In this way the days were passing by. It had been 3 months since the Harvester had been sent to the Wall while John was busy making the series. He would go to the harvester once in a while but all he could see was depressive faces. Even Emma looked stressed and worn out with all the research.
She was the oldest Green Lantern of their universe so it was her duty to be both the shield and sword of the whole corps. Hal was more of a guide for the new recruits. She was the pride of the Green Lanterns.
The first one. So she had too much of a responsibility as she wanted to be the face of their corps. But as the days were passing by at the crack, the hope was dying out as there was no progress in their research and healing the crack.
John on the other hand had already accepted that the multiverse would collapse and had already started making preparations for the greater battle. He had been busy guiding GAIA to take precautionary measures.
The Ring was built as a safe haven for the last of the species if there was ever a Flood outbreak. TO save some in order to save the species. And this was what John was doing silently. He had started to gather the animals, plants and fishes and send them to the Ring.
It felt like he was working just like Keanu Reeves in the movie 'the time when the Earth stood still." Whatever he was doing was never his choice. It was just a fail safe he needed to do in order to save the few he could.
There was never a problem with humans as there were enough at the Ring. The only thing it lacked was different kinds of other species as John was working on that silently. While doing this he was also working on the series.
One day as he was busy talking with directors and cinematographers at the set with all the other actors and actresses, there was a sudden crack in the space near them. This was not a typical opening of a portal of the multiverse. It was as if the space was bent due to a portal opening.
All the others who were busy with their work stopped right on their tracks seeing such an odd scene. Many were scared and frightened, while others were curious. Some people here knew that John belonged to the Avengers so they didn't have that much fear. They were in the Ring so the Avengers would always protect them.
Even the Hall of Justice was just a few kilometres away.
John on the other hand had a gloomy look on his face. He had never seen such portals ever in his life. He had been using portals for such a long time. He had seen portals of old gods who used black holes.
But the bending of space to open a portal was the first one. And it didn't even raise any alarm by the Guilty Spark nor the magical defense say anything about it. After the portal opened a humanoid body stepped out from the portal.
At first it was just the legs. It looked shrivelled as it felt like there was no blood flowing in the legs as John could see the tendons, the muscles and the bones. The skin was greyish in color with a hint of black on his boots.
Soon the body was out of the portal. His height was little above 6 feet and like his leg his body too was thin as everybody could see the bones which was covered by a weird and rough grey colored skin. But what stood out the most was the head.
His head seemed like it was burning in fire. The head seemed like it was covered by some form of glass of inverted tube shape but the inside of the glass was burning in fire even on the inside. But the fire was giving off fumes even outside the glass. The head had distinct eyes, nose and mouth but it was only apparent because of the change in colors of fire.
All in all, the person seemed like one form of Ghost Rider. In fact it could be said that the person looked like one time when Punisher became the Ghost Rider. The person had a huge book in his hand. The book had a Green hard cover and on the cover was something written in some language that John had never seen before.
The others were dumbfounded as the man had appeared at their set out of nowhere. Some were in panic and some were just rooted at the spot but nobody ran. But some did have their Pokemon balls in their hands ready to use them at the first sign of danger.
John on the other hand just stood by and looked at their new visitor.
"Ahh...New multiverse.... It looks good... Hmmm a strong being had pulled me here. Where is he?" The person who had just arrived finally opened his mouth. His voice seemed just like any other normal guy and that too in English.
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The man looked around for quite a bit before he finally laid his eyes on John.
"Oh dear. An omega class entity who has knowledge of multiple multiverses. Interesting." the man said. The others were surprised by the words of the man. They could easily understand that he was referring to John but they didn't understand what 'omega class entity' meant.
Probably a very powerful being. But that was the least of their thoughts right now. Everyone was thinking of only one kind.
Who was he?
Why was he here?
Why does he look so weird? It's as if he came from a civilization which doesn't have any blood and half robotics. And that fire on his head seemed like one of the aliens on the omnitrix of Ben 10.
John himself was bewildered for a bit. He didn't know who he was and he had to go through his memories to see who he was. And then it struck him. The person was present in only one issue of the comics. A person who did a survey on dying multiverses.
Dying multiverses!!
Shit!!
"The Chronicler. To what do I owe the pleasure?" John finally spoke out his mind.
"You know me? I don't remember meeting each other. My functions are acting normal. So you either know me from another source or my memories have been wiped out."
"I know you from another source....." John said and then he turned around and looked at everyone. He could see the curiosity in their faces but he couldn't answer them.
".... Guys, Please leave us. You all will be paid extra if you keep your mouth shut about it."
He was sure that this incentive wouldn't actually make their mouths shut but he tried to make sure that whatever these people had seen wouldn't spread too much. They know that Ring was working on AI so some people fear that the Ring would be able to tell their secrets, though such cases had never happened before.
Everyone slowly left the premises leaving John and the other being alone. He was called the Chronicler. He was sent from outside the multiverse. His book that he was carrying was called 'Codex omniversa'. It was a magical book which recorded the histories of the multiverse that he visits automatically.
The book was a powerful one as it could go though histories of multiple universes simultaneously on its own. It keeps the history. And Chronicler visits multiverses when it is on the verge of dying or in its last breath. The death of the multiverse doesn't mean like Black Winter. Black Winter just starts a cycle of decay and birth of the multiverse.
Here death of the multiverse meant that everything related to the multiverse would come to an end. And Chronicler arriving at their multiverse meant that their time had started ticking.
"Tell me about your multiverse." The Chronicler said.
"You can already read my memories through the book. Just read it."
The Chronicler was stunned by the words of John but didn't refute it. It seemed like the omega being entity that he just met really knew everything about him. The Phoenix who had been sleeping inside also came out to look into the creature that had just arrived. She could tell that this new person was powerful enough to threaten her so she didn't ask John to take any stand or oppose this creature. She would have to say how things turned out.
The Chronicler soon turned the pages of the book and looked into it. There was an awkward silence between them for quite a few minutes. John in order to alleviate the situation conjured two chairs so that both could sit down while he went through John's memories.
There was nothing that could stop Chronicler. He was an immensely powerful being and right now John didn't want any being who came from outside the multiverse as his enemy. Since his function was to go through histories and memories he would let him be.
Though it was a severe invasion of privacy, there was nothing that could be done.
After a few minutes of reading by Chronicler, he looked at John with a surprise on his face. He didn't even know where to begin and even his supreme book didn't have some pages.
There were missing pages on a being. That had never happened before. Missing pages meant the book couldn't extract some history or memory of the person. This was my first.
"Who are you?" The Chronicler finally asked. He knew who John was but he wanted to know who he was that wasn't written on the missing pages.
"You have read. Doesn't it say everything?" John was confused by his question. Chronicler could even bring the dead to life to extract history and memories as he did when he brought Metron to life just so that he could get his memories as he used to have the Mobius Chair.
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