Batman POV

It's been ten years… Ten years since the Metahuman Purge that wiped the world clean of the heroes that sought to protect it. Ten years since there was any good news, and now, after a decade, perhaps luck might be on our side. Ten years without hope, ten years of fighting, now perhaps finally paying off.

Lex Luthor had killed all the metas who thought they could stand up to him. It all began when Superman went mad; the Kryptonian had killed half of Metropolis in a fit of insanity when he realized that his pregnant wife Lois had died in childbirth. Those who opposed super humans took this as a sign to assert control over the situation, and Lex Luthor led the protest. He became president of the U.S., and so came hell on Earth.

Luthor removed Cyborg's organic parts and scoured his complete data stash, discovering the identities of all the metahumans known to man. He began with the public execution of Clark Kent by Kryptonite lethal injection, but the people wanted metahumans eradicated completely; they wanted to feel safe, and Lex was willing to bend to their command.

With Cyborg's knowledge of all metahumans on the planet, Lex was able to kill most of them as they lived their civilian lives. Barry Allen was shot down at the CCPD HQ, killed before he could heal. Themyscira and Atlantis, both nuked, Amazons and Atlanteans both killed, Wonder Woman and Aquaman among them. The Watchtower was set ablaze, Martian Manhunter burned alive in space. Hal Jordan lost the will to live with the death of the Justice League, the ring abandoning him as he was sent to Belle Reve, where he was killed by a fellow prisoner.

With the death of all the major players, all metahumans tried to hide, but majority were killed by elite military with knowledge of their weaknesses. Lex Luthor's plan to eliminate metahumans eventually spread across the globe as all countries agreed that the metahumans posed a potential threat. The very few who survived the Metahuman Purge were the ones who had hidden in time or on another earth. No super powered beings were left, and the non-powered heroes were left to fight crime. Vigilantism was legalized to compensate for the loss of heroes, and now very few of us who truly fought for justice are left.

At first it was hard for me to adjust to the death of my friends, those who I had fought side-by-side with, but Lex Luthor's act was a double edged sword. With the death of superheroes came the death of supervillains as well. There is no need for super powerful beings because there is no super powerful threat to the world. At least, that's what I thought until he came.

Eobard Thawne, a speedster from the 25th century, arrived a week ago. He came back in time to kill Lex Luthor before the Purge, but the speed force gave up on him, landing him ten years ahead of the date he intended, coming to a halt in time in Gotham. He told me of how he got his powers replicating his hero, Barry Allen's, accident in his timeline, so that he could reverse what had happened. Without any heroes to stand up to them, the armies of Darkseid and Trigon went to war to claim the planet, a war so devastating that it ravages the whole of the Earth, making the world a wasteland with very few humans left living. According to Thawne, the invasion is going to happen within the next five years.

Thawne came back to save metahumans, but he was too late. The earth is damned, or so I thought. Half an hour ago, a UFO landed in the middle of Blüdhaven, and the impact let off a powerful surge in the electrical grid of the city. Social media of multiple citizens of the city posted images of a spacecraft in a smoking crater, a pod eerily similar to the one Clark had shone me in the Fortress of Solitude.

A Kryptonian might be here on Earth, a being who could be just as strong as Superman. I have to get to him, before the government lackeys get to the pod. The Kryptonian might be able to get us to Lex Luthor, and we might just be able to end this nightmare.


Green Arrow and Nightwing accompany me, ready to fend off the military who will inevitably come to seek out the escape pod. Dick spins his batons and Arrow pulls out his bow and loads a shot, the both of them ready for a fight. The civilians who had been gazing at the Kryptonian spacecraft scatter away from our trio.

"Bruce, get the Kryptonian out of the pod, Dick and I will watch your back," Oliver says, as he begins to circle around the crash site.

Pulling out my laser cutter, I make swift work of melting the extremely cold ice that has frozen the cockpit shut. The cockpit's edges are heating up as I peel back the glass bit by bit, and what I see takes my breath away. I can hear faint breathing as I stare dumbfounded at a blonde Kryptonian, a few strands of hair stuck to her face. She wears a sleeveless, light blue version of Superman's armor, and seems to be in a coma. The House of El coat of arms gleams in the lamplight as I carefully peel back the rest of the now molten cockpit.

"She's… Wow…" Dick says, unsure how to respond to the alien girl in the pod. Before we can say anything else, the inevitable chopping of helo blades can be heard.

"This is the United States military. All civilians clear the crash site," we hear from announced from one of the incoming Blackhawks.

"We have to hurry," I tell them, scooping the blonde girl into my arms. "There's no way we can let her fall into their hands."


I've been planning this story for a long time and I was finally able to set it up the best way I think I could. The New Heroes storyline will touch on a wide range of DC Universe characters, and I can just about guarantee that a lot of fan favorites will see reimagining in this Elseworlds story. Please R&R!