This is my first superhero AU and I hope someone likes it.

Utopia, the name of the ideal city, where everyone had the right place for them according to their abilities and experiences. The place where everything was justice and its inhabitants helped each other.

At least that was the idea when the first citizens of this metropolis gave a name to this city.

Nothing could be further from reality, Utopia was the opposite of what its name represented. Ruled by a corrupt mayor who helped the local mafias control the territory in exchange for protection and favors. With a police department that served the will of the mayor and the powerful men of that city. With inhabitants who only cared about themselves and their well-being and never looked at the pain of others.

"Kane is going to launch his campaign for re-election, and of course he will do it sponsored by Randy Orton." Seth almost rolled his eyes. "He will give bread and circuses to the citizens and they will let him control their lives. This city is a fucking hell hole."

"I've heard that Gotham is worse, not even the League has been able to control that place." Dean answered looking at the documents in a folder. "Here it's different, I believe that we are still in time to control this disaster. Especially if we get Kane to lose the election."

"That would be a master move. But there are no strong candidates, let alone honest ones. We still have a month to find someone and sponsor them." Seth took another folder with documents and began to review them.

"You should be his opponent. Everyone knows you in this city, you're the perfect candidate." Dean said as if it was the most obvious thing.

"I can't. As mayor I would have more attention on my person and I don't need it." Seth handed several pics and documents to Dean. "You know that since we started with The Hounds of Justice, I can't afford to make such a public life."

Dean looked at the files with attention, making a gesture of concern to see the pics. "Here it says that this guy was named Titus O'Neil, boxing heavyweight champion of this city. His body was found on the banks of the river beaten and almost torn in several parts. The police report says that the state of the body is due to the fall and the heavy flow of the river."

"Only a stupid would believe that. The police are covering up whoever is killing these men." Seth huffed "We must discover why these guys are being kidnapped. For now we know they all have in common being athletic men, practicing some kind of martial art or fight, be big and strong, and they all end the same, with their bodies destroyed and dead."

"This is the proof that this city definitely needs us." Dean added, "Even if many don't recognize us as heroes."

"Because we are not heroes, Dean. We are The Hounds of Justice. We are not here to save anyone, we are here to put an end to injustice." Seth said with seriousness. "These people would kill each other for money or power, they don't deserve heroes and I am far from being one."

Dean sighed, he wondered if Seth would ever see things differently.

Dean had met Seth when they were both children. Seth was the only son of David and Julie Rollins and heir of a millionaire empire, his father had industries dedicated to various branches of commerce, manufacturing and even science. Julie was one of the most famous scientists awarded many prizes and had her own laboratory. Both were very busy people, that's why they had left their only son in the care of Jon, Dean's father, who was the trusted employee and also the child's bodyguard.

Jon was a young widower who was in charge of his only son. It was the father figure of Seth who admired him as if he were a hero because Jon had saved their lives on many occasions. Seth rarely saw his parents, but he always saw Jon. And along with Jon was always his little son, Dean, who had become Seth's best friend, since his parents privately educated him inside the mansion.

Twenty years ago...

"I don't like charity events." Seth, a seven years old kid, complained. "Can Dean come with us?"

"Only if he wants to come." David replied.

"I really like being with Seth. Besides dad will take care of us, he's a hero." Little Dean giggled.

Upon arriving at the event, Allen Jones, Julie's assistant in the lab, greeted both children. They had to contain a laugh, Allen was a weird boy, he wore huge glasses, metal braces because his teeth were crooked, he had very short hair and his face was full of acne, he wore very ugly clothes too. However Allen was a prodigy, he was 18 years old and he was in college in a very advanced course for his age. He was working with Julie on a very important and expensive project.

And although Allen worked with Mrs. Rollins, he seemed to ignore many of the details of the project. Apparently it was something so secret that even her assistant didn't have all the details.

Soon after Bob Orton and his family arrived, they were as millionaires as the Rollins. Bob was the living image that the end justifies the means and David detested the way Bob did business. The people he associated with were the worst and Bob didn't seem to have scruples to get money and power. They approached the Rollins to say hello.

"The little and weak Sethie and the friend he bought because nobody wants to be near him." Randal, Bob's son, smirked.

Randy liked to mortify others, especially if they were smaller and weaker. Randy was 14 years old, he was much older than both children. And that was another reason David detested Bob, he didn't educate Randy to respect anyone.

"Seth, Dean, stay close to me." Jon approached both children and glared at Randy.

The party developed without major complications. They collected a big amount of money for the city hospital and the most important families were there to show their support.

But unexpectedly, everything became a mess. The hall was invaded by an armed group who began to shoot their weapons. Apparently they had fooled the strict security that had been hired for the event.

It was the gang of thugs known as D-Generation X. They were led by the criminal known as Triple H.

"Just look at the rich and powerful people in the city. My boys also want charity so we will take that money." Triple H scoffed.

The thieves took the money, jewels and all valuable things they could get. Triple H approached the Rollins who were the last to be assaulted.

"Julie Rollins, scientist, philanthropist and also the most beautiful woman in this city." Triple H grabbed Seth's mom's arm and brought his face close to hers. "I should take you with me."

She spat him on the face.

Triple H wiped his face and slapped her, the woman was bleeding on the floor.

"Boss, the police are coming, we should go." One of the henchmen screamed.

"I must go, but I won't leave without teaching this bitch who spat on my face, a lesson." Triple H smirked at Julie. He pointed his gun at Seth.

Triple H raked the gun and fired. Jon lunged at the criminal deflecting the shot into the glass ceiling. Pieces of broken glass fell over the people gathered at the party and everyone was screaming and running out of control.

Triple H's henchmen threw Jon away from him and the criminal pointed his gun at Seth.

Seth heard his mother scream and the he heard the shot. The kid closed his eyes awaiting his death, but nothing happened. It was then that he opened his eyes and saw Jon's body lying on the floor and Dean crying while hugging his father. Jon had freed himself from the hit men and interposed his body to save Seth and consequently received a bullet in the head.

The criminals fled with the money.

That was the first time both kids had to face injustice.

The next day was Jon's funeral. Dean and Seth were embracing the other while crying disconsolately, both loved Jon and they were suffering for their hero.

In that moment, Julie made a decision that would change the lives of both children. After the funeral, she approached Dean.

"Dean, you know we're all affected by this, right? We loved your father."

"I know. He was a hero and he died as heroes die, saving lives." Dean said through tears.

Julie gulped, what she was going to do was terrible. But he had to if she wanted to save her son's life.

"Do you want to be a hero like your father?" She proposed.

"Sure." The boy said innocently.

"Come with me then, but you can't say anything to Seth or my husband. This will be our secret." She hugged Dean.

The boy nodded.

She took Dean to the lab. It was Sunday afternoon and there was no one there. Julie went with the kid to the office where she was developing the project she had been working on since the first time they suffered an attack when Seth was only one year old.

"I'm going to give you some umm... medicines. You're a brave child, right?" She asked sweetly.

"As brave as my father was." Dean nodded vigorously.

Julie tried to contain her emotions. She felt awful about using Dean in this way.

"If all goes well, this experiment will be a blessing in the life of Jon's son." She thought while preparing everything. "But if it goes wrong, Dean is going to... No, everything will be fine."

Before applying the 'treatment' on her own son, she had to experiment with another body, to see if he could resist and being a boy of almost the same age as Seth, Dean was the perfect candidate.

"I'm going to sleep you, Dean." She was trying to hold back the tears.

"Don't cry, Mrs. Rollins. I know you all loved my father, I don't blame you for anything." Dean said honestly.

Julie felt that her heart was shrinking. However, there was no turning back, she made Dean sleep and after almost six hours of work, she had carried out the experiment.

She sat patiently waiting for the child to wake up and see the result.

"The experiments with mice were all successful, but Dean is a kid." She thought.

Shortly after, her husband arrived at the laboratory. He had been looking for Julie everywhere and in the end he deduced that she would be there. Such was his surprise when he saw Dean lying in a bed and the surprise turned into pure indignation when she confessed what she had done.

"Our duty is to protect Jon's son!" David was screaming. "He died saving our son's life and you pay him using his son as a guinea pig."

"He's asleep, he has not had any adverse reactions to the serum, maybe it worked and I gave Dean a gift." Julie was trying to justify her actions.

"But what have you done to him?" The man claimed in pure anger.

"It's a serum that I've worked on for years, it will give him more strength, speed, agility, it will make his body much stronger than a normal person, without accelerating his metabolism or damaging his internal organs. Well, that is what I expect to achieve." She whispered.

"Do you expect?" David was livid. "You used an 8-year-old boy to know if your serum worked, even if it was a chance that it doesn't. How could you do something like that?"

"Because one of us must do something to protect our son!" She cried desperately.

Dean woke up, both stopped arguing and approached the child.

"How are you feeling, son?" David asked.

"Fine, I rested very well. I'm just very hungry." The boy smiled.

The following days Julie ran all kinds of test to Dean. The child was perfectly healthy, he was more intuitive and even inquisitive and it was obvious that he was stronger than normal, accidentally he had destroyed several things but Dean didn't understand why and he didn't care.

David had to admit that his wife succeeded. It was then that they agreed to do the same experiment with Seth and then they would get rid of the formula. It was too dangerous knowledge and if it fell into the wrong hands it would be a disaster. Fortunately, the only one who knew about the existence of that serum was Julie.

The Rollins educated both children as if they were brothers, but keeping Dean hidden, no one knew of his existence. The children had wanted to follow in the footsteps of Jon, whom they considered a hero, because he had died saving a life. So they asked to be trained and educated to be strong like him.

When Seth was 20 years old, the D-Generation X attacked again. They murdered David and kidnapped Julie in a confusing incident. Both boys were out of the country when this happened and upon learning tthe news, they returned as fast as they could. They asked for help from the police and they promised to help but the investigations did not go forward.

For a month they were behind the case but the police did not help them. Until one morning they found Julie's corpse, she showed signs of having been tortured. Now both boys had lost their entire family at the hands of the same group of criminals who had the city under their control.

And nobody had done anything about it.

They didn't know why after so many years these men had decided to attack Seth's parents. Why had they kidnapped Julie? And... Why had they killed her?

And that was the final motivation to do something on their own since the police didn't help. They knew they were not like the others, they knew what Julie had done to them and that it gave them an advantage over others and they would use that advantage to avoid further injustices.

But although Dean and Seth had a common cause both had different motivations. Dean wanted to be a hero like his father, he wanted to save lives. Seth wanted to be a punisher, to destroy the lives of all criminals and murderers. Dean wanted justice and Seth wanted revenge.

...

Currently, in another part of the city...

"Really?" The tattooed man smiled. "This desk is in perfect condition. This dent looks like it was made on purpose."

"And what if it was?" The handsome scientist smiled back. "What if it's just a pretext to see you, Roman?"

The Samoan smirked. "Mr. Styles, are you flirting with me?"

"Call me AJ, when you call me Mr. Styles you make me feel old." AJ approached Roman, looking at him intensely.

"Thirty-eight years is not being old." Roman didn't seem upset with AJ's flirting. "Especially when you look better than many younger men."

"You don't care that there are nine years of difference between you and me." AJ stroked Roman's face.

"It's nine years of experience that we could put to good use." Roman looked at AJ as he wanted to eat him.

And that made AJ shivers. The scientist bit his lips, he was totally crazy about Roman. They had been flirting since AJ hired him to fix some furniture in his house and since then he was looking for any excuse to hire him again, even destroy his own furniture. They were both looking at each other intently as their faces were dangerously close, the sound of the door opening interrupted them.

"I come to see how the progress of our project is going and I find you flirting with the carpenter." Randy Orton came into AJ's office, looking at Roman like he sees trash.

The Samoan rolled his eyes. Oh boy if he detested Orton.

"What I do with my private life is not your problem Randy. Your project is developing, that's all that matters. "AJ pursed his lips.

Roman smiled mockingly. Randal looked at him with contempt, the millionaire heir detested the working class, considered them inferior. Even if Roman was very handsome, for Randy he was nothing but trash and he wanted to have him as far as possible.

"You must be happy to have found a sugar daddy, right Reigns?" Randal smirked. "Now get the fuck out of here, I need to talk to AJ in private."

Roman wanted to break Randy's face, but that would ruin his life. He was trying to make a career in the mma, he was still a long way from fighting for a major title but he was progressing in his career and maybe soon he could stop being a simple carpenter. If he punch Randy, the millionaire man would bury him inside a prison, everyone knew Randy had bought the police. Besides, punching Randy would also hurt AJ's work and Roman liked the scientist a lot, he didn't want to hurt him.

Randy went to the lab and AJ apologized to Roman.

"Hey, I'll compensate you for this." AJ led Roman to the door. "I'll go see your next fight."

"It's a good way to compensate me. I'll be waiting for you." Roman smiled flirtatiously and left.

AJ leaned against the door. "What have you done to me, Roman Reigns?"

The scientist rolled his eyes as he remembered that he had to deal with Randy and his pedantries. However, Randy paid him a small fortune for his services, so he went to the laboratory. There Orton was reviewing the files.

"Another failure." Randy said angrily.

"Strangely, Julie left the project twenty years ago. In those twenty years we could have fixed all this and now we would succeed." AJ explained. "But she decided to dedicate her life to be a mother and a wife and left science."

"To have tortured her to give us the formula was useful, but in seven years we have not made much progress." Randy complained. "The only difference is that the bodies of the guinea pigs no longer explode. But they deteriorate horribly and die before they can be of use to my plans."

"I'm doing what I can. I have made some corrections to the formula. We must get another victim. As strong as the boxing champion was." AJ indicated coldly.

"There's a guy named Luke Harper, he's a wrestling champion. He'll be the next on the list to try the serum." Randy smirked. "Hopefully this time it works."

I don't know if this is a silly idea but I really wanted to write a superhero AU and this is the result. This is the first episode and it explains more or less how this AU is going to work. As I am a fan of DCU I mentioned them in this fic xD.

If you like how this is going, help me with reviews, favs and follows to post the next chapter. You already know that English is not my former language so I apologize for mistakes. Remember that I love you guys.

Ps. Tomorrow I will post the final chapter of Nowhere Fast.