The Beginning of Legion
Ben's Ship.
Ben frowned. His alien ship the Endeavour was now cloaked and floating above Earth. Except he wasn't sure if it was his Earth or not. The hyper-drive had malfunctioned during the travel and he had been taken here. The eighteen year old was lost.
For starters Bellwood didn't exist. Neither did the Plumbers. Ben found this out when he sent a signal to them but nothing came back. Currently Ben had Merlin, his own personal galvanic mechamoprh which was slightly different to others of its kind. It was highly intelligent, not weak to the common weaknesses of its people.
"Merlin?"
"Ben," came Merlin's voice. "I have reviewed the data, it seems as if we have fallen into an alternate universe."
"Damn."
"It also seems that this Earth does not have any version of the plumbers too."
"Damn."
"And it has been visited by alien species as well, some of which live on this planet." Merlin hopped off the computer forming a tall figure and leaving the cloaking on.
"K."
Ben sighed. He knew stealth and martial arts and he had the Ultimatrix unlocked with Master Control. He might as well get down and do recon on its inhabitants. He spoke. "Ultimatrix unlock body armour. The alien watch began to move moulding itself until Ben's person was covered in black body armour that increased his strength, speed and gave him the use of two unbreakable swords. Azmuth had unlocked it for him 3 months previously. Ben felt Merlin fall into a necklace on his shoulder before the armour fully covered his body. Keeping a link to the ship, he quickly left and began his descent.
….
Metropolis June 18
Ben now walked through the streets of Metropolis. He thought one thing, superheroes.
Aliens.
Gods.
Magic.
All seemingly existed here. Ben found that some of them were criminals and attempted to take over the world whilst some of them formed a superhero team known as the Justice League. They helped protect the earth. He paused, these guys were powerful, there had to be a government group keeping an eye on them, this had been confirmed when Merlin had hacked into government websites and uncovered the powers, abilities and secret identities of all the members of the Justice League and their protégés.
The agency was called Cadmus and had been keeping ways on how to stop heroes if they ever go rogue. Unfortunately for them, most of their plans involved the heroes stopping the dangers.
Ben knew there was no realistic way, he could get back to his reality, and there were infinite number of alternate dimensions out there. Which left one option. Blending in.
…
San Francisco June 24
Ben sighed. He was sitting on top of a tall building in San Francisco. Merlin had easily created an identity for him and shipped the necessary paperwork to him as well. Due to Ben's enhanced intelligence, Ben was technically a billionaire after "inheriting" a large gold reserve. He lived on a mansion on the outskirts of San Francisco, his ship was hidden far beneath the mansion that also included his various weapons and such.
For the past month and a half, Ben had become San Francisco's resident hero, Legion. His suit enabled him to easily defeat criminals and crime lords and the Ultimatrix made him overpowered essentially, he had met Superman, Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter. Well not met, he had crept onto the Watchtower to get sample of their DNA for his watch. Superman became Strongman, Hawkgirl became Feathers and the Manhunter became Green Guy (he couldn't think of anything else).
So far, the public didn't really have anything on him which was good. Ben had been home training his body and skills, giving himself martial arts training and increasing his intelligence. He had used Grey Matter and had covertly sent large shipments of equipment home, equipment which he used to make an arsenal of weapons and other gadgets.
Ben sighed. He was stuck here for the unforeseeable future. He might as well get used to it. He quickly jumped off the top of a building and flew away to where a large car was running from police. He scanned it and discovered Metallo in the back as well as large bags of money. He smiled, too easy, he quickly picked an alien form and landed.
With a crash. Metallo was hurtled out of the car and turned around to find a gigantic creature. "WAY BIG!"
"What the hell?" he said with shock. Everyone else in the town's eyes widened then they saw green and black hour glass symbol on his chest.
"I'M LEGION! NOW STAND DOWN NOW OR ELSE!"
Metallo looked at the massive creature and shrugged before putting his hands up. He'd been paid to do a deal here to take care of the new hero. He was definitely over his head now. The police came and took the kryptonite radiation out before thanking Legion.
Legion changed back into his armour and flew away. He quickly landed on a building and smiled. "Easy as pie." He paused when his armour indicated a strange energy manipulation at his house and he quickly teleported there.
Batman narrowed his eyes. "Interesting." He quickly keyed his communicator and disappeared.
….
Ben arrived underground his house, he deactivated his armour and turned and his eyes widened as he saw a familiar small greenish grey figure and a young Japanese woman.
"Julie?" he said. "Azmuth?"
Julie spun around and gave Ben a hug, her green and black backpack falling off her back turning into a small doglike figure. "Ship ship!" it squealed.
Ben smiled and hugged his girlfriend back, after a few seconds he turned to Azmuth. "Are you sending me home?" he asked. He didn't bother asking how Azmuth got here, the guy was the smartest being in the universe.
The Galvan gave Ben a look then shook his head. "Unfortunately no." He went over to Ben and began adjusting the Ultimatrix before sitting down on a table. "I made the Ultimatrix more durable and made a connection with it making you the only person able to use it, I also rendered your mind immune to telepathy and accelerating your healing process." He frowned. "Your new alien species have ultimate forms, interesting."
"Um thanks but what now?" Ben gave Azmuth a confused look. This was a way to get home. If Azmuth could get here with Julie, surely they could get back?
"You will stay here with Julie."
"You're joking," Ben said uncertainly. "Right?"
"No. All your villains are in jail, Albedo is actually deciding to do good, and your family think that you're dead. It would be best if you stayed here."
"What about Julie?" Ben was not happy at all.
"Julie has left earth permanently." Azmuth put a small remote on Ben's chair. "Use this if you wish to contact me or otherwise have fun. The Galvan activated his portal and jumped through leaving Ben confused.
Julie rolled her eyes and turned away from Ben who stood frozen. "Hello Merlin." The green and black alien stood up and was connected to a robot which it used around the house.
The mechamoprh nodded at Julie. "I am already creating an identity for you, it would be best to leave Ben alone for now and learn about the differences between this world and ours."
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Watchtower
Superman and the founders of the Justice League sat around a table. In front of them was photo evidence and footage of the newest hero Legion.
"So," Flash said. "We ask him to join simple."
John rolled his eyes. "He can transform into any alien species he wants. But these aliens I've never seen before and they don't exist."
"And we know nothing about him," Batman finished.
"And that's worrying because?" Diana asked.
"He could be a liability or a danger," Batman replied.
"I would offer my services," Superman said. "But he seems to have something that blocks my x-ray vision, I had to do a report with Lois on Legion."
"He helps people," Aquaman said. "So he can join."
"It's not that simple," John said. "If he does join, he could get DNA samples of any aliens we meet and easily subdue us."
"So," Flash said. "In other words, Bats is having trust problems right? And so does John?"
"He could be an enemy," Bruce growled. Sometime he hated Wally.
"And if he is, we stop him," Diana said. "This is like letting all the other Justice Leaguers join, we need to show that we are willing to include anyone into the League."
"What if he becomes too dangerous?" Batman growled. "He'll have access to a seemingly endless array of alien species."
"He won't." Superman sighed. "We'll stop him definitely."
Batman growled. "Fine, we'll get him to join, but not now. I'm trying to gather more information on him."
….
San Francisco July 15
Three weeks later…
Julie Yamamoto looked over at Ben who was lying backwards on a couch watching TV. "This is what you do all day?" she asked.
Ben shrugged. "Yeah, pretty much, I make stuff as well but other than that it's mostly this."
Julie rolled her eyes. "That may be nice but I'm going to be a lawyer."
Ben shrugged. "K. I'll just stay here and make stuff."
Julie was about to say something when her eyes were drawn to the TV. Her eyes widened. "What the hell?"
On the TV several large holes in the sky appeared which were followed by gigantic ships and seemingly an entire army of demons. "Parademons," Ben said. "Armies of an inter-galactic warlord known as Darkseid."
The view of the TV shifted to Superman being hammered by a rock-like figure. "You do the city with Ship and the robots," Ben got up. "I got a new DNA sample to get."
….
The police in San Francisco were having a hard time. An army had come out and were trying to take over the world again.
There was a large explosion and the police chief turned to face a figure in a highly advanced green and black armoured suit which covered the entire body. She was followed by a seemingly endless array of robots which converged on the invading police force.
"Officer," the voice was unmistakably female but distorted. "Nice to meet you I'm Mecha." Then she flew off and engaged the aliens. The officer shrugged.
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Metropolis
Luthor and Batman were currently engaged in an intense fight against the Parademons whilst Superman was getting pummelled by a newly invigorated Darkseid who was more powerful than ever.
More Parademons came out and both tensed only for the invaders to be destroyed when a large 4-armed beast landed.
"I'm Legion." There was a green flash then the alien was swapped with figure in black armour with a black and green hourglass symbol.
Luthor raised an eyebrow. "And what pray tell do you want?" He'd heard of Legion and Mecha. Their talents and technology were incredibly interesting, it was a shame they were heroes.
"Where's Darkseid?" Legion asked.
"Down there," Luthor said. He shot a parademon. "Why?" He noticed Batman was narrowing his eyes.
"I want some of his DNA." Legion jumped off the roof and flew to the two titans leaving a confused Batman and Luthor. What could he want with DNA?
….
San Francisco
Mecha was not having a good day. She quickly ducked and continued to blast away the armies of Apokolips. She landed next to a blonde haired girl who was standing there quietly watching.
"What are you doing?" she yelled. "Get out!"
The girl paused. "I can help."
"How?!" Mecha mentally commanded Ship to create massive blasters which he did and he began destroying the aliens.
The girl spun around and was soon revealed to be a wearing a white suit with a very large hole where her cleavage was. The suit was shaped like Wonder Woman's but had a strap and two blue boots. "I'll help if you get me somewhere to live."
Mecha raised an eyebrow even though she knew the girl probably couldn't see it. "Fine but you better wear something more conservative!"
The girl smiled before blasting away the parademons with heat vision. "Name's Galatea, I'm Supergirl's clone but you can call me Power Girl."
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Metropolis
Darkseid began to walk towards Superman slowly before a figure descended in front of the Kryptonian. He growled. "Move."
The figure didn't move. An automated voice came out and a green light covered Darkseid's body. "Scanning, uncatalogued DNA saved and verified as New God from Apokolips."
Darkseid stepped back. "What is this?" Did the human collect a sample of his body?
"Oh this is going to be fun." A green flash covered the area, when it died down, Darkseid looked in astonishment. There stood a figure looking exactly like him! It was slimmer and had a large green and black hourglass symbol on his chest. "I'm Legion, and this form can be I don't know Rocky?"
Darkseid narrowed his eyes. Then he attacked.
And was thrown backwards by the force of two of his Omega Beams hitting him square in the chest. He growled and punched Rocky in the chest. Rocky was thrown backward but recovered quickly to nail the New God in the chest. Darkseid growled. He could fight, but he didn't have time for this. "This isn't over." He activated his boom tubes and signalled for the invasion to end. Then he left.
Legion turned to pick up Superman who eyed him warily. Ignoring it, Legion turned and said, "See ya!"
Batman eye's narrowed. He had more homework to do.
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San Francisco
Ben and Julie looked over at Galatea and the metahuman boy in their house. Both had been picked up by Julie.
"So," he said. "What happens now?"
Galatea shrugged. "I want a normal life." She'd escaped from Cadmus and now wanted an attempt at a normal life, so she'd gone to the only heroes not in the Justice League. They had much more of a chance of assisting her than everyone else.
The boy who couldn't be more than 10 said, "I'm Samuel Ives, I have nowhere to live and everyone thinks I'm a freak." As if to emphasize five claws came out from just below his knuckles. Julie and Ben gave each other a look.
There was a long pause. "Fine," Ben said. "We have plenty to do."
