticed the new arrivals were watching him nearly as freaked out as he and his team had been seeing the older Kon El stop Doomsday so easily. It was one thing to know intellectually that Doomsday would be back and adapted to what he’d done but it didn’t change the frankly frightening image of just how powerful the older Kon El was.
“I guess he’s right,” The dark haired girl who wearing a Superman outfit said. “I’m Lara and I see there’s an alternate version of my little brother Jon over there,” She said waving at the son of superman who’s shown up last time. “Do I exist in your world?”
“Only child,” He said looking extremely uncomfortable. “Do I have powers in your world?” He recalled seeing the surveillance footage that revealed he hadn’t been powered since birth. He guessed the older Jon Kent wanted to know if his alternate self had the same problem.
“You didn’t at first which really freaked Dad out,” She said smiling sheepishly. “He was worried about you being jealous because I had powers but after a recent solar flare your own powers showed up which was a real relief.”
“Super girl, you really should stay on topic,” the girl in the robin outfit said. “I’m the current Robin, and that is my older half brother Wonder boy.” She pointed out the guy in the wonder woman inspired outfit. “That is Super boy,” She pointed out the dark skinned teen. “And the guy in white and gold is Power boy.” She looked around carefully at them all. “Now someone needs to tell us what is going on.”
“Hold it Jackie,” Her brother said speaking up. “Shouldn’t we tell them everything I mean it might help if they know who’s kids we are.” At the revelation of the new Robin’s name an uncomfortable suspicion was forming. He took a closer look at her and Wonder boy and noticed how similar Wonder boy’s features and build was to Kon’s. He could also clearly see elements of Cassie in both of them.
“Won’t that run the risk of changing history,” The female Robin said looking up at her older brother. Her short statue and slight build was enough to convince him she was probably his daughter. Which meant in her world Kon and Cassie had a child and then their relationship ended and then he and Cassie did.
“It won’t,” He said speaking up shocking them both. “Unless I’m wrong, Wonderboy is Kon El and Cassie’s son and you are the daughter of Cassie and me.” He watched her eyes widen in shock and back away.
“I see what Mom meant when she talked about what you were like,” Wonder boy said speaking up. “That’s exactly it I’m Jason Sandsmark and that’s my half Sister Jackie Drake.” He wondered at the circumstances but he wasn’t about to ask for any more details he knew enough already about alternate versions of himself and their romantic lives.
“I am Halk Kar, from the Planet Thoron.” The dark skinned Superboy said speaking up. “I am the last survivor of my race after Dark Side’s son conducted horrible genetic experiments trying increase our genetic similarity to Kryptonians to the point where he could have an army of Superman like soldiers.” Halk Kar looked away and said, “My parents the last survivors of our world were rescued by Supergirl and her husband Maximus of the planet Almeric when they stumbled upon Grayven’s actions during their honeymoon.” He watched as Halk Kar laughed a bit. “My father died on the way to the world they ruled from the mutations ravaging him but my mother lived long enough to have me.” He watched as Halk Kar looked away. “I was taken to Almeric where the gene therepy available there was used to stabilize my own mutation making me almost genetically a perfect kryptonian.” He noticed Metron had appeared and was listening intently to what was going on. “ Kara Zor El and her husband adopted me and gave me the Kryptonian name closest in meaning to my parents last name.”
“I’m Gal Zor-El child of Kara Zor El and her husband Maximus, the king and queen of the planet Almeric.” Power boy said speaking up. “I was sent with my adoptive brother Halk Kar to earth to learn more about my powers and how to be a hero by our mother.” He looked around. “We joined the Teen Titans and saw fit to take on mantles worn by previous members.” He watched as Powerboy turned a haughty look on them all. “Now that you know these facts you can reveal what is going on and why we are here?”
He slipped out of the area as the others began trying to explain things to them. He needed to report on the latest arrivals to Batman as well as check in with his older self to make sure the Luthor Doomsday was contained they didn’t need him reviving and tearing the hotel apart.
____
He sat watching the washing machine working in the hotel’s laundry doom. He was hoping his suit would get done washing before he had to go back out again to wrangle any other temporal anomalies. Metron had assured him after they placed the Doomsday corpse in it’s container that the time line situation was stable enough that he had time to shower and wash his suit but he was still wary. “Excuse me do you mind if I talk with you?” A voice asked and he turned to see one of the new arrivals Wonderboy standing there. He nodded and motioned for him to join him on the bench. “Do you know who I am and how I am related to the you from my world?”
“Yeah, the past Robin, told me and Red Robin when he came in to check on the containment of your world’s doomsday.” He saw the boy look away. “I have to admit it’s a bit surprising how except for your half sister your whole team is at least part kryptonian.”
“There were six members left behind when we got sucked here with Doomsday,” Wonder boy said looking sick. “They have nothing to do with Krypton.” He watched as Wonder boy looked down. “Anyway I wanted to talk to you because this is probably the closet I’ll ever come to getting to speak with my dad.” Wonder boy looked extremely embarrassed. “I know there’s a younger version more closely related to my world running around but he’s the same age as me I can’t think of him as my dad.”
“You never got to know me on your world?” He asked though he was pretty sure he knew the answer to that. He figured just like his Tim and Cassie had done they’d been brought together in Wonder boy’s world by his death.
“Yeah, Just before I was born mom was kidnaped by Lex Luthor,” He closed his eyes. “You rescued her and trashed Luthor’s body but you died from the wounds he gave you.” He had figured he’d died but wouldn’t have guessed how. “After that Mom and Tim Drake gave it a go out of their mutual grief over losing you.” He looked away. “They lasted about five years until she caught him trying to clone you in the basement and things fell apart.” He laughed weakly. “He vanished a few months after that and poor Jackie only took up working as Robin for that psycho Damian Wayne because he promised he’d help find her dad.”
“Well if you have any questions for me feel free to ask,” he said. He was amazed at how similar some elements of these Titan’s world was to the events that surrounded his death in his world. The fact Tim and Cassie had briefly dated out of grief, the attempts and cloning and the arrival of Damian Wayne.
“Okay this may seem weird but do you have any kids in your world?” Wonder boy finally asked after a moment. “I mean I just wanted to know if there was any chance I or someone like me existed there.”
“No children,” He said watching Wonder boy frown. “Not much chance of them either.” He said since neither he or Tim could get pregnant and neither wanted to go down the road of using artificial means to create a child.
“Oh, You and mom aren’t together in your world are you,” He said looking extremely embarrassed. He shook his head no and saw Wonder boy look even more uncomfortable. “Do you mind if I ask why it didn’t work out?”
“A lot of reasons,” He said wondering why the man was so interested. “She’s happily married to a normal guy now and I’m involved with one of my team mates.” He hoped the kid wouldn’t ask him any questions about that. “Mind if I ask you something,” he asked to cut down on the chance of that. After wonder boy nodded he asked, “So how many of my powers did you get?”
“Oh I got super strength, super speed, flight, invulnerability and I heal pretty quick when I am hurt.” Wonder boy looked down. “I didn’t get your TK or the vision powers but I got the ability to throw lightening from mom’s side of the family.” He laughed a bit and said, “My sister only got the lightening and some limited super strength but after the Bat training from hell she’s still deadly in a fight.”
He could imagine as deadly as the various human members of the Bat family were the thought of what a meta human could do with that training was terrifying. “I’m sure she is,” He said as he stood up since the washing machine was stopping.
To be continued.
REVIEW HERE
Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Two
Chapter Three of Five
It was strange standing there waiting for the end to begin. She had no idea what to expect as the counter Metron had installed shortly after he showed back up was counting down. Kara had tried to describe the experience to her but she couldn’t seem to find the words. She would know what Kara went threw soon enough there was only about twenty seconds left.
She braced herself for the worst and then it happened. She dropped to her knees as her world exploded with pain. She felt as if she was being pulled in multiple directions as hot and cold sensations raced across her body. She very nearly lost consciousness and as the dizzyness faded she opened her again to see Tim holding her. “Where’s Connor?” She asked and Tim pointed toward a screen that was showing a large whole opening in the middle of no where.
“He’s on his way to Minnesota to deal with a temporal anomaly.” Tim said helping her stand. “Metron has placed Satellite probes in orbit to scan the entire world at once this time around.” He looked at her darkly. “We also lost Bart again.”
“I believe it is a side effect of his resistence to alterations in the time stream,” Metron said as he lowered down. “I believe once the changes are too severe he is warped directly to the moment of restoration.”
She ignored Metron and focused on the screen where people where beginning to take shape. “There’s an older verison of Lara,” She said seeing her in a Super girl out fit dodging a blow from a familiar monster. “Doomsday,” She said and turned to Metron. “Can you tell if that Doomsday has faced Connor before or not?” If he hadn’t then Connor would be fine if he had then things could be very bad.
“They aren’t from our future,” Tim said drawing her attention back. “None of the others with her are from our world.” She saw what he meant immediately. There was a dark haired guy in what looked like a male version of her current outfit with pants instead of the skirt. There was also a female Robin in a red and yellow version of the outfit the younger Tim wore. The final two helping them take on Doomsday were a dark skinned guy wearing a verison of the younger Kon’s outfit and a blond guy in a white and gold outfit.
“Nightwing has arrived,” Metron said and she watched as Connor dropped down. “I should be able to supply sound to the images through his mother box.” The screen shimmered for a bit and then she could suddenly hear.
“Well Well Kon El it appears that spatial distortion has moved us back in time,” Doomsday said and she was startled. Then she recalled that for a time Doomsday had shown intelligence but it had been lost some how.
“Not Quiet,” She heard Connor saying to the creature. “This isn’t your past or mine but another world where there’s a crisis in time it would be best if you and your opponents stopped fighting and came with me.” Connor stepped forward. “The longer we are outside of proper shielding the more danger we are all in.” She noticed the group of teenagers exchanging wary looks between Connor and Doomsday.
“How interesting I almost believe you son,” Doomsday said with a sick smile. She saw Connor start at that statement. “However, I can’t pass up the chance to pay you back for destroying my original body Kon El and now I have a body that killed Superman.”
“Luthor,” Connor said and she saw the creature nod before dashing toward Connor. She was about to turn to Metron and demand he transport her there when Doomsday stopped. “Unfortunately for you Luthor it seems this Doomsday has never fought me.” Connor’s voice said with a dark edge. “So last chance agree to work with us or I’ll kill you and just store your corpse until this is over.”
“You can’t hold me forever,” The Luthor Doomsday yelled. “And even if you could kill me I’ll come back this body always comes back stronger than ever.” She saw Connor narrow his eyes and place his hand on Doomsdays chest.
“Yeah you will but hopefully Metron can keep that from happening until we can send you back home,” He said and then turned toward the others. “You all might want to stand back this is going to be messy.” She looked away she’d seen the result of what Connor was about to do before. She glanced at his younger counterpart and saw him turn green as Doomsday’s cry of pain carried threw the monitor. She glanced back to see the bloody mangled corpse collapsing at Connor’s feet.
“What did he just do?” His younger self asked clearly horrified by what he’d just seen. “I mean he just touched him and he ...” He stopped talking and looked sick. “I can’t believe he just did that.” She glanced around everyone looked horrified. Doomsboy especially looked horrified at what he had just seen.
“You know what you can do with machines,” Tim said completely in the Red Robin persona as he watched. She saw the younger Kon nod still looking sick. “That’s what happens when you do it to something organic.” She watched as Red Robin turned to Metron. “Can you keep that version of Doomsday out of commission until the reset?”
“Yes, I will begin preparing a containment cell immediately.” Metron said and moved away. “The next break will occur in sixteen hours and thirty seven minutes.” He said directly to her. “I suspect it will be worse than this first break so everyone should prepare.”
____
“I’m hauling this corpse to Metron,” The older Kon El said as he hefted the bloody mess that used to be a version of Lex Luthor with his mind in Doomsday’s body. “Why don’t you make your introductions to everyone and then they can tell you what’s going on.”
He watched the older Kon El leave still hefting the bloody carcass aloft with his TK abilities. He noticed the new arrivals were watching him nearly as freaked out as he and his team had been seeing the older Kon El stop Doomsday so easily. It was one thing to know intellectually that Doomsday would be back and adapted to what he’d done but it didn’t change the frankly frightening image of just how powerful the older Kon El was.
“I guess he’s right,” The dark haired girl who wearing a Superman outfit said. “I’m Lara and I see there’s an alternate version of my little brother Jon over there,” She said waving at the son of superman who’s shown up last time. “Do I exist in your world?”
“Only child,” He said looking extremely uncomfortable. “Do I have powers in your world?” He recalled seeing the surveillance footage that revealed he hadn’t been powered since birth. He guessed the older Jon Kent wanted to know if his alternate self had the same problem.
“You didn’t at first which really freaked Dad out,” She said smiling sheepishly. “He was worried about you being jealous because I had powers but after a recent solar flare your own powers showed up which was a real relief.”
“Super girl, you really should stay on topic,” the girl in the robin outfit said. “I’m the current Robin, and that is my older half brother Wonder boy.” She pointed out the guy in the wonder woman inspired outfit. “That is Super boy,” She pointed out the dark skinned teen. “And the guy in white and gold is Power boy.” She looked around carefully at them all. “Now someone needs to tell us what is going on.”
“Hold it Jackie,” Her brother said speaking up. “Shouldn’t we tell them everything I mean it might help if they know who’s kids we are.” At the revelation of the new Robin’s name an uncomfortable suspicion was forming. He took a closer look at her and Wonder boy and noticed how similar Wonder boy’s features and build was to Kon’s. He could also clearly see elements of Cassie in both of them.
“Won’t that run the risk of changing history,” The female Robin said looking up at her older brother. Her short statue and slight build was enough to convince him she was probably his daughter. Which meant in her world Kon and Cassie had a child and then their relationship ended and then he and Cassie did.
“It won’t,” He said speaking up shocking them both. “Unless I’m wrong, Wonderboy is Kon El and Cassie’s son and you are the daughter of Cassie and me.” He watched her eyes widen in shock and back away.
“I see what Mom meant when she talked about what you were like,” Wonder boy said speaking up. “That’s exactly it I’m Jason Sandsmark and that’s my half Sister Jackie Drake.” He wondered at the circumstances but he wasn’t about to ask for any more details he knew enough already about alternate versions of himself and their romantic lives.
“I am Halk Kar, from the Planet Thoron.” The dark skinned Superboy said speaking up. “I am the last survivor of my race after Dark Side’s son conducted horrible genetic experiments trying increase our genetic similarity to Kryptonians to the point where he could have an army of Superman like soldiers.” Halk Kar looked away and said, “My parents the last survivors of our world were rescued by Supergirl and her husband Maximus of the planet Almeric when they stumbled upon Grayven’s actions during their honeymoon.” He watched as Halk Kar laughed a bit. “My father died on the way to the world they ruled from the mutations ravaging him but my mother lived long enough to have me.” He watched as Halk Kar looked away. “I was taken to Almeric where the gene therepy available there was used to stabilize my own mutation making me almost genetically a perfect kryptonian.” He noticed Metron had appeared and was listening intently to what was going on. “ Kara Zor El and her husband adopted me and gave me the Kryptonian name closest in meaning to my parents last name.”
“I’m Gal Zor-El child of Kara Zor El and her husband Maximus, the king and queen of the planet Almeric.” Power boy said speaking up. “I was sent with my adoptive brother Halk Kar to earth to learn more about my powers and how to be a hero by our mother.” He looked around. “We joined the Teen Titans and saw fit to take on mantles worn by previous members.” He watched as Powerboy turned a haughty look on them all. “Now that you know these facts you can reveal what is going on and why we are here?”
He slipped out of the area as the others began trying to explain things to them. He needed to report on the latest arrivals to Batman as well as check in with his older self to make sure the Luthor Doomsday was contained they didn’t need him reviving and tearing the hotel apart.
____
He sat watching the washing machine working in the hotel’s laundry doom. He was hoping his suit would get done washing before he had to go back out again to wrangle any other temporal anomalies. Metron had assured him after they placed the Doomsday corpse in it’s container that the time line situation was stable enough that he had time to shower and wash his suit but he was still wary. “Excuse me do you mind if I talk with you?” A voice asked and he turned to see one of the new arrivals Wonderboy standing there. He nodded and motioned for him to join him on the bench. “Do you know who I am and how I am related to the you from my world?”
“Yeah, the past Robin, told me and Red Robin when he came in to check on the containment of your world’s doomsday.” He saw the boy look away. “I have to admit it’s a bit surprising how except for your half sister your whole team is at least part kryptonian.”
“There were six members left behind when we got sucked here with Doomsday,” Wonder boy said looking sick. “They have nothing to do with Krypton.” He watched as Wonder boy looked down. “Anyway I wanted to talk to you because this is probably the closet I’ll ever come to getting to speak with my dad.” Wonder boy looked extremely embarrassed. “I know there’s a younger version more closely related to my world running around but he’s the same age as me I can’t think of him as my dad.”
“You never got to know me on your world?” He asked though he was pretty sure he knew the answer to that. He figured just like his Tim and Cassie had done they’d been brought together in Wonder boy’s world by his death.
“Yeah, Just before I was born mom was kidnaped by Lex Luthor,” He closed his eyes. “You rescued her and trashed Luthor’s body but you died from the wounds he gave you.” He had figured he’d died but wouldn’t have guessed how. “After that Mom and Tim Drake gave it a go out of their mutual grief over losing you.” He looked away. “They lasted about five years until she caught him trying to clone you in the basement and things fell apart.” He laughed weakly. “He vanished a few months after that and poor Jackie only took up working as Robin for that psycho Damian Wayne because he promised he’d help find her dad.”
“Well if you have any questions for me feel free to ask,” he said. He was amazed at how similar some elements of these Titan’s world was to the events that surrounded his death in his world. The fact Tim and Cassie had briefly dated out of grief, the attempts and cloning and the arrival of Damian Wayne.
“Okay this may seem weird but do you have any kids in your world?” Wonder boy finally asked after a moment. “I mean I just wanted to know if there was any chance I or someone like me existed there.”
“No children,” He said watching Wonder boy frown. “Not much chance of them either.” He said since neither he or Tim could get pregnant and neither wanted to go down the road of using artificial means to create a child.
“Oh, You and mom aren’t together in your world are you,” He said looking extremely embarrassed. He shook his head no and saw Wonder boy look even more uncomfortable. “Do you mind if I ask why it didn’t work out?”
“A lot of reasons,” He said wondering why the man was so interested. “She’s happily married to a normal guy now and I’m involved with one of my team mates.” He hoped the kid wouldn’t ask him any questions about that. “Mind if I ask you something,” he asked to cut down on the chance of that. After wonder boy nodded he asked, “So how many of my powers did you get?”
“Oh I got super strength, super speed, flight, invulnerability and I heal pretty quick when I am hurt.” Wonder boy looked down. “I didn’t get your TK or the vision powers but I got the ability to throw lightening from mom’s side of the family.” He laughed a bit and said, “My sister only got the lightening and some limited super strength but after the Bat training from hell she’s still deadly in a fight.”
He could imagine as deadly as the various human members of the Bat family were the thought of what a meta human could do with that training was terrifying. “I’m sure she is,” He said as he stood up since the washing machine was stopping.
To be continued.
REVIEW HERE
