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Secret Files: Harbinger: 1965: Christmastime and Space, Chapter 2: Delilah and Tor

by Doc Quantum Return to chapter list Delilah awoke the next morning in a room with bright morning sunlight beaming through the windows. She closed her eyes again and tried to go back to sleep, only to open them wide again when she realized where she was. This was her own house — the house . . .

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Secret Files: Harbinger: 1965: Christmastime and Space, Chapter 1: The Myriad Ways

by Doc Quantum Return to chapter list In the end, he wasn’t sure what had made him save the child. Over his long life, after all, he’d seen many people die. In fact, he had watched with dispassion several other scenes of tragedy and had never lifted a finger to help the victims. He had . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass

by ManOMight1974
Superboy of Earth-1: The Five Earths Project
Superboy is stranded on the dark mirror world of Earth-33 without a way to get home, all at the mercy of his evil counterpart, Ultraboy! But as the Boy of Steel plans for his next confrontation with the Smallville scoundrel, it becomes increasingly obvious that Ultraboy has brought him to his world for a reason. Could it be that Superboy has to train a group of would-be super-heroes in order to simply give Ultraboy a challenge on this topsy-turvy world where evil always triumphs over good? And will Alex Luthor of that world finally become the hero he was always meant to be? Guest starring the Earth-33 counterparts of several heroes and villains of Earth-One!

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Epilogue: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list The Kent house, 5:30 P.M.: The smell of Martha Kent’s world-famous pork chops permeated the Kent house as the family sat down to dinner. The family was once again whole, with Jonathan at the head of the table, and Clark and Martha taking seats opposite each other, Clark on . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 10: No Place Like Home

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list The skies above Shuster Beach, Earth-33, 12:11 P.M.: Ultraboy’s fist once again slammed into the force-field that Alex Luthor’s super-suit was generating around his body, again causing little more than a slight ripple of energy in the field before it re-formed. Ultraboy was becoming frustrated. He couldn’t break through . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 9: Taking Out the Trash

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list The Kent house, Smallville, Earth-One, 11:42 A.M.: Jonathan Kent sat in his big chair in the living room quietly watching the emergency signal lamp blink on and off, on and off. He truly felt for Chief Parker right now, a man he had known for years, who was desperately . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 8: Out of the Frying Pan

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list The skies above Smallville, Earth-33, 10:50 A.M.: Superboy floated above the quiet doppelgänger of his hometown in silence, readying himself for what he was about to do. As he hovered above the center of this darker reflection of his own Smallville, he slowly took several breaths, inhaling and exhaling, . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 7: For Want of a Nail

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list Alex Luthor’s secret laboratory, Earth-33, 7:19 P.M.: Superboy and Dav-Im both sat slumped on the small couch in the basement. During the last six hours, Superboy had been giving the crusader from Krypton a super-fast training session in combat tactics, boxing, and judo. The training session itself had been . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 6: Preparing for Battle

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list The State Penitentiary outside Smallville, Earth-One, 12:44 P.M.: For the last two years he had been sitting in this cell, ever since Superboy had taken him and his underlings into custody for his attempt to kill the Boy of Steel with an extremely lifelike android duplicate of Superboy, an . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 5: A Worthy Opponent

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list Limbo: The first thing that Superboy noticed when he, Krypto, and Clark Kent rematerialized was the swirling mists that surrounded the three of them. Glancing about with his various super-visions, he took in everything. There appeared to be no solid ground beneath them, yet they were standing as if . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 4: Enter Clark Kent

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list From Superboy’s secret diary, supplemental entry, April 23rd, 1967: I have now been here for nearly a full twenty-four hours. I do have to say this is certainly not how I envisioned spending Spring Break this year, trapped along with Krypto on a parallel Earth by an evil counterpart . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 3: Unlikely Allies

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list The woods outside Smallville, Earth-One, one year ago, 10:20 P.M.: The wreckage of his ship still smoldered around his burned and battered body. In a few seconds it wouldn’t matter either way, as the self-destruct mechanism would reduce his body to ashes, ending his suffering. Cyber should never have . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 2: Up the Proverbial Creek

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list Outside the Smallville Savings and Loan building, Earth-33, 10:19 A.M.: There was a flurry of activity around him; the Kryptonite Kid and the Kryptonite Dog were still engaged in maintaining their mental control over the Insect Empress and the Brute while standing atop their circular hover platform. Police Chief . . .

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Superboy: 1967: Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 1: The Tables Have Turned

by ManOMight1974 Return to chapter list Continued from Superboy: Times Past, 1967: The Mirror Cracked Outside the Smallville Savings and Loan building, Oak Street, Smallville, Earth-33, Sunday, April 23, 1967, 10:03 A.M.: “This is the best you could come up with?” Ultraboy stood outside the Smallville Savings and Loan building, yawning. He was bored. His . . .

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Teen Titans: Times Past, 1980: The Titan from Times Past

by HarveyKent
Teen Titans: The Five Earths Project
When all the grown-up super-heroes in the world disappear, the disbanded Teen Titans find themselves the lone protectors of Earth! And despite their best efforts, they are unable to defeat the foe responsible when Kanjar Ro declares himself the ruler of Earth! Can the world’s only hope be a “Teen Titan” from times past?

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