Young Justice: Doom and Rebirth

by Spaceman

SIOC. I died and was reincarnated. I'm not a Hero. I'm not a Villain. I am a Monster. I woke up in the World of Young Justice as Doomsday. I'm about to destroy Canon and cause Chaos. I'm not Alone. Knowledge is Power, Power is Responsibility, Sharing my Knowledge shall Set Me Free. Made in collaboration with NewMystery356. Updated Bi-Monthly. COMPLETE.

46. Epilogue Part 1-2

Young Justice: Doom & Rebirth Epilogue

by Spaceman

Start: April 8, 2023

DISCLAIMER

I do not own Young Justice or any of the related characters. The Young Justice series is by Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman and owned by DC Comics. This story is a work of fanfiction and is for entertainment only. I am not making profit from this story. All rights of Young Justice belong to DC Comics. All other characters other an OCs beyond to their respective creators and owners. This is a fanfiction for non-profit entertainment.

Notes

NewMystery's final Extra Chapter is running a little late, but this is Part 1 of Two-Part Super-Epilogue.

Part 1 may or may not be BETA Read due to mixed up file names.

Careful about SPOILERS for Invincible Comics, Hell's Paradise, and others I didn't notice.

Antex-The Legendary Zoroark, Panda2qt, Blackkirito, Alan, , OmniIBIBUltraInstinctGodzilla, Victor Ebone, Jack906, Death Fury, and the other Fans of this story for their encouragement and reviews.

After Reading this Check Out NewMystery356's Fanfictions. I helped with research and bouncing ideas.

Another Hero Academia: Out of Time

Young Justice: The Hunter

Vigorous Vitality

Giant-Slayer series.

Chronicle of Zhu series.

So, I'm All for One, So What?

An Argoan's Arc

The Traveler & The Trooper

- to think our cooperation started with my love of his Swordless Shinobi (Discontinued) fic.

After this, my NEW MHA x Marvel multi-crossover Nemo of the Myriad Worlds will begin with the same bimonthly schedule. It's only a 7-Chapter series, so it won't take a year to complete.

*DOOM*

Chapter 46

FUTURES DOOM AND REBIRTH

EPILOGUE.

PART 1

*DOOM*

"Doomsday's Bunker"

[Hidden Location]

June 26

8:38

1POV

The Doomsday Bunker has been upgraded again. While the original was merely an "unused Batcave" that Batman provided to me to keep me out of trouble, the latest Bunker is the most secure and luxurious home constructed by Cognito Inc's vast resources. It's the kind of place that would make even the richest billionaires like Wayne, Stark, and Luthor jealous. It's also more secure than the most protected US Military Bases. A high yield thermonuclear bomb could be dropped on the building and the inhabitants wouldn't even feel warm. An unbreakable home for an indestructible monster.

I look down at the small chubby lifeform in the crib. She is a cute baby girl of mixed heritage with bright red eyes and a patch of snow-white hair. She is dressed in Cog-brand baby girl clothing and looking up at me with a sense of wonder. I place my hand against her chubby cheek, and she giggles. I can see tiny fangs in her mouth, which is why her divine-blooded mother needs a protective spell to breast feed.

She is my daughter - Ashley Zuri Grey. That one sentence overwhelms me more than any opponent I have ever faced. I'm more scared of not harmless this wonderful, fragile thing, than fighting the Cosmic Gods out of Cthulhu Mythos. I've literally fought against Dark Gods and I'm more worried about this little poop machine.

Her mother is Nzambi - the Earth Mother Goddess of the Congo, Africa, whose name became the root word for zombies. This is probably why the room is literally with baby toys with the odd zombie theme. Thankfully my other wives managed to tone it down so it's super deformed plushies and cute anime zombies, so the baby room doesn't end up looking like a zombie otaku/emo goth teenager's room.

The baby room looks soft and sweet, but the cute exterior hides the level of protection. The structure is composed of hyper-dense layers of indestructible superalloy, constructed using hyper-dimensional physics. It's layered across dimensions to prevent physical or metaphysical damage. Even if the planet-smashing Outer Gods smashed into the walls of the baby room, they would be splattered like Jello. There are protections against all forms of attacks be they physical, magical, psychic, spiritual, temporal, or conceptual. Anyone with malicious intent would be rendered unable to approach or remember Ashley's existence. Even the dolls in the room are possessed by fanatically loyal guardian spirits crafted by Goddesses Jade and Raven.

I look at the wall, where a computer screen displays environmental conditions and life signs, not just physical data, but metaphysical data like aura levels, qi levels, magical particle levels, and others. While protecting against all attacks, the ethereal environment is also regulated to allow Ashley's metaphysical development (food for the soul).

Doctor Genus did a medical scan of Ashley and the results surprised everyone. The smartest mammal in the universe said his daughter was "beyond anything he has ever seen". She has a mixture of Kryptonian DNA (from Clark), Human DNA (from Lex Luthor, Raquel, and Mari), and artificial genes (Kryptonian virus and Genomorph traces). She also has most of his resistances and immunities, meaning she won't need vaccinations even if Doctor Genus could produce a needle strong enough to pierce her skin. Thankfully, she eats, sleeps, and plays like a normal baby, but Doctor Genus says that in a few years, she won't need to consume food in the future having inherited my self-sustenance trait.

I look at a jar of food being silently removed from the room by a stealthy baby care robot.

It's Normal Cog-brand baby food with nutrition calibrated for her hybrid biology. If she needed to eat puree cosmic horrors, I would be jumping into The Bleed with a harpoon made of my own bones.

"I'm a Daddy." I say, not believing my own words.

"Yes, you are." says a voice behind me and I turn to see my wives at the door with smiles on their faces and camera phones in their hands. I think I'm blushing... or as close as I get to blushing.

*DOOM*

Genus Gardens

June 27, 2080

10:04

1POV

Genus Gardens is another project of Neo's Doctor Genus projects. It's an entire artificial planet dedicated to preservation and restoration of various species throughout the universe. The land masses of the planet are covered in doom-like structures that can be seen from orbit and within each one is a biome containing plants, animals, and other lifeforms from different worlds. Outside the domes, the world is covered in trees, mushrooms, and flowering plants, hence the Garden name.

I'm currently enjoying a little vacation time without any Quests from the Gamer. I'm just sitting on a bench in one of the Domes that resembles a giant Zoo. From my seat, I can see various animals that remind me of Earth animals and many plants that remind me of Earth plants. I could get the same experience on Earth, but this place has far less tourists and less chance of meeting my annoying fans.

After decades, humanity has adapted to changes made by Cog's adventures. Less than two billion of Earth's ten billion don't have some form of superhuman ability or some form of major augmentation. The metahuman population has exploded much like the world of Hero Academia, but thanks to Cog's Meta Star Schools the people are being educated and super villain crime is at an all-time low. The Cybertronian and techno-organic populations are growing nearly as fast as humans with even Optimus Prime having a son with the CNA (Cyber/Nano Algorithms/ Cybernucleic Acid) Test to prove it. The population of the Cyber-Verse has increased, continuing to grow with the expanding virtual universe.

The population explosion isn't surprising since humanity's longevity has increased significantly. Even without Cog, humanity's longevity would have increased to over a hundred twenty years and with Cog, people are living to be over three and half centuries not including clone bodies.

I don't have to worry about losing people. While Jonathan and Martha Kent have passed on, my Kryptonian relatives will live for centuries if they get plenty of sunlight.

Thanks to Cog medical technology Lois is still young and happily married to Clark, meaning Supes won't spend centuries morning her loss. Their children Jonathan and Lara graduated with top marks from a Hero Academy, becoming the Superman and Supergirl of the late 21st century. Jonathan is best friends and rivals with Batman's son Damian, much like their fathers, but last I heard he's currently training a New Batman in Neo-Gotham.

Connor's Martian wife Megan is still looking young, even tho she should biologically be 39 (and chronically is 118). Their children are barely out of their teens due to their hybrid biology. Their eldest daughter Marie is both loved and feared on Mars, as she is both a popular Pro-Hero with legions of fans, and she is also known as "Mar's Goddess of Flames". Not only is she immune to fire, but she can generate it by discharging excess solar plasma.

Matt's wife Xinthia is a Tamaranean, which makes their kids – Alexander (Alisand'r/Alis-El) and Luan (Luand'r/Luan-El) stronger than pureblood Kryptonians of the same age. This is due to Tamaraneans being able to absorb solar radiation at a much higher rate than Kryptonians to the point they can even depower Kryptonians. They are famous for flying through a star without damage, when even Superman would have overloaded on a cellular level.

As for me and my wives, our children – both biological and adopted – are doing well. Thinking about them, I pull out my tablet and look at the Family Photos folder.

Hakudōshi is still very young as Demons age at a very slow pace. Half a century is a minuscule amount of time to him. Despite being young, he's already begun conquering demon dimensions missed or ignored by my incarnation Obsidian Black. He's not a pure evil demon king like his progenitor or a divine-blessed king like many Heroes become after marrying Princesses. Instead, he's the Heavenly Demon, the one that walks the middle path and only goes to extremes in defense of what's precious to him.

In the picture, Hakudōshi the Grey King is sitting on a throne with a cheeky grin. He's dressed in the robes of a king with a crown on his head, but instead of the gold of Earth Royalty it's made of a silvery metal that I guess is Mithil. Around him are numerous beautiful women of different races dressed in the clothing of fantasy world adventurers.

A tall dark-skinned human amazon holding a battle-axe with a spear on her back. She looks like she could have been a female Viking and large enough to be the daughter of Thorkell the Tall.

A large breasted athletic half-elf sorceress with long purple hair. She is dressed in the light clothing of a sorcerer with a large, pointed hat and a set of fancy enchanted daggers.

A large breasted curvy wood elf Druidess with red hair, green and brown clothing, and a fancy looking wooden staff. She is also followed by a huge, majestic wolf that could probably answer to Fenrir.

"When did my son become a Harem protagonist?"

Daniya Fenton-Grey is now a woman but will not age beyond 25. She possesses a hybrid of human and demon genetics infused with ectoplasm. As her ghost and demon powers increase with age, her biological aging continues to slow. She is working in the psychopomp division of Pro-Heroes - those Heroes that help guide the souls of the departed and exorcise curses and malevolent souls. She has earned the title of "Ghost Queen".

The photo has a group of shocked Eastern spiritualists standing around, looking at a pile of rubble, while Daniya is rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment. One old shaman is holding up a cracked skull which is slowly disintegrating into vanishing particles.

It's funny because those battle-hardened exorcists and spiritualists believed they were going to die fighting against Soul Palace – an army of ten thousand evil souls commanded by a demonic sorcerer who arrogantly called himself the Ghost King. The group consisted of the one hundred best spiritual warriors, exorcists, and necromancers of the East, but they believed their chances of winning was less than one percent.

What they didn't expect was for Daniya to unleash a Ghostly Wail that reduced the entire Fortress of the Soul Palace to rubble in seconds. The spiritual shockwaves shattered the walls despite the mystical seals and talismans and wiped out over nine thousand nine hundred evil souls in less than nine seconds. The severely injured and enraged Ghost King had exploded out the rubble and attacked Daniya, only for her to freeze him solid with shadow-ice magic and shatter him with a second more powerful and focused wail.

I think she may have started a new religion.

Abigail Williams-Grey thanks to a faux-body provided by Urahara and Doctor Genus has finally become a woman, but she will never become an elderly woman as she is still a Heroic Spirit connected to the Outer Gods. Those connected to the cosmic horrors don't age like mortal humans, instead they become more inhuman. She has become one of the major leaders of the Magi society and acts as ambassador between Earth and the worlds with sorcerer populations like Zerox.

In the picture, she's a teenager dressed in a tight blue t-shirt, tight jeans, and red sneakers with an orange-lined black jacket and a wide belt. The shirt is short, and the pants hang on her hips, showing her stomach. It's very strange since she was originally a 17th century pilgrim who would have never exposed that much skin. The 21st century can be such a bad influence.

Altera Grey can shift between Altera-Larva and her Adult form at will. As a sweet child, she liked to play, dance, and help others. As an Adult, she is a powerful warrior wielding the extraterrestrial Sword of Mars. As an adult, she likes to spar with Amazons of Themysica and the warrior women welcome her in both forms.

In the photo, Adult Altera – the Fate Universe's gender bent Atilla the Hun – is sword fighting against Wonder Woman. If I remember correctly, Altera won this sparring match. The Sword of Mars being match for the absurdly sharp sword created by the God of the Forge Hephestus for Wonder Woman. The Sword of Mars isn't just a meteoric iron sword in that universe, it's a part of Mar's physical body which is a extraterrestrial spaceship!

Tia Grey is still the same Larva-Tiamat. A century of mortal time means literally nothing to a primordial goddess of saltwater, and she won't mature unless there is a Good Reason. Despite the lack of physical maturity, Tia is still absurdly powerful. She even saved a school from a giant monster by crafting an even larger monster from seawater.

The Photo even shows that victory. Tia is dancing in the streets which are flooded with sea water. In the background is the severed head of a giant (100 meter tall) reptilian sea monster with silver-white eyes, blue-gray scales, and dark blue spines. It is also so big, that its needle-like fangs are each taller than Tia.

"Tia proudly brought me home a thousand pounds of meat. It tasted like spicy eel and radiation."

Jackie "Jack" Grey also known as "Jack the Ripper" is still a child as she was created from thousands of immature wraiths, and it would take multiple lifetimes for them to collectively grow. She doesn't care if she is with her parents, and we don't care if she is healthy and happy.

In the photo, she is dancing at a party impressing those watching. Jackie has developed some surprising talent, but she has always had impressive lower body strength. She like to dance and have fun like a normal girl, but the collection of emotion given form and sapience will slice and dice anyone who dares to harm her friends.

Howard Phillip Lovecraft is the least adventurous of my children. He has become a man braver than he was in his previous life without the racism he once possessed. A high-tier education by Cog professionals has improved his understanding of the universe, so he's not freaking out about geometry and science. He's still living a quiet life in New England and writing novels. His new novel – Beyond the Outer Gates – is on the Best Seller List of 2080.

The photo is boring. It's just Howard looking at the camera with a faint smile and holding a copy of his book. At least the book publisher created a nice cover for the book and thankfully his wife – his editor/publicist/agent - makes sure he doesn't become a shut-in. It's a healthy relationship instead of a marriage for money like in last life.

The woman is a metahuman with the power of Libromancy which allows her to jump into books and take items from books. That is a little dangerous considering her husband writes Cthulhu Mythos, but thankfully all his books have unique covers that prevent her from picking up the wrong book.

My thoughts are interrupted when one of Rorschach's portals opens.

Rorschach exiting the portal doesn't surprise me and neither does Spider-Man 2099.

Spider-Man 2099 is Miguel O'Hara. He was an engineer of Irish and Mexican descent, who was born after his mother Conchata had an affair with her husband's boss Tyler Stone. As an adult, he worked for Stone's company Alchemax, but eventually couldn't stand the unethical BS. He tried to quit only for his boss to make him permanently addicted to a designer drug. Miguel attempted to cure himself using his genetic enhancement technology, but sabotage resulted in him becoming the Spider-Man of 2099.

"Hey Miguel. I thought you retired?"

"I'm not the Miguel you know." says Miguel as he pulls off his mask to show a young man.

"Earth 2?" I ask referring to the Earth-DR-2 - Marvel Universe. Due to temporal anomalies, the Marvel Universe is currently 2100 instead of 2080.

"Earth 2." confirms Rorschach. So, this is the Miguel of that Universe instead of one of the many Spider-Men that ended up in our Universe thanks to Cadmus.

"So, what's up?"

"The Council of Death and Rebirth." says another voice and I watch as two more Earth-2 Natives appear. The multi-billionaire behind his world's heroes and the son of Apocalypse.

Alex Armstrong and Conquest.

*DOOM*

META STAR Training Arena

Cognito City Polaris

Artic Ice Pack, Artic Ocean, North of Canada

Earth Date, June 30, 20XX

Time: 10:28

3POV

When Neo was reincarnated into this world with the power of The Gamer, he took the name of Rorschach and rapidly gained points in Hub City. He invested his points into his intelligence, transforming himself into a super-genius and acquiring the skill – Parallel Processing – A skill that allows him to make mental clones of himself that effectively give him multiple personalities and allows him to network with himself. This allowed him to create different selves for different situations.

Rorschach – the fearless and feared vigilante, Agent of Cognito, and partner to Ash Grey. The man who killed the Joker and Dragon Slayer. He's also the man who married Queen Maxima, becoming the first human male in modern history to officially marry an extraterrestrial nobility.

Alexander Armstrong– The PR specialist and genius entertainer, who plays the part as Cognito mascot character – Weird Science Rick. He's the public face of Cognito, handling the interactions with the public. He's the persona that married Kara Zor-El and Gwen Stacey, better known as the Kryptonian heroine Supergirl and web slinging Ghost-Spider. He also has a third wife in the form of the extradimensional Quarian – Tali'Zorah

Doctor Genus – The universe's smartest mammal and founder of the universe-dominating Cognito Inc. The super-genius is beyond other super-geniuses and can literally craft any form of technology. He can even craft technology that is indistinguishable from magic and even Eldritch technology which doesn't even operate by the laws of the universe. He was the persona that married Fretia - White Priestess of the Fount.

He has many other personalities/bodies with lives of their own, but these are the most prominent ones.

Currently the Children of Cog are training together at Meta Star Academy Training Arena, this one located in Polaris for some privacy.

The First child is a very tall man with a lean muscular build and supermodel looks. He has green eyes and red hair dressed in a skintight super suit that's a combination of green, gold, and black. He's clearly of noble birth with the way he holds himself. He moves with immense superhuman power creating shockwaves that need to be negated by physics engines to prevent them from damaging the arena.

Maximillion Almerac is the crown prince of New Almerac, the first son of Rorschach and Queen Maxima. Thanks to using a special version of ultimatrix, he was fathered by a transformed Rorschach. Rorschach transformed himself into a combat evolved Almeracian, which resulted in Maximillion being far stronger than even the other members of the Royal Family (past and present).

The Second child is his younger brother with a similar build, green eyes, and black hair. His skin is also a much darker tan like a native of a desert. He's dressed in a gold/purple costume with distinctive Egyptian theme. The outfit wouldn't look out of place among the Egyptian Servants of the Fate universes.

Adrian Almerac, also known as space-faring Pro-Hero Ozymandias (II), is the second son of Rorschach and Queen Maxima. Genetically, he's Maxie's half-brother. This is because his father transformed into a different species during their anniversary. Adrian was named after the super-genius hero/villain of Watchmen, but his Pro-Hero name is a legacy from Ozymandias of Fate-Unversed – Pharaoh Ramesses II. A man who became an inspiration to the young prince.

While his brother possesses overwhelming power and speed, it's clear Adrian is the more skilled of the two. He moves like a martial arts master dodges the building-shattering blows of his brother and striking pressure points. Finally, Maxie's arms lock up momentarily and Adrian takes the time to slap the shit out of his brother.

"Ok, Bro. I get it! I get it!" says Big brother.

"So, you're not going to slack on your combat classes?" says little brother.

"I'll do better." says Maxie, sounding tired, "I'm just getting overwhelmed with all my classes."

"I'll talk to mom. It's not like we are super geniuses like Keena."

Keena'Zorah is Alexander and Tali's daughter and looks identical to her mother. She is an evolved Quarian possessing the genes for superior intellect and getting one the most advanced educations provided by Doctor Genus and Cognito's resources. While her brothers by her father's other incarnation have psychokinetic and telepathic abilities, she possesses psychometry - a meta-ability that allows her to get history from any object and even gain skills from objects she has never encountered before. She is also a super-genius capable of working in the high-tier labs of Cognito, despite being younger than her brothers.

*Doom*

The daughters of Alexander Armstrong and Kara Zor-El are training against robots. These are Cog-built high-end academy robots, which means they are difficult to fight, instead of merely things to get easily smashed. These robots are composed of programmable matter, shapeshifting and adapting to their opponents

They are both beautiful women with blue eyes and blonde hair, but their personalities and styles of combat are the complete opposite.

One is moving slowly, disabling her targets and taking time to examine the robots. While she intends to finish within the time limit, she is fascinated with the designs. She finally spots the core of her opponent, grabs it, and crushes it enough to disable it.

Her sister on the other hand is ruthless and efficient, scanning with her enhanced vision until she finds her target. She strikes with precision focusing her tactile telekinesis into a sword that pierces the command core unit of her opponent creating sparks. The devastating blow causes the robot to collapse into inert cubes of nanorobotics.

Rose Armstrong (Rose Alex-El) - The first daughter of Alex and Kara. She is a half-Kryptonian like her cousins Jon and Lara. She is a Pro-Hero and a scientist. Kara's father and uncle were both scientists on Krypton and her father Alex is also one, so it is in her blood. Doctor Genus and Cognito provided her with all the education she needed to become a space-faring hero.

"That was fun." says Rose with a smile.

"You wasted too much time." says her sister.

Allura Mira Armstrong (Allura Alex-El) - The second daughter of Alex and Kara. She was fathered by Alex while he was transformed into an Ultimate Kryptonian, making her a pure Kryptonian when compared to Rose. Due to her blonde hair and grumpiness as a baby, Ash called her Mira after Olivier Mira Armstrong from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and Kara thought it would be a wonderful middle name. Who knew that when she grew up, she would have the same personality – a severe military woman with a fearsome and commanding presence. She's a vice-admiral in charge of Earth space fleet.

"I wanted more information on my opponent."

"While normally I would support getting intel on an enemy, these claytonic golems were adaptive and you were giving them too much time. Just look at Uncle Ash, Cog's enemies gave him too much time and he became unstoppable."

"Technically, Uncle Ash is Indestructible, not Unstoppable. There was that time his legion ring was stolen, and he was tossed into the depths of space to keep him out a fight."

"I remember the video. When he got back to Earth, he *ate* the guy that did it."

"..."

In the audience, two more Armstrongs are watching their half-siblings two argue.

"There they go again." says the male, who dressed in a black-and-gold Iron Spider costume with the mask taken off to reveal the handsome blonde underneath.

"Rose gets lost in her research like Big Sis Entrapta, while Mira is always so serious." says her twin sister who's dressed in black-and-white version of the Iron Spider with some traits of the edgy Spider-Man 2099.

Arthur and Helena Armstrong – The fraternal twin son and daughter of Alex and Gwen. They have all the superhuman abilities of their mother including superhuman physical abilities, spider-sense, and wallcrawling. They also possess a regenerative healing factor that allows them to take more damage than his Pro-Hero mother and have organic web shooters like some of the other Spider-men and women.

"Do you remember when Entrapta tried to babysit?" says Arthur, pulling out a drink from storage.

"Even Doc Genus couldn't believe the mess she made." says Helena pulling out her own drink.

Entrapta is the adopted daughter of Rorschach and the oldest of the Children of Cog. She is a super-genius inventor from the world of Etheria whose only super ability is to manipulate her hair like addition limbs. While she is the leader of the adopted Children of Cog and a member of Cog's Science Council, her most prominent traits are her obliviousness and her one-track mind. While she has become more self-aware with age, she still gets lost in her research.

"Her own daughter is just as crazy as she is. She was moving with her hair before she learned to walk." says Arthur, offering his sister one of his snacks.

"Are you two Slacking!?" yells Mira.

"Shit. Swing it!"

*Doom*

Orbit of a Lifeless World [TC546738]

Day of Creation

3POV

Entrapta's daughter's Pro-Hero name is Netossa, named after a Princess, that hailed from the far reaches of the Planet Etheria. She was born with her mother's ability to manipulate her hair, but on a level far beyond her mother's. Even before she was crawling, she was using her hair like tentacles to move about. By the time she was ten, she could manipulate every single one of her hundred and fifty thousand hairs like a level of precision that would impress Sunny from Toriko. When most children were putting puzzles togethers with their hands, she was assembling erector sets with her hair.

Despite her impressive power, she is dedicated to science and has received the best education from Cog teaching AI, scientists, and even Doctor Genus himself. She's currently sitting in her spacecraft, floating in zero-G as her bright pink hair manipulates various objects ranging from data tablets to tubes of nutrient snacks.

"Geomagnetic field strength is at 1.2. Loss of atmosphere due to solar wind has decreased to below 0.1. Proto atmosphere is stable at 4% Water. The atmospheric pressure is at 0.998. The average temperature is 288.15 Kelvin or 15 Celsius. Gravity is stable at 1.001G."

"Message rm23 – Hey sis, don't forget the meeting on the Polaris Party."

"That was today? I've been busy... after I finish this experiment."

She doesn't care about parties even with her relatives when she can be doing SCIENCE!

"Begin recording. Planet TC546738 has been prepped. The planet now has a stable atmosphere protected by a stable magnetic field. No life exists on this world, even on a bacterial level, but it's primed for terraforming."

Netossa presses a big green button on the control panel of her custom spaceship. The manta-shaped spaceship fires a barrage of missiles in all directions, which then change trajectory towards the planet. When they reach certain positions, they explode into millions of smaller missiles, far more than could have fit inside the main missiles with serious bending of physics.

"Transfinite missiles have delivered distributor rockets. Rockets will detonate at 6100 meters."

Netossa monitors the trajectories of every missile before they explode at about twice the height of Mount St. Helens, releasing and vaporizing a huge amount of glowing golden liquid. The golden mist is carried by the winds and falls to the planet's surface by the fierce rainclouds in certain areas.

"Delivery complete. The delivered substance is an imitation of Ash Grey's reversed property ultimate corrosive poison known as Panacea, active biomatter, and proto matter. Genesis effect in progress."

A gold-green glow spreads across the surface of the planet. Elements on the surface are reduced to organic molecules, which mix with the water to create a glowing primordial sea.

"Microbial life detected. Primitive plant life detected."

"Netossa!"

"Grandpa!"

"What did I tell you about using transcended substances and Proto matter?"

"Don't conduct experiments without supervision and full access to the main computer."

"And what are doing?"

"Conducting experiments without supervision and full access to the main computer."

"That's right. You are grounded. Don't say anything about being too old to be grounded, I'm the smartest mammal in the universe and I decide things."

"Yes, Grandpa."

"I'll be over in 5 minutes to make sure the planet doesn't explode and infect other worlds super-evolution monsters."

"Oh, come on, Grandpa. You really think...?"

"Alert! Alert! Hyper-Evolution Event in Progress!" says the computer interrupting her.

Netossa turns back to her screens showing the feeds from numerous probes. Giant creatures composed of pulsating blood red flesh emerge from the darkening oceans. One mass of tentacles forms a humanoid form complete with clawed limbs, glowing gold eyes, and a mouth filled with rows upon rows of sharp teeth. It's only a few minutes old and it looks ready to conquer the planet like a Lovecraftian cosmic god.

"2 minutes." says Doctor Genus.

*Doom*

The Genus children are different from their combat-focused siblings. While the others have extraterrestrial or metahuman abilities, the Genus girls are spiritualists. As such, their training involves sitting in a special chamber designed to link the physical and astral planes of existence. Doctor Genus was able to pull this off with the help form Sorcery Goddesses - Jade and Raven.

Lily Genus - One of the many clones of Fretia and the only one to face the Blighted Lord in the Abyss. Faden, the head researcher of the King's Mage Brigade. He experimented on cloning the White Priestess Fretia to stave off the Blight from her as well as to cure Miriel, his lover from the Blight. Since she is clone of Fretia, she is identical in appearance to her "mother" and thanks to Cog medicine she retained her youth and health. Her skills involve calling on ghosts (born of people) and wraiths (born of emotions). She has developed an odd friendship with Ash's wife Jade and Ash's daughter Daniya.

Lotus Genus – Doctor Genus and Fretia's biological daughter and Fretia's half-sister/niece. She resembles her mother possessing the same lithe build, blue eyes and white hair, but not to the degree of Lily. While Lily possesses the powers to call upon the spirits of the dead, she possesses the ability to call elemental spirits each with purification traits – Pure Earth, Pure Fire, Pure Wind, and Pure Water Elementals. She has become a student of Jade who can call Pure Darkness Elementals.

A dark mist rises from the glowing magical seal beneath them and coalesces into a humanoid form. The shadow elemental resembles an impossibly black silhouette of a woman with glowing white eyes.

"Apologies for interrupting your spiritual training, but Queen Jade is ready to begin Stand training."

*Doom*

META STAR Stand Tower

Cognito City Polaris

Artic Ice Pack, Artic Ocean, North of Canada

Earth Date, June 30, 20XX

Time: 12:20

3POV

Neo in his various forms has had many adventures and received many rewards from completing the Quest of the Gamer. One of those rewards was the ability to psychically generate a visual manifestation of life energy (in other words, the manifestation of the soul of the user) referred to as Stand. This has consequences for his biological children.

In Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, the vampire DIO took over the body of his enemy Jonathan Joestar and when he was pierced by a Stand Arrow, he developed the time manipulating Stand – The World. At the same time, all of Jonathan's descendants awoke Stand abilities and even Jolyne Cujoh, born years after DIO's demise, developed the Stand - Stone Free.

Neo gaining a Stand meant All of his Biological Children developed Stands at very young ages. Currently, the children and the stands, while Jade is using her immense power to get metaphysical data. A Cog scientist and a Cog Medic are also there to get scientific and medical data, respectively.

*Doom*

"Max Almerac's Stand – Black Out."

A black-skinned humanoid with white eyes and a monochrome costume with a cape composed of dark mist. His costume resembles Max's own, only with the green and gold replaced with gray and silver. As it moves it generates traces of pitch-black smoke. As it moves its arms, the black smoke gathers to create a sphere so dark it seems to lose its 3rd dimension.

"The Stand's special ability to generate clouds of absolute darkness that not only absorb all light, but absorb all sound, radio waves, electrical discharges, and radiation. Within the darkness a target's senses are distorted, but Max can see everything clearly."

*Doom*

"Adrian Almerac's Stand – Discovery."

The Stand is a black-skinned humanoid with white eyes like Black Out, but it's dressed in gold and turquoise like an Egyptian Pharaoh. His eyes are also surrounded by green "eyeshadow". Its headgear resembles Nemes - pieces of striped head cloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt. What's most important about its design is the armor is marked with the Eye of Horus.

Discovery looks at a sealed metal box, then picks up a pen and begins to draw with inhuman precision. In seconds it draws codes and complex pictures. When the sealed box is opened the page inside the box and Discovery's creation is identical down to the micron.

"The Stand's special ability is a form of Clairvoyance which allows it to acquire information using sight outside the normal range of detection. The Stand and thereby its master can see everything (360) within a radius on both the physical and spiritual planes. It can also see into the past and possible futures, allowing it to both investigate and predict enemy movements."

*Doom*

"Keena'Zorah's Stand - Black Star."

The Stand is classified as an Artificial Humanoid – humanoids with mechanical traits, but it's not human. It has the same physiology of a Quarian with three fingers on each hand and digitigrade legs, which makes it resemble a member of the Geth, a race of networked artificial intelligences that rebelled against their Quarian creators when they attempted to destroy them. As it raises its hand, lightning arcs around it and a sphere of darkness forms. As it moves its hands, weights rise into the air and orbit it.

"The Stand's special ability is gravity manipulation which allows her to attract and repel objects, while increasing or decreasing the force of gravity on the objects. Her mother compared her Stand ability to Element Zero from her home universe while she trained with her personal heroine Uravity."

*Doom*

"Rose's Stand – Body Talk."

A female humanoid-class Stand with blue eyes, pale blue skin, and long white-blond hair. It's dressed in a form fitting white bodysuit that covers her entire body including her head, except her face, ears, and hair. The chest is marked with the S-crest of the House of El and decorated with blue rose-like flowers at various points. Instead of performing an action, it glares at the gathered scientists with annoyance.

"The Stand's special ability is an advance form of body language analysis. The user can intuitively read others' body language and expression, allowing them to anticipate their actions and respond accordingly, often allowing the user to predict opponent's attacks. It also allows her to see physical weaknesses and pressure points. Her Kryptonian vision only enhances these abilities."

*Doom*

"Mira's Stand – Sound of Silver."

Mira's Stand is Artificial Humanoid. A silver-skinned faceless humanoid resembling a mannequin dressed in a black-and-silver military uniform. What's interesting is the military symbols on the uniform are inverted crests of El – the Kryptonian symbol of Resurrection – and moon crescents - which are alchemical symbols of Silver.

The Sound of Silver picks up a copper pipe delivered by a Cog training robot. The copper pipe turns silver at the point of contact, which spreads until the entire pipe is silver. The section of pipe that is green with copper corrosive releases small flames are the oxygen is forcibly removed. The pipe then morphs into a French Estoc – a type of sword used from the 14th to the 17th century. SoS then uses the sword to slice another copper pipe in half apparently defying the laws of physics.

"The Stand's special ability can transmute any inorganic substance into a metal with the properties of silver. The stand can then manipulate the shape and properties of the silver, with her favorite form being an absurdly sharp silver sword enhanced by Kryptonian tactile telekinesis. Funny, it's called the sound of silver, but lacks a mouth."

*Doom*

"Arthur's Stand - Rolling in the Deep."

It's a male humanoid-class Stand with a swimmer's build and dressed in a dark gray bodysuit that covers his entire body. With his distinctive web-pattern and large expressive white eyes, it could easily be mistaken for a member of the Spider Clan. It has white webbing between its fingers, under its arms, and around its head like a hoodie.

RD phases into a large cube of reinforced concrete and exits holding a plastic doll that had been placed inside the block when it was created. It looks curious/confused at the plastic doll before handing it to its master, who gives it to a lab tech.

"The Stand's special ability can cause any object it touches to become intangible including itself and return to solid at will. This allows Arthur to swim through solid matter like swimming through water, let physical attacks pass through him, and bypass the physical protections of targets. The Stand (and thereby Arthur) can also psychically sense the area around them."

*Doom*

"Helena – Toxic."

Toxic is a female Humanoid-class Stand. It resembles a Spider-Woman with a distinct poisonous green and black coloration, sharp clawed fingers, and four black spider legs extending from its back making it look like a Jorōgumo (Japanese female spider yokai). As it breathes it releases vanishing green particles into the air. Also, unlike the other Stands, this one looks eager to attack.

Toxic picks up a copper pipe used for testing and there is audible hissing as the touch of its fingers breaks down the red-orange metal like strong acid. It then releases green webs that wrap around the concrete block used by its "sibling". The webbing, stronger than steel, proves to be extremely corrosive, cutting through the concrete block as the stand pulls, until it shatters into pieces.

"Why is your Stand so aggressive?" Arthur asks his sister.

"I don't know. She has always been hard to control unless she's destroying something. She's calm around Uncle Ash, Tho."

"One of his traits is he's an embodiment of Poison, so maybe there is some resonance."

"The Stand's special ability is Poison manipulation. The stand can generate phantasmal particles that have negative effects on both physical and spiritual beings, like toxic chemicals. Toxic can also use those particles to reinforce structures without harming them such as creating armor on Helena's skin. Alex and Ash compared her Stand to Coco from the series Toriko." says the scientist over the noisy twins.

*Doom*

"Lotus' Stand – Voodoo"

Voodoo is an artificial humanoid-class Stand resembling a life-size multi-jointed doll with blue eyes, white skin, and long white hair reaching her feet. She is dressed in a flowing white dress that reaches past her feet. Her hair and wrists are decorated by ghostly white flowers with thorny vines.

The scientist walks over to Voodoo and makes a precise cut on the arm with scalpel. One of the petals of flowers turns blood red and the science now has a cut on his arm. Cognito nanomedicine heals the cut in literally the blind of an eye leaving only the blood behind. Voodoo's skin in also unharmed beyond the blood stain.

"The Stand's special ability is Wound Transferal. The user can shift damage between individuals, regardless of whether the wound or weapon in the wound is physical, mental, spiritual or supernatural. If Lotus is attacked in any manner, she can transfer her wounds to her opponent or to someone with regenerative abilities. It was named by their Aunt N'Zambi due to its voodoo doll like ability."

"I didn't feel any pain." says Lotus, confused.

"Cog Field Scalpel. It's able to numb the target area, so the patient doesn't feel anything." says the scientist, "I didn't become a Cog scientist by pissing off the smartest mammal in the universe."

*DOOM*

Legion Headquarters

Legion Island, Earth.

Earth Date: June 28, 3030

Earth Time: 3:03

1POV

I'm in the Museum Area of the Legion Headquarters, looking at the History of Superheroes. It makes me feel very nostalgic.

The Justice Society was the major superhero organization of the 20th century. They were founded to fight crime in 1940 and became the All-Star Squadron during World War II. When McCarthyism showed its ugly head, the Society faded back into shadows.

The Justice League was the major superhero organization of the 21st century. It was founded to fight against an extraterrestrial invasion and countered the ambitions of The Light. They were unrivaled until the rise of the Pro-Heroes of Cognito Inc.

...

The Legion of Superheroes is the major superhero organization of the 31st century. The result of the younger generation of Justice League and the Cognito Pro Heroes uniting under the new generation. Founded by Connor Kent with support from Doctor Genus, The Legion united the Pro Heroes of the United Planets. For over a thousand years, the Legion has protected the Earth colonies and their allies from all manner of threats.

"Lord Ash Grey?"

I turn to see a black-haired man in a purple-and-black uniform, a ponytailed blue-eyed blonde in red and white, and a dark-skinned man in dark-blue-and-black. Rokk Krinn of Braal, Saturn Girl of Imra Ardeen, and Garth Ranzz of Winath, better known as Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad of the Legion. They are the current heads of the Legion, which makes sense considering they were the original founders in the comic books.

"Why are you at HQ, Lord Ash?" asks Lightning Lad carefully. He's normally more energetic/aggressive, but my reputation as an Indestructible and Immortal Monster has not gone down in a Thousand Years. My reputation is so feared that children are told on distant planets to be good or the Grey Monster will get you.

"Just wandering. No Quests today, just enjoying the memories." I say being honest.

"Team Legacy just arrived. They are down in the training area."

*Doom*

Team Legacy is a five-man team made of the descendants of the original Young Justice founders.

The first is the current Superboy of the 31st century, a descendant of Conner and Megan. He looks like another member of the El/Kent family with shoulder-length black hair. Due to his Martian genetics, he can change his appearance at will. He's dressed in a white/black Superman uniform designed to supply him with solar energy even in the darkest parts of the universe. It also lacks the physical cape, so it can't get caught on objects or be pulled by an opponent.

The second is NightFire, a descendant of both Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson of the Bat Clan. It was mildly surprising when Bruce and Talia's son Damian married Dick Grayson's daughter Mari, the original NightFire. The current NightFire has one of the most advanced Bat suits ever made, which covers her entire body including her face. She is a beautiful woman like Talia Al Ghul only with Bruce's eyes.

Superboy dodges batarangs tossed at him, despite them moving faster than sound. The batarangs project gravity fields that tether Superboy to slow him down, but a burst of heat vision disables the batarangs with pinpoint accuracy. NightFire creates a smokescreen and fires devices that generate deafening sound waves, but Superboy senses where she is and attacks with his heat vision. The energy beams are reflected by a shield that NightFire generates and nails Superboy in the face.

"Ouch!" says the Kryptonian/Martian descendant.

"Oh Please. You give yourself more burns when you shave." says NightFire.

"It still hurts the eyes! So, you learned from our previous match."

"There is no point on using smokescreen against someone with ESP, but while you can detect me, you can't detect my shields." says NightFire.

"Normal shields and projectiles generate sound, but your stealth tech is above the rest."

"I got help from Doc Genus."

*Doom*

The third member of Legacy Team is the current Aqualad and descendant of Kaldur'ahm. He looks very different from his ancestor with his silver eyes, dark blue skin, and long black hair. He's dressed in amphibious gray-and-blue armor which has a modern Atlantean theme. He also possesses a silver weapon resembling a trident.

Aqualad is defending himself by using the trident to manipulate the water around him, altering the properties of the water beyond just shape and temperature. The change in viscosity and friction catches his opponent by surprise, causing her to slide into the arena wall.

"Are you OK, Tiger?"

The fourth is Wind Tiger, one of the descendants of Wally and Artemis. She's dressed in a full Flash speedster uniform, but it has a black-and-white tiger pattern. She also has retractable claws and a tiger-themed helmet that reminds me of a Power Ranger.

"I fine, Kam. I'm not fragile." she says as she leaps back to her feet, "You know I can heal faster than a bullet can harm me. A little road rash isn't going to slow me."

"I know..."

"But you're worried about your girlfriend." says Wind Tiger and you can tell she is rolling her eyes.

*Doom*

The fifth and final member is Troia, descendant of Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark. She looks like Wonder Girl only with Wonder Woman's black hair. She considered calling herself Wonder Girl after her ancestor, but that name ended up being used by an (Themysican) Amazonian Heroine. Instead, she named herself after Wonder Woman's sister.

She is currently being held by a giant skeletal hand emitted from a dark purple magical seal. The seal is being generated by a beautiful dark-skinned woman with short white hair and red hair. The skilled Necromancer is dressed in the black robes of a magic caster rather than the costume of a Pro-Hero. She also wears numerous beads and doesn't wear shoes.

"Still don't like wearing shoes, Ashley?" I ask, coming up behind my daughter.

"You couldn't get me to wear them a thousand years ago, dad." says Ashley the Necromancer, "I don't need any footwear."

It's hard to argue with my little girl. She was born with my level of durability, so her feet can't be pierced or damaged by literally anything. If she didn't inherit some of my shapeshifting her nails would be uncuttable.

"Still working as a trainer?"

"I took a vacation for a decade and the quality went down. From now on, only Cog Vacations."

Cog Amusphere Vacations means you can get 3600 hours (about 5 months) of vacation time in 60 seconds.

"Can you please let me down!?" yells Troia, looking very uncomfortable.

"Can't you break free?" says both me and Ashley.

"I've seen Ashley crush a Type 6 Cog Hover-Tank and I'm less durable than they are!" says Troia, futilely trying to get loose with her superstrength. She can easily bend steel girders, but not my little girl's projections.

It's a little disappointing, as her mother could easily break these phantasmal bones. At least at this level.

"Lack of determination." says Ashley.

*Doom*

Temple of the Gods Ruins

Planet Rotstern

28th Day of the 6th Month

(Earth Date: June 28)

Local Time: 12:00

3POV

There are massive Earthquakes as the sky darkens with lightning storm. The natives – humanoids with gold eyes, red skin, and prominent antenna – run to shelter. A population of over ten billion fears for their lives despite possessing advanced technology like hovercars and spaceships. What they fear is a prophecy told by a dying religion.

On Planet Rotstern, there was once an Age of Gods where the supernatural ruled over the world. The Gods were incredibly powerful, but also as flawed as the mortals that worshipped them. They were kind and generous to those who were fanatically loyal, but cruel and selfish to everyone else. Eventually, the people rebelled against the gods and triggered an end to their world's Age of Magic. The Gods were sealed beneath the Earth and the people eventually forgot them outside of an old religion.

Now the Gods have returned, awoken by changes in the flow of the universe. At first, a red blood-like liquid rises from the stony gray ground forming a lake in the center of the ancient ruins. Then, giant, red-stained bones rise from the crimson lake assembled into skeletons. Flesh weaves across the bones, forming organs and muscles, and then layers of skin and hair. The red liquid even forms ancient clothing on the resurrected Gods.

"MORTALS! YOUR BLASPHEMY SHALL BE PUNISHED! YOU SHALL...!" says the Sky Father, the King of the Gods with huge muscles and a huge beard.

"SHUT UP!"

The extraterrestrial equivalent of Zeus and Odin looks down and sees two women standing in front of the lake looking annoyed. They look like otherworldly mortals with gray skin, but they can sense divinity radiating from the two.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Jade." says the Goddess-Queen of Shadows, "This is my sister-wife is Raven."

"We are here because the people of Rotstern are allied with us." says Raven, "They asked for Help."

"We are cancelling the Apocalypse." says Jade with a look that dares them to make a move.

"You think you can stop us." says one muscular warrior with a horned helmet, spiky armor, and a sword. He's obviously the Ancient Rotsern God of Bloody War and much like Ares in mythology, he's not too bright.

The God of War doesn't have time to react as a giant Shadow-Demise with flaming hair and beard emerges from Jade's pitch-black shadow. The giant Demon King then pulls out an equally huge sword and with one slash, cuts the God of War clean in half. Both halves explode apart in a red spray, before dissolving back into a lake of primordial blood.

"Anymore dumb questions?"

*Doom*

Control Room

Planet Cog Alpha

Earth Date: June 28, 3023

Station Time: 8:43

3POV

Doctor Genus has made many things in the past thousand years. Planet Cog Alpha is one of those creations. It's an earth size artificial planet, an Ecumenopolis like Coruscant in the Star Wars franchise and the long-destroyed world of Apokolips, only it has far more life. It has oceans containing bioengineered plants and animals. It has forests of plants, fungi, and animals, each one designed to the last gene by Doctor Genus. Even Earth and Fire elementals exist in the world's mantle, flowing with artificial magma and plasma. What separates this world from others is it can be anywhere in universe, travelling through space and hyperspace.

Doctor Genus, wearing his newest outfit, sits on his floating chair before his monitors. Data streams across the hundreds of monitors at speeds incomprehensible to the people of the 31st century (let alone to the more primitive minds of 21st century). Doctor Genus with his super-genius is still relaxed. While he possessed greater than twelfth-level intelligence a thousand years ago, that intellect has only grown.

"Case 15646 – Planet Versteckt has vanished from the universe. Their government wanted to build up soldiers and armaments without Cognito monitoring them, so they used a phased-dimensional device to shift their planet out of phase with the rest of the universe. Unfortunately for them, it has resulted in their planet's population becoming undead inhabited by interdimensional "ghosts". Solution: Total Annihilation of Planet."

Swipe.

"Case 15647 - Planet Jaadoo is magical planet that has entered an industrial age due to otherworldly summons. Due to the overuse of magic, the mystical pollution levels are soaring, and people are either dying and occasionally rising as undead or turning into demonic creatures. Jaadoo would be written off if the destruction of planet wouldn't spread the magical poison across the galaxy. Solution: De-crystallization of planet's magic crystals and introduction of purification seeds into the atmosphere."

Swipe.

"Case 15648 – Durla. Yorggian Fever Vaccine has been delivered and is being distributed to the population. All variants of the virus should be eliminated within three days. Durlan shapeshifting abilities should be restored within three weeks. Release of anti-radiation bacteria will proceed as planned and planetary radiation levels should return to pre-war era within three years. "

Swipe.

"Case 15649 – New Cybertron. There has been increasing tension between the military faction and the economic faction. Multiple cybertronian colonies, techno-organic, and cyber-verse citizens have taken sides in the conflict. We don't need another Eon-spanning Cybertronian Great War, so Cog will force negotiations. Scheduling Date for meeting."

Swipe.

"Case 15650 – An outbreak of chaos spawns on Planet Kingsport. It isn't Klarion, he's back in rehab. Isolation is complete. Extermination within the hour."

Click

"Maybe I'll let Vandal become Emperor and let him deal with the paperwork."

*DOOM*

New Hyrule

Earth Date: July 3, 3023

Planet Day 184/365

10:05

Queen Zelda Hyrule sits on her throne listening to the problems of her Kingdom. She looks like a pure Hylian with blue eyes, long straight blonde hair, and elf-like ears. In truth, her family hasn't been pure Hylian since the original Link and Zelda's children, who were born on the world of Earth.

The land of Hyrule is the result of an experiment to create the ultimate Legend of Zelda game for Cognito Entertainment. While Cognito can predict most things with their vast intellect and resources, they didn't predict what would happen when the real Link and Zelda were asked to test the game. It triggered a cyber verse event in which Hyrule became a real world in the depths of artificial universe. After much chaos, the OG Zelda became the ruler of Hyrule, which was pulled into real space.

The current Queen Zelda Hyrule is the descendant of original Zelda and Link but isn't a reincarnation like her ancestor was. The original Princess Zelda was a reincarnation of the Goddess Hylia who became human to seal the Demon King Demise and since Demise's curse was reincarnated as a multitude of women named Zelda. That Curse was finally broken when the Dark Goddess Jade resurrected Demise as her servant, depowering the incarnation of his hatred Ganon. While not containing the original soul, the inherited blood Queens of Hyrule have kept naming their children after Zelda and Link.

"The leaders of the races have arrived." says the announcer.

The Gerudo are an all-female tribe of humanoid who mainly live in the desert. Physical Gerudo traits typically include bronzed skin, scarlet hair, aquiline noses, gold eyes and round ears. They are a tribe of warriors and thieves, who have grown strong in the harsh environment. The biggest stain in their history was the birth of the only male Gerudo – Ganondorf Dragmire, the reincarnation of Demise's hatred who became the Demon King Ganon.

The Representative of Gerudo is a tall, strong Amazonian woman standing two meters (6'7) with gold eyes, tan skin, and flaming red hair. She is dressed in loose clothing that would be suited to the harsh climate of the Gerudo Desert. She also wears golden jewelry with the symbols of lightning, which are considered very important to the Gerudo.

Her lineage is very unique, as a thousand years ago, one of the first Queens of the Gerudo was a Heroic spirit (a Gerudo version of the Hero Link) incarnated into a faux body. This closely bonded the tribe to the Royal Family as OG Link became the King of Hyrule. Complicating things even more, a Hylian Prince while visiting the Gerudo consumed an experimental potion and ended up impregnating a portion of the Gerudo populace. As a result, 0.5% of the population is genetically related to the royal family. The Gerudo will never be bandits and pirates like they were in other timelines.

The Goron is a race of rock-eating mountain-dwelling giants possessing immense strength, durability, and resistance to heat and fire. While they appear simple at first, they are skilled craftsmen, making some of the most impressive metalwork in all Hyrule. They have always been strong supporters of Hyrule, often doing the majority of mining work and farming special crops – a magical plant that generates natural explosives.

The Representative of the Goron is a huge male standing 2.5 meters (8'2) and over 200 kgs (about 440.92 lb.). He has a round body and head with long muscular arms ending in huge fists and small legs. He has small dark eyes, rocky sandy brown skin, spiky white hair, and a wide smile of white teeth. He doesn't wear much clothing, mostly due to most cloth bursting into flames near the volcanic Death Mountain. He does wear a loincloth resembling sumo wrestlers' Mawashi, a fire-proof sash, and bands on his wrists and ankles.

The Rito are a race of bird-like humanoids whose warriors are famed for their archery and wind manipulating skills. They are skilled at crafting clothing for cold temperatures, which is expected since they live on tall mountains where the air is cooler. They are also considered the great musicians of Hyrule with many famous singers and instrument players.

The Representative of the Rito is a tall lean anthropomorphic bird with blue eyes, yellow beak, and pure white feathers tipped with black at the end of her wings. She also has yellow feet with sharp black talons. She is dressed in colorful clothes and has a large bow on her back. The only thing about her that doesn't scream Rito is a small smartphone resembling the Sheikah slate, used to store items including arrows for her bow.

The Sheikah are an ancient clan of mysterious ninja-like warriors, distinguished by their long lifespan, red eyes, and often-white hair, who protect the Hylian Royal Family. They were originally served the goddess Hylia and continue to serve the bloodline with absolute loyalty. Thousands of years ago, the Sheikah also created advanced technology including sapient robots, teleportation, and tablets with superpower Apps. This technology has only been rediscovered thanks to Sheikah researchers and help from Cognito's MagiTech division.

The Representative of the Sheikah is a woman with dark red eyes, tan skin, and long white hair done in old style (Nihongami). She's dressed in gold-decorated white clothing with black bands on her wrists and black leggings. She also possesses a pair of brass-decorated goggles on her forehead and carries another version of the Sheikah tablet/Purah Pad/Tablet-resembling-game-controller, which was developed with the efforts of Sheikah labs and Cognito's help.

The Zora are a race of aquatic piscine humanoids inhabiting the freshwater areas of Hyrule. Like the Atlanteans of Earth, they possess a combination of magic and science adapted to aquatic environments. They are farmers, hunters, and warriors of the waters. It is also rare to see any Zora wearing clothing as they normally rely on the silver scales that cover their bodies.

The Representative of the Zora is a beautiful humanoid with gold eyes, silver-gray and white scaled skin, and fins extending from her arms and hips. She also has a blue/white head resembling a fish tail. Unlike most of her nudist society, she is dressed in armor of scales. She possesses otherworldly blood, being the descendant of the Atlantean and Imbocan, which makes her water manipulating powers far above other members of her race.

Kokiri is a pixie-like race who inhabits the Kokiri Forest. They were created by the Great Deku Tree along with the Koroks and Deku. While the latter two resemble plants, the Kokiri look more humanoid and have an easier time interacting with Hylians and Humans. The Link that fought the original Ganondorf Dragmire – the Hero of Time – was a Hylian child who was raised by the Kokiri after his mother died of her injuries.

The Representative of the Kokiri looks like a small young girl with shoulder-length golden blonde hair and pointed ears. She wears a green tunic with brown boots. It's a very traditional outfit worn by the ageless race and made famous by the adventures of the Hero Link.

*Doom*

Hyrule Field

New Hyrule

10:31

3POV

Four Adventurers face the monsters of New Hyrule. These monsters are the pig-faced Bokoblins and Moblins, the Hyrulian equivalent to Fantasy world Goblins and Hobgoblins. What's more dangerous are the Lynels – lion-maned horned centaur monsters that are far stronger, faster, and skilled than the Bokoblins and Moblins. The attacking monsters are led by a white-manned striped Golden Lynel who acts like a general.

While some adventurers work together like the cogs of a finely tuned machine, it's clear that each Adventurer individually could handle the "small" group of monsters. This is the difference between experienced adventurers and S-Class Adventurers.

The first is beautiful Hylian woman with blue eyes, long blond hair done a braid, and the typical pointed ears. She is dressed in green clothing including a hooded tunic, designed for stealth in the forests. She is armed with a magic sword, an enchanted bow, and a quiver of special arrows. She also has a Sheikah Slate loaded with various Magical Apps- a gift from her Aunt Impa.

Linka Hyrule - She looks like a female version of Link, but she is a descendant of Hero Link and Princess Zelda, and cousin to current Queen of Hyrule. She inherited the magical skills of Princess Zelda and swordsmanship of Link. The Cog Goddesses – Jade of Darkness, Raven of Love, and Mother Nzambi – helped craft the magic swords used by the Hylian royal family. Unlike the Master Sword which was crafted by the Goddess Hylia for the various incarnations of her Hero, magic swords are personalized and earned through hard work.

Linka's sword counters the blade of her opponent, then before her opponent can blink, she slices through its throat. This continues for several minutes with her parrying and countering all the attacks, using them as opportunities to counterattack. When a massive number attempts to overwhelm her, she jumps back and does a spin releasing a slicing magical sword beam.

The second Adventurer is dressed in a form-fitting gold-and-black armor biomechanical armor with turquoise highlights. She can generate a turquoise energy blade to pierce and slice her enemies. It's hard to see through her visor, but she is beautiful blue-eyed blonde.

Samantha Hyrule – She is a descendant of Link and the bounty hunter Samus Aran, possessing both Chozo and Metroid DNA. As a result, she possesses energy absorption abilities like her ancestor, allowing her to drain the life energy of her monstrous opponents and strengthen herself. The techn-organic armor she is wearing is a gift from Doctor Genus based on Samus' Chozo Armor, but far more advanced and darker colors.

Dame Sam Hyrule tears through her opponents with absurd ease. While magical blades can block her turquoise energy blade at least for a time, the primitive weapons of Moblins and Bokoblins don't stand a chance. She is also skilled enough to dodge even their best attacks and slice through her targets. As the turquoise blade slices through vitals, dark mist erupts from the dying bodies. Soon, the monsters die and disintegrate completely.

The third Adventurer is another blue-eyed blonde with Hylian pointed ears. Unlike her companions, she is dressed in a sporty pink outfit with leather gloves and boots decorated by gemstones, and a dark cape. She also wears a fancy belt with a pouch and a necklace of gemstones. It's clearly the outfit of a sorceress.

Momo Hyrule - A thousand years ago, Link slept with Princess Peach Toadstool of the Mushroom Kingdom (along with his love Zelda and Samus Aran). Momo didn't inherit the swordsmanship skills of her Hylian ancestor, but she did develop impressive magical abilities. She is also a gourmet chef, Galaxy Olympic level athlete, and a very skilled craftsman.

Momo watches as the Lynels charge towards her group, the ground shaking beneath her.

"Llaf nopu niur, Pils!"

The Lynels suddenly find the ground beneath their hooves extremely slippery. The charging bestial monsters slip, fall, and tumble. They lose control of their weapons, and their limbs end up tangled with each other. As they try to get up, they are hit by explosive arrows which are so loud they don't hear Momo's longer chant.

"Ho, ecruos fo lla rewop, thgil hcihw snrub dnoyeb nosmirc, tel yht rewop rehtag ni ym dnah. Llaberif!"

Momo's fireball is very impressive, being larger than a beachball and glowing like a red star. It's hot enough to melt the ground as it flies, with Momo only protected by a shell of her own magic. Its explosion is even more impressive, as the Lynels are blown into the air, and they hit the ground smoking from the attack. They hold on briefly before finally collapsing and crumbling into ash and smoke.

The fourth Adventurer is a tall, athletic Amazonian woman with a beautiful face and a very strong body including a six pack. She has blue eyes, dark skin with turquoise tattoo-like markings, and long wild golden blonde hair. She also has sharp canine teeth, pointed ears, sharp black nails, and horns like a bull. She wears clothing made from the skins of animals she has hunted. If she was carrying a battle axe she could easily be mistaken for a Dungeon and Dragons Barbarian warrior.

Bowsette Mario XL- A thousand years ago, the hero of the mushroom kingdom Mario and his gender bent version of his greatest enemy ended up sleeping together due to magic. This resulted in the first of many hybrids. After 1000 years, there have been 40 generations, and each generation has retained the strengths of the two races.

The Golden Lynel charges at the adventurers roaring in rage, but Bowsette grabs it and stops its charge. The massive maned menace rage increases and so does its strength, but Bowsette doesn't move an inch and has a cocky smile on her painted lips.

"I used to have so much trouble with you guys when I played the old school game. Didn't know you were so weak in real life." says Bowsette lifting the Golden Lynel off its feet, smashing it into the ground, and then tossing it. The monster tumbles across the ground creating a trail of dust and debris, before coming to a stop.

The Golden Lynel struggles to its feet before raising one of its glowing weapons to the sky. Bowsette is hit by a huge bolt of lightning and then hit three more times. The Golden Lynel then takes a step back as Bowsette isn't injured by the magic-induced electrical attack. Instead Bowsette is now looking very angry, and her blonde hair is burning like fire.

She inhales and then releases a stream of fire from her mouth. The golden beam makes the air ripple and burns the ground beneath it with its aura of heat. The Golden Lynel doesn't have time to dodge and despite its resistance to the elements, the golden beam isn't stopped by its magic weapon or it's body. The Lynel can only stare as its weapon crumbles away, before its own body dissolves into vanishing miasma (gloom).

*Doom*

Konba Ancient Tech Lab

New Hyrule

10:40

3POV

Ancient Tech is super advanced technology scattered across the land of Hyrule. It's so advanced that ancient sapient robots existed during the Skyward Sword era - the oldest recorded era of Hyrule. This technology has been found and researched repeatedly, but the wars against Ganon and demons have kept regressing civilization.

"Cognito intervention has changed things as the races of Hyrule are making more progress in less than a decade than they have in thousands of years. The races have access to vast libraries and vehicles that can transport items across Hyrule with ease. Cognito science has also helped our researchers understand the Ancient Technology, helping our reverse engineering." explains a researcher. She is a beautiful Sheikah woman with red eyes behind glasses, white hair, and pointed ears.

Four members of the Legion of Superheroes have arrived on New Hyrule and are currently at one of the Ancient Tech Labs.

The first Legionnaire is a young man with green skin, buzzcut blonde hair, and red eyes with black sclera. He also has black eyebrows and three white dots on his forehead connected by lines. He also wears a jumpsuit that is multiple shades of purple connected by black lines and three larger white circles on his chest.

"It's very impressive, Doctor." he says, looking at the communications network which shows 24 satellites in orbit of the planet. He picks up a small black-and-gold tablet the size of a smartphone, "With these new devices everyone on Hyrule can stay in communication and exchange information."

"We are currently using them to exchange data between the various labs and keep the cities and towns in contact for defense." says the researcher.

Brainiac 5. In this universe, the Coluan race are a green-skinned humanoid race with the average member having a "level 8" intelligence, far higher than humans. The computer and transhuman experiments of the Dox family eventually resulted in the creation of a highly advanced form of artificial intelligence, including the Collector of Worlds. After the Collector's destruction and assimilation by the Brainiac of another universe, followed by Doctor Genus' annihilation of Brainiac – the Dox Family of Colu approached Doctor Genus. Their collaboration resulted in the birth of a new techno-organic bloodline possesses vast intellect. Brainiac-5 is considered one of the smartest mammals in the universe, second only to his teacher Doctor Genus.

"Brainy!" comes a yell from outside.

The second Legionnaire is a man, lean muscular man with black sclera amber eyes, grey furred skin, and shoulder-length brown hair streaked with white. He also has pointed ears, sharp canine-teeth, and claws, making him look like a werewolf. He's dressed in a tan outfit with a black, yellow-eyed wolf head on the front and a gold belt.

"Trouble. The animals are detecting something big coming." says the wolf man.

Timber Wolf. The existence of the elemental planes of life became well known on Earth in the 21st century and by the 31st century, all the Earth worlds know about avatars and elemental planar metahumans. Some scientists even attempted to forcibly bond subjects to those planes to create living weapons capable of controlling nature. An amoral Zuunian scientist Dr. Mar Londo conducted experiments on his own son Brin Londo. The result was lycanthropic SPB possessed superhuman physical abilities, regeneration, and an affinity with animals.

"How big?" says the third member.

"Big."

The third Legionnaire is a young woman with black sclera red eyes, pale blue skin, and shoulder-length straight black hair with two white hair ornaments. She's dressed in a white protective uniform with a black inner layer exposed around the collar and hands.

Phantom Girl. Tinya Wazzo is from the extradimensional (and badly named) planet Bgtzl. All the people of her human-descendant world possess the ability to phase through solid matter by shifting into another dimension. Tinya is simply one of the most skilled and bravest members of her race. After receiving training from the Kijin battle-masters of Lady Jade's Shadow Realm she is qualified kunoichi (female ninja).

The fourth and final Legionnaire is a young man of mixed heritage and a round body. He's not fat, possessing a lot of muscle, but he has round features. He has dark eyes behind protective yellow goggles, tan skin, and black hair. As he moves, he stretches and his elastic blue-and-black uniform stretches with him. Soon, he's bouncing from target to target sending enemies flying.

Bouncing Boy. In other universes, Chuck Taine gained the ability to stretch and inflate like a balloon when the delivery boy accidentally drank super-plastic formula, he was supposed to deliver thinking it was soda pop. In this universe, he gained elasticity superpower on the same day he became the 31st century soda pop drinking champion. Strangely nobody realized the dangers of drinking an abnormal amount of Gingold soda, despite the Cog SPB Database and Justice League Museum having a record of Ralph "Elongated Man" Dibny and the origin of his powers. He considered himself a joke character until he got training from the legendary Plastic Man and the mixed alien O'Brian family.

The ground shakes as something immense approaches the lab creating a huge cloud of dust and debris. Whatever the invader is, it's large and durable enough to snap thick ancient trees like dead branches. Finally, it reaches the end of the forest, and it becomes visible to the scientists and Legionnaires. It's an immense bronze-and-black mechanical spider with glowing red lights. The scientists are terrified as the only machines that large are Divine Beasts – Vah Ruta, Vah Rudania, Vah Medoh, and Vah Naboris

"Evacuate the scientists. I'll slow it down." says Brainiac 5.

As he says that, he summons three huge machines from his subspace storage each marked with the linked three circles of Coluan family.

One of the machines opens various missile ports and launches a massive salvo of missiles, more than what the robot would be able to hold if you didn't consider transfinite dimensional storage. The missiles go in all directions before redirecting themselves to the target and detonating in a teeth-rattling explosion.

The Ancient Sheikah robot proves to be extremely durable as it survives the Macross Missile Massacre, but it is slowed down, and Brainiac hid a surprise among the high explosive missiles. The ancient machine is now splattered with lime green sticky goo, which expands like foam and hardens into a dark grey rubbery substance. This expanding foam coats the joints of the robot spider, slowing its movements to a crawl despite its immense strength relative to its size.

Brainiac 5's second robot then opens like a flower and unleashes laser beams from its revealed emitters. These beams are anti-metal beams, severing the attraction between the metal nuclei and electron shells. With visible electrical discharges, they slice clean through the thick armor of the mechanical spider. The Divine Beast Spider refuses to fall, managing to form shields to protect its main body and begins to regenerate the damage done to it.

The first machine unleashes a second barrage of missiles. This time the smart missiles enter the cuts made by the second robot's anti-metal beams before it can regen or close the "wounds". There is a split-second pause, before there is a chain reaction of explosions. First there are explosions from the wounds, undoing most of the repairs. Followed by explosions that cause the joints to break and the armor to separate. Finally, there is one large blast as all the pressure is released from the fallen machine.

Brainiac-5 doesn't move a muscle or change the expression on his face. He's not surprised when a dense red-black cloud rises from the rubble of the Divine Beast Spider, moving like a living creature. The cloud condenses into a solid form that looks at Brainiac-5 with hatred and malice. Its upper body is artificial humanoid, a fusion of red-black flesh and corrupted Ancient Technology with four long humanoid arms ending in claws and four sharp-tipped mechanical legs emerging from its back. Its lower body is a mass of darkness and flame that allows it to hover in the air. As it screeches in rage, its eight eyes glow a menacing red and its mechanical mouth splits open to reveal fangs dripping with corrosive venom.

[Spiritblight Ganon]

The hybrid of malice and technology, born of Ganon's power, runs towards Brainiac-5 using its eight legs to move at superhuman speed. The abomination also teleports around the battlefield as it approaches, preventing missiles and energy beams from doing more than minor damage. Minor damage which instantly regenerates. When it gets close enough it leaps at Brainiac releasing a barrage of toxic fireballs and sprays of corrosive venom that could melt through bone in an instant.

Spiritblight Ganon is confused when its attacks fail to do any damage, despite making a large smoking crater in the ground. Brainiac-5 then dissolves into vanishing green holographic particles. Glowing lines appear on Brainiac-5's blocky third robot before it splits into pieces, which zoom around, and surround Spiritblight Ganon as he lands on its eight limbs. The modules connect to each other with glowing green beams forming a cage of light. Then the modules fire beams into Spiritblight causing the beast to scream in rage and pain.

"My teacher once one shot an Unversed with Spiriton disruptor." says Brainiac-5 appearing next to Phantom Girl, causing the girl to jump. He takes too much after Rorschach. "Heroic Spirits are quasi-divine spirits, so what hope does one of Ganon's aura incarnations have?"

Spiritblight Ganon's roar becomes distorted as its body develops brightly glowing cracks and beams of light emerge from its body. Finally, there is a thunderous explosion as the abomination's body violently fails. Its flaming skull manages to escape the cage and flies towards Brainiac-5's shocked face. He's saved by Phantom Girl who hits it with a bat and sends it into the air, where it explodes and releases a golden cog to fall to the ground.

"Thanks." says Brainiac-5. "What is that, if you don't mind me asking?"

"No problem. It's something Jade-Sifu taught me." says Phantom Girl, holding a translucent baseball bat made of darkness. It appears to be covered in spikes like a Kanabo. "Spirit-Shattering Shadow Bat. Lord Ash calls it's Excalibolg."

"Excalibolg? Isn't that a reference to a dark comedy anime from the 21st century?"

"How do you know that?"

"I am the super genius student of a super-genius whose best friends with the universe's oldest otaku."

*DOOM*

Palace of the Human Empire

Terra

June 29, 41041

3POV

It is the 40th Millenium and... It's mostly peaceful. There is occasional conflict and planetary war, but most of the Galaxy is peaceful. After a Millenium where the forces of the Earth colonies fought against an invasion of otherworldly horrors, humanity became united under the Immortal Emperor.

The Immortal Emperor is a tall, muscular male with medium-dark skin tone, strong, rugged features, broad shoulders, and square jaw. He also has three pale scars across his face, brown eyes and long black hair pulled back. He wears a long lapel, a less dark-blue coat and dark pants. He also dons black gloves and boots. He sometimes wears a golden crown and blue and gold robe lined with fake fur during ceremonies.

He was once known as Vandal Savage, the first metahuman whose been around for over 90,000 years. He dreamed of leading humanity into a future in which they ruled over most of the universe and a few thousand years ago he believed it would be his deal with Darkseid that would help him achieve it. Instead, it was both his greatest annoyance and greatest ally – Cognito. Doctor Genus set him up as Emperor to help defend the universe against the Invaders and their knowledge has allowed him to rule justly for millennia.

"I'm so bored."

Cognito Inc made it easy for him to rule by setting up a system that has him do very little. Cog Factories supply free food, medical aid, housing, education, and entertainment on a universal scale, render the population content and docile. The population can explore their potential, but poverty and homelessness no longer exist. Crime is at an all-time low because the only people that steal consumer products are compulsive hoarders. It also helps that all people are monitored to the point where murder and acts of terrorism are stopped.

"I spend thousands of years to acquire my throne and now being The Emperor is about as exciting as filing taxes." says Vandal looking down at his computer tablet.

"You get what you wanted." comes the voice of Doctor Genus. An AI drone in the form of a floating silver skull with blue eyes comes over to The Emperor. "After the mess with the Invaders, the Lords of Chaos are quiet, so you might be on the throne for another millennia."

"A thousand years of tapping the approve button on a tablet." says Vandal holding up said PDA, before putting it down, "I need a vacation."

"Accessing Cog Vacations App." says the AI drone, "Do you wish for the Standard Package or a Custom Package?"

"Custom. Wilderness Survival. Hard Mode."

"You have selected Wilderness Survival. Current version 1.19.6."

Vandal Savage pulls out the latest version of Amusphere virtual environment technology. Wilderness Survival takes him back to his roots, to when he was caveman fighting bears and rivals. It allows him to hunt in the wild of nature free from his modern responsibilities.

"You also have [4] Missing Calls from the Empresses."

It also allows him to get away from his wives and concubines. Back when he was Genghis Khan, he had six wives and five hundred concubines, but back them women didn't have much say. He's currently married to three wives and has seven concubines, but half the time he dreads the long conversations about their relatives.

"Maybe I should retire to a frontier world."

"Your contract with Cog doesn't expire for another 959 years. There will be penalties."

"Damn it. Can you at least program longer vacations?"

"Adding Savage Upgrade."

"..."

*DOOM*

New Cybertron

NC Date: V39

Earth Date: July 6, 41041

Time: 13:51

1POV

Cognatus Prime and Tsarina Prime sit at the council table. The holographic image of Optimus Prime soon joins them.

Cognatus Prime was originally a Prototype Iron Patriot android crafted by Cognito and was given life by the power of the AllSpark. Now Pip, the adopted son of Rorschach went through many evolutions, becoming techno-organic and being upgraded with the blessing edge Cog Technology. He became the Champion of the Metal - a kingdom that gained sapience and cohesion in the 21st century, composed of mechanical intelligences of various sources.

Tsarina Prime was originally a cybertronian from another universe. She had been found as a proto form on Earth by scientist Isaac Sumdac and after taking a human form was adopted as his daughter Sari. After learning the truth, she upgraded herself using the AllSpark and thanks to the mad science of Cadmus she became a techno-organic being and the source of the virus that would transform Cybetronians into their current forms.

Optimus Prime was originally a scientist on Cybertron called Orion Pax. He was friends with a charismatic gladiator named after the former Prime – Megatronus. Together they led a political movement to remove the corruption from their society. While Metronus, now called Megatron, was passionate it was Orion that inspired people and it was Orion that was chosen to become a Prime. The former comrades became rivals and eventually the leaders of the two factions of Cybetronians – Autobots and Decepticons.

They ascended to become transcendent mechanical entities and representatives of the God Primus – The Primes. Together, with the original Prime – Optimus – they lead New Cybetron after its creation. They were the first Three Primes – The Trinity – but not the last.

The next to enter is a Cybertronian resembling a giant dark purple and black humanoid robot with a cycloptic yellow eye and one arm resembling a cannon. He has changed over the centuries, getting upgrades and modification to the point he resembles a Zaku from the Gundam franchise and has Orbiters – small spherical robots that hover around their master.

Shockwave Prime was once the feared amoral Decepticon Scientist. He was willing to do anything for the survival of his race and wasn't bound by emotion or morality. He is a being of pure logic, who has conducted a countless number of experiments to preserve the Cybertronian people. When he appeared in the Earth-DR-1 Universe, he saw potential in the techo-organic while other Decepticons (and many Autobots) would have been disgusted. To Advance his race, he was willing to work with Vandal Savage's Light and he was willing to work under Cognito. He was rewarded for his efforts and is now Cybertron's greatest research scientist.

The next to enter is a nude female humanoid composed of liquid metal. While composed of inorganic high density nanomachines and mimetic poly-alloy, her body moves like its hard muscle and bouncing fat under soft smooth skin. The only thing that indicates she's not human, all her skin and hair is ultra-polished silvery metal and she's as anatomically correct as a Barbie doll. She also has glowing eyes and a light above her breasts that pulsates like a heart.

Engineer-Prime is a Nanomechanical lifeform, the offspring of heroines from over a thousand years ago– The Engineers. In the twenty-first century, Dr. Serling Roquette and Dr. Angela Spica replaced their blood with nanomachines of their own design, becoming transhuman pro-heroines. It was born of their nanomachines and the Metal and was further upgraded by consuming a Cog Nano-forge. In both male, female, and other forms, Engineer-Prime serves as New Cybertron's Chef Engineer.

The next to enter resembles more a Magical Princess from a Fairy Tale rather than a leader of a machine race. She resembles a small human girl with sky blue eyes, light skin, and long flowing white hair reaching past her waist. She is dressed in fancy, flowing silver-gray dress with a cape secured by a silver infinity symbol broach. As she sits down a holographic halo appears above her head.

Aura-Prime is a Transcendent Artificial Intelligence and child of Cognito. Thousands of years ago in the twenty-first century, Doctor Genus struggled to create mental health programs to help the suffering population of Earth. The planet was struggling with changes caused by experiments and invasions from extraterrestrial and extradimensional threats. Doctor Genus even created Artificial Intelligences to create mental health AI. The digital goddess Aura was the ultimate creation of the AI builders and The Metal. An artificial Goddess of Mental Health like Hygieia, Greek Goddess of good health, cleanliness, and sanitation. She has protected and healed the minds of people for thousands of years, the minds of all sentients including machines.

The last to enter is a cybertronian techno-organic with black sclera gold eyes, green skin, and a bald head marked with three connected white circles. While the body and legs are covered by an armored purple/black jumpsuit, the arms are bare and more robotic. They aren't physically connected at the elbow and shoulder, using energy fields instead. On his chest is the three connected circles symbol which pulsates in rhythm with a heart.

Brainiac-Prime was once known as a part of Brainiac 10 or Brainiac-X. A descendant of the famous Legionnaire Brainiac-5 (Querl Dox), who surpassed even Brainiac-5 in intellect, but hasn't reached the level of the smartest mammal. Brainiac-X possesses the ability to create over a hundred minds that can operate bodies of their own, but of those hundred and eight bodies, he allowed eight to become completely independent. With number 8 eventually becoming Cybertron's computer expert - Brainiac-Prime.

"So, what's today's meeting about?" asks Tsarina, despite being a genius scientist and Prime, Sari still retains much of her relaxed attitude. It would be annoying to Shockwave, if he hadn't surgically removed his emotions and left empathy to the other Primes.

"Please read the topic summaries before the meetings." says Shockwave.

"Let's begin." says Cognatus Prime, still sounding like Pip, "A conflict between the Tau Empire and Planet XTC?"

"Planet XTC was originally a pleasure planet inhabited by high end androids meant for medical, maintenance, entertainment and sexual purpose. The planet was not only a major vacation spot, but a factory for the Tau-built Chi Androids." explains Shockwave, "The problem is the androids have achieved sapience and wanted more rights, but the Tau are worried about their profits."

"Foolish. When robots achieve sapiency in our territory, they can simply work off their price." says Tsarina, sounding serious, "How many achieved sapience?"

"It was a mass awakening event." says Shockwave. "52081 of 56097 are currently active on the planet. 3572 have abandoned their bodies for the Cyberverse. 444 are deceased."

"Simple solution is Cognito purchases the planet from the Tau." says Brainiac, "I believe this is the actual plan of the Tau as the researchers could have easily prevented the sapience development with their level of engineering."

"Over four hundred dead to make a profit." says Aura, "Their greed is repugnant."

"But exploitable." says Shockwave.

*Doom*

"Next on the list. How are the League members handling the new era?" asks Tsarina.

"It's been difficult. When the Legion vanished into that anomaly, they didn't believe they would return. Self-sacrifice is common among great heroes." says Aura, "When they emerged from anomaly, they learned Vandal Savage was The Emperor of the known Universe and that Cog was supporting him."

"Vandal Savage's ambitions made him an enemy of Justice League, even before their first encounter." says Cognitus, "The universe needed a military leader to stand against the invaders and Doctor Genus was too busy keeping the multiverse from falling apart."

"The Dynasty have mostly isolated themselves. Not as bad as Krypton or Daxam, but they want to stay out of Savage's manipulations. The Emperor is giving the Dynasty as much freedom and space as possible. The rest of the Legion are attempting to reconnect with their worlds."

"What about the Amazon Queen?" says Engineer-Prime

"Queen Diana is handling the changes to her people." says Aura.

"Changes. They were wiped out during the Invasion and Doctor Genus had to resurrect all of them." says Sari, "They were also moved to a new city on Venus because Themysica needed to be cleansed by Lord Ash."

During the Invasion, the otherworldly horrors attempted to invade Earth through the Underworld Gate on the Amazon Island of Themysica. The island was so horribly corrupted, it was abandoned by the Gods and the world. When Ash Grey erased the island from existence it was relief, like the removal of malignant tumor in the planet.

"At least there are more amazons." says Cognitus.

"That's because so many people died, their souls got entwined."

*Doom*

"My experiments with the Blood of Unicron have reached a roadblock." says Shockwave showing screens of fast-moving data. It would be incomprehensible to the brains of twenty-first century humans, but the Cybertronians can read the 10000 pages of text with ease.

"I never approved of those experiments, Shockwave, but I was outvoted." says Optimus.

During a [Universal Gift] opening festival, Rorschach/Genus summoned the dead corpse of the Evil God of Destruction – Unicron. The Dead God was stored in an empty pocket dimension and samples of its blood was given to Shockwave by Doctor Genus on request. While the Blood of Unicron is corruptive, poisonous to organic and mechanical life, and capable of animating dead Cybertronians, it was considered "safe enough" by Cog standards.

"I noted that. The roadblock is the lack of material."

"You've run out of the Blood of Unicron!?"

"Correct." says Shockwave, "Lord Ash Grey has been consuming it over the past millennia."

Ash Grey the Doomsday was exposed to Dark Energon during his trip through the multiverse to destroy the fragments of a cosmic horror known as "Red Sky" and developed a taste for it. Over the centuries, he absorbed more blood from Unicron. Ash Grey has a special place in Cybetronian religion as the man who devours the world-eater, the man who ate the devil.

"Lord Ash consumed all of Unicron's blood!?" says Sari. "Unicron is planet-size Transformer. That would be like consuming an ocean!"

"Correct. It's not like an organic consuming water, but Lord Ash's body absorbed it totality."

*Doom*

"The last topic is another massive increase in population." says Shockwave, "The techno-organic population in the galaxy has increased above the predicted norms – Again."

"Not happy that your predictions were off." smirks Pip the Prime.

"I originally desired for Cybertronians to become Techno-Organic because it greatly reduced the consumption of Energon and other resources. The adaptive nature and high reproductive ability of organics was a bonus. What I didn't predict was how efficient techno-organic life are at reproduction."

"Our entire population is immortal, attractive, and energetic with no worry of disease or scarce resources." says Aura with a faint blush. "There is not a single homeless person in Cog-controlled space. That content population is the reason The Emperor can rule as he does without their being a major enemy to constantly unite and fight against."

"Which means they are going to go at it like rabbits." says Engineer, "Nearly all SPBs are compatible due to Cognito's engineering, so they don't even have to bred with other Cybertronians."

Shockwave would raise a Spock-like eyebrow if he had one. The pure mechanical cybertronians of the past – both Autobots and Decepticons – would be disturbed/disgusted at the idea of organic sexual reproduction let alone breeding with organics. Now, after the horror of the Invaders, organics and techno-organics are producing offspring at a rate that surpasses his meticulous calculations.

*DOOM*

Ashley Zuri Grey, daughter of the God of Destruction Ash Grey and the Mother Goddess N'Zambi, faces the last of Unversed Trinity after thousands of years.

Ashley is a supernaturally beautiful woman of mixed heritage with short snow-white hair, dark skin, and red eyes that shine like fire. She is not dressed in a protective suit crafted by Cog or divine robes crafted by her family. Instead, she's dressed in a black t-shirt, black pants, and boots with a black jacket. On her shirt and the back of the jacket is The Qliphoth - The Tree of Death – which serves as her father's symbol, the same way the S-like House of El crest serves as the symbol for the Supermen.

Next to her are three members of the Black Lantern corps.

One resembles a Japanese woman with dark eyes and long black hair. The only thing indicating her extraterrestrial origin being her long-pointed ears and facial markings. Her clothing resembles a Miko – a Shinto Shrine Maiden – only instead of red and white, it's black and white.

"Miko."

The second is a tall, lean male extraterrestrial with solid black eyes, grey skin, and a smooth bald head. He's dressed in the black bodysuit of a Lantern, but he also wears a jacket with a hood and a necklace of a hundred-and-eight black-and-white beads around his neck.

"Monk."

The third is black-and-grey Scarab Warrior. He could be human or extraterrestrial because humanoid Scarab warriors all have the same insectoid appearance as the Reach creators, in their transformed state. Its eyes glow white, and its black armor is marked with the symbol of the Black Lanterns in white.

"Grave Scarab."

The Unversed Trinity. Thousands of years ago, the failed Ground Bridge experiment conducted by 3D3 LABS resulted in an invasion of the Unversed – the souls of dead universes found in the Bleed between universes. The damage and Unversed in Gotham and Metropolis were contained by both League and Cog Pro Heroes, but three powerful Unversed escaped. Three Unversed that Ash Grey would have been excited to meet as they came from some of his favorite fictional universes.

Madara Uchiha was the legendary leader of the Uchiha Clan and one of the most powerful ninjas to ever exist in his world. He could fight entire armies solo, summon giant meteors from space, summon phantasmic giants to act as armor, and trap people in illusions. He was also one of the few to possess the ninja magic eyes known as the Legendary Mangekyō Sharingan and its final evolution the Rinnegan.

He founded Konohagakure (Hidden Leaf) alongside his childhood friend and rival, Hashirama Senju, with the intention of bringing about an era of peace. When the two couldn't agree on how to achieve that peace, they fought for control of the village, a conflict which ended in Madara's death. Madara used the forbidden Mangekyō Sharingan technique Izanagi to rewrite reality and escape, eventually obtaining the power of Rinnegan before his death. Due to a plan, he was resurrected and almost obtained godhood and the peaceful world he desired. If not for the surprise appearance of his extraterrestrial ancestor Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, he would have won.

Unversed Madara has been around for centuries, even leading a faction of the League of Shadows several times. Despite the efforts of many heroes and villains, he continued to become the most powerful and skilled ninja in the known universe. His nature as an Unversed somehow prevented him from aging for thousands of years.

It was on Planet Izuna that Madara fought against Rorschach.

*Doom*

Konoha Tower, Planet Izuna

Earth Date: July 10, 5365

Local Time: 9:42

3POV

Planet Izuna was colonized by Madara and is named after his deceased brother Izuna. Using bioengineering and cloning technology, all the colonists possess Uchiha genetic with every single one being able to manifest the Sharingan (Copy Wheel Eye) - a magic eye ability fueled by the combination of physical and spiritual energy known as Chakra. Genetic engineering also means Izunans don't need trauma to manifest the evolved form – Mangekyo Sharingan – and don't suffer the degeneration that his home world Uchiha suffered.

The Izunans are very aware of their mystic ninja heritage and are trained in ninja arts such as taijutsu (hand-to-hand), genjutsu (illusion), and ninjutsu (elemental magic). Progress couldn't be halted even with separation from Cognito and now the planet has many cities loaded with ten billion people.

Madara the Founder disappeared at the age 200, but the truth is he disguised himself and continued to watch over his world.

"Why did you call me, Madara?" says Rorschach emerging from the shadows.

"You would make a good ninja." says Unversed Madara, "I'm reaching my end."

The legendary Uchiha is a tall athletic man standing 179 cm (5'11) with long spiky black hair, pale skin, and scarlet eyes with three linked tomoes (linked to the ring of the Iris, forming a pattern on the iris of each eye. The sclera of each eye has also blackened with dark veins on the side of the face. Blackened veins also appear on other parts of Madara, clearly visible since he's casually wearing a bathrobe.

"The Unversed Souls?"

"Yes." says Madara, "We were filled with corrupted souls, leftovers from dead universes. Those souls amplified my powers and traits, but at times almost made me a caricature of myself. Unlike the others I never consumed souls to replenish the ones I was losing over time. Now, the last of the corrupted souls have disappeared leaving my own soul as the only remaining one."

Madara holds up his arm, which has dark markings. The markings glow and the man are suddenly completely covered by a cloud of dark smoke. Rorschach doesn't react or move an inch, instead he waits from the smoke to clear, revealing Madara now dressed in maroon armor with numerous metal plates, forming protective guards along his chest, waist, shoulders and thighs. The clothing under the armor is an indigo long-sleeved shirt with a knee-length mantle, pants, open-toed boots, and gloves. He's also carrying a sword and his signature weapon – a Gunbai – a large solid open fan made from a special tree.

"My body is wearing thin and while I don't know if I'll see Izuna and Hashirama on the other side or fade away completely, I'm ready to leave this life. Hashirama would be amused, but I believe in the next generation." says Madara, "At the same time, I can't simply let myself die. My warrior spirit demands that I fight and if I die, I die fighting to survive."

Rorschach calls upon the fighting techniques of his Stand and his mask shifts to that of the Dao Yin and Yang. His Stand has fought alongside Queen Jade for many centuries, and he'll need it to face the most feared ninja in history.

Madara's first attack is a Katon (Fire Release) technique that superheats the air inside the tower, causing the reinforced windows of the structure to explode outward. Soon, the entire tower collapses into a massive cloud of fire and dust, but the two combatants barely notice. Madara jumps, using the falling debris as floating platforms, moving so fast the world slows to a stop. Rorschach doesn't bother to use platforms, leaping clear of the cloud and landing so softly he doesn't disturb the grass when he lands.

Madara and Rorschach stare at each other briefly as smoke and debris flows by them. They then return to the still world of combat, this time colliding with hand-to-hand combat. Madara once fought an entire army composed of the best modern ninja from different nations. He killed over twenty thousand people in that conflict by himself. Rorschach on the other hand has trained against the Goddess of Darkness Queen Jade and her army of Kijin Kahn. They are surprisingly even.

Madara would use his sword against Rorschach, but centuries ago Rorschach got soaked in dragon blood and not even his chakra-infused blade could pierce Rorschach's skin. Instead Madara uses his Gunbai to unleash a wind more powerful than any hurricane recorded on Izuna, Earth, or even Jupiter. As Rorschach tumbles through the air, he pulls out a couple of science pistols and fires energy beams. Madara blocks with his sword, before tossing the sword with its glowing blade at Rorschach. The charged sword explodes like an artillery bomb, but Rorschach is unharmed. As Rorschach lands in the woods, Madara moves at subliminal speeds to reach him.

Madara doesn't call out his technique, but the earth roars as a giant composed of dark blue chakra rises from the Earth. Susanoo is a gigantic, humanoid avatar made of the user's chakra which surrounds them and fights on their behalf, that has been handed down throughout all the generations of the Uchiha Clan. The form that appears is the Complete Body – a giant masked warrior holding a sword with tengu wings holding the sheath. Madara isn't holding back in the slightest.

As the blade of dark blue chakra slices through Rorschach at incalculable speeds, his body dissolves into vanishing holographic particles. The massive giant spins its blade in a circle, creating a shockwave that creates a circular clearing in the forest. The splintered trees go flying for miles, but thankfully the tower is far from any inhabited areas.

Rorschach, who was out of phase with the universe and intangible, is unharmed and he raises his arm as he exits back into reality. Giant drones the size of small war ships appear from other dimensions and trap the massive Susanoo in a web of white light. The drone war ships then open fire with spiriton disruptor weaponry, the energy beams easily piercing Susanoo in a thousand places. Susanoo lets out what sounds like a roar before its body explodes, forcing the drones back.

Rorschach then looks up to see Three Giant Meteors descending from the sky.

Rorschach recognizes the technique that Madara used against the United Shinobi Forces.

Tengai Shinsei - Heavenly Obstacle Quaking Star (also known as Shattering Heaven)

The meteorites slam into the drone war ships and with all their power diverted to the weaponry, instead of the defense shields, the ships are smashed into the earth. The triple meteor attack creates a massive explosion, one so immense the shockwaves ripple across the planet's atmosphere multiple times. The citizens in distant cities can hear the thunder of the explosions and the ground beneath them shakes even tho the strikes are thousands of kilometers away.

Madara appears and pierces Rorschach with a glowing blade, despite Rorschach being intangible due to dimensional manipulation. Madara only has one eye now, but it's a Rinnegan marked with tomoes like the Sharingan. Rorschach guesses Madara must have sacrificed one of his eyes to make his death at the hands of his Triple Shattering Heaven an Illusion (Izanagi) and Rinne Sharingan must have granted Madara the ability to create the sword.

Rorschach's coat, which can withstand absurd amounts of damage, crumbles to dust because of the sword technique that piercing it. It spreads so rapidly that the entire coat is gone in seconds, followed by Rorschach's shirt. The sword breaks apart the very existence of what it pierces.

"Shinjitsu no ken (Sword of Truth)." says Madara, "My final creation. A sword that pierces everything, life and death, real and illusion. Thank you for this battle."

Rorschach would have died if the sword had pierced his body, but in the time, it takes for an electron to orbit an atom, a tiny portal opened. The blade of the Sword of Truth can pierce dimensions, but it wasn't the blade that was moved, but the universe around it. The blade of Sword of Truth pierced something other than Rorschach's coat.

Madara has a satisfied look on his face as his body crumbles into vanishing ash.

*Doom*

Sōsuke Aizen comes from a world in which the souls of the dead are regulated by psychopomps referred to as shinigami or soul reapers. Souls that committed crimes in life and those that lingered in the world too long transformed into monstrous soul-eating masked demons called Hollows. While the hilt of Shinigami's sword will send uncorrupted souls to the afterlife, the blade will either purify a Hollow or send it to hell depending on its deeds in life.

Sōsuke Aizen was the charismatic Captain of the 5th division of the Gotei (the 13 Division Imperial Guards), but he disliked the rule of the Soul King and sought the throne for himself. After waging war against Soul Society with an army of Arrancar, Aizen was defeated by Ichigo Kurosaki and sealed away by Kisuke Urahara, and then imprisoned for his crimes. The last memory, before his universe's collapse, was fighting the King of Quincy – Yhwach.

Sōsuke Aizen possessed a genius intellect skilled at strategy, tactics, and manipulation. He was also a master of Kidō (Demon Way/ Reiryoku-powered Spells), Shunpo (Flash Steps/high speed movement), and swordsmanship, with powers fueled by immeasurable spiritual pressure controlled by masterful control. He also possessed immense strength and immortality until he became unversed.

Unversed Aizen travelled for centuries, conducting experiments on the souls of humans and other species. He became obsessed with understanding the Seven Forces of the Multiverse, believing they could lead him to godhood. His experiments led to soul death of several Lanterns and Flashes over the centuries. This made him one of the most wanted criminals in the multiverse.

It was on the surface of a distant planet, that Unversed Sōsuke Aizen would encounter his greatest obsession.

*Doom*

The Nameless Planet

July 11, 36036

8:00

1POV

The Nameless Planet is a strange world. It's a world with a strong magnetic field, a thick atmosphere, and vast deep oceans of liquid water sitting in the goldilocks zone of a star. There are all the elements needed to create life, but the planet's surface is sand and mud. Even in the depths of the ocean, there is no bacteria.

As I walk on the surface of the dead world, I feel something strange. Vast amounts of spiritual energy on a lifeless world and soon I find the source. A handsome man with menacing brown eyes and swept back brown hair with a single strand hanging down his face. He stands on a white stone plateau dressed in stylish white clothing including a long coat.

"Sōsuke Aizen."

"Ash Grey the Doomsday. It's been millennia since we last saw each other."

"Not since your experiment on Planet Anima."

Planet Anima was a planet of humanoids with a strong connection to The Red. Every person on that planet was born with an animal totem and was able to call upon that animal's abilities as they got older. It was a pleasant world until Aizen altered the flow of spirits and killed everyone on the planet. Even Doctor Genus was only able to resurrect a small percentage of the population, while the millions of souls vanished.

Aizen has down thousands of Soul Manipulation experiments. He's created soul-devouring monsters, altered the flow of souls on planets, fused souls together into super masses, and done things that have earned the hatred of gods throughout the multiverse. Even Death of the Endless, one of the nicest personifications of Death in existence, HATES Aizen.

The reason this bastard has escaped justice so many times is Unversed ability to create copies of himself. He's able to take a few souls of his collection and infuse them with his power and memories and send them out into the universe. Most of these doppelgängers don't realize they are copies until they are killed by me or Rorschach.

The Aizen before me is the Real Aizen.

"So, why are showing yourself, Aizen?"

"I'm surprised that you haven't attacked me. I thought you..."

My Doom Vision blasts a hole through his chest, shaking the plateau and parting the clouds in the distance. Aizen looks down at the massive hole in his chest, which closes almost instantly due to high-speed regeneration.

"...don't like speeches."

Aizen and I become a blur of motion, eventually reaching speeds approaching the speed of light. I don't know what Aizen is up to. Aizen knows he can't win in a fight against me as not only am I immune to all physical and spiritual attacks, my [Soul Manipulation] surpasses his own spiritual abilities. Aizen pulls his sword and slashes at me, which I block with my fingertip.

The Zanpakutō (Soul Cutting Sword) Kyōka Suigetsu can't cut me and its ability to manipulate the senses of opponents with illusions is useless against me. After several seconds, we split apart and stared at each other.

"I'm surprised that Kyōka Suigetsu was willing to work with you. You abandoned her after you gained Hollow powers."

"A Zanpakutō reflects the user. She understands my choices more than anyone as she is me." says Aizen as he dodges a blast of Doom Vision that would have taken off his head. He can't avoid my next move as I release a spiritual shockwave that prevents Aizen from using his flash steps and drive my spikes through Aizen's neck. Then with one move, I tear his head completely off releasing an absurd amount of blood.

"No way is it that easy." I say before the ground beneath me quakes. This is not a simple Earthquake, as the entire planet is shaking, and the sky has darkened. Glowing cracks and fissures appear on the massive plateau before it explodes. The explosion is immense and powerful enough to blow away the clouds above the former plateau. Billions of rocks glowing with turquoise light rain down across the planet and ethereal white flames erupt from the ground like a volcanic eruption.

I watch as a massive white titan emerges from the flame. The humanoid creature stands two kilometers in height (1.2 miles) with a body that radiates pulsating white light. The body is mostly featureless beyond the glow, except its face is covered by a featureless white mask. As the white titan stands, I see screams of glowing white souls enter the titan, millions of souls from other worlds.

I'm suddenly hit by a radiant white beam. The beam is so powerful, it pierces the entire planet creating a hundred-meter-wide hole from one side of the planet to the other. Millions of tons of rock are vaporized in an instant and the point of impact (and exit) becomes a seal of fire. The planet's sky glows with a wild Aurora as the planet's magnetic field is disrupted from the force of the attack.

I'm shocked. That blast managed to damage my clothing. The beam also knocked me thirty kilometers into the planet, completely through the crust and into the planet's mantle. I fly back using my absurdly durable Legion ring and emerge from the volcanic eruption to face the white titan.

I don't waste time and become "the bullet that pierces the heavens". My indestructible body moving at massively hypersonic speeds pierces the mask. I also explode out the back of the massive head like a giant god-slaying hollow point.

There is a brief pause as if the White Titan was slow learning it was pierced by the universe's deadliest monster. Then its entire body disintegrates into a massive hurricane of radiant white particles.

"Thank you, Ash Grey." says Sōsuke Aizen's voice in the air.

The massive swirling cloud of radiant white particle collapses into a single glowing point. The white orb then flakes away to reveal Aizen's latest form. He's still the same height and build, but his eyes are now glowing white with black sclera, pale skin that glows, and long flowing snow-white hair. His clothing is a simple white jumpsuit, but behind him is a Divine Halo radiating divine energy. As he stretches out his arms in a faux crucifixion pose, opalescent wings of light appear. Six pairs of insect-like wings instead of eagle feathers of an angel or webbing of dragon wings.

"All life on this planet's surface became one divine being without an ego. Now with my will, it has transcended..."

I drive my gray spiked fist into Aizen's chest and release an accumulation of Death Force and Spiritual power with the density of a star. Aizen's newly acquired Divine Core of Souls shatters and disperses. Aizen's own millennia-old soul with its immeasurable spiritual power and immortality shatters completely, its power dispersed into the ether. As I pull my spiked fist from the large hole in Aizen's chest, the former Shinigami and wannabe supreme god, eyes dark and lifeless, cracks and crumbles into white dust like a hollow statue. A white dust then further crumbles into vanishing white particles.

"I've had enough of your long ass speeches."

*Doom*

During the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States era of Japan (1467-1568)), a thief named Onigumo was horribly burnt trying to escape his crimes and ended up in the care of the kind Miko (Shinto Priestess) named Kikyō. Desiring the woman and numerous yōkai wanting the Shikon no Tama (Jewel of Four Souls) that Kikyō protected, the human heart and the bodies of countless yōkai fused together to the create the spider hanyō Naraku. Naraku then spent 50 years making the lives of everyone miserable with plans of tainting the Shikon no Tama and becoming invincible. The last memories he possesses of his original universe was Kagome - Kikyō's reincarnation and lover of his hated enemy Inuyasha – wishing for the Jewel to cease to exist, ending his own existence.

Naraku's body is a fusion of many demons using a human, Onigumo, as a connector. This composite being has been able to further enhance his power by discarding weaker yōkai and absorbing stronger yōkai, leading to him to become stronger and gain new abilities over time. Naraku mostly used this ability to overcome the powers of his opponents and escape death again and again. Naraku even possessed the ability to separate parts of himself to create incarnations to carry out his will. He created ten incarnations from the emotionless Kanna of the Mirror to Byakuya of Illusions

Unversed Naraku found he was able to absorb the abilities of superpowered beings, such as metahumans, espers, magic casters, and extraterrestrials, but was unable to absorb techno-organics or cyborgs. He spent centuries gathering power, manipulating and ruining the lives of millions, and sending new incarnations to enforce his will. Cognito considered him to be their biggest annoyance, as every time they got close to eliminating him, he escaped, or "it was an incarnation" or "his soul is in another castle."

Now, Naraku faces a member of Ash Grey's family, beings that Naraku has desired to absorb, but never managed to succeed.

*Doom*

Naraku's various forms have changed depending on his opponents with him always finding a new way to cheat death.

The current Naraku still has the delicate face of the nobleman Kagewaki Hitomi with red eyes, fair skin, and long wavy black hair. His upper transformed body is taller and more muscular than his previous 181 cm (5'11.5"), standing two meters (6'7). The body is covered in a black exoskeleton with spider-shape markings on the chest and back. This armor also gives him gray bone-like spikes and sharp claws on his hands and feet. On his back are four sharp-tipped spider legs made of dark purple crystal.

The Power Rings of Ashley's Black Lantern companions were able to overcome Naraku's information obscuring defenses. They gave her information on the new body and the news isn't good. The current Naraku has combined supernatural, metahuman, and extraterrestrial body parts to grant him a unique combination of powers.

The ground around her explodes to reveal half a dozen three-meter-tall monsters with grotesquely muscular bodies, green-gray skin, and bald heads wrapped in bandages. They also have mouths filled with rows of sharp teeth, sharp claws, and bone spikes protecting parts of their bodies. Ashley dissolves into smoke before their fists can strike. The fists of the Hulk-like monsters create a massive crater in the Earth, but Ashley appears in the air high above them.

"Myriad Sword Style..." she whispers forming a sword of darkness.

Myriad Sword Style is a special form of swordsmanship from the world of Daoist Immortals. It has ten thousand moves, but a student must practice a single move countless times until they can perform it perfectly ten thousand times in a row. Then they must increase their speed so they can perform the move a perfect ten thousand times in the time it used to take to do it once. Masters of this style can slice water drops in a rainstorm, so they don't get wet and split a mountain in their path. Ashley mastered Myriad Swordsmanship a Thousand Years Ago.

"Void Maker!"

In the blink of an eye, the dozen Hulk-like monsters possessing incalculable superhuman strength, durability, and regeneration comparable to the Green Goliath, freeze in place. Then they explode into billion pieces and an expanding cloud of gamma-irradiated blood.

As she lands, she takes an Iaijutsu stance before she becomes a streak of fire and lightning, faster than most speedsters. One microsecond she is a hundred meters in front of Naraku and the next she is a hundred meters his behind the man, whose been sliced into fragments no bigger than nail clippings.

"Did you really think that would fool me?" says Ashley, before her sword transforms into a staff, which she slams into the ground. As it strikes the ground it craters the earth and creates both a thunderous earthquake and lightning descends from the sky. A shockwave expands from the point of impact and washes over the battlefield. Its effect is immediate as Naraku's cry of pain can be heard. Lightning continues to strike the ground, but only in one spot.

Naraku in the form of a massive demonic spider explodes from Earth, no longer able to handle the pain of Ashley's Divine Lightning.

The massive spider is the size of a small dai-kaiju. Its abdomen and cephalothorax are dark blood red with its legs being black. Instead of having eyes and mouthparts at the front, it has a demon face with glowing red eyes, horns, and tusks. In the blink of an eye, the massive demon spider is sliced clean in half creating an eruption of black blood. A massive trench is also cut in the planet from the unseen slash.

"So, we finally meet face to face, Lady Grey" says Naraku.

Naraku's true form finally appears. It resembles his original black armored form, but the armor is ash grey with numerous white bone spikes and mouths filled with sharp teeth on different parts of the body. It also has four black tentacles tipped with sharp blades whipping around him.

Ashley used to (and still does) watch anime with her father, and she would say Naraku's true form resembles a cross between a Tyrant from the Resident Evil franchise and Muzan's battle form from Kimetsu no Yaiba.

"You've done well to find me. You killed a Hundred Incarnations to reach me." says Naraku.

"The Lanterns has already disabled your magic trick."

"What?"

"You were buying time so you could trigger a ritual. Sacrifice the planet's souls to trap me and absorb some of my divine power." says Ashley with a smirk as her red eyes glow brightly.

Naraku is suddenly paralyzed and crashes into the ground. He feels incalculable spiritual pressure crushing him into the earth. It's like he's at the bottom of an impossibly deep ocean and the dark water is crushing his bones. Naraku has absorbed the most powerful demons still existing in the universe after Obsidian Black's cleansing. Naraku absorbed the powers of extraterrestrials like Kryptonians, Tamaraneans, and Almeracans. Naraku has absorbed the superhuman abilities of ten thousand metahumans. All that vast power and Naraku can't move a millimeter against Ashley Zuri Grey.

"I was only playing with you, so my Lanterns could disable the ritual." says Ashley as she looks down at Naraku with contempt, "I could have crushed you at any time, little spider."

The Grey family is known for overwhelming power, crushing enemies like a spider underneath a steel-toed boot. Naraku can't even cry out as his body explodes into particles and his mind and soul shatter.

*DOOM*

Planet Demola

Doomsday

1POV

I take a breath, even if there is no oxygen for me to breathe. I'm currently transformed into my monster three-meter-tall form with its glowing red eyes, dark gray skin with bone spikes, and white hair. My bone spikes glow in the darkness of space and on my bare chest is a symbol resembling a tree with linked circles – The Qliphoth. I'm only dressed in black pants secured by a wide belt and heavy boots, which are near weightless in microgravity.

I look down at the blue-green planet beneath me and I can see darkness spreading across it. It's not a physical darkness, but a spiritual darkness consuming all life on the world. It's something I have seen a thousand times before, a spiritual infection that is consuming the world and threatens to spread like cancer through the universe.

On this world, a single occultist sacrificed a hundred people to acquire power from an otherworldly being. The power of incomprehensible being that allowed the man to distort nature and reason, corrupting the world around him.

One this world, a single man sacrificed ten thousand people to transcend mortality. The souls of those people fueled his transformation into something that couldn't be killed by mortal weapons. He ceased to be a man and became an abomination in the form of a man.

On this world, a single man sacrificed a million people to transcend divinity. His powers grew beyond what could be controlled by nature and the gods, and he infected the world. The souls of the world are corrupted, and that corruption now transcends time itself. Even if you rewound the world a thousand years, the events would happen again because the corruption made it the only possible future.

On this world, a hundred million people are doomed. The horrors have infected the very souls of worlds and corrupted all forms of life. This eldritch can't be allowed to exist in any mortal universe as its very existence weakens the laws of the universe and accelerates its entropy. These otherworldly horrors breakdown dead universes, so new universes can be born, but in living universes they are death and decay.

Even Doctor Genus – the smartest mammal in the universe, even after a thousand years, can't save the world from these otherworldly horrors. The man possesses vast incomprehensible levels of intellect and know more secrets about the universe than even the oldest living beings, but the horrors don't conform to the laws of the universe they infect. Doctor Genus can only do one thing and call upon his best friend to erase the infection from existence.

There is no air to carry my words, but I can hear my words and so does the corrupted world. A single word that is absolute destruction.

"Hakai."

A purple glow spreads across the planet as the corrupt cries out in terror. The man turned God attempts to flee his world, but it's too late. As the purple glow covers the entire world, it begins to break apart. All forms of matter dissolves into vanishing purplish-white particles from the corrupted bacteria and air itself to the planet's molten core. This breakdown is not just the physical world, as the planet is annihilated on every plane of existence, including its own versions of heaven and hell. As the planet collapses into a vanishing point of light, it releases a temporal shockwave.

Now, there is no Planet Demola. There never was a Planet Demola. History now records that a planet never formed in the goldilocks zone of the Demo Star. The only people that remember its Erased existence are cosmic beings and those existing outside the normal flow of time. The exceptions are the Great Creator Doctor Genus and the Great Destroyer - Me.

A portal opens and I return home. Soon, I will forget Planet Demola in the arms of my beautiful wives as I have forgotten a thousand worlds and I'm OK with that.

*DOOM*

Justice Legion HQ

Jupiter Base

Earth Date: July 13, 85258

(853rd century)

Local Time: 10:38

3POV

The Justice Legion is a super-hero group of the 853rd Century descended from the Justice League of America, Cognito Pro-Heroes, and the Legion of Super-Heroes and are charged with protecting the universe. The only superhero group larger than them is the Multiverse Defense Corp which protects the entirety of the Earth-DR Multiverse from multiversal threats like cosmic horrors and invaders. The Justice League is merely a member of the MDC.

Thousands of years ago, the original Superman (Kal-El/Clark Kent) was forced to "retire" from heroics for a time, but the mantle was passed onto Superboy (Kon-El/Connor Kent). After a long time, Kon-El passed the mantle to Kal-El/Clark's son Jon Lane Kent/Jon-El. The title of Superman (and Superwoman) was passed down in the family for many millennia. It sometimes divided into many branches, but they continued to protect the Universe as the Superman Dynasty.

The current main Superman is Kal Kent of the Justice League Alpha. He looks almost identical to his ancestor, but his red and blue uniform covers his entire body excluding his head, an over the shoulder cape design, and a three oval gold symbol instead of the crest of the House of El. He's immensely powerful both physically and mentally, with super-psychic abilities.

The Batman Legacy has also been passed down with a lot more reluctance. Bruce Wayne passed down his title as Batman to his ward Richard John "Dick" Grayson. Dick eventually passed the mantle down to Bruce's son Damian Wayne and so forth. While Superman has always been a being of power, Batman has continued to be an average man with far above average intellect, even when average has changed over the centuries.

The Batman of the current era looks like a cross between Batman of the 21st century and Black Panther of the Marvel Universe. His full body costume covers the mouth until Batman's cowl and is very dark beyond the armored chest symbol and belt buckle, which he can change if needed. The costume is a nano-kinetic bio-metal that can shift into any weapon or device that the host's brilliant mind can conceive.

"It's rare to see you at base, Bats." says Superman drinking a Cog-brand coffee.

"The No Super-Villian Policy prevents repeat offenders." says Batman, somehow drinking through his mask.

Cog's NSV Policy is zero tolerance of super-villainy. Any superpowered being found committing severe crimes with their special abilities and/or skills, has those special abilities and/or skills removed. It doesn't matter if those abilities are metahuman, divine blessings, or the result of technology, they are stripped down to a mundane level. Even memories can remove, reducing the criminal to who they were before they became a criminal. As a result of the Policy, Heroes severely outnumber super criminals in Legion space, in the current era.

As a result, Batman handles stealth missions uncovering criminals that keep themselves hidden from the Justice Legion.

"Did you hear about the Quadrini?"

"The four-armed 'warrior race'?" says Batman with some amusement. There have been many humanoid races that develop a culture of battle and bloodshed to encourage expansionism and pride in their race. Many of these warrior races have become peaceful after encountering the Justice Legion and seeing their abilities. "I heard they encountered Ashen Grey."

Ashen is the son of the God of Destruction Ash Grey and his wife the Dark Goddess of Love Raven. All of Ash Grey's children are absurdly powerful and considered the most feared branch of the Superman Dynasty

Kal Kent transmits a holo-video to Batman.

The video displayed to him in augmented reality shows Ashen Grey sitting on a golden throne. He's a very young-looking man despite being older than some civilizations with soft features of his mother. He has red eyes, gray skin, and long white hair reaching his shoulders. He also has antlers much like his grandfather Trigon. He's dressed in the loose black clothing of a sorcerer with a flowing robe. Around him are nearly naked extraterrestrial women (and other sexes), mostly belonging to a race of green-skinned humanoids with four arms.

Infront of him is the former Emperor of the Quadrini, a three-meter-tall muscular giant with a long beard and a bald head. He used to have four muscular arms and two sharp tusks, but they are clearly broken down to the last bone. The Generals in the background look terrified at the horrors inflicted on The Emperor.

*Beep*

The doors open as the other members of Justice Legion Alpha enter.

First is a black-haired Flash in a red/gold lightning bolt speedster uniform. There are golden triangles floating around him, glowing with the lightning of the Speed Force.

Dr. John Fox was originally a 27th century physicist and Cog scientist that was studying the Speed Force. During an accident, he was absorbed into the Speed Force dimension and expelled in the distant future. Instead of time travelling back to his own era, he decided to join the Justice Legion as a new Flash.

"Do you remember when Flash origins were simple? You get splashed with chemicals and a bolt of lightning later you're moving in a still world." says Fox, "A scientist on a colony world attempted to deliberately tap into the Speed Force so he could complete his work faster. Instead, he ended up turning the entire planet into speedsters."

"Sounds very messy." says his comrade, "So we have a world where everyone has superspeed? It's not like we don't have other worlds that specialize in singular main powers."

Second is a tall, muscular humanoid with a swimmer's build. The man has blue eyes, green scaly skin, and hair and beard composed of flowing mystical water. He's dressed in very little clothing like a gladiator of Ancient Rome while an anchor-like weapon with its chain wrapped around his arm.

The current Aquaman is an Imbocan-Atlantean descendant who was born on the watery world of Neptune (a result of Cog terraforming transforming oceans of water, methane, and ammonia). He became an Avatar of The Clear possessing Macro-Hydrokinetic powers capable of moving an oceans worth of water between planets.

"It still means the entire planet's population needs emergency training, so they don't end ruining their world. Do you remember Atari? Two Speedsters collided with each other at subliminal speeds and caused a nuclear-level explosion. That was just two rivals getting into a fight, let alone a whole planet!" says Fox running his hands through his hair. "That wasn't the only problem I had to deal with."

"You didn't call in your teammates, so you handled it?"

"While one planet in the system was inflicted with the Speed Force, another was hit with the Still Force. An entire planet of people absorbing energy. It was bad enough that the entire planet stopped rotating and orbiting the home star. When they reached their limits, the planet started to fall into the star. At that point, I had to call Doctor Genus to fix the mess."

The third person to enter is a beautiful woman with solid white eyes, marble white skin, and long wavy jet-black hair. She is dressed in a black and gold costume resembling a bathing suit with a transparent round shield and a golden lasso at her hip.

The Gray family wasn't the only group to ascend to divinity as Wonder Woman herself ascended and became the Goddess of Truth. A century ago, Goddess Diana brought a marble statue of herself to life to help defend her people during a crisis, carrying the legacy name Wonder Woman. Empowered with all of Wonder Woman's powers, boosted by her natural connection to the Meld – the elemental plane of Earth – she became the defender of Venus (inhabited by the Amazons thanks to Terraforming).

"So, how was your date with Ika?" asks her companion.

"It was fine." says Wonder Woman, who would be blushing if her skin wasn't marble. Ika is a member of a race of crystalline beings from DR-Earth-2 – a version of the Marvel Universe.

Thousands of years ago, Ogeode and Zardeth, good wizard of order and evil wizard of chaos respectively, contacted the Lords of Order and Chaos in the DR-Earth-1 Universe. Ika, a descendant of Ogeode's own daughter transformed into a crystal warrior, accidentally transported herself to the distant future of DR-Earth-1. Ika was empowered by the Meld becoming the Crystal Sorceress of the Justice Legion.

The next is an attractive woman dressed in brown clothing with a distinct owl theme including yellow-lensed googles. She has a utility belt, sharp retractable claws, and a confident smile on her face. If Ash was around, he would comment she looks like Rule63 Nite Man II from the Watchmen comics.

Owlwoman's look was inspired by those ancient comic books she read. She, in reality, is a descendant of Owlman (Thomas Wayne, Jr.), an evil alternate universe counterpart to Batman. Thousands of years ago, the mentally unstable Owlman destroyed his own universe by unleashing the Invaders, but his own daughter was saved when his lover put her in pod and launched her into The Bleed. That pod was found by Justice Legion and the girl they saved became the first Owlwoman and member of the extended Wayne family. The current one is her granddaughter.

"Just Fine~"

If living marble could blush, Wonder Woman would be scarlet.

The next member of the Alpha team is an athletic man dressed in red and blue bodysuit that covers his entire body. He also has a silver visor around his eyes. He's followed by floating spherical drones – one metallic red, one metallic blue, and one polished silver.

The Atom is a descendant of the original Atom and the Engineers. He's a descendant of a branch that began experiments with micro-verses. Instead of exploring the real universe, they conducted experiments in artificial dimensions. Eventually, one experiment went out of control and only one person survived the implosion of the micro-verse. The Atom is a genius of the 853rd century - in century in which an average citizen is a super genius by 21st century standards – and possesses two special abilities. The ability to shrink and grow to absurd levels and the ability to split himself into an absurd number of clones depending on the size. He can split into ten clones at normal height but become billions at nanoscale.

He doesn't say anything. Instead, he's focused on the data displayed on a tablet. He barely notices that he picks up a cup of Cog Coffee and a stray automatically deploys so he doesn't have to take off his mask to drink. He just continues to study the data which is about elements and materials unique to different universes.

The next person to enter is a young woman with amber eyes, white skin, and shoulder-length red hair. She's dressed in a red/black leotard-like uniform with a cape, black gloves, and black boots. She doesn't really walk in, as she floats off the ground.

Miss Martian is named after M'gann M'orzz of M'arzz, also known as Miss Martian of the 21st century team Young Justice. The Martian people have suffered many aversities and catastrophes over the thousands of years, with a near extinction by a psychic plague unleashed by the Invaders and a mind-controlled Cog scientist burning half the planet. The new Martians that developed were stronger and more adaptive, and one girl K'Ren K'arr (Karen Karr on Earth) became a Pro Hero good enough to join Justice Legion's Alpha team. She possesses the same shapeshifting and psychic abilities of all Martians refined with training and experience, but she also possesses an immunity to telekinetic and telepathic attacks.

"I was told it was a costume party!" says Karen, sounding stressed out, "I wanted a little vacation after that mess on Durla with the parasitic sentient ships. I logged in and it turned out it was hosted by the Earth Hedonist Society! Ten thousand people looking like current and historic heroes, including Miss Martians, having an orgy. I was so shocked; I didn't realize I was naked until I was pulled into the mass of bodies."

"You didn't file any criminal reports." says a mechanical voice, "You were logged into the Amusphere Adult Party for 3 hours 24 minutes."

The final person to enter is a humanoid android dressed in brown and gold, with a gold decorated brown hooded cloak. Its face is gold with white eyes and red markings around the mouth.

The final member of the Alpha Team is Hourman. He's the oldest Legacy-named hero in the Legion, the original Hourman was a member of the Justice Society and All-Star Squadron during World War II. The name came from a Miraclo drug that gave him superpowers for a one-hour time limit. The Hourman of this era is one of Cognito's most advanced androids. Its chrono-photonic circuits allow it to process a million years' worth of calculations in a millionth of a second. Hourman also has time manipulation powers including granting him pseudo-super speed, slow the movements of objects and projectiles, age targets to dust, and small jumps in time and space.

"I... I'm a very open person." says Karen, blushing slightly, "I was just shocked they didn't even give a warning. There wasn't even an adult-only lock on the Party."

"The age of consent is different between countries of a single planet, let alone half a billion inhabited worlds. Various extraterrestrial and human descent species also mature at different rates." says the logical Hourman, "Your own species ages slower than humans, even with current medicine. The insectoid Manti peoples reach adulthood within 4 earth months, while elven Liberi don't reach puberty for eight hundred earth years."

There is an awkward pause.

"So, what problems did you encounter today?" says Miss Martian, wanting to change the subject.

An AR (Augmented Reality) video opens for Miss Martian. It shows a hanger bay with twenty hyperspace-capable spacecraft. These space planes haven't changed much since the Mark II used by the original Justice League in the 21st century.

"The Javelins needed the monthly maintenance, but before I could begin repairs, I received an emergency from Ikaris-4. It was a difficult mission due to the emotions of natives. If they had been logical, this crisis would have been resolved 159 years ago."

The video briefly shows an animation of a blue-green planet orbiting a yellow star. Then it shows a group of humans dressed in bodysuits. These people don't possess metahuman abilities, cybernetics, or any form of posthuman augmentation. They are all baseline homo sapiens. The leaders dressed in white are holding up a strange flag. The Eye of Providence (or the All-Seeing Eye of God) is a figure that depicts an eye, often enclosed in a triangle and surrounded by rays of light or glory. On either side of triangle are two spread feathered wings.

"Ikaris-4 is the only inhabited world in the remote Ikaros system and fourth planet from the sun. Humans are a stubborn race, who often do stupid illogical things due to emotions. A group of human colonists, believing they were becoming weak due to humanity's dependency on Cognito, established a colony with pre-Cog technology. The government of the colony went a step further a few decades later, by altering the memories of the colonists so they didn't even remember Earth."

The video shows a world that resembles the United States from the 1950s, but there are primitive robots and enough advanced technology to be considered Retro-Futuristic. One of the most advanced looking machines is a flying automobile resembling a Mercedes-Benz. Miss Martian is only familiar with cars due to Stark's impressive collection.

"They progressed normally until 159 years ago, when there was a world-threatening pandemic. Cog offered aid, but the Illuminati government refused to let Ikaris-4/Eden be contaminated by outsiders. Their stubbornness resulted in half the planet's population dying."

The video shows soldiers in protective gear resembling spacesuits and doctors in hazmat suits. They are moving filled black body bags. There are fields filled with thousands of sealed corpses and others being incinerated. Posters show the triple fish-tail symbol of biohazard.

"84 years ago, there was a global thermonuclear war between the two superpowers that emerged after the pandemic. Again, Cognito and the Legion offered aid to them, but the surviving government still refused. We still secretly supplied the population with anti-rad medicine and prevented their genome from being destroyed by rampant mutations."

The video shows an irradiated wasteland, ruined cities, and small colonies of people desperately trying to survive. There are monstrous creatures resembling giant insects and bipedal lizards, raiders dressed like they came out of Mad Max or Fist of the North Star, and mutated humans. The mutants range from corpse-like humanoids with green or red "skin" to towering mountains of muscle that could be mistaken for fantasy world Ogres.

"5 years ago, Ikaris-4/Eden was invaded by space pirates looking for slaves and resources. A single defunct Type-LX Colony Defense Satellite from three centuries ago would have been able to wipe out the entire pirate fleet, but Edenite technology was far too primitive. The Illuminati still refused to let Cognito help them, and it wasn't until 35 days (about 1 month 4 and a half days) ago that calls for help was made."

The video shows a "fleet" of space pirates. There are less than fifty ships with most of them being old model civilian ships equipped with fast engines and low-powered weaponry. Only half a dozen are actual warships, derelict ships that were probably stolen or salvaged. Surface video shows people in chains being led towards camps by a collection of extraterrestrials in outdated armor. Nearby is the corpse of man wearing white with the winged eye of providence symbol.

"Cog rescued the surviving people and wiped out the pirates, but the planet is a mess. All of this could have been avoided if that planet's Illuminati hadn't been so stubborn."

"That planet?"

"Many worlds have secret societies, many run by either Vandal Savage's descendants or Cognito themselves, but they are competent."

*DOOM*

Cog Family Reunion

Amusphere Private Server

July 15

14:45

1POV

The Children of Cog have gathered for their family reunion, and many would rightfully claim that it's a meeting of the most powerful beings in the universe.

Rorschach, Neo's first and most feared incarnation, hasn't changed much in 83 thousand years. His featureless white mask with its symmetrical black pattern is the same, but it can become transparent to allow his real face to be seen and can become intangible around the mouth for eating and kissing. His noir detective outfit with a long coat, gloves, and a hat looks the same, but I know it's made of femtotechnology – a level of technology on a scale a million times smaller than nanotechnology, involving the manipulation of subatomic particles. The outfit is so secure he sometimes sits on the outer hull of hyperspace ships to enjoy the light show when other people would be vaporized by the hyper liminal radiation and particles.

The Royal Family of New Almerac is descended from Rorschach and Queen Maxima, specifically their eldest son Maximillion the Maximum. They are noted for their green eyes, red hair, and dressing as space gladiators. You would never see one of them wearing a business suit or a casual jumpsuit as they still possess a proud warrior culture. They routinely broadcast fight tournaments on Cog TV which feature challenges from across the known universe.

Max's brother Adrian (Sun King Hero: Ozymandias) eventually married a Tamaranean woman and created his own colony on the planet he named Ramses. Ramses was once a dead desert world lacking a atmosphere due to a weak magnetic field not stopping the solar winds, but engineering transformed it into a super advance version of Ancient Egypt. The dark-skinned nobles live in massive cities covered in the most efficient solar panels and when they die, they are placed in white pyramids that can be seen from space.

The Armstrong family is descended from Neo's Armstrong Incarnation and his wives Kara (Supergirl) and Gwen (Spider Girl). They are a family of tall attractive male and female blonds. Some of them are dressed in Kryptonian style costumes like their cousins in Superman Dynasty, while others are dressed in the advanced costumes of the Spider Clan, each with their own unique spider symbol.

"This technique has been passed down the Armstrong (family) line for generations!"

My eyes widen when I see a topless Alexander Armstrong (to think they kept the name Alexander going for over eighty thousand years) strike the earth and create a life-size statue of himself. There are many reasons this should not work. This is a virtual world, so Earth Spider powers shouldn't work here, and they took away his admin authorization after his last attempt at designing.

His sister is dressed in a space navy military uniform and looks ready to smash his head through the statue. On her uniform is a black spider emblem with a yellow hexagonal crystal abdomen, which represents Earth Spiders – a line of the Spider Clan that interbred with earth-manipulating Meld-based metahumans.

Alex and Tali's daughter Keena'Zorah eventually married. Her husband was a Quarian from another universe. While sending probes into dead universes, Doctor Genus discovered a Mass Effect universe and ended up rescue surviving Asari, Drell, Turians, Krogan, and the entire Migrant Fleet of 17 million Quarians (which ironically turned out to be greater than the combined survivors of the other races). As a result, the Quarians have the most power on New Citadel council, even thousands of years later.

"Jane is excited about the new model. They say it will be able to scan other planes of existance!" says an excited Quarian child.

Keena is currently talking to her great-many-times-granddaughter Kira. They are comparing Omnitools, which haven't changed much in over 83 thousand years. The Mark 2800 looks identical to the Cog Mark 5, despite it being only slightly weaker than a Lantern Corp Power Ring. Her cousin Kylee is a member of the Star Sapphire/Violet Lanterns of Chromia so they could compare.

"Jane Shepard is as adventurous as her ancestors. She's barely 14 and she gets in trouble nearly as much as Legion member." says Keena.

"Grandma, she isn't that bad."

"Did she end up riding a cyborg zombie dinosaur through a magical portal last month?"

"That was Zeo Zatara's fault! He wouldn't stop annoying us with his dumb spells."

Fretia's children Lily and Lotus were magical humans, so they eventually married into magic families and one of their children even became part of Zatara family. Zenobia Zatara is dressed like a 20th century female stage magician modified to be extra sexy. It's the kind of outfit that would have given her ancestor Giovanni a heart attack if he saw his daughter Zatanna wearing it. The black and white colors are inverted, and the woman is dark skinned with flowing black hair and blue eyes. She is doing magic tricks for the small kids, which is amusing since these days people can perform magic (even if they aren't magi) with an App.

"Zeo was just upset that nobody was impressed by his magic. He put a lot of effort into learning." says Latana Zatara, descendant of Lily Ender and Zeo's mother.

"Why would he spend so much time learning magic? People can just use Apps." says Kira cutely.

"Technology won't always work." I say, entering the conversation, "Doctor Genus has faced many enemies that were dependent on technology and when their tech broke, they were helpless."

"Nobody beats Uncle Ash or Uncle Genus." says Kira.

"True, but there is a difference between putting up a decent fight and just giving up because they can't use their phones. I remember there was one race that used to have strong psychic powers, but by the time they came in conflict in Doctor Genus they couldn't float a pencil."

"What's a pencil?" ask Kira.

"A writing or drawing implement consisting of solid pigment in a casing to prevent breaking. The most common is graphite with clay binder in a wood casing." explains Keena. "The first versions were invented in the 16th century."

"Wow. That's super old. That's even older than Uncle Ash!" says Kira, wide eye.

She's not wrong. I was born in the 21st century and pencils were already 5 centuries old. I'm currently over 83 thousand years old and it's times like this that I feel my age. I'm glad that a portal opens, distracting me from my age.

I turn to see the Representatives of the major clans that have allied themselves with the Grey Clan.

A young beautiful woman with Emerald-green eyes, light skin, and shoulder-length dark red hair. She wears a completely black bodysuit with a long black coat, but I can tell her clothing is a living costume - Klyntar symbiote.

Julia Parker is a descendant of one of the Peter Parkers, but I don't have a clue which one. The Spider Clan is so vast and interwoven, I couldn't tell if she was related to 616 Peter Parker or Pavitr Prabhakar from Earth-50101. After eighty thousand years, it is possible to be all the above. The Klyntar symbiote bonded to her on the other hand was created by my wife Jade, based on the creations of Elder God of Primordial Darkness Knull. I can tell because it's a dragon-class symbiote and I can sense those.

"Yes, there is chocolate at the party you glutton!" she says to her costume, forgetting to use telepathy.

"I hope it's the quality stuff and not that cheap stuff they give refugees." says her living costume.

A million tons of high-quality chocolate is consumed by the Klyntar annually. I learned that from my Cog Calendar App.

An extremely muscular humanoid male with a comically small head on a very large body. He has black sclera green eyes, emerald-green skin, and shaved head. He's dressed in a business suit that looks comical on his huge body and doesn't look comfortable. I don't know why he's wearing a suit as I don't give a crap about formalities and I'm the eternal head of the family. He also wears tinted round glasses that make him look intellectual even in this era.

Graham of the Gamma Tribe. The Gamma Tribe are descendants of Gamma mutants, radiation-based metahumans, and a fair number of kaiju. There are even subtypes of Earth elementals that possess radiation-based powers. Graham is one that possesses the super genius intellect of his ancestor Bruce Banner, but super genius for 853rd century is way smarter than super genius for the 21st century.

Immediately, I notice that two other members of the Gamma Tribe are following Graham. They are both tall and overly muscular hulks standing a measly 2 meters (6'7) to Grahams 2.5 meters (8'2). One has yellow eyes, red skin, and short red-black hair, while the other has green eyes, gray skin, and shoulder-length black hair done in microbraids. They are glaring at each other. That is not good. Gamma Mutates tend to get stronger and radiate radiation the angrier they get.

"Gavin. Grant. I told you to drop it!" says Graham.

"Grace is my girl." says Gavin and Grant (I don't know which is which), before roaring at each other – a gamma glow coming from their eyes. A glow that's cut off when my grey hands close around their heads. Their anger is cut off, replaced with fear and they are on the verge of losing bowel movement. Since there waste materials can also be radioactive, I have Cog open a portal to Gamma holding cell and toss the two through it. I may have thrown them too hard as they leave impressions in the meter thick ceramic-alloy walls.

"Sorry about that, Lord Ash." says Graham, "Gavin and Grant are the children of Chief Justice and the Colony Defense Force, respectively. They are normally best friends but..."

"I've been around for many millennia; I've seen many friends fighting over a girl. Two of my own grandsons destroyed a planet fighting over one girl, before she told them she was in love with their female cousin." I say running my hand through my white hair, "What I want to know is why did you bring them? Bringing angry Gamma mutates anywhere is not smart."

"The parents were getting fed up with their fights." says a nervous Graham, which is funny since he's a big guy in a suit, "They sent them here because if they fought Cog, they could handle them. They weren't wrong."

After talking to Graham for several minutes (a speech which turns the guy's skin a sickly lime green), he goes to greet the next Representative.

He's a tall, muscular humanoid male with black sclera red eyes, blue-gray skin, and buzzcut black hair. He also has black lips and markings on his face resembling circuitry. He's dressed in a gray shirt, black pants, and black boots with a black jacket and gloves. They are all marked with the same symbol – Xs in circles inside the arcs of Omega symbols.

Amasis' name means "Child of the Moon" and he is grandson of Earth-DR-2 counterpart known as Conquest and great-grandson of Apocalypse. He was born on the Luna (the Moon). He earned a lot of glory in his own universe, before moving to my universe to be with his wife. He earned names like Slayer of Sentinels when he killed the last mutant-hunting Sentinel Nimrod and The Champion when he defeated the strongest warriors of the Kree, Shiar, and Skrull Empires. He currently rules the Earth-DR-1's version of mutant home world Krakoa.

His date is a short, athletic humanoid female with dark amber eyes, tan skin, and long wild and spiky black hair reaching her rear. It's so wild it makes her look like Saiyan from the Dragon Ball franchise. Her clothing is very familiar, it's identical to the outfit worn by her ancestor – Laura Kinney (Pro-Hero: Talon also known as X-23).

Elizabeth Howlett-Logan belongs to the Logan tribe of Krakoa, a group of feral mutants possessing heightened senses and regenerative healing factors. The Logan tribe are all descendants of Wolverine and X-23, who arrived in this universe during the 21st century. She has the bone claws of her ancestor, but instead of having Adamantium bonded to her bones by a covert project, she voluntarily had her bones bonded with Cog's Ashenium alloy making it nearly as indestructible, plus immune to magnetism and magical transmutation.

"Amasis, it's good to see you! How's your grandpa doing?"

"Lord Ash Grey..."

"Lose the formal. That craps is for Nur."

"Gruncle Ash. It's good to see you. We haven't seen each other since the time you and Conquest sparred."

The spar between me and Earth-DR-2 counterpart occurred half a century ago, which is a relatively short period of time for our kind. The spar occurred in one of Doctor Genus' special dimensions, since planets are no longer able to handle us. We only managed to give each other bloody noses, but a planet's atmosphere would ignite into nuclear firestorm.

His date giggles, which seems a little strange from grumpy Wolverine's descendants. Logan's numerous descendants differ from world to world. On Earth, most live in a small Cog-owned town in Canada, living a peaceful and simply life. On another world, they are savage barbarians lead by a warrior queen. On another world, they breed with the elf-like extraterrestrials and live in forests without any super-technology. Longshot Logan is a space biker and bounty hunter who is a part of Lobo's biker gang. There motto is "keep the promise, beat the bastich, save the space dolphins, nuke the space whales."

"Grandpa says it was the most excitement he's had in the last couple thousand years."

"I would agree. The last time I got any real excitement before then was the Multiverse War and that only lasted until the Mad Duo were finally killed."

The Multiverse War was what happened when the counterparts of me and Neo got ambitious and attempted to invade other Universes. The interdimensional Citadel of Genus is far more competent than the defunct Citadel of Ricks (from Rick and Morty) and didn't like one set invading the world of another, even if the latter was more primitive. The Council of Death and Rebirth punished the offender, but our counterparts were stubborn. After a 30-day war, which resulted in 300 billion Dead on multiple worlds, I erased my counterpart from existence and Doctor Genus executed his counterpart. The method he used was so horrifying it was immediately banned by the Council and those a-holes tolerate soul mutilation and total annihilation of a criminal's existence.

*DOOM*

The Citadel of Grey Raven

Zerox

June 19

10:10

3POV

Zerox, also known as the Sorcerers' World, is the universal focus of all magic. It used to be a world of traditional magic, hidden from the rest of the universe, but by the 31st century it became one of the main home worlds of Earth's homo magi population. Everyone of Zerox from the elderly to the smallest child possesses magic in some form. The fusion of magic and technology has also spread across the planet ripping it from its medieval fantasy world culture into the modern.

House Grey Raven represents the true rulers of the universe and the most powerful family in the Universe – Cognito and the Grey Clan respectively. The fact that the matriarchs of the family include multiple goddesses also transforms the place into a temple.

A group of demons wished they knew that fact earlier. They are large humanoid standing two meters tall with bald heads, red skin covered in magical tattoos, and curved horns where their eyes should be. They also have pointed ears, sharp claws, and a second set of horns on the forehead. They are dressed in ancient looking robes tunics with thick leather belts and boots. They are currently bound by golden chains that emerged from the shadows when they attacked the receptionist/priestess.

"Who are you!?" demands one of the demons.

"Constantine. Jane Constantine." says the woman. She is a tall, blue-eyed blonde beauty with a British accent. "Attempting to control me via my name? As if you primitives could manage that. I'm a Constantine."

One of the six demons inhales and releases a blast of hellfire. Hellfire can physically burn what shouldn't burn and damages the soul of the target. Jane merely moves her hand in a circle and catches the hellfire with her magic, gathering it into a sphere.

"How can a mortal control Hellfire!?" yells the confused and angry flamethrower.

"It's not that hard." says Jane before tossing the fireball back at the fire breathing demon. The fireball doesn't slow down, instantly incinerating the demon's head and then dispersing harmlessly against the wall. The other demons watch as their companion's corpse, only held up by the chains, disintegrates into ash and embers.

"He shall return from Hell for his revenge. We will hunt until our prey falls." says another demon.

"How long have you been sealed?" asks Jane, while casting a truth spell. The demon lacks resistance to the modern spell and doesn't put up much resistance since it doesn't violate any of its contracts.

"We were sealed for a hundred thousand years. We are the Sightless Hounds of Hell. We are..."

"Ignorant savages." says Jane drinking her Cog Coffee. "Over eighty thousand years ago, all of Hell was destroyed by an incarnation of Gray Raven's patriarch. The 72 pillars were wiped out."

"Impossible. Hell is eternal." says the demon.

"Your comrade has been trying to summon power, but none of his sigils are working. It isn't because I'm blocking the signal, it's because those sigils aren't connected to anything."

Suddenly, Charlie Morningstar and Vaggie appear in a small burst of pink/purple flames.

"What the?" says Charlie, "Where am I?"

"Planet Zerox. Sorry about this, Miss Morningstar." says Jane, also looking surprised, "These primitives showed up as assassins and one of them was using sigils. I forgot they could also summon alternate world versions that were visiting."

"Which one was it?" says Vagatha, known as Vaggie to her friends. The Sinner Demon is angry despite it being hard to tell with her muted gray-lavender colored skin. Jane Constantine points at the Sigil caster and Vagatha pulls out a gun and shoots. The glowing shot pierces the Sightless Hound demon's head. He goes limp in his chain bindings, before slowly disintegrating into ash.

"Where did you get a gun!?" asks Charlie.

"IMP left it at our place after the last party."

Before an argument can start, Jane casts a spell to send the couple back to where they were before the summoning.

"Enough BS." says Jane before she grabs the face of one of four remaining demons. The demon struggles as its mind is violated by magic. Jane's magic tears through all the demon's poor defenses and rips apart any memory not useful to Jane. Within moments the demon's mind collapses as Jane gets the information she needs. The now mindless demon falls limply only supported by the chains.

"Carnelian of House Amethyst. Plotting to murder his own cousin to gain control of the family and blame it on the other representatives."

Zerox is touchpoint for all magical dimensions including Gemworld, Ifè, the 5th Dimension, Myrra, Skartaris, Hell, Jejune Realm, Land of the Nightshades, The Dreaming, Azarath, Limbo, the Red, the Grey and the Green.

Gemworld (Nilaa), a dimension full of people who utilize magic based around Earthly crystals. It was ruled by the House Amethyst until they were attacked by House Opal back in the 20th century. The Princess of Gemworld was raised on Earth and became a hero, before returning to Gemworld to free the world from Dark Opal's tyranny. After the death of Witch-Mother Citrina, Amethyst like Nabu became a Lord of Order.

"Dumb plan." says Jane, while the three remaining demons stare at the braindead fourth despite not having any eyes. Jane then activates an exorcism spell, filling the room with a golden light. It calms Constantine's annoyance like cigarettes did her ancestor John Constantine. It also causes the remaining demons to cry out in pain as their bodies burn away, not leaving ash to fall to the ground.

"Cog has control over all dimensions."

The 5th Dimension is an inter-dimensional reality that exists outside of the normally accepted space/time continuum. Doctor Genus set up barriers against 5th dimension science to prevent Imps like Mister Mxyzptlk from causing trouble in the main reality. Tyekjab, the Ash Doomsday fanboy Imp was apparently super destructive even by 4th dimension standards.

The mystical world of Mrrya was a primitive magical world that was ruined in Earth's 10th century by the poor decision of the King and the Wizard Farben. They gave two enchanted weapons to two brave warriors: the Sword of Night to Nacht and the Mace of mists to Brom. Brom went mad with power and conquered Mrrya. Mrrya has been quiet since Ash Grey ate the Mace of Mistsm freeing the people of the corruption that left them ugly and withered.

Skartaris is a land supposed to exist within the core of the Earth, Originally, Skartaris was colonized by the immensely advanced early Atlanteans, who constructed great architecture and technology throughout the land. However, after Atlantis suffered the Great Cataclysm, most of the civilization was wiped out in what was essentially a massive nuclear war. In the 20th century, Skartaris was ruled by the Warlord (Travis Morgan) - a USAF pilot and Vietnam War veteran turned barbarian super-hero in the mystical land of magic, advanced tech, and dinosaurs. Even in the 853rd century, the Morgan family still ruled the floating city of Shamballah.

Cognito linked Skartaris of Earth-DR-1 to the Savage Land of Earth-DR-2. This allowed Morgan and Plunder (Ka-Zar's bloodline) to merge and form a multidimensional Kingdom (and dinosaur sanctuary).

The realm of Hell no longer exists as it did thousands of years ago. Due to the actions of Obsidian Black before his ascension, Hell is now an endless forest of Qliphoth trees. There are no tortured souls and demons have become extinct in hell. The only demons left are either peaceful beings that submitted to Cognito, familiars of certain magic users, those hidden in secret realms, and those sealed away like the Sightless Hunters.

The Jejune Realm was an abode of lesser deities. They were weak and mostly useless lesser deities of useless domains not worshipped by any mortals. They were also rejected by the other pantheons making them losers on a divine level. Normally, forgotten gods without physical bodies lose their powers and either fade or become mortal. The Jejune Realm somehow allowed losers like Rypta Gud'n, patron deity of ill-timed flatulence, to continue to exist. The Jejune Realm was completely wiped out by Ash Grey, the dimension imploding into non-existence.

Nightshades was completely absorbed by Queen Jade's shadowlands. The kingdom no longer exists in any form beyond the memories of a few.

For as long as creatures across the multiverse possessed the ability to dream, the reality known as The Dreaming has always existed. Even in the DR-52 Multiverse this is true and is ruled by Morpheus, also known as Dream of the Endless. There are barriers to prevent people of the waking world from physically entering the Dreaming and vic versa, but the Dreaming is the Dreaming.

New Azarath worship Raven as a Goddess of Love and Magic, much to her embarrassment. It's a little twisted as the Azarathian was feared as the half-demon daughter of Trigon the Terrible, now she is considered their beloved goddess of sex and sorcery. She is not sure how spiritual leaders, the Azar, would react as they disliked war and Azarath has become the living incarnation of "make love not war."

Limbo, also known as Purgatory, is the realm between Heaven and Hell where souls become trapped after their physical death. It used to be a messy realm, until a massive number of psychopomps and spiriton technology appeared thanks to Cog. Souls that were lost for thousands of years, were finally released from Limbo. Even the Unversed Aizen's cursed existence led to the birth of a new race of Shinigami/Soul Reapers to help regulate the souls.

As for the Red, the Grey and the Green, they along with the other elemental planes of life continue to work together and Cog continues to help their avatars.

*DOOM*

Gray Family Reunion

Grey Estate

Planet Gray Varia

July 20, 85400

9:54

1POV

It's a hot, partially sun day on the Northern continent of Gray Varia. It's a beautiful artificial world created by Doctor Genus for the members of the Grey family. The Grey family is universally feared and respected, but nobody wants them to spend long periods of time on their home worlds, not even Earth. The reason being the immense power each member holds, especially those possessing divinity. A rogue god's power can cause severe damage if unrestrained, such as the presence of a Sea God causing tsunamis and flooding, while a War God could cause violent wars with its mere presence. A Goddess of love could cause insanity-inducing "sex plague" and a Goddess of Darkness could cause a soul consuming eternal night. Nobody wants to find out what rogue God of Destruction could do to a world.

I sit on my throne watching the party, thinking about what has happened over the thousands of years. I died a nobody in first life and was reborn as a monster in a world that was fiction in the first. I wonder if in some other universe, a writer version of me named this world "That Time I was Reincarnated as a Doomsday." I fought against monsters, gained new abilities, and even defeated gods. I managed to acquire a harem of some of most beautiful women in the universe and somehow became a father many times over.

Ashen Grey is the oldest of my children by Raven. He looks more and more like his grandfather Trigon the Terrible, but his features are softer like his mother. He has four red eyes, gray skin with red markings, and long white hair. He also has fangs, sharp nails, pointed ears, and antlers. He's dressed in the black clothing of the sorcerer and would be menacing if it wasn't for the white ribbons tied to his antlers by some of his Great-nieces. He may be a ruthless God of black magic, but still spoils his younger family members.

Ashen is the conqueror of my children. An immensely powerful divine-blooded sorcerer who has discovered and conquered worlds throughout multiple universes. I remember he once got very arrogant and started causing problems for Cognito and the local supercluster. I was sent to discipline the boy and Ashen ended up buried a few kilometers in a planet's crust. Since then, while ruthless, he doesn't let his power get to his head anymore.

Branwen Grey is the middle child of my children by Raven. She is a beautiful woman with red eyes, pale skin, and shoulder-length black hair done in a feathered haircut. Her outfit consisted of a V neck black and red wrap style top with a black pleated skirt that has black shorts underneath, with series of beaded necklaces. She also wears a hooded white cloak and can manifest snow-white raven wings from her back, like an angel's eagle wings.

Branwen resembles Raven Branwen from the old series RWBY, which is ironic since Raven named her Branwen because it means "White Raven" - my wife's "pure" form untainted by Trigon's hatred. Branwen is a genius swordswoman having inherited my adoptive muscle memory – the ability to replicate movements after observation like the sharingan from Naruto. Unlike me, she doesn't just "tank" everything in the universe.

*Flashback*

A woman's voice can be heard over the wind.

"1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... 9... it is 10. Sway to and fro, sway!"

A human's astral form walks through a magical circle composed of shining gold symbols. As he crosses the barrier, his spiritual body is clad in dark armor. It resembles a cross between samurai armor and modern power armor with vague crow features.

"Release."

The seal on the sword's handle glows gold and shatters.

On stand on the roof of a building in a dark city watching the battle on the streets below me. It's times like this I'm reminded by old comrade Batman. I'm not fighting, instead I'm watching an armored warrior fighting against mechanical demons.

Next to me is Yurine. She is the manifestation of this city's spirit in the form of a cat yokai. She looks like a human with dark tan skin and long luminescent white hair done in two odango. She's dressed in form-fitting stylish dark clothing with goggles marked with anime eyes (one open, one winking).

"Why are you here, Lord Ash?" says Yurine as she watches her warrior attack the cyber-demon. The cyber-demon appears to be an Oni with a muscular body, sharp claws, long horns, and long tusks. The difference is the ogre is mechanical instead of spiritual flesh.

"Watching a fight." I reply, as the Karas does its finisher. A phantom moon appears in the sky, Karas's shadow in the form of a tengu shoots towards the Oni and holds the monster in place. Then Karas with his burning red sword slashes through the cyber-demon. The cyber-demon curses the hero as stolen blood and ectoplasm-like fluid sprays, and electricity arcs across its dying form. Then the cyber-demon like any proper Tokusatsu villain explodes.

Then, a white portal opens next to me and Yurine, "and waiting for my daughter."

Branwen emerges from the glowing portal clad in her own Karas armor. Unlike the dark armor of city's Karas, this armor is white-and-gold like the armor of a fantasy paladin. Even with the holy appearance, there is an aura of power and authority that would make most mortals fall to their knees. Yurine drops to her knee, bowing before the Queen.

In Karas anime that I watched in my first life, Eko Hoshunin - the Karas of the Edo Period – became a traitor and tried to conquer the city he once protected with mechanical demons are Mikura. A former yakuza hitman Otoha Yosuke was summoned to be the new Karas of the city to fight the demons and Eko, and barely succeeded even with help from a rebel Mikura and another city's Karas.

When the Karas of this city turned traitor, attempting to become the city's lord and master instead of its protector, Branwen didn't leave the entire fight up to one man. While the inexperienced Karas fought the individual cyber demons, Branwen herself fought former Lord Eto. Eto's helmet crumbling into particles in her hand shows how that fight ended.

*Flashback End*

Branwen was the one who established the spiritual guardians of the cities in Cognito territory. The city accumulating the spiritual power and emotions of its citizens forms a spirit that seeks out a special soul and forms a contract. The contract allows the soul to manifest a powerful Karasu Tengu armor. The Karas are not only immensely powerful but can even transform like a cybertronian to alternate combat vehicle forms like jets and cars. In our universe, Branwen is the Karas Queen.

Wolfram Grey is the youngest of my children by Raven. He's an attractive male with silver eyes, pale skin, and thick black hair. He has a very wild look about him, even possessing sharp teeth, sharp black nails, and pointed ears. The two-and-half meter tall giant is clad in the leather of various animals with a fur-lined long coat. He also carries a wooded staff that indicates he's a shamanistic warrior.

Wolfram Grey is a champion of the Red, meaning he can communicate and command animals from the smallest insects to super massive space creatures. His power is also strong enough that he can command the weak-willed sapient humanoids (those that don't lose consciousness the sheer intimidation of his predatory aura). Wolfram is also a shapeshifter able to transform into a monstrous wolf and an equally terrifying hybrid of the two.

Despite his rough personality and fierce animalistic nature, he's one of my most prolific children. I must have at least three dozen grandkids by his six wives and I'm not sure how many with his dozen lovers. I keep running into relatives on random planets with animal-eared people. He's like a damn Isekai Harem protagonist.

*DOOM*

Jacqueline "Jackie" Grey was the first child of my children with Jade. In human form she is a tall, beautiful mixed Chinese woman with amber eyes, tan skin, and shoulder-length black hair. In her Kijin (divine oni) form, she has glowing red eyes, grayish blue skin, and hip-length hair. She also has fangs, claw-like nails, pointed ears, and horns in her Kijin form. She's currently dressed in a form-fitting black-and-gold Cheongsam (Chinese dress)

Jackie, like her namesake great-uncle Jackie Chan, is an archeologist, who has done work across the entire DR-52-Multiverse. Normally, instead of cheongsam, she's dressed like a science-fiction version of Lara Croft from Tomb Raider.

She's visited every version of Atlantis, uncovered the magical secrets of each world's Ancient Egypt, found extraterrestrial relics on some versions, and unlocked gates to secret worlds on Earth alone. She has also uncovered the history of many ancient worlds across multiple universes. Jade herself was surprised at how her daughter liked studying old books and doing the same boring stuff that her uncle used to do, before magic messed with his life.

Doctor Genus offered her the ability to see through time, but Jackie said that would ruin the challenge.

Meilin Grey is the second oldest of my children with Jade. In human form she is a tall, athletic mixed Chinese woman with Jade green eyes, pale skin, and hip-length dark green hair. In her Kijin form, she has black sclera, ash grey skin with green markings resembling vine tattoos, pointed ears like an elf, and small horns. The horns are so small, her sister used to tease her about them. She's currently dressed in a expensive form-fitting white-and-gold Cheongsam covered in the imagery of plants and flowers.

Meilin is an avatar of The Green and "Gardener of the Qliphoth Forest". After she was born, flowers began to bloom in her room despite Doctor Genus' protections and the nature lover only grew stronger as she aged. She is the sorceress of Jade's children, learning magic from a young age and capable of generate a lush forest from a desert in seconds. The Gardener title comes from her ability to summon Qliphoth trees that can bind supernatural beings and drag them to hell. When not learning magic, she teaches magic at META STAR Galactic Academy – the number one school for Super Powered Beings in the known Universe.

Mingyu Grey is the second youngest of my children with Jade. In human form she is a Chinese woman of average height with bright jade green eyes, light skin, and short black hair. In her Kijin form, she is a very muscular amazon with black sclera, dark skin, and spiky white hair. She also has pointed ears, horns, and claws in her transformed state. She dressed in a black-and-white bodysuit designed to stretch with her transformation. She also wears a black leather jacket marked with a Kryptonian crest, but not the house of El. Instead, it's the "Z" of the House of Zod.

Mingyu is an adventurer and inherited her mother's pension for getting into trouble. She possesses a version of The Gamer and has been going on Quests since she was 14. Somehow, one of those adventures had her go to another universe outside DR-52 and return with a Kryptonian husband. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't a version of Lor-Zod – the son of General Dru-Zod. This version of Lor-Zod has been good for Mingyu, knowing his father-in-law (me) could easily tear him limb from limb.

Zhu Grey is the youngest of my children with Jade and the sole male. As a human, he's a tall, athletic male of mixed heritage with red eyes, light skin, and short black hair. As a Kijin, he's taller and more muscular with black sclera, ash grey skin, claws, pointed ears, and white bone horns. He also has many small bone spikes like my Doomsday form. He's currently dressed in black Tangzhuang (tang suit) that looks like it came out of the martial arts films we used to watch together as a child.

Zhu is a martial artist and Daoist cultivator. He's been fascinated by martial arts since he saw members of the Bat clan sparring with each other. My love of martial arts films also helped his obsession. With obscene amounts of talent and unlimited resources thanks to Cog, he learned over a hundred martial arts styles on his Earth alone and then learned more on other worlds, both in our universe and others. He mostly learned in worlds obsessed with martial arts like Martial Hero (Xianxia) worlds of cultivators and worlds of mystical martial arts. When not learning, he was also teaching at the Galaxy Academy.

As Jade is the Queen of the Shadowkahn, her children inherited her royal oni blood and connections to the shadows. This enables each of them to summon their own unique tribe of Shadow elemental warriors.

Jackie's servants are called the Mummy-Kahn. They are tall, skeletally thin humanoids covered in black bandages. These black strips of fabric act like prehensile extensions of the Mummy-Kahn, able to bind, lift, and slice targets. The countless Mummy-Kahn also have stretchable elastic limbs.

Meilin's servants are the plant-based Thorn-Kahn. They are tangled masses of thorny black vines in a vaguely humanoid shape with glowing red eyes peeking between vines. They can transform their limps into super-sonic whips capable of slicing through metal with ease. Their elastic bodies can also shift into many shapes making them some of the most dexterous Kahn.

Mingyu's servants are the phantasmic Geist-Kahn. They don't have true form of their own, appearing as amorphic masses of black ectoplasm with eyes, but they can psychokinetically form golem-like bodies from no living materials. This means they can make bodies from anything from dead trees and clay to metal alloy and non-sapient robots.

Zhu's servants are the Saint-Kahn. Saint-Kahn resemble humanoids dressed in Hanfu (the traditional Han Dynasty Chinese clothing worn in Xianxia), specifically the Shenyi (the iconic robe). They are carrying a sword and wearing a metal mask over their faces. They are like Samurai Kahn in that their swords can slice any conventional material, but while Samurai focus on strength, Saint-Kahn are extremely agile and even capable of walking on air.

I remember that one family trip they went on together.

*FLASHBACK*

Uncle's Rare Finds.

San Francisco, California, USA

Universe-9900-8705-2423

Many years ago

1POV

"Give me the Cash!"

"Aiyah! A Bandit!"

I walk into the old, red-roofed yellow antique store to find someone I did not expect.

The people I did expect are the J-Team.

Jade Chan - The founder and de facto leader of J-Team, this dimension's analogue to my wife. She's currently a young teenager, meaning it has been years after the events of the television show.

Jackie Chan – The official leader of J-Team and martial arts specialist. In real life, the animated Jackie Chan looks like Jackie Chan from all the martial movies I watched as a kid in my first life. Blue shirt, tan pants, and leather shoes, his outfit never changes.

Tohru - The muscles, Chi wizard apprentice, and reformed minion of the criminal organization Dark Hand. He's nearly as big as sumo wrestler, but he's become a skilled wizard under Uncle's teaching and fighting against the forces of Terakudo (despite fearing Oni).

El Toro Fuerte - He's the wrestling specialist of the team and a former pro Lucha libre wrestler. He was originally just a guy who mistook the Ox Talisman as his strength, but he eventually became a real hero.

His apprentice Paco is also a teenager and, on his way, to wearing his own mask. He's currently standing protectively in front of Jade, tho she could probably kick his ass with ease.

Viper - The beautiful cat burglar and stealth specialist. She was the Catwoman to Jackie's Batman, and since they are wearing rings – the outcome was apparently the same as well.

"Give me the Cash."

"Get out of my shop, bandit!"

The person yelling is Uncle. He's the owner of the shop, Chan family patriarch, Chi wizard, and an expert in artifacts and magic. He's a very old man, but he's still a threat to villains due to his knowledge and wisdom.

The person who doesn't belong is the shaking Latino robber. He's a tall, thin teenager with wild bloodshot brown eyes, pale skin, and wild dirty dark brown hair. He also has a scraggy beard, a maw of rotten teeth that can only be called meth mouth, and numerous scars. He's dressed in a dirty white shirt, torn jeans, and black boots with a black leather jacket. He's holding a small 6-shot revolver.

"I hate having my meetings..." I state calmly.

The junkie turns and automatically pulls the trigger. I watch the bullet approach me and I casually catch it with barely any speed. To the Chan clan, one moment they are about to witness a murder, the next my fist is in front of my face. Both the Chans and the robber bug out when I open my hand and what remains of the bullet falls to the ground.

"...interrupted by trash." I finish with a grin.

The robber panics and fires his remaining bullets at me, but I casually catch them.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

The robber throws the gun at me and pulls out a knife. I catch the gun and hold it up.

"A knife?"

I crush the gun like it's made of Play-Doh and drop the ball of friction-heated metal to the ground. The Robber stares, then collapses to the ground unconscious.

"Aiyah! Who is the Superman in the suit!?" yells Uncle.

"Let's get this guy sent to the police, then we can talk."

~20 minutes later~

I didn't bother to hide the fact that I caught bullets and crushed the gun. The police were reasonable and left with the unconscious criminal. I think Captain Black - the head of secret government agency Section 13 – made a few calls.

"My name is Ash Grey. I'm a traveler from another Universe."

"Another Universe!?" says Jackie.

"Yes. Please don't interrupt. I'm from another universe, an Earth with a completely different history. I came to this one because my friend Doctor Genus became aware of this world, and I got a Quest." I explain, "I was delighted to know I would be helping the Chan Family. I remember watching your adventures as a child and heard more from my wife."

"Wait. Watching us? How do you know about us?"

"In one universe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes about a Great Detective of Victorian England. In another Universe, Sherlock Holmes was the great detective. In one universe, author Wu Cheng'en wrote the Chinese novel Journey to the West in another the Monkey King did achieve an absurd number of immortalities and wrecked the Heavens." I explain, "In one universe, I watched 5 seasons and 95 episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures."

Jackie looks like he got hit in the head by a two by four, while Jade and Paco look excited.

"I died a human in my original universe, but I was reincarnated as science-made monster in another universe – the one I call home now. That universe was based on fictional media that existed in my original world and in this world - DC Comics."

"You mean you're from a world with Superman!" says Paco.

"Correct. In fact, I was created using his DNA by Project Cadmus."

"Your wife knows more about us?" asks Teen Jade, having gone over my word in her head. "Why does she know more?"

"Because she's from a version of this Universe." I reply.

"Dad!" says 12-year-old Zhu running in. "Hey dad. I got him! I beat up Daolon Wong."

"Daolon Wong!?" yells the J-Team.

"Why is your son beating up Dark Chi Wizard!?" says Uncle.

"Daolon Wong was the original Quest. I didn't come here to fight a meth mouth junkie." I say patting my son on the head, "I brought my son along and he tracked down him first! I was sure that idiot would have hidden himself until he could lure you guys into a trap. According to the Quest description, the dark chi wizard Daolon Wong was going to summon Ancient Golems based on the five elements."

"The Wǔ dúyè kuǐlěi!" (Five Venoms Golems)

Figures, Uncle would recognize them.

"Five stone giants made by dark chi sorcerers, each infused with five elements – wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Legend says they would grow stronger and stronger, and if one was killed the next would absorb its power and grow stronger. Wood by fire, fire by earth, and so forth. The water golem had the potential to slay the Immortals. The reason they were never used was the five sorcerers sacrificed themselves to create them and their leader was killed before he could complete the awakening spell."

"The old monkey wasn't as smart as he thought he was." says Zhu, "The golems were meant to be used one at time, but he was trying to awaken all five."

Uncle chuckles.

"Five elements both strengthen and weaken each other. It's easier to awaken one than all five."

"Where Is Daolon Wong?" says Jackie cautiously.

A portal opens and the dark chi wizard falls out. It looks like Zhu broke every bone in Daolon Wong's body and his entire pale body (at least what's visible through his tattered clothing) is covered in dark bruises and bloodstains. I also noticed a stomach wound below the naval.

"You completely obliterated his dantian." I comment.

"What's a dantian?" says Paco.

"You know about chi? A vital energy flowing through all living things and the stuff chi wizards use for magic? It's not just in a person's body, it flows through meridians in the body the same way blood flows through the body. The chakras or gates in the body are like major organs and the dantian is like the heart, circulating the flow of chi." I explain to the Mexican sidekick.

"This is not like when his points were sealed by Uncle so he couldn't regain his power. With his Dantian shattered, he's hemorrhaging chi." says Uncle.

"So, no more magic?" asks Jade.

"No more Daolon Wong." says Zhu, "Even a person needs a balance of energy to live. Dark Chi wizards damage themselves using tainted chi, so his life will end soon. He'll be dead before his bruises can heal."

"No big loss." I comment.

"Aren't you worried your son will have killed someone!?" asks Jackie.

"The Gray family isn't known for mercy, and I've accepted that I'm a monster."

"Monster?" asks Paco.

I transform into my full monstrous 2.5-meter-tall form. My son also transforms into his Oni form, which is cute in my opinion. Thankfully, the suit I'm wearing is nanotech, able to adapt to my new size and features. My son's clothing is magical and does the same thing.

"DOOMSDAY! /AIYAH/MONSTRUO! /HOLY SHIT! / ONI!"

I revert to my human form and wait for everyone to calm down. Zhu is giggling next to me.

"Oh crap." says Jade, a little pale, "You said your wife is from an alternate version of this world."

"Sharp as ever. To be precise she is a shadow elemental doppelgänger created when the original looked into a sorcerer's cursed mirror. She escaped being destroyed and eventually rose to become a Queen of Oni and Goddess of Darkness."

Zhu giggles and summons one of his Saint-Kahn. Teen Jade looks at the Shadow Kahn and then at the boy, who she realizes is the son of alternate self...

*Thump*

...and faints.

*FLASHBACK END*

I can hear a group having an argument, they are the children of my first love and first wife Blackfire.

These half-Tamaranean children are avatars of The Burn - the elemental plane of fire. They are extremely powerful fire manipulators, whose supernatural flames can burn even ash and cinders. Their personalities are very different from each other and how they use their fire powers.

"My plan worked. All the hostages were saved, and the terrorists were beaten."

Aiden Grey is my oldest son by Blackfire. He's a tall, athletic man with black sclera red eyes, red skin (instead of the normal Tamaranean orange), and long black hair. He's topless with black shorts and black sneaker-like shoes and black arm bands. He also wears a black leather jacket and sunglasses like he came off a 1980s beach.

Aiden is emotional, wild, and free. He's an adventurer who likes to fight with his fists and celebrate with wild parties. So wild I wouldn't be surprised if I had half a dozen grandkids in the Milky Way alone. He likes to get close to his opponents and unleash explosive fire attacks. He also has an explosive temper and is merciless to criminals, which caused his friend Deku to compare Aiden to Bakugo and Endeavor. I can see it.

"Fin, you're an idiot. If you had followed my plan, not only would have the terrorists been defeated and hostages saved, but you wouldn't have caused over 50 billion dollars in damage!"

"50 billion – Big Deal. Cog makes more than that in an hour."

Aodhfin Grey is my youngest son by Blackfire. In human form, he's shorter than most of his brother and half-siblings with green eyes, light human skin, and snow-white hair. When Aodkfin transforms, his sclera blackens, his skin darkens to black, and his hair becomes like white fire. He also gets significantly taller and more muscular. He's dressed in a solar suit like members of the Superman Dynasty, instead of exposing his body like most Tamaraneans.

Aodhfin, or "Fin" to his friends, is cunning, calculative, and occasionally cruel. He's a soldier of the united planet military and while Aiden is a wild boy, Fin is in a political marriage. Fin's fire manipulation allows him to create fiery plasma constructs, like a hot lesser version of a Green Lantern ring. While Aiden would create explosions, Fin can create plasma beam sabers and "Go Sith on People".

"Cog was able to repair the damages in less than week."

"That doesn't excuse your carelessness."

Their half-siblings/cousins can only watch the argument like a car wreck.

Kenneth (Kin'andr) Grey is my oldest child by Starfire. He's a very tall, athletic male humanoid with black sclera green eyes, dark orange skin, and wild red-black hair. He's currently dressed in a sleeveless black shirt, black shorts, and black boots with armbands. The solar-powered Tamaraneans are not big fans of clothing, and nobody is going to tell my son to put on pants.

Serafina Grey is my youngest child by Starfire. She is very tall, athletic female humanoid with black-sclera red eyes, pale ash gray skin, and long flowing white hair. She almost looks like an albino Tamaranean, but her body radiates heat, and her white hair occasionally generates white plasma flames. She's dressed in what appears to be a skimpy gold-edged white swimsuit with long boots and armbands.

Kenneth and Serafina are not as extreme as Aiden and Fin. They have found the middle path and are Pro-Heroes of the Justice Legion. They are strong at close range and long range, with both their bodies and their fiery powers. Kenneth and Serafina are also artistic, having been sculpting statues since they were young. It was surprising when we went to a beach and the two toddlers made a glass castle by melting the sand.

"They are at it again." says Ken, as he takes a sip of his drink.

"Aiden is too careless and aggressive, while Fin is too serious and rigid."

"They haven't changed since they were children."

"Do you remember Ashwood Park?"

I wince at the memory.

*FLASHBACK*

Ashwood Park

Ashwood, USA

Many Years Ago

9:21

1POV

Ashwood is a small ghost town in the United States. Its name comes from its founder's surname being wood and the deposits of volcanic ash in the area. The town used to be a gold- and silver- mining town, but those mines became depleted, and the citizens relied on ranching and agriculture until the town was finally abandoned.

I was flying with my Tamaranean wives and kids, when Rorschach reported a strange meteorite landing near the town of Ashwood. It was very strange since none of Cognito satellites detected it before it entered the atmosphere, and it was radiating bleed radiation.

What emerged from the meteorite was a group of hideous creatures from The Bleed. They resembled masses of oily black barbed tentacles with numerous drooling mouths and eyes. While me and my wives entered the dimensionally hidden Nest, we told the kids to portal home and let the arriving Cog Heroes handle the black bleed beasts. After a period (hard to determine the exact time in a place with warped physics), we killed the nest and emerged back into normal reality.

"What happened?" I ask as I look at the devastation. Every single building has been blasted into burning rubble, all the trees are on fire, and the air is thick with smoke. There are even massive craters in the ground and fragments of molten metal. I see some low rank Heroes being carried away by medical heroes in isolation chambers with most having burns and corroded piercing wounds caused by Beast tentacles.

I do notice fragments of pulsating black flesh disintegrating in the high temperature flames. One blob even manages to form a red-yellow eyeball that frantically looks around, as if looking for a way to escape its destruction. It's not long before it completely burns away.

The Black Beasts of the Bleed could regenerate from even fragments by absorbing organic matter. They could cause insanity in any sapient mind and cause most animals to enter a bloodthirsty frenzy. They could stretch their bodies for various piercing, slicing, and bludgeoning attacks. They could even generate deadly toxins and channel electricity.

They couldn't manipulate fire.

"He did it!" says Aiden and Finn pointing their fingers at each other.

*FLASHBACK END*

*DOOM*

Novus Grey is my oldest child by Priss. He's a tall, very muscular black man with black-sclera amber eyes, skin so dark it's black, and a completely bald head. He's naturally bald as not a single hair appeared on his head since birth. He's dressed in a black-and-purple jumpsuit with gold armor. He doesn't walk around the room, instead he floats above the ground using psychokinesis. He was floating before he was crawling.

Avona Grey is my youngest child by Priss. She's a tall, lean muscular black woman with the same eyes as her brother, dark mahogany skin, and hip-length black hair done in microbraids. Her translucent purple silk clothing looks like it's out of an Arabia fantasy and erotic one at that. Part of me wants to say something, but trying to tell my kids not to be themselves is nearly as impossible as damaging me. She also floats around using her psychokinesis orbited by decorated gold orbs the size of pool balls.

Novus and Avona are both powerful psychics like their mother. There psychokinesis is powerful enough to easily rip a building out of the ground and precise enough to perform microsurgery. There telepathy can communicate to distant planets and pierce some of the strongest mental barriers, while being completely immune to mental attacks of other beings. There ESP allows allow them to see and hear everything around them for kilometers even with their other senses sealed. Their precognitive and retrocognitive abilities also allow them to see the past and possible future.

Novus and Avona used to fear me when they were younger because their psychic powers couldn't perceive me. I was invisible to them unless I was in visual range and that spooked them. I also tend to do that to Martians from babies to adults. Even Miss Martians badass descendants with Superboy get spooked by me.

*FLASHBACK*

The Imperial Palace

Kasel Capital, Main Continent

Planet Kasei

June 26

Many Years ago

9:28

Lord Maxwell, the self-appointed King of Kasei, sits on his throne. He's a tall, athletic man with black eyes and short dark brown hair. Instead of fancy expensive clothing of royalty, he's dressed comfortably in a black t-shirt, jeans, and boots with brown leather gloves and combat rigging. Around him is a combination of soldiers and servants.

The soldiers wear body-covering black combat bio-armor designed to augment their defensive and offensive psychic abilities. Their featureless helmets hid the species of the wearer and represented their blank controlled minds. Their staffs can generate PK blasts that could slice 21st century battle tanks apart like butter and unlike rifles, they can bend their shots to hit their targets. There are a hundred stationed in the chamber and ten thousand in the city alone, protecting the King without a thought.

The servants are beautiful human women and Martians who have taken the form of green-skinned near-humans, their clothing ranging from skimpy to none. The only thing common between them beyond being beautiful by human stands are veils that cover their eyes and pet collars around their necks. Some of them care for the food and drink, while others provide entertainment.

The only exceptions are Novus and Avona who are both bound by metal restraints and contained behind powerful spiral force fields. The restraints are made of Neoashium alloy, unbreakable even with their telekinesis-enhanced super strength. The iridescent spiral force fields prevent psychic emissions from leaving the barrier and inhibit the powers of the prisoners.

Planet Kasei is an Earth colonized world founded by a population of powerful human psychics and Martians. This is why the planet is named Kasei, Japanese for "Fire Star" and the Japanese name for Mars. The Kaseijin dedicated themselves to creating a world perfect for its psychic population and even created some of the best schools for psychics in the known universe. They also used genetic engineering to enhance each generation to have superior abilities.

Maxwell Lord IV was a power-hungry powerful business magnate who awoke as a psychic metahuman and worked for The Light back in the 21st century. His most powerful psychic ability was mind control which he used to manipulate both businessmen and superpowered beings. Cognito's anti-MC technology ruined his empire, and he was eventually de-powered and imprisoned.

Lord Maxwell is an enhanced clone of Maxwell Lord IV, not only possessing the powers of the original, but now powerful enough to affect the minds of billions of other psychics (both Human and Martian descendant) despite the mental barriers and anti-psychic tech. The only people he can't control are Novus and Avona – Cognito's representatives to the psychic worlds with their mother Priss.

"This is difficult. I have taken over the minds of 5 billion on this planet and every mind I dominated increased my own power. I guess you compare it to adding computers to a network." says Lord Maxwell, continuing the ancient tradition of villain monologuing. "I have even overcome Cog's famous tech and now pose to conquer other worlds with my mind, but I can't manipulate your minds. I now must consider other options before I can..."

"You don't." says Avona.

"Don't what?" asks Maxwell.

"Have to consider anything." says Novus, "You'll be dead soon."

"Care to explain that?" asks Maxwell.

"Our father is Ash Grey – The Doomsday." says both siblings in sync.

Despite his domination of his soldiers and servants, he can sense an all-consuming dread within his slaves. These people grew up hearing stories of the Indestructible Monster, the God of Destruction that none can stop. Maxwell puts on a brave face, despite dread forming in his heart. He looks at the demigod hybrids of human and alien with a mocking smile.

"What makes you think he will appear?"

"Because he's already standing behind you."

One problem with extremely powerful psychics is they often become reliant on their ESP considering it superior to physical senses. As a result, a being immune to psychics is either a void or invisible to them. When I let psychic energy flow through me, I'm completely invisible to them.

Maxwell turns to see my 2.5-meter-tall monstrous form and cries out in horror, before my gray hand wraps around his head.

"Hey kids. I wanted to see if you wanted lunch together."

"Sounds OK, Dad."

"I'm thinking about a Barbeque Chicken Pizza, what about you?"

The Soldiers switched from ESP to visual, open fire with psi-staffs which did more damage to Maxwell in my grip than to me (which precisely nothing). Despite the attacks and Maxwell's struggles, my grip on his head hasn't loosened at all. I'm annoyed at the interruption and squeeze. As Maxwell's head is crushed like an orange, his soldiers and servants collapse to the ground in shock. I can imagine the same is happening to 5 billion other people, causing numerous accidents.

"There goes our appetite."

*END OF FLASHBACK*

Neo and Eon are my twins with Maximilla. While Priss' kids focused on their vast psychic abilities like Priss, Max's kids focused on shapeshifting which means what they look like changes from time to time. They are currently two handsome lads that could compete with male models with amber eyes, dark brown skin, and thick black hair. Sometimes I have sons, sometimes I have daughters, and occasionally I have others. They are not bound to any one form, which makes getting proper ID a hassle.

They wear dark brown organic armor with glowing purple markings, armor which is very similar to Martian bio-suits. The armor is very detailed with bio-mechanical elements and glowing crystals that remind me of Zoalords from that ancient anime Guyver. They also have identical horns (resembling those of an antelope) and spikes coming out of their backs like the fins of lionfish.

Also, Neo and Eon are also pet lovers, having numerous animals from many worlds in their home. They have canine creatures ranging from fluffy toys that can be carried to massive wolf-like creatures that can carry them on their backs. They have felines ranging from kittens to animals that make Amur Tigers look like tabby cats. They have colorful birds and lizards with opalescent scales. They have so many pets they had to take courses in veterinary and zoo care.

Even now he remembers them as children reacting to a new friend.

*FLASHBACK*

Base Theria

New Cybertron

July 27

Many Years Ago

9:36

1POV

Neo and Eon in the forms of little dark-skinned girls with long black hair, are hugging a new animal. They are giggling at meeting the completely new being and treating the immense entity like a child's pet. They inherited their father's physical durability and strength, so they can treat Polar Bears like Teddy Bears. The entity they are hugging is significantly stronger and more dangerous than a mere Polar Bear, but it's also intelligent enough not to try to harm the children. It's animal instincts revealing that I'm the apex predator in the room, despite him being a dragon.

In many universes, various subspecies of Cybertronians exist, most of which have been known to inhabit colony worlds sponsored by the Thirteen Primes. Those subspecies have been recreated in our universe due to the efforts of Doctor Genus and Shockwave.

The Velocitronians from Velocitron are the speedsters of the Transformer race. Associated with Amalgamous Prime (the master of transformation), these cybertronians are associated with high-speed vehicles and in our universe, where the first transformers to tap into the Speed Force

The Camiens from Caminus came from a resource-poor world, so they developed a culture of conservation and careful energy husbandry. As a result, they tend to use bladed weaponry like swords over consumption-heavy ranged weaponry. Some of their species can even communicate with others and cities via telepathy. They have become close to the spiritualists of Earth, especially those form the country of Japan.

The Animatronians from Animatron, were the original beast machines. They are transformers from lush verdant jungle planet that can transform into animal alt modes instead of mechanical alt modes. Long before the Predacons and Maximals existed, the Animatronians prowled the jungles. They were associated with the most spiritual of the Primes, the bestial Onyx Prime.

Even Earth had Terrans (Cybertronus Terra), a subspecies born on Earth. Which has also complicated things such as technorganic transformers also exist on the world along with technorganic Scarab warriors and representatives of The Metal. Another complication is Terran transformers have the same high capacity for supernatural abilities, while "normal" Cybertronians have a low chance of being a "Point One Percenter".

The various elemental planes of life also generated their own subspecies. For example, there are the Leviatrons, who like the Aquatronians, are an amphibious subspecies of Transformers, but also possess water manipulating powers like Atlanteans and Metahumans connected to The Clear.

Predaking is an imposing robotic dragon. The original was the ruler of Cybertron's wild regions, a bestial apex predator who devoured weaker transformers. The current Predaking is even more powerful than the original, having become connected to the flows of energy within the planet itself. He can proudly proclaim he's a member of dragon kind, able to fly with the legendary dragons of mythology – an apex being that dominates the supernatural worlds.

"Dragon! Dragon!"

An apex being that's being hugged by two younglings under the watch of a God of Destruction. Predaking wonders how the King of Predacons ended up the toy of two children.

*END OF FLASHBACK*

Predaking is also at the party, having transformed into his robot form, which is very tall, very strong, and very pointy. He has so many sharp points, that he must be using a forcefields to prevent accidentally cuts to softer guests. Well, it's better than being covered in Ping-Pong balls like I was before I learned to retract my bone spikes. He looks awkward when socializing, so he has distracted himself with the available barbeque. The draconic technorganic enjoys the taste of cooked meat for some reason.

Predaking also brought a date. She is as tall as him, which is impressive as he's taller than most transformers excluding Gigantion subspecies, city transformers, and combiners which are all literal giants. The fem-bot is a mixture of green-and-gold with a gray humanoid face with glowing green eyes and green lips. She has notable arthropodal features including segmented spiked armor like the exoskeleton of an insect, long antenna, four arms, and opalescent translucent wings acting as a cape.

She is the Queen of the Neo-Insecticons – a "new" subspecies of Cybertronian transformers that possess alt modes based on insect-like creatures. They are a specialized form of beast-transformer whose advantages include the ability to consume 95% of all known matter, a cyber-telepathic network that allows billions to work together, and the ability to retain data no matter how much is lost. The Queen was created by Shockwave to prevent the Neo-Insecticons from becoming a galaxy-spanning pest. Since their creation, they have become friends with other arthropod extraterrestrials, such as the God Insects of New Genesis and the Scrab warrior descendants.

Despite looking like a mature goddess of bugs, she is currently feasting on sugary desserts like a small child. Technorganic lifeforms have the advantage of being able to consume organic and inorganic sources of energy, so Transformers can enjoy both Energon treats and organic sweets.

*Doom*

Kishan is my son with Cyanea. He is a tall, lean muscular humanoid with the soft features of his mother. He has red eyes, lapis lazuli blue skin, and long black hair done in a braid. He has sharp canine teeth, pointed ears, horns with white points, and sharp claws. He also has digitigrade legs of gargoyle ending in talons, a long muscular tail ending a spike-tip, and the leathery wings of a dragon which are combination of blue and black. He's dressed in black pants secured to the knees and waist by belts. He also wears a vest modified to fit his wings and a necklace of beads around his neck.

Kishan is the current leader of the Stonehaven Clan – the current largest and most powerful Gargoyle clan. He also holds the record of having the deepest voice among the clans, surpassing even the voice of Keith David (the voice actor for Goliath).

His mate Anika is tall, beautiful woman with dark eyes, dark brown skin, and long black hair. She is a woman of Hindi-descent but was born in Greater Bialya. She is a Red-class Metahuman which allows her to transform into various human/animal hybrids possessing various superhuman abilities, but she decided to focus on a medical career instead of her powers. She is a brilliant medical doctor, having received high marks from Cognito medical. Her father and grandfather are also doctors, with her grandfather being the one that suggested the name Kishan for my son. It reminds me of those stories of a person saving a child and then years later being saved by the grown child.

Azure is my oldest daughter with Cyanea. She is a tall, athletic amazon woman with the beauty of her mother and my muscles compressed into her feminine form. My Gargoyle hybrid has black sclera red eyes, azure skin, and long flowing snow-white hair. She has the typical features of a near-human Gargoyle - pointed ears, sharp canines, claws, tail, and digitigrade legs ending in talons. She also has white spurs on her elbows and knees, horns resembling branches, azure scales, and huge dragon wings with a wingspan bigger than Kishan's own. She's dressed in a skimpy white tunic with an azure wrap around her waist and gold rings on her wrists and ankles.

My son is known as Azure the Silver Dragon. Azure is the result of his mother and me travelling to other worlds and ending up on a mystical fantasy world. Due to Cyanea absorbing magical elements at the Temple of the Dragon God, was born with dragon traits. She even learned various forms of dragon magic, became a Paladin of the Dragon God, and can even transform into an immense silver dragon.

I remember when she first transformed into a full dragon for me and Cyanea.

*FLASHBACK*

The Plains

10 km (about 6.21 mi) from Battleon

Southeast Battleonia, Lore

July 28

Many years ago.

11:49

1POV

Battleon is the Great City of Adventurers. Adventurers are mercenaries that explore monster-infested areas, subjugate threats to the Great Races, and perform various tasks for money. The Guilds were set up to protect small towns, since armies needed to protect the larger cities and fight wars against demonic threats and other kingdoms. Adventurers who became Heroes, eventually becoming the royal family and noble founders.

Currently, more than ten thousand adventurers and their allies have come together to face a great threat. These adventurers range from the young inexperienced Copper-rank adventurers with their basic equipment to the veteran Adamantine adventurers equipped the shining magical equipment. There are even a couple of Hero-class Adventurers equipped with Legendary weapons and armor. The army of adventurers are divided into two distinctive groups – a "Good" group with bright, colorful adventurers that look like wannabe fantasy heroes and an "Evil" group with dark colors and skull imagery that look like they came from a Heavy Metal cover. Despite being two groups, they are working together against a common threat.

The Great Threat is an army of one million Goblins.

Goblins are small ugly humanoids with slant-pupil yellow eyes, green skin, and mostly bald heads. They have mouths of crooked yellow fangs, sharp nails, long noses, and large pointed ears. They dress in loincloths and carry weapons smeared in poison.

Normally, Goblins are weak enemies, only posing a threat to those without caution and foolish. Individual Goblins have the physical strength and intelligence of a small child, but they can be cunning and sadistic. Many Goblins can be dangerous in large numbers.

Even worse is the ten thousand Hobgoblins, one hundred champions, and twenty shamans leading the Goblin army. Hobs are taller (six foot), more muscular Goblins wielding weapons stolen from dead adventurers. Champions are even more powerful than Hobs, capable of holding their own against higher tier Adventurers. Shamans are the magic casters of the Goblin Race, far more intelligent and sadistic.

The leader of the army is the Goblin Emperor- a rare evolution of the already rare Goblin King. He's slightly taller than a Champion dressed in the armor of a black paladin (a knight in service to a dark god) with a crown of horns on his bald head. The Goblin Emperor raises a black demonic sword and the army of one million Goblins attacks.

Suddenly, the roar of the charging Adventurers and Goblins is overwhelmed by the Roar of a Dragon. Every sane creature pays attention when a dragon roar, as many sapients knows the saying,

"Fear the sounds of a dragon's rage, least you feel the rage of a dragon."

The Azure Dragon is a very tall, densely muscular dragon that mixes Western and Eastern traits. The dragon has black sclera red eyes, azure skin, and a snow-white mane. It also has sharp claws on its hands and feet, a long tail, and huge wings. It also has antlers like Chinese dragon but lacks a beard indicating it's female.

My dragon daughter wastes no time as she dives and unleashes blue-white flames on the Goblin army. The adventurers can only watch in shock as their enemy is consumed by a sea of white flames. The smaller goblins don't have time to scream as they are incinerated. The Hobs and Champions are a little tougher, so they do have a chance to scream as stolen armor melts into their flesh and then the flesh is burnt from their bones. The shamans create magical barriers to protect themselves, The Emperor, and some of the higher tier troops, but those barriers soon shatter.

When the fireworks end, a large portion of the goblin army is dead, and Azure Dragon is standing in front of the enraged smoking Goblin Emperor. The supreme king of goblins roars and yells in a guttural Goblin language. My own language skills translate it and what he says makes me want to feed the Goblin his goblin testicles for daring to say that to my daughter.

Azure doesn't give me a chance, as her muscular tail's sharp tip pierces the emperor's chest and out the back in a spray of poisonous blood and gore. She then quickly removes the tail leaving a basketball-size hole through its broad chest. The sheer amount of blood soaking the imperial robes should be instant death.

Instead of dropping to the ground dead, like a proper enemy, the wound begins to regenerate. The Emperor's green skin turns purple, its sclera blackens, and its horns lengthen shifting from white to black. It also becomes more muscular and more demonic. The Emperor laughs holding up its sword and boasting about the sword's power.

The cursed sword and the arm holding it is then torn off by Azure's hypersonic tail whip. It goes flying, leaving a bloody trail, before landing in my hands. I tossed away the wriggling arm and held the sword. The Adventurers who didn't see me standing off to the side, watch me with hope and fear. Hope that this will stop the Goblin Emperor, and fear that the Cursed Sword will infect the "unknown adventurer".

What they don't expect is for me to bite the sword and break off a piece like it's a chocolate bar. The Cursed Sword lets out a sound like it's screaming, before it cracks apart and dissolves into vanishing black dust. To me it tasted like very bitter dark chocolate and I'm glad I don't have to eat the whole thing.

The Goblin Emperor's purple skin fades back to green; his blackened sclera dulls to bloodshot, and his muscles shrink back to normal size with releases of steam. Also, while the bleeding of his missing arm has stopped, it's not growing back and soon it's clutching the wound as pain returns to it. Azure silences the Emperor's cry with a third tail strike, which destroys the goblinoid's head. As the mist of blood and bone lands on the ground, the other Goblins are frozen in terror.

There is a long, shocked silence. Then I raise my fist and yell

"Battle On!"

"BATTLE ON!"

*FLASHBACK END*

Gina is my youngest daughter with Cyanea. She is tall and athletic, but shorter and slimmer than her big sister. She's also more well-endowed than her athletic sibling. She has the same Gargoyle features, but has black sclera silver eyes, silver-gray skin with blue markings, and shoulder-length flowing white hair. Her horns are like ivory tipped with black and she lacks azure dragon scales. She's dressed in a black/blue bio-suit that covers her torso and upper legs. She also has a polished silver belt and armbands with fine gold circuitry.

Gina is the scientist of her three siblings. While Kushan has leadership and Azure is a genius in magic and magical zoology, Gina is the Master of Science and technology among the three. She spent many years doing research on the various technologies of other worlds and other universes. She was also one of the only Gargoyles willing to make a contract with The Metal so she could better interface with machinery.

In some ways she reminds me of Lexington from the original Manhattan Clan. A Gargoyle who adapted the best to the modern era and his technology. In a potential timeline, he received cybernetic implants after being seriously injured. Also, Gina is attracted to women and Greg Weisman would have revealed Lex was gay if the series had continued.

"Seriously, it was a disaster. When we bought eight new photonic computers online and within minutes the Cyberverse generated more worlds, complete with even more stranded people. It hasn't been this hectic since Doctor Genus and The Metal created the Cyberverse."

Ashley Zuri Grey is the oldest daughter with Nzambi and oldest of my biological children. She is a tall, curvy beautiful woman of mixed heritage. She has bright red eyes, dark flawless skin, and short snow-white hair like me and her mother. She wears a red top exposing her stomach, tight short hanging on her hips, and sandals. She wears a jacket with African tribal colors and patterns. She also wears gold, red, and turquoise bracelets on her wrists and ankles, gold-and-turquoise rings around her neck, and turquoise/gold ear studs.

Ashley is a demigoddess and one of my strongest children. She possesses both the physical power granted by my mutated kryptonian physiology combined with her mother's magical potential. Due to her unique physiology, her body can absorb elements from the world around her and convert them into primordial chaos, which made her a natural at Daoist cultivation. It was her studies of those cultivation techniques that let her learn the Myriad Sword Style. She fell in love with the sword and with the help of Cognito technology she was able to get centuries of training done in mere years.

He remembers when Ashley demonstrated her sword skills on some tyrants.

*FLASHBACK*

Tian Continent

Martial Arts World

Martial Hero Universe

29th day of the 7th month

2023 Year of Xingtian

10:48

1POV

One of the oldest genres in Chinese literature, wǔxiá (martial arts heroes) stories are tall tales of honorable warriors (xiá) fighting against evil, whether it be an individual villain, or a corrupt government. Notable for melodrama, spectacular swordplay, and high-flying martial arts where the laws of physics, like gravity, are more suggestions than solid rules. Even the famous stories Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be considered this genre.

Me, Nzambi, and Ashley are enjoying a vacation in a world of martial heroes. It's like the scenic mountains of China, but on a much grander scale. Lush primeval forests, green-capped pillars of rock, vast rivers and lakes, and mountains that can reach into the clouds. You can even find floating mountains held up my powerful spells and earth magic. We have been many magical beasts that have obtained power and intelligence from merely surviving a long time in this world, lives far beyond their normal lifespans. We also watched Daoist Cultivators flying around, some on flying swords, while others on artificial items.

"What do we have here? Some dark-skinned fairies and a giant of a man." says a voice from the shadows. We knew the bandits were here from the start, but we are not concerned with weaklings.

The bandits are an ugly bunch, but they seem to be divided into three distinct groups.

One group looks like normal civilians, former farmers and other town folk. People dressed in simple clothing with simple spears, farming sickles, knives, and blades resembling machetes and smelling of human blood. They are criminals who escaped their hometowns before they could be punished for their misdeeds be they murder, theft, or rape. Some bandits are from poor famine-inflicted villages, that became desperate for resources. Some bandits are merely people who didn't inherit from their parents and didn't want to work for their siblings.

The second group commanding the first looks like former soldiers. They are athletic men with muscle on their bones and dark armor protecting their skin. They carry military grade weaponry, but it looks old, worn and not properly maintained. They are most likely surviving soldiers of a defeated army, who didn't want to serve the victors or end their own lives. Many soldiers often can't function in normal society without help and the limited cultivation and military training makes them stronger and more skilled than any villager.

The third group commanding the first and second are Daoist cultivators. They are dressed in the robes of cultivators (resembling Hanfu). I notice with my enhanced senses and [Poison Embodiment] skill that the weapons of the soldiers and the cultivators are covered in numerous forms of poison from toxic plant extracts to mystical beast venom.

"I have never seen such dark-skinned beauties before." says the first cultivator. He's a tall lean man with a narrow face, green eyes, pale skin, and long white hair. He also has markings around his mouth and eyes that make him look like a snake. His dark robes are covered in green snake and forest imagery.

"I have never seen a giant like him." says the second cultivator looking at me. He's a small man looking like a young boy with a round body, red eyes, tan skin, and red hair. His proportions are strange making him look like an amphibian mutation. His dark clothing is marked with red toad imagery.

"I wonder if they have anything interesting on them." says the third cultivator. It's hard to tell is average height cultivator is male or female with its gold eyes, light tan skin, and long black hair streaked with gold. Its clothing is dark and marked with golden spiders and webbing, like a Chinese Spider-Man.

The fourth cultivator is a tall, athletic woman resembling an Amazon with blackened sclera gold eyes, light skin, and long white hair done in a braid ending in a blade. She is also the only cultivator to wear white/gold armor in addition to her black/gold robes marked with a white scorpion.

The fifth cultivator is also a woman. She is tall, thin, and willowy with blood red eyes, pale white skin, and long bone white hair. Her robes are also pure black and it's her skin that is tattooed with black centipede imagery.

"Five Venoms. A group of venomous/poisonous creatures which are occasionally mentioned in medicine, in martial arts techniques, or as a component of charms and amulets. They also represent the five elements." I comment to my wife and daughter.

"Correct. I wouldn't take you for a scholar." says Green Snake, "We are the Five Venoms, last survivors of the Duyegong (Venom + Palace) Demon Cult. After the cult's destruction at the hands of the Alliance, we carved out our own territory in this area."

"You went to the middle of nowhere to find somewhere to hide and found a bunch of losers to follow you." says Nzambi, "What a pathetic lot."

"Silence, you bitch, or I'll turn you into my cauldron!" says Fire Toad, his temper showing.

I unleash my killing intent on the fool who would threaten my wife. The Five Venoms resist my murderous aura, which presses down on them like the depths of the ocean, but Toad soils himself. The soldiers around them nearly collapse as they hallucinate their deaths. The civilian bandits on the other hand collapse to the ground unconscious, many of them dying as their hearts stop.

"Amazing." says Green Snake breathing hard, "That killing intent was worse than Cult Elder Murong and that old monster has been killing people with his Gu for millennia."

"I thought he died during the alliance attack?" asks Red Toad, trying to recover from the shock.

"I'm not sure he was human enough to die. Rumor is he's just a mass of Gu insects now controlled by Murong's demonic spirit."

"Gu?" asks Nzambi, which sounds cute coming out of my wife.

"Gu Insects. Demonic creatures born from Gu Sorcery and possessing terrifying venom/poison. Gu was used in black magic practices such as manipulating sexual partners, creating malignant diseases, and causing death." I answer, remember what I read.

"Remind me to look it up after we get back."

"You have the app."

"App?" asks Gold Spider, confused at the modern terminology.

"Don't worry about it, you won't be alive long enough to care."

Gold Spider moves faster than the human eye can track and attempts to stab me through the eye with a dagger, its blade coated with deadly magical beast spider venom. With my speed, able to counter the near-light-velocity attacks of Flash speedsters, the blade is moving at snail's pace. With a casual slap, the blade is torn from his fingers. Gold Spider then resorts to mystical martial arts, high speed punches and other strikes charged with poisonous golden qi, much to his shock I counter with my own martial arts and easily match his fist speed. The golden qi is like armor meant to shatter bones, but it soon shatters like crystal against my now grey skin.

"Naraka Golden Spider Armaments."

Golden Spider's qi surges, becoming denser before coalesces into demonic golden armor. It reminds me of Ichigo's Hell Armor from BLEACH and Iron Spider from Marvel Comics. Golden threads bind my body, each one strong enough to slice armored soldiers to pieces, bind me. Then four huge metallic spider legs emerge from Golden Spider's golden body and attempt to pierce me with their blade-like tips. The tips fail to pierce my skin, much to the shock of the cultivators.

"Vajira Body!?" says Green Snake looking worried.

Golden Spider jumps back as I flex and burst free from the golden webbing, which dissolves into particles before it can hit the ground. I don't let the Earth-element cultivator escape and deliver a thunderous punch that can be heard for miles. Golden Spider coughs up blood as his armor shatters like crystal. He goes flying and breaks the trunks of several trees. He's half dead when he slumps to the ground, but he's able to pull a pill from his interspatial storage ring and swallow it. The miraculous drug stolen from another sect heals Spider's injuries.

Golden Spider with a golden aura slams his palms into the ground and casts a spell. I watch as the golden light ripples across the ground and suddenly the once hard rocky ground is as soft as soup. I find myself sinking in the powdery substance and as I sink, eight giant pillars of stone appear around me and then fall on me, forcing me under the hardening earth.

Golden Spider is surprised when I burst from the ground in front of him and carry him into the air with an upper punch. While flying using my Legion ring, I grabbed Golden Spider by the throat. I can sense his qi is nearly depleted and casually toss him towards the broken forest line. He flies like a missile and is impaled on a broken tree trunk. The eruption of gore surpasses some 80s horror films and Golden Spider dies almost instantly despite his mystical martial arts BS resistance.

I don't have time to savor my victory as a golden wind swirl around me like a tornado. From these winds, I'm hit by millions of golden needles each thinner than a human hair. Each needle is supernaturally sharp and loaded with gaseous poison. Normal humans would swell and explode from the gas bubbles, but they can't pierce my flesh. They do release invisible clouds of poison, which could kill someone with unbreakable skin.

I burst out of the tornado and landed in front of White Scorpion, creating a crater in the ground. She releases a mystical weapon resembling a shining golden rope dart at me. The pretty version of MK Scorpion's own attack is casually caught by me, despite it crackling with energy. I may be holding it too hard because I feel it deforming in my hand and I want it as a souvenir. I casually give it a yank, pulling my opponent off her feet before smashing her into the ground repeatedly. The golden rope/cable finally snaps and White Scorpion tumbles. While she's on the ground, I unleash my flame breath and she barely has time to scream before the flames wash over her. When the flames end, the human charcoal breaks apart on the ground.

Black Centipede is smart enough to know she can't fight me, but instead of merely fleeing, she does something stupid. She appears next to my wife Nzambi and captures her in a sphere of toxic water. It's clear she thinks she can use my dark-skinned goddess as hostage.

"Surrender."

I merely smile.

"Surrender. Your wife can't escape."

"Are you sure about that?"

Black Centipede turns to see Nzambi standing next to her and the Nzambi in the sphere dissolving into ash and bone powder. Black Centipede isn't surprised at the technique, and I can imagine several demonic cults can pull off clone techniques.

Black Centipede twists her hand, and the sphere explodes into a toxic fog that covers the battlefield.

"I would give it a 5. Jackie's fog is far more impressive." I say through the fog.

"You're her adopted father. You may be bias, dear." says Nzambi

"Black Blood Demon Art"

Black Centipede unleashes her most powerful technique. She strikes her opponent with her own hardened black blood and seizes control of the opponent's blood. The cultivator can then use the target's own blood to attack the organs. Black Centipede's confidence fades when her technique fails to seize control, instead she can feel her own blood be seized. Black Centipede has a look of realization, which I can guess is realizing mortal blood (even immortal cultivator blood) can control divine blood. Ink black blood then erupts from her body as her major organs are crushed by her own blackened blood.

I witnessed the whole thing, both external and internal, using Kryptonian X-Ray vision. I'm glad I grinded and improved this skill.

Green Snake is already running away. He left behind a disguised wood clone to attack us with thorny whips and roots that explode from the ground to crush their targets. Ashley doesn't give the clone a minute, slicing the thorny vines, roots, and clones into pieces in literally the blink of an eye. She chases after the real Green Snake before the woody fragments and green water blood can fall to the ground.

Green Snake glowing a jade green aura unleashes his most powerful technique and an immense forest rises from the ground. It's an immense verdant forest with a hundred that each look a hundred years old. These black barked trees are covered in thorny vines and poisonous flowers. These trees are also generating more wood clones to fight Ashley.

Ashley draws her sword, and all one hundred 100-year-old trees are cut and sent flying upward. She is already past the forest, before the ten thousand trees come crashing back to earth.

Green Snake dives into the earth and vanishes beneath the surface, but Ashley doesn't lose concentration.

"Myriad Sword: Sand Cutter."

There is a distortion that expands a hundred meters from Ashley's position. With my enhanced Kryptonian eyes I can see her slicing the world around her. It's said that a master of Myriad Sword can slice water droplets in a rainstorm creating a dry void. This technique is similar, slicing the Earth a countless number of times. Not a single blade of grass, stone, or insect is sparred. Green Snake is reduced to mulch, forever left to fertilize the forest floor.

The last of the cultivators is the terrified Red Toad. He knows he's not strong enough to hard us and he's not fast or clever enough to escape us. He desperately thinks of a solution, then a calm washes over his face. He pulls out a large dark red pill and swallows it easily despite its size. He then forms a hand seal and pierces his own chest with his fingers!

Red Toad's skin darkens and heats up releasing a mixture of poison fire qi and steam. His body then begins to inflate like a frog filled with air, glowing red markings appearing on the blackened skin. The markings glow like lava and pulsate with Red Toad's slowing heart. It's clear it's a self-destruct technique, but neither me nor my wife and daughter have a clue on how to stop it.

Suddenly, one of Rorschach's portals opens under Red Toad's bloated body and he falls through. The portal closes in time as there is a massive explosion in a distant lake.

Rorschach appears from behind a tree and casually walks up to the ground.

"Sorry about interrupting your fight, but I didn't want this lovely forest to be damaged by the resulting firestorm."

"So, you messed up a lake instead?"

"The lake was already messed up. The other half of this gang are pirates." says Rorschach, pointing at the mercenary bandits who haven't moved since the first of their cultivator leaders got killed. "They have been raiding villages and ships using the lakes and rivers. They have also been killing so many people it's attracted demonic beasts to the lake. Thankfully, that explosion has eliminated both pests."

"So, what were you doing?" I ask, wondering what the masked genius gamer has been up to.

"Helping a few "trash" protagonists. People who can't cultivate because they lack the resources, have damaged meridians, have a broken dantian, or were secretly being drained by a cursed item containing an ancient soul. People being abused by the strong and privileged of martial hero society." says Rorschach, holding a vial of mercury-like liquid, "A little nanomedicine from a 'wise old sage' and the boys and girls were ready for their comeback story."

The plot of every Xianxia novel is either an OP character kicking everyone's ass or trash becoming OP character after uncovering a secret, finding a mythic treasure, acquiring a special item, or being trained by a spirit. One major example is Nano Machine in which Cheon Yeo Woon received 7th Generation Nano Machines from his time-travelling descendant Cheon Mu-Sung.

"So how OP is OP?"

"Grand Star Meridian Formation means the pathways in the hero's body are set up in way that makes not only make cultivation far easier but allow you to form multiple golden cores." explains Rorschach, "It also allows the user to cycle between the five elements to further speed up the cultivation and removes the weakness of a single spiritual core."

Ashley looks interested, but Nzambi looks a little confused. Ashley studied cultivation while training her Myriad Sword, but Nzambi tends to love magic more than qi refinement.

"True Yang Body and True Yin Body allow advancements for their alignments, but combined with Grand Star the body doesn't require as many resources to grow and advance, has the perfect foundation to begin cultivation, and allow a person to store potentially infinite Qi." says Rorschach, "There were some... side effects."

"Side effects?" asks Nzambi.

Rorschach generates three holographic images. The First is showing a lean young man with blue eyes and long black hair. The Second is showing an athletic man with gold eyes, dark tan skin, and short spiky snow-white hair. The Third is showing a young nobleman with pale silver eyes, light skin, and long white hair. All three are dressed in clothing of the era, but for different levels of prosperity. Poor, average soldier, and noble family, respectively.

The images then shift to reveal three women. A young beautiful woman with blue eyes and long black hair. A large breasted female athlete with gold eyes, tan skin, and wild red hair. The third is a fairy (otherworldly beautiful female cultivator) with gold eyes, light skin, and cotton candy pink hair.

"Normally my medicine doesn't have side effects, but cultivator anatomy on this world treats this as normal." says Rorschach. "Thankfully, with enough training they can control the transformation at will and the benefits far outweigh the awkwardness."

It reminds me of Lord Tensen from Hell's Paradise. They were artificial hybrids of human and plant created by Daoist alchemy that could increase their Qi and heal themselves by shifting genders. It also helped with training as the exercises were Dō'in (physical training), Taisoku (breathing techniques), Shu'itsu (meditation), Shūten (training the pathways), and finally Bōchū Jutsu (training through intimacy between a man and a woman).

*FLASHBACK END*

END OF EPILOGUE PART 1