[Note from the Writer: Should be noted that this story diverges from the main timeline so that Sins of Youth DID NOT happen, but certain things that happened during that time still did (like Tana s death)]
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The Year is 2050.
Exactly fifty years have passed since the Vampires made a pact with Satan that turned the sun black and made the rivers and seas of Earth run red with Blood.
During that time, more than 50% of the Earth's humans were turned into Vampires. The remaining humans now live in underground caves, where the last vestiges of pure water lurk.
And what of the Superhumans you ask? Those guardians who looked out for the world either on the ground or from far places like the moon?
Dead, as most were killed when the sun went black and many, many others were turned.
But enough exposition about the past, that's long since dead. I guess you're wondering what's going on in the now.
We are in what was once the City of the Angels, Los Angeles. I used to call it home many years ago. But now it's called the City of the Bats, because that's what the city is infested with. It makes me sick.
In this day in age, food for normal humans is scarce. While the Vampires no longer need to feed on humans or animals for their blood since the rivers and oceans of the world provide all the blood they need, they still do so every once in awhile. Humans have captured as many animals as they can, trying to breed what little left of the animals to get the food count as high as they can.
Although some humans leave the safety of their subterranean homes to try to find some food topside while praying that they are not found by Vampires.
Like this little girl named Mary Ann. Despite the fact that her parents forbade her to venture topside, her curiosity got the best of her and she journeyed topside to see what the upper level of the world looked like and in hopes of finding some food.
But you know what they say; 'Curiosity killed the cat'.
For no sooner than a minute topside, two roaming Vampires found her. One was a brunette female wearing a black leather jumpsuit, the other a red haired male, wearing a green long sleeve shirt with blue jeans.
"Say Lestat, what do you say we do, bite the girl here and now or save her for the party and have a blood sucking orgy?" The female vampire asked her companion.
"I say take her to the party. It's been too long since we've had a party where we all take a bite out of a special guest!" Lestat says with a laugh as the girl begins screaming as the vampires start dragging her away. On top of one of the many abandoned buildings stands a shadowed figure. He follows the Vampire's with his eyes, focusing on the little girl. He then leaps from building to building following them to an abandoned church.
They enter the Church to see Vampires drinking blood from cup's where patron's used to drink wine in memoriam to Jesus. They also see Vampire's making out and desecrating the Church in every way possible. The shadowed man now looms outside, peering though the stain glass windows. His eyes focus on a blonde female that looks very familiar.
"Hey gang, look what we brought to the party!" The female yells as she holds up the little girl by her hair. All the vampires stop what they're doing as the Female vampire throws the girl into the middle of the Church, where the pews once were. The girl can't help but cry and the Vampires begin to converge on the girl.
Having seen enough, the shadowed man merely lifts an eyebrow and the stain glass window shatters. The pieces do not fall however, merely floating in a circular pattern. The man flies forward and the glass starts revolving around him. We see that he has long black hair, and blue eyes. He has brown cowboy boots, leather pants, and a black leather trench coat and if you look closely, you can see a hint of a gray shirt underneath with the Superman 'S'.
"Look! That's the Slayer!" and as one Vampire yelled that, the Slayer threw his hand forward, sending all the glass shards flying at the Vampires.
The little girl Mary Ann starts screaming but not one shard comes close to her.
Many shards hit their target points, the head and the heart, killing many Vampires. But the few that miss their target, the Slayer starts shooting blasts of heat vision from his eyes decapitating some of the others.
"We must leave this place!" Lestat yelled as he grabbed his girl and they turned to mist. The few remaining Vampires did so and left the building.
The Slayer silently landed on the ground and checked the girl's neck.
"No teeth-marks." He says to himself as he looks to his right to see that blonde female he had eyed earlier.
"Kon-El! Long time no see." The girl said as she walked forward and we see her wearing the Wonder Girl Costume Donna Troy used to wear.
"Cassandra Sandsmark." Kon-El thinks as he flashes back to the last time that he saw her, which was fifty years ago on the day the Vampires invaded.
"I must say, you've grown into the splitting image of Superman." She said as she walked up to him.
"And I must say that you tarnish that costume you wear." Kon said with a glare on his face.
"Awwww, does it upset you? Here, let me take it off." And she unzips the costume and it falls to the floor revealing nothing underneath.
"I realize that you blame us vampires for your condition and that's why you hunt us but why bother? You drink blood like us, and are vulnerable to sunlight. You may not have the ability to turn into mist or a bat, or have an aversion to garlic, but you have more in common with us than what is left of the Human population. And besides… I know that even as your time as a human you never had sex…" She said as she began rubbing the inside corner of his right pant leg.
"You seem to forget that Vampires can't breed. That's why they bite people, not only to suck their blood, but to add another member to the race since they can't procreate." And while Kon and Cassie banter on, little Mary looks on, not understanding the situation.
"That's right, but just because we are infertile that doesn't mean we can't still have fun. You know I've always wanted you. I know you want to do it." Cassie says seductively.
"You're right. I do want to do something. I want to do this!" And he grabbed a stake that was tethered to his back and rams it through Cassie's heart. She screams horrendously as she turns to ashes.
"You shouldn't have tried to seduce me Cassie. You just should've killed me when you had the chance." Kon says softly as he turns around to see the little girl in tears.
"You! Leave here now and never return topside, understand?"
"Uh-huh… b-b-but who are you?"
"Not who, what. What am I, is what you should be asking. I'm one of them, and I never want to see you here again!" Kon yells as he hisses and shows off his fangs. The girl starts crying again and runs away.
Kon looks around, hangs his head low and sighs. He walks outside and flies up into the air and out of sight.
I guess this is the time where I follow him to his hideout and tell him of his role to play in the grand scheme of things. But I guess this is important too…
We now journey to New Bat City where amid the ruins of Skyscrapers a palace has been built for the Queen of the Bats.
Who is this Queen of the Bats you ask?
She is really Victoria Brocking, a girl born in England around 1778. While traveling through Transylvania at night, her coach was attacked by the lord of the Vampires, Dracula. She was bitten by him and turned into one as well. Dracula was taken aback by how comfortable she was being turned into a vampire. So Victoria became the bride of the famed Dracula before she killed him and took his role as Lord of the Vampires.
Throughout the ages she's been leading the Vampires. With Vampires hitting a stagnation point because they could not feast on humans as much as they could with all the Superheroes around, she literally made a deal with the devil. By sacrificing the hero Firestorm in his human form of Ronald Raymond, this empowered Satan to perform two incantations…
One to turn the Sun black so that the rays would no longer bother Vampires anymore, and two that the rivers and oceans of the World would turn to blood so that the Vampires wouldn't be forced to drink the blood from Humans anymore.
But enough of the past, because, like I said it's dead and gone. We now move into the main hall of the Palace where we see Victoria sitting on her throne with her trusted advisor Scarlet as her side. Victoria has brown hair, and green eyes. Scarlet has red hair and blue eyes. Victoria along with her advisor Scarlet are wearing blood red dresses. At each side of her throne are her Knights. In front of her wearing an iron collar with a leash that the Queen is holding is the man who used to be Bart Allen aka Impulse. His bite didn't turn him into a vampire, rather into a raving zombie.
Kneeling down in front of the Queen is Lestat and his girlfriend Nair from Los Angeles.
"M-m-my Queen, we felt we needed to tell this to you, but we encountered the Slayer in Los Angeles! He killed at least fifty of us. Only we and a few others escaped." Lestat said as he cowered in fear.
"WHAT? I was assured that the Slayer was dead by one of my own Knights! Knight JC, report immediately!" And as the Queen bellowed this, this Knight who had brown hair and blue eyes swallowed deeply, stepped forward and bowed before the Queen.
"Knight, you assured me that the Slayer was dead. That you killed him with your own hands."
"Yes I did, I used my wrist mounted swords to stab him straight through the gut and stomach. He fled, but I thought that he would die from blood loss for sure."
"Su-su-su-sure yo-yo-yo-you did…*choke*" Bart begins to mumble as Queen Brocking pulls on his leash to shut him up.
"*Sigh* You seem to forget that we Vampires heal quickly. You should've followed him and made sure that he was dead." The Queen said with a displeased look on her face. She stood up and took a few steps towards JC.
"Please my Queen, I beg forgiveness!"
"Stand up." The Queen ordered as Knight JC stood up. She grabbed him and kissed him. The Knight was taken aback by this and his tension lifted. She then took out a wooden knife and stabbed him in the head. As he turned to ashes, the armor fell to the ground and she smiled.
"You, the one called Lestat! You managed to save yourself from the Slayer. That takes skills. I give you a chance for revenge as one of my special Knights. Do you accept?"
"Yes Queen, I do!"
"Then pick up the incompetent JC's old armor and follow the fellow Knights to the barracks." And so Lestat picked up the empty armor and followed the Knights out of the throne room.
"Victoria, I must ask, why do you kiss those who you kill?" Victoria's advisor Scarlet asks.
"Just to give them something to remember me by before they die." Victoria said as she started laughing.
"Enough of this." A red skinned man with horns, a long thick tail said as he entered the room.
"Hello Satan. Been awhile."
"Yes it has Victoria. But this isn't a social visit. I have learned that God doesn't appreciate the hard work we've done to turn the world into what it is. It seems that tonight he will be sending his Daughter down to save the world from our influence. I cannot interfere because God has done something to keep me from even approaching the baby for 3 days, but you and your Vampires have no qualms like that. You need to head to a manger in Nazareth. At 12 O'clock tonight, the baby will be born. I need you to kill it so that it doesn't disrupt the plans that you and I have set forth."
"I will, because my people are finally free and I will never see them be forced to hide underneath the ground anymore."
"I thought that's what your answer would be. I hope to see a dead corpse tonight when I visit you at 12:30. Goodbye." And Satan disappears in a puff of smoke.
"Scarlet! Get a hold of the Vampires that live in the Middle East. They've got some hunting to do."
And that's what the Vampires have been up too. What about Kon-El you ask? Well, he's relaxing in his own Fortress of Solitude. It's a makeshift cave he creates with his heat-vision and telekinesis whenever he travels around. Right now he has his trench coat off and writing in a diary of sorts.
"My foray into Los Angeles has been pretty successful. I've killed fifty vampires already and I've also killed Cassandra Sandsmark, my old teammate from YJ. She's the one who got me bit in the first place, so I've finally made her pay for that. Also, that's one more meta-human down, only a couple more to go…" Kon wrote as he put down his pencil and rubbed his eyes.
He then hears a noise and jumped out his seat with a wooden stake in his hands.
"Who's there?" He asked.
So I replied.
"Hello Kon." I said as I stepped out of the shadows.
"Zauriel? What are you doing here?" he said with a scowl.
"Well, I'm here because God sent me here."
"Well state your business and leave. I don't have time for social visits."
"Fine. You're to accompany me to Nazareth by order of the Lord."
"Oh really? Well, here's my answer. Hell No. I've got more important things to do than go halfway around the world on a little trip."
"*Sigh* Like what? Is sitting around in a cave planning attacks on Vampires more important than a scared duty to the Lord?"
"In a word? Yes. I don't believe in God anymore. If a God does exist, he's isn't the kind and loving God you portray him to be because he let 'this' happen to me and Millions of others. *Pulls down the collar of his shirt to expose two scars where he was bitten* That's a God I don't believe in."
"Why do you blame him for the condition of the world? It's not his doing."
"It isn't his doing?!? Look around you! Everything here, he created the rocks, the sea, and the very air we breathe! He created humans in all shapes and sizes! He even created the vampires. You're telling me that God is all knowing and omnipotent and he didn't see this coming? IF he was truly the kind and compassionate being you and those foolish humans that live underneath the ground believe him to be, why didn't he even try to step in and stop this! Answer me that, why didn't he?"
"The Lord works in mysterious ways."
"Oh, don't even hand me that bullshit Zauriel. There couldn't possibly be a reason for all of this." Kon says as he turns away from me.
"There is a reason. Just like God planned on you to be bitten."
"What? What did you say?" He says as he whips back around and gets into my face.
"You were fated to get bitten. God planned for it." And as I said this, the look on his face was indescribable. He finally just looked up towards the ceiling and screamed…
"WELL THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH GOD! I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!"
"Do you really think you're accomplishing anything with these outbursts Kon?"
"No, but I'm getting this close to ripping your wings off and shoving them straight down your throat."
"You wouldn't do that. I know you too well." I say with a bit of a smirk.
"Oh really? Well let me tell you this. You don't know a thing about me."
"In what way?"
"Okay. Let me tell you of a typical day in my life. I get up everyday and the first thing I do is pull out this gun. *Pulls out a gun and throws it towards Zauriel* I then put this gun against my temple and I debate whether or not today is the day I pull the trigger to end my miserable excuse for a life. Then, if I decided to put off suicide for another day, I go and telekinetically create more stakes and other weapons. Then, I go out and stalk as many vampires I can. Then I come back to whatever is passing for my home this day and pull out this cantina. It's a funny being a half-breed, I need blood to live, but I absolutely hate the taste. And then usually at the end of the day I cry myself to sleep wondering how my life became this hellish in the first place. And repeat this same day more or less for fifty years and you have the slightest glimmer of who I really am."
"If you're done, I suggest it's time to leave."
"And why should I?"
"You're not doing anything of importance and if you refuse, I will drag you there." I say as I look deep into his eyes. Before Kon even has a chance to reply, I know his answer.
"Fine. But after this, I don't want to see your face around here ever again."
So I walk outside to see it's raining blood. Although somewhat sickened by it, I leap into the air. Kon-El follows suit.
"Red rain. My favorite." He says sarcastically as we start flying towards the Middle East.
And now an hour from now and half a world away…
Two humans have now come topside. A male named Whitaker and a very pregnant female called Genevieve have left the sanctuary of their underground cave to scrounge around for food.
"You shouldn't be up here, you're pregnant! What if Vampires attack…"
"Oh don't worry. I can't stand being cooped up down there worrying about what's happening to you topside… I… I… eeergggh…"
"Genevieve? Are you okay?"
"No… I think my water just broke…"
"Damnit! We're too far away from the cave…*looks into the distance* lets head to that abandoned manger… I just pray to the good lord that nothing happens to find us…" Whitaker says as he picks Genevieve up and carries her there.
Only few miles the other direction, were a pair of Vampires that were dispatched by the Queen to find and kill the humans.
"Do you even know why we were really sent out here?" A brown haired vampire asked.
"No clue. I've got a feeling there's more to this than a simple killing, but I do know that if we fail, our punishment will be severe." The blonde one said as the manger came into view.
"I believe that's the place. Let's get the done quickly." The brown-haired one said as they flew towards the manger.
Inside the manger…
"Oh lord… I just hope that helping animals have their birth will help with yours… Come on Genevieve, push!"
"Uuuuuughergh… it's hurts…. *Closes eyes for a second then reopens them* Whitaker, look out!" Genevieve yells, but it's too late. By the time he starts to move his head to the left, claws come down upon it and slices his head open.
Blood flies everywhere and some flies onto Genevieve's face. The blond vampire then rips the now open head from Whitaker's shoulder's and while holding it up to his face, pours the blood into his mouth.
"Mmmmm…. He tasted good. Say, should we kill the wench or turn her into one of us?"
"Awww Brandon, you know we're just supposed to kill her. Just break her neck and get it over with."
"No… please, don't kill me, I'm about to have a baby!"
"Sorry, but orders are orders." The Brown haired vampire smiles as he grabs her neck and breaks it.
Just as they exit the manger, Kon-El and I arrive.
"It's the Slayer and an angel! We performed our duties, no reason to stay and get killed!" the one called Brandon yells.
"Either way, you're not getting away from me!" Kon-El yells as he whips two stakes out with lightning speed and throws them at the Vampires.
One hits its intended mark; it impales itself into Brandon's head. The other one merely gouges itself into the brown haired vampire's stomach.
As Kon lunges forward to finish off the other Vampire, I hear a little life calling for help, and then realize what must've happened!
I rush inside to see the remains of Whitaker (God rest his soul) and Genevieve's corpse. That's when I realize that the vampires were careless, just killing Genevieve thinking that when she died, the Baby would perish in the next few minutes. Thankfully they didn't count on me appearing and my ability to call my flaming sword!
So the flaming sword appears in my hands and I start performing a C-section on Genevieve's corpse. Kon-El walks in wiping his hands off. Seeing me perform the C-section must've reminded him of something because he took out a cantina and starting drinking some blood.
"So, exactly why am I here for? I hope it wasn't just for those two vampires."
"No… Kon-El… it was for… this." And I bring out of the stomach a bloody baby girl. I cut off the umbilical cord with my sword.
"A baby?!? What do you want with a baby?"
"Remember how you were ranting about God never doing anything? Well, he finally has decided for something to be done. Just as before, he has sent a child down to Earth from Heaven. This time it's his only daughter. And you're going to be her protector."
"Me? Why? And what about supplies? I don't have anything to take care of a little child!"
"I can't tell you why just yet. And as for supplies, don't worry about it. INACE!" I yell. Kon looks at me funny because he doesn't understand what I'm doing. Soon a light can be seen in the distance and it zips right in front of us.
"You called for me Zauriel?"
"Yes. Kon-El, this is Inace the fairy. She's a fairy from a realm many dimensions away from Earth. She has the power to reshape matter into anything she so desires. This means she'll be able to turn anything you see around you to diapers, napkins, forks, spoons, milk, and food for the baby. Bound by the fairy code, she can only use this power for good of whoever she's traveling with, she can't use it for battle. Remember that. Inace, this is Kon-El."
"Pleased to meet you!" Inace says in a squeaky voice as she flies up to Kon's face. He sneers and turns away.
"A real people person I'm sure…"
"You two play nice. You must keep the baby safe from all harm for at least 6 years, then she'll be able to fare for herself. Farewell." I say as I hand the baby to Kon, then take off into the air.
"Hey wait, you just can't leave me here with these two…" Kon-El yells as he flies up into the air, but I fade away from this universe back to Heaven.
"Hey, big britches, I'd suggest leaving this place for nicer weather!" Inace says. Kon slowly falls back onto the ground.
"Listen here. I am the boss, you are the servant. I give the orders around here not you. Understand?"
"Well you listen here, Connel or whatever your name is, I'm not a servant, I'm an equal. And if I'm not treated with respect, I'll make you have to reuse dirty diapers, because I won't lift a wing to help you out even if that means refusing to make more diapers!"
"Lord… this is going to be a looooooooooong 6 years…" Kon-El thinks to himself as he lifts himself and flies back towards his cave in Los Angeles.
"Hey, wait for me!" Inace yells as she flies along trying to catch up to Kon.
Later that night, a man wearing a trench coat and a fedora steps into the manger to see the now rotting bodies. He looks at Genevieve to see her stomach cut open.
"So Satan failed. Well, the best laid plans of Mice and Demons…" He says under his breath as he prepares to leave to see Satan standing before him.
"What are you doing here Chaos? I thought I assigned you to hell."
"Well yes, but a demon escaped, and I followed him here."
"Stop playing games Chaos. I know you have plans for the baby and I know you convent my position. But I will let nothing stand in my way. Be warned. " Satan says to his lackey as he disappears into a puff of smoke.
"Oh yes, but as always you're too overconfident. It'll be your downfall this time." The man known as Chaos thinks as he too disappears into smoke.
To be continued.
[Note: I don't own Superboy, Zauriel or Wondergirl, they belong to DC Comics. I am using them without Permission and for Non-Profit.]