Chapter 19 – Invasions and Investigations
*DOOM*
Monday, August 4, 2014 – I got a message from Rorschach. Ryand'r, Starfire and Blackfire's brother showed up on Waypoint Station with the Omega Men. Apparently, they have been looking for Tamaranean survivors, when not running missions against the Citadel. Rorschach decided to put them in Quarantine for a week. That should give me and my girls enough time to prepare and for Rorschach to make some background checks.
Monday, August 11, 2014 - Ryand'r or Darkfire in English has been cleared. According to Rorschach, the Omega Men said he had the more severe security they had ever scene and they escaped from some of the worst prisons in the universe.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 – Time to meet my future brother-in-law.
*DOOM*
Cognito Building
Happy Harbour, Rhode Island.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
15:15 (3:14 PM)
1POV
Ryand'r of Tamaran, Darkfire of the Omega Men, is shorter than his sisters at five-foot-nine, but has the same color eyes, skin, and hair as Starfire. His hair is styled similar to microbraids or dreadlocks and he has a grey cybernetic arm with green lights. He's dressed in a dark purple sleeveless bodysuit and gray utility belt and boots.
The arm was impressive looking until he was foolish enough to punch me in the face. That arm could probably crush metal and lift tremendous weight assuming the shoulder joint was secure. It wasn't designed to punch someone whose skin makes battleship armor look like Jell-O in comparison.
"X'Hal! What are you made of?"
It was a tearful reunion with Ryand'r even forgiving his sister after learning about the attempt on her life. He was happy to meet their female friends – Raven, Jade, Max, and Priss. He was even happy to meet me, when he learned I was the one that rescued him. He wasn't happy to learn I was engaged to six women including his sisters. This is why I picked the Cognito Building near Mount Justice instead of the Doomsday Bunker.
"I'm a genetically engineered being that adapts and becomes immune to damage. After all my experiences, not even supernovas would be able to harm me." I reply to my future brother-in-law, "You calmed down?"
"A little. I'm not happy about some sort of super soldier seducing my sisters."
"Seducing. Blackfire seduced me, then Raven seduced Blackfire so she could also have me. It just kept going."
"You could have said 'no' to them."
"Would any man say 'no' to them?"
Darkfire's companions are surprised I didn't move an inch from the blow and the state of the cybernetic limb. The extraterrestrial prosthetic limb is so badly broken, some of the damaged components are falling out.
The Leader of the Omega Men is Primus. He's a tall, athletic man with blue eyes, long orange-red hair, and a beard. He was once Pren of Euphorix - a Euphorian noble who was also trained by the Warlords of Okaara. He possesses powers of telepathy, telekinesis, energy projection, force fields, and danger sense. Meta-ability is not something unique to Earth as Primus is a meta-Euphorian similar to a Meta-Human.
"I told you to look at Ashen Grey's profile." says Primus, "We did have that report from Ventura."
Those words make me remember the Euphorian woman at the Casino.
Primus' wife Kalista is a Euphorian woman with white eyes and short dark (almost black) purple hair. She is a powerful magic user with a collection of useful spells. She is looking very wide eyed at me. I'm guessing her mystic senses can tell I'm immune to magic or she senses the Tree of Death, neither would make her comfortable.
Tigorr is an intelligent extraterrestrial feline resembling a giant Siberian Tiger. Through sheer force of will becomes a hybrid or humanoid with some animalistic traits. Earth recently got a huge number of feline-type humanoids due to Cadmus Upsilon and the Red. I wonder if Rorschach turning into Rath would be racially/culturally insensitive?
"That was pretty stupid, Darkfire. This guy is infamous for his durability."
Non-hostile animals tend to avoid me on instinct with Konami and Evo being the only exceptions. Konami the Axolotl Genomorph has been with me since the beginning and Evo the Eevee is also very intelligent. Connor's canine companion Wolf can overcome its instincts thanks to its enhanced intellect.
As for hostile animals, they tend to either flee or die when they attack me.
The other members of the Omega Man decided to stay on their ship. They have been interacting with Cognito personal. Some are interested in having genetic modification done by the Psions reversed, allowing them to regain some of their lost lives. Rorschach as 'Doctor Genus' can easily repair genetic damage. The Vegan mad scientist lizard men don't hold a candle to him.
"Cognito Inc has the best technology in the world. Do you want to get the arm repaired or replaced with either a better one or your original arm."
"My original arm?"
"It's easy. Stick the stump in a tube of goo and within seconds you have a brand-new organic arm identical to your original. Well except for being way healthier than the rest of your body."
It's funny, but there have been reports from patients of their limbs being different. Cognito's CRIB (Complete Replacement Implantation Bay) with its advance nanorobotics and regenerative bio-fluid can perform complex surgeries.
Both civilians and soldiers have come in with amputations and left with flash cloned organic limbs. While these limbs are completely normal down to a cellular and genetic level, they are also higher quality than their hosts. They are physically fit limbs lacking the scars and fat deposits, which contrast against the average human body.
There was a case of a man losing an eye and getting a replacement, who then returned to have his other healthy eye replaced. The reason – he wanted both eyes to be able to see with "perfect" clarity.
*DOOM*
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - Met my future brother-in-law. He punched me in the face and broke his robot hand. Things went better than I thought.
Thursday, August 14, 2014 – Darkfire is a nice guy. His mood has improved since Rorschach created a new arm to replace the prosthetic limb, that he broke punching me. He's also very popular with the girls. Blackfire took him to a club, and he spent his time surrounded by beautiful women. I already know Blackfire and Starfire are some of the most beautiful women in the DC universe, I guess Darkfire is handsome to the straight girls (and gay men). Darkfire turned an interesting color when the male bartender made an "offer".
Sunday, August 17, 2014 – Hero News – There is a new Asian Hero Team called Shēngxiào. It's a twelve-member team of animal-theme heroes, which each one resembling one of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. The one that caused the most noise was Lung (pronounced Long) who is a dragon therianthrope. Dragons are kind of taboo in China. I heard Taylor freaked out since he resembles the feared gang leader of ABB – a Pan-Asian gang back in the world of Earth-Bet. I pray that's the only connection because I don't want to have to deal with Entities.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 – The Omega Men are returning to the Vega system with a few gifts from Rorschach and Cognito Inc. The Maltusians might want to hide away their mistakes, but Doctor Genus is more than willing to help clean them up.
A few upgrades to their ship, armor, and weapons. Rorschach practically rebuilt the entire ship into a very powerful and stealthy warship. A ship that can cause a lot of damage against the various Citadel races.
Demonia and Harpis can now freely shift between their original humanoid forms and enhanced Serpent and Harpy forms. The data he got from the Red-triggered animal metahumans helped his crafting. The former prostitutes turned freedom fighters have adapted quickly to their new abilities.
The final gifts also count as war crimes.
Cognito has developed a gender-specific virulent biological weapon designed to work against the Psions. The bioweapon is designed to stealthy bypass the defenses of Psions and destroy the cells of all male Psions. Since only the male Psions lack any form of empathy, Cognito hopes the females can be freed of enslavement. Cognito Inc designed the bio-bomb to take out the entire Psion Home world.
Cognito has also developed a similar biological weapon designed to destroy the cells of Citadelians (the actual race, not the general empire members). Since the entire "race" is composed of clones of the half-Okaaran/half-Branx being known only as the Complex-Complex, this would be extremely lethal. This is also loaded into another "world buster".
Thursday, August 21, 2014 – I wanted a nice day at the bookstore. Screw you, Universe.
*DOOM*
Metropolis Bookstore
Metropolis. New York, USA
Thursday, August 21, 2014 – Dark Avengers
11:45
1POV
Walking inside a bookstore makes me feel so nostalgic. A couple times a year due to health concerns I would get a checkup in the city, and I would often take the opportunity to grab books from the stores. I loved a chance to find a new manga title or the next volume of a series and add it to my ever-growing collection. The big difference is I spent a lot more time because I have far more cash and I don't need a driver to get back home.
I do find the differences between my world's manga and this world's manga to be amusing. While Superhero manga are not as popular in this comic book universes, the superhero school genre like Hero Academia is actually very popular. The opening of Star, Meta, and Magic Academies has improved the sales.
I sit down at a table to sort out my books and notice other people reading or working at the Coffee shop built into this place (again reminding me of "home"). Some people are drinking coffee while working at their laptops. Some are reading a book or magazine. One man is just enjoying his coffee without dual tasking. I also notice the Cognito Inc label on computers, coffee makers, and even a couple of the books.
Suddenly, I get a phone call and answer Rorschach's phone call.
"This better be good, Neo. I'm in my Zen zone."
"Zen? Oh. The bookstore. A Quest just popped up and it says your already part of it."
"A Quest. It's quiet as a bookstore here."
There are cries of panic.
"I jinxed that. So, what's the situation?"
"The Answer is Dark Avengers."
"I thought they were all at the Recovery Site?"
"These are the local versions" says Rorschach, "Sending the Profiles."
The first is the Iron Man of the group. A 3-meter-tall humanoid suit of powered armor. It's a hulking machine with thick gold-color cable muscles and thick dark green metal armor plates. There are numerous glowing lights on the pauldrons, chausses, and most notably on the chest plate. It's also heavily armed with numerous modular weapons including guns mounted on the arms and backpack loaded with robot-arm-mounted machine guns and rocket launchers.
Dr. Stane was a multibillionaire heir to a former munitions company. He decided to get out of weapons business and help people. The main reason he chose this path was because of his wife and daughter. A faction in the US Government wanted his brother to in charge making weapons for them instead of Dr. Stane doing foreign charity work. The CIA tried to have him assassinated in the Middle east with the help of the locals that he tried to help, which left him horribly scarred. A far greater pain awaited him when he returned home as another assassination attempt failed to kill him, but it did kill his wife and daughter.
Second is the "Captain America". A 2-meter-tall soldier dressed in a full-body patriotic red-white-and-blue uniform with utility and ammo belts. Even his face is covered by an eagle-themed old mask with only his cold blue eyes showing through the lensed eyes. On his back is a red-and-blue round shield with a white star in the middle. He's carrying a pair of very large handguns named Law and Liberty.
Captain Stevens was a patriotic soldier that volunteered for a government project. The project was designed to chemically enhance soldiers so they could compete in a world filled with metahumans. The drugs greatly enhanced his physical abilities, but he began to show mental instabilities. When he showed violence towards minorities, the superiors shut things down, but Captain Stevens stole the drug and escaped. He became a vigilante that tended to target minorities who he believed corrupted America
Third is the "Quicksilver". A 2-meter-tall cyborg with a polished metallic silver body. A body clad in a skin-tight black-and-blue uniform with silver bands on forearms and lower legs. While the body looks completely human outside the coloration the mechanical nature is revealed by vents for exhaust and the Speedsters round black camera eyes.
Hermes Silver. A professional race car driver who nearly died not to automobile accident, but the rampage of a metahuman. His wealthy father managed to get him into a government program that replaced his damaged body with a full-body prosthetic body. After losing his father to another act of metahuman violence, he had himself augmented into a Speedster and stared killing both heroes and villains.
The Fourth resembles the Vision. A 2.1-meter-tall Synthroid with solid white eyes, snow-white polymer skin, and a bald head. He's dressed in a pure white skintight uniform with white boots, white gloves, and a large white hooded cape. He also has a white belt and large white buckle. The only part of its body that is not the same matt white is a glowing oval polychromic stone on his forehead (at the Ajna chakra point)
Nemesis X. NMS-10. Nanomachine Soldier Type 10. A nano-metal endoskeleton covered by synthetic muscle and layer of nanomachines. It is capable of flight, creating nano-edge blades and directed energy weapons, and phasing through solid matter. Dr. Stane completed the project using stolen technology from both Lexcorp and Cognito Inc.
The fifth resembles the Wasp but multiplied. A 1.75-meter-tall woman with black eyes, dark yellow skin, and dark brown hair. She is an insectoid mutant with exoskeletal armor, black antenna, two legs and four arms ended in sharp claws, and a flexible tail ending in a sharp stinger. Her body is encased in a suit of black cybernetic armor that further augments her abilities such as improving the stinger and giving her claws.
Swarm. Abeille Annette Augustin. European native. She was originally a normal with a doctorate in entomology until a government project attempt to augment her into an anti-meta super soldier without her consent. She became a super-terrorist attacking the government. She has translucent insect wings that allow flight, the ability to generate plasma-based stings, the ability to alter her size, and the ability to create a limited number of clones of herself.
"Everyone hands in the air. You are now hostages of the Metahuman Suppression Front!"
Everyone in the bookstore is looking at Swarm in shock, but not all of them have looks of fear. Some of them have a look that asks, "How can they be this stupid, this is Superman's town."
"You're not too bright are you, Miss Abelle Annette Augustin?"
"What the hell?" she says staring at me, shocked that seven-foot giant of man would know her real name. Everyone else is surprisingly calm. I guess Superman spoils them with his protection.
"This is Superman's town. What makes you think your little group can win?"
"The League is caught in a temporal anomaly on the West Coast thanks to our comrade. It will be days before they can escape!"
"Unless Doctor Genus pops your little time bubble." I comment causing her to look worried under her clear facial mask, "There are also many young hero teams eager to kick newbie villain ass."
"We are not villains! We want to save the world from threat posed by metahumans. We are..."
"... a bunch of idiots. All your doing is proving is crime is on the rise."
"Qui diable êtes-vous?" She says, "Just who the hell are you!?" in French.
"Quelqu'un hors de votre ligue." I reply, "Someone out of your League." in French.
I shift into my full seven-foot-seven form with red eye, gray skin, and white hair, adding bone spikes for intimidation. It works as Swarm jumps back in fright. She summons half a dozen barbie-doll-size clones of herself, that immediately open fire on me with their plasma-based stings, do absolutely no damage other than causing noise pollution. In response, I pick up a business magazine, roll it up, and in the blink of an eye swat the flying pests. After they hit the ground, I step on them with audible crunch. Thankfully, they don't leave stains on the floor as the pseudo-matter of their bodies dissolves and vanishes.
Swarm tries to escape by shrinking to the size of 4-inch action figure and summon eighteen clones, but I'm quick enough to grab the original. She quickly realizes she has no hope of escaping my grip and her clones which can strike with the force of a full-size person can move me in the slightest. The clone dissolve as my captive surrenders.
"Start talking." I say with my most menacing voice, which is impressive since I sound like a deeper James Earl Jones. It also helps I'm showing my rows of sharp shark-like teeth. I'm glad this villain's suit is waterproof because I think she wet herself.
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The new book I got is interesting. It was apparently written by some of members of the Justice Society detailing their adventures. I don't think my opponent likes the book as I have been ignoring him to read it. I dodge his super speed blows while I read the book, laughing when I read about an adventure that had several members take out criminals while completely naked. I also block his laser beams with my hands, preventing him from blinding me or damaging the book.
Finally, Nemesis X delivers a phased punch to my face. His plan is to bypass my impervious and deliver a superhuman punch to vulnerable human brain. Two problems with this plan One, as a Doomsday I don't possess internal organs and two, I've been attacked by phased weapons before so it's impossible for his intangible fist to go through me. Instead, his high velocity, but relatively low-density fist collides with my ash grey high-density skin and breaks.
Nemesis X's fist completely shatters and even nanomaterial bones of his radius and ulna break through the white skin. There are sprays of milky white liquid. It's like they built my opponent out of white latex and spoiled dairy products, which reminds me of the androids from Aliens franchise. Wait. If Aliens and Predators exist in this universe, does Wayland-Yutani exist? If it does, I think Doctor Genus is going to have to make a hostile takeover.
Nemesis regenerates it's arm and switches to a high-density steel-hard form. After tossing my book to staff member of a bookstore to put back in my bag, I deliver a punch hard enough to create a visible shockwave and crack some of store windows. It also disrupts the lights and causes one ceiling board to fall out. My Fist has gone completely through the torso and out the back of Nemesis X
Nemesis steps back as steam billows from his chest and mouth. A spray of white fluids and semi-liquids pour out of the hole. Because his body was hardened, the white skin is cracked like Bone China porcelain. It attempts to shift back to its softer form to heal, but I grab it by the neck.
"It's time to do a Thanos and I don't mean the finger snap." I say mostly to myself as I drive my fingers into Nemesis's forehead and rip out the stone. Once the glowing polychromatic stone is in my hand, I close my fist and squeeze. It's surprisingly durable, forcing me to use some destructive power from the Qliphoth. These is surge of heat and pressure in my hand, but I contain the explosion. I would eat the synthetic gemstone, but the last time I did it tasted super-gritty.
Nemesis X collapses to the ground, completely deactivated.
"You killed him!?" accuses one Metroplitan.
"He wasn't a living creature or even a living machine like the Autobots or Red Tornado. He was just a killer android built by Dr. Ezekial Stane." I reply to his accusation. "The Ace Android of the Royal Flush Gang is similar."
"Oh Yeah. I saw that guy in Vegas." says one man, "He punched a fuse box and ended up smelling like burnt hotdogs. The Gang had him running again a month later."
*DOOM*
In another part of the mall, I find the work of the cyborg speedster Hermes Silver. There are multiple bodies with numerous cuts, some with fully severed limbs and decapitation. The coppery smell of blood is strong.
I do notice one corpse is a low-level hero, a kid with super strength and durability. He looks worse than the others, as he's been sliced more than ten thousand times. It looks like Silver was being sadistic, cutting the hero repeatedly to weaken him (death by a thousand cuts). Then Silver mutilated the body, stabbing it over and over in the face, chest, and stomach. That's a lot of rage.
The Speedster blurs by me and I feel a bit of warmth. I notice a glowing red line in the air, where something struck my gray-skinned arm. Hermes continues to attack repeatedly, as I cover my face with my arms. The air gets hot from being filled with glowing flashes. When I feel a slash hit the side of my face, I act like I'm injured. Hermes rushes close and tries to stab me in the eye, only for my eyelid to stop the blade.
While my enemy is stunned, I finally see what his weapon is. It's a Cognito Field Blade. It's a type of knife that generates a ten-picometer-thick frictionless solid energy field projection that negates electron bonds. This means it can slice through any solid physical substance in the universe. It was one of Rorschach's attempts to create the Universe's sharpest blade and one of the models was stolen from a Cognito employee. Thankfully Cognito was able to save their employee with super medical science and they learned it was a speedster that stole the blade.
"What the hell are you!?" says Hermes, shocked that his blade failed to cut me.
Rorschach cut me when he showed me the blade months ago. I adapted and not only does my dense molecular structure have strong atomic bonds, but it's able to resist anything that would attempt to weaken or break those bonds. After getting hit with a supernova, I doubt anything can cause me permanent harm.
I leap towards Hermes and he attempts to move out the way, only to slip on the blood on the floor. I stood close to the corpse of the hero, hoping for this. While he's off balance, I deliver a brutal backhand putting my monstrous strength behind it. Hermes Silver's military-grade combat prosthetic body was designed to handle moving at supersonic speeds. His reinforced neck was designed to handle the severe G-Forces without damage. It wasn't designed to handle a blow of my power level.
My backhand takes off Hermes' head in an explosion of sparks and mech fluids
I drop the body and walk over to the decapitated head, which is glaring at me. I can imagine his cyberbrain is like those in Ghost in the Shell or Metal Gear. They can be separated from their bodies and enter an emergency shutdown mode. I can imagine he's plotting his revenge for when he gets another body. I can imagine he believes if I'm a Hero, I won't do any further damage and If I'm a Villain, I won't risk the Ire of the Heroes (most villains are not Joker-level crazy).
I can Imagine a lot of things.
What Hermes doesn't expect (I imagine) is my foot stomping on his head hard enough to create a crater underneath. A credit to the creator, the head doesn't explode into bits like when Android 17 stomped Doctor Gero's head in classic Dragon Ball Z. The damage is lethal, as the backup power systems fail. When the police eventually investigate, they will find over three pounds of dead brain matter.
*DOOM*
Captain Stevens is different from the previous Metahuman Suppression Front members as he possesses leadership skills. He's leading a team of MSF soldiers, holding a group hostage in a store. The MSF Soldiers are all dressed in military camouflage with black body armor and white masks. They are all carrying large military combat rifles.
Using my Stealth skill and what skills I stole from Batman, I stick to the darkness and avoid being detected by sentries hiding behind the concrete support pillars. I silently takedown the two sentries. One of my nano-edge bone knives is more than enough to pierce their armor. It must be a funny image, a version of Doomsday doing a stealth mission.
"Hold It!"
One advantage of being an overpowered monster, is that when stealth fails, you can still power through your problems. I quickly decide to be less Solid Snake and more Homelander. I use my latest power – Doom Vision – on the MSF soldiers. The concentrated beams of gamma and cosmic rays burn through all the soldiers in a couple seconds, causing sprays of blood and gore to messily hit the ground. Thankfully, the hostages who are on their knees and grouped together are not physically harmed. They are soaked by the remains of the soldiers, so I can't say much about their mental health.
"How dare you!" yells Captain Stevens, holding an African American woman hostage. "You will kill these brave men to protect these inferior..."
Captain Stevens makes a long white supremacy speech that just makes me angry. I'm engaged to some of the most beautiful women in the world, do you think I would care about neo-Nazi bullshit being spouted by a Captain America rip-off. I throw my bone knife at supersonic speed into Captain Stevens' forehead. I must have absorbed Batman's skill with Batarangs.
"Who... Who are you?" says the terrified black woman.
"I'm Ash Grey. I work with Rorschach." I reply pulling my blade out of Captain Steven's forehead.
I don't need to worry about the mental health of the hostages. Rorschach has cleansing robots resembling slimes to clean off the blood and gore. He also has robots equipped with red electronic eyes that will erase traumatic memories of the victims, both the ultra-violent deaths and Captain Stevens's horrible speech.
*DOOM*
Dr. Ezekial Stane is my last opponent, but also my smartest opponent. He doesn't open fire with lasers and missiles, instead he pauses and talks. His men also lower their weapons.
"You are Ash Grey – The Doomsday, companion of Rorschach – The Gamer?" he asks, already knowing the answer.
"Correct."
"We made plans not just for the League, but other possible heroes and villains. The most dangerous element is Cognito and its world feared assassin Rorschach. We did extensive research and even learned about you – his most trusted companion." he rambles on, "The monster created by the mad scientists of Cadmus Beta. The Immortal Monster."
"Are you giving up?"
"I'm not fighting you. I know I don't have a weapon that can scratch you, let alone slow you down. I'm a lot smarter than the fools that run the Metahuman Suppression Front."
"If you were really smart, you wouldn't have joined them."
"I have my reasons."
The suit of powered exoskeletal armor opens like a metal flower to show it's empty on the inside. This shocks the Front soldiers who didn't know Mr. Stane wasn't with them.
"Telepresence."
"Correct. I'm smart enough not to put myself in danger."
The armor closes, then begins to transform. Plates separate, cables contract, and components shift around. The piloting space inside the powered exoskeleton implodes and reconfigures into a taller and leaner humanoid robot. If Dr. Stane had appeared in this form, it would have been clear from the beginning there was no pilot.
"You look like something from Bubblegum Crisis."
"You watched that anime as well?"
The wannabe terrorists are looking at their commander and me, as if to say, "What the hell is going on?"
"My daughter loved to watch anime. Nor just the stuff meant for girls, but the big science-fiction and mecha and cyber-punk anime. It was something we enjoyed watching together. When she learned I made robots, she asked if I could make cool looking robots. I wanted to show her my cool robot, but she was taken from me before I could."
I stay respectively quiet.
"When I lost them, it was like all the emotions were draining from me. First all the positive emotions making my world dark, then even the dark emotions drained away. I held onto my rage and got revenge on all those who deserved it." says Dr. Stane, his voice frightening cold, "The assassins that murdered my wife and daughter. The men who ordered them to commit that act. Those businessmen that conspired with those men, even my own greedy brother. It wasn't enough. I killed their allies, their families, and their associates. I knew I wasn't sane when I killed my brother's maid because she was pregnant with my nephew. I let go of my anger and I became empty."
"So, why all of this? Why did you join the MSF? Metahumans had nothing to do with your wife and daughter's death."
"When the world takes everything from you, what would you do to take it back?"
Suddenly, there is a flash and I find myself alone with the MSF Soldiers. Dr. Stane mecha has vanished, teleported away without attacking once. I glare at the soldiers, my eyes glowing and my bone spikes extended. They drop their weapons and get on the knees with their hands behind their heads.
A small portal opens and drops a package of heavy-duty high-grade zip-tie hand restraints. The attached sticky note says, "In case of survivors."
*DOOM*
Other Side of the Mall
3POV
The Dark Avengers' Thor. A 2.1-meter-tall very muscular warrior with blue eyes, light skin, and long red hair and beard with numerous braids. He's dressed like Viking style barbarian warrior with leather armor and metal plates marked with lightning and oak-tree symbology. His weapon of choice is a large mallet that could have been part of a Warhammer until the handle was broken.
Han Hansen III. A Norwegian native and illegitimate son of the Viking sorcerer Wodan. He's a mentally ill person with a history of violence, who escaped a mental hospital. He found a mystical hammer crafted by the Norse God Loki in the image of Mjonir – the legendary hammer of God of Thunder Thor. The hammer grants immense power but cause the pseudo-Thor to cause destruction and chaos. Loki apparently used this trick hammer to frame the real Thor.
Hansen is currently glaring at his opponent, the world-famous Rorschach. Rorschach is leaning against a concrete pillar with his arms crossed. The wannabe Thor is enraged at the sight of the man, who is casually looking down on his divine power.
"Seriously, that was an attack? That weak ass excuse for a lightning bolt? Maybe I should wait for stronger people to show up because you're Easy Mode."
"You Dare make Mockery of the God of Thunder? Perish!" yells Fake Thor as he releases a huge bolt of lightning from his hammer. The massive amount of power would be more than enough to incinerate a squad of fully armed soldiers or knock Superman on his ass. Rorschach's force field stops and redirects the lightning into the ground, leaving his completely unharmed. Special features inside his mask even prevent him from being blinded by the light of the electrical plasma or deafened by the thunder.
"God of Thunder, well you are a loudmouth. With such a weak attack, you should call yourself the God of Sparks."
Glowing a malicious dark aura, Fake Thor jumps at Rorschach intending to smash the man with his lightning-charged hammer. Rorschach creates a portal behind him and jumps back.
Fake Thor follows and finds himself in space, spinning due to his surprise. When he adjusts himself using some sort of magical force, he spots Rorschach. The masked man is casually standing on the surface of a Cognito Satellite dressed in his spacesuit. Fake Thor spins then throws his hammer at Rorschach at many times the speed of sound. The glowing hammer streaks towards its target, only for small portal to intercept it a couple inches away.
At the other end of the portal, the hammer exits at an accelerated speed. The mystical hammer forged by Loki is sent flying into the sun at massively hyper sonic speeds. While divine-created mystical artifacts have immense durability, the sun surpassed anything the hammer was meant to endure. While the Real Mjolnir of the Marvel Universe can survive a casual dip inside a star, the same cannot be said by a fake hammer made of inferior materials for the purpose of pranking.
The hammer almost makes it back out of the sun, but another portal sends it back into the sun at an even greater speed. Seconds later, the nuclear fusion of the sun overwhelms the last of the magic. Without the magic reinforcing the atomic structure, the hammer flashes from solid to an expanding cloud of plasma.
Back in Earth's orbit, Fake Thor cries out in pain (silent because it's airless space) as electricity arcs across his body. The enhancement spells fail, and Fake Thor reverts to Hans Hanson still dressed like an escaped mental patient. He quickly begins to suffocate in the cold pseudo-vacuum of space. He looks for help but Rorschach already portal-ed back to Earth. Hans soon dies and his corpse is destroyed when it falls into the atmosphere.
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The version of the Hulk. A 3-meter-tall extremely muscular humanoid beast with green eye, green-gray skin, and short dark green (almost black) hair with a beard. He has thick heavy build with thick brows, wide shoulders, and thick arms with large hands. He's only dressed in black pants secured by thick belts arounds his waist and ankles.
Dr. Robert Bane. A nuclear physicist and chemist who was researching a formula to counter the effects of radiation. He discovered a formula that would not only negate the radiation but use it to grant regenerative and physical power. He arrogantly tested it on himself and became powerful and mentally unstable. The government arrested him for theft of government property and illegal experimentation, but he escaped and worked as a mercenary. It's ironic that he's working for a group that would gladly have people like him locked in cages.
He suddenly grabs his neck as he feels a spike of pain. He pulls a dart out of his neck.
"What is this is supposed to be?" says Dr. Bane with a growl.
"Medicine. You're looking a little green." says Rorschach emerging from the shadows.
"Funny." says Dr. Bane before leaping at Rorschach with a thunderous punch. His green-gray fist goes through Rorschach and creates a very large crater in the concrete. Dr. Bane gets up and looks at the flickering hologram of Rorschach.
"Are you going to face me, Masked Man?"
"Why bother? You're already dead."
"What do you mean?"
"I know all about your research, Dr. Bane. You created a formula that would allow you to convert radiation in your body into strength and vitality." says Rorschach's hologram, "I've actually done experiments to recreate a chemical called RadAway. RadAway is a chemical solution that bonds with radioactive particles and removes them from the user's system. RadAway: Max is just that on steroids~"
Dr. Bane collapses to the ground in pain. His body is burning hot with clearly visible veins. Dr. Bane can feel the pain in his muscles and stomach growing worse and worse. He then roars in rages and jumps at Rorschach, who he can see in the shadows.
"You think you can beat me!?" he yells despite the pain.
Just as he's about to reach Rorschach, a portal opens in front of him, and he falls through. He finds himself in the sky, four hundred fifty meters (1,500 feet) off the ground. A few moments later he slams into the ground at terminal velocity. It takes several minutes for him to rise to his feet, but he's alive. Soaked in his own blood and other fluids, but alive.
He then hears a strange sound. He doesn't know that that the RadAway is causing him to emit radiative particles and attracted the attention of something that feeds on radiation. It's a like an animal injected with a drug that boosts its scent to attract predators. Dr. Bane looks up to see a giant biomechanical caterpillar staring down at him. Seconds later, Dr. Bane is sliding down a biomechanical digestive system.
Dr. Robert Bane, a chemist and physicist who gave up mundane life for power and money, will leave life three days from now. Five days from now, the world-renowned chemist will become world-quality fertilizer.
*DOOM*
The Dark Avenger version of Hawk-Eye. A 1.8-meter-tall professional archer. He's dressed in a dark camouflage combat uniform with mask, extra protection on one arm to protect from the bow string, and hooded camouflage cape. He has a quiver of arrows ranging from lethally sharp broadhead arrows to trick arrows with explosive and poison tips. He also carries an impressive professional bow designed for someone with superhuman strength.
Adam Archer – Real Name and related to the same CEO Archer that committed suicide after his failed attack on Cognito City Polaris. A professional hunter and assassin, student of Archer King – the Green Arrow villain known as Malcolm Merlyn and Dark Archer.
The Dark Avenger version of Black Widow. A 1.8-meter-tall femme fatale. She is a very beautiful Eastern European woman with green eyes and long blood red hair. She is dressed in a skintight black outfit that shows off her body in detail. She also has a black utility belt loaded with spy gadgets and she has special bracers on her arms. She is also carrying a pistol and a sniper rifle.
Veronika Vdova. A former Russian espionage agent and assassin who joined the League of Shadows with Archer. Absolutely bloodthirsty and considered the KGB to be too soft. Is willing to kill anyone for even small pay – men, women, children, and pets. According to records, there were rumors she bathed in blood of her victims like the Hungarian noblewoman Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed.
Adam and Veronika are smart enough not to get within visual range of Rorschach. Instead, Adam detonates a mixture of smoke and chaff grenades. These grenades are not only designed to block an opponent's vision and sensors, but they can watch for movement in the cloud. Movement means something has mass instead of one of Rorschach's infamous hologram doubles (seriously, the dumb agent falling through Rorschach in the Oval Office is a meme). After confirming movement in the gas with help of hidden motion sensors, Adam fires a special EMP arrow, which reacts with the cloud to destroy all electronics within. Veronika spotting her target fires an anti-meta-armor-piercing shot from her 50 Cal sniper rifle.
The two assassins approach the corpse. There is no dead the body is dead as the back of the head is missing. Veronika pulls off the Rorschach mask to reveal the face of one of the Front Soldiers.
"Oh Shit!" "Вот дерьмо!"
A transparent force field bubble forms around the assassins with the corpse at the center. The Real Rorschach appears from the shadows. They turn to yell something, but Rorschach can't hear a word since the bubble is soundproof. Rorschach just stands there and soon the two assassins realize there is no air flow in the force field. They are quickly running out of oxygen. Adam looks through the corpse, hoping to the find the source of the force field. Veronika is making obvious offers, including opening her suit and offering herself.
Rorschach just stands and watches.
Veronika pulls out her gun and attempts to pierce the barrier, despite Adam's warnings. The bullets ricochet inside the bubble. One of them pierces Adam's quiver and sets off a chain reaction. Adam pulls off the quiver, but there is nowhere to toss it. The quiver detonates in mass explosion that turns the assassins and the corpse into tiny fragments of meat and bone mixed with smoke and other chemicals.
Two disc-shaped robots appear on either side of the bubble. The bubble generators beep and shrink the bubble, crushing the contents into a dense sphere. Then a portal opens for the robots to dispose of the remains.
"One more left."
*DOOM*
The Dark Avenger Scarlet Witch. A 1.7-meter-tall sorceress dressed in red. She is a very beautiful Eastern European woman with red eyes, light skin, and long curly black hair. She is dressed in red and black clothing with a hooded red-black cloak and long dark red gloves. As she chants, she generates a dark red aura of mystic energy and dark symbols flow across her pale skin.
Chernit Ved'ma. Black Witch. A powerful Eastern European magic user who gained her abilities through a contract with "Chernobog". To obtain her dark powers, she willingly ritualistic sacrificed her parents and brother for the power. She often travels causing death and conflict to feed her death-fueled powers.
As the Black Witch moves her hands in a complex pattern, the shadows around her darken and the lights above shake and shatter. Dark creatures rise from the darkness and move towards there mistress. They are tall, thin humanoids composed of pure darkness with long limbs ending in long sharp claws. They also face pale bone masks that give them skull faces with glowing red-purple eyes.
"What do you fear Rorschach? You face the Prince of Murder and Madness and kill him like dog. You jump into the depths of a Dragon and rise a blood-stained Hero."
Suddenly, her familiars begin to shake and whisper in an ancient eldritch language.
"What do you mean the Immortal Monster of the Qliphoth?"
"That would be my friend Ash Grey. He's helping me clean up this mess." says Rorschach
The demonic creatures turn to the intruder and release a scream. If their target was a mundane human, they would either drop dead or be consumed by madness. Even a victim who escaped brief exposure, later went on a murder spree before committed suicide. Rorschach doesn't show any fear, which causes the creatures to run out of breath.
"You must have terrible singing voices." says Rorschach pulling out a gun.
The Black Witch creates a dark barrier around herself, severing herself from the world. Rorschach is famous for his vast arsenal of retro-futuristic guns which can affect the physical world in various ways.
Rorschach's gun is normal looking. It's overly large like the guns used by video game and anime protagonists, but it's still a solid projectile gun with the only supernatural element being Rorschach needing super strength to aim and shoot it without breaking his wrist.
The ammunition on the other hand is very special. The bullets are made of Ash Grey's toxic bone. A material so insanely hard that even Rick-Smart Rorschach couldn't carve it. Ash Grey literally had to eat various bullets and grow bones in bullet shapes like how he ate a dagger to learn to make his infamous bone daggers.
These bones are made charged with Ash Grey's anti-magic quality after his trip to Hell.
The barrier shatters completely and the Black Witch clutches her chest, she pulls back her hand to find it covered in her blackened blood. She attempts to call on the dark forces to heal her, but she is already doomed.
What Rorschach accidentally created trying to make anti-magic bullets is called an Origin Bullet. A bullet that contains the concept of [Destruction] focused on magic. When the bullet pierced the black witch, it began to destroy magic from her existence. It burnt the magic from her body on every level from her skin to her bones. It erased every memory of magic from her mind, uncaring about the irreparable brain damage. It destroyed the very potential for magic from her blackened soul, causing what remained of her spirit to crumble.
Rorschach watches as the monsters vanish in what could only be absolute terror. The Black Witch has a look of absolute horror on her face, then it goes slack.
Rorschach does an analysis and words are [Soulless], [Magicless] and [Deader than Dead]
He has a robot retrieve the bullet and looks at it more carefully. The description has changed.
[Anti-Magic Origin Bullet] -Level 100 - 5 Star – Rank: EX - A bullet forged from the bones of Ash Grey-The Doomsday and containing the Origin of Destruction. Ignores Invincibility and destroys all magic within the target in its totality. Warning – Bullet can kill Rorschach despite Gamer ability. Do not Aim at Self.
"Troll Gamer"
*DOOM*
Thursday, August 21, 2014 – Rorschach and I fought the "Dark Avengers" - a group of villains resembling Marvel's classic heroes, working for the terrorist group known as the Metahuman Suppression Front. What is surprising is one of them, the Iron-Man stand-in Dr. Stane escaped. It's frustrating, but I'm confident Rorschach will find the emotionally dead mad scientist. I know I'm Doomsday, but I don't feel like spending my time hunting fake heroes.
Friday, August 29, 2014 – The New Injustice League appeared. It turns out they were clones of rogues made by another Cadmus facility. This one wasn't one of giant fifty-two floor behemoths ending in a Greek Letter. Instead, it was a small facility with low level cloning facilities. It's disturbing how cheaply this stuff can be made these days. Rorschach looks annoyed. He went to all the trouble of getting rid of the Rogues and now some idiot made discount copies.
Sunday, August 31, 2014- Rorschach finally destroyed all the clones. It turns out this version of Cadmus equipped the Rogues with self-destruct implants, especially the clones of the more psychotic Gotham Rogues. After the clones melted into something that resembled bloody oatmeal, he loaded a super-virus into the Cadmus network. The Light computers are now flooded with the porn of a hundred worlds, as well as half of the Vega System.
Sunday, August 31, 2014 – Weird News – Years ago, a fragment of Krypton crashed into the ocean and was recovered by an Atlantean soldier. Inside were seeds, which were later taken by a botanist living on a nearby tropical island. After the botanist's death, his grandson found the seeds in a vault while looking for cash and carelessly tossed them outside. Within days, the entire island was covered in out-of-control Kryptonian plants. At first, people thought it was another Plant villain, but nobody was on the island when a Plant Hero from Hawaii managed to stop the spread.
Kara later told Rorschach and Me that the plant was a psychoactive plant used for both recreational and entheogenic purposes. This means other than a couple Kryptonians and a doomsday-level biological weapon, the only thing to survive Krypton's destruction was the local version of Cannabis!
Sunday, September 7, 2014 – A group of extraterrestrials landed on Earth after getting authorization from Rorschach. Rorschach didn't tell me about them when they arrived at the Waypoint station, instead he waited until they were ready to land in Metropolis. Apparently, these aliens are gamblers from Fortuna who came to Earth to having gastronomical contest with the Champion Ashen Grey.
The President of the United States was surprised that one of the peaceful extraterrestrial contacts would be a tourist group wanting an Eating Contest with a local Earth "Hero".
*DOOM*
Rorschach's Inkwell
Secret Location
Sunday, September 14, 2014
1 POV
"What's up, Neo?"
"Problems. I found some new information about Dr. Ezekial Stane."
"So, what has he been up to?"
"Project Cadmus."
"He works for Cadmus?"
"He did. After his family was killed, he was approached by Cadmus. They said they could resurrect his family, give him a second chance. "
"That doesn't make sense. You can clone the bodies, but you would still need to program them. Where would they get the minds?"
"Cadmus intended to use their occultists to bring back the souls."
"That's a bad idea."
"No Shit. They attempted it on a couple deceased convicts. One convict was guilty, he came back as a demon."
A screen lights up to show a photo and a looped piece of video. The prison photo of a young narrow-faced Hispanic man with brown eyes, tanned skin, wild brown hair, and a goatee. The video shows an identical man possessed by a demon. He's floating in the air moving like a broken puppet. His flesh is stretched so fingers are claws and his face is a horrific grin. The wide maddened eyes are glowing gold with black sclera and his mouth is full of sharp teeth and foaming drool.
"One was innocent, she came back broken."
The Prison photo is a young woman with sad blue eyes, light skin, and long curly black hair. The video is the same woman with a tear-stained horrified face. She is also dead, as she used a piece of broken glass to slash open her own throat.
"Torn from Hell and Heaven." I comment, "Your cloning bypasses the afterlife, right?"
"Operation Phoenix stores the Soul, the Aiua, before downloading it into a new body and Philotically connecting it, so you don't get traumatized beyond the memories of being ripped through an afterlife. If I set it right, I can even disconnect the emotions from the death, so you don't get emotionally damaged from experiencing death."
"According to the Gamer, I can resurrect myself like other Doomsdays. So, I'll take your word for it."
A photo of Alex Sky – Control Freak appears next to a video of Cadmus Upsilon's portal experiments.
"Dr. Stane then learned about Cadmus Upsilon's experiments and found a new solution."
"Solution? … You mean Rick's I Cronenberg-ed the World so let's move to Identical World where we are dead Solution?"
In one universe, Rick Sanchez made three bad decisions that ruined the world. First, he gave Morty the Love Potion he asked for which due to the flu had everyone wanting Morty like animals in heat. Second, he attempted to cure the world using Praying Mantis DNA which mutated everyone into grotesque Mantis people. Third, his final attempt to cure them resulted in them mutated into horrific monstrosities out of the works of David Cronenberg. His solution was to go to another world, where he succeeded only to die with Morty in a lab accident.
Another time they had to ditch dimensions because they "fucked with squirrels", but that's a story for another day.
"Correct. He intended to travel to a world, where his family was alive, but his counterpart had died."
"So how did he plan to pull it off?"
"We now know why he joined the Dark Avengers. He was actually luring me, so his hidden sensor net could get a reading from my portals."
"Shit. Can he use them?"
"Not completely, but he has been able to hide himself and I'm finding hot spots of Bleed radiation."
"That is ~so~ not good."
The Bleed is an interdimensional plane that forms the barriers to parallel dimensions and is connected to the multiverse. Bleed radiation means there is rupture, the dimensions are "bleeding", and that something from another timeline or universe could invade Earth-DR.
"I'm going to start sending probes into the Bleed and map out our reality. Once I'm done, I'm going to seal us off like the Ricks did with the Central Finite Curve."
"You can do that?"
"I can. It's not just invaders from other universes we have to worry about, there are also Crisis events with a capital C. I would rather not get retconned."
Crisis is a term used frequently in the DC Universe to denote any (potentially) cataclysmic event. In our world, it refers to when the people at DC Comics want to make major changes to their universes. Too many universes to work with; destroy all the worlds so there is one single world. Want to bring back some characters; mess with the timeline. Acquired new characters from absorbing other companies; one paradox and they were always a part of the canon universe. Readers want some of old characters back to the way they were; here we go again!
If my other self is writing this universe, then it could be me rewriting the whole story to sound better or maybe I had a Big Fight with Neo, so I rewrite the story with no Rorschach. That would suck! Half my journal is about Cognito and Rorschach!
*DOOM*
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 – Two days after my talk with Rorschach, Rorschach called me at the Doomsday Bunker. His satellites registered a massive surge in the Bleed radiation, meaning Doctor Stane succeeded in opening a portal. The portal wasn't open long enough to find where the Doctor is located, but Rorschach narrowed it down to some place in Alaska.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 – There was a second, more massive surge in Bleed Radiation. Rorschach theorizes it indicates a larger number appearing in our world, than when Dr. Stane left it. Rorschach found Dr. Stane's hidden base – a secret Fallout shelter rebuilt as his portal lab. Rorschach sent in a bunch of robots to investigate, but only found shattered remains.
Thursday, September 18, 2014 – Rorschach called me at the Bunker. There is an Epic Quest with a two-day countdown. What he's worried about is most of information is hidden, but the difficulty of the Quest is very high. We both agree that it's related to the mess with Dr. Ezekial Stane.
Friday, September 19, 2014 – The Justice League were captured. The media says they disappeared with a portion of Metropolis, but Rorschach's Gamer ability just revealed part of the Quest is "Rescue the Justice League from the?". If this enemy is strong or smart enough to capture the entire Justice League and a portion of Metropolis then it's no wonder the Difficulty is so high.
Saturday, September 20, 2014 – The Epic Quest has begun, and our enemies are the League.
*DOOM*
Rorschach's Inkpot
Saturday, September 20, 2014– Dark League.
Time Unknown
1POV
"A Dark Justice League!? Injustice League? Crime Syndicate? Justice Lords?"
"They appear to be closer to the Crime Syndicate that the Justice Lords." says Rorschach. "When the Quest started and even got their dimension code. I sent some probes into their world and hacked into the satellite networks for some information since the Gamer was coveting information. I've also sent stealth probes into the pocket dimension to get information of the current situation."
Images appears on the screen along with a lot of text.
The Dark Superman. A tall, muscular humanoid with black eyes, light skin, and black hair. He's dressed in a black-and-white skintight uniform with black boots, black gloves, and a hooded white cape. Both his chest and the back of cape is marked by a crest resembling the letter "S". He appears to be a standard FISS-type SPB – a superpowered being possessing flight, night invulnerability, super strength, and super speed. He also has the standard optical powers including the ability to shoot purple "laser" beams.
Kai-L of Krypton, also known as Ultraman of Earth. In his Universe, the Kryptonians were technologically advance, but also a violent warlike race who conquered neighboring worlds. His maniacal scientist father developed a weapon that would convert planetary matter into a new element whose radiation would grant his race immense power. One noble soldier Zod sabotaged the weapon causing it to transform Krypton into a transuranic element that caused the planet to explode. Only Kal-L survived to become a conqueror of Earth.
"We believe he was the one that captured our Superman. He's fueled by Green Kryptonite instead solar energy, so he could power himself while poisoning his opponent." says Rorschach to the crowd.
"I thought Kryptonite from another universe only worked on the natives of that universe?" I comment, "Superboy-Prime couldn't be harmed by foreign Kryptonite and his world never had any because the star Rao consumed the planet in that universe."
"Normally, that would be true. His super suit supplies him with Kryptonite radiation like a Solar Suit can supply a normal Kryptonian with solar energy. It's equipped with emitters that alter the frequency, so it effects our Kryptonians."
"Whose Superboy-Prime?" someone asks.
"An insane version of Superboy from a universe where Superman in a comic book. He was traumatized by the destruction of his universe and eventually became an insane whiny douchebag that goes around murdering anyone."
*DOOM*
Batman. A tall, menacing humanoid dressed completely in a black uniform with numerous straps and utility belts. He has a misty black cape that moves like a living extension of his body, something clearly of supernatural origin. The face mask is very different as instead of cowl with bat ears and exposed lower mouth, it's a bone-white Owl mask like those worn by the Court of Owl assassins - the Talons. His eyes of the mask hold both intelligence and malice.
Owl-man was once the son of the leaders of Gotham City's most notorious and wealthy crime family. His parents were brilliant and ruthless gangsters who painted the walls and streets with the blood of rivals and any policeman not willing to take a bribe. One night, his parents were gunned down by the police and he made a vow against justice. Eventually, he was approached by the Court of Owls and rose the ranks to become the Grandmaster, hunting the Just with his Talons.
"So, Owls are opposite of Bats?"
"In Gotham they are."
"Fuck Gotham."
*DOOM*
Wonder Woman. A tall, strong Amazonian woman with gold eyes, dark skin, and long frost white hair. She is wearing a black-and-white combat uniform that looks like a mixture of Roman gladiator and futuristic space opera. She is carrying a solid black metallic spear with numerous sharp barbs on the handle. As she adjusts her grip, I can see some of the barbs retract and deploy meaning they are to prevent others from grabbing the spear.
Superwoman was once a reporter for a tabloid, willing to do anything for a story. She thought the trip to the archeological site of Themysica would be boring, but she found a relic belonging to the Amazon Queen Hippolyta given to her by Ares the Greek God of War and Slaughter. She made a deal for mythical Amazonian power and sealed the deal by slaughtering the scientists. When she married Ultraman she also gained favor from Ares' mother Hera.
"Is that Lois!?"
"Correct. Supes' main love interests have always been either Lois Lane or Diana, and this universe decided to combine them." I say with smirk, "I believe the Dark League villains also have children."
"They do." comments Rorschach.
*DOOM*
Green Lantern. A trained African-American soldier infected by a green extraterrestrial object. The object resembles a glowing green crystal ring which is imbedded in his chest with numerous glowing veins spread across his coal black skin. The crystal ring has turned his eyes green including the sclera (whites) and pupil and removed any trace of hair from the man's body, including head hair and eyebrows. The parasitic green crystal allows the man to generate solid projections of emerald green light.
John Steward was once a loyal African-American soldier of the US Marines. That was until he encountered a severely injured extraterrestrial at a crash site. The alien was infected by a crystal and was begging for help until John killed him. John was infected by the crystal and unlike the alien he didn't resist the transformation. With this power, he could get anything he wanted all he needed was a strong will.
"Power Ring. A parasitic Green Lantern?"
"The Oans have made a lot of mistakes. Krona, Manhunters, Corrupt Lanterns, etc. The Idea of their own tech devouring them is not too out of there."
*DOOM*
Flash. The speedster of the group is shorter than the others with a runner's build. He wears a full body skintight white bodysuit with numerous gold line patterns resembling circuitry. His face is featureless with only black google lens for eyes. He can not only move and react at extreme speeds, but also generates lightning behind him indicating Speed Force. He's also carrying a weapon in the form of a curved black sword made of some sort of magical material.
Jonathan Chambers. Jonny Quick. He was once a boy severely abused by his father and punished when he tried to stop the man's crimes. One day, he returned home to find his father murdered and felt a sense of relief. Later in life, he would earn a degree in chemistry and go into business making drugs. One night, a bolt of lightning struck the chemicals as he was disposing of evidence, and he was granted power – the power of uncalculatable speed as a Speed Force Conduit. It would be years later; he would learn the lightning and the murder of his father was performed by him travelling through time, stopping a hero from attempting to change the past.
"Ouch. Time travel. We don't have to worry about that?"
"I set up a Chrono lock. If anyone attempts the change the past, they will just spawn an alternate universe instead of changing the actual past and risk causing a paradox." says Rorschach.
"You can't change the past, only make a past. You can't change the future, only make a future." I comment.
*DOOM*
Martian Manhunter. A monstrously tall and thin humanoid with solid black eyes, green-tinted gray scaly skin, and short thick tentacles instead of hair. He also has long limbs ended in flexible claws and long muscular tail ended in a prehensile tip. He's dressed in dark red-purple living clothing that resembles a hooded cloak. He possesses Lovecraftian shape-shifting able to extend his limbs into prehensile tentacles possessing immense strength and able to generate eyes, mouths, and chemical sprays. The extraterrestrial's eyes can generate destructive energy beams
Ma'alefa'ak of Ma'aleca'andra or Malefic of Mars to the people of Earth is a psychotic criminal. He was a Green Martian serial killer who preyed on White Martians. When the Red King announced laws that would grant more rights to the Whites, he murdered a Prince. He only escaped his maximum-security prison because of the teleportation experiments of an Earth scientist. He did get his revenge, having a bomb designed by Owl-Man dropped on Mars – one that made him the Last Martian.
"Similar to Ultraman, weaknesses are strengths in this universe. Malefic is immune to fire and heat, becoming stronger in their presence. He is extremely vulnerable to cold, his cells dying as they approach freezing. "
*DOOM*
Aquaman. A hulking humanoid shark with the cold dark eyes and blue-gray skin of great white. His most prominent feature being a huge mouth of row after row of sharp pointed teeth. He looks a lot like my own Shark Knights and King Shark, only the arms are covered in sharp metallic scales with the exception of the clawed webbed fingers. While his upper body is bare except for tribal markings on his sandpaper-rough scaly skin, his lower body is covered by black water-proof pants that stop above the knees.
Long ago, the impure Atlanteans were enslaved by the Pure Atlanteans. Any Atlantean possessing animal traits was made slaves of those lacking animal traits. These Atlanteans had once attempted to rule the entire world but a Lord of Chaos cursed the purebloods so they could never leave the oceans without burning. Instead, the impure slaves were sent to fight and be killed by human heroes. Eventually an impure woman gave birth to the son of a Shark God who led rebellion that ended the lives of all Pure.
"This is Sea King."
"He looks like King Shark, which makes sense since they are both sons of the Shark God."
*DOOM*
Cyborg. A muscular humanoid of average height composed completely of techno-matter. He has the form of an African American athlete (a football player judging by body structure), but his eyes, skin, and hair are composed of a metallic black substance covered in glowing gold circuitry. There are also golden cables like veins spread across his body as if they grew through his body as he was being converted.
Victor Stone was once a man with a very weak body who was often bullied in school by the football team, with one prank resulted in a near fatal accident. He lost the use of his legs and one of his eyes, and the Team managed to escape prosecution due to money and connections. Things changed when his neglectful scientist father discovered the trans-tech virus while analyzing alien artifacts. A nanomachine virus that could convert flesh into living machine. Victor stole the virus, killing his father in the process, to become stronger.
"Evil Victor can transform organic beings into mechanical lifeforms under his control, control technology, and generate various weaponry from his body. He appears to be developing a form of mind control chip to enslave the inhabits of Metropolis and the League. He's having problems due to my own Anti-Master technology"
"When did you have time to do that?"
"I did it months ago."
"With their consent?"
"Nope."
*DOOM*
Booster Gold. An athletic man of average height with blue eyes, light skin, and short gold hair. He's dressed in a fancy blue-and-gold uniform with a gold star on the front. His headgear leaves his hair and face exposed, with yellow goggles around his eyes. He's surrounded by floating gold spheres that occasionally open to reveal advance technology inside them. He also carries a pair of gold-and-blue retro-futuristic pistols that Rorschach would approve of.
Mr. M. Carter. Gold Star. in a distant future, he worked as a time cop – a law enforcement officer tasked with stopping illegal time travel. He became trapped in the past when while hunting a criminal, he accidentally killed the ancestor of a man vital to his timeline. Now existing as a "living paradox" and insane, he would eventually partner with Owl-Man, granted the Dark League access to advance technology.
"Gold Star. An Evil Booster Gold?"
"An Evil Booster Gold. The Universe was scrapping the bottom of the barrel."
*DOOM*
Zatanna. A tall, beautiful woman with gold eyes, dark skin, and long curly snow-white hair. She also has pointed ears, large breasts, a curvy body, and numerous eldritch tattoos on her body. She's dressed like a tight white top, skintight black pants, and black boots, with a small black jacket and top hat. She looks like a very slutty Halloween version of a stage magician.
Zatanna Zatara was raised by her mother after the death of her father. Sindella attempted to resurrect her husband using the dark arts, but she failed becoming infected with the dark magic. Zatanna went further in her pursuit of power, even sacrificing her mother's soul to gain unmatched magical power. She even considered dawning the Helmet of Fate, but she wanted to conquer instead of being controlled by a conqueror.
"She's crazier than Felix Faust."
*DOOM*
After a few minutes to assimilate the information, Rorschach turns to address the crowd. The crowd includes me, my girls – Blackfire, Starfire, Raven, Jade, Priss, and Max, Rorschach's girls – Queen Maxima, Supergirl, and Tali, most of the Young Justice Team, Gen 13, and the Emerald Knights.
"It's up to us to save the heroes and citizens of Metropolis. Me and Ash will be handling the Dark League, while you free the prisoners. Let's do this."