Chapter 1 Crisis
"Case 52, the 52nd anomaly investigated." The woman stood before a desk, a thick file folder open before her. "A step in the path to victory, but where have you gone, what are you?"
"So this is it, Lo, a new world."
Clark said, as they stood and surveyed the foreign skyline. "Or at least a New York."
"Do you think we will ever see Kara, Barry and Hal again?" Lois asked
Clark shook his head, "All i know, is that we have eachother. A family and a fresh start, no secret identities, no Superman."
"This world is different from ours." Lois commented, "But a world without Superman?"
"There are… heroes here… Clark said, Lois could tell he was looking very far away, "Heroes, and villains, and a world that seems fine without us,"
"March 26th, 1996." Lois scooped up a paper off a park bench. She grinned at Clark, bouncing Jonathan "The day Superman came " she glanced at the head line "Bauman parahuman containment center opened?"
Clark glanced at it quickly and frowned. "A prison for super villians." He chuckled, "They call the good guys capes" Lois rolled her eyes, but kept reading.
"Though it implements the latest in adaptive parahuman technology, the Baumann Parahuman containment center would not be capable of containing a threat such as Behemoth, should he reappear" Lois noted. "I'm not sure I like the sound of anything called 'Behemoth' Clark."
"Me neither." Clark admitted. "But come on Lois, enough of that, here, it's just Clark, Lois and Jon, it's a brand new world, a brand new day, and the sun is shining, let's find somewhere to eat and see about living the rest of our lives. No more Braniac, no more Darkseid, no more Doomsday. This is what we fought so hard for."
With years of resigned patience., Lois closed her eyes and waited. There was a crack of lightning, there were screams, an air raid alarm went off.
A figure flashed over head, then another, and a third, Lois thought she saw a flash of green, blue, a cape as they streaked through the sky towards the danger.
"Great Scott." Clark breathed, his eyes took on a far off look, Lois looked at him in alarm "He's killing them-" he spared Lois a glance his recent words coming back to him. Lois understood.
"We'll be fine." She told him, hugging Jonathan, "Save the day Clark."
"Save the day Clark." Lois breathed, she cursed as flaming debris fell across her path, she coughed through the smokey ruin of the street and heard the groaning thunder of another building collapse. Ahead she saw the smouldering remains of the park they had arrived in. She stumbled over the torn body of a costumed girl, she didn't feel for a pulse, the missing portion told her what she needed to know.
"Lois?" She heard him call, she looked up, and her breath caught. His suit was torn, blood cake on his fists the S blackened. "You should be in a shelter!"
"This place went to hell in minutes!" She answered, "Fire and lava, and lightning everywhere, I've never seen this kind of carnage-"
"There are so many different powers, none of them working together." Clark, "I can't even get a clear shot- look out!" Clark shouted, and a Demon plunged to earth.
At least forty five feet tall, gray, leathery skin topped with cooled magma and obsidian-like crags, Lois thought the story she would write even as she clutched Jonathan and ran for cover, Superman hurled himself between them as the Behemoth struck, the air shook, and the earth trembled.
Lois sprinted for open ground across the park, a blast of light came overhead as a hero in blue and white, with an eye mask, speared the creature with a blast. The black haired female cape flew past Lois and past Superman and delivered a might blow.
Suddenly from above there was a flash and some kind of ship appeared. Hovering in the air, the top opened.
"Goku!" Shouted the youth, Clark turned his head uncomprehendingly towards the sound, and in his distraction, Behemoth grabbed Alexandria by the head and swung her against Clark, he was knocked far off through a building. "Blast, somethings wrong!" Shouted the youth ducking back into his capsule"
"Hey!" Shouted Lois enraged, "help, or get out of the way!"
More capes were arriving unleashing a variety of powers and as the gravel around Lois and began to fling itself at the creature, she decided to take her own advice.
"Lois hold on!" Shouted. Clark, Behemoth roared and a blast of lightning struck the time machine, and suddenly Clark was shielding her from the blast
"No!" Shouted the boy frustrated, "It was the right universe but the wrong time!"
"Where are we? Lois asked as Clark let her up "This isn't New York."
"Another universe." Clark confirmed, not sure it's earth." He turned to the boy "What have you done?"
"I'm looking for Goku!" The boy shouted typing at his controls, Sparks came from his machine, "It's super charged, I can't stop it, it's gonna-"
With a pop, he and the machine disappeared.
"Well now." Said a new voice, A man in black and green hovered menacingly over them, a woman with blue hair, and a lab coat, hanging limply in his grasp "Who was looking for Goku?"