One was starting to see that being a Creator was...an experience, both good and bad. Bad because Bruce was always asking questions, seemed to be fighting the absorption of One every step of the way, which would lead to the next problem; how weak Bruce was. Too often One would Rage and end up accidentally hurting the human.

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// Mars //

There was a constant sharp pain in J'onn's mind, that made it so hard to wake up. There used to be many bonds that connected his soul to those of his family and the gaping holes that their absences brought... Only his v'lmnta remained and that fact hurt almost as bad as his head did.

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One didn't have a name. How could One, having been tossed aside by its very own creator as unwanted, have a name? The unwanted weren't given such consideration. Well, perhaps that wasn't true, if One remembered all the names its Creator had called it. Diseased part of me that will lead to nothing but destruction. Must get rid, too violent, must ( Read more... )

It wouldn’t stop hurting. They were gone and Bruce was alone in the dark, unable to move or say anything. He could hear a strange language buzzing about around him but it was too hard to care when everything was hurting so much. It had been so beautiful, that place; it was all Bruce could think about, about how he hadn’t been allowed in.

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It was night time on Malacandra. J'onn Jonzz laid on his floating bed, gazed up at the changing ceiling with dull eyes. Used to his twin brother would be right beside him, talking rapidly about whatever new thing he'd read about on his Padd that day...But then he'd been taken.

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///Earth///
The tale is a familiar one, well memorized by many throughout the ages. Of a dark, cold night in a damned city called Gotham. Little details change but the end result is the same. Two gun shots, flying pearls and screams that play out in a horrifying melody that ends with little Bruce Wayne kneeling next to the rapidly cooling bodies of ( Read more... )

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