Answers to reviews:
REX5678: He looks a bit like DMC 3 Dante but with Nero's DMC 5 hairstyle.
DragonMack: Thank you for your opinion.
SonikNaoko: Yeah, but I've done a DC New 52 Spawn story hundreds of times and failed to finish it. And yeah, the cartoon is great, same with JL Unlimited.
Drake was sitting on top of a rooftop in Red Grave City the week after his trip to Metropolis and meeting Supergirl. He was watching a live stream of Metropolis TV news on his phone, which was about Superman and putting the burden of protecting the whole world on his shoulders, he even deactivated nuclear missiles.
"Good evening, this is Snapper Carr reporting. It's been six months since Senator J. Allen Carter's disarmament plan was gratified. While Superman has been working round the clock to disarm hundreds of deadly warheads, public support had swelled."
The screen changed to Superman taking apart the missiles stored within the artillery room then switching to the citizens cheering him on in approval of his actions.
"Yet some remain skeptical."
The screen switched to Snapper Carr having an interview with a man wearing a red bodysuit which has a mask with yellow wing ornaments on both sides, lightning bolt designs on the waist and gloves, yellow boots and the emblem comprising of a lightning bolt over a white disc on the chest. Drake recognized him to be The Flash with the title of the Fastest Man alive.
"Ey! The big guy's heart is in the right but give me a break, I'm the fastest man alive." The Flash dashed in a red blur to appear behind the reporter to tap him on the shoulder before returning to his previous position. "And even I can't be in five places at once."
"Still, with more missiles being dismantled every day, most of us can rest knowing that Superman is watching over us." said Snapper Carr.
Drake ended the streaming with a slight frown on his face, true those nuclear missiles possess great potential for destruction but on the other hand, it is the strongest offensive weapon against opposing forces. He could also acknowledge that Superman was pretty powerful judging from his past milestones but Flash has a good point, the Man of Steel can't possibly shoulder the entire world's burdens all by himself.
"Then again, I do have the burden of protecting all of humanity from the demons." Drake said with a shrug as he realized that he and Superman had placed the burden of protecting the whole world on their shoulders. Superman against any criminal and extra-terrestrial threats. Drake against demonic forces.
Drake came out of his thoughts when he looked up into the sky upon hearing a strange sounds only to see large flaming meteorite fall from the sky crash into the middle of Metropolis, which wasn't that far from Red Grave City and was across the bay actually.
"What the hell is that?" Drake asked with a frown before he put his mask on over his mouth and nose and took off to get a ride to Metropolis...
Over at Metropolis, Clark Kent was in the bathroom and washing his face at the sink. After watching the late news about him as Superman disarming the missiles to the citizens' approval, he went to bed for a restful night when he was assaulted with the grotesque visions once more and was the reason why he went to the bathroom to clear his mind. His thoughts strayed to the new hero whom he had met with Batman and recalled how he too had the same visions and spoke of them as warnings but can't seem to figure it out though.
*Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep*
His super hearing suddenly picked up the sound of beeping which he recognized to be coming from one of his signal watches that he had given to Batman, he quickly put on his suit and took to the air whilst tracing the sound to an abandoned Star Labs building. He went inside and looked around as the sound got louder then he saw a familiar gloved hand holding the signal watch underneath two fallen metal shelves.
"Oh no, Batman!" he quickly flew over and flung away the shelves to reveal the unconscious Dark Knight before scooping him up in his arms. He was planning to carry him to the hospital when he suddenly noticed something flying by through the window and saw it to be a large flaming meteor as it crashed into the city's park. Superman flew overhead and placed Batman under care of the medics nearby and went to investigate the meteorite as the firefighters worked on putting out the flames with the SWAT team nearby for any potential and the media had also arrived to record the whole thing.
"Look at the size of that thing!" said one of the squad members in wonder.
"Stay back, it's still hot," said another cautiously.
Suddenly something burst out from the meteor, revealing to be a white and red leg which came down towards the two squad members and almost crushed them had it not been for Superman's timely intervention, then two more legs burst out before standing upright to reveal a central bulbous head with a red 'eye' supported by them.
"Incredible…is it some kind of a machine?" Snapper Carr asked in wonder.
The strange being's 'eye' narrowed before a red laser beam shot out of it and destroyed a nearby police car, that was more than enough to let the people know that it wasn't friendly in the least bit so Superman flew at it with a fist reared back only to be blasted by a laser beam and sent crashing down to the ground unconscious. The policemen and SWAT squad all opened fire at the hostile organic machine but to no effect and had to scramble out of the way. Suddenly, a pair of missiles slammed into the walker and it came from a black jet in which a recovered Batman was piloting it, however the projectiles had not effect on the walker and quickly took evasive action from its return fire.
"Okay, when I made that joke of an alien invasion being like that War of the Worlds film with tom Cruise in it... I WAS BEING SARCASTIC!" Drake said as he avoided being blasted from red beams being fired at him by some kind of white, tripod alien thing that was probably about near the same size as the tripods from that War of the Worlds film he mentioned.
Drake was firing Ebony and Ivory at the tripod alien repeatedly but was seeing how little damage his shots were doing to it, so he holstered his guns and brought out Rebellion before he charged, leaping over cars and jumping from car to truck then he jumped at the tripod for a swing of his sword but ended up getting blasted in the side by the tripod, sending him crashing into a pizza truck and covering him in pizza.
"Dammit." Drake grunted as he stood, shaking the pizza off his coat. "Now I'm gonna smell like pizza... shame I can't steal some of these slices because they smell good."
he stepped out of the truck when he heard a cracking sound and turned to see a similar meteorite breaking open for two more alien walkers to appear out of it and started firing at the city like the first one.
"This is a total clusterfuck." Drake sighed before he looked around for Superman and found him... flying away from the battle? "Where the hell is he going?"
Drake saw the Batwing turning to follow and he quickly ran, using one of the walkers to run up them then leaped and caught onto the jet before perching himself on the wing. He saw batman giving him a narrowed-eye look and merely waved before pointing at Superman. The cockpit opened and Drake allowed himself in.
On an island unknown to all except for the inhabitants, two women dressed in white one-piece garments, sat on horses as they stood at the beach and staring into the horizon.
"These omens don't bode well, mother. Mankind may be facing its darkest hour," said the black haired woman with worry.
"Then mankind would have to face it alone," said the blonde haired woman stoically.
"How can you say that?"
"Whatever happens beyond these shores is not our concern," the blonde steered her horse back to their home "Here the gods will protect us,"
The black haired woman felt unsure "I hope you're right,"
Back with Drake, he and Batman tracked Superman down to a snowy mountainous area where there is a military base built into a mountainside. They also saw tipped over trucks and jeeps, and disabled tanks. They landed on the ground and took note of the hole in the wall which they passed through. The duo walked down the hall when Batman took note of a slightly ajar door and approached to open it only to be stunned upon seeing a large cluster of what appears to be pods with half naked people imprisoned inside of them.
"What the heck happened to them?" asked Drake in worry.
"I found a trio of scientists inside pods with the abandoned Star Labs warehouse, I suspect that these invaders were on Earth before this invasion occurred and were responsible for the recent events," said Batman.
"We need to find Superman and see why he came here, we'll free the prisoners once the place is truly safe," Batman nodded in affirmation to the Cambion's suggestion. They then heard the sound of loud banging against metal and traced the sound to see Superman punching away at a huge metal door, Batman flung a batarang to hit the wall next to him to catch his attention.
"Hold it Superman! Destroying government property isn't your style, what's going on?" asked Batman.
"See for yourself," Superman pulled the steel door out and tossed it aside, they walked through a room ladened with computers which seem to monitor the health of something, then Superman broke through another door for them to see some sort of green being strapped and secured to a machine. It's arms and legs were secured with advance locks and a strange headpiece rested on the alien's head.
"What is it?" Batman asked with curiosity, having never seen a being like him before and given some of the threats and allies he's run into over the years as the caped crusader, that's saying something.
"Mankind's only hope." Superman said in a quiet voice. Then he pushed up twin levers to deactivate the shackles and catch the alien when he almost fell "He has been trying to reach me telepathically but that stasis field interfered. When his message finally broke through, I came to rescue him,"
"What's he doing here?"
"It must have something to do with the invasion," said Drake, then the alien looked up to them.
"You're indeed correct about it," Drake and Batman were taken by surprised upon hearing the voice of a male in their minds "I came to warn you but I was captured and imprisoned here, they wouldn't listen,"
"Big surprise," Batman spoke sarcastically.
"I sense you do not trust me, perhaps this will help," the alien then transformed into a more human shaped form while wearing a blue cape with a high collar which has two red straps crossing his chest in an 'X' formation, blue tights with a red belt and yellow buckle, and blue boots "I am J'onn J'onzz," the alien held his hand out in greeting but Batman didn't budge.
Drake was the one to take his hand and shake. "It's nice to meet you. I wouldn't worry about Batman, I think he's like that a lot."
"He is." Superman said with a small grin at Batman who just looked annoyed. "Doesn't trust anyone."
"A wise policy." J'onn said.
The group were making their way out of the base with Superman intending to have them go and meet with the joint chiefs to plan a defense against the invaders when they were suddenly flashed with bright lights and they saw the military army with their firearms aimed at them.
"Stop right there Superman, you're trespassing in a restricted area! Our orders are to keep that freak in!" said the apparent leader.
Superman stepped forward to speak with the commander "Wait! I'll vouch for him, you must let us go!"
"I don't think so,"
Superman was about to plead further when Drake suddenly whipped out Ebony and shot the commander in the head to the shock of the heroes but Drake's action was justified when the commander turned into a white alien.
"How did you know he wasn't human?" Batman asked, glancing at Drake.
"He didn't smell like it." Drake said as he unsheathed Rebellion. "And neither do the rest of them."
The rest of the 'soldiers' morphed into their true forms. The aliens slowly approached the heroes with their guns aimed at them to fire...
That's it for this chapter. Sorry it looks crap, but I'm working on the arc. It might be a five-part arc, or 4-part. As for the harem... it'll be revealed at the end of this arc.
I still want to hear opinions and ideas on who should be the MC for the DC new 52 story. Drake Redgrave or Spawn?