Young Justice: Apocalypse
Season 3
Episode 1
Author James the Lesser
I do not own any characters DC does.
Of course a show as awesome as YJ was canceled. We gotta have moar Ben and Ash and other horrible shows instead of some thing awesome.
Wayne Manor
October 21st Two and a Half Years Since Last Episode
Bruce Wayne walks up to a limo and gets in. Vandal Savage looks up at him and whispers the code word. "So, is there any news on why Dick Grayson moved in to Wayne Manor?"
"He has graduated from college. He is looking to move up through the ranks of the company." Bruce smiles as his skin turns green and red hair grows out. "So he can take it back from Lex Luthor." She uses her powers to freeze Savage in place.
"Driver, help me!"
The window separating the driver from the passengers lowers. "Next stop, the Watchtower." Red Hood laughs as he drives to the secret entrance of the Batcave which held a Zeta Tube.
Metropolis
October 23rd
Black Adam, Bane, and Sportsmaster are surrounded by four very strong men. Each one wore a different styled mask while dressed in black long sleeved shirts and black pants with black boots. Even their hands were covered in black gloves revealing no skin. The smallest one wore a mask with a skull on it. "You have crossed the Four Horsemen. Surrender or meet the fate of Death, Plague, Famine, and War."
Behind him a man with a mask showing the radiation symbol places a hand on Black Adam's shoulder and squeezes. "Take Death's offer." He keeps his hand on Black Adam's shoulder.
The next Horseman with a mask showing a mushroom cloud steps forward. "Now, now Plague we could have a good fight."
The last Horseman, with a rib cage on his mask, grabs Bane by the arm. "War is always looking for a fight. But it wouldn't last long." He rips out the tubes from Bane's venom carrier.
Sportsmaster raises his hands. "And here we thought you would let us attack Lex Luthor."
"Not on orders from Joker." Death grabs Sportsmaster by the arm. "Of course so far you haven't done any thing, yet. Nothing we can prove." He lets go. "Bane on the other hand has some drug smuggling charges and violation of international border laws from the UN to deal with."
American Patriot, Ms. Marvel, and Knightmare land near the Four Horsemen. "Thanks for the assist." American Patriot places cuffs on Bane.
Black Adam pulls away from Plague. "You have nothing on me."
Plague holds his hands up. "True."
Death slugs Black Adam hard knocking him out. "We still don't like you." He turns to Sportsmaster. "You're human so if I punched you I'd probably kill you. Being Death that wouldn't make me shed any tears."
"But for my daughters you'll let me go." He smirks. "Your new look suits you Superboy."
Lex watches from his office. "Fools. Like I'd let that Clown get to me." He had tipped off the Four Horsemen who contacted the UN League. He knew the UN League thought they were working behind his back but he made sure he played the pieces as he wanted. He was still King on the Chessboard.
He looks at the television and turns the volume up. "Right now with just two weeks to go all polls show Lex Luthor winning by a wide margin. Is there any thing his opponent can do?"
The screen cuts to another news host. "Yes. Pray Luthor has a huge misstep in the next few days. This is Luthor's election to lose."
The camera goes back to the other reporter. "A man who came from out of no where. Starting as an independent candidate Luthor joined the Republican Party after their candidate got caught in a compromising situation with several of her secretaries. This meteoric rise of Luthor has been one for the record books."
The Four Horsemen meet back at the house rented out to them by some guy named Oliver Queen. They take their masks off and reveal who they are.
The smallest one, Death, was the former Superboy, Conner Kent.
The other three were former Cadmus soldiers. Clones of Superman like Conner but had aged longer in their pods and were slightly stronger, faster, and older.
Plague went by the name Samuel Adams.
War went by the name Ezekiel Adams.
And lastly, Famine went by the name Solomon Adams.
Together the four clones made up the new group The Four Horsemen.
Conner left the Team and the League to become his own hero. Once Superman came back and the League was able to convince him he hadn't harmed any one he tried to take control of the three new clones.
Conner didn't like how they were being treated. Did Superman forget that he, Superboy, was a clone? Just because they were clones didn't make them less human. Or less human/Kryptonite hybrids. They still had their own thoughts and ideas and identities.
After several arguments and a falling out with Superman, Conner went to the three and asked them if they'd like to leave the Watchtower. Some thing they hadn't done since being brought there by Miss Martian.
They quickly agreed that they didn't want to remain on the Watchtower and so Conner got them to Earth.
Once there he contacted Megan and Dick for help.
Together, with help from a couple others, they convinced Superman the three new clones were not a threat to him or others.
Superboy took off his black t shirt with the red S on it for the last time and donned a new identity.
Together they protected Metropolis and kept an eye on Lex Luthor. Since announcing his intent to run for President it seemed every one wanted a piece of him. And while it would be easy to just let the Joker or some other villain kill him they knew it could cause even more chaos.
Gotham
November 1st
Dick watches the clone leave for a business meeting and hurries to the Batcave entrance. "Just a couple more days." He gets to the computer and looks up all the latest election information.
He had originally thought to rig the election against Luthor. This plan was quickly thrown out as Luthor had a huge lead and if he suddenly lost it would send up red flags. So now he had another plan. A plan that would make Batman, Bruce Wayne, proud.
Across the world in Australia a new hero has several bank robbers tied up. "Who are you?" One of the robbers struggles against the rope.
The new hero, riding a winged glider while wearing a sleek green armor with helmet shaped like a goblin, respond. "Call me, the Green Wombat. No, Green Kangaroo? What do you think would be a good name? My armor is green so should have green in the name."
The robber is confused and angered. "Who are you? You odd idiot!"
"Odd? I'd say I'm a little goofy but not odd." He taps a finger on the chin of the helmet. "Green Goober?" He takes his helmet off revealing blonde hair and boyish good looks. In the middle of his hair was a purple streak that went from the roots to the back end of his hair.
One of the robbers recognizes him. "You're the lead singer of the Digitals!"
"Was the lead singer." He smiles. "They got a new singer after my plane crashed a few months ago coming back from a concert tour in France." He hears sirens and puts the helmet back on. "See ya later, alligator. Ooo, the Green Alligator? Wait, they're already green. I'll work on it later." He takes off on his glider as the police show up.
LexCorp Headquarters
November 3rd
Luthor stands in front of the building with American Patriot. "Tomorrow is election day. I know the people of this great nation will vote for me. Not because I spent more money. Not because I shook more hands and kissed more babies. They will vote for me because I offer the best future for America."
He turns to American Patriot. "I will push the technology used to heal young men like this. I will push to end cancer, paralysis, and more. The government has all but unlimited funds to spend. For some reason they waste trillions on the military. Even ten percent of the military budget would wipe out cancer. So if I take thirty percent I will make every American able to walk out to their mailbox. I will make it so every child will make it to school. With heroes like American Patriot here and others the US no longer needs to act as the world police. That is what the UN is for. So now, for once, America will focus on itself. No more wasting billions building war bases in other countries. No more keeping our men and women in nations who hate us because we occupy their streets with soldiers. I will bring them home where they belong."
The crowd cheers and when American Patriot raises his shield there are even louder cheers. "Luthor For America!" The crowd continues to cheer.
As the rally winds down, American Patriot takes off using the rockets attached to his feet. "I can't let him know I know the truth about him." He looks down at the cheering masses of Metropolis. "Like it matters? He's winning even if I came out against him."
American Patriot lands in his penthouse apartment. "Suit, off." The suit pops off as cables shoot down from the ceiling grabbing the individual pieces before bringing them up in to the hidden crevice of the roof. Another cable comes up from the floor and grabs the shield drawing it in to the floor. "Shower, drink, and bed."
As he walks out of the shower with a towel wrapped around his waist, he sees a bright light coming closer and closer. "A helicopter? Is the pappo's trying to get a picture of me?" It wouldn't be the first time. Fortunately after the first time he had his windows specially tinted so cameras couldn't see through.
The light gets closer at a fast pace. "That's not a helicopter. Armor on!" The armor drops down from the ceiling and envelopes him in seconds. "Shield!" It pops up from the floor and he catches it just as the rocket breaks the window.
Soon the Terror Twins leap through the window. "Aw, he's alive lil sis. I was hoping to make this a quick night."
"I bet you always like it quick." American Patriot, in full armor and shield, is ready for a fight. "I didn't think you'd be the kind for weapons."
"We use what we're given." Tommy leaps at American Patriot and punches the shield.
As Tommy falls back shaking his hand, American Patriot fires two shock pellets at the two. "You damaged my home. Now I'll damage your faces." He raises his right arm and fires a rocket at Tuppence.
She catches it easily. "Too slow."
"It wasn't meant to hit." American Patriot activates the rocket and it sends a foam over Tuppence's hand and arm sealing it up to the shoulder.
Tommy picks up a piece of a broken coffee table and swings it at American Patriot. "I got this."
American Patriot blocks with his shield and punches Tommy in the stomach hard. As his fist makes contact with Tommy two barrels appear and fire shoots out from them setting Tommy on fire.
"Brother!" Tuppence pounds on the foam with her good arm but can't break it off.
American Patriot activates his rockets and flies in to her knocking her back out of the window. He watches her fall to the street below. "Oh, right, no flying. Just leaping tall buildings in a single bound."
Tommy gets his burning shirt off and jumps out the window and lands on American Patriot's back. "Let's see how well you do with out the," American Patriot activates a security device on the suit sending enough energy to stun a whale through the suit and in to Tommy.
Tommy can't hold on and falls to the street after his sister.
American Patriot lands on the roof of a nearby building. "Twelve percent power left. I better get some backup." He presses a button on the armor sending a SOS to other UN League members.
Tommy and Tuppence leap on to the roof. "We don't go down so easy." Tommy knocks some concrete dust off of his arms.
"Then let me turn the heat up." American Patriot aims the flame thrower at the two when ice strikes his arm.
He turns and sees Killer Frost. "You too? I'm honored some one sent three people just to fight me."
"Fight?" American Patriot's legs are frozen to the roof from behind. He turns as best he can to see Icicle Jr. "We were sent here to kill."
"Four on one? Well, I guess I need to take the kids gloves off." As he finishes his sentence the laser blaster pops out from his right shoulder. "I have all four of you targeted. Surrender or I kill you with a single blast."
Killer Frost gets closer. "The UN League doesn't kill."
"They do if in self defense. What ever law and protocol it falls under." He sees yellow come up from the other side of the building. "Hey Mamba, thanks for the help."
Yellow Mamba walks over to him getting close. "Help?" Yellow Mamba's hand forms in to a yellowish gray clay before turning in to a spike. "I am here to help. Just not you."
"Clayface!" As the computer in his suit targets Clayface, American Patriot is stabbed through the neck of the armor. The one weak spot not completely covered.
The spike pierces American Patriot through the shoulder and in to his body. Thousands of smaller spikes shoot out through his body piercing and shredding his organs from the inside.
He tries to talk but only blood comes out of his mouth. Blood fills his lungs drowning him.
Killer Frost walks up to the dieing American Patriot. She holds up an electronic device and presses a button.
A hologram of Lex Luthor appears. "This is for betraying me to the Justice League. I gave you a new life and you turned around and joined my enemies. With this in mind I made sure to give the Terror Twins a rocket filled with a chemical that would deactivate the Kryptonian nanobots in your system. With out them you are vulnerable. It should also put a cloud jamming any frequency. Like the one that connects you to the UN League. Good bye Brock." The hologram disappears.
Clayface retracts the spikes and American Patriot falls over. Blood seeps out through various parts of the armor.
Tommy picks up the shield. "Souvenir."
As sirens get closer the five villains leave American Patriot on the roof for the crows.
That night all television in America is interrupted by breaking news. "American Patriot was found dead earlier this evening. After his apartment had been attacked it seems a fight led to the roof of another building where he was killed. We seek a comment from the Luthor campaign but so far there has been no response. The last appearance of American Patriot was this late afternoon in Metropolis. No word on to,"
Ms. Marvel turns the television off. "No, how? If he was attacked why hadn't he called for us?"
Billy puts an arm around her. "I'm sorry. He was so cool. We have to find out who did this."
She snuggles closer to him. "You were smart to keep your identity a secret from the world." After numerous attacks on her and her family she had regretted being a public figure. Fighting crime was great and she loved being a hero but she hated the danger it put her family in.
Washington D.C.
November 4th
As election results come in some thing strange was going on. It is nearly midnight and the news agencies aren't sure what to report. "This can't be right. There aren't that many people in the state of Alaska."
Dick, with Wally, Artemis, and Kaldur'ahm watch the election from the Batcave.
"Brilliant." Wally is eating popcorn. "Rig the election against Luthor and it makes the other guy look bad. Rig it for him and it makes him look bad."
"Exactly. He would have won even with out help. Now they might throw out the entire election and force a new one. One that goes the other way after all of the bad publicity from today." Dick leans back in the chair when he hears a door open.
The others look and see Barbara coming down with a pizza. "Doesn't that stupid clone ever sleep?" She jumps the last couple of stairs.
Dick gets up from the chair to greet her. "Like you couldn't have snuck in wearing a suit of bells." He hugs and kisses her.
At LexCorp, Luthor stays calm as his campaign manager knocks a chair over. "They did this! They knew they would lose so they set up the machines to give us too many votes."
Luthor shakes his head. "The Democrats had no part in this. A much bigger enemy is responsible for this."
"Who?"
"The Justice League of course. But with out proof all we have is more votes than are possible." Luthor isn't mad. He had thought the Justice League would mess with the election but not like this. "If we are lucky they will be able to sort through the extra votes and find the true results."
The campaign manager grabs a bottle of water and drinks from it. "If they throw out the results we're screwed. You realize that if they hold another election the American people won't vote for a man who tried to rig the election."
Luthor presses a button on his phone. "Mercy, please set up a camera crew for me. I must make a public announcement."
"Yes Luthor."
With more election results coming in it showed Luthor had won with about four million more votes than there were illegible voters. All news outlets scramble for updates to be the latest to break more coverage of the election rigging by Lex Luthor and the Republican Party.
Luthor sits in front of the camera. "And we're on in five, four," The camera man holds up three, then two, and then one finger.
"Hello my fellow Americans." Luthor smiles warmly in to the camera. "I am as shocked as you are by the election results. I foolishly thought my opponent would go down with out fighting. Clearly they realized they could not win. So instead of losing gracefully they sullied this election by setting the machines to give me more votes than possible."
On the screens of people at home they see the results from numerous pre election polls. "I was going to win. All polls showed this. Why would I rig the election? It would be like Mohammed Ali pulling a gun out and shooting his opponent as the referee reached nine of the ten count. It would be like a team being up by five runs with one out to go in the ninth using tar on the ball. My opponents thought you, the American people, would be fooled by this tactic. But I know that the people of this great nation are better than that. You see through this ruse and know I would not do some thing as foolish as rig an election I was going to win." A picture of American Patriot appears on the screen. "An election my good friend knew I was going to win. So please, give us time to sort through the paper records of the election, and I will prove I won with out these tricks employed by my opponent. Thank you, and God Bless."
"And cut!"
The campaign manager walks over. "Brilliant! Using AP to get the sympathy boost will really help."
Luthor stands up and walks to the door. "Just make sure no one messes with the paper ballots." He leaves the room leaving the rest to the election committee.
Watchtower
November 6th
The Justice League watches as Luthor is declared the official winner. Hal Jordan shakes his head. "Good try Dick but it didn't work."
"It still tainted his election and threw doubt on him. Some thing that will help my plan."
Plastic man looks over at him. "This wasn't the plan?"
Dick shakes his head. "Of course not. This was just step one of my plan." A plan he was keeping close to his chest.
The UN League meets with the new UN Secretary General, Amanda Waller. "Now you think this is serious? One of you finally gets killed. It is about time!"
The UN League is stunned. "Now I have a mission for you."
"To catch whoever killed Brock?"
She shakes her head. "No Victor. There is some idiot in Australia committing rouge acts of heroism. You are to go there and capture him."
Hermes crosses his arms and leans against the wall. "And if we decide to go after the killer instead?"
"You will be fired!"
Knightmare. Ian, stands up from his chair. "You have fun with that. You can not fire me because I quit."
"Then you will turn in the sword, shield, and helm given to you by the UN."
"You can have them when you pry them from my cold, dead, hands." He walks out of the room.
"Guards! Arrest that man!"
Two guard go to grab Ian but Ms. Marvel, Alexandra, stops them. "He is a hero. Touch him and you won't touch again."
The guards pull back.
Amanda Waller shouts at Alexandra. "Then you're fired too!"
Yellow Mamba, Yumi, watches as the two leave. "You want us to stop a guy from doing what we do instead of killing the bastard who killed Brock? Go take a long trip with a short rope." She is a blur as she runs out of the room.
"I agree with Mamba. See ya." Hermes follows her out of the room.
Victor and Karen are the only two left in the room. "I'm glad to see two of you aren't as emotional as those others. Now get to Australia and stop this thug."
Karen shakes her head. "I joined the UN League under Luthor. I owe you nothing." She looks up at the ceiling. "And I tend to make a more dramatic exit." She flies up through the ceiling leaving a gaping hole in it.
Victor smiles as he aims towards the far wall. "In less than five minutes you've weakened the UN and the world. I'm sure they'll keep fighting crime but not for you." He blasts a hole in the wall and walks away.
The next night the UN League members contact the Justice League. Soon Batman, Batgirl, Miss Martian, Artemis, Kid Flash, and Aqualad meet with them. "You really walked out?"
Power Girl smirks. "I flew out. Now they need a skylight."
"Dudette, that is so crash." Kid Flash was next to Yellow Mamba. "Did you do any thing special, Yumi?"
"I drew a mustache on all the pictures of her in her office." They high five each other.
Hermes stands next to Artemis holding her hand. "Now I can work with you again babe."
Batman holds a hand up quieting the others. "I feel it was ill advised to leave the UN. You were a face of the hero community the people could support." He sees the reactions from the others. "But I also know it wasn't a real choice. Amanda Waller wanted you distracted. Why?"
Victor knew. "She was behind the assassination. She's had ties with Luthor in the past. He may have had a hand in it as well."
Ian nods. "Which means he knows. Why I left. I will not work for some one who would kill their own."
Batman takes control again. "This kid, in Australia, any one know about him?"
Victor produces a flash drive from his arm. "Newest Luthor Lab creation. The new lab is in Smallville. Some underground bunker. The kid doesn't even know it. Brain washing from Psimon."
Batman takes the flash drive. "Thank you." He takes the cowl off. "So now what? If you want I'm sure we can get the Justice League to take you."
Victor shakes his head. "I like leading my own team. Any one who wants to stay with me I welcome you."
Ian walks over to him as does Alexandra.
Yumi raises her hand. "Only if I can change my suit and name from yellow to black."
"Of course."
She walks over to Victor.
Karen floats over to him. "You'll need a power house."
Hermes shakes his head. "Sorry but I'm rejoining the team. It was fun running with you guys but my girl is over here."
The two groups continue to talk a bit as they make plans for the future.
Washington D.C.
January 20th
Luthor places his hand on the Bible and is sworn in as the President of the United States of America.
Klarion watches through the eyes of his cat. "Play your games Luthor. I will orchestrate my true plans now that the League got rid of Vandal Savage." On the collar of the car was the ring Vandal Savage had worn. He used it to have what control could be kept of Klarion.
A/N Sorry for the long delay but got distracted by another series. When will the next update be? Don't know. But hopefully you all like this new episode. Another time skip that starts with even more than the last one. Luthor becomes President and has American Patriot assassinated for a boost in his election. Batman is running a Batman Gambit that... Well, you'll have to wait to see how it plays out!