Justice League: The Next Generation

Chapter 1: Birth of Hybrid

Within that 6 years, records of crimes comitted by Lex Luthor were released to the police, his company known as LexCorp was sued up the ass and fell apart. Soon after, I became a well known CEO of Bromley Industries, a conglomerate dedicated to the creation of new technologies that would be eco-friendly, cost effective, affordable and benefitial to all mankind. My company had skyrocketed in terms of engineering and worked with other conglomerates not used as fronts for supervillains and their criminal activities.

By this time, I had grown into a caucasian male with a muscular physicque that didn't make me look like Darkseid, but it was good enough to pass in a suit and tie. Still to this day though, I was born with jet black hair, sapphire blue eyes and a face that made every woman in the world melt. Of course though, I wasn't just going to take any woman to be my wife, which was not only because I haven't found the right woman yet, but also because I worried that if a normal woman was my bride, she'd be dead after I made love to her. I know it's not right to say that, but it was just a belief I had and I didn't want anyone hurt because of me.

Everyday I went home, I would always pass by the Hall of Justice, which was once shining brighter than Rome itself. Now it was a degrading building with all sorts of damage, either being caused by the weather, time or simply by people who didn't care anymore about the league. It made me sick to see how people treated the establishment of many who defended them so many years prior and that it would remain like this until they returned, or if they returned. One day however, I stopped my car and got out, then took a stroll up to the building itself.

I observed the damage and despite the unsound structural integrity of the building, I went inside. The place wasn't lit and it was pitch black to the normal human eyes, luckily though I could see in the dark and looked around. I was in the lobby where statues of the Justice League's leading members stood upon a large arch. Superman was in the middle, Batman was to his right, Wonder Woman was to his left. To the right of Batman was Hawkgirl and Green Lantern, to Wonder Woman's left was Martian Manhunter and Flash.

To think these were the shining representations of the league's members when this place was active, now all they do is collect dust and lose their luster with all the damage this place has sustained over the years. I used my x-ray vision to see through the walls. Some of the walls were lead lined, particularly the rooms for those who lived here. Thankfully due to my biology I was capable of seeing through even the thickest of lead.

Nothing layed inside this place but eroding materials used in it's construction. I decided to leave, but before I did, I looked upon the two heroes responsible for my creation. Superman and Martian Manhunter's statue stood intact upon the arch and somehow, despite everybody looking down upon them, I was inspired to make people not only believe in heroes once more, but to use my gifts to benefit mankind like those before me.

I drove home that night contemplating everything that had happened and returned to my mansion on Metropolis' long island. I had built it within a day's time and was done by nightfall. I entered and found my butler Felix Baxter approach me.

"Ah good evening sir, I take it your day at the office was most productive?" Felix said as I handed him my trench coat.

"Like everyday Felix, like everyday" I replied as I walked upstairs with Felix catching up with me after putting my coat on the coat rack. I walked up into my room and got out of my suit in the bathroom. I showered and then spent the night looking at myself in the mirror, shapeshifting into various uniform designs I could use as a superhero. I knew that tights were out of the question, but a suit of nanobots was going to be number one.

Finally at 6:00pm, I shapeshifted into the perfect costume. A costume of a black body suit with a red shield on the chest that resembled what Superman wore on his chest. Inside the shield was a red X to honor the Martian Manhunter who had a red X on his chest, connecting his cape to his suit. It had gauntlets of chrome and a cape with a black outside and grey inside. The boots also used grey, but it didn't have any briefs which were used by Superman, however it did have a belt.

With the design of my new suit already made, I began crafting it with the help of nanotechnology forged out of various materials including the alloy Metallo, as well as Nth Metal so no ghosts could phase through it. Once the suit was complete, I donned it for the first time and fashioned myself an alias as well: Hybrid.