THE END OF THE WORLD
By HOWLERDRODE & HEARTSYHAWK
PROLOGUE
This is an unusual tale. For my first fanfiction story, I have chosen to do a crossover between the Legion of Super-Heroes of the 30th century (a DC Comics property that is no longer in publication but may be coming back soon :)) ) and the X-men of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (a Marvel Comics property.) I have also chosen to select a co-writer to help me get the story together. My name is HOWLERDRODE. My partner is HEARTSYHAWK. We do not have any claim neither to Marvel Comics or DC Comics nor to any of their characters. We do have a few original characters of our own and the concept of the storyline is mine. The time of the Legion is pre Zero Hour while the X-men is set in the era of X-MEN Evolution. We hope that you enjoy the story.
CHAPTER ONE
History Revisited
The Time Trapper sat in his hideaway at the end of time, reviewing various battles throughout history. He was looking for a means of defeating his enemies, mainly the Legion of Super Heroes. They had constantly thwarted his plans to rule the Universe. At his side was a former "Darkstar", Argus Vidar, also known as Universo. All of a sudden, the Time Trapper's eyes lit up as he watched a monumental battle unfold. This battle took place in the early part of the twenty-first century between the X-Men and the super mutant Apocalypse. What captured his interest was the way Apocalypse was able to absorb the powers of other mutants. He wondered if Apocalypse could absorb the powers of the Legionnaires as well. In the event that he was able to do this, the Time Trapper would be able to accomplish his goal of defeating them and ruling the universe. "This super mutant bears investigating further," the Time Trapper thought to himself.
While he continued to observe the epic battle, the Time Trapper began to reminisce about his last encounter with the Legion. It was in 2987. He had teamed up with Mordru in an attempt to destroy the Legion. It was quite a war that had been fought. Unfortunately, the battle had been lost. Mordru had been tricked by Princess Projectra and entombed under a mountain of granite by Mon-El, Super Boy, Super Girl, and Ultra Boy.
Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Invisible Kid, and the rest of the cursed legionnaires had chased him to the end of time, defeated once again. He had barely escaped along with Universo. While the battle was only a few weeks ago in the Time Trapper's memory, it had actually been fought many centuries earlier in the thirtieth century. The Time Trapper looked around thoughtfully. It seemed to him that every time he teamed up with someone the legion was remotely familiar with, his team would be defeated. He was tired of being exiled back to the end of time. He hoped that using Apocalypse, a power-absorbing mutant, that this time might be different and he would prevail. As he looked at history of Apocalypse, he was extremely impressed by the fact that he was able to subdue the entire earth. Although, it had been in the 25th century, long before the Legion ever existed.
Meanwhile, in the early 21st century, The X-Men were having problems of their own. It seems that shortly after their epic battle with the aforementioned Apocalypse, that the adults had left the country to go on vacation and the younger members of the X-Men had managed to get themselves into trouble. Half of the teens had been de-aged by fifteen years. They were now between the ages of one and four. The remaining teen members had their hands full trying to take care of the kids and also trying to figure out a way to get them back to normal before the adults returned. Additionally, some of the de-aged were starting to manifest their extraordinary abilities (author's note: See BACK IN DIAPERS).
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In the thirtieth century, the Legion of Super-Heroes had gathered to meet and test several new applicants. Mon-El called the roll: Light Lass---Present, Colossal Boy---Present, Element Lad---Present, Super Girl---present, Brainiac 5---present, Ultra Boy---present, Shadow Lass---Present, Princess Projectra---present, Super Boy---present, Phantom Girl---present, Invisible Kid---present, Wild Fire---present, Chameleon Kid---present, Blok---present, Matter-Eater Lad---present, Cosmic Boy---present, Ferro Lad---present, Sun Boy---present, Karate Kid---present, White witch---present, Timber Wolf---present, and Mon-El---present. Also in attendance were Former Legionnaires: Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Duo Damsel, Bouncing Boy, Star Boy and Dream Girl, as well as honorary Legionnaires, Pete Ross and Rond Vidar and Legion reservist Insect Queen.
"Since all active members of the Legion are present, I, Mon-El propose that the Legion Constitution be amended to allow members of the Legion who marry to continue to serve in the Legion rather than be forced to resign from service. As you all know, we have just finished a major battle with Mordru, The time Trapper, and Universo. Without the help of six former Legionnaires, Star Boy and Dream Girl, Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, and Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel, it is highly unlikely that we would have been able to prevail. I believe that it is time to offer them their rightful places back in the active Legion membership."
"Amending our constitution is a serious step, Mon-El. One that is not easily undertaken or to be treated lightly," said Brainiac 5.
"I know that, Brainy." Mon-El replied. "However, I believe that, in this case it is the right thing to do."
At this point, Saturn Girl spoke up. "The reason that provision was put in the constitution in the first place, Mon-El is because of the very real fear that a married Legionnaire would have a conflict of interest when it came to protecting his or her family and going on a mission for the legion."
"Since you are a founding member, Saturn Girl, you are the perfect one to explain that. However, it is my opinion that Legionnaires should be able to deal with that conflict. We all make those decisions when we take the oath and join the Legion and when we go on a mission knowing we may not come back. At the very least, it should be a choice that the Legionnaire should be able to make. At the present time, there is no decision to make, as there is no flexibility in the rule," Mon-El said. I also realize that if this rule is changed, some may choose not to exercise this right to remain in the Legion, but at least the opportunity will be there for them to do so.
The silence that followed Mon-El's impassioned speech was deafening. After a few moments, Invisible Kid spoke. "I move that the Constitution be amended to allow married Legionnaires to remain active in the Legion if they choose to do so."
Super Girl promptly seconded Lyle Norg's motion.
Mon-El grinned. "A motion has been made and seconded to amend our Legion Constitution. Is there any further discussion on this amendment?"
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Lance looked at Forge. "Are you telling me that all of your data used to make this thing is missing? How is that possible, Forge?"
"Apparently, someone managed to get into my lab and took my disks and my hard drive. Who ever it was replaced my hard drive with one that had corrupt data on it," Forge replied. "As to how it is possible and who did it, I have my opinions but until I am sure, I can't accuse anyone."
"Don't you have any security here? I expected better of you, Forge." Lance was getting angry. "My girlfriend has been changed into a toddler, along with my teammates and close friends, and you are making excuses."
"As a matter of fact, I do have some security cameras set up. However, the tapes will do you no good, as they do not show anything. Whoever did this probably was able to render him or herself invisible. They also had the ability to pass through solid objects. My lab is not the Danger Room but still it does have some security precautions to prevent unauthorized entry," Forge replied. "Now just calm down and leave me alone so that I can try to solve this thing."
As Lance turned to leave, he told Forge "you had better get this thing fixed quickly. I am getting very angry and you won't like me when I am angry." The walls shook a little bit as he closed the door.
Forge breathed a sigh of relief as Lance left. "If the short tempered rock tumbler ever finds out what really happened, he will freak and I'll be in bigger trouble." Forge began frantically searching his room. "Where the heck did I put the backup hard drive? It has all of my blueprints and calculations," he thought to himself. Unbeknownst to Forge, his hypothesis to Lance was closer to the truth than he imagined. At that very moment, someone was in his room and he was holding Forge's hard drive in his hands. While he was not exactly invisible, he was microscopic in size and could not be seen by the naked eye. The person was alien to earth, as he was truly from a world very far away. He was also from another era entirely. While his real name was Lalo Muldroon, his code name was Micro Lad and he was from the planet Imsk, located about 10 million light years from earth. He belonged in the thirtieth century where he was imprisoned for crimes while a member of the Legion of Super Villains. He had managed to escape and had stolen a time bubble and moved back to the 21st century and came to earth undetected. He had landed in Forge's back yard. The Time Bubble had a feature of being able to be cloaked, rendering it and its contents invisible. It was a simple matter for him to shrink himself to microscopic size and get into Forge's lab. Upon resuming normal size, he had found Forge's hard drive. He was examining the primitive device, thinking it might be a weapon of some kind, when he had heard Forge approaching the lab. He had shrunk himself to microscopic size just before Forge entered the room with Lance. As he watched Forge frantically searching the room and throwing stuff around in his haste to find the missing hard drive, Lalo was nearly hit by a flying drawer. In order to protect himself, he would have to resume his normal size and expose himself to Forge.
Hello out there! Tis HOWLERDRODE and HEARTSYHAWK! So how is it? This is a first for both of us. This is the first story put up by HOWLERDRODE at all and the first co-written story by HEARTSYHAWK. As such we would appreciate a review. You can tell us if you like it, hate it, mildly tolerate it's existence, whatever but please review! Hey since we are in a generous mood you can even sick the hundreds of Mxyzptlk clones on us if you so desired. Who is Mxyzptlk? Well, if you don't know go do a bit of research into the Legion of Super Heroes (Superman's story should help too). TTYL. Bye.