Justice League: Heroes Of A Generation
Chapter 1: A Game Enters the Fray
WARNING: I own none of these characters sides from my OC(s). All rights go to their respective owners and properties.
This is nothing more than, well a fanfic, a story made up by a fan for entertainment and knowledge.
Everything in this fic is not canon and is only meant to give the audience a new idea of the works of each of the franchises in this story.
So please support me, my work and have some fun. Now enjoy the story. ^w^
15 years ago….
It was a much simpler time, one without many wars, troubles, and world wide crimes with superheroes and more. It was a time where everything just felt at peace and there wasn't an overabundance of heroes and villains battling it out. Even science was still working on new breakthroughs and more.
And out in one area of the USA, within the forest of one of the states laid a cabin. A very nice log cabin, that while is cozy, also had the tech for a modern day home. Inside was several inventions and more, including the birthplace of many ideas.
In one room, was filled the brim with drawings of characters, stages, and more. It was the birthplace of a new game designer. This was a very young boy, as inside he was drawing up a new idea for characters. He had short, yet messy dirty blond hair and bright blue eyes that hid behind a nice pair of glasses. The child hummed to himself as he was thinking of this new game idea for his father's company.
You see, this child is Cody Aldrich, the son of Absolon Aldrich, the CEO and creator of the best game company in the world, Genm Corp. This company has made millions of new games and ideas for the world for the past several years, and now it wants to slowly expand towards more business ideas, but that is still unknown yet.
Cody has always loved video games since he could remember, and upon turning 6 he now started to get ideas and more for new games for his father's company that he wanted to run sometime in the future. New ideas flooded his head none stop, and lately, he thought of 10 new game ideas and was finishing up some of the touches. He was a prodigy of video game creators.
His father though, was amazed to see his son think of these new ideas when he started it at the age of 5, and since then, his father also started to add them to the Genm Corp products, and have been selling hit after hit, and with these new games, who knows what it could accomplish?
"Cody? It's dinner! Hold off the brain-train for now and come eat!" His mother called out below.
Cody looked up, a bit sad that he couldn't have more time to finish this new game idea he got, but decided to let it go for now and head downstairs for lunch. Once there, he was greeted with his mother, Angela Aldrich. She was a beautiful woman in her mid 30's with long golden blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She smiled softly at her son before hugging him.
"Is my little man still thinking of ideas?" She asked, knowing how much he loves to know about games.
"Yeah! This one I think is gonna sell more than Mighty Action X!" He smiled.
Angela gasped softly, "Really? But that has been your pride and joy. It was the first game to make the company almost priceless."
"I know! But I think this can work even better than before!" He smiled brightly before his mother hugged him once more.
"And I'm sure many would love to play it too." She smiled at him, "Now go sit, lunch is ready."
Cody nodded as he rushed towards the table and sat down as he started to eat, his mother joining him. As for Absolon? Well, lately he has been busy, trying to expand the company to change it from just a game company, to one that could rival the legendary Wayne Foundation. And with the rate with how their games are going, it may not be long.
The two continued to eat along with the occasional chats to talk about the ideas, since Cody trusted his mother no matter what. But as they do they soon hear a car roll in, both looked over as they heard the door slam. Both knew that he was home now, and hoped everything went well at the meeting…. Or so they thought at this time.
*SLAM!*
Absolon stormed inside, his face red with anger as he struggled to get his lousy suit and tie off. They haven't seen him this angry since Genm Corp almost went bankrupt over their last failure, JuJu Burger. The elder man was in his late 30's, with black hair and brown eyes as he walked over before grabbing something in the fridge to calm his nerves down.
Angela frowned as she got up and walked over to the man, "Honey? I… take it the meeting went bad?" She asked.
"Bad? No… A lousy disaster!" He snapped, causing his wife and son to flinch, "The board declined my offer to expand! And even the high and mighty, 'Bruce Wayne' refused to even help me! Saying I should stick with running it as a Game Company!"
"Absolon… I'm sorry…" Angela said softly, almost reaching for him before he slapped her hand away.
"Don't touch me…." He growled.
"You don't need to take it out on me. And not in front of our son…" Angela said softly, muttering that last part.
"He can hear for all I fucking care for!" He shouted out, grabbing some medicine to help with his headache before taking it down with some water.
"Absolon!" Angela shouted out.
Cody though could only look at his parents with sadness and confusion. He hasn't seen his father this mad in a long time. And worst of all was them fighting. He doesn't like to see them like this. He could only tear up with fear as he covered his ears and whimpers softly.
'Make it stop.. Please… mom, dad… make it stop!' He cried out in his thoughts, their voices raising higher and higher as his stress began to build up. But that only made it worse. Cody soon grunts in pain, holding his body as he dropped to the ground. Both of the parents heard that as their eyes widen, rushing to their son.
"Oh god… Not again!" Absolon got out, with fear.
"Honey, I thought you took care of that already?" Angela scolded.
"I have! But this strain isn't normal like others viruses!" He snapped back. Only causing to Cody groan in pain as the static on his body grew more, causing them to gasp and look at one another.
"It's us…." They said in unison before they both stood up and rushed towards a door nearby. It opened up, revealing a flight of stairs before they went down into it. Below the house was a large lab, filled the brim with tech and more along with a tube full of orange, flesh-like substance as it reacted and glowed softly as well.
The two parents soon reached a table as they placed Cody on their, he groans in pain as the static continued, with tears running down his face. They placed on some wires and stabilizing tubes onto him, before Absolon placed what looked to be a VR headset and placed it on his head.
"Hurry!" Angela cried out.
Absolon then placed a blank, black, empty cartridge inside the machine nearby before pressing the buttons, and flipping the switches on the console nearby. He typed away before pressing enter. Cody yells out in pain, as the static soon formed into the same orange flesh before being sucked up into the tube as it flew over and into the large containment tube once more.
In moments the young boy's cries soon died off before he laid there, sleeping soundly. Both Angela and Absolon sighed with relief as they powered the devices down as they walked over to their son. The father soon lifted up what looked to be a stethoscope, but modified as he pressed on it as a screen formed.
"He's fine… The virus is now contained again…" He said with relief.
"That was too close…" Angela sighed, lifting his son up as she looked at him, "For now on… Let's try not to fight in front of our son…" she said before heading up to tuck her son in.
Absolon groaned as he leaned against the tube. Ever since that day, the day he finished his first game, Mighty Action X, his son was somehow infected with an odd virus that was dormant within the software. Something akin to the Y2K bug from long ago yet mutated and altered somehow through its coding.
It was confusing how such a thing could happen, along with how it could even affect humans. Though it only came when he was stressed out. Luckily, it's only been shown at home, and when they fight. And luckily, they have some way to contain it… For now.
But that wasn't the issue now, he needed something new. If he didn't find a new method to combat this new problem he has with the board and his company, he will lose it. They already told him about his replacement if he doesn't get his act together.
But they couldn't do that. It was HIS company! He built it up and worked on it with all of his blood, sweat and tears. They couldn't throw him out of his own creation! But the only thing that somewhat saved it for a while was his son…. His son created these new games and ideas, ones…. That Absolon could never have thought of…. And he hated that… He hated that someone had more potential for this job than him.
And cause of this, he's about to lose his company for good. His marriage is also in turmoil. And he needed something to get him out of this problem, and a new game won't solve it… So what will? Absolon began to ponder more and more before he looked up at the tube, the tube that had this odd virus that came from his son and that incident….. One… that was technically his…. Something he created….
"Yes… that's it…." Absolon said softly, devious and vile grin on his face. He knew exactly what to do.
(Insert Op - DIE SET DOWN - Amazons Season 2)
(Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow….. Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow, Wow…..)
As the song and instruments start off, flashes of fights, war, and the Earth set ablaze is shown. The symbols of the greatest heroes are shown before they shatter away to reveal the title card with the gashat collection glowing behind it.
[Konoyo ni uma reta koto ga kienai tsumi to iunara, Ikiru koto ga sō shoishi batsudarou? Oh nooooo!]
The screen soon shifts away to reveal Cody, standing in the rain as images of his childhood, before he was brought back into the present by Poppy hugging him.
It then cuts to the memories that show off faint images of Absolon unleashing the Bugster virus, infecting everyone on the planet. This then cuts once more to his mother fading into nothing as the young man stand there with Proto-Mighty Action X in hand.
[Jubaku to sukui no Labyrinth, Kokoro ga mō ikigurushī ]
In the city, sirens blare off as the young man rushes over towards the scene, as he does he runs by a few TV's that show off the feats and prowess of the greatest heroes. Superman, saving those from a crashing plane, Batman for stopping a heist, Wonder Woman as she holds off a terrorist, and more.
[Sakki made inochidatta mono ga atariichimen ni korogaru. OH YEAH!]
As Cody reaches the scene, The members of the Justice League are there, dealing with the members of The Secret Society, each one dealing with their main villain as the young man stands there with a smirk, strapping on his Driver as he brings up the gashat, pressing on it.
(Wow Wow Wow Take your Amazons!) [Shinderu yō ni ikitakunai]
Kamen Rider Genm then makes an entrance, charging ahead as he helped out the heroes, as now waves of Bugsters follow suit as he dons on his Lv 3, 4, 5 and X forms. Each member dealing with it on their own as Genm starts clearing out the threats before Para-Dx joins in the fray.
(Wow Wow Wow, fate must be done!) [Nokotta hon'nō mo sō kurai tsukuseyo]
From afar, The Bugtsers stands there, as Chronos stand there next to the homunculus. The members of the Justice League and Cody now stand there, glaring at them as the threat of Fuma and his clan looms over them.
(Wow Wow Wow Take your Amazons!) [Tatakau sadame hitotsudake no kotae, DIE SET DOWN!]
Cody and Chronos fight it out, rushes of their energy clashing against one another as Cody soon gains his God Maximum Mighty X, while dealing with the dark rider. It then cuts away with Cody and the League standing in the watchtower, overlooking Earth only for the screen to gain static and show the title card one last time.
Present Day….
A new brightful day has started. One filled with life within the area of New York City. Cars were driving around, people walking to either their jobs, coming back from it, or simply doing their own business. It was a busy day for sure.
And in the outskirts of the water, not too far near the Statue of Liberty stood a large landmass floating there. It was very high-tech and with one large logo on it that read 'GENM CORP' on it. It was the ultimate video game company that stood there and right now was having a meeting.
Inside the room sat several people, including one male with short black hair and orange highlights as he continued his chat with the board, showing sale numbers, opinions of the mass, and more within the company.
Though on the other end of the table among the many other executives was a now grown up Cody Aldrich at the ripe age of 21, sitting there with a bit of a bored look as he seemed to be writing down another idea for a game, not willing to listen about this meeting.
He continued to do so before someone nudged him, next to him was a young woman with short black hair, glasses and wearing a proper uniform. "You really should pay more attention here." She whispered to him.
"I rather go out and find the victims and stop this madness…" he responded softly to her.
"You know they won't let you do that."
"Has that ever stopped me before, Asuna?" He responded to the woman. She gave him a look before he sighed as he stopped jotting down the ideas and looked up. On the screen showed several of the games that have made the company stand tall within the gaming community, with the recent release of Shakariki Sports: Worldwide.
"As you can see, Shakariki Sports: Worldwide has now fully beaten in sales and the community for many sports games, gamers and more. EA also has wanted to join our parties to make a new idea for the game and I intend that we agree to it." One member informed the other members of the board nodding.
"What say you, Cody?" The male with orange highlights asked as the other members turned to him.
Cody pondered over the idea, while EA still held the many rights to several sports games, they still lacked a lot of materials and ideas for their series, especially since they continue to go after trends and microtransactions.
Even after the Loot Boxes fiasco back in the late 2010's, and caused the now used documentations for the Gambling Committee Act that soon made such practices almost banned if they weren't regulate, hence why his game overshadowed theirs.
"While the assets of EA seems to be promising on what they proposed for the company financially, I believe it would be better to decline." Cody responded, surprising the members.
"Are you sure? After all, EA does have quite the large amount of stocks." One member noted.
"The very same EA that dropped many of their IP's, bought well known companies before turning them into assets and barely focused much on their content. With them always going after money and stocks than its player base, they barely care to breath new life into their games, both current and old." Cody reminded them.
"If we let them into this deal, they can easily just drop the game off and barely care for it, or change it from a loving game to one that nobody even cares anymore. May I need to remind you all of blunder of Battlefront 1 and 2 they 'remade'?"
The members groaned and nodded, knowing how poorly those games were to the masses, "My point exactly. While EA's invitation looks fine financially, it is not the best choice. So until they get their act together and act like a gaming company, no deal." Cody finished.
The board members all nodded, understanding the situation and ideas that EA could end up ruining. Even though both Fallen Order and Star Wars: Squadron was a return to form, they still have much to learn and fix from what they almost torn down once again.
"Very well.. I'll let EA know our decision. Meeting adjourned." The male said as everyone started to get up and head out, only leaving Cody, Asuna, and the male inside the room. He then crossed his arms and smirked. "You truly should pay more attention to these meetings…"
"It's not my fault I'm only on here because my games saved everything." Cody stated, "I rather-"
"Run the company." The male finished, "Yes we all know… And you already know why the board won't accept that." He reminded, causing Cody to clench his fist tightly, "As well as why they don't want you to deal with the problems he created."
"That hasn't stopped you from helping me, Uncle Drex." Cody reminded.
Drex smirked and nodded, "Well, you are my nephew after all. And with what he did? How could I not help you out in secret? Plus it's the best way for me to try and repent for what happened to my sister after all." He pointed out. "Shall we head down and see any news, since now that the meeting is done?"
"Please… I wanna get out there and beat some Bugsters." Cody smirked.
Drex nodded as he walked over to the poster cases near by, showing off all of the games posters there with Mighty Action X in the middle. He pressed on the game character icon as it soon folded in before pulling apart, revealing a large lab inside, complete with a large computer screen.
The trio soon headed inside as the entrance closed as they continued to walk through the lab that also held new items, weapons, and even devices.
"Ah! Mister Aldrich! Glad you could make it!" One person called out, near the large computer sat a very young girl with medium long pink hair and yellow highlights. She had a lab coat on, but underneath was a turtleneck with the mascot of Doremifa Beat on it, along with a frilly skirt. But the weirdest thing was the fact that she looked to be in middle school.
"Janet, how many times do I remind you to just call me 'Cody'?" The young male smiled at her.
"About 18,412 times." Janet smiled before the young male chuckled and ruffled the young girl's hair.
"Anything new on the scans?" He asked her.
"No Bugster signs yet."
"Poppy? Sensed any on your way here?" Drex asked as he turned to Asuna.
She smiled before saying, "Costume Change!" The young woman soon spun around as she started to glow and take shape.
Standing there now was a young woman wearing an idol outfit, that was colored with a yellow top with a white shirt underneath, along with a pink, green, and yellow skirt that had hearts, and musical notes on it, while on her now short pink hair stood a small green and yellow hat with a note on it.
"Nope~! I wasn't able to sense any Bugsters or infected people on our way here, CEO!" Poppy shook her head.
"Maybe we got everyone in New York City?" Janet responded.
"Or some were able to move across country…." Cody frowned before sighing, "If I just knew about it sooner, I could've stopped that madman…" He said clenching the table before Poppy placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Don't be like that, Cody. You couldn't have known about his intentions at that age…." Poppy reassured him softly.
The young adult nodded as he sighed, "You're right…. Thanks Poppy." He smiled at her before turning to the young girl. "Then, seems we need to test out the new scanner."
"About time~! I was getting tired of waiting to test out my baby!" Janet smiled as she soon cracked her fingers and knuckles before she started to boot up the new program.
"While you guys figure that out, I need to head to my office." Drex stated, holding up a phone, "Rather not have people suspicious of their CEO gone for too long."
"Don't worry, chief! If we find anything, you'll know!" Poppy smiled brightly. The CEO smiled before he went out of the secret room and started to make his way to his office.
As Janet typed away at the program, the satellite orbiting Earth soon activated, signaling off Genm Corp's new tech satellite to find any possible Bugsters anywhere. Ever since that day 11 years ago, Absolon Aldrich released a new virus onto the world, the Bugster Virus. An actual Game Disease. Millions of people were affected by this and some died from the results as others went dormant for now.
Since then, Absolon was arrested for his actions, his brother-in-law now runs his company, and his son started to fight against the threats his father made since he reached the age of 16. For 4 and a half years he's been fighting, and luckily, his uncle helped him out with this new lab to combat against them, including a new device to fully take care of the threat.
"Anything?" Cody asked, leaning against the table.
"Hmm.. so far, New York's entire state does seem clean." Janet informed.
"Good and bad…" Poppy frowned, skipping over to the screen. "That means your hunch was right, and some of the viruses either went dormant after the release, or skipped to new hosts to avoid us."
"Seems so." Cody crossed his arms. "It makes sense if we see it as something akin to the common cold. It'll stay dormant in most people, while other strands jump from person to person after they get rid of their symptoms or pass it along to the closest person."
"Hehe, with that brain of yours, you could've been a doctor." Poppy giggled.
"Oh now I'd love to see that!" Janet smirked.
"Focus you two. Otherwise no sweets for the next few days." Cody warned, knowing the two girls love their sweets and it was one thing that bonded them together. Of course, he got a huff and soft glare before the two went back to the screen, only to smile afterwards, and as the girls focused, a new detecting was soon found.
"Found one!" Janet beamed.
"Yatta!" Poppy added with a jump.
"Location…. D.C." Cody noted.
"A bit farther than New York…" Poppy said.
"Yeah, but not for me." Cody said as he got up and walked over to one of the containment fields. He pressed a few keys and numbers before the field shifted and changed.
From the depths came two items, one was a small black box, and the other was a large metal device. It was green, with a fuschia handled as the letters 'GD' were on the plate of the fuschia cover.
He took it first before he opened up the case, revealing a purple cartridge as it showed a red and black cover on it. It was the game 'Mighty Action X', but the Mighty Mascot were black with purple gloves and boots with red, rippling eyes.
"Just be careful, okay?" Poppy pleaded.
"I usually am." Cody said with a smile.
"Just make sure to extract the remnants of the data!" Janet reminded him.
"I know. It's all we can do to find any lead of the first outbreak." Cody nodded as he placed the device on his waist, as it swiftly formed into a belt as it revealed a small holder on his side.
He placed the cartridge in the empty holder along with another one, but this one was more colored and it was yellow, with the title 'Bakusou Bike' on it as it showed a dirty bike racer. He then moved his hand upward to the little button on top before pressing it.
STAGE SELECT!
In moments a revolving data circle appeared in front of him. Showing several game stages from all the games that were created by the company. He waved his hand across as another selection screen appear, showing 'Games', 'Stages', 'Test', 'HQ', and finally 'Other'.
He selected the last one as new icons appeared around, each one with either a flag from another state and even other countries, yet those had the extra lining that says 'Coming Soon' on then, he soon searched through before finding the stage of 'Washington D.C.' on it before he pressed on it.
In moments of selection, it soon increased in size as it engulfed the young man before he and the stage screen disappeared, at least for the girls. As from the other side of the selection Cody walked through and was now in hidden office within the D.C. Genm Corp Building.
"Testing! 1, 2, 3!" Janet's voice came from a small earbud that was in Cody's ear.
"Cody here. Test complete. Selection Transport is now done." Cody responded.
"You still scare me when you do that, Cody. You don't need to be a guinea pig!" Poppy's voice rang out.
"I rather test it on myself than others, Poppy. Sides, its the best way we get results." Cody responded.
"Either way, seems the one who's carrying the Bugster Strain is in the Southwest, about 20 miles." Janet responded.
"Roger that." Cody nodded as he went to the private elevator as he made his way to a private entrance and exit as he uses it for his missions. Upon reaching the ground floor and exiting, he held up Bakusou Bike before pressing on it.
BAKUSOU BIKE!
As the game field formed from the cartridge, he placed it into the second slot of the device on his waist. Pixels and data surged out as from it came a motorcycle bike. It was yellow with the game buttons and life bar on the side, as on the center showed a blank Gamer Visor as it was placed were the headlights would be.
He got on as he placed on a helmet as the visor on it lite up to show the directions of where the target is at, causing him to rev the bike before shooting out and racing off to it.
XXX
Within one of the many parks in D.C., a young man groaned out heavily as he was leaning against the tree for support. His body felt hot and numb, as the usual prickling sense that comes with it raced across his entire being. His vision was foggy and his ears were ringing. Something was wrong with him, yet he couldn't imagine what it was.
He hasn't been sick, as the first symptom showed his doctor couldn't find anything and figured it was just the usual work stress. But as the days went by, the symptoms began to worsen as he felt like he was covered in static.
He needed to get to the hospital quickly. He slowly started to move his leg, only for it to give out and him to collapse onto the ground. His mind racing with confusion, worry, fear and stress. Was he going to die? Was this his end? He didn't even get to go onto a trip to Paris!
Static soon began to appear on his body, as he felt weaker by the moment as he groaned out in pain. The young man feeling like his very being was being torn bit by bit, as it felt like he was fading away.
Yet before he could tell, the sound of a bike began to fill his ear luckily. His panting of fear dropped as he blinked to clear his vision as walking up to him was Cody, as he held up a small device as he clicked on it to see a screen appear in his vision.
"Salty, huh? Figured it'd be him." Cody muttered to himself.
"P-Please…. He-elp… me…" The man begged to the young adult.
"Don't worry, this'll be over soon." Cody said to him, reassuring the man to reduce the stress and virus surging out. The young adult soon took up the purple item that he brought with him as he clicked the button on it, lighting it up softly.
MIGHTY ACTION X~!
In seconds a digital screen of the Proto-Mighty Action X game screen appeared behind the blonde as several blocks, reminiscent to the blocks of Mario Brothers, flew out as they either placed on the ground or floated in the air. Along with a digital purple ripple flowing out from the game screen before it disappeared.
"Entering Grade-1, Henshin!" Cody cried out, as he blew the cartridge as he placed it into the device on his waist.
GASHAT!
LET'S GAME! MECCHA GAME! MUCCHA GAME! WHAT'S YOUR NAME?!
As soon as the tune started to play, a digital roulette ring appeared around Cody, circling around him as faded images of unknown characters appeared on them, with only one showing the words 'Available' on it as it soon stopped in front of the blonde. He soon touched the icon as it added 'Player Selected!' on it before flowing into the young man, covering him in purple digital light and pixels.
I'M A KAMEN RIDER!
As the pixels faded, standing there was a deformed, armored fighter. It was mostly white, with the addition of a game character health bar, item boxes, and the classic colored Super NES buttons on the chest, while the head had black hair, a visor with two red rippling eyes on it.
The man in pain looked confused at the sight, as he groaned out heavily. The static and pixels reacted in sort as it began to overtake him, as the digital orange flesh from the past covered the young man, growing in size to that of a giant as it roared in response. This was the thing that came from Cody itself, from the mutated digital virus. A Bugster.
"Time to start the game." Cody said, clicking the button on his side as once again a Stage Select was formed. Yet Cody didn't waste time as he tapped the first thing in sight as it somehow transported them to a game world of blocks and pipes.
The white fighter soon rushed in as he jumped up to strike the monster giant, causing it to stumble back. It retaliated by swinging its arm to hit him, causing Cody to avoid it. See how aggressive it was, his visor glowed as another digital roulette ring appeared around him. But this time, it had icons with weapons on them as he clicked on the one resembling a hammer as it soon spawned into his hand
GASHACON BREAKER!
Cody rushed forward once more, as he jumped onto the blocks to give him some height and a advantage. The giant Bugster swung its arms to attack, yet with the blocks Cody was able to dodge and avoid them with ease as it smashed the blocks into bits.
With each few hops between the blocks, Cody jumped forward to hit the Bugster, causing some damage as the game 'HIT' icons briefly appeared. The Bugster reacted in pain from the hit as it soon rushed at the young armored fighter, catching him off-guard as it smashed him through a few blocks before tossing him aside.
Cody grunted in pain as the health bar dropped a few bits, but nothing he hasn't handled before. He dodged another incoming tackle as he knew he needed a boost. Looking around he spotted a few more blocks as he jumped towards them, only smashing a few after every 4 steps. At first, each one showed nothing underneath, yet after the last hit, a small power-up item appeared as it was yellow with a silhouette running quickly.
"Found a item." He smirked, taking the item as it soon covered him briefly in a yellow glow.
KOSOKU-KA! [Speed-Up]
And within seconds, Cody starting racing around the giant Bugster at highspeeds, striking and hitting it with the weapon as several 'Hits' appeared on impact with even some 'Great' icons appearing briefly. The Bugster tried to retaliate to hit him back, yet he was moving too quickly to do anything.
The giant digital monster kneeled down, weakened as Cody jumped up onto several blocks before coming downward onto it. He pressed the 'B' button on his weapon as it reacted and gained power. Once he swung that hammer, several more icons of 'Hit' and 'Great' appeared from the impact only for him to bounce off and land as a final 'Perfect' icon appeared on the mass.
The giant Bugster groaned as it deflated only for it to explode into pixels, soon revealing the man there who was now partially separated from the Bugster Data Mass. Cody took a slight breather as the rough part was done for now, but he knew it wasn't over.
Data surged out from the mass that was around the area as it began to reform and grown again, but this time instead of a giant mass of data, it was an actual game enemy. It was a blue, human-sized enemy with a cape, a forearm that looked dangerous, as it wore a tophat and a odd turtleneck looking attire. This was one of the bosses from Mighty Action X, Salty.
"Ngh, such a brute you are, Creator!" Salty groaned from his reformed body.
"Salty. Gonna be a problem again or are you learning this time?" Cody questioned.
"You should know us Bugsters better than that, father!" He said, making Cody growl.
"I am not your father. You're just a mistake that was made by my ignorance." He said with spite.
"Oh dear! You seem to be quite, 'Salty'! Let's give you something sweet to dine on before you fall here!" Salty stated as he rushed towards Cody.
"Entering Grade-2." Cody said, as he gripped the handle on the device as he pulled it open, revealing a screen and a stronger form for him to use.
GACCHAN!
LEVEL UP!
MIGHTY JUMP! MIGHTY KICK! MIGHTY ACTION~ X!
A purple screen flew out as it flowed back into Cody, as the white armor and super deformed form was now replaced with his stronger, Lvl 2 form. He was now back to normal adult size, as he adorned a black suit with purple linings. Even the deformed head remained, but as a backpack as he turned around to the Bugster, the red eyes glowing as he too charged ahead.
Salty threw a punch with his oddly shaped arm, yet Cody jumped over him, only to quickly turn and kick the Bugster. Sparks and a the hit icons appear once more as the Bugster drew out a cane to try and attack him from a distance.
As he created this boss character in his game, he knew what to expect since this wasn't their first fight. He backed up a bit as the item roulette appeared once more, but instead of the hammer, he chose a different item, one that was developed to fight them once he changed Levels. It looked to be similar to a handheld device, with only two buttons, both red and purple, and a screen. On one side, it showed red barrels of a laser gun, and the other side was a purple small chainsaw on it.
This was his main fighting item, the Gashacon Bugvisor.
Upon equipping the item, he pointed the barrels at the Bugster as he fired off a few rounds, making it stumble back from the attack as the Bugster groaned. It tried to send off sparks of electricity at the ground, yet once more, Cody jumped over him, only to jump off from a block as he twisted the item into its short-ranged mode as he slashed at the Bugster, causing more damage to it as it tumbled to the ground.
"Time to end this game with no continues." He proclaimed as he took out the cartridge as he blew on it before placing it into the top holder slot as it began to build up energy as he pressed the button on it.
GASHAT! KIMEWAZA!
Energy soon flowed out of the holder and down the purple lines of his suit before reaching his foot as it built up the energy more and more as Cody soon pressed the button once again.
MIGHTY! CRITICAL STR~IKE!
The black rider soon jumped up high as he came flying down to the weakened Bugster, his leg extended as the kick connected. He broke through the Bugster as he slide to a halt, only for the game enemy to groan out in pain as the energy erupted into it, causing an explosion only for a tune to play as a title formed from the explosion.
GAME CLEAR!
Cody sighed with relief as he unhooked the Bugvisor as he pointed it to the raining data of Salty as he began to absorb the remnants of its data into it for Janet to study later. Data surged around him as it brought him and the civilian back to the park.
He looked over to see the civilian's body return to normal as his visor picked up that he was clean. With relief in his heart and head, he let out a well deserved sigh.
"Alright, he's good." Cody commented as he groaned out, "Best get back home now. Otherwise Poppy will get annoyed." He said as he was about to return to the Stage Select screen, only for him to stop.
He started to feel some tingle in the back of his head. He was unsure what it was, but it wasn't something like his instincts warning him, but more like… a cry for help? He soon started to see images, along with directions to someplace as the tingle finally stopped.
Cody stood there for a moment as he pondered what it was. The only thing he did know was that near by, someone was in need of help. Regardless if it was a Bugster or not, he needed to help them. The black rider turned to the direction as he began to race off towards wherever that came from.
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Meanwhile…..
After the retreat from the hidden base, Batman and Superman, accompanied by J'onn J'onzz, flew throughout the trenches of the mountain. Of course, it wouldn't be that easy to escape as the several aliens took flight after them.
Superman flew back to deal with the rear as Batman and J'onn flew ahead. Superman either punched or heat-visioned any oncoming ship. But due to the numbers they were facing, it wasn't long until one got a clean shot on Superman, making him drop to a cliffside.
And as that went on, the other ships flew after the Batwing, shooting at it with their weapons. The Dark Knight did his best to maneuver their attacks. Each one getting closer and closer as he traversed the mountains. He tricked a few to crash into some, but there were still a few left over from his attempt.
It then didn't take long until one shot broke off a wing of the jet, casting Batman and J'onn to plummet downward. The two holding on as they braced for impact, hoping it wouldn't be the end, until it soon just stopped.
"What happened?" Batman questioned, surprised by the sudden stop.
J'onn only turned to the right side of the window, "Help has finally arrived." He responded.
As outside of the jet was none other than one of the legendary Green Lantern's, floating there with his ring active. He wore a black suit with green cufflinks, boots and collar with the lantern logo on his chest. He was darker skinned with a military buzzcut and glowing green eyes as he floated there to keep the two from falling.
This did attract a few more of the jets as they flew in, ready to shoot at the three, but a shadow flew by, smaking one of the alien airships into one another, destroying them both. What flew there was a young woman, with long orange hair, a hawk designed mask, with actual hawk wings on her back. She wore a yellow top with red boots and black leggings as she carried a metal mace, glowing and sparkings with unknown energy as she deflected the oncoming shots away before smacking down another set of jets.
"Hawkgirl? What's she doing here?" Batman questioned, surprised to see the two heroes together for once. In moments, the jet was pulled into a safer cliffside before J'onn phased through the jet and joined the others, minus Batman, into the air.
"Sorry if we're late. Had a small problem in the Gallus Sector." Green Lantern apologized before the four flew off to deal with the other jets, now that they have a few more people to work with.
The four fliers soon took off, dealing with each alien ship that came to them, taking them down, ripping them into pieces or straight up causing them to collide into one another and destroying the said ship. It was quite the spectacle.
Batman only stood near his jet, as his only transportation for flight was now grounded. But it didn't seem to be like that for long as in near seconds, a red blur passes by, as standing there was a young man, fully clad in red with gold lighting trims and a lightning bolt on the chest. Of course, this was The Flash, as he was holding onto the missing wing of the jet.
"Yo, Bats! Saw you dropped this, figure you needed it." Flash joked as he set it on the ground, making Batman gruff softly.
Within the air, Hawkgirl was doding one airship that was on her tail and furiously trying to shoot her down. But with one lucky shot at one of the mountain sides, it caught her in a blast, causing her to drop onto a cliffside for safety. The airship was ready to shoot her into bits, only for another person to fly in. This one was clad in red with a golden eagle on the top trims, a golden tiara with a red star, a blue skirt with blue pants, also clad with gold trimmings, in the shape of a 'W', two silver bracelets with a golden rope on one side, and a well crafted sword on the other.
"Allow me, sister." The woman said, as in moments as the airship fired its lazers at her, she swiftly started to block and deflect them like they were nothing. She soon deflected a few back to knock out the guns before she swiftly flew in, sword drawn as she sliced through it as if the ship was made out of paper, causing it to fall into two pieces before blowing up in the sky.
"That's new. Who's the rookie with the tiara?" Green Lantern questioned.
"Dunno." Superman grunted, holding up one ship before tossing it into the mountain side.
Hawkgirl, a bit surprised in her stupor was soon given a hand by the newcomer, as she was helped up. "Thanks, I guess?" She said, still surprised about the newcomer
"Incoming boogie!" Flash shouted out, as a few more airships flew in, but these ones seemed to gather closely together, ready to either shoot down any of them, or just kamikaze the group causing the brawlers to ready to defend, and the rest to either run or get behind Green Lantern's shield.
MIGHTY! CRITICAL STRIKE~!
A few of the heroes flinched upon hearing a loud shout out, as from up high came Genm, as he flew down with his kick extended, energy flowing out of his foot before he made contact with one of the ships on the side, causing it to erupted into an explosion.
As it flew into the other airships that were piled up together, causing each one to blow up in a domino, as Genm flew out from the cloud of fire and smoke, landing on a cliffside as he sighed softly with relief from the attack.
'Guess I found out what called me here.' Genm said to himself as he looked upon the other heroes.
XXX
It only took a few moments for the new group to gather to one another, as Green Lantern was helping with melding the broken wing back onto the Batwing. While that happens, the others began to talk and learn of the situation.
"So, where have you been all my life?" Flash asked, trying to flirt with the new heroine.
"Themyscira." The woman responded, making the speedster blink with confusion.
"It's the home of the Amazons. I always thought it was just a myth." Hawkgirl responded.
"Guess anything's possible now." Genm added on.
"Speaking of, who's the new guy?" Flash pointed.
"Genm, Kamen Rider Genm." Genm introduced.
"Thats a bit of a dumb name." Flash said, only for Superman to elbow him to get him to stop.
"I thank you for your service, Genm." The woman said, "I am Diana, Princess of the Amazons."
"Pinch me, I must be dreaming…" Flash said, this time elbowed by Batman.
"My home is protected by the gods, but I just couldn't stand there and watch as the rest of the world suffered from this attack." Diana stated.
"Well, it's lucky you all showed up when you did." Superman said.
"Wasn't luck." J'onn responded, "I telepathically summoned you all here. My race has the ability to use telepathy, and I picked out those who could answer my calls."
"Explains that weird tingle on the backside of my head." Genm responded.
"Well, normally I'm quick on the uptake. But can someone please explain to me, what's going on?" Flash requested, making the group look to one another, nodding before looking to J'onn.
"Very well." J'onn nodded in response, willing to give them their questions. "To start, I am a Martian."
"And I'm Donald Duck." Flash said, this time elbowed by Genm.
"Or… I should say, the last martian." J'onn added. "I came to Earth to warn you all of an impending invasion. One that my kind and I, faced a thousand of your Earth years ago. I still have no clue on what they are or where they came from. I only knew one thing, they wanted our planet."
"This is getting weird." Flash muttered.
"I've seen stranger." Green Lantern said.
"Ditto." Genm added.
"As we fought, we found out they feed on our psychic energies. Making them stronger, and us weaker. Even able to take our power to shapeshift." J'onn informed.
"Invasive species." Batman noted.
"Correct." J'onn nodded. "We didn't want to fight, we didn't even consider taking any other life before, as it was how your species have said, 'distasteful'. But like any other species out there. We quickly adapted to the ways of war."
"Ain't that the truth?" Hawgirl crossed her arms.
"These aliens, were parasites. Feeding and growing on a planet while its inhabitants withered and submitted. It was chaos." J'onn continued. "And as the years went on, my race was subjugated into their will. Until me and the last few survivors made on final attempt to end it. We used a special nerve gas to paralyze them after several attempts to stop them. It worked… But at a grave cost."
"Making you the last of your kind…" Superman empathized.
"Yes…" J'onn nodded sadly, but knows one person here who understands that burden. "After everything, after burying what I could find and salvage what I could. I sealed them away, forever to guard it as a tomb, and for 500 years that is how it went. However, during one of my hybernations cycles, I discovered that an astronaut from here accidentally unleashed them, freeing them once more."
"Wait, nobody ever said about finding life on Mars." Flash stated.
"They also said the Earth was flat at one point. People tend to be wrong either due to limited information, fear or greed." Genm stated.
"And now, with them being revived, and my home gone. They set to Earth, to repeat the process." J'onn said to them. "I did my best to escape their pursuit and come to warn. But I was captured and imprisoned, until now. They even sent some agents to disable your strongest equipment to make sure their invasion isn't stopped."
"That explains them destroying our deep space satellites and our monitoring network." Batman noted.
"We need to stop them, before it's too late." Green Lantern interjected.
"It is too late. At this point, it's only a matter of time before they subjugate your race as they did with mine." J'onn grimaced.
They soon hear a loud crackle as off in the distance showed, what appears to be a thick cloud of smog, slowly covering the sky above one of the near by cities. It floated high into the sky as it soon covered the area in the smog, blocking out any trace of the night sky and stars.
"They're terraforming Earth." Genm said with shock.
"Wait! What about the gas?" Flash reminded, "Let's whip it up and give it them."
"Unfortunately, the last sample I was able to salvage from a rare martian plant was destroyed when I was captured." J'onn informed.
"Then Plan B, we take out those machines." Genm said.
"At least someone can take action." Diana said.
"Please, this is no time for amateurs. We need a different strategy." Green Lantern interrupted.
"I've been fighting for almost 5 years. I'm no newbie." Genm turned to GL.
"We Amazons are a prideful race of warriors. Care to test us?" Diana glared.
"Enough!" Superman interrupted. "Fighting against one another won't help. We're gonna need all the help we can get."
"Fine." Green Lantern huffed, before the group gather, "We have multiple objectives. So we will need to split up."
"Dibs on the Amazon." Flash smirked, speeding right to her, as she had a look on confusion.
XXX
Meanwhile, in the depths of space…..
It was dark and vast on the outskirts of the Milky Way. Stars and other galaxies stood by as from the depths came what appeared to be a dreadnought warship. And it was massive, as it seemed to grow closer to a target.
"Sire, we are finally approaching the planet our agents informed us about." One of the Parasite Aliens informed.
"Good… I'm tired of this journey." A deep voice echoed in the darkness of the ship.
"Our agents also informed us that there are some rebels fighting against us." Another informed.
"What planet doesn't?"
"Along with J'onn J'onzz."
Silence grew over the warship, only for the being to chuckle madly.
"Ahh… Good. I hoped he survived against the odds. Means I can have a good meal when I see him suffer at my heels." It chuckled, "Set forth to Earth, and let's make it snappy…"
A/N: Hey minna! Hope you all enjoyed my newest story? ^^ Now, I will make a few things cleared up for future questions that I bet will be coming in. The biggest one I know many of you will ask….
"Where have I been?" "Why haven't you updated the other stories" "Why work on another one?" And etc, etc.
Well to start with, I've been dealing with some personal things. As some of you may have known or not. During Winter 2017, I was diagnosed with clinical anxiety. Now some may think its BS or unsure why this is a big deal. So let me try to explain as best I can.
Due to me having aspergers, a lot of stuff, mentally and emotionally are increased. I feel and experience things a lot harder and more severe than most people. So for me, having anxiety as well as panic attacks that need clinical and medical help, means I basically freak out, shut down and need assistance to function. Think of it, like someone having a stroke. That's how it is for me, to where I needed a lot of medical help and psychological help from that moment.
And it happened twice in the time I was gone during the last few years before 2020. So…. yeah needed a LOT more time to recover and get back. Plus recently not only had a promotion, making things harder for me, but also had a recent passing that I needed time to recover from.
As of now? Things do seem to be back to normal, though as you all could see, I haven't been updating my works. I am back, and trying to get back into form. Plus other things either take priority such as other stuff I like, as well as personal breaks.
Not to mention, sometimes new ideas just pop up and I wanna get them written down before I either forget or lose interest. I am trying to get things back to normal but it still may be awhile before everything is back to normal for me and on here, so I do hope you all understand?
I am also aware about other shows getting more content and such, and I am keeping some track and waiting to get back to some other things when they come or finish for now. But for now let's get to this story ok?
The first thing would be about the choice for Genm. Well, one thing is because he's my fav in the Ex-Aid series when he was a villain, he's 50/50 to me on the meme stuff tho, and I felt like making one would be interesting to try out. I know many would say to choose Ex-Aid instead for it and such, but with how I'm making this story? Genm just fitted better to it.
I am unsure how many other Gamer Riders I plan to add. Para-Dx, Poppy and Chronos are in. But I'm unsure about any other. It may change in the future, but for now? I have no other plans for the rest. But I do plan to at least use the Wizard Gashat, as in this version, I never really ruled out past riders. Will they appear? Maybe, maybe not. Hard to say at this point.
Now for the ship? It will be Starfire. I know that technically the Titans do exist somehow in the DCAU. and I know many are confused as to why her? Well, at first, it was gonna be Diana/Wonder Woman.
Seeing as how as shown by the DCAU, they don't end up together and many have already written about them as such. And at first, I felt like it was fine and things could go well if I write this out carefully.
But after awhile, I did doubt myself about it and asked some friends and other writers about it, and many thought that the choice to Starfire would be better. It will also be a bit before we get to her appearing here, but she will be around before we reach the JL: Unlimited series.
I also plan to kinda fuse some of the costumes and suits from other DC titles of the respected heroes/heroines. Not all, but some.
So, I hope you all understand and still continue to support me. Until then, later minna!
