WATCH YOUR STEP. . .

It began with Vigilare, a black-ops security company founded by Sergio Castello, it ended in the smouldering rubble and ruin of a destroyed secret facility.

Thirteen years ago, Sloane was one of many metahuman children plucked from the margins of society and vanished into the fold. In the days that would become Sloane's early life, she would know only the pain of experimentation, the loveless kiss of steel and scalpels, and the watchful eyes of the one Sergio Castello. Come adolescence, only four of the original batch would make it out of experimentation alive. These are the Horsemen, Sergio's prize ponies designed to cull the world and reshape his empire. On the cusp of adulthood, Sloane's hands are filled with blood, her skin bears the scars of ruthless surgery and experimentation in the same breath as their rigorous training, death has become her shadow, and the red song of war rings through her ears with the sonorous reverb of steel.

She was always meant for greater things. Killing gods was one of them.

Until the true nature of Sergio's research on metahumans came to a head.

Now, Sloane is twenty-three and seething, forged into a lethal weapon by her thermonuclear rage with the help of a reluctant mentor who calls himself Deadshot. Having deserted Vigilare and destroyed their primary testing site, Sloane isn't looking for salvation. What she wants is revenge.

War doesn't care for its casualties, nor does it discriminate. There are names on Sloane's list, and enough blood in each body to fill an ocean. And if the only way to destroy the fortified and titanic Sergio Castello means painting the country red, then every single person in it will drown.

But even divine vengeance answers to lethal justice, and even though Roy Harper, who goes by Arsenal now, really isn't one to criticise someone on their methods of violence, that doesn't mean he has to stand aside and allow this deranged killer to slaughter half his city. If he can pinpoint the pattern, he can pin down the elusive and illustriously sadistic killer. Unfortunately for Roy, she isn't slowing down, only gaining more and more momentum as the days slip through his fingers.

Granted, after a single near-fatal encounter with her, Roy knows there's no way he can stop her on his own, especially when he's not the only one hunting down the fourth horseman of the apocalypse.

Only the dead have seen the end of war. And Sloane is coming for everyone who has ever laid their hands on her.

. . . I'M WAITING FOR YOU.

SLOANE LIU   ╱   WAR.    ╱   ???

ROY HARPER ╱   ARSENAL.

JASON TODD   ╱   RED HOOD.

AMARANTHA MAVERICK   ╱   RAAVA.

ALSO STARRING . . .

MALACHI ╱   DEATH.

SETH ╱ FAMINE.

CAMELLIA ╱   PESTILLENCE.

FLOYD LAWTON ╱   DEADSHOT.

DICK GRAYSON   ╱   NIGHTWING.

JULIEN 'JJ' JONES   ╱   DEADPOINT.

SERGIO CASTELLO   ╱   CONQUEST.

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

⚖️ HI EVERYONE WELCOME TO THE NEW AND IMPROVED MODEL OF DEATHSTALKER!!!!! I am so excited to finally rewrite and revise this draft because - let's be honest - it wasn't the best version it could be from the get-go AND my writing style has changed considerably since I last worked on this fic! Anyway. Here are a comprehensive list of changes in this fic:

⚖️ 1. Sloane's metahuman experimentation/conversion is no longer sanctioned by a doomsday cult, but a corporation specialising in black-ops security. 2. Sloane and Roy have a little bit of an age gap here - Roy is 27/28, closer to his comic-accurate age. He is no longer based on the young justice version. 3. Sergio Castello is the CEO of Vigilare, the security firm. 4. Sloane's identity as east asian diaspora will be thrown into deeper tumult! let's see how this plays out :)

⚖️ yes deadshot. yes found family trope. yes murder dad n adoptive murder daughter.

⚖️ AND elysianfieId and i are doing a little crossover action down here! so go and check out Psychopomp, featuring her OC, amarantha maverick with jason todd as her love interest :)

⚖️ god bless bayports for making all my graphics AND inspiring this renaissance so! everyone flock to their page and flood her work with LOVE

DEATHSTALKER / METALBENDERS