25Justice League New 52: Saints vs Gods is a Justice League New 52 Multiverse revival story. I do not own it or any of its characters.
Inspired by NightSkyWonder, who writes the best SMXWW fiction
New 52 is, in my opinion, the best designed DC story waves and the best started. But along the way, bad story writers and decisions pretty much destroyed the masterpiece and now DC wrapped it up and threw it away as if it didn't exist.
Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi are very good designers, but somewhat lackluster storytellers. Their comics all have a very strong start, but uninspired middle and endings. I think they make very poor decision when writing stories, so this story is my way of venting my frustrations out.
And before you ask me, yes, I am an apologetic Superman/Wonder Woman fan. It is not that I don't like Superman/Lois Lane; in fact, when the relationship works, it really works well, just like in Smallville TV Series. But SMXWW has always touched me in the heart, and I am not going to apologize for it. I think New 52 had it done really well, and I would like to revive the relationship in my own way.
The premise of the story is pretty much Justice League New 52 revamped to my preferences and imagination. I am crossing in Dragon Ball Super and Naruto because I was inspired to. And why Naruto? Only because it is my favorite anime/manga. The reason I am not putting it as a crossover is that the Dragon Ball Super and Naruto cross-over elements will not be overpowering, as Justice League will remain the main story plot.
Just to say, I am not the one for power levels, but I do like to be consistent. I won't be posting power levels of any kind, but I like to think in terms of scales, such as planet-level, solar system level, etc. I do not like plot armor or plot devices...but inevitably I might use them for the sake of a story. I am not going to be like Geoff Johns, whose uninspired storytelling with ridiculous plot devices destroys stories.
The story will start at Superman/Wonder Woman #1, starting in 2013.
So please enjoy!
London, United Kingdom...
Diana stood on the balcony of her apartment, enjoying the peaceful moment. She had to enjoy it while it lasted before the complications in her lift caught up with her.
She was Diana, Princess of the Amazons, who were now snakes thanks to a vengeful goddess who was her step-mother/aunt; Wonder Woman, a member of the Justice League; an ambassador of a civilization with very dark pasts; and finally an Olympian demigoddess. And that was to name a few. Her life had become so complicated in the past year that even she was baffled how she dealt with everything.
The discovery of her true birth.
The discovery of Amazons and their barbaric acts against male offspiring and men.
The discovery of her divine family and becoming involved in their infighting.
The discovery of a half-brother, the First Born, who nearly destroyed Olympus.
The discovery of her love...
The latter one wasn't bad at all. In fact, that was the only aspect of her current life that gave her a smile. Her blossoming relationship with a certain someone helped her go through her life. She may have been able to survive all the turmoil without him, but she would have less vitality and joy in her.
She then heard someone land before her, and she knew who it was. She smiled and turned around to see a very fit, tall, and dashing man in civilian attire.
Kal-El, Clark Kent, or Superman. The latter is how the world knew him. The middle was how he was raised. And the initial was how he was born. Just like her, he had many faces and just as many lives. But through all of them, she knew that he was a good being with one of the purest hearts in the world.
"Hi." He was holding a strange blue flower in a vase in his hand. "It's something from the Fortress. My gift to you..."
"This is lovely. I've never seen anything like it." Diana asked as she walked closer to him, happiness flowing to her heart and through her body.
"Well, it's beautiful and exotic. Slightly strange, just like you," He spoke, and Diana could not help but chuckle at his honesty. "Oh Kal..."
"Use cooking oil instead of water..." Kal added. "It comes from a waterless world."
"Just one of many things you have hidden in your fortress..." Diana put the vase on a nearby table. "Ever thought about sharing them with the world?"
"I have secrets, Diana..." Her Kal sighed. "Secrets that protect those close to me, and those that protect people from themselves. If the world knew what we have...the world would fear us."
Diana said nothing for a second. "I have a gift for you as well." She pulled out her sword.
"A sword? You know that I'm not a warrior like you..." Kal spoke, but then she swung it half-assed, making him dodge.
"No, you are not a warrior. You are the strongest being on this planet, well...at least one of them. But you had no training, unlike me. I was trained by War himself," She spoke as she lowered her arms.
"Your point?" Kal raised his eyebrow this time.
"In your world, there is a saying 'If the student is ready, the master will appear.' And I am just the woman to teach you..." She sheathed her sword on her sheath, silent once more.
"Some can say that the world already fears us," Diana whispered as she walked closer to him, putting her hands on his chest. They were so close that they could feel each others' breathes. "Even as we speak, they think of weapons and countermeasures to kill us with...despite what we do for them."
"They don't understand us for what we really are, Diana." Kal put his hands on her waist and hip. "We are just two souls drifting in an ocean of others. And if they fear us? We can't help it. You and I just have to do our best and hope for the best."
"And if we fail, Kal?" Diana looked up at Kal's eyes, her baby blue eyes meeting his stormy blue.
"Then we continue to try...people's fears is not an enemy we can slay...it is something we can allay."
"I know, Kal. It's just sometimes...I don't care, you know?" Diana wrapped her arms around her lover's torso, hugging him tightly. Kal held her tightly as well, putting his arms around his lower back. They looked up at each other and kissed each other gently. Their kiss seemed almost timeless as if everything around them didn't matter and froze.
After what seemed like hours, they broke apart and laughed.
"So...how was your week?" Kal whispered in her ear, and the woman in his arms giggled.
"Nothing much...monster slaying and training with Hessia. And going back to Themyscira..." Diana's voice dropped a bit, and Kal hugged her even tighter. A month ago, she had told him everything about herself. How she was the product of an affair between Hippolyta and Zeus. How her Amazon sisters hunted men for their seeds and how they drowned/threw away their male offspring. After she told him everything, her greatest fear was him leaving her in disgust. But he remained with her all the way. That's when she knew that she didn't just love this man; she was in love with him. She gave herself to Kal that night, sharing with him a passion that she shared with no other. The love-making was both mind-blowing and heartwarming. She remembered every detail of that night, how she became one with Kal. Her Kal.
"What about you? Other than your Superman stuff." Diana giggled, and Kal chuckled.
"I'm expecting old friend. Someone I hadn't heard from in a while."
"Oh really? Who? An old girlfriend?" Diana asked with one elegant eyebrow raised, and Kal chuckled.
"No, I met him when I was only five years old. Back when my parents were still alive. Like me, he is not of this world."
"Another Kryptonian?" Diana asked, but Kal shook his head.
"In fact, he is not even a part of this universe. He is from another multiverse altogether."
"Another multiverse?" Diana tilted her head in confusion. Kal proceeded to summarize what multiverses were. A collection of infinite realities of multiple universes that existed, much like a collection of books and stories. "Never heard of it..."
"I will tell you about it and my friend later...but I have something else on my mind," Clark whispered in her ear, sending vibrations throughout her body.
Kal and Diana walked to her bed and lay on it comfortably. Diana cuddled with her hands traveling down his shirt. A few giggles, hugs, and small kisses shared served as the rising anticipation was building to a very intimate climax.
They would have continued until both of the League communicators beeped. Clark groaned, and his lover gave him a peck on the lips.
"Later, my love," She winked and turned on the communicator. "Hello?"
"Hey, Diana." Cyborg, or Victor Stone, spoke through the communicator. "Catch you at a bad time?"
Diana looked at Kal who gave her frustrated smirk. "Slightly, Victor. What is it?"
"A US Aircraft Carrier in the Pacific Ocean Ocean is caught in a vicious storm right now. And we detected a huge energy distortion just in that area." Victor explained. "I was hoping you and Clark would look into it."
"Sure, I will pick him up and go." Diana winked at Kal, who rolled his eyes slightly.
"Thanks, Diana. Tell him I said hi, though I don't think what will be necessary," Victor's humorous tone caught both superheroes off guard, and Cyborg turned off the communicator.
Diana looked at her lover. "How long do you think he has known us?"
Kal shrugged. "I don't know. But he's our friend, so I don't really mind that he knows." He stood up from the bed and hugged Diana from behind. "Ready to go?"
Diana pulled from her lover's hug and went to her closet, where her armor and weapons were held. She turned her head to her lover and took off all of her clothes slowly, watching his eyes glow red as she seductively showed him her bare body. Oh, how she enjoyed teasing him; she could sense how he was using all of his impressive willpower to not make love to her right there. To take her again and again like last time.
But teasing him would have to continue another time. She quickly put on her armor, braces, her lasso, and her sword. She turned around and saw Kal taking off his shirt to reveal the Kryptonian crest on his divine chest. He clicked on it, and Diana saw him change into the blue and red Kryptonian suit in seconds. The blue suit wrapped around his god-like body and emphasized all of his muscularity. She never got tired of seeing him in the suit.
They flew out into the sunny sky towards their mission and held hands as they crossed the ocean, ready to fight together.
Another universe far away...
Apokolips, 2-Universe
Karen Starr, also known as Kara Zor-L or Power Girl, watched as Red Tornado Lois Lane hugged her dead husband's body. They had just rescued Kal-El from Apokolips, but he heroically sacrificed his life to save others. That wasn't surprising, but that didn't help her sadness at all.
No...it just made her angrier.
She had lost so much in the past few months. Her friends, loved ones, even her family.
Clenching her fist, she flew around the planet looking for the being responsible for this. The being who was to blame for all this pain and suffering. And she was going to make him pay!
"Darkseid!" She screamed as she zoomed across the Apokolips skies. "Show yourself, Coward!"
Then a blazing ray of red beams zigzagged towards her from the ground. Karen dodged the beams numerous times before being hit by them and falling to the ground, smoking.
"Darkseid answers, little girl." The towering form of Darkseid appeared before her, his eyes blazing with Omega Beams that he just shot her with.
"You monster!" Kara screamed as she launched herself at the New God, smashing his torso with her two fists. "You did this!" She continued to punch his chest, driving him back with each punch. "You killed Bruce! Diana! And now Kal!"
Darkseid grabbed her cape and threw her aside, sending her crashing into several building ruins. "I did. As will anything that opposes me."
From the ruin, Kara destroyed a wall above her and shot her heat vision. "I will kill you!" Her heat vision scorched the entire landscape and hit Darkseid's chest. Even Darkseid felt the burning heat hotter than the sun burning his chest. He blocked the heat vision with his right hand and began emitting a force field with his left.
Karen felt the force field lift her from the ground and repeatedly slam her against her environment. Buildings, destroyed machinery, factories, etc. Darkseid merely waved his hand to telekinetically smash Karen and knock her unconscious.
"Since you took away one Kryptonian, you shall now replace him!" Darkseid walked to Karen and lifted his foot to crush her before a red twister stopped him and made him step back.
"Karen, Karen wake up!" Lois shook Karen, who opened her eyes again.
"L-Lois?" Karen stammered.
"We have to get out of here. We can't fight against Darkseid alone!" Lois warned as Darkseid's eyes blazed again.
"You cannot escape my wrath, mortals." He roared and shot his Omega Beams at Karen and Lois. The two of them flew in separated directions to avoid the zigzagging beams. Power Girl then flew towards Darkseid and shoot her heat vision, which Darkseid blocked with his arms. She then flew behind Darkseid head and grabbed one of his eyes. She plunged her hand in and ripped out one of his eyes, stopping the Omega Beam aimed at Lois. The one aimed at Power Girl swerved off as Darkseid lost his concentration briefly. But the Dark God glared again, re-aiming the beam at Power Girl, hitting her squarely in the back.
"You Dare!?" Darkseid grabbed Power Girl with his right hand and held her in front of him, prepared to destroy her.
"Let her go!" Lois created a red tornado in front of Darkseid, but he stomped the ground to dissipate it.
"Merely torturing you will no longer satisfy me," Darkseid spoke deeply as his remaining eye was glowing red with rage and energy. "I shall hunt down and kill every single version of you until nothing of your exists!"
Karen struggled to break Darkseid's death grip, but she couldn't. As Darkseid was about to destroy her at subatomic level, a flash of light flashed by, cutting off two of Darkseid's fingers and freeing her.
Darkseid stepped back as somebody caught Karen before she hit the ground. "Another insect challenges Darkseid?"
The stranger stood up, carrying a weakened Karen in his arms bridal style. He was a young tall muscular man with long spiky black hair akin to a mane that reached his legs. His eyes were ebony-black, and his face sharp, devoid of any baby fat. He was wearing black cargo pants, a white shirt, and a black jacket with (CC) insignia on the left arm. On his back was a double-edged broadsword and a red pole.
"Nope. I just don't like bullies." He spoke in a confident, almost regal manner.
"Uh...thanks..." Karen spoke as the man helped her stand back on her feet. "But who are you?"
"Name is Son Shuyin." He pointed his thumb at himself. "It looks like you need help here."
Karen cracked her knuckles. "Something like that...that bastard just killed my cousin and my best friends..." She pointed at Darkseid, who looked just as menacing as ever. "Help me fight him, won't you Shuyin?"
"Won't pass up a good fight." Shuyin pulled out the red pole from his back. "And I don't need an excuse to fight a bully."
"Fair enough." Karen smirked. "Let's go!"
So that was my first chapter. Tell me what you think!
Review and otherwise.
Sorry that I have been absent. My life just became so hectic with college and my jobs, so I forgot about fanfiction. Don't worry. I will try to get back to my other stories if I am still interested!