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[Teen Titans fic] Cycles of Chaos Cycle One Chapter Four
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Cycles of Chaos:
Cycle One
Part Four
“Why do you fight me,” the man in the red and black outfit yelled as he threw him threw the Barn. “Why fight me Kal El, you should join me we can reshape this pathetic world into a New Krypton.” He didn’t understand how this had happened one second he had been playing Fetch with Krypto the next he was alone over the farm. He had somehow been transported to the future where he was dead. Ma and Pa had just been explaining things to him and about to call someone to try to help him get home when this lunatic had showed up and started ranting at him.
“Jimmy, Stop this madness,” He heard Ma yelling from the Porch. He didn’t know how she knew the lunatics name. He struggled to his feet, he had to keep this guy focused on him otherwise he might hurt them.
He tried to tackle the other man but got knocked back for his trouble. “So they are the reason you reject me,” the man said turning toward them. “Well that’s a problem easily solved.” He wanted to scream no as the other man used heat vision. He saw Pa grabbing Ma to try to shield her but it would be useless. At the last possible instant a red and black blur put itself between them and the heat vision bounced off an invisible sheild. “Impossible no meta human can match my kryptonian powers,” The Lunatic yelled staring at the new arrival a disturbingly familiar man.
“Black Zero,” he said in shock the hair style and uniform where different but he’d recognize the man that kidnaped him and all those other Superboy’s anywhere. He was glaring at the lunatic with a dark look but he turned his head toward him.
“So your that Superboy instead of the other one,” He said and after a brief pause, “good.” He then turned back toward the lunatic. “Okay Olsen, I’m only going to say this once you and the kid there are from different worlds and you have to come with me to prevent reality from collapsing around us.”
“You can’t trick me,” the lunatic said and charged him. He watched as Black Zero put him into the ground and then pulled him up and slapped a device on his chest that seemed to shock him unconscious. He watched as he dropped the lunatic on the ground and then turned back toward Ma and Pa.
“Leave them alone Black Zero,” He said getting up and rushing over in front of them. “Do what you want with me but leave them alone.” The man just smiled and shook his head. “I’ll fight you.” He knew he couldn’t win but he could fight.
“Relax Clark, I’m not Black Zero I’m the guy who fought Black Zero with you,” He said and then shrugged. “Well Sorta its complicated.” He turned toward Ma and Pa. “I wish I had time to explain everything but the world is in trouble and we are doing the best we can to fix it but to do it Clark and this psycho Jimmy Olsen have to come with me.”
Ma and Pa looked at him and he nodded. “It’s okay, I trust him we’ve met before.” The other Superboy who was all grown up leaned down and picked up the lunatic and then put his hand on his shoulder. The device on his arm gave a ping and suddenly they were standing near a hotel under a strange glowing dome.
“Hey Metron, you need to whip up some kind of containment device for this Jimmy Olsen he’s gonna be trouble once he wakes up,” He had only ever been around other Super heroes in the legion but there were plenty of them running around here.
“Dad,” Another dark haired guy in a super man outfit said in shock seeing him. “You have got to be kidding me first I end up in a world where Dad died and now there’s a version of him younger than I am.”
“Containing the unstable Kryptonian hybrid will have to wait Kara Zor El’s field has cracked again,” the man in the floating chair said. “Prepare for Temporal Shock Wave.” He didn’t have time to ask any questions because a woman screamed and then there was a flash too bright for him to even look at. It was a new experience he’d never seen a light that bright.
“What on Earth am I wearing?” A familiar voice said and he turned to see the clone Superboy he remembered from the other world still the same age as he was then but dressed really strangely. “Why do I have a spider where My S shield should be.”
“Fascinating,” the man in the floating chair said. “This latest change has erased all kryptonian elements from your physiology and replaced them with oddly mutated human DNA. “I am detecting a rudimentary power over gravity and some enhanced agility but none of your traditional abilities.”
“Metron, examine my younger counterpart later you need to contain this crazy Olsen he’s got Kryptonian powers and I can’t watch him if I’m off chasing more temporal anomalies for you.” The older version of the clone Superboy said.
“There is no need that last wave has undone the temporal instability.” Metron said looking around. “I will return to work but I will have to at some future point provided we survive this crisis to examine all the awesome potential and variability available in Kryptonian/Human hybrids.”
“Come on Clark,” the older clone Superboy said walking back up to him. “I’ll explain things to you so you can understand exactly what is going on here.” He was glad someone was going to finally explain things to him.
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“This is kind of awesome,” Kon El said bouncing around the room from wall to wall. “I mean I’d still like my old powers back but I can live with these if I have to.” He did his best to ignore Kon as he jumped up and down lightly on the ceiling. “This is so neat I’m like a spider I can stick stick to anything.”
“Spiders can’t jump off a ceiling and land back on it Kon you are controlling your personal gravity that’s all,” He was getting extremely annoyed at how Kon was treating this like a big joke. The fact the entire Justice League had arrived and taken over conversing with Metron and their older counterparts wasn’t helping matters. The fact Batman had actually broken down and hugged Jason when he saw the suddenly alive counterpart also made him feel slightly jealous. He tried not to compare himself to Jason Todd but the fact was he’d always been in Jason’s shadow ever since he put on the Robin suit.
“Look man, I know this is serious, I get it but I have to blow off steam or I’m going to go crazy.” Kon said as he dropped from the ceiling to sit beside him. “I mean there’s a version of me that’s everything power wise I was supposed to be and now I don’t have any not to mention I apparently have the big brother from hell named Doomsboy now.” He looked down. “And the worst part is that Bart is gone and no one seems to even notice or care.”
“I care,” He said honestly. “But we can’t get Bart back unless we figure this thing out and so far...” He never got to finish speaking as suddenly there was a loud yell from out side and the world went white again when the light faded he found himself dressed in strange red and yellow costume with bird elements.
“So who are you now do you think?” Kon asked still wearing the spider themed version of his costume. “I mean that’s a really freaking bright costume.” He looked down at his outfit again and had to agree with Kon and he’d thought the Robin suit was bright.
“Let’s go find out,” He said and left the room hearing Kon trailing after him walking on the walls. He was glad Kon was dealing well with his new power but it was going to get distracting if he had to start watching the ceilings for the other boy.
Once they made it out side into the large circus of gathered heroes running around he saw Cassie and she looked like a poster child for the goth sub culture. Jet black hair and lipstick pale skin and several extreme piercings on her face. “Don’t you dare say a word Kon,” She said glaring over his shoulder at the wall. “By the way Tim your Flamebird now and Nightwing’s side kick according to Jason who is Robin again.”
“I have a disturbing announcement,” Metron said calling everyone’s attention over to him. “I have discovered what is going to happen when Kara’s field fails in one hour and three minutes.” He glanced up as Metron raised up above them all on his chair. “In that moment reality will be thrown into severe flux and I cannot remain here without my own existence potentially coming to an end.” He realized what was going to happen seconds before it did. “I will return afterwards if I am able and you all survive.” After that he just vanished leaving them all alone with a ticking time bomb in the form of Superwoman.
After that it was almost predictable for the first half hour or so they scrambled all desperately doing everything in their power to try to find someone else who could help solve things. Rip Hunter, Booster Gold, The Linear Men , and the Challengers of the Unknown were all called and said they’d do the best they could but it clear they all knew that it was too late to do anything really.
He felt stupid for putting all their faith in Metron who had abandoned them at the last moment with no chance to do anything to save themselves. The last few minutes were the worst as he noticed folks breaking into groups saying their goodbyes. As glad as he was that a version Bruce was here at the end he wished his dad and Dick could be here.
He felt alone because this Bruce wasn’t his and was focused primarily on saying goodbye to Jason in the strangely silent barely showing emotional way of his that seemed to transcend dimensions. As the clock was reaching zero he heard Kon and Cassie making out loudly behind him guessing they decided to stop dancing around the obvious attraction they had for each other.
He found himself watching the four who were the cause of all this mess standing some ways apart the three healthy ones supporting the weakened Superwoman. He couldn’t hear them but it was obvious they were saying their own goodbyes. He watched as his older counterpart pulled the hood back revealing his own face a few years older with longer hair. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Jason giving him a reassuring smile. He did his best to return it and then saw the older Robin’s eyes widen in shock.
He turned back to see his older counterpart kissing Kon’s. He didn’t have time to see if anyone else saw because at that moment Superwoman exploded with light and her last words were rang in his ears. “Cassie, Connor, Tim I love you all.”
He began to feel dizzy and when the light cleared he was staggering back against the fence on the Tennis court. He looked around and saw the rest of Young Justice looking over at a startling familiar sight. “What the hell just happened,” Kon said looking around confused back in his proper costume and hovering above the ground. “Did that really just happen, does anyone else remember our future selves?”
“I do,” Cassie said and he raised his own hand as well the rest of Young justice looked confused and were staring at them with strange looks. Before they could explain however there was a flash of light and shapes impacted the Tennis court once again. “Here we go again,” Cassie said looking over at them.
He looked over and felt a sense of dread. “Superwoman is missing,” he said more to himself than anyone else. “But we have some new additions.” He noticed that the boy who claimed to be Superman and Lois Lane’s son was with them and so was Doomsboy.
“Is everyone okay,” Cassandra said as she once again woke up first. “Connor, Tim I can’t find Kara and we are back where we started.” She then saw the two additional ones. “And we aren’t alone.”
“Do you three still remember,” His own counterpart said turning back toward him. “Do you remember what happened before Kara vanished?” He nodded and glanced over at Kon and Cassie if they’d seen what he saw he thought for sure they’d ask about it.
“Sure do,” Kon said with a smile. “Me and Cassie were having the best first and last kiss ever and then we were back here.” He was glad they hadn’t seen he didn’t want to have to think about how Kon would react to what he saw.
To be continued... in Cycle 2 Chapter one.
REVIEW HERE
Cycles of Chaos:
Cycle One
Part Four
“Why do you fight me,” the man in the red and black outfit yelled as he threw him threw the Barn. “Why fight me Kal El, you should join me we can reshape this pathetic world into a New Krypton.” He didn’t understand how this had happened one second he had been playing Fetch with Krypto the next he was alone over the farm. He had somehow been transported to the future where he was dead. Ma and Pa had just been explaining things to him and about to call someone to try to help him get home when this lunatic had showed up and started ranting at him.
“Jimmy, Stop this madness,” He heard Ma yelling from the Porch. He didn’t know how she knew the lunatics name. He struggled to his feet, he had to keep this guy focused on him otherwise he might hurt them.
He tried to tackle the other man but got knocked back for his trouble. “So they are the reason you reject me,” the man said turning toward them. “Well that’s a problem easily solved.” He wanted to scream no as the other man used heat vision. He saw Pa grabbing Ma to try to shield her but it would be useless. At the last possible instant a red and black blur put itself between them and the heat vision bounced off an invisible sheild. “Impossible no meta human can match my kryptonian powers,” The Lunatic yelled staring at the new arrival a disturbingly familiar man.
“Black Zero,” he said in shock the hair style and uniform where different but he’d recognize the man that kidnaped him and all those other Superboy’s anywhere. He was glaring at the lunatic with a dark look but he turned his head toward him.
“So your that Superboy instead of the other one,” He said and after a brief pause, “good.” He then turned back toward the lunatic. “Okay Olsen, I’m only going to say this once you and the kid there are from different worlds and you have to come with me to prevent reality from collapsing around us.”
“You can’t trick me,” the lunatic said and charged him. He watched as Black Zero put him into the ground and then pulled him up and slapped a device on his chest that seemed to shock him unconscious. He watched as he dropped the lunatic on the ground and then turned back toward Ma and Pa.
“Leave them alone Black Zero,” He said getting up and rushing over in front of them. “Do what you want with me but leave them alone.” The man just smiled and shook his head. “I’ll fight you.” He knew he couldn’t win but he could fight.
“Relax Clark, I’m not Black Zero I’m the guy who fought Black Zero with you,” He said and then shrugged. “Well Sorta its complicated.” He turned toward Ma and Pa. “I wish I had time to explain everything but the world is in trouble and we are doing the best we can to fix it but to do it Clark and this psycho Jimmy Olsen have to come with me.”
Ma and Pa looked at him and he nodded. “It’s okay, I trust him we’ve met before.” The other Superboy who was all grown up leaned down and picked up the lunatic and then put his hand on his shoulder. The device on his arm gave a ping and suddenly they were standing near a hotel under a strange glowing dome.
“Hey Metron, you need to whip up some kind of containment device for this Jimmy Olsen he’s gonna be trouble once he wakes up,” He had only ever been around other Super heroes in the legion but there were plenty of them running around here.
“Dad,” Another dark haired guy in a super man outfit said in shock seeing him. “You have got to be kidding me first I end up in a world where Dad died and now there’s a version of him younger than I am.”
“Containing the unstable Kryptonian hybrid will have to wait Kara Zor El’s field has cracked again,” the man in the floating chair said. “Prepare for Temporal Shock Wave.” He didn’t have time to ask any questions because a woman screamed and then there was a flash too bright for him to even look at. It was a new experience he’d never seen a light that bright.
“What on Earth am I wearing?” A familiar voice said and he turned to see the clone Superboy he remembered from the other world still the same age as he was then but dressed really strangely. “Why do I have a spider where My S shield should be.”
“Fascinating,” the man in the floating chair said. “This latest change has erased all kryptonian elements from your physiology and replaced them with oddly mutated human DNA. “I am detecting a rudimentary power over gravity and some enhanced agility but none of your traditional abilities.”
“Metron, examine my younger counterpart later you need to contain this crazy Olsen he’s got Kryptonian powers and I can’t watch him if I’m off chasing more temporal anomalies for you.” The older version of the clone Superboy said.
“There is no need that last wave has undone the temporal instability.” Metron said looking around. “I will return to work but I will have to at some future point provided we survive this crisis to examine all the awesome potential and variability available in Kryptonian/Human hybrids.”
“Come on Clark,” the older clone Superboy said walking back up to him. “I’ll explain things to you so you can understand exactly what is going on here.” He was glad someone was going to finally explain things to him.
_____
“This is kind of awesome,” Kon El said bouncing around the room from wall to wall. “I mean I’d still like my old powers back but I can live with these if I have to.” He did his best to ignore Kon as he jumped up and down lightly on the ceiling. “This is so neat I’m like a spider I can stick stick to anything.”
“Spiders can’t jump off a ceiling and land back on it Kon you are controlling your personal gravity that’s all,” He was getting extremely annoyed at how Kon was treating this like a big joke. The fact the entire Justice League had arrived and taken over conversing with Metron and their older counterparts wasn’t helping matters. The fact Batman had actually broken down and hugged Jason when he saw the suddenly alive counterpart also made him feel slightly jealous. He tried not to compare himself to Jason Todd but the fact was he’d always been in Jason’s shadow ever since he put on the Robin suit.
“Look man, I know this is serious, I get it but I have to blow off steam or I’m going to go crazy.” Kon said as he dropped from the ceiling to sit beside him. “I mean there’s a version of me that’s everything power wise I was supposed to be and now I don’t have any not to mention I apparently have the big brother from hell named Doomsboy now.” He looked down. “And the worst part is that Bart is gone and no one seems to even notice or care.”
“I care,” He said honestly. “But we can’t get Bart back unless we figure this thing out and so far...” He never got to finish speaking as suddenly there was a loud yell from out side and the world went white again when the light faded he found himself dressed in strange red and yellow costume with bird elements.
“So who are you now do you think?” Kon asked still wearing the spider themed version of his costume. “I mean that’s a really freaking bright costume.” He looked down at his outfit again and had to agree with Kon and he’d thought the Robin suit was bright.
“Let’s go find out,” He said and left the room hearing Kon trailing after him walking on the walls. He was glad Kon was dealing well with his new power but it was going to get distracting if he had to start watching the ceilings for the other boy.
Once they made it out side into the large circus of gathered heroes running around he saw Cassie and she looked like a poster child for the goth sub culture. Jet black hair and lipstick pale skin and several extreme piercings on her face. “Don’t you dare say a word Kon,” She said glaring over his shoulder at the wall. “By the way Tim your Flamebird now and Nightwing’s side kick according to Jason who is Robin again.”
“I have a disturbing announcement,” Metron said calling everyone’s attention over to him. “I have discovered what is going to happen when Kara’s field fails in one hour and three minutes.” He glanced up as Metron raised up above them all on his chair. “In that moment reality will be thrown into severe flux and I cannot remain here without my own existence potentially coming to an end.” He realized what was going to happen seconds before it did. “I will return afterwards if I am able and you all survive.” After that he just vanished leaving them all alone with a ticking time bomb in the form of Superwoman.
After that it was almost predictable for the first half hour or so they scrambled all desperately doing everything in their power to try to find someone else who could help solve things. Rip Hunter, Booster Gold, The Linear Men , and the Challengers of the Unknown were all called and said they’d do the best they could but it clear they all knew that it was too late to do anything really.
He felt stupid for putting all their faith in Metron who had abandoned them at the last moment with no chance to do anything to save themselves. The last few minutes were the worst as he noticed folks breaking into groups saying their goodbyes. As glad as he was that a version Bruce was here at the end he wished his dad and Dick could be here.
He felt alone because this Bruce wasn’t his and was focused primarily on saying goodbye to Jason in the strangely silent barely showing emotional way of his that seemed to transcend dimensions. As the clock was reaching zero he heard Kon and Cassie making out loudly behind him guessing they decided to stop dancing around the obvious attraction they had for each other.
He found himself watching the four who were the cause of all this mess standing some ways apart the three healthy ones supporting the weakened Superwoman. He couldn’t hear them but it was obvious they were saying their own goodbyes. He watched as his older counterpart pulled the hood back revealing his own face a few years older with longer hair. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Jason giving him a reassuring smile. He did his best to return it and then saw the older Robin’s eyes widen in shock.
He turned back to see his older counterpart kissing Kon’s. He didn’t have time to see if anyone else saw because at that moment Superwoman exploded with light and her last words were rang in his ears. “Cassie, Connor, Tim I love you all.”
He began to feel dizzy and when the light cleared he was staggering back against the fence on the Tennis court. He looked around and saw the rest of Young Justice looking over at a startling familiar sight. “What the hell just happened,” Kon said looking around confused back in his proper costume and hovering above the ground. “Did that really just happen, does anyone else remember our future selves?”
“I do,” Cassie said and he raised his own hand as well the rest of Young justice looked confused and were staring at them with strange looks. Before they could explain however there was a flash of light and shapes impacted the Tennis court once again. “Here we go again,” Cassie said looking over at them.
He looked over and felt a sense of dread. “Superwoman is missing,” he said more to himself than anyone else. “But we have some new additions.” He noticed that the boy who claimed to be Superman and Lois Lane’s son was with them and so was Doomsboy.
“Is everyone okay,” Cassandra said as she once again woke up first. “Connor, Tim I can’t find Kara and we are back where we started.” She then saw the two additional ones. “And we aren’t alone.”
“Do you three still remember,” His own counterpart said turning back toward him. “Do you remember what happened before Kara vanished?” He nodded and glanced over at Kon and Cassie if they’d seen what he saw he thought for sure they’d ask about it.
“Sure do,” Kon said with a smile. “Me and Cassie were having the best first and last kiss ever and then we were back here.” He was glad they hadn’t seen he didn’t want to have to think about how Kon would react to what he saw.
To be continued... in Cycle 2 Chapter one.
REVIEW HERE