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Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Two
Chapter Four of Five
She sat alone playing it over and over again in her head. She couldn’t believe she’d been stupid enough to ask Jon out on a date. He’d let her down easy telling her that if he didn’t have a girlfriend back in his world he’d have accepted. She knew he had to be just humoring her after all Metron said they were probably going to forget everything when this was all over.
She was looking forward to forgetting about everything. She didn’t want to remember Kon breaking her heart or the depressing arrival of a kid of her and Kon’s and her and Tim’s. She only knew a bit of their history and it was enough to terrify her into never having kids. She didn’t want to have kids with one man and then end up marrying his best friend out of grief. She didn’t want to have to raise two kids alone.
She knew those kids only represented one of many possible futures but they creeped her out and she was doing her best to avoid them. She had heard them coming down the hall and quickly entered a stair well and headed up stairs. She ran into someone after turning to look back. “Oh I didn’t see you,” She said to Doomsboy who had turned an annoyed glare on her. “Why are you in the stair well anyway?”
“I’m hiding from the future version of my brother,” He said looking embarrassed. “He scares the shit out of me, he tore the guy I’m cloned form apart with a touch and I just can’t be near him.” He looked panicked. “I mean when he froze me the other day or when he dragged me back here after my night out with Slo-bo was kind of humiliating but not that bad.” He looked close to panic. “But he could kill me without breaking a sweat and I don’t know if I’ll regenerate or not.”
“You need to calm down,” She said trying to reason with him. “You aren’t in any real danger there isn’t anything that is very likely to make the older Kon hurt you.” She believed that even though he was a future version of the jerk who broke her heart he wouldn’t kill Doomsboy. “You don’t need to be scared of him.”
“I can’t help it,” Doomsboy said still near panic. “I have never been scared before I can’t help how I feel right now.” She found herself feeling pity for him and wondering what it would be like to have gone your whole life unafraid and then be faced with something that really scared you.
“Come with me,” She said and pulled him into the hall and then into one of the spare hotel rooms. She latched the door behind her. “Now change into your human form.” He turned to stare at her and then the fear was briefly replaced by a leer. “Don’t even go there we aren’t having sex I”m just going to hold you till you calm down and it’ll be easier to do if your human.”
She thought for a moment he was going to refuse and then he settled onto the bed and his body once more deflated becoming the more human form he’d shown her yesterday. She set down next to him and pulled him against her she would be self conscious holding a man like this if it wasn’t for the fact he was clearly shivering with fear. “Everyone feels fear you’ll get past it,” She said trying to be comforting.
“Not me, I’ve never been afraid and in my world there is nothing for me to fear,” He said still shaking. “No one can touch me or hurt me but that doesn’t apply here.” She doubted that was true since there had to be a few people in that world with the power to hurt him he just hadn’t met them. “Plus this world sucks in my world everyone wants me and likes me but here I’m a monster.” He looked at her. “Your only holding me out of pity when in my world by now we’d be horizontal and having some real fun.”
“Don’t make me hit you,” She said pretty sure she could beat him in his human form. “Do you have to ruin it with the claims about being such a sex god, I mean even Kon learned not to brag about all the women after him.”
“I’m sure he’s had plenty of women,” Doomsboy said giving her a smirk a lot like Kon’s. She still felt the occasional shiver but he seemed to be distracting himself form his fear with this unfortunate subject choice. “Maybe that’s why he didn’t want you since you scream desperate virgin with everything you do.”
She shoved him off the bed and got up angrily to walk to the door. “Yeah I guess the truth is hard to take,” He said from where he was laying on the floor. “But some free advice Blondie but if he’s anything like me he learned pretty quickly that being someone’s first comes with a lot of un pleasant baggage.”
She turned back to see he’d stood up and allowed his loose fitting pants to fall to the floor leaving him naked. She felt herself blushing and he just laughed. “That’s what I mean Blondie you can’t even take seeing me naked you should just find someone to shag and get it over with.”
“It wouldn’t be you,” she said angrily forcing herself to look him in the face. “You smug arrogant bastard.” The alarm that the next breach in reality was on it’s way sounded. She turned to the door and was about to leave when Doomsboy caught her arm and spun her around to kiss her. She pulled back and smacked him. “How dare you?”
“Oh grow up Blondie,” He said getting up nursing a visibly bruising jaw. “Your physically attracted to me it’s only some moral hang up that keeps you from sleeping with me.” He advanced toward her and she prepared to possible have to fight him off. Suddenly everything went white as reality changed again and she found herself still in the room with him but he was smiling and fully dressed. “Don’t you think this room will be wonderful as a nursery,” He said still human but dressed in normal well fitting clothes. “I mean I’d prefer if you stayed at home with the baby but if you had to come to the headquarters this will be a great nursery.” She felt strange and looked down to see her belly swollen very large. “Cassie, what’s the matter?” He said moving toward her. She panicked and punched him.
She then took off threw the door which she ripped off it’s henges. She flew off down the hallway needing to find Metron and get some answers. She headed out the closet window and flew down hearing Doomsboy chasing after her asking what was wrong. “Metron I need answers,” she yelled as she landed seeing almost everyone there. She noticed the ones aware of the changing time lines staring at her belly in shock. Everyone else seemed more concerned about how panicked she was. She was about to ask again when she felt a strange pain and collapsed.
“This is dangerous,” Metron said lowering down. “Her stress at finding herself pregnant so suddenly is triggering premature labor.” He began to summon equipment with his chair. “Take her to one of the rooms and I will do my best to save Mother and child’s life.” Doomsboy came barreling out of the room halfway transformed clearly panicked. “Calm yourself Doomsboy I will do what I can to save your girlfriend and child.”
As she passed out she felt sick at the thought that she and Doomsboy were involved and she was pregnant with his child.
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“There they are up ahead,” He said to Clark as they lowered toward the group of confused people. “That’s not Tim in the Red Robin suit,” He said taking a quick look inside with his X-rya vision. “I think it’s Dick but he’s way older.”
“Yes, it looks like him.” Superman said as they lowered down. “I know you all have questions and we can do our best to explain what’s going on.” Clark said landing in front of the gathered group and looking around at them.
He hung back and took a moment to look threw them. He recognized an older Damian who wasn’t in his Robin suit and Iris West as Kid Flash was familiar enough. He didn’t recognize the red headed guy in civilian clothes standing next to her but he looked a lot like Wally so maybe a different kid of his instead of or along side of Jai. Offspring of course was very familiar and the only one he really didn’t recognize was the hot alien babe. “Superman is that you?” Dick asked obviously shocked to see such a younger Superman. “We’ve been thrown into the past haven’t we?”
“Yes but not your past,” He said lowering himself down. “None of you have a clue who I am do you?” He asked seeing them staring at him in shock. “You should come with us so everything can be explained.”
“How do we know we can trust you,” Damian said darkly. He should have known the guy would be a suspicious condescending asshole in any reality. He was actually glad Superman was with him since he knew it wouldn’t help their case if he punched out Damian despite how fun it would be. He was beginning to think the stress of this situation was starting to get to him.
“Nightstar, Ibn al Xu'ffasch, I have met versions of you both before during that ordeal with Gog.” He saw their eyes widen with familiarity. “There is another crisis of time going on and people from multiple futures are arriving here.” Superman said and he noticed that everyone of course believed him. “You need to come with us so we can get you to a shielded location so your presence will not cause more instability in this time line.”
While Superman stood there patiently waiting for their answer he carefully surrounded them all with his TK field. If they tried to start anything he would simply immobilize them and take them by force. “I trust him,” Dick said speaking up. “Let’s go.” He could tell that Damian at least wanted to argue but his mother box did its thing before he could.
He arrived to find the courtyard deserted except for his Tim. He enjoyed the brief double take on Dick’s face at seeing another Red Robin. “What’s wrong where is everyone?” He asked as he headed over to join his Tim.
“The younger Cassie wound up pregnant after the shock wave and was sent into premature labor by the stress.” Tim said softly. “Metron is doing his best to save her and the baby but it is touch and go.” He looked right at him. “They can use your mother box’s help with the situation you should go on in I’ll explain things to them.”
“Tim is that you,” Dick said apparently recognizing Tim’s voice. He didn’t stick around to hear anymore as he headed inside to see if his the mother box could be any help. He arrived to find Metron had already apparently solved the problem. Mother and child were at least alive. He saw a red haired human standing next to the incubator holding the new born looking distraught.
“That the father?” he asked his younger self wondering who he was. His younger self nodded and then went back to staring at the bed ridden Cassie with a horrified expression on his face. He glanced around and found his Cassie standing a ways off and made his way over. “How are you doing?”
“Better than her,” She said tiredly. “The red headed guy is Doomsboy that’s his human form.” She said sounding dead tired. “The shock wave added him to young Justice again and he and Cassie are involved but she didn’t know that and panicked.” She looked away. “Connor if this mess doesn’t resolve itself soon things are only going to get worse.”
“Has Metron said when the next shock wave will occur?” He asked warily. “If things hold to the same pattern as Kara there are only four left before things restart again.” He was trying not to think about how she’d vanish just like Kara and they’d be left with no knowledge of what happened to her.
“No he hasn’t said anything at all.” She looked away. He pulled her against him. “I miss Kara and my husband and everyone back on our world Connor,” She said beginning to tear up. “I don’t know what’s going to happen when this field collapses but I honestly almost don’t care I just want it over with.” He could understand that.
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Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Two
Chapter Four of Five
She sat alone playing it over and over again in her head. She couldn’t believe she’d been stupid enough to ask Jon out on a date. He’d let her down easy telling her that if he didn’t have a girlfriend back in his world he’d have accepted. She knew he had to be just humoring her after all Metron said they were probably going to forget everything when this was all over.
She was looking forward to forgetting about everything. She didn’t want to remember Kon breaking her heart or the depressing arrival of a kid of her and Kon’s and her and Tim’s. She only knew a bit of their history and it was enough to terrify her into never having kids. She didn’t want to have kids with one man and then end up marrying his best friend out of grief. She didn’t want to have to raise two kids alone.
She knew those kids only represented one of many possible futures but they creeped her out and she was doing her best to avoid them. She had heard them coming down the hall and quickly entered a stair well and headed up stairs. She ran into someone after turning to look back. “Oh I didn’t see you,” She said to Doomsboy who had turned an annoyed glare on her. “Why are you in the stair well anyway?”
“I’m hiding from the future version of my brother,” He said looking embarrassed. “He scares the shit out of me, he tore the guy I’m cloned form apart with a touch and I just can’t be near him.” He looked panicked. “I mean when he froze me the other day or when he dragged me back here after my night out with Slo-bo was kind of humiliating but not that bad.” He looked close to panic. “But he could kill me without breaking a sweat and I don’t know if I’ll regenerate or not.”
“You need to calm down,” She said trying to reason with him. “You aren’t in any real danger there isn’t anything that is very likely to make the older Kon hurt you.” She believed that even though he was a future version of the jerk who broke her heart he wouldn’t kill Doomsboy. “You don’t need to be scared of him.”
“I can’t help it,” Doomsboy said still near panic. “I have never been scared before I can’t help how I feel right now.” She found herself feeling pity for him and wondering what it would be like to have gone your whole life unafraid and then be faced with something that really scared you.
“Come with me,” She said and pulled him into the hall and then into one of the spare hotel rooms. She latched the door behind her. “Now change into your human form.” He turned to stare at her and then the fear was briefly replaced by a leer. “Don’t even go there we aren’t having sex I”m just going to hold you till you calm down and it’ll be easier to do if your human.”
She thought for a moment he was going to refuse and then he settled onto the bed and his body once more deflated becoming the more human form he’d shown her yesterday. She set down next to him and pulled him against her she would be self conscious holding a man like this if it wasn’t for the fact he was clearly shivering with fear. “Everyone feels fear you’ll get past it,” She said trying to be comforting.
“Not me, I’ve never been afraid and in my world there is nothing for me to fear,” He said still shaking. “No one can touch me or hurt me but that doesn’t apply here.” She doubted that was true since there had to be a few people in that world with the power to hurt him he just hadn’t met them. “Plus this world sucks in my world everyone wants me and likes me but here I’m a monster.” He looked at her. “Your only holding me out of pity when in my world by now we’d be horizontal and having some real fun.”
“Don’t make me hit you,” She said pretty sure she could beat him in his human form. “Do you have to ruin it with the claims about being such a sex god, I mean even Kon learned not to brag about all the women after him.”
“I’m sure he’s had plenty of women,” Doomsboy said giving her a smirk a lot like Kon’s. She still felt the occasional shiver but he seemed to be distracting himself form his fear with this unfortunate subject choice. “Maybe that’s why he didn’t want you since you scream desperate virgin with everything you do.”
She shoved him off the bed and got up angrily to walk to the door. “Yeah I guess the truth is hard to take,” He said from where he was laying on the floor. “But some free advice Blondie but if he’s anything like me he learned pretty quickly that being someone’s first comes with a lot of un pleasant baggage.”
She turned back to see he’d stood up and allowed his loose fitting pants to fall to the floor leaving him naked. She felt herself blushing and he just laughed. “That’s what I mean Blondie you can’t even take seeing me naked you should just find someone to shag and get it over with.”
“It wouldn’t be you,” she said angrily forcing herself to look him in the face. “You smug arrogant bastard.” The alarm that the next breach in reality was on it’s way sounded. She turned to the door and was about to leave when Doomsboy caught her arm and spun her around to kiss her. She pulled back and smacked him. “How dare you?”
“Oh grow up Blondie,” He said getting up nursing a visibly bruising jaw. “Your physically attracted to me it’s only some moral hang up that keeps you from sleeping with me.” He advanced toward her and she prepared to possible have to fight him off. Suddenly everything went white as reality changed again and she found herself still in the room with him but he was smiling and fully dressed. “Don’t you think this room will be wonderful as a nursery,” He said still human but dressed in normal well fitting clothes. “I mean I’d prefer if you stayed at home with the baby but if you had to come to the headquarters this will be a great nursery.” She felt strange and looked down to see her belly swollen very large. “Cassie, what’s the matter?” He said moving toward her. She panicked and punched him.
She then took off threw the door which she ripped off it’s henges. She flew off down the hallway needing to find Metron and get some answers. She headed out the closet window and flew down hearing Doomsboy chasing after her asking what was wrong. “Metron I need answers,” she yelled as she landed seeing almost everyone there. She noticed the ones aware of the changing time lines staring at her belly in shock. Everyone else seemed more concerned about how panicked she was. She was about to ask again when she felt a strange pain and collapsed.
“This is dangerous,” Metron said lowering down. “Her stress at finding herself pregnant so suddenly is triggering premature labor.” He began to summon equipment with his chair. “Take her to one of the rooms and I will do my best to save Mother and child’s life.” Doomsboy came barreling out of the room halfway transformed clearly panicked. “Calm yourself Doomsboy I will do what I can to save your girlfriend and child.”
As she passed out she felt sick at the thought that she and Doomsboy were involved and she was pregnant with his child.
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“There they are up ahead,” He said to Clark as they lowered toward the group of confused people. “That’s not Tim in the Red Robin suit,” He said taking a quick look inside with his X-rya vision. “I think it’s Dick but he’s way older.”
“Yes, it looks like him.” Superman said as they lowered down. “I know you all have questions and we can do our best to explain what’s going on.” Clark said landing in front of the gathered group and looking around at them.
He hung back and took a moment to look threw them. He recognized an older Damian who wasn’t in his Robin suit and Iris West as Kid Flash was familiar enough. He didn’t recognize the red headed guy in civilian clothes standing next to her but he looked a lot like Wally so maybe a different kid of his instead of or along side of Jai. Offspring of course was very familiar and the only one he really didn’t recognize was the hot alien babe. “Superman is that you?” Dick asked obviously shocked to see such a younger Superman. “We’ve been thrown into the past haven’t we?”
“Yes but not your past,” He said lowering himself down. “None of you have a clue who I am do you?” He asked seeing them staring at him in shock. “You should come with us so everything can be explained.”
“How do we know we can trust you,” Damian said darkly. He should have known the guy would be a suspicious condescending asshole in any reality. He was actually glad Superman was with him since he knew it wouldn’t help their case if he punched out Damian despite how fun it would be. He was beginning to think the stress of this situation was starting to get to him.
“Nightstar, Ibn al Xu'ffasch, I have met versions of you both before during that ordeal with Gog.” He saw their eyes widen with familiarity. “There is another crisis of time going on and people from multiple futures are arriving here.” Superman said and he noticed that everyone of course believed him. “You need to come with us so we can get you to a shielded location so your presence will not cause more instability in this time line.”
While Superman stood there patiently waiting for their answer he carefully surrounded them all with his TK field. If they tried to start anything he would simply immobilize them and take them by force. “I trust him,” Dick said speaking up. “Let’s go.” He could tell that Damian at least wanted to argue but his mother box did its thing before he could.
He arrived to find the courtyard deserted except for his Tim. He enjoyed the brief double take on Dick’s face at seeing another Red Robin. “What’s wrong where is everyone?” He asked as he headed over to join his Tim.
“The younger Cassie wound up pregnant after the shock wave and was sent into premature labor by the stress.” Tim said softly. “Metron is doing his best to save her and the baby but it is touch and go.” He looked right at him. “They can use your mother box’s help with the situation you should go on in I’ll explain things to them.”
“Tim is that you,” Dick said apparently recognizing Tim’s voice. He didn’t stick around to hear anymore as he headed inside to see if his the mother box could be any help. He arrived to find Metron had already apparently solved the problem. Mother and child were at least alive. He saw a red haired human standing next to the incubator holding the new born looking distraught.
“That the father?” he asked his younger self wondering who he was. His younger self nodded and then went back to staring at the bed ridden Cassie with a horrified expression on his face. He glanced around and found his Cassie standing a ways off and made his way over. “How are you doing?”
“Better than her,” She said tiredly. “The red headed guy is Doomsboy that’s his human form.” She said sounding dead tired. “The shock wave added him to young Justice again and he and Cassie are involved but she didn’t know that and panicked.” She looked away. “Connor if this mess doesn’t resolve itself soon things are only going to get worse.”
“Has Metron said when the next shock wave will occur?” He asked warily. “If things hold to the same pattern as Kara there are only four left before things restart again.” He was trying not to think about how she’d vanish just like Kara and they’d be left with no knowledge of what happened to her.
“No he hasn’t said anything at all.” She looked away. He pulled her against him. “I miss Kara and my husband and everyone back on our world Connor,” She said beginning to tear up. “I don’t know what’s going to happen when this field collapses but I honestly almost don’t care I just want it over with.” He could understand that.
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