Neuva Gotham was a beautiful sight, a precious gem that was admired by all in the world. It was a combination of all the best things you would want in a city, making it the perfect tourist destination and place to live. At least, that's what it was to folks rich enough and powerful enough to live without struggle or pain. To everyone else, it was a pit if violence and misery that nobody could escape from.

Some wondered how the world could get to this point, how the world could have so easily fallen into the dictatorship it is now where the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Two hundred years ago they had the greatest heroes to ever live riding across America, protecting the innocent and encouraging humanity's better nature as they introduced them to life that existed beyond Earth, before gracefully fading into myth as the Legion of Galactic Rangers. When World War II was on the horizon, new heroes appeared to show the world a better path and they did so much to end the hostilities between so many countries. Then their children took up the responsibility, finishing what the first generation started by taking humanity into the stars and improving how people lived their lives. People thought it was a golden age, that humanity would never stop improving and that one day people could live full lives without any kind of strife.

Jono Hex never thought about it much, but if he could ever meet those people he would laugh straight to their faces. Because if there was one thing humanity didn't do, and he can assure everyone that they did many horrible things, they didn't improve. Instead they became worse, became arrogant is what they could do and became far too greedy. He should know, he was born shortly before the golden age fell apart, when the riots threatened to tear the world into pieces. He watched as the tv, once a refuge from the horrors of his home life, showed him bombs being dropped on countries that refused to listen to reason. He watched as the world turned against non-humans and enhanced humans faster than anyone expected, as the United Nations closed Earth off from the rest of the galaxy. He experienced the persecution and fear when his own status as a metamutant was revealed as a child, forcing him on the run.

The decades have not been kind Hex, who at the age of sixty-one has yet to find a place to call home. The world has somewhat calmed down and those who are not base humans have been given their freedom once again, but that did little to change the horrors he had witnessed and the life he has led. The life of violence that he could never escape even though he wants nothing more than to do that, which is why he has never bothered to try. Because he was a metamutant, he lacked wealth and status, and all he knew how to do was either hurt people or break their hearts. Right now, he was aiming to do the former.

He ignored the glares of suspicion and looks of opportunity from the bar's other customers, many glancing at the gun at his waist, making his way to the skrull bartender. He briefly wondered what it must have been like for him, his grandparents coming to Earth when it offered peace and unity yet now he was trapped here because the government refused to allow anyone to leave. The thought left his mind as quickly as it had entered and he instead focused on his current task. He ignored the raise eyebrow the bartender gave him, no doubt surprised by Jono's anachronistic wardrobe choice which Jono could defend by pointing out that people were often so surprised to see him he would acquire the perfect opportunity to kill them. He was also likely to be surprised by the metal has mask that covered the bottom half of his face, which did a decent job of hiding his metamutant status.

"Hello there. I'm looking for this man, name is Caleb Kane. Have you seen him?" he asked after tipping his hat slightly, before holding out his wrist and pressed a button on his arm band. Immediately a hologram appeared showing the face of his target, but before the bartender could answer their was the sound of glass smashing and people yelling to Jono's left. He turned around to see a man wearing a thick cloak trying to get last the angry waitress he had run into, having clearly been hiding in the corner and attempting to leave when he saw the picture of Jono's target. Everything was silent for a second as the cloaked figure realised Jono was watching him, before he raced to the door.

"Never mind." Jono said to the bartender with a nod as he put his arm down, before he bolted after his target. He heard the bartender yelled after them, something about the man's tab but Jono didn't care. He was out the door just as fast as Kane, and he soon couldn't hear the alien's yells due to the insane noise polluter known as Neuva Gotham.

He chased after Kane, almost laughing as civilians didn't even blink when they saw him chasing after the cloaked figure. They got annoyed when they bumped into them or something like that, but for the people at the ground levels this was not an uncommon sight. They've seen bounty hunters like Jono, gang wars and so much violence that they honestly don't care about anything that doesn't concern them. The only thing they haven't seen is a competent lawman who honestly cared about anything except putting some cash into his pocket.

Jono dodged past people as Kane led him into a crowd, all who shouted with some annoyance before carrying on with their day. He probably thought he could outrun Jono due to his age, but he would be wrong. Jono has lived a pretty interesting life, met a whole number of people from across time, space and reality and gotten into plenty of scraps. And because of that he had had plenty of enhancements, which is why Kane was slowing down before Jono is. When he was finally at arms length, Jono grabbed him and dragged him into an alleyway, throwing him to the ground as he did. He reached into his holster an spilled out his pistol, aiming it at his Kane.

"Now don't make this anymore difficult than it has to be Kane." Jono said simply as the hood fell, confirming that it was indeed his target.

"What are you, some kind of lawman?" Caleb asked as his eyes glanced at pretty much every direction, looking for a way out.

"Thankfully no. I'm a bounty hunter."

At that, Kane's face lit up with hope, and Jono could pretty much see the idea forming in his mind. Due to the police not being much help to anyone unable to afford a car by the time they are twelve,bounty hunters became the sole form of protection for poor folk, though like anyone they could be bribed. However there were some exceptions like with the police, which is what made bounty hunters preferable.

"I have a lot of money. You know that, it's why my bounty is so high." Kane began, visibly almost laughing from relief. "If you want I can give you a cut and-"

"I can't be brought kid." Jono interrupted him, and the last thing Kane felt was absolute terror.

Jono pulled the trigger, and nobody in the streets seemed to be bothered by the noise. Putting his gun away, the bounty hunter then used his armband to take a photo of Kane, proof so that he could get paid. Once that was done he pulled out a small vial from his pocket, took the lid off and dropped some on Kane's face. He watched as he put the lid back on and placed the goal back in his pocket, Jane's face dissolving until it was scarred to the point of being unrecognised. This way nobody can get any ideas and try to claim his bounty for themselves, forcing Jono to wast more bullets. Once he was done, he turned on his heel and walked away from the corpse calmly and without regret.

So the idea for this is that the heroes swapped positions in the timeline. The Legion of Galactic Guardians existed in the Wild West, the modern heroes first appeared in the 1930s, the Golden Age heroes existed in the modern era and western characters like Jono Hex exist in 2099. Just so you know I intend for the next chapter to be the last chapter of this idea, though I might revisit the idea at a later date.

Amalgams:

Neuva Gotham (Gotham and Neuva York)

Caleb Kane (Harry Kane/Hurricane and Caleb Skinner/Gray Ghost)