Viktor had just arrived in Nanda Parbat, He wanted to take advantage of the hot springs but he knew Ras and his diva-like qualities, so he went to report to the Demon. He found it amusing that whenever a member of the League saw him they would kneel before him. He finally made it to the doors of the throne room and stopped daydreaming. He had to take on the Heir persona. He took a breathe and stepped through the now opened doors.
He entered the throne room and was met with the sight of a smiling Ras, who sat upon his throne. He stopped in front of the throne and took a knee.
"Welcome back, my son. You have finished your task and have finally put your past behind you. The reports we have received from Southeast asia were promising. Go freshen up after your long journey, Talia will join us at dinner. I'm sure you would like to see Talia after such a long absence."
Viktor raised his head and gave a small smile, and nodded. He then left to get cleaned up. Ras watched his heir stalk out of the room. He doubted the boy noticed, he subconsciously moved like a predator on the hunt. He shook his thoughts away and ordered his servants to prepare a grand feast to celebrate the return of his new son. He was looking forward to hearing the tale of how he single handedly annihilated the slavers in that part of the world.
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Viktor had showered and changed and was walking to the the dining room when he sensed someone in the shadows. He stopped and spoke, "You have gotten better Love, but, so Have I. So did you miss me so much that you couldn't wait to see me at dinner?"
Talia stepped out of the shadows doing a very good job of hiding her true feelings but Viktor picked up on her annoyance and had sensed her killing intent leak out for an instant. Viktor turned his head to face her and gave her a smile. 'She is still as beautiful as she is deadly, not to mention crazy,' he thought. Talia played the part of embarrassed and flattered girl. 'She still needs to work on her acting, though.'
"It has been a year and you did not contact us once, I must say I am quite put out by you." She said in a fake pout.
"I apologize, love. I have made you feel unwanted when in reality I have not stopped thinking about you throughout my time away. I have dreamt of waking to you in my arms every night." He walked up to Talia and took her hands in his and kissed her palms. "In truth, I feared that if I were to hear your voice or see your face I would become to distracted to finish my mission. You do drive me to distraction, Love. There is a time and place for everything and unfortunately that was not the right time for me to have those thoughts."
He then moved his hands to her small waist and pressed her into him and leaned his head to her neck and hair. He then took a few liberties and squeezed her plump ass. "Your scent haunted me on those lonely nights. You probably think me a lovestruck fool. Allow me to escort you to the dining room, we do not want your father to be upset because you were stuck listening to me ramble." He presented his arm which she took and they continued to walk to the dining room in a comfortable silence.
"Gag... that was so saccharine that I'm glad i don't have teeth or you would have given me cavities, Chief." Cortana quipped telepathically.
"It's all part of the game, Cortana. Although, is that jealousy I hear in your voice? Scandalous." Viktor replied cheekily.
They had entered the dining room to see Ras sitting at the head of the table. "Ah, I was beginning to wonder where you were. I almost sent a search party. It seems absence does make the heart grow fonder." Ras said with a small smile.
Viktor gave a small smile in return and pulled the chair for Talia before taking his own. The trio had dinner and small talk. When they had finished the food the three went out to a veranda and sat at a small table and had after dinner drinks in private.
"Now that we have dined, regale us with stories of your adventures, my son." Ras stated before taking a sip of his wine.
Viktor told the two of how he had discovered the auction and raided it and killed all the wicked and spared the innocents. He told them of how he implemented the plan of turning the cartels against each other sowing discord among his enemies and freeing the slaves. He told of how he would strike and outsmart the Justice League and authorities. Ras and Talia were riveted by his storytelling
Viktor took a sip of his wine to build the drama because what he would say next would start the next phase of his plans.
"After a few months of just training and executing my missions, I realized I would need help to truly end the cartels. I couldn't use the League members because I didn't want even a remote chance of anyone catching wind of the Leagues involvement.
So I pondered my next step carefully but had come no closer to a viable solution. So I decided to go out and explore Bangkok. I toured the city like a harmless tourist and drank with other tourists and ate famous Bangkok restaurants and food stalls. This actually led me to my solution. I was walking the streets one night and was pulled into an alley to be robbed by some brazen locals.
Once I thought, we were out of sight, I eliminated them and decided to search the bodies to see if they were connected to any of the cartels. As I was searching the bodies, I heard a soft clap from one of the windows on the second floor. I was surprised, I made sure to check we were unseen. Before I could start to make my way up to kill the witness, he spoke.
He said his name is Morpheus, he said he was impressed with my skills and that I was the "one' he had been searching for. He later explained that had it not been for a breeze blowing the curtain out of his window he would have never seen me fight the 5 armed men. He said he worked for a syndicate and offered me an opportunity to join it if I could become the new champion in the underground fighting pits.
Since, I had nothing better to do and I had already decided to kill the man, there was no harm in humoring him for a few hours. I had been awhile since I had a good fight. He met me in the alley and helped me dispose of the bodies. He then asked about me. I gave him one of my false identities. It was one of a dishonorably discharged Special Forces operator. I figured, he would wonder why I was so good at killing and that identity would safeguard my true self.
He entered the information on his smartphone and verified my identity. I made it to the fighting pits and was forced to fight 30 men. At first it was one on one but then it was multiple attackers and when I had bested them all we were picked up and we went to a hotel. He said he was an assasin in a syndicate which specializes in espionage and assassinations. He offered me membership. I said I would think about it and get back to him in a few hours. He gave me a phone number and had me dropped off in front of the alley we first met. I researched him but was unable to find anything. I decided to join, to gather intel on this syndicate and to see if they worked for the cartels.
I joined their syndicate and was put through a background check and had my fighting capabilities assessed. After a few weeks, I was able to find out that this syndicate was also an enemy of the cartels. I placed a prepaid contract anonymously for a few of the cartel's bosses. On my next mission, I 'died' after having taken my target out. Thus, I had implicated this syndicate in the cartel wars and continued my mission until I had killed the man responsible for the death of my parents."
Ras and Talia were impressed with La Yamat's cunning and efficiency. Ras was somewhat concerned about this syndicate. The League needed to take out any future rivals. "What is the name of this syndicate?"
Viktor smirked inwardly, "It was a stupid name, they called themselves, The High Table."
Ras' eyes widened at the information. He had intituted a purge while La Yamat had been away. He had found a few spies but none were linked to The High Table. The spies he found were creatures of his counterparts in The Light. His heir had just given him the critical information he and his brethren in The Light needed.
He had had been made a fool by those upstarts with the Fog fiasco, Luthor had been implicated in the murder of the owner of Outer Haven Technologies. He had been found innocent due to his quick thinking and some disposable pawns but the detective had harrased him relentlessly in between hunting down those Ghosts of Gotham. It seems that Jackson Avery had been a close friend to the detective. Savage was upset that The Light's plans had been hampered and was hunting this syndicate down but had no luck. The others had similar drawbacks due to this unknown syndicate.
Ras narrowed his eyes at his heir, he wanted to verify the boy had not been corrupted by this unknown. What the League of Assasins did not know, was that as part of one of their mental trials, Ras actually implemented a failsafe command into their subconscious. This allowed him to put them in a trance like state that would force them to follow his commands. He of course didnt know Viktor was aware of this or that he was immune. He spoke his command phrase.
"You are a shadow, and all shadows obey their master."
Viktor heard Ras and relaxed his body and pretended to be in a trance and whispered, "Obey... master."
Ras was upset that he had to use his command phrase but he needed to know where the boy's loyalties lay. "Did you provide any information about the League to The High Table?"
"I did not provide any information about the League to The High Table." Viktor slurringly replied.
"Provide all information you gathered on The High Table."
Viktor slurred out the information slowly, meanwhile he and Cortana where inwardly laughing at how easy it had been to fool the old fossil.
Talia sat in her seat in shocked silence witnessing her father interrogate his heir using his secret failsafe. She was the only other person to know about the failsafe and how her father had mobilized all of his inner circle to hunt down The High Table for slighting her father.
"Talia you will be Heir, I give you permission to pursue the detective. La Yamat is not long for this world. He may not have given this syndicate any information but even if there is a slim chance of corruption, he must die.
We must sometimes cut off the limb or risk infecting the rest of the body. We will say that La Yamat had decided to challenge me for right to rule. He unfortunately died. Per his instructors, his healing factor is reduced greatly when he is unconscious." He then turned to Viktor and gave him his commands. "Sleep"
Viktor slumped down in his seat 'unconscious'. Ras turned to Talia and dismissed her. When he was alone with the unconscious boy, He rose from his seat and pushed Viktor's unconscious body back and placed his hands on the Viktor's neck ready to snap it.
Viktor had heard the exchange between father and daughter. He knew Ras would react this way so he had been prepared. When Ras put his hands on his head about to snap his neck the Shadow clone that had been hiding in Ras shadow stabbed him through the heart at Viktor's command
Ras was wondering why his vision started to darken, he looked down and noticed a blade coming out of his chest. He didnt get to wonder long because Viktor stood up and snapped his neck. Viktor was still holding Ras and used his Devour skill. Ras became a dark grey mist and was absorbed by Viktor.
When the process was done, he shapeshifted to an image of Ras and walked to Ras' chambers, where he was met by the guards outside. He gave them instructions to let everyone know he would be undergoing meditation and did not wish to be disturbed by anyone. The guards nodded and 'Ras' walked into his room and locked the door.
He walked towards Ras' personal hot spring and went to the fountain and found the secret switched which moved a nearby boulder. He had found this place previously while scouting places to kill Ras. He walked down the hidden stairs that had been under the boulder. He made it to the bottom of the stairs when he heard the boulder move back into place. He opened the door to secret chamber. He laid down on the bed in the corner of the room and finally relaxed himself waiting for the influx of memories to finish integrating. He soon passed out due to his brain trying to take in over 600 years of memories .
Viktor woke up to find his physique hadn't really changed. He had only gained over 600 years of combat experience and fighting skills. He was glad he had used Devour on the old man. He had to set a meeting with other members of The Light to provide the intel they now had on The High Table.
He moved over to the communication setup and met with The Light virtually. He informed them that he had obtained verified intel on The High Table and that they should all meet in person since the information was too sensitive to relay electronically even with their secure communications network. They all readily agreed to meet in two days time so they could coordinate and eridacate The High Table.
Viktor had cut the connection and had Cortana run multiple sweeps for any sort surveillance equipment. They had found nothing and Viktor shifted back to his usual self. He had to plan out his next objectives carefully otherwise he may lose his chance to capture his prey.
He made plans with Cortana while he trained his newfound combat skills. After half a day he was master level. In the beginning his form looked choppy and unsure but by the time he took a break his movements were graceful and efficient.
If it had been a fair fight, the old man would have kicked Viktor's ass. Viktor knew that brute force is trumped by skill. He knew he wouldn't have lost but it definitely would have been a tough fight.
'Ras' notified Talia he was going away for some time. She knew he was going to meet The Light. She didnt care much, since she was going to leave for Gotham soon after him to meet her beloved. Ras left her and started his journey to meet The Light in Bialya.
---HIDDEN BASE 50 MILES FROM BIALYAN BORDER---
Ras sat at his seat and was disappointed to learn that Ocean Master was not present as he had been disgraced a few weeks prior. He looked around the table and saw the other members present. Vandal Savage, Lex Luthor, Queen Bee, Brain and Monsieur Mallah, and Klarion the witch Boy with his familiar Teekle. Viktor had dispatched his Shadow Wraith clones and they had all infiltrated the target's shadows. Vandal Savage spoke. "Ras we are gathered, what information was so sensitive that we had to meet in person?"
'Ras' nodded at Vandal Savage. "My former heir had gone to exterminate a human trafficking cartel and incited the cartel wars. During his mission he came across some interesting intel" Ras then went on to explain the backstory. "Now that you know how the intel was received, I will tell you the newest intel. The syndicate is currently based out of Prague. It consists of 10 families and thousands of professionals in espionage and assassinations." He then went on to explain the system The High Table had established.
The group was shocked at how sophisticated the system that had been operating beneath their notice actually was. Ras looked around the table again and addressed them, "We now find ourselves with a choice, we can take a more diplomatic approach or we can annihilate them with our combined forces. I personally vote we kill them all but I will abide by this council's choice."
All of the members of The Light had huge egos and would not stand anyone mocking or challenging them so they voted for annihilation. They began to plan their assault. Ras had been waiting for the right moment to strike. His moment came when he saw that Teekle had finally separated from Klarion. In all honesty, he was most concerned about Klarion since he was the most powerful person in the room. Good thing he had prepared a weapon specifically for this opportunity.
--- 4 MONTHS AGO---
He and Cortana had brainstormed ways on taking out all the members of The Light. They had everything figured out except Klarion. He is an interdimensional entity that can't be killed. The were currently stuck and Viktor sure as hell wasnt going to use the Helmet of Fate. After Cortana had hacked the Justice League computer she had reached out to one of its members that was more mercenary in manner. She had been able to set up a meeting in a dingy pub.
Viktor was walking the London streets as a young Walter C. Donez from Hellsing. He found the pub and entered. As soon as he walked in he noticed everyone was staring at him and he raised one of his eyebrows and sent some of his killing intent. That was a surprise as well, turns out that killing intent is a thing. Its some sort of minor psychic ability that projects your intent to do harm. The more intimate with killing you are, the more vivid the psychic projection. After feeling a small portion of his intent, they all went back to minding their own business.
"Dont just stand there, bruv. Come over here and buy me a drink." John Constantine called over to 'Walter'.
Walter walked over and took the seat next to John at the bar. He ordered a whiskey neat and paid for John's next drink.
"Are we going somewhere private to go over the job offer?" Walter asked.
"No need, bruv. I just placed a little spell that gives us all the privacy we may need." John smugly stated.
"Very well, my employer would like for you to find a specific type of item. He is looking for any and all weapons that may cause harm to a Lord of Chaos. He ran afoul of one a few years ago and doesn't want to ever be that defenseless again. He knows that he can't posibly kill one but a well aimed magical weapon to their anchor may banish one. He stated that he is willing to trade or negotiate an acceptable price." Walter explained.
John stared the young man down. He knew something was up and the item he had requested was actually not difficult to obtain since Dr. Fate owed him one. He was just trying to figure out the angle here. The story was complete bullshit but he was curious as to why this mysterious third party wanted a weapon imbued by Order magic, since that was the bane of Lords of Chaos. He decided to just go for it and call the young man out.
"Yeah, the only thing I heard that is remotely true, is that your employer wants a magical weapon to banish a Lord of Chaos. The rest of that story was rubbish. So why does he really need it?" John cockily inquired.
Walter did not seem phased to have been seen through, he actually looked bored. "Yes, we knew you would be able to see through the ruse. Now as to why is such a weapon is needed? That's my employer's business, if you can't provide the item without needing a reason we will just look for someone else." Walter replied in a bored drawl.
John knew that what the young man had said was true, he also knew that the employer he kept referring to was rich. You can't just hire someone of this young man's caliber for peanuts. The young man let out a terrifying amount of killing intent when he entered the bar. "So whats the pay gonna be like, bruv?"
Walter sipped his whiskey and then answered back, "That depends, my employer has found quite a few books on magic and he simply has no magical ability so they are useless to him, but we have been asking around and found some are quite valuable. He is willing to let you pick 3 books and pay you $20k U.S."
John whistled, "Nice offer mate, but I would have to know which books are in his collection otherwise it may not be a fair trade." Before he could finish has comment Walter had placed a typed list of book titles. John was very intrigued by the collection. "Tell your boss, I'll take the job but I want all the books on this list and the 20k."
Walter just raised an eyebrow and gave him a disgusted look before sighing and pulling out his cellphone and sending a text. He received his reply.
"My employer's final offer is this, if you bring a weapon powerful enough to be able to kill the familiar of a Lord of Chaos within 3 months, he will gift you the books and pay you $100k US. Before you decide, I must inform you that my Employer values trust and loyalty greatly. If you do your job and do not try to backstab him he will reward you greatly. If you anger him...well, he has been known to eridacate those who have upset him, just look at the Southeast Asia cartel wars for an example. Do we have a deal Mr. Constantine?"
John was used to people assuming that he would double cross them and was used to intimidation tactics. What gave him pause is that the young man just admitted that his employer was responsible for the complete bloodbath that had occurred to the slavers in that part of the world. The man had started a massacre because he was angered by one person. He would have to let Bats know... after he made the deal. John slammed his beer, "You got yourself a deal, bruv. How will we stay in contact? And what do I call you?"
Walter handed him a burner phone. with one phone number programmed in. Then put on his coat, finished his whiskey in a sauve manner. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a silver cigarette case filled with expensive cigarillos. He saw Constantine eyeing them and he threw the case at him. "My name is Walter C. Donez. You may keep the case and those exquisite cigarillos as a sign on bonus." He took out a silver lighter and lit his cigarillo and took a puff. He exhaled the sweet smelling smoke and nodded at Constantine and left."
Two months later John called the phone and was given an address for a meet. He met at a very nice hotel penthouse and provided a dagger imbued with Dr. Fate's Order magic. Walter brought out two briefcases, one filled with old looking books and the other filled with cash.
---PRESENT---
Ras then picked up his glass of water and took a sip. At that moment, many things happened at once. All the clones struck at their targets. Teekle was stabbed through the head with the dagger before he could react. The familiar would normally be able to brush off mortal weapons but the special dagger did it's job. Klarion barely had enough time to yell out Teekle's name before he was forcefully banished to his realm. Vandal Savage was decapitated with a lightsaber Viktor had purchased from the shop on a whim. Queen Bee had barely been able to widen her eyes at seeing Vandal's head be removed before she was stabbed from the side through her armpit and into her heart. Luthor was stabbed through the neck. Brain was also lightsabered through the glass that protected his brain. Monsieur Malah was the only one to survive the initial attack due to his body structure but was quickly put down when the other clones attacked him after their initial kills.
Ras had to dodge a few stray bullets that Monsieur Malah had been able to get off before he was killed and dismembered. He then looked at the carnage and smiled. He was so pleased he started to laugh. Halfway through his laughing the image of Ras shifted to Viktor. Viktor stopped his laughing as soon as Cortana reminded him that still had business to attend to.
Viktor had his clones gather the bodies and had them piled up in one area. He walked over to the pile and put the bodies in his inventory. He then made his way outside and killed all the guards. He was going full Tecumseh Sherman and went with a scorched earth approach.
Once he had finished with the personnel, he found the base self destruct console because this was a cliche villain staple and started it up. He had his clones converge back into his shadow and he took a portal to his Montana safehouse. He undressed to just his underwear and dropped the dead body pile on the floor of the secret basement chamber. He put his hand on the pile and used his Devour ability. The bloodied pile became a thick grey mist and he inhaled it. He then quickly laid down on his cot and waited for the pain to kick in. He knew that his latest batch of victims would cause a painful evolution.
Just as he was starting to think that his evolution wasn't going to be painful his body was racked with pain. He started to convulse and foam from the mouth and was grateful when unconsciousness came.
--- 5 DAYS LATER---
Viktor awoke with a sore body and and realized he was covered in vomit and he was in a crater on the floor. He was not pleased. He slowly sat up and looked at the crater where the remains of his cot were located.
"Chief! you're finally awake. I am glad to see you're ok, its been 5 days since you stupidly devoured all those bodies at once. We had a close call there Chief. This evolution was particularly violent. I theorized it was due to having Devoured multiple beings at one time. Next time, you will absorb them one by one. Your convulsions were bad but when you add your uncontrolled super strength they become very bad.
I ran a scan once you became stable. You have a new ability and some of your abilities have been augmented. Your strength and durability have been augmented slightly. Your kryptonian abilities were already close to the apex the added augmentations from Monsieur Malah added just a little more. Your already enhanced brain has been enhanced once again, thanks to Luthor, Brain and Vandal Savage. Your healing factor had increased drastically. You are now on par with Deadpool. You obtained a pheromone ability from Queen Bee.
I highly suggest we put off the final phase of your plan for at least a period of a month so you can train your strength control and also learn to control your new pheromone ability. If you were to go out right now, you would more than likely cause a riot with people trying to sleep with you."
Viktor sighed at the new information. He also new he had to meditate to go through the new memories that he had obtained. He decided to take care of a few things before he completed his last task.
Viktor set a timed fire bomb on the now damaged safehouse. He used a portal to move to one of the last safe houses he owned. He showered, got a quick bite to eat and got dressed. He went to his bedroom and sat in a lotus position to meditate on the memories.
Viktor meditated for 5 days straight. He had reached a new level in meditation. He had now created a mind palace like he had seen on the show, Sherlock, back in his home universe. He had found that in his mind palace he could interact with Cortana. He stopped his meditation to buy a book on occlumency from The Potterverse. He read through the book quickly and used it's concepts to create his mind palace into a solar system with a Halo ring.
The two were pleasantly surprise by the turn of events and gotten to work on organizing his mind. Luthor had also given Viktor a boost to his eidetic memory. They designed his mind palace to resemble the UNSC Infinity. They went through all of the memories and destroyed the useless ones and kept all of the pertinent ones saved in the ships servers.
After designing the mind palace and reviewing and filing his own memories he moved on to review and file the memories of those beings he had Devoured. He had no problems with most of the memories and after reviewing them he had a better understanding of the abilities he had obtained. The ones he and Cortana had the most trouble with, were the memories of Ras Al Ghul and Vandal Savage. He had thought he had integrated Ras' memories but he had previously only accessed a small portion of them. The two men had been long lived and unfortunately he couldn't just search for their pertinent memories because their experiences had taught them so much. After the tedious task of reviewing and filing their memories, Cortana and Viktor respected the men's abilities as warriors, leaders and tacticians. They were also disgusted by most of the men's cruel and brutal memories.
Viktor came out of meditation mentally exhausted. He showered, ate and then decided to get some sleep before he got on with dealing with the fall out of killing the members of The Light.
Viktor woke up 24 hours later he started to train his control but thanks to his new mental prowess he was able to access the memories of Queen Bee and was able to gain mastery of his new pheromone ability in record time. He shifted to Queen Bee and took a portal to her palace. He dressed in something Queen Bee would have chosen and made an announcement to her people.
She stated that after much thought she would step down as monarch and would convert the country to republic democracy. She signed all the paperwork and then she took her helicopter to her estate in the mountains. She never made it because the Helicopter was blown up with a disintegration bomb.
Viktor had of coursed staged it and pinned the assassination on the hardliners of the government. He then shifted as Luthor and took his private plane from Bialya back to metropolis. once he arrived he went to his office and drafted a few things.
Once he received the replies he was expecting he called for a press conference. In the press conference held a few days later, he told the public he would be selling Luthor Corp. He stated that he had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and only had a few months left to live and that he would be selling his company to Wayne Tech and Outer Haven.
The next day he met Bruce Wayne and the new CEO of Outer Haven Dr. Pamela Isley. Tensions were high due to him being implicated in Jackson's plane crash but they finalized the sale. As the two CEOs were leaving he said that Jackson Avery was good man and he hoped that the two of them would continue to honor him by achieving his dream. The two gave hateful glares before they left.
Once he was alone Luthor smiled. Jackson left his company to Pamela and Victor Fries. He also left a notebook with all of his ideas on how to save or improve the world. Luthor then took his plane to his private island and used one of the clone bodies Luthor had created, to use as his corpse which he had prepared with an inoperable brain tumor. He left the corpse on the bed and took a portal to Vandal Savage's hideout.
He shifted into Vandal Savage and recalled all of his inner circle under the premise of a meeting for finalizing the plan for their assault on The High Table. He secured the room once all of the people had been gathered and slaughted them all. He Devoured Deathstroke and then set the base to self destruct after shutting off the warning alarm taking out a massive amount of Vandals forces.
He took a portal to Washington DC and stalked Amanda Waller for a few days. He followed her home and snuck in while she was away. He took a portal into her home one day, he shifted as Deathstroke and quickly killed her with silenced pistol. He had made sure security cameras caught the culprits identity. Cortana hacked into the system for the explosives in Task force X. He used them and killed everyone but Deadshot.
He had Cortana send Deadshot an email stating that this was his second chance, They had wiped his criminal record and had the courts grant him visitation with his daughter and if he got an honest job, a clean place to live and stayed out of trouble for a year he would be granted joint custody of his daughter. He took a portal to his safehouse to regroup and before tackling his remaining tasks.
Viktor just had three tasks left and he would be leaving the DC universe. He used his authority as Ras and located all his children. He hunted each all of the crazy ones down and killed and Devoured them but left Talia alone. Shifted to Ras and took a portal to a private League airfield and took a plane to Nanda Parbat.
He assembled his forces and gave a speech on how he and some of his children and some of his forces had attacked The High Table and annihilated them. He explained that he was the only survivor and then gave the whole of the League new tasking they were to now step up their espionage and information brokering and would go silent on assassinations for the foreseeable future and that all of them were to retrain and would not be allowed to leave until they had all mastered their skills.
He checked in on the bastards in the Maggot's Nest and found their corpses. He Devored them and left. He told his subordinates to continue his new plan and said he had other matters to attend to. He snuck into the Lazarus Pit and dumped some Basilisk poison he got from the shop into the waters which actually negated the effects of the Pit.
The following day he went to all of the Pits he knew of and did the same to all of them. After the last Pit was neutralized he took a portal to his safe house to rest. He woke up to a pleasant surprise, one of the items he had been searching for had finally been obtained. He had given up on it but he was glad Cortana hadn't because that meant he didn't have to postpone his departure.
Cortana had been scouring the various government and private company databases for what they knew to be Nth Metal. They had found some in a secret Egyptian military warehouse. It was pieces of a Thanagarian ship. The Egyptians had no clue what it was and had stored it as junk in one of their warehouses. Cortana had bought the junk and had it shipped to a warehouse in Spain. Viktor took a portal to Madrid. He arrived at the warehouse and inspected the pieces of the ships hull. Cortana verified the metal and he quickly put it in his inventory for later use.
He only had one task left and he would be leaving. He took a week off and partied in Ibiza and hooked up with some supermodels he had met at a club. After blowing off some steam he took a portal back to Gotham. He had Cortana track some very nasty people in the city. That night, he kidnapped all of his targets and decapitated them and put their heads on metal spikes and staged the spikes in a News station conference room. He had his clone paint a message on the wall and he called it a night.
The next day the newspapers and News stations were reporting on his previous night's activities. On the front page was a picture of the message he had his clone paint on the wall. "These wicked men did not heed our warnings. You may have feared The Batman before but you no longer do, so we will give the wicked a reason to fear us. sincerely, The Ghosts of Gotham." He didn't have a master plan in regards to the Ghosts, he just liked trolling Bruce. He knew he would be in his cave spinning his wheels. He and Cortana got a good laugh out of it. He just wanted to kill most of the people that he knew would never be redeemed and decided to spare the people of Gotham some pain in the future.
Viktor smirked at the image and then continued with his breakfast. He had Cortana search for Talia and found her in a mansion outside of the city. According to Cortana, Talia had tried to woo Bruce once again but he was currently involved with Catwoman. She had apparently stopped thieving in Gotham, thanks to the Ghosts. Talia was not taking it well and was planning to kill Selina. Viktor shook his head in disappointment, looks like no Damian Wayne but Helena Wayne in this universe.
Viktor made sure all the items he wanted to take to his new world were packed. He shifted to John wick and created a video message to the Justice League that would be sent before he left this universe. He prepared himself and dressed in his personal League of Assasins armor. and took a portal to Talia's mansion.
Viktor came our of the portal and had Cortana take care of rhe surveillance system. He then silently killed all of the guards on the premises when he verified that only Talia was left he shadow walked to her location. It was time for him to break his engagement.
Talia Al Ghul was not a happy woman. Her father had finally named her heir and given his permission for her to pursue her beloved but when she arrived in Gotham her world came crashing down. Her beloved was with another woman. Her name was Selina Kyle, Catwoman. That thieving cat had stolen her love. She had confronted him and he had rejected her. She would make that cat suffer. She would find if there was more than one way to skin a cat. Talia was so lost in her anger she had not noticed a dark figure materialize behind her.
Viktor took one look at Talia and realized she had finally gone off the deep end. He was planning to have one final conversation with her but after seeing her, he decided it would be pointless. He silently unsheathed Ras Al Ghul's sword and walked up behind her then thrust it into her back and right into her heart.
He heard her gasp in surprise. He twisted the blade before pulling it out of the now quickly cooling corpse of Talia Al Ghul. He caught her body before she fell to the ground and Devoured her.
Viktor wiped the blade clean then put it back in his inventory. He took a portal to his safe house. He had Cortana send the video message to the Justice League. Soon after, he had her contact The Creator to ask her how they could leave the Universe.
A portal was opened in front of him, He grinned and walked through it to start the next part of his adventure.
--- 3 HOURS LATER---
The Justice League had been called to an emergency meeting. All of the heroes had arrived and were waiting to find out the reason for the meeting.
Batman stood and stepped to the side so all could see the big screen. "3 hours ago a video message was received on the League's private system. Please hold all question until the end. Victor play the message. Victor aka Cyborg queued the video. On the screen was a bearded man in a black suit. He had long hair and a started to speak.
"This message is to the Justice League. You may refer to me as John Wick. I represent The High Table. We are sending you this message because your group needs a wake up call. We normally abhor getting involved in your affairs but your constant fumbling has annoyed us greatly. Recently, a group of your arch enemies joined hands in order to put a stop to your actions.
As I previously stated, we do not like to get involved but their plans jeopardize all of this worlds inhabitants and your groups ineptitude was so glaringly obvious that we had to take action. The group that had formed to oppose you dubbed themselves The Light. The group consisted of Klarion the witchboy, Ocean Master, Ras Al Ghul, Vandal Savage, Queen Bee, Brain, and Lex Luthor. They had kidnapped one of your people, Red Arrow and replaced him with a mind control clone. He infiltrated the Justice League and provided them intel. The real Red Arrow is currently being held in a lab somewhere.
The group had also created clones of both Superman and Supergirl. We were able to eliminate the crazed Supergirl clone and your proteges liberated the Superman clone. The Superman clone has a mental failsafe that is triggered with the phrase, Red Sun. The group also had dealings with extraterrestrials. We are not a xenophobic group so we were not concerned with the fact they are extraterrestrial but we were concerned that they did not have Earth's best interests at heart.
We like things as they are so we enacted a counter strategy. We have assinated Queen Bee, Vandal Savage, Lex Luthor, and Brain. We unfortunately let Ras slip through our fingers and Ocean Master aka Orm Marius is still at large. Klarion's anchor in the form of his cat Teekle was destroyed and he was banished.
This is your only warning Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Barry Allen, Diana Prince aka Diana of Themiscyra, and Victor Stone. We know all of your identities. We don't care about you or your loved ones. We have known your identities for quite some time. This is not a threat but a warning, as the founders of the Justice League, you have taken the responsibility to safeguard this world. If that is what you want then, DO. YOUR. JOBS. PROPERLY.
Let the authorities do theirs and stop concerning yourselves with small matters and focus on the big ones. We have heard rumblings of extraterrestrials planning an invasion of our world. Deal with it. This will hopefully be the last time you hear from us." The video then cut out.
The League was shaken. An unknown group knew all of their identities and of their loved ones. Now they not only had to worry about this unknown group but had been told about a possible alien invasion. The silence was soon broken and the meeting became chaos.
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Viktor found himself coming out of the portal on the roof top of a house in the middle of the night in a small city. "Cortana, Scan this world and hack into this worlds computer system to set us up."
"I am currently, hacking this worlds crude internet but after The Creator updated us, I lost the ability to scan Worlds and identify the current universe. Sorry Chief. Hacking is complete, we are located in a small city in Japan called Karakura town. It is east of Tokyo. Do you know where we are?"
Just as Viktor was going to answer Cortana's question they heard a loud bestial roar and saw a giant chameleon creature with a bone mask on the roof of the house opposite of them. Viktor clicked his tongue in annoyance. "Not even here 5 minutes and already have a headache."
The creature shot its tongue out towards Viktor. He sidestepped the tongue with ease and grabbed it and used his super strength to throw the creature towards an empty construction site. He then dashed of the roof to finish the creature off.
Viktor had roof jumped until he made one last jump and landed in front of the dazed creature. The creature shook off its daze and roared one more time before shooting it's tongue out one more time. Viktor dodged again and dashed until he was in front of the creature. He wound his fist back and used all of his super strength to punch the bone mask. You could say it was his 'serious punch'.
A loud boom was heard and the air pressure from the punch created a dust storm. when the the dust settled the image of a 19 year old young man with an extended fist on the creatures mask could be seen.
The sound of cracking ceramic could be heard. The creatures mask started to crack starting from the impact site of the punch. The cracks traveled through the mask until it was completely cracked and started to break off. Viktor and Cortana were surprised, he used his full strength and he had barely been able to break the mask.
The creature disintegrated and became motes of light. Viktor frowned towards his fist. He soon heard a cough behind him.
"Uhm..excuse me, stranger-san, but how were you able to do that in your mortal body?"
Viktor turned around and was greeted by the sight of a blonde haired man in a green kimono top, black haori, green shin length pants and wooden sandals. He was curremtly spinning a cane in his hand. Viktor raised his eyes and saw the signature bucket hat and knew exactly where he was and who he was looking at. He was in the Bleach universe and He was looking at Mr. Hat and Clogs himself, Urahars Kisuke.
Viktor grinned and decided to troll the troll prince himself. "Well that is quite easy really it's... a s.e.c.r.e.t."