Redeeming Bridges Across the Universe
Chapter 2
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In an unknown city’s desolate industrial district, fires and clouds of smoke billowed from the number of buildings that lay in an empty neighborhood. But deep inside of the hellish district was a warehouse. Outside a lone woman in a black cloak stalked her way to the dilapidated building, constantly checking over her shoulder to insure she wasn’t followed. Stopping at the door she knocked the secret message, and a few moments later another woman opened a visual slide to check she wasn’t an imposter.
After being accepted the door opened and the cloaked woman walked inside, the building was rusty and some of its walls and floor were damaged or decaying from time of unuse. As she walked through the rusted out building until she reached a pair of doors flanked by two guards brandishing spears and were equipped with military grade firearms, entering inside a group of women were gathered in a large open room, they were one of Aresias cells operating within the city. And for the past ten minutes have been discussing recent events that have happened the past few weeks, about a particular trio of teens.
“This is preposterous. I thought all of the men were dead! How could that pig still be alive! This is an outrage!” One woman shouted in rage.
“I’m aware of the news! But do not worry, our people will find them and deal with him and his little whores.” A woman dressed in a black suit said. She was a government agent that was working New World Matriarchs.
“But we don’t know where he is! He could be anywhere! He’s already made donations to a few sperm banks, which means more of his kind could potentially be born! Then there’s the fact he killed one of our own!” An amazon argued.
“Simple, we’ll just kill any woman who gets impregnated from his seed. Problem solved.” The agent stated coldly.
“Bastard should have laid down and died.” One of the followers growled. A few of the women began shouting in agreement, demanding for his head.
“Enough!” A voice shouted quieting everyone else in the room. She was tall with long brown hair and wore the traditional garments of the amazons of Themyscira, she was one of their warriors before Aresia opened her eyes to the world beyond her own. And now she plans to spread her glorious leaders ideals throughout the world as the newly formed New World Matriarchs, who shall lend their guiding hand in both teaching of those who are willing to follow. Or crush those who wish to resist. But there’s one problem or three they need to deal with first before destroying their main opposition, the Justice League once and for all.
“We all are aware of the young man known as Sunset Glare and his ‘friends.’” She spat. “But we mustn’t be too hasty, for if we are then we bring attention to the rest of the world, and we cannot risk that. For now we wait for the perfect time to strike and snuff out the lingering embers of men from this world forever.” She explained as those around her began cheering.
“For honor!” She shouted, raising her fist.
“For honor!” Her followers repeated.
“For the glory of the amazons!”
“For the glory of the amazons!” They cheered, raising their weapons to the air.
“Pathetic.” A voice said.
All the women in the room quickly turned around to see a young man who looked to be no older than 18, leaning against a wall. He had long black hair that was tied back into a ponytail. He wore black combat pants and black combat boots. He wore no shirt, but he did wear a long black trench coat.
All the women were shocked to see another living breathing man. But soon that shock turned to anger and rage as a few began brandishing their weapons.
“How are you alive!” The Amazon demanded angrily.
“Quite the little hideout you have here.” The man said with a thick Romanian accent.
“I asked you a fucking question male! Answer me!” The Amazon in charge demanded in rage.
But the young man paid no attention to the Amazon or the other deranged women or the murderous glares that were directed towards him; he met worse people than these .
“Screw this! I’ll deal with this myself! NOW DIE!” The agent growled in anger as she drew her pistol and aimed it at the young man’s head who was now smirking at her and fired.
*BANG!*
The bullet flew towards his forehead with perfect aim. There was no doubt that it would hit its target. But at the very last second, the young man simply tilted his head to the side and the bullet hit the wall behind him with a loud ‘Ping!’, still maintaining his cocky smirk.
“Now why would I do that, căţea?” The man said in a heavy accent. (1)
Two of the other Amazons in the room drew their swords and some of the other women in the room drew guns and began firing at him. To their shock the young man began dodging the gun fire effortlessly. It almost looked like he was dancing through the bullets as if they were nothing.
In one fluid motion he drew a handful of knives and threw them at five of the women shooting at him. The knives all finding their marks in either their heart, neck, or their eyes. Killing them instantly. The two Amazons who had drawn their swords charged the young man and tried to slash and stab him, but it was no use. The young man kept dodging the strikes like they were nothing.
Ever since the men of the world died, the gods stripped them of all their powers. Making them nothing more than skilled mortals when it came to swords and the like. (2)
He twirled on his heel and out of the way of a stab that was aimed at his heart and slashed the Amazon across her throat. Making a fine mist of blood spray from her now open jugular vein.
“YOU BASTARD!!!” The other Amazon shouted in rage at seeing her brethren being killed.
The man smirked as she charged at him. With a flick of his wrist he threw a knife at her. She barely managed to dodge it, thinking she had an opening. But in an instant, she froze in her tracks mid charge.
She couldn’t move a muscle, she could only move her eyes and managed to look down. The knife had not hit her. So why couldn’t she move! Was the knife poisoned or something? But no, it never touched her flesh. It was stuck to the wall behind her, in her shadow. He walked towards her with a sadistic smile. As he smiled, she saw he had long canines that looked like long razor-sharp fangs. He slowly drew a combat knife from his belt and got ready to end her life.
*SHINK!!!*
But before he could, the Amazon in charge drew her sword and stabbed him in the back, directly through his heart.
“Die filthy monster!” She shouted as she then twisted the blade ensuring his death.
The man stood still for a moment before he stepped forward, making the blade slide out of his chest, his assailant stood there in absolute horror as he walked away from the mortal wound like it was nothing.
“Like I said before, why would I do that? Just because a little Amazon whore like you demands it? I don’t think so.” He said with a smirk as his stab wound slowly began to heal in front of her eyes.
Another group of women with guns came barging into the room and opened fire on him, but he leapt up into the rafters 60 feet above them before they could even hit him.
The armed women fired into the rafters of the warehouse. The young man simply leapt from beam to beam as he dodged the gunfire with the grace and ease of a ballerina with super speed before disappearing into the shadows.
The soldiers fired randomly into the shadows, hoping to hit their target. But the young man leapt from shadow to shadow at such speeds that it disoriented them. Not to mention that he unleashed a flurry of knives when he dashed by. Killing his enemies in quick succession. Even when more warriors came in to provide assistance, it proved pointless. Soon only a handful of women were left alive in the warehouse while dozens of bodies lay strewn about covering the floors and walls in blood.
Soon their guns ran empty from their panic firing. Instantly realizing they were screwed. The young man leapt down from the rafters, not even flinching or being hurt by the 60 foot drop. He simply spun his combat knife in his right hand and smiled smugly.
“No more bullets? That’s no fun. But, you were never a challenge to begin with.” He mocked.
“H-How dare you filth! We are saving the world! Yet you come in here and attack us! You still remain alive and kill our sisters, you are no better than the men we’ve slain!” One of the women shouted.
“Saving it? You are destroying it. How many mothers have gone mad from their sons dying in their arms? How many brothers and fathers have left this world because of your fanaticism? How many innocents have you killed? The old? Weak? Newborn? My hands are stained with blood, yes. But at least I can admit it. What is your excuse?” He said as he walked towards the three women as he gripped his knife tightly in his hand.
Two of the women tried to draw their side arms but found knives quickly embedded into their throats, killing them within seconds as they choked on their own blood. The young man admired his work for a moment as their lives quickly drifted away.
The last woman quickly took advantage of the young man being distracted and drew a knife and hurled it at the young man’s head. There was no way he could dodge the knife in time. But to her surprise she heard a sickening ‘CLICK!’ from his neck as his head slid to the side at an unnatural angle, the knife missing his head completely. Only for his neck to snap back into place with another loud ‘CRICK!’.
To her horror the woman realized that the young man had snapped his own neck in order to dodge the knife! But before she could snap out of it, he quickly closed the distance between them and slashed her throat.
As a mist of blood sprayed from her throat, he sunk his fangs into her open neck. Her final moments of her life were of this man drinking her blood as she quickly died in his grip, only feeling pain and horror as her vision faded into oblivion.
When he swallowed the final droplets of blood, he tossed the now pale bloodless body to the side.
“Well that settles that.” He said as he walked out of the room sheathing his knife.
But as he did, he saw a news broadcast that showed a young man with orange skin and fiery hair followed by two girls. One with purple skin and purple hair with a pink streak into it, and another with silver hair and light blue skin.
“Hm. I truly do hope they survive. It would suck if I were the only guy here.” He said before he saw the knife that was thrown at him, stuck in a wall.
“Hm?” He said as he yanked the knife out of the wall and examined it. Noticing it was an ornamental looking knife with a silver blade.
“Nice knife.” He said before he put it into his trench coat and walked out of the warehouse.
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Slade had just finished getting supplies for him and his new clients. For the first time in the past two months since the virus killed off every male, he was able to walk out in public without having to worry about anyone seeing that he was a man. In addition to being paid in gold, Sunset also gave Slade an enchanted medallion that allowed him to disguise himself so nobody would recognize him. It worked like Sunset’s illusion spell. Making him look like a female version of himself. When he went into the town to buy the supplies, everyone just saw a young 30-year-old white haired woman. It even hid his bad eye making it look normal, like before his wife shot him in the eye. As well as change his voice to match his appearance.
But the biggest benefit is what it did for his abilities. Thanks to his enhanced healing he was able to survive the virus, but in order to do so his healing factor focused all of his energy into fighting the disease to keep him alive. Which hindered his superhuman abilities like his strength, speed, and stamina. As long as the virus was in the air or until he found a cure, his body would only be working at the efficiency of someone in peak physical condition instead of that of his normal superhuman abilities. But thanks to the medallion Sunset gave him, now allowing him to walk in public normally without having to constantly look over his shoulder.
The medallion had a lightly glowing sky-blue crystal in the middle that could hold three charges of magic at one time. When a charge of magic is used, it enhances his healing factor which fights off the virus in his system to the point that he is able to fight and operate at his full potential like he was able to do before, but only for 10 minutes for each charge used. The magic in the medallion could be recharged by Sunset pouring some of his magic into it but it was very draining for him. Thankfully the disguise spell in it worked even without the crystal in the medallion being charged, thanks to the medallion itself being enchanted separately.
Sunset was sitting in the passenger’s seat up in the front next to Slade. While the girls were sitting in the back. Sunset was amazed by how advanced the RV was. The RV was a Bunk House style RV. It had a master bedroom which belonged to Deathstroke along with a surprisingly spacious bunk bed room that was able to house 4 in it, along with a lounge area and a bathroom and shower in it. But what amazed him most was the advanced weapons system along with an advanced computer system installed.
Slade and Sunset had been talking for a while as they drove. Slade had agreed to help them with finding a way to rebuild a new portal generator. He knew of some places that had a few resources that they needed but the problem was that they were far away and would take some time to get to as well. Even with these things, it still wouldn’t be enough. They would still need to search for the rest of the materials needed to build a brand-new teleporter. But the high schoolers all knew that Deathstroke was their best chance at getting back to their world.
Right now, Sunset was talking to Deathstroke about how the Justice League tried to convince them to turn themselves over to them, and of their previous encounter before that.
“So, you basically told Wonder Woman and the entire Justice League off after refusing to become a hero under them. Not bad.” Slade said as he found the whole thing funny over how Sunset cut the Justice League down verbally. Especially the fact that he turned down what many would have seen as a once in a lifetime offer of apprenticing under Wonder Woman.
“I just don’t see the worth in it personally. I mean don’t get me wrong, I like helping people and all. But I’m not going to risk my life every day for no pay just because they tell me to or so they can keep an eye on me.” Sunset sighed.
“Some heroes have so much trouble balancing their lives that some of them have become homeless or lost their families because they didn’t take care of their personal lives first. The ‘I can’t tell you what I’m doing or where I’m running off to at odd hours of the night’ shtick really doesn’t cut it as an excuse if you ask me. Besides, it’s a thankless job. Some cities have had heroes quit on them due to cities or police relying on them too much to the point that they couldn’t take it anymore and just quit.” Slade explained, agreeing with Sunset. (3)
“Really?” Trixie asked slightly surprised though it did make sense when she thought about it.
“Yeah, there was a case that happened some years ago about a team of 13 year old teenage superheroes in a City in California. The place had high crime rates and a number of villains that populated the place. The only heroes in that city for most of those years were those three girls and have been stopping crime in that city since they were 5 years old.” Slade began.
“5 years old! How?” Twilight asked in surprise and shock.
“Their father created them in a lab by accident when he was performing an experiment after it went wrong, an explosion went off during the process when an extra chemical was accidentally added that turned out to be a powerful mutagen, which gave them powers similar to Superman.” He said answering Twilight’s question.
“They protected the city because they thought it was the right thing to do. They protected it for so long that everyone began relying on them for every little thing. Even the police force hardly bothered doing their jobs. It got to the point that people were calling them to do chores and menial tasks.” Slade continued.
“When they hit the age of 13, they had gotten so fed up with being called for every single little thing that they just up and quit. Their father took them and moved to a different city so they could live a peaceful normal life and changed their names since they never hid their identities, and everyone knew who they were. The city even tried to sue them for quitting in an attempt to force them to be heroes for them again.”
“I don’t blame them for quitting. Calling them for chores is just stupid and lazy.” Twilight replied.
“If you think that’s bad, the mayor of the city would often call them to open a pickle jar for him on a weekly basis.” Slade added.
“Pickle jar? Wait a minute that sounds familiar. What was the name of these heroes?” Twilight asked.
“They called themselves the Powerpuff Girls. But that was around 5 years ago, ever since they quit nobody has heard from them. Not sure what they’re doing but if I’m right they’d be around your age now.” Slade answered, surprising the three.
“Wait, The Powerpuff Girls? How is that possible?” Twilight asked genuinely surprised.
“I have no idea. This is an alternate universe, so anything is possible I guess.” Sunset replied shrugging his shoulders, just as confused as her.
“You heard of them? Let me guess, they’re a tv show or comic back in your world too?” Slade asks.
“Something like that.” Trixie replied.
The three high schoolers had explained to Deathstroke that back in their world he was a comic book villain which surprised him learning that his whole universe is based on a bunch of comic books that make up his entire universe.
Slade in turn explained that they were cartoon characters in this world from a show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Twilight, Trixie, and Sunset were stunned at the news. But Slade told them that the main difference in the show was that Sunset was a girl, and the ponies walked on all fours instead of being anthropomorphic. When Slade saw the three teens on TV, he decided to do some research on them leading him to finding the show.
“Yeah. They were a popular cartoon that was aired during the 90’s and early 2000’s.” Sunset explained.
“Still hard to believe that I’m a cartoon myself.” He adds.
“I can’t believe you are a girl in it. She doesn’t happen to be hot does she?” Trixie asked, making Sunset blush at her question while Twilight and Slade chuckled at her statement.
“The multiverse is infinite. Statistically speaking, anything that can happen, exists in another universe and so on and so forth.” Twilight explains.
“True.” Trixie, Sunset, and Slade all agree in unison.
“So, what’s the plan now that we’re stocked up on supplies?” Trixie asked.
“We’re heading to some of the old hideouts of the other villains. We’ll start at one of Lex Luthor’s hidden labs. With him dead, his tech and whatever tools remaining will be sitting there for the taking. That way you’ll have the means to rebuild your teleporter and get back home.” Slade answers.
“You’ll have to build a decontamination unit too. That way the virus is cleaned off of you before you enter the teleporter. The last thing you want to do is to bring Aresia’s virus to your world.” Slade added.
“You’re right, we can build it as an attachment so that way we have to pass through it before going through the portal. That way our world doesn’t go through the same thing as this one.” Sunset agreed.
“Hopefully we can get back home soon.” Twilight said with a sigh.
“I just hope the justice league doesn’t get in our way.” Sunset replies.
“Well, you have us stopping by sperm banks whenever we come across one.” Slade added.
“We won’t be staying in this world for longer than necessary . But I will give some sperm donations to at least help them have a chance. But other than that, they are on their own. I’m not going to give up the life I created back home just to be some poster boy hero so everyone can feel better.” Sunset said. (4)
“Smart, kid. But the league is not the only group that is after you. Cadmus will no doubt be after you, and so will The Matriarchs.” Slade warned.
“True. Amanda Waller is not someone I want to tangle with. But I know we will have to eventually.” Sunset said as he looked off out the window, watching the scenery pass by.
“That I have no doubt of.” Slade added grimly.
Twilight and Trixie gulped in fear at the thought of Amanda Waller and her people coming after them.
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*Equestria – Ponyville*
Twilight was sitting on her throne in her castle back in Ponyville. After what happened with Celestia, she wasn’t sure how she felt about her mentor and didn’t feel comfortable around her at the moment. She only went to Canterlot to conduct royal business and when she did, she would quickly keep her contact with the Sun Princess to a minimum, avoiding her completely if possible, until she could sort this whole thing out.
But at the moment she was talking with her friends who were all sitting on their own thrones around the friendship map. When Twilight told them what Celestia tried to do to get Sunset back, they were appalled by her actions.
Luna was sitting at the table as well along with Spike, Starlight and Trixie. Luna having come by to check on Twilight and the girls, as well as apologize for Celestia trying to marry them off without their say. But their conversations were no longer focused on the solar diararch. They were now focused on Sunset and his current predicament.
Twilight had given the girls at Canterlot High their own journal that was very similar to the one that Sunset had, that allowed them to communicate with her. She hadn’t talked to them much ever since she chewed them out the last time when she visited them in person.
Yesterday they had written in the journal, telling her about how Sunset and the other Twilight and Trixie were sent to another world and how it was being broadcasted to the whole world. Twilight and the rest of the Elements of Harmony along with Luna, Spike, and Starlight Glimmer along with her friend Trixie Lulamoon came together to figure out a way to help the group. Right now they were talking amongst themselves, figuring out different solutions on how to get him and the girls back.
“How are we going to get Sunset back to Canterlot High? Isn’t there a spell you can use to find him Twilight?” Starlight Glimmer asked.
“There is, but I will have to search the Royal Canterlot Archives for it and that could take a while. Once I figure out where he is, I can transport us to him, but it will take a while for us to get back. The magic used for this will leave me drained for a while. So we must be careful Twilight, going to another world let alone another universe is very dangerous. We could easily end up in a hostile environment.” Luna explained.
“I know Luna, but we can’t just leave him and the others stranded there.” Twilight asked.
“We agree Twilight. We will not leave our nephew to fend for himself in such a dangerous place.” Luna said.
“Yeah, we’ll save him Twilight, don’t worry.” Rainbow Dash said.
“Yeah, it’s the least we can do considering that after you reformed him, he’s always watched out for you.” Applejack said.
“Yeah, this way we can finally meet him, I’ve been super duper excited after you first talked about him!” Pinkie said excitedly.
“Especially after what happened to him with his friends, oh I hope he’s alright.” Fluttershy said, saddened at hearing about what happened to Sunset during the Anon-A-Miss incident.
“I agree darling, it is truly sad what happened to him, being treated so poorly like that. Especially by my own counterpart no less.” Rarity said with a frown.
“Yeah, and it wouldn’t hurt to have us come along.” Starlight Glimmer added.
“Yeah, and you got me your number 1 assistant by your side, so we’ll definitely find him in no time.” Spike said.
“The Great and Powerful Trixie will help as well.” Trixie said.
“Oh gods not that again.” Starlight said seeing how her marefriend is using her stage persona.
“Oh please, you know you like it, especially in bed.” Trixie said, making Starlight blush.
“Thank you, all of you. It really means a lot to me, knowing that you all have my back.” Twilight said with a smile.
“Wouldn’t Spike be affected by the virus you mentioned earlier?” Applejack asked.
“I’ll have to look into that. Just to make sure it’s safe for him to go with us when the time comes. Otherwise he’ll have to stay here.” Twilight said. Not wanting anything bad to happen to her little brother.
“We must be careful as well. Each universe has their own set of rules, some similar and some vastly different. Our magic may work in some but not in others. But from what you told me that your human counterparts wrote, we should be able to use our magic in that world since Sunset is able to use his.” Luna explained.
“I understand.” Twilight nodded.
“I will let you know once I find the spell and I get a lock on his location.” Luna said.
“How is Celestia holding up?” Twilight asked.
“Not well. The noble families have been hounding and questioning her ability to rule. Many are even saying that she sent me to the moon not because I became Nightmare Moon but because she wanted to rule as the only princess.” Luna explained.
“You don’t believe that, do you?” Fluttershy asked.
“No of course not, but she did not handle the whole Nightmare Moon situation well.” Luna said with a sigh of frustration. (5)
“What do you mean?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“She sealed me in the moon for a thousand years. I was angry and lashing out yes. But she never even tried to talk to me first, don’t get me wrong, what I did was wrong. But she didn’t handle it so well either. Honestly, I’m surprised I’m even sane at all after being sealed on the moon for so long by myself.” Luna explained.
“She could have just fired a spell that would keep me from using my magic until I calmed down. She misused the Elements of Harmony which caused them to reject her, making it so she can never use them again.” Luna explained, still feeling hurt over the whole Nightmare Moon incident but feeling guilt over how she acted during the whole thing as well.
“She’s been trying to fix this whole PR nightmare but it’s not going well. She even tried to take on a new student. But no pony wanted to be her student, especially after hearing about how she treated you and Sunset during her tutelage and how dangerous her quests were for Sunset. No parent in their right mind would let their foal be her student after hearing what she’s done.” Luna continued shocking everypony in the room with the news. (6)
“Anyway, I will head back to Canterlot and find the spell. I will return when I find it.” Luna said before teleporting back to Canterlot.
“Well girls. I don’t know when Luna will have the spell ready, but we need to be ready for when she does. You too Spike.” Twilight said, getting a nod from everyone in the room as they all went to pack some backpacks for when Luna was ready to transport them to where Sunset and the girls were.
The princess of friendship couldn’t help but think of her friend and worry for him and his friends that were stuck in that other universe, hopefully they don’t get into any trouble once they arrive.
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*Themyscira*
Wonder Woman had just flown to Themyscira to talk to her mother. After everything that has happened, she needed to talk to her in hopes of seeking advice from her. Diana had just landed on the island, as she made her way to her mother’s palace, she saw that a lot had changed on the island of the amazons. Before everyone used to walk around with a sense of pride and happiness. Like they had a purpose.
But now they walked around with unsure expressions on their faces. Many were busy trying to do what they could to keep their Amazon society running. But it was not going well like they had hoped it would. Many of the blacksmiths found themselves unable to make weapons to the quality that they used to since Hephaestus took away his blessings from them. Not that they were making much weapons now anyway. Most of the blacksmiths were too busy trying to make farming tools instead of weapons. Many Amazons found themselves having to lay down their swords and shields to work in the fields just to make sure everyone had enough to eat. (7)
Most of them have never done any farming other than just going to harvest it due to Demeter making all the crops grow in abundance without having to be tended to. Now that was gone, and they were having a hard time just scraping by. Diane had brought a shipment of supplies for the Amazon’s to use, it was something that she has been doing for a while now ever since the gods took away their blessings from the Amazons. She even managed to get a few people to help teach them the new skills that they would need to survive. Most of these were from the league or those that still trusted her.
She made her way to her mother’s palace and to her personal chambers. When she entered her mother’s room, she saw the queen of the amazons sitting at a desk, looking over plans to help keep Themyscira from collapsing in on itself.
“I brought another shipment of supplies and food, Mother.” Diana stated as she walked up to the beleaguered Matriarch.
Hippolyta looked up from her work and smiled wearily at her daughter. And for the first time the princess could see dark circles under her once flawless skin was now marred with. Her eyes seemed sunken and her hair was slightly disheveled while she was currently slouched over the table doing her very best to stay strong for her daughter.
“Thank you, my child. You have no idea how much this helps us.” She said with a sigh straightening out a lock of her hair.
“You’re welcome mother. I hope the instructors I brought are able to teach you the skills you all need to keep our kingdom running smoothly.” Diana said.
“They have been a great help Diana. But, unfortunately many of the amazons are having trouble adjusting and learning these new skills.” Hippolyta explained frowning before changing the subject.
“I haven’t seen you in a while. How are things going for you Diana?” Hippolyta asked her daughter who sat down at the other side of her desk, facing her.
“I have come to seek your advice mother, I’ve been searching for someone and I can’t seem to find them.” Diana explained tiredly.
“Are you searching for a criminal?” Her mother asked.
“No. I am searching for three teenagers. Two female one male.” Diana answered.
“A man! How is he alive?!” Hippolyta gasped in shock.
“He’s immune to Aresia’s virus. How? I don’t know.” Wonder Woman explained.
“How long have you been searching for this male?” Her mother asked.
“About three to four weeks now.”She answered
“Do you know his name?” Hippolyta asked.
“His name is Sunset. Sunset Glare.” Diana answered.
“I’ve been searching for him and his friends ever since. He is traveling with two girls that go by the name Trixie Lulamoon and Twilight Sparkle. Their appearances are unique. Sunset has orange skin with red hair and yellow hair that reminds one of a setting sun. Twilight is a girl with purple skin and dark purple hair with a pink streak. Trixie has light blue skin and white hair. I’ve never seen anything like it before.” The queen’s daughter explained.
“Have you talked to him?” The queen asked.
“The League and I managed to call him on his smartphone.” Diana explains.
“Smartphone? Oh, you mean that strange little communication mirror you mentioned you use to talk with others who are far away?” Her mother asked, having seen her daughter use one a couple of times when on the island.
“Yes mother that.” Diana nodded. “I managed to talk to him, but it did not go so well.” Wonder Woman trailed off.
“What happened?” Hippolyta asked.
Diana sighed. “He doesn’t trust us. He called us out on how Amazons use to kidnap and rape men than kill them when done with them. As well as how any boy born was killed or sold off into slavery.” Wonder Woman replied dejectedly.
Hippolyta looked at her daughter as she stared off towards an open window which gave her a magnificent view of the sea. She immediately felt shame. Because of her and her views of men it was her fault that this happened. If only she had told Aresia about the ship captain that saved her life. But she didn’t, all because she thought he didn’t matter. All because he was a man.
Now she has doomed the world and she and the rest of her kingdom are now forsaken by the gods and the world. While her own daughter will eventually watch as they all wither away and die now that they are mortal. She can’t say she blamed the boy for not wanting anything to do with the Amazons. But she was desperate to save her people.
“Surely he can be reasoned with?! You never partook in such things!” Hippolyta said in a panic.
“But I could have stopped them… Yet I didn’t, I failed them, I failed the world, and worst of all… I failed you mother and now our people are doomed to this mortal life because of it.” Diana murmured sadly, holding her face in her hands. She felt as if there were a stain on her soul due to her inaction. One that could never be washed away at her own failure to stop one of her sisters from enacting the most heinous crime in history. After a moment of gathering her thoughts, she continued.
“From what he told me when he has been wronged many times in the past. He doesn’t seem to trust anyone. It didn’t help that one of the New World Matriarchs stabbed him. Which in turn led to us accusing him of being a murder when he killed her in self-defense. Needless to say, it made matters worse, and now they are on the .”
“What about the two girls that are with him, Trixie and Twilight right? Surely, they have his ear. You can use them to convince him to go with you.” Her mother asked.
“They seem to be the only two people he trusts. But he is very protective of them. They were siding with him the whole time during the conversation, so I doubt they would want to help me. Besides, he made it very clear that if we were to do anything to his friends, he would watch the world burn.” Diana said, shocking Hippolyta.
“S-Surely he wouldn’t!” The amazon queen protested in fear.
“He would mother. The way he said it showed me that, if anything happened to those girls, he would have nothing left to lose and it would break him.” Diana explained, making her mother go silent in horror.
“What are their plans? They can’t just keep running forever.” The queen said.
“He said that he is going to get them back to their universe somehow. Which means they are from an entirely different universe to begin with. If they manage to find a way back to their universe, then we are all doomed.” Diana finished.
“Surely the gods can stop them.” Hippolyta affirmed.
“No, we can’t.” A voice said.
Diana and Hippolyta quickly turned to the source of the voice to see none other than Hermes leaning against the wall with his arms crossed and he did not look happy.
“Hermes? What do you mean you can’t?” Diana asked with worry.
“That’s because we gods can only affect things that are from this universe. We hold no power over those three whatsoever.” He said with disdain at what he just said.
“What do you mean?” Diana asks.
“To keep individuals like Darksied from just traveling to different universes and doing what they want. The ones who rule the multiverse made it a rule that higher-level beings like me have no power over anything from other universes. In fact, we lose our powers outside of our own universe with a few exceptions. And anyone or anything from another universe that enters into this one, our powers do not affect them whatsoever.” Hermes explained.
“What? How is that possible? How can there be beings higher than the gods?” Hippolyta asked in shock.
“The multiverse is an infinite place. There is naturally going to be someone bigger and stronger out there.” He explains.
“But you are lucky, we managed to find some information on them. We sent Athena and Artemis to their world for a short while. They managed to find some information out on them. Although, they almost got hit by a truck, but eh, who cares, they made it back at least. Zeus is putting them to work on fixing this mess.” Hermes said with a shrug.
“What did they find out about them and their universe?” Diana asked.
“Their universe is similar to this one, but there are some major differences. For one there are no superheroes or villains. At least not like you and your league are. In fact, this entire universe we exist in is just a comic book to them.” Hermes explains.
“What?” Wonder Woman not believing what she was hearing.
“Yes, take a look.” He said as he summoned a comic book and handed it to her.
Diana read through the comic for a moment, as she flipped through the pages, she saw what he was saying was true, as she flipped through the pages she saw some of her adventures on the pages. Surprisingly enough, the comic showed her with skin that was a blue color similar to Trixie’s. But she realized this was probably how their world viewed her. To those three teens, she was just a fictional character come to life. She didn’t know what to say. The fact that the three kids knew their secret identities and possibly other classified information terrified her. If that information fell into the wrong hands it could be catastrophic not only to her but to every other hero and villain alike. (8)
“Ironically, it’s the same for those kids.” He added.
“What do you mean?” Wonder Woman asked as she put the comic book aside, to show the rest of the league later.
“In our world, they are fictional characters from a popular tv show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” He said, poofing out a case of multiple DVD’s, Diana took it in her hands and when she looked at it, she was perplexed at the image. On the front displayed a picture of Twilight Sparkle only she wasn’t wearing glasses and Sunset but she was a girl.
“You mean that popular cartoon that everyone has been watching?” She asked.
“The very same. Though, their universe seems to be an alternate one of what is shown in the show.” Hermes answered.
“Hmm that would explain why his other form looked like an anthropomorphic horse.” Diana stated, remembering the surveillance footage she saw earlier.
“Artemis and Athena managed to find out a little bit more about the teens. When they were in their universe, they said everyone was talking about them. Apparently, they are all over the news. They were building a teleportation machine by combining both magic and technology. But it was struck by lightning during a storm which caused it to go off and send them here.” Hermes explained.
“The boy is not originally from their world apparently. He came there through some other portal or something. But when he did, he managed to make a life for himself in that world. From what they could gather from the news channels, he was framed for some gossip column that revealed everyone’s secrets at his high school.” Hermes continued.
“After that everyone turned on him, including his closest friends. Except for Ms. Sparkle and Ms. Lulamoon who stuck by him through the whole thing. Once it was over, he wasn’t the one who was behind the whole thing. Three little girls were, two of them related to his friends. Only a small group of students believed him.” He continued his explanation.
“Everyone else, tried to bully and attack him. Most of the staff looked the other way which has landed them in hot water now that what has happened at the school is now out in the open. The Principal and Vice Principal are scrambling and falling over each other to try and fix all the bad PR they are getting. Especially since he is basically the only formally trained magic user in their world, who made a deal with the government to teach them about magic in return for payment.” Hermes finished.
Diana now understood why the boy was so untrusting of others. Everyone he thought cared about him, betrayed him. Except for those two girls. It was no wonder why he was so protective of them. Coupled with the fact that he was forced into a new world, a second time. He had to start all over in making a life for himself, as well as for the girls too.
“Did they find out anything else?” Hippolyta asked.
“Not much else, only that, that Twilight Sparkle girl made a special function on the teleporter to broadcast everything that is happening to them and their travels. Through some odd turn of events it somehow malfunctioned and is now broadcasting world-wide. The government tried to stop it. But nothing’s worked so far. They’ve basically given up trying to cover it up considering that everyone knows about what is happening now, there’s honestly no point in a coverup.” He shrugged.
“Do you know where they are now?” Diana asked.
“No unfortunately. Artemis and Athena had to run when one of the staff called the police when they found out that they had broken into a cheap motel. The last thing they saw on the motel tv was the news broadcaster saying that they had hired a bodyguard and were in an RV. But that was all. They never found out who the bodyguard was or where they were heading. Never even got a description of the RV.” He explained.
“Why are you helping us Hermes? I thought the gods were still angry with the Amazons for Aresias' crime?” Diana asked. After the initial outbreak a few months ago Zeus and the majority of the pantheon were still furious with the Amazons.
“We, just not at you Diana. You tried your best to stop Aresia and her followers. But your mother and the other Amazons did nothing but stand by while people died, and furthermore are responsible for failing to inform one of their own being saved by a man which could have prevented this whole thing.” Hermes stated as he glared at the Queen, making her shrink away.
“But to answer your question. We are helping you because we need those kids to stay in this world, without them humans will die out. Which in turn will lead to us gods fading away. Which is why we need them to make a pact with us.” The messenger god divulged.
“A pact? What type of pact?” Diana asked. Not liking where this was going.
“A pact of fealty.”
“What!” Diana gasped, realizing what he was talking about.
“Yes, we can’t have those three running around all willy-nilly. They need to be under the command of the gods. But that will be hard considering how the boy doesn’t trust us. His outburst was proof of that.” Hermes advised, referring to the phone call Diana had with Sunset.
“Needless to say, many on Olympus are not happy at how he bad mouthed us. But we can’t really do anything about it. Considering how the other pantheons have their eyes on those three.” He sighed.
“The problem is we have to offer him something in return, and they can demand anything, and I mean ‘anything’. We even have to be fully honest with them. Any deceit, threat, or loophole and the deal made shall unravel and they get to keep what we promised them while we get nothing, even if they didn’t agree to it.” Hermes said as he ran a hand down his face.
“Can you believe that? Us, the GODS of Olympus getting the raw end of the deal? What is this world coming too! Of all the ungrateful mortals we had to be relying on it had to be him!” Hermes exclaimed as he threw his hands in the air.
“Not to mention the rest of the pantheons have the same damned idea.” He added irritably.
“What do you mean the other pantheons?” Diana asked.
“The gods of other pantheons around the world are wanting to do the same thing with them. There are a few that just want them to repopulate the world like some kind of glorified breeder or trying to steal his magic in hopes of using it to fix this world. But those ones don’t see the true value of these teens.” He sighed.
“They’ll never agree to it, he’ll never agree to such paltry deals, Hermes. He’d rather let the rest of us perish than partake in such things, they’re far more than just our last hope for this world. You forget the fact that they’re still young.” Diana protested, she did not like how the messenger god was referring to the children as if they were nothing but objects to toy with.
“Oh they will princess Diana, everyone has a price.” He smirked.
These three kids were now in the middle of a political power struggle between gods of different pantheons and they didn’t even know it.
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*Mirror World*
Agent Shining Armor was currently talking to his superiors who were in a discussion with the President himself through video chat by computer.
“What have you gathered so far?” One of his superiors asked.
“As you saw in the video footage, Sunset Glare, Twilight Sparkle, Trixie Lulamoon were all somehow sent to the DC universe when the teleporter was struck by a lightning bolt during a storm.” Shining Armor said, finding it hard to believe that they were all in this situation.
“The fact that these kids were able to make a teleporter alone is amazing. But to make one that took them to a fictional universe is something that words can’t even describe.” The President said, amazed at the three teens being able to make such technology.
“From what we have gathered, this is a version of the DC universe where the earth was hit by a virus created by a rogue amazon named Aresia. This was shown in the Justice League Animated Series in the two part episode titled ‘Fury’. But unlike in the tv series where the Justice League managed to stop her and find her notes to make a cure for the virus and save everyone, they failed. Resulting in the death of all males on the planet, even killing aliens such as Superman and Martian Manhunter.” He explained as he read the report.
“The virus currently has no known cure, but it is being researched all over their world, they are using samples of Sunset’s blood in hopes that his immunity will help them find a cure faster. Sunset has been giving donations to sperm banks in an attempt to help the world sire a new generation since his children will have a natural immunity to the virus.” Shining explained.
“What is the current status of Sunset, Twilight, and Trixie?” The President asked.
“They are currently traveling by vehicle in an attempt to avoid the Justice League, they plan on rebuilding the teleporter so they can make it back.” Shining answered.
“Won’t the virus be brought here?” One of the higher ups asked.
“The video feed showed them talking about the same concern. They plan on making a decontamination unit to decontaminate themselves before coming back so the virus doesn’t come here. But we will take precautions so when they return, we can do a health screening on them and make sure they are healthy before going back into public.” He answers.
“Currently, they are traveling with Slade Joseph Wilson AKA Deathstroke the Terminator, a professional assassin that Sunet hired as their bodyguard to protect and help them on their mission to get back.” Shining Armor explained. Worried for his sister now that a super villain was near her.
“Yes, he’s that super soldier guy that is skilled enough to take on members of the Justice League like Batman, Wonder Woman, or Superman. That is concerning, but I can see why they are doing it. He’s their best bet at getting back.” The president said.
“How is the video feed of the three able to broadcast all over the world? We tried to stop it, but nothing worked. It’s been broadcasted all over the world. We’ve been getting calls from all over the world, from different governments demanding answers for what happened.” The director of the CIA asked.
“The R&D department is still going over my sister's notes on how she made it. Originally, it was supposed to allow us to control it, allowing us to show and cut the feed whenever we want. But for some reason that’s not the case. I think the formula for the spell was slightly off, making it so we can’t control it. Just leaving it to constantly record and show everything on a live channel that is not part of any broadcasting station.” Shining Armor explained.
“This universe seems to not only be limited to DC heroes. From the conversation the three had with Deathstroke, it seems there are other heroes in that world as well, like when he mentioned the Powerpuff Girls are in that universe.” Shining added.
“So, we basically have no idea what they could be facing in that universe. Just great.” The director of the CIA said, not happy by the news.
“How are the other 5 girls with magical capabilities holding up?” The President asked.
“They have all been placed into protective custody along with their families and are trying to recreate the teleporter so they can get Sunset and the girls back. Unfortunately, they appear to be suffering from deep depression from the guilt they are feeling over the Anon-A-Miss incident. They have been receiving treatments for this from psychologists that were brought in. But it’s going to be a slow process. It also doesn’t help that other countries are wanting to get their hands on them for their knowledge of magic.” Shining Armor explained.
“We are also searching for another group of magic users that can help with the rebuilding of the teleporter.” He added.
“Who?” The President asked.
“They are a group of sirens from the same world as Sunset. They are Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, Sonata Dusk. They were the cause of the incident at the Battle of the Bands festival. They feed off of the strife around them. Allowing them to survive and maintain their power thanks to their magic pendants. But their pendants were destroyed during the incident when they were defeated.” Shining stated.
“Sometime after the Battle of the Bands. Sunset helped them out since they were starving without their pendants.” Shining added.
“Starving?” Someone asked.
“From what we were told they need their pendants to survive. Without them they can’t survive. As sirens they need magic to survive or they wither away. Sunset made them new pendants that let them feed off of both positive and negative energy under the condition that they reform and stay on the straight and narrow. Which they have been doing.” Shining explained.
“Do we have any idea on their whereabouts?” The President asked.
“At the moment no, we believe they are in hiding.” Shining said with a sigh.
“Didn’t you just say they were on the straight and narrow?” The CIA Director asked.
“They are. But we believe they ran out of fear. From the information we have on them, they are over 2,000 years old. This is thanks to their pendants allowing them to live so long and maintain their youth. So, they are probably a little paranoid with their old age mix that with the fact that many governments want to get their hands on Sunset’s friends for their magic, I don’t blame them for hiding.” Shining Armor added shocking many in the room.
“Historians and scholars would have a field day with them.” A government official commented.
“Find them, we can’t have them falling into the hands of another government.” The president ordered.
“Yes sir.” Shining Armor nodded.
“What is the plan for bringing Sunset, Twilight, and Trixie back? I mean we can’t just let the only formally trained magic user be lost to us.” One of Shining Armor’s superiors asked.
“We will finish the teleporter and send a team to rescue them and establish contact with this other universe. If Sunset and the girls manage to recreate the teleporter themselves and make his way back, then good. But we can’t rely on that, we need to plan for the worst.” The President said.
Shining Armor nodded. He could only pray that his baby sister and her friends would make it back safely.
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*DC Universe – Sunset’s group*
Sunset and the others had pulled into a truck stop for something to eat. Thankfully the place was mostly deserted. They sat at one of the tables, currently eating breakfast.
“So how far will it be until we get to the hideout?”” Twilight asked.
“A few more days, give or take on who we run into.” Slade said, his amulet making him appear as a woman.
“That’s not so bad.” Trixie commented as she took a sip of her orange juice.
“How long do you think it will take to finish teleporter then once we have everything set up?” Twilight asked.
“I have no idea. Months probably, maybe a year or two at most. Not to mention how long it will take to get the supplies and materials we need that aren’t at the hideout.” Sunset explained as he bit into a slice of bacon.
“And that’s if there are no complications along the way either.” Twilight added.
“So probably around 6 months at the least.” Slade said as he ate his food.
“Give or take.” Sunset said.
As they all ate, Deathroke’s eye was trained around the room looking for any possible threat. As a merc it was very important he always stayed vigilant whenever he was on assignment, especially when protecting a contract, and in this case he was getting paid by a literal pile of gold that his new attache provided for him. With him being the protector of the last virile man in the world he won’t need to work again when this is over, and can retire.
As he was wondering what kind of gear he could purchase with his newfound wealth, he then noticed out of the corner of his vision a woman who was watching them, to most it was nothing but Slade knew better that she was watching them out the corner of her vision. The woman sat in a booth in a corner of the truck stop. She was pretending to lean her cheek on her hand. But he saw two of her fingers were pressed to a clear earpiece attached to her as her lips moved as she whispered something into it.
“Don’t look now but, someone’s watching us. Be ready to throw up some shields with your magic kids. Because that lady is calling in support.” Deathstroke said to the three teens. Having been in similar situations before, he knew what was about to happen.
“How did they find us? We have our magic disguises up and working.” Sunset asked.
“Probably tracked you from a distance before you hired me.” Slade answered.
“How?” Twilight whispered. The whole time they all continued eating. As to not let anyone know that they suspected what was going on.
“No idea, but right now they are here and we need to deal with them.” Slade explained as he readied the Uzi he had in his trench coat.
In that moment a group of heavily armed women kicked open the doors of the truck stop. The three teens threw up a shield with their magic just before the soldiers started pulling their triggers unleashing a hail of bullets amongst the group..
The three teens dove for cover. Deathstroke did so as well, but not before firing off a few shots, riddling one of their attackers with bullets, killing her before she even hit the ground.
“Yep, definitely one of Aresia’s.” Deathstroke said, knowing that Waller’s people would have used non-lethal weapons on them so as not to risk killing Sunset or his friends.
The shield was holding, but with more of The Matriarchs storming through they needed to get out of there.
Deathstroke activated his amulet and instantly he could feel his powers coming back to him in full force.
“Focus your magic on maintaining the shield, I’ll take on these idiots.” Deathstroke said as he unleashed a barrage of gunfire on their assailants, slaughtering them as the three teens watched.
“Die traitor!” One of the women shouted, thinking that he was a woman thanks to his disguise, firing her rifle at Deathstroke only for him to duck and run out of her line of fire so she couldn’t get her cross hairs on him, all the while closing the distance at the same. When he was close enough, he drew his sword and slashed her, cutting her head clean off.
The three teens could only watch in awe as they kept strengthening the shield. To actually see the legendary Deathstroke fight in person was nothing like reading a comic or watching a movie. He was gunning and cutting down his enemies like they were nothing.
Deathstroke alternated between using his sword and his Uzi as he fought the group of assassins, expertly eliminating them one by one.
Sunset, Twilight, and Trixie kept the shield up but fired off blasts of magic when they could to help thin out the group of enemies for the assassin as he cleared the way. Sending the blasts safely through the shield while it still protected them. (9)
Sunset fired bolts of lightning from his fingertips that hit five of the attacking women. The lightning leaping to the nearest enemy and linking them all together like a chain as the electricity fried them to death. Leaving nothing but charred corpses on the ground.
Twilight fired a bolt of fire magic that hit one of the gun wielding women squarely in the chest. Sending her sprawling to the ground as her whole body caught on fire. Twilight could only watch in horror as the woman screamed as she was cooked alive.
Trixie fired a blast of ice magic that sent three large razor-sharp shards of ice flying at one of the gun wielding attackers that was shooting at them. The sword sized shards found their marks in the assassin’s stomach, chest, and skull impaling her to the wall. Trixie began gagging as she tried to keep herself from throwing up.
“More are coming!” Deathstroke shouted as he shot the last attacker that was inside the diner but saw another group of Aresia's Matriarchs pulling up outside.
They got out of the car but before they could fire, something slammed into the ground in front of them creating a large cloud of dust. What emerged was a feminine figure, she had a thinly toned body wearing a blue short skirt topped with a white crop top shirt that tightly clung to her D-cup breasts. A short red cape hung from her back, billowing in the wind her long golden blonde hair stood out as she stood inside the crater while the New World Matriarchs and those around them stood in both awe and fear towards the craters maker. In the middle of it stood earth's only two existing Kryptonians SuperGirl.
“Don’t try it.” Warned the blonde heroine.
The Matriarchs ignored her warning and fired everything they had at the blonde kryptonian. Unfortunately for them, the bullets just bounced off of her harmlessly.
As Supergirl launched herself at the attackers Deathstroke and the others ran to the RV, but when they were only 20 feet away from it, the blonde 19 year old flew in front of them. Having already dealt with the Matriarchs in almost an instant.
“Wait!” She said holding up her hands in front of her in a placating manner.
She recognized the three teens immediately since they dropped their disguises as there was no point in keeping them up anymore. Except for Deathstroke who was still in disguise.
“What do you want?” Sunset said with venom in his voice.
“I just want to talk, I’m not here to hurt any of you.” She said.
“I’m in no mood to talk right now.” He said as he tried to guide Twilight who was shaking non-stop mumbling to herself.
“Is she okay? Did she get hit?” Supergirl asked in concern.
“No, she had to kill somebody just to survive. We all did.” Sunset said with glare.
Kara wanted to say something. But she saw how hard it was hitting the two girls. Especially Twilight.
Supergirl tried to get closer to the teens but Deathstroke stepped in front of her. Thanks to the amulet disguising his appearance, the blonde was unable to recognize him.
“Ma’am, please step aside. This is Justice League business.” Supergirl said with a hint of authority.
“It is my business when it involves these kids.” Slade replied as he loaded a new magazine into his Uzi and pointed at Supergirl.
“Who are you?” The kryptonian asked. Not afraid of the gun.
“ Their bodyguard.” He said before tossing a smoke grenade at her feet leaving the girl unimpressed at her attempt.
“I can see through smoke you know? It won’t do anything.” Supergirl said just before the smoke grenade went off.
Immediately the young heroine hit the ground hacking her lungs out as she felt herself get weaker.
“What… what did you do to me?” She said in between coughs but received no answers.
She looked closely and saw glimmering green particles in the smoke as she felt her strength leave her, the realization then came to her, the only thing that could weaken her like this was…
“Kryptonite.” She gasped trying to get air, but it was too late, the green was already in her system. Not enough to kill her but enough to make her no different than a very weak human.
Deaths troke and the others quickly darted for the RV, got in, and peeled out of the truck stop and sped off into the distance. Leaving a coughing and hacking Supergirl.
A minute later after the smoke cleared she weakly pulled out her communicator and called the watchtower.
“Supergirl to Watchtower. I just had a run in with Sunset Glare and his friends, but he got away.” She rasped.
“Where’s your location?” The voice of Black Canary asked.
“I’m at an old truck stop. I can’t think straight, I got hit with kryptonite. Just trace the call and see what you can find.” Supergirl said.
“We’re sending someone to get you. What happened?” Black Canary inquired.
“I just got my ass kicked by an old lady.” She said.
“…What?”
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*Cadmus HQ*
Amanda Waller was looking over the latest surveillance footage of the latest sighting of Sunset Glare. She saw the group of teens along with an unknown woman sitting at a table at a truck stop eating. The three teens were using disguises to hide themselves the whole time. She was impressed that they managed to stay on the run this long.
“Any leads on the boy?” Waller asks.
“Nothing so far ma’am. But we are keeping an eye out. All agents and law enforcement agencies are on the lookout for them and their vehicle.” An agent standing next to her says.
“Anything on the bodyguard that was with them?” Waller asked.
“Nothing so far. We interrogated The Matriarchs we apprehended, but they don’t know anything about her. However, we did find out that the team of amazon sympathizers sent there knew the location of Sunset Glare due to one of our agents secretly being a sympathizer for her. We currently have said agent in custody and are interrogating her as we speak.” She said.
“Good, I’ll deal with her later. What have the tests shown about his DNA?” Waller asked.
“Sunset Glare is able to breed with humans with no complications. Even the sperm samples we collected from him while he was in his anthro form proofed to be capable of impregnating human females the same as a normal human’s would.” She explained.
“From what the tests show, his offspring would be physically stronger than that of a normal human and slightly faster along with other traits of his species. The only problem is that 70% of his offspring will be born female.” The agent finished.
“Is this something that is natural for his species or is this caused by the virus?” Waller asked.
“From what the tests show, this is something that is natural for his species.” The agent answered.
“Do we have any idea where they are currently?” Waller asked.
“No, but we have an idea of what to keep an eye out for. We can use our surveillance satellites to try and find him. It’s only a matter of time.” The agent answered.
“Well hurry it up then. Those damn amazon wannabes could launch another attack at any time. At least the boy had some sense in hiring a bodyguard.” Waller ordered.
“I want an accurate profile on horse boy made ASAP. From what we’ve seen he can use magic. We have no idea of what his full capabilities are. Then there’s the fact that he can teleport him and his friends at any time. I want to know anything and everything you can get about him. His strengths, his weaknesses, everything.” She adds.
“Yes ma’am.” The agent said before walking off to do as she was ordered.
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*Equestria Girls Universe – Canterlot City (Dazzling Home/RV)*
Aria was behind the steering wheel of their music bus/RV. They were all having a discussion as they drove down the highway.
“So, what’s the plan Adagio?” Sonata asked.
“We’re going to help Sunset.” Adagio answered.
“And how do you suggest we do that? Everyone is looking for us, I mean we're not the most popular people after the battle of the bands you know.” Aria said.
“We don’t have many options. If this were like any of the times when we were found out, we would just go off the grid, make a new identity, and slip back into society after a decade or two. But that is not the case now. Especially in modern society with all of these computers and technology.” Adagio explained.
“And don’t forget the other reason why.” Sonata said. It wasn’t anything new to her. Having lived for over 2,000 years in this world, naturally people started to get suspicious when they didn’t age like everyone else over the years. Thus, making them have to pick up their lives and move.
“Yeah, people get suspicious when you’re not growing old after 30 years.” Adagio sighed.
It wasn’t as easy to make a new life for yourself like it was 200 years ago. All you really had to do was pack up and leave town and go to another town, state, or country and boom! New life. No social security cards, no driver’s license. You just say you were someone different and that was it.
“Sunset helped us, so we got to help him. We owe him that.” Sonata said determinedly.
She remembered how after they lost their pendants they nearly starved to death. They looked like they were skin and bones. They tried to go to where the portal was to see if there were any traces of magic that were lingering around in hopes of finding something to keep themselves alive. They went at night when the school was closed for the day. But that night they couldn’t go on. They passed out at the statue in front of the school. Their last conscious thoughts were that this was it. They were going to die.
But to their surprise they all awoke in the same bed. With Sunset transferring his magic into them via a magic transfusion spell. They felt some of their strength coming back but slowly. It took 3 weeks for them to fully recover and he nursed them back to health personally. Letting them stay in his home. At first, they were confused and thought it was a trick, but he proved his intentions were pure. While he didn’t like that they caused trouble for him in the past, he understood that they were just trying to survive.
He even made them new pendants so they could feed. Ones that would naturally feed off the natural magic in the air instead of them only being able to feed off of strife. Even adding a few things to them like making it so if they were lost, they teleport back to them automatically and making them self-repairing should they break or get destroyed. After that they started spending time with him and began hanging out with him.
They actually enjoyed getting to know him, they at first thought he was just like everybody else when they first met, but after hearing his story and helping them get their lives together the three sisters realized how much in common they have with the pony turned human. When the whole Anon-A-Miss incident happened. They helped him when he was at his lowest like he did for them, they even offered him to stay in their RV until things got better but he declined saying he already had an apartment, but he appreciated their support in the end.
“There’s only one way that we can help him.” Sonata stated. Though she was often the ditzy airhead, she was actually very smart, and simply used her simple minded personality as a front to trick people into doing what she or her sisters wanted.
“We have to give ourselves up to the government.” Sonata stated what they knew was the only way that they could help Sunset.
“Are you insane!” Aria shouted.
“Sonata, I think the years are finally starting to get to you.” She said.
“No, I’m not! You know it’s the only way to help him, he’s trapped in another more dangerous world and the only thing we can do to help him, is if we give ourselves up to the government and they let us work on the teleporter so we can get Sunset back.” Sonata shouted back at Aria.
“I know, doesn’t mean I have to like it.” Aria grumbled as she parked the RV and sat at the table with her sisters. Placing her face in her hands sighing.
“It will be fine girls. We will be ok.” Adagio said as she rubbed Aria’s back comfortably.
“I know you’re scared. I’m scared too. We all are. But we’ll be together, like mother said. ‘We’ll always be ok as long as we’re together’.”
“We’ve survived worse. Like the fall of Rome, the eruption of Pompeii, the Sengoku Period, The War of the Roses. You know we can make it through this.” Adagio said as she looked at the pictures, paintings, and items they had gathered over the years. All of them shrunken down with magic and put in a special case enchanted to have a pocket storage dimension to make it easier for travel.
Adagio looked at the picture of her and her sisters dancing and performing on Broadway during the roaring 20’s. Another picture was of them in Victorian England. Another was a picture of them working in an American factory during World War 2 to help out with the war effort. A magically protected painting of them during the Renaissance. A piece of jewelry from ancient Egypt. A necklace from ancient China. (10)
And finally a photo of her, her sisters, and Sunset that they all took together when he was recovering from the Anon-A-Miss fiasco, he was standing next to Adagio while Aria and Sonata flanked them, they were at a boardwalk they visited a few counties over where there was a big lake with a carnival event happening, they all got the rollercoaster and Sonata threw up after eating too many tacos before getting on and then noticed a photographer who was giving out cheap photos. She remembered them going to the ferris wheel after that leaning on him the whole time along with the rest of her sisters, she loved that day and couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like being married in a herd with him.
Adagio was pulled from her memories as she felt someone grab her hand. Sonata grabbed her and Aria’s hands and gave them a sympathetic smile.
“We had a good run girls.” Sonata said comfortingly.
“We sure did.” Adagio said with a soft smile.
“Yeah, it was a pretty good run.” Aria said looking up.
“Besides, we get to see Sunset again. I really like him, he’s so sweet.” Sonata smiled innocently.
“We all do.” Adagio smiled back.
They had all gained feelings for him over the past year and a half. Ever since he saved them, they slowly felt their love for him start to blossom and grow stronger as time went on.
“Yeah. Maybe we can settle down for once. With Sunset preferably.” Adagio said, trying to reassure the others. Aria nodded but Sonata gasped with excitement.
“Really? Does this mean that we can actually start a family too?” Sonata asked excitedly with stars in her eyes.
Despite how old the Dazzlings actually were. They never once had a child. As siren’s they could only have a baby with someone that was magical like them, and more importantly someone they deem worthy as a mate. Which wouldn’t be a problem if they were back in Equestria. But in the human world there was no way for them to conceive. Sure, they could have adopted but they didn’t want to go through the heart ache of seeing their own child grow old and die only for them to live on. But with Sunset they could have children. They all smiled at the idea of having little ones of their own that wouldn’t die of old age. Children that would weather the ages with them.
“Sex night is going to be so much better with him joining us! Especially with what he’s packing, I mean fuck I just want to ride that thing forever! Mmmm, I bet he’s got plenty of baby batter he can pump inside of me, I can’t wait to milk him dry over and over again.” Sonata drooled with a dazed look in her eyes at the idea of bedding Sunset. Making Aria facepalm while her face was red like a tomato as Adagio giggled at their sister’s antics. She couldn’t help but blush a little at the idea though.
“Well, the only thing to do now is to go to the school where the agents are.” Adagio said.
“Kind of already did that.” Aria said.
“What?” Adagio and Sonata asked in surprise.
“Just because I didn’t like the idea doesn’t mean I’m going to leave Sunset out to dry. We did turn over a new leaf after all. Besides… Being a mother doesn’t sound so bad, but only from him.” Aria said looking away from her two sisters so they couldn’t see her blushing.
“Alright girls. It’s time to help Sunset.” Adagio said as they all made their way outside of the RV. When they were seen, the agents all started walking towards them.
But the girls’ minds were more focused on Sunset.
Just hold on Sunset. We’re coming for you.
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*Deathstroke’s RV with Sunset’s Party*
*Sunset’s POV*
This wasn’t the first time that I had to kill. By no means was it the first time. Celestia had sent me on so many dangerous convoluted assignments before that I was either attacked by bandits, villains, monsters, and demons that time I was sent on an assignment into Tartarus. While I don’t like it. I can deal with it.
But Twilight and Trixie are complete wrecks right now.
I sat with my back against the wall, holding both of the girls. Twilight was crying into my left shoulder while Trixie had tears streaming down her cheeks as she hugged Twilight in an attempt to comfort her.
“We did what we had to do. There was no other way.” Trixie said in an attempt to console Twilight. But I could tell Trixie was at her breaking point too and trying to stay strong.
“She’s right Twi. If we didn’t fight back, we would have died.” I told her.
“I-I’m a murderer!” She sobbed harder.
When she said this Trixie could no longer hold back her tears and began sobbing as well.
The two buried their faces into my shoulders as they cried.
“Don’t hold back, just let it all out.” I told them. The last thing they should do is bottle up all their emotions after this. They sobbed uncontrollably as their cries became louder while I just stroked their backs hoping it would help calm them down.
Deathstroke said nothing as he drove the RV.
After a while, Trixie and Twilight’s sobs slowly lowered until they eventually became nothing but soft little hiccups as they clung to me like a life preserver.
We stayed like that for what felt like hours. When I looked down, I realized the two of them had cried themselves to sleep.
I carefully lifted them with my telekinesis and laid them down on their beds and pulled the blankets over them.
I made my way to the front of the RV and sat down in the passenger seat beside Slade.
“How are they?” He asked.
“They cried themselves to sleep.” I answered, as I brought my head back and sighed heavily. “I don’t know what to do for them.” I ran my hands down my face.
“First kill is always the hardest kid. But you seem to be holding up pretty good.” Slade pointed out.
“It’s not my first time.” I replied.
“Huh, figured as much, you had that look in your eye that showed it, trust me I could tell.” He said.
“...Was it ever easy for you? Getting your first kill I mean?” I asked.
“Don’t one of those comics of yours on that tablet explain it to you?” Slade remarked.
“Different versions, but I’d rather hear it from you.” I said.
He was quiet for a moment before he started his story.
“I was 16, I had lied about my age when I enlisted into the Army. I had just arrived in Korea, it was my first assignment. My squad was sent in on a reconnaissance mission due to reports of enemy activity. Our job was to find them, take them out, and report back.” He started as I listened intently to his story.
“We were three days into traveling by foot to the location. We had just set up camp for the night when they ambushed us. I was just a kid at the time who had never seen combat. I began firing at anyone that wasn’t wearing a U.S. Army uniform.” He continued.
“The first person I killed was a North Korean soldier that was my age. Probably younger. When I spotted him, he was aiming at me with his rifle and tried to shoot me. But his weapon jammed which is the only reason I’m here now. I aimed my rifle at his chest and fired three rounds into him. Killing him instantly.” Slade said, finishing his story.
“It was you or him. You did what you had to do.” I said.
“I’ve already come to terms with it a long time ago. Especially since I took up this line of work.” Slade said.
“What about you?” He asked.
“You saw the show right?” I asked.
“Yeah, I saw the whole thing. Personally, based on what you told me, that princess of yours is sure a piece of work. As far as I’m concerned she’s like every other politician I either met or killed myself. But I’ve also seen the other side too kid, most of the people I have killed were not just for the money but the fact that some of my targets were dangerous criminals themselves, I killed drug lords, militias, corrupt governments, hell I toppled a couple countries myself.” Slade explained.
“Sounds like you had an interesting life.” I commented.
“Says the stallion slash human that’s traveled to two alternate universes, can wield magic, and turn into an anthropomorphic unicorn.” He remarked.
“Touche.” He had me there.
“Anyway, I have been in wars for as long as I could remember and killed so many people I can’t even keep count anymore. So if you want you or your friends to not end up like me. Then you need to remember that for every death you cause there’s always going to be that ever growing shadow of bodies that will follow you until the end of your days.” Slade warned.
I sat quietly while he continued.
“Something that you should remember, is if you plan to kill someone you need to know what kind of impact it will have to those around you, and most of all to your soul. Because if there’s anything I learned in this career is that no good deed goes unpunished, every action has a consequence and will impact the future. Life is fleeting, therefore you need to make the best of it.” He explained.
“True…” I trailed off before starting my story.
“I had been sent on an assignment by Princess Celestia. On a friendship mission.” I said making air quotes.
“She sent me to deal with a crazy unicorn wizard that was using dark magic. She had taken control of a village by herself thanks to her magic enslaving everyone through mind control. Celestia wanted me to reform her and turn her good.” I said, scoffing at the last part as Slade listened intently.
“I actually tried to convince the crazy mare that I didn’t want to fight. But she wouldn’t listen. She ended up trying to kill me when her mind control spell wouldn’t work. She had taken control of the villager there and made a lot of them her personal play things. She figured since I was the Princesses personal student, I would make a good addition to her collection until I proved that her mind control wouldn’t work on me.” I said with a shiver at the bad memory.
“We fought using magic. She was pretty good to the point that she managed to almost kill me. She managed to blast me back and was about to kill me. But in an act of desperation I ended up using my telekinesis and twisted her head, snapping her neck. I did it without thinking. I was honestly just grasping at straws by that point.” I finished my story.
“What did Celestia think about the whole thing?” He asked.
“She had the nerve to get angry at me and yell at me until I snapped and called her out on her mistakes in front of her entire court and left the room. She was so shocked that I snapped at her and more so that I was right. She kept calling for me to come back but I just ignored her.” I said, feeling my anger rise at the memory of that day.
“She’s weak. She sends others to do her work for her. Considering that you were her personal student, she should have sent an armed escort to protect and assist you on your mission. Instead she expects friendship to solve everything. Has she ever risked her life? I mean, other than her failed attempt at stopping that bug queen at that wedding” Slade asked.
“No. As far back as I can remember, she has never directly risked her life in battle or anything like that. That was more Luna’s thing. Celestia was always known as being the administrative leader while Luna was more of the active military leader.” I explained.
“Makes sense.” He agreed.
“Have you ever met someone you refused to kill?” I asked, deciding to change the subject as I really don’t want to talk about Celestia. But at the same time, genuinely curious.
“Yeah.” A small smile then broke across his face.
“There was this one guy I was assigned to kill, he was a contract from an mercenary organization that called themselves Outer Heaven. They hired me to go after a target that was a major threat to them, said he was the most dangerous agent ever trained and warned me he was a master of stealth and CQC. Wasn’t anything new to me, a lot of people make similar claims.” He explained.
I listened intently as he continued.
“They wanted me to kill the target. Come to find out their warnings were not just wild claims. This guy was the real deal. I was sent to help out another group of mercenaries at their fortress in Galzburg, South Africa. He infiltrated the base and took out anyone who got in his way.” He explained as all of this sounded too familiar to just be a coincidence.
“Was he trying to destroy something called Metal Gear?” I asked, making him raise an eyebrow at the question.
“Yeah, his codename was Solid Snake. Is he a comic book character in your world too?” He asked.
“A video game actually. Solid Snake is a legend even in my world. Video game wise. His games are all based around stealth and avoiding combat whenever possible, and only fighting when he needs to. But at the same time the game is known for its boss battles against super soldiers and the like.” I explained.
“Makes sense, considering that I never even heard him sneak up on me until the very last second.” He said. I had to admit that was impressive.
“I had just gotten word that he was getting close to Metal Gear and the rest of the base commanders were neutralized, so I went searching for him. When I got to the location he was last seen, he tried to sneak up on me from behind, by getting me in a rear naked choke hold. But I managed to bring my arm up in time and got out of it and began fighting him.” Slade continued.
“I’m guessing it was a battle of epic proportions.” I joked, remembering how most of the boss battles in the Metal Gear games were over the top.
“It was in my opinion. Snake managed to stand toe to toe with me despite everything I threw at him. Whether it was hand to hand, swords, gunfire, or explosives, he overcame everything. After everything we threw at each other, it somehow ended in a draw with him escaping from me.” He explained.
“What happened after that?” I asked.
“By the time I found him, the base was about to be blown to bits. My employer was dead, making it pointless to go after him since the contract on him was void. We both managed to escape down the same path. After the base was blown sky high we realized that we were the only ones left. We stared at each other for a moment before nodding and just going our separate ways.” He said, finishing his story. (11)
“Sounds like you have a lot of respect for him.” I pointed out.
“I do. That’s why I refuse to kill him after that mission. Last I heard he went off the grid.” He said.
The fact that Solid Snake existed in this world made me fanboy a bit. But I felt my mind drift back to Twilight and Trixie. What was I going to do for them? I was no psychiatrist but I had to do something. I sat there silently for a few minutes.
“What can I do for Twilight and Trixie?” I asked.
“Not much you can do. It’s not like we can take them to a psychiatrist while on the run.” He said, his eyes still focused on the road.
“True.” I sighed as I leaned my head against the window and looked out at the night covered landscape Not liking the fact that I can’t do much for the two girls that mean everything to me.
“All you can do is try to be there for them as much as you can. Talk to them and let them vent it out. As long as they don’t do it while someone is shooting at us. What you did early was pretty good.” He said.
I thought about what he said as I felt my eyes grow heavier from the day's exhaustion. He was right, I had to be there for them. And that was what I was going to do. I just hope we can make it through this.
Those were my final thoughts for the night as I drifted off to sleep.
Author's Note
(1) Romanian word for bitch.
(2) While the Amazons are very strong and skilled, without their powers they wouldn’t do too good. They would be very skilled martial artists. But other than that, they are mortal now and very vulnerable to gunfire and other forms of injury.
(3) I would imagine that being superhero would be murder on your social life and personal relationships unless you were to tell the person what you were actually doing.
(4) While Sunset has no plan of staying in the DC universe, he’s not heartless, he wants them to survive and thrive. He will give them the means to survive. But that’s it, the rest is up to them. He’s not going to stay there just because the Justice League is telling him to. Sunset, Twilight, and Trixie all still have families that they want to get back home to.
The Justice League wants Sunset to be a symbol of hope for the world. But with everything that has happened to Sunset in his life, he has no intention of trying to live up to an impossible standard. Sunset sees this as the same thing that Celestia did with him when he was her student. Making him live up to impossible standards.
(5) I have always wondered why Celestia never used the Elements of Harmony to purify Luna instead of banishing her to the moon, or used a spell to disable her magic until she calmed down. Twilight and the rest of her friends were able to purify her with the elements but Celestia just banished her.
(6) Due to the major backlash and how dangerous the assignments are that Celestia sends her students on, it would make sense that nobody wants to be her student anymore.
(7) I figured that since the Amazons are almost always shown training or fighting and none of them are shown farming or tilling the land, that the gods of olympus must be making the crops grow for them, so all they have to do is pick the crops and that’s it.
(8) Since the Equestria Girls Universe has skin and hair colors ranging from all the colors of the rainbow, I figured that their version of the DC comics would show the characters in a similar manner since the comics Wonder Woman is reading were made in the Equestria Girls Universe. Which is why it is showing Wonder Woman with blue skin in the comic.
(9) The shield spell allows the user to block any and all incoming attacks, while letting the casters' attacks pass through the shield so they can fire at the enemy while still safely inside of the shield.
(10) The dazzlings have been around since ancient Rome, making them over 2000 years old. They have been collecting little trinkets over their long lives as they traveled the world during their long lives.
(11) Deathstroke met Solid Snake during the events of the Metal Gear 1 game that was made in 1987.
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What other cameos/characters should I use in the story? Also, who should join Sunset's herd? Let me know in the comments below. Until next time, God Bless.
~Axel
P.S. Happy 4th of July!
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