Kapitel 4: Chapter 4 - A New Life, An Old Life
Shall we go then... into the mystery...?
The sound of someone's voice causes me to wake up in a start, seeing that wherever I ended up, it was dark. I feel something pressing down on top of me and it doesn't take long for me to figure out I was buried underneath something.
I push whatever rubble was on top me off and stand up. Looking around, I saw that wherever I was, it looked like shit. Buildings were destroyed, cars overturned and on fire... Corpses littered on the streets...
But what confused me the most was that I clearly heard a woman speaking just now, and yet there was absolutely no one around.
"Strange..." I whisper.
I swear that I heard someone when I woke up...
Still feeling a bit of discomfort, I look down and see there were multiple pieces of rebar going through my body, one of them having pierced me directly in the heart.
"Fucking Astral..."
I grab the rebar and remove it, the wounds closing instantly due to healing myself with my Reverse Cursed Technique.
Glancing at the ground, I see that I was buried underneath a bunch of broken debris that had came from some sort of skyrail.
"Seems I quite literally pulled myself out of my own grave..." I muttered.
There was a lot of blood. Definitely enough to put a person out of commission, or kill them if they didn't get medical attention.
In the pool of blood, I see my own reflection and saw that I had a domino mask on for some reason. Not only that, but I had on some ridiculous form fitting costume.
Sneering, I rip the mask off my face and see that my appearance has not changed since my encounter with Sukuna. Seems like this will be my face from now on, so I guess I'd better get used to it.
Although I suppose this one is a bit better than the one I was initially reborn with. It has a lot more in common with my original self than my previous Berserk appearance did, that's for sure.
Considering the tight suit and the fact that I didn't have any pockets, it's safe to say that Sukuna's Kamutoke hadn't come along with me to this world.
Shame, I remember it being quite useful during the later parts of Jujutsu Kaisen's story.
"Where the fuck am I?" I whispered aloud as I started to walk through the streets, looking around for signs that might tell me where I am.
I didn't get very far, as after about a minute of walking I hear an ungodly screeching sound coming from directly above me.
Looking up, I saw some giant, ugly looking thing that had veins glowing a sort of teal coloring and wearing golden armor. Its face just seemed to be mostly teeth.
"Is that a..." I tilted my head at the creature, its appearance vaguely familiar to me.
It lands in front of me, the ground cracking underneath its feet. It doesn't bother with pleasantries, if it even had the intelligence for such a thing, immediately swiping at me with its claws.
I caught its clawed hand with absolutely no difficulty and dismember the creature into nothing but a bloody paste.
"So it was." I muttered as I crouched down and looked at the creature's softly glowing blood.
Parademons.
At least I know where I ended up now.
Took me a minute to realize what this thing was. After all, it's been decades since I've seen anything related to DC.
I don't remember the which universe exactly that these weird looking ones come from, but if they are flying around, chances are that Darkseid is stomping around somewhere near here as well...
Suddenly, I feel the ground rumbling beneath my feet, and the sounds of devastation happening off in the distance.
Using my massive amounts of physical strength, I jump into the air and land on a tall building so I could look around the city. Off in the distance, there was a building collapsing to the ground.
"Hm..."
I was about to head over but I suddenly felt as though something had just brushed against my shoulder. My arm instantly reaches out and I send multiple Dismantles at whatever it was before my head catches up with my arm.
But there was nothing there.
I look at my arm, swearing that I had felt something before shaking it off and heading towards the now fallen building.
Something's definitely watching me...
---
As the building collapses around them, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Shazam, and Cyborg all conducted a coordinated assault against Darkseid, not allowing the hulking titan to chance to retaliate.
As Diana punched Darkseid out of the building through the top and back outside, she saw that a horde of Parademons were waiting for them.
Not bothering with them, she just pushed them out of the way and flew towards Darkseid, the others following close behind.
Diana landed a large uppercut to Darkseid's jaw, giving way for Shazam to shock him with a blast of lightning. Cyborg quickly followed up with a powerful beam and rocket, which Darkseid blocked, only to be surprised when a giant green fist hit him from behind, courtesy of Green Lantern.
The fist knocked him into another building, which stopped his momentum, but proved to be inconsequential when the four heroes all flew into him at the same time, pushing him through to the other side.
Once outside of the second building, Green Lantern, Cyborg, and Shazam all hit Darkseid with beam attacks, sending him flying down towards the ground.
Diana, not letting the opportunity pass, flew down toward the tyrant and used her lasso to bind him.
Now bound, Darkseid could do nothing as Wonder Woman's teammates all gathered their powers and launched a continuous wave of attacks.
Seeing that there had been master bound, all the Parademons in the surrounding area started to gather at their location, ready to help free their master. Shazam saw this and was about to launch another lightning blast, only to be surprised when all the Parademons were suddenly split in half.
"What the--"
"Focus!" Wonder Woman yelled, struggling to hold onto the behemoth.
She had noticed the creature's demise as well, but whatever it was, it hadn't hit them.
Behind Wonder Woman, The Flash had suddenly appeared, using a Parademon to land on the building beside them.
"Now, Flash, take out the other eye!" She told him.
Flash's eyes widened at the order, but before he could even have the chance to think, a familiar voice suddenly rang out through the air.
"Don't bother."
Something suddenly came crashing down onto Darkseid, which caused Wonder Woman to crash down into the ground alongside him thanks to her grip on her lasso.
"AAAAAAGGGGHH!!!"
The guttural screams coming from the titan caused her to look up, seeing that a young boy had managed to lodge his fist into the enemy's eye, making it completely useless.
But that wasn't the only surprise, as the boy was familiar to her, in fact he was familiar to everyone there.
"...Alex...?" She muttered.
---
I stared down at Darkseid, the overlord seemingly a bit dazed. I probably should have been a bit more cautious, but the only current thought that came to mind was how weak he seemed to be.
I expected more resistance from someone of his caliber, but it was surprisingly easy to rip through his eye. Almost like crushing a grape.
Maybe it was because it was his eye specifically?
"...Alex...?"
Hearing the quiet murmurs from a few feet beside me, I glance over and see Wonder Woman looking at me with shock.
Alex? Who the hell is... Ah, I get it now...
The mask, the costume, the grave I pulled myself out of. It seems that instead of reincarnating as an entirely new person, Astral transmigrated into the body of a dead one.
Fucking bothersome god...
"Holy shit, the kid ain't dead?!" A voice shouts out from above.
A second later, Green Lantern, Cyborg, and Shazam come flying down, landing next to Wonder Woman with the same awestruck faces.
"How's that possible?" Cyborg muttered under his breath, his robotic eye glowing as I assumed he started to scan me.
I hear the feint sound of voices, but I can't quite tell where it was coming from.
"No, you heard correctly, guys... Alex is alive..." Shazam spoke.
My eyes narrowed at him, wondering who he was talking to until I see the outline of something black in his ear.
An earpiece then. If that's the case, who's he talking to? The way he said "guys" made it seems like multiple people.
Batman and Superman?
Before I could continue my train of thought, I felt something wrap itself around me.
"I'll crush you like a nut!" Darkseid said as he held me in his hands, placing enough pressure on me to try and crush me completely in his grip.
"ALEX!" I heard one of the guys in the hero's group yell out, I don't know exactly who.
Not concerned at all, I calmly used Cleave and turn his hands into nothing but blood mist before kicking him in the face, sending him flying through another building.
I hear the five behind me let out shocked murmurs, as well as hear multiple sets of footsteps approaching our current location. I, however, don't pay it any mind as I rip the tight costume away from my torso, finally feeling unrestricted.
"This is why I wear loose fitting clothes..." I muttered aloud to myself.
I concentrate on my Cursed Energy, summoning the tattoos and second set of eyes I've become so familiar with before taking off towards Darkseid. As I took off, I heard someone call out that name, "Alex," again, but I ignored it.
After all, I'm not Alex.
---
[A Few Minutes Before.]
"Is it true?" Damian, the current Robin, asked his father as he sliced the head off a Parademon.
"Wonder Woman wouldn't lie about something like this." Batman replied, jumping into the air an and punching another Parademon that was right behind his son.
The others had just heard that their teammate was still alive, and whilst they couldn't wrap their heads around it, they were still pushing forward through hordes of Parademons to see if it was true.
"But that's impossible! He was dead!" Superboy yelled as he plunged down from the sky, dropping two limp Parademons that he had in his hands.
"AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!"
The surrounding Parademons were enwrapped in a dark energy before suddenly imploding in on themselves.
Raven floated down from the sky, Zatanna following closely beside her.
"Don't worry about that now. Right now we have to focus on regrouping with the others." Batman told them as he flung several batarangs towards a group of Parademons, each one stabbing into their heads and exploding. "We'll check in on Alex once everything is sorted."
Hearing his words, the team all fell silent and focused on the task at hand.
When the Parademons had first started coming through, the League, while hesitant, had called upon the Young Justice team to help with the crisis.
Currently, Batman was leading the entirety of Young Justice team through the ruined streets of Gotham, that being Damian, Raven, Zatanna, Wally, Artemis, Cassie, Superboy, and Megan.
Fighting through, they charged down the street, finally making it to the secondary team's location. When they arrived, they saw Alex ripping off his shirt, his eyes focused on an adjacent building with a giant hole.
"Holy shit, he is alive!" Wally exclaimed.
"Alex!" Cassie called out.
Most of the team felt a significant weight lift off their shoulders at the sight of him, but as they ran closer, Raven and Zatanna reactions suddenly took a turn. They stopped in their tracks almost immediately, their eyes wide and their breathing was short, almost as if they were hyperventilating.
"What's wrong?" Damian asked as he rushed to Raven's side.
"I don't-- We can't..." Raven struggled to even speak as she broke out in a cold sweat.
The two sorceresses felt their chests suddenly constrict around their hearts, their bodies forcing them to stay rooted where they stood.
"What the hell?!"
Superboy's sudden yell caused Damian to look up at him, following his gaze to see that Alex had suddenly grew another set of eyes and had multiple tattoos appearing on his body.
"What's happening to him?" Megan asked, feeling an unexplainable cold chill run up the length of her spine.
"Run..." Zatanna muttered softly. "We have to run..."
Her words caused some alertness in the others, but especially in Batman.
"Run where? What's wrong?" Aqualad asked as he placed a hand on Zatanna's arm, wondering what had caused them to be this way.
"We're going to die... He's going to kill us..." Raven replied.
"Who are you talking about? Darkseid?" Wally asked, his expression a bit puzzled.
""No..."" Both Raven and Zatanna said at the same time.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the team, the moment that "Alex" had undergone his transformation, Raven and Zatanna had seen something entirely different from what the rest of them had saw.
And what they saw was the equivalent of walking natural disaster.
Wöchentlicher Energiestatus
-- Power-
Rangliste 
-- Power-
Stein