Author Note
I am working on the Corruption of Champions Jump, but I won't be posting it any time soon as I don't want to get too far ahead. I still have quite a lot of story to tell before I get there.
Jump Chain 14 - Smallville
Part 11
The Thunderchild. Smallville Verse.
As things had been rather hectic when I'd captured her I'd not paid the human who'd I'd teleported out a Yautja Scout Ship much attention until now. As it turned out she was not human at all, my prisoner was Aeryn Sun, who was a Sebacean. They were a bipedal species that largely resembled humans and if my scans were anything to go by the resemblance was more than merely skin deep.
There were a few differences. One appeared to be eyesight, which is seemingly an improvement on human eyesight. One detracting factor is that Sebaceans seem to have an intense intolerance for heat. When exposed to extreme heat at levels that would not too much harm to a human, a Sebacean would fall into a state commonly known as heat delirium. Left untreated, a comatose state called the Living Death sets in, reducing the Sebacean to a catatonic-like state. Once this Living Death takes over, Sebaceans will kill their own out of mercy.
As for this woman so far she'd told me a little about her life, but thanks to my files I already knew a lot. She'd been born like most Peacekeepers, aboard a command carrier, Aeryn Sun was raised in the military life, one of rules and honour above all else. Raised to be a soldier and a Prowler pilot, she was taught nothing of love, family, or what it meant to worry for the safety of her peers, at least, not beyond wanting her comrades to live for the sake of the mission.
While growing up she was taught to obey Peacekeeper doctrine without question and learned many forms of combat and battle strategy at a very early age. Bred into a life of service, Aeryn was an exemplary soldier and moved up in the ranks while still quite young. She maintained a Peacekeeper's admiration for the strong, and hatred of the weak.
"So how did you end up with a clan of Yautja?" I asked.
I'd already shown her images of the Predator Mother Ship getting blown up so she had no one to protect and didn't seem to care much about the fate of the hunters, and this wasn't just an act as I could sense her lack of caring. This was no surprise as the Yautja didn't exactly inspire people to see them as anything more than horror movie monsters.
"They found me on a ship that was crewed by escaped captives" the former Peacekeeper explained "We were attacked by a race I knew nothing about. The Yautja took me afterwards, they'd been hunting the creatures that attacked us. I was the only survivor. They did something to me that me even stronger, and they trained me to hunt as they do".
Since I had no others of her race to compare her readings to I didn't know if what the Yautja had done to alter her, but I did have samples of her DNA that could be used to help craft my ultimate form, I was so close to starting true work on that project.
Right now I was more concerned about what I was going to Miss Sun. It was beyond my power to send her home and I'd destroyed her clan.
"So what shall I do with you?" I asked the officer.
Perhaps I could just let her go. She might be able to adapt to life on Earth. She could pass for human and I could set her up. Or I could hand her over to one of the versions of the Justice League and let them handle her as a favour for me.
"I have nowhere to go" was all the woman said.
While it was risky I opened up the cell.
"You can have a room here until you decide what you want to do," I told her "You can live on Earth or I can drop you off on an alien planet somewhere and you can try to start again".
She didn't have the ATA gene so she couldn't do much to ship and the technology was too advanced for her to hack. Plus the crew would keep an eye on her.
"Thank you," the former Peacekeeper said, "I won't be a burden".
I had one of the fembots escort her to some quarters. I'd talk to her later, for now, I had some work to do. A surprise for one of my companions.
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Lux. Smallville Verse.
Karen had returned to the penthouse as she was taking a break from exploring this world so that she could hook with her lover and get some of the good stuff out of him. When he'd arrived at the Penthouse he'd found her naked on the bed ready to go. She didn't care much for foreplay, at least not this night. She wanted to try something new, and while she felt a little nervous about what she wanted to try.
"Come on Master, put that big hard cock inside my ass and fuck me like the slut I am" she urged.
Gothic nodded in response to this rather blunt request and once he'd undressed he inserted his erection right inside the clone's anus and began to push it right inside. The Jumper groaned as he felt how tightly Power Girl's back entrance was squeezing him. She could control her body in ways no human ever could and the included all of her muscles.
He took her hips in a strong grip and began thrusting into her. His waist moved at a fast pace as he drilled his shaft hard into her but. Power Girl wanted it nice and hard just the way she liked it, she'd been nervous about doing it this way and now she was feeling happy that she'd summoned up the courage to ask for this kind of sex. She'd been wanting to experiment further.
"Ooooooh yeah! Pound me harder! Come on, pound me!" Power Girl shouted out.
The Jumper thrusted into Power Girl hard as he used his super strength to give her a rather intense butt fucking as he pushed his erection deeper into her bumhole. Once he slowed down he began to smack her ass he spanked Power Girl enough to turn her ass cheeks red.
Power Girl looked over her shoulder to give her lover a slutty look as she watched him shove his cock harder into her. After giving him that look she decided to verbally encourage him.
"Fuck my ass, Master!" she yelled, "Break me apart!".
Gothic smirked as he continued to pound her ass. He wasn't going to stop any time soon, but even a powerful Kryptonian had her limits and she was starting to get a little sore. But she didn't want Gothic to stop so she decided to help things along.
"Please, Master. Cum inside my ass!" Power Girl shouted, "I need it so bad".
As Gothic thrusted Power Girl a few more he reached his limit, this helped along with Karen's dirty talk, and he deposited a good amount of baby batter into her sore butt. Despite the ache, the clone had rather enjoyed the intense experience and would want to do it again very soon.
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Vault. Cosmic Warehouse.
Since we'd gotten close I'd decided to give Karen Starr, aka Power Girl a tour of the warehouse's addons, and while she couldn't enter the vault, only I and Cameron could do that, she could stand in the doorway and admire my collection of super awesome stuff from over by the door.
I had so many nice things in here, such as lightsaber crystals, slips of gold-pressed lantium, magically enchanted jewellery, currency from a lot of different worlds, wonderful memories stored ready to be viewed in a Pensive, and many other nice things, as well as items too dangerous to ever leave the vault, but in terms of importance to me personally, none of them compared to what was in the box that I was now bringing out of the vault.
"Don't touch it" I warned Karen.
She inspected the contents of the box.
"It's just a piece of fulgurite," she said
Where naturally occurring fulgurite is formed when lightning strikes sand, fusing it into a rocklike formation, the artefact in the box was created by the earthing of the Emperor's psychic lightning, dug up and carved into a spearhead shape, and it still bristles with a remnant of his might. The fulgurite was supposed to be powerful enough to kill a Perpetual.
Some of that special fulgurite was eventually discovered on the world of Traois. Control of the Fulgurite became the subject to a fierce battle between Artellus Numeon and fellow survivors of the Drop Site Massacre, the Cabal agent John Grammaticus, and the Word Bearers under Erebus and Valdrekk Elias, the latter of whom wanted the artefact so that it could help him achieve Daemonhood.
However after Numeon was betrayed by Grammaticus and Elias by Erebus of the Word Bearers, Erebus mysteriously instructed Grammaticus to take the Fulgurite and leave Traoris unmolested. Grammaticus was then contacted by the Cabal and instructed to kill the Primarch Vulkan with the Fulgurite. Apparently, the weapon would only kill a Primarch if wielded by another, but Grammaticus refused the Cabal demands to give it to Konrad Curze and instead stabbed Vulkan himself, somehow restoring the Primarch's sanity.
This large piece of Fulgurite was a powerful artefact to be sure, but it contained more of the Emperor's power than the piece that was used on Vulkan. If I were to touch the fulgurite I would be given a small amount of the Emperor's power.
Doing so would make me a Psyker and allow me to call upon the power of the Warp. The Warp was a realm of psychic energy that existed anywhere there were enough people around to produce psychic energy it was just that in most of the multiverse that realm, which didn't always turn out to be a type of hell, remained totally separate from the physical universe and those versions of the Warp weren't demon-infested nightmares.
Not only would I be able to safely tap into the power of the Warp, over time it would allow me slowly grow into the same kind of super-evolved psyker that the Emperor is, as well as grant me a bunch of free boosts to my charisma, willpower, wisdom, and foresight.
How long it would take until I reach that level I didn't know and in order to reach that height, I would need a strong body, one able to withstand that kind of power and to become a super-evolved psyker like the Emperor I needed to take the fraction of his power into a human form.
Given that the power would be spiritual in nature, at least in some sense, I should still be able to channel the power in other forms but only my ultimate form would allow me to channel all of that psychic might. What I'd be able to do with that sort of power I didn't know, but I'd have years to figure it out, and I did know that it would make the Warhammer Jump much easier for me.
On the downside becoming someone with that kind of power would likely isolate me from more normal people, so that was why I wanted to create an ultimate form with that kind of power and I would only use it when I needed to so that I wouldn't become too distant from my companions and other people.
I explained that and more to Karen.
"Where do you get something like that?" she asked.
While I didn't say it I'd showed her a lot of trust by even letting her know that the fulgurite even existed.
"It's sort of the physical manifestation of a Perk from one of the Warhammer Jumps," I told her "I got it as a reward for playing the role of Santa during the last Jump".
I went and put the box away. I wasn't ready for it yet my ultimate form needed to be created. I had more research and sample collecting to do before then.
"That wasn't really why I brought you here," I mentioned to Power Girl "Its time for you to get your own ship".
We moved over to the Hanger Bay and I opened up the part of it that showed a Javelin.
This ship was based on original Javelin that was designed by Batman. That ship was later destroyed during the Thanagarian invasion. Following the invasion, the reorganized Justice League made use of a large fleet of the Javelins, and they were based in hangar facilities on the second Watchtower.
The Javelin design incorporated deep space, atmospheric and even underwater operational capabilities. As an aircraft, the Javelin was capable of vertical takeoff and landing; in space, it was also capable of generating a wormhole for faster-than-light travel across considerable interstellar distances. The Javelins of the Justice League were armed with lasers and missiles, but this version had plasma cannons and proton torpedoes so as to give the ship more of a bite.
"I hope you like the design," I said to Karen "I know you don't have anything to do with the League, but they gave me blueprints, and I started improving on the model. Better weapons, a fast hyperdrive, a powerful sublight drive, good shields, a cloaking device".
The Justice League of the more cannon DCAU had come through with a tech with me in exchange for some of the cool stuff I'd given them.
"I have my own ship!" she squealed.
In a blur, she was inside the ship and yelling at me.
"Come on let's go flying!" she called out.
Might as well. I had nothing else to do for a few hours, but I couldn't be gone for too long as there was something I wanted to do tonight.
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Metropolis. Smallville Verse.
LuthorCorp Plaza, which in the canon timeline would later become known as LexCorp Plaza, was the world headquarters of LuthorCorp and one of the most impressive buildings in Metropolis. Luthorcorp Plaza is a large skyscraper and is one of the tallest buildings in Metropolis. It was located next to the Daily Planet headquarters.
The tower has many levels, complete with a rooftop helicopter pad, and most importantly Lionel Luthor's office. It a very hi-tech office and can only be opened by an ID card. It was filled with contemporary furnishings with metal and leather chairs and a black desk. The colour scheme was very cold with lots of blues, blacks. Throughout the show, Lionel was frequently seen in his office. This was his main base of operations, and where he stored things of great importance.
What mattered right now office also contained Lionel's hidden vault, which had been opened. In the episode "Insurgence" Lionel and Martha Kent were held hostage in this room as the insurgents try to open Lionel's vault. Like the show, the vault didn't contain large amounts of cash or other treasures. Mostly what it contained, or had contained, aside from important paper records were kryptonite bars, made up of refined green meteor rock from Smallville and the surrounding area.
Since Lionel Luthor didn't want anyone to know that he been hoarding the meteorite, a substance most people thought of as harmless, he wasn't going to report its loss to the police, and none of the files had been touched. Also, the break-in had happened very quickly with no evidence having been left behind.
This told the Lionel that whoever had broken into this vault had known exactly what had been in the vault and they'd planned out the operation very well. His own private security had been able to piece together very little so far and it was highly doubtful that they ever find anything at all.
The only footage they had of the robbery which must have taken place sometime last night was from outside the vault, showed nothing at all odd, and there had been cameras inside the vault. Lionel only knew that there had been a robbery because he'd opened the vault this morning shortly after coming into work.
"I want a team to go over every single inch of the vault and my office" Mr Luthor ordered, "There must be something that will lead to whoever behind the theft".
They'd find nothing as they had nothing which could detect Asgard teleporters, and there would be no DNA evidence because the theft had been carried out via a probe which had been out of phase until it entered the vault. However, Lionel knew none of this and would spend much time as well as money trying to figure out the mystery.
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Skyforge. Cosmic Warehouse.
While I could easily make weapons of many kinds using the advanced construction technology I found it very satisfying to forge weapons with my own hands while within this addon to the warehouse. Sure it took a lot more time, but there was nothing urgent going on right now so I decided to spend some hours of my life creating a spear with a kryptonite tip.
A spear was a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually made out of wood, with a pointed head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire-hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or bronze.
In this case, the pointed head of the spear was made from kryptonite that I'd stolen from Lionel Luthor. Normally stealing from that man would be most unwise, as he was a dangerous person, but there was nothing linking me to the stealing of the kryptonite bars, they were safely stored inside my Vault addon that had increased in size so as accommodate the new additions.
Using Kryptonite taken from LexCorp, Bruce Wayne forged a spear to kill Superman. He headed to a building near his Bat-Signal, sticking it into the ground. When the two of them finally battled later, Batman grabbed the spear, almost impaling him, before being convinced to stop, realizing that they had both been manipulated by Lex Luthor. Lois Lane grabbed the spear, throwing it into a flooded stairwell. However, they later required it to defeat Doomsday and so she went to retrieve it. Unable to get back up, Superman found and revived her, while diving to retrieve the Kryptonite spear.
She rescued him when he was unable to resurface due to being weakened by the spear and threw it away in order for him to regain his strength, before he flew towards Doomsday, grabbing the spear, and stabbing him through with it, killing the creature (but not before Doomsday managed to stab him with a recently-formed bone protrusion) After the death of Superman, Batman pulled the spear out of Doomsday's chest and placed the spear somewhere safe within the Batcave.
My spear was much more streamlined than that crude effort and the halt of the spear was made from Mithril, a magical element used to make weapons that were both light and sturdy. Not a big concern if I used the spear while in my Kryptonian form, but I had no intention of ever using this weapon while in that form in case someone tried to use it against me.
This weapon once done would be placed in a lead-lined glass case and then placed in the armoury along with the other new weapon I'd made today. That was a kryptonite blaster of sorts, it was powered by the meteorite, and when fired the radiation would be harnessed into a deadly blast, this would use up quite a bit of meteorite when compared to the flight rings, but the ammo, for lack of a better term, could be replenished easily enough.
"Master there's something you need to see," Raven told me as she entered the forge "We found a universe that you might want to visit".
She and others had been out scouting DC dimensions for me, and by the sounds of things, one of them was worthy of my attention.
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Fortress of Solitude. Alternate DCAU.
The version of the Fortress of Solitude in the Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited was a little different than in some versions with the Fortress being located in the ocean underneath the Arctic tundra. rather than on top of the ice, with access was gained by diving into the Arctic water and emerging in an opening inside the Fortress.
Power Girl and I were easily able to enter the fortress by beaming directly into the fortress. This was safe as the Superman of this world had died as had all the other heroes and most of the human race. As this version of Earth had been conquered by the Imperium, a civilization of space-faring, shapeshifting, parasitic conquerors who were apparently ruled by a single, bulbous mass.
The exact origin of the Imperium is unknown. What is known is that they come from the depths of space and survive by preying on peaceful civilizations. According to J'onn J'onzz, the Imperium first entered the Solar system roughly 1,000 Earth years ago.
They destroyed nearly all life on Mars, absorbing and duplicating the Martians' shapeshifting ability and telepathy. However, a small resistance movement entered their underground network and was able to use a sort of nerve gas to paralyze the Imperium about 500 years later but J'onn was the only Martian left. He kept an eye on the Imperium, ensuring they remained in stasis.
However, they eventually were released by unwitting astronauts from Earth while he was hibernating, with one of their ranks taking the form and identity of one of the now-deceased astronauts, J. Allen Carter. The Imperium then made their move to invade Earth, infiltrating the highest-ranking positions to convince Earth to disarm its nuclear weaponry, leaving the planet vulnerable to attack. They installed factories to pump out an ionized gas to block out the sun and shroud the Earth in eternal darkness.
Six heroes of varying origin joined forces with J'onn to take out one of their factories, but all save one were captured. The Imperium leader then descended in his ship to greet the captured J'onn, and eradicate the last Martian. However, Batman sabotaged the ion chamber as J'onn had telepathically shielded him, reversing the ion charge to dispel the dark clouds in Earth's atmosphere and bring back sunlight.
The Imperium tried to escape, but was dragged into the sun by J'onn, then slammed by Hawkgirl back into the factory, destroying the escape craft and The Imperium along with it. The Imperium flagship then fled, leaving their soldiers to die on Earth under the harsh rays of the sun or due to further combat with the forces of Earth.
From what our scouting of this universe showed the Imperium had successfully conquered the planet and it would be too late to save it as the aliens had been feeding off the population and had bloated the sun for so long that the plant life had died.
Since I could not save this world, it was too cold and dead, I had my companions do their best and try to save as many humans as they could by taking them to yet another Earth, one that lacked any humans at all, they'd either never evolved on that planet or something had wiped them out in ancient times.
Once on that world, the survivors of this one, who numbered in the thousands, could rebuild on the humanless Earth using the supplies and equipment my people would leave them. We wouldn't get much involved beyond on that as I didn't want us getting tied down with humanitarian efforts. If we spent all our time helping others we'd never get anything done.
Since I planned to destroy the invaders so that they couldn't destroy any more civilizations, I had to loot this world for all it was worth now as there might not be much left afterwards.
This version of Superman's fortress contained an alien zoo which housed alien life-forms saved from The Preserver's ship and some computer equipment, along with a Brainiac information sphere stolen from his hijacked spacecraft just before it was destroyed, which was used by Superman to access information about Krypton. The fortress also contains massive sculptures of Superman's biological parents, Jor-El and Lara, serving as monuments to Krypton.
The Fortress of Solitude was the setting for the Justice League Unlimited episode "For the Man Who Has Everything". A fight with the warlord Mongul took place here after he delivered a parasite capable of hypnosis to Superman and was detected by Batman and Wonder Woman.
In the future of Batman Beyond, a Starro from the Fortress' intergalactic zoo is revealed to have latched on to Superman years prior and subtly controlled his actions since then, including allowing an entire population of the creatures to breed in one of the aquatic chambers.
The Justice League of the future travels to the Fortress where they are themselves taken over by Starros, until Batman was able to free Superman and the rest of the League from their control. The League then sent the Starro population through a boom tube back to the world where the original Starro came from.
I should warn the Superman of the DCAU about that so he could take some security proceeders involving the Starro creature.
"There are people here?" Power Girl told me "I can hear movement".
I'd brought her along since like when I was in this form she was Kryptonian and the Fortress might allow us greater access if were Kryptonians. However, that proved not to be the case when we came under fire from a group of strange-looking robots who were armed with advanced weapons.
They'd been able to sneak up on us because they didn't register as life forms and because we'd been distracted by the fortress, which was always an impressive sight, and the two of us ended up taking cover behind the statue of Kal-El's biological parents.
"This won't take long" I heard Karen say.
In a burst of super-speed, she moved in a blue and attacked the bots, breaking them apart with ease despite them being advanced technology. Once they were in a pile I stored them in a capsule as they were alien tech and should be studied.
"I don't recall the Fortress having robots in the DCAU," I said, "I wonder who made them?".
This question was soon answered.
"I did," someone told us.
We both turned to see Superman, and this was a big surprise as I'd not sensed him either, upon reaching out with the Force I realised that this was another robot, it must be the one Superman used to cover for him when he had to go off-world in the animated series.
"Stand down" I ordered.
That had been worth a try, but the robot must have been commanded to maintain and defend the fortress when Superman wasn't around. The machine in Superman's form launched himself at us and as I blurred out of the way Power Girl leapt into another fight. She'd been made to fight Superman should he pose a danger to the USA and this was as close to fighting the real thing as she could get.
The two powerful aliens traded blows that shook the fortress and I knew that if I let them duke it out some mayor damage would be done, but I had no desire to get in the way so while they beat each other up I started looting the place.
One of the things I noticed right away was the Phantom Zone Projector a Kryptonian device created by Jor-El. It can be used to transport prisoners and objects to and from the Phantom Zone, an interdimensional realm outside the normal space/time continuum which was a barren place used as a prison. Most versions of the DC verse also had one of these which suggested that Phantom Zone was actually a part of those universes in some way even you couldn't travel to the zone in a space ship.
After storing that device away I found another weapon of interest a Gravity Gun. I'd seen a version of this weapon used when the Lex Luthor of that universe imbued himself with Superman's powers for 24 hours. Clark Kent pulled out the gravity gun and shot Lex with it sending him crashing to a rooftop. Changing into Superman, he kept up his assault, making it difficult for Lex to fly due to his increased gravity.
That version of Lex Luthor used his ice breath to freeze Superman and his heat vision to destroy the gravity gun. Superman later revealed that Lex's increased gravity had warped time for him and made his 24 hours of superpowers run out much sooner than it should have.
This Gravity Gun was intact and soon would find itself inside the Asgard Armour along many of my other favourite killing tools.
In All-Star Superman, Lois Lane, who'd been growing paranoid due to some chemicals in the air, stole the Kryptonite Laser from the armoury and tracked down Superman intending to try and stop him from doing something bad that he wasn't actually going to do. She destroyed a Superman Robot and then shot Superman himself. Fortunately, his overexposure to the sun had made him so powerful that the Kryptonite had no effect on him by that point.
The robot Superman came to an end when he tried to use a version of that weapon on Power Girl, but lucky for her I stepped in and brought the fight to an end by disabling the robot with a powerful blast of magical lightning.
As we packed up everything else I wanted to take, including the Superman android, I found myself feeling bad about the creatures in the zoo, without the bots to take of them they'd starve to death, but they would have died anyway as the planet was going to be destroyed by me or they'd be killed by the invaders as they wouldn't leave this world until it was lifeless husk and I couldn't let them do that to other worlds.