OK guys, this is story #6, aptly named "The Titan's Fury". This is a story that will merge the Teen Titans cartoon with the Cyborg and Firestorm's of the New 52 continuity. This story starts at several different points, all supposed to be occurring at the same time. The beginning may be a little confusing, but I'll explain it at the end of the Prologue.
I do not own anything at DC. I just like to pretend I do.
-=PROLOGUE=-
Barry Allen was running through the time stream. Flashes of different points in time sped past him. The past three hours had literally been hell on Earth. Because of him, his mother had survived, but at the same time, damaged the time stream to such extremes, it didn't seem possible. Because of him, Earth didn't have Superman or Martian Manhunter. Aquaman and Wonder Woman had become murdering psychopaths, bent on destroying the other. They were literally tearing the world apart. Billions of people, dead, either by drowning, or being torn apart by swords and lances. The world was doomed. It didn't really feel real for Barry until he saw Billy Batson die, run through by an Amazonian sword.
To make matters worse, his greatest foe, Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash, had been there to watch the entire thing, and to mock Barry at every turn.
"You've lost Barry! The Flash can never kill the Reverse-Flash!" echoed his final taunt, just before…
Barry looked up in shock, and Eobard looked down at his chest unbelieving of what just happened. A sword had been shoved into his back and through his chest.
"What about me?" growled the voice of Thomas Wayne, this timelines Bat-man. As Eobard's eyes rolled up into the back of his head, his body began to fall, and the Reverse-Flash took a few labored, shuddering breaths. "Doctor's orders… When you're in a war, don't stand still."
That had used up the last bit of strength that Thomas had. Thomas knew that their world was doomed. Cyborg was pinned down, and the Element Woman was trying to protect the rest of the S!H!A!Z!A!M! kids. But it was futile, the Atlantean device had triggered, tearing apart all the land for miles to be seen. Thomas, knowing the only thing left, was for Barry to run, and to do whatever he could to stop that timeline from existing. As Thomas took his last breath, Barry ran as fast as he could. He entered the Speed Force that allowed him access to the time stream. But he was soon spat back out when he thought of his mother. He and his mother shared one final conversation, both of them understanding that it would be the final time either of them saw each other. Again, Barry entered the time stream, this time, seeking himself when he had tried to use the Cosmic Treadmill to save his mother.
Just a few short moments ago, he had found himself. Literally. He came up on another Barry Allen running on the cosmic treadmill.
As Barry broke the time barrier separating him from himself, he could see his past self look over his shoulder at him while he was running on the Cosmic Treadmill.
"What the hell?!" came the startled yelp of his past self.
As Barry drew closer and close to his past self, there were tears in his eyes. "Oh God. I'm so so sorry," said Barry as he grabbed his past self off the treadmill. The past Barry, being taken off his feet, lost all his momentum, and was thrown roughly from the time stream by the Speed Force.
As soon as his past self was out of the way, Barry continued to run, trying to process everything that had happened. As he continued to run, he noticed flashes of multiple timelines and universes. He saw the terrible world he had just left, images of a female joker tying up children and disguising them like her, leading to their accidental deaths at the hands of Gotham PD.
He saw his own world, Hal as Green Lantern, Clark as Superman and Bruce as Batman, without having Wonder Woman and Aquaman trying to destroy anything.
As he ran, he noticed another scarlet streak coming up behind him. He wondered if it was his past self trying to come back after him. But no, this scarlet streak was much faster than Barry. As the scarlet streak drew closer to Barry, Barry could see the shape of a man, but he was pure red, as if the Speed Force had been directly merged into his body. Though the silver helmet with gold wings on it, very much like the one Jay Garrick wore, was very plain to see. The other speedster nodded at him, before passing him. Barry saw flashes of what he assumed was a possible future in the scarlet streak left behind, and he started hearing voices from this time frame…
"In the time of Superman's absence, Norman McKay, Keystone City has become a utopia. He is everywhere at once. The residents never see him, nor do they hear him, but all who reside here have felt his presence. Every wrong, no matter how small, is righted with lightning speed. It is a lonely race he runs, but he runs it nonetheless. He lives between the ticks of a second. He is the Flash…"
As the voice faded, Barry wondered what had happened in that timeline. But before he could think on it too long, he saw other flashes and heard more voices.
"Victor… don't give up on me… please… stay with me, you're all I have left…"
Barry watched as yet another Victor Stone was being made into the hero that would eventually be known as Cyborg. Parademons were trying to open a door as Victor started screaming.
"Aarrgghhhhh10010011011010101 011101!"
Then more flashes went by. He saw another Batman, Green Lantern, Flash and Superman fighting more Parademons. Suddenly, one Parademon had a sword run through it. It dropped to reveal another Wonder Woman.
"You're strong," said the alternate Superman.
"I know," replied the alternate Wonder Woman with a smirk.
More scenes flashed by. New people, new places. He saw an alternative Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch as they were being pursued by a group of mercenaries.
"They killed Trevor! Those bastards killed the coach and Trevor!" yelled Ronnie.
"Raymond, shut up, and buckle up," said Jason as he pulled out a silver cylinder. "FIRESTORM!"
And with a flash that was brighter than the sun, there were two Firestorms standing in a high school hallway, one red and one yellow.
Even more flashes went by, and he saw a Titans tower, a Robin and Cyborg fighting an alternative Cinderblock as an alternative Starfire and Raven blasted him from a distance. The alternative Beast Boy took opportune moments to shape shift and hit from an unexpected angle.
That's when the flashes started meshing together.
"Kid, we need you to open the vortex and send these things back where they came from," said Batman.
"I can't! My computers aren't responding!" yelled Cyborg
"It's not your computer who is going to do it, it's you kid…" faded Batman's voice.
"But… If you are correct… you will also perish, no?" asked a young woman's voice, who sounded startlingly like Firehawk.
"I will not die… on my knees…"
"No! Wait—" was Jason's panicked cry. The sounds off an explosion and a woman screaming filled Barry's ears.
"Really? You'll give me another chance? Even though I might mess up?!" This high-pitched could barely contain it's excitement.
"Just… give it your best shot," said Robin's voice, of all people. After another excited yell from the high-pitched voice, something shifted in the time line.
"Alright you bastards… ping me!" said Cyborg.
PING
"The Quantum Field—it's tearing us apart!" panicked an unknown adult.
"I hope you can catch better than you carry the ball, Rusch."
"Ronnie?!"
"Do it!"
PING PING
Streaks and circles of yellow began to permeate the time stream. The way they were webbed together was eerily similar to a Boom Tube…
"It's perfect! Larry, you did it!"
That's when things got even stranger…
-=PRESENT=-
With the Justice League of an alternative time-line, their Cyborg suddenly got sucked into the very Boom Tube he had forced open. Many miles away, a nuclear explosion marked the place where Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch were when they defeated the rogue named Pohzar.
The Boom Tube time-stream that Barry was running though had suddenly gotten very hot. He felt people being drawn to him. All of sudden, He broke through the time-stream back into the world… but it was not the world he belonged to…
Barry tripped and fell forward exiting the stream, and as he did, he heard three grunts, four gasps of surprise and a scream of pain. Barry looked up to see the two younger versions of Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch on the ground with the alternative Robin that he saw flashes of. Looking towards the source of the screams, he saw both alternate Cyborgs, almost seeming to occupy the same space at the same time. They were merging. Energy still crackled off of them. With one more flash, the energy sparked and forked like a bolt of lightning, striking both Larry, an alternative dimension Robin, and Barry. Before either of them could figure out what happened, a small Boom Tube opened up behind each of them, and sucked them both in.
With that, Cyborg, with his mechanics and electronics shifting like living, liquid metal, fell backward, unconscious. The three conscious people remaining in the large living room of Titans Tower, looked on in surprise as Robin had disappeared, and then reappeared with three unknown people, and Cyborg somehow merged with himself, before all the men, except for Beast Boy, had passed out on the floor.
After several minutes of stunned silence, Raven voiced the question that was on all their minds.
"What the fuck just happened?!"
-=TTFp=-
Well, there you go. The prologue of my new story. I'll admit, this beginning was tough for me, I didn't know a good way to merge the universes, so I settled on using post-Flashpoint Barry Allen as a scapegoat. Please don't judge this story too harshly just based on this beginning. I promise it WILL get better as it goes.
In case it wasn't clear, Cyborg came from Justice League, right after defeating Darkseid. Ronnie and Jason were pulled from "Fury of Firestorm" issue 12. By the way, for me, Issue #0 never happened. I like Jason and Ronnie being their own Firestorms. As for Teen Titans, this is of course, the cartoon, right after the episode "Fractured".
I've also decided that I will occasionally suggest books for everyone to read. Most will be comics, and will be out in trade paperback when I suggest them. For today, I am of course going to recommend "The Fury of Firestorm, Vol. 1: The God Particle".