Reinforcement

Superman watched Batman leave and turned to go to the central command center. Flying to the command center Superman was met by the intelligence that was based off his father from Krypton, Jor-El.

The intelligence greeted him, "Welcome back son, what type of training would you like to go through today? Or are you coming to speak to me about the baby that has a piece of your DNA in his body?"

"I did not come to train today father and it is about the baby. He will be staying here for unspecified amount of time. I need you and the robots to care for him in that time. He was a weapon created by a government-backed company. His DNA was spliced from mine and other sources, the unlikely combination makes him unique as well as dangerous. He transformed into a great ape nearly 100 feet tall and battled the League. He was powerful. He was not in control with his transformation so we beat him easily but what worries me is that he is just a baby and able to battle the whole league. It is true we had not been fighting seriously due to our reticence to harm him, but all the same. Once he is older and in control he will be far more dangerous. I…I am just not sure what to do." Superman says as he hangs his head. He feels like he is a failure. Not knowing what to do is not something he faces normally.

"It seems to me that he resembles you in this aspect. He is here in this world and has found a group of people who will do everything they can to care for him. Just like the Kent's did for you. You have a much better handle on this than you think. What makes you scared and unsure is that he has your DNA present in him. That I know is not something you with your Earthly customs can really understand, but as a Kryptonian each of us was genetically engineered to do one job all their life. We had our lives planned for us before we were even born. We wanted to break from this mold and had you naturally. It was the best decision we ever had. So the question that is left will you care for him as a naturally born child or will you care for him as the weapon he was created to be? Two ways of caring with two different outcomes. The question is do you accept him as he is or shun him for it?" Jor-El spoke softly to his uncertain son.

Superman accepted everything that was said to him and just stood there. He contemplated for a long time and finally came to a decision. "I will raise him as my parents did for me. The League will do the same. We will raise him as our own."

"Haha, my my. This child will have a very large family indeed." Jor-El said laughing.

"All the same I wish to restrict his access to the Fortress until I think he is ready to have access." Superman said.

"I cannot agree to this. Know that he has your DNA, even if it is only a small piece, so he will be able to access this place of his own free will eventually. Should he place a command there will be nothing I can do." Jor-El said.

Superman grit his teeth but could not reply, as this was the case no matter what he did so he brought up the news of the new threat and had the Fortress begin getting the fully sealed Kryptonian armor out of storage. Releasing the tension he had, Superman nodded to his head to his father and left to go to the watchtower.

Jor-El watched his child leave. He knew the amount of pressure that Superman held on his shoulders and would prepare the best armor he could in the time he had. Should Superman come back with a sample of this enemy he would do his best to find a way to defeat it. Jor-El also felt that the prison of his people would start to break down soon so he needed to prepare for the future troubles that would bring.

Zod and his group had been on a mission outside of Krypton's system so they weren't there when everything happened. Jor'El had tole Zod everything that was happening and Zod had been on their way back but they didn't make it in time to change the outcome. Their appearance had greatly injured Superman's mind and emotions having to choose between his original world and his adopted world.

Jor-El sent his hologram to look in on his newest visitor and saw Broly laying in his crib. He had somehow escaped the burrito of clothing he had been wrapped up in. In his escape the tail he had was waving in the air off to the side.

"Well now aren't you an interesting child. I wonder what else about you Kal-El kept from me. Oh, no matter I will find out eventually. Welcome to the Fortress of Solitude Broly this will be your home for the future. I hope you like it here." Jor-El said as he disappeared.

…

Within Broly's mind.

I was training. I had started as soon as Valkyry had issued her mission for me. For now I was in the center of my mindscape in the sphere of green light sitting in the lotus position. What I was doing was creating things from my previous life. Anything and everything I created appeared right before my 'body'. There a a large pile of stuff that appeared after I finished creating it. When I did one of the marines or Navy personnel showed up to take it to storage.

I started with simple things such as a ball, rock, a sheet of paper and other simple things I knew the method of creation and had access to. What I was doing was training my mind to recreate these objects by using mental energy or psionic power. These were real physical things within my mind. With them here I could train with them by creating then, fixing them and using them.

By training in my mindscape I used up mental energy as well as my soul energy as I was pulling things from his previous life. As things got more complex like clothing and shoes I was starting to falter. My energy was being used up at a prodigious rate. But the energy that was placed within me kept my actual energy at a high level. What I was experiencing was the fatigue of an over used muscle that had never been worked before.

And I was loving it. The feeling of a good workout was ground into my very bones in my previous life. Knowing I could go on I kept at it and started working with more complex materials. Eventually I planned to recreate my weapons and my armor to fit this new body. But this level of exacting detail was very, very far off.

I was getting the hang of it as I continued to work. With a stronger mind I would be able to push back against the psychic powered heroes and villains I would face in the future. If I could not protect my mind then I would cause the world more harm with my knowledge than anyone else.

Plus I couldn't rely on Valkyry in this even if she was sent to aid me. She may end up separated from me in the future so I have to stand on my own.

Once I was able to constantly create simple objects I started to create things while I circulated energy through one of my meridians. Since this would be an extremely taxing process I did not start till I knew that I could create things constantly without fail.

This would double my training experience as I would be in fights where my mental energy and ki would be used in concert to keep me in the fight.

The meridian I chose to focus on was one of the three within my head. My thinking was that if I used this meridian it would help my mind strengthen faster.

Before I tried I asked Valkyry if it would do what I expected. She replied that it would likely do so but if I lost control of the energy I would only harm himself. Hearing this and not knowing how badly the energy would feel he decided to test it my only working with the ki meridian first.

I started to pull ki through my mind meridian and was shocked when I felt a raging torrent coming from just a tiny pull. Before the energy could fry my brain I quickly went to work circulating the ki throughout my bodies meridians, till it circulated back to my head where it dissipated into my brain strengthening the bonds of the cells and their vitality.

Breathing a sigh of relief at the near fatal disaster I focused again and with the smallest amount of pull the ki that was raging through my meridian before calmed to a more manageable amount. Though I did not feel as if I could do both at once. As of yet.

So I set about pulling ki through my meridians, while I did so I alternated between all of them. After over a thousand cycles of each meridian I felt I had reached the point where I could now combine the alternating cycling technique with my mental formation training.

I began my new training regimen.

Before I had begun my training I asked Valkyry about my sleeping and waking up to eat. "Broly you are in a situation now that if you wasted time on waking up eating then going back to sleep you would not meet the deadline of ki over-exposure. So to aid you, till you are able to handle the ki, I have put you into a coma. The Robots outside will take care of you in that time. You have one month until your body is fatally ill from the over abundance of ki in your system. Once you decrease the energy to 70% will you awake from your coma. I did not think it was so bad before but after taking a closer look I found this out."

I frowned at Valkyry with s skeptical gaze. She responded hotly, "Don't give me that face how was I supposed to know? I have never actually dealt with this kind of thing before. I am learning as much as you are. I know everything you read and that is about it. So we are exploring new grounds at this point."

Upon hearing I would be in a coma till I dealt with the over abundance of energy I had an even more determine look in my eye. I would deal with this and over achieve on my first mission. The better I did in my training now the more relaxed I could be in the future. Once I did I would be able to have more freedom in the future.

I would be able to explore this universe to see the sights I had always wanted. So for my first months on this world I would train and train and train some more to achieve the life I wanted.

After a few days of training I had gotten to the point where I could create a simple sword and spear with my mental energy all the while I was circulating ki with up to four meridians. Two of the meridians were in his head while the other two were the ones connected to his bones.

I knew from my previous life that bones were where the blood was created as well as the glue that held the body together. Bones were where the muscles were able to grip and pull power from. Bones were something I needed strong to be able to pull of the feats I was likely going to be experiencing in the future.

My meridians were placed all over my body. They had smaller filaments that I could direct to focus the ki on certain areas. With these filaments I began from the top of his skull downward.

It was painful.

It was exactly the same as the pain I felt in the process of my body being transformed in my previous life. The pain of bones being broken down to be rebuilt tougher and stronger than before. It was a pain I would go though at least three more times five more if I was focused on it. This process was what the stories called refinement.

I was refining my body and cells to be better at their jobs of accepting and circulating ki. By doing this I was forcefully advancing my cells to a higher evolution that processed energy or ki better. With more efficient cells I would be able to collect ki easier and process energy much more efficiently than I would have before. This is the most important process of any cultivation. If a person had not gone through refinement or had another way to provide more pure ki to their body they would be limited to what they could achieve at the end of their lives because the body and cells would not be able to handle the amounts of energy/ki or have more pure ki. The purer the energy/ki the more power a person will have.

What I was going through was the Five Step Tempering. In this tempering a person refines all of their body with ki five times to be able to collect ki and circulate it easier. Once their body is completely refined their cells will store ki where it can be used in a multitude of different ways from healing oneself, to attacking, to having a stronger body for defense. By the end of the tempering I will have a body full of energy that can collect ki form the atmosphere or void. With this tempering done I will have the ability to train for longer and harder.

All around it is the first and most important step outside of originally setting up the meridians and core. Being force fed so much energy so early I had already been pushed to the point where he could start the tempering stage without having to wait to collect the energy to do this process.

Normally this would take a long time to achieve but since my life had been in danger at the time Valkyry had pushed the meridian and core formation technique directly into my mind to save me. Should I have failed in this process my body would have exploded and burned to a crisp at the energy force fed to me.

The first tempering of the bones had just finished and I lay on my back in the mindscape catching my breath after the ordeal. I had no idea how worried the robots as well as Jor-El we for me.

…

Outside Broly's mindscape. In the room Broly had been brought a medical bot was scanning Broly as his body was going through the change he was forcing. What Broly was not experiencing in his mind was the purge of the toxins and impurities from his bones that were coming out of his rear end. It was so shocking that the robots had requested information from Jor-El as they were not sure what to do.

Since the beginning of the day he had been sleeping. After so long Jor-El ha ordered the bots to put in a medical drip as well as a nutrient drip for Broly. Since he had not woken from the treatment they decided it was best just to leave it in until he awakes. Now hours later a new change had been found. From all over his body a black sticky liquid was being released. It was coming out a lot more from his rear end where he expelled it explosively like any baby is wan to do.

But the difference here was the amount and the corrosive properties of the black liquid. Jor-El not seeing what else to do had the bots place Broly in the bath to allow the liquid to be cleaned off him and be expelled cleanly without it clinging to him as it would with any kind of clothes he would have on at the time. The bath was regulated and was dropped down into a holding tank where Jor-El did experiments on the liquid. From his findings he found that anything that was of an danger to the body was being physically expelled through some unknown process. If what he put together was right then Broly's DNA was changing, it was adapting the most optimal and most efficient processing of energy. As his body became stronger and more effienct he needed to expel the excess nonessential materials from his system.

It was fascinating for Jor-El to watch. He was an artificial intelligence based off of the original Jor-El so he kept his scientific mind and inquisitive nature. That being said the bathroom that Jor-El had placed Broly had all of the most sophisticated technology that he could bring to bear to examine the ever evolving life form his son had brought for him to take care of. He never stated that he couldn't examine him while he was here.

So Jor-El watched as Broly tempered his body for the future. Not knowing that this process was just the beginning.

…

I had just caught my breath so I sat back up and started focusing once more on the next stage of my tempering, the tempering of my organs. All of the organs inside my body went through the same process. I pushed myself after my small break after I felt the effects of the first tempering of my bones.

I felt stronger, my bones felt more dense and solid. The ki he had been circulating was 30% more efficiently processed when he circulated it through them before. When I got to the fifth stage I would have a 100% increase in Ki circulation throughout my bones. The original way to do the tempering was bones, tendons, muscles, organs and skin.

I changed the tempering order due to my lack of movement at the moment. If I was able to move around then I would be able to focus on the tendons then muscles. But since I was in a coma I couldn't do so. Let alone being a baby.

"Hmph still can't believe I'm a baby again." I said out loud to no one.

Accepting this fact I decided to make my organs more efficient. Since I wasn't digesting food normally this would help my physical body absorb the nutrients I needed to function.

I began the process and after my first tempering of the bones I was able to make the process move at a much faster speed. With a better handle on ki control Broly started my tempering with six meridians actively circulating. I did not know but when I did this process my mental training was also producing amazing results that would leave anyone shocked as the focus I put into his tempering made me look at each and every cell before moving on to another. I had been doing this in the first tempering of my bones but I did not have a clear enough image. From that point he asked Valkyry, "Can you put an image of the cells for each of my organs?"

After the screen I asked for appeared I processed the information and with my ki energy I followed it to where the cells of each organ were. I then very delicately pushed my ki into each cell. Eventually my mental focus would allow me to create things to a more detailed and distinct fashion when I went all the way down to the atoms. But that was a long way off still for me.

The tempering of the organs went quicker with a the information that sat before me. I decided to follow this up with another stage of tempering of my bones with the image of my bone cells and physical structure before me. This time I was pushing my ki to a more controlled manner to focus on each cell.

Not letting up I repeated this process for a week. At the end of the week I had reached the tempering of bones level four, tempering of organs level 3, tempering of tendons level 3, tempering of muscles level 2, and tempering of skin level 1. I now had my whole body covered and the flow of ki was at a point where it flowed like a dam had been broken. I now used 12 meridians to help me process my body. Once I got all of it done the ki within my body would flow like my blood if not even easier.

"How much energy have I consumed?" I asked Valkyry.

"You have consumed close to 5% of the energy. You are now at 95%. You need 25% more to reach the threshold and wake from your coma." Valkyry said.

"What?! Damn all that work and only 5%? How much energy did they put in my body?" I asked shivering.

"Too much, but this energy is also a head start given to you by our patron. If you had to start from step one you would never have had a chance against the Flood. Be happy with it. But know that you only have three weeks before your body shuts down to excess energy." Valkyry said seriously to me.

"Understood." I said as I continued to temper my body.

The reason I was going this direction rather than doing what Valkyry had told me before was I was not accustomed to this energy so I had to practice with it to understand it. Once I understood it I would be able to utilize it to start working on the mission that Valkyry had given me. Plus I would not survive long against the great ape if I did not have the strongest body I could have.

Once I did I would fight the great ape with my newly created body. I would have a far better chance to actually fight the great ape when I was fully tempered. Though I would be fighting the giant ape with a young child's body with the mental practice I would be able to restrict the great ape a great deal. Enough that my childish body would not affect me as much as one might expect. Of course this is the body of a saiyan so I would be able to do things that other species could not.

With each of my tempering's my physical body had grown. When I finished the tempering's my body would likely reach between 3 and 5 years of age. This would seem drastic if not for the amount of energy he contained and its threatening to kill him if he did not absorb it. Since my body was in a live or die situation my body is forcefully growing.

"After I take care of the tempering. I think I should go break down some of my nightmares. Once I take a few of those down I should be in a good enough spot to take on the Great Ape. My mind and my soul will be my best weapons against the great ape." I said to myself.

"Hey, Valkyry?" I called out after I exited my meditation.

"Yes, Broly?" Valkyry asked in the same tone.

"Did our patron by any chance say whether or not others could use ki? Or am I the only one?" I ask almost dreading the answer. There were to many things that could go differently if that was the case. So many it was scary.

"Hmm, from his explanation it would seem that there are people who can use it. But since it is such a hard energy to find there will only be a few people who access to it and they will be very old if they do. Very few beings are hardy enough to have access to ki. Ki is energy in its most raw and pure form so if someone comes into contact with it they are likely to be vaporized by the concentrated energy unless they are strong enough to endure it. You are only alive because of the different DNA types within you. Specifically Wonder Woman's DNA as it has divine energy as a base which is actually pretty close to ki in power and strength." Valkyry explained to me.

Her words released some of the tension I held in my shoulders. If there were other cultivation masters here it was going to be an interesting twist to see. Though knowing that no normal human would be able to handle ki was nice to know, since there was a chance that one of them could be a super villain which could end extremely badly.

"Is there a way I could teach others how to sense ki without it killing them?" I ask Valkyry.

"I see where you are going with this. It would have to be in a very tiny amount but you could show some of your future heroes ki. It would be a long process, so don't put to much weight on it. Only if they had proper training before hand would their bodies be able to handle the energy of ki. If not trained properly they will be burnt-out at the attempt." Valkyry explained.

I sat in thought for a period of time digesting this. If I am able to give others this power then my future will allow for much more growth. I will also have more people I can share my life with without fearing for their lives. Plus the Justice League would reach a new level. I wasn't sure about the present members of the Justice League but the members of Young Justice would be perfect candidates for this as they will have even more reason to train. It will also prevent deaths that could have been avoided from happening.

My thoughts cascaded from one to another. I couldn't keep them all straight so to help me with this I turned to Valkyry and began to lay out my plans for the future. I needed to get all this down so that I was able to focus on the here and now.

After what seemed like four hours I came to a stop. All the plans I had laid out were present before me in a neat orderly way. Valkyry had pointed out some places that were up for change depending on which universe the one I was present in pulled from. If half of what I saw was possible then I could prevent deaths and protect the future with the aid of the stories I grew up with. If not then I would be flying by the seat of my pants unless I forced the direction of some of the stories to the end outcome I wanted or needed. But that was too Machiavellian of me.

But it could be fun if I really wanted to test myself.

So from everything Valkyry has gathered though there seems to be close to five years till the beginning of Young Justice but a lot of information is missing so there could be a change of five to eight years instead. So I will have five to eight years of training. During that time I will have to ingratiate myself to the League and the sidekicks. If I am able to do so then I will have a much greater effect on the future of the Justice League.

Most would question why I focus on the Young Justice time period of DC. This is because Young Justice is where the Justice League starts to become a larger entity that will fight evil in front of cameras as well as in the dark. Before Young Justice, only Batman and Green Arrow fought crime that way but with the appearance of the Young Justice members they started facing evil without showing their faces. It is also where the Justice League spreads itself past Earth onto the galactic scene. That is where I think the Justice League failed itself. If the League had been better prepared then they wouldn't have nearly been destroyed by multiple alien invasions from different alien groups.

Because the League did not prepare in the five-year time period hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives in the consequential appearances of multiple evil alien species. Though Valkyry did tell me that Batman decided to change some things up after hearing about the Flood as well as the Thanagarians. That may change some things but I have a feeling it will not be enough to truly change how things operate. I will have to see how things change and what combination of situations I will find myself in.

"Before you return to your training I want to explain another boon given to us by our patron. Since you were placed in this situation our patron gave us a way for you to gain real training without having to take years. I was given a time manipulation power similar to the time chamber. This can be put in place and allow a month of training to progress in one day. Though continued use will drain my energy reserves and leave you without this ability for an unknown amount of time. Since you are in such a desperate situation it would be best for you to train with this boon until you have full control of your new powers. You can make a decision on how to use it. Before you ask, the time dilation will also affect your physical body. With your regeneration powers you will survive the process. It will also accelerate your body's growth to the amount of time you use the time dilation. So be careful with the use of this boon as it will age you too much if you are not careful." Valkyry unloaded on me.

My eyes sparkled like an anime girl seeing something cute. I was shocked to hear of such a powerful boon given to me. But after thinking on it for a little while I saw the sense in this boon. It would allow me to reach power levels where I can actually compete with the heroes and villains present in this universe without having to spend decades honing my powers.

True time would pass but I would be able to handle the progression with my saiyan body as they aged and grew slower than normal humans.

Right. Time for more training!