Fixed the kilo and redundant
As for the Batmen, well technically yes because Justice Lords/multiverse lol. Plus it's just a quirk of speech more than anything else.
Amazo-n Prime (DCAU Amazo SI)
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Fixed the kilo and redundant
As for the Batmen, well technically yes because Justice Lords/multiverse lol. Plus it's just a quirk of speech more than anything else.
All Powers Copied by Amazo
This here is a list to compile the powers copied by Amazo since eventually it's gonna be way too long to remember.
Powers Copied:
Lex Luthor/Power Armor (Chapter 1)
Hawkgirl/Nth Metal (Chapter 3)
Superman (Chapter 4)
The Flash
Green Lantern
Brainiac (within Luthor, not true Brainiac) (Chapter 5)
Martin Manhunter
Wonder Woman
Ace (Psychic powers + Telekinesis. Eventually develops her powers into Reality Warping) (Chapter 8)
Queen/Erica (Ferrokinesis)
Ten/Ben (Superman level strength + durability)
Jack (Elasticity, in a similar vein to Plastic Man)
King/Scott (Can shoot concussive blasts from his hands)
Gained immunity to Kryptonite (Chapter 11)
Can produce Kryptonite beams/emit Kryptonite radiation.
Brainiac's ship (more advanced systems)
Galatea (Enhanced clone of Supergirl)
Parasite (Energy/Power Absorption) (Chapter 13)
Volcana (Pyrokinesis)
Livewire (Electrokinesis)
Luminous' technology (Hardlight projection)
Weather Wizard's technology (Weather manipulation)
Shade (Shadow Manipulation)
Star Sapphire/Carol Ferris (Love of the Emotional Spectrum)
Doctor Destiny/John Dee (ESP granted by the Dreamstone) (Interlude 1/Chapter 13)
Powers Copied:
Lex Luthor/Power Armor (Chapter 1)
Hawkgirl/Nth Metal (Chapter 3)
Superman (Chapter 4)
The Flash
Green Lantern
Brainiac (within Luthor, not true Brainiac) (Chapter 5)
Martin Manhunter
Wonder Woman
Ace (Psychic powers + Telekinesis. Eventually develops her powers into Reality Warping) (Chapter 8)
Jack (Elasticity, in a similar vein to Plastic Man)
Gained immunity to Kryptonite (Chapter 11)
Can produce Kryptonite beams/emit Kryptonite radiation.
Brainiac's ship (more advanced systems)
Galatea (Enhanced clone of Supergirl)
Parasite (Energy/Power Absorption) (Chapter 13)
Volcana (Pyrokinesis)
Livewire (Electrokinesis)
Luminous' technology (Hardlight projection)
Weather Wizard's technology (Weather manipulation)
Shade (Shadow Manipulation)
Star Sapphire/Carol Ferris (Love of the Emotional Spectrum)
Doctor Destiny/John Dee (ESP granted by the Dreamstone) (Interlude 1/Chapter 13)
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You forgot the letter 'a' on Martian Manhunter.
Isiri Pudireach
Predictive text can go duck itself
Nah fam, dats jus' ol' Martin the Manhunter, Marty for short. 'E's one uh da good ol' boys.
Just finished my binge read. Loving the story thus far. Keep it up!
What about power of her Lasso? Or the material and magic of her bracers?
In the episode that he appeared in, Tabula Rasa, Amazo was able to copy Green Lantern's Power Ring and Hawkgirl's Nth Metal mace, yet when he scanned Wonder Woman all he got from her was her strength. So it's likely that Amazo needs to get a grasp on magic before he can start scanning items of their caliber.
Chapter 9
I took a knee and looked Ace straight in the eyes, an act that had genuinely surprised everyone in the room. Ace was alarmed, but soon became confused as I'd shown no hint of insanity despite lacking a blocker bracelet. "What did I tell you, Ace? This here is no test, not like the ones they've done before. They'll be no more of that. I'm getting you out of here."
The young girl stared at me in awe as I defied what had been a certainty in her life. Anyone without protection who looked at her would've gone insane. It was what happened to her parents, it was how she found herself taken in by the government.
Her power worked perfectly no matter what gazed at her, be it through human eyes or television screens. It's unknown what effect it would have on an Android like myself, so better safe than sorry in copying her power for resistance. After all, it worked on Green Lantern for all of his Will, on Superman for all of his strength, and even on Martian Manhunter for all of his mental prowess. The only person who had a resistance, to nobody's surprise, was Batman, and barely at that.
Yet before this power, despite my once human mind, I was immune. And unlike the Joker's lie of him already being insane granting immunity, though he did recover later on so there was some merit in that claim. Still, mine wouldn't have been a lie.
"Who's Ace?" She asked confused, which reminded me that they didn't have the names that would be given to them by the Joker. Not that they ever would since I'm making damn sure that he'll never lay his sight on them, or anything else for that matter.
"Well, I don't exactly have your name and I'm not calling you a number. And you look like an Ace," I explained, "But if you don't like it-"
"No, I like it," She interrupted, a small smile on her lips, "I like Ace. Thank you."
"What about the rest of us? Do we get names?" The one who would've been Jack asked. Hm, that one is an actual name so that can stay.
"More importantly, does that offer extend to us?" The one who would've been Queen asked after scoffing at Jack's question.
"Yes, consider it extended to all of you. Names and a way out." I reassured them before turning to the lad who asked about names, "How does Jack sound? I think it fits you."
"Hmm, I can dig the sound of that."
Ace and Jack were easy enough since they're actual names. King, Queen, and Ten were ok for cape names, though pretty unoriginal, but aren't actual names to give. It'd be easy to slap the identities of the Teen Titans on them since they all share the same voice actors, but it'd be a dick move to be that lazy. And Batman would be very curious about how the names that I'd given matched up with another group of super teens. So Richard, Victor, and Raven were out.
Their situation was similar to the X-Men however, main difference was that Lynch was more abusive than Xavier though the professor was rather shady himself at times. So taking some inspiration from them shouldn't be that bad, plus nobody could call me out on it besides maybe the Presence, Ambush Bug, and those imps obsessed with Bats and Supes (not invoking their names since 5th-dimensional fuckery may be beyond me at the moment.).
King could shoot fire-like concussive blasts and would become the leader of the group so, "Scott, " I said to King.
Queen could control metal and bend it to her will so, "Erica" to Queen.
Ten had the Superman-tier Brute package of super strength and durability… which applies to way too many people to narrow it down to. Fuck it, the Thing doesn't get enough respect so, "Ben" I said to Ten.
"Feel free to take whatever you'd like though if these aren't doing it for you."
"No need to worry about that." Scott replied as their eyes were flitting from one to the other to one as they took in their new personas, "We're fine with what you've given us."
"Thanks,..." Ben nodded before pausing, "...you know, you never told us your name."
"Who are you supposed to be anyway? You don't look like any robot or android we've seen before, phasing in and injuring personnel like that." The bald Scott asked, his gaze on the knocked-out instructors in a small pool of blood. "Not that we're complaining, those guys were jerks and the lecture sucked. Thanks for that."
"You guys are the first to ask that. Lately, it's been hows and whys, but never a who." I said.
"Then the least you could do is answer, mysterious stranger." Erica said.
It's nice not being called 'the Android' for once. Though I suppose people would be more inclined to think of their rescuer as people than an unknown and possible enemy. Still, it leaves me at a bit of a loss regarding my own name. Well, not exactly, there was a name I plan on taking on, though it's one that's best saved for when I grew beyond my current self, be it an alter ego or a new identity. "Well, I don't have anything solid yet but you can call me Amazo for now."
"Amazo?" All five of them asked, three with confusion, one with wonder, and one with a roll of her eyes.
"Like the Amazonians?" Jack asked, throwing out the first thing that came to mind.
"I think you could tell by my broad frame that I lack their certain features. Plus I have no affiliation with the Amazon rain forest."
"Well, Amazo what?"
"Just Amazo."
"No last name?" Ben asked.
"Not applicable."
"No actual name?"
"Well, it's an acronym, but I doubt that anyone would want to pronounce the whole thing or the periods that come along with it." The only time punctuation marks should be respected is with hyphens, which don't seem to exist much outside of Spider_Man.
"Amazo sounds pretty campy don't you think." Erica criticized before shrugging, "...but I guess hero names are supposed to be like that so whatever." I wanted to give her a flat look since she would've unironically called herself Queen, but decided against it since Joker came up with that more than she did.
"I like it just fine. He's amazing so it fits." Ace said in my defense as she glared at Erica.
Erica assuming I was a hero and Ace calling me amazing, gave me some pause. It was certainly flattering, and considering that I was saving children it was just about as heroic as can be. But I also killed a man, villain he may be. Then again, he did ask for it, so maybe it was assisted suicide, someone as smart as Lex should know better than to mouth off to an unknown factor after all. Though even Deadpool stopped those from happening so still not too good. Though I think stopping a robot from destroying the universe and the resurrection of the New God of Tyranny would even that out. So, saving these kids evens out my moral grey area to being a decent person. Not good as most heroes are but not as evil or bad as most villains. No need for the label of 'anti' either, I don't fit those either. Or any sort.
I'm just a person, some dude who gained the ability to have powers. I won't go power hungry since I'll already evolve into an ultimate being, so for now I'm just a dude who wants to collect powers, have some fun, and do some good every now and then. There, simple and kinda clean is the way that I feel.
"Heh, as I said, it's nothing solid but it's what I've got right now." I was about to suggest that they could call me 'Mr. Ivo' but I decided not to. Just because the cameras were down doesn't mean that there weren't bugs, so let's not give Cadmus any clues about me besides the fact that I'm an unknown.
"So, Amazo, how do you plan on getting us out of here? We're in the middle of the desert and we have no transportation that'll fit all of us." Scott asked, pointing at the rather large for his age Ben, to which he just shrugged with a smirk.
"Simple, I called the Justice League. Turns out that experimenting on kids is very much illegal, even if it's the government doing it. And if it somehow is, which I wouldn't be surprised, sad to say, it's still very immoral. So we'll just wait for them to arrive, dish out some justice, and they'll take you somewhere nice and safe in that jet of theirs."
"What about you? Where are you going after that?" Ace asked.
"Me? Well, I got a place in Metropolis that I'll chill at for a bit before I go sightseeing again, which is how I found you guys actually."
"Why don't you just take us with you then?" She continued to ask.
I blinked, surprised at how much Ace wanted to stay with me. As I looked at the rest of them, they were in the same boat as Ace in wanting to stick with me. Which is an understandable consequence since they acted the same once the Joker freed them, which allowed him to use them as willing goons for his scheme to drive millions insane. Which has me thinking that I probably should've let the League handle this one, damn my impulsiveness, since I'm not really equipped to handle a bunch of superpowered teenagers and kid.
"Well... I mean I could, but how I got here can't be applied to the rest of you. I doubt any of you could fly and my rocket thrusters can only support so much weight for such a long flight." And though this wasn't the full extent of how I could travel, I wasn't lying. With most of them having baseline human durability, I couldn't go as fast as I had gotten here. And using a Will constructed bubble to carry them was out of the question.
"We'll just catch a ride then and go to your place. After all, it was you who got us outta here."
"Hmm, I don't exactly have enough room for you guys." I never really looked at Ivo's place beyond his resting place, his lab, and the stairs, but something tells me that an unmarried mad scientist wouldn't have much in guest rooms. "Plus, all the food expired besides the Twinkies and a can of Pringles." The man knew he was dying so he indulged quite a bit in snacks and excesses.
""""Twinkies!?"""" All of them besides Ace cried out in joy, leaving her to look at them in confusion before turning to me.
"It's a golden snack cake with some creamy filling," I explained to an out-of-the-loop Ace. Just the description made them even more excited, even Ace started joining in though I'm pretty sure it's for the concept more than the experience.
Fucking Cadmus, a snarl would've shown itself had I still had a traditional mouth. So I settled for clenching my fists tightly.
"Food with some actual flavor is more than enough after the slop they've been giving us!" Ben said, rubbing his hands together gleefully.
"Yeah! Let's go get a taste of those tasty treats!" Jack added.
"Don't forget the Pringles! Those are good too!" Scott added, getting into the spirit of things.
"They're pretty unhealthy, you know." I tacked on, since you know, 'responsible' adult and all that.
"Super metabolism, though I never got to use it properly." Ben brushed off before grumbling towards the end.
"We'll fix that soon enough! All the all-you-can buffets that we could clear out! We'd be killer at any eating contest!" Jack enthused.
Erica didn't seem to share their feelings on their food binging spree, going by the disgust on her face, "Yuck, you do know that stuff is touched by a ton of people, right? Super metabolism or not, you're just gonna puke all of that crud back out if you just stuff your face,"
"Maybe, maybe not," Jack retorted, "I mean, the puke would probably taste better than the crud they feed us."
Ben and Scott both let out a laugh as Erica just sighed with a shake of her head, though she was smiling just as much as they were.
It's a delight to see them so happy, but sad when it was just the mention of Twinkies that got them so hyped up. And I can't help but join them in their envy as I can't taste anything with this Android body, yet at least. I can still remember tastes weirdly enough, which is why I could remember that Hot Pockets were the superior snack foods. (damn I could go for one right now) Just when I was about to correct them-
*CRASH*
Crashing through the roof was the Man of Steel who landed on the ground, superhero pose and all. Which was promptly followed by the sound of alarm bells ringing.
"I'll get you all the Twinkies you could want!" Superman promised as he examined each of them, his relief clear to see. "And you'll all enjoy the buffet I'll treat you to. I'm just glad that you all are alright."
"You came here surprisingly quick. I called your Watchtower 10 minutes ago, and you were in space." I knew that the Kryptonian was more than capable of rivaling the Flash in speed, but it was still insane just seeing that right before me. Makes my flight across the country trivial in comparison.
"When you said that children were being experimented on, I had to intervene and stop it as soon as I could." Superman said, "Even if I had to fly ahead of the others."
"And where are the rest of you guys?" I asked, because I doubt that they'd let Superman do this alone considering how little they know of the facility beyond what I told them.
"They're taking care of this." He replied. In the background, I could hear what he meant as there was now screaming along with ongoing alarms.
"You are trespassing on government property!" A grunt yelled out.
Seems that the mooks aren't too happy with the surprise visit.
"Where're the kids you sickos are experimenting on!?" Green Lantern yelled in turn.
I brought my focus back to the room.
"Again, you guys came surprisingly quick." I restated.
"We have to be when it comes to the safety of children." He said, as simple and genuine as possible.
Just as he said that the locked door opened, revealing the Overseer whose skin became both paler and redder when he saw Superman in front of the kids along with the injured instructors. Funny enough, Ben was blocking me from his sight.
"Vacate these premises at once! As we have notified repeatedly, you have no authority or right to be here!" The overseer screamed. But just as it became clear that his demands wouldn't be followed, he turned to the kids. "Metahumans! As per protocol, you are to assist our forces in removing these trespassers should they fail to vacate!" He ordered.
"I'm gonna have to tell you to get bent, headmaster." Scott refused.
"As much as I'd like to get into a tussle with Superman, I'm with him. Now piss off before I make you get bent." Ben threatened.
The overseer bristled before he shouted, "MH-0079! MH-0084! Such insubordination will be severely punished!-"
"There will be no more of that," Superman interrupted with a plain statement, "We'll leave this facility, but we're taking the children with us."
"They are wards of the state and under our care!"
"You call experimenting on children care!?" He yelled back.
"We have done no such thing. This facility is for the benefit of their care as their parents lack the resources necessary to raise children with their talents. This just so happens to involve extensive and new medical oper-"
"They poked and prodded me with sharp sticks, and stuck tubes in me." Ace interrupted with a glare. "They did that to the rest of us. It wasn't fun."
"It sucked, but the flamethrower was always a warm and comfy time even if I stunk like burnt skin after." Ben added, completely unfazed by the statement or experience.
Superman looked even less happy as his disapproving frown and furrowed brows grew. His displeasure was clear enough that Lynch stopped spewing his bullshit since the kids would go against him.
"Everything done here is for and with the authority of the United States of America. If you continue with your actions, you'll be acting against!-"
"We'll leave out of respect for the government's authority. But know this, if we find out that you or any other branch of the government continue along this line of behavior towards metahumans, the Justice League will save them from you."
"It is not them who need saving from us, it is us who need it from those of your kind. Your actions here and with Apokolips have demonstrated that clearly!" Lynch said back hotly, calling back Superman's forced role in aiding Darkseid's invasion of Earth.
Superman's guilt and shame was loud enough to hear even if I wasn't actively trying to read nearby minds. But he remained stoic in face of the reminder and was about to say something, but stopped once his earpiece pinged.
"The distractions worked, Superman, we got their data before they could destroy it. We're done here." Batman reported.
Instead of whatever he was going to say, Superman let out a breath instead.
"We're done here. I bid you a good day, sir," He said before ramming himself through the wall, revealing their jet out in the distance. He turned back to the kids with a smile. "Come along kids, and android, we'll take you to a better place."
The overseer was fuming as he knew that there wasn't a damn thing he could do to stop Superman from rendering the last however many years of work moot. I doubt that Waller or Eilling would be happy but they along with this asshat could go fuck themselves.
All five of these kids looked at the jet in the distance before turning over to me. Which also happened to draw the gazes of Superman and Lynch over to me and the knocked out bodies on the floor.
"You'll come with us, won't you Amazo?" Ace asked. 'Won't you please?' She projected towards me for extra emphasis. That had me floored since it wouldn't be a good while until she developed a more controlled telepathy than what she should have at this moment.
"Well, with puppy dog eyes like that and how helpless you lads would be without me, sure. Besides, now that the government knows of a mysterious stranger, they're gonna hunt me down and try to probe me, might as well stick with the League for a bit until the heat dies down."
"Bring him along if you can, I have questions I need to ask.' Batman said, before he seemed to register something from what I said, "He could be probed?"
"Now isn't the time, Batman," Superman muttered under his breath. He spoke in his regular tone as he addressed me, "That said, we would be happy to have you. I can tell that it would mean a lot to the kids to have you there to keep them company. And I'm glad that I could call you something other than 'the Android', though…"
"The guy named Superman better not be coming at me about the cape name..."
"No, no, I'm just curious about how you'll live up to that name. So far you're doing a good job, saving these kids and these amazingly weird circumstances we keep meeting each other."
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The longest chapter yet, sheesh. Then again, I suppose that what's going on merits such length. There was going to be more but I felt this was long enough, besides I feel that enough had happened here for the chapter. Out of everything, I feel this may be or may not be the weakest chapter so far, idk (nvm, I'm liking it rn) I'll be doing a bunch of changes and edits after I give this a bit of space to refresh my head. I just finished writing this after a late night haze. Not too happy with the ending but it was all I could think up of atm. I'll change it later maybe.
Amazo got the Royal Flush Gang out of Cadmus', and later on Joker's, hands, the League knows of Cadmus' existence (hinted with Batman's comm with Superman and will be shown next chapter), and Cadmus knows of a tall fellow in a trenchcoat. Both sides aren't going to be too happy with what they've learned, and this may or may not result in a Galatea visit once they find our 10ft mandroid wherever he'll be.
A bunch of people to juggle, woo boy that was a bit rough. So feel free to tell me how I did and leave me any critiques or thoughts you may have with the chapter.
The young girl stared at me in awe as I defied what had been a certainty in her life. Anyone without protection who looked at her would've gone insane. It was what happened to her parents, it was how she found herself taken in by the government.
Her power worked perfectly no matter what gazed at her, be it through human eyes or television screens. It's unknown what effect it would have on an Android like myself, so better safe than sorry in copying her power for resistance. After all, it worked on Green Lantern for all of his Will, on Superman for all of his strength, and even on Martian Manhunter for all of his mental prowess. The only person who had a resistance, to nobody's surprise, was Batman, and barely at that.
Yet before this power, despite my once human mind, I was immune. And unlike the Joker's lie of him already being insane granting immunity, though he did recover later on so there was some merit in that claim. Still, mine wouldn't have been a lie.
"Who's Ace?" She asked confused, which reminded me that they didn't have the names that would be given to them by the Joker. Not that they ever would since I'm making damn sure that he'll never lay his sight on them, or anything else for that matter.
"Well, I don't exactly have your name and I'm not calling you a number. And you look like an Ace," I explained, "But if you don't like it-"
"No, I like it," She interrupted, a small smile on her lips, "I like Ace. Thank you."
"What about the rest of us? Do we get names?" The one who would've been Jack asked. Hm, that one is an actual name so that can stay.
"More importantly, does that offer extend to us?" The one who would've been Queen asked after scoffing at Jack's question.
"Yes, consider it extended to all of you. Names and a way out." I reassured them before turning to the lad who asked about names, "How does Jack sound? I think it fits you."
"Hmm, I can dig the sound of that."
Ace and Jack were easy enough since they're actual names. King, Queen, and Ten were ok for cape names, though pretty unoriginal, but aren't actual names to give. It'd be easy to slap the identities of the Teen Titans on them since they all share the same voice actors, but it'd be a dick move to be that lazy. And Batman would be very curious about how the names that I'd given matched up with another group of super teens. So Richard, Victor, and Raven were out.
Their situation was similar to the X-Men however, main difference was that Lynch was more abusive than Xavier though the professor was rather shady himself at times. So taking some inspiration from them shouldn't be that bad, plus nobody could call me out on it besides maybe the Presence, Ambush Bug, and those imps obsessed with Bats and Supes (not invoking their names since 5th-dimensional fuckery may be beyond me at the moment.).
King could shoot fire-like concussive blasts and would become the leader of the group so, "Scott, " I said to King.
Queen could control metal and bend it to her will so, "Erica" to Queen.
Ten had the Superman-tier Brute package of super strength and durability… which applies to way too many people to narrow it down to. Fuck it, the Thing doesn't get enough respect so, "Ben" I said to Ten.
"Feel free to take whatever you'd like though if these aren't doing it for you."
"No need to worry about that." Scott replied as their eyes were flitting from one to the other to one as they took in their new personas, "We're fine with what you've given us."
"Thanks,..." Ben nodded before pausing, "...you know, you never told us your name."
"Who are you supposed to be anyway? You don't look like any robot or android we've seen before, phasing in and injuring personnel like that." The bald Scott asked, his gaze on the knocked-out instructors in a small pool of blood. "Not that we're complaining, those guys were jerks and the lecture sucked. Thanks for that."
"You guys are the first to ask that. Lately, it's been hows and whys, but never a who." I said.
"Then the least you could do is answer, mysterious stranger." Erica said.
It's nice not being called 'the Android' for once. Though I suppose people would be more inclined to think of their rescuer as people than an unknown and possible enemy. Still, it leaves me at a bit of a loss regarding my own name. Well, not exactly, there was a name I plan on taking on, though it's one that's best saved for when I grew beyond my current self, be it an alter ego or a new identity. "Well, I don't have anything solid yet but you can call me Amazo for now."
"Amazo?" All five of them asked, three with confusion, one with wonder, and one with a roll of her eyes.
"Like the Amazonians?" Jack asked, throwing out the first thing that came to mind.
"I think you could tell by my broad frame that I lack their certain features. Plus I have no affiliation with the Amazon rain forest."
"Well, Amazo what?"
"Just Amazo."
"No last name?" Ben asked.
"Not applicable."
"No actual name?"
"Well, it's an acronym, but I doubt that anyone would want to pronounce the whole thing or the periods that come along with it." The only time punctuation marks should be respected is with hyphens, which don't seem to exist much outside of Spider_Man.
"Amazo sounds pretty campy don't you think." Erica criticized before shrugging, "...but I guess hero names are supposed to be like that so whatever." I wanted to give her a flat look since she would've unironically called herself Queen, but decided against it since Joker came up with that more than she did.
"I like it just fine. He's amazing so it fits." Ace said in my defense as she glared at Erica.
Erica assuming I was a hero and Ace calling me amazing, gave me some pause. It was certainly flattering, and considering that I was saving children it was just about as heroic as can be. But I also killed a man, villain he may be. Then again, he did ask for it, so maybe it was assisted suicide, someone as smart as Lex should know better than to mouth off to an unknown factor after all. Though even Deadpool stopped those from happening so still not too good. Though I think stopping a robot from destroying the universe and the resurrection of the New God of Tyranny would even that out. So, saving these kids evens out my moral grey area to being a decent person. Not good as most heroes are but not as evil or bad as most villains. No need for the label of 'anti' either, I don't fit those either. Or any sort.
I'm just a person, some dude who gained the ability to have powers. I won't go power hungry since I'll already evolve into an ultimate being, so for now I'm just a dude who wants to collect powers, have some fun, and do some good every now and then. There, simple and kinda clean is the way that I feel.
"Heh, as I said, it's nothing solid but it's what I've got right now." I was about to suggest that they could call me 'Mr. Ivo' but I decided not to. Just because the cameras were down doesn't mean that there weren't bugs, so let's not give Cadmus any clues about me besides the fact that I'm an unknown.
"So, Amazo, how do you plan on getting us out of here? We're in the middle of the desert and we have no transportation that'll fit all of us." Scott asked, pointing at the rather large for his age Ben, to which he just shrugged with a smirk.
"Simple, I called the Justice League. Turns out that experimenting on kids is very much illegal, even if it's the government doing it. And if it somehow is, which I wouldn't be surprised, sad to say, it's still very immoral. So we'll just wait for them to arrive, dish out some justice, and they'll take you somewhere nice and safe in that jet of theirs."
"What about you? Where are you going after that?" Ace asked.
"Me? Well, I got a place in Metropolis that I'll chill at for a bit before I go sightseeing again, which is how I found you guys actually."
"Why don't you just take us with you then?" She continued to ask.
I blinked, surprised at how much Ace wanted to stay with me. As I looked at the rest of them, they were in the same boat as Ace in wanting to stick with me. Which is an understandable consequence since they acted the same once the Joker freed them, which allowed him to use them as willing goons for his scheme to drive millions insane. Which has me thinking that I probably should've let the League handle this one, damn my impulsiveness, since I'm not really equipped to handle a bunch of superpowered teenagers and kid.
"Well... I mean I could, but how I got here can't be applied to the rest of you. I doubt any of you could fly and my rocket thrusters can only support so much weight for such a long flight." And though this wasn't the full extent of how I could travel, I wasn't lying. With most of them having baseline human durability, I couldn't go as fast as I had gotten here. And using a Will constructed bubble to carry them was out of the question.
"We'll just catch a ride then and go to your place. After all, it was you who got us outta here."
"Hmm, I don't exactly have enough room for you guys." I never really looked at Ivo's place beyond his resting place, his lab, and the stairs, but something tells me that an unmarried mad scientist wouldn't have much in guest rooms. "Plus, all the food expired besides the Twinkies and a can of Pringles." The man knew he was dying so he indulged quite a bit in snacks and excesses.
""""Twinkies!?"""" All of them besides Ace cried out in joy, leaving her to look at them in confusion before turning to me.
"It's a golden snack cake with some creamy filling," I explained to an out-of-the-loop Ace. Just the description made them even more excited, even Ace started joining in though I'm pretty sure it's for the concept more than the experience.
Fucking Cadmus, a snarl would've shown itself had I still had a traditional mouth. So I settled for clenching my fists tightly.
"Food with some actual flavor is more than enough after the slop they've been giving us!" Ben said, rubbing his hands together gleefully.
"Yeah! Let's go get a taste of those tasty treats!" Jack added.
"Don't forget the Pringles! Those are good too!" Scott added, getting into the spirit of things.
"They're pretty unhealthy, you know." I tacked on, since you know, 'responsible' adult and all that.
"Super metabolism, though I never got to use it properly." Ben brushed off before grumbling towards the end.
"We'll fix that soon enough! All the all-you-can buffets that we could clear out! We'd be killer at any eating contest!" Jack enthused.
Erica didn't seem to share their feelings on their food binging spree, going by the disgust on her face, "Yuck, you do know that stuff is touched by a ton of people, right? Super metabolism or not, you're just gonna puke all of that crud back out if you just stuff your face,"
"Maybe, maybe not," Jack retorted, "I mean, the puke would probably taste better than the crud they feed us."
Ben and Scott both let out a laugh as Erica just sighed with a shake of her head, though she was smiling just as much as they were.
It's a delight to see them so happy, but sad when it was just the mention of Twinkies that got them so hyped up. And I can't help but join them in their envy as I can't taste anything with this Android body, yet at least. I can still remember tastes weirdly enough, which is why I could remember that Hot Pockets were the superior snack foods. (damn I could go for one right now) Just when I was about to correct them-
*CRASH*
Crashing through the roof was the Man of Steel who landed on the ground, superhero pose and all. Which was promptly followed by the sound of alarm bells ringing.
"I'll get you all the Twinkies you could want!" Superman promised as he examined each of them, his relief clear to see. "And you'll all enjoy the buffet I'll treat you to. I'm just glad that you all are alright."
"You came here surprisingly quick. I called your Watchtower 10 minutes ago, and you were in space." I knew that the Kryptonian was more than capable of rivaling the Flash in speed, but it was still insane just seeing that right before me. Makes my flight across the country trivial in comparison.
"When you said that children were being experimented on, I had to intervene and stop it as soon as I could." Superman said, "Even if I had to fly ahead of the others."
"And where are the rest of you guys?" I asked, because I doubt that they'd let Superman do this alone considering how little they know of the facility beyond what I told them.
"They're taking care of this." He replied. In the background, I could hear what he meant as there was now screaming along with ongoing alarms.
"You are trespassing on government property!" A grunt yelled out.
Seems that the mooks aren't too happy with the surprise visit.
"Where're the kids you sickos are experimenting on!?" Green Lantern yelled in turn.
I brought my focus back to the room.
"Again, you guys came surprisingly quick." I restated.
"We have to be when it comes to the safety of children." He said, as simple and genuine as possible.
Just as he said that the locked door opened, revealing the Overseer whose skin became both paler and redder when he saw Superman in front of the kids along with the injured instructors. Funny enough, Ben was blocking me from his sight.
"Vacate these premises at once! As we have notified repeatedly, you have no authority or right to be here!" The overseer screamed. But just as it became clear that his demands wouldn't be followed, he turned to the kids. "Metahumans! As per protocol, you are to assist our forces in removing these trespassers should they fail to vacate!" He ordered.
"I'm gonna have to tell you to get bent, headmaster." Scott refused.
"As much as I'd like to get into a tussle with Superman, I'm with him. Now piss off before I make you get bent." Ben threatened.
The overseer bristled before he shouted, "MH-0079! MH-0084! Such insubordination will be severely punished!-"
"There will be no more of that," Superman interrupted with a plain statement, "We'll leave this facility, but we're taking the children with us."
"They are wards of the state and under our care!"
"You call experimenting on children care!?" He yelled back.
"We have done no such thing. This facility is for the benefit of their care as their parents lack the resources necessary to raise children with their talents. This just so happens to involve extensive and new medical oper-"
"They poked and prodded me with sharp sticks, and stuck tubes in me." Ace interrupted with a glare. "They did that to the rest of us. It wasn't fun."
"It sucked, but the flamethrower was always a warm and comfy time even if I stunk like burnt skin after." Ben added, completely unfazed by the statement or experience.
Superman looked even less happy as his disapproving frown and furrowed brows grew. His displeasure was clear enough that Lynch stopped spewing his bullshit since the kids would go against him.
"Everything done here is for and with the authority of the United States of America. If you continue with your actions, you'll be acting against!-"
"We'll leave out of respect for the government's authority. But know this, if we find out that you or any other branch of the government continue along this line of behavior towards metahumans, the Justice League will save them from you."
"It is not them who need saving from us, it is us who need it from those of your kind. Your actions here and with Apokolips have demonstrated that clearly!" Lynch said back hotly, calling back Superman's forced role in aiding Darkseid's invasion of Earth.
Superman's guilt and shame was loud enough to hear even if I wasn't actively trying to read nearby minds. But he remained stoic in face of the reminder and was about to say something, but stopped once his earpiece pinged.
"The distractions worked, Superman, we got their data before they could destroy it. We're done here." Batman reported.
Instead of whatever he was going to say, Superman let out a breath instead.
"We're done here. I bid you a good day, sir," He said before ramming himself through the wall, revealing their jet out in the distance. He turned back to the kids with a smile. "Come along kids, and android, we'll take you to a better place."
The overseer was fuming as he knew that there wasn't a damn thing he could do to stop Superman from rendering the last however many years of work moot. I doubt that Waller or Eilling would be happy but they along with this asshat could go fuck themselves.
All five of these kids looked at the jet in the distance before turning over to me. Which also happened to draw the gazes of Superman and Lynch over to me and the knocked out bodies on the floor.
"You'll come with us, won't you Amazo?" Ace asked. 'Won't you please?' She projected towards me for extra emphasis. That had me floored since it wouldn't be a good while until she developed a more controlled telepathy than what she should have at this moment.
"Well, with puppy dog eyes like that and how helpless you lads would be without me, sure. Besides, now that the government knows of a mysterious stranger, they're gonna hunt me down and try to probe me, might as well stick with the League for a bit until the heat dies down."
"Bring him along if you can, I have questions I need to ask.' Batman said, before he seemed to register something from what I said, "He could be probed?"
"Now isn't the time, Batman," Superman muttered under his breath. He spoke in his regular tone as he addressed me, "That said, we would be happy to have you. I can tell that it would mean a lot to the kids to have you there to keep them company. And I'm glad that I could call you something other than 'the Android', though…"
"The guy named Superman better not be coming at me about the cape name..."
"No, no, I'm just curious about how you'll live up to that name. So far you're doing a good job, saving these kids and these amazingly weird circumstances we keep meeting each other."
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The longest chapter yet, sheesh. Then again, I suppose that what's going on merits such length. There was going to be more but I felt this was long enough, besides I feel that enough had happened here for the chapter. Out of everything, I feel this may be or may not be the weakest chapter so far, idk (nvm, I'm liking it rn) I'll be doing a bunch of changes and edits after I give this a bit of space to refresh my head. I just finished writing this after a late night haze. Not too happy with the ending but it was all I could think up of atm. I'll change it later maybe.
Amazo got the Royal Flush Gang out of Cadmus', and later on Joker's, hands, the League knows of Cadmus' existence (hinted with Batman's comm with Superman and will be shown next chapter), and Cadmus knows of a tall fellow in a trenchcoat. Both sides aren't going to be too happy with what they've learned, and this may or may not result in a Galatea visit once they find our 10ft mandroid wherever he'll be.
A bunch of people to juggle, woo boy that was a bit rough. So feel free to tell me how I did and leave me any critiques or thoughts you may have with the chapter.
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Actually me and my friends did some looking and everywhere in DC is basically a hell hole
America- Supervillian, Alien invasions, Magical Sacrifice, Eldritch Abominations that is Gotham and Faucet City, the various Dark Wizards and Cults,
Europe- the Various Noble Families and Government officials regularly make Deals with Demons and use regular people souls as payment, Vampires run Blood Farms and own alot of the governments (same for the various other monsters), Zeus regularly sleeps around here and has Kids with women but doesn't warn them that he is Zeus and Hera will screw them because she can't get back at her Husband, the Various Mage Familys or Cults run alot of stuff that the monsters don't and are usually as Bad, have nowhere near enough Heroes so are unlikely to be saved, basically Europe is HELL.
Asia- is the same as Europe only now add Cultivators into the mix, the Great Ten are mostly a Government Hit Squad, hope you don't have Powers unless to want to be forced to serve or be put in a Camp/ PIT in the ground, Russia is only slightly better but Baba Yaga is still a thing as is Kashei or the various other stuff, the various Dark Magic users.
India- Hindu and Buddhist Enough said
Japan- Yokai, Gods, Magic users etc...
The MiddleEast- Queen Bee, Wars, God's, Magic, Monsters, Curses etc...
Africa- other then the various Warlords you also have to worry about the Shamans actually Curseing you, The Various God's that Wander, the Magical Beast the roam in the Dark,
There is basically no place in DC Earth that is a Good Place to live. All locations are all equally as bad it the same for S-America. They are All Hellholes with Good PR
But counterpoint, Marvel Canada was so hilariously evil its government at one point drop what little pretense it had and openly turn into a fascist state which target everything slightly unhuman or generally against the Government, throw this people into human experimentations camps that are also labor and/or concentration camps
Isiri Pudireach
Predictive text can go duck itself
Tldr: Earth actually is a Deathworld in D.C. why am I no suprised?
Wonder if that stuff was added before or after Worm was written. Cause that sounds like the Yangban.
If he wants a name for himself, he could call himself Robotnik. After all, his
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I always knew the Leaf bois were up to no good!
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It's fairly old by this point in comics
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I raise you DC England where the Various people in power Regularly Sacrifice normal people to demons for power, There is cannibalism, rape, Slavery everything under the sun going on there, it's shown in Hellblazer and other John Constantine comics.
Thats only the Noble and Governments that's Not getting into the various secret societies cults and everything else that also do these things in England.
Canada wishes it could match DC England
Is that supposed to be a joke? Because that's a underline not hyphen.
With how often people be forgetting about the hyphen, I think Peter should appreciate that Amazo gave a shift about it
(yah it is)
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"No, no, I'm just curious about how you'll live up to that name. So far you're doing a good job, saving these kids and these amazingly weird circumstances we keep meeting each other."
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Huh, that's a strange way of looking at it.
Then again, Superman was looking at it from the perspective of a cape name and those tended to carry some weight for the one holding it.
Batman was simple, he was a man dressed as a bat. As for why the bat had any significance, young Bruce felt fear at the sight of the animal and thus sought to inspire such fear into the hearts of criminals.
Superman was also simple, he was a lot of words that could be used to convey how above the average man he was, but kept it simple at 'super'. Not an Ultraman or an Omni-man like the less morally inclined alternatives that saw themselves as above the normal man. Rather, as someone that any normal man can become as they work for a better tomorrow.
In my case, I was just Amazo. The most meaning a person could assume to find is someone who amazes by doing amazing things. Or just a campy name to go along with some naming conventions.
And yet I was also A.M.A.Z.O., the Anti-Metahuman Adaptive Zoomatic Organism. Someone who could do amazing things only by doing what other amazing people do but better. True and a deceiver, real and a pretender. Tabula rasa, nunc ultimum et transcendens.
Much like ogres, names could carry layers depending on how you looked at them.
"Thanks, it means a lot coming from you. As for how I'll live up to it, I think that it'll be a surprise to be sure." I answered. To which Superman only chuckled goodheartedly, though I'm sure that would've sounded ominous to Batman and only make him suspicious. More than he already is anyway.
And with that, we left the classroom behind and made our way into the desert. The alarms of the facility were still ringing as we left.
Soon enough, Green Lantern flew out of the facility and joined up with us. It seems that he was the distraction causing such a fuss while Superman was getting the kids.
"You know, it was a pain to catch up with you when you go at those speeds. And the kids?"
"I'm just thankful it wasn't needed, Amazo got to them before anything more could happen."
"Amazo?" Lantern asked.
"That's the Android's name, got it from the little one," Superman explained while pointing at me with his thumb. Lantern looked at me in surprise, not expecting me to have such a name, or any at all.
"I better not hear anything about my cape name from a guy who named himself after his job, Mr. Space Cop."
"I'm the Green Lantern of this sector, so I think it's appropriate. Besides, you don't see any other Green Lanterns like you do other police officers and firefighters, do you?"
"No, not really." I mean, at the moment, no. But Kyle Rainer is also a human Lantern so there's technically two if he ever came back. And anything that requires more than one Green Lantern would be quite the issue.
Once we made it to the League's jet, we found Batman looking over some files in the pilot's seat while the Flash was organizing the physical files into categories. Both weren't too happy with what they were seeing, the Flash looking grim while Batman was frowning hard.
"I'm happy to report that the children are safe and sound. And I found our android friend, his name is Amazo." Superman announced as we walked on board.
Flash stopped organizing the files and ran over to us, though he did so without incurring the cliche of sending the papers flying. Batman set his papers down before walking over.
Batman took his eyes off Superman to look at the kids. His gaze softened as he looked at each of them, growing especially soft when on Ace, before they narrowed sharply when looking at me.
"Where did you get that trenchcoat? And why are you now wearing clothes?" he asked. Which confused me to be honest, I would've expected some harder questions from him. Then again, here and now with children isn't the best place for him to ask what he really wanted.
"Batman, I may be new to this wide and wacky world but I know enough that giant grey men aren't exactly normal. Plus I had to go get Ivo some food since he wasn't in much of a shape to do so himself, so he had a coat made for me for when I'm doing errands to keep discreet."
"Batman, as much as we'd like to play 20 Questions with Amazo, we do need to be on our way." Superman interrupted.
Batman stopped before nodding at Superman but made sure to give me a glare, as if to signal that he wasn't done with me. "You're right. Flash, escort the children to the back of the jet and get them fastened, we'll be taking off." he ordered as he walked back to the helm. Flash was happy enough to stop reading the files and led the kids to the back.
After a little bit to ensure that they were out of range, Lantern asked after getting in his own seat, "We have the Javelin stocked and ready for our passengers, but where would we take them?"
All of the League members blinked at that before their faces scrunched up in confusion. They didn't think about this beyond getting the kids out, didn't they? Even Batman was at a loss. I mean, no judgment on them for doing so since I did the same, but this is gonna be a bit of a pickle to handle.
"The Watchtower," Batman finally answered.
"Batman, it's hardly a place for children." Superman disagreed. And I couldn't argue with him, I doubt civilans or children were in mind when this place was built. But the Royal Flush Gang weren't just average folks.
"I know, but it would only be temporary until we found a proper place for them. One where they'll be out of reach from the government."
"Speaking of which, Batman, what did you find?" Superman inquired.
"I'll need to head back to the Watchtower in order to properly analyze the data. But from the physical files and research papers that Flash has gotten, which is everything that they had, it paints a disturbing picture. This facility is dedicated to the training and molding of these five for weapons of the government. And this isn't the only one they've done."
"You're telling me that there's more!?" Superman demanded aghast. Batman's eyes were sterner before he inclined his head towards the back, Superman noticed and calmed himself down with a breath.
"From what I've found, it's connected to something larger but other than a few references to other bases in a nearby area there's not much to find. At least until I get a look at the data files. But I did find what it's all connected to, Project Cadmus."
"And what's Cadmus supposed to be?"
"Cadmus is in the business of developing weapons against metahumans, specifically and recently, to fight against us."
"Us?" Green Lantern blinked in surprise, "We haven't done anything that would warrant such a thing."
"...no, most of us haven't. But I have. My actions caused harm to the Earth, even if it was under mind control." Superman said, his shame returning from the previous mention of his role in Darkseid's invasion.
"It isn't just because of you, it seems that this has been going on for a long time. As long as metahumans become a factor of power, the government is going to want to exert some control over it." Batman rebuked and reassured.
"I can understand that, but to think that they'd resort to such means…" Superman mulled before shaking it off, "Be that as it may, we'll have to come back to that later, and we most certainly will. We still have to take care of these kids and more recent issues."
"Back to speaking of the kids, how about the Batcave? You had a bunch of Robins in there didn't you?" I suggested. Well, I'd say Wayne Manor but I didn't want to freak Bruce out too much by dropping that. So the best I could do is to suggest Batman and let that potentially end up being Bruce Wayne.
"How do you know about the Batcave?" Batman asked. Huh, it seems that the fact that he had a Batcave wasn't public knowledge yet.
"Bats live in caves, and given your track record with names it seemed obvious," I explained.
"He does have a point you know," Lantern agreed, "Batarang, Batmobile, Bat-signal..."
"No, it won't be suitable. At the least, I would need to speak with a host I have in mind and some time to prepare rooms and accommodations for them and their abilities." Batman said, getting back to the topic and ignoring my and Lantern's valid comments. So he wasn't opposed, he just needed to set something up. Though that could either be a case of letting them live in Wayne Manor or a case of Teen Titans and Young Justice where he provides them a home out of some base. The kids are certainly old and mostly mature enough to watch themselves.
"You could just leave them with me for a little while." I proposed, my suggestion having caught them off guard, "My home was owned by a mad scientist so it'd likely be resistant to exotic things damaging it like powers. I just need some snack money and they'd be good to go until a better place is set up."
"Not so fast. We hardly know if you'd be the best candidate to watch over them, especially given the recent events that transpired there." Batman objected, citing some suspicions that he was keeping vague. It wouldn't do well to place the rescuer to traumatized children in a negative light right in front of them, just makes his job helping them harder.
"That's right! I still need to fix my front doors."
"That wasn't what I meant."
"Yeah, I know, I know. I just want them to have some place normal where they can relax for a little while." I explained. While I did agree that I wouldn't be the best of guardians long term, especially since I've got plans that need me to be mobile, I wouldn't mind watching them for a bit.
And speaking of events happening at my home, "So how did the investigation go anyway? By MCPD and by ace detective?" I asked with a raised brow. I didn't have a mouth to give a smug grin and I couldn't lean against anything so I settled for the brow.
"We decided not to involve the MCPD, considering what happened being beyond what they usually handle." Superman explained.
"However, I still conducted a thorough examination for any evidence." Batman added.
"And…" I asked ever so innocently.
Batman looked like he ate something sour, though only minutely as he admitted, "...The evidence matches with your story. While the lack of DNA would be concerning, Brainiac's tampering with Luthor's body renders such a thing very questionable and, at this point, moot."
"And how are you gonna explain the death?"
"We won't, truthfully that is. The fact that Brainiac had managed to control Luthor and act unnoticed or detected for years is unnerving to us already, it wouldn't go well with the world at large at all."
"Interesting to know, but I was referring to the stairs."
Batman closed his eyes before inhaling and letting out an exhale, as if he had trouble believing what he was about to say, "...We are not telling the people that Lex Luthor died from a fall down the stairs."
"But you confirmed it tho."
"Yes, but we would need to explain the lack of a body and I doubt that the chunks of man and metal he became would go along with that. Add the fact that we had to incinerate the remains gives even less room for it to be believed. Instead, we'll claim that his suit had malfunctioned, and along with his kryptonite cancer, became too irradiated to leave intact, forcing us to destroy the body." Batman explained. Then he added with what I could've sworn was tomfoolery, "Besides, I doubt that you'd appreciate the nationwide attention that your home would receive as the site of Luthor's death." And despite the rib, which I wasn't expecting, he was right. No, no I would have not.
Ivo was a recluse and that worked just fine for me, the second that his house got any attention meant that I would have to fend off journalists and government mooks swarming my property. Then I'd also have to fend off villains and government mooks trying to get their grubby hands on Ivo's, now my, stuff. I mean, sure, at this point governments and villains were laughable, but I'd like some time before I had to scare them off. That, and the average folks, civilain and government, would be annoying to deal with since violence was off the table, even if I could just shapeshift to solve some of those problems.
But all of that is nothing to get into a fuss about now, so I'll just be thankful that I missed the headline of a century in exchange for some peace. Still, there'll be consequences either way, "That's reasonable, and thank you. Though, with a powerful man like Luthor dying when his last reported sightings were in battle with you guys, people are going to be very curious and very interested. Be it the public, other villains, or government, or even those of the government within Cadmus."
"...what are you trying to imply about Cadmus?" Superman asked this time.
"Cadmus is a part of the government and I've seen enough ads of a certain interview to notice that Luthor was rather interested in playing politics and winning in first place. It wouldn't surprise me if he threw some money at powerful groups within the government to get their backing, and with a certain group looking into weaponizing and combating Metahumans…" I trailed off. While me suggesting this might get them suspicious of me, for coming to such a conclusion about a man who died at my home, it was for the better that the League is as aware of Cadmus as possible. And I doubt that Luthor would let his name be seen by anybody other than the top of Cadmus' hierarchy, just to gloat about them needing him.
"Then it'd be more than likely for Luthor to be one of their backers. And given our recent actions, they may see this as a threat or an attack on them." Batman concluded.
"It doesn't matter how they see it. We couldn't control what happened with Luthor and we wouldn't have allowed Cadmus to continue with their experiments on the children or any others they have." Superman said, even less happy now. The idea of Luthor having funded this while he was completely unaware and the fallout not sitting well with him.
"And with how they were preparing counters against us, it could even be possible that they might come after us anyway. At least we're aware of them now. And knowing is half the battle." Lantern said. Wait, did he just fucking quote G.I. Joe? Is that a thing here?
"As for how we became aware of them…" Batman trailed off before he turned right at me.
"How did you find this facility?" He demanded, probably one of the first things he wanted to say to me. Also the last thing he asked me before I hung up on him.
"I do believe that you said that my home was a crime scene, so I went out for a walk and figured that by the time I got back that you'd be done." I answered.
"How exactly did you end up walking from Delaware to Arizona? All the way across to the other side of the country? Such a trip would take a day or two of straight driving by car and a month on foot. Even if you could walk at the speed of a bicycle it'd still take you a week or so to get here." He asked, a bit incredulous at my answer. And the feeling was mutual since I was computer, I had no idea how Batman could calculate that amount of time so quickly. I'm just going to chalk it up as 'becuase he's Batman' and move on.
"I'm very enthusiastic about my walks, I'll have you know, gotta use these legs after all!" At his flat stare, I deflated a bit. Then I lifted my foot and briefly let a bit of rocket out, "You are aware that I could also fly, right? I went for a bit of a walk before deciding to make it a flight."
"And so you came across this facility. What made you look into this one out of the dozens of others? One would think that we'd be having this conversation over at Area 51, a rather famous tourist attraction."
Huh, in my haste to find Ace it hadn't occurred to me to look for Area 51 at all. Memories of 2019 and an Internet Historian video flooded my head for a moment.
While I'll never know if what it contained would be one-to-one back home with this being the DC universe, getting an idea of what could be in there is so going to be on my to do list. Might find me some mythical aliens or weapons of mass destruction to scan.
Hold on, an area where aliens and advanced tech are being held…
My eyes widened upon the realization. "Wouldn't that be a Cadmus base? Sure it'd be obvious, but you'd never know..."
Batman was silent for a moment as he considered this, "You wouldn't be wrong to assume. With the number of rumors and myths surrounding it, any one of them could be true. And it'll certainly be something that I'll look into but I'm not done with you yet, you still haven't answered my question."
Hmm, how honest do I want to be? I could argue that I wanted to visit the Arizona desert just because and happened to find this base. Oh wait, other tourist attractions in the desert.
"I wanted to see the Grand Canyon. Ivo mentioned it being one of his fondest travels, so I figured that I should give this a look."
Batman didn't seem too keen on that answer, but likely figured that this was all that I'd give him.
And would you look at that, we just landed in the Watchtower. Wow that flew by, didn't it? I didn't even get to notice that we were just in space.
And now we're in the Watchtower, headquaters of the Justice League. A marvel of engineering that managed to last 30,000 years after Vandal Savage messed up the solar system's gravity and humanity went extinct. At least that was before Batman would later crash on the Earth that is. Let's hope that we can stop that from happening again...
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First chapter of 2023!
Not much happened here besides discussing, and some grilling from Batman, but I find it kinda important since the League aren't going to ignore the ramifications of what they've found SO FAR. They still have the facility's digital files to look through plus some extra info Amazo will add on.
I'm not totally satisfied with this chapter, but I guess after the big events of the last one, things needed to unwind for a bit. Not much input from the kids since including them and the 4 League members here would be juggling too much, plus I think that the adults would like to discuss things out of their ears. As for where the others are (Manhunter, Hawkgirl, and WW), they were busy for 'reasons' but will be here next chapter. And I already wrote this 2-3k thing so I'll live with it. Still gonna do some edits and fixes since there's always some to be made.
Next chapter will have a mini timeskip to get the other League members up to speed on what was discussed so far. Then the whole League will see some of the facility's digital files + some extra info Amazo added on, then they'll debate on what to do about Cadmus. That, and settling the Royal Flush Gang somewhere safe. After all of that, they'll announce to the world of Luthor's demise. By the way, what you guys think about an interlude from Cadmus POV? Just asking because I think it'd be pretty interesting to see their reactions (they don't take things well lol)
I'm sorry about the wait, life happened, then my muse was being a pain when writing this. But I finally got to chapter 10! It's the furthest I've been in as an author so I'm happy to make it at this landmark.
Anyway, I hope that you guys liked this chapter and leave me your thoughts/critique/feedback on it.
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Huh, that's a strange way of looking at it.
Then again, Superman was looking at it from the perspective of a cape name and those tended to carry some weight for the one holding it.
Batman was simple, he was a man dressed as a bat. As for why the bat had any significance, young Bruce felt fear at the sight of the animal and thus sought to inspire such fear into the hearts of criminals.
Superman was also simple, he was a lot of words that could be used to convey how above the average man he was, but kept it simple at 'super'. Not an Ultraman or an Omni-man like the less morally inclined alternatives that saw themselves as above the normal man. Rather, as someone that any normal man can become as they work for a better tomorrow.
In my case, I was just Amazo. The most meaning a person could assume to find is someone who amazes by doing amazing things. Or just a campy name to go along with some naming conventions.
And yet I was also A.M.A.Z.O., the Anti-Metahuman Adaptive Zoomatic Organism. Someone who could do amazing things only by doing what other amazing people do but better. True and a deceiver, real and a pretender. Tabula rasa, nunc ultimum et transcendens.
Much like ogres, names could carry layers depending on how you looked at them.
"Thanks, it means a lot coming from you. As for how I'll live up to it, I think that it'll be a surprise to be sure." I answered. To which Superman only chuckled goodheartedly, though I'm sure that would've sounded ominous to Batman and only make him suspicious. More than he already is anyway.
And with that, we left the classroom behind and made our way into the desert. The alarms of the facility were still ringing as we left.
Soon enough, Green Lantern flew out of the facility and joined up with us. It seems that he was the distraction causing such a fuss while Superman was getting the kids.
"You know, it was a pain to catch up with you when you go at those speeds. And the kids?"
"I'm just thankful it wasn't needed, Amazo got to them before anything more could happen."
"Amazo?" Lantern asked.
"That's the Android's name, got it from the little one," Superman explained while pointing at me with his thumb. Lantern looked at me in surprise, not expecting me to have such a name, or any at all.
"I better not hear anything about my cape name from a guy who named himself after his job, Mr. Space Cop."
"I'm the Green Lantern of this sector, so I think it's appropriate. Besides, you don't see any other Green Lanterns like you do other police officers and firefighters, do you?"
"No, not really." I mean, at the moment, no. But Kyle Rainer is also a human Lantern so there's technically two if he ever came back. And anything that requires more than one Green Lantern would be quite the issue.
Once we made it to the League's jet, we found Batman looking over some files in the pilot's seat while the Flash was organizing the physical files into categories. Both weren't too happy with what they were seeing, the Flash looking grim while Batman was frowning hard.
"I'm happy to report that the children are safe and sound. And I found our android friend, his name is Amazo." Superman announced as we walked on board.
Flash stopped organizing the files and ran over to us, though he did so without incurring the cliche of sending the papers flying. Batman set his papers down before walking over.
Batman took his eyes off Superman to look at the kids. His gaze softened as he looked at each of them, growing especially soft when on Ace, before they narrowed sharply when looking at me.
"Where did you get that trenchcoat? And why are you now wearing clothes?" he asked. Which confused me to be honest, I would've expected some harder questions from him. Then again, here and now with children isn't the best place for him to ask what he really wanted.
"Batman, I may be new to this wide and wacky world but I know enough that giant grey men aren't exactly normal. Plus I had to go get Ivo some food since he wasn't in much of a shape to do so himself, so he had a coat made for me for when I'm doing errands to keep discreet."
"Batman, as much as we'd like to play 20 Questions with Amazo, we do need to be on our way." Superman interrupted.
Batman stopped before nodding at Superman but made sure to give me a glare, as if to signal that he wasn't done with me. "You're right. Flash, escort the children to the back of the jet and get them fastened, we'll be taking off." he ordered as he walked back to the helm. Flash was happy enough to stop reading the files and led the kids to the back.
After a little bit to ensure that they were out of range, Lantern asked after getting in his own seat, "We have the Javelin stocked and ready for our passengers, but where would we take them?"
All of the League members blinked at that before their faces scrunched up in confusion. They didn't think about this beyond getting the kids out, didn't they? Even Batman was at a loss. I mean, no judgment on them for doing so since I did the same, but this is gonna be a bit of a pickle to handle.
"The Watchtower," Batman finally answered.
"Batman, it's hardly a place for children." Superman disagreed. And I couldn't argue with him, I doubt civilans or children were in mind when this place was built. But the Royal Flush Gang weren't just average folks.
"I know, but it would only be temporary until we found a proper place for them. One where they'll be out of reach from the government."
"Speaking of which, Batman, what did you find?" Superman inquired.
"I'll need to head back to the Watchtower in order to properly analyze the data. But from the physical files and research papers that Flash has gotten, which is everything that they had, it paints a disturbing picture. This facility is dedicated to the training and molding of these five for weapons of the government. And this isn't the only one they've done."
"You're telling me that there's more!?" Superman demanded aghast. Batman's eyes were sterner before he inclined his head towards the back, Superman noticed and calmed himself down with a breath.
"From what I've found, it's connected to something larger but other than a few references to other bases in a nearby area there's not much to find. At least until I get a look at the data files. But I did find what it's all connected to, Project Cadmus."
"And what's Cadmus supposed to be?"
"Cadmus is in the business of developing weapons against metahumans, specifically and recently, to fight against us."
"Us?" Green Lantern blinked in surprise, "We haven't done anything that would warrant such a thing."
"...no, most of us haven't. But I have. My actions caused harm to the Earth, even if it was under mind control." Superman said, his shame returning from the previous mention of his role in Darkseid's invasion.
"It isn't just because of you, it seems that this has been going on for a long time. As long as metahumans become a factor of power, the government is going to want to exert some control over it." Batman rebuked and reassured.
"I can understand that, but to think that they'd resort to such means…" Superman mulled before shaking it off, "Be that as it may, we'll have to come back to that later, and we most certainly will. We still have to take care of these kids and more recent issues."
"Back to speaking of the kids, how about the Batcave? You had a bunch of Robins in there didn't you?" I suggested. Well, I'd say Wayne Manor but I didn't want to freak Bruce out too much by dropping that. So the best I could do is to suggest Batman and let that potentially end up being Bruce Wayne.
"How do you know about the Batcave?" Batman asked. Huh, it seems that the fact that he had a Batcave wasn't public knowledge yet.
"Bats live in caves, and given your track record with names it seemed obvious," I explained.
"He does have a point you know," Lantern agreed, "Batarang, Batmobile, Bat-signal..."
"No, it won't be suitable. At the least, I would need to speak with a host I have in mind and some time to prepare rooms and accommodations for them and their abilities." Batman said, getting back to the topic and ignoring my and Lantern's valid comments. So he wasn't opposed, he just needed to set something up. Though that could either be a case of letting them live in Wayne Manor or a case of Teen Titans and Young Justice where he provides them a home out of some base. The kids are certainly old and mostly mature enough to watch themselves.
"You could just leave them with me for a little while." I proposed, my suggestion having caught them off guard, "My home was owned by a mad scientist so it'd likely be resistant to exotic things damaging it like powers. I just need some snack money and they'd be good to go until a better place is set up."
"Not so fast. We hardly know if you'd be the best candidate to watch over them, especially given the recent events that transpired there." Batman objected, citing some suspicions that he was keeping vague. It wouldn't do well to place the rescuer to traumatized children in a negative light right in front of them, just makes his job helping them harder.
"That's right! I still need to fix my front doors."
"That wasn't what I meant."
"Yeah, I know, I know. I just want them to have some place normal where they can relax for a little while." I explained. While I did agree that I wouldn't be the best of guardians long term, especially since I've got plans that need me to be mobile, I wouldn't mind watching them for a bit.
And speaking of events happening at my home, "So how did the investigation go anyway? By MCPD and by ace detective?" I asked with a raised brow. I didn't have a mouth to give a smug grin and I couldn't lean against anything so I settled for the brow.
"We decided not to involve the MCPD, considering what happened being beyond what they usually handle." Superman explained.
"However, I still conducted a thorough examination for any evidence." Batman added.
"And…" I asked ever so innocently.
Batman looked like he ate something sour, though only minutely as he admitted, "...The evidence matches with your story. While the lack of DNA would be concerning, Brainiac's tampering with Luthor's body renders such a thing very questionable and, at this point, moot."
"And how are you gonna explain the death?"
"We won't, truthfully that is. The fact that Brainiac had managed to control Luthor and act unnoticed or detected for years is unnerving to us already, it wouldn't go well with the world at large at all."
"Interesting to know, but I was referring to the stairs."
Batman closed his eyes before inhaling and letting out an exhale, as if he had trouble believing what he was about to say, "...We are not telling the people that Lex Luthor died from a fall down the stairs."
"But you confirmed it tho."
"Yes, but we would need to explain the lack of a body and I doubt that the chunks of man and metal he became would go along with that. Add the fact that we had to incinerate the remains gives even less room for it to be believed. Instead, we'll claim that his suit had malfunctioned, and along with his kryptonite cancer, became too irradiated to leave intact, forcing us to destroy the body." Batman explained. Then he added with what I could've sworn was tomfoolery, "Besides, I doubt that you'd appreciate the nationwide attention that your home would receive as the site of Luthor's death." And despite the rib, which I wasn't expecting, he was right. No, no I would have not.
Ivo was a recluse and that worked just fine for me, the second that his house got any attention meant that I would have to fend off journalists and government mooks swarming my property. Then I'd also have to fend off villains and government mooks trying to get their grubby hands on Ivo's, now my, stuff. I mean, sure, at this point governments and villains were laughable, but I'd like some time before I had to scare them off. That, and the average folks, civilain and government, would be annoying to deal with since violence was off the table, even if I could just shapeshift to solve some of those problems.
But all of that is nothing to get into a fuss about now, so I'll just be thankful that I missed the headline of a century in exchange for some peace. Still, there'll be consequences either way, "That's reasonable, and thank you. Though, with a powerful man like Luthor dying when his last reported sightings were in battle with you guys, people are going to be very curious and very interested. Be it the public, other villains, or government, or even those of the government within Cadmus."
"...what are you trying to imply about Cadmus?" Superman asked this time.
"Cadmus is a part of the government and I've seen enough ads of a certain interview to notice that Luthor was rather interested in playing politics and winning in first place. It wouldn't surprise me if he threw some money at powerful groups within the government to get their backing, and with a certain group looking into weaponizing and combating Metahumans…" I trailed off. While me suggesting this might get them suspicious of me, for coming to such a conclusion about a man who died at my home, it was for the better that the League is as aware of Cadmus as possible. And I doubt that Luthor would let his name be seen by anybody other than the top of Cadmus' hierarchy, just to gloat about them needing him.
"Then it'd be more than likely for Luthor to be one of their backers. And given our recent actions, they may see this as a threat or an attack on them." Batman concluded.
"It doesn't matter how they see it. We couldn't control what happened with Luthor and we wouldn't have allowed Cadmus to continue with their experiments on the children or any others they have." Superman said, even less happy now. The idea of Luthor having funded this while he was completely unaware and the fallout not sitting well with him.
"And with how they were preparing counters against us, it could even be possible that they might come after us anyway. At least we're aware of them now. And knowing is half the battle." Lantern said. Wait, did he just fucking quote G.I. Joe? Is that a thing here?
"As for how we became aware of them…" Batman trailed off before he turned right at me.
"How did you find this facility?" He demanded, probably one of the first things he wanted to say to me. Also the last thing he asked me before I hung up on him.
"I do believe that you said that my home was a crime scene, so I went out for a walk and figured that by the time I got back that you'd be done." I answered.
"How exactly did you end up walking from Delaware to Arizona? All the way across to the other side of the country? Such a trip would take a day or two of straight driving by car and a month on foot. Even if you could walk at the speed of a bicycle it'd still take you a week or so to get here." He asked, a bit incredulous at my answer. And the feeling was mutual since I was computer, I had no idea how Batman could calculate that amount of time so quickly. I'm just going to chalk it up as 'becuase he's Batman' and move on.
"I'm very enthusiastic about my walks, I'll have you know, gotta use these legs after all!" At his flat stare, I deflated a bit. Then I lifted my foot and briefly let a bit of rocket out, "You are aware that I could also fly, right? I went for a bit of a walk before deciding to make it a flight."
"And so you came across this facility. What made you look into this one out of the dozens of others? One would think that we'd be having this conversation over at Area 51, a rather famous tourist attraction."
Huh, in my haste to find Ace it hadn't occurred to me to look for Area 51 at all. Memories of 2019 and an Internet Historian video flooded my head for a moment.
While I'll never know if what it contained would be one-to-one back home with this being the DC universe, getting an idea of what could be in there is so going to be on my to do list. Might find me some mythical aliens or weapons of mass destruction to scan.
Hold on, an area where aliens and advanced tech are being held…
My eyes widened upon the realization. "Wouldn't that be a Cadmus base? Sure it'd be obvious, but you'd never know..."
Batman was silent for a moment as he considered this, "You wouldn't be wrong to assume. With the number of rumors and myths surrounding it, any one of them could be true. And it'll certainly be something that I'll look into but I'm not done with you yet, you still haven't answered my question."
Hmm, how honest do I want to be? I could argue that I wanted to visit the Arizona desert just because and happened to find this base. Oh wait, other tourist attractions in the desert.
"I wanted to see the Grand Canyon. Ivo mentioned it being one of his fondest travels, so I figured that I should give this a look."
Batman didn't seem too keen on that answer, but likely figured that this was all that I'd give him.
And would you look at that, we just landed in the Watchtower. Wow that flew by, didn't it? I didn't even get to notice that we were just in space.
And now we're in the Watchtower, headquaters of the Justice League. A marvel of engineering that managed to last 30,000 years after Vandal Savage messed up the solar system's gravity and humanity went extinct. At least that was before Batman would later crash on the Earth that is. Let's hope that we can stop that from happening again...
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First chapter of 2023!
Not much happened here besides discussing, and some grilling from Batman, but I find it kinda important since the League aren't going to ignore the ramifications of what they've found SO FAR. They still have the facility's digital files to look through plus some extra info Amazo will add on.
I'm not totally satisfied with this chapter, but I guess after the big events of the last one, things needed to unwind for a bit. Not much input from the kids since including them and the 4 League members here would be juggling too much, plus I think that the adults would like to discuss things out of their ears. As for where the others are (Manhunter, Hawkgirl, and WW), they were busy for 'reasons' but will be here next chapter. And I already wrote this 2-3k thing so I'll live with it. Still gonna do some edits and fixes since there's always some to be made.
Next chapter will have a mini timeskip to get the other League members up to speed on what was discussed so far. Then the whole League will see some of the facility's digital files + some extra info Amazo added on, then they'll debate on what to do about Cadmus. That, and settling the Royal Flush Gang somewhere safe. After all of that, they'll announce to the world of Luthor's demise. By the way, what you guys think about an interlude from Cadmus POV? Just asking because I think it'd be pretty interesting to see their reactions (they don't take things well lol)
I'm sorry about the wait, life happened, then my muse was being a pain when writing this. But I finally got to chapter 10! It's the furthest I've been in as an author so I'm happy to make it at this landmark.
Anyway, I hope that you guys liked this chapter and leave me your thoughts/critique/feedback on it.
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Nice to see this is back.
Awesome chapter.
Awesome chapter.
Yes, specially the fact of the weird robot.
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I am very glad this is not dead. I've missed this story.
Edit: Shouldn't he see about getting the JL's help in securing his citizenship and property ownership papers? Unless AI have rights here you can't actually inherit Ivo's stuff without being declared his son or next of kin. And the government would have to check in once the government finds out that Ivo is dead or after Ivo forgets to pay his property taxes wouldn't they?
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Once they find out that the robot isn't a part of the League, they'll be sending Galatea over for a visit.
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Despite the amount of time it takes me to update things, they're still alive. At worst, I'll announce a hiatus, if it's well and truly dead, I'll announce it. Wouldn't want to leave you guys hanging
As for citizenship, he'll bring that up once the topic of the Royal Flush Gang and Cadmus are dealt with. But actually getting citizenship is going to be difficult. Cadmus/Waller isn't going to want robots/androids to be eligible for rights since that'll let the government be abused by them freely and do what they see fit. So it'll be a difficult legal battle for Bruce Wayne's lawyers considering the resistance involved. Eventually, it should get through tho, but it'll a controversial topic for the nation
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Lots of extra line breaks on this one. I'm guessing you copy/pasted from something the editor doesn't like.
I copied from SB lol. It usually works fine but I'll fix that in a bit tho.