DC: New Age Volume I IC Thread

[trustyside-kick]

The door opens, a door Owen never even saw before because all he can see around him are windows, and a man in a suit steps in. The door behind he shuts, and Owen just turns his head to the side.

"Your food is getting cold. And your water...is just sitting there. Don't you want a drink?"

"...Not right now."

The man looks over to his side at the mirror-wall, as if he could see his colleagues on the other side, and merely shrugs his shoulders. He takes off his coat, and unstraps the holsters of his guns, and walks over to this small table in the room. He takes a seat, and faces Owen.

"You know, the last time we saw one of your...people, was about 17 years or so. That's quite some time, isn't it?"

"I suppose."

"You suppose? That's 17 years, entirely cut off from the world, kid. So, you wanna tell me why you are sporting the orange and green? That's a pretty symbolic style there, kid. Used to be a hero who roamed the oceans claiming to be the King of Atlantis."

"He is the King."

"Oh. So you know him."

The man gets up from the chair, and walks over to Owen, kneeling down. His colleagues on the other side of the double-sided mirrors turn to each other, and one of them runs over to the phone.

"Get me a few guards, just in case."

"What the hell is he doing?"

The assistant hangs up the phone, and turns to her colleague.

"I have no idea."

Owen looks at the men before him, and tries to slide back across the floor a bit, trying to keep his eye off the man. But the man just keeps staring at him, and smiles.

"My wager is, with you wearing those colors...he's your pap, isn't he?"

"Pap?"

"You know. Dad. Father. Man who will do anything to make sure you're safe. Your pap."

"Oh..."

Owens eyes drift away again and his facial express changes. A lightbulb must be over the mans head right now, because he sure has something on his mind he just realized.

"...He doesn't know you're out here, does he?"

Owen doesn't answer him.

"Good."

The man gets up, walks over to the desk and straps back on his gun holsters. He then puts his jacket back on, and heads for the door. As he turns the nob, he turns back at Owen for a second.

"The name's Dwayne. I'll catch you later, son."

He steps through the door, and the door closes. Owen just sits there, now looking at the glass of water up on the table.

 

[Karem-Knight]

Outside the Earth's atmosphere:

Some might say that the "Age of Hope" ended on D-Day, the day Darkseid helped kill millions of men,woman and children. It was on that day that Superman vanished, the government was quick to blame him and his allies, it helped bring the "Age of Darkness." People who were, or had been costumed or meta human beings, were either forced to give up their activities, join the AVA, or be imprisoned...or even murdered.

For twenty years, the word "hero" was now a myth, something that no one would ever hear for decades, stories of "Superman", Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash......all myths, distant legends that parents would tell their children, and even then the child wouldn't believe them.

That was twenty years ago....

Clark Kent,Kal-El, the Man of Steel, The Las Son of Krypton, he had many names that people have called him, but the one he was more famously known for was Superman.

Floating, but balanced in the cold and bleak reaches of space. I'm reminded of how this was my home for those twenty long years, not only did I know that it was the same up here as it was down there.....cold......and bleak.

Those two things, we've had enough of and I for one could not bare it any longer then I did. It was a dark time for everyone of us, but now I look down on my home planet.

The "Age of Hope" was what it was called, when me, Bruce, Dinah were "leaders", helping save the world dozens of times...over and over. We never backed down not once, I realize the mistake I made, but no matter our mistakes we must live by them, and learn from them....no matter what.

This Earth has lost it's "Age of Hope" and over shadowed by, the "Age of Darkness..." the government controls everything, even our hopes and dreams turning and shaping them into nightmares, where once we battled supervillians....we now battle our own allies, but we have to still fight the good fight.

Is the "Age of Hope" over? Yes. But what about the "Age of Darkness", can that end aswell? My view it already has.......

Batman now roams the streets of Gotham City, like he once did, a new Flash on the horizon, the Green Lantern Corps now coming back to Earth, Arthur's new son a new Aquaman? And even my son, Christopher....maybe there will be another Kent wearing the famed "S" sheild....all coming back to our Earth.

He flew down to the Earth, calm and relaxed and smiling.

So, I finally fly down to the world....

And think about all the wonders, mysteries and hope...of this New Age.............