A/N 8/15/2020
Hey, it's been a while, hasn't it? So, this chapter's already been posted,the other five will come along throughout the day, but when looking through the story I realized how many inconsistencies and grammar mistakes I've made, so I've decided to rewrite the story.
This overhaul for the most part, is me fixing grammar mistakes, inconsistencies, and adding to characters and new scenes. So, I'd recommend reading these six chapters again, it's what the story should've been from the start.
My X-Men story, A Sinister Past, is going through a similar overhaul, though it's more extensive for that story, more on that in the story itself.
Well, that's all from me up here, on with the story!
One Hell of a Wake-Up Call
It's strange.
I remember going to sleep back home in Utah, the Fall semester of 2020 about to begin. But then I woke up, and now I'm not in my bed. No. Instead I'm in a tube in what looks to be an extremely high-tech lab. And that's not all, there's a man looking at me from the other side.
Strangely enough, he has Red-violet hair that's all over the place with a clean-shaven face. He has fair skin and purple eyes. I'd say he's over six-feet-tall and looks relatively muscular.
He wears black pants and a black coat that reaches down to below his knees, white, sharp designs along the zipper travel up from the waist to below the collar. The inside of the jacket looks to be white. He has a gauntlet on his left wrist, a hologram appears above it as he smiles once he notices I'm awake.
"Look at you, after centuries of looking for the right one I finally find him. From a different universe entirely, no less," the scientist exclaims.
I try to reply but realize I can't, I have a mask on my face, most likely to allow me to breath in my tank.
The scientist notices my attempt at conversation. "Oh, please, don't talk, you are not ready for that yet," he types on the computer in front of my tank in excitement. "Right, I am the Evolutionary, not to be confused with the High Evolutionary from those comic books you used to read."
A computer in the distance beeps, he goes to check it out. Looking around, I notice a lot of interesting things in this lab: the results of an x-ray, a copy of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, and a body on a table, covered by a blanket. Pretty average stuff, all things considered.
Wait, body? Oh, this does not look good at all. Okay, okay, this can all be explained, right? Whose body is that?
I reach out to touch the glass of my tank to get a better look of the body, while doing this I notice something interesting: I have baby arms. I follow my arms and see the rest of my body... Yup, I'm a baby again. Yay. Wait, WAIT! If I'm in a baby's body, then who's body was that? Was that body mine? Great, now I'm feeling sick.
The Evolutionary returns with a disgruntled look on his face. "Those damned Green Lanterns, trying to control where I go. I am the Evolutionary! I control entire civilizations!"
Green Lanterns? Okay, so I'm not in the Marvel Universe, but instead the DC universe, or a form of it, at least. "Right, I should explain," the Evolutionary says as he takes deep breaths to calm down. "You lived in a different universe entirely, the origin point of everything, actually. But you, well, you were going nowhere, so I offered you a chance at a better life, and you accepted."
While he's saying this, a whole rush of memories come at me. He's right, I really wasn't going anywhere, so, one day, he offered me a chance to be greater. Now, it wasn't one of those offers I accepted right on the spot, I'm not that stupid, instead he befriended me while we were in college. After a year of friendship, he finally made his offer, I agreed, and that's how we ended up here.
He goes to the body and uncovers it, yup, that's my old body all right. Let me tell you, it is weird to see your own corpse. I honestly don't know how to explain it thoroughly, I'm angry, sad, and disgusted, all at once. The Evolutionary throws it out the airlock like its trash. I just stare at him in shock.
"Come now, you didn't expect me to keep it, did you?" The Evolutionary says. "Now then, let's get your physical training started."
He presses some buttons on the console in front of my tank. I feel it drain, and after some time my feet touch the ground. I look down at my feet in shock. I've never felt this strong before. I lift my right arm up slowly. Holy hell, it's strange, but…that felt so fluid compared to my old body. What did he do to me?
"Let me explain what happened to you," the Evolutionary creates a hologram in front of me, comparing my old body and my new one. "After centuries of…experimentation, I've finally figured out how to evolve a human to their maximum potential. You see, humans, for some unknown reason, are both extremely adaptable, but also extremely resilient. After 110 subjects—you being 111—I've finally created the ultimate human!"
I look at the hologram and immediately understand everything on it, and he's right. I am strong. Superhuman physical capabilities on par with Kryptoinans, a whole bunch of vision powers like x-ray and heat vision, flight, telekinesis, telepathy, energy manipulation and redirection, and a regenerative healing factor. Man, I am powerful.
The Evolutionary looks over my details as well and sighs in satisfaction. "But of course, the only way to know if you really are the ultimate human is to test you. Let's begin..."
15 Years Later
The next fifteen years were far more intense than the nineteen in my previous life.
During the years, I quickly became accustomed to my new, superior body, moving at speeds I never thought possible, lifting things that would normally crush me if I were in my old body, and taking hits from creatures that could destroy skyscrapers.
I was also given a suit to keep up with my abilities.
I wear black boots that go up to my knees with orange soles and two orange circles on either side of the knees, the back of the knees are navy-blue. The pants are entirely black, I also have a navy-blue belt with an orange outline that stops just before it reaches the center.
The top half of the suit is primarily black, with two orange lines on each side of my abdomen. I have long sleeves that go halfway up my hands, holes for my thumbs to stick out of. I have two orange A's that look like upside down V's on each shoulder and a larger one in the center of my chest. The inside of my armpits, elbows, and palms of the suit are also navy-blue.
Currently, I'm on a planet that's nothing but natural disasters and apex predators. A perfect training ground, if I'm being honest.
Rolling to my left, I avoid the jaws of a creature similar to a T-Rex, getting up from my roll, I leap into the air and snap my leg out, kicking it into one of the smaller members of its pack.
From the sky comes two pterodactyl-like creatures. I fly between the two, spinning around as I do, heat vision carving into their sides. I then do a superhero landing on a bipedal creature with scale armor, crushing it into the ground.
Getting up, I look around to find no creature left to fight. Hm, disappointing.
Slow clapping begins, turning around I find the Evolutionary floating down. "Well done, Subject 111, very well done."
"Thank you, sir," I reply with a slight bow.
"Come, your training is done, it's time for you to go home," he says, turning around.
I freeze, he never called The Ship "home". "What do you mean "home"? Like, The Ship?" I cautiously ask.
"No. Earth," he corrects.
"Oh," I quietly float besides him, looking at him with a critical eye. "Why now? Is Apokolips attacking?"
"No. What did I say about questioning me? You are to go to this universe's version of Earth. That is that," he states.
The ramp to the cargo bay opens, a hard-light shield stopping everything from getting sucked into the vacuum. This is strange, of all times why now? For the first couple of years I would constantly annoy him by asking when we would return to Earth, he'd always say no, and then I'd be punished. Now we're just going.
"I said do not question it," the Evolutionary says as he turns around to give me an intense stare.
"Right, sorry," I say.
"Do not be sorry, you are above that. Just be better," he reminds me.
Throughout the years, the Evolutionary made sure to beat into my head that I was better than anyone else we came across. Not going to lie, I believe it in the physical sense, I mean, my physical capabilities are astonishing, and that's when you don't account for my other powers like energy manipulation and my healing factor. Walking towards my room I greet the many other people the Evolutionary picked up throughout his travels.
"Hey there, kid! How are ya?" A small, yellow furred, pitch black skinned alien with four arms greeted. His name's Zar, he comes from a species I really don't know much about, mainly due to the fact that they aren't like most of the galaxy, in fact, their society would be equivalent to human society during the industrial revolution. The only reason Zar was picked up was because of some genetic abnormality he has that attracted the attention of The Evolutionary.
I like Zar. During my training, the Evolutionary made sure everyone kept me at arm's length, but Zar didn't care. Safe to say he's my only friend on this ship.
"I'm good, Zar. Hey, do you know where we're heading?" I ask. Zar's face becomes sheepish. "Earth. So, you do know."
He looks surprised for a second before he becomes relieved. "Boss told us about it last night, no explanation, no preamble, he just said it. We were all surprised to be honest."
"That was it? He just said we were going to Earth?" I interrogate.
Zar just nods. The thing about asking Zar questions is that he has no tells, making this pretty annoying. The reason he was picked by The Evolutionary was because of his abnormality. Zar's abnormality is that he has unbelievably strong mental defenses, and no one knows where it comes from. The Evolutionary was able to copy it slightly, and insert it into my DNA, increasing my mental defenses.
"Strange. Well, he told me to stop questioning it, so I may as well," I say.
Zar just gives me a blank look. "Kid, when have you ever listened to the Evolutionary?" He asks.
My serious face breaks into a small smirk. "Got me there. Have we started the trip yet? And how long until we get there?"
Explosions rock the ship. Running to the nearby window, Zar and I look outside to see some members of the Sinestro Corps attacking the ship.
Growling, I hurry towards an airlock, after a moment it finally opens. Once I acclimatize to space, I fly towards the Sinestro Corps troops, flying fists first into one of them, his snake-like construct that's currently wrapped around the ship dissipates.
The other three turn away from the ship and fire beams of fear-fueled energy at the two of us, I quickly veer out of the way, leaving the first Sinestro Corps member to take the brunt of the attack.
A giant yellow fist appears and closes around me, causing slight pain to erupt from my ribs, the other two float towards me and fire shotgun blasts of energy at my face, disorienting me greatly and causing a headache to quickly form.
Using my speed, I vibrate my molecules, after taking a few more blasts to the face and getting crushed by the yellow hand, I eventually phase through the hand. Gotta work on improving that, maybe Flash can help. During my musing session, a yellow hammer swings into my head, causing me to flip over, I then notice a plane-like construct flying towards me, once it crashes into me, I find myself on a moon, feeling pain throughout my body.
Groggily getting up I rub my head, hoping to ease the headache quickly forming. The four of them fire a combined blast of fear-fueled energy at me, digging me into the moon a good distance.
Getting up again, I bend my knees, after building up some energy I explode forward, feeling the ground beneath me crater. I have one arm forward, another at my side, ready to punch the biggest of the group. I notice their shocked faces as I quickly rise out of the hole they made, before any of them can react, I bring my right arm forward and slam it into the face of the big one, he flies towards the nearby planet.
Two tendrils wrap around my arms and legs, immobilizing me, the third Sinestro Corps member creates a sword and has a large smile on her face as she thrusts the sword forward. It shatters against my skin. The three of them stare in shock. Concentrating, I build up the energy inside of my body shortly before bringing it outward in a powerful concussive explosion, throwing the three of them all over the place.
Focusing my energy into my fists, I fly fists first into one of the aliens, this is the same race as the Green Lanterns Tomar-Re and Tomar-Tu, Xudarian, I think they were called.
Using my energy enhanced fists, I punch him in the face, causing a part of his beak to chip off, followed by a punch to his gut, winding him. In the distance I can see the ship firing on the other two, keeping them away from me. The Xudarian grabs me by the neck and throws me away from him, while I'm flying through space, he launches a bull-like construct towards me, sending me towards his female teammate.
She creates something akin to a fly swatter and swats me down before focusing on the ship again.
The Xudarian follows me, sending rapid blasts towards me. Regaining my bearings, I quickly stop, the Xudarian flies by me before stopping as well. Turning around quickly, I charge up my heat vision, and before he can turn around, I fire the twin beams at him, sending him towards the same planet as his ally from earlier.
I turn around and see the remaining two now attacking The Ship. I launch myself towards the female, my leg bent at an angle to get a good snap kick in. Just before the kick can connect a yellow shield appears, she turns towards me and smirks in victory, but by doing this The Ship fires a perfect shot at her, sending her to the moon.
The remaining enemy roars before creating a multitude of constructs, aimed at me and The Ship. The Ship's energy shields quickly rise up, but due to the force of the constructs they eventually break, causing massive damage to the starboard side of The Ship. The constructs fired towards me are mostly blasted apart by my energy blasts or heat vision, what does get by is stopped by my personal energy shield.
Once the constructs dissipate, I uncross my arms from my defensive position to see him flying towards me, his arm reared back to punch me. Once he attempts his punch, I tilt my head to the right, I then grab his extended arm and drag him in, kneeing him in the gut. Keeping my grip on his arm I then spin around at high speeds, pretty sure I'd make a tornado if there was an atmosphere here, and let go, sending him towards the nearby planet.
That's not enough though, I follow after him with my fists extended and slam into his gut before backing up slightly, all so I can hit him with a barrage of punches as we enter the atmosphere.
Before I can hit him with one final punch, a yellow blur sideswipes me, launching the two of us into a mountain. Shaking my head, I look up to see the large alien standing over me, bearing its fangs and growling. It raises its fists and prepares to smash my head in. I roll to the left as its fists slam into the ground, I use my hands to hop up and do a backflip, kicking it in the head as I land. I then drop down and spin on my hand, extending my leg out to trip the alien, and before it can hit the ground, I punch the side of its head hard, launching it into the horizon.
Flying after it, I punch it downwards while in the air, it creates a large crater once it impacts with the ground. I fly down feet first and slam my feet into its chest, making the crater even larger. I then roll forward and grab it by the leg, I get up and spin around, actually creating a tornado this time, after a few seconds of spinning I let go, launching the large alien into the nearby mountain range.
A roar of rage comes from up above, looking up I see the female alien flying towards me, her fist reared back. Before I can react, a giant stone construct lands on me, embedding me into the floor. Before I can try to get a better position, I feel the power behind the rock get stronger and stronger, using my x-ray vision I see the large alien and the Xudarian adding their energy to the rock.
Vibrating, I sink into the ground, using my x-ray vision to see where I'm going. Good, looks like they still think I'm under the rock.
While they continue to dig the construct into the planet, I move underground to a fair distance away from them. Using this distance to my advantage, I get into a runner's position, I then burst up and take off, breaking the sound barrier instantly and creating a large crater where I was.
Before the three can react, I headbutt the female alien, and clothesline the other two, I then close my arms and bring the three of them in, bashing all of their heads together.
Standing over the three I quickly catch my breath. That was my first battle against Lanterns. I mean, I have fought Atrocitus, but that was before he became a Red Lantern, now I hear rumors that he is one, and I for one don't want to fight him with rage on his side, he was bad enough as is. And when it came to Green Lanterns, I just avoided them, mostly due to the fact that their relationship with The Evolutionary and anyone tied to him is difficult, at best.
"Hey, kid, you still alive?" Zar asks over the comms.
"Yes, Zar, I'm still alive," I begin to fly towards The Ship. "How are things with The Ship?"
"Not good. The entire starboard side's a mess, about six of us are dead, another seven in critical condition," Zar informs me.
"Holy- thirteen casualties!? That's over half the crew!" I drag my hand down my face. "I take it the trip to Earth's gonna be on hold, then?"
"Subject 111, it is I," the Evolutionary cuts into our conversation. "Get back to the ship, we still need to get to Earth."
"What? Sir, The Ship was attacked, we have thirteen casualties. And to top it all off the Sinestro Corps will be on us once they figure out what just happened. We need to tend to the injured then repair the ship first," I argue.
"No. We go to Earth. Now," he simply replies.
"I-"
"111. Now," he simply says.
Bowing my head in defeat, I slowly rise off of the ground before flying towards the ship at high speed, after all, the faster we finish this the faster everyone can get help. Entering through the airlock, I see the remainder of the crew help the seriously injured to the med bay.
Zar quickly walks towards me once we make eye contact. "Hey kid," he sighs and looks around. "Hell of a day, right?"
"How much longer until we reach Earth?" I ask.
"Another day at least, and that's accounting for the damage to the ship," Zar answers.
"And the nearest ship repair station that won't refuse us?" I continue.
Zar sighs deeply. "It'd take a week from Earth to get there. Three days from here."
"Because you need to be on Earth as soon as possible. No exceptions," the Evolutionary says before I can even reply.
"Why?" I question.
He just looks at me with a hint of anger and annoyance in his eyes, I flinch in response. "You will know," he turns around and marches towards the bridge. "Activate the engines! We go to Earth now."
Zar and I just stare at his retreating form, wondering what was so urgent that we had to go to Earth now. Zar just pats me on the shoulder with his upper left arm before heading towards the engine room.
Standing alone in the hallway I just look down, contemplating the effects my battle with the four Sinestro Corps members will have. I mean, from the way things are sounding, the Sinestro Corps was only created about five years ago, but in that time Sinestro was able to recruit a massive number of people to his side, add to the fact that a war seems to be brewing between the Sinestro Corps and the Green Lantern Corps. Hope it won't be as bad as it was in the comics.
Sighing, I head towards my room, may as well pack my things up. The door slides open, inside I find the memories of the past fifteen years waiting for me. On my trophy shelf I see the head of a Manhunter unit I destroyed a year ago, a piece of a green scarab, the first tooth I ever lost, which happened two months ago when Mongul punched me, and a shard of kryptonite from when we passed by what was left of Krypton when I was six, or would it be when I was twenty-five? I'll stop counting my previous life, it'll be easier.
Laying down on my bed, I let out another loud sigh as I look up at the model galaxy on the ceiling of my room. The Sol system is highlighted, showing me that Earth is, in fact, our target destination. Why does he want to get to Earth so badly? Maybe we're being hunted down? Or there could be something extremely important there, almost everything important happens on Earth for some strange reason, be it DC or Marvel.
No use mulling over it I guess, may as well help the injured however I can.
I get into a seated position, look around, and then get up. Once the door slides open, I stop.
Instead of seeing the familiar hallway of The Ship I see the cold vacuum of space, in the distance I see The Ship's shrinking form. I blink in shock. What the hell?
I hear the sound of the holographic communication system activating. Turning around I see the Evolutionary standing with his arms behind his back. "What. The. Hell," I growl, my eyes glowing red and my hands begin to give off black and orange energy.
"They arrived far sooner than we expected. They're after you, Subject 111, this was the only way for you to escape safely," he says, explosions going off in the background.
"I'm coming to save you," I turn around and march towards the door.
Before I can even take a step, he says a phrase that I can't understand, no matter how hard I try to remember. This phrase causes my body to freeze up, and no matter how hard I try, I can't move. "No, what you are going to do is get out of here," he strongly says.
Using all of my strength, I barely reach out to open the door, only to see that The Ship is indeed under attack, and by ships I've only heard about in stories. "W-what the hell are they d-d-doing here?" I stutter out, my paralysis doing nothing to help.
*BOOM*
The explosion of noise travels through both the call and somehow space as well.
A giant Boom Tube opens above the ship, the smaller ships fire tethers towards The Evolutionary's ship, they then rise up into the Tube, forcing the transmission to cut out.
Well, that was my first experience with the New Gods, definitely didn't expect that.
I feel the paralysis slowly fade away, after some time it finally does, I shake my legs around to regain feeling in them. Looking outside I realize that there's nothing I can do.
I look at the mirror next to me, coming face to face with a Japanese teenager, possibly fifteen-years-old, with shoulder-length black hair, a few locks hanging over my forehead and orange eyes. I have a slim, but athletic build that belies my strength and I'm also rather tall, almost six-feet tall, actually.
I sigh before walking over to my bed and laying down on it, staring up blankly at the roof of my room..
Earth, here I come.
One Day Later
Someone was knocking on my door. Groaning, I get up. Who the hell knocks on a door in space?
Oh, that's who.
Once the door opens, I find myself face to face with Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Martian Manhunter, and the Superman.
Green Lantern's suit is his classic look, although it looks a little more reinforced. Martian Manhunter has black pants with red boots, the red X over his upper body and a blue cape with a high collar connected to the upper parts of the X. The top part of the X has a black inside while the other three parts shows his unaltered skin. Superman's wearing what looks like his suit during the Rebirth, blue bodysuit, red boots, and a red belt with a golden buckle shaped like his symbol. No trunks, also. He even has the arm braces from Man of Steel.
Green Lantern and Superman look at me surprised before quickly regaining their composure. Martian Manhunter's face doesn't change but I can feel the slight surprise in his mind, which is all I get from him considering how powerful of a telepath he is.
"Hi! I am Green Lantern of Sector 2814.1, these are my colleagues, Martian Manhunter," he just nods. "And Superman," Superman has a gentle smile on his face as he waves, I wave back. "Now, who are you and why are you coming to Earth?"
I try to talk but I can't, while I've been through so much, meeting three of the founding seven is still a shock to the system. I guess I've been staring at them for a while now, 'cause Green Lantern pokes me in the forehead with a green constructed finger. "You think he's broken?"
"GL…" Superman warns. Green Lantern backs away with his arms raised in surrender. He then looks at me and smiles again. "As my friend was saying: Could you please introduce yourself, and tell us why it is you're here? After all, most alien visitors we get tend to be a little, uh-"
"Destructive," Green Lantern chimes in.
Superman nods. "Yes. Destructive."
"R-right-"
"Guess he isn't broken. OW!" Green Lantern rubs his head after Superman smacks him.
"I am designated as Subject 111, though I've given myself the name Akiyama Daichi. Nice to meet you," I bow slightly as I introduce myself.
Once I get back up, I notice the confused look on both of their faces, and the intrigued one on Martian Manhunter's. "Wait, hold up. Your name's "Daichi Akiyama"? That isn't an alien name that I've heard of. Honestly sounds Japanese if anything else. And "Subject 111"?"
"That's because it is," I look at him blankly.
I don't know how, but I could tell he had an eyebrow raised, even with his mask on. "What? Were you abducted or something?"
"No. He's lived among the stars his entire life. This is his first time coming to Earth," Martian Manhunter says, speaking up for the first time. It's weird, almost like he's both physically speaking and talking to me in my head. That'll take a while to get used to.
"Yes and no. It's a confusing story, really. I'd be willing to tell you more if you'd let me go to your base," I tell them.
The three of them look at each other and have a telepathic conversation. Although in the real world it looked like they only shared a glance. They turn back to me; Green Lantern creates a construct around my room. "All right, we'll be taking you to our base, once there, we'll have Martian Manhunter and another one of our teammates verify your story."
This teammate's more than likely going to be Wonder Woman, after all, with the Lasso of Truth all of my answers will be the complete truth. Now that I think about it, because I'm evolved would I have a resistance to it, or maybe it won't even work at all? Well, once I get there guess I'll find out.
Looking outside, I can see the growing form of the Watchtower. Hm, looks like the Earth-16 version, the one in Young Justice, in case you didn't know. For a few minutes I can feel us stop, listening in, I can hear Green Lantern talking to the people inside about me, I hear the hangar doors open.
Welcome to the Watchtower, Daichi Akiyama.
Another knock on my door. Opening it I see a smirking Green Lantern. "C'mon, let's go meet the rest of the team."
After a few minutes of going through the Watchtower we eventually make it to the meeting room, in here I find the rest of the Justice League.
Of course, the rest of the original seven are here, alongside John Stewart, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Red Tornado, Dr. Fate, Hawkgirl, Hawkman, Shazam (Or maybe Captain Marvel), and Vixen.
Everybody stops their conversations once we arrive in the room. The Batman steps forward. "What's your name?" He asks.
His armor looks a lot like the Rebirth one. A full grey suit of armor with black lines across the parts where he needs to be flexible, black boots up to the knees, the inside of the thighs of his armor is black, and black gloves up to the elbows, the bat on his chest has a yellow outline and the inside of his cape is purple. The shoulders of his armor is black, seeing as his cape is connected to them.
"I am designated as Subject 111, though I have chosen the name Akiyama Daichi for myself, sir," I hold out my hand for him to shake. He slowly raises his own hand and shakes mine. Don't freak out, Daichi, the Batman just shook my hand. That's all.
"Why have you come to Earth…Daichi?" He continues.
"Well, I came to Earth because the person watching over me wanted to come here, but we were attacked, so he sent me," I answer.
"Who was the one taking care of you, and who attacked you?" Aquaman asks. He has his classic orange and green outfit, but again, this one looks a little more armored. His hair is also short, and he lacks the beard.
"He's known as the Evolutionary," I say. Hal Jordan groans as John Stewart tightens his grip on his chair. "We were attacked by people who wanted to...talk, with The Evolutionary."
"You guys know about this "Evolutionary"?" Flash asks the Green Lanterns.
"The corps has run into him a couple of times. He travels the universe, collecting specific individuals from countless species to evolve them. Some of his experiments have caused us problems in the past," John Stewart explains. Like Hal and Aquaman, classic suit, just more reinforced.
"Yeah, one nearly killed Guy," Hal Jordan adds. "He also evolves entire species whenever he wants, putting them in his debt."
"The entire species?" Green Arrow asks in shock.
Green Arrow has primarily dark green armor on, the top is sleeveless, and he has two of those long archer gloves that stop just below his shoulders. The armor is two different shades of green, darker on the top and lighter on the bottom. He has a hood that is currently down and a domino mask that is dark green. He's got his classic goatee as well.
"Yeah. I've seen it happen a couple of times, actually," I answer, which brings the attention back to me.
"How did he get a hold of you?" Aquaman asks.
"That's quite the story," I reply.
"Wonder Woman, your Lasso," Batman says.
Wonder Woman walks towards me and holds her Lasso of Truth towards me. "This is the Lasso of Truth, once under its spell you will be compelled to tell the truth. It's rather self-explanatory as to what it does."
She also has her Rebirth suit. Red and gold strapless top with two golden W's at the top of it, a golden belt with a W shaped buckle, and a blue skirt with stars on it. Her bracers have red stars on them, so does her golden tiara.
I then feel a presence in my mind, although it doesn't get far. "You have formidable telepathic defenses, may you please put them down?" Martian Manhunter asks.
I rub the back of my head. "I'd rather not. I've spent years training to always keep them up. Taking them down now seems wrong."
Batman just hums.
Wonder Woman rolls her eyes. "Forgive him, he looks for the bad in everything. Now, let us begin. What is your name?"
"Subject 111 AKA Akiyama Daichi," I answer after taking a hold of the Lasso of Truth.
"How did the Evolutionary get a hold of you?" Wonder Woman asks.
Ah crap, how do I answer this? I mean, I could tell them, or maybe I don't, pepper the truth with some lies. Who am I kidding? That won't work, somehow the truth will come out, and when it does, whatever relationship I have with the League will be damaged greatly. May as well tell them.
Looking up I see all of their faces, ranging from surprised to intrigue, guess I do have a resistance to the Lasso, after all, wouldn't I have to answer the question as soon as it's asked? Gathering my strength, I sigh as I look Wonder Woman in the eyes. "Do you guys know about the multiverse theory?"
Some of them share looks as others widen their eyes. Batman's eyes just narrow even more somehow.
Flash pipes up. "Oh, yeah, I have! I've actually traveled to a couple of other multiverses. In one of them I looked a lot like Grant Gustin, and in another I looked like Ezra Miller."
His armor was two different shades of red, darker on the outsides and lighter on the inside, with yellow lines separating the two shades. He also has the yellow lightning bolt belt and the lightning bolt on his chest.
"I too am aware of the multiverse." Dr. Fate says. His suit is reinforced, with a blue top with golden lines across the chest and his sides and navy-blue bottoms. Along with golden gloves, boots, a skirt-like thing around his waist, and a golden cape on his back. Where the cape meets on his chest is a small golden ankh. He also has on his famous helmet, the blank white eyes looking at me.
"And Power Girl of the Justice Society's from another universe," Superman adds.
"You're claiming to be from another universe?" Batman interrogates.
I take a deep breath. Moment of truth right here. "Yes. But it's more than another universe with alternate you guys. Where I'm from you guys are comic book characters."
Batman's eyes basically disappear as his eyes narrow even further. Green Arrow and Hal Jordan break out in laughter as Hawkgirl and Black Canary turn to each other and talk to each other.
Green Arrow eventually calms down as he wipes a tear that slipped from under his mask. "Funny story kid-"
"Oliver Queen," I interrupt.
They all stop and stare at me in shock, Green Arrow especially.
"Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince, Arthur Curry, J'onn J'onzz, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Dinah Lance, Mari McCabe, Billy Batson, Kent Nelson, Carter Hall, and Shayera Hall (Or Kendra Saunders, I don't know)."
Things are quiet for a long moment; I swear I could hear a pin drop on Earth if I wanted to.
Eventually Batman walks towards me. "Talk."
"The Evolutionary told me that I come from the Prime Universe, where every other universe originates from, and there this universe-along countless others-started out as comic books. Now they're giants in the media industry, with TV shows, animated series, video games and other forms of media," I explain.
"How much about us do you know?" Batman continues.
"How many Robins have you had?" I ask.
He slightly tilts his head in confusion. "One."
"Dick Grayson. Son of John and Mary Grayson of the Haley Circus, they were-"
"That's enough," Batman interrupts.
"Who else do you know of that isn't here?" Flash asks.
"Wally West, Roy Harper, Donna Troy, and Garth. Although there might be more that I don't know of yet, this superhero community gets massive as time goes on," I answer.
"We're getting off topic again," Hawkman growls. "How did the Evolutionary get a hold of you?"
Hawkman has black pants on with golden boots. His top is a golden harness with a black hawk surrounded by a red circle in the center. He has two golden gauntlets that have sharp claws on them, and his harness has knives along it.
"Right, sorry. Back home I realized that I was going nowhere in life, had no idea what it was I wanted to do, and so The Evolutionary befriended me, and after a year he offered me a new chance at life. I don't remember what happened next, all I do know is that I suddenly woke up in this body, my old body was then destroyed," I explain.
"How long have you been with the Evolutionary?" Vixen asks. The chest area of her armor is golden-brown, everything under it is black. She also has those long gloves on that end in claws. Her necklace prominent.
"I think fifteen years? Uh…what year is it?" I ask Wonder Woman.
"2010," she answers.
Huh. That's the year season one of Young Justice takes place. But none of the League look like that version of themselves, also, Dr. Fate and Vixen weren't on the League around that time.
An alarm goes off from within the Watchtower. Black Canary quickly activates a hologram that appears over the table. "Gordanians, and they're approaching fast. They'll be on top of Earth within a few minutes. That's weird, one of the ships is moving faster than the others, and it's showing signs of damage."
She has her classic look, black and yellow boots, fishnets, a lightly reinforced black top and a leather jacket over it all.
Hawkman and Hawkgirl tighten their grips on their maces. "How did they get so close?" Hawkgirl asks.
Her suit is similar to Hawkman's, black bottoms with golden boots, a sleeveless black top and a golden harness with the same symbol in the center. She has red hair flowing out of her mask, so that must mean she's Shayera then.
"Cloaking tech," the League turn to look at me. "There were rumors swirling about that the Gordanians had new cloaking technology that let them sneak by practically any radar out there. Guess it's true. Don't know anything about the damaged one though."
"Why would they send a large fleet of ships to get this small one back though?" Shazam/Captain Marvel wonders. I really need to figure out what he calls himself.
His suit is pure red, with golden boots and arm bracers. His lightning bolt is outlined by gold and glows with electric energy, and his cape has a golden outline and is also connected to a hood that is currently down.
"Doesn't matter. Green Lanterns, Superman, Martian Manhunter, deal with the ships now, the rest of us will go planet side and deal with any that get past you, hopefully the Justice Society can help," Batman orders. The Leaguers get up and exit the meeting room, having nowhere else to go, I decide to follow them. Batman turns around to face me. "You. What are your powers?"
"Superhuman physical capabilities, accelerated regenerative healing factor, energy manipulation and redirection, heat vision, x-ray vision, microscopic vision, telescopic vision, infrared vision, flight, phasing (with my super speed), telekinesis, and telepathy," I list.
Flash whistles. "Hear that Supes, you have a rival now."
"Guess so. Come on Lanterns, Manhunter, let's go deal with these guys," Superman says as he steps on the teleporters, looks like the ones from the Justice League/Unlimited series, cool.
"We'll try to not hog all the fun. No promises though," Hal Jordan says.
"Maybe you guys will get one or two ships, we'll see," John Stewart says.
Martian Manhunter says nothing as the four of them then teleport away.
"Gordanians are cold-blooded, meaning they'll stay away from colder locations. Flash, Dr. Fate, and Red Tornado, you three will be in London, that seems to be the trajectory of one of their ships," Batman continues. The three of them step on the teleporter.
Once they disappear, Batman points at another spot on a holographic map of the globe. "Vixen, Shazam, and Green Arrow will be in the Amazon jungle."
Ah, so he's Shazam.
"And the rest of us will be in New York City," Batman finishes.
"Hold. The smaller ship is now entering visual field of vision," Red Tornado says.
He has an almost pure red body, yellow T on his chest surrounded by a circle and connected by a line that goes to his…belt area? A yellow arrow on his head, and a blue cape with a high collar, outlined by yellow.
Looking outside we see the smaller ship, which still happens to be rather big, use the chaos to its advantage as it flies forward. We can see that all of the damage it took came from the inside, and it jerks side to side as it flies.
"Tornado," Batman turns to the android.
"Calculating. The ship's estimated landing point is San Francisco, California," Red Tornado informs.
Batman thinks for a moment before turning to me. "Get on the teleporter, go check out what's going on with that ship," He hands me an earpiece. "Check in with me once you rendezvous with them, understood?"
"Yeah," I step on the teleporter. As I feel my body begin to breakdown one thing finally occurs to me. "Wait "them"?" I am then teleported to San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
I shake my head to get my bearings, after all, teleporting from a relatively silent space station to a crowded city is one hell of a change, especially when you have super hearing.
Looking around, I see people looking at me with awe and wonder, probably thinking I'm a member of the Justice League, before long they look to the sky, and their looks of awe quickly shift to fear.
Taking to the air, I fly up to the falling Gordanian ship and prepare to catch it. Once we connect, I fly against it, slowing it down greatly in the process. Buuuut it was going pretty fast, so I can't stop it outright, thankfully there's a massive body of water nearby. With the help of my telekinesis I shift the trajectory of the ship and lead it towards the water.
Just before I land the ship in the water, a green blast of energy slams into me. Thanks to my powers I don't take damage, but because it came from out of nowhere, I still get thrown back, meaning the ship crashes into the water instead, creating a giant splash that throws everything around on the street. More blasts of the green energy come from out of the ship, along with blue blasts of energy, which look like energy rifles.
One large blast tears through the ship, and out of it flies an extremely attractive orange girl with glowing green eyes, and red hair. She's wearing a shredded, two-piece purple and silver suit.
Her top is a sleeveless, two-tone purple shirt that stops below her chest, showing off her midriff. The neck of the suit is silver, a green gem at the bottom of it. She wears purple sorts with green gems on either side and has a silver belt. She also has thigh-high dark purple boots and dark purple arm sleeves. She also has bracers on each forearm, green gems on both of them.
Gordanians come flooding out of the ship on hovercrafts, but before they can get far, the water shifts into a giant fist that punches some of the hovercrafts out of the air. From the water comes a tall muscular guy who looks a little older than me.
He has black hair and purple eyes, his suit looks a lot like Aquaman's, although the top is red while the bottom is blue. He also has golden bracers and a golden belt with a stylized A in the center around his waist. Here's Aqualad.
Come on Daichi, get your head in the game.
I notice some Gordanians corner a family, I take flight and fly towards them, shoulder charging one into a building. Before the other two could react, I aim my fists at them as I fire concussive blasts at their heads, sending them flying in opposite directions.
"You guys okay?" I ask the family.
"Y-y-yes. Thank you," the dad replies.
"Good," I duck as a Gordanian attempts to sucker punch me, I then rise up with a headbutt to his chin, sending him flying into a tidal wave made by Aqualad. "Get out of here, we've got this."
The family quickly gets up and runs away, keeping their heads down as they do. I turn around to come face to face with two more Gordanians, they are then electrocuted before falling over. I see an arrow in the back of one of their heads and what looks like a disc on the other.
"You're welcome!"
Looking up, I see a short kid with black hair wearing red, black, and green light armor, with some yellow here and there. The lower part of his armor is black, while his boots are black with some yellow straps, the upper part is mainly red with green shoulders and black sleeves, with a green line separating the sleeves and gloves. His cape is black on the outside with a yellow inside and he has a stylized yellow R surrounded by a black circle on the left side of his chest, he also has a black domino mask over his eyes. Here's the first Robin.
Next to him is a tall guy with armor that's two shades of red and yellow. The bottom is light red with dark red kneepads and a black line separating the light red boots from his kneepads. His upper armor is red with some yellow lines on the sides, it is also sleeveless, but he has an archer glove on his right hand that is black and one of those long sleeve gloves that goes up to his shoulder on his left, this one also black with some yellow here and there. He has on a yellow cap with a red feather and a domino mask, although his is a deep red. Underneath his hat I can see red hair. Hello, Speedy.
I fly up to them, blasting Gordanians with my heat vision as I do. "You another Kryptonian?" Speedy asks.
"No, I'm human, just like you two," I direct a thunderclap at a group of Gordanians, sending them all over the place.
"You're one strong human then. Robin, this guy's Speedy, and water boy over there's Aqualad. Who's the orange girl?" Robin asks.
"No idea. Batman sent me here to investigate what's up with this ship. He also told me to call him once I found "them", whoever they are," I say.
The two of them share a surprised look before turning back to me. "You know Batman?" Robin asks.
"Yeah, my room was on its way here when Superman, Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern intercepted it. They took me to the Watchtower where I met the rest of the League," I answer.
"Guess he wanted you to meet with us. Batman also sent us out here," Speedy says as he launches a foam arrow at a group, stopping them all in their tracks. "Still don't know why he didn't just tell Green Arrow or Black Canary to contact me, I was terrified when I saw who was calling me."
"Same here," a blur of red and yellow throws Gordanians around.
It eventually stops to reveal a redhead who looks to be my age with red bottoms and yellow boots and the complete opposite on the top, a red lightning bolt surrounded by a white circle. He has a cowl that shows his green eyes and lower face while keeping his red hair free, he also has goggles on his forehead. He speeds up to me and shakes my hand. "Kid Flash, your name?"
"Akiyama Daichi," I reply.
"I meant codename," he says.
"Don't have one," I say.
A Gordanian hovercraft crashes nearby us, startling us all. We look at the direction it came from to see a girl more attractive than even Starfire had thrown it.
"If you boys are done gossiping could you please help deal with the invaders?" She asks pointedly.
The beautiful girl has her wavy black hair in a high ponytail and looks at us with her ocean blue eyes. She has a sleeveless red top with two large, white stars on each side and silver bracers on her toned arms, a blue shoulder pad on her right shoulder, a white star on that. A golden belt around her waist with the same W buckle as Wonder Woman, the bottom half of her suit is blue with red boots, three stars along outside of her pants as well. She also has a golden Lasso, a sword, and a shield. Hello, Wonder Girl.
"She's right, we can talk after dealing with these guys," Robin says before jumping off the roof and landing on a passing hovercraft, taking out the Gordanians on it.
Kid Flash salutes before running off to deal with others in the distance. Speedy pats my shoulder as he fires a grappling arrow to the roof of the tallest building in the area.
Seeing another group of Gordanians heading towards Wonder Girl, I decide to intercept them. I fire energy blasts at their hovercrafts, destroying them in the process, as one flies towards me, using the smoke as cover, a Gordanian is thrown into it, sending the hovercraft careening away.
Wonder Girl flies towards me and we float back to back, sending back any Gordanian who happens to get too close. "Thank you for your assistance," she begins. She dodges to the side and hits a Gordanian with a right hook. "Although it isn't needed," she quickly equips her shield and protects us from fire by one of the hovercrafts.
"Can't let you have all the fun, now can I?" I rhetorically ask. I create an energy bubble around us that absorb the fire coming at us, it then fires back, with my own energy added, causing some of the hovercraft to crash. "How many of these guys are there, dammit?"
"No idea. What's your name?" She asks as she slices at a hovercraft horizontally.
"Akiyama Daichi, yours?" I push kick a Gordanian off his craft, he bumps into another one sending them both falling.
"Wonder Girl. But I meant what is your codename," she bashes the pilot of a craft with her shield.
"Don't have one," I do another thunderclap, but this time my fists are covered in energy, creating a wave of concussive force that sends them away.
Eventually the Gordanians get smart and decide to retreat. The two of us look at each other and nod before landing on the ground to assist Kid Flash and Robin.
Kid Flash spins his arms around, creating two small tornados that sends a group of Gordanians into a water jar made by Aqualad. Two arrows fly in between a large number of them, an explosion then occurs, all thanks to Speedy.
"Goddammit, how many of these guys are there?" Speedy says in annoyance as he joins us, firing net arrows, trapping three of them.
"No idea. That damn ship's like a clown car," I reply. Robin grumbles at that.
A large group rushes towards us, but before they can get any closer, a wave of water washes them into the body of water. Aqualad lands next to us. Forgot he could fly.
A car flies into a Gordanian standing behind Garth. Once the explosion clears, we see a female form wearing a black and red cloak floating down. Her face is covered by a red mask over the bottom half of her face, a hood covering the rest. Two green lights emitting from her hood. Here's Omen, the one I know the least about.
"Omen! Took you long enough! Was beginning to think you weren't gonna show," Robin calls out.
She turns around and looks at some more of our enemies, the glow of her eyes intensifies momentarily, the Gordanians drop in response. "Wouldn't miss this for the world, Robin. Who's the flying girl and your new friend?"
"Akiyama Daichi, have no idea who she is though," I lie.
"I meant your-"
"I don't have one," I interrupt. This is gonna be a thing, isn't it?
"Bad guys are running away," Wonder Girl calls out.
True enough, the Gordanians hop on whatever hovercrafts are still available and head back to their ship, avoiding Starfire's blasts as they do.
"Akiyama, think you can tell the hottie with a body to calm down?" Kid Flash asks. He notices the glares from Omen and Wonder Girl. "What? I'm not wrong."
I take flight and head towards her. Once she notices my approach, she holds her fists up, they start glowing green, as well as her eyes. "(You and your friends assisted me, for that I do not outright attack you. But I must ask who you are and why should I trust you)."
"(My name is Akiyama Daichi,)" I've been saying that a lot today, haven't I? "(My friends and I are heroes, and we're here to stop the Gordanians. Your help would be greatly appreciated)."
She looks at my outstretched hand for a moment before relenting. Her eyes and hands stop glowing as she takes my hand. I lead the two of us down to the others. "Guys, this is…" I turn to her. "(I never got to ask your name)."
"(Koriand'r)," she answers.
"Koriand'r. She wants to fight against the Gordanians, so, I think we have a mutual goal," I tell them.
"You understand her?" Robin asks as he steps forward, studying her.
"Yeah, I know pretty much any known language out there," I explain.
"Ask her if she has a translator of some kind. Working together would be hard if we always need you to translate," Robin orders.
"(Do you have a translator?)" I ask her.
In response, she grabs Robin by the head and kisses him deeply, surprising everyone but me. She then pulls back and looks at the group. "What is your plan?"
"W-why...?" Omen asks.
"My species is capable of learning languages through physical contact. Is that not how things are here?" She asks as she tilts her head.
Kid Flash quickly recovers and pushes a still malfunctioning Robin to the side. "I know French!"
Wonder Girl sighs as she places her head in her hands. "Really, Wally? Really?"
"Well I know every known language," I counter. In response, Kory grabs me by the head and pulls me into a deep kiss. I can feel her pull back and probably say something, I don't know, my brain isn't working so well right now.
"And you broke both of them. Great," Aqualad creates two small orbs of water and throws them at our heads, shocking us back into the situation. "Hey, we've still got an alien invasion to deal with, remember?"
"Right, uh, yeah," Robin turns to Kory. "Do you know why they retreated?"
"It's possible they plan to repair their ship, either to call for reinforcements or to attack from the skies," she answers.
"I thought you took it down?" I ask.
"I destroyed the comms and much of the bridge, but the damage wasn't too extensive. We need to strike now, before they fix their comms," Kory says.
"Why?" Speedy asks.
"If they repair their comms, they will call for reinforcements, which I do not think we can handle," she says.
"Don't underestimate us! I mean, did you see how easily we took those guys out? It was embarrassing," Kid Flash argues.
"KF's got a point. I mean, yeah, having more of them would be tiring, but I think we could take 'em on," Speedy agrees.
Kory shakes her head. "No, those were just fodder, the more powerful Gordanians are waiting inside, we must take them out now."
"Wonder how the League's doing," Kid Flash mutters.
"Right. I gotta call Batman, I think he wanted me to call once I met you guys," I back away and put the earpiece in my ear.
"How are things?" Batman asks. In the background I hear explosions and roaring.
"I'm here with Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, and Omen. There's another girl here too, she's of the planet Tamaran, her name's Koriand'r."
"Is she related to the Gordanians being here?" Batman asks.
"They had her captive, I think she hijacked a ship, which is why they're here now. They retreated back into the ship, probably to call in reinforcements. How are things on your end?" I ask.
The explosions intensify. After barking some orders Batman speaks again. "It's a process. Move in on the ship and take care of it now, according to the space team things are intensifying. Batman out."
The earpiece turns off. I turn around and head back to the group to find them still debating what to do. "What'd Batman say?" Robin asks.
"He wants us to take care of them now, they're getting reinforcements in space right now, so he wants us to take care of them now." I answer.
"Got it. Oh, where are my manners?" Aqualad steps forward. "My name is Aqualad, what's yours?"
"Akiyama Daichi."
"I meant-"
"He doesn't have one," the others interrupt.
"You should make one, if we call you Akiyama all the time someone might hunt you down," Kid Flash advises.
"Do you think my name's Akiyama?" I ask.
He looks at me confused. "It is, isn't it?"
I laugh lightly. "Yeah, it is. But my first name's Daichi, it's Japanese culture to introduce yourself by your family name first."
"Got it," Kid Flash says with a thumbs up.
"But seriously though, do you have a codename?" Speedy asks.
I put my finger on my chin as I think. Maybe Vitruvian Man? After the painting. No, that's stupid. Evolutionary? Nah, he'd probably come back somehow to sue me. Mimic? What the hell? Where'd that come from? Subject 111? No, I've done everything I can to move past that. Got it. "You can call me Apex."
"Nice. I can't wait to fight alongside you, Apex," Wonder Girl says a smile on her face. She turns to Kory "What about you?"
"In your language my name would translate to Starfire. So that will be my codename. Is that satisfactory?" Kory looks around.
"Oh yeah," Robin says, still in a slight shock over the kiss from earlier.
Omen shakes her head as she smacks Robin over the back of the head. "Come on, we've wasted enough time as is, if Batman ordered us to take out the ship then we take out the ship."
Robin rubs the back of his head but becomes serious. "Omen's right. Wonder Girl, Aqualad, and Apex, the three of you will be the vanguard, head into the bridge of the ship, we'll follow. Omen, Speedy, cover me while I look for an intact console to hack. Kid Flash, you and Starfire will go around causing havoc. You guys good?"
Thinking over the plan I nod, it's good.
"You want all of us on the bridge during the entire thing?" Aqualad asks.
"When things are cleared enough, I want Wonder Girl and Apex to move towards the engine room, but to also cause as much mayhem as they can on the way there," Robin says.
"There is something I must add," Starfire says. We all turn to her. "That was a prison ship, and I wasn't the only prisoner."
Robin rubs his chin as he takes this into consideration. "Alright. Starfire, KF, you two will free the prisoners instead. Wonder Girl and Apex, you two will stick with the plan. Got it?" We all nod. "Good. Let's go!"
Wonder Girl, Aqualad, and I take to the air. Honestly, it's kind of weird seeing an Atlantean fly.
As we near the bridge, the Gordanians fire at us with their energy rifles, so I put up an energy shield that absorbs the bolts that then fires the energy back, twice as strong. I put my shield down and drop on what looks to be the captain, smashing him into the ground as I do. Wonder Girl flies shield first into another and Aqualad comes in with a drill of water behind him, creating a surge of water that forces Gordanians out of the room.
I reach for the ground and dig my fingers into the floor, I then raise my arms, sending a bunch of them flying all over the place. Wonder Girl ducks under a swipe from one of them and slashes at its leg, once it drops down, she bashes it in the face with her shield. I point two of my fingers outside and fire a flare, shortly after the rest of the team comes surging in.
While in the air, Speedy launches two explosive arrows that send Gordanians flying. It also destroys some consoles nearby. "Sorry!" He apologizes to Robin.
During the chaos Starfire and Kid Flash slip by, taking out some more enemies on the way. "Seriously though, this place is a clown car. I mean, how many of these guys are there?" I wonder as I blast one back with heat vision.
"Not having fun?" Wonder Girl taunts. "By all means, step back, more Storm Troopers for me to take down."
I feel my blood boil at that. "Thanks to my upbringing, I welcome any challenge, Wonder Girl. Try to keep up."
She just smirks in response. "You might regret challenging me, Apex."
"Seriously, WG? Flirting with the guy after just meeting him? Talk about quick," Robin quips as he finds a console.
Omen laughs as she lifts some Gordanians up and throws them into another group. "Maybe he's flirting with her. Wonder Girl does have that effect on men, right, Speedy?"
Said archer just grumbles something before shooting a scatter arrow that takes down multiple Gordanians.
The Gordanian numbers begin to thin, so Wonder Girl turns to me. "Now's as good a time as any? Wouldn't you agree, Apex?"
I nod as I get into a runner's position, absorbing any blasts that happen to hit me. "Let's go blow the engine up," I launch forward, tackling through the enemy, Wonder Girl flying above me.
Using my x-ray vision, I find their armory. Signaling to Wonder Girl, we turn and break through the wall Kool-Aid Man style.
The Gordanians in the room stop what they're doing and stare at us in shock. Wonder Girl puts her sword and shield on her back as she floats next to me, cracking her knuckles as she does. "Hello, you're currently invading our home. You can either leave peacefully or you could stay and get your asses kicked by us. Please choose the second option."
Before they can react, I raise my right fist and fire at what looks like a rocket launcher, causing an explosion that probably kills them all, but thanks to my time in space, I don't really care. Wonder Girl turns to me with a pout on her face. "You're no fun."
I just smirk and ruffle her hair, much to her annoyance. "I just wanna get this over with quickly. C'mon, we've got an engine to blow up, remember?"
Her smirk quickly returns as she palms her fist. "Yes, let's blow shit up. But we also need to cause as much destruction as possible," she exits the room and enters the one across from it. "You go through there, I go through here, I'll follow you to the engine room."
Looking around with my x-ray vision, I eventually find the engine room, which happens to be straight ahead then straight down. "It isn't that far actually, go through five rooms then down two, it'll be right there. Ready?"
She stands behind her shield, ready to run through the walls. "Ready."
The two of us shoot forward, faster than speeding bullets. As we run through rooms, I emit energy blasts from my body, destroying anything in my path, using my hearing I can hear Wonder Girl's shield running through anything in her path. Once we reach the fifth room we simultaneously jump and then crash through the floors, eventually landing in the engine room.
Here we see a Gordanian who happens to be bigger than the rest surrounded by smaller Gordanians who have on what looks like technician clothing. The large Gordanian laughs as he presses a button. Wonder Girl and I look at each other in confusion. Was that supposed to do something? The ground beneath us shakes.
Quickly regaining our footing, we see the Gordanians laughing. "I recognize this feeling," I say.
Wonder Girl nods. "Same here."
My earpiece goes off, and so does Wonder Girl's. "Guys, what the hell happened? The ships taking off, and we have no control up here," Robin says.
"They repaired the engine faster than we anticipated; the captain is here amongst his engineers. Apex and I will handle it." Wonder Girl gets in a combat stance, I follow suit. The Gordanians pull out pistols, while their captain brandishes an energy axe.
"This'll be fun," I mutter.
We charge forward.
A/N 8/15/2020
The overhaul took this chapter from over 10,000 words to over 11,000. That's a lot.
So as you can see, I've made some small changes here and there, the Evolutionary looks more human-like then the original version of himself, Kory and Omen now have different suits, and I've changed up Daichi's past fifteen years, which we'll get more of later. I've also fixed a lot of mistakes, like Wonder Girl barely knowing what Storm Troopers are before she suddenly knows the prequels no problem a few chapters later.
It's little mistakes like that that lead to this overhaul, really. All the small mistakes eventually lead to big problems that need to be rectified, which is why this is happening.
This overhaul's a lot easier too, mainly because the chapters are already at my minimum word length, whereas in A Sinister Past, they're all random lengths before the Brotherhood Arc, which is 8,000 words minimum.
Well, that's all from me. If you have any questions or want to leave a constructive review you know where to leave 'em! Remember to stay awesome and see you two Saturdays from now, you beautiful people!