Earth-29

Author: CaptainTightPants12

Rating: K

Disclaimer: If I owned Superman, his storylines, or any related characters, you'd be seeing this story in the pages of the this month's issue of Superman and not for free on FanFiction. Ditto any DC Comics characters or storylines.

Summary: There are foes that no one hero can overcome. What happens when there's a foe a whole universe can't overcome?

Title: Universal Sin

Author's Note: This is designed to connect together my Flashpoint and Kill Me or Kiss Me universes into the grand scheme of the multi-verse, but also perhaps set up some things for each of us in our respective stories.

I do what I've done with a very heavy heart.

Worlds destroyed, lives tarnished, and loves lost. Even I myself haven't made it through unscathed. I've lost everything. We've all lost everything. But with the hope that in time, we'll be able to save it all. I wasn't lying when I told that man in red that we could fix it all together. I still believe that. I have to believe that.

Because I've seen what happens if we stand by and do nothing. I've seen what happens if we choose selfishness over sacrifice. It would be our sins that would do us all in. But perhaps I was blinded by my own greatest sin: Pride.

I thought that I could understand all that was going to come to pass. That I was capable of comprehending it. Pride. No matter the strength, no matter the bravery, it could bring any one of us down.

The truth is that this so much bigger than I ever fathomed. I thought that bringing together the three splintered universes would do the trick. That we would be ready. But this is so much bigger than that. I've repaired a small part of a much bigger fracture. A fracture that would go on to create universes beyond my understanding or power to comprehend.

"Then it's a good thing that you've come."

I had to make many friends. Connect many dots. Travel many miles. And I'd only just begun. "Did I have a choice?"

He fidgeted in his chair, "I suppose that you did not. As you know, I have sat atop this chair for a very long time. Longer than even you can begin to imagine. My thirst for knowledge has taken me to every corner of our universe. New, and old."

"Then why didn't you do something about it?"

"Because even with all the abilities at my disposal, and all of the allies that I have made over my many years, I am a pursuer of knowledge and information," Metron offered. "It is not my place to interfere in the affairs of the universe. I am an immortal watcher, my dear. To take sides, would make me no different than the New Gods or even Darkseid himself."

I shook my head, "And now?"

Metron sighed, "And now, I'm afraid that this is not simply a matter of taking sides. The Monitors are dying, Pandora. They are dying and entire universes are being swallowed up. What will there to be learn if there are no universes to explore?"

"So whatever is happening, whatever is coming, it's not just destroying worlds... It's destroying universes too?"

"I'm afraid so," he nodded. "I have been to the center, you know? Where they all touch. Where they all come together, and you can see into them all. The epicenter of the Elseworlds. Where things you can't begin to imagine can happen."

Scoffing, I had to attempt to reign in my annoyance of how little he must have thought of me, "Try me."

The look on his face told me that he'd hoped that'd be my answer. He pulled me to his Mobious Chair and away they went. It felt like galaxies were whipping past me at break-neck speed. The Chair halted with a stop that sent me flying into a roll. Metron chuckled to himself as I got to my feet, "I do not travel with guests very often. I apologize for the abrupt stop."

"Yeah. I bet." My eyes turned to where we had arrived at. "Where are we?"

He waved his hand, "We are at the beginning of all things, or the end... Depending on how you view your beverages. The easiest way to access the many different realities, would be here. This is where you could begin your mission."

"My mission?"

Metron shook his head, "Don't you understand? What's coming is too much for any one universe. Even if all the heroes, and all of the villains, came together and stood as one, they would be completely overwhelmed. For what is coming, you must do again what you have already done. You must bring together the multi-verse to face a foe that stands taller than any single universe."

This was almost too big. Why me? Why must I always be at the brunt of these things? "What you are saying is that I need to go into each of these worlds. I need to make them strong, like I've done this one, and then I have to bring them all together? I have to bring the champions of each universe, and they'll stand against this new threat?"

"Precisely."

It was all out before me. We stood on an epicenter of all of time and space, and it was all out before me for the taking. I could see it all in all of it's glory. So many different worlds. All painted in the image of the world I knew.

Or at least a shade of the world I knew.

I could see where the good have become bad, and the bad have become good. "We'll conquer this planet, raze its cities, and reduce it to ash... For a start," echoed cold words from a man that was no longer a Bat, but an Owl.

I could see where the once men are now women, and the once women are now men. "Wonder Man does not need Woman's World! He will come again, with his Amazon brothers, and we will prove that we are the true heroes!"

I could see origins changed. Tragically. Philosophically. Geographically. "Tell your friends they don't have to be scared or hungry anymore, Comrades. Superman is here to rescue them," just his thick accent was a shock to say the least.

But there were some that were not too different from others. Some just tweaked in little ways.

Some just seemed to have a thread of change amongst the way some of the families were now aligned. "Jo'an! Where did you find a defibrillator?!" which was quickly followed by a, "Gah, Dad! It's only for just in case!"

Some tweaked the idea of what a villain really is, and whether or not the line between a villain and a hero is even a line at all, "We could have saved the world, Clark... We could have been heroes together... I'm sorry I couldn't save you..."

All different in one way or another, some big and some small, but all now in the shadow of something beyond them. I took it on myself to save my own universe. And perhaps I did. But there was something worse now. Something that was bigger than my own slice of all reality, and we would need more than what we had to offer.

We needed what only an infinite universe could offer. And as I turned to Metron, a part of me knew that he would not come. He was a scientist. An archeologist. He was not prepared for the chaos. But I was.

Because that's what I do. I embrace it all and bare it. I've suffered the fate of the Council of Eternity put upon me, and it would seem that fate was prepared to burden me with another impossible mission.

"So... when do I start?"

Author's Note: Well, what did you think? My first post over here at DC Universe Prime. I'm sure that the more comic savvy readers picked up on the cameos of different earths, but the ones that I'll want to point out for new readers are the two that came last. Jo'an and Clark from my Kill Me or Kiss Me universe and then the final one, which was Flashpoint. Anyways, let me know what you thought, and feel free to use the idea of a universe eater in your own stories!