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Like, some people would want to write a book where Batman teams up with Wolverine and they totally jack up robot Hitler and his Nazi dominatrices? Or a Teen Titans book where nobody actually fights crime, but they go to high school and Tim and Kon are lovers but then Tim has gay panic and Kon has to win him back and for some reason all their clothes are a size too small?
I'm not judging you, change a few of those names to Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter, I'd read it. Either the robot Hitler one or the one in high school. Or both.
Anyway, this is mine.
The Premise: There came a day when the Fourth World died… and the Fifth World was born.
The New Gods have been reborn, knowing nothing of their old lives. And like all who are ignorant of their history, they've been doomed to repeat it. Scott Free is once more traded to Apokolips to buy peace for New Genesis. He grows up the one dissenting voice in the cult of Darkseid, catching the eye of the elite Big Barda, for whom catching Scott becomes a matter of course. We can assume the First, Second, and Third World died the same way… in endless war.
Then something happens that skews the cycle off its course. Darkseid's forces have been assembling the Anti-Life Equator integer by integer, each of his Generals receiving one part of the whole. Barda has tracked the final piece to a small monastery on a distant world, where a sect has devoted their entire lineage to imprisoning it. Their powerful magic ensures that only the pure of heart can enter their monastery. Barda knows someone like that.
She makes a deal with Scott, still bruised and battered from his last escape attempt. The same skills that let him break out of so many places make him ideal for breaking in. If he gets her the integer, she'll give him his freedom. For some reason, Scott believes her…
Scott is able to get inside and pass all the trials, proving himself worthy of claiming the ultimate power. Barda is ecstatic. When Scott gives her the integer, she'll become a full-fledged General in Darkseid's service—it's all she's ever dreamed of.
But at the last minute, Scott pauses. He can't go through with it. Can't help Darkseid take over the galaxy, can't corrupt Barda. He takes the integer within himself and flees to Earth. There, he searches for a way to destroy the integer, forever saving the universe from Darkseid. But Barda is hot on his heels, determined to drag him back to Apokolips and rip the integer from him. It's something New Genesis refuses to risk, and Orion and his men seek to kill Scott—putting Barda in the position of both captor and protector, assuming she ever catches up with him.
But underneath all the subterfuge, there's a mythology that the Anti-Life Equator lets Scott glimpse. All this, the war between order and chaos, it's happened before. And if Scott can resist the temptation of his newfound power, he might be able to stop it from ever happening again.
( Tl;dr. )
( Gotham City: A House Divided )
I'm not judging you, change a few of those names to Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter, I'd read it. Either the robot Hitler one or the one in high school. Or both.
Anyway, this is mine.
The Premise: There came a day when the Fourth World died… and the Fifth World was born.
The New Gods have been reborn, knowing nothing of their old lives. And like all who are ignorant of their history, they've been doomed to repeat it. Scott Free is once more traded to Apokolips to buy peace for New Genesis. He grows up the one dissenting voice in the cult of Darkseid, catching the eye of the elite Big Barda, for whom catching Scott becomes a matter of course. We can assume the First, Second, and Third World died the same way… in endless war.
Then something happens that skews the cycle off its course. Darkseid's forces have been assembling the Anti-Life Equator integer by integer, each of his Generals receiving one part of the whole. Barda has tracked the final piece to a small monastery on a distant world, where a sect has devoted their entire lineage to imprisoning it. Their powerful magic ensures that only the pure of heart can enter their monastery. Barda knows someone like that.
She makes a deal with Scott, still bruised and battered from his last escape attempt. The same skills that let him break out of so many places make him ideal for breaking in. If he gets her the integer, she'll give him his freedom. For some reason, Scott believes her…
Scott is able to get inside and pass all the trials, proving himself worthy of claiming the ultimate power. Barda is ecstatic. When Scott gives her the integer, she'll become a full-fledged General in Darkseid's service—it's all she's ever dreamed of.
But at the last minute, Scott pauses. He can't go through with it. Can't help Darkseid take over the galaxy, can't corrupt Barda. He takes the integer within himself and flees to Earth. There, he searches for a way to destroy the integer, forever saving the universe from Darkseid. But Barda is hot on his heels, determined to drag him back to Apokolips and rip the integer from him. It's something New Genesis refuses to risk, and Orion and his men seek to kill Scott—putting Barda in the position of both captor and protector, assuming she ever catches up with him.
But underneath all the subterfuge, there's a mythology that the Anti-Life Equator lets Scott glimpse. All this, the war between order and chaos, it's happened before. And if Scott can resist the temptation of his newfound power, he might be able to stop it from ever happening again.
( Tl;dr. )
( Gotham City: A House Divided )
