Chapter 13: A Better world
A/n the events on earth 100 take place about 15 years into the future from the main earth 62, Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane (as well as their unborn second child) setting off a nuke in Metropolis. resulting in the Man of Steel going off the deep end and killing Joker. Superman turned the Justice League into the Justice Lords as well as begins constructing his one Earth regime. Batwoman decides to betray her cousin and joins the Justice Lords inorder to protect the woman she cares. The suits/armor of the Justice Lords
Lady Batwoman/Katherine kane her suits based on the dcau Batwoman.
Lady Wonder woman/Diana she looks the same as her appearance in the episode.
Lord Yellow Lantern/Hal Jorden is how he appears in Injustice.
Lord Superman/Kal-El Injustice costume but in his Justice Lords color scheme.
Lord Martian manhunter/J'onn J'ones based on his cartoon appearance.
Lord Flash/Walter West his costumes based on the Dark Flash.
Lady Hawk Woman/Shayera Hall is wearing her Lieutenant armor from starcrossed. Lord Batman P.O.V
"It's been over six years to the day since the destruction of the JSA and the death of Barry Allen at the hands of the clown Prince of Crime, it's been five years since he caused the man of tomorrow to cross the line. Let it be known that day five years ago will always be my greatest failure." I would have said more into the recorder but I was interrupted by a knock on the door I deactivated my recorder you called out "What is a robin!" My fifteen-year-old godson was quick to answered.
"Mr. Luther's here to see you in the conference area." I Stood up from my chair and pressed bat sigil on my chest which activated it causing the Kryptonian bio armor to cover my body and exited my living quarters / office. I made a gesture for Robin to follow me end of the conference area we sat down and begin discussing things with Luther.
"All right Alex what's the Situation." I asked him point-blank, he let out a tired sigh before he proceeded to answer "Do you remember that project we were working on prior to incident five years ago?" "Oh that project the one we were trying to find a way to view other realities. But what does this have to do with current events" I was quick to answer.
Luther gave me a tired book has he responded "a few months ago your cousin restarted the project, and from what my employees who were working with her on the project told me She's succeeding piercing the bleed, And just found a parallel reality very similar to our own."
That Sounds very interesting "Okay what are the differences between this reality and ours." Luther take a breath before answering "For starters this parallel reality is about fithteen years behind ours, one of the difference is that world's Lois Lane appear to have been exposed to platinum Kryptonite. your counterpart there is just as infatuated with Diana as you our. But those things are minor given the what the Justice Lords are enacting as we speak."
I couldn't help but glare Luther bringing that up After all it still stings that's Superman resorted to brainwashing the woman I care about however whatever the Justice Lords our planning can't be good "What are the Lord's intending to do Alex." He took a sip of coffee before giving his answered "The lords have constructed a dimensional gate in the Batcave and sent lord martian manhunter over to trick your counterparts into coming to our world, so that they can replace them and bring the regime style justice to their world." "One Earth being under a police state ruled by the Justice Lords bad enough"
"So do you have a plan in mind?" I asked Alex. Noticing the sly smile coming across his face has he answered the question "Since the Lord's don't want the general public to know there planing to keep your counterparts captive on our Earth, they wasted no time Prepping black gate, complete with the new Power dampeners…"
Note: Some info on the earth 100 Batman He's a mix of The Telltale Batman, The dcau Dark Knight, and injustice Batman. he also used platinum kryptonite on himself in order to level the playing field. And his Robin is John Samuel Kent. the Justice Lords battle with doomsday Plays out the same. Alexander Luthor has a full head of hair and a beard.
July 31st Through August 6th
Year 8: age 25-26
Bruce P.O.V
"Grr..." My head what happened, As I awoke taking stock of my surroundings, First thing I noticed was the heart rate monitor. I also noticed that my arms were restrained, I didn't have much time to grasp the situation Batwoman arrived She appeared to be assessing something on the cell door So I took the opportunity to ask "One question why?" She stared at me before answering "Because you and your friends don't do what needs to be done" As she started to walk away I began assessing my restraints.
"There are Mercury switches at your hands and feet." I turned my head and glared at Batwoman gritting my teeth "Any motion and I'll know about it." I stared at her before stating "Sounds like you've thought of everything." She was quick to shoot back "No just everything you would have thought of cousin." "Cousin!" Didn't have much time to think about this revelation because I was distracted by The Flash grunts and groans as he struggled against the restraints. When he suddenly pause then stated
"What are you looking at, huh?" Batwoman's answer to flash was very cold "Calm down you'll appreciate this sum day." Flash was quick to retort "Yeah I don't think Hawkgirls going to appreciate it to much" Batwoman Cooley countered stating "That was an accident, She's Getting treatment are best Hospital.." Flash cut her off "I don't want to hear it." She was silent for a moment before stating "Believe me the last thing we want is to do you harm Bar.." Flash quickly cut her off again "Hold on why did you just almost say my real name?"
That's when Batwoman turned in left the cell block. So I made a sarcastic remark to flash "I think she likes you." Flash chuckled before responding "I hope not I'm a married man." On that light-hearted not I turn the conversation more serious "I wonder if something happened to your counter part on this world." Flash was quick to pick up on what I was saying
"You think he's dead?" I took a sharp breath before answering " I do, what I don't understand is the death of your counter part shouldn't have caused them to go over the edge." Flash was quick to catch on to what I was saying "Do you think something far worse happened?" I quickly answered, "I do. but right now we need to figure out a way out of here to find out more."
Lord Batman P.O.V
With Alex's help Robin and I slipped inside Blackgate penitentiary and made are way to cell block 2E. Once we were there we ditched our disguises and activated our bio armors, While Alex used his his access to get the door open. We noticed nere the end of the cell block my cousin Katherine Rushing into one of the cell shouting "Flash, Flash!" I relying my enhance speed I rushed over to see what was going on arriving just in time to see the parallel world the Flash knock my cousin unconscious Then proceeded to waste no time freeing himself and quickly locking my cousin up in the vary restraints that had just held him and stated "You'll appreciate it someday."
He immediately turned around and saw that's all I standing in the hallway. His eyes went wide before stating "Wait a minute the Bat lady over here said you were dead." I let out a groan before responding back "Is that what Katherine told you?" The Flash nodded yes so I continued "Well as you can clearly see she lied, but that's not important right now we need to free your allies."
UIn a matter of milliseconds the leagues flash quickly freed his allies who were quick to turn their attention to Alex, Robin, and I. So I wasted no time bringing them up to speed. once we had finished explaining the situation. Superman was the one to speak "So the reason your world it's a police state it's because Joker decided to give my counterpart one bad day."
"Yes that about sums it up" I answered that is when Alex spoke up " alright enough history lesson right now we need to focus on getting you lot back to your earth."
"We're not going back without hawkgirl!" Green Lantern firmly stated. "GL is right, the bat lady over there mentioned she was getting medical treatment from where." The flash piped in.
Alex was swift in answering the question "At this moment in time she's in the medical ward katherine intended to transfer her to Arkham asylum to receive further treatment."
"So what's our game plan?" Asked Alex was the one to lay out the plan "The Batmen will infiltrate the batcave and get control the dimensional gate to send you home, well the rest of us will go retrieve hawkgirl and then we'll go to my lab."
"Why do we have to go to your lab Mr Luthor?" Wonder woman asked. There was a brief pause before Alex answered "to put it simply there is a weapon there that I've been developing that will temporarily strip the Lords of their powers, the other reason we have to go to the lab is because that's where the controls are for the zeta beams I need to re-enable Green lanterns ID number so that he'll be able to travel to the batcave."
Wonder woman was lost and thought for a sec before she spoke again "I assume the reason you want us to use this zeta beam, so that are Batman's secret identity can be protected?"
That is when I spoke up again "as I stated earlier my secret identity has been exposed, which it is the same as my counterpart I will hazard a guess that three of you already know who's under the mask." As I looked at Wonder woman, Superman, and Martian manhunter.
Not long after that we put our plan into action I flew myself and my counterpart to the outskirts of Wayne Manor we first disabled the security measures then slipped inside, and went to secure the gateway.
The middle of getting it powered up when we were interrupted
"You won't succeed father, you won't get the chance." lord Nightwing stated
"Damain you're a disgrace to the nightwing identity." I shouted
"Tt, Your just a coward you couldn't bare to kill the Joker after he got away with murdering the JSA." Lord Nightwing countered.
That's when my counterpart piped in "Wait he's your son?" The Batman of Earth 62 asked to confused.
"Yes." I answered.
" But how?" he stated.
"If your history is similar to mine you probably had a fling with talia al goul." I responded.
That's when the realization hit my counterpart "So Talia drugged me that night before I stopped Ra's from Using the Lazarus pits to wipe out a huge portion of Earth's population."
"That would be the most likely scenario." I stated.
"Enough father." lord Nightwing cut in.
"Agreed we must stop them before they get controlled the portal." Lady Batwoman stated.
I quickly pulled the activation lever and shouted "It's too late now!" then my counterpart and I ready ourselves to fight my son and cousin.
Diana P.O.V
Just as he said Alex Luther brought us to his lab to procure the Energy disruptor.
"Here we are" Alex said.
"Where is the disruptor?" Superman asked.
"In the back room" Alex answered.
"Flash go with Mr. Luthor" I stated.
That's when Hawkgirl started to awaken "Uh, Where am I?" she asked.
"In one of Lexcorp's labs" GL answered.
"So why are we here?" hawkgirl asked.
"the Luther of this earth is Retrieving a device That will help us deal with the lords." I explained.
"And the others?" Hawkgirl asked.
" Batman and his counterpart are working on gateway." I stated.
"How long have I been out?" she asked.
"Not too long" GL said.
"But it's been long enough for us to formulate a plan" I said.
"So what are we going to do?" Hawkgirl asked.
"Well I intend to use my lasso truth on my counterpart according to Lord Batman, Lady Wonder Woman has been brainwashed with mind altering nanites, he thinks the lack of truth might be able to free her."
"How exactly will we go about doing that?" GL asked.
"With the energy disruptor" Alex stated has he returned with flash.
"All right let's go meet Superman and Robin at the Zeta Beam entry Point." I addmitted.
Alex nodded in agreement
"Right follow me." Alex said.
So we did.
After a few moments of walking we arrived at the Zeta Beam entrance.
"Here's the Zeta Beam entry point." Alex stated.
Superman was waiting, There with the alternate version of his son as we had come to learn who had been operating under the Robin moniker.
"How long will it take for you to re-enable green lanterns ID number?" Superman asked.
"It should take about 10 seconds, I just need gl to do a retina scan." Alex responded.
"Will do" GL stated.
Alex then opened a console and pulled up the Zeta Beam registry
"Ok GL please place your right eye 6 inches from the scanner." Alex instructed.
Green Lantern did just that and a blue light scanned his right eye.
"Registry confirmed ID number 004 has been reactivated you may proceed into the Zeta Beam." Alex stated.
GL gave a nod and did has he was instructed.
"Good luck" Alex stated.
"Thank you" I responded.
Without the six remaining members of the Earth 62 Justice League along with Lord Robin are transported to the batcave, Arriving in time to see Lord Batman and the earth 62 Batman have incapacitated and tied up lady Batwoman and Lord Knightwing.
"It's good to see you all." Lord Batman stated.
"How's Hawkgirl" he asked.
" I'm fine and ready for action." Hawkgirl stated.
"What's the current situation" GL asked.
"I would suggest you crossover now to your home universe. And stop the Lords before they severely damage your reputations." Lord Batman stated gesturing towards the Dimensional gateway.
"Will do." I stated.
And so we crossed over back to our own world, put our plan into action.
Bruce P.O.V
When we emerge from the dimensional gateway we were back where we had crossed over from in the old Starlabs in Metropolis. It didn't take us long to start putting a plan together.
"Alright we know your lord counterparts, I've already begun the process of instituting their style justice to our world. We probably only have one shot at stopping them here and now." I said.
"How will we be able to stop them though." Wondered GL.
"Simple." Superman began "Martian manhunter will lure them, to that old abandoned house on the Cliffside outside of Metropolis."
"What the power disruptor. Who's gonna be the one to fire it at our lord counterparts" the Flash asked.
"I will." I said.
"Why would you have to fire the disruptor Batman?" The Martian manhunter asked.
"Because my counterpart Is back on earth 100, meaning I have to be the one to fire the disruptor at your counterparts." I explained
"Okay." Superman said.
And so that's what we did.
Superman had Martian manhunter use his phasing ability to Sneak up to the Justice Lord's location and then reveal himself In order to get them to chase him.
Martian Manhunter left to carry out the plan while the other league members got into position ready to reveal themselves when the moment came.
Martian manhunter reached the old abandoned house on the cliff with the Justice Lords on his tail.
He made it inside the house and the Lords followed, Lord Superman took a few steps inside and called out.
"Manhunter come out now?" Lord Superman that's when we revealed ourselves.
" Justice League time to spring the trap." I said.
The Justice Lords turned and saw their counterparts.
"Your not going to get away with this" the Wonder woman of the Justice Lords stated.
"Oh but we are." Superman responded.
"Batman now!" he shouted.
I pulled the trigger and fired the energy disruptor at the Justice lords, I only managed to hit Lady Wonder Woman.
She fell to the ground "My powers what have you done?" She screamed Before she could say more Diana ensnared her with the lasso of truth.
"No! Please" Lady Wonder woman begged.
"Trust in the power of the lasso, you've been living a lie Let it free your mind" Diana instructed.
The nanites controlling her brain begin to dissipate
" What have I done, how could I betray Bruce the man I loved." Her voice was barely a whisper.
"Shhhh." Diana said.
" It wasn't you it was the mind altering nanites controlling your thoughts." Diana stated.
Lady Wonder Woman let out a whimper.
" Now close your eyes, and relax, let the Lasso of truth take care of the rest." Diana instructed.
The rest of the League members We're busy fighting there counterparts overtime giving me openings to use the power disruptor on the rest of the Justice Lords.
The next to go down was Lord Yellow Lantern.
He was fighting against John Stewart.
John managed to knock him out cold with a left hook,
I fired the disruptor and managed to hit him.
"I can't use my powers." He said.
Lord Yellow Lantern attempted to attack Green Lantern using his fists, but failed because he was still not in control of his body.
"I'm so glad Hal's our planet right now. I don't think he would be happy to know that a version of him exists in the multiverse that became a yellow lantern" GL noted.
"True but if he did know I'm sure he would want to be the one to take him down." I said.
"Yeah" GL said.
John knocked the Lord Yellow Lantern out with a left hook.
I took aim at my next target This one happened to be Lord Flash which was probably the only time I Ever be able to hit a speedster.
"You'll regret this Batman" Lord Flash stated.
"No I won't" I responded.
I pulled the trigger and hit the Lord Flash dead center. Stripping him of his powers causing him to go tumbling to a stop. I took out some cuffs for my utility belt and tossed them to the Flash
"Make sure he doesn't get away" I stated.
"I will" the Flash said.
"Good." I said.
After the fight was Nearly over, Three down three to go.
Martian Manhunter and Lord Martian Manhunter we're both constantly shifting between forms which meant discerning who was who very difficult As I took aim with the power disruptor, the Flash had just finished cuffing his counterpart and joined the fight,
The two of them were fighting side by side, I took a shot at the Lord Martian manhunter and managed to hit him.
"No." He muttered.
"This can't be." The lord Martian manhunter cried
"But it is" Martian Manhunter said.
The Lord Martian Manhunter went down and I turned my attention to Lady Hawkgirl.
Hawkgirl and Lady Hawkgirl were fighting in the air I had to tie my shot with the disruptor like a hunter during duck season.
Lady Hawkgirl had the advantage in the air due to having full use of her powers.
But after a while I managed to hit her with the power disruptor.
She crash landed, and was knocked unconscious.
The only one left to take down was Lord Superman who was ranting and raving as he battled our Superman.
"You will pay for this Kal El" he shouted.
"We'll see about that." Superman responded.
Our Superman got a few punches in.
"Now Batman" Superman ordered.
I took aim at the lord Superman,
I took a deep breath and fired the power disruptor.
"This isn't over!" The lord Superman exclaimed.
"Oh but it is" I said.
The power disruptor had the desired effect stripping him of his powers.
"No" he said.
"Yes" Superman said.
"And for the record Superman I'm really hoping we never end up in this sort of situation." I said.
"Don't worry we won't" he said.
"What do we do with them" the Flash asked.
"We're to take them gateway and send them back to there earth." Superman stated.
We wasted no time taking them back to the gateway, It was agreed upon that Diana and I would accompany them through and then return to deal with the PR mess the Lords had caused in our absence.
We passed through the gateway and found ourselves on earth 100 in the bat cave where we handed off the lords to Lord Batman and his insurgents.
"Let's not stay longer then we need to" I said.
"Agreed" Diana said.
So we went back through the gateway and returned to our own earth, and set to work cleaning up the mess, From removing the militarized modifications to the watchtower, to Superman doing a PR campaign, Explaining that we had been temporarily replaced by some morally gray versions of ourselves from an alternate earth, But this whole experience has me concerned If something like that could happen in our universe there has to be plans in place to stop it before it gets out of hand, This is why I've been developing contingency plans though I stopped to decide whether or not to let the others know about the plans.
But that can wait. right now I need to do some digging because If what I've learned from my counterpart is true I've got a son out there somewhere and right now He's probably about four years old at this point Possibly five depending on when he was born, Knowing Talia and Ra's He's possibly being raised as an Assassin maybe even as an heir to his grandfather, that's something no child should go through I have to find him.
Meanwhile back on Earth 100 Lord Batman and Lady Wonder Woman have been given in second chance to be together.
"I'm glad the two of you got a second chance at happiness." Alex stated.
"So are we." Bruce and Diana said in unison.
"But there's something the two of you need to hear." Alex stated.
"What is it." The couple asked.
"It's about the power disruptor" Alex stated.
"What about it." They asked.
"The power source I used was alien in origin, I'm not exactly sure how long the power stripping effects will last" Alex stated.
"What's your rough estimate" Diana asked.
"A few weeks. Possibly even a few months if we're lucky" Alex stated.
"Then what should we do" Diana asked.
"Keep them detained, in the cells that were designed to hold them." Alex stated.
"So we have to put Superman in a cell with red solar lamps running at all times" Bruce asked.
"Yes." Alex stated.
"What about the others?" Diana asked.
"Keep the others in cells that were designed to hold meta humans. Most likely the ones that were used at Bell Reeves for task force X" Alex stated.
"If there's no other options will have to do it." Diana stated.
"I now want to something more pleasant, I do believe it's time I got you to your long overdue wedding." Alex stated
Screen fades black into outro plays
E/n I have to be honest I cheated a little bit with the second half of this chapter I decided to try my hand at novel AI to see if I could speed up the writing process a little bit and I think it worked for the most part though it was very clunky getting it to generate what I wanted out of it
