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Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Three
Chapter Three of Six

“Welcome back,” Metron said as he opened his eyes inside a transparent metal tube. “Are you aware of what has taken place over the last two weeks since you were divided into four separate bodies?”

“I can remember sort of, it’s like four different dreams I had so it’s pretty jumbled,” he said and Metron nodded. He was relieved about one thing though his powers seemed to be back to normal no more freakish energy powers to deal with. “Can I get out of this tube now?”

“I would prefer to observe you for a longer time to make sure you are suffering no side effects from the integration,” Metron said and then produced a small band full of glowing lights. “However, I doubt you would enjoy such a precaution so as long as you wear this monitoring device I will allow you to leave the tube.”

“Sure, I’ll wear it,” He quickly consented. He just wanted out of that tube he needed to find Cassie and apologize for the actions of the yellow and blue versions of himself. As soon as the device was strapped to his wrist he took off relieved to fly normally again. He was about to take off and search for Cassie when he heard Secret calling his name. “Yeah what is it Secret?”

“Cassie, asked me to give you this when you got fixed,” She said holding a letter out towards him. He took it and skimmed it and found himself frowning. “What’s the matter?” She asked concern clear in her voice.

“She’s asked me to stay away from her for a few days so she can think about everything.” He couldn’t blame her but it still hurt not to get to speak with her. “I should go ask Rob if I should stay away or not.”

“No, he’s too busy you should go ask someone else.” Secret said way too quickly. “In fact why don’t you just go see Cassie I’m sure she’s over it now.” She was basically pushing him toward the direction he’d have to fly to reach Cassie’s house.

“Greta, can I borrow my younger self for a moment,” The older him said dropping out of the sky behind them. He saw Secret give his older self a dark glare and then fly off leaving him confused. “She really isn’t taking the revelation of the true nature of me and my Tim’s relationship well.” His older counterpart said watching her go.

“Is that what that was about?” He glanced at his future self. “Is she afraid if I go talk to Rob the two of us will start making our or something?” His future self nodded and he felt embarrassed. “No way that would just be weird.” He then remembered who he was talking to when the other man laughed. “So what did you want to talk about?”


“Nothing really, I just figured you needed rescuing from Secret before she freaked out on you out of jealousy.” His older self started to drift away and then turned back. “Also if you want to talk about how to deal with your outing to everyone before they all forget I’m available.”

“How did Cassie take it in your time?” He asked as it was the first question that came to him. He was sure things would be okay with the others but he wasn’t sure Cassie was going to get over it. “I mean it must have surprised her when you started dating Robin.”

“Not really she’d seen me with guys before that,” His older counterpart Connor he reminded himself said. “The first time she ever saw me with a guy was a different story though she didn’t take it well.” Connor looked thoughtful. “Though to be fair we hadn’t really got our friendship back on track from our break up yet.” His older self smiled then, “Tim’s former fiancee took it so much better.”

“So what should I do just avoid her until things reset again?” He asked and saw his future self frown. “What it would take care of the problem I mean only me and the folks from other worlds would remember and I can ask them not to say something.”

“I think you should take the time to talk things out with her in a few days,” Connor said giving him a hard look. “You should find a way to be honest with her because it could only help your odds of working out this time around.”

“Shouldn’t you be trying to set me up with Tim instead of helping me fix things with Cassie,” He asked and flinched at the dark look Connor gave him. He was getting really self conscious as Connor didn’t speak just kept glaring at him.

“That isn’t funny,” His older self said after an agonizing silence. “Regardless of who you end up with rather it’s Cassie, Tim or someone else you won’t turn into me,” he paused obviously thinking, “unless you forget everything with the final reset then maybe you’ll turn into me.” His older self began to lift off again. “I suggest you go think about things and decide what you are going to do.”

He nodded and Connor took off flying away. He took off back toward Hawaii he’d go visit Tana’s grave and think about things. He wished she was around to talk to at times like this because even after they’d broken up she’d always been a good friend.

_____

“So how many times did you have to insist you weren’t involved with your world’s Kon before Bruce believed you?” His older counterpart asked surprising him. He glanced back at him before turning back to the computer where he was still trying to locate the clone Kon and Bart. “Connor, told me all about Batman’s visit so I know he had to interrogate you just before he left.”

“He took my word for it after only one question,” He said not that he thought Bruce totally believed him. “It is weird that he never bothered to ask me if I ever was attracted to men or if it is a change brought about by that future event Metron mentioned.”

“Bruce, never cared if I dated a guy or a girl,” his older self said with a weak smile. “He didn’t particularly care for anyone I dated but he never really objected until Kon.” His older self shook his head. “Even seven years later the two really only get along for mine and Clark’s sake.”

“So Batman and Superman still have their unique relationship in your time?” He asked not really surprised though he occasionally wondered if it was ever going to collapse under the weight of their respective issues.

“Yes, they are still best friends and each other’s worst critic,” his older self said with a hint of a smile. “I don’t think the next generation is going to be as friendly though,” his older self was frowning. “Damian and Connor hate each other so I doubt the tradition will continue when Bruce and Clark step down even if Connor and I do somehow end up back home.”

“How do we get along with Bruce’s son I only saw the older version for a short time before the last restart?” He was curious how they would get along. He found the idea of Bruce having a kid out there slightly unnerving.

“We have learned to tolerate each other,” his older self said with a guarded look. He knew himself well enough to guess that his older self didn’t care for Bruce’s son much. “Our relationship got off to a rocky start.”

“That’s an understatement,” Connor said as he entered the room. “For a while I thought it was only a matter of time before you were going to snap and put the little creep in traction.” He saw his older self frown at Connor’s words. “Believe me if he’d stayed on the Titans any longer I’d have given into temptation and done so.”

“We have a problem,” Metron announced appearing before either he or his future self could react to Connor’s statement. He could tell that Metron was speaking primarily to Connor and he wondered why he seemed to be singling him out so much.

“What kind of problem,” his older self asked quickly. He noticed that the older version of himself also seemed to have noticed that Metron was speaking primarily to Connor. He thought back and noticed that Metron had payed more attention to Connor than anyone else since this whole thing began.

“I have learned that the two clones come from a level of hypertime between the one you and Nightwing come from and this one,” Metron said a hint of excitement in his voice. “I believe they found their way here by journeying through the hole the four of you made on your initial journey.”

“How is that a problem?” Connor asked before anyone else could. “Are they going to start causing problems like we do?” He wondered if Metron even heard Connor because he still had a look of excitement on his face. He wondered again not for the first time if they could even trust the new god.

“No they will not cause those types of problems,” Metron said finally. “The problem is they will attempt to return home soon and it will cause a shock wave that will affect everyone and everything on this Earth.”

“So we need to stop them,” Connor said as if it was that simple. He saw Metron shaking his head and a confused Connor asked, “Is there a reason we can’t stop them?” Metron seemed to stare off into space for a moment before he finally answered.

“If they don’t go through with this then the shockwave will be even worse than the one they will cause,” Metron said grimly. “I am informing you of this event because once again I must take my leave of this reality or risk losing everything I have gained.” Metron then looked straight at Connor. “Also my instruments predict that something alien to our sphere of existence will emerge into our hypertime as a result of this event and it must be contained.”

“What exactly will be coming through,” His older counterpart said, “and how can we contain it.” He noticed Metron was glancing at something on one of his screens and seemed to be ignoring his older counterpart’s question.

“It is a small chunk of unknown matter that will be contained by the Motherbox Nightwing is wearing,” Metron said finally. “He simply needs to be present when it emerges into this world.” He then turned toward them. “The motherbox will transport you to the location where the event is to occur a few seconds before it happens.” Metron then looked somber. “I will return after this drama has concluded.” Seconds later Metron was gone.

He turned toward his older counterpart and Connor only to see Connor vanishing into a boom tube. “It appears to be happening now,” His older counterpart said grimly. “We should try to warn the others.”

They had both just turned towards the door when a blast of white light enveloped everything. He felt himself shifting and changing and his mind flooded with images of strange worlds. He realized he was flashing back through every weird transformation he’d experienced in the previous two cycles but now their memories were coming with them. He tried to focus on his own memories but eventually the strain became too much and he lost himself in the confusion.

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Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Three
Chapter One of Six

“You look exhausted,” Barbara said as he slumped down on her couch in the clock tower. “I honestly wasn’t expecting you to drop by I could have emailed you the information; there hasn’t been any new sightings of the alternate Kon El and Bart Allen.”

“I know, I just needed a break from everything.” He said closing his eyes. “The last two weeks have been a nightmare.” He could still see the evil Kon and Bart taking off after Lara attacked them out of grief. “I don’t think we’ll be able to find them until bodies start showing up.”

“Are you certain they are that dangerous,” Barbara asked. “I know they attacked you all with a group containing Lex Luthor but isn’t it possible they were under mind control then?” He would have suspected that at first but during the few times he managed to speak with his older counterpart over the past two weeks that notion had been rejected.

“The older me says that’s not possible and that unless the rules have changed they aren’t even a future version of Superboy and Impulse.” He watched Barbara taking in what he’d said. “So far both times the dopplegangers of people who already exist disappear in the reset.” He looked down at one of the many computer screens not seeing what was written on it. “He said they are most likely clones created by that world’s Batman after they died.” He looked over at her. “And even though they have the same genetic make up they aren’t technically the same person.”

“That makes sense I suppose,” She said typing away at the keyboard. “Cloning dead super heroes doesn’t sound like something Bruce would do,” Barbara said zeroing in on what he didn’t want to admit but then again she had also been trained by Batman. “Who was Batman in that future that kid of his and Talia’s?”

“I was that Batman,” He admitted though it would be easy to blame it on Ibin. “Apparently in that future the death of Kon and Bart is enough to push me over the edge and I spend years trying to clone them until I finally succeed.”

“That doesn’t really mean anything Tim,” Barbara said gently. “I’m sure there are worlds were I become a fascist dictator.” He knew she was trying to comfort him and after everything else he’d seen she was probably right there probably was a world where she was a dictator. That didn’t really make him feel any better. “So about those four Super boys any luck on finding a way to put them back together.”

“No,” He said grateful she had changed the topic. “Cassie doesn’t like coming to the hotel anymore since the one with the yellow energy form follows her around begging her to go out with him.” He saw Barbara smile. “All four of them seem to be different portions of Kon’s normal personality.”

“So the yellow one is his romantic side?” Barbara asked still grinning. “What about the Green Blue and Red ones?” He could understand her curiosity but the situation had stopped being interesting and started being disturbing about the time the yellow one started begging for a spy cam to put in Cassie’s bedroom.

“I wouldn’t call the Yellow Kon romantic,” He said. “He’s obsessed with Cassie and I’m worried it might turn dangerous he is lacking what little social understanding the complete Kon El has.” He saw her eyes widen. “The other three aren’t much better the Green Kon is determined to be a hero but completely ignores everything else I only know where he is by keeping track of the media coverage of his exploits.” He supposed that one was probably the least worrying since he was actually doing some good for the world. “The blue one is I think Kon’s seldom used intellect and he’s managed to master his energy powers in two weeks but has almost no drive to do anything that isn’t learning even more about them.”

“And the Red one that is currently causing trouble all over the place with one of the other visitors from another time line?” Barbara asked as she brought up an image of the Red Kon and Barry West laughing surrounded by girls on a beach somewhere.

“The Red one seems to be all of Kon’s irresponsible behaviors rolled into one.” He said looking away from the screen. “We need to find a way to merge them back together as soon as possible the longer they are apart the worse their differences seem to be getting.” As soon as he finished talking an alarm sounded. “Where’s the trouble?”

“At the Young Justice base,” She said pulling up a video feed. “Looks like you were right to be worried about the yellow one.” He frowned as he saw the Yellow and white Energy Kon fighting with the Ray.

“I need you to send me there immediately you have hacked the Justice League teleporter haven’t you?” She nodded. “Good maybe I can do something to calm this situation down before it gets even further out of control.” He walked back a ways. “Send me there now.”

“I don’t think it’s necessary anymore,” She said and he looked at the video feed. Metron had shown up and somehow disabled the Yellow Kon who was lying on the ground in his human form. “Do you still need to go?”

“Yes, Metron hasn’t been seen for two weeks I need answers about what’s going on and he can give them to me.” She nodded and soon enough the transport had begun. He was running threw the possibilities of what could have started the fight as the transport finished and he found himself outside the hotel.

Metron was in the process of placing the Yellow Kon in a tube like device. “What happened,” He asked as soon as he saw the others. He saw Cassie helping the Ray up while shooting a dark glare at the Yellow Kon. “He didn’t attack you Cassie did he?”

“No, I was just talking with the Ray and he snapped,” She said looking back at him. “He started screaming about how I was his and he wouldn’t let the Ray steal me because I belonged to him.” She turned away. “I never imagined any part of Kon could be like that.”

“Do not judge him too harshly Wonder girl,” Metron said as he finished encasing the Yellow Kon in the tube. “He is made up of the smallest fraction of Kon El and basically only exist as Kon El’s feelings for you without any balancing traits.” The new god turned toward them and looked over at the blue Kon who was standing back watching. “We need to merge you and your three counterparts back together as soon as possible otherwise the complete Kon El’s own mental health could be affected.” Metron then turned away. “I will return to assist in the merging once I have completed one other necessary act.”

“Wait,” He yelled but it was too late Metron faded out again. “We aren’t going to have trouble getting you to agree to be merged with the other three again are we?” He asked the Blue Kon who had lowered himself down to stand with them.

“I will not be the problem, I am looking forward to reintegration,” The Blue Kon said which surprised him. “However, none of my brothers share that desire and I imagine they will have to be forced to reintegrate.”

“Why are you willing then,” Cassie asked before anyone else said anything. “How do we know you aren’t just playing along and planning to take off first chance you get?” He could understand her suspicion but this Kon hadn’t shown much drive to do anything after basically mastering his powers.

“Because I feel unnatural,” The Blue Kon said looking right at her. “I look at all of you and I feel nothing I know from my memories that I am supposed to care about all of you but I don’t.” The blue and white energy being kept staring at Cassie who turned away. “At the very least the reintegration will be a fascinating new experience one of the few things I can look forward to.” He began to lift off the ground. “I will go locate and contact my heroic counterpart to lure him back here.” He disappeared into the electrical wires after saying that.

“I still don’t think we should trust him,” Cassie said and he privately agreed. “Tim can you track down the Green Kon for us?” He nodded and headed inside toward the computer set up. He settled down and was just beginning a search for media reports on the Green Kon’s activities when the Blue Kon returned out of the power socket.

“I have spoken with him and told him that his assistance was needed to restore sanity to the Yellow Kon,” He said looking around. “I told him he could finish his list of emergencies he intends to intervene in before coming since the more he weakens himself the easier he’ll be to force to integrate.”

“How did you find him so quickly,” Cassie said staring at him. “Robin was just beginning a computer search I can’t believe you fond him quicker than he could.” He had a pretty good idea how the Blue Kon had done it but he was curious if his guess was correct.

“Robin was using the internet I was inside it,” The Blue Kon said simply. “I could find any information I wanted at the speed of thought without having to bother typing into a keyboard.” He’d guessed correctly and took a moment to appreciate exactly how powerful that made Kon. He’d never considered how powerful Superman was during his brief stint in a similar form because his power was so much less physically impressive. He would have to remember not to make that mistake in the future.

“That just leaves the Red Kon,” Ray said from where he was standing behind Cassie. “I know last time I saw him he was with that Barry West from another world.” He glanced up at the blue Kon who seemed unconcerned. “Shouldn’t you go find him.”

“I already know where he is,” the Blue Kon said and turned toward the screen. “He’s in the hotel and very busy so I doubt he’ll be going anywhere.” He saw it then a strange sort of detached expression of curiosity on the blue Kon’s face. “See for yourself.” The security feed started before he could stop it.

He heard a gasp as the image of the Red Kon in human form having sex with Barry West appeared on the screen. He managed to kill the feed in seconds but everyone present had seen enough to know what was going on. “That has to be fake,” Cassie said clearly in shock.

“It is not,” The Blue Kon said before anyone else. “There is security footage from several other incidents over the last two weeks if you need to see more to believe it.” He was watching the blue Kon’s face and realized that he was enjoying watching the reaction of everyone else he was treating it like an experiment. “I take it that other than Robin none of you were aware that Kon El is bisexual?”

All eyes turned toward him and he vowed to keep a close watch on the blue Kon until the Kon’s were recombined. There was something disturbingly familiar about the blue Kon’s approach to things.

_____

He emerged from the tank feeling wet and dizzy. He tried to remember how he got here but couldn’t. “Easy,” Tim’s voice said as the other man approached and began to dry him off with a towel. “Your lucky to be alive that bullet should have killed you.”

“Then how did I survive?” He asked as he looked around and realized he was at the Fortress he thought it looked a bit different than the fortress he remembered. He could tell by how methodical Tim was being that he was in full Red Robin mode to deal with the stress.

“This is how you survived sir,” One of the Fortress Robots said as it approached carrying his uniform and the mother box. “This piece of New god technology placed you into a state of stasis that maintained your life force during treatment.”

“Thanks MB,” he said and the thing pinged almost happily in response. “How long was I out?” He asked Tim hoping to coax him back to being Tim and not Red Robin. He could tell it was going to be difficult as Tim looked up at him with the mask firmly in place.

“About two weeks,” Tim said after a moment as he stepped back to allow him to pull on his repaired costume. “Once you are back on your feet we need to rejoin the others at the hotel the situation has changed for the worse.”

“Tim, relax a little I’m okay,” He said as he finished pulling on his costume. “Don’t turn into Bruce the second on me now.” Tim turned back toward him and he thought he saw a bit of emotion but before anything could happen Metron appeared.

“Where have you been for the last two weeks,” Tim said snapping back into Red Robin mode and glaring up at Metron. He suppressed a sigh and grabbed MB to strap her back on his arm. He could tell Tim was getting ready to lose it at Metron.

“There was no need for me to return until I found a way to safely reintegrate the divided younger Kon El,” Metron said and he glanced Tim who gave him a nod clearly meant to say I’ll tell you later. “There is also a potential problem I did not foresee until now.” Metron looked down at them. “Red Robin your shield will begin to fail within the next three weeks and a few days later Night wing’s will also begin to fail.” Metron looked worried. “There is no way to predict what will happen with both of you generating temporal shock waves at the same time, especially after the damage caused by Wonder woman’s actions.”

“What do you mean by that,” He snapped before Tim could say anything. “Are you saying what happened with those evil time traveling Titans was somehow Cassie’s fault?” He felt Tim’s arm on his shoulder and did his best to calm down.

“No but she didn’t heed my warnings and confronted them,” Metron said gravely. “The result was her shield failed prematurely but reality did not completely reset the past Kon El was split into four separate energy beings, Doomsboy vanished, Bart Allen remains missing and two of the dangerous Titans remain loose on this world.”

He really needed someone to catch him up. “All right so how do we fix things?” Tim asked and then suddenly they weren’t in the Fortress anymore. They were standing outside the hotel where a blue and white verison of his younger self had two others trapped in a cage of electricity.

“Metron, can you supply containment for my brothers?” The blue and white energy being asked and two tubes appeared. “Thank you.” He watched as the red and white energy being along with the green and white one were dropped into the tubes. “May I ask how you intend to merge us Metron?”

“With this machine,” Metron said as a floating cube appeared. “It will recombine your energies and reconstitute the original Kon El.” He looked around and saw there was a yellow and white energy Kon also in a tube. “Now if you will consent to being put in a tube the reintegration can begin.”


“That won’t be happening,” The Blue Kon said and then lashed out with a blast of electric energy clearly aimed at the machine. The only one who didn’t appear shocked was the young Tim who was already moving throwing one of his many toys at the energy Kon. It never made it as the device instead of being destroyed simply sucked up the blue Kon before moving to an empty tube that appeared and somehow depositing the blue Kon inside it.

“Now we can begin,” Metron said completely unfazed by what had happened. “It will take some time to set up the proper apparatus and make the final calculations.” Metron casually began to summon equipment form where ever he had been getting it all along.

“You knew he was going to double cross you,” the younger Tim said staring at Metron with suspicious glare. “How did you know he would do that?” He was just as curious himself and he knew his Tim had to be as well.

“Because I knew which parts of Kon El he was made from,” Metron said looking around. “He was not Kon El’s intellect as you surmised but instead his arrogance.” Metron smiled slightly. “Free from other distractions and emotions the blue Kon could easily make use of his innate intelligence to it’s full and dangerous potential.”

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This Takes place early in Cycle Two before C2 Chapter 2.

Cycles of Chaos
Cycle Two: Side Story One of Four
Night Out

He downed another beer at the trashed bar feeling good. “I’m glad we decided to do this,” He said belching loudly. He had enjoyed the bar fight not to mention scaring the piss out of the bartender who refused to serve them drinks. “If those bastiches are right about everything we do this week getting wiped out anyway why not have some fun.”

“I hear you,” the large guest from another world said. “It was funny watching that miniature riot break out when I walked down the street.” Doomsboy laughed loudly downing a bit of alcahol. “I bet if we headed to Metropolis we could start an actual riot since no one ever made a good clone of Doomsday here.”

“Sounds like fun,” He said smiling brightly. “The Super cycle is right outside so let’s go have some fun.” He started to walk away and then reached back grabbing a few bottles for the road the cycle could more than handle the driving. “Let’s go see how big a riot we can get going before the big blue boy scout shows up.”

“Why the hell not, I always wanted to throw down with him and see who was really better,” Doomsboy said climbing into the back of the Super cycle. ”Let’s go start a riot.” He aimed the super cycle and metropolis and then popped the top of large vodka and handed it back to Doomsboy. “Thanks you’re a lot of fun I wish you existed in my world.”

He laughed and didn’t say anything. So far Doomsboy was turning out to be an interesting addition to the situation. He was definitely more fun than some of those yahoos like Robin who had a permanent titanium rod shoved up his ass. He had made an effort to be their idea of a hero but now that he had an excuse to cut loose with no repercussions he was going to do it.

Once they arrived in Metropolis Doomsboy’s prediction came true in moments folks were running in fear from the monster that killed Superman. “This is fun,” he said smashing in a window and grabbing a nice jacket to replace the one he’d left at the bar.

“What do you idiots think your doing,” An angry voice said and he turned to see the older version of Super boy standing there looking furious. He decided to just ignore him and was heading to smash the next window when he was jerked off his feet and drug back. “Not one word Slo-bo,” the man said. He tried to open his mouth to tell him exactly what he thought of him but his mouth was held shut. “I said not one word,” He tried to use his face to make it clear to the other man exactly what he was calling him in his head.

He was then drug along as the guy grabbed Doomsday. “Hey Super Cycle you know the way back to the hotel take off,” this bastiche holding him said and their ride left. Then the freaking mother box on his arm beeped and they were back at the hotel threw a damn boom tube. “Now stay put if you take off again you’ll regret it.”

As soon as he could talk he unloaded every explenetive he knew at the other man who just stood there looking unconcerned as if he was less than nothing to him. “I should break your arrogant face,” He finally said and prepared to spit on the other man. He then found himself lifted off the ground by his neck. “Let me go,” He struggled but couldn’t do anything.

“I’m going to say this once Slo-bo I know what’s wrong with you,” He said. “I know your running around with Doomsboy trying to feel like the main man again because your DNA is degrading and your dying.” The older Superboy’s face was harsh. “I get it if you want to take a night out and go get shit faced go right ahead but causing major riots is going too far and if you do it again I’m locking you in the basement of the hotel.” The older Kon el dropped him and walked off leaving him sitting alone with Doomsboy.

“Man who knew another Conal could grow up to be such a bad ass,” Doomsboy said laughing. “It really makes me regret that I got suck with such a limp wristed little brother.” He ignored Doomsboy and walked off. His good mood ruined and he didn’t feel much like going out again tonight.

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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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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.

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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.

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Chapter two

“So your saying until a few minutes ago I used to be a girl named Anita,” the guy Adam who had replaced Anita said. She stood back watching the reaction of everyone after Metron had gotten threw explaining about multiple levels of hypertime and temporal shock waves. “So first of all how did it happen and why does no one but the eight of you remember it.”

“The Temporal Shock wave rewrote your entire history for you and everyone not protected in some way you have always been Adam,” Metron explained. “I believe it is the presence of dopplegangers from a different level of hyper time that allows the younger counterparts to remember and I am protected by my Mobius Chair.”

“So how do we prevent this from happening again,” The younger Tim said after a moment. “And how do we undo the changes.” She could tell by this Adam’s face that he didn’t like the idea of being changed back into a girl he couldn’t remember.

“We cannot do either,” Metron said looking at a screen projected from his Mobius Chair. “With the current amount of data I can see no means of preventing or undoing the changes from the next temporal shock wave which will occur in approximately 11 hours 46 minutes and 12 seconds.”

“What if we killed them?” Slo-bo said pointing out herself and the others. She saw Connor narrow his eyes. “I mean if they are dead then no more temporal shock waves right.” She glanced at Metron who was still reading the screen.

“No their deaths would not prevent the shock waves even if they were atomized,” He said looking over at them. “Their death might even accelerate the shock waves.” She didn’t like her death being casually discussed as an option but she didn’t want to start a fight.

“What exactly is causing the tremors,” Batman asked from where he was watching them all with obvious distrust. Metron turned to regard Batman with a strange look and suddenly there were images of the four of them projected in mid air surrounded by a pink barriers.

“There is an unknown energy isolating them from our badly stressed segment of space time,” Metron said. “The first tremor occurred when the shell protecting Superwoman cracked and she briefly came into contact with our space time before the opening closed.” The image of the shield around Kara grew dimmer. “Unfortunately the crack has weakened the over all strength of the shield and the next crack will inevitably do the same.” He looked right at Kara. “The cracking will accelerate and eventually the entire shield will shatter.”

“What happens then,” Kara asked glancing at Superman and Batman. She knew she was seeking moral support from them but they didn’t know her and couldn’t give it. “What happens to me when the shield is gone?”

“I do not know,” Metron said with what sounded detached but the look in his eyes was one of hunger for knowledge. “It is my hope to be able to answer your question as I collect more data,” He turned toward them all. “I would suggest that we turn this location into a laboratory and Quarantine zone for the affected.” He looked at them. “The more data I collect the more possible a solution to this problem might appear.” Metron looked down. “I should collect the necessary equipment I will return shortly.”

“Before you go,” Tim said speaking up. “I have to ask how long before what’s happening to Kara happens to the rest of us.” She glanced at Tim in shock it hadn’t even occurred to her to ask that question because she was so worried about Kara.

“According to my calculations, Wonder woman will begin experiencing cracks in her shield at around 104 hours from the time of your arrival.” Metron said giving her a calculated look. “You and Nightwing absorbed so much more of the energy that I cannot predict when your fields will begin to crack.”

“The two of you were the closest to the blast,” Kara said speaking up. “Did they absorb the same amount or is there a different amount because to me it looked like they got caught together and stayed in there the same amount of time.”

“The older Robin absorbed slightly less of the energy than Nightwing but I cannot possibly begin to guess why that was,” Metron said. “Perhaps because of some difference in physiology between a Kryptonian hybrid and a human.”

“No it was most likely because Connor threw every scrap of his TK into a shield around me,” Tim said giving a familiar look. “That shield must have blocked a small portion of the energy.” She glanced at Connor and he looked completely unfazed she knew that trying to protect Tim was one thing he’d never regret.

“That could explain it,” Metron said giving them a curious look. “I will return with the necessary equipment before the next crack is due to appear in Superwoman’s personal field.” As soon as the words were out of his mouth he was gone.

“This is going to get confusing,” The Ray said pointing out there were two of each of them now. “I mean what do we call you older versions.” She watched as the others exchanged looks. “I mean I suppose we can call you by your code names but what if the current Nightwing or Wonder woman drops by?”

“It’s an easy enough problem to solve,” She said speaking up. “Call her Kara,” She said pointing out her best friend. “You can call my younger self Cassie and me by our full name Cassandra.” She pointed at the younger version of Connor. “He stays Kon and he is Connor,” She said pointing to her version of the Hybrid Kryptonian. “As for Tim well...” She had to think for a moment.

“Call him Red,” Connor said speaking up. “He answers to it all the time amongst the Outsiders.” Tim nodded and she was glad because that solved the problem of what to call him. She looked around everyone seemed tense and unable to find anything to say.

“You know Adam if you were a girl I’d have said yes when you asked me out on a date,” Slo-bo said looking at the now male Empress with a smirk. “Shame that we can’t change you back.” She noticed that even as a guy Empress had a strange interest in Slo-bo.

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“Can we ask questions now,” Bart asked excitedly. “Metron, said that you could talk about the future without changing anything about the situation.” He was looking at them so excitedly that she almost said yes but then glanced at Tim or as she told the others to call him Red and Connor sharing a wordless conversation.

“Sure go ahead Bart,” Connor said and she watched as suddenly Bart was bombarding him with questions asking much too fast for her to follow. She glanced around and saw their younger counterparts staring in shock when Connor started answering Bart just as fast.

“Wow so I get super speed too,” Kon said watching her version of him and Bart interact. “I knew I’d probably get heat vision someday but I had no idea I’d get the super speed too.” She glanced over at Kara to share a look but noticed she was following the conversation between Connor and Bart and so was Superman.

“You have no idea what the future holds power wise for you Kon,” She said since no one else was going to comment. “Trust me when I tell you that heat vision is only going to be the beginning for you.” She thought about other things she could tell him that he might need to know and froze that stuff should really come from Connor. “You should talk to Connor alone when you get the chance he can tell you some things.” She saw both versions of Tim giving her similar looks. The only difference was there was a sad kind of knowledge in her Tim’s and just pure curiosity in the younger Tim. “I’m going to take a walk,” She said and turned away.

She needed some time to think to herself. After her second trip around the perimeters of the Hotel her younger self joined her. “Can I help you with something Cassie?” She asked though she had a pretty good idea what her younger self was going to ask.

“Well Cassandra,” Her younger self sounded nervous. “We noticed that you’ve got a wedding ring on and I was wondering who we I mean you married.” She looked really nervous. “I’m sure you know I’m kind of interested in someone and I just want to know if...” Her younger self blushed and stopped talking.

“You want to know if you and Kon worked out in our future?” She said and watched as her younger self nodded. “We didn’t but that doesn’t mean anything for your future you heard Metron this isn’t our past not really.”

“Oh who did you end up with?” Her younger self asked after a moment. “I mean it wasn’t Robin was it he’s kind of cute?” She frowned as she tried to think of what to say to that. There was history there she’d had something with Tim while they were both mourning Connor but her younger self didn’t need to know all that.


“No,” She said. “The man I married isn’t a meta or a super hero he’s just a nice normal guy that I love.” She said thinking about her husband and feeling a pang of worry that she would never see him again. “I won’t tell you his name because otherwise you might spend all your time looking for him and miss out on your own great love.”

“I guess I can understand that,” Her younger self said wistfully. “Thanks for answering my questions.” She watched her younger self take off and shook her head. She missed Paul a great deal but there was nothing she could do. She could only hope that Metron would find a way to get them home even though he seemed to think it was impossible.

“Hey Cassie.. I mean Cassandra they need your help,” Bart said speeding in front of her. ‘ Metron, is back with a bunch of equipment and he needs it to be positions in some weird places.” Then he was gone so she made her way back to see Connor, Kon, Superman and Kara all balancing several huge pieces of equipment.

“How can I help?” She asked once she was close enough and she was pointed to where her younger self was attempting to lift a similar sized piece. “I’ve got it Cassie,” She said hefting it up. She watched her younger self stare at her in shock. “It’s a long story,” She said as she lifted it up. “Where do you want this Metron?”

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Her shoulders were aching from attempting to help her future self lift that heavy equipment Metron had some how brought. She glanced at the clock and saw there were still about four hours before the second crack was due so she laid down on one of the hotel beds to rest for a bit. She wished her power was like Kon’s and didn’t actually require her muscles to do any lifting.

She had only meant to close her eyes for a few seconds but she woke up later to someone came bursting threw her door.. “What is it?” She said sitting up, and seeing part. She was feeling a bit weird so she guessed she set up too fast.

“That thing happened again with Superwoman,” Bart said quickly. “I came to check on you cause Metron said you were one of the things changed but you look the same so it was probably a mistake.”

“Bart, get back here,” The older Kon’s voice said as he was approaching. “You know you won’t be aware of any changes.” She felt a moment of panic and then forced herself to relax she didn’t feel any different she still remembered Anita turning into a man so she couldn’t have changed. He arrived in the room and froze looking at her. “Cassie, What color is your hair?” He asked after a moment.

Bart looked like he was about to speak but the older Kon grabbed him covering his mouth. “It’s blonde isn’t it?” She asked and then got up and made her way to the mirror. What she saw shocked her instead of the straight blonde hair she remembered she had red curly hair. “I don’t understand how did this happen.”

“Let’s get you to Metron,” The older Kon said letting Bart go and offering her his hand. She took it and felt a bit self conscious Kon had grown up to be an incredibly attractive man and while she knew she’d grow up to look just as good she felt a bit shy standing next to him.

Bart of course had run ahead and was probably doing a poor job of explaining it. “Don’t worry Cassie, we will figure something out.” He said as they walked. She wondered if he really believed that.

As they approached Anita or well Adam ran up to her. “Are you alright Cassie,” He said sounding concerned. “Bart tried to explain but didn’t make much sense something about your hair?” She noticed him glancing down at her hand still held in the older Kon’s and got it.

“We are dating now aren’t we?” She asked and saw him look confused. “Alright Metron why did my body and life change but I still remember how things used to be?” She tried to ignore the hurt look in Adam’s eyes because every time she saw him she saw her missing friend Anita.

“It is only a theory but I believe your minds are protected by the simple fact your alternate selves are here,” Metron said distractedly. “However you are still part of our reality so whenever the shockwaves make changes to any of you it will affect you all.”

“At least this time it didn’t change as much,” She said. “Being born with a different hair color doesn’t seem that bad considering what could have have happened?” She could live with having red hair even though it would take some getting used to.

“This wave was actually stronger than the last,” Metron said looking at her. “In the local vicinity only your physical hair color and the nature of your relationship with Emperor changed but world wide thirty-six people were affected.” Metron sounded so cold and unaffected. “The changes range from something as minor as simply having a different meal to something as major as someone simply not being born.” She looked around and saw everyone frowning. “I believe that the next break will occur in four hours, twenty-seven minutes and thirteen seconds.” He then actually frowned. “After that I believe the breaks will accelerate and total field collapse will occur within the next ten hours.”

She glanced at Superwoman who looked disturbed. The older Kon let go of her hand and walked over to her pulling her against him. “Relax Kara we are going to figure this out,” He said and she could tell he really wanted to believe it.

“How Connor,” Superwoman said shaking her head and pushing him away. “Even if Metron finds away to help the three of you he’ll never do it before my field collapses.” She turned toward Metron with a determined look in her face. “Is there anything I can do next time that will let you study the process in more detail?”

“Yes,” Metron said after a moment. “Before the next break I can attach sensors that will give me a more complete picture of what happens to you during the break.” Superwoman nodded and then turned back toward them all.

“Everyone should go get some rest before the next break we need to be prepared for anything,” She said shaking her head. “That Includes you Connor, half kryptonian or not even you need rest especially after the battle we had before this all happened.”

“I will but only if you do the same cousin,” The older Kon said with a probably forced teasing smile. She hadn’t thought Kon had any kryptonian DNA at all and was just a human clone but her Kon didn’t seem surprised by the statement. Of course he could just be staring at his cousin’s breasts again.”

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Cycles of Chaos
Cycle one
Chapter One

Every time he thought life couldn’t get any weirder he was always proven wrong. They’d just got back from invading a country of super villains with the infant parents of a team mate. He thinks he should be given some slack for thinking that was the weirdest thing that would happen this week. The fact that just moments ago he, Robin and Cassie nearly passed out only to have future versions of themselves and Supergirl crash onto the tennis court.

He didn’t want to admit it but considering what happened the last time he met an adult version of himself he was kind of scared. The fact this one was also sporting a black outfit didn’t help matters. He wondered why the stylized red bird thing design instead of the S-shield but he wasn’t going to ask. He’d already seen the future Robin shoot down Bart’s multitude of questions about the future. As intimidating as Robin could be the future version came across as way too much like Batman to risk upsetting.

“I think she’s waking up,” the older version of Cassie said from where she was kneeling by Supergirl. He took a moment to appreciate how well Cassie and Supergirl grew up. He watched as the older versions crowded around their supergirl.

“Superwoman, are you okay?” His older self asked as she opened her eyes. The way he said it sounded a bit funny like he wasn’t used to calling her Superwoman when he was concerned about her. He wondered if his future self was involved with her after all he’d recently told her how attractive he found her now that she was more approachable.

“Nightwing,” She said sounding really happy to see him but he couldn’t get past what she called him. “I didn’t think I managed to pull Wonder woman and you two out of there.” She said and then frowned as she looked past him and saw the rest of them.

“You didn’t,” His older self who apparently was calling himself Nightwing said. “We got thrown into the past so keep the details to a minimum so we don’t change things.” He was still staring wondering how on earth he could have ended up with the Nightwing identity. A quick glance at Robin showed he was just as shocked or at least he thought he was it was hard to tell with Robin.

“Kon, we need to pay a visit to Metropolis and Gotham.” The older Robin said. He watched his older self frown at the other man. “The two of them will get involved sooner or later and it’s best we talk to the them directly.” The older Robin turned toward his younger self and said, “you can let Batman know we are coming.”

“Guess that means we’ll go see the big guy in Metropolis first,” His future self said. “Cassie you and Super woman stay here with our past selves.” He could tell several folks planned to object but before anyone good his future self was simply gone and the older Robin with him.

“Wow you’re a lot faster in the future,” Bart said cheerfully. “I’m going to race them to Metropolis,” his friend said and then was gone as well. He noticed the older Cassie had a fond look on her face as she was staring at where Impulse was.

“I have to make a call,” Robin said as he turned and headed back inside the hotel. He really didn’t envy Robin having to tell Batman that company was coming. He glanced around to see everyone other than Robin was standing around stupidly.

“I need to talk to Superwoman alone for a bit,” the older Cassie said breaking the uncomfortable silence. “We are going to fly a few hundred feet away.” He watched them take off and took a moment to admire their much more mature backsides.

“I wonder who I married,” Cassie said interrupting his rather inappropriate thoughts. “I mean the older me is wearing a wedding ring.” He hadn’t noticed a wedding ring and when he said as much Cassie had turned a dark glare on him. “You were too busy staring at my I mean her and Super woman’s chest to notice.”

He felt guilty for a moment but then shot back. “I did notice that the future me seemed really uncomfortable calling Super woman by a code name.” He leered suggestively as he went on. “I think we might be involved.”

“Or you could be married to Cassie,” Secret said when no one else spoke. “Your future self had on gloves so we couldn’t see his hand.” He really wished she hadn’t done that as now he was incredibly uncomfortable. He and Cassie had been dancing around the idea of hooking up for a while now and the idea that they could be married in the future hadn’t occurred to him. He could tell it occurred to Cassie though as she blushed quiet a bit before making excuses to go check on Robin.

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They landed just outside Metropolis so he could call Clark on a pay phone to give him a heads up that they were coming while Tim sent Bart back to Young Justice. Having to face the past versions of Superman and Batman was already going to be awkward as hell anyway without including a hyperactive speedster.

He had to admit it brought back fond memories to see Bart show back up three or four times while he waited to be connected to Clark’s desk. “What’s this about a family emergency Connor?” He was asked as soon as Clark picked up. Of course he would forget that this was before Clark dumped him with Ma and Pa Kent.

“Look Clark it’s Kon El and we are having a time travel problem at the moment,” he said hoping Clark would just go with it. “Tim and I are flying into Metropolis and we need you to meet us to take a trip to see Bruce.”

“All right, I’ll meet you over the Planet.” Clark said cautiously. He hung up the phone and headed out of the booth to see Tim shooing Bart off yet again. “Just go back to the hotel Bart you know Batman won’t like you following us all the way there.” He said joining Tim, the mention of the bat word sent Bart off. “How long do you think before he comes back?”

“Let’s go,” Tim said all business as usual during a crisis. “We need to get to Metropolis as soon as possible.” He stepped forward and pulled Tim into his arms before taking off. He didn’t need to hold onto Tim anymore his TK field was strong enough to support the other man without it but he enjoyed holding him.

In a few seconds they were over Metropolis where Superman was waiting hoovering above the Daily Planet like a figure out of myth. “Here we are,” He said letting Tim go but keeping him supported in his field. “Sorry about the trouble Clark,” he said softly extending his hand toward Superman.

“Nice costume,” Clark said shaking his hand and glancing over at Tim who somehow managed to look completely at ease despite floating hundreds of stories in the air with no control over his own fate.

“It is a long story that we can’t really share because of time paradoxes,” He said suppressing the urge to laugh at Clark’s continuing to stare at Tim floating. “I’ve been at this for more than a decade now Clark I’m a lot better at the TK thing now.”

“We need to get to Gotham,” Tim said after a moment. “My younger counterpart should have finished calling him by now so we will be expected.” He couldn’t help but smile at the thought of dropping in unexpected on Batman. It was going to be one of the highlights of this trip if they ever got home.

“Follow me,” Clark said and took off. He matched Clark’s speed easily and raised an eyebrow at him. “I’m not sure how fast you can go now so I was trying to let you keep up.” He knew Clark was trying to be considerate but he wasn’t the kid Clark knew anymore.

“Go as fast as you want I can keep up,” He said glancing over at Tim who looked indifferent but after years of being together he knew the other man was hiding a small smile somewhere down in that Bat mask of his.

He made a point to always stay even with Clark as he was curious how fast Clark would go. The answer it turned out was very fast as Clark seemed to be trying to gage exactly how fast he could go. He was actually pretty sure by the end of it that he was in the same ball park as this Clark power wise. Sure his time’s Superman was still ahead of him thanks to an additional ten years of solar absorption but he was pleased at how close he seemed to be to this one at least in speed. “You’re a lot faster,” Clark said. “Any other powers and abilities I should know about.”

“It is best that we don’t share too much information about the future,” Tim said speaking up. “That means no showing off Connor,” Tim said and then frowned. He hadn’t expected Tim to make that mistake so he was honestly surprised. Tim should have called him Kon and now he was beating himself up over screwing up. “We’re here,” Tim said recovering pointing toward one of the entrances to the Batcave that was accessible from the air.

As soon as they touched down inside it he extended his TK Field to it’s limits tracing every contour of the cave’s walls and the insides of the various compartments. Like he expected the safe was empty which meant that the Bat had the kryptonite on him. “Don’t antagonize him,” Tim said from behind him. “We both know what he’s got on him.”

They arrived in the main section fo the cave where Batman was waiting for them along with Alfred who had a tray of tea. “Hey Alfred,” he said ignoring the glare Batman shot him. “Hey Bruce,” he said knowing Tim was going to kill him later but he couldn’t help it poking the past Batman was fun.

“So you are Nightwing now,” He said and then looking past him to Tim who had pulled his cowl off to reveal his actual face. “Is Dick okay with him using the name?” He resisted pointing out how insulting the question was since Batman seemed to be assuming that he’d use the name without Dick’s okay.

“Dick is fine with it,” Tim said and then fixed Batman with his own version of the Bat glare. “We need to avoid as many details as possible to prevent ourselves from fading out of existence.” Tim was actually lecturing Batman it was wonderful. “We need you to contact Rip Hunter, Wave Rider, Metron and anyone else who can help get us back home.”

“I’m afraid no one can get you back home,” A voice said and he looked up to see Metron sitting in his Mobious chair above them. “Your presence here is a true anomaly we could journey into the future but it would not be your future merely the future your world replaced.”

“What do you mean their world replaced,” Batman asked glancing between them and Metron with a wary look on his face. He didn’t like the way Batman’s hand was subtly twitching toward a compartment on his belt.

“They have fallen threw a hole in greater hypertime,” Metron said with an almost hungry expression. “Such events are rare and can only be reversed from the higher plane.” he glanced around at Clark, Tim, Batman and Alfred all looked as confused as he felt which was saying something.

“Think of Greater hypertime as a stacked structure with layers of hypertime within it,” Metron said obviously having some difficulty putting his understanding of the concept into terms they could understand. “It is possible with a great deal of power to pull an object up or send it down to a lower level.” Metron paused only briefly. “However, it is impossible to move from a lower level to a higher level with any means available to us on this level.”


“Why are they from a higher level,” Clark asked while he shared a glance with Tim. He was sure that Tim had got there ahead of him but he had a couple of ideas for what could have caused it. He noticed Batman watching them and tried to mimic how confused he used to look. He could instantly tell Batman wasn’t buying it.

“At some future point the nature of reality will be altered and a new past, present and future will be created,” Metron said. “Our existence is confined to the hypertime that encompasses everything that happened before that moment.” He looked almost thrilled. “If we journey into the future it will be our future from before that event not the world they come from.” He looked at the two of them. “Feel free to say as much as you want about your world we are no danger to you.”

“What about them,” Batman asked, “Are they a danger to our world.” He glanced up at Metron to see him checking something with his chair. He didn’t like the look on the new god’s face and he wondered how bad the news was going to be.

“Yes,” Metron said with a curious expression. “But only because this section of the time line has recently undergone massive temperoral instability their presence will aggravate it and most likely causing shock waves that will cause massive alterations in the time line.”

“Is there anyway to prevent this?” Tim asked speaking to Metron for the first time. He knew what Tim was thinking that if they couldn’t get home they could at least minimize the damage to this time and place.

“No, the energy that brought you here is currently preventing them but that energy is fading at different rates for all four of you soon the tremors will start,” Metron looked around. “In fact by my calculations the first of you will begin to affect reality in approximately two minutes so I will be journeying to that location to observe the effects and refine my data.”

“Wait,” Superman called but Metron was already gone. He watched as Superman turned back toward them to speak but suddenly he heard a small gasp from Tim which meant Tim had figured something out.

“Kon it’s Kara,” Tim said with a horrified look. “She only grabbed Cassie at the last second there’s no way she absorbed as much of that energy as we did.” That was all Tim had to say he shot forward and grabbed him. He flew pouring on the speed careful to Cloak Tim in his TK Field to keep from harming him as he pushed himself to his maximum speed.

Even though it took less than a second to the distance from Gotham City to the hotel it felt like it took forever because he was worried about his cousin. He slowed and landed letting Tim go and immediately grabbed her. “Are you okay Kara,” He asked.

“I’m fine Kon but what happened to not using my name,” Kara said giving him a curious expression. She then looked past him and smiled. “Kal and Bruce are coming,” She said. He glanced back to see Superman landing holding an irate looking Batman.


“You really have gotten faster,” Clark said giving him a once over. “Your not our Supergirl,” He said as soon as he set eyes on Kara. He should have known Clark would notice right away that Kara wasn’t the Supergirl he knew.

He was debating how to begin explaining to Clark who Kara was when she suddenly convulsed and a small point of light appeared on her shoulder. “Kara,” Cassie yelled moving forward but before she could reach her a ball of light shout out of her shoulder and hit Anita. There was a bright flash and then suddenly Anita was replaced by a guy who looked a lot like her.

“What the hell, Anita just turned into a guy,” His younger self yelled out suddenly. He glanced around quickly and saw that only his, Tim’s and Cassie’s younger self were reacting everyone else including Superman and Batman looked confused.

“Who is Anita,” Greta asked looking around. He watched as his younger self did a good impression of a fish for a few seconds before pointing at the man. “That’s Adam, why would you call him Anita.”

“This truly fascinating,” Metron said appearing in the midst of the chaos. “It appears that your three younger counterparts are also being given some protection by your presence and that they will also remember the original time line.”

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