Xander pulled the cap down as a squad of uniformed men rushed past barking orders at full bellow as they searched for their missing alien.
None even looked at Xander, why should they the alien they were looking for was close to seven foot tall gray and had rocky bone spikes poking up all over the place.
They never noticed the six-foot brown haired nobody walk out of the hospital in clothes he'd stolen from the laundry room.
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Xander walked down the street as he tried to figure out what he needed to do next. He had lied to the Doctor, he remembered almost everything.
His Name, His Address, his life and even how he got here. The only thing he seemed to have trouble remembering were the details of a rather important comic series.
"That would be my fault."
Turning to the voice Xander stared at the small white haired individual for a moment before shaking off the desire to throttle the little troll and looking skyward. "Why me?" he asked before glaring the gnome. "Mister Myxy…. Myxa… Mixy." Xander said with finality as he dared the ultra dimensional sprite to correct him.
Shrugging at the boy's inability to pronounce his name Mxyzptlk floated toward the copy of the Doomsday monster. "Seems I overstepped me and Jano's boundaries when we brought you over." He said with an embarrassed grin before shrugging it off as well. "After a rather severe talking to from 'THE BOSS' I was told in no uncertain terms to 'Fix' the situation before it spiraled out of hand." He said with a sigh before looking back at Xander. "Which means your gonna have ta split town for the next couple months."
Xander stared at the being for a moment before shaking his head. "No can do, Supes is down and I can't and WON'T leave this town undefended." Xander said with a snarl as the desire to pound the little being into a puddle began to rise.
"It won't be." Mxyzptlk said quickly as not even he knew if he could regenerate from the likes of the kid. "Listen, Guardian and Gang-Buster, Supergirl and a wagonload of others will be taking up the slack until things get sorted here." He promised and swallowed a relieved sigh as the boy took a step back. Watching as he thought about it, the small Imp played the last card he had. "Listen boyo I was told that you skeedaddle or else they will be taking steps, I got the feeling you won't like the steps so I decided to come give you the four one one."
Growling in resignation Xander looked at the small being for a moment before letting out a sigh of defeat. "Where can I go?" he asked as he looked up at the gleaming white towers of Metropolis and ignored Mxyzptlk for a moment as he focused on one building in particular with a smile. "How about we make a deal?"
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Lex Luthor finished up some paperwork to build the new homeless shelter and food bank before heading downstairs to deal with the bitch that had managed to throw him earlier today.
It really wasn't personal. But he was going to kill her anyways. And there was nothing Superman could do about it.
"Alexander Luthor"
Lex looked up in shock as a monstrous form stepped out of the shadows and advanced on him.
Pressing the alarm button repeatedly Lex frowned as the security squad he kept just down the hall failed to respond.
The frown deepened when he noticed a bird frozen in full flight outside his office window.
"Alexander Luthor, I have come for you." The tall form said as Lex finally recognized the form.
"You, you where at the fight between Superman and Doomsday." The red-haired billionaire said in shock as he tried to think of a way out of the situation.
Nodding at the recognition Xander grinned as he closed on the villain. "You are a Monster Alexander, you have murdered, stolen and cheated your way through life, you have cost countless mortals their lives in your relentless pursuit of Superman's destruction and even now you plot the murder of another just to prove you can."
Lex had been preparing the canned speech of how it had been his father, not him that had done those things before his jaws snapped shut at the last. "W-what are you talking abou…" his sentence cut off as a low buzz filled the room.
"I have come as punishment Luthor, and as a warning that even though superman is dead. There will always be someone to stop you." Xander said with a demonic grin as he pulled the hair clippers from behind his back.
Because the world was frozen, no one heard Lex Luthor scream.
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Xander stepped back from one of superman's biggest adversaries with a grin before leaving the now bald villain behind as he walked back into the shadow.
Mxyzptlk had promised that the clippers would cut as close to the skin as a razor and make it very difficult for the hair to grow back.
And when it did it would grow in patches.
Stepping through the shadows Xander grinned at the white haired being as he rolled on the floor with laughter before packing up the remains of the items he had collected in the few weeks since he had moved into the apartment waiting on this day.
He was more then a little fascinated as the bone spikes slowly sank back into his flesh before shaking his head with a chuckle. "Now that it's done, where to?" he asked as Mixy simply snapped his fingers and reinstated time.
"Well I hear Gotham is nice this time of year, and Lex-Corp has been forcibly ousted from the city everytime they try to take a foothold."
Xander nodded at the thought. Luthor would be coming after him now. Well his Alter ego at least. "Gotham it is." He said before sending up a slight prayer that he not get on the bad side of this 'Dark Knight' that was reported to be there.