Konnichiwa! Worlds Asunder is a Dragonball Z/ Justice League story I've working on at the minute which is basically a text version of a comic about the book of Revelations starring Superman and Batman- kind of joking but not really. An event known as 'The Sundering' takes place early in the story, the first 15 minutes of the DBZ hellish afterlife tearing the DC Comics universe apart. These are the side stories that took place during that time. It's basically away to explain why certain characters aren't or can't be found in the main series of events explored thus far- as well as eliminate characters I fucking hate, or give a tribute to the people that I really love but can't find a way to include them. Without further ado, let's go big or go home!
SIDE STORY – Chapter 1
Broly and Doomsday- THE UNSTOPPABLE VERSUS THE UNKILLABLE!
"Well... this is bullshit!" Kilowog of the Green Lantern Corps said to no one in particular. That didn't mean he was alone, the Lanterns from the other Corps were also sharing his sentiment. The planet they were protecting was Daxam, a planet populated by an ancient subspecies of Kryptonians. Now known as Daxamites, they also gained incredible powers when they were exposed to yellow solar radiation. That sounded great to all of these Lanterns who chose the job based on the fact that a planet of Supermen and woman would not have required much help; unfortunately Daxam revolved around the local Red Sun 'Valor'.
Kilowog was a well-established and famous Green Lantern, never shy of a battle- but the prospect of fighting undead hordes and proving his prowess to a billion super beings would cement his status as the envy of all battle-Lanterns. The other Lanterns, all battle-hardened warriors in their own right, were just as embittered at this reveal.
The Blue Lantern of the group, hopeful as ever, piped up, "Well, at least we can create a yellow sun construct; we might get the local militia to really help us out!" A red and then a yellow palm slapped him across the face then. "How are we gonna imagine what Lanterns shouted. "Ugh" a Star Sapphire started, "this is so boooorrring! None of the locals have anything good to do." At this Kilowog, bored as he was, noticed something. Or rather two things.
"Everyone quiet!" he motioned for the other 5 Lanterns to stop bickering and listen, "The rift has been pulsing energy for the last 15 minutes, yet nothings been released. Also, the militia for Daxam was called off back to a nearby city just moments ago." At this the rest of the Lanterns pondered. 'Is nothing happening at all?' 'Did we miss our time to shine?! Damnit!'There focus was then brought to the massive explosion in the city in the distance.
With a start, Kilowog rose up in height from his rocky seat underneath the rift and bellowed to his temporary comrades, "It's time for some action! YOU!" he commanded, pointing to the resident Orange Lantern for this sector, "You come with me! The rest will stay here and monitor the rift. Objections?" the Sinestro Corp member opened his mouth to speak but before he could, "GOOD! LET'S GET OUTTA HERE KID!" and Kilowog and the Orange Lantern shot off for the city. Unbeknownst to them, they were leaving the safe area behind and walking into something even they couldn't imagine.
After a battle with Superman, that nearly levelled an entire city and left hundreds dead or injured including Justice League members, the creature Doomsday was sent off world upon an asteroid on a trajectory that he would never return to Earth from. However, fate has a sick sense of humour... and the creature has survived. Travelling from place to place, murdering the Kryptonian ancestors that spawned him and their offspring. It ran into a setback on Earth, something that won't happen again- literally. Doomsday has the power of learning through reaction. Anytime Doomsday is killed or harmed, he will eventually revive himself- impervious to whatever had killed him before. He was once killed by an extreme magical force that would have wiped out and entire galaxy if held in anything other than the benevolent sacrificial hero known as the Radiant. Now he was immune to death by magical means or radiation. He had been killed in physical combat by Superman on Earth. Barely. He had revived after a few short days and was laughing at the prospect of his return one day.
The monster's search for Kryptonian blood has led him here to Daxam. His own Kryptonian DNA gives him strength under the yellow Sun of Earth, but like Superman, his capacity for storing power even in dangerous environments is legendary. And Doomsday wouldn't have earned his name if he let anything like a minor disadvantage dissuade it. Oh no, Daxamites will die here, just like countless others. The meteorite he was tied to has finally crashed onto the city centre of the Daxam capital, for unknowingly the greatest battle of its life.
Kilowog and the unnamed Lantern arrived to the city to see the militia engaging in full armed combat with something obscured in smoke but was obviously darting around incredibly fast, jumping into windows and through walls and the like, as if it had a sixth sense on where it's targets were. The Daxamites were a fairly advanced technological race, especially in terms of warfare, at least in comparison to the current state of humanity. Even then, the shells and laser fire from the semi-Kryptonian weaponry seemed to bounce harmlessly off the hide of the creature. This wasn't unheard of, that's what superheroes were for.
"Well, let's get in close and see what we're up against!" Kilowog excitedly shouted before swooping in through the smoke with a large green fist of green hardlight stretched out in front of his person. The Orange Lantern, greedy as he obviously was to bear the ring, still suffered a bout of disdainful eye-rolling at the Green pigman's enthusiasm for the fight. This thought was immediately replaced with pain and confusion as the pig creature was thrown out of the smoke careening into the Orange Lantern;s chest with a pathetic thud. The duo went crashing into the army barracks and the sound of screaming Damaxites filled the air- the Lanterns couldn't stop this thing either.
"What are you doing, you disgusting hog! I have to... Holy God." The Orange Lantern said with a rapidly paling face from fright. Kilowog himself managed to pull himself up from the debris and face his opponent in the light. What he saw made him swear out loud and wish he wasn't ready for a battle this time. Everyone knew what this monster was. Because everyone knew who Superman was- an unstoppable hero from the planet Earth with planet shattering strength but the truly good morals not to do so, and is feared by all evil beings and Gods the universe over. The creature before them was Doomsday- the being that put that to shame. And while the death of Superman later thankfully reversed itself, the memory still remained, Doomsday was the God killer, and he was here at the worst possible time.
'With this thing here, even without the rifts acting up, we'll have nothing to save!' Kilowog desperately thought. The only option was clear, call for help. However due to the undead swarms confirmed to be attacking planet after planet, including Oa itself- that was not possible. They only had one choice... the unthinkable- to charge in battle with the monster that killed Superman. Kilowog and the orange Lantern nodded in affirmative that they needed to fight this thing, he pressed his finger to his ear and told the Daxamite general to back away and let them fight the creature and have the half-Kryptonian soldiers keep the civilians out of danger. At that, the creature fell from the stack of corpses and rubble from the meteorite crash site and roared a challenge to the glowing Corp members. Kilowog and the orange Lantern set aside the emotional spectrum that gave them their instincts (Willpower pushing Kilowog to run for backup, and greed forcing the Orange Lantern to count his losses and escape while he can), but pushed through- fear was a different colour entirely. With their own roar, the three combatants charged each other in a blinding flash of green and orange light.
"This sucks even more... Oh God I miss them!" The Star Sapphire said to no one in particular. That didn't mean she was alone, the other blue, red and Sinestro Corps members were phenomenally bored with their predicament. The fire and explosions in the distant city seemed to be so enticing, more so than this rift of light in the sky which aside from exerting some foreign radiation and pulsed colours into the surrounding atmosphere... hadn't done anything yet. The Lanterns were growing agitated fast, and needed some form of release- namely bullying the naive, obviously young and inexperienced Blue Lantern. Laughter followed as the blue light construct failed to withstand the embarrassment of facing off to a red hardlight alien phallus hitting against the blue shield of a whimpering coward. Even the Sinestro Corp fighter left his shell of worrying about things too laugh and prod at the hopeful childish recruit. The laughter persisted until then, without warning did a sound of crashing debris fall behind them. They all ceased their prattle and laughter to view what appeared to be... charred black and smoking bones. As if several corpses were set on fire. That's actually close to the truth. Almost as if all the undead, they should have been fighting were killed on the other side.
The Lanterns all swore and braced for combat then as a man fell with a crash to the rocky ground around the Lanterns. The man stood upright and tall with a threatening glare to observe the multi- coloured aliens around him. If she was still alive today, the Star Sapphire present would describe him as being handsome. He was sporting white trousers and golden bracers and boots, and a not overtly muscular but still sporting a lean, well-shaped frame with his shirtless form. He had long flowing black hair with black intense piercing eyes that showed no emotion. First impressions are important, but they didn't matter after that. With a smirk, the man asked, "What planet is this?!" to no one in particular. That did mean the Star Sapphire was alone, because in moments the red, yellow and blue Lanterns were incinerated down to the bone in a violent wave of green fire. Stunned in silence and fright, the poor woman had to reply to the man, who she didn't find attractive at all anymore- "Daxam. This is Daxam, a Kryptonian colony!" she stammered.
The man looked off to the fires in the distance, and smiled with a sadistic glee. "Well now, Kryptonians! The others usually got to them first; I've never fought a real one myself in all this time. I'll be off then-" He stopped as the Star Sapphire launched an enveloping purple maelstrom of force out at the hulking alien man silencing him with her scream. To her surprise, a single finger touched her abdomen, where her power-granting sapphire was stored, silencing her. She gasped then as the when the attack ceased the man was now slightly taller and more muscular- with spiked up golden hair and green eyes glaring into her own. "Such a shame, I like to keep the nice-looking ones". Then with the beginning of a scream, the Star Sapphire woman was killed instantly from the massive hole blown in her chest. With a sickening gulp of her own blood and a cough, her body collapsed in an unstable bloody pile on the floor, in time for the shot that killed her to explode in the distance. This man was Broly, the legendary Super Saiyan, and amidst the swirling dust storm from the explosion his blast called he thought to himself. 'Fighting in the city already? I've only just arrived, what have we here... Kakarot?!' And with that thought, his power flared around him in a golden aura as he rocketed off the burnt rocky ground to head for the fire in the distance.
Broly was a saiyan. One of the last of a mighty, prideful warrior race from several decades ago before the planet and the majority of its inhabitants were blown apart by the evil despot Frieza. But not Broly, he was a survivor- but not because of luck, or skill- just sheer power. Broly was a defect to his race, an evolutionary hiccup that produced a being of ever-growing power, so much so that even by the time he was born, those nine months in the womb left him with a 'power-level' of ten thousand, higher even than the strongest Saiyan Royal Family member at the time. This made him dangerous, and his execution was ordered along with his father's. Broly, even as a newborn laughed at the face of death and fought to survive, his power liberating the two from the blast. Broly has since grown exponentially in strength, his ki being uncontrollable at times- lashing out at those in close proximity. His own power led him to be the scourge of an entire galaxy and let his madness kill his own father. He has only known defeat twice, both at the hands of an eternal enemy that he has searched for ever since his revival from Janemba's power. His last journey has brought him here, to face the Kryptonian monster that has challenged so many others from his home universe over the last 30 years- Broly will have his vengeance against his killer, and his battle lust will be sated here- or he'll die trying.
These wee sidemissions (ahem) will be 1-3 chapters long each, not as long as the main story chapters that take precedence- as such I'd rather like as much outside input and ideas lined out to me in reviews and private messages as possible. Worlds Asunder is my baby, but this expanded alternate universe, could be yours. This is the first of two as Broly and Doomsday, long fan favourites for both continuities fucking murder each other with a planet and it's species as collateral damage. Here we go again... again.