Beginnings: Part 5

Within days, your cover had been blown.

The attack at the park made national news, and your, along with the rest of the groups faces, were on the most wanted.

Deadshot burned down the safe house, and set up a emergency plan for the group.

The plan was for everyone to split up, and meet up in Hong Kong, where Deadshot had a contact who could shed light on current events.

Due to the target being aimed at you, you decided to travel in the most inconspicuous way possible, by bus.

Deadshot advised you to travel to California, where another contact of his could get you out of the country unseen.

You gave Deadshot a farewell, and Harley a warm hug.

As you traveled to the bus station, you noticed that Harley slipped a phone and a piece of paper with her phone number on it.

The phone was modified to be untraceable, giving you the ability to communicate with Harley and Deadshot.

After a lengthy walk, you reached the bus station, which was unusually crowded.

After the excruciating wait, you got a ticket, and waited for the bus to arrive.

Your ticket was set to bring you to Tennessee, where you would start your trek to California.

As you waited, you felt a mild headache, which you wrote off as stress.

The headache began to hurt a bit more, and you heard what sounded like a faint voice.

Voice: X, you must listen.

You ignored the voice, believing it to be stress once again.

The bus arrived right on time, and you waited in another line to board it.

The voice returned, but louder.

Voice: X, your power is unstable.

The headache you had became worse as you boarded the bus.

You took your seat, and as you sat down, the voice returned in full force.

Voice: X, you must learn to control it.

X: Leave me alone.

With a surge of pain going through your head, you became surrounded by a blue light.

When the light disappeared, you found yourself in a ornate dining room with a chandelier.

The dining room had windows, and when you looked out of them, you saw nothing but bright, beautiful stars.

You were spellbound by the extraordinary sight that was outside the window.

Voice: This place is unknown to most, very few have entered this place.

You quickly turned around, and saw a man in a suit adorned with a cape and hat, sitting at the end of the table.

X: W-Who are you?

Voice: I am The Phantom Stranger, a watcher of the universe, and I bid you welcome.

X: What is this place?

Stranger: A place between universes, each star you see is a different universe, from here I watch them all.

X: What do you want from me?

The Stranger stood from the table.

Stranger: Please, follow me.

Seeing as how The Stranger was the head of the place you were in, you followed him.

The Stranger took you to a gallery with walls lined with art.

The paintings depicted significant events through history.

Stranger: This is the archive of all that was, is, and will be.

The Stranger took you to two paintings, both next to each other.

The depictions on the paintings shocked you to your very core.

The left painting depicted you as a brutal tyrant, sitting on a golden throne over the bodies of the world's heroes and villains.

The painting on the right depicted you as a passionate hero, with you coming down from the sky as people praised you.

X: What is this!?

Stranger: Two futures, both with a equal chance of becoming true.

You stumbled back, unsure of what you were seeing.

Stranger: Your destiny, and those of many others, are defined by you, and how you use your powers.

X: What powers!? What do you want from me!?

Stranger: I do not require anything from you, I simply come to warn you of the danger to come.

X: What danger?

Stranger: Noximus.

For some unknown reason, you shuddered at the sound of that name.

Stranger: Be warned X, Noximus is fast approaching Earth, and he will destroy anything in his path to get to your power.

X: Power? What power!?

Stranger: You will learn, in time, now go, and achieve your destiny.

The blue energy surrounded you once again.

X: W-Wait! I still have questions!

When the energy dispersed, you saw that you had been returned to your seat on the bus, with no one aware what just happened to you.

X: Damnit!

You punched the back of the seat in front of you, leaving a considerable burn on it.

X: W-What am I?

The bus set of to Tennessee, where your odyssey would begin.

(Belle Reve)
Amanda Waller was surveying the damage of the riot when the black caped man approached her.

Walker turned to face the man.

Waller: You impatient bastard, you set the bounty when I barely have a team to send after him.

Man: We need him captured now Waller, if what Fate told us is true, he becomes more dangerous by the day.

Waller: Yet you could have sent someone more capable to catch him, like Superman.

Man: Superman is in the edge of the galaxy trying to find Noximus. We need a team now Waller.

Waller turned to see the destroyed Belle Reve.

Waller: I have four supers under my control, that is all I can do, if they fail, he is your problem.

Man: At the least your buying us time.

Waller: Never thought the BATMAN would be running low on time.

Batman: Me neither.

Batman disappeared into the shadows.

Waller pulled a phone from her pocket.

Waller: This is Waller, gear Homer Team for deployment, they are going hunting.

Hey guys!

It's your favorite perv!

The next four chapters will be based off of Homer's "The Odyssey".