'And you are sure that my father's influence is completely gone in this child? As hard as it was to free him from Hydrus I don't wish to waste my time.'

'Of course Raven, Zeron keeps his promises.'

'Good, this child will prove vital to my plans.'

'Our plans.'

'Of course our plans.'

"Auntie Raven?"

"What Kurt?"

"Its weird."

"What?"

"Not having Miff---Miff---Miffistreegone in my head."

"He had to leave Kurt."

"But he told me he didn't know how then he said a buncha dirty words. The scientist's said I couldn't use dirty words. Why can't I use dirty words?"

"Because Kurt your not old enough."

The boy pouted, "I want to be able to use the dirty words they sound funny."

"Funny?"

"Uh-huh. Will you let me use dirty words Auntie Raven?"

"When you're old enough."

"I want to be old enough now Auntie Raven."

She sighed and set the book she had been reading on her desk.

"You really want to be a grown up like me?"

"Uh-huh but Miffistreegone said it would take forever because he was immoral."

She stood up and picked the child from the floor careful not to poke herself on his horns.

"Kurt you mean IMMORTAL not immoral. But father was certainly immoral wasn't he?"

"Huh?"

"Oh nothing dear. Here sit in the floor and color while Auntie works okay?"

"Alright Auntie Raven."

"Good boy."

Suddenly the doors burst open.

"Mistress Raven. The prisoners are demanding to speak to you."

"Very good I'll come by the cells in a few minutes."

The soldier walked out of the room, and Raven picked up the toddler and set him on the floor.

"Come on Kurt it is time for you to start learning the family business."

"Yes Auntie Raven."

"Good boy now come along."

The small blue deamonchilde followed his 'aunt' down the hall his oversized stone fist hanging just off the floor.

*******

He looked around the corner, he had to know if it was still out there...He didn't know what it was...just teeth and claws.... and those horrible smiles. Oh god why did it smile like that? How could it smile like that? Nothing had mouths for eyes..... It was impossible. But the tiny teeth just smiled at him anyway...they didn't care that it was impossible. Somewhere behind him he heard it...a motorcycle. Help? Or him?

"We have a situation at the Charles Darwin block, over. I'm going in to Investigate."

The motorcycle swung to a stop behind him.

"You there. What's going on?"

He knew that voice and slowly he turned knowing who it was that had just ridden up...

"Answer now or be charged with withholding information."

"Judge D..... Dr....Dredd...."

"1"

The Judge slowly reached for the handcuffs at his side.

"2"

He pulled them up and stepped away from his bike towards the scared man.

"3,"The judge snapped the cuffs around his wrists. "2 years on the Titan V prison colony."

He shoved the perp forward, the mans face hitting the side of the building. He sniffed the air.

"Tobacco residue...another six months.... Enjoy the stay."

With that he rendered the perp unconscious and started into the block. He pulled his lawgiver from its holster has he entered. Something here smelled.....wrong. Mega City 1 blocks where clean efficient....but this was chaos. Blood and Chaos.

He stepped over the numerous corpses has he walked up the stairs. With each floor it was worse. More body's women and children now. Then he saw it. It had his back turned to him all he could see was a long coat, gray hair and, tubes.

"Lawgiver, Armor piercing rounds."

He heard the subtle clicking of the weapon in his hand as it switched ammo. Once Judge Minty had told him that there comes a day when you think you can talk them out of it. That maybe people weren't so bad after all...It was scenes like this that convinced him Minty had been too old for the job. He pulled the trigger.

It shrieked in agony and fell clutching its heart.

Dredd cautiously approached tapping it with his boot. It was down.

"This is Judge Dredd. Charles Darwin block cleared. Get a coroner down here."

Behind him he heard a shuffling, he raised his Lawgiver and swung back to fire again but it was gone...He followed its trail to the window and then saw it continued on the street.

"Drokk! It's in the city!!!"

He jumped to the ground and gave chase his legs going as fast they could.

*****

"Hey Ted check this out!"

"Wha?"

The Scarlet Scarab turned and was nearly KO'd has a gas launched boxing glove hurtled towards him. It whizzed past a mere centimeter from his nose crashing into a display behind him.

"Where in the hell did you get that?"

"The Hyena display. Cool ain't it?"

The Golden Torch ran up to survey the damage.

"Hey look a JLE display. Didn't they disband a while back?"

"I don't think so."

"Hey check this."

The Golden Torch held a huge blue fist.

"Dude that's somebody's hand!"

"No its not look the placard says 'Hellcrawler's mummified stone fist'...Eww!"

The Torch threw the hand on the ground and wiped his hands on Scarab's back.

"Hey quit I don't mummy juice on my back!"

"Hey who is Hellcrawler? I've never heard of him?"

"He must join in our future."

"But I know everyone form your time...Hey look here's a picture...plug ugly son of a..."

Suddenly from behind them came a wheezing voice. "It's not nice to call people names."

The two heroes turned and looked at the new comer. Than they looked at the picture. Then back at the newcomer.

"It's the ghost of Hellcrawler!" they cried in unison.

"It wasn't me who grabbed your hand it was Ted!"

"No it wasn't!"

"Shoot him with your silly string!!!"

"You shoot him! I'm running!"

The 'ghost' slowly stumbled towards them. The two looked at each other screamed and ran down the halls of the museum.

Then Hellcrawler was gone again.

*******

"Whoa dude check it out!"

"Seriously you guys that's what ah call I freak!"

"MPHMPHMHMP"

The four small boys giggled. Suddenly the creature before them stirred and the boys screamed.

"Somebody kill it!"

"Ah'll save us Ah'll hit it with a rock!"

As the creature sat up the fat kid threw a rock at it hitting it in the jaw.

"Who you? Why fat kid hit Killer Morbius with rock?"

"You didn't kill it Fat-ass you pissed it off!"

Suddenly the fat kid was ripping his jacket off revealing an extremely tight spandex costume....something very disturbing to his teammates believe me, and pulled a hood over his head.

"No Kyle not Fat-Ass...Bat-Ass!*"

The one called Kyle pulled a small ring from his pocket and has he put on an emerald driedle spun around him fading to reveal the costume of ...Jew Lantern!

Stan heroically threw back his head and ripped his shirt off showing the costume of Superstan.

And Kenny......Well Kenny taped a yellow lightning bolt his parka....The lightning bolt of Flash-Kenny!

Super Stan flew at the creature blasting it with his heatvision as a beat up old station wagon bounced down the road.

"Hello Children!"

Jew Lantern turned to the car.

"Aqua-Chef! You're here! Bat-ass threw a rock at this thing and now its angry and its gonna eat Stan!"

"Oh no children I know what to do!"

Aqua Chef touched his forehead and emitted a low hum. Suddenly a huge whale jumped onto the snow-covered land of Justice Park, where it flopped around uselessly.....

"Uh sorry children but that's all I can do."

Aqua Chef got into his car and drove away.

"Oh no we're doomed!"

Suddenly Jew Lantern felt Flash-Kenny's hand on his shoulder.

"Mph mphmphm mphmpmhh mphmphmmmhhmph."

With that said Flash-Kenny accelerated to full speed and ran head on into the beast.

"Oh my God Kenny's become one with the speed force!"

"That Bastard!"

Flash-Kenny's rapidly decomposing Body hit the creature forcing it away from SuperStan and then in a flash of light both it and the mumbling speedster where gone.

Bat-ass finally pulled himself from the huge ass shaped crater in the ground and stared at Flash-Kenny's smoking trail.

"That's weak...I never get make the villains respect mah authoritah!"

"Shutup Bat-ass!"

*****

Ellyst had wondered for days what Wayne was going to do them. He was apparently allied with their captor the woman who kept demanding that they summon Hellcrawler.....She didn't even know where blue boy was they had met in Gotham and she had known him for less than an hour before he dissapeared**. There was however something about the guy that kept nagging at her. He reminded her of someone...or something...

"Heads up Prisoners, Raven Blaze is here to talk to you."

The woman walked through the door with her usual arrogance that Ellyst had come to expect.

"Let us out of here you sadistic Bit...."

"No no must watch your mouth around the little one."

Ellyst had no idea what the woman was talking about and then Hellcrawler had entered the room. There was no mistaking him...blue, horns, big stone fist....It was him. But this Hellcrawler was a small child.

******

Kurt was in a darkened church now, nothing here made sense to him. The scientists at Cadmus had not taught him about religion, and it was something he had never asked Mephistrigan about. He looked up at the cross hung on the wall and saw there was a man hanging from it. He ran forward and grabbed the mans feet trying to free him but he was only a statue forever locked in this tortured expression....Who would chose such a cruel, depressing symbol as a wall hanging? He sat in one of the pews knowing that he would probably only be here for a few minutes and pondered his situation...he wondered where the JLE was. How was Kwatannon? When he had last seen here she was slowly dying. He had no idea how it had happened but he guessed that she had punctured a lung in battle. How long would it take to die like that?....He shook the depressing thought from his head and paced back and forth, then he noticed the small book sitting on one of the pews. The Holy Bible...what's was this he had never heard of it. He sat down and began reading...

*****

Dredd was nearing his prey the black blood was pooled in thicker puddles, it was wetter not yet dry...The creature was near.

*****

The Red Parasite had no idea where he was...It was apparently some sort of military installation. He walked down the halls careful to avoid any sort of detection. He could not tell if there were camera's anywhere nearby, but he heard a guards footsteps. He hid in the shadows of a darkened corner and waited for the guard to pass. The guard didn't notice the cloud of 'drain dust' that had suddenly appeared before him and walked right through it. He collapsed to the floor his face a red skull, his body weakened...but his mind, his knowledge his life force....they were now the Red Parasites.

"S.H.I.E..L.D.? Do they exist in every dimension!?!"

The Red Parasite started towards the security off ice he knew what he was doing now. He could deactivate the camera's and go the labs...The guard knew about something there...something he shouldn't an object called the Apocalypso Cube....With it Red Parasite could reshape reality in anyway he wanted....and then we would see who had to serve Zeron.

*****

Neron watched all this a hint of a smile upon his lips.

"So he is the first to make it to the prime universe eh? I wonder how many more will make it..."

Aldrell watched the more powerful demon hate etched into his face, he did his best to clear it and began speaking.

"The betting pools in the seventh level believe that Mephistrigan will make it sir..."

"Of course he will you sniveling moron! He is the nexus in all of this none of them would reach the prime universe if he was never going to make it!"

"Ye...yes sir I will notify the betters...."

"No, no, put oh let's say a million souls on my dear, dear brother to make it...."

"But we already know he will...."

"Exactly why not get a little more power with the info eh?"

"Of course sir my apologies...."

Aldrell scampered to make the wager....

'A sniveling moron!?! We will see Neron who is the sniveling moron when I am ruler of the Prime universe...I will rule all and then my army and I will do what even Lucifer could not...We will take down the early gates and cast the bloody angels into the pits!'

"Its best to think big isn't it Aldrell?"

Aldrell looked around startled trying to find the source of this voice...what he found was young girl in a black flowing cloak...somewhere underneath the hood to familiar eyes burned into him.

"Do I know you?"

"You don't recognize me Aldrell? Your favorite cousin?"

"Z...Zeron?"

The girl applauded him sarcastically, "Congratulations Aldrell."

"But you can't be Zeron...Your a woman you have..."he reached out to grab the woman's chest and was knocked back a powerful blast of hellfire.

"Touch them and die Aldrell."

"I....I'm sorry Zeron."

"Its alright you are to low on the food chain to know any better...you were born a perverted mockery of true demons..."

"Y...Yes Zeron I was."

"And a weak willed spineless coward as well...did you really feel you could follow through with your plan? Neron knows of course he's waiting for you to make your move..."The demon/girl grabbed Aldrell's arm "but I am not!" She bent the arm backward actually tearing it from Aldrell's body. "You warned Mephistrigan."

"No, no, I told him to stay away from you so he would not ruin your plans..."

"Really? I'm sorry I ever doubted you would do anything less..."She leaned over and offered the demon her hand. He grasped it and began to pull himself up. "You always were a terrible liar Aldrell.'

"Wha?"

The girl leaned in and kissed him on the forehead. "Goodbye Aldrell."

He looked at her as she turned and started off, he began to ask her what she meant but just as his lips opened to ask the question his head exploded....

"You always had a flair for the dramatic Zeron."

She turned and bowed before the speaker.

"Lord Neron."

"I won't interfere in your little quest for vengeance Zeron... although for my own amusement I will grant this favor you came to ask for, but I warn you...know your place. If you ever think you are big enough to try and take my throne I will personally destroy you. Family or no."

The kneeling girl looked up to the demon lord untroubled. "I assure you brother I would never presume to consider myself your equal...."

"Good now drag that carcass out of here and leave my realm."

"Of course my lord."

*****

Kurt went to turn the page and again he shifted through time and space, this time he was on a battlefield of some sort. Vicious-looking purple creatures flew through the air in all directions even has strangely familiar men did battle with them. Somewhere behind him he heard an explosion and then some cussing. He turned and ran towards the sound...

"Damn it stupid Paraspammer pieces of $h!t!!!"

The shouts came from a man laying on the ground clutching his left leg. There was a large hole in the leg of his costume but no blood the wound he clutched had been instantly cauterized. Suddenly there were two men behind Kurt floating in the air.

"Arrowslinger what happened?"

The wounded man looked up and saw Kurt for the first time, he seemed extremely surprised.

"Arrowslinger!?!"

The wounded man shook his head and stood up on his injured leg.

"Sorry SuperCable. Paraspammer got a pretty good shot in."

One of the flying men nodded and looked at the man beside him.

"Ivan get him out of here."

The wounded man limped towards them...."Wait a second, there's something I have to do....."

He began limping towards Kurt.

The man called Ivan grabbed the injured man and held him back.

"Arrowslinger you know it's against the rules to interact with one of them.....leave him be."

"But...."

"You know it's for the best Arrow."

"A...Alright." Ivan carried him off but Arrowslinger looked back to Hellcrawler.

"Do me proud Kurt!"

Who was this guy and how did this guy know his name? Kurt didn't have time to find out as he shifted again...

It was happening quicker know he was jumping through universe in mere seconds. Images flashing before him.

A man in anger wearing a blue and red suit with a black Super-Soldier-esk S on it tearing apart a building as startled men watched...

A man in a black and gray suit doing battle with a younger version of the man in front as a glowing green arrow flew towards them...

An old bald man clad in a tattered American flag looking in confusion at a large green woman with tentacles growing from her head...

A man with a lantern repeating some sort of incantation...

A man in purple being shot by a young brown haired woman who is shocked when he throws the bullets to her feet...

And then all was white...

*****

Dredd could hear it breathing...he couldn't see it. It had hidden itself to well, but he could hear it. Suddenly it cried out in anger and frustration.

"Dammit who are you!?!"

"I am the Law!"

Dredd began firing the Lawgiver's ricochet bullets bouncing around the buildings many hiding places...

"AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!"

One of the shots had hit! Dredd jumped some crates which obstructed his view and switched to armor piercing ammo in mid-jump. He hit the floor firing again the bullets striking the bloody beast that had murdered and entire block only an hour ago. He sat up aiming for the beast's head...he pulled the trigger...there was a flash of light....and the bullet hit the wall behind where the creature had been standing...

*****

Kurt woke and the light was blinding....somewhere nearby he heard loud bells. There were costumed people laying all around him. Were they dead?

'They're alive Kurt.'

'Mephistrigan where are we.'

'The prime universe....'

'Who are they?'

'The surviving members of the JLE I would guess...I can't get any specifics I'm still very weak.'

Kurt started to pull himself up and looked around to see who was with him...

To be continued?

*Don't blame me Jono named 'em

**Hellcrawler vol. 1 #6

Afterward: This is really just a setup for the new Hellcrawler series I am writing has we speak and the new JLE on the way from Crazy Ivan. I hope you enjoyed the miniseries and will stick around for more Hellcrawler in both series...For more Timejumping fun check out Ivan's Hundred Year War stories , especially the Nowhere Men those stories are hilarious....Thanks to everyone who let me use their creations...Well that's about it for now. See ya'll soon

Green Archer