Chapters Equestria
Griffonstone
In the kingdom of Griffons, the massive predatorial birds were relaxing around their homes as they had whips in there claws as their pony slaves went around and did their bidding and the occasional sound of a whip would shriek through the air and put everypony on high alert as the yelling of one of their own filled the quiet air with pain and sorrow.
“Move it pony!” A griffon yelled angrily as he whipped a unicorn filly as he yelped and hit the ground as his back stung like needles as several hard lashes left several bloody racing stripes across his back.
He was skinny and hasn’t fed enough as his brown coat was covered in dirt and dried blood as his chocolate mane was wild and strewn all over the place. His horn glowed weakly in a yellow aura as he focused on lifting the heavy barrel of raw meat into a wagon as it wobbled in the air a little bit but he managed to put it gently on the wagon.
This was Theo-Adam but he mostly went by the name Theodore as the manacles on his hoofs dug into his flesh which would no doubt cause some more scars on his hooves and before long enough, his hoof bones will show.
The griffon behind him didn’t care about any of that as he brandished his whip and gestured to the ten other barrels that needed to be loaded into the wagon.
“GET GOING!!!” The griffon ordered as Theodore nodded with tears in his eyes before lifting another barrel and his strength gave out as the barrel fell down and toppled over as raw meat spilled out in front of him as he collapsed.
Hunger overwhelmed him as he crawled forward and gnawed on a piece of meat as he chewed desperately before the griffon yanked on his chain and pulled him away from it as he raised his whip to lash him as he closed his eyes but then a scream was heard in front of him as Theo opened his eyes and saw that the griffon was replaced by a royal pegasus in golden armor as more of them flooded the town as the Griffons tried to fight back but the guards subdued them and imprisoned them in magical domes.
Soon the enslaved ponies were being tended to by the guards as one guard came to Theo and began to gently take off his manacles as the filly had no strength before Theo saw the Princess of Equestria land at the center of town.
Princess Celestia was there in all her glory as she walked forward and glared at the Griffons who looked at her fearfully.
“Enslaving ponies… I never knew that Griffonstone would fall this low to harm my subjects.” Princess Celestia said coldly as one Griffon spoke.
“What can I say? They make good servants.” He said gleefully as some male griffons chuckled as Celestia’s eye twitched and her horn glowed threateningly as Theo noticed movement out of the corner of his eye and his eyes went to the house that was beside the Princess and saw a Griffon holding a bow and nocked an arrow.
“Hrgg….” Theo tried to say but his throat was dry and he had barely any energy as the guard unshackling him talked to him.
“It’s okay kid, I got you.” The guard replied, oblivious to what was happening.
He tried to get somepony or anypony’s attention but they were all oblivious to the danger the Princess was in as the Griffon aimed at the Princess. Drawing upon everything he had left, Theo’s horn glowed an angry yellow before he yelled as a beam shot from his horn and hit the Griffon in the chest and missed his shot as the arrow landed beside Celestia’s hoof as she looked up and used a knock out spell as the mercenary fell to the ground.
The last thing Theodore saw was the Princess approaching him as he blacked from the pain and the hunger.
Canterlot
Theodore woke up shakily as he found out that he was in a bed or more specifically, in a hospital as there was a doctor tending to his injuries as he saw the doctor enter his vision and he blacked out again.
When he woke up again, he was now sitting up and was being fed by a fellow doctor as she had a soft face and her horn glowed a gentle yellow as she fed the filly who unknowingly opened his mouth and ate the whatever it was. Theo’s mind was hazy as everything around him blurred as his throat was so dry he couldn’t swallow properly as the food dribbled out of his mouth before he looked back at the doctor only to realize that it wasn’t a doctor…. It was Princess Celestia.
Theo double taked as he widened his eyes drastically at the warm face of the Princess as he tried to think of words but Celestia hushed him as she levitated a canteen of water.
“Drink child.” She gently chided as Theo immediately grabbed the canteen out of her grasp and chugged it down as some water leaked out before he finished the container and reached for a next one and began chugging that one down as well as Celestia widened her eyes at how severely thirsty he was.
After he was done, Theo sighed happily as he finished four canteens of water and Celestia levitated a tissue and wiped his mouth as she looked at him warmly.
“What is your name, child?” She asked.
“Theo-Adam.” Theo replied as Celestia tilted her head.
“Interesting name.” Celestia replied.
“You can call me Theo.” Theo offered as Celestia chuckled.
“I want to thank you for saving my life, very brave for somepony your age.” Celestia said as Theo blushed embarrassingly as he played with his hooves.
“S-sure.” Theo said shyly as Celestia looked at him and then at his horn.
“I sense you have powerful magic at a young age, how about you become my pupil?” Celestia offered as Theo stared at her.
“Y-you’re p-pupil?” Theo said, wondering if he heard her right.
“Why of course, a young unicorn like you is very advanced and with the right teachings, you could go very far, so what do you say?” Celestia asked with a smile as Theo nodded excitingly before hugging her as Celestia returned the hug.
Fifteen Years Later
Ever since that day, Theo has learned many things from Princess Celestia and all kinds of cool new tricks that he can do with his magic but five years after becoming her pupil, she found another one known as Twilight Sparkle.
Apparently the unicorn mare caused an accident during her exam and that caught the attention of Princess Celestia as she went to investigate who exactly did it. Finding Twilight Sparkle as the culprit, the Princess offered her to become her pupil to which the latter accepted and began to study along with Theo.
But as Twilight studied with him, she noticed that the Princess was extremely fond of Theo and instantly felt jealous but kept it hidden from her mentor and her pupil before she made her move.
The filly found her target in the library as he was about to concoct a potion which was assigned to the both of them as an experiment. Right before Theo dropped the last ingredient, Twilight grabbed him with her magic and flung him to the side right as Celestia came in and saw that Twilight dropped the last ingredient within the bottle and completed the experiment.
“Very good, Twilight!” Princess Celestia complimented her as the young filly beamed as groaning could be heard from the side as Theo stumbled out of a pile of books that fell on him.
“Theo, what have I told you about playtime and education?” Celestia spoke to him sternly as Theo shook his head confused before he looked at Twilight and glared at her.
“Princess, Twilight flung me into the w-” Theo started to say before one glare from the Princess made him stop before she turned around and left the library with Twilight following her as the filly smirked at him as Theo sighed sadly.
This continued on and on over the years as Twilight took credit for all of his work as Princess Celestia continued to fawn over her and hardly spoke to Theo if not at all. He still tried to get her attention as to what Twilight was doing but she paid no attention to it at all.
As the years passed by, Theo felt more and more isolated than ever as Princess Celestia now completely ignores him and Twilight doesn’t even look at him at all no matter what he does.
He felt more alone than ever… until she came along.
It was nighttime and Theo was thirsty as he walked down the empty hall for a glass of water and he was looking at floor sadly as he didn’t notice he was about to bump into somepony until his head hit something and emitted an OW! From both him and the pony.
“Sorry, about that.” Theo spoke monotony as he still didn’t look at the pony until she spoke.
“It’s fine.”
Theo’s head immediately shot up as he took in the sight of her, she was pink and more importantly she was an alicorn, probably a few years older than him, perhaps five years older?
“H-hi.” Theo greeted nervously as the alicorn filly giggled.
“Hi there! My names Cadance, what’s yours?” Cadance greeted happily.
“Th-Theo.” He replied nervously as she helped him up.
“Where are you going?” She asked.
“Needed some water.” Theo replied as she smiled warmly which made his heart flutter.
Since that day, the two of them hung out and talked about themselves as Cadance told him how she was Twilight’s babysitter and how she was made into an alicorn by Celestia. They had fun together and became best friends over the years as Cadance became more and more beautiful which made Theo’s crush on her increase more and more until he finally worked up the nerve to ask her out to the school dance his school was having.
As a coincidence, Cadance was also attending the school along with Twilight but Theo didn’t care about her at all. As Theo was walking down the hallways of the school, he looked all over for Cadance as since school was over, he was hoping now was the best time to ask her since the dance was a couple nights away.
Theo had a rose in his teeth as he trotted outside and into the courtyard before he finally saw her sitting at a bench alone… perfect. Theo made his way over there before he noticed that a white unicorn approached her and had a rose of his own which made Theo stop.
“Cadance, we’ve been friends for awhile, will you be my marefriend and accompany me to the dance?” The stallion asked as Cadance squealed in happiness.
“Of course!” She replied before tacking the stallion and kissing him on the lips.
Theo’s heart shattered into a million pieces as his mind felt numb and his head ached in depression as his pupils narrowed and became small before rain began to fall around them as he watched that stallion and Cadance ran to find cover.
Drenched in water but didn’t care, Theo walked through the rain slowly as his eyes strayed to the ground as his vision swirled with numbing colors and before he knew it, he was back in Canterlot Castle as a few maids and a few guards looked at him with concern.
Opening the door to his room and then closing it, Theo threw the bundle of roses into the wall before plopping face first onto his bed before he began crying loudly as his life was swirling more and more into the dark abyss.
After that day, Theo never spoke to Cadance again as the alicorn fell for Shining Armor who turned out to be Twilight Sparkle’s Brother which fucking annoyed him as another one of that unicorn’s family ruined his life. Turns out Cadance was the Alicorn of Love and when Theo found out about this, he was pissed, so pissed that he destroyed his room in rage before fixing it as she knew that he had feelings for her but just toyed with him.
A couple dozen times over the years, Princess Celestia invited Princess Cadance and her coltfriend Shining Armor to have a dinner with her and Twilight Sparkle. There were five seats but only four were filled as Cadance herself was worried for Theo’s health but the other didn’t seem to care.
Curious, Cadance went to Theo’s room and discovered that he was in deep study and when she tried to reconnect with him, Theo gave her the coldest glare he had ever done which made the alicorn leave him and never spoke to him again.
A few more years later, Princess Celestia finally talked to him only for it to be that he had to go with Twilight Sparkle to Ponyville for the Summer Sun Celebration. Theo despised The Princess of the Sun while he admired her younger sister, Princess Luna that lost to history.
During preparations for the event, Twilight met up with five new ponies named Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy. Like some random fucking disease, Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash ignored him while Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy actually talked to him which lightened him up a bit.
To the fucking point, those six became the Elements of Harmony and vanquished Nightmare Moon aka Princess Luna and the two sisters reunited which resulted in Twilight staying in Ponyville and she still didn’t address Theo at all. After many friendship lessons for Twilight, she learned a bit more about Friendship while Theo, on the other hoof, made many friends.
Some friends he made were Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Big Macintosh, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Zecora, Trixie, Starlight, Fleur De Lis, Granny Smith, Ember, Gilda and surprisingly Princess Luna.
Now, fifteen years later since he became Celestia’s pupil, Theo now found himself on the Friendship Express with the Mane Six on the way to Canterlot for a wedding between Shining Armor and Princess Cadance.
The rest of the girls were discussing what they hoped to do while Theo isolated himself from the group and was in a completely different train cart as he looked outside and into the clouds.
“Why is my life so bucking difficult?” He questioned aloud.
After a few more hours, Theo now found himself in front of a couple of doors with the Mane Six behind him as Princess Cadance stepped out and looked at them. Almost immediately Theo noticed something was off with her, she didn’t flinch when she looked at him, she looked bewildered like she didn’t know who he was.
Twilight, on the hoof, got excited and did some stupid dance.
“Cadance! Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake! Clap your hooves and do a little shake!” Twilight cheered as Cadance just looked at her confused and with a bit of disgust before leaving them hanging which confused the unicorn.
“Ah wouldn’t worry Twilight, she probably is frustrated right now.” Applejack comforted the unicorn as Twilight looked down sadly.
“She’s right darling, most likely its the Wedding Jitters.” Rarity commented before they all went inside as Theo just rolled his eyes at their stupidity.
“Wedding Jitters, my flank.” Theo mumbled before disappearing. Secretly stalking the pink alicorn, Theo observed her actions and she wasn’t moving how he’s seen her move and this continued until nightfall as Theo was trotting to a nearby tower and looked up to see that Princess Luna was keeping watch which made him smile softly before teleporting again and this time he reappeared outside Shining’s door as he peered inside.
“Oh don’t worry dear, you’ll be just fine.” Cadance spoke before her horn and eyes glowed green which made Shining’s eyes glow green as well and twirl around circles which made Theo’s eyes widen and teleport away.
The Next Day
Princess Celestia sat on her throne as the practice ceremony had begun and Twilight Sparkle stood to her right as Shining’s best mare as the stallion himself was standing to the right of the Princess.
“Steady movements girls, no need to rush.” Celestia chided softly as the mane five walked down the aisle with giddy faces.
“Then Cadance will walk through.” Celestia announced as Cadance appeared at the doorway which Shining drool at her look as she walked and stood across from Shining.
“Then the vows will be spoken and th-” Celestia was interrupted as Theo slammed the doors opened and glared at Cadance.
“Theo, what are you doing?” Rainbow Dash asked with a glare as Theo walked right past her and looked Celestia dead in the eye.
“I’ll tell you what I’m doing,” Theo spoke coldly before pointing at the bride. “That… is not Cadance.” This made Shining glare at him and move in front of Cadance protectively.
“Wh-what?” Cadance faked confusion.
“The aura of your horn was green instead of light blue and your eyes glowed green, not to mention the spell that is currently on Shining right now.” Theo stated coldly as Cadance began fake crying.
“Why… why do this to me on my special day?!” Cadance yelled before running out of the hall with tears in her eyes as Theo glared at her retreating form before turning around and smacking straight into Shining who glared at him.
“Do you wanna know why there is a spell casted on me?!” Shining yelled angrily, “It’s to keep my energy up so I could maintain the barrier spell that surrounds this kingdom!”
“Barrier spells are not in green aura,” Theo spoke darkly. “And that is not a stamina spell at all, I can see it, its draining you instead of sustaining you.”
“That’s because most of my energy is being as it is given so she has to cast it over and over!” Shining yelled angrily before walking past him, “If you’ll excuse me, I have to comfort my bride and don’t even bother showing up to the wedding… in fact, don’t even come back to this castle at all.”
Theo glared coldly at Shining before turning around to see The Mane Six and the Princess Celestia looking at him.
“Girls come on, we have to check on Cadance.” Twilight spoke before they all passed him and giving him cold glares as Theo paid no attention to them at all as he looked at Princess Celestia who was walking towards him.
“You have a lot to think about.” She said coldly.
“Why?” Theo asked.
Celestia stopped and looked at him coldly as Theo walked right up to her and spoke.
“Why did you ignore me for all these years?” Theo asked coldly, “Have I not given you everything I had?!”
Celestia was emotionless before she turned around and walked to the doors before she spoke one last line, “I shouldn’t have saved you from those griffons.” Before shutting the doors as Theo’s world shattered around him and his cold state cracked as tears welled up in his eyes as his mother-like figure, his own teacher, wished she hadn’t saved him when he was a slave.
Author's Note
DAMN, TOUGH LUCK FOR MY HOMIE, CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BLACK ADAM MOVIE THOUGH.
Chapter 3: The Awakening of a God
POSSIBLE BLACK ADAM MOVIE SPOILERS AS I'M TRYING TO RE-ENACT HOW THE MOVIE WILL HAPPEN, TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT BUT IT COULD BE ACCURATE!!!!
Five Minutes Ago
Kahn’daq, Egypt
The city was under great peril as men and women were forced out of their homes to live on the streets as the Intergang took over. The Intergang were highly advanced in terms of their technology and their supplier. Known for conquering nations, they planned to take over the world little by little.
Adrianna Tomaz, a freedom fighter, along with her son Amon were currently being forced to lead a group of Intergang members to the source of a strange energy signature that she discovered but the group discovered her research.
Currently, Adrianna and one of her associates were exploring the tomb with the gang members right behind them with her son in their custody in case they try anything.
“No games.” The leader spoke seriously as he kept a firm grip on the boy in case anything happened. Adrianna gave her son a reassuring glance before turning around and kept walking while shining her flashlight around the massive cave.
“What… is that?” Her associate asked as Adrianna looked up and saw what looked like a massive crown at first but as she stepped closer, she saw that it was seven miniature thrones in a circle above a hieroglyphic tomb embedded in the ground.
One of the men held up a energy detector and the needle was high, “That’s the source of the energy, what do we do?”
“Break the tomb.” The leader simply ordered as Adrianna looked at him bewildered.
“You can’t…. You can’t break this tomb!” Adrianna yelled in shock before the leader tightened his grip on her son which made cry out in pain as Adrianna stayed silent but had tears welling in her eyes as some of the men readied their weapons and they approached the tomb.
One man readied a sledgehammer as he raised it over his head and before he could bring it down, the tomb glowed blue as the outer edges glowed blue before a lightning bolt shaped imprint glowed blue and glowed brighter before a lightning bolt struck from the heavens and struck the tomb which caused a massive pitchback for everyone and knocked them down to their backs as some went flying back.
Adrianna coughed as she waved the smoke away before she saw her son lying unconscious on the ground as she rushed over to him as her associate looked at him and took his pulse.
“He’s alive.” He said as Adrianna sighed with relief before the smoke cleared where the tomb was and there was a figure draped in a hooded cape as he was crouching as the men recovered and aimed their weapons at the mysterious man.
Theo, on the other hand, felt powerful and strong enough to lift a mountain as he breathed calmly before hearing the footsteps of someone approaching him as he gently lifted his head and the man kept his gun aimed right at him.
“Hands on your head.” The man said as Theo made no effort to comply to that order as he flexed his fingers and he heard the man shake his gun threateningly but also it was a sign of fear.
“I won’t ask again!” He warned as he stopped right behind him as he awaited the man’s next move.
Theo knew that there was a group known as Intergang that was going to come for him but they had two innocents with them. This man behind him was apart of that group and he wasn’t going to hold back.
Faster than the blink of an eye, he turned around and grabbed the man by the throat before he willed lightning to shock the man to death as he shook and soon his hands went limp as he shocked him to the bone before crushing the dusty skeleton to dust as it fell to the ground.
All the men looked at him in fear before the leader yelled shakily, “OPEN FIRE!!!”
The men released the full power of their machine guns as the bullets hit Theo’s body but they bounced off as Theo steadily felt his anger rising and soon found himself floating gently as he snatched that feeling and increased it as he steadily rose into the air as the bullets bounced off of him.
Lightning sparked from his arms as his lightning emblem glowed a dark golden hue as his fingers laced with lightning before he aimed it at the men and fired a full lightning blast at them as there bodies bursted and splattered blood all over the place as he calmly moved his arm and vaporized all the men as bloody stains were left of their existence before looking at the two or rather three innocents that were looking at him fearfully.
Ignoring them, Theo hears a weird chopping noise to his right, like something was slicing the air as he rose higher into the air before he began blasting the wall of the cave with one hand before increasing the power with his second as chunks of rock fell and crashed to the ground as Adrianna picked up her son and rushed outside along with her associate.
The lightning blasts chewed through the rocky barrier before blasting a hole to the outside which alerted the attention of the two armed helicopters that were waiting outside the massive cave.
“What the hell was that?!” A pilot yelled as he looked at the lightning that was still streaking out of the massive hole.
“Is it Thor?!” The second pilot yelled in fear before the two of them got their answer as Theo floated out of the darkness and rose slowly to their level as the pilots readied their weapons to engage the floating god.
“Do we engage?!” The first pilot yelled.
“It’s a floating maniac, we should engage!” The second one replied.
“But what if our ammo don’t work?!” The first pilot pressed on.
“He ain’t no fucking Superman, let it rip!” The second pilot yelled as both helicopters fired their rotary cannons as dozens of bullets hit his body as they bounced off of him as his cape took the bullets as holes appeared in them and in as Theo glared at them before the helicopters decided to cease fire.
“Uhhh…. You sure he’s not related to Superman?” The first pilot asked as his partner didn’t say anything as he was staring blankly in horror at the floating figure who was done waiting on standby.
Theo zoomed forward and spreaded both of his hands as they clipped the left and right wings respectively of both helicopters which sent them sprawling out of control as the pilots screamed as their helicopters spiraled towards the ground.
Theo paid no attention to them at all as he gently landed on the ground with both helicopters exploding as soon as he landed as he walked forward and glared at a couple of oncoming vehicles that were driving towards him. So far, this world had strange technology that eluded Theo as Equestria doesn’t have any of these things.
He watched curiously as the vehicles stopped and men got out, holding machine guns as Theo recognized these weapons before getting an angry look on his face. Rushing forward, he grabbed one of the vehicles and smashed the men flat as they screamed before they were silenced as chunks of human flesh pitched out of each slam as Theo relentlessly killed them and soon a ten foot crater was the result when he finished with them.
Hearing another noise, Theo turned around menacingly only to find a minibus screeching to a halt as the occupants inside looked terrified as the god stood right infront of there bus. Trying to look brave, Adrianna began winding up her window as her associate began to do the same before Theo began walking towards them and analyzed the vehicle.
It had strange designs on it, none to which he understood as he passed Adrianna’s window before stopping and backing up to take a thorough look at her. He was bewildered by her appearance as she looked pretty beautiful to him and that boy in the backseat must be her son… so the guy in the driver’s seat was the Dad, perhaps?
As he continued to look at them creepily, he didn’t notice that another truck had put itself into the proper position before the man who drove it readied a missile and as soon as he clicked it into place, it pulsed a blue color. The man took aim before the associate noticed him as he saw the missile launcher.
“Behind you!” He yelled Theo immediately turned around as the man fired his missile and it streaked toward them with a blue hue to it. Curious about the object, Theo used his speed and caught the missile as the air streaked from his initial position as he looked at the object and observed the strange shape.
“Did he just catch a rocket?” The associate said disbelieved.
“Yeah, he caught a rocket.” Adrianna replied in awe as the man turned the rocket and looked at it as Theo noticed a little timer on the side of the missile.
“What th-” Theo began to say before the missile exploded massively along with a blue shockwave emitting from it which to say…. Caught Theo off-guard since it knocked him down as dark smoke flooded his vision before he got back up.
Adrianna and her associate looked out the window for any sign of the man before his hand slammed against the windshield which cracked it a little as the man rose up and now his hooded cape was torn to shreds as he had an angry look on his face as he grabbed the torn cape and ripped it off as he turned to face the man who attacked him as he readied another missile.
Glowing blue with power, the man fired a second missile and Theo didn’t move as the missile came close before Theo stopped it cold just by grabbing it before throwing it back at the man with super strength as it streaked towards him and blew him up which exploded the car he was in as Theo smirked at that before giving Adrianna one last look before jumping into the air and flying off.
“Who…. was that?” Her associate asked fearfully.
“I don’t know… I don’t recognize him.” Adrianna said regretfully.
“What did we just do?” He asked.
“......We awakened a god.” Adrianna replied in horror before she gestured for him to start driving as he gassed the minibus and took off in the direction of where the man flew off.
Ten Minutes Later
The Justice Society Headquarters
In the headquarters of the JSA which was located in California, Hawkman was sitting in his chair as he awaited the visitor that was supposed to arrive earlier but decided to wait until the entire team was here as he awaited for his team to show up.
Having receive the message from a high ranking government official, the only thing that Hawkman got out of it was that this mission was very important and was to be top secret, no one else should know about it at all. Carter sighed as he fingered his mace as he looked at the table thoughtfully and wondering as to why this mission was so important.
The door opened and a huge man in a red and blue suit came through clumsily as he hurriedly went and sat in his chair as Hawkman looked at him with a raised eyebrow. He was about 7’4 and was muscular but wasn’t really that smart but he knew how to fight, this was Atom Smasher.
“Albert, I told you that you don’t have to wear your suit in here.” Carter chided as the teen’s eyes widened as he took his mask off.
“Sorry, its just that I need the suit to… you know, keep my height the same.” Albert replied.
“Where’s Cyclone and Fate?” Carter asked.
“Uh last time I saw Cyclone, she was in the city buying something and Fate… haven’t seen him yet.” Albert replied.
Carter sighed before the door opened and the wind increased drastically which forced the two men to hold onto their chairs tightly as Cyclone, known as Maxine Hunkel, came flying in with a smile on her face as her curly hair swayed in the wind as she sat in her seat.
“Hello boys.” Maxine greeted as Carter deadpanned.
“You seem to be in a happy mood.” Carter noticed.
“Oh well, we’re finally going on our first actual assigned mission that won’t be deemed illegal by the government.” Maxine said excited.
“Well… I don’t know about illegal…” Albert trailed off as Carter nodded.
“Agreed, we don’t know what exactly the assignment is as we will be briefed by a government official… the only thing I managed to get out of him was that it was Top Secret and no one should know about this which means both of you better not leak anything yet until we have permission to do so.” Carter said sternly as both of them nodded.
“What do you think the assignment is?” Albert asked.
“Could be to retrieve something that belongs to the government,” Carter answered, “That’s the only thing I could think of if they want this mission to not be known to other hero organizations.”
“I wonder what it could be if that’s the case.” Maxine wondered.
The doors opened for a third time and this time, an elderly man entered with a golden helmet under his right arm as he took his seat at the table, this was Kent Nelson but known famously… as Doctor Fate.
“Kent, you’re late… which is a surprise.” Carter noted as Kent gave a warm smile.
“I know, I know… just had to deal with a few… untimely warnings.” Kent replied as the three members looked at him curiously. Untimely warnings were not a common thing from Kent and if Nabu was speaking to him about a warning, then that means something serious is going on.
“What was the warning?” Albert asked.
“Nabu said all will be revealed sooner rather than later,” Kent replied before looking behind him, “Or rather now, in fact.”
The doors opened for a fourth time and this time, a woman came through with a serious expression on her face as she approached the table and sat down in the guest chair as she placed a folder on the table and looked at each of them. This was Amanda Waller, known for being the Director of A.R.G.U.S, known as The Advanced Research Group Uniting Superhumans.
Maxine and Albert stiffened as soon as they saw her while Carter straightened himself and gained a serious look on his face while Kent narrowed his eyes at her as Amanda sat in the chair and looked at him.
“I see you got the team back together, along with some new faces.” Amanda said while looking at Maxine and Albert as Carter replied.
“Yes, it was necessary.” Carter replied.
“We’ll see about that in your assignment.” Amanda said seriously before opening up a file and distributing papers out to each of them as they looked at it.
“About ten minutes ago, a fellow spy that we implanted in Kahn’daq found something dangerous… something that could destroy this world as we know it.” Amanda spoke before the holographic screen at the center of the table revealed a figure in a black suit.
“This man is capable of destroying fighter jets, tanking bullets and catching missiles like their rubber balls,” Amanda said seriously, “There’s no name of him currently bu-”
“Black Adam.” Kent replied as everyone looked at him as he looked at the Helmet of Nabu.
“This was Nabu’s warning to me,” Kent spoke as the helmet shined and glowed gently, “I had a vision and that vision has shown me the future…. Black Adam has two choices, he can be the destroyer of this world or he can be its savior. He will not be an easy person to talk to, much less fight as I have seen what he is capable of.”
“Then that further solidifies my decision,” Amanda said darkly, “I want you all to find and capture Black Adam and bring him to me.”
“And what will you do with someone of that kind of power?” Carter asked curiously as she glared at him.
“That is none of your concern.” Amanda snapped back as Carter got up and glared at her.
“There is a chance that we can convince him to be a hero.” Carter spoke defensively.
“Didn’t you hear the warning just now? He can be a destroyer to our world and he is already starting down on that path,” Amanda shot back, “We cannot take the chance and let this man roam free, I want you to bring him in… or you all will face dire consequences.”
Amanda took her folder and exited the room as the doors opened and closed for her as the entire team looked at each other before Maxine broke the silence.
“So… what do we do?” Maxine asked.
“We go to Kahn’daq,” Kent replied as everyone looked at him, “I have some knowledge of Black Adam through my visions, he is heading in that direction and maybe there I will be able to convince him to join us.”
“And remember, do not engage him,” Carter warned as he looked at the footage of Black Adam destroying U.S Government technology like its nothing, “This is someone who is potentially on the level of Superman, we cannot risk angering him, everyone got it?”
They all nodded before they all got up and made their way to Hawkman’s jet as they were set on convincing Black Adam to stop this madness and join the JSA. Meanwhile, Amanda was in her car as she drove back to Belle Reve as she looked up and saw the JSA’s jet took off towards Kahn’daq.
Amanda took out her phone and dialed a number before the person on the other line answered.
“Who is this?” A male voice asked suspiciously.
“Cut the crap, I know who you really are,” Amanda spoke seriously, “Meet me at Belle Reve, I have something that might interest you.”
Author's Note
THINGS ARE STARTING TO HEAT UP AS THEO COMES INTO THE WORLD OF SUPERHEROES.... ALSO I'M TRYING TO GIVE MY OWN TAKE ON THE BLACK ADAM MOVIE BEFORE IT COMES OUT SO POSSIBLY THERE IS SPOILERS IF I'M GUESSING CORRECTLY BUT HEY YOU CLICKED THE STORY, NOT ME!!!
Chapter 4: Black Adam vs. Intergang
Five Minutes Later
Theo was flying through the air at high speeds as the Wisdom of Zehuti pointed him in the direction of Kahn’daq as the former equestrian marveled at the geography of the land and the variety of different animals that he saw.
“Beautiful, isn’t it?” Stan Lee said in Theo’s head.
“This place is so different from Equestria.” Theo observed as he passed a herd of zebras which reminded him of Zecora.
“If you compare Earth to Equestria, you will see a lot of similarities,” Stan Lee explained thoughtfully, “You will see that there is Oxygen that can be breathed in, plants that grow from the ground, a sun and a moon along with the many stars that follow them. Then you begin to notice the key differences… tell me Theo, have you noticed any key differences?”
“The herd of zebras that I flew past just now don’t seem capable of speech or a higher form of knowledge.” Theo noted as Stan Lee hummed in agreement.
“That is the major difference between Earth and Equestria, the origin of life itself is different from each other. You see, Equestria believes that ponies were once a species that lived in the wild and were just like any other animal you would see on that world. The thing they don’t see or can’t get knowledge of was the fact that they never came from anywhere at all.” Stan Lee explained.
“How… is that possible?” Theo asked in confusion as he continued to soar through the skies and eventually was beneath the cloud line.
“Put it this way, you create two dragons, a male and a female and they have an offspring. That offspring learns from its parents about what its capable of doing and what it can’t do then the question comes, where did we come from? The answer that it receives from the parents is that they come from an ancient line of dragons even though they were the only dragons of that kind to be created.” Stan Lee said as Theo’s eyes widened with realization.
“Equestria is the product of someone’s mind?!” Theo practically yelled out in disbelief as Stan Lee chuckled.
“Believe it or not, we all are, its just that Earth was the beginning of it all. When I became a deity, I began to see the connections between a universe and its origins and so I traced back those connections to only find out that it came from my Earth specifically. The Earth that I grew up on was the original Earth to all the infinite universes or alternate Earths that were out there.”
“So every thought we make or conjure up, a universe is formed?” Theo asked.
“Not necessarily, a god is sustained through people worshipping he or she and gains power from their followers. Another thing to heed Theo as you go forward in this universe, never underestimate the power of thousands of minds contributing to one thing, that can change the course of history… for better or worse.” Stan Lee warned him.
“Alright.” Theo replied as he continued to fly as Stan Lee chuckled.
“Bah enough with the trivia, how are you enjoying your powers?”
“Like a slave released from his chains.” Theo replied as he gave a little smirk as the wind washed over him.
“There’s nothing better than a feeling like that.” Stan Lee agreed before asking, “Did Intergang give you a hard time?”
“Nope.”
“Well then look alive Theo, you’re not the only one in the skies right now.”
Theo got confused at first before a shrieking noise on his left and his right alerted his attention as he looked down and two weird triangle objects hovering up towards him before they both took his sides as he looked at the one on his right.
The pilot had a strange mask on him as he pressed a button on his console and suddenly Theo could hear the man in his machine as he yelled at him.
“You are in a restricted airspace, we have authorization to terminate you if you choose to defy our orders… land immediately.” The pilot said as he pointed to the ground with his hand as Theo glared at the man.
“I don’t take orders from anyone.” Theo spoke darkly and the pilot heard him before the metahuman raised his hand and slapped the wing of the jet so hard that a piece of it fell off as the pilot screamed and ejected from his jet.
Before his parachute can activate, Theo grabbed the pilot and ripped the chair off of him before he flew back beside the other fighter jet as the second pilot saw that this metahuman was holding his comrade with one hand.
“Release him, now!” The second pilot commanded as Theo glared at him and the pilot pissed himself when he saw the look on that man’s face, it was murderous.
“You want him?” Theo asked as he raised the pilot in his hand as the man squirmed as Theo saw his comrade nod before tossing the pilot up and grabbed his ankle.
“Then take him.” Theo finished before he chucked the pilot straight into the cockpit of the second one with enough force to break the glass and the cockpit bursted into flames as two flaming bodies fell to the ground and the jet began divebombing as it made its way to the ground as Theo shook his head at the stupidity of these people.
“That was honestly better than what they showed in the trailer.” Stan Lee spoke, obviously surprised.
“Trailer?” Theo asked.
“I’ll tell you about it later but those two weren’t necessarily part of Intergang, they were soldiers of the United States Government.”
“United States Government?” Theo spoke in confusion as the words were unfamiliar and a strange term put together.
“Kahn’daq is not the only country in this world, Theo. There are many other nations who have soldiers of there own and who are willing to fight for their country, even fight you if they are ordered to.” Stan explained as Theo chuckled darkly.
“They might as well be ordered to dig their own graves.” Theo replied as he increased his speed and the world around him blurred and his perception increased drastically as he could see just fine but the world was going past him very fast.
The speed he was flying at was powerful enough to break the sound barrier as a loud boom was heard and Theo was flying faster than he ever had before. In a corner of his head, he wished Rainbow Dash was in front of him so that he could ram through her disgusting existence and toss the corpse aside like a piece of trash.
“You’re almost there, Theo.” Stan said as Theo slowed down his speed a bit as signs of civilization were beginning to enter his field of vision. Beyond the city was an ocean as the buildings were very ordinary and nothing too big or too small. The only thing that was out of the ordinary was the fact that there was a small army waiting for Theo at the border of Kahn’daq.
“Intergang.” Theo spoke angrily as he recognized some of the uniforms from the bad guys in the cave. He flew towards them and stopped before hovering in the air about a hundred feet above the small army. Using Zehuti’s wisdom, information flooded into his head and there were 148 armed soldiers and about 13 armored helicopters as the Intergang members aimed at him.
“Metahuman!” One of them shouted as Theo narrowed his voice down to a burgundy looking soldier in a commander hat.
“Your kind has no place in this city as it belongs to us, not to you monstrosities!” The commander yelled as his army rallied the call.
“Leave and you will be unharmed but if you choose to stay, we will show you what we do with heroes like you!” The commander shouted before the man suddenly found himself in the air as he yelled in surprise as Theo was holding him by his shirt in the same spot he was before.
“Well there’s a first time for everything because… I’m no fucking hero.” Theo said darkly before throwing the commander into the spinning blades of a nearby helicopter as his body was chopped up and blood stained the windshield of the helicopter as the machine malfunctioned and a small fire began burning as the helicopter went down and crashed into a fiery inferno.
“OPEN FIRE!!!” A soldier yelled before the army began firing their artillery as bullets bounced off of Theo’s skin as the metahuman zoomed towards another helicopter and grabbed it by the mainframe. Using his phenomenal strength, Theo ripped the helicopter in half like a piece of paper and used them like boxing gloves as he smashed them into two more helicopters.
Turning towards another helicopter, Theo zoomed towards them and grabbed the two pilots out of the cockpit as they were begging for their lives. Bullets were being shot at him by the dozens as Theo noticed a new vehicle was rolling up to the area below him and he recognized the familiar shapes of the objects in its trunk. They were missiles and there was a lot of them.
Throwing the pilots into a helicopter like they were missiles themselves, there bodies bursted into pieces as helicopters swung out of control and crashed down below. Theo’s arms sparked with lightning as he blasted three more helicopters before facing the last three flying machines.
Using his speed, Theo grabbed the tail of one of them and slammed it into the cockpit of another before throwing it at the last helicopter as the pilot screamed in horror before the fires of the machines silenced them permanently.
A bullet sparked off of his face as he glowered at the small army down below as some of the soldiers were avoiding the wreckage and fires of the helicopters as Theo immediately landed on the ground and began engaging the soldiers in hand to hand combat. Grabbing one of them, Theo ripped him in half before throwing him into other with the force of a speeding bus and punched others so hard that they were sent flying up high.
Despite the sounds of gunfire and men yelling for his death, Theo heard a new noise as it was an unfamiliar click as he looked beyond the army and saw the truck with many missiles in its trunk as a man was glaring at him and he hit a button as all 24 missiles were fired out of the truck and headed straight towards Theo.
Theo used his speed and suddenly everything around him was happening in slow motion as he grabbed a soldier and one missile before shoving it in his mouth and pointing them upward so they fly into the sky. Floating calmly towards the massive batch of missiles, Theo set their course to groups of soldiers, shoved them in the mouths of others, throwing separate ones at single soldiers and occasionally grabbing a missile and crushing it in front of a soldier’s face as burn marks appeared immediately.
He floated in front of a group of soldiers before shooting lightning at them as it raced through the center of their bodies and left gaping holes in them as it happened in slow motion. He noticed a solo soldier shooting at him as the bullets impacted him slowly as the man had a yelling expression on his face.
Curious as to why he was seeing so many of these strange firing weapons, Theo floated over to him and took the machine gun from the man’s grasp. He analyzed the weapon as he seemed bewildered and didn’t know how to fire it until he looked over to another soldier firing the gun and saw their was a trigger at the bottom.
Theo pointed the machine gun at the man’s face and pulled the trigger as bullets slowly sank into the man’s face as blood splurted out of the wounds as Theo unloaded the clip until nothing was left and he shoved the gun straight down the throat of the guy he looked at for a demonstration of how to use the weapon.
Looking at his final destination which was the truck with many missiles on it, Theo zoomed towards the driver of the truck and grabbed him before crushing his skull as blood soaked his hands before chucking the truck into the air and turned his back on the carnage that he ensued before time went back to normal as bodies blew up, trucks exploded, men screamed and rockets hit the ground as Theo walked away from the massive explosion.
The metahuman glowered up at the tips of the buildings he could just beyond this massive mountain barrier as he flew over the barrier and gazed upon Kahn’daq’s in its entirety as he saw people were going about and doing their business as some of them pointed up at Theo and soon a small crowd were staring up at the metahuman with awe.
“Wow…” Theo said in awe at the city as he saw many different things from his aerial view before he floated down and landed on the ground and walked among the mortals as people murmured to themselves and some of them began to crowd around him.
Theo tensed himself in case they were going to attack him but then those feelings vanished when he saw that some of them were crying and some looked relieved as Theo looked at them and noticed that they barely had decent outfits on.
“Please help us.” An elderly man said as he was very skinny and had ragged clothes on.
“Save us from those heretics, please I beg of you!” A woman cried out to Theo.
“My daughter needs help! She needs help!” A man cried out.
More and more pleas entered Theo’s ears as he looked at all of them in shock. He was told that Intergang was bad but he wasn’t expecting all of this. His rage grew more and more as the cries of the people entered his ears… no…. Not just any people.
They are HIS people.
Before he could say anything to them, a military vehicle rolled into the street as some people began to scream as Intergang soldiers hopped out from the back and threw some people out of their way before making their way to Theo.
“So this is the cunt that’s causing this small crowd?” A soldier asked the nearby people as they were fearful of him and when he didn’t receive an answer, he walked to a woman and grabbed her ear forcefully as she cried out in pain.
“Didn’t you hear m-?!” The soldier yelled before Theo’s hand clasped his throat and he broke his neck with a flick of a wrist and he threw the dead corpse out of Kahn’daq as the body went flying for miles as he glared at the rest of the soldiers who aimed at him immediately.
“Your deaths are long overdue.” Theo spoke darkly as the soldiers fired their guns but Theo raised his hand and flicked back the bullets with so much force that a small shockwave emitted from his hand as the bullets went flying back and bursted the soldiers faces open as their dead bodies fell to the ground as blood splattered and soaked the ground.
Picking up the corpses and tossing them in the truck, Theo fired a lightning bolt at the engine and the truck caught on fire as small explosion occurred as some people backed away in shock as they saw Theo turned to face the small crowd that looked at him.
What he didn’t expect was for people to began cheering for him. His face went from bewildered to a dark smile as he nodded at the applause before gesturing for them to stop cheering.
“Thank you, people of Kahn’daq. I promise you that Intergang will pay for their crimes and will never harm anyone else ever again and I do mean… ever… again.” Theo spoke darkly as the crowd nodded and clapped before an elderly man stepped forward and Theo looked at him curiously.
“What shall we call you, mighty one?” The elderly man asked as everyone looked at Theo curiously.
Theo’s suit sparked with lightning as his lightning insignia glowed from black to yellow as his eyes glowed blue with the power of six gods as he spoke the name Stan Lee made him to be.
“Call me…. Black Adam.”
Author's Note
I KNOW I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS STORY IN AWHILE AND THAT'S BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO POTENTIALLY SPOIL THE MOVIE FOR YOU GUYS. BUT NOW THAT I SAW THE MOVIE, WHICH WAS FUCKING AWESOME BY THE WAY, I CAN CONTINUE WRITING IT!!! BLACK ADAM IS GETTING MORE BRUTAL THAN EVER!!!
Chapter 5: No Mercy, No Remorse
Over the Atlantic Ocean
Hawkman’s hellcruiser was flying over the ocean at minimum speed since the team needed a plan to somehow take down this metahuman considering the power set he wields through Dr Fate’s visions of him.
“Alright so this dude has super strength, speed, agility, reflexes, lightning, durability and who knows what else?” Albert listed off as he snacked on some M&M’s.
“Just because someone’s powerful doesn’t mean that they don’t have a weakness,” Carter said as he pulled up a holographic video of Theo destroying vehicles with ease, “Sometimes the power they have is necessary to guard a weakness that can sometimes be staring right back at us and we don’t even know it.”
“But he has a weakness… right?” Albert clarified.
“We just have to find it.” Carter assured him.
Currently, Carter and Albert were at the hologram table that was in the back end of the jet as the door to the room opened and Maxine along with Kent entered as the two of them took their seats.
“So, any ideas?” Maxine asked.
“You’re the one with a 167 IQ, I am curious to hear your opinion on this.” Carter inquired as Maxine shrugged before looking at Theo’s blitzing form on the screen.
“With powers like these, he’s not kryptonian for sure since Superman doesn’t have lightning manipulation. Perhaps he is asgardian but that wouldn’t make any sense due to his speed and strength levels.” Maxine observed as Kent nodded in confirmation.
“You are right but you’re missing the point.” Kent said as all eyes turned to him as he looked at Theo’s figure.
“Black Adam is a completely new type of metahuman and demonstrates a powerful source of magic that rivals those of mine. His capabilities are only the beginning and the longer he has to adapt, the harder it will become to take him down if necessary.” Kent said solemnly as Carter nodded in understanding.
“What does the helmet tell you?” Carter asked as Kent looked at the helmet and sighed.
“My vision has showed me the world in ruins and a throne room full of the dead bodies of many heroes and villains and there was Black Adam, sitting on a throne, ruling unchallenged. He has a tremendous amount of power and it won’t go unnoticed by villains either.” Kent spoke as Albert choked on his candy.
“W-wait, I-I die?” He stuttered in shock as Kent nodded sadly.
“We all do.” Kent confirmed.
“Can we avoid it?” Carter persisted.
“Leave it to me.” Kent spoke with finality before getting up and heading back to the cockpit as the other three members looked at each other as Carter sighed before leaning back in his chair.
“It would seem that Black Adam is more of threat than I thought.” Carter muttered as Maxine looked at him.
“I know that heroes have a strict code on not killing people but… what can provoke someone to kill without any remorse or mercy?” Maxine asked confused.
“I don’t know but whatever the case is, be ready… Black Adam is someone who shows no mercy to his opponents.” Carter spoke darkly.
“I’m too young to die!” Albert wailed as he shoved more chocolate in his mouth to calm himself as Maxine shook her head at his antics before looking at the hologram of Theo as she narrowed her eyes at him and wondered how exactly was she going to counteract someone of this magnitude with just wind.
The Cockpit
Kent sat in the pilot’s seat as the Hawkcruiser was on autopilot and were on their way to their destination and would reach there in a couple of hours. The sun glowed bright in the sky as the man held the Helmet of Fate close to him.
When Kent saw a vision of Theo, he sensed pain in his eyes and the sorrow in his wellbeing as it confused him and his magic signature was different from anything he’s ever seen on Earth.
Kent touched his helmet as he focused and concentrated intensely as he needed to know what exactly they were about to up against.
“Nabu, tell me Black Adam’s origins.” Kent mumbled as the helmet didn’t do anything at first but then Kent’s mind was thrusted into an unknown area as he gasped and looked around as he found himself in a castle as he looked around and his eyes rested on a door that was in front of him as he walked forward and opened it.
The room inside was a complete mess as there was bookshelves that were knocked over and a bed was ripped apart as the room was in complete disarray as Kent’s eyes rested on a brown pony with multiple scars as he was crying to himself as the old man’s eyes softened at the sight of one so young experiencing pain and suffering.
The vision ended as Kent blinked wildly as he found himself back in the jet as he nodded in understanding and looked forward at the passing landscape.
“You are not as you appear, Black Adam.” Kent muttered as he gazed out at the sun and nodded as he held his helmet a little more tighter than before.
“You need guidance and you need help, hopefully you’re willing to listen to us.” Kent muttered before making himself comfortable and closed his eyes to get some rest as the jet continued on its course to Kahn’daq.
Kahn’daq
“We need backup out here!” An Intergang soldier yelled out as he fired his machine gun before an entire truck smashed him flat and left a bloody pancake on the ground.
A group of Intergang soldiers fired their guns on Black Adam as the metahuman floated in the air and fired lightning at them as the ones who were hit were vaporized instantly. Some of them tried to move around through the buildings but the metahuman grabbed them and crushed them within the structures.
Theo relentlessly killed soldiers left, right and center as he showed them no mercy whatsoever as he obliterated the group that was on the street. Soon enough, the street that he fought Intergang on were covered in blood stains as some limbs were twitching as there were body parts all over the place.
“These pigs are no better than the griffins.” Theo said to himself before he heard a scream echo throughout the street.
Using his superior hearing, Theo zoomed to the source of the scream and found out the source of that scream. There was a woman and she was being pinned down by three Intergang soldiers in an alley while a fourth one kept a crowd at bay with his gun. One civilian tried to help the woman but the soldier fired his weapon at him.
Rushing in, Theo used his super speed and appeared in front of the man as the bullet bounced off his body harmlessly as both sides jumped in surprise at the appearance of the metahuman.
The Intergang Soldier went to fire his gun again but Theo grabbed the weapon and crushed it like it was paper before grabbing the soldier by the neck and uppercutted him into the air so hard that a loud crack was heard before he went flying for miles.
Black Adam then glared at the three Intergang soldiers who readied their weapons as one of them yelled, “Back off or she dies!”
In response, Theo fired a lightning bolt at him as his body bursted into bloody chunks as the gun fell to the ground.
The second and third soldiers looked at Black Adam fearfully before they began running the other direction as the metahuman floated and pursued them as Theo relished the looks of fear on their faces.
One of the soldiers took cover behind a car once he turned the street corner as he peeked and saw that Black Adam was nowhere in sight as he sighed in relief.
“Thank god, he’s gone.” He said before a voice spoke from behind him.
“Pitiful.”
The soldier turned around quickly and saw that Black Adam was right behind him as he raised his gun but Theo ripped it out of his hand before grabbing the soldier and lifting him above his head as he screamed in terror.
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!!!!” The soldier cried out but Theo was deaf to those cries as he ripped the man’s leg out easily and slammed the body against the road as his head bursted open and brain chunks coated the road.
Theo looked up the street and saw the last soldier was running back towards him guns blazing as he held his hand out and caught each and every bullet with ease as the soldier yelled in anger.
“You son of a bitch! I’ll kill you!” The soldier shouted.
Black Adam rushed forward and grabbed his head before ripping the man in two halves and throwing the useless corpse on the street as people began cheering from their apartments as Theo looked up at them and nodded.
“I could get used to this.” Theo spoke with a dark smile.
Faraway
Unbeknownst to Black Adam, there was someone watching from faraway as she saw the vicious actions and the brutal executions Theo was conducting on the criminals as the video feeds were coming in as she clenched her teeth tightly and glared at the metahuman on the screen.
“You will fall Black Adam… one way or another.” Waller spoke angrily before one of her associates called out to her.
“Waller, the Justice Society have reached Kahn’daq!” He reported as Waller nodded.
“Good… now let’s see if they can handle him.” She said darkly as a separate feed showed the JSA’s jet entering Kahn’daq airspace.
Kahn’daq
Theo looked at the crowd that was cheering for him as he gave a gentle nod of understanding as to why they were clapping so enthusiastically for him. They have been under Intergang’s watch for a long time and the fact that Stan told him that other heroes exist in this world and haven’t done a damn thing about it made Theo angry at them.
He will have to deal with that later as he looked at the crowd that was chanting his name as he smiled but a nagging thought occurred in his head.
Does that mean they were his friends?
Sure, they followed him and see him as a hero to them but does that make them his friends? No, right? Theo shook his head and those thoughts were filed for later processing as he looked around before his eyes rested on a nearby watchtower where he saw two Intergang soldiers aiming their weapons at him.
Gaining an irritated look on his face, Theo flew towards them before grabbing both soldiers and knocking bits of the watchtower off as he flew up with them to the sky.
Nearby, Hawkman’s Hellcruiser flew into Kahn’daq as the team sort of came up with a plan to neutralize Black Adam as Carter flew the ship while Maxine and Albert looked down from the window for any suspicious activity.
Kent was in his chair before the Helmet of Fate glowed against his hand as he woke up startled as a powerful presence approached their position.
“He’s here.” Kent said in a serious tone.
“You see him?” Maxine asked.
“No, I sense him and he’s not one to play games.” Kent said as he pointed out the window as the rest of the team looked and saw Black Adam flying with two soldiers in his hands.
Theo looked at both of them murderously as the soldiers were pleading for their lives before he heard a strange sound behind him and saw a massive jet halting and floating in the air behind him.
“What the hell?” Theo muttered as he turned and faced them as he met eye to eye with four people in the strange flying contraption.
Carter pressed a button on his console as it activated the speakers and he spoke in a tone that made Maxine and Albert shiver a little.
“Black Adam, you pose a serious threat to the world and those around you, you murder criminals with no mercy nor do you show remorse to those who conduct small or otherwise non-lethal crimes. You are to relinquish your powers and surrender… otherwise we will be forced to take you down by any means necessary!” Carter spoke in a deadly serious tone.
“There’s no way he doesn’t feel intimidated.” Albert said.
“He just as to put those guys down.” Maxine said nervously.
Theo heard the warning that was given to him along with the small replies of Maxine and Albert as he looked at his hands and saw that they were coated in blood as he looked at the soldiers in his hands and then back at the members in the jet.
“Fuck your terms.” Theo spoke darkly before smashing the bodies of the two soldiers together as loud cracks were heard and then throwing the dead corpses at the jet as the bodies bursted all over the window the JSA were looking through as blood splattered all over the glass.
“I’m gonna throw up!” Albert said as he rushed to the back as Maxine covered her mouth with her hands in horror while Carter was in disbelief before anger flooded his mind as he got up angrily and looked at his team.
“Prepare for the fight of your lives.”
Author's Note
DAMN, THEO IS GETTING MORE AND MORE BRUTAL AND DON'T ABOUT EQUESTRIA, THEY ARE COMING BACK VERY VERY SOON SO MAKE SURE YOU GUYS KEEP A LOOK OUT FOR THAT!!! HONESTLY, THIS WAS THE DIRECTION I WAS GOING FOR THIS STORY EVEN BEFORE THE MOVIE CAME OUT, I WAS JUST WONDERING IF I WAS GOING TO BE A LITTLE TOO ACCURATE
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Chapter 6: Black Adam vs. The Justice Society
Equestria
After Theo’s disappearance, Queen Chrysalis invaded the Canterlot Wedding and managed to defeat Princess Celestia and the Mane Six. Disguised as Princess Cadance to weaken Shining Armor and lower the barrier so her subjects can enter and take over Canterlot. Before the changeling could kill her prisoners however, Princess Luna along with the real Princess Cadance came and blindsided the changeling Queen.
Using her power, Princess Luna threw Queen Chrysalis out of the kingdom forcefully as the changelings were gone and Canterlot was free once again.
Now Princess Luna was back in the Wedding Hall, helping her niece free Celestia and the Mane Six along with Shining Armor.
“Sister, are you alright?” Luna asked as she helped Celestia to her hooves.
“Yes, Chrysalis was able to gain enough power by being under our noses for a long period of time… waiting for the right moment to strike.” Celestia said agitated before wincing at the sharp pain in her side.
“Is everypony okay?” Cadance asked as she helped her fiancee.
“Ugh… what happened?” Shining Armor groaned.
“Chrysalis had you but we managed to stop her, dear.” Cadance said as she fed him some of her magic to help him recover.
“Phew, its a good thing you defeated that ruffian.” Rarity thanked them.
“Yeah she’s lucky I was gooped up here… I would’ve kicked her flank!” Rainbow Dash boasted as she flew in the air and did some punches and kicks as Applejack rolled her eyes at her.
“Sure sugarcube, whatever you say.” Applejack said before helping Fluttershy up.
Twilight shook her head before looking at Cadance and approached her cautiously as the alicorn of love turned to her and smiled.
“C-Cadance?” Twilight asked timidly as the alicorn got on the floor and the unicorn knew immediately what she was doing as she copied her.
“Sunshine, Sunshine, ladybugs awake! Clap your hooves and do a little shake!” Twilight and Cadance both sang before hugging each other joyfully as tears were shed as everypony looked at the scene warmly before Luna noticed something.
“Where’s Theo?” Luna asked in confusion.
When she said that, everypony’s face went rigid as the Mane Six, well four of them, didn’t give Theo much thought ever since his stunt in the Wedding Hall. Shining Armor’s eyes widened when he heard Theo’s name and Princess Cadance looked at everypony’s expressions in confusion.
“What happened to Theo?” Cadance inquired as her eyes narrowed at them before resting on her Auntie.
Princess Celestia’s mind was in a race of mixed thoughts as she remembered her and Theo’s last encounter and that ended with her saying… Oh no.
“I… we didn’t….” Celestia began to say but to everypony’s surprise, Fluttershy broke down crying.
“I didn’t listen to him! I didn’t believe him when I should have!” The shy pegasus cried out as she collapsed on the floor and sobbed as the alicorn of love immediately came to her side and rubbed her back with her hooves.
“Fluttershy, what are you talking about?” Cadance asked, bewildered.
“H-He k-knew th-that you w-were n-not yours-self.” Fluttershy managed to choke out inbetween tears as the realization hit Cadance like the roof of a house.
“What?” Cadance spoke dangerously as she got slowly and turned to face everypony else.
“It’s true… I didn’t believe him either.” Pinkie Pie spoke sadly as she walked forward and her mane that was once poofy, was now flat and lifeless.
“Does that remove you from what’s about to happen?” Cadance spoke darkly.
“Cadance, calm down.” Celestia said soothingly before her niece snapped.
“Calm down… CALM DOWN?!” Cadance bursted as her eyes were full of anger as Celestia recoiled back in shock.
“I was imprisoned and trapped below this castle while Chrysalis impersonated me and you couldn’t tell the difference at all?!” Cadance yelled in fury, “Everyday for months I was trapped there and none of you could tell?!”
The Mane Six looked down shamefully before Rainbow Dash flew forward, “I know we bucked up… we didn’t believe our friend at all.”
“Friend?”
Rainbow Dash looked and saw that Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy were looking at her in disbelief when the pegasus spoke that word.
“You called Theo… a friend?” Pinkie Pie repeated in disbelief.
“Yes, why darling?” Rarity asked.
“The four of you ignored him like he was garbage and never talked to him at all! Especially you Twilight!” Pinkie Pie spoke angrily and pointed her hoof at the unicorn.
“M-Me?!” Twilight stammered and Celestia intervened.
“That’s enough! Arguing won’t help us find Theo!” The sun princess spoke sternly.
“Shining, what exactly did you do to Theo?” Cadance questioned as she turned and faced her fiancee as the white unicorn rubbed his head.
“When Theo came at me with the accusation that you weren’t yourself, I snapped at him and told him that he wasn’t invited to the wedding.” Shining recalled as the alicorn of love stared at him emotionlessly before her horn glowed and a beam shot out and collided with Shining’s chest as he slammed against a pillar.
“Cadance, wh-?!” Shining began to yell out before the alicorn’s next words shocked everypony in the room.
“It’s over.”
“Wh-what?” Shining asked in horror as Cadance looked at him straight in his eyes and repeated with more force.
“Me and you… its over. Our relationship… over. The Wedding…. over. All those future plans we made… its over. I’m done with you, Shining.” Cadance spoke with no regrets at all as Luna approached her.
“Cadance, are yo-?” Luna began to say but Cadance interrupted.
“110%... I meant every word that I just said.” The alicorn of love spoke darkly before she turned and ran out of the hall.
“Cadance, wait!” Celestia called out as she went to fly after her but Luna blocked her path.
“No sister, you are as much to blame as the rest of them.” Luna spoke sternly before she followed after Cadance as the alicorn of love was running towards Theo’s room.
Cadance ran harder than she ever had before until she approached Theo’s door and knocked on it desperately.
“Theo! Its me, the real Cadance! Please open the door!” Cadance cried out as she knocked harder before she used her magic and knocked the doors open to find a horrifying sight. The room was trashed and everything was close to if not, destroyed completely as Cadance entered and looked around wildly.
“Theo! Where are you?!” Cadance yelled as tears poured out of her eyes before Luna entered the room and looked around in shock.
“Where’s Theo?” Luna asked frantically as she got no reply at all.
“He’s got to be here somewhere… maybe he went back to Ponyville!” Cadance deduced as Luna nodded and she teleported the two of them to Ponyville as the town was quiet besides a couple of ponies going around running errands.
The two alicorns spreaded their wings and headed towards Theo’s house which was built near the edge of the town as they entered the building and immediately noticed how quiet and empty the house felt as Cadance ran through the house and couldn’t find Theo anywhere as Luna used her magic and scanned the town but found no trace of Theo at all.
“This doesn’t make any sense, Theo is not here at all.” Luna spoke in a worried tone as Cadance came outside.
“He’s not in his house, where could he be?!” Cadance cried frantically before Luna looked at her.
“Cadance, calm down… we’ll find him.” Luna said as her niece took in a deep breath and nodded as Luna’s horn glowed in preparation to teleport but before she could, somepony called out to her.
“WAIT!!!”
Both alicorns turned and saw that the voice belonged to Starlight as she was running towards them along with Trixie, Spike and Zecora as the three of them approached the Princesses.
“What is it, my little ponies?” Luna asked curiously as Zecora spoke.
“I bear news of Theo’s location… but I fear that it is nowhere near our nation.” Zecora spoke solemnly as Cadance’s eyes widened before Luna nodded and she teleported the six of them back to the Wedding Hall where the Mane Six, Celestia and Shining Armor were. Shining tried to get Cadance’s attention but she ignored him completely.
“Theo is not in Canterlot nor is he in Ponyville.” Luna reported as Celestia’s horn glowed as she closed her eyes and focused as her magic washed over all of Equestria and for a couple seconds nothing happened until her eyes shot back open.
“I cannot find him!” Celestia said in horror.
“How is that possible?!” Twilight asked, bewildered.
“I don’t know but Theo is not in Equestria!” Celestia replied as Trixie stepped forward.
“That’s why we came here, Zecora received a… what do you call it?” Trixie asked as she looked at the Zebra.
“A message from somepony regarding Theo’s location.” Zecora said seriously as everypony noticed that she wasn’t rhyming and when Zecora didn’t rhyme, it meant she was serious.
“What is the message?” Applejack asked.
“We don’t know but what we do know is that we need powerful magic to read it.” Starlight said as she produced a strange golden cube.
“It just appeared out of nowhere and it startled the four of us.” Spike said as he looked at the cube nervously.
“It doesn’t appear to be hostile.” Luna said as she analysed the cube before she looked at her sister and nodded. Both of their horns glowed their respective colors before the cube glowed a golden hue which forced everypony to close their eyes and then suddenly the glow stopped.
“What the buck?!” Rainbow Dash was the first to respond as everypony opened their eyes and gasped, wherever they were, it was not Equestria but rather in an unfamiliar area.
The thing that surprised them was that they were standing on thin air.
“How are we standing?!” Spike yelled out as he looked down at the bizarre height and nearly puked.
“What in tarnation?!” Applejack yelled.
“Oooohh, cool!!!!” Pinkie Pie said as her eyes became big with excitement.
“Princess Celestia, where are we?! What’s happening?!” Twilight asked frantically as her teacher looked around at her environment.
“I think… this is a magical projection.” Celestia deduced.
“What is that?” Shining asked.
“The message is almost like a two way invitation to glimpse of what’s going on right now, the message surrounded us and is giving us a look at what’s going on in live time.” Celestia explained.
“But where is Theo? What is this place?” Fluttershy asked.
“I don’t know but it seems like Theo is in this massive city.” Starlight noted the buildings below and the ocean near it.
“So we just have to see if there are any ponies nearby and we take it from there.” Rarity deduced before two screams caught everypony’s attention as they all looked and saw something strange. A trio of strange creatures were in the air with one of the figures holding two of them as it was wearing a black suit with a lightning insignia on its chest as it held both creatures in its hands.
“What the hell is that?!” Rainbow Dash yelled at the strange creature.
“Trixie is supposed to be seeing Theo not… whatever that is.” The magician said.
As they continued to watch, a strange metal vehicle flew beside the three of them as the creature turned his head and looked at it.
“Whoa!” Pinkie Pie gasped.
“That’s… incredible! A flying machine!” Twilight said excitingly.
“I don’t understand what’s happening though.” Starlight said confused as everypony agreed with her. Why were they seeing this and not Theo?
Soon enough, a stern voice from the jet pierced through the sky as it was directed at the flying man holding the two soldiers.
“Black Adam, you pose a serious threat to the world and those around you, you murder criminals with no mercy nor do you show remorse to those who conduct small or otherwise non-lethal crimes. You are to relinquish your powers and surrender… otherwise we will be forced to take you down by any means necessary!” A male voice spoke sternly.
“Black Adam?” Spike said confused.
“That’s a stupid name.” Rainbow Dash said bluntly as she folded her hooves.
“Agreed darling, his outfit is absolutely horrendous!” Rarity commented in disgust.
“But the voice said he… kills criminals.” Fluttershy said as she turned a bit pale.
“Indeed, which means we are possibly looking at a threat to Equestria.” Luna concluded before looking at Cadance who was in deep thought, “Cadance, what are you thinking?”
“Black Adam… Adam… Theo had a last name which was Ada-... wait…” Cadance’s face turned into one of shock as she looked at the flying man in shock, “It can’t be!!!” Everypony looked at her, surprised by her outburst.
“What is it, Cadance?” Celestia asked in confusion.
Before the alicorn could answer, a familiar voice entered their ears as they all looked at the source of it in shock.
“Fuck your terms.” Theo spoke darkly before slamming the two soldiers together which emitted a loud CRACK! Before throwing them onto the jet as they bursted into pieces from the force of the throw as blood coated the windows of the jet.
“That’s Theo!” Cadance yelled in shock as she saw how completely different he was.
“There’s no way that’s Theo! He wouldn’t do that!” Celestia yelled out in disbelief as Black Adam flew back towards the ground.
“How did…. What… HOW?!” Starlight said in shock.
“No…” Luna said in horror as she saw that look in Theo’s eye. She has seen that look before and that was when she was Nightmare Moon.
“Oh my…” That was all Rarity got out before she puked on the ground as everypony’s faces were pale at what Theo had done. He murdered two individuals without a second thought.
“Remember, we are here to watch what’s happening.” Zecora reminded everypony.
“Did you not see what he did?!” Rainbow Dash yelled at her.
“I did bt there is nothing we can do, this is a projection.” Zecora replied calmly as she turned her attention back to the jet as someone jumped out.
What everypony didn’t know was that they were going to see how ruthless Theo has become and the darkness within him… wasn’t leaving anytime soon.
Kahn’daq
“Prepare for the fight of your lives.” Carter spoke darkly before he pressed a button on the console as a hatch opened in the jet as he went and jumped out and dove towards the ground.
Kent looked at the bloody windows grimly before turning to Maxine and Albert with a serious expression on his face.
“Be careful and be smart.” Kent warned them before putting on the Helmet of Fate and he disappeared in a reflective golden flash.
Maxine and Albert were still looking at the window in horror as some guts sprawled out here and there as Albert looked down the hatch nervously.
“On second thought, I don’t want to do this.” Albert said as he begin to walk to the back before Maxine grabbed his shirt.
“Oh no, you don’t.” Maxine said as Albert looked at her as if she was mad.
“You saw that guy! He won’t hesitate to rip us in half!” Albert protested.
“We have to catch him otherwise this is going to keep happening.” Maxine insisted as Albert began hyperventilating but she was having none of it as she went to the locker and tossed Al his suit as she got hers.
“Gear up, Atom.”
Meanwhile, Carter dove to the ground at a high speed before he activated his Nth Metal armor as it coated his body before a beautiful and imposing pair of wings formed on his back as he glided in the air and landed on the ground smoothly and retracted his wings.
“Black Adam!” Hawkman yelled in anger as he looked around for him before he realised the crowd that was now booing him… and the bodies that were on the ground. The corpses were ripped apart gruesomely and were all over the place as the citizens didn’t seem to care at all.
“What…” Hawkman mumbled in shock before he heard a voice behind him.
“Glorious, isn’t it?”
He turned around immediately and looked up as Black Adam was floating near a building as the metahuman was glaring at the golden bird.
“Why?.... Why murder these criminals?! They deserve to be prosecuted thoroughly!!!” Hawkman yelled in anger.
“From what I have gathered, Kahn’daq has been under Intergang’s rule for far too long and you so called heroes have done nothing to help them… much less prosecute them. If you wanted them prosecuted then you should’ve helped this city a long time ago… now you all deal with me.” Theo spoke menacingly as the citizens cheered at his response while Carter looked at them in disbelief.
Unbeknownst to the two of them, there Equestrian visitors were now on the ground as they watched the scene with shock or more importantly looked at Theo in shock.
“Theo, did all of this?” Starlight muttered in disbelief.
“I sense great anger and pain in Theo… what did you do him?” Zecora asked Celestia as she looked at her pupil with an unrecognisable expression.
“I made a mistake.” Celestia muttered under her breath.
What they didn’t see were Fluttershy’s expression as she gazed at Theo with tears in her eyes.
“It’s my fault… I should’ve listened to him otherwise he wouldn’t be like this. ” The pegasus thought sadly.
“There’s no way you all support this?!” Hawkman spoke in disbelief.
“He saved us!” One citizen yelled in anger.
“Those people deserve to die!”
“Get out of here!”
“You should’ve helped us!”
“Black Adam is a real hero!”
“You see?” Black Adam said smugly as Hawkman looked at him angrily, “I am freeing Kahn’daq while you couldn’t so I’ll give you two choices… get out or get crushed.”
“Oh I’ll leave… with you as my prisoner.” Hawkman spoke darkly before activating his wings and the glimmered in the sunlight.
“So be it.” Black Adam spoke darkly before he zoomed forward and grabbed Hawkman by his face and slammed him into the ground before throwing him into a car. Carter recovered and activated his shield to block a punch from Theo but was grabbed by the arm and thrown into a building.
Hawkman activated his mace before leaping out of the structure and took to the sky before looking around for Black Adam who was nowhere to be found. Carter focused on his surroundings before hearing a whoosh behind him and he swung his mace as it made contact with Black Adam’s face as he went flying from the impact but recovered almost instantly.
Charging forward, Hawkman tried to land another hit but Black Adam used his superior speed to dodge and grab his wings before throwing him to the ground. Landing right next to Hawkman’s body, Theo planted one foot on his back to prevent him from getting up before grabbing the Nth metal wings and began pulling them with all his strength.
Pain erupted in Carter as he yelled in anger as he tried to move but his strength was no match for Theo’s as his wings groaned and sparked a bit.
“You think you can come to Kahn’daq… take away these people’s savior… and call yourselves heroes? Well guess what… That. Won’t. HAPPEN!!!” Theo roared out as he pulled harder as the wings were beginning to give in but before he could rip them out, a golden blast knocked him off of Hawkman who got up and flexed his wings as Black Adam looked in the sky and saw who hit him.
A floating figure with a golden helmet, gauntlets, boots and cape along with a blue suit was looking at him as Theo felt power radiating off of this figure.
“Whoa, who is that?” Spike asked in awe.
“Trixie doesn’t know but she wants Theo back.” Trixie said as she hasn’t took her eyes off of him.
“This is bad, if Theo keeps on fighting them then they will have no choice but to detain him.” Luna spoke nervously.
“Theo is walking a dangerous path right now.” Celestia spoke sternly, “He needs to be guided back onto the right path… this is not the way.”
“No.” Fluttershy spoke as everypony looked at her as she looked at them, “We did this… and now Theo showing us how much he changed from it.”
“Fluttershy, killing criminals isn’t right at all!” Twilight said as the pegasus looked at her.
“Ignoring Theo wasn’t right at all either.” Fluttershy said sternly as the unicorn shook her head and the ponies turned back to the confrontation.
“I’m honestly hoping these guys win.” Applejack said honestly.
“Why?” Starlight asked.
“So Theo can stop this craziness, I mean he literally almost killed that Hawk guy!” Rainbow Dash shouted.
“Agreed, Theo is not who he is… maybe he is being controlled?” Shining proposed as Celestia nodded.
“That could be reason as to why he’s like th-” Celestia replied but Cadance cut her off.
“He’s not being controlled, I see it in his eyes, he’s killing criminals and is showing no regrets at all… I know he’ll win.” Cadance spoke confidently.
“How? How do you know he’ll win?” Shining asked her before the alicorn glared at him.
“Because he goes for the kill.” Cadance replied before everypony looked at the floating figure.
“Who are you?” Black Adam asked as the figure reponded in a deep and resonating tone.
“I am Doctor Fate, Sorcerer and Agent of the Lords of Order, Defender Against Darkness and Chaos… Keeper of the Balance within The Universe.” The figure spoke calmly as he looked at Black Adam.
“You symbolize hope to these people but a chaotic and unpredictable individual in the eyes of others.” Dr Fate spoke as Black Adam tilted his head curiously.
“Who I’m seen as does not bother me… no one’s opinion on me can change the actions that I can and will do.” Black Adam replied sternly.
“I sense pain in you and you have my condolences but this is not the way to let it out, you need guidance and we can give that to you if you join us.” Dr Fate proposed.
“Why should I join you? You heroes have done nothing to help Kahn’daq.” Black Adam spoke angrily as some citizens down below voiced their support in their champion’s words.
“Black Adam, there is more to this world than just Kahn’daq. You are now in a realm that filled with heroes and villains in which everyday we fight to keep the peace in this world. Kahn’daq is apart of this world and it needs its own hero, which is you, but killing isn’t the right way. I can see that you have been wronged and can see your sorrow… there’s a glorious world outside this city, waiting for you… join us.” Dr Fate proposed to Black Adam as Hawkman recovered and got his mace ready just in case.
“You speak as if Kahn’daq is just apart of this world. Well, its not. A city like this with people like these should be recognized and receive help when needed but you all didn’t do anything at all to help them. All you heroes are the same… letting the bodies pile beyond count while sparing the one who sinned. I’m no hero and I never will be and after I’m done with all of you… the world will know and fear the name… Black Adam.” Theo spoke darkly before firing a lightning beam at the sorcerer who put up a shield.
Hawkman got his shield as Theo fired lightning at him with his other as he held his ground.
“Fate, give me a distraction.” Hawkman said as he gritted his teeth.
Letting the shield operate on its own, Dr Fate moved his hands in the shape of an oval as Theo noticed his surroundings shimmered and fractured like golden glass as he ceased his lightning attacks. The sorcerer’s hands glowed yellow as he disappeared and Theo’s surroundings shifted and changed to something he has seen before… Ponyville.
“What in tarnation?!” Applejack yelled as she looked around and saw the illusion.
“How can Dr Fate do that?!” Rainbow Dash yelled in disbelief.
“We are looking at levels of magic never before seen by us… not even I can conduct a spell like this.” Celestia said in awe.
“Um guys? Theo doesn’t look happy.” Spike said nervously as he pointed up at him.
Theo was looking at his surroundings in anger as he saw how the trees moved and the houses were the same as before. He continued to looked around before a distant flapping caught his attention as he looked towards the sun and saw a figure closing the distance on him.
Before he could do anything, Hawkman dove at him and socked him in the jaw with all his strength as Theo went flipping around as he hit the illusion wall and it shattered like glass as he slammed into a building and into the ground, carving a trench while sending a car into the air.
Carter flapped his wings and landed on the ground as Theo got up and glared at him.
“You should’ve took Fate’s proposal… now you’re coming with us forcefully.” Hawkman said before activated his mace as it began spinning.
“With words like that, you better have the strength to back it up.” Theo said in anger before Hawkman took to the sky in one mighty flap and raised the mace over his head. Black Adam looked at him in anger as Carter yelled and brought it down with all his strength but Theo reached out with his left hand and caught it with no problem.
“It seems like you don’t.” Black Adam said in disappointment before lightning coated his other hand as he fired a bolt at Carter’s chest and sent him flying into a car painfully. Shaking it off, Hawkman got back up before taking two more lightning strikes to the chest as he was being shocked over and over again.
Deciding to get physical, Black Adam grabbed Hawkman and took to the skies as the two of them tussled in the air as Hawkman landed hits with his mace but did no damage while Theo relentlessly punched Carter in the face as loud bangs were heard. Gaining some distance, Hawkman readied another charge but Theo closed the distance, grabbed him by the neck and swung him in circles before throwing him through three buildings.
Black Adam was about to go after him before he noticed a glow to his right and flew backwards to avoid a beam from Dr Fate as the metahuman glared at him with hatred.
“You dare put me in an illusion of that hellhole?!” Theo bellowed.
“Holding grudges can lead to one meeting their end.” Dr Fate replied.
Enraged, Theo flew at Dr Fate and punched him in the helmet but he shattered like glass Theo was confused for a moment before multiple duplicates formed around him as they conjured up a yellow Ankh as they each glowed with power.
Using his quick thinking, Black Adam clapped his hands together and sent a devastating shockwave and obliterated the duplicates before they could attack him. Looking around, Theo saw no sign of Dr Fate before he heard a sizzling noise and looked up only to see the real Dr Fate there.
Fate had conjured an orb of powerful magic and when Black Adam looked up he dropped the orb calmly as it slammed into Theo and almost like it was too heavy, it took Theo straight to the ground as it collapsed part of the street.
Once Theo and the orb hit the ground, the orb expanded like it exploded and it froze in its exploded form as Theo felt pain for the first time he’s been in this world as the magic burned his skin. Yelling in anger, Theo began freeing himself from the contraption as yellow shards broke before reforming to try and keep him contained.
As he was trying to break free, Hawkman’s Hellcruiser was approaching his location as Dr Fate spoke calmly.
“Cyclone, Smasher… now is your time.” Dr Fate said.
Inside the jet, Cyclone and Atom Smasher were suited up and were ready and heard Kent’s signal.
“Alright… here we go!” Cyclone said as she pressed the button and jumped out the hatch as she used her aerokinesis to control the air and flew down to Black Adam’s location.
“Okay, okay, okay.” Atom said as he jumped up and down to lower the anxiety before jumping out and landing on a rooftop safely.
Using his strength, Theo broke the magical contraption and was about to attack Dr Fate before he noticed the wind pressure increasing as he looked up curiously at the source of it. He saw a woman in a green suit spiraling around at great speeds as the wind around her tore metal poles off of buildings as they spiraled around her.
He noticed that she floated harmlessly within the storm as she performed fluid and graceful moves almost like if she was dancing. Theo didn’t know what to think of as he was looking at this but she looked… beautiful.
Cyclone came around for a final turn before she shot out her hands and pointed them at Black Adam as the wind speed and direction changed as the metal poles launched directly at him at speeds of over 100mph. The metal poles impacted Black Adam’s body and did absolutely nothing as the bended and broke immediately on impact as Theo did not feel a thing.
Maxine continued to twirl and dance in the air as Theo found himself captivated by her as he didn’t feel threatened at all even though she was attacking him… he felt intrigued and interested in her.
More metal poles continued to harmlessly hit him and it got to the point where Theo was getting agitated as lightning erupted from his body and hit the ground as clouds of dust shot up around him as metal poles melted instantly. Cyclone ceased her attack and flew out of range but before she could turn around, Black Adam grabbed her wrists and prevented her from spiraling around as he looked at her.
“You’re my age.” Theo said in realization as Cyclone looked at him in bewilderment before tossing her away and focused on an incoming Hawkman who was flying towards him with his mace ready.
Dodging the attack, Theo grabbed one of Hawkman’s wings and swung him around before throwing him into a building. Shaking it off, Carter dodged Theo’s next punch before slamming the mace into his ead as Black Adam went flying back into the crater from before.
Theo was about to engage Hawkman again but he then noticed Dr Fate above him as the sorcerer summoned more duplicates around Theo as they attempted to hold him. When two of them grabbed his arms, Theo was surprised by their strength but they were not durable and that meant they can be destroyed easily.
Using his strength, Theo ripped his arms away from them and began punching and ripping them apart but for every duplicate he destroyed, two more took their place. Soon enough, one got him in a choke hold as the rest started to hold his body down as Theo struggled to get out of it.
“I can’t hold him for long.” Dr Fate warned his teammates.
Hawkman grabbed a truck and lifted it over his head easily before throwing it at Black Adam as it spiraled towards him. Theo saw this and managed to free his right arm and fired a lightning bolt as it melted the truck in half and fell on either side of him harmlessly before another duplicate grabbed his free arm and restrained it.
The three heroes converged on Black Adam as Hawkman flew in to swing his mace, Cyclone shot more metal poles at him and Dr Fate readied a golden Ankh beam as Theo was now feeling overwhelmed and scared.
He looked at the three heroes converging on him as he flashed back to when the griffins were holding him captive as they beated him with no mercy. He was showing mercy to these heroes, why was he doing that? He wasn’t the same as before.
“No… I’m not the same as before… no more mercy… “ Theo thought before he glared at the heroes murderously.
“NO ONE WILL RESTRAIN ME AGAIN!!!!” Theo roared as his eyes glowed blue with electricity as it sparked around him and then like a bomb, he exploded with power. The explosion was small but tremendously effective as the duplicates shattered, Dr Fate went flying into a building, Hawkman slammed into a wall and collapsed and Cyclone used the wind to conjure up a shield but she still managed to take some serious damage as she was now on the ground, on her knees.
“That… was painful.” Maxine muttered as she panted before she froze when she heard lightning cackle as she looked up in horror and saw Black Adam rising into the air with his eyes glowing blue with lightning as it sparked around him and his lightning bolt emblem glowed yellow to match his rage.
Cyclone prepared for the worst until she saw something approaching Black Adam from behind, it was Atom Smasher and he was growing drastically until he was about six stories tall and he jumped high into the air. Making a shield around herself, Maxine shielded her face as Atom landed and punched Black Adam into the ground before he could finish her.
“I got him! I actually did something!” Atom said in shock and happiness as he kept his fist in the ground as Cyclone got back up.
“See? Told you it was going to be fine.” Cyclone said as Atom chuckled.
“Yeah well… I had to time it right, you know?” Atom replied as Hawkman and Dr Fate flew to them.
“Great job you two, for a first time out… exceptional.” Kent complimented them as he had taken his helmet off but retained the suit.
“”Now we just gotta get him back to Waller.” Hawkman said as everyone nodded.
“No…” Trixie muttered in disbelief, Theo had lost.
“Who’s Waller?” Spike asked.
“I don’t know but we need to help Theo!” Starlight said frantically.
“How? We don’t even know how to get to him!” Trixie replied angrily.
“Perhaps… this can help Theo understand the path he walks.” Celestia spoke thoughtfully.
“Yeah cuz that fight was just… wow.” Rainbow Dash said in awe of the spectacle she just watched.
“You all misunderstand, this fight is far from over.” Zecora spoke calmly as a rumbling was heard as the ground shook beneath their feet/hooves.
“Um guys, what’s happening?!” Atom said nervously as Hawkman readied his mace, Kent put his helmet back on and Cyclone readied herself.
“You better not let him up.” Hawkman warned Atom but he wasn’t listening as he felt his giant fist getting pushed up so put more force but then it was shoved out of the ground forcefully before Black Adam shot out of the ground and grabbed Atom’s left foot before lifting up into the sky.
“HEEEELP MEEEEE!!!” Atom screamed as he tried to free himself but it was to no avail as Theo swung him around in circles as he roared before releasing and threw the giant Atom Smasher into the ocean.
“Oh my Celestia…” Shining muttered in disbelief as Black Adam floated back down and glared at the other three members.
“Say your final words… because you won’t leave this city alive.” Black Adam spoke darkly as his eyes glowed blue with power.
Author's Note
OH MAN, THIS CHAPTER TOOK AWHILE AND IT CAME OUT A LOT MORE BADASS THAN I THOUGHT BUT HEY, EQUESTRIA SIDE OF THE STORY IS BACK BABY AND THEY SEE THEO'S POWER LEVELS... BOI THEY ARE IN FOR ONE HELLUVA ROCKY TIME!!!
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Chapter 7: The Boundaries of Justice Are Broken
Kahn’daq
Hawkman readied his mace as Black Adam looked at each of them murderously as lightning sparked from his body. His eyes glowed blue with power as he looked at each of them as he mentally picked which one was going to die first.
“NOW!!!” Hawkman yelled as Black Adam zoomed towards him and his fist went straight through his head but instead of feeling blood, he felt nothing but air as his body dissipated into glass fractures.
Theo fired a lightning bolt at Cyclone who dissipated as well before he charged Doctor Fate but he disappeared before he could be grabbed as Theo stood there in anger.
“Show yourselves!!!” Theo ordered as he floated into the air and looked around for the heroes as his hidden audience watched the encounter with wide eyes at how ruthless Theo has become.
Black Adam looked around the area before he heard a metal creak behind him and he turned around as he saw Hawkman swinging his mace at him. Thinking quick, Theo grabbed the mace before ripping it out of Carter’s grasp and slammed it into his head repeatedly as loud bangs were heard.
Carter dodged the next swing and punched Theo in the face but it barely did anything as he then grabbed him by the wings and slammed him on the ground. Still gripping his wings, Theo sent lethal shocks of lightning into Carter’s body as he yelled in agonizing pain as his body begin to spasm.
The bolts of lightning got thicker and thicker as Theo poured on the power as he intended to kill Hawkman. Carter felt nothing but pain as his skin began to burn from the lightning shocks as Theo continued to shock him before a strong force ripped him off of Carter’s body as he just laid there, his skin was steaming.
Theo looked and saw Doctor Fate holding him back before another one held his arms as he had enough of this, enough of the tricks and enough of these heroes. Theo gritted his teeth before throwing one of the duplicates away as he began throwing punches and destroying the duplicates.
The real Doctor Fate was switching amongst the duplicates as Theo destroyed five at a time as he threw punches and kicks with the occasional ripping apart. The duplicates then casted magical binds and chains as they chained each of Theo’s arms to the ground in hopes to restrain him.
“He has to have a weakness.” Doctor Fate mumbled as he looked at Theo’s chained state and saw the lightning ensignia glowed yellow as blue lightning erupted and destroyed the contraptions as Black Adam now moved faster than the speed of light itself as duplicates were being shattered left, right and center.
Doctor Fate summoned more duplicates around him and enhanced their strength attributes as two of them caught Black Adam and one held him in a choke hold as the second one held his left arm. As Kent watched, he saw Theo was now looking directly at him and not at his other duplicates.
“He’s learning fast. ” Doctor Fate thought to himself as he switched places with a duplicate and charged Theo to throw him off guard but Theo destroyed the duplicate he recently switched with and nailed a devastating right hook into the real Doctor Fate as he went flying from the blow and smashed past two cars and into a building.
With a yell of anger, Theo summoned more lightning and vaporized the duplicates around him as he flew through the hole where Doctor Fate was and saw that the sorcerer had disappeared again as Theo immediately flew back out and went back to Hawkman but he now saw that the man was not where he left him.
Theo scanned the area before Hawkman entered his line of sight as he had his wings folded in but now he had his mace just in his hand as he gestured with his other hand to the ground.
“This ends here and now, Black Adam.” Hawkman yelled in anger as Theo landed on the ground about twenty feet from him.
“So you choose to meet your end in hand to hand combat? You obviously don’t learn.” Theo snarled out as Hawkman twirled his mace and then brought it down as it transformed into an axe.
“You’d be surprised at how relentless I can be.” Hawkman said before he charged forward as Theo did the same. Carter swung his axe but Theo dodged it easily as the metahuman punched him square in the jaw. Taking the blow, Carter swiped at Theo with wings and created a dust cloud in front of Theo.
Clapping his hands, Theo created a shockwave that dispersed the cloud just as quickly Hawkman swung his axe straight into Theo’s side. The sharpness of the axe didn’t cut into Theo’s suit but the force of the swing made him skid on his feet a bit as a little bit of pain was felt from it as Theo looked at Carter murderously.
“You’d be surprised at how relentless I can be.” Theo quoted Hawkman’s words before blitzing straight into Hawkman as his body went flying into a car. Carter shook off the blow and looked up to see Theo fired a bolt at the car behind him as he flew from the explosion.
As Hawkman tried to gain altitude, Black Adam took to the skies and nailed a nasty right hook straight into Carter’s jaw at full strength as a loud SNAP! Was heard as his body carved a trench into the ground below. Not wasting time at all, Theo zoomed to a recovering Hawkman and grabbed his arm before bending it the other way and a loud, wet SNAP! Was heard.
“ARRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!” Hawkman yelled with a broken arm and jaw as he felt Theo grab his wings but he retracted them. Theo, however, didn’t mind this as he lifted Hawkman’s body over his head and slammed his body down right on his knee as a loud groan was heard from Carter.
“A pitiful attempt.” Theo said as he threw Hawkman’s body into the ground as blood was beginning to pour from Carter’s mouth as he tried to get up before Theo stomped on his skull to stop the attempt.
“This was the group of heroes sent to stop me?!” Theo bellowed before he grabbed Carter by the neck and flew into the air and raised his motionless body to the crowd nearby.
“They came here to stop me when they don’t even put up much of a fight!!!” Theo bellowed as the crowd cheered and voiced their agreement before they turned into one of alarm as Theo raised his hand and caught a metal pole that was aimed directly at the back of his head.
Dropping Hawkman’s body, Theo turned and saw Cyclone spinning a storm that was full of debris and other various things.
“Stop! You’ll kill him!” Cyclone yelled at him.
“You sent him to his death from just standing there and doing nothing.” Theo retorted as he faced her.
Cyclone spun in the air and twirled around as the wind speeds increased before she spun around one more time before letting loose the debris in her storm directly at Black Adam.
Chunks of concrete, cars, metal poles and other things were hurled directly at Black Adam as nothing affected him but his eyes widened when he turned around and saw that some of the debris were going to strike and kill some of his people.
Using his speed, Theo quickly grabbed the civilians and moved them out of the way while destroying some of the debris that came close to them as he fired lightning to vaporize the objects thrown at them. Theo looked to his right and saw that a metal pole was about to spear a mother and her baby as he rushed to them and covered them with his body as metal poles rained down on his body before they stopped.
Theo looked at the mother, “Are you alright?”
“Yes, thank you so much.” The mother cried out as her baby was crying as the sight of this made Theo angry as he turned around and glared at Cyclone murderously as she had a horrified look on her face as she realized her mistake.
“You dare try to kill my people?!” Theo yelled in fury before zooming towards Cyclone who threw a car at him as he slammed it aside before grabbing her wrists and snapping them as Maxine cried out in pain before Theo looked and saw there was a bunch of the metal poles that she threw and they were imbedded in the ground.
Theo threw her with his strength as her body went flying towards the metal poles threatening to stab her body but before her back made impact with the poles, Doctor Fate appeared and caught her and teleported her to the Hawkcruiser’s medbay.
The sorcerer reappeared before Theo as his gloves glowed with powerful magic, “This isn’t the way, Black Adam.”
“You say that like that’s going to change me, put me on the right path and make me a hero… well guess what, that’s not happening.” Black Adam spoke sternly before firing a lightning bolt but Doctor Fate blocked it with a shield before teleporting behind him and encasing Theo within a Ankh-shaped prison.
Working quickly, Doctor Fate teleported to different angles around Theo as he created chains and heavy constructs to hold Theo down and try to overpower his strength. Chains were wrapped around Theo’s wrists and ankles before clamps were formed around his torso as he tried to move as the constructs creaked a bit but the sorcerer kept on stacking the constructs on top of one another before Theo literally couldn’t move at all.
Doctor Fate floated in front of Black Adam as the metahuman was trying to move but the weight and gravity of Fate’s magic wouldn’t budge.
“Now we can talk like civilized beings.” Doctor Fate spoke calmly as Theo glared at him.
“You wield powerful magic that you have not dared to tap into, I can feel it. You need help controlling it and I can help you.” Doctor Fate spoke as Theo glared at him.
“I don’t need your help, I don’t need anyone to help me at all.” Theo growled as he tried to break himself free.
“Don’t bother in trying to break free, it would take an extremely high level of magic to break this prison.” Doctor Fate replied calmly as Theo immediately began to think of whatever he had in his arsenal that can help him break free.
“Black Adam, you must understand that the scales of order and chaos must be balanced otherwise the consequences could be catastrophic. You represent the rock that can unbalance one over the other but that can be avoided if you join us. Please think this through before responding as I won’t ask a third time.” Doctor Fate warned him.
“Why? Why bother?” Theo couldn’t help but ask the sorcerer as he continued to think of a solution.
“Because I can see where you are from. You are unfamiliar with this world much less our biology yet you adapt to it very quickly. You wield magic that you can’t compare to and yet you choose to become Kahndaq’s savior rather than bend the world to your will so I ask you the question Black Adam… why?” Doctor Fate replied.
Theo looked at the sorcerer before his mind came up with an automatic solution, say the magic word. He then looked at Doctor Fate and gave a dark smirk before replying.
“You want to know why?” Theo questioned as Doctor Fate nodded before he gave his reply.
“Shazam.” Theo said and immediately after he spoke it, a large and powerful lightning bolt struck from the heavens and hit Theo in the chest as the magic construct exploded immediately and the shockwave knocked Doctor Fate back into a car which crushed it in half as a massive cloud of dust exploded into the air.
Theo shook his head before he looked and saw that he was in a skinnier but rather muscular version of his magic form but he immediately spoke again, “Shazam.”
Doctor Fate recovered and looked at the cloud before another massive lightning bolt struck the same spot and sent up another cloud of dust before the sorcerer created a shield in front of him to block the attack.
“Interesting.” Doctor Fate noted before he saw Black Adam rise from the dust cloud and glared at him.
Immediately, Black Adam used his speed and appeared behind Fate but he replaced himself with a duplicate as Theo’s fist went straight through the duplicate’s chest and shatter it. Doctor Fate used his reflexes and dodged Theo’s blazing fast attacks before one lucky and well timed punch socked him in the helmet so hard that it knocked Kent’s helmet off as it fell to the ground.
Kent lunged towards it but Theo grabbed his throat and lifted him into the air as he looked down at the helmet before kicking it away.
“Don’t worry, you won’t have to ask me a third time… ever again.” Black Adam spoke darkly as he prepared to crush Kent’s throat before a loud shout echoed throughout the streets as both Kent and Theo heard it.
“NOOOOOOOOO!!!!” The voice of a boy shouted.
Theo looked at Kent before throwing him into a building and flew towards the noise as he zoomed through multiple streets and a few blocks. Turning a corner, Black Adam came across the source of the scream before he noticed a missile flying right towards him and caught it but something caught it his eye.
The rocket had a small chamber that was glowing blue which confused him as he looked at it but then the missile exploded and the power behind it knocked Theo back as he flew back and slammed into the road and formed a small crater.
“Quick! Get her into one of the bikes and go!” Someone yelled as Black Adam got back up and took in the sight before him.
A couple of Intergang soldiers in high tech suits were wrestling a woman into the trunk of a strange vehicle that Theo hasn’t seen before. There were about five bikes and as soon as they stuffed the woman inside, they jumped on their own bikes and it glowed blue with power before they zoomed down the street as Theo walked and peered down the road at them.
“Sir!!!” A young voice cried out as Theo turned his head and looked down to see a boy looking at him with tears in his eyes.
“Please save my mum!” He pleaded desperately as Theo nodded seriously before he took off as he used his enhanced hearing to track down the bikes.
Flying through the streets, Black Adam caught up to two of the five bikes he encountered from before as he flew towards them at high speeds and grabbed one of them and ripped the back compartment out to find nothing inside.
“Looking for something?” The Intergang biker gloated before Theo grabbed him with one hand and destroyed his bike with the other as he caught up to the other one.
“Wait, what are you doing?!” The biker yelled in horror as Theo looked at him in disgust.
“I’m looking for something.” Theo quoted the biker before he threw him into the second biker as their bodies emitted a loud crack as the corpses fell to the ground before Theo caught the bike and landed on the ground and checked the compartment… nothing.
Frustrated, Theo threw the bike upward and blasted it with lightning, destroying it before focusing on his surroundings to locate other similar noises before he found what he was looking for and took off. Flying faster than before, Theo zoomed and weaved around tight corners before he came across a biker by himself as he zoomed to catch him.
Before Theo could grab him, the biker activated a transparent blitz which made Theo grab thin air before returning to its normal state.
“What the fuck?” Theo said in confusion as he gave chase again as the biker kept on blitzing around corners and forced Theo to pour on the speed. As Theo chased him, he noticed a large sign attached to a metal pole and fired a lightning blast at it to knock it in the path of the biker.
The Intergang biker blitzed through the sign before his eyes widened when he saw Theo right in his path and before he could blitz again, Theo used his hand and sliced the biker’s head off clean as the headless corpse fell off the bike before Black Adam caught it and checked the compartment to find nothing again.
Luckily, the last two bikers zoomed ahead of him on a different street as Theo smirked and gave chase in a parallel street as he closed the distance and grabbed one of them and checked… nothing.
The other biker looked behind him to see his partner get ripped in half as his screams were heard in the earpiece before they were silenced as Theo chased him with rage in his eyes.
“I need backup! I’m not gonna make it to the rendezvous point!” The biker reported frantically as he poured on the speed as he made sure his compartment was closed so the woman couldn’t get out.
About two miles from them, Ten Intergang Bikers armed with Eternium guns and rocket launchers took position and waited to spring the trap on Black Adam and before long, they saw their target right behind their comrade.
“Come on, hurry up! We got your back!” One soldier yelled in his earpiece as the recipient nodded in understand as Theo poured on the speed and was ready to grab the bike itself before he had to stop and catch a missile with the same blue glow.
Thinking quick, Theo threw the missile at one of the bikers and killed him before the bikers began shooting him as Theo smacked bikes out of the air and threw them into each other as his rage grew and grew as he killed each and every one of them.
The biker who escaped looked behind and saw nothing but smoke as he poured on the speed as his bike blurred in the air as he pressed the button over and over again to get to his destination faster as he pressed against the sound barrier critically.
After about eight seconds, the biker stopped and landed his hoverbike in a farm as he was now in some part of China… faraway from Kahndaq.
“Perfect, now to get answers.” He said as he opened his compartment to reveal his captive as she tried to attack him but he held her still and looked at her.
“Now, where’s the equation?!” He demanded.
“I don’t know.” She replied.
“So be it.” He retorted as he prepared to punch her but he heard a sound behind him as he turned around and saw Theo standing right behind him and his face was covered in the blood of his comrades.
“Wrong move, pig.” Theo spoke darkly before grabbing the soldier and throwing him into a nearby mountain as he went sailing for miles before a loud crack was heard as it made impact with the hard rocks.
Black Adam then turned his attention back to the woman as his eyes narrowed with recognition as he saw her before.
“You were the woman in the tomb, you were there when I awakened.”
Author's Note
OH YEAH, THINGS ARE ABOUT TO TURN UP AFTER THEO'S FIGHT WITH THE JUSTICE SOCIETY, THE ACTION IS JUST STARTING AND EQUESTRIA JUST GOT A GLIMPSE OF BLACK ADAM'S POWER!!!! I BET RAINBOW DASH ENJOYED THAT FIGHT!!!
Chapter 8: The Triangular Confrontation
Equestria
Theo threw Cyclone away with his strength as her body went flying towards the metal poles threatening to stab her body but before her back made impact with the poles, Doctor Fate appeared and caught her and teleported her to the Hawkcruiser’s medbay.
The sorcerer reappeared before Theo as his gloves glowed with powerful magic, “This isn’t the way, Black Adam.”
“You say that like that’s going to change me, put me on the right path and make me a hero… well guess what, that’s not happening.” Black Adam spoke sternly before firing a lightning bolt but Doctor Fate blocked it with a shield before teleporting behind him and encasing Theo within a Ankh-shaped prison.
Working quickly, Doctor Fate teleported to different angles around Theo as he created chains and heavy constructs to hold Theo down and try to overpower his strength. Chains were wrapped around Theo’s wrists and ankles before clamps were formed around his torso as he tried to move as the constructs creaked a bit but the sorcerer kept on stacking the constructs on top of one another before Theo literally couldn’t move at all.
Doctor Fate floated in front of Black Adam as the metahuman was trying to move but the weight and gravity of Fate’s magic wouldn’t budge.
“Now we can talk like civilised beings.” Doctor Fate spoke calmly as Theo glared at him.
“You wield powerful magic that you have not dared to tap into, I can feel it. You need help controlling it and I can help you.” Doctor Fate spoke as Theo glared at him.
“I don’t need your help, I don’t need anyone to help me at all.” Theo growled as he tried to break himself free.
“Don’t bother in trying to break free, it would take an extremely high level of magic to break this prison.” Doctor Fate replied calmly as Theo immediately began to think of whatever he had in his arsenal that can help him break free.
“Black Adam, you must understand that the scales of order and chaos must be balanced otherwise the consequences could be catastrophic. You represent the rock that can unbalance one over the other but that can be avoided if you join us. Please think this through before responding as I won’t ask a third time.” Doctor Fate warned him.
“Why? Why bother?” Theo couldn’t help but ask the sorcerer as he continued to think of a solution.
“Because I can see where you are from. You are unfamiliar with this world much less our biology yet you adapt to it very quickly. You wield magic that you can’t compare to and yet you choose to become Kahndaq’s saviour rather than bend the world to your will so I ask you the question Black Adam… why?” Doctor Fate replied.
Theo looked at the sorcerer before his mind came up with an automatic solution, say the magic word. He then looked at Doctor Fate and gave a dark smirk before replying.
“You want to know why?” Theo questioned as Doctor Fate nodded before he gave his reply.
“Shazam.” Theo said and immediately after he spoke it, a large and powerful lightning bolt struck from the heavens and hit Theo in the chest as the magic construct exploded immediately and the shockwave knocked Doctor Fate back into a car which crushed it in half as a massive cloud of dust exploded into the air.
Theo shook his head before he looked and saw that he was in a skinnier but rather muscular version of his magic form but he immediately spoke again, “Shazam.”
Doctor Fate recovered and looked at the cloud before another massive lightning bolt struck the same spot and sent up another cloud of dust before the sorcerer created a shield in front of him to block the attack.
“Interesting.” Doctor Fate noted before he saw Black Adam rise from the dust cloud and glared at him.
Immediately, Black Adam used his speed and appeared behind Fate but he replaced himself with a duplicate as Theo’s fist went straight through the duplicate’s chest and shatter it. Doctor Fate used his reflexes and dodged Theo’s blazing fast attacks before one lucky and well timed punch socked him in the helmet so hard that it knocked Kent’s helmet off as it fell to the ground.
Kent lunged towards it but Theo grabbed his throat and lifted him into the air as he looked down at the helmet before kicking it away.
“Don’t worry, you won’t have to ask me a third time… ever again.” Black Adam spoke darkly as he prepared to crush Kent’s throat before a loud shout echoed throughout the streets as both Kent and Theo heard it.
“NOOOOOOOOO!!!!” The voice of a boy shouted.
Theo looked at Kent before throwing him into a building and flew towards the noise as he zoomed through multiple streets and a few blocks.
As soon as Theo left the picture, the magical projection from the cube dissipated and shattered as the golden cube flopped to the ground and the ponies were now trying to process what they just saw exactly.
“Theo is a superhero!” Spike shouted in fascination before Rarity looked at him with a scowl.
“Spike, dear…. I don’t think what we just saw portrayed Theo as a hero.” Rarity said as she shuddered at how ruthless Theo was.
“Ah agree, the sugarcube nearly killed those guys.” Applejack agreed.
“But where did he get such power from?” Rainbow Dash asked confused, “He was faster than me, stronger than me, shoots lightning and has tough skin…Theo never had that before.”
“I think it was magic.” Twilight deduced as Celestia nodded with narrowed eyes.
“Indeed, somehow Theo has gotten access to a form of magic that has never been seen before in Equestria and somehow he is now in a world where there are godlike beings more powerful than any of us.” Celestia said as everypony looked at her.
“So what do we do?” Starlight asked.
That answer came in the form of a golden portal that emitted from Cadance’s horn as she collapsed on the ground as Luna rushed to support her as she panted.
“Cadance! Are you alright?!” Luna yelled as her niece nodded tiredly.
“I’m okay but I did it.” Cadance replied.
“Niece… where does this portal lead to?” Celestia asked as she had a suspicion of where it led to.
“The cube emitted a magical signature since it connects in two ways, from Equestria to that world and I traced it back and now… I can go see Theo.” Cadance said with determination as she got off of Luna and walked to the portal before her Auntie blocked her path and spreaded her wings.
“No Cadance, you can’t go.” Celestia spoke sternly.
“You can’t stop me, Celestia.” Cadance said darkly, “Doctor Fate said that he sensed great pain in Theo from the past… you all did this to him, what makes you think he’ll want anything to do with you?”
“I know we bucked up but that doesn’t mean that we’re just going to let that burden bare on Theo’s back.” Rainbow Dash said determined.
“Yes, even though we may not have believed our friend, that doesn’t mean we can’t make it up to him.” Twilight agreed as Applejack and Rarity agreed with her.
“We need to hurry before its too late for him.” Celestia said as she went to enter the portal before Luna teleported in front of her and pushed her away forcefully as she glared at her.
“What do you think you’re doing?!” Luna yelled.
“I’m bringing my pupil home.” Celestia shouted in anger.
“This isn’t the way, you saw what he is capable of, just leave him be and let him live his new life.” Luna pleaded as Celestia looked at her as if she was mad.
“A new life? Of killing others just like him?! That is the life of a murderer, not a hero! Theo doesn’t deserve this and he doesn’t deserve to live a life where he can be attacked and potentially killed by other godlike beings, I’m bringing my son home where he can be safe from this madness!” Celestia yelled as she forced Luna aside before running into the portal.
“Princess!” Twilight yelled in horror before she looked at the rest of her friends, “Come on girls!”
Twilight along with Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity ran/flew into the portal behind their ruler as everypony else remained on the other side.
“My sister’s lost her mind, she’s only going to make it worse.” Luna seethed out but Cadance put her hoof on Luna’s back reassuringly.
“Then we better make sure they don’t hurt him anymore than they already have.” Cadance said sternly as Luna nodded before they ran to the portal before the alicorn heard Shining yelled out.
“Cadance, wait!”
They both turned and saw Shining looking at Cadance pleadingly, “Don’t go honey… please.” He begged desperately as Cadance shook her head in disgust at her ex’s pitiful state.
“You lost that right when you betrayed Theo… and don’t ever call me anything besides Princess Cadance ever again.” Cadance spoke darkly before jumping through the portal followed by Luna.
“Theo…” Shining whispered before he gained a dark look in his eyes as he glared at the portal where Theo now resided in, that slave of a pony did this to him… and he was going to pay.
“You’ll regret taking her away from me.” Shining whispered angrily to himself before he entered the portal.
Now all who were left were Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Starlight, Zecora, Trixie and Spike as they looked at each other.
“Now what?” Spike asked confused as Zecora looked at him.
“We must follow them, Theo sees us as friends so there is a chance that we can talk to him.” Zecora said calmly as Trixie looked at her.
“Trixie is curious… what exactly did you see?” The magician asked curiously as the zebra sighed as her eyes flickered with fear.
“A future that I hope will not come into fruition.” Zecora replied sadly.
“What is it? Does Theo die?!” Fluttershy asked frantically as the zebra did not reply as she looked at the pegasus.
“All I can say is that us being there matters if we hope to change the future.” Zecora replied as Pinkie Pie jumped up and down with a determined smile on her face.
“Well let’s gooooo!!!!” The earth pony cheered before she wrapped her hooves around everypony and jumped at the portal.
“Pinkieeeeeeeee!!!” Starlight shrieked as they entered the portal and the golden portal on the Equestria side disappeared completely as the golden cube disassembled into golden fragments in the wind.
Kahndaq
“So you’re telling me that Intergang is here because they’re looking for an equation?” Theo questioned as Adrianna nodded.
“According to recent intel that I received, Intergang invaded Kahndaq in hopes of finding this equation.” She explained.
After rescuing her, Theo flew her back to her apartment room as they were now in a massive building overlooking most of Kahndaq’s high rises.
“That has got to be… the most stupidest thing I’ve heard.” Theo spoke bluntly as it didn’t make no sense at all, “They invaded these people’s homes just for an equation that does what exactly?”
“I don’t know but whatever it is, it can’t be good. It could be the equation that could give them access to creating a rare metal or a genetic mutation. Whatever this equation can do, we can’t let Intergang have it because they will stop at nothing to obtain it.” Adrianna explained as Black Adam nodded in understanding.
“It does seem stupid but as long as I can get rid of Intergang permanently than I guess I don’t have a better option.” Black Adam said as he looked out the window and saw civilians just going around and shopping.
“Earlier you fought some super-powered beings… who were they?” Adrianna questioned.
“They were a group of superheroes tasked in capturing me but they obviously failed, they focus on capturing the saviour of a city that has been liberated for many years.” Black Adam said venomously.
“True, I am part of the revolutionary army in Kahndaq as we try to help take back our city but we are no match for Intergang’s technology.” Adrianna spoke angrily as she remembered the spies and friends that died for their cause but trying to avenge them has been difficult.
“Now you will be, you have me on your side.” Theo assured her with a serious look on his face as Adrianna nodded before he continued, “Now, tell me about the rest of the world, who are the other heroes that reside here?”
“There are lots.” Adrianna admitted, “But I don’t know much of them since I’m focusing on the revolution. If you want information about them then the only one I know who can give you that info is my s-”
Before she finished, her son, Amon, came into the living room from his secret entrance as he saw Black Adam and immediately ran up to him and gave him a hug.
“Thank you for saving my mum!” Amon thanked sincerely as Theo didn’t return the hug because he didn’t know what to feel so before things got more awkward, Amon released him.
“I heard you wanted to know more about superheroes! Well you came to the right place!” Amon said excitingly.
“This is my son, Amon, and he is a superhero nerd.” Adrianna said playfully as she ruffled her son’s hair as he grumbled a bit.
“Mooooom~” He whined as he fixed his hair back up as Theo looked at the boy. He reminded him of his old self when he was young and before he was a slave, he was just like this.
“Alright then, tell me what you know.” Theo spoke as Amon nodded excitingly and showed Theo to his room as his attitude reminded him of Pinkie Pie. Thinking about her made Theo sad a bit before he shook off those feelings and followed Amon to his room.
Adrianna watched as Black Adam listened to Amon’s exciting tone as she sighed before fondling with her bracelet as she gazed out the window, having a bad feeling that the worst was yet to come.
Three Hours Later
“OOOWWWWWW!!!!” Albert yelled as Maxine helped snap his arm back into place as the teenager was sweating drastically.
“You think that’s bad? This is even more worse.” Maxine spoke painfully as her hands were still flailing around a bit with little control since her wrists were snapped in half as the nanobots within her body are working furiously to repair her wounds.
Carter was in a whole other level of pain as his whole body hurts, has a broken jaw, broken arm and his back is killing him. Luckily the Nth metal took the brunt of the blows but he still got physically injured which worried him, it meant that Black Adam was far stronger than he expected.
Now thanks to his Nth metal medical bay, Carter managed to fix his jaw and his arm but he couldn’t move around to much as he held an ice pack to his face as he looked at the rest of team.
“You guys alright?” Carter asked.
“Besides getting tossed across Kahndaq and slammed into the seabed so hard I broke my arm and some ribs… I’m alright.” Albert replied sarcastically.
“Who would’ve known Black Adam is that powerful?” Maxine asked as Carter sighed before replying.
“Black Adam is more powerful than I imagined and from what I saw, he has no visible weaknesses… perhaps Kent is figuring something out right now.” Carter said before a golden fracture appeared in the ship and Doctor Fate appeared as he took the helmet off and sat in a chair tiredly.
“Kent, are you alright?” Carter asked as he was concerned for his friend as Kent looked at him tiredly.
“Yes… but I found his weakness.” Kent said as the three heroes looked at him curiously.
“What is it?” Carter pressed as Kent sighed.
“I managed to trap Black Adam in my magic so that he couldn’t move but then he said the word, ‘Shazam’ and a powerful bolt of lightning struck him from the heavens and destroyed my magical prison before he spoke it again and reverted back to Black Adam.” Kent explained.
“So he has a mortal form and Black Adam is his magical form?” Maxine deduced as Kent nodded in confirmation.
“Precisely, Kent cornered Black Adam into saying his magic word, if we can get him to say it again then we have slight window of opportunity to prevent him from saying it again.” Carter concluded as Kent shook his head.
“I’ve seen him up close and he is hurting internally but he doesn’t want to admit it. He may think that he doesn’t need help but he could give me as much warnings as he wants, I will find a way to help him.” Kent replied as Carter looked at him increduously.
“Kent, he is a murderer and he will not change.” Carter retorted.
“I’ve seen glimpses of his origins and I believe that I can make him see the bigger picture.” Kent replied calmly.
“What’s the helmet telling you?” Carter asked as Kent looked at the helmet and sighed.
“That something’s coming and Black Adam plays a big part in it.” Kent said as Carter glared at him before sighing.
“The next time we meet Black Adam, you’ll get your chance to convince him and if you can’t… he is getting captured.” Carter spoke sternly as Kent nodded in understanding.
“That’s all I ask.” Kent replied before he sensed an otherworldly presence enter Earth as his eyes widened before he quickly put on the helmet and disappeared.
“Uhhh, where’s he going?” Albert asked as Carter turned to his monitors as alerts were going off as he looked at the information.
“The system is detecting high traces of magic near the center square of the city.” Carter spoke before he readied the cruiser and he flew towards the location of the signature.
Meanwhile
“Wonder Woman is really strong but Superman is stronger than her by a big margin. Thor is a literal god as he shoots lightning just like you and Captain Marvel flies around with her energy beams.” Amon breathlessly explained as Theo sat on his bed and listened as the Wisdom of Zehuti absorbed this information like it was sponge.
Seeing Amon was like looking in a mirror as Theo remembered when he idolised Princess Celestia for her being a powerful figure and a benevolent ruler to Equestria. Those young memories surfaced in his head as he remembered the happiness he felt before the pain and tragedy struck him as the screams of his family echoed in his head as he closed his eyes to blank them out.
“Forgive me.” Theo muttered in despair as it went quiet as he now realised that Amon was looking at him and he stopped talking.
“Are you okay?” Amon asked in concern as Theo nodded and stood up.
“I’m fine, don’t worry about it.” Theo said seriously as Amon nodded before the metahuman looked around at the various posters of superheroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, The Flash, Green Lantern, Cyborg and many more as action figures littered the floor and the walls.
“Yeah, I kinda have to… clean my room.” Amon chuckled nervously as Black Adam looked at him with a blank face before he used his super speed and cleaned up everything as Amon looked around wildly and saw everything was clean as his eyes sparkled.
“Whoa, that was awesome!!!” Amon yelled before looking at Theo, “You’re my new favourite superhero!!!”
“Thanks… I guess.” Theo replied, unsure if he should accept this as a compliment as he walked back to the living room where Adrianna was sitting by the window, thinking thoughtfully.
“Are you alright?” Theo asked as she jumped a bit before looking at him, obviously startled.
“Sorry I was just… lost in thought.” Adrianna replied as Black Adam looked at her before he looked around the house and saw somethings that he has never seen before like…
“What is that?” Theo asked as he pointed to a strange box with strings on a table.
“Oh, that is a Television.” Adrianna explained as she turned the strange device on as multiple pictures showed in motion on the screen. Theo looked at this device with wonder in his eyes as this was… wow. Equestria never had anything like this at all and this world has it along with who knows what else.
“Interesting.” Theo commented before his senses picked up a magical presence as he instinctively looked outside as his ears picked up the sound of a magic flash before it ended as he immediately walked out the door of the apartment door and flew through the wall as he flew to the location of the presence.
“Wait, where are you going?!” Adrianna yelled out as she rushed out and looked at the gaping hole in the complex.
“Mommy can we go and see what’s going on, please?!!!” Amon pleaded as he put on the cute eyes on his mom but she shook her head.
“No Amon, stay here until Uncle Kareem returns.” Adrianna ordered before she ran out the door and headed down the stairs to go after Black Adam.
“Damn it, I never get to go anywhere.” Amon said angrily before he looked out the window and saw a bright flash of light along with a lightning bolt which meant Black Adam was in combat.
“No way am I missing that.” Amon said before he gathered his essentials in a backpack before heading to his room and flipping up his drawer to reveal a secret tunnel as he grabbed his skateboard before sliding down the tunnel.
Kahndaq City Center
People in the city center were going about there day as cars drove around the area and people exchanged words with one another before a bright glowing gold portal appeared and lit up the area as people shielded their eyes before the flash died down to reveal… a weird sight.
Where the golden flash died down, it revealed thirteen new figures that weren’t there before as they wore bright clothes and wielded strange weaponry as they looked bewildered as the spectators.
“Whoa!” Spike shouted as he looked at himself and his clothes.
“Why are we dressed like this?!” Rarity cried out as she looked at herself before admiring her clothes, “I look fabulous!”
“How do you walk with these?!” Rainbow Dash yelled in frustration as she wobbled like a newborn giraffe.
“Well ah’ll be!” Applejack said as she stood up on her legs.
“Incredible!” Twilight marvelled as she looked at her new physique.
“Oh my…” Fluttershy gasped as she looked at herself in surprise and nearly fell over but Pinkie Pie supported her up as she cheerfully looked at herself.
“This is amazing!!!” Pinkie Pie said happily.
“Trixie can get used to this.” The magician said as she marvelled her new hat.
“Where did these clothes come from?” Starlight questions as she felt the fabrics on her body.
“I can feel my magic… like nothing happened.” Luna said as she made a piece of rock float up while clutching a staff with a moon emblem at the top.
“Interesting.” Celestia muttered as she looked at herself and flapped her wings gently.
“Now to the main goal as why we are here, how do we find Theo?” Starlight asked as Zecora looked at her.
“We have other problems.” Zecora said as she gestured to the crowd of people that were looking at them cautiously.
“Everypony, we come in peace! We only wish to meet your… champion known as Black Adam! Celestia shouted calmly hoping to ease the spectators minds but some of them snorted at the little speech.
“So you could also take him away like what those other fake heroes were doing? Go away, we don’t need you here!” One civilian shouted.
“Go do something else elsewhere!”
“We don’t need you here!”
“Our champion doesn’t need to see you!”
The crowd escalated and increased their protests as the Equestrians huddled closely in a circle as they watched all around them as the crowd closed in the distance.
“I can take them.” Rainbow Dash said confidently as she held onto whatever weapon that was hanging on her belt.
“Don’t attack, if we fight back… no doubt Theo will kill us on sight.” Zecora warned them as the crowd’s yelling got louder and more forceful as Fluttershy hid behind Luna as the princess got her magic ready but before any side can do anything, a golden dome enveloped the group as it kept the crowd out.
As reality was being rearranged in front of them, Doctor Fate appeared before the group as he looked at them.
“I see you received my message.” Doctor Fate noted.
“Wait, you sent the golden cube to us?” Twilight asked as the sorcerer nodded.
“Indeed, I will need your help if we are to help Black Adam.” He replied.
“Where is Theo? Where is he?” Cadance asked frantically.
“Theo?” Doctor Fate asked confused before understanding dawned within him, “Yes, I see now.”
“Why are we so…?” Applejack trailed off with her question before Rarity finished it.
“Fashionable?” Rarity filled in.
“Since you wield powerful magic in your homeland, this world transformed you and gave the gear to help you maintain that same amount of magic here.” Doctor Fate explained as the crowd around them pounded on the shield.
“Do you know where Theo is?” Luna asked as Doctor Fate shook his head.
“No need to find him, he’ll come to us.” Fate replied before a loud sound from the skies drawed everyone’s attention to the sky as Hawkman’s Hellcruiser flew into view and hovered above them as the hatch opened and Hawkman, Cyclone and Atom Smasher hopped out and Doctor Fate opened a small part of the dome to let them in as they landed.
“Kent, who is this?” Hawkman immediately asked as he looked at the Equestrians.
“They are here to help me convince Black Adam to walk the right path.” He replied as Atom Smasher looked at them as he held his hand out.
“Hi, I’m Atom Smasher but you can call me Albert.” He greeted as Celestia nodded and shook his hand in greetings.
“Nice to meet you but introductions will have to come later.” Celestia said seriously.
“This crowd’s not dispersing anytime soon.” Cyclone noted as she noticed the crowd now yelling at them in anger.
“If anything, it got worst the moment we arrived.” Atom Smasher replied.
“Kent, I’m starting to reconsider my decision.” Hawkman said as Fate looked at him.
“And why’s that?” He asked.
“Black Adam won’t listen to reason and if anything, they won’t be of any help at all.” Hawkman gestured to the Equestrians.
“Hey if anything, you need our help in convincing him, we want to help our friend too.” Twilight said as Hawkman looked at her.
“Friend? You know Black Adam?” Hawkman asked in surprise as Doctor Fate nodded.
“They know him on a personal level and I chose to bring them here.” Fate added.
“Even so, I highly doubt he will listen to them.” Hawkman maintained his argument before Cadance spoke up.
“Not to most of us but some of us he’ll listen to.” Cadance said as she glared at Celestia and her group.
“What do you mean?” Hawkman asked.
“Um, guys?” Atom Smasher said nervously as he noticed the crowd went silent and they were now looking in the sky as the two sides diverted their attention above but the sun made it too bright to see anything.
“The sun’s too bright, I can’t see what they’re all looking at.” Cyclone said.
Doctor Fate’s reflexes kicked in as a lightning bolt shattered the dome completely and shook the ground before he summoned a shield and blocked another lightning bolt entirely.
From the sun’s rays, the shadow of a floating man was seen as lightning erupted all around him angrily as he landed on the ground forcefully and glared at the Justice Society.
“It would seem you haven’t learned from your last fight.” Theo snarled as Hawkman readied his mace.
“Oh we learned a lot… like how to take you down.” Hawkman replied angrily as Cyclone and Atom Smasher looked at each other nervously, they couldn’t handle another fight with Black Adam, their injuries were still fresh.
“Black Adam, please… we only want to talk.” Doctor Fate reasoned as Black Adam looked at him.
“I don’t want your reasoning, I want you out of my city.” Theo snarled as he prepared to attack but a familiar voice shouted at him.
“Theo!”
Immediately, Theo looked and saw that Princess Celestia along with Princess Luna, The Elements of Harmony, Starlight, Princess Cadance, Trixie, Spike and Zecora were standing there behind the heroes as he didn’t notice them until now as his blood ran cold and his eyes blazed with anger as he looked at his mentor…
The one who deserted him…
The one who tossed him aside…
The one who didn’t believe in him…
The one he gave up everything for to make her proud…
As Doctor Fate looked and saw Theo’s eyes blazing with anger, a vision flooded his head as he saw three separate but distinct images, he saw himself along with the Justice Society and then he saw all of them dead at the feet of Black Adam who sits on a throne victoriously and then lastly he sees a colourful planet blown apart completely.
“You…” Theo spoke darkly as lightning erupted around him angrily as he floated up in the air.
“Theo, please listen to me.” Celestia pleaded.
“Like how you didn’t when I needed you the most.” Theo spoke darkly as he prepared to kill her but then Cadance ran up to Theo as Luna was by her side.
“Theo, calm down please!” Luna yelled.
“Theo, its me! The real Cadance!” Cadance yelled as Theo faltered and his lightning ceased immediately when he heard her.
“Cadance?” Theo spoke in a soft voice as he landed back on the ground as he looked at her and Luna.
“It’s me, we only want to talk.” Cadance said with tears in her eyes as Theo looked at the Justice Society for confirmation and they nodded with some of them doing it nervously.
“No more fighting Theo, we will settle this with diplomacy.” Doctor Fate confirmed as Black Adam looked at them and then at the Equestrians as he sees some of his friends along with some he wanted to kill immediately but he held back that urge before replying.
“Fine, we will talk but let me be clear about one thing, if you choose to fight…. Then you all choose to die.”
Author's Note
OH MAN, THINGS ARE REALLY STARTING TO HEAT UP AS ALL THREE SIDES MEET AT THE SAME TIME!!! DOCTOR FATE SAW SOME APOCALYPTIC MAYHEM COMING IN THE FUTURE, BLACK ADAM/THEO IS STARTING TO GET MORE AND MORE AGITATED!!!!
Chapter 2: Change in the Hierarchy of Power
Canterlot Castle
Those words hit Theo like a train as his mind shattered and his facade crumbled to dust as he watched Celestia closed the door. His legs gave out under him as he collapsed to the floor and hot tears flowed from his eyes as his mouth trembled as he remembered those days as a slave where he prayed for Princess Celestia to help him but now she spoke of her true feelings of him, he was nothing to her.
His horn glowed before he teleported to his room and collapsed on his bed as he let out all those bottled up emotions he was experiencing… pain and suffering. His ears faintly picked up on the Mane Six chattering about something inaudible which made him sob harder before he picked himself up and trudged towards his old bag that had his old scrolls from when he first became Celestia’s pupil.
Just seeing it made him angry before his horn glowed and shot out a beam that vaporized them before he began tearing his room down as he destroyed the bed, shredded the vanity and demolished the bathroom before collapsing at the center of it all as he stared at the ceiling with his face soaked in tears.
His eyes strayed over the damage he done before resting upon an old knife that was a bit rusty but still sharp. Trudging over to it, Theo levitated the knife pointing it straight at his throat as he closed his eyes but before he could make a move, a voice spoke to him from behind.
“Oh no don’t do that, that’s not the way to go.”
Theo opened his eyes before slowly turning around and saw a weird looking…. Thing sitting on a chair. He was old and he had glasses on as wrinkles were very noticeable as he had a warm smile on his face. The weird part was that he wasn’t a pony at all, more like an ape or something.
“Wh-what are you?” Theo said in shock as the old man chuckled.
“I’m Stan Lee, creator of many beautiful things.” Stan replied before frowning at the knife in Theo’s grasp, “Put that blade down, suicide isn’t the option here.”
Theo reluctantly put the knife down before rubbing his eyes to make sure he wasn’t hallucinating the old man but he wasn’t as he looked at him curiously.
“Why are you here?” Theo asked.
“I’ve been watching this world along with my next one,” Stan replied, “I’ve made wonders come alive and impact the lives of billions of people and I’ve watched your life especially Theo-Adam and I am truly sorry.”
He was so sincere and apologetic that Theo sighed sadly before plumping his flank onto the ground and cried softly as the old man trudged forward and gave him a hug.
“There there young one,” Stan said softly. “Let it out.”
Theo cried into the old man’s shirt as Stan patted his head before they both released the hug and Stan sat back in his chair.
“You know… you weren’t the only one who people couldn’t find believable.” Stan spoke as Theo looked at him.
“Huh?” Theo said confused.”
“In the 1960’s on Earth, I saw a insect stuck to a wall and began to crawl and then I thought, huh, that should be a superpower and so the idea of Spider-Man came along,” Stan said wistfully, “I presented the idea to my team and they laughed at it, saying it was a dumb idea and a joke. I took it for granted at first but then I pushed their criticism aside and pushed the character out to the world, now that same hero as captured the hearts of millions of people.
“Wow.” Theo said in awe as Stan nodded with a smile.
“Oh yes indeed, after that, I made more superheroes along with supervillains and eventually those heroes came to life in movies and the actors and actresses who played them felt connected to their character’s stories. I was so proud of the Cinematic Universe that I built and I left it in good hands when I passed.”
“You’re…. Dead?” Theo asked.
“Yes and no, when I died, I became a deity myself and watched over my creations but then I realized that there were more worlds out there, where my creations were actually real,” Stan said, “I saw the heroes I made grow and develop into the characters I wrote them to be, I saw some worlds where they took that direction in the complete opposite of what I envisioned them as, all worlds are different in each universe but I was still proud of them all, no matter who they were.”
“Why tell me this?” Theo asked as Stan looked at him warmly.
“Because I want to give you the opportunity to join them.” Stan offered as Theo’s eyes widened.
“What… what do you mean?” Theo asked.
“You’re memories and past help build you into who you are today, like it or not, we are all characters apart of a bigger universe,” Stan explained, “I’ve seen what you’ve experience and all those events led to me meeting with you now. This version of Equestria is a dark one… more darker than anyone here realizes, you, Theo-Adam, have experienced a dark past ever since you were born and you could be the key to deciding the fate of it.”
“H-how?” Theo asked timidly.
“In the 1930’s, DC Comics were a popular brand and they created the hero known as Superman who was powerful in every way. Another studio ran by a man named Fawcett created a hero known as Captain Marvel, about a boy who can turn into a superpowered man by uttering a magic word. These two studios clashed in a law suit that resulted in DC winning and taking over Fawcett Comics. Eventually they gave Captain Marvel a different name due to Carol Danvers being created by Marvel Comics taking the mantle as Captain Marvel. Naming the hero Shazam, he won the hearts of many young people and became an inspiration to so many others.” Stan spoke warmly as Theo blinked at that.
“That’s….just…. Wow.” Theo marveled as Stan laughed warmly.
“Now to the point… in September 3, 2014, Dwayne Johnson was casted as Black Adam, an arch-nemesis of Shazam but the project was delayed until the near future. Last I checked they were making his movie about eight years later. The boy who was able to turn into Shazam was named Billy Batson, an orphaned boy. The man who became Black Adam was known as Teth-Adam or in another form… Theo-Adam.”
The unicorn’s eyes widened at that as Stan looked at him and laughed at his reaction as his warm laughter made Theo feel embarrassed.
“No need to feel shame, Theo, everyone here has an alternate self doing even more dumber things than just a simple same name coincidence,” Stan said lightly before his tone turned serious, “The reason I am telling you this is because I have come across a world known as Earth MD52 where both DC and Marvel heroes reside in. The world is full of heroes but also overrun with villains who don’t hesitate to kill innocents and take their lives for their own selfish desires. Most heroes or rather almost all of them, don’t get rid of the villains permanently while a few do reluctantly… and it turns out… that world does not have a Black Adam.”
Theo’s mind raced at the description of this world before Stan’s last statement jumped out at him as his widened before looking at the old man.
“You… want me to be Black Adam?” Theo asked in awe.
“The Black Adam of that universe,” Stan spoke seriously, “Every time I look at that world, it breaks my heart to see my alternate creations don’t do the right thing and just take that little step forward. As Black Adam, you will be able to do that and take up the mantle.”
“Who exactly is Black Adam?” Theo asked.
“He was the first to be blessed with the powers of Shazam before he abused his power and turned on them, becoming a full on villain in some comic runs,” Stan explain thoughtfully, “The main thing that made him stood out from most heroes is that he fights for what he believes in and protects his people also he doesn’t hold back at all.”
Theo didn’t say anything as Stan looked at him before leaning forward.
“I believe that you can set that universe back on the right track, I won’t be angry at what you decide to do with your powers,” Stan said gently, “You can be the destroyer of that world… or you can be its savior…. That’s…. Up to you.”
“I….I….” Theo tried to form words but he was thinking too hard about this as Stan noticed this.
“Theodore, I know you may feel like your restricted here but there is nothing you can do and you have tried your hardest to fit in, you can always return if you want to,” Stan said gently, “I will be there to guide you.”
“Besides me and Black Adam having the same name…. What about us is similar?” Theo asked.
“Your slave origins, both of you have lost your families to slave masters and have lived tough and harsh lives, I can see it in you that you are willing to go the extra mile and eliminate villains permanently, Teth was the same, wanting to protect his people and was willing to fight every superhero in the world to resurrect his wife which resulted in World War 3.” Stan explained as Theo’s face shifted from one of timidness to a serious one as he looked at Stan seriously.
“Ever since I was born, I’ve dealt with hardships most ponies would never even dream of experiencing and ever since I’ve been taken under Celestia’s shadow, I was nothing but a pushover that nopony would take sympathy on, this world has nothing for me now… I accept your offer, Stan Lee.” Theo said seriously as Stan smiled warmly.
“Good, now to make it official,” Stan said as he waved his hand a golden rimmed portal opened and it was dark and gloomy on the other side. “When you enter this portal, you will change and you will look different, you will be a human or more importantly… you will be Teth-Adam. You will be currently imprisoned in a tomb but you will be able to free yourself from this predicament. I will guide you more once you step through but now I must give you your powers.”
Stan stood up and held out his hand, “Take my hand.”
Theo trotted forward and put his hoof in Stan’s hand as the old man’s voice amplified as lightning clouds appeared overhead and lightning struck around Canterlot as Stan proclaimed.
“I NAME YOU TETH-ADAM OF EARTH-MD52, CARRY HIS NAME AND WITH IT, YOU CARRY ALL OF HIS POWERS, THE STAMINA OF SHU, THE SPEED OF HERU, THE STRENGTH OF AMON, THE WISDOM OF ZEHUTI, THE POWER OF ATON AND THE COURAGE OF MEHEN…BY THE POWER OF ME, I NAME YOU…BLACK ADAM !!!” Stan proclaimed as a massive blue lightning bolt bursted through the ceiling and struck Theo as the pony’s eyes widened as he saw nothing but light and pitched forward blindly and into the portal as it closed.
Stan Lee disappeared from the world of Equestria before appearing in his palace before looking at Theo, now in human form, imprisoned in a tomb through a magic window as he smiled warmly.
“The hierarchy of power in EarthMD52… is about to change…. yeesh, now that I look at it, Dwayne Johnson has been using that line quite a lot lately.” Stan remarked as he began his assignment.
Earth-MD52
Theo saw darkness and he couldn’t move nor talk at all as he found himself in a massive rock temple that had strange markings on the walls and seemed to go on forever as he looked down and yelped. He wasn’t a pony anymore, he was a human and had chocolate skin along with a… what looks to be a loincloth on his waist.
“Where am I? Stan?! Hello?!” Theo yelled as his voice echoed but no response was heard before he heard Stan behind him.
“Told you.” Stan remarked as Theo jumped and turned around to see him.
“Where am I?” Theo asked.
“You’re currently trapped in your mind right now,” Stan explained, “All these writings on the walls were meant to keep you imprisoned, I couldn’t just let you appear out of nowhere and alert other beings, you have to start out from somewhere.”
“How do I get out of here?” Theo asked as Stan chuckled.
“Patience young one, I have to explain how powerful you are,” Stan spoke brightly, “In terms of the power of one’s character, it depends how they are written, how the writer interprets the character and how they want to handle them… the strongest being in this world right now is possibly Superman or Darkseid… perhaps Thor or Thanos but you will be on par with Superman in terms of Strength and speed. If you learn to master your powers thoroughly, you can become more powerful than Superman himself.”
“How does my powers work?” Theo asked.
“Just like Billy Batson, you will have to utter a magic word in order for powers to occur, it will come to you in the form of a blue lightning bolt striking from the heavens as what happened to you back on Equestria,” Stan explained, “Be aware that when you are in your mortal form, you will have no powers whatsoever besides the magic word, only then will you be able to access your new form.”
“So I can turn back and forth into my mortal form?” Theo clarified.
“Yes.” Stan confirmed.
“Okay then.” Theo said before Stan held up his hand.
“A word of caution though, once you awaken and break free of your tomb, you will alert the attention of those beings who have thorough knowledge in magic since your powers are magic based,” Stan warned, “Currently, a group known as Intergang has picked up your energy signature and are in the cave right now currently along with two innocents, you will have to deal with them once you’re free along with the team of Superheroes that will come to apprehend you.”
“So what’s my main goal?” Theo asked seriously.
“Liberate Kahn’daq of the Intergang and take back your kingdom through any means necessary besides killing innocents of course, this will be the first step for you and a great practice run for you to learn your powers and test them against the Intergang and the superhero team.” Stan said as Theo nodded in confirmation.
“It is time for you to awaken…. The magic word is Shazam!.... Say it when you are ready.” Stan said before winking at him and disappearing as Theo looked at himself.
Things will be different once he spoke this word, he will be an entirely different person and there will be no more of him hiding under ponies… or rather people’s shadows and he won’t let anyone take advantage or push him around ever again. Taking a deep breath, he looked up and shouted loudly.
“SHAZAM!” Theo yelled as a bright blue flash enveloped his vision.
Thirty Miles Away From Kahn’daq
Author's Note
OH BOI, THINGS ARE STARTING TO GET REAL NOW, AND DON'T WORRY THAT VERSION OF EQUESTRIA.... I KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO DEAL WITH IT, HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!
