#The League is panicking watching their alt versions

[nelkcats]

Earthquake in space-time

When Flash reset time to resolve everything that happened in Flashpoint, he didn't realize how much he was messing up the Infinite Realms. Which were trembling and thousands of portals were opening from one moment to another, portals that led to all moments in time, connected to all dimensions.

Clockwork and Danny weren't enough to hold all the glitches. The ghost king was draining all his energy just to keep the ruptures at bay in the Realms but at some point it wasn't enough.

The main cause, the DC universe was suddenly invaded by multiple portals in time. Different versions of themselves endlessly opening and closing. This became critical when the dimensions began to collide and even the ghosts dared to enter.

Bruce was freaking out watching his father (as Batman?) and his mother (The Joker ???) adopting a jokerized Tim and a ghost Jason. Constantine was wondering how to solve the dilemma when Clockwork appeared through a portal in the middle of the Watchtower meeting room.

Constantine debated whether he should stop the Ghost God from killing Flash. That didn't seem sorry at all. And when he was about to do something, a boy stood between them.

"We don't know how to solve this and it's your fault," the boy said, the dark circles in his eyes were obvious, "but if you don't solve it, we'll take the Speedforce away from you, this is a fucking disaster, no more resets bitch."

And without more to say, he passed out in the arms of his mentor. Was it the end of the Speedsters?

[italicwatches]

My Hero Academia, season 2 - Episode 31

Yesterday turned into a shitshow. Let’s see if my day today goes better. It’s My Hero Academia, episode 31! Here we GO!

-We begin with the news choppers coming in to report on the chaos in the city. And the reporter and her cameraman manage to catch a single shot of Tomura and Kurogiri, before they step back into one of Kurogiri’s shadow portals…With plans ready to be made.

-Opening!

-Episode 31: The Aftermath of Hero Killer: Stain

-In the hospital the next day, all three guys are in the same room, and they all barely slept. They’ve got various amounts of bandages and casts on them, and they’re all realizing how really, absurdly close they came to dying last night…

-Which is when Manual and Gran Torino come in…And not just them, either. Because they’re joined by, and I swear I am not making this up, a dog-headed man. The chief of police, Tsuragamae Kenji. He takes a bite out of crime, I’m guessing.

-But why is the chief of police here, woof? In short, they crossed a lot of lines in their fight, a whole lot of legal lines about the use of power without strict authorization…

-Shoto’s the first one to call bullshit. They were up against a villain. A murderous villain. A pro hero would have died had none of them intervened, and Tenya here would himself have gone down had they not gotten in there to back him up! The rest of the city was in chaos, the heroes were miles away!

-So the rules are fine to be broken, if it turns out all right?

-The rules were meant to keep people safe! A hero’s job is to save people! What the hell good is a system that lays down punishment for saving lives?!

-And it’s got to be Gran who keeps Shoto from straight-up tackling the dog man chief of police and beating the shit out of him. (DO IT SHOTO)

-Because, Kenji is making a decision to put all this under wraps. As far as the public will know, Stain was caught by the hero Endeavor. No public acknowledgment of your actions means no need for public acknowledgment of how the rules were broken, and thus no punishment. IF, everyone in this room agrees to let it die.

-And so all of that ferocity slowly dies down, as Kenji gives them a private thanks for their hard work. You did good, all of you. Please forgive the way this world has to work, and don’t let it keep you from doing the right thing.

-There is some meat we could explore there on the rather different relationship this implies to regulations and systems, compared to your more typical Big Two superhero approach. Lots of meat. Me, I’m still trying to figure out how the hell to write a superhero story from an American perspective, in a vaguely recognizable world without feeling like my characters are upholding a disgraceful status quo.

-Anyways, that’s that, on paper. The huge day fizzled into nothing…Even as the aftermath of it slowly but surely ate at all of our heroes. The news was soon reporting on the public version of the story, to say nothing of the rumors of the Nomus being connected to the League of Villains thanks to that shot the reporter managed to catch…

-As we start to see some characters who will clearly be relevant. On the streets, a man who looks like his lower jaw was stitched on off of another goddamned human. Deep in the woods, watching on an old-timey portable TV that I’m legitimately shocked even still gets a signal, a hulking figure. And down an empty corridor, listening on earbuds, a blonde schoolgirl…

-Until, finally, to the bar, where Tomura is seeing how the Stain story is all anyone cares about. All of his efforts with the Nomus, the entire chaos he threw the city into, and it turned into nothing more than a side story to the great big Stain tale! Oh, he’s pissed. So very pissed.

-Then it’s to Best Jeanist’s agency, where he gives everyone a solid speech about how they need to keep calm and work extra diligently, since times right after a villain is caught and publicized can lead to attempted copycats. Also, Katsuki is straining against his modified outfit and new hairstyle, and he’s not liking it.

-Over at Fourth Kind’s place, Kirishima is reading the latest when Tetsutetsu gets all mad because they’re gonna get punched again if they don’t buckle down and work hard, and that’s how they both get punched.

-Uwabami has roped the girls into a new commercial. Momo has finally realized this is a fucking sham, and Itsuka is too busy enjoying the idea of actually being on TV. But then they get an actual patrol to go on YES!

-Ochaco gets the update from Deku about how things were bananas but everyone’s okay…And then Gunhead with his gentle voice has to pull her away from chatting with her ‘boyfriend’ to come train. So she’s freaking out…

-And back at the hospital, so is Deku, because he’s never just straight up talked with a girl on the phone before…!

-Of course, when he gets back to his room, things get serious. Because Tenya’s left hand took some serious, long-term damage from Stain’s attacks…

-Nerve damage. Lowered flexibility and some numbness…It could potentially be fixed with surgery…But in all of it, Tenya feels like this is nobody’s fault but his own. He fucked up. He fucked up big time. …He’s going to leave his hand like this. This is what he lost for failing to be a hero.

-And that’s when Deku shows him his own right hand. The scars he earned for failing to respect his own limits. All they can do now, is push forward. Let their failures show them what they must do to become greater than they were.

-Which leaves Shoto feeling a terrible guilt, since he was kind of involved in both events. But it’s so absurd that they can’t help but start laughing.

-Back at UA, No Might’s phone is going off. And he recorded, the best, ringtone. “A phone call…IS HEERE!” And it’s Gran on the phone! Who is mad because he still got some punishment. A cut to his stipend and revoking his teaching license for six months. All because of your damn successor! And so No Might is all full of apologies and panicking at his mentor having eaten punishment for things…

-But also, Gran has serious stuff to talk. That guy, Stain. He’s got a…Weight to him. An ideological power. A dark charisma. And the media is going to be chock full of discussing his actions and ideology. And with the League of Villains around, already looking to stir up chaos…You need to be ready. Everyone needs to be ready. This will turn from a few insects, into a unified swarm. The kind of swarm that only one man could be behind.

-The rumors, the hints, the little bits of information, they all lead to one point. The same man who put that hole in All Might’s stomach. The man who killed his predecessor. The one foe that not even the Symbol of Peace could stop…

-…All For One, is on the move.

-No Might wants to believe that man is dead, that he fell to the injuries from their last encounter…But it’s never that easy, is it. …You need to tell that boy everything. He needs to know what he’s signed up for.

-Cut to two days later. News about Stain is starting to spread. In a shitty little bar, an illegal equipment maker is grumbling and frustrated. Things were so much easier before All Might was around, but now, almost all of his customers are drying up…And the ones that aren’t, are getting pro gear off the black market. The kind of guys who want to buy some rough and tumble gear on the cheap, they just don’t exist anymore.

-But an old acquaintance of his, has something that might have his business going up…A viral video about Stain. The former hero turned murderer, who spent ten years learning and becoming a killer of flawed ‘heroes’…It keeps getting deleted, and just put back up by someone else, on another network…Something’s awakening in the underbelly of society…

-As we see that that blonde schoolgirl totally killed a guy, amongst other such villains starting to gather…Things are changing. This time of peace that All Might brought on, of calm, is coming to an end…!

-Credits!

Shiiiiiiit.