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The people of Earth had suffered many tragedies. Since long before the Stone Age there had been disease, starvation, famine, and death. There had been war long before recorded history and most likely would happen far into the future.
Less than a decade after the Reach Invasion had been stopped, and the criminal organization known as the Light had been disbanded, a new war had started. This war was far deadlier than any ever fought before in the history of Earth. The fallout of the war had been so horrid that survivors could only think of it as the War.
The War had been fought worldwide, but not country against country. It had been the entire Earth against the unnamed foe only called the Enemy. For eight years the people of Earth fought against the Enemy. They had fought the Enemy and won, but at a heavy price.
Nearly the entire population of Earth had been killed. Many had died in the initial fighting, but that had not caused the majority of the deaths. The Enemy had spread new diseases across the planet to wipe out most of the population. The diseases had been created by experimenting on people the Enemy had captured.
Starvation had been the second greatest cause of death during the eight years the War was fought. The Enemy had been smart enough to attack farms all across the planet. They had engendered ways of infecting food and water so it would only harm humans, much like with the diseases the Enemy created, and no other living thing on Earth.
Still the Enemy had been defeated. But without the help of the Justice League it would have been impossible.
After the War cures had been found by a majority of the diseases, but some were still floating around that no cure had been found for, for the moment at least. Foods that had been most susceptible to the Enemy's manipulation were no longer grown or eaten. Ways had been discovered to clean water so none of the Enemy's chemicals remained.
Even with the defeat of the Enemy and ways discovered to stop most of their disease and food manipulation, Earth had still lost nearly a hundred percent of its population. A mere two hundred million were all that was left of Earth's global population when the War was over. All in all it was a bitter sweet victory for the Earth, especially with all the Justice League dead.
Early on in the War, within the first two years in fact, the Enemy had killed the majority of the original members of the Justice League. Within the following years the League's former protégés, most of whom had already joined the League long before the War with the Enemy, had died fighting to protect their world. The last few survivors of the League had been rounded up by the Enemy and executed on live TV as a last minute attempt to re-inspire fear into the people of Earth.
It did not work. For the Enemy were stopped by the children of the League. Many of the children had been born during or slightly before the War so the League, both the original and newer members, had gone to great length to keep them secret.
After the War with the Enemy, the elder children had stepped up and taken responsibility as the members of the New Justice League. The younger had continued with their training as the New Young Justice. Together they helped the people of Earth rebuild.
For five years there had been peace. The remaining population of Earth had united as one in order to stop any possible threat for the future. The United Earth Federation had been formed and Earth, with the help of the New League, found allies from other planets to help them fight if the Enemy or some other foe tried to attack Earth again.
The UEF had allowed some immigration from other planets to occur to help maintain alliances. Also beens known as genomorphs, various clone experiments that had been created by the now disbanded company called Cadmus, had been discovered and allowed to walk amongst the people of Earth.
Not all were happy with the off world immigrants or the genomorphs, but many kept their mouths shut. It was the only way to rebuild. And when violence did occur it was normally stopped by the new Peace Keeper force, or in extreme cases the Justice League themselves stopped the fighting.
The world was not perfect. There was still a long way to go before stability was reached. But with the help of the Justice League the people of Earth would prevail against anything, even the new foe who sought to destroy what little of the world remained.
This is just a bit of background on my new story. It has been a while since I wrote a fanfic so go easy on me. Read and review on this and my other stories.