Another note: Also as the summarize implied ten years have passed an certain events have occurred to make this A/U universe possible. Here are some that are needed to be disclosed to understand the third chapter which I'm working on right now.
2016 June- Superman and Lois Lane marry a year later this first som is born.
2016 November- Nightwing returns to team a handles mostly cover ops missions.
2016 December- A new element is discovered by Wayne Industries after much research it becomes publicly known as Xenothium.
2017 March- SuperBoy and Miss Martian take their relationship to the next level and decided to marry.
2017 May-Many cities celebrate an unofficial Justice Leauge Holiday also a "single" meteorite levels a city.
2017 August- Darkside attacks the Earth and the Justice Leauge and the team fight him off not without casualty thou as Hal Jordan, Jay Garric and Vixen have their life on the fight.
2018 February- Barry Allan discover the source of his powers something he calls the speedforce.
2018 June- Another Alien life from joins the team after they save her from being enslaved and her name is Starfire.
2019 January- The Helment of Fate looses it's power for a day allowing Zatara to spend on day with his daughter but as Nabu reached back to him he dawns the helment once more.
2019 July- Batgirl receives a fatal wound that leaves her paralyzed from the waist down.
2019 October- Nightwing quits the Team after finding out the real reason behind Batgirls incident
2020 January- A new speedster joins the team?
Sorry interruption I hope you like it
Keystone city/ April 04 2025 20:15
A figure with a red helment stood over the ledge of a skyscraper clapping as the man with skull mask appeared with the boy on one of his shoulders while his other was frozen.
"Took one hell of a hit solider." The figured said stepping out of the shade revealing a man in lather jacket covering his face with seemed to be a red helment with only hole in it's eyes or at least they seemed like holes even if they were glowing.
"Master I caught one the meta human kids and you won't believe the genes he has on him." The teen with the skull said removing his mask showing the face of a tired boy, brown eyes, black hair and more bags on his eyes than you would expect on boy.
"Black Canary's kid right? I did heard everything in your comm... I can assume the father is Green Arrow aka Oliver Queen but if so that means this kid is only ten at best, and his parents are already endangering his life in their business. Father and Mother year if you ask me." The man said as he took the boy from his apprentice and began to call someone over his comm.
"Yeah it's me...I have a meta kid not only that wait until you hear who's kid it...no I wish...it's Black Canarys' and he can sing just like his mom not to mention the fathers genes... I know green arrow isn't the best at decision making but...yeah I guess well anyways I got him and a plus remember the kiddy with the ice gun imitating poor Capitan Cold...yeah she'll be in Arkham's Joker victim section for the next few months courtesy I'm my min...no my protege...name Yeah his got one Red X and I believe that should sufficient to get him in, I believe that the help he provided on the Metropils job plus Star Lab abductees he brought to our side...really? Who else would be there? Okay...okay...but you know I'm not going if the clown is...roger then we'll be there tomorrow yup, we'll see you there just send the girl over to pick up this brat I don't like kids." The man finish his conversation by tapping the side of his helment and tossed the young canary until the floor.
"So how did it go? Any chance they'll let us in?" The teen in the dark suit address as Red X asked melting the ice of his shoulders with one of his hand which was giving out a red glow.
"Ever think of a name for yourself? I mean everyone has one in this business, you really don't want the Leauge choosing for you then you'll be stuck like poor penguin or trickster wait,wait, wait no they'll probably call you skull joker." The man said laughing without realizing that his apprentice had taken that to heart and was aiming a blaster at him.
"Better reconsider that Master." The boy said powering the laser weapon.
"Red X good with you? Better be I already pitched it to Savage." The man that Red X kept addressing as Master said as he placed an X on the middle of his suit.
"Why Red X? Anything with red could have work right? Like Red Death or Red Mist, even Red shadow." The boy responded.
"Yeah also Red Tornado or Red Vision. It had to be simple so they think your fresh blood, Red X sounds dumb enough." The man said finally taking his helment off to reveal a very attractive man with dark short hair and blue eyes. "For now let's relax, your about to meet the future of crime and if you play your cards right we might be able to take them down before they can even become anything."
"Very well as you say Master, I will go back with.."
"First let's bond a bit more of you. I can understand why you would want revenge but why don't you remind me one more time, after this I'll tell you the real story of how I cheated death." The man said with a stern look.
"Sure I don't mind, my story is kind of bland here so let's see if memory serves me right when I was four years old my parents took me to celebrate some sort of world event for the justice league but in that event two meteorite fell near our city. With them came two monster that almost whiped the city out if it wasn't for the Leauge...however not everything was brought to light, for example one of those monster vaporized my parents in front of my very eyes, sure Batman and WonderWoman saved me but in all of the news headlights, in evey news bulletins and in every internet source it read that there was only one monster in that city. I was even persuade by Bruce Wayne to never mention to anyone about the second beast, he said 'it was for the best of the world'. Can you believe he wanted me to not say a word about my parents killer? Anyways that's the short version I don't want to get into anything personal... I don't want to ruin my first victory." The boy said taking his mask off and with it a few tears running down his cheeks as he looked away from his mentor.
"Hey it's fine that guy is a jerk, besides remember what I told you? Badasses don't cry" The man said taking a sip of a drink that his servant hot just placed down. "Want one?"
"Can't drink, underage remember?" The boy responded sitting down on the ledge of the building.
"You have killed twenty-three militiamen, around fifty scum bags and your occasional bystander and drinking alcohol is where you draw the line." He set right next to boy taking another sip.
"It's bad for your liver and brain."
"Yeah but it helps you forget and remember the bad times...like the time me and the old men were chasing the clown throughout the whole European continent when somewhere in Ukraine he got the drop on me and..." The man stop as he saw the boy looking up to him like a child to his parents reading him a bed time story. "... yeah they ambush me and we got separated...for the next few hours I was left alone in a toolshed until the door open and he was standing there with a bag full of surprises, or at least that's what he said. Two days he spent beating the life out of trying to get me to spill the beans on who the Bat was but every time he asked I spat blood on his face, it got old after the fifth time if you ask me."
"Wait a minute he tortured you for an entire forty-eight hours and Btamna couldn't find you?" The boy asked confused
"It was a war zone, I could have been anywhere or even out of the country but that's not the best part, no that's when he placed around twenty pounds of c4 in the room and blew it up..." The boy was shocked, twenty pounds was about the same amount him and his crew had used in Flash museum heist. "...after that I woke up with the Leauge of Assassins and trained with tme under the title shadow of the demon four around six years and the rest, well you know the rest we met up on the job on JumpCity where the government was trying to weaponize Xenothium. The stuff you guys gun are power by and I assume your suit as well." The man said throwing the bottle of the ledge.
"You know that was short too?" The boy smiled while saying that.
"Yeah but like you said I don't want to ruin the mood with the details plus I have a date tonight, with our sponsor and his beautiful grand daughter." Jason said as he stood up and threw the beer bottle over the edge and was ready to unholster his gun when a red laser disintegrated the bottle
"We're almost there aren't we master?"
"How about we stop we that and when we're alone you just call me Jason?"
"You're the one who said to call you master, it's not like I like being your slave or erotic pet." The boy said chuckling standing up and putting his mask back on.
"Haha very funny Red X just go out and have fun. I want you here by six hundred, got that?" Jason said grabbing another beer from the servant standig near them.
"Catch you then Jason." The boy said presssing the button on his belt and jumping of the building fading away into the darken evenin sky.
"Hey uhm...sorry forgot your name?" Jason asked the butler.
"Oh it's Jane sir, John Jane." The butler responded.
"We'll John forget you saw that otherwise I'm sure that guy would kill you."
"Not a problem sir, this isn't my first rodeo." The man responded without an ounce of fear in his tone.
"Well how about that? Any chance you might be interested in full time job serving me? I'll pay you one hundred and fifty k a year, that's a decent salary." Jason asked but the service man laughed.
"That's is a tempting offer sir unfortunately I value my life more." He pointed at his neck and Jason knew what he meant in just a second.
"Well how about that this hotel has everything, any chance you might have girls like that too?" Jason said picking his helment up and a walking toward the room."
"Plenty to meet anyone's taste sir." John said as he followed and then seeing Jason pulling a briefcase from the closet he was confused.
"So who do I send the flowers to management or the corporate office?" Jason asked placing the case on the bed revealing around seven different fire arms. Two custom made pistols, a tactical submachine, the pieces for a sniper not assembled of course, two saw off shotguns and weird looking gun.
"Sir may ask what are you..."
"These are my toys John, I assume what you're wearing has Mic and whoever runs the joint is already planning to send a small gathering of beauties as a sample. I'm just asking who do I thank management or corporate?" He asked one last time fully armed with all of the guns already on him except for the sniper which he was assembling.
"Management, it's a small operation we only have another three sister buildings in Gotham and Bubai and South Korea." John responded.
"Thanks John, think about the offer I doubt your boss will be able to conduct business without a working junk. Well you could but I don't know a man who would rather live like that." Jason said as he proceeded to taser the butler, cut his collar off which he assumed was either a bomb or mind control then he proceeded to go into a rampage. First he dropped to the basement after knocking out the bell boy in the elevator, then as the doors opened around eight man stood up in a black room with only a green neon lights as it's lighting source. The men tried to take aim at him but the two closest received a bullet each to the head. Jason then proceeded to use one of them as a meet shield and continued pushing as he shot through the body taking out another two he then holster his handguns pulling out a shotgun and the submachine gun whole taking cover over a knocked over table.
"You're that punk that messed with the Bat a few years ago right? Red puke what do you want with us man?" One of the man hidding behind the only door there asked only for his kneecap to be blown off Jason then proceeded to drop the his shotgun having both runs empty, then threw a small device at the door which exploded making a hole in it the size of small fan.
"Don't worry boys he can't he through that." Another of the men shouted as a grenade landed in front of them. "Why me and my big mouth uh?" The explosion from it was massive but it didn't kill all of them as the last man launched himself at Jason with a knife when all of a sudden a cold pain in his stomach stopped him, it was another knife, Jason's knife. Which he twisted and then broke the man's arm before throwing him into a wall with such force that it shook the wall.
"Now remember you shot me first this could have been avoided." Jason said as kick the door down only to find a small corridor with another door behind it but this one look more heavy duty as in made of steel and looked like needed a passcode to open or Jason figured seeing the keypad. "Now you inside how about you let me in, we can talk before this gets ugly like them." For a moment the room was silent until the man on the other side shouted back.
"How about you go fuck yourself."
"Now remember this could have been easy." Jason said one last time pulling the weird looking gun that look like toy rather than a fire arm, it launch a odd device to the door that looked like metal cylinder the around an inch thick and with four odd looking hooks that attached the device to the door and lastly it also had a clock on the middle of it that had 00:05 as it's time not few moments passed before the door was blown and the outlaw found another bunch of guards that he quickly dismantled and after a minute and a half of fighting Jaso took a sit in the biggest chair of room behind a broken desk. "Okay so it's gonna look like I'm shooting you in the leg and it's gonna feel like I've shot you in the leg but..." Jason shot the other only living person in that room as his gun fired hitting right in the center of his right foot.
"Ahhh" the man yelled in agony as Jason took another shot as his left foot. "I'm sorey, I beg you pease stoppp I can pay you..." the man cried trying to crawl out of the room.
"Wow look at you, praying to anyone who would listen for mercy, well I got some new for you..." Jason said standing and aiming his gun at the man's genitals. "I'm sure that every woman,girl and boys that you have in the lower levels said to you once you bought them from whatever human trafficking ring that you found. So I'm sorry if the word mercy isn't in my vocabulary for you." Jason took the shoot and man now laid there in fetal position. "But I'm not a devil, no I'm gonna give you a chance to reform yourself."
"After you shot my dick?"
"Yeah sorry about that one I was aiming for your balls guess they we're just too small. Anyways so here's your second chance, I've call the cops..."
"You did what?"
"Ah ah ah no interrupting, so like I was saying I've called them and they are gonna be here in around five minutes, if you tell them that truth then I'll call us even." Jason said as he began to walk out of the room with a remote on his left hand.
After a few minutes passed just like Jason had said man in SWAT suits and heavily equipped shouting to freeze and stand down to bunch of corpses, thats until they reached the man with a bucket of ice next to him anf yelling for help.
"About fucking time you idiots got here can you see what that them idiot did to my..."
"Don Worsth my name is Lt. Grand with the Keyston City PD we recived anonymous tip from a good Samaritan that a few good people are here against their will."
"Well Capitan asswhite me and...ahh that's my lawyer..."
"Ups I'm sorry didn't meant to step on your whatever but I know you want to say something along the lines of 'I fucking own the chief of police and you are all my bitches' but today all of that changes." The Lieutenant said while pulling up a piece of paper foldded up. "This is a Warrant to search the entire Hotel so I'm guessing someone sold you out and the chief told off to keep this on as off the book as possible." Another officer pulled his gun out and with a single bullet killed the injured man, after that another of the officers received a black eyes from a strong hit to his face. "Well it's just like I said boys the mad gangster refused to go willingly and injured an officer in the process stole his gun and then killed himself. What a waste of a good bullet."
"Lt. Grand you can't possibly see this as right can you? I mean where's the due process?" Another officer asked fearful of his career trying to protect his integrity.
"What's your name kid?" Grand asked while pulling out a cigarette from his pocket in a very stereotypical gangster manner and lighting it.
"Blake sir, corporal Blake." The officer responded quickly.
"Well officer Blake you have a good set of morals but in The real world you'll meet scum bags that think they own everyone in the world. Think that they own you and your morals, one day whenever your alone or with your partner you'll get one of those calls: a dispute, peace disturbance or gunfight in the worst of cases but you'll be there and let it be a Capitan or the chief will make the call himself to let the perps go because they have some immunity bullshit bought by their parents, a pimp, the government you name it and when it happens you'll either swallow your pride and move up the ranks or you'll go home write a petty note and blow your brains out. So do forgive me if I don't care about this piece of garbage due process." Grand said as he took a drag of his smoke and walked away leaving the officer to question some of his believes.
"A little bit over board with the rookie don't you think sir?" An officer asked following the lieutenant.
"Look Bullock if it wasn't now when? The man has already been with us for two months and still wants to sympathy for this a-holes?" Grand said taking another drag then proceeded to pull his phone out to make a call.
"Yeah I guess you're right but hey at least it ain't Gotham." Bullock said with smile which made the Lieutenant smile as well.
"I got make this call to the S.V.U. to get help for the girls on the lower levels, go check those other idiots aren't adding to their physiological problems will ya?"
"Sure thing boss." Bullock said walking towards the elevator leaving Grand in the empty room of the crime scene where five bodies layied on the ground heavily mutilated.
"So Worths was there and we can account for at least fifty girls underage, twenty that vary on the age and around ten boys from different ages as well. Wanna let me know how you knew about this?" Grand asked the person who had made the call to him the day prior to the raid.
"Detective you got the Mark and saved the life of those innocent civilians isn't that enough?" The man said while the sound of a large metal door opening could be heard.
"Maybe to you but the DA office is gonna want have some sort of investigation going otherwise it's going to look like we just busted in here and abused out power." Grand took the finale drag of his cigarate as he examined one of the bodies.
"Just go with the original story that you got the anonymous tip then."
"From who? One of the guest that won't testify?"
"Is he dead?" Jason asked
"Why you ask?
"Is he?"
"Yeah"
"Okay then John Jane one of the butlers of the presidential suite would be happy to do so in exchange for an identity change for him and his family."
"Protection as well right the whole witness protection?"
"No he just wants to be registered as deceased after the trail and for his family to have different personas."
"You blackmailing the poor fella?"
"No he'll just be leaving the country afterwords."
"Smart move anyways I'll get the paper work in order by tomorrow it's a shame we won't be working together anymore, I really liked having someone who could get things done without the hole law angle bullshit."
"And I enjoyed bringing hope to a city that needed it since Green ducher and his family won't get their hands dirty or at least not anymore."
"You know you're the first vigilante I actually liked, if my daughter admire someone I wish it were you and not one of those Leauge guys. Frankly their over rated... so what's next for the Red Hood?"
"Well I have to see if I can make land a major blow to something that is way beyond my Leauge. I'm gonna try to take down the Injustice Leauge and the guy that runs it." Grand whistled as he saw a few forensics guy coming into the room.
"Well the SCI guys are here so we're pretty much done here."
"Take care of yourself Grand, tell your wife I said hi."
"Yeah yeah and you be safe out there kid. Try to not cause to much trouble."
"The key word here is try right?" With that both hanged up almost in sync as each stood and gazed at what would be one of their first step into a much bigger adventure than what they thought.
"Red Hood, we've been expecting you. The Light welcomes you as it's new enforcer after all poor DeathStroke isn't what he used to be." Vandal Savage stood in front of Jason while extendig his hand out to him.
"Anything to get rid of the Justice Leauge my friend and if there is a profit to be gain who could say no." Jason said but he was a bit confused as he was expecting to meet someone else. "Isn't Ra's supposed to be here?"
"I must admit when Ra's al Ghul first brought you in I was expetical but with the package which our agent is recovering as of now plus the few jobs you have help the Light facilitate. I am speechless."
"So about my protege..." Jason tried to ask about the meeting and Red X were supposed to attend Vandal cut him off.
"As per your request I have made a new set of arrangements since The crowned Prince of crime would have also decided to participate by bringing in his daughter. Now instead it will just be the young...what would you call them Young Injustice. I like that, so it would be up to them to complete certain mission for different members of the Light, then at a certain point they would be allowed in. You have already helped us enough plus as previously mention you do come highly recommend it." Savage finished by shaking Jason's hand and patting him on the back.
"Wait that sick bastard has a daughter?" Jason asked surprised
"For what we know she really isn't his daughter, just some brad he picked up after his girlfriend left him." Vandal laugh a little as he said that not feeling an ounce of sympathy for the guy they called a clown.
"Well kid you got your work cut of for you." Jason said as he followed Savage into the Lights layer.