A/N: To people who read 31 Days of Scoobyween a good portion of this is going to sound familiar.


Xander sat in the Halloween store bummed out. Stupid kid had to go and take his gun. So much for being a soldier, now he actually has to spend money on this. Well maybe he can find something good now that he has to look. He smiled seeing the costume he is definitely wearing maybe it will get Buffy to notice him in a boy way instead of a Xander way.


Harmony frowned looking through the second rate, rather hack costumes, how is she supposed to dress nice when someone burned Party Town to the ground. She looks over at Harris with that stupid cheesy grin looking at his costume. She sees an open bottle of red paint and gets an idea on how to make his day just a little more miserable. She 'accidentally' bumped into Xander and the red paint formed an X shape at the midway point of the suit.

Ethan came over and glared at the girl truthfully he should probably thank her since he can put that suit away but he was curious as to how the hellmouth would affect him.

Harmony looked at Ethan with her best bashful look. "I'm sorry sir. I just wanted to see that Miss America costume and got clumsy." She went into her wallet and pulled out a fifty dollar bill. "Here this should pay for the damages." She gave him the fifty dollar bill and left.

Ethan went to put the costume in the trash when Xander grabbed him by the shoulder. "You want to sell that costume again?"

"It's ruined." Ethan pointed out.

Xander had an innocent smile. "You see a ruined costume, I see a costume that can be sold cheap and thanks to Harmony I no longer need to buy red underwear."

Ethan smiled this suddenly got interesting again.


Xander looked around Halloween night as everyone started becoming their costumes. Xander closed his eyes for a moment and opened his now cerulean blue eyes and looked with cold disdain. What happened to his world? He feels something hit his back turns around at the sound of a demon howling in pain holding broken fingers that used to be claws.

Willow was walking through the madness and made her way to Xander whom was holding a demon by the throat. Well at least Willow knows Xander would never hurt anyone considering who he dressed as.

Xander looked at the demon for a moment and quickly uppercutted him as the demon soared into the sky like a rocket quickly leaving Earth's atmosphere as Willow could only look in shock and pray that wasn't a little kid.

Willow glared at him. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Saving all that demon's future victims." Xander replied.

Willow looked over Xander stupid skintight blue suit is making it hard to focus. The Red cape The S shield and Harmony's paint stain has become part of the suit, that's new. "But… you don't kill people… ever. I mean I dressed up as a ghost and now I am a ghost and… and you dressed up as Superman… and now you are Superman… but Superman doesn't kill."

"Where have you been for the past few years?" Superman asked as he calmly walked up to the girl.

Willow looked at him and saw he had no regrets about what he did. Evil twin maybe? "In line for sanity… which you obviously missed." Willow replied braver then she felt.

Superman walked right towards her getting closer getting right in her face. "It is not insane to want to protect the people of this planet after Metropolis." He puts his hand out and snatches a demon by the throat.

"No!" Willow shouted. "Don't hurt it. It could just be a little kid in there."

Superman stopped and looked at her. "What do you mean a little kid?"

"Look in a rearview mirror and see for yourself? You're not you and Metropolis…still exists I read the Daily Planet everyday." Willow replied.

Superman looks in the mirror and sees at best a seventeen year old kid. "What? What in the name of Rao is this?"

Willow frowned. "I tried to tell you. You're not really Superman. Well I guess you are Superman but you're kind of in my town, in my friend's body, weird huh."

Superman frowned this is bad he has to get back to his world he wants peace but the only thing Bruce has to do is figure out a way to take down Diana, without her his One World organization could very wellcome toppling down. "So how do I get back to my world and how did this come about?"

Willow thought on it. "We all became our costumes."

Superman nodded and quickly deduced it. "The costumes must be possessed. Can you take me to where you found them?"

Willow quickly nodded happy to see that she has rounded up this Superman for some backup. Even if he does have a few screws loose. "Of course just let me find Buffy, if you really became Superman, then she became a worthless little noble." Willow looked for her and instantly spotted her. "There"

They both moved to her and Buffy's eyes widen in fear seeing demons approach.

Willow simply sighed. "Great, now what do we do?"

Superman chose the much more time effective way of putting his fist through a car obliterating it to pieces and scaring the demons off. Buffy just pointed at him and shouted. "Witch! He's a Witch!" She started to run fleeing the monster.

Superman rolled his eyes in frustration this is too weird to him he runs over to Buffy in a blur and quickly taps her in the head causing the former slayer to drop like a brick. He turns to Willow and is now curious about something. "Is there a Lois Lane in your world?"

Willow looked down at Buffy it's kind of scary to know how easily she can be taken out even if she wasn't a noble woman. She looks at this Superman and it's clear something broke in him so he'll never find out there is a Lois Lane from her and is thankful that as a ghost she doesn't have a heartbeat as she replied with the lie. "No it's some girl called… Chloe Sullivan that does all your stories in this world."

Superman cradled Buffy in his arms. He gets sent to another world and of course it's one without Lois. A world he'd never want to live in. The Joker must have killed her in this world too. He was going to hide the mystical macguffin that put him in this world but not anymore, now, he just wants to go home. "I see, let's go to this costume shop and break your spell."


Superman walked up to the Ethan's costume shop with Willow and Buffy in his arms and he gently deposits the noblewoman on a bench to keep her away from the fight. "Watch her, if anyone comes near her scream."

"Shouldn't I go with you?" Willow asked.

Superman looked at them with a silent scowl. "And do what? The princess will pass out again and you can't touch him."

"Good point, we'll wait." Willow replied.

Superman walked into the store and saw an older Englishman walk up to him. "So I take it this was your idea."

"Yes the ultimate be careful what you wish for." Ethan replied.

"It's perverted and it hurts the innocent." Superman countered standing tall and making himself look a lot more intimidating. "Break it!"

"Say please boyscout." Ethan quipped knowing Superman won't kill him.

Superman looked at him and gave a little smile. "It's OK you probably can't hear me that well with your ear injury."

Ethan stood stumped for a moment before he felt his mouth frozen as Superman ran up in a blur and ripped his left ear off as he screamed in muffled pain from the ice.

Superman watched as he calmed down and started breathing regularly. "OK, since I know you have a hearing problem let me repeat myself, how do I turn off your spell!"


Superman came out with Ethan chained up and a statue of Janus in his hand.

Willow looked at Ethan. "What happened to his ear?"

Superman looked at Ethan. "It required a flesh sacrifice he chose his ear. I could always lobotomize him if you want."

"No, no, just break the spell." Willow insisted.

Superman shrugged and broke the statue.


Xander looked around and thank god he's back. That was one majorly warped Superman who would have thought his hero could become the thing you fear most in under an hour. Buffy pries her wig off thankful to be back and thankful for slayer healing feeling the grand mountain of bumps on her head.

Buffy turned to Xander. "That was one seriously screwed up Superman."

Xander nodded in agreement. "You're telling me? Thank god Willow kept her mouth shut about Lois. He would have hidden the statue on Venus and try to claim this planet for his own. I'd hate to see the property damage alone from a fight between two Supermen."

Buffy smiled but quickly turned to nothing. "Where's Willow?"

Xander only gives an innocent shrug. With what he knows from Zatanna she's likely back in her body. "I'm guessing wherever she died at, don't worry she's alive and perfectly healthy."

Buffy looked at him. "So, what did you think of that number she wore tonight?"

Xander looked at her and sighed. "Look Buffy I know Willow has a thing for me… but... I don't." He cuts off the real reason quickly and changed his answer. He's really not sure of anything now. Willow stood up to the world's greatest monster and put him to work for her and got him off the world. He never realized she had that in her.

Buffy shrugged and turned around and spotted no Ethan either. "Oh great, well I'm going to go tell Giles about this, are you OK alone?"

"I know my way around the hellmouth, even though I'll probably stand out like a nightlight in this thing." Xander replied calmly leaving as Buffy went the other direction.


Xander walked a couple blocks and just smiled. "Trust me guys,you really don't want to do this."

Spike came out smiling in game form along with ten other vampires. According to Dru the slayer's not weak anymore thanks to her black knight. He sees Xander and decides a royally brassed off slayer would be going in blind, full of rage, and stupid. "Well what can I say I can't help myself?"

Spike punched and quickly pulled his hand back and cradled his now four broken fingers. "How the hell are you still Superman?"

Xander smiled as his eyes glowed red. "This wasn't the first occasion Magic has made me its butt monkey and the hyena from the original spell had a really hard time giving up the godly powers of Superman."

Two beams shot out of his eyes glowing red and burning with fire as it hit Spike and all his vampires turning them to dust. Xander had a simple smile and calmly kept walking thankful he still remembers all Crazy Supes knows about his powers so he's not driven insane by superhearing. Life on the hellmouth is about to get a lot more interesting.


Xander sat in the library the next morning speed reading through Giles books trying to see if this is permanent while the radio plays gentle songs until it ended up telling a breaking news story form Gotham.

"After a long chase the vigilante known as Batman has finally apprehended the Clown Prince of Crime the Joker. Police say the psychopath added another thirteen to his list of casualties during his week long escape from Arkham where he is currently being transferred to…"

The rest was cut off by Xander getting to his feet in blind anger and throwing the radio at the wall. That clown will never stop, not as long as he draws breath. He closed the book and slammed his fists on his knees the only thing here that can take the punch as a miniquake shook the library from the impact.

'You know what you have to do. End it now, save millions.'

Giles came in with Buffy and saw the frustrated look on Xander's face. "Xander what's wrong?"

"Psych thing I read last night in a book." Xander looked at them that Superman was psychotic, maybe he just needs a fresh ear. "What if you knew that millions of people were going to die? But you can stop it, by killing one man that brought it on himself a thousand times over. Would you?"

"Xander, we don't judge who lives or who dies."

"Absolutely"

Buffy turned to her watcher upset. "Giles!"

Giles innocently shrugged. "What you would put the fate of one monster among millions of people I might do it even if it was an innocent person."

Buffy looked at Giles that was very dark. She shrugged. "Let's just change the subject." She wants happy thoughts right now not murder.

Xander nodded and got to his feet. That seemed like a plan. "Sure, I'd rather not be in a musty library all day anyway."


Xander got outside and quietly left the school to a nice isolated area in Sunnydale. He bended his knees with a smile as he took to the sky flying for Gotham with nothing but a mask and gloves. The smile quickly faded when he realized what he's about to do. No smiles, no nothing, just him the clown and a cage.

'Good, end it now before anyone else gets hurt.'


Xander flies to Gotham and looks from the top of Arkham Asylum. With x-ray vision he quickly spotted the Joker's room and bull dozed through and grabbed the clown by his shirt. "Clown!" He throws him at the wall and burns the camera with heat vision before it can even catch him.

Joker got up with a smile laughing about this new guy's appearance from his shirt with the ski mask. "The newest recruit to the Justice League, Moo Moo, sends all villains running in fear of his shirts."

Xander pushed him into the wall hard denting it. "SHUT UP!"

Joker stopped for a moment recognizing the eyes. "Alright, let's hear it, what did I do to you?"

"What if I told you that you killed my family." Xander replied.

Joker smiled. "Yeah, I do that. So who was it exactly, dear old mom and dad, wifey poo?"

Xander looked at him coldly in the eyes. "If I told who you killed, would you even recognize the name?"

"Nah, I like multiple choice too much to resign myself to one. Like the last one, I think it was a teenage girl, Lilah, or maybe Lilly, well whatever her name was she screamed on key. Do you have any idea how rare that is?" Joker said with an ear to ear grin.

'Do it kid, save Metropolis, save them all'

Xander nodded expecting an answer like that that as he punched the wall next to him. "Then we're done here. You know I don't have anything against you it's just kill one, save millions."

Joker's eyes widened in fear not him he's a no one it should be Bats or Superman even. "You're a good guy you're not a murderer.

Xander looked at him for a moment as his fist opened showing doubt.

'What are you doing you can't let him get away. You know what will happen, you have the power to stop him. Do it!'

Xander looked at him he's afraid almost scared but not showing fear. 'He's harmless…'

'Today! How many times was he harmless in Gotham,in these very walls even, he never stayed it.'

Joker took a breath of relief but now he's kind of disappointed. "Just a little copy of the bat aren't you."

Xander looked at him as his fist closed but he still hesitated.

'What are you doing end it now! Look you're a good person. No one wants to be a murderer but you know what happens if you don't do this Jimmy… Lois. What would you do if what happened in Metropolis happens in Sunnydale.'

Xander looked away and quietly thought to himself. 'He might stop. I could break his body.'

'He's come back from far worse and if he finds out who you are. He'll go after your friends. Have you forgotten the memories of the people that have suffered because of him, the graveyards he's filled? What he did to Jason because it was too much fun to risk killing Bruce. The whole sick game will start over again with you. Maybe he'll start with Buffy all he has to do is throw a baby at her and that will give him the window needed to kill her. And then Willow well she's easily kidnapped maybe a crowbar and dynamite, maybe he'll make a weekend of it.'

Xander's eyes glowed red as he pushed the Joker against the wall.

'Do it!'

Xander just threw a punch and looked in shock seeing he has punched through the Joker's stomach. Joker looked at him and simply died laughing when Xander punched through the rest of his stomach as Gotham's worst murderer hit the floor dead.

Xander stood in shock at what he's just done looking at the clown's corpse. He looks at his own blood stained hand and quietly backs away before disappearing flying back to Sunnydale.


Hours later, Commissioner Gordon was at the now crime scene that used to be the Joker's cell as they cart the psychopath off. Gordon rested against the wall as an obese man in a suit stood up and looked at him. "Commish, does it really matter if we actually investigate this? I mean with the exception of his little tweety bird in the female cell blocks it's not like anyone is going to miss the Joker after all the people he's done in."

"Harvey" Jim said softly.

Harvey Bullock shrugged he just thinks cops can be spending their time on better things it's not like they've lost the patron saint of Gotham. "Just saying no one is going to miss this yahoo." Bullock sees a figure from the shadows dressed in a lot of black. "Except for maybe that yahoo."

Gordon turns and sees Batman emerge from the shadows. "Had a feeling you'd show up."

"Any idea who did this?" Batman asked looking around he can't count how many times he's actually dreamed of doing it but who would kill the Joker while he's in Arkham, the other inmates scare each other with Joker stories.

"No, and I'm pulling myself off the case after tonight. I think I might end up shaking the hand of whoever killed Sarah's killer before bringing him in." Gordon replied somberly looking at the clown's body bag as it leaves for the morgue.

Batman looked at him calmly and he could understand that. Gordon shot Joker in the legs when he murdered Sarah and all the Joker did was laugh at him for not being able to go through with it. He looks up at the camera and sees a clue most people would be oblivious too. But he's been around Superman enough to know what a Heat Vision burn mark looks like.


Clark Kent was in bed with his wife Lois Lane Kent whom quickly turned a deep shade of red and released her legs from Clark's waist and pulled a blanket over her naked body covering herself before shouting. "Bruce! What the fuck! Bat perv."

Bruce just quietly turned to Clark. "Rooftop, now"

Clark didn't say a word knowing his resolve face. He turned to Lois his constant source of support in Metropolis. "Wish me luck because if this was just a robbery, I'm going to kill him."

Lois smiled and kissed him. "Good Luck Smallville."

Clark came out on the roof in full Superman gear right down to the red underwear. "Bruce you better have a good reason for this."

"Where were you earlier today? About 12:30 Gotham time." Bruce asked.

Clark thought it through he wasn't saving anyone so for the past two weeks that meant. "With Lois in the Planet utility closet."

Batman rolled his eyes earth's greatest champion folks. "Don't you two do anything else?"

Superman smirked it's not his fault that he sees life outside the cape while Bruce has all but abandoned it. "Emil is making progress with merging our DNA."

Batman remained calm he's happy for Clark, he's practically the team dad of the Justice League, they deserve to have a child of their own but they have a serious problem. "So, has anyone escaped from the Phantom zone lately?"

Clark shakes his head. "I'd know of it and all of the robots are in perfect functioning order as far as I know. Bruce what's going on?"

"There's another Kryptonian on earth." Bruce replied knowing how Clark will react.

Clark took a moment and let that sink in he's not the last, there is another. A quiet smile forms on his face. "Where is he?"

"He or she was in Gotham earlier today." Bruce looks at Clark's smile if he seemed peaceful he wouldn't have had a problem given the control he has over his powers. However when the first thing you do is kill a man it makes him uneasy. "Whoever it was killed the Joker."

Clark stood stumped at him. "We both know what that clown was like maybe he just picked the wrong guy to be his victim."

Bruce looked at him. "He murdered the Joker in Arkham Asylum."

Clark frowned after Brainiac and Zod is it too much to ask for one piece of Krypton to survive that was good. "Just help me find him before he hurts anyone else."


Xander was in the bathroom of his own house taking off the gloves he was afraid of history repeating itself and Bruce finding him. He looked at his hands and realized the blood soaked through the gloves as he ran them under the sink desperate to make his hands clean. He killed a man. He flat out murdered him… but he had to. He had to right?


Author Notes

Injustice Gods among us is owned by DC and Netherealm

I wanted to get feedback before even thinking further on this story with Xander killing someone.