Superboy-Prime

(After)

More than nine hundred years in the future there is a planet whose name does not matter. On this planet there is a boy whose name also does not matter in this time.

In another time he was called Superboy-Prime.

In another universe his name was Jon Lane Kent.

He should be dead.

This planet, with no name that matters, has something in common with a planet that existed a long, long time ago.

That planet was called Krypton.

If Superboy-Prime had known that this planet was going to go the way of that long ago Krypton he may not have been there at that time. Maybe, maybe not. It was hard to tell what Superboy-Prime would do anymore. Spending more than two years stuck in the 30th century had not been good for his already damaged psyche, mostly because he had spent that time in nearly complete isolation.

He tended to kill any sentient life-forms he came across and didn't leave much time for them to have long conversations.

Superboy-Prime had chosen to stay behind in the future for reasons known only to him when he had come there with the 21st century team of teenage superheroes known as the Teen Titans. Then he had gone back to the 21st century, killed some people, caused a few time paradoxes, and died.

And that should have been the end of him. But it wasn't.

Somehow he'd ended up back in the 30th century. Fast forward two years and he was on a planet whose name did not matter, looking for technology that had been left behind when the planet was evacuated.

Because the planet was going to explode, not that he knew that.

Superboy-Prime flipped over a lab bench. "It should be here!"

He growled and tore through a cabinet that was luckily empty of anything radioactive. "Where is it?"

A small sample of the tech that Superboy-Prime was looking for was in the lab, left behind in the rush to get off-planet, but he wouldn't be able to find it before the planet died. However, he was just close enough to it that when the planet tore itself apart from the inside out it did just what Superboy-Prime wanted it for.

Superboy-Prime went tumbling nine hundred years into the past and crash landed very near to the only other human/ Kryptonian hybrid currently in existence.

His name was Conner Kent.

He was called Superboy.

Conner's head shot up. He had been seconds away from falling asleep but something had woken him, and he was pretty sure it wasn't the box that Delilah had dropped trying to wake him.

"Cassie and I finished unpacking without you," she said. "You didn't get enough sleep during graduation?"

Their graduation ceremony had been the week before. For as much of an achievement as it was, it was very long and very boring.

"Ha," Conner said, looking around. "Did you hear something?"

"I'm not the one with super hearing," Delilah said. "Is something wrong?"

That was a somewhat unnecessary question. As members of the Teen Titans in New York City the answer was almost always, "Yes."

"I'm going to call Tim," Conner said.

Delilah nodded and went to fetch Cassie.

"I think we're being haunted," Cassie told Delilah when the other girl entered what had previously been the spare bedroom in Cassie's apartment.

"Why's that?" Delilah asked.

Cassie pointed to the book lying on the bed. It was one that Delilah had brought with her, a book about ghosts, which had been opened to a page about White Ladies.

"That book wasn't there a minute ago," Cassie said. "I'm pretty sure it was in the box you said not to touch."

Delilah felt the hair on the back of her neck stand up. "It was."

"Hey," Conner said from the door, "Tim wants us in Time Square. Emergency."

He was already dressed as Superboy. Cassie quickly activated the Silent Armor.

"When it rains," Delilah mumbled. "Emutsoc." Wallflower's costume appeared.

They left though the nearest open window. The streets below them were filled with people running in the opposite direction in which they were flying. There was so much noise that none of them noticed the whispering wind following them, not even Superboy.

Time Square was painted with blood. There were bodies scattered every which way, torn to pieces, burnt, full of holes, and so obviously dead. There wasn't even a hint of anyone left alive.

Superboy stopped flying at the sight, causing Wallflower to collide with him in midair, which sent them both spinning like tops for several seconds while they got their balance back.

Those few seconds was more than enough time for the cause of the carnage to notice them.

"Kon-El!" Superboy-Prime bellowed.

He flew straight at them and grabbed Superboy by the shoulders. "Clone," he growled, shaking Superboy with enough force to kill an elephant. "Die."

Superboy-Prime punched Superboy into the ground and was about to fly after him when he was jerked to a stop by Wonder Girl's lasso. He tore uselessly at the burning lariat.

"This was made to stop Trigon," Wonder Girl told him. "You're not getting out."

"The clone's girlfriend," Superboy-Prime spat, able to work up the anger even as his life was being drained. "You should have been mine!"

Wonder Girl and the clone's actual girlfriend looked at each other.

"I'll check on Superboy," Wallflower said.

"I've got this," Wonder Girl agreed.

Wallflower flew down to the crater Superboy's fall had left in the pavement. Superboy was in the process of standing up, rubbing the back of his head.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

"Yeah," Superboy said. "Did you see the others?"

Wallflower shook her head. Superboy frowned. He looked around them like he expected the other Teen Titans to pop up any second.

"We should look for survivors," Wallflower suggested. "I'm sure the others will get here soon."

"I don't hear any heartbeats nearby," Superboy said.

He looked around again, more carefully this time, and his face went white. He flew past Wallflower and started dragging bodies aside. Wallflower went after him and reached his side just as he pulled a black-haired boy out of the pile.

It was Red Robin.

The wind blew the smell of blood in their faces. Wallflower made a sound like a crying kitten. Then, without any warning, she crumbled to the ground. Superboy just managed to catch her before she landed on a body. He left bloody handprints on her jacket.

"Wallflower, are you okay?"

Glowing blue eyes looked up at him. "Sorry, Superboy, Wallflower's not here."

Superboy immediately looked away from those eyes. "Get out of her body!" he demanded.

"Relax, Superboy. It's Trivia. Wallflower isn't in any condition to function right now."

Wonder Girl landed across from them with the husk of Superboy-Prime dragging behind her. "Is something wrong?"

"Yes," Superboy growled.

Wonder Girl took half a step back when she saw Wallflower's glowing irises.

Wallflower's, no, Trivia's eyes landed on the body at the end of Wonder Girl's lasso. "Is he dead?"

"Who are you?" Wonder Girl asked.

"Call me Trivia," Trivia said. "Is he dead?"

Wonder Girl gave her lasso a shake that caused the barbs on its surface to dig even deeper into Superboy-Prime's flesh. "Almost. Trivia from back in June?"

Trivia gave a sad smile. "In the flesh."

"That's not your body," Superboy said. "GET. OUT."

Trivia started laughing. In the middle of a street filled with dead bodies this made her look a lot worse than she was.

"Any universe," she laughed. "You go to any Earth in the multiverse and any version of Superboy has the same berserk button!"

Superboy shook his head. Trivia had said that Wallflower wasn't in good condition, but looking at her Superboy had to wonder if Trivia was doing any better.

Trivia's last laugh turned into a sob. "Tim…Donna…Raven…I've seen all of you die so many times…"

"What?" Wonder Girl said. "Tim is…?"

She finally noticed the body that Superboy was standing over. She put a hand over her mouth and a single tear ran down her face.

"They're all dead," Trivia said. "Donna, Raven, Skitter, Aqualad…I didn't see White Canary though."

"She's with Green Arrow today," Superboy said hoarsely.

The three of them stood looking at Red Robin's body until they heard a helicopter overhead. Trivia looked up and then waved her hand, saying a spell under her breath. The carnage that covered Time Square was almost instantly blanketed in a sea of black body bags. Five such bags were lined up in front of Superboy, Wonder Girl and Trivia.

"We'll take our dead," Trivia said. "And others will come for theirs."

"Where do we go?" Wonder Girl asked. "And what do we do with him?"

They all looked at what was left of Superboy-Prime.

"Isn't he dead yet?" Trivia asked.

"Do we really want to kill him?" Superboy asked.

"Yes," Trivia said.

The Silent Armor's lariat retreated as Superboy-Prime's body crumbled to dust.

Wonder Girl shook her head. "Too late to change our minds now."

Trivia spat on the pile of dust that had been Superboy-Prime. "Burn in hell."

She looked at Wonder Girl and Superboy. "Let's get out of here."

"Where are we?" Superboy demanded.

Trivia hadn't given them a chance to protest before she whisked them away in a vortex of lights and sounds. Wonder Girl looked like she wanted to punch her through the nearest wall, but she didn't. Wallflower wouldn't be happy if she got sidelined for days with broken bones.

"This is my home," Trivia said. "It is…Well you start from your world and then go, uh, sideways. It's sort of between, so don't leave the building."

Wonder Girl scowled. "Or what?"

Trivia shook her head. "I don't know, but it probably won't be good for your health."

Superboy and Wonder Girl looked at each other. So, they didn't have a way out of there, and Trivia still had Wallflower's body held hostage even if they had. They were going to have to just go along with what she wanted until something came up.

"Don't we get a tour or something," Superboy asked, "so we know where the doors outside are?"

Glowing blue eyes blinked. Trivia tilted her head. Then she snapped her fingers and they were enveloped in another transporting tornado that deposited them at the top of a very tall staircase.

"We'll start at the top," Trivia said.

Trivia showed them every room in the tower that seemed to be wider at the top than at the bottom judging by the shortening length of the hallways as they went down. There was a library, an infirmary, and many, many bedrooms. Most of the bedrooms they saw looked lived in, with clothes scattered on the floor, and books and papers spread over desks, like their occupants were coming back any minute. One room was even lit with floating candles.

"Who else lives here?" Wonder Girl asked.

Trivia sighed. "No one, now."

There were three photos on the bedside table in one bedroom. One was of a large group of people standing in front of a T-shaped tower. Another was a candid photo of four people, three boys and a girl, sitting around a campfire and laughing together. The last photo was of two women and a man with their arms around each other smiling at the camera. Every person in these photos was dressed in some sort of costume.

Superboy immediately recognized the people in the last photo. They had different costumes and they were older, but it was unmistakably him, Wonder Girl and Wallflower.

He spotted Beast Boy's and Donna's faces in the large group photo. There was someone dressed nearly identically to the way Bart had dressed when he was being Kid Flash and a boy dressed like a Robin. A girl in the photo was wearing a dark, hooded cloak that wouldn't look out of place in Raven's wardrobe. There was a Kid Flash and a Robin in the last photo too, and Superboy, and Wonder Girl.

Superboy grabbed Trivia's arm just as she was about to close the door and pointed to the photos. "What is that? Some kind of joke?"

"No," Trivia said. "And, ow."

Superboy quickly let go of her arm, which was really Wallflower's arm. "Then what is it?"

"A memory," Trivia said softly. "Can you wait until we get to the ground floor? I'd rather explain everything at once."

They waited.

Once they reached the ground floor, Trivia led them to a large set of double doors and threw them open. "Welcome to the Memorial."

They entered a hall that was lined on both sides with stone statues raised up on plinths. Trivia immediately went to a statue at the other end of the hall of a woman with long hair and looked up at her face. She acted like Superboy and Wonder Girl weren't there, and they got the feeling that this was something she did every time she went into this hall.

It was.

The statue was of the woman who had killed her.

Superboy and Wonder Girl followed Trivia into the hall. Wonder Girl read some of the plaques at the bases of the statues they passed. They didn't get very far before Wonder Girl elbowed Superboy and hissed at him that he had to look at this.

The statue was of a masked woman wearing a jumpsuit and a belt very like Red Robin's. She was signing something with one hand that Wonder Girl didn't know but Superboy recognized as the American Sign Language sign "fly" as in an airplane.

The plaque by her feet read Wallflower.

Superboy cleared his throat loudly. Trivia looked over and saw which statue they were standing in front of.

"Are you going to explain now?" Wonder Girl asked.

Trivia nodded. She joined them in front of the statue of the other Wallflower.

"Do you remember how I said we were family?" she asked Superboy.

Superboy nodded slowly.

"We lived here," Trivia said, "when it was real. This was Titans Tower. We were the Teen Titans, lots of us. We were heroes, but more than that we were a family."

Trivia looked up at Wallflower's statue. "I was proud to say I died a Titan."

Wonder Girl gasped. "You were Wallflower."

Trivia nodded. "In another time, practically another universe."

"I saw it," Wonder Girl said.

Trivia looked at her with wide eyes. "How?"

"When you brought me and Wallflower back to life," Wonder Girl said, "you left behind some of your memories. Most of them were about the Black Lanterns but some…I think I got more than Wallflower. If she had seen you with your Superboy we would have figured out who you were a long time ago."

Trivia laughed. "Superboy never belonged to anyone, except Wonder Girl, when they felt like it."

Superboy blushed. Wonder Girl felt her own cheeks heat up.

Trivia laughed again. "Enough about our love lives. After I died I got to stick around as a ghost because of a deal I made with Hecate so that I could help fight the Black Lanterns. I did odd jobs for her and sometimes that meant that I had to go to a different universe."

"Multiverse theory," Superboy interrupted.

"Not just a theory," Trivia said. "Power Girl is from a different Earth, you know."

They hadn't known. It explained a lot about her powers actually, and was something that Superman and Batman would be interested in knowing.

Batman probably already knew.

"Anyway," Trivia said, "I was on my way back from one of those jobs when the multiverse…reset, for lack of a better word. Someone rebooted it and everything was different. Hecate didn't even remember that I worked for her, she kicked me out."

"Why weren't you affected?" Superboy asked.

"That's what I wanted to know," Trivia said. "I mean, Delilah had been rebooted along with everything else. Eventually I found out that I stayed the same because I wasn't in a universe when the reboot happened, I was between universes but my body was on your Earth so Delilah ended up existing too. I wasn't really interested in not existing anymore so I set up shop here, between universes."

"So when you say you've seen us die before-" Wonder Girl choked before she could go any further, the bodies of their friends that were lying in the entrance hall at the forefront of her mind.

Trivia smiled sadly. "There were some bumps in the road getting this new universe established. When too many 'important' people died there were minor resets that that brought everything back to how it was before it went wrong. Usually it was entire teams, the Justice League, the Justice League of America, the Teen Titans. Sometimes you guys didn't even team up before all of you died, which made the resets faster."

"Do you think there'll be a reset now?" Superboy asked. Their entire team was dead, and the universe didn't sound like it liked that.

Trivia frowned. "Maybe. There hasn't been one for almost six years, the way I'm counting, but with the Black Lanterns there have been a lot of important deaths."

"We could get them back," Wonder Girl said. "All of them."

Trivia shook her head. "Maybe, maybe not. It depends on what the universe wants."

"We should go back to Earth then," Superboy said. None of them would be part of the reset if they weren't on Earth.

Trivia shook her head again and told them that they would get plenty of warning if a reset was going to happen so they didn't have to go back just yet. Then she said that they should get some rest and were welcome to use any of the bedrooms. Wallflower's eyes stopped glowing when Trivia left her body. The ghost went out the door and disappeared. Since she didn't have a heartbeat Superboy wasn't able to keep track of her.

Wallflower swayed slightly before catching herself on the base of the other Wallflower's statue. "I can't believe they're dead."

Wonder Girl gave Wallflower a hug, which the other girl gratefully returned. Superboy gulped down tears that would not be helpful at the moment.

"I don't want to believe," Wonder Girl choked out.

"We could get them back," Superboy said. "We could get all of them back."

Wallflower shook her head. "At what cost? Guys, while Trivia was in my body…Actually, I guess it's our body really. That's messed up. But, anyway, I saw her life. Her team, her Teen Titans, they were so much better than we could ever be. They were more than a team, they were a family. They had been together though so much. We lost all of that."

Wonder Girl stepped back. "Our friends are dead! We could get them back, and you don't want to?"

"That's not what I mean!" Wallflower said. "There are spells, rituals, magical objects; I'll look for them by myself if Zatara won't help! I would die to bring our team back! But there are some things, some trials, that shouldn't be undone!"

Superboy stepped between the two girls before any weapons could be drawn. "Okay, deep breaths. It's been a long day, let's get some rest and we'll figure out what to do tomorrow."

Wonder Girl and Wallflower looked at Superboy and then looked back at each other. Things really were a mess. Superboy was being the voice of reason.

"We're safe enough here," Wallflower said slowly. "Trivia hasn't lied to us about anything. Omitted and implied, but not lied."

With that comforting statement the three Teen Titans climbed back up to the fifteenth floor of the tower, chose rooms with the least disturbing décor, and quickly fell asleep. Somehow they all slept soundly, even Wallflower.

Everyone in the building was woken up when the entire tower shook violently. Trivia flew through the wall of Wonder Girl's room. There wasn't time to bother with little things like doors.

"We have to leave," the ghost said. "Now."

In seconds the three living Titans had gathered in the hallway.

"What's happening?" Superboy asked as another tremor shook the building.

"A reset," Trivia said.

She flicked the fingers on her right hand, the one that didn't look like a bear had taken a bite out of it, and the five body bags appeared beside them. "Brace yourselves, this is gonna be a bumpy ride."

Trivia's transportation tornado threw them around until none of them knew which way was up. They landed in a heap on overgrown shrubbery in the middle of nowhere. Trivia was breathing heavily, even though she wasn't supposed to need to breathe.

"That bad?" Wallflower said.

Trivia nodded. The three Titans pushed themselves to their feet and stood next to the body bags that held their teammates.

"Will you be able to get back in time?" Wonder Girl asked Trivia.

Trivia shook her head. "I'm not going back."

Wonder Girl looked past the white hood that was hanging over Trivia's face and saw her jaw firmly set with determination. "Why not?"

"Six years, Cassie," Trivia said. "Have you ever been completely alone for six years? No, this time I'm staying with you."

Superboy put a hand on Trivia's shoulder and was only slightly surprised when his hand didn't pass right through her. "We aren't the people you knew."

Trivia scoffed. "You are, you've just forgotten."

"If you stay, you'll forget too," Wallflower pointed out.

Trivia shrugged. "Maybe, maybe not. We don't know what will happen. Maybe the universe will do us a favour and forget that Superboy-Prime existed."

She looked up at the sky. There were no clouds but lightning flashed. No thunder followed.

"It's time," Trivia said.

Superboy reached out and took Wallflower's hand. In turn, Wallflower took Wonder Girl's hand and then Wonder Girl wrapped her hand around what was left of Trivia's left hand.

"I love you guys," Wonder Girl whispered.

Lightning flashed.

Now

In a tower in a city there are two girls. They are called Wonder Girl and Power Girl. They just buried their friend. He was called Red Robin. His name was Tim Drake.

In the sky above the city there are two boys. They are called Bunker and Beast Boy. They just buried their friend. He was called Red Robin. Soon, Beast Boy will forget they were friends. He will join another team. Their leader will be called Robin. His name is Damian Wayne.

In a place between places there is another girl. She is called Raven. Her name is Raven. She just buried her friend. She will join the same team as Beast Boy. She will also forget.

In a secret place there are two boys. No one knows it, but they're dating. They'll break up soon, if one running away from the other can be called that, and then one of them will meet Robin's team. His name is Jackson Hyde. He will be called Aqualad.

In a city called Seattle there is a girl. Her name is Emiko Queen. Her brother is called the Green Arrow. Soon, she will be called the Red Arrow.

In another city there is a woman. She is Donna Troy. She is part of another team. They are called the Titans.

In a lab there is a scientist. Her name is Celine Patterson. When she comes out of her cocoon she is called Skitter. She hasn't gone into her cocoon for a long time.

In a town there is a team of vigilantes. They are called the Guardians. They call their leaders Guardian and Wallflower. Their names are James Harper and Delilah An. Sometimes, when her eyes glow blue, Wallflower is called Trivia.

In a simulation of a farm there is a boy. He doesn't know that his friend was just buried. He doesn't know anything that happens in the real world anymore. His name is Conner Kent. Some people call him Superboy.

In a small town, on a real farm there is a boy. He just moved there with his parents. His name is Jonathan Samuel Kent. He is also called Superboy.

There is no Superboy-Prime.

La La Latch- Pentatonix (Sam Smith/Disclosure/Naughty Boy Mashup)

A/n: And that's it. This is the last chapter of "Superboy and the Invisible Girl". My thanks to anyone who has stuck around this long. I know this story was confusing, convoluted, and slow to update, but I had fun writing it and I hope some of you had fun reading it.

Cheers,

Cynder2013