Zero Freedom.

A Young Justice Fanfic.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the rights to any of the characters or locations used in any of these chapters, those belong to their respective companies.

Chapter One: 65 Years Ago.

~2084~

The battle was a glorius one, one that none of the team could even begin consider as their worst mission.

It was there worst mission.

The Justice League Unlimited had been working hard in order to try and gain there bearings, but the power of the Hypotonic Sapiens had been too strong, and too powerful, they had somehow managed to track down each and every member of the league, even getting to members such as Static Shock, Warhawk and even Aquagirl.

The only hero left, the only one who remained, was The Batman, the Batman Beyond, Terry McGuiness, he had tried to get as many refugees out of the cities as possible, but in this day and age things had just gotten too much.

Bruce was gone, and so had the last of the original justice league. Even Superman had gone, wiped out by a villain wielding a golden kryptonite canon, then stabbed him in the heart.

In the back alley of an ancient, and out of date data port, Batman was hanging on the side of a building, invisible to the eye and watching out for any and all criminals that enter the alley. He needs information, and at the moment that's something he doesn't have a lot of.

26 minutes, that's how long he was waiting on the wall before one of the Jokerz entered the alley, holding a titanium sharded gun, and a costume vaguely similar to that of the real Joker himself (which isn't a surprise with those freaks).

Batman jumped from the wall and landed on the Jokers member, knocking him out, he picked up the gun and shot a nearby window, he realized that this was the real deal, even though it may look fake, it was real, meaning that one of his theories is true, they've been using alien tech, but alien tech from the future, meaning that in the current time period there isn't a way to prevent the spread of the villains gaining power and killing off all the heroes, killing them into extinction.

Batman heard the stomping footsteps of incoming grunts, and gritted his teeth, he grabbed hold of the Jokerz member and flew into the sky, and landed atop the building, throwing the clown clad teen to the ground.

The Batman looked around the entirety of Helzin-Gotham (the name it has been dubbed by its supreme leader The Second Blight) and looked at how different the city had become. Everyone he had ever cared about, gone.

Dana, Max, Bruce, his mum and brother, Ace, and the entirety of the JLU, he was left alone, and had to watch almost all of them either die at the hands of a villain on the battle field, or at his home when he was not in contact of his equipment, paralyzed as he girlfriend Dana had her hands cut off in front of him, and her throat cut, all because Batman wouldn't come and save her like he had a few times before.

"I've got to somehow stop all of this." Batman said in his gruff voice, the pain of losing so much becoming apparent in his angry voice. He saw the criminal stirring behind him, so he turned and began walking towards him and picked him up by his collar, and the Jokerz grunt began to cower, his grip on the collar made his knuckles hidden under his suit turn white "Speak. NOW!" The grunt whimpered for a second, but when he saw the eyes of the Batman squint he began to tell him everything.

From how the person behind it all Stypton came from the past into two hundred years into the future back into the present day in order to become the Master of the Earth, which he had accomplished. He wanted all heroes dead because he wanted no more interference.

Batman headbutted the grunt, knocking him out, a tactic that Bruce had taught him back when he was 16 and still training to become Batman, it was used so that after interrogating the enemy, they couldn't just run back to their boss and tell them that Batman was on their trail.

"He came from the past... and got his tech from the future? Even if I go into the future I may not be able to get back, and there is no guarantee that I'll be able to stop him.. but even in the past... hmm... maybe if I can find away to go back just 5 months... and I should be able to stop him from defeating the team back in that first battle... that... Glorious battle."

~2019~

"M'gann, Superboy, Static and Kidflash, you are team Alpha, you are to seek out the electrical disturbances within the northern area of England, somethings happening and we need as much information as possible, only use action if necessary. Beastboy, Bluebeatle, Tigress and Cyborg, you are team Omega you need to give a visit to Professor Glattinstein, he hasn't been in contact with anyone in weeks, and Robin, Batgirl, Wondergirl and Speedy, you are team Beta, Lex Corp are developing a new meta gene based product, i'm sending you on recon, we need all that we can get on it. The rest of you, training. Move out!" Aqualad ordered the rest of the team, as they all ran off to different ports.

Once everyone was gone Kalduur walked over to the couch that was resting just in front of a monitor. The team had been working inside of the Justice League headquarters for 2 and a half years now, and things haven't changed. It had been two years since Dick had quit the team and Nightwing hadn't been seen (although Connor, Megan, Kalduur, Artemis and Zatanna meet up with him every Friday to hang out, sometimes Barbra is on his arm), two years... since the death of Wally, and it had been two years since the world had almost been taken over by the Reach.

The team had stopped that.

Kalduur sighed whilst rubbing the back of his head, it had been almost eight years since the team had first started with just him, Dick, Wally going into the Cadmus building and saving Connor, and later being joined by Megan. He chuckled to himself "Not a day has passed where we have been allowed a break from any anomalies." he chuckled again, suprised that he has been given this tiny break to catch his breath.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Kalduur looked up to the monitors and saw on one of them that there had been a 'breach' of some sorts in uptown Gotham, actually, it was so uptown that the signal was coming from where Wayne Manor was standing, Kalduur jumped to his feet and ran over to the monitor and pulled out an emergency cell phone (his an Atlantian, he wouldn't need one) and dialed the number to his old friend "Hello? Dick? Are you there? Good, I think that it would be a good idea if you headed over to Wayne Manor this second... I'm not sure what it is, but the instruments in the Watchtower are picking up some kind of breach over there... Everyone's busy right now... Me? I have to keep an eye on everything... Fine. I'll put J'on in charge." He closed the phone and placed it back on the monitor and placed his intercom in, and pressed a button on the screen "Martian Manhunter, if possible could you please report to the Watchtower and keep an eye on things, I need to attend something." and with that Kalduur ran to the nearest zeta tube to port to Gotham.

Kalduur found himself porting into the Batcave himself, he looked around confused, he had never been allowed to enter there before, in fact only Batman, Nightwing, Robin, Red Robin, Batgirl and Superman had ever been allowed inside of the Batcave, he looked around at all the trophies, the catcomputer itself and just the sheer magnitude of the palace.

A few footsteps pulled Kalduur out of his stupor and looked into the shadows of the Batcave (even though it has plenty) and saw a roughish looking Dick Grayson, wearing a suit and a long coat over the top, walking towards him "What was this 'breach' you spoke about? I don't see anything." They both looked around and saw a tiny glitch like light coming from just beyond the bat computer, it was like lightning was forming a little circle in mid air, but there was a shape to it, a body oculd be made out. The two old friends walked over to it.

They stood and watched for a few moments and finally a figure could be made out, it was a person! He looked to be in his mid twenties, had black hair, blue eyes, wore a black top, a leather jacket, jeans and boots, he looked like he was in a lot of pain, the two looked at him with blank expressions until the figure screamed "PULL ME THROUGH! HELP ME!" The two in a fit of shock, surprise and anxiety grabbed hold of the figures hands and yanked him out of the lightning, just behind him the shadows of men wearing trench coats and weilding gun with golden tips could be seen before the lightning portal closed.

The man they had pulled from the portal had begun to stand up, half way through thanking the two of them before Dick had grabbed the man by the scruff of his jacket and pulled his face close to his own "How did you find this place? Why are you here? What do you have planned? You better answer before I break you." The man just lowered his gaze a second and placed his fingers just below the center of Dick's chest and pressed extremely lightly onto it, Dick then couldn't feel his arms and legs and fell to the floor, letting go of the man, who as he fell, pulled his feet below him and landed on them, standing up.

The man looked around at the batcave "Huh, I've gone abit too far back, but this place actually looks relatively decent back in the day. who knew?" then he looked over to Dick and Kalduur "To answer your questions, I found this place because of I go here on a regular basis, I came here because I planned on changing the future that I was in, and I did plan on telling myself and Bruce of 5 months ago of what was about to happen and to not go into battle, instead I've traveled around sixty years into the past instead. Since I wont be born for another 36 years, I guess there's no harm in introducing myself. My name is Terry McGinnis, and in my future, I am the Batman. I think I'm stuck in your time for now, can I speak to Bruce?" Terry said, readjusting the strap to his black watch.

To Be Continued...

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