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(I don't own the rights to any of these characters I'm just a fan making a story, I will be using characters and things from other comic book franchise like Marvel comics, Image comics, WildStorm Comics and The Boys as well as I may use the names of characters, backstories and things within this story)
Earth Zero
Batman's Origins
Gotham City was known to the rest of the world as 'The City of Crime' as it was the most corrupted city in the entire world but one of the riches families of Gotham the Wayne's have been trying to improve the city for the lives of everyone for years. When Edmond Wayne came to America back in 1635 it was him who was the one that found the river valley that would one day become Gotham City and Edmond built the town and name it Gotham Town to make it into the most valuable ports of the new world which quickly grew and became known as Gotham City or just Gotham and it made Edmond incredibly wealthy and he use that wealth he create the Wayne Trading Company which many years later would be rename by his descendant Solomon Wayne into Wayne Enterprises.
Wayne Enterprises had a market value of twenty seven million four hundred thousand dollars and it supplied the civilians of Gotham City with good jobs and the Wayne family also began the Wayne Foundation to help those in need and it was during the Wayne Foundation charity ball where Thomas Wayne the CEO of Wayne Enterprises who was also a famous surgeon and wealthy philanthropist met Martha Kane a prominent Gotham City debutante socialite heavily involved in charity work and Thomas fell in love with Martha and she fell for the famous Wayne charm.
Thomas and Martha eventually got married and soon enough had a child of their own a son who they name Bruce Thomas Wayne and they were the happiness family in Gotham City until one fateful night which would not only change their son life but also the rest of Gotham forever. Bruce love the superhero known as 'The Gray Ghost' so much so when it was announce that there was going to be a movie of it called 'The Ghost in Gray' of course Bruce wanted to see it and when it came out in theater Thomas and Martha took him to watch it but they had to leave the theater quickly as a riot all across Gotham had started and it was all because of one man known as Arthur Fleck otherwise happen as 'The Joker' or later he would be later known as 'The Original Joker'.
Arthur Fleck after appearing on the TV show known as 'Live! With Murray Franklin' where Arthur killed Murray on live TV and it cause chaos to erupted all across Gotham which was already becoming unstable because of other events and it during the chaos where the Wayne family quickly left the theater and went down a dark alley to get to their car quickly and get home however that was when it happen. A thug who was wearing a clown mask and name was Joe Chill came out from the shadows with a gun pointing straight at them so he could mug them.
Thomas of course was more than willing to hand over all of his money to Joe not wanting anything to happen to Bruce or Martha however when Joe hear something behind him it spook him and it cause him to accidentally fire his gun twice and killing both Thomas and Martha right in front of Bruce traumatizing him forever. Seeing what he just done shocked Joe and it cause him to run away leaving behind the eight year old who's parents he had just murdered to get some money.
A nearby police officer heard the shots so he ran over where he found Bruce on his knees crying over his dead parents bodies so the police officers call it in and when they found out it the famous Thomas and Martha Wayne that were murdered they knew they had to solve the case as soon as possible as Thomas and Martha Wayne were beloved in Gotham City as they had always try to help improve Gotham for everyone so they call in one of GCPD 'Gotham City Police Department' best detectives James Worthington 'Jim' Gordon.
When he arrive on the crime scene Jim took Bruce's statement and make sure that he was okay by giving him his jacket and waiting with him for Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth who was a close friend and trusted butler the Wayne family and now the guardian of Bruce and just before Alfred took Bruce back to Wayne Manor Jim promise Bruce that he will find the killer and they will face justice.
Jim Gordon was one of the best detectives in the GCPD for a reason and he was able to track down Joe Chill and arrested him for murder where he was sent to Blackgate Penitentiary which was located on a small island in the Gotham Bay however even though his parents killer was caught and sent to prison however it didn't help Bruce to feel any better.
During the next three years afterwards Bruce saw that Gotham was suffering from the lost of his parents just like him as they were beckons of hope and without them Gotham no longer had any hope however Bruce refused to allow the city that his parents love and try to help fall into ruin but he knew that he couldn't do anything right now so he vowed to become someone that could help Gotham.
Bruce left Gotham City and began to travel around the world learning anything he could from experts in different things to use to help him in his crusade and during that time Bruce met Minhkhoa Khan who became a rival to Bruce as he was also travelling around the world learning from several of Batman's mentors so he get could also get revenge for what happened to his family. Bruce eventually met Al-Owal, who took Bruce to Nanda Parbat the headquarters of 'The League of Assassin's' and it was there where Bruce met the leader of the League of Assassin's Ra's al Ghul also known as 'The Demon' and 'The Demon's Head' who was interested in Bruce and curious as to why the son of the late Thomas and Martha Wayne and the heir to the Wayne family fortune was traveling the world training so Bruce told him why and Ra's look at Bruce and saw the eyes of a warrior so Ra's allow Bruce to be trained as a League Member by none other than himself.
As Bruce trained under Ra's he use his pain to push himself beyond his limits and in just two years he became a highly skilled warrior who even made Ra's al Ghul to think about making his successor and even more so when he learn of the relationship between Bruce and his daughter Talia Al Ghul who at first didn't think much of Bruce other than that he was handsome but over time she saw him push himself beyond anyone else even herself and when he did fell he just pick himself back up and try again.
That was because a lesson he learnt from his father one year before his parents murder when Bruce was playing with his cousins Kate and Beth Kane, his friend Thomas Eliot and his other friend Luke Fox and Jace Fox who were twin brothers and the son's of Lucius Fox a close friend of Bruce's father and a brilliant scientist, Bruce accidentally fell into a cave where he encountered a swarm of bats so his father went in to save him and afterwards Thomas told his son that the reason why we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.
But one day Bruce came Ra's and requested to be released from his vows much to Ra's shock an in the League of Assassin's should anyone wishes to leave the League than they be permitted by the Demon's head or defeat the member who had mentored them in a duel and of course Ra's didn't Bruce permitted to leave not wanting to lose the person who he thought could become his successor so Bruce had to beat Ra's in a duel.
Fighting against Ra's in a duel was the most hardest thing Bruce had even done in his entire life but when it look like he was about to lose he remembered the promise that he made to his parents before he left Gotham and he managed to beat Ra's in the duel much to everyone's shock and in that moment of defeat Ra's was angered by the loss of person who he thought could have be the prefect successor however he couldn't help but also be impressed and feel proud of his student.
When Bruce finally return to Gotham City to begin his plan after being gone for fourteen years he saw that in things in Gotham had only gotten worst since he left and when he saw a shop being robbed he try to stop it and even though he succeeded he knew that he was lacking something as even though he had the skills to win against the thugs they weren't afraid of him and one of them even manage to shoot him but Bruce still managed to get away before the GCPD show up.
Bruce managed to get back to Wayne Manor and crawl his way his father's study where he sat on his father's chair, Bruce knew that he'll eventually bleed out and die if he didn't ring a bell for Alfred to come and help him but he just stare at the painting of his parents and ask them for inspiration, as he'd rather die right there and then instead of waiting another hour and in that moment a bat came crashing through the window. It was there in that moment when Bruce decided that he will become a bat to honor his parents memory and use what he was afraid of as a child to make the criminals of Gotham City afraid and so on that night Bruce Wayne became the 'Batman' of Gotham City.
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DC Universe: The New 52 Redone
Wonder Woman's Origins
Jace Fox is the eldest son of Lucius Fox however in DC comics he isn't twin brother with Luke instead they're half brother and he's the Batman of New York
Minhkhoa Khan is Ghost-Maker in DC comics who trained with several of Batman's mentors around the world and became his rival