Author's notes: This is a re-launched chapter. Old readers, I hope it is improved and not made worse. New readers, that hopefully came here via Traveler Among Wizards, I will address to that point lower. But you should know this is a part 4 in a serial I wrote before Traveler among Wizards, which means I suggest that you read those three stories(Dark Knight and the Doctor, A Silent Guardian and the Predator and Nine Days during the Beginning) too while waiting for next chapter.
From the Rift
It was a clear day in Cardiff Bay when it happened. There had been other incidents like it as the sky had been ripped open, but no one expected to see a flying motorcycle fly out of it with a cold white skinned and red eyed biker riding it.
''Brand new world, brand new bastich to catch!'' some pedestrians had managed to hear the biker say as he arrived. ''AAAND, I'M OFF!''
The flying motorcycle blasted off towards the ocean, but with Royal Airforce having responded to the unidentified, and possibly alien, biker's appearance and had sent three military jets in pursuit.
''THIS IS THE ROYAL AIR-FORCE! UNIDENTIFIED CREATURE, YOU ARE TO BE ESCORTED TO THE NEAREST MILITARY BASE TO BE QUESTIONED OR YOU WILL BE SHOT DOWN! YOU HAVE TEN SECONDS TO RESPOND!''
The biker did respond alright. Putting his motorcycle's gears on reverse, he moved back in between the military jets so that their pilots could get a good look what the biker looked like. Having gotten to the position, the biker lifted up both of his middle fingers and showed his tongue to the pilots. Doing this he kind of looked like a heavy metal music fan with his clothes, face and hair.
Then the biker grabbed his motorcycle's handle and twisting the gas handle, blasted off over and out of the British airspace.
UNIT and Torchwood had immediately been alerted of the incident, but by the time either of these organizations managed to get to the scene, the biker had already flown away from Cardiff Bay and Britain's airspace.
''Report!'' Kate Lethbridge-Stewart ordered arriving to the scene where all kinds of equipment had already been put up to understand where the biker had come from.
''We have put every trans-dimensional-readers we have to find out more,'' colorful scarf wearing scientist girl in large rimmed classes answered. ''We are still expecting for any kind of readings, but without knowing or having allies in other dimensions-''
''You can't know who or what that thing was,'' Kate said closing Osgood's sentence. ''Have we gotten any word from the Doctor?''
''No, even Torchwood hasn't-''
''Torchwood?'' Kate repeated surprised, before noticing civilian clothed people working on their own equipment.
''They were here first,'' Osgood said apologetically. ''But they let us work here on it as well and-''
''Inhaler,'' Kate said walking to the Torchwood people as Osgood took a deep breath from her inhaler due to her asthma. ''Kate Stewart, UNIT. Which one of you is in charge here?''
''I am,'' tall brunette woman said noticing Kate's presence, but kept herself mostly focused on observing her people's work. ''Gwen Cooper, Torchwood.''
''I'll go straight to the point, this is a joint operation until further notice,'' Kate told Gwen, who listened half-interested. ''That means we will-''
''Share our information concerning the alien, establish contact with it and find out it's intentions on Earth,'' Gwen said finally turning to face Kate. ''It is the standard procedure.''
''Good,'' Kate replied. ''Has Torchwood received any news from the Doctor?''
''The Doctor is not particularly fond of working with Torchwood as he is with UNIT and I doubt that he would even consider picking up the phone if we called him,'' Gwen said, giving a well explained answer. ''Unless the caller happens to Captain Jack Harkness.''
Kate nodded to the well-known fact. Captain Harkness was the only known asset in Torchwood who the Doctor did not harbor any grudge against. It was also still unknown if the Doctor had forgiven UNIT their extreme methods trying to stop the Zygons in their previous encounter.
''Kate Stewart,'' she answered to the phone and was called off as she heard the news.
''Is that about the alien?'' Gwen asked reading the look on Kate's face.
''It has landed in America,'' Kate said beginning to walk towards the telecoms van. ''That alien landed in front of Gotham City Hall.''
In the other side of the planet, Czarnian bounty hunter Lobo had landed his space hog in front of Gotham City Hall. According to the eyewitnesses, at first he had seemed to have crash landed before making a stylish landing and parked his space hog in the street. Reason Lobo had arrived to Gotham was a mystery to everyone but the Main Man himself. He was on the job of finding the bastich he had been hired to find and to take the fragger to the fanboys paying him for it.
Lobo walked casually into the City Hall smoking a cigar and gave shivers to everyone from staff to civilians. True, he did have albino white skin, red eyes and dress sense humans would recognize as of a KISS fan. Though humans never did have that much of a great level of focusing. See something strange and then walk away, simple as that. Of cource, they all ran away in fear.
''Are y-you... here to meet... someone?'' Security personnel in the security checkpoint asked Lobo while pushing the silent alarm button.
Exhaling smoke from his cigar, Lobo didn't answer at first, but gave them a look as he acknowledged them.
''I won't be long.''
Lobo walked to the middle of the lobby, where a large statue was overlooking everyone entering the City Hall. Lobo walked to the statue and knell to read the plaque in the pedestal.
''A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boys shoulder letting him know the world hasn't ended.''
-Last words of the Batman before he flew an atom bomb over to the Atlantic Ocean and saved the City of Gotham after it was attacked by the terrorist Bane and his mercenaries
''Hmm,'' Lobo said taking out the tablet his clients had given him. ''Let's see what happened here.''
Using the tablet gave Lobo insight of this world's history and what he needed to know. This world's bastich had had his last stand in this very hall against some terrorist wannabee and so it was the freshest spot where to find his trail. Putting the tablet back to his jacket, Lobo knell down to the floor and tried to find a scent. It wasn't there. The floor must have been sanitized so many times that there was nothing to be found.
''Frag!'' Lobo cursed taking the tablet out again and begun to return to his space-hog. ''Okay, where did the bastich number 7 go from here?''
Lobo walked out from the City Hall focused with his tablet trying to figure where to next in locating his target. Hacking into the city's ctOS system, Lobo managed to find the footage of that day when his target had been seen last. He walked outside to his spacehog and was about to set off, when he realised he was being confronted by number of police officers pointing their guns at him.
''THIS IS GOTHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT!'' the police commissioner spoke to a megaphone behind his men. ''YOU ARE UNDER ARREST! STEP OFF FROM YOUR BIKE, PUT OFF YOUR WEAPONS AND WALK HERE QUIETLY WITH YOUR HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD!''
Lobo put the tablet on his spacehog and took a few steps towards the police with his hand up.
''Okay, okay, sorry for busting in, but in my defense-'' Lobo was about to say, but then shot fired by nervous police-officer hit his space-hog. ''Okay, now I'm mad.''
Lobo loosed down his chained gutting-hook and began to spin it in the air. It was to intimidate the police-officers first, before Lobo threw it, first pulling the weapons of from the first line of soldiers and then shoved them off. The police commissioner looked astonished and horrified the force Lobo was showing.
''Alright, posers, I'm gonna count to ten and then I'm gonna frag every one of you,'' Lobo declared pulling a big gun from his belt. ''One… TEN!''
''SEND REINFORCEMENTS!'' Commissioner Gordon yelled to his radio as Lobo engaged the other police-officers. ''SWAT-TEAMS! NATIONAL GUARD! ANYTHING!''
''Commissioner Gordon,'' voice said behind the commissioner and Gordon saw a man in long army-coat extending his arm for a handshake. ''Captain Jack Harkness from Torchwood. Listen, you need to tell your men to fall back.''
''What!?'' Gordon asked looking at Lobo's rampage and back at Harkness.
''I'll explain everything to you, but first you need to call your men back,'' Captain Harkness said arming himself. ''Trust me, I know what I'm doing.''
It wasn't because captain Harkness had told him, but because Gordon didn't want to let his men to be slaughtered that he eventually took his megaphone and yelled in it: ''FALL BACK!''
Lobo hadn't even broken a sweat fighting the police officers. To him, it was something close to stretching and he hadn't put up much fight either. Most of the soldiers would probably survive their encounter with him, but were gonna eat their meals with through straws and probably not play violin anymore. Rest assured, these posers were ready for early retirement.
They probably recognized the Main Man's superiority as rest of them suddenly began back away from him. But as the officers backed away from Lobo, one man walked towards him with a self-assured look on his face.
''Hey, Captain Jack Harkness of the Torchwood Institute,'' the man approaching Lobo said introducing himself. ''State your business here on Earth and identify yourself by species and the planet of origin.''
''Find the bastich dressed as a guano donor,'' Lobo answered holstering his gun, but kept his gutting-hook ready. ''Czarnian, from the planet Czarnia.''
''Never heard of Czarnia,'' Jack said approaching Lobo. ''And I have worked with aliens before.''
''You wouldn't have, its fragged,'' Lobo said proudly. ''I blew up the whole planet as my high school science project. Gave myself an A.''
Jack looked at Lobo with shocked disgust. ''Who exactly are you?''
''Sorry, my card,'' Lobo said throwing his gutting-hook at Jack, pulled him closer to him and punched Jack to ground in close contact. ''The name's Lobo. That's L as in Lacerate, O as in Obliterate, B as in brutal, O as in…aah, guess I can go with Obliterate twice. What do you say?''
Jack didn't answer, but shot Lobo point blank in the face. Lobo recoiled back from the shot, but as Jack got up he saw Lobo spitting the bullets out of his mouth.
''Okay, I'm gonna go now 'cause I'm working on a clock here,'' Lobo said gesturing to look at an invisible wrist watch. ''You see, someone's paying me a lot of money for this universe's Batman, and Main Man always delivers.''
Lobo called his space hog with a whisle and jumped on it, waving a goodbye to Jack and the Gotham P.D. ''I MIGHT COME BACK FER ROUND 2 WHEN I'M DONE!''
Lobo had gotten a trail. According to his tablet's info, Batman had fought Bane's forces in the City Hall and then followed the atom bomb to somewhere near river. There he had picked up the bomb to carry it over the bay and to the ocean. Following that trail of scent and weak radiation, Lobo rode to the ocean until the tracks were lost.
''Okay, do your thing,'' Lobo said pulling out a small metallic device. It vibrated in short waves before pointing Lobo the where to go next, Florence, Italy.
Lobo rode his space hog to Italy and searched for his trail again. It had made a visit to the town and stood there for few minutes before doing a U-turn back to where it had started again. Intrigued, Lobo jumped to examine the point of the disappearance and recognized the trail being made of similar radition to what his customers had at their citadel.
''Good thing this also works on time traveling,'' Lobo said using the Mother Box to open a Boomtube. ''Heads up the in the other side, the Main Man is coming.''
''CAPTAIN HARKNESS! HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?!'' Gordon yelled as Jack walked by him normally without having any kind of wounds where Lobo had thrown his gutting-hook. Other police officers had been taken to get medical attention by the medics arrived at the scene.
''No, Gwen, it definitely isn't from our universe,'' Jack spoke to his phone ignoring Gordon's question. ''This 'Lobo' said he was paid to collect this universe's Batman.''
''What!?'' Gordon said overhearing what Jack had said.
''I know, Batman is supposed to be dead, there is a memorial statue in the City Hall,'' Jack continued his call. ''What surveillance- THE DOCTOR WAS THERE!?''
Gordon looked at Jack listening to whoever was in the other side of the call. This man knew what the hell had happened here and what that 'Lobo' had come to Gotham for. Not to mention that a fatal wound he had gotten had healed in the matter of seconds. And what did he mean about that creature had been here looking for Batman?
''No, I haven't heard of the Doctor for a long time,'' Jack said after listening to what the other end had told him and finally turned to face Gordon. ''Sorry, but I think I have someone here who can maybe tell me more. Send that picture to my phone.''
''What the hell was that thing doing in my city?''
''Is that what he looks like now?'' Jack said looking at his phone before answering to Gordon. ''That thing was an alien bounty hunter from another universe sent here for this universe's Batman.''
''What?'' Gordon asked.
''Torchwood and UNIT are working in Cardiff where 'Lobo' was witnessed entering our world,'' Jack told to disbelieved Gordon. ''So, what I am asking you commissioner Gordon, if Lobo is truly from another universe and he is here looking for Batman, what are his chances of finding a dead man?''
Gordon didn't answer right away. He had been there and he had seen as Batman had flown to the ocean carrying the nuclear bomb that had exploded. There were no realistic chances that Batman could have survived. Also, as he knew Batman and Bruce Wayne had been the same man, he had attened his empty caskett funeral with everyone else who knew his secret. But Gordon didn't know how-
''Do you recognize this man?'' Jack asked showing Gordon a picture of a familiar man wearing a Kashmir jacket and bow-tie in his phone. ''Or this woman?''
''I- I met them and fought with them,'' Gordon said looking at the images. ''The man didn't tell his name, but I think the woman's name was Clara.''
''What was their relationship with Batman?'' Jack asked with a no-nonsense tone.
''They were with him when he returned and led us to fight Bane,'' Gordon said gathering strength. ''Now what is this about them?''
''These people may be the only people who know where Batman is, if he indeed is alive,'' Jack said putting his phone back to his jacket's pocket. ''Lobo said he destroyed his own planet for a high school project. How far do you assume that kind of person would go with Earth while looking for Batman?''
Author's notes: Now, I am only going to say this once: Harry Potter and other characters from Harry Potter will not be appearing in this story. When I said this would be a sequel to Traveler Among Wizards, that might have been a little misleading. This is only a sequel from Superman's point of view. But, nevertheless, promise to write a real sequel to it when I can think of a good plot. Check my profile under Upcoming Stories, it says so there.
However, I ask that you would read and review this story and it's prequels. Now, if you have any further questions, I will reply to your reviews from Traveler Among Wizards' last chapter.
Replies to Reviews:
JasonDragon64: You were the only one to say anything about that.
ww1990ww: I'm still trying to figure out the plot for that. As I said before, that will happen in another story. Well see what giveaways we get from Comic-Cons about Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. But if you are reading this, give this story the same chance you gave to the other one.
Miss Singing in the Rain: I... ... ... ... ...already PMed you.
NorthernLights25: Truly was his ending... for now. Who know how the Council of Eternity judged him.
Exodus5: Well, this is another story. How do you like it so far?
robert32514: And my other works?
Wonderbee31: That was the ending I wanted to use. And as this is going to be a multiverse story and I promised that other REAL SEQUEL, that is happening twice.
Zillaking, Kingkong 8 & ZILLAZAN: The other sequel, guys. Wait for it. But since you were asking, the Justice League line-up here are those members who have been announced official actors. That means Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Aquaman.
Guest aka The Crimson Mage: Like this story and the three before it. And thanks.
Scott: You had me better analysed than I had myself. Pretty much. But unfortunately, I preferred to leave Man of Steel's plot-line as it originally was with Clark fighting Zod and his disciples alone and so becoming Superman. But I have promised that REAL SEQUEL. I will make it one day in the near future and Clark will be reunited with Harry and his friends in it. But for now, settle this story and it's prequels.