"Earth-4" by Operant

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The Earth-4 Invasion
Investigation

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I've just become The Question full time and I'm already getting trouble from some of the veteran vigilantes. The Flash, Wally West and The Flash, Barry Allen both seem to have it out for me. Though I must give the vigilantes some credit and some of them

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are quite understanding. Huntress and Lady Blackhawk in particular gave me a warm welcome even after I told Huntress of my origin. She will definitely make a good ally in the future. Batman seems to be warming up to me,

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as much as he can that is. My main problem is with The Flash family. I recently was patroling by the bank where I saw an old friend of mine, TheYoungNerd. I didn't expect him to recognize me as it was a very long time ago but before I knew it he had

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hopped into my car. I was already heading back to my apartment and I wasn't going to stray from my path simply because I had a visitor. He even fell out one time and told me he was starving, so I stopped the car and gave him chicken, we continued driving.

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Once we reached my apartment I stepped out and went inside, he followed. I referred to him as 'Batman' in hopes of jogging his memory of who I was from the other Earth, this seems to have been a bad move. I then went on to ask him about TheQQuestion and

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if he would be coming back. He gave me nothing I didn't already know, sadly. So I opened the door and said he could leave now and he was hesitant at first, moving from chair to chair in my apartment then eventually crouching out the door. I closed it

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behind him. I stayed in my apartment for a few more minutes and called a friend who had logged on. We talked a bit then when it was almost time for the bank to be vulnerable I took my sedan and left for the bank. I was stopped in the middle of the bridge,

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however, by the two scarlet speedsters. They claimed that I had kidnapped TheYoungNerd and worse they accused me of being some sort of 'breacher' that has come to invade Vindex. It soon became clear once I went back and forth with them for a bit that they

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were grasping at insults and reasons to hate me. They said I was an rdmer because of something I'd done in my early days when I was still learning how the server worked. I admit I wasn't always a vigilante but none of us were. I've learned since then and

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I've gotten better. Quite like the words of Terry McGinnis, "I was a pretty bad kid once, ran with a bad crowd, broke a lot of laws to say nothing to my folks' hearts. The kind of kid you wouldn't have wasted a second punch on back in the day."

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While my motive is mostly to find and stop corruption in the city, I wish to make up for my past sins. I respect that they think so low of me, but I don't respect the reasoning they have for it, which is none really. If they actually listened to me

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instead of coming for me I might be able to tell them the truth. They believe me an imposter from another Earth who wishes to take the place of their Question. I'm not a bad guy, but I am who I am. And as I've stated in previous files, I won't change that

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for anyone, never again. They can either accept that, or they can stay out of my way. I am not associated with GreenArrowCW or FlashReborn, and this is my first time ever hearing of some Earth-4 invasion. In all honesty I think they're just being OTT.

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I am The Question, they're not gonna change that. They can think me a copy, a doppelganger, but I can assure them I am the real deal no matter what Earth I visit. If visiting other Earths from time-to-time makes me some sort of bad person, then so be it.

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I suppose they aren't really supposed to like me anyway. The Flash did once refer to me as a "kook." So it's really just something they're gonna have to get used to, either that, or they can stay out of my way.