Watchtower
Things were running smoothly amongst the adult heroes that milled about, some were talking amongst themselves about how things were doing in their part of the world, while others were either just arriving or leaving the tower.
From the entrance to the airlock bay from where heroes that flew on their own were able to enter the watchtower, a man in armor flew in from space, earning a few curious stares from the various heroes of Earth.
One such hero that was in the general room was Wonder Woman, as she turned to look over her shoulder whilst she was conversing with Green Arrow at the moment; Green Arrow himself was still mentoring Speedy before the teen would go off on his own.
Oliver himself had one other sidekick that still needed her skills with the bow to be fine tuned, before she could go off on her own, but she was his daughter and Oliver was still feeling hesitant on it; but Dinah has been insisting that he's been too much of a worry wart, something about being one of those 'fathers' that worried too much.
Back with Wonder Woman on the other hand, the young Goddess turned fully to fixate her attention on the man in armor that flew in from space without a spaceship; she noticed key patterns and way the man was dressed in his armor, it leaned very heavily on how the romans dressed their warriors back in the old days of mankind.
The man himself stepped in through the the airlock once it was done decompressing, and allowed the man in whilst he lifted his helmet off to allow his whole face to be seen, showing off his auburn hair that draped past his ears; his eyes roamed the crowd of heroes, before his eyes landed on Wonder Woman.
"Apollo?" Wonder Woman spoke up, before the two of them walked towards each other, Wonder Woman at a more relaxed pace while Apollo raced towards her at a stiff walk. "What brings you here?" she asked, "Mother spoke of you as watching over your sister's domain territory on the moon."
While a few gods have indeed domain over the moon itself, it was eventually agreed upon to be shared amongst the various pantheons of Gods the Earth cradled. Afterall, the Earth itself was more lush with life and green, whilst the moon was just a rocky surface.
As Apollo approached Wonder Woman, he stood straight with an alarm written all over his face, "Trouble. Diana." He answered, prompting her to frown in concern, "A great chaotic evil has come back from the dead on Earth. I came to warn and ask help to dispatch this…this fiend that has made his temporary home on Earth!"
The more distressed the god seemed, the more attention he gained from the other heroes, but none said anything. Wonder Woman looked worryingly at Apollo's face, this was the second time she's interacted with the god. Ever since she left Themyscira, she had traveled the globe to see what Greek Gods were still around among the humans.
Unsurprisingly, Zeus lived in Greece, not surprisingly, the old man was still a womanizer.
Who knows how many more demigods he's sired over the centuries.
Of course, there were the Norse and Celtic gods, but they of course stuck to their own countries of origins; then you had the Hindu and Japanese gods, Wonder Woman was more than shocked to know beyond her own backyard of Gods, that the Earth had so many pantheons of Deities when she was but a little girl.
Wonder Woman expressed worry over what Apollo was insinuating, "Whatever do you mean? When did you catch wind of this…revived evil?" she questioned, while raising her hand up to make a placating gesture for him to calm down. "Do you know the current location of this fiend?" she followed up with.
Already, a crowd was starting to stir amongst the heroes. Apollo gave Wonder Woman a nod, before he answered her with an angered look, "Bastard landed on the moon, I saw him with my own eyes! Then he headed back to earth after he dropped some gods forsaken alien ship on my sister's part of the moon!"
Apollo then pointed at the windows where one could see the Earth, and its Americas in their nighttime phase of the planet's rotation, "He drops a damn ship, doesn't even recognize me, when he knows damn well what he did to me and my eye and my sister, then he leaves for the East Coast of that North American continent!" he seethes in anger.
At that point, Green Arrow decides to interject as he walks up beside Wonder Woman and speaks with a confused look, "Wait, if this great chaotic evil is so…bad, then I'm confused here. These actions seem less evil, and more…I don't know, random?" he shrugged, before correcting himself, "The dropping of the ship part that is…"
Apollo shook his head and palmed his face, while Wonder Woman spoke with an urgent tone, "You still haven't said this being's name." she pointed out.
Apollo wiped his palm off from his face, and looked at Wonder Woman with an angered look, but not at her in particular, "His name is Buu, surely your mother spoke about this evil bastard in her teachings with you!?" he asked.
While most of the heroes were confused, not familiar with the name, Wonder Woman was; she however looked confused now, and lifted a brow, "Excuse me…but, did I just hear you say, Buu? As in Majin Buu? Pink little alien kid? Has holes in his arms? Has an antenna on the top of his head?" She fired descriptions of the very same Majin Buu she interfered to stop from destroying Hecate's body.
She wanted to express a flat look of disbelief, but Apollo seemed to have a bitter history with Buu.
Then again…Wonder Woman did leave Themyscira before she truly studied her people's history, she grew up wanting to see man's world, to see if man was still the same since ancient times.
Apollo expressed some surprise, "Yes!" he stepped forward and placed his hand on Wonder Woman's shoulder, "And we have not a moment to lose! The Earth and its people are in danger!"
Wonder Woman however was not sure if what Apollo was saying was true, as she palmed his wrist, "Are you sure? The very same Buu, who has spent over a month in Jump city?" she narrowed her eyes in confusion, causing Apollo to jerk her hand off from her shoulder in surprise.
"...He's been on Earth longer than I realized!?" Apollo questioned, as he stepped back with worry.
Before either of the two, or even Green Arrow could retort a word out, another voice interjected.
Stepping into the general room, with some heroes parting ways to give him room to walk through, Batman spoke, "Why don't we take this to a better room than this, then we can decide whether this Buu of yours and the Buu of now is a danger to the Earth." he suggested with authority in his voice.
Batman
Typing away into one of the Watchtower's main computers, Batman was in the midst of cataloging a few heroes on earth, as well as any possible sidekicks they stationed with them; America had plenty of heroes itself, but that did not mean the rest of the world and its continents were not without their own.
At present, he was cataloging one of Russia's own heroes
Red Star. His civilian name is Leonid Constantinovitch Kovar, his past involved his own government's plan of making Super soldiers; not a big surprise, governments around the world wanted such an idea to become reality, but they always panned out not the way they wanted.
Red Star however was able to leave the program under voluntary exile to an abandoned Siberian nuclear power plant; the teen's own body radiated radioactive energy as a side effect of his superhuman abilities the government failed program bestowed upon him.
While Batman was listing Red Star as a danger to civilian lives, due to the passive radioactive field the teen possessed, an alert icon brought Batman's attention to one of the other screens that showed some activity over on the moon.
Narrowing his eyes a tad bit in suspicion, he tapped a few buttons to bring the footage to the bigger screen, and allow him to see none other than that Majin Buu from Jump City, carrying with him the massive alien ship that chased after a previous ship that Buu had turned into chocolate filled with caramel.
It wasn't hard for the Watchtower to receive live news coverage around the world, so having one of the screens show Batman the absurdity, was something Bruce himself never imagined to see in his life.
He can only assume that Buu was planning on cleaning his mess, Batman was pretty sure the children of Jump City were begging their parents to leave their homes just to partake of all that caramel chocolate and marshmallow mess; already, there was footage of people out in the streets wading through the sugary stuff, and collecting it all into jars.
People were even seen climbing over the broken pieces of chocolate that was once the ship, and yanking off chocolate bits to eat with the caramel. The Jump City news was all over not just the alien invasion, but the aftermath as well.
At the very least, Robin and the other hero prospects that helped fend off the aliens, handled the situation just fine without adult hero help.
But now here was Buu was again, taking with him the other ship to the moon, before promptly depositing it on the surface.
Batman clicked a few more buttons to zoom in, and there he saw some man in Roman looking armor confronting Buu, before Buu himself promptly 'teleported' away from sight; not but a minute later, that same greek or roman man leapt off from the moon and headed straight in the direction of the watchtower.
Whatever that man and Buu said between each other, was unknown to Batman; but what he did know was the man looked scared at first before he gave Buu an angered look in their brief conversation.
Pushing himself back away from the desk, Batman sat up from his chair to leave the room. Something told him he needed to get to the bottom of this, and his gut reason never failed him before.
While Batman walked into the general room where most heroes converged, he kept his ears open as he listened in the background of Wonder Woman's and Apollo's conversation; after hearing enough how Buu was a danger to the Earth itself, Batman needed to get to the bottom of who Buu really is if he truly was a threat.
"Why don't we take this to a better room than this, then we can decide whether this Buu of yours and the Buu of now is a danger to the Earth." Batman let his voice carry out as he hollered over to Wonder Woman and Apollo, earning both of their attention.
After he suggested that they take this matter to a better location, he was now in a room occupied by the original founding members of the Justice League. John was unfortunately not present in the meeting.
From what John told Batman, an urgent request from Oa called his ring to return to the Green Lantern's corp world, not but an hour after he requested information about Buu's species after the Hecate incident.
This fact made Batman uncertain and wary of Majin Buu, but getting a full answer from Buu himself would be met with a dead end probably; Buu himself within Star Lab's records, has gone on to say he does not remember his old life before he woke up.
At the very least, this Majin Buu right now that exists, teetered towards moral good, not some chaotic creature of destruction that Apollo had raved about.
Something must have happened to the old Buu to cause the new Buu to exist, or else Jump City really was in danger, as well as the Earth.
Around the table, everyone stood, as Apollo leaned against the table with his hands pressed down against it, "We mustn't waste any more time!" He declared, a mad look crossed his single eye as he gazed over at Superman, "You, you've dealt with Darkseid, right!? Surely you can kill Majin Buu once and for all!"
Superman however hardened his gaze back at Apollo, "Now just hang on, just cause I fought Darkseid, doesn't mean anything! And Besides, I'm not going after this Majin Buu, just because you say he's evil." he reasoned.
Batman couldn't help but silently agree with him, the last thing they needed was to provoke Majin Buu, if he really was this evil. Batman then spoke up to add in his own two cents, "Apollo, while your claims of the past may hold credence, that doesn't help with the fact that over the month since Majin Buu has been awake, he has yet to destroy anything."
Apollo grumbled a bit, before he slammed his fist against the table, and glared at Batman, "I don't care! He killed my sister Artemis, alongside many others across the pantheons!" he decried, "That fiend needs to be erased before the Earth is destroyed! You weren't there to see it all happen!"
Martian Manhunter spoke with an ever calm tone as he stared directly over at Batman, "Batman, what have you been able to gather on this Majin Buu? Perhaps you should share with us what you researched about his activities for the past month?" he requested.
Batman gave J'onn a passing glance, either he read his mind, or knew him too well, Batman betted on a little bit of both, before he gave everyone a passing gaze, "Ever since the Hecate incident over in the Himalayas-"
"Hecate what now!?" Apollo sputtered in surprise, "She's free as well!?" he yelled with wide eyes of shock.
A second of silence passed, before Batman continued where he left off with a slight glare at the god, "As I was saying, ever since the Hecate incident that involved her and Buu fighting in the mountains, I've looked into Majin Buu's activities on Earth."
Batman reached into his belt and pulled out a remote to activate the monitors at the far end of the room, turning on the screens to show all the data Batman gathered over the hours on Majin Buu. "So far, the Majin Buu that exists now on Earth in Jump City, has yet to commit any major crimes. And besides his own break out of the Star Lab's city, he's been living rather peacefully with one of the Lab's scientists known as Catherine Hallow."
Batman as well as everyone looked back over at Apollo, and saw the man look bewildered and confused at the same time, "And not but shortly ago, I witnessed news reports of him helping the new heroes of Jump City defend the city from alien invaders. This brings conflicting information between the Buu you know of, and Buu we have existing now." he announced, keeping his voice clear and concise.
More videos were soon pulled up by Batman to show live footage of ongoing help the city was getting from the damage done by the aliens, to be more precise, all the mess of that caramel and chocolate that was being eaten up by the more adventurous locals of the city. "...I will have to ask, did the old Buu you know turn stuff in candy as well?" Batman curiously asked Apollo, as he turned to gaze at the God.
Apollo now looked ready to wilt and collapse, uncertain how to understand what was going on. The man grunted in anger with a sneer, and pulled himself a seat to sit down in, and plop down in it to rest his forehead into his palms, "This doesn't add up! That's not Majin Buu! Majin Buu doesn't 'help' people! He either kills, maims, turns them into candy, or absorbs them!" He lifted his head out from his palms and pointed angeryly at the monitors, "Whatever that thing is, it has to be playing fake or something to lower our guards. It has always been a game to that fiend!"
Superman spoke up, while he expressed a concerned look, "Listen," he began to see as he uncrossed his arms and gave Apollo a placating gesture, "Perhaps you're right, and this is the same Buu that accosted you and your pantheon, but we can't just have you or anyone else down there and attack Buu without provocation. It wouldn't be right."
Apollo however still kept his glare up, while he stood back up after he calmed down from his daze of seeing the absurd information about the current Buu on Earth, "Fine. but don't say I didn't warn you, when he starts transforming people into food." he retorted, before he stormed his way out.
Batman watched the God leave, while seeing Wonder Woman give him an apologetic look as they traded glances, before Apollo fully left the room.
Flash suddenly spoke up after keeping quiet the whole time as he leaned back in his chair, "So, you think that little guy can turn stuff into pizza for me?" he asked, earning everyone's attention at Flash's random question, while he expressed an amused grin.
"What?" Flash asked as he looked around at everyone, an innocent look crossing his features, "He seems like an alright guy from what Bats showed, and I'm kinda hungry for some Hawaiian Pizza."
While Hawkwoman shook her head at Flash's behavior, Superman spoke up with a concerned look as he gave everyone a passing glance, "I say we just keep an eye on Jump City, just for the sake of it." he offered with a shrug.
Batman spoke next with a frank tone, "I'm sure those new teen heroes down there would appreciate us not intervening, they handled the mess just fine as their first team exercise."
Flash however smirked as he leaned forward in his chair, "Aw, you're just saying that cause Robin's there."
Batman didn't acknowledge Flash's teasing, but he did agree to some extent, "Regardless." Batman spoke after Flash, making him frown at not getting a reaction out of him, "I have information on Jump City, it would be good that those teens in Jump City become a team. Various groups have been building up there, as well as a few others are soon converging there. It'll be a hotbed of activity within the coming months."
Superman chimed in as he looked at Batman, "Do you think we should offer them resources to build a headquarters for them, as a congratulatory award?"
Batman spoke back as he shook his head, "No." He answered, before he turned around and took his leave, "If Robin asks, and that's an if, I'll see what I can do."
"...Oh right…I forgot you funded this watchtower…" Flash spoke up with a smarmy tone of realization.
Batman however continued walking off into the hallway to head back home in his bat spaceship. Dick was more than welcome to ask, but knowing how hard headed the boy wanted to grow on his own, he'd more than likely either ask Victor Stone's father for help with the recourse, or if possible, Majin Buu and his magic ability might come into play.
One of the three would come into play to grant those teens a headquarters.
Jump City
Trogaar gasped for air as he pulled himself up onto a rocky shore, he coughed out water from his lungs and grinned in triumph; Nth metal did wonders in healing his injuries, and now he just had to find a spaceship or something to get him off this rock.
As Trogaar continued to pull himself up into the rocky shore, out past the city limits where the city was viewable in the distance, the once captain of his own ship soon found a foot slammed into his hand, a familiar one at that.
Trogaar's heart felt like it dropped to his stomach, as he slowly looked up. There stood the very pink menace that kicked him out of his own ship, "...mercy?" he rasped out.
The pink alien however frowned, and leaned down and peered into his face with a listless gaze, "Buu unsure, did lizard alien man grant others mercy?" he shot back, making Trogaar whimper with despair, "Buu only came and hunted lizard alien down, Buu wants Nth armor." the pink alien declared, not demanded, declared.
Before Trogaar could speak any further, his vision was pink energy, before darkness took hold of him, and then knew no more.
Majin Buu
Looking down at the gumball that I turned the Gordanian captain into, I picked it up and pocketed it, before I looked at the Nth armor I held in my other hand. If possible, I would probably need to absorb this armor, to understand and be able to turn other stuff into Nth metal with magic.
This was one of the reasons I tracked down the Godanian captain's lifeforce, the other reason was so I didn't leave him to go play tattletale to other evil alien races. I almost forgot about him after I went back to Catherine's home, but then she started watching the news that covered the alien invasion of Jump City.
There was also that massive river of caramel that was still slowly flowing down the streets towards the river, something I should address as well.