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Nightwing; He actually did...
Oh, and Dalek, Sorry if I was dismissive earlier, but thinking on that one I have an idea you might find you like. By the way Red is currently under the Light's control
Oh, by the way, events are starting up that will expand the amount of meta humans on Earth 160 by a considerable amount.
A year later; Earth
The light are evil bastards...and I guess one could call Queen Bee an evil bitch, but they do make a lot of progress to humanity, in their goal of making Earth the center of the cosmos like New York City is a center of commerce.
Crime, Pollution and Hunger were down 50%, every nation on earth is now as progressive and well off as a pre Light middle economy American State, like Ohio, with the higher economy areas pre light were about 10 years ahead of what they would have been without the Light.
The Atlanteans were also more public, a part of the U.N and using their powers to benefit Humankind and vice versa.
Normally they'd distrust the non humans, but with Ocean Master around they choose to accept them as equal inhabitants of Earth. And...eventually they would be needed to invade aquatic worlds.
Of course, in doing so a lot of human rights were secretly removed, meta humans were experimented on (where did the light get such a product to be advertised to the public such as pills that allowed one to sweat off unnecessary fat...yeah people are disturbing) and other...hidden methods of improving the world.
Hell, they might even be more open if they had more starro tech. As it is, they ran out of it, so now they were trying to find another Starro.
Of course, they also had to take into account that starro's race would be very, very dangerous to fight. After all, they didn't waste any starro tech seeing if having starro tech made you immune to Starro.
Now then, the glorious, to themselves at least, minds who brought earth to a higher state were currently discussing a finalized detail.
"He confirmed it" Vandal said in a disturbing voice to Klarion, who was grinning as a dead, dark haired kid lay on the ground behind him.
His face looked tortured.
"Kid Eternity's abilities allow him to summon and speak to the dead...and yes he confirmed that none of those young heroes are dead"
Even if they had no reason to think that after the odd destruction in a Hawaiian island, they liked to be sure.
"SO, we were right to put that failsafe on our false transmission" Lex smirked "No matter...once Quarac" guarded by an Amazo Army and the Kingdom "and Themyscira..." guarded by the sheer fact they couldn't find it, and trying to use Wonder Woman to get there wasn't working. Perhaps they had some sort of security about mind controlled amazons...but that didn't make any sense...its not like many amazons, if any, ever left the island. "Are ours, we can move to expand our power beyond the limits of our own planet. The Green Lanterns are sabotaging the closer planets..." slowly as to not raise alarm. After all, if the Green Lanterns took to taking over, people would rebel "
That was what they understood from Wonder Woman's memories, but she doesn't know much of the truth...
Speaking of which, Ra's had been given a great idea by his daughter, who had recently given him the Damian he wanted.
(A/N, with study into starro tech, they had advanced it in a way. Now the starro tech's full mind control can be in some ways disabled. For instance, instead of controlling a hero completely, the Starro tech only makes sure that they follow certain guidelines, for instance if Aqualad, Tula and Garth saw a sinking ship, they'd save it. But, if they saw Superboy and Rocket, they'd attack them and bring them to be 'released from alien control.
If one is aware of the medium, its similar to the difference between Orochimaru's Edo Tensei (The Jutsu that brings the dead back as minions) and Kabuto's in how much of the individuals skills, techniques and other aspects are retained)
She had been given a near full autonomy from control by Starro tech, in part that's why Ra's studied that himself. The only bit of control he retained kept her in the dark of Bruce's control, which he reduced just enough so he could be a decent father and trainer to Damian, though he spent a lot of time either personally, or from very trusted servants, ensuring that he was still under control.
A few months pregnant, she mentioned how, when growing up, she had no friends (Ra's couldn't deny that) and that, combined with living in a organization of assassins, made her have trouble understanding people (Eg Batman, her failure to spot Matt Hagen's intent, trying to conduct alliance talks for the League of Shadows).
So, she had suggested that they create, a near equal to Damian to be his friend and companion, and loyal bodyguard. They did have the ability to mentally condition a child to be the protector of Damian, and not envy him for being the heir.
A tad unethical, but Talia isn't the most moralled person out there. (Perhaps it was because her father and mother met in Woodstock...who knows what was affecting her when she was in the womb. Drugs and babies don't mix)
And so, they decided to borrow one of the Justice League females for the job, and Batman of course. Seeing as Hawkwoman wasn't human, and Wonder Woman was on Infinity Island as her amazon based immortality was being studied by Ra's to better the Lazarus Pit...well she was in the right place at the right time.
Of course, the Light knew of this plan...after all its not like some of them haven't played with the chips like that, the only two who haven't were Brain, who liked animals, and Klarion...who is Asexual.
New Hope, Approaching Earth
Now then, its time to do what Greg didn't do quickly enough, and work on explaining the reasons behind a time skip.
1 After the battle with Lok, they needed to get scarce seeing as the Light would have noticed it. They took New Hope off world entirely to allow for some peace and quiet. Since New hope was made with a lot of magic from White Martian sorcerers who knew that, even if the ship was about as fast as a modern day Space Shuttle (if a lot more stealthy), it would still take a good period of time to travel far enough to find an inhabitable world (Remember, its really old, they can't just do a Green Lantern to Oa fast track lane) developed a way for it to manifest food and pick up communications from a considerable distance. (Ah, old models, they can only pick up decent internet access from the other side of Io...)
2 They needed to give Superboy a chance to recover, if somewhat, from the shock of loosing his Kryptonian powers...not to mention have the non super powered trio; Robin, Artemis and Rocket, give him some lessons in self defense. Because he had trained with Black Canary, he was decent enough, but as they came back was at the level of Guardian (to use a decent example)
3 Robin, Kid Flash, Zatanna and Miss Martian, being the Analyst, Science wiz, magician and being from a much more advanced world, attempted to figure out a cure for the Golden Kryptonite's effect of messing up Superboy's ability to absorb sun radiation (no luck)
4 To figure out any thing else about the chips that could possibly be bad...so far the main things they noticed, aside for some small details that don't really matter (Eg, a suggestion that if, say Klarion had Robin tied up and started electrocuting him in a torturing way, Zatanna would know, noting that the trans human aspect would affect aging, aka Superboy ages like a Martian (Clone age lock not being in 160), veryfying that the chips could be polygamist...and not with the still single Rocket and relating to that, noting the chips had a slight...effect that would reduce the likelihood of two bonded females to say, Superboy from ripping each other apart) was that the chips power transfer aspect has a side effect. If Artemis, for instance, began to use super speed from Kid Flash, his top speed would go down for every extra mile she runs per hour. That being the main reason Superboy was making very good care of not using Miss Martians strength as his own, for fear that if he tried to use her strength, he would take too much trying to get close to his old strength levels, which were above her, and cause an important muscle, like the heart or brain, to stop.
5; Seeing as each of them could handle the others powers, they practiced with them in limited quantities. Artemis on speed, Wally on archery, Zatanna on acrobatics and Dick with magic. As it stands...none of the four were going out calling themselves Speedshot, Fast Arrow, Batgirl or Nightwing the Amazing Magician, but they could do a passing job with them. Superboy also had some understanding of Miss Martians telepathy, though it was mainly to make sure he didn't accidentally use it as he never wanted to use mental suggestioning on anyone, accidentally or intentionally...while he never said why Dick and Megan had a pretty good idea why, one being the detective he is and the other for knowing him too well and figuring out why he was so distraught.
And 6; It was also to give the three couples time to get used to the fact that they are stuck together for all time.
For as the three couples, and Rocket, returned to earth...things were only going to get more dangerous from here.
Streets of Gotham City
A cloaked figure burst through the darkened streets, pursued by an unknown group of pursuers.
In size anyway, for she was quite aware of who they were and why they were after her...she wasn't supposed to survive after all.
Eventually...she got caught in a dead end as she found her front blocked by a trio; Icicle Jr the ice covered teenage nutcase, Mammoth the huge behemoth and the similarly made Blockbuster glaring at her.
"Well well, if it isn't the little student who learned too much" Icicle cackled, firing a few ice crystal shards that destroyed the cloak, revealing the college student Caitlin Fairchild, looking as meek and mousy as she did before.
Though oddly dressed in a oddly baggy spandex bodysuit.
"Do you even know what your bosses are going to do! They are going to poison children and turn them into weapons! Do you feel guilty at all..." she tried to get him to see reason...seeing as he was a teenager like the targets. During the last year, Caitlin had been trying to stop Dr. Nemo from unleashing the same, if improved, gas he used on her on others...and had gotten on the Light's nerves for the very same reason.
Thankfully, after the first few tries she learned they controlled the Government and stopped forcing them to kill off new officers.
"Don't even bother with your college psychology, therapists make me want to KILL THEM!" Mammoth charged straight at the girl, angry over how she had previously severely injured Shimmer, his sister, on a previous pursuit.
"YOU IDIOT!" Icicle yelled as the girl gritted her teeth in raw anger as her body began to grow. She became, by all definition, a version of Wonder Woman when it came to attractiveness, with her breasts, hips, height and weight all increasing, though the weight all went into her severely compacted muscles.
So, for a 300 pound girl, not only was she immensely attractive...but the fist to Mammoth's face that sent him flying straight into, and knocking over Blockbuster, showed that she also hit hard.
Harder than Superboy.
