Sir Shark of The Acrylic: Flashpoint is crap and it has not happened in this story.
AlienTokusatsuDuelistMangaGeek: Not every girl is going to join the harem.
Skull Flame: It is a terrible comic.
B.E.A.T.N: TANK! CERA! TOPS! WAHOO!
Shooting Star Dragon 3000: Black Adam is doing a mind controled.
R. Vital: It is Kryp-Ten. Like Krypton.
Here are some reviews answered by Ghost:
Sir Shark of The Acrylic: Haven't read Flashpoint, but know of it. Not really a fan. As for 'Heroes in Crisis'? Burn it to ashes.
AlienTokusatsuDuelistMangaGeek: We'll see. But as for Hippolyta? Yeah, not gonna happen.
Skull Flame: Watch Linkara's review of it. And yeah, we're keeping our cinnamon roll alive.
B.E.A.T.N: Yeah, that was fun to write. This chapter is going to drop the proverbial hammer down on Savage.
Shooting Star Dragon 3000: Okay, Shyamalan, calm down. laughs
R. Vital: It's not 'Krypto-Ten' it's just 'Krypten'. And... no. It's not gonna be Jojo.
Artist: GhostKaiser23, he goes by Hangman12 on Deviantart. Either look him up, or go to my profile to see links to all of his official work for this story
Disclaimer: Cartoon Network owns Ben 10 or Teen Titans
AUTHORS NOTE
OH YEAH! Two uploads two weeks in a row!
I am honestly proud of myself for that.
Well here we go, another new chapter. Hope you like it!
Ending the Markovia events strong!
James' Harem 2
Chapter 71
Mighty Mortal, Immortal and Time
Floating in front of the heroes was a large, powerful man wearing a full black costume, a golden belt, shin guards and bracers, a bright golden lightning bolt emblazoned on his chest, Egyptian features with shaved black hair and a hollow look to his face.
He was gripping the wrist of Brione, Geo-Force. The Prince of Markovia, trying to defend his brother.
It had been a serious drama the past few hours. Many people across the world coming for the royal wedding of Markovia. Only for an attempted genocide against the entire country to come out of nowhere. If it was not for the Titan's, Markovia would be ripped off the face of the Earth by now.
After a tense battle, where they found out that among the hired assasins was a blackmailed Cheshire while other heroes disarmed/removed the threat of the dozens of neucular bombs across the country, the heroes had gathered. Where, thanks to Jade as well as the detective skills of Robin and Thaddeus Thawne, they had uncovered the one behind everything.
Vandal Savage.
Preparing to take him down, they met a this sudden obstical. The king of another nation, powered by the gods. One of Earth's Mightest Mortal's... who looked almost mindless with his blank look.
"Black Adam?!" Hawkgirl yelled
"I see you've met." Savage smiled darkly. "It took some time, but I managed to have some 'insurance' with Adam here. Having a servant of six deities is a good bodyguard."
CRACK!
"AAAARGH!" Brion yelled in agony his hand being broken.
"Brion!" Tara yelled in fear, using her powers to blast powerful rocks at Black Adam
CRASH!
CRUMBLE!
...
Black Adam had remained stationary, the earth breaking off him without flinching. Though he looked scuffed, he didn't look perturbed by it.
"Adam. No survivors." Savage instructed.
Adam nodded, and rushed forwards like a bullet
Everything was in bullet time, this was insane, Bart and Jay had to be the first ones there just to stop Black Adam from killing the closest people there!
SLAM!
"Argh!" Jay and Bart grunted in pain, feeling a man with the strength of six gods flowing through him.
"He's not in his right mind!" Dick called "He's being controlled!"
Savage chuckled triumphantly to himself. He held the cards against the Titans and Heroes. The League had no answer for this and Captain Marvel wouldn't be here. Magic, superior strength and speed, near immortality; Black Adam had it all and Savage had such a being under his thumb.
James glared at Black Adam and rushed forwards, slamming his Matrix and transformed into a new Alien, shocking everyone there.
Emerging from the yellow light... Was a stick like alien.
The alien had a strange purple/grey skin, and looked almost skeletal with how thin it was. His flesh seemingly barley hanging on his bones. He wore a black and yellow cloak, the Matrix atop his head. The skeletal alien having no eyes, a few small slikes poking out of the flesh of his forehead like a crown.
The Titans and heroes looked at James' new form, even the guests and royalty that were there.
...
"Ew." Cass flinched as she was the only one who could say what others were thinking.
James looked down at his hand, taking a deep breath 'I don't know what this guy does, but I know this.' James thought as he looked at Black Adam. "You messed with the wrong family!" He hissed out at the immortal. He jumped high, looking almost like a piece of paper in the wind, rushing at Black Adam
"Run your hand through his heart." Savage ordered, finding James' new form pathetic compared to the massive dinosaur that he just was. 'What an idiotic child.' he thought
Black Adam flew right at James, his fist raised and...seemed to become distorted. His godly muscles seemed to wither as he got close to James' stomach where James inhaled and lightning-like wind/wind sucked into his mouth.
James grabbed onto the god empowered man, clawing at him until he had a good grip
"Grrhnn!" Both James and Black Adam grunted, the paper-thin alien inhaling inhumanly as energy seemed to leave the deific being.
James' body began to expand and grow, like he was a balloon being inflated
"What the hell?" Duela asked in shock as they all saw that.
Black Adam was slowly becoming emaciated, not at a great speed, but it was noticeable; his costume getting looser as he fought James. 'What is this? Is this his magic?!' He thought in shock as part of his real mind began to come to the surface for a second.
Vandal Savage's eyes widened in shock as he saw this, Black Adam was being 'eaten' by someone so flimsy and weak who was growing stronger by the minute!
Dinah nudged Shayera and looked at Savage as James and Black Adam fought and were getting away from the civilians, giving the notice of 'We can probably detain him.'
Shayera's eyebrow raised as she looked at her friend and then at him, giving a small nod as the two members of the League were going to detain this dangerous psychopath.
"There!" James called as he kicked Black Adam to the ground. Adam had been weakened, but he was still very powerful
CRASH!
Back Adam grunted, coughing out spit as James had slammed him down to the ground, causing a crater due to his size and James' new strength.
As he tried to stand, Nightwing and Batwoman rushed forth
THUD!
"Don't even try it, Adam!" Dick ordered as he preformed a swift punch to weakened magical powerhouses jaw. That strike was swiftly followed by knee to the throat by Cass, which left Adam gagging
"Thanks guys!" James smiled.
"Bastard brats." Savage angrily growled as he began to sneak away
CRUSH!
Earth began to rise and surround Vandal to pen him in, Tara's kind face scrunched into anger and rage as she saw the man who broke her brother's hand try to flee like a rat.
"Hi, you aren't going anywhere Mr Savage. Are you?" She asked innocently
"You think that I'll be stopped here?" He responded, turning to Tara and glared at the Princess.
tink
Thunk
"I think we can make that happen." Hawkgirl said proudly, tapping her mace on the rock
"... Where the hell were you hiding that?" He questioned.
crack.
"Never you mind." Dinah responded.
Savage hummed angrily as he was cornered. He had trained in the art of war and various forms of martial arts; he was an ancient man who knew loss and victory. His plans were stalled for now, but he would rise above these mortals. He knew the names of the gods before gods were defined.
"Vandal Savage, you're under arrest!" Gregor proclaimed, using his standing as King to defy Vandal Savage for almost assassinating him, his family, his guests and everyone in his country.
Black Adam roared like a wild animal, unleashing lightning in every direction
"Gotcha!" Bart said as he grabbed Cass and pulled her away
"Thanks Jay." Dick nodded, the older hero having gotten him out of the lightning zone himself
"No problem." He nodded
Argent and Kimiyo grunted as they both used their light-related powers, forming a bright white energy shield they protected them innocents
Raven had done the same with anti-light, protecting the heroes
"Give me an opening, bird girl!" Bleeze called, channeling her rings power
"Give US a shot!" Kyle corrected with a grin, using his green light of will
"On it!" Raven Dove proclaimed, creating bindings at Black Adam who was still shooting lightning at them, which was being redirected by Static; who was having great strain controlling it.
"There!" Both Bleez and Kyle saw the opening.
A blast of red and green construct light shot out from Bleez's and Kyle's rings respectively to bind Black Adam to the ground even as he tried to escape into the air.
The magically infused being struggled against the construct bindings of the two Lanterns, the strength of gods that was given to him was failing him because James's hunger absorbing it just enough not to kill him.
Tempest raises his arm as his eyes glowed, purple bands of energy wrapping around Black Adam
SHINK!
SHINK!
"Graargh! Hnn!" Black Adam grunted in pain, struggling to free himself.
"Hnn! Can someone give us a hand here? This guy's struggling really well!" Kyle called out. Running to the area was Rose's little brother Jericho. He had a plan to stop him. "Jericho, what're you-?" Kyle asked as Jericho's eyes met with Black Adam's and his mind was transferred into the adult's body.
Jericho had vanished, all absorbed into Black Adam
"What the hell?!" Thad snapped as he saw this.
Black Adam's rage began to subside and his inane roars calmed into lucid tones where the adult was now speaking as Jericho. "Thank you. Bart, Mr Garrick, there is something controlling this body."
"Okay, got it!" Bart nodded.
"Going to have to be more specific than that, Jericho." Jay responded.
"One moment." Jericho spoke as he closed Black Adam's eyes and began to search for the thing that was controlling the magical enemy.
"That is impossible." Savage remarked before he was slammed to the wall Tara created.
"These young heroes do the impossible." Dinah responded.
"Agreed." Shayera smirked
Jericho searched Black Adam's mind and looked for the device on his person... or more specifically inside his person. 'Ah, I see. In the centre of the brain and the base of the neck.' Jericho commented to himself and then repeated it back to Jay and Bart.
Jay and Bart's bands began to vibrate, moving super fast
"It's alright. Just like 'Operation'." Jericho smiled, putting their trust in them.
"Don't use that analogy! Please, Jericho!" Bart responded, sweating as his response as the two Speedsters tried not to overlap their hands and cause a terrible accident.
"Got it!" Jay pulled out a small device, the size of a microchip with miniature latches.
"Got the other bit!" Bart nodded
Jericho smiled and soon released Black Adam, though everyone was still very much on guard in case the supervillain decided to strike out at them.
"It's over, Savage. You lose and you're going to jail." Shayera commented.
Savage began to laugh, smirking evily
"What's so funny?" Shayera asked.
"It's just funny... that you think I wouldn't be able to endure or enjoy prison. Go ahead. Throw me in there. What are a hundred years to an immortal who commands respect among... fellow villains?" He gave a 'higher than thou' look towards Lex. "I'll walk out and you all will be past your prime. A hundred years later, you'll be dust and I'll try again. I'm a patient man... I am Vandal Savage. I've seen the world turn and age before me, I endure. And my empire will rise and I'll claim what is mine."
...
"You really are pathetic." James scoffed
"What was that, boy?" Savage glared at James.
"I said; 'You are pathetic'. You think you're better than everyone just because you're immortal, just because you can 'live forever' that you think you're superior to us. Do you know what you are? A stagnant piece of the past. You don't grow, you don't learn. You're forever frozen in place repeating the same mistakes ad infinitum. Break whatever you want, take it the ruins and make them your own empire... but empires never last for long." James explained harshly
"You DARE question me!" He glared
"Yes. I dare question you." James answered, rotating his Matrix. "Because people like you, who think they'll win in the end... never win for long. If you cause the collapse of a city, a kingdom, the world; all for your sick and twisted desires... there will always be heroes who'll stand against you and beat you down!" He proclaimed as his eyes shone with the intense yellow of his Matrix.
BWEEP!
There was a flash of yellow that enveloped James, as he transformed...
OCEAN HISTORY~!
Emerging from the light... Was a squid like alien. It was seven foot tall, a being made up of a mass of tentacles. He looked to be humanoid in shape, made out of black and blue tendrals. His right 'hand' was made out of a golden metal, in the shape of a trident, while his form was a mass of tentacles which wrapped around each other. Poking out between the tentacles where his waist where, was his Matrix. His head appeared to have a comb over hair style with how some tentacles where overhanging from the side of his face. Yellow eyes where glowing out from the darkness. However if you looked closely, you may have noticed that there was... something underneath.
Toki-Toki-Toki!
"The... Endless..." James said in a raspy, exhausted voice. His voice sounding ancient
The entirety of the group around James and Vandal Savage backed up as James had transformed into this... thing. No, it was certainly an alien... but what the fuck was it?
"Is that supposed to scare me, boy? yob, em eracs ot desoppus taht sI" Savage spoke before James slowly rose his hand and then made his motions reverse in time by tilting his hand to the left. "Gah! Wh-what did you-?"
"You said... that you are... 'immortal', correct? Let's see... if it's true... or not." James rasped as his golden trident tilted to the right ever so slightly.
Vandal Savage was frozen in his spot, James' yellow eyes maintaining eye contact as his clothes began to wear away, turn moth ridden before disappearing entirely as the enhanced neanderthal was naked and his hair was growing. Longer and longer, a beard that went down and covered his front while his hair covered his waist.
To the people outside of this effect, James was standing still while Vandal Savage was getting older and older. However, it couldn't be further from what was transpiring.
James as 'The Endless' was speeding time relative to Savage, and he was feeling the ravages of hundreds to millions of years in a matter of seconds. Savage saw the Earth speed past him as he remained motionless and trapped, kingdoms rising and falling, cities growing and expanding, wildlife growing and falling to wildfires and natural devastation. And his body was showing the ravages of time taking their toll on his body.
Vandal Savage continued to struggle, his mind was fighting as he was kept in his spot. 'I won't stop! I will endure! I demand you release me! Do you hear me, you bastard?! This is enough!'
His hair that was once stalwart and black was turning wiry thin and white, wrinkled skin pocked with liver-spots as his fingernails elongated as he looked less a man and more a depiction of a hermit. His teeth wore away to weakened gums, his muscles that he was expressive of his stature reduced to limp string and his bones became arthritic and brittle. His eyes continued to stare until they turned blind and milky.
'Enough! Stop it! I! I order you! Stop...! Stop it... shop... sspop... coo mush...'
And finally his mind, that which he found himself superior to...turned to mush, the sights and sounds, the speed in which all knowledge of the future that came to him crammed into his mind that he was driven mad as he had seen the lifespan of the Earth. Dementia? Schizophrenia? Alzheimer's? Savage had experienced it all at once. None can withstand time itself, except to those that are ageless. Those that profess themselves 'immortal' are just long-lived. Or had a prolonged life.
James' perspective saw the emptiness of the world that Savage would be left behind in. The last man alone as the world burned around him. James returned his golden hand to a neutral level, before tilting it to the left, where Vandal Savage would experience the effects ALL in reverse.
And... He screamed
His mind returned first, feeling the full experiences as the brightness returned to his eyes, blinding him by the sun, sounds returned to his ears to deafen him by his own screams, his body cracked and straightened as he could -feel- his bones healing as his nails and hair retreated back into his body. His muscular frame returned to his body as he got stronger and healthier; his bare self being covered by the clothes he once wore, stitching and fitting themselves to fit his enhanced neanderthal body. All the knowledge that he acquired remained as he could feel it almost erupt out of his mind, we wanted to take a stone and smash it into his brain to relieve the pain. The world soon returned back to the immediate present, where Savage fell to the floor, crying and drooling in a fetal position while clasping his head from the experiences.
He became a shell of the respected man that he was once was as James maintained the neutral hand motion before lowering it. "Do you see... Vandar Adg? For all your plans for conquest... it will be lost. Not a King. Not... a Kaiser. None of it will be yours. You will be alone, your plans are meaningless."
"What... Happened?" Gregor asked
"I showed him... a future. With or without him..." James wheezed, answering his 'brother-in-law'. "He's experienced... his immortality... to its conclusion..."
"Guards, seize him." Brion ordered his guards as his hand was tended too. "If he has any-"
"He's no threat... now." James answered, transforming back to normal... and falling to his feet. The lack of feet made him a little wobbly. "That was... Wow that was weird."
The guards carefully picked up Vandal Savage from his feared state, him jittering and jerking about as he felt like he was being taken away. "... Ah! Ah! No no, no... No, the end... saw... saw the end. Destroyed... Giant. The Red Demon! Trigon! TRIGON! Ikor Rachun Trigon Mellik Gah Thu'un!"
"Be quiet." Raven spat and made a golden anti-light muzzle
Savage's raving mouth was silenced as he was led away, his eyes swirling with madness as his legs were bowed and stumbling. He was driven to the point of such madness that his body functions were upside down and inside out. All he could do was scream like Cassandra in ancient Greek Myth.
"Rachel?" James asked as he held her hand.
"I'm fine." She answered, trying to remain calm... but those words he said. It was a mixture of gibberish and her father's name. Not a spell nor a language. Just guttural things that Savage could muster.
"Oh, okay." James nodded as he got to his feet and looked at her.
"Lian, you okay?" Jade asked as she knelt next to her daughter
"Yes Mummy." she nodded and hugged her, hugging her mother as tightly as she could
"I'm so glad." the former assasin muttered, not even feeling the bug bite in the adrenaline of the moment
The tiny silver insect flew away, fast as it could
The guests sighed in relief, now that the danger was over... hopefully they could go back home. "Well... now that this is settled... I assume we can all leave?" A guest asked.
"I guess that also means the wedding will be pushed back until-" A guest added
"No. No, no, no. No, that's not happening." Gregor answered.
"Gregor? What do you mean?" Vincent asked.
"We're not moving the date up. I'm marrying you today, Vincent." Gregor responded. "Is there anyone here that's a licensed priest? It seems... Ours has evacuated."
...
"Give me a minute." Victor responded, synching up to the internet to do a crash course and become a priest.
"Wait; Vic, are you saying?" Garfield asked.
"There're a few things I can do while we're at least here. Let me do this much." Victor answered with a smile before frowning. "... Stupid pop-ups."
Lex Luthor hummed to himself as his finger tapped a buton on his belt buckle, a dozen tiny silver robots flying into the buckle. Fast and silently, no more than a glint of light IF anyone saw.
*three minutes later*
"I thought you said 'a minute'." Garfield smirked.
"Two of those were my anti-virus blocking pop-up ads. Scammers are persistent." Victor deadpanned.
"Is everything alright though?" Gregor asked
"Okay, I've got it. I'm an ordained minister." Victor smirked and nodded. "Ready when you guys are."
"Vincent." Gregor smiled softly "Are you ready?"
"Yes, my love." He nodded
"Here we go!" Tara clapped
"We are gathered here today..." Victor spoke loudly and proudly, the gathered guests listening and smiling.
The kings of Markovia locked eyes as their 'modified' ceremony began.
And it was perfect...