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The Talk -
Mount Justice was busy as the young heroes and villains from the other world were busy repairing the portal machine. Gizmo was being help by Cyborg and this vision of Mister Terrific. The other villains were behaving themselves, as they didn't want to give Rorschach any reason to start killing them. Currently he's sitting at the dinner table of the base. Since Terra joined him, he has been taking care of himself better. She insisted that he take more then just one shower a week and washing his clothes. She also got him to eat more then just can goods. She also been treating his weathered body, using the medical skills she had to pick up living her life on the road. She's amazed that he could still move around after what he put his body through.
Looking with his eyes he watches everything that happens in the room. Terra is with Beastboy who's trying to talk her out of the path that she had chosen. If Beastboy is truly her friend, he will stick by her just as his friend Nite-Owl had done when they were still together. Terra would need something to keep her from turning into him. Catching the sight of Superboy walking to him pulled him by to the real world.
"I was wondering… how is it that you are able to do what you do? Even with the other heroes trying to stop you. You continue to kill off the villains even with everyone else seeing you as a monster?" Superboy ask.
"People who have never seen peace and people who have never seen war. Have different values. (1) Superman grew up in a place where he never had to see the horrors of the dark city underworld. He's sicken at the sights of things that the people who do live there have gotten use to. From what, I gather you and Superman don't have any relationship even with you being his clone," Rorschach ask.
"Yeah he wants nothing to do with me," Superboy said.
"Then why are you wearing his symbol?" Rorschach ask.
"Because, I'm Superboy," he said.
"He doesn't want you. He doesn't even care about you. Take it from someone who knows. You're better off disowning him as your father and find your own path. Don't let his world views show you how to act. Justice is always defined by the winners, either they be the ones who rule or the ones with the power. For him killing is wrong. Even when it's necessary, its still wrong. Easy for him to say. But he had a great childhood and live in a all but crime free area. He doesn't even uses his powers as he should," Rorschach explains.
"How should it be use?" Superboy ask.
"You hold back too much. I seen footage of you in action. You could have ended the fights very easily. You, Miss Martian, and the Flash could have ended any of those fights without even trying. Flash with his speed could have just hit faster then the villain could react, if he just uses his speed like he should. He can run around the Earth in less then half an hour. How hard would it be to just to wrap rope around the villain? As for you while you're not as fast you still can get behind me before, I even know you move. All you need to do is move at that speed while fighting. You hold back because you don't want to kill or hurt anyone badly. You can punch through tank armor how hard is it to punch someone hard enough to at least break their limbs? As for Miss Martian she is just as strong as you are but can change her shape and has mind powers. When Manhattan showed himself, he always ended things quickly. With his powers he could do just about anything. She has to start using her powers to end fights as fast as she can. Instead of holding back because she doesn't want to make the rest of you feel left out," Rorschach explains. (2)
"The reason they don't is that if any of them even touches someone at that speed they would kill them," Black Carney spoke up not wanting to let the kids start to think that way.
"And what's wrong with that?" Rorschach ask and before she could say anything he kept talking. "A villain beats you and chains you up. Raping you for weeks on end. You carry his child by the time you are finally freed by the other heroes. The villain is freed thanks to his lawyers who uses he's insane defense. He gives up being a villains since he has gotten the better of the JL since because in the eyes of the law he's not guilty and there's not a thing you or any of the heroes can do about it. It doesn't matter that he beat you, it doesn't matter that he raped you, it doesn't matter that you're carrying his child. Because the law is clear that he's not guilty of raping you because he's insane and can't be hold accountable for his actions. You want to kill him but the other heroes hold you back saying that even with everything that has happen to you by him. You be nothing more then a monster in their eyes if you kill him."
The room fell silent as Black Carney's face fell as she struggles to find something to say. But there's nothing that she could say. In the JL they don't really like to talk about what would they do if something like that happens to one of the female members. She tightens her face and stares at him, her fist balling up.
"This is that part where you answer with your fist when you can't think of anything that you could say to defend your point of view. That whole defeating someone to prove your point or defeat equals friendship. All that does is make the defeated more scared of you then going back to what they were doing before. I know since that what, I do. When, I want to send out a message, I cripple someone so badly that no one would ever want to do anything close to what made me do what, I did. So go ahead beat me till, I'm nothing more then a bloody bag of meat. Show the children under your care what will happen to them if they ever kill or cripple a villain like, I do. Make them obey you through fear," Rorschach said.
Black Carney went slack as she takes in what Rorschach just pointed out to her. She scans the room seeing the children under her care looking at her as what Rorschach said ran through their minds. She turns around and walks off with a look of horror on her face.
"If, I had your power," Rorschach spoke looking at Superboy. "I would kill every villain who deserves to die. I would crippling people for life who break laws and thanks to their lawyers get away with it. I would become the most feared person on the planet. People will hate and fear me. But, I will do it so that people will be so scared of getting my attention that they will start doing what they always preach to others how to act. You can either live in a world where a powerful super will kill you for being bad or live in a world where you always have to worry about random acts of violence. The JL members don't understand because unlike them. I choose to live in the worse slums of city life while they live in the crime free areas." (3)
"Be a monster so that others won't have to be scared of going outside," Superboy said.
"No one can give you honor or self-worth except yourself. Don't keep waiting for a father figure to come to you when it's clear he doesn't care about you," Rorschach said. "You don't have to kill like me. But it doesn't mean you have to save the villain from dying. Just let the villain be killed by falling or something like that, instead of flying in to save them. Or cripple them so that they can't return to a life of crime. You either kill or cripple a villain who doesn't care how many bystanders are hurt or killed or be worse then the villain by doing nothing to stop the villain for good."
"Thanks," Superboy said taking it all in.
"Hey, I think, I got it. But the viewer is still out so instead of just seeing what's on the other side the portal works both ways," Gizmo shouted out as the machine started working opening a portal without the safety feature on.
The image being shown of the world it connected to took them by surprise. In it stood a fully mature woman with long blonde hair belittling a middle age man with green skin and hair. Terra and Beastboy grasp seeing their older counterparts who are in what looks like the subbasement of the T tower.
"You think you can just tell my daughter who she should be seeing and trying to stop her from going on a date with Ranma?" the older Terra said coldly to Beastman.
"I just don't want her rush into things," Beastman said as he's encased in a stone block.
"Remember what, I told you. I'm her only parent who she should listen too as you made it clear long ago that you wouldn't kill even to save her life," Terra glared at him.
"I made a mistake. I'm sorry that Rorschach gave up his life to bring her back. I've been making it up ever since then. I always move mountains just to do the right thing for her," Beastman said.
"Yes you have but, I'm the one who killed off all the Brotherhood of Evil. Since you didn't have what it takes to protect her," Terra said. "So stay out of her love life. Ranma is a good man for her. And unlike you he would and has killed to save someone he loves, unlike you."
"I know that," Beastman said.
"Wait a minute," Terra said sensing something amiss. She looks around and spots the portal. Before Gizmo could shut the portal off a large spike made out of some kind of crystal burst through the portal and broke into four parts widening the hole in time and space.
"Hi," Gizmo said to the much older and more powerful Terra who step through the portal.
"This hasn't happen for awhile. Someone opening a portal to another world," the older Terra said looking around seeing the younger counterparts of her teammates. She stops when she spots her mentor who gave his life so that her daughter could live. Then to her younger self and her husband's younger self.
"Yeah we're got stuck here," the younger Terra said to her older self.
"Well come in my worlds team can get you all back home in no time. But before that why not come in and meet your older selves," the older Terra said.
"But wait we can't learn about what will happen," Robin shouted out.
"So what if the future will be change for you. In my past Gizmo got me and the others back home in the first try. So your timeline has already been change already," the older Terra pointed out. "Besides don't you want to know who you married in my world?"
"We're going," Annie and Starfire shouted as they each grab an arm and drag Robin through the portal.
"Well you heard the lady," Cyborg shouted as the heroes and villains of his world filed into the other world.
"Rorschach thanks for the talk," Superboy shouted out to Rorschach as he headed into the portal.
Rorschach merely nodded his head as he walks past the older Terra he stops.
"It's nice to see you again," the older Terra said to him.
"Did you grow up to be like me?" Rorschach ask.
"Yes but not at the same level as you," Terra said.
"Is it a good life?" Rorschach ask.
"I have a daughter who isn't anything like me and wishes that, I stop living my life like this. It's the best that, I could hope for. My child doesn't have to deal what you and, I had to deal with," Terra answers.
"Then it is," Rorschach said stepping through.
The portal close behind Terra after her. Leaving behind the other world that in a short amount of time rock it. Showing the heroes of that world of a darker hero who would bring justice no matter what it cost. And also sowing the seed into the heart of one who is lost in what to do with his life.
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1 - If Superman had grown up someplace else other then the American dream of farming life. He would be very different as most elsewhere comics show.
2 - As, I said before in my fic, I am going to have the heroes use their powers as they should even if it does leave me a very short fight.
3 - In Deathnote's Light made the world into a peaceful one. Thanks to the large part that everyone is scared of doing something that would get his attention. L for some fans is the real villain of the manga as he's the one who would stop someone who is reducing the crime rate of the world and ending wars.
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