M's Premonition

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M's Premonition is a short special set within a DC universe. It follows the rise of a new conqueror who has his sights set for Earth.
==Story==
The little Korean girl stood on the sidewalk mouth agape. The streets of Central City were left deserted in the wake of an unknown creature save for this one little girl. 
The creature appeared to have a mostly humanoid figure. However, upon looking at the creature’s face, the girl saw that he was anything but human. The creature had brownish-pale, reptilian skin with demon red eyes and a sinister grin. To go along with that, the creature also had highly flexible claws for hands and feet as well as a retractable tail. And finally, the unknown beast wore a black cloak & hood.
So this is it thought the little girl. She was face-to-face with a very powerful, evil metahuman all alone. She began to whimper, trying as hard as she could to stay strong and not cry.
However, the creature stooped down to her level, furthering the girl’s immediate anxiety. He looked her in the eye and said, “You’re quite a young one, aren’t you?” The girl quivered and tried her best to hold back the stinging tears in her eyes. His grin grew into a smile, showing off his razor-sharp teeth. 
As a stray tear escaped from her eye and began its descent down her left cheek, the creature continued, “Are you familiar with this polis’ champion?”
“What is that?” she asked intermittently. The unknown beast lifted one of his fingers to wipe away the tear while also scraping down the side of her cheek; leaving a small trail of blood on the little girl’s face. She tried her best to stay strong as long as she could, but her best wasn’t enough as she broke down into tears. 
Coinciding with her episode of wailing, the creature licked the blood he collected from the girl’s cheek and scrounged his face as if he was taste-testing an apple pie. 
“The overwhelming majority of people on this planet are so weak and feeble,” he uttered. “Had they not have had their outliers to protect them, they would’ve been obliterated ages ago.”
“Not all of us are weak,” the girl said in an erratic manner. “There are some strong enough to take evil monsters like you down.” 
“Like who?”
“...the Flash.” 
At a moment’s notice, the scarlet speedster rushed into the area to evacuate the girl out of the city and into safety before rushing back into the city. 
As Barry ran back toward the city, he charged an incredible amount of electricity to destroy the man who laid waste to Central City. Once he came upon the aggressor, the speedster delivered his mass punch into the face of the unknown; launching him back through several buildings, seemingly killing him.
‘What now?’ Barry thought. The city was very much in ruins, tens of thousands of people were dead, and Cisco, Ralph, and Caitlin were all unable to stop it. They were probably dead too, he reasoned. The speedster deplored himself for leaving the city out of his protection for a week-long vacation at a resort in Tokyo, Japan with his wife. She was still there.
Rumblings. That was what Barry felt a few moments after punching the unknown hellion into oblivion. The foreign man burst out of the spot he was made into and flew high into the sky. He looked down at the Flash and then made his sharp descent toward the speedster. 
He slowed his descent enough to not harm Barry upon touching the ground, but the sparky speedster was still taken aback, nonetheless. 
The unknown creature wiped his blood off his face and gave off a husky laugh. That was what he was looking for this whole time. A worthy opponent to satisfy his hunger for a fun challenge. 
“Is this some type of sick joke to you?” Barry asked.
“No, not a joke,” the man replied. “But it is indeed entertainment.”
“Entertainment to kill thousands of people and lay waste to whatever is around you? You’re a psychopath.”
“No, I’m a conqueror. Conquerors seek to expand their range of power. I simply trample the weak and negotiate with the capable. And you, as well as a select few others on this planet, fit into the category of the capable.”
“What did you do to the people who tried to stop you!?” Barry yelled.
“I put them down. I tried to make a deal with them and they responded by shooting a whole manner of different things at me. Bullets, ice, and energy just to name the main ones. They all chose death when they retaliated against my offering for life.”
A rush of spite and rage came over Barry at that moment which led to him attacking the man in a full-on assault. The speedster sped in and out of the area every split-second with a barrage of punches laid onto the unknown. The blows did hurt the man, but not anywhere near as much as what he felt from the mass punch to his face. 
He flew up about a thousand feet off the ground. Thus causing the assault to come to an abrupt pause as Barry stopped under the airborne creature.
“You are one of the fastest living things I’ve ever come across in the known universe,” stated the man. 
“Come back down here and let’s finish this!” demanded Barry looking up.
“Patience, nimble one. I want you to know my name before we continue this battle.”
“I don’t care!”
“My name is Mansudantehoran or M for short. And from what I heard, you are this polis’ champion, the Flash.”
Barry’s immediate anger was suspended due to this metahuman’s way of speech. ‘Or was he even a metahuman at all’ he thought. The creature spoke as if he was an extraterrestrial. Perhaps, this fiend was an old enemy of Kara’s and he had returned to exact his revenge; albeit in the wrong spot.
“Your world is in imminent danger, but I’m here to deal with you and your super-powered friends to join me. So that this planet can be saved from suffering the same fate as this polis.”
“In danger by who?”
M laughed at Barry. “You’re not in the position to ask me that. Either you join me or I will force this planet to do so.”
“Over my dead body.”
“I can arrange that.”
M flew himself down to the ground at lethal speed to crush the Flash, but Barry narrowly escaped impact. This was done all across the city furthering it into disarray. 
To end this deadly charade, Barry ran up the side of a skyscraper and stopped at the top. But M was there already. The extraterrestrial gave the speedster an eye for an eye and punched him in the face, knocking him off the building. 
In the short time that Barry spiraled toward his death, he felt an ever-so jarring sentiment of grief and relief. He closed his eyes ready to meet the pavement below him.
And he did.
“Let me handle this from here on out, alright?” said a voice. He wasn’t in heaven, nor was he in hell. Barry wasn’t in any afterlife so to speak as he opened his eyes and found that Kara made his trip down to the pavement, a gentle one. 
She began to ascend from the ground when Barry muttered out, “Be careful.”
Kara nodded her head and then zoomed to the top of the same building, meeting M for the first time.
“You’re another champion, I presume?” he asked.
“If by champion you mean hero, then yes,” was her response. “And I’m gonna kick your ass for what you’ve done here.”
M wasn’t so sure how he felt about this moment. He wasn’t worried in the slightest about if he was going to perish here. Rather, he was confused. The Flash was such a fast opponent that even he had trouble keeping up with the speedster. But all it took was one strong blow to incapacitate him. ‘Was this a planet of champions or a planet full of glass cannons’ he thought.
“Then, let us battle,” M stated. The extraterrestrial charged forward on Supergirl to which she dodged by flying up. M gave chase by flying but Kara continued to evade his advances until he grabbed a hold of one of her feet with his tail. He wound around the Girl of Steel and then launched her into another unstable building; ensuring its total destruction.
Looking into the huge cloud of smoke where the building used to be, M surmised that this champion was far more durable than the previous one. And so his right claw for a hand began to shine a bright red color. Then, a beam of energy from each finger was fired in Kara’s direction. The result of this was a huge mushroom explosion of fire and ash. 
“Kara!” Barry yelled. He got up from the pavement and was ready to speed into the fight, but a hand touched his shoulder. 
“Don’t,” said a voice. Barry turned around to find that it was the Martian Manhunter. 
“J’onn?” the speedster asked. J’onn had a face of utter distress. But it wasn’t for the destruction of Central City. It wasn’t even so much for the beatdown that Kara was receiving. His distress was for the extraterrestrial. The being wasn’t from Earth or their universe. M was of another dimension entirely.
“You know something about this guy? You look like you saw a ghost.”
“Far worse than a ghost,” J’onn replied. “You see that creature up there? If he’s here for what I think he’s here for, then we might be doomed altogether.” The Martian sighed. “As horrible as what happened to your city, Barry, this… this will be the least of our problems.”
“What!? How powerful is this guy!?” 
“Just stay here, alright?” 
J’onn shot upward toward M while Barry yelled for him to wait. 
Meeting M, J’onn made the first charge against him from behind but missed. M followed the dodge with a counter kick, but J’onn blocked it. The two extraterrestrials traded blows with each other; neither giving an inch.
Kara, visibly hurt, slowly got up from the rubble surrounding her and saw J’onn and M at each other’s necks.
J’onn and M ended their intense close combat backing away from each other. M subsequently launched his Claw Beam at J’onn, but the Martian became intangible to the blast of energy. 
“Intangibility!” M said with enthusiasm. “Each foe I fight is stronger than the last on this planet. I might have to use the full extent of my power.”
Kara kept on saying to herself to push through the pain and then flew up from the debris.
J’onn became tangible again and landed a gut punch away from M’s Claw Beam. M would be a liar if he said that the blow didn’t hurt like hell to him. It landed about as hard as Barry’s mass punch.
M began to utter a sentence when Kara elbowed him in the back of the neck, sending him down from the building and down to the ground with a loud bang. 
Down at ground level, M heard a sound like a wave of electricity constantly repeating itself. He realized then that it was the Flash, but his discernment came too late as he was blasted with a strike of electricity; launching him back about a thousand feet.
Barry, J’onn, and Kara joined together and started for the city destroyer. M sat up, now visibly hurt himself, and chuckled to himself. 
This was a pleasant surprise for the conqueror. He could not remember a time that he had this much trouble with annexing or destroying a world. It was only when the heroes were a couple of hundred feet away from him that he spoke up. 
“Your powerset is impressive. So much so that I don’t want this planet to be conquered.”
“Good, then get the hell out of here,” Barry rejoined. 
“Well, it isn’t that simple. Really and truly, I’m still more than capable of fighting all three of you at once. But I think we’re past the combat phase and it’s time to move into negotiations.”
“Here’s one,” Kara posited, “would you like to stay at A.R.G.U.S. or the D.E.O?”
M chuckled again. “Ah… prison confinement. You bring me in and this planet is as good as gone. This is my last offer. Join me and this planet will be among the most feared in the known universe.”
Barry and Kara, in unison, pronounced, “NO!” J’onn continued to remain silent. 
“Then I hope you appreciate that what’s coming to you was decided at this very moment,” M declared. “Because you’ve refused to join me, the skies will rain fire. The oceans will seethe to boiling temperatures. And the streets will run red with the blood of billions. The devastation that surrounds you right now will be like an elysium compared to what will come. And it will be all because of this decision that you made right here.”
Kara briefly glanced at J’onn. Something wasn’t sitting right with him. She would expect Barry to be in such a state, but he was angry. No. J’onn was gravely worried about something. And considering that he performed the best out of the three against M, made Kara worried.
“When my lord comes to this place, expect the extinction of everyone you hold dear. That girl that you saved, Flash, will have far more than a bloody cheek when the day comes.”
M gave out a loud yell as if he was in pain. A blue, fiery aura came over him and in a few more seconds, he was gone. 
J’onn’s downcast temperament now caught the attention of Barry as he looked over to see what was wrong. The downcast Martian told them a story. 
A story about a world named Apokolips and its ruler, Darkseid.
==Trivia==
*This universe is largely inspired by the Arrowverse DC shows.
*The little girl wore a Legend of Zelda t-shirt.
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