20 years after

Dear Readers.

The end. Wasnt the end of this story. Gorel and myself started this story a few years ago as our first combined work. It started as a fun Project with no real Goal and grew into a Book sized epic story that was more than just the usual erotic story i notmally write. It became the biggest and most complex story that i ever wrote and we had a red line until it ended in the events of the Zatanna arc.

But the end is only the start of something new. We decided to tell the rest of the story, what happens to the world after all th3 heroes are gone and the war is over.

I would recommend that you read the original story before you start here, to understand what happened to the DC world.

This Arc is a new Strain of events that take part 20 years after the main story. We hope that you will like this part too. Thanks to all readers, all likes and all comments that pushed us again and again writing it.

So have fun in a world of DC.

And so it begins

Lex Luthor stood out on the balcony of the white house oval office, staring out into the city scape just over the black iron fence and the Washington monument further out in view. The sound of traffic could be heard echoing out but it was a small annoyance to the view of a clear blue sky and fresh air.

"Twenty years..." he said softly to himself, looking up at the sky with a smirk. "Today marks the 20th anniversary of that faithful day… How nostalgic." Lex was considerably older by now, well into his late fifties thought it hardly showed on his face. The fact he was bald gave him the cold comfort of not having grey hair. Despite his age, he had taken great care into making sure he was fit and sharp. A daily routine of rigorous exercise, dieting, and mental challenges kept him as strong and as razor sharp as ever. Quickly and proudly, he straightened his tie and turned as he heard someone step outside to meet him.

"President Luthor.” Called out a man wearing a black suit with black tinted sunglasses, his ear buzzing with radio chatter from an earpiece that had a wire lead down to the inside of his jacket. “Miss Grant is here for the interview."

Ah, good, see her in, I’ve been waiting for her.”

Stepping inside, In front of him were three of his best personal security, all wearing black suits with the president’s insignia on their jackets and standing motionless save to look at the door or out the window where Lex had stepped away from. The moment he did, the closest to the window turned and stepped forward to close and lock the balcony window. The secret service were professionals of their craft, experts who were always wary of an attack from anyone anywhere.

He was fairly sure he could best any one of them, he made a point to test that theory every week with the secret service training regiments. After all, in his mind, bodyguards shouldn’t be the last line to his personal defense.

“Shall I prepare drinks sir?”

"Thanks Dave." Smiled Lex, stepping back into the Oval Office and passing the busts of past presidents, he took a seat at the Resolute table and smiled at the statues right next to the entrance. There, at either side of the door were life-size statues of Superman and Wonder Woman. The two created at his personal request at his first term at office. Looking over to his former rival, Lex smiled wistfully.

"Well old friend? Are you going to grace us today too?"

So many years he had wasted fighting the man of steel, only to realise that it was never Superman who had earned his hatred. That it was never the Kryptonian who had been an enemy, but his own ego and pride.

"Bring them in." He said after a breath. When the door swung open, his smile widened to the sight of Cat Grant stepping into the oval office and extend her hand to shake. Back in the day she used to be nothing more than a tabloid writer who mostly got her earnings writing gossip headlines and joke articles. However, after the disappearance of Lois Lane, she too had turned her life around. Today she was one of the most successful reporters for the Daily Planet. But not only that. She had now far surpassed Lois Lane and was currently the rumored to win her 7th Pulitzer. Even Lex had to admit, she totally deserved.

"Miss Grant, ah Mr. Olsen. Good to see you both." Smiling, he stepped around the desk and shook hands with both.

"Mr. President. It is an honour to meet you." Replied Jimmy, the man had taken quite the leap in his career after the mysterious disappearance of Lois Lane and Clark Kent. The Daily Planet had to shake up its staff to see who could fill the empty pair of shoes and Jimmy surprisingly was able to do just that. And after the tragic **** of Perry White as chief editor, Jimmy found himself surprisingly taking his office in just a short year afterwards.

"Mr. President. Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with us." Cat said and looked at Lex with amusement. The woman had wizened some in her later years. Her hair had a touch of grey and laugh lines in her eyes and smile. But she carried them well and did nothing to detract the beauty she still possessed.

"Miss Grant. I think it is fair to say that I should consider it an honour that you have taken the time to meet with me. I read your article on cultural development on Venus. I must say I was seriously impressed." Lex said and offered them both to sit down. Only after the two were seated did he take a seat himself.

"That's high praise coming from you, Mr. President." Said Cat, blushing a little. It was one thing to win a Pulitzer, but quite another to be praised like that by a man like Lex Luthor.

"Somehow I miss the old Lex Luthor sometimes." Jimmy smirked, and Lex raised a brow.

"The one who kept trying to kill you?" he asked good-humoredly, making them both laugh. "But enough of the sweet memories. Unfortunately, my schedule is rather tight, Miss Grant. Shall we get started?"

"But of course."

And so, Lex began to go over the last two decades. How his own life had been changed and also how everyone else's life had changed as a result. It had all started on that terrible day 20 years ago. Halloween. The day Bruce Wayne and Cain Adamson wanted to repeat their first battle, to give the people a spectacle for their annual games. But that night, the most powerful of the undead was betrayed by one of his own wives.

The Black Canary.

Dinah had attacked Gotham City with an army of mind controlled Amazons twisted into ghouls who thirsted for blood almost as much as she did. Even going so far as to turn their queen into her own personal executioner, made almost invincible from the ghoulification and stolen relics of her home island. So much so that she was able to break and defeat the lord of the dead himself. It all seemed hopeless, until at the battle’s end, a new power arrived to turn the tide.

The White Lantern Zatanna.

She not only had the power to stop the Queen of the Night and her armies effortlessly, but she also brought back EVERY fallen soul of that night and 5 years since back to life! People who had been dead for more than half a decade found themselves waking up in the middle of a Halloween festival, surrounded by werewolves and vampires. The acclimation and rehabilitation of so many thousands of people had become a challenge for New Gotham. But over time, New Gotham was better for it, as several groups, especially the one run by Harvey Dent and his coup had completely dissolved after having their lost loved ones returned to them.

But with while the treacherous and damage Dinah had caused, and the lightshow Zatanna had performed both to defeat the vampires and bring back two lost heroes back into the fold, an event had occurred elsewhere that had changed the world on such a global scale that no one could have guessed.

While all eyes were on Gotham, an unknown **** had caused the Justice League Watchtower and all its heroes and occupants to disappear. No one knew save whqt happened with the massive Space Station. It was the greatest secret of the last generation. Even the most powerful villains on Earth didn’t know what happened to the League. All they knew was that after that day, they stopped coming.

Lex had never given up looking for them even to this day.

The loss of the League had thrown the world into chaos. Suddenly all the mighty heroes were gone, and the villains of the world saw their chance had come to take what they wanted with impunity. Lex Luthor was among them at that time. Mercilessly they had all fought for their own personal slice of the world to call their own, to conquer, to despoil. No one could stop them. Even the Kryptonians were gone, now that they had found a new home on Venus. But from the ashes of the League, new heroes rose to take up the fight. Most of them were killed within days by the battle-hardened and powerful villains, but some proved particularly capable. The Titans had grown up rather quickly to fill the League’s shoes, lead by Nightwing and aided with the two remaining League members not on the station at the time; the Green Arrow and Black Canary, now fully restored and human once more.

Two years of intense battles had changed the world completely. As expected, many of the villains had destroyed each other in their battles and Lex Luthor stood as one of the few victors of the former Legion of Doom’s rampant conquests. But without his nemesis, Lex lacked a challenge. So, he vowed to be the first to solve the mystery of the League. But even after all this time, there was no information. He had even contacted the Green Lantern Corp, but all he learned from the Green Lanterns was that they could sense the **** of Hal Jordan, but his ring had never returned to Oa. Luthor, undeterred, did not stop. His ego drove him, and failure was in no way an option.

So, his path led him to New Gotham to talk to the cat goddess Bastet. The cat goddess granted him an audience and during the conversation with her, he learned more about the World Tree and its role on the mortal plane. He had once tried to usurp the tree's power, but the new Batman had thwarted his aims several times. But this time he had Bastet's blessing. Not even Batman would do anything against him.

Finally getting what he wanted, he stood before the portal at the tree’s core and stepped in. But things did not go as he had hoped. Time, space, and reality had no meaning in the Umbra. Luthor had spent seconds in that ethereal realm… And he spent 10,000 years! His mind breaking and rebuilding over and over again from the stretch of eternity in that strange realm. As soon as he stumbled out of the portal, the old Lex was no more. The visions and teachings he had seen there were enough to make him rethink his entire life. Straight from the World Tree he went to the nearest police station and turned himself in.

Because of his past crimes, he was sentenced to 892 years in prison and to a maximum-security prison. In his first two years in maximum penitentiary, Lex started to write. Patents, instructions, designs, formulas. All sent to their respective parties who could make the most with it. Over the course of just three years afterwards, when diseases and cancers were being cured with his formulas, his sentences were reduced. Even the government took notice of his mind for good, personally going to his cell for answers against environmental threats and people who would be a danger to the nation. It didn’t take long for the U.S. Government to have Luthor as a think tank for their worst problems. His requests for offering this help were few if not completely open… Save one.

He asked to contact Superman.

It took over seven years, but eventually, he was offered the chance to speak with him. Not because it was difficult to reach him, far from it. It was because the man of steel… Or more appropriately the WOLF of Steel did not have permission. It took a great deal of time for the king of vampires to agree to the two meeting, and with counselling and debated with his two wives, Dracula had given Luthor his blessing, under specific conditions.

The old Lex Luthor might have been surprised that a being as powerful as Superman had to ask Dracula for permission to set foot on Earth again, but he was no longer the old man, and Clark was no longer Superman. It wasn’t until he and everyone in the courtyard looked up to the massive creature slowly descending from the sky to land in the field of the yard and take up as much space as a city bus that Luther finally understood. It was not just a sign of submission or humility, or even respect for why Superman and the other krypto-wolves never returned to Earth after being banished, although all of those reasons were a given. It was because the world would never be able to accept what their champion had become.

Years ago, Dracula had given the krypto-wolves a choice. Exile or war. Superman had realised that his race was too dangerous, too wild and far too young to continue to exist on Earth. Therefore, Superman had taken the step and moved to Venus with all the other Krypto Wolves. But to keep the peace he too had to leave, only to return if summoned. In order to be allowed to visit his old enemy in prison, he had been given strict conditions by the Count.

Looking up at the monstrous creature, Lex was a little taken back. Even under the watchful eyes of a regiment of Amazons who stood by just in case in the open yard of the prison was not safe enough, the massive kryptonian wolf looked beyond imposing. Straightening himself he approached the six limbed wolf who looked down at him. For a brief moment, Lex saw it in the wolf’s eyes, and the wag of his saurian tail when it spoke with a rumbling voice, one Lex found all too familiar. Greeting the wolf back, Superman raised his massive claw to shake the man’s hand. And so it happened, that Lex Luthor and Superman had a conversation talking about past, future and unimportant things. Catching up on years and years’ worth of lost time between them. But after this conversation, and the wolf taking to the air to leave back to his home, the two finally made peace.

After the meeting, Luthor was returned to his cell, and the amazons returned home.

The amazons. They no longer lived on their island, but in Transylvania where they were the only ones tolerated by Dracula. The prince had reclaimed his old home and left the mortals **** on the matter when his castle reappeared back on its home cliff. Without spilling blood, he had conquered the land and. Except for the Amazons, he tolerated no residents. An army of sinister beasts guarded the borders and only the most foolish dared to challenge the Count. However, there were those allowed to visit him as they wished. Among them, of course, was Green Arrow, whom he considered a dear friend.

After the meeting, from that day on, the world was a different place. Lex Luthor led a campaign from prison to make the world a better place. For over ten years he worked like a man possessed to make the world a better place and was finally released from prison early both on good behavior and because of his actions. and even though critics feared that he would immediately implement another one of his diabolical plans, he proved them wrong. With his newfound freedom, Lex went to work on social programs funding by the funds of his remaining infrastructure and companies.

Only a few years later, he achieved what he always wanted but never strove for, becoming leader of the free world. President of the United States of America. Now approaching the midpoint of his 2nd term, he could look back with pride on 6 years of accomplishments. The Justice League was fully supported by the American military and authorities. He had organizations like the one under Amanda Weller disbanded and was strict against all forms of secrecy. Under his leadership, the country prospered at an unprecedented pace and the security situation of the entire world was further strengthened by his leadership.