Born of Water and Wealth (Percy Jackson and Young Justice)

Chapter 4: There's No Hope For Evil

Edited On: 5/15/2021

You always hear that people are never evil. Not when they're born, not when they're still young and innocent.

So what happens when you are born for that purpose. That purpose of being evil and destroying other people's lives, to be a weapon of mass destruction?

What happens when you learn the truth, that you're not real. Not born like anyone else, genetically engineered, Deathstroke told me.

More like a freak, a freak that was only created for a purpose that I didn't like. A purpose which was to kill a hero that brings hope when there isn't any.

No, I'm not talking about Superman morons.

I'm talking about The Dark Knight, The Caped Crusader, The World's Greatest Detective, the man that everyone calls Batman.

My purpose in my life was to kill Batman, a man who doesn't have any powers, yet foils any evil plans that go his way.

A man, who I was also genetically related to by the way, yeah somehow The Light (who Deathstroke worked for) somehow obtained Batman's DNA and reverse engineered it to create me.

I was just a tool. A tool that had never really seen the sun (I'm only allowed out at night and with supervision), never got a real education. Something that got information and pictures fed into their brain.

What was I?

More importantly, What was I supposed to do with this information?

Would I try to escape (Like the first month I spent here), try and find Batman to complete my life mission, or tell him what Deathstroke has done?

Would I really turn into this killing machine just for a person who wants me to call him master, while I, his apprentice, more prisoner?

The truth was though, I wasn't going to do anything. At some point in my life, there will be a chance. A chance of freedom, before and after my mission is complete.

I just had to act like the soldier I was supposed to be, I guess that means less trying to escape, more time training, no complaining, and....I guess maybe even killing.

I just hope that Deathstroke keeps his promise that the only people I kill are people who have sinned.

The only problem, if they have sinned, was it by some celestial beings (who I don't believe in) or Deathstroke's?

I also have another question, what was hope?

People respond in different ways.

"Hope is what brings us happiness."

"There is always hope even when it doesn't feel like there is."

Or if you want both of the Genomorphs definitions:
"A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen," or better yet, "A feeling of trust."

If you asked me that question, I would explain to you that hope is only for the good. The good thing is having something to hope for, whether god, friends, family, or even the next-door neighbor.

There isn't hope for evil. The murders, rapists, serial killers. They don't have anything to hope for.

When people see a beautiful day, all I see are the clouds that are coming to hide the hope, the hope that never seems to shine through the dark clouds.

My life has all been about one thing, killing batman. Training hard to please the man I call Master.

Master the art of shadows, blocking my thoughts from intruders, and acting like a normal ten-year-old girl.