Hey Guys! Sorry for being away for so long. Had a lot of personal things to take care of, including a writer's block. Can't promise if I'll update regularly again, but I'll try!
Just so let you know, Kanba is also known as Cumber, the Evil Saiyan from Dragon Ball Heroes.
Response to Reviews
Guest(s): Thank you all for your comments and new ideas. Definitely will take it into consideration.
dark flacon: Yeah, tell me about it. Thing has taken a ugly turn for both sides.
Mukikawa: I did, and man...a lawsuit...things are getting deep and personal...
VengefulMANonMission: Yup. If you didn't know, I'm also a fan of Akuma from Street Fighter. I reckoned that Satsui no Hado has to have an origin.
rmarcano321: Kanba, like I said above, is the same Evil Saiyan from Super Dragon Ball Heroes. He is also Yamoshi's older brother, the oldest of three brothers. I included Helena Wayne because I wanted to add a romantic interest to Trunks. Not saying that it will stay that way though. Reverse Flash, at this point, just wants to survive.
Phenomenal Ultra Instinct: Yup. Keep on reading. Things just keep getting deeper and deeper.
Blue Marvel 0: There is a past between Trunks and Batman, and that's why he hates Batman so much. That will be explored in the next chapters!
Meanwhile in Central City Police Station, Prime Earth
Now the readers might be thinking...if this is the Force Arc, where the hell is Barry Allen?
Well, the Speedster of the League was sighing, his face deep in papers at his forensic laboratory. Normally he would do all the papers in an instant, but being surrounded by police officers and lawyers prevented him to just zooming through his work. Long story short, the Mayor was involved in adultery and massive cover-up with multiple high-ranking government officials and celebrities. That meant high coverage, which was nagging him.
"Chief, why are there so many people in lab again?" Barry asked the Police Chief. "I can't get anything done with all of them." He motioned to the non-officers in his vicinity.
"Sorry, Barry, but you know the more high profile the case, the more attention it gets." The Police Chief sighed. "If the Mayor is involved in adultery plus corruption, it's bound to get some attention."
"Attention that is really unneeded right now." Barry grumbled. Everything he was doing was being checked/questioned by reporters and lawyers on both sides, to the point that normally friendly and pleasant Barry Allen was reaching his limit. He was isolating DNA from a forensic sample and moving it to the PCM analyzer.
"Mr. Allen, are you sure that you're doing the DNA test properly? You do realize that improper handling of evidence can be used against you in court?" A snobbish lawyer asked him for the nth time in a snide tone, and Barry bolted from his desk.
"CHIEF!" He shouted at his equally-exasperated Chief, who cleared his throat.
"Okay, that's enough, all of you!" The chief yelled and waved his arms in front of the lawyers and reporters. "I allowed you pencil pushers into the lab because I thought none of you would impede the investigation. Clearly, I was wrong, so all you get out!"
Grumbling, the lawyers and reporters walked out of the lab. "I'll let you finish your work in peace, Allen. But I want the lab work finished by the end of the day, got it?"
"Got it Chief!" Barry smirked as the Chief exited his lab. "Finally!" He sighed contently as he used his super-speed to finish all of his lab work, check it over a dozen times, and then type up the work in less than a second. "And that's how the cookie crumbles!" He was about to exit for lunch until the League communicator rang. Groaning again, Barry put on his communicator. "Barry here."
"Barry, I need you to go to Canada right now." Batman's voice snapped through the communicator.
"Canada? Why? Bruce, what's going on?" The speedster cleared his throat.
"Don't have time for the long story." Batman spoke as he typed in front of his Batcomputer. "Apparently a certain speedster has been located at these coordinates."
"A speedster?" Barry frowned as he saw the coordinate through an HUD generated by the communicator. He could count the number of speedsters in the world with his fingers. "What's so special about that?"
"That speedster is currently fighting a battle with multiple superhumans. I need you to check it out." Batman noted as he punched in a set of coordinates. "And after that, go to these coordinates. A monster has just attacked a fleet, and we'll need all hands in."
"What about everybody else? Diana? Supes? Hal?" Barry asked as he quickly changed into his Flash suit and zoomed out of the precinct in a flash of lightning.
"Hal is offworld and Victor is manning the Watchtower. Arthur is already fighting the monster in the Atlantic with the JLA, but he's losing ground. Clark and Diana are going to help him."
"JLA? I thought they were disbanded?" Flash shook his head as he zoomed out of Central City. "Oh, whatever. Questions come later!" He grunted as he quickly burst through US and into the Canadian forests, only to witness something he didn't expect. "Oh shit…"
Canada, Prime Earth
"I'll ask you once more, Thawn," Hit threatened as he clenched his fist tighter, further restraining Reverse Flash in his Cage of Time. The Time Assassin had further refined his abilities after the Tournament of Power. Not only could he restrain his targets in his Cage, but he could also squeeze them literally out of time. Of course, torture and interrogation weren't his primary abilities, considering he was foremost an assassin. But creative use of abilities was always necessary. "Who's your employer?" Hit asked.
Reverse Flash screamed as he felt his body suddenly degrade rapidly. He tried to vibrate himself out of the Time Cage, but his Negative Speed Force was being eaten away by his opponent's. Knowing that he wouldn't last any longer, the speedster screamed out. "His name….is….Barbatos!"
"Barbatos…" Hit loosened his fist, briefly lessening his technique. "Who is he?"
"I don't know!" Hit screamed. "He saved me from the Time Patrol before….and his powers are unlike anything you have ever seen before! He eats universes like candy!"
"And what does a being like that want from you exactly?" The purple assassin asked another question, which R.F refused to answer no matter what. So the assassin decided to strengthen the Time Cage, until something crashed near them, sending shockwave that interrupted Hit's technique and freed Reverse Flash.
Slightly annoyed, Hit frowned to see the newcomers closer and saw two people wearing black armor and black capes.
"Zod! Faora!" R.F sputtered as he struggled to get back on his feet. "Finally you do something productive!" He then pointed to Hit. "Get him!"
The two Kryptonians shook off their cobwebs and glared at the speedster who gave them their powers. "We Kryptonians aren't your pawns anymore, Thawne." Zod declared, rising to his feet.
"Indeed. Consider this an end to our partnership." Faora burst forward with her Negative Speed Force and stabbed R.F in the chest with her heat vision. Because of his being weakened by Hit, R.F moved only very slightly, taking the blow too close to his heart.
They are speedsters as well? Hit frowned, witnessing Faora's electricity-laced abilities.
"Argh….you treacherous fuckers…." R.F cursed, falling to his knees while clutching his chest. Hit glanced at the Kryptonians and prepared to defend himself until a blue ki blast came down from the sky.
"Kamehameha!" A familiar shout rang as the blast slammed down on the two Kryptonians, pushing them into the ground.
"Didn't think I would see you here, Hit" Hit looked up and saw Gohan landing next to him.
"Neither did I, son of Goku" Hit spoke monotonously and turned to Reverse Flash, who was still lying on the ground. "I'll let you take care of things from here." Before R.F could escape, Hit time-skipped to the speedster and restrained him. "I still need to interrogate him."
From the ground, Zod and Faora, still smoking from Gohan's previous attack, broke out of the ground, glowering at Gohan.
"You insolent primitive!" Zod roared and charged at the demi-saiyan with his speed-force enhanced speed, followed closely by Faora. Sensing Zod's attack, Gohan slammed his elbow into a zooming Zod's chin while kicking Faora to the side.
"Fighting these guys is taking too long...better get serious!" Gohan mumbled and powered up to his Mystic state, his white aura glaring around him. His power-up was enough to briefly stop the two Kryptonians in their tracks.
Before they could attack again, Gohan took a page from Frieza's book and lifted his hands up into the air. Powering up his fists with ki, the demi-Saiyan shot out a net of blue ki beams that covered the entire area and rapidly rained down.
Zod and Faora realized what Gohan was doing. "Pretty advanced technique for a primitive." Faora commented smirked. "But you leave carelessly yourself open."
"Really?" Gohan smirked as he flexed his fingers, moving his net of key beams randomly. His attack forced the two Kryptonians to dodge the barrage of beams. Zod tried to force his way through the beams, but were bombarded and held back by suddenly focusing beams. Faora sped around the beams, but was forced back in circles. Then she smashed the mountain they were standing on, smashing rock and debris. The debris interfered with Gohan's net of beams, allowing the two Kryptonians to burst towards Gohan.
"Die, primitive!" Faora screamed, thrusting her red-lightning laced fist at Gohan's chest, only to be kicked aside along with Zod in an instant.
"You should be more careful, son of Goku." Hit whispered, appearing before Gohan. "Targets with Speed Force are tricky."
"You fought against people like them before?" The adult-demi-Saiyan asked the Assassin.
"Yes, and while they're difficult to pin down, they're also easy to predict." Hit answered, performing a time-skip to appear before Zod and Faora once again.
Meanwhile, the injured speedster struggled to "You think I didn't know you would betray me…?" R.F growled as he pulled out something from his back. A Black Star Dragon Ball. "All of you can die!" He raised it into the air, and the Dragon Ball glowed malevolently with black energy.
Then the Black Star Dragon Ball sucked Thawne into it like a black hole and opened a portal.
And from the portal, out came a hideous grey hand. "Finally…!" Rogol Zaar roared, brandishing his halberd.
Back at Toki Toki City
After arriving home from Hell, Raizen smashed his fist into a wall, totally collapsing it. Seeing his bastard of an uncle again made his anger boil. "That bastard..." He growled.
"Are you finished, boy?" He turned and saw his father with his arms folded. "I thought I taught you to embrace your emotions, but not let them control you." Yamoshi spoke calmly.
"How you can not stand to punch that monster after looking at him is beyond me, father." Raizen growled.
"Both of us have reasons to be angry at him, perhaps more so for me than you." Yamoshi explained calmly, sighing. "Despite all he has done, I've learned to forgive him, my son."
"FORGIVE HIM!?" Raizen shouted, storming to his father so that they were only a foot from each other. "IF THAT BASTARD WASN'T ALREADY IN HELL, I WOULD HAVE.."
"You'd what?" The elder Saiyan cut through his son's words, staring back at his son's angry eyes. "You could beat Kanba all you want, and it still won't change what you went through."
Slowly but surely, Raizen calmed down, still staring at his father's firm eyes. Huffing slightly, the younger saiyan took a deep breathe. "So...what do I do now?"
Yamoshi's eyes softened slightly. "It seems that the Demon's Mark activates when you're in battle, making your primal side uncontrollable. If so, then I see one way of fully beating this." But before Yamoshi could finish, he was interrupted by a certain Supreme Kai.
"Trouble! We have Trouble!" Chronoa, followed by Karen screamed as she ran towards the two Saiyans. "There you two are!"
"You're back!" Karen exclaimed and flew into Raizen's torso, hugging him tightly. "How was Hell?"
"Just dandy." Raizen replied sarcastically, earning a giggle from the female Kryptonian. "So, what is it?" He asked Chronoa.
"Something terrible has happened in the Prime Universe!" The Supreme Kai of Time chirped. "Somebody just ripped a hole into the Dark Multiverse!"
"What?" Yamoshi frowned. "How's that possible?"
"Uhm...what does that mean?" Karen asked.
"It means somebody is going to unleash a nightmare into the Prime Universe." Raizen explained to Karen.
Chronoa sighed. "Well, the nightmare is already there, I'm afraid." She conjured up a glass orb and showed a battle centered around a giant, grey skinned scaly creature.
"Huh look at that." Yamoshi grunted. "Rather cute, that creature."
But Karen's response was not as impassive as the legendary Saiyan. "But that's...impossible!" She gasped, looking at Chronoa's orb closer. "That's Doomsday!"
"Doomsday?" Yamoshi grunted again. "What's that, little one?"
Karen turned to him with great fear in her eyes. "A biological monster created on Ancient Krypton. In my universe, it was created to be the ultimate weapon, but it ran out of control. I remember my father telling me that they had to destroy the planet it was on to destroy it."
"Obviously they failed." Chronoa rubbed her forehead. "I looked back in time when that even actually happened, and it seems that instead of it being destroyed, the monster was smashed into another dimension, the Phantom Zone, which lies between the Positive Multiverse and the Negative Multiverse."
"If so, then how did it return to the Material Dimension?" Raizen asked.
"Or, more importantly, who sent in back." The Supreme Kai of Time mumbled. "I don't have the answer to either question."
"Well, we can conjecture later." Yamoshi turned to his son, who nodded.
"Yeah. I stayed here long enough." Raizen turned to Chronoa. "Send me back. Time for me to bash some heads again."
"Wait!" Karen spoke up, standing in front of Raizen with her arms out, stopping him. "Doomsday isn't a monster you can kill. It's unlike anything you've ever faced."
"That's good…because I doubt it faced anything like me." Raizen growled, almost darkly, much to the concern of Karen and his father.
Batcave, Gotham, Prime Earth
Batman was monitoring the battle between the JLA II and Doomsday. Well, it was no battle. More like one-sided massacre. No matter how many blows the JLA II managed to land on the monster, it shrugged it off as if they were flea bites.
Right now, only the heavy hitters of JLA II were fighting Doomsday. Lobo was already ripped to pieces and throw into the water. Simon Baz's constructs were like glass toys that shattered against Doomsday's skin, and Green Lantern was knocked to the shipwreck deck. Doomsday roared and raised its arms above its head and slammed it down. Creating a shield just in time, Baz blocked Doomsday's attack, though his shield nearly cracked in the first hit. The blow was also great enough to create a giant shockwave that eventually dispersed a tidal wave everywhere. Doomsday's second punch shattered the shield construct and sent the Lantern shooting into the ocean depths like a rocket.
"You'll pay that monster! On top of your other crimes against Atlantis!" Aquaman roared, jumping onto the shipwreck and facing Doomsday, pointing his trident against the monstrosity. Doomsday roared and charged at the Atlantean King, who slid between the monster's legs. Aquaman then stabbed Doomsday's leg and shocked it, causing the monster to growl in pain. But bracing through it, Doomsday swung its arm behind, nearly catching Aquaman's head. It continued to attack Arthur relentlessly. Finally it slammed its fist down, with Aquaman barely bracing against the scaling arm with his trident. Feeling the intense heat emanating from Doomsday, Arthur used his echo-communication to summon thousands of creatures from the sea, including his best friend, Topo.
"Feel the wrath of the Seven Seas!" Arthur yelled as a giant tentacle burst from the shipwreck surface and wrapped around Doomsday. Then it dragged the monster down into the ocean to face its origins, Topo, a giant kraken-sea dragon hybrid with miles-long tentacles. But after wrestling with the tentacles, Doomsday brutally ripped Topo's tentacles and jumped out of the water and back onto the shipwreck.
Then Martian Manhunter tried to read Doomsday's mind, but all it could see was bestial rage and anger. Even Martian Manhunter's abilities were no match for it. The Martian tried to knocked Doomsday off the shipwreck and back into the ocean, but the monster merely smacked him into another shipwreck.
Baz resurfaced from the ocean surface with his broken arm in a cast construct "Oh man, This fuckers is going to kill us!" He moaned.
Things weren't looking good to Batman. Then it became worse. A green 10-feet tall power armor landed on an aircraft carrier wreckage. And piloting it was none other than Lex Luthor. Of course, only Luthor would be so bold to wear a power armor without a helmet. Batman commented.
"Luthor!?" Batman growled. "What the hell is he doing there?" Through the computer screen, he saw Luthor bombarding Doomsday with green beams from its palms which Batman deduced was Kryptonite-based. And to the detective's surprise, the beams seemed to work, because Doomsday took several steps back from the blast. That thing is Kryptonian based?
At the Pacific...
"I knew it! This monstrosity is similar to Superman!" Luthor chuckled as he continued to bombard Doomsday with his kryptonite beams. "Looks like there's one more alien that I have to wipe out. But I guess I can test my weapons against this alien for Superman." He continued to chuckle until Doomsday slowly fought against his Kryptonite beams. "Impossible!" Luther exclaimed and increased his beams' intensity and power. Eventually the monstrosity reached Luther's power suit and crushed its palm blasters. Then it grabbed the suit's ankle and proceeded to swing and slam it several times into the shipwreck surface.
"He-help!" Luther screamed as his suit's integrity was being compromised. Eventually the ankle portion ripped off, sending Luther flying to the water, where he was caught by Baz and his giant baseball glove construct.
"About time you did something useful." Luthor grunted at the Green Lantern, who looked at him with equal disdain.
"Watch it, Luthor. Or I'll throw you back at that thing." Baz growled as Doomsday turned towards him.
"Ah..." The Lantern cursed and looked around and all the other fighters were either knocked out or too injured. "Fuck it all..."
Doomsday roared and jumped into the air, prepare to slam both Baz and Luther into the ocean Abyss. But then a flash of red and blue smashed it, carrying away to a different place, leaving the terrified people behind.
"What was that?" Baz muttered.
"Why do you ask a question that is rather obvious? It's Superman." Luthor gritted his teeth. "But this works in my favor. Killing two aliens with one stone." He turned on his communicator on his wrist. "Mercy, get me out of here."
"Yes, Mr. Luther." A female voice rang from his communicator.
"What shit are you up to now, Luther?" Baz asked as he moved both of them to a ship wreck.
"Nothing a grunt like you needs to know." The bald mastermind spoke. "As if you could understand a visionary's vision." He spoke, but not before the Lantern landed a haymaker at his chin, knocking him out flat.
"Hey Bats!" Baz turned on his own communicator on his year. "I knocked out the bastard like you asked. Now what?"
Back at the Batcave
"Drop him off at Strykers and help the rest of the team." Batman spoke through his Batcomputer and turned off the communicator. Leaning back on his chair, he sighed. At least he could trust Clark to handle that monstrosity. But the fact that the monster was affected by Kryptonite seemed to imply that it was related to Krypton.
Then suddenly, there was a giant crash behind him, and he jumped up, only to see a giant, smoking hole at the Batcave's entrance. And from it walked out Zatanna and Constantine, the former fuming with anger.
"Zatanna, what's going on?" Batman asked, but all he got from the female magician was a deep glare.
"Let's just say I quit!" Zatanna huffed and snapped her fingers, about to teleport away. "It seems like you're a jerk in every reality, Bruce!" She snapped at her old friend before leaving the Caped Crusader confused. Constantine looked at Bats and shrugged. "Don't no anything, Bats." He spoke and followed Zatanna.
"Another mishap, Master Bruce?" Alfred came down with a plate of tea and biscuits, eying the giant hole in the Batcave's ceiling. "I see that Miss Zatanna has left without her favorite snack."
"That's saying it mildly. Batman answered. "Where's Trunks?"
"I'm afraid that our guest has also left, though in much less bombastic fashion than Miss Zatara." Alfred answered as he poured Batman a cup of coffee. "I must admit that I'm curious as to Miss Zatara's reaction."
"That makes the two of us." Bruce answered. Now he had three things to figure out.
So that's the new chapter. Hope you enjoyed it. I'll be updating my other stories next!
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