The Hellspawn

I don't own Spawn or justice league

authors note: to anyone who doesn't know what spawn is, he is a supernatural being of magic made in the depths of hell with the soul of a man, I will show his abilities from the comics,game and animated series (which I will use the characters and voice models from) in the story. His appearance is... you know what, your on a computer, look him up.

Spawn (A.K.A Al Simmons) was sitting on the crucifix on his favorite haunt, the cathedral of rat city, where the homeless live and thrive under his protection, the only downside was the eventual visits from the clown. Who was currently pissing him off "hey sport, how ya been" "the hell do you want clown?" "do I really need to answer that again, sport" spawn spotted an old wooden rafter sticking out through the sealing. He grabbed the top, broke it off, and threw it directly at him, it struck him right between the teeth, same as last time. The only bad thing is, clown would just pull it out and keep talking, so he punted him of the roof before he could stand up.

"You know he'll just get back up, Hellspawn" Cogliostro said, as he stepped out of the shadows

"what do you want old man"

"to help you, of course, as I've been trying to"

"then help"

Cogliostro looked at him for a while, trying to make up his mind and then said "very well, follow me"

Spawn followed him to his small hovel and Cogliostro holding a small, green, swirling ball "hold onto this Hellspawn" spawn grabbed it with no hesitation and immediately found a change of scenery.

"where are we, old man" spawn asked in a soft voice

"metropolis, 11:39p.m, if I'm correct"

"why did you take me here"

" to tip the scales of good and evil, whichever side you choose will seal this worlds fate"

"this is a test, then, on whether I deserve my humanity"

"yes, Hellspawn"

"then I better get to work" without saying another word, spawn flew away to scout out the city he had materialised at.

After a few minutes of searching, he saw an man pinning a crying woman to a wall, spawn sighed, some things never change. He teleported behind the offending man and grabbed him by the neck "go" he said to the woman. She ran of down the street and spawn reverted his gaze to the man he was holding,

"what the hell is your problem, taking advantage of woman like that?" spawn threw him to the ground "do you really think you can get away with this?" he noticed the man was staring at his claw-like nails "people like you need to be taught a lesson". Spawn raised his arm and bought his claws down on the man's face, leaving four distinct scars that would never heal on his face "ahhhh" the man cried, blood covering his face, "get out of here".The man ran down the opposite way the girl had run down the street.

Lois lane couldn't believe what had happened, she was about to be kidnapped by Luthor's henchmen, than this man pops up and saves her. She could hear what the man said from her hiding spot and saw the man who had tried to get her run down the street with his face covered in blood. The daily planet was going to have a field day with this.

Spawn eventually found a map detailing the eastern coast of America, there was, just like the old man said Metropolis. He immediately looked for an alleyway where no one would bother him for the night. After a few minutes of looking, he saw three people talking, he recognised the the man he saw earlier among them "came out of nowhere and clawed my face" "Luthor isn't gonna like this, you had that bitch, and now she's gone" a large clanging noise interrupted their conversation, spawn saw a small boy in rags scrabbling away from the men "well what have we here, an eavesdropper" the third man said "please don't kill me" the boy begged "I didn't hear nothin' I swear" "we ain't gonna take that chance kid" Scarface said, pulling out a switch-blade, advancing on the boy "no,please" the boy cried spawn decided to butt in "you don't listen very well, do you" spawn said from the darkness"what, not you again" the man called out terrified

"yes, and this time, you won't be the warning. Kid, cover your eyes" the did as he was told and spawn teleported in front of Scarface and dug his claws into the man's eyes and left him to bleed out. Another thug ran at him with a baseball bat and swung, spawn merely grabbed it and rammed through his gaping mouth till it was halfway through the back of his head. The last man just pissed himself and ran, screaming bloody murder, he turned and saw the kid sitting down with his eyes still covered "come on, lets get you home" spawn said in a comforting tone (for him at least) "I don't have a home" "then lets find a nice warm place for the night"

"don't you have a home mister" he said taking his hands off his eyes

"no...not any more" he said, thinking of Wanda

"come on, I have some friends who've set up a small rain shelter with a fire a few blocks away, come on" the kid said, pulling his hand

"...alright kid, lead the way"

eventually, they got to the spot the kid was talking about "Shawn" the kid called out, a man in his early 40's came out and visibly stiffened when he saw spawn "Kit, who you bought with ya" the man said in a slight southern accent. "This guy saved my life from some bad men" the man relaxed his stance slightly but didn't take his off of spawn "OK, but who are you" "Al Simmons" "alright" the man said "I'm Shawn" he said sticking his hand out, spawn shook his hand lightly, knowing he could accidentally shatter the man's wrist. "why are you here, don't you have better places to be than down here" "believe it or not, I'm homeless to"

"so..."

"yeah, I know what it's like" spawn said, cutting him off

"well, ok, you can sleep with us in the alleyway"

"thank you" which he did, against a wall

Lois lane almost threw up from what she just saw, the same man who saved her, just killed in cold blood, the daily planet could wait, she needed a bucket.

Three months later

superman was sickened by the display of blood and gore in front of him lit up by pale moonlight "unbelievable" batman said as he arrived at the scene "I know, this has been happening for the past few months, they're criminals this person is killing." "that doesn't make it right superman" "I know batman, maybe we should ask some of the locals" "fine" batman said as they walked through the alleyways. They eventually found a few homeless gathered around a trash can with a fire in it "scuse' us" all the homeless looked at them both with suspicion "what do you want" one of them said with no signs of hiding the venom in his voice "we're looking for the man who's been killing those thugs" "why" another asked "we just want to talk to him" batman said. "what have you ever done for us" a child said "we starve in the cold down here and what do people do, look down on us, kick us, make life even worse for us." "He helps us, protects us, lives with us, he saved kit's life" he said gesturing to the young boy "not three months ago. Where were you hero's then, hey."

"he raises a valid point" said an old, wizened voice from the shadows "he was there defending the young boy from harm" he finally came out of the shadows "you want to turn him from the path he has chosen, and the other path is far worse" "what do you know sir" superman asked politely "he has suffered many things, his widow, his friend betraying him and a curse. But that's not why he kills, he kills because it is his second nature, and it is much less devastating controlled than wild" the old man stepped back into the shadows and disappeared from sight, but kept talking "he could kill a man of steel or a doctor of fate, a race of warrior women or the green of lanterns, for he has become. The Hellspawn."