UFC: Another Generation
Summary: Set in my Superman Returns verse. Tales of love and adventure as Superman and Wonder Woman's children follow in their parents' footsteps and become heroes.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters I use.
Author's Note: The 3rd of my Unfinished Chronicles. To really understand this you have to read my 3 other stories set in this universe I created. Superman Returns: A new Vision, Superboy: Origins of Kon-El and Encounter of the Universes.
A jewellery store is often a most tempting target for would-be thieves. The smashed in front of one such premises is an ample demonstration. Inside said store are two masked men looking for a way to make easy money as they clean the place out. They are just stuffing their bags when a gust of wind gets their attention. Next they sense the presence of others in the store with them. In an instant both grab their guns spin round and proceed to unload on what they deem intruders on their crime.
Unfortunately for our two thieves their bullets end up impacting on those who are nigh-on invulnerable. Two young people stand there. One male. One female. Both wearing masks. Both dressed in black skin-tight clothing and long black trench coats and on both of the shirts they are wearing in silver a mark all criminal recognise. It is the stylised S worn by Superman. The material their clothes are made of is literally not of this world. It is something from their father's homeworld and given to them by him upon informing him of their wish to do this; fight crime. Both stand there arms folded across their chests in a close imitation of their father's famous stance.
"Now are you guys going to surrender or do we have to do this the hard way?" the young man asks.
The two thieves start to reload their guns causing both teens to simultaneously roll their cerulean blue eyes.
"So whose turn is it?" the young man asks the woman.
"Can't remember," she admits.
"Rock, paper, scissors?" he suggests.
They both put their hands into fists. "On 3," she says.
"1...2...3!" She makes a rock while he makes scissors.
"Ha! I win!" she proclaims.
The man mutters before stepping aside. "They're all yours," he tells her.
The woman steps forward, puts one hand in the other and cracks her knuckles. "Alright whose first?"
One of the men aims his gun at her but she catches his arm and squeezes gently for her but enough for the man to yell out in pain and drop his weapon. She follows it up with a kick to his midsection doubling him over and then a chop to the back of his neck knocking him out.
"Don't move!" the other man yells at her aiming his gun at her although his hand is shaking.
The woman cocks her head at him before her eyes glow. The gun heats up until the man is forced to drop it in pain. He rushes forward and throws a punch which hits her right on the cheek. She can hear the bones in the man's hand break upon her skin. He cradles it in pain.
"What are you!?" he asks in utter terror.
"We are the dreaded Twins of Justice," the young man says mockingly.
The young woman rolls her eyes at that before delivering a nice firm punch to render this guy unconscious too. In a blink of an eye she ties them up and dusts her hand off.
Lara turns to face her twin brother. "Twins of Justice?" she asks disbelievingly.
Jon shrugs. "Sounded better in my head," he explains.
Lara shakes her head as she strides out of the store with her brother following on behind. Police sirens in the distance indicate that it is time for them to go. "Come on. We better go," she tells her brother. "We promised to meet the guys at the bar," she reminds him.
The two twins bend their knees slightly and launch themselves upward so that all the police see are two black blurs flying off into the night sky.
A short time later sitting at a bar having a drink with his friends is tall, broad shouldered young man with curly dark hair and cerulean blue eyes. He had a chiselled jaw and cheeks and an ability to turn the heads of most young women he meets. It comes from the inheritance of his parents because the man sitting there is Jonathan Kent, son of two of the world's most famous heroes.
He is out with his friends from Metropolis University where he is studying journalism having decided to follow in his father's footsteps. As for the other footsteps, the hero ones his parents had been open minded about whether he wished to do that and had left the decision entirely up to him. Jon certainly understood how his powers could be used to help people and he enjoyed doing so when he could yet he must admit was also happy to simply study and live the life of a normal person...well as normal as it can be for a 19 year old half-Kryptonian half-Amazon.
Not too far away from where Jon is another half-Kryptonian half-Amazon. Her name is Lara Kent and she is Jon's twin sister. Like her brother she too had cerulean blue eyes and physically resembled her mother in many ways which had resulted in many a leering look from men. She too is out with her friends. Unfortunately right now she is having to listen to a couple of them crushing on her twin brother. They are whispering in the belief that she can't hear them but she can due to what she inherited from her father. i.e. his superhearing but even if she only had her mother's hearing prowess that would be sufficient to overhear this conversation.
"Kate you should totally just go over there and ask him out," a blond girl, Ashley, whispers in her friend's ear.
Kate looks over at where Jon is sitting and can feel the heat creep up her neck. Ever since Lara first introduced her brother to her Kate has been seriously crushing on him. God he was gorgeous and her feelings had hit overdrive the day Lara sent her over to Jon's flat to pick up a book and she caught him just out of the shower wearing only a towel. Seriously Kate didn't know that real men were made like that outside of Superman. Jon looked like he was chiselled out of marble or something.
Kate looks back at her friend. "You sure?"
Ashley rolls her eyes. "Well if you don't I'm sure as hell goin' to."
That threat spurs Kate into action. She sure as hell isn't losing out on an actual decent guy to Ashley. She gets up and makes her way over to where Jon is sitting.
Jon's gaze turns as Kate nears him. He thought her pretty but didn't hold out much hope she would look at him as dating material. He had inherited many things from his father. Most of his looks, his powers and unfortunately the tendency to be a bit of shy, but his mother assured him lovable, dork. So when he ends up sitting next to him he is pleasantly surprised. Even more so when she admits to 'liking' him and mentioning that she would like it if they, just the two of them, could go out sometime.
Lara watches on with a slight shake of her head. Honestly how pathetic is this. Her dorky twin brother is getting a girlfriend and here she is alone and single. A thought crosses her head that if they're twins and Jon is dorky does that make her dorky too because that sure would explain the pathetically single status she is currently enduring.
Not that she is desperate or anything. She is an Amazon after all and cows down to no-one.
Later in the night Lara is still single having shot down like half the men here. Sometimes inheriting the beauty of Aphrodite from her mother is not as much as a gift as one may think. On top of that as much as she likes to tease her brother she will admit they do share many traits. They like the same food, have the same favourite colour and movie and have the same taste in music. They also have the same preferences as it relates to a potential partner; i.e. they have to be female.
It is at that moment a new person enters the bar. A woman with brown hair. Not that that is what is catching Lara's interest...alright it is. The woman is just short of 6 foot and is so obviously in shape and she is definitely attractive but what is more catching of Lara's attention is that she knows who the woman is. She is on the League's so-called Rogue's gallery. She is Vandal Savage's daughter Scandal.
Jon seems to notice her too as he is quickly by Lara's side and they make their way to a quiet corner so they can talk. "Is that who I think it is?" Jon asks his sister in a whisper.
"Yes."
"I thought she was in jail," Jon comments.
"I think she was given a Presidential pardon for doing a 'favour' for the government," Lara recalls reading from a League report. Her and Jon do technically belong to Young Justice which is where she got that information from. By favour what Lara means is something along the lines of Black-Ops. The kind of thing that the government disavows all knowledge of. Something usually morally questionable at best and probably illegal so they hire mercenaries to do it. Mercenaries like Scandal Savage.
"Which means we can't touch her," Jon surmises.
Lara shakes her head. "I don't think so. No. Not unless she breaks the law." And since all Scandal has done so far is sit down and order several drinks that is hardly law breaking.
Jon notices Kate getting ready to leave. Lara notices too. "You better escort her home," Lara tells her brother.
"You sure?" he asks her.
"Yes. I'll keep an eye on our 'friend' over there. Better not make Kate suspicious. Besides it is the only gallant, gentlemanly thing to do to escort your new girlfriend home."
"Um girlfriend may be an overly strong term," Jon says sounding a little uncomfortable. "I mean we haven't even had a first date yet."
"But I'm not wrong about it being gallant. You would have done it if our 'friend' didn't show up."
Yeah he would have. His parents taught him well. "Ok but if you need my help please don't hesitate to shout." He means literally shout since he can pretty much hear his sister anywhere within the city.
Lara assures him that she will although it is doubtful she will need him. Invulnerability can be pretty handy at times.
Jon escorts Kate home and on the way she ends up wrapping her hands around his arm and leaning into him. "So Lara mentioned that you're both from Kansas," Kate says wanting to start a conversation.
"Um yes. Smallville," Jon answers.
"Never heard of it," Kate admits.
"Yeah. It is kind of...small. Hence the name really but Lara and I actually lived in Metropolis until we were 9."
"You did?"
"Yes. Our father worked for the Daily Planet."
"Oh right. Yes," Kate says suddenly remembering Lara mention that. "Hey did he ever meet Superman?" she asks knowing of Superman's association with the Daily Planet.
Ooh boy. Met Superman? His father is Superman. "Uh I think dad said he did once or twice," Jon decides to go with.
"I bet that would be something wouldn't it? To meet Superman?"
"I'm sure it would be."
"I mean I can barely imagine what the world was like before him. I mean he has been here since before I was even born and don't be jealous or anything but he is still looking pretty fine."
Oh gods! She is crushing on his dad! Ew!
Kate thankfully moves on. "So why did you leave Metropolis?"
"Um my grandmother died and dad decided to retire from being a reporter so it seemed kind of natural for him just to move back to the family home." That is the official reason given. The more real one is that his dad could no longer really hide the fact he was not ageing so the need to move somewhere more isolated was a must. That and his and Lara's powers were growing every year that passed and to be fair the both of them needed more space than you can get in a city so in the end the move to Smallville was a good thing and Jon does love Smallville.
He also loves Themyscira despite the fact when they visit he and his dad are the only males on the entire island. It is bad enough he and his dad are outnumbered by his mother, and his 3 sisters, Lara, Lyta and Martha but add several thousand Amazon 'sisters' to the mix and you get to a whole other ballgame.
Of course the last year has been spent here in Metropolis which he must admit has brought back memories of when he was younger when he did love living here too and he still does love Metropolis.
"Don't move!"
And he would love it more if a mugger armed with a gun didn't just jump out in front of him and Kate. Terrific. Jon tenses up. If he has to use his abilities to protect Kate he will.
"Hand over your money and jewellery!" the mugger demands.
"Jon," Kate whispers in fear.
"It will be alright Kate," Jon assures her.
"Of course it will," the mugger says insincerely. "Just as soon as you hand over your valuables to me."
"You know I always thought men with guns were compensating for something they lack," a distorted female voice mocks.
All 3 turn their heads to find a woman dressed in a green and tan skin-tight costume which is tied up the middle by leather straps to just above her breasts and the costume does little to hide the woman's generous curves. She is wearing a green hood which hides her face in shadow although you can make out green tinted shades underneath covering her eyes. She is also armed with a bow and arrow which is aimed at our resident mugger.
Jon makes the mental note that she is a hell of a lot curvier than he remembers her being last time they met.
The mugger is about to move when the woman pulls her bow string back. "Think it over because trust me I'm faster with this bow than you are with a gun," she warns him.
"Who the hell do you think you are?!" the mugger angrily demands to know.
The woman smirks. "I'm the Green Arrow."
The mugger makes the attempt to shoot her but true to her word the Green Arrow is faster and her arrow impacts the mugger's jacket sleeve about the wrist and the momentum sends him into the wall of the building they are standing next to. Then as quickly as a normal person can blink a whole array of arrows fly through the mugger's clothes where they loosely cover his body pining him completely to the wall. He ends up cursing loudly until the Green Arrow unleashes another arrow who tip explodes and with perfect aim covers his mouth in a sticky tape like ribbon. "Watch your language," she tells the mugger off before she turns her attention to the two muggees. "You two alright?" she asks them.
"Yes thank you," Jon says in reply.
"You're welcome...stud," she says in a husky, flirty tone.
Jon frowns instantly. Stud? She has never called him stud. Not ever in the 19 years they have known each other and certainly she has never ever used a tone of voice like that. A tone of voice that he is finding incredibly erotic and making his body heat up. Gee you lose touch with your once best friend for a few years and she turns into a sultry heroine.
Jon isn't the only one frowning. Kate is too at this...woman flirting with her brand new boyfriend. Can't these hero types find someone who is not already taken or something. Surely she must have men lining up to date her.
"Keep out of trouble handsome," the Green Arrow says before she disappears down an alley.
'The nerve of that woman,' Kate fumes while Jon gets his phone out to call the police to come for their resident mugger here.
So Jon's night ends up being a lot longer than he intends after having to file a report with the police before finally seeing Kate home. It is when he is making his own way home that his senses pick up he is being watched from a rooftop above. Being the middle of the night and dead quiet it is easy enough for him to slip into superspeed unseen and shoot up to the roof where he finds the Green Arrow. He lands behind her as she is still looking down for him. "Hello Olivia."
The Green Arrow jumps in surprise before she turns round and pulls her hood off revealing this enormous grin on her face as well as her shoulder length blond hair she inherited from her parents. She takes her shades off revealing the blue eyes of her mother. She is of course Olivia Queen. Daughter of Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance-Queen "Hello Jon. Miss me?" she says just a little bit mischievously.
A wry smile tugs at Jon's lips. Being born not too far apart and considering how close his mother and Olivia's mother were Olivia had ended up his and Lara's best friend. In an instant he has gathered her in his arms giving her a crushing hug and is spinning her around. "What do you think?" he asks rhetorically.
Olivia takes several moments to relish being in the strong muscular arms of a down right gorgeous guy. He may be her best friend, or he was at least, but it doesn't make her blind to how good-looking he is.
Jon too is taking several moments to enjoy the feeling although as he observed earlier Olivia is quite a bit curvier than he remembers her being so he is trying not to enjoy it too much. Otherwise he fears his body may end up reacting in a very embarrassing way. He puts her down and steps back. "You look great," he compliments her.
Olivia spins round showing herself off. "Do you think so?"
"Yeah."
"Dad blew a gasket when he first saw it."
"I can see why," Jon mumbles under his breath as his body appreciates her appearance in a very masculine way.
"What?"
"Nothing! So what brings you to Metropolis? I'm sure it can't be saving helpless farm boys from Kansas from a mugging?"
Olivia smiles wryly now. "Hardly helpless Jon," she remarks knowing full well what he is capable of. "Besides I read the news. It seems Metropolis has two new saviours flying around," she comments knowingly.
Jon shrugs. "It's not much. Just helping when we can."
Olivia smiles at his modesty. God she had almost forgotten how sweet he could be. "Where is your other half?"
Jon frowns. "Please don't use that phrase. It implies Lara and I can't do anything apart."
"Oh come on Jon. Everyone knows you have this weird twin thing. Possibly weirder than Jai and Iris(Wally and Linda's twin children) and that is really saying something considering."
Jon objects to the comparison. "Oh come on Olivia. Lara and I never went through the whole rapid ageing before becoming babies again that Jai and Iris did."
"True," Olivia concedes. "But you and Lara do have this connection. You can't deny it."
No Jon can't deny it but he can explain it. "It is our Kryptonian heritage. A sort of sixth sense that we all have that allows us to sense each other. It is just stronger for Lara and I because we're twins."
"Really? I never knew that," she admits.
"Well that is what happens when you don't drop by for three years."
Olivia sighs sadly. She has missed her friends. "Yeah. I know. I went through a rebellious phase."
"Oh yes I know. Running off to Europe at 16. Trust me I heard all the stories. Saw them all on the news too with your frequent falling out of taxis drunk."
Olivia cringes. Ok even she will admit she let herself fall way off the wagon there. "But you just don't know what it is like Jon to be the daughter of Oliver Queen," she tries to explain. "I had all this expectation dumped on my shoulders to follow in his footsteps and take over Queen Industries and lead it to success. I had to live with that for as long as I can remember and it just got too much alright. I needed to get away. Call it cowardly if you want."
"I won't do that but if you think you have pressure try being the son of Superman and Wonder Woman some time."
"Big difference Jon," Olivia argues. "You got to grow up in seclusion and anonymity of Smallville. I grew up in the full public glare of being the daughter of virtual celebrities. My parents secret identities are more famous than their hero ones."
"My grandmother is a queen and my mother is a princess of a race of warrior woman and I am the only male heir there has ever been. Trust me I know about being in the spotlight."
"Aw poor Jonny. All those women too much for you," she teases.
"They are not just women. They are Amazons. Big difference I can assure you and I am their prince. I mean me. Do I look like a prince to you?"
Olivia cocks her head while she checks Jon out from head to toe. Oh yeah he looks like a prince alright. Her body can certainly appreciate him in a very feminine way from the way it is responding. She tries to ignore it.
Jon meanwhile finds himself blushing under her gaze and runs his hand through his hair in a nervous habit. He decides to change subjects. "So when did you decide to take your father's mantle?"
"When I hit rock bottom and trust me there is not a fun place to be."
Something forms in the pit of Jon's stomach. He thinks it is worry. "What happened?"
"Jon...I...please...the one thing I don't want is you to know where I fell to alright. It is bad enough I have to live with it. I couldn't bear it if you end up thinking less of me."
"Olivia I could never do that. I am your friend. I always have been. Always will be. You know that I would never judge you for a mistake you might have made. People make mistakes. Mom and dad even make mistakes. I make them too. It is part of human nature."
Olivia lips' curl up into a smile. "Do you know how that sounds coming from you of all people?" she teasingly points out.
Jon cocks his head to the side. "I am part human I'll remind you. Besides humanity is more than just biology." Jon moves his way over next to her and takes her hand into his and strokes the back of it gently. "And I promise I'll never think less of you. Now please. Tell me what happened to you."
Olivia sighs, ignores the little goosebumps on the back of her hand and wanders over to the edge of the roof and sits down. Jon sits next to her and waits patiently for several minutes until Olivia summons up the nerve to begin.
Author's Note: Honestly I almost forgot I had written this. In my Encounter of the Universes story I dropped in Clark and Diana's twins Jon and Lara and their partners and after I wrote it I started to write basically how they all hooked up and became heroes in their own right before I lost my inspiration and gave up and this is the opening chapter I came up with. Thanks to everyone who has written reviews.