Max_Striker

Appreciation Post

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to drop a quick thank you to all of you incredible folks supporting me here. Your support keeps this whole thing alive, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.

Huge shoutout to Smoking_ash12 and Chase Kirby—you two are absolute legends. Thanks for being so awesome!

We’re wrapping up this arc soon, and ...

Ch-36 The Journey Home

Earth-55: Watchtower Observation Deck, Earth Orbit — January 10, 2010, 7:23 AM

The first rays of sunlight crested Earth's horizon, bathing the Watchtower's observation deck in golden light. Raj stood at the railing, watching the slow rotation of the blue planet below. The rainbow equations beneath his skin had stabilized overnight, their flow more measured, more purpose...

Chapter 35 Daughter of the Unwritten

Earth-55, New York Dimensional Nexus Point – January 8, 2010, 10:17 AM

The dimensional breach closed behind them with a whisper rather than the thunderous crack that had announced their departure. Raj stumbled slightly, his rainbow-hued aura flickering like a candle in a draft before stabilizing. The twenty slots of his mental library had been taxed to their limits—so...

Chapter 34 A Light That Won't Forget

Earth-55, Stag Labs: Techno-virus Research Division | January 6, 2005, 3:17 AM

The lab was silent, sterile, and cold under the harsh white lights. Raj checked his watch—reality's final hour was ticking away.

"Are you sure about this?" Kiran whispered beside him, her smoky blue form rippling with anxiety. The white light pulsing through her body quickened, matchi...

Ch-33 That Which Death Forgot

Earth-55, STAR Labs Chrono-Stabilization Vault | January 8, 2010

The vault hummed with energy as Raj stood at the center of the platform, surrounded by concentric rings of prismatic light. Instruments—technological and mystical—monitored every facet of reality around them.

"How's it looking, Victor?" Raj asked, his voice steady despite the weight of their missio...

Chapter 32: The Right to Remake

Earth-55, STAR Labs | January 5, 2010

Victor Stone's mechanical eye whirred softly as he adjusted the holographic display. The billions of tiny lights trapped within Earth's boundaries flickered eerily across the observation room's walls. Each light represented a soul—unable to move on, unable to find peace.

"I've never seen anything like this," Victor said, his h...

Ch-31 The Plan

Earth-55 I S.T.A.R. Labs Underground Conference Hall | Jan 4, 2010; 1:20 P.M.

Raj nodded and raised one hand. A luminous lattice of golden light erupted from his fingertips, expanding outward to encircle the holographic Earth.

"I've used my Equation Insight to read the metaphysical laws governing this reality," he explained as the display shifted, r...

Ch-30 Last Sprint

Earth-55 I S.T.A.R. Labs Containment Chamber | Jan 4, 2010; 10:23 A.M.

The containment chamber beneath S.T.A.R. Labs held a sacred silence. The air was cold and sterile, making breath visible—though Barry Allen hadn't truly breathed in years.

Barry floated in stasis, his once vibrant red suit now dull and corrupted by thin black veins that pulsed with ancient male...

Ch-29 Quarantined Hope

Decon Entry

The decontamination chamber hissed with sterile mist as the airlock doors sealed behind them. Raj, Kiran, and Lieutenant Eliza Chen stood motionless beneath ultraviolet decontamination rays, their silhouettes cast in harsh, clinical blue. Eliza's face remained stoic, professional, but her eyes betrayed the weariness of someone who had performed these ritual co...

Ch-28 Light in the Ash

The wind howled through the shattered towers of Metropolis, but it wasn't natural. It was torn free by motion—by something moving too fast for the human eye to track.

Raj stepped into the storm's eye; his expression grim but determined.

Across the cratered street, the creature that had once been Barry Allen screeched toward him—skin charred black, crimson lightning flickering fr...

Ch-27  Kiran's Journey

Light has always followed me, even into the darkest places.

My name is Kiran Singh. I didn't start out as a hero. I was just a girl who loved following my parents around dusty ruins in the Delhi sun. Mom and Dad were archaeologists—the famous Vijay and Rani Singh—and I grew up watching them brush away centuries of dirt to uncover buried treasures.

I loved those quiet moments. Da...

Ch-26 Fallen Eclipse

The sky split open like a wound.

A swirling vortex of rainbow colors tore through reality, its edges crackling with dimensional energy. From within this prismatic gateway, a figure emerged---Raj descended through the portal with deliberate grace, a dark silhouette against the kaleidoscopic light. His feet touched cracked asphalt as the portal collapsed behind him with a thunderous snap th...

Ch-25 INTERLUDE-2

The Secret: Hinted

Raj hovered in the crimson haze of the Bleed, that membrane between realities pulsing like the heartbeat of creation itself. Before him sat Death of the Endless, pale and elegant upon her throne of living ebony, ankh gleaming at her throat.

He forced a wry grin and spoke in a self-assuring way. "Well, at least it's you I'm dealing with—not that ...

Ch-24 A Place Beyond Names

The Cosmic Consequence

Somewhere beyond time, in the space between heartbeats, Raj floated in meditation.

Not alive, not dead—existing in the liminal state Death had granted him as part of their bargain. His consciousness drifted like smoke through the crimson void of the Bleed, that strange membrane separating realities across the multiverse. Here, disconnected f...

Ch-23 No More Nexus

The Peace You Didn't Ask For

The streets of Metropolis gleamed in the morning sun—clean for the first time in decades. No trash, no blood stains, no scorch marks from the frequent battles between those once called heroes and villains. The Crime Syndicate's tags and territorial markers had been erased overnight, replaced by elegant geometric patterns that seemed to hum w...

Ch-22  The Throne of Fear

December 3, 2010 (Earth-3 Standard Time)

The World Watches

The city skylines of Earth-3 flickered as screens on buildings, phones, and devices everywhere were suddenly hijacked. Static gave way to a single figure standing in shadow, his silhouette illuminated from behind. The time was precisely 18:00, and across the world, people paused to witness w...

Ch-21 The Amazon’s Fall

October 7, 2037 – 00:37, The Hollow (Former Robinson Park, Gotham)

The Hollow's crystalline walls glowed with violet light. Each pulse from the Karam Reactor sent ripples across jagged quartz, painting the chamber in shifting rainbows. Nexus closed his eyes, letting the resonance vibrate in his bones.

"Three down," Harleen said, sliding a holo–tablet toward Luth...

Ch-20 The Karma Reactor

The Hollow - Former Robinson Park, Gotham; October 1, 2037 - 03:17 Local Time

Nexus descended through crystalline passages that spiraled beneath The Hollow. What had once been Robinson Park was now his sanctuary, but the true marvel lay ten miles below Earth's surface. The air grew warmer as he activated his Matter Phasing to pass through the final barrie...

Ch-19 Legion Reforged

Warehouse Twelve, Central City Industrial District
September 27, 2010 - 22:15 Local Time

Warehouse Twelve stood like a forgotten sentinel at the edge of Central City's industrial district. Dust gathered on empty crates and shadows claimed corners untouched by fading emergency lights.

Nexus arrived thirty minutes early, perched in the rafters unde...

Ch-18 Fractured Speed

"Running in circles."

Raj murmured from his perch atop a crumbling apartment building, his form invisible to all detection. Below, Johnny Quick completed another patrol, his crimson-yellow blur leaving scorched pavement in its wake.

The Dead Zone had once been called The Narrows - a working-class district where families-built lives in Gotham's industrial sh...

Ch-17 The Syndicate Doesn't Blink

EARTH-3: WEEK ONE - RECONNAISSANCE

Raj had spent seven days observing Earth-3 from the shadows, confirming what his research had warned—this world was everything he'd studied about, and worse.

The Crime Syndicate weren't just evil mirrors of the Justice League; they were tyrants who had broken the world's spirit.

Where his Earth had Batman, here ruled Owlman...

Ch-16 In the Shadow of Justice

Raj didn't scream.

The Bleed didn't allow for it.

No air. No breath.

Just motion, like being flung sideways through a half-finished painting.

Colors dripped off the frame. Light bled into sound.

Direction collapsed into meaning.

And through it all, something called out.

"Outsider..."

Not his name. Not Raj.

I...

Ch-15 INTERLUDE

Lex Luthor had one rule in life: Never be surprised.

That's why he had a failsafe AI, a magic ward, three kinds of Kryptonite, four universal scan satellites, and a coffee mug that could deflect bullets.

So yeah. Being surprised? Not part of the plan.

And yet—he was.

Cadmus facilities around the world? Falling apart one after the other. Clone pods? Gon...

Ch-14 Red Bloom

ABANDONED OBSERVATORY --- 08:08 EDT, OCTOBER 2

In the empty Observatory, screens flashed with red warning patterns. The AI system Jeevika appeared as a hologram over the central console.

[Multiple dangerous threats detected in Gotham, Metropolis, Star City, Paris, and Taipei,] she announced. [Pattern matches plant-based magical attacks.] 2025-05-18 11:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post