Paranormal/Extranormal Earth.
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Note 1: I was originally going to do a three-part chapter explaining the world with scenes scattered throughout time, but this version feels more… fluid for me, more detailed. And hey, I've still done a three-chapter Paranormal/Extranormal story, so I never lied before. Hehe.
Note 2: There's been some confusion to the previous chapter regarding Rach's punishment from the speed force; I would like to address this here. Basically, when a speedster dies, the speed force takes them into a special heaven for speedsters (or if they're bad, turn them into Black Flashes ala Zoom or even time wraiths), but because of Rach keeping the Flashpoint timeline (not because she made it, mind you) she is not having either fate. She is not going to speedsters' heaven, and is not being turned into a Black Flash or wraith (that's just too mean anyway and it's not like she's done wrong like Reverse Flash or Zoom), so she will basically die like a normal human. Buried in the earth and no longer alive. No weird forever-consciousness thing, no hell, just... dead (make that what you will as I'm personally not religious so don't think of heaven and hell, but basically no speedster heaven for Rach, no speedster hell and no being turned into a vessel for the speed force).
Note 3: Also, the timeline isn't being changed back - you all like this new timeline (thanks for the love too, guys!) and it makes a better story for the newly-dubbed Extranormal, so it's staying. But as pointed out before, the changes are only on one world. Kayla remembers the old Paranormal world, as does Prime Sara and Alien Earth's Laurel from Sliders 1 (and Accord who's been giving away powers isn't the same any more, but similar).
Paranormal/Extranormal – A Detailed History.
Our story starts with Jane Marley.
Jane was an unusual woman to say the least. Not only was she not born in the United States, but she wasn't even born on Earth – although she didn't know this when growing up. Of her birth, all she knew was that the people who named her didn't want to keep her. It was a sad as it meant she didn't know where she came from, or where her powers came from, but it didn't stop her persevering.
Besides, for as long as she could remember she'd had extraordinary abilities to focus upon, and with no one to teach her or help her refine her skills, she was quickly labelled disturbed and weird by the other kids in the orphanage – even by some of the social workers and staff there. It had depressed her for a long while, but it didn't stop her from figuring out what she could do, or how she could do it.
Of course, her favourite ability was to fly – it was in fact the first skill she'd ever homed in on, and of course happened by accident… At five years old she understood the world already, and felt miles ahead of the other kids, yet so far behind too. She could hear the other kids whispering about her, as if they were shouting into her ear, and could see the notes they wrote across the room like they were right in front of her; but when one day it got too much for her, she had run to the roof of the orphanage, to try and get some peace and quiet. While there, another kid had found her, crying, and Jane had run, not noticing where she was going through the tears until the screams of both herself and the other girl alerted her to her own danger.
But she hadn't plummeted from the roof to her demise. Instead she had remained, floating on air, and only when she realised this did she start to fall, by which time the other child had come to her rescue. It was their secret until a year later, when the other girl was fostered, and Jane never heard from her again.
Jane had found families over the years, of course, but she didn't stay with them for long – she was always too shy, or they found her ability to interrupt whispered conversations strange. In the end, Jane had given up and by the time she was a teenager, she didn't even want a foster family – or any family for that matter. Besides, her focus had changed. She knew she was special, but she'd also heard of other special people in the world. Paranormals, as the normal humans dubbed them.
With little chance of finding these people, beyond some basic computer research thanks to the advancement from Luthor Enterprises, Jane needed to focus on a career, finding that temp jobs suited her mindset, if not her bills. At age eighteen, and with little in the bank, she thought she was going to have to move to hostel, as the orphanage didn't house kids over eighteen, until a mysterious woman came looking for Jane. And she had all the answers.
Taking Jane to a research facility in National-Central City, Amanda Waller told Jane everything she needed to know. That she was originally called Kara Zor-El and was an alien, and, as a baby, her pod was discovered in Smallville by a teenaged couple who had given her up. POD or the Paranormal Operations Department, the organisation Amanda Waller worked for, had been keeping a distant eye on Jane ever since she entered the system, but couldn't touch her until she was an adult. Now. Aged eighteen, they could.
But that wasn't all the information Amanda could provide – because POD also found the remains of her home world on a larger ship, which crash landed about a year after Jane had arrived on Earth. The event was known worldwide as the Metropolis Meteor Disaster, as the ship has landed in the city and caused quite a bit of damage, but what POD had managed to recover from the meteor was extraordinary: It was a piece of Jane's home world, a specimen spacecraft. It contained data records of a world known as Krypton, as well as DNA samples from hundreds of species. The only problem was the damage from the impact – many of the DNA samples had been destroyed while the records had been corrupted. And while the technology of their earth was advanced, it wasn't yet good enough to decode an alien software.
This didn't faze Jane though. In fact, it barely bothered her. It was what she did with the information that was important later.
Except, POD didn't hand out information without something in return. Amanda Waller gave Jane a proposition: To work with POD, use her super skillset to help them take down bad guys, earn a good pay check for it, or go back to her life of temping and slumming around. It was with barely any hesitation that Jane accepted working for this agency, for Amanda Waller.
Things weren't completely smooth though, as Jane had reluctance to adapting to her new life using her powers instead of hiding them, even if being called Superwoman by the Daily Planet didn't have quite the impact Amanda Waller had hoped for. It was only when she met a young man named Jay Garrick that Jane felt she had things under control. Jay was another Paranormal, a man with extraordinary abilities like her – he could run exceptionally fast, faster than even her, and with this speed could do so much more, such as phasing through walls, make himself invisible and was even practicing flight with the use of spinning his arms and legs as humanely possible to levitate. It was something he never truly mastered though. Still, he went by the title 'The Flash' and had done so since gaining these powers.
Powers which he had gained through an experiment with his brother – Henry – who didn't gain Paranormal abilities himself but had supported his brother regardless. It was while doing hero work for his city that Kara and POD came face-to-face with Jay. POD didn't take too well to heroes not in their docket, while Jay wasn't willing to work for the military, but Jane convinced him otherwise, wanting a friend and someone who was also looking into Paranormals, which Jay was.
On reflection, that was the day the Justice Alliance, then called the Legion of Superheroes, had started. After that day, Jane and Jay, self-proclaimed Leaders of the Alliance, started looking into other Paranormals, recruiting them into a group of super powered friends – much to the discord of Amanda Waller – and saving, not only their city, but many places across the country. It was a Daily Planet request that the name changed from Legion of Superheroes, to The Justice Alliance.
Then came the day Jane found out most about her home world, while also finding the love of her life: Da-Ver. A Kryptonian and Green Lantern, came to Earth to do research on the Alliance for the Lantern Corp. Upon discovering Jane and what she was, he revealed about the destruction of their home world, of Krypton, and how his father had been a Green Lantern back then and had saved his mother, himself and his son from the destruction. He told Jane about the world she never knew and what she could have been but was also able to help with the Specimen Ship which POD had in storage – even able to decode what he could and help. He joined their Justice Alliance that day too, and although a loner, Jane was enamoured by his charm and good looks.
But the world was going to change.
Tech genius and employee at Luthor Enterprises, Maxwell Lord had come to POD for information on their Kryptonian ship. It had taken him months, but he had gained Amanda Waller's trust and even took on a secondary job as POD's Chief of Technology. But, only a year after he'd come to POD he had gone – and he took vital pieces of Kryptonian technology with him, using one of the Alliance's own members to hop worlds, and his very own and very literal powers of persuasion to force that member of the Alliance to forget where he'd sent him.
It was not a good day for POD, and definitely not one for Amanda Waller, who was critically wounded in the conflict with Lord before he had left, dying only days later; her death was critical for POD as a time of power change in United States government forced the removal of the department altogether. It was lucky for the Alliance, however, as they had influence and power among the country – not to mention having a couple of rich members, who had created enhanced suits to help fight crime and spread justice to gain access to the Alliance.
Without POD as their base, a new base was created for the Justice Alliance on an island in the river that separated the combined cities of Central and National; but that wasn't all. Da-Ver had a proposal for Jane too, and with the Kryptonian Specimen Ship now in the Alliance's possession, the pair agreed to find a way to bring a slice of Krypton back to themselves, hiring some of the best veterinary and scientific experts recreate Krypton, although forced to splice Kryptonian DNA with Earth animals that bore semblance to Kryptonian animals that Da-Ver's parents described to him due to the damage of impact many years prior.
Realizing they needed a place for these new animals, they created the Kryptonian Wildlife Sanctuary in Metropolis, a nod to where the specimen ship had landed, funded by one of the members of their Alliance and given the green light from the new President of the USA themselves. But Jane didn't want to give up on the Alliance, and Da-Ver couldn't give up being a Green Lantern, or his position in the Alliance either, so they continued their work, moving to Metropolis to be in the Sanctuary, only temporarily depowering Jane by the Red Solar Lights that kept their animals tame and calm. It was a home, a new and permanent home for the pair.
Not only was Jane happy, but Jay was too – soon married to his wife, Joan, who gave birth to twins, Rachel and Roland the very same year they married. It became evidence quickly that both children had inherited their father's powers though. As six month later their powers activated, causing a nightmare for Joan, but fun for Jay. His little family wasn't the only ones to welcome super-powered children too, as his brother, Henry and his wife Nora, also had two children: Barry and Amelia. Barry didn't exhibit any powers until the day Amelia showed hers, giving him the ability to teleport – which was a shock for his parents, but entertainment for his little sister and uncle – as well as her own skillset, which included the ability to travel to other worlds, and, of course, give normal humans extraordinary abilities like she had her brother.
But without POD, the new government needed something for the handling of the more day-to-day Paranormal crimes that the Justice Alliance didn't need to handle. With the name 'Extranormal' slowly becoming the norm due to CatCo's insistence, they founded the Department for Extranormal Operations, or DEO for short, and used the same long-since abandoned base for POD. The DEO then began to help the Justice Alliance, instead of hinder it, and indeed aid them by tackling the smaller misconducts; they became vital at a time when the Alliance's leaders were distracted – Jay with his young family and Jane and Da-Ver with their Sanctuary – although the Alliance worked well with temporary leaders, like Batman, Wonder Woman, and Red Tornado.
The Kryptonian Wildlife Sanctuary was a roaring business success for Jane and Da, who married in a small ceremony resided only with Alliance members and Da-Ver's mother and father, and soon the two found themselves parents too – although Jane didn't want to get pregnant, or want a family being a self-proclaimed hermit, Da had convinced her otherwise, using an artificial growth chamber, which they had used to create so many of the wildlife in their Sanctuary so far, to create their child together. They had a boy. Lyall Versy (Versy being a human adaption on the family name 'Ver'), or Ly-Ver, as Da liked to call him – Kryptonian traditions, after all. They even hired a nanny for the times neither could be there to look after the boy, and under the red lights, no one was the wiser as to the boy's Kryptonian abilities.
The Justice Alliance was quickly moving on to it's second generation as the Garrick children grew up. Roland and Rachel, at aged fifteen, decided to follow in their father's footsteps and helped stop the Toyman during Thanksgiving – although they were helped by their father in the end, who was disappointed in his children, only wanting them to have a normal life, but at the encouragement of their mother, of all people, began training as the Flash Twins, or Kid Flash and Ms. Flash, as CatCo and the Daily Planet, respectfully, named them.
Even Barry and Millie used their powers for good, despite Millie's tendency to pop over to other worlds to give people powers who didn't really need them, and as a family unit of heroes, the four teenager found others like them, namely Francisco 'Franco' Ramon, Caitlin Snow and Cynthia 'Gypsy' Reynolds – the latter of which was the daughter of the Alliance's very own Breacher. They even befriended a world hopper, whom Millie had saved, called Kayla; she was a Kryptonian like Jane, Da and their son, but with the loss of her family on her own world, she had remained distant with the group and acted solo whenever possible, or even working with Director Lyla Michaels at the DEO instead of with the other Extranormal young adults or the Alliance.
But the happiness also came with sadness as, one day when the Flash Twins were in their early 20s, the man who had escaped POD and killed Amanda Waller returned. Maxwell Lord. And he didn't come alone as the Rachel Garrick of another world came after him. It was soon revealed that Lord had intended to use a stolen piece of Kryptonian technology, the Omegahedron which powered the Specimen Ship, to destroy his home word – but he had been stopped by the Jay Garrick of this other world, who had died to save them. Lord had tried again twenty years later and this time it was that world's Rachel Garrick who saved them, and she wasn't too pleased to meet with the earth responsible for her father's death, most particularly on the anniversary of that death.
Yet after imprisoning Lord in the DEO, Jay of this world had words with his alternative daughter, and although her hate for the world would never completely go, she understood them more, thankful that Jay freely admitted to wishing to take her father's place to stop Maxwell Lord, even if it meant his own children on this world wouldn't have had a father.
Rach didn't like this alternative version of herself, though, unable to pinpoint why beyond her double's dislike of her world but vowed never to go to this other world, this New Justice World, as it was called, anyway as she wanted to get on with her own life. Besides, it wasn't like she was going to get the chance, what with her double life as Ms. Flash and the recent inheritance to an upper-class restaurant in the National side of Central-National City – it was a place she had worked at since she was eighteen, had become great friends with the boss and when she'd left, who had practically handed the chef's hat and apron to Rach. It was a good job, and being the owner allowed her to leave whenever she needed to be Ms. Flash, without question.
What Rach didn't anticipate however, was time travelling.
The world she knew wasn't completely real as, in an alternative timeline, she had gone back twenty-four years and, through these actions back in time, returned to the world confused and disorientated. She wasn't used to the Justice Alliance, to Jane and Da-Ver or their son, to the fact that she allegedly had a little sister who didn't exist now… but she still liked being a hero, being Ms. Flash, and she would do anything for her family, even if she was apparently down a member. Besides, she wanted help her brother form a new Alliance of their friends; plans she and Roland had had for a while. And she really wanted to.
Anyway, it wasn't like she needed her alternative world back – the only positives there had been Jonnie, her sister, and her relationship with Alex Danvers; and when push came to shove, one or two sacrifices for the greater good of this world was worth it – apart from her father having to go to New Justice World to explain the changes to Rae, because the timeline didn't affect the other worlds, and although they all had memories of pleasantries with New Justice Rae, New Justice Rae didn't have any with them.
But Jay soon sorted that out, and hopefully then Rae would be okay with the other world, and Rach would learn to live with her changes as she confronted the speed force to find out more…
Post-chapter note: And there you have it. I hope you enjoyed this and that the histories are different enough from New Justice it's not looked at as a cheap copy. For once I have a Justice League (of sorts) and Watchtower for my own, as my work seems to be lacking in those – and advanced tech. Millie sprung those on me before I knew it or could incorporate them into my own plans. As for any similarities with New Justice, well Extranormal will be getting a new, better, twin Earth to debut soon… one more in line with the changes Rach made to the timeline too. Apart from Jane, because I think she's an anomaly in the Millma Verse. I still love her though.
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