Chapter 743: The last series (9)
It was straight madness all over Earth. It showed how apocalyptic their Earth had become. This made everyone confused about what just happened. The last they saw was the break of Source Wall and there was an exposition of a war in some pictures.
They didn't understand what the hell was going on. In Themyscira, Batman who Laughs came with a prisoner to deliver to Diana who was working under Perpetua. The prisoner just said two words to Diane before being led away.
"Diana, Remember!!!"
Diana was confused but didn't show any facial expression in order not to alert Batman who Laughs. Meanwhile Batman who laughs was having a meeting with the New Justice League composed of Harley Quinn, Robin King, Dr. Arkham, Diana and other small-time villains of the DC universe.
But then they heard a sound from the forest nearby. The Batman who Laughs turned his head and said
"Is that you Bruce? Come out. I can sense you. Let me guess. The Cloak of Erasure given to you by Z long ago. My.. My... You have started using magic. But you forget.. I know you Bruce... I am you. It's useless to hide in front of me."
Bruce finally showed himself with a badass suit and cloak which didn't fit his style exactly but it was helping him mask his presence.
"That is the thing... Bruce... You know him... But you don't know Batman." Wayne said as he put his hands high up in the air. And in the middle finger there was a Ring. A Black Ring that was glowing in the dark.
A Black Lantern Ring.
Everyone gasped when they saw this scene. The series was just blowing the minds of people now. A Black Lantern Ring wielded by the Good Batman. This was not something anyone expected. They knew that the stakes were high here but this was too much.
"What the hell happened in that universe?"
"This is a nightmare. Nope.. This is a nightmare.... I refuse to believe it."
"We need to be more serious in our preparations."
Bruce used the Lantern Ring to make zombies of all the people who had died on the lands before. Batman who Laughs brought his own army of Batman. Plastic man -Batman, Penguin -Batman, Etrigan-Batman....
This was an epic fight. When the fight started, Diana sneaked away to meet the prisoner. In there he came to know who the prisoner was. Wally West on the body of Dr. Manhattan. It was there she finally understood what had happened.
"Explain to me Wally. What happened? Why is the world like this? Last I remember, we were going to confront Perpetua with the power given by Dr. Manhattan, the positive forces. We used them. What happened that we have fallen so low?"
"In order to understand this you need to understand that the thing that holds the positive multiverse, has its dark side too. We live on the positive multiverse because we have the Anti-Crisis energy. Anti-Crisis energy is based on truth. The past, the future is what gives fuel to the Anti-Crisis Energy. The past no matter how dark it was, we learn from the past. The past makes what we are and makes us better. And the future, the hopes, the dreams represents the future."
"But the Anti-Crisis energy is what we call living at Present. The people who live on Anti-Crisis Energy are only living in the present. They don't care about the past. They don't care about the future. Their selfishness, their short sightedness makes them unable to look beyond a certain point. The Justice League lost against Perpetua in the fight. We lost. And because of this Perpetua was able to reshape the multiverse as she wishes. Making us unable to remember the past. Unable to think of the future. We, the Justice League are the few people left with traces of the Anti-Crisis Energy. We need to save the people. Make them remember the past. Make them have hopes for the future. Only then can we take the fight to her...."
But while she was talking with Wally, Batman who Laughs sneaked inside the prison.
"Pretend that I am not here and continue with the conversation. I like the story of yours."
Diana was visibly shaken when Wally had spoken about the past.
"We are in an endless loop Diana..." Wally said. Diana meanwhile looked at Batman who Laughs.
"You are not going to stop me?"
"Ahh.. No.. You see, I have my own plans..."
"You are betraying Perpetua."
"Oh that I have always done. I want to make this world into my own nightmare world. Not in the image she wants." Batman who Laughs said.
"Then you can both go to hell.." Diana said as out of nowhere she took out her chain saw that she had been using and blasts Batman who Laughs with it. And with this single move the famous Batman who Laughs died, with only the head remaining intact.
But did he really die?
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Chapter 744: The last series (10)
After the 'death' of Batman who laughs Diana with Wally went to search for the remaining people and make a plan to storm Castle Bat and take back everything that Perpetua had destroyed. Perpetua had been destroying universe after universe so that he could reshape the multiverse from scratch.
There were in total 52 universes in the DC positive multiverse unlike the huge number of multiverses of Marvel so Perpetua didn't have to do much to destroy the universes. She was destroying them for fun and having a good time.
Diana and others were horrified by this and they wanted to bring back everything and everyone. But Batman was not so happy with the plan. She wanted to restore everything but Batman felt that she was daydreaming.
Batman wanted to just have one universe for themselves and didn't care what Perpetua's plans were. Batman knew how powerful Perpetua was and they could never win against her. But the plan all hinged at the point that they needed to take over Castle Bat first.
And thus they made the plan. But as usual they confronted various versions of Batman along the way. In one case, Martha Wayne was Batman. That blew the minds of the people. This was fucked up and that she played minds tricks with Bruce.
But Bruce was too ruthless and just shot her down. But later, when they ran the audience could see tear drops falling from under the mask.
They finally went inside the Castle Bat and they were more horrified by what they saw. The current Earth didn't have a sun so Batman who Laughs and Perpetua had made special measures for that. They had forced Superman to run on a treadmill and the power generated was what gave energy to the prime Earth.
He was made to run in a room which had all forms of Kryptonite attached on the walls so that he wouldn't be able to escape ever. And if that was not enough, Batman who Laughs had put up a guard to look after Superman.
Guard in the form of a version of Batman.
The Darksied version of Batman. Yes, you heard it right. A Batman who had the powers and the body structure of Darksied and even his Omega Sanction!!
"The fuck!!"
"This is bullshit."
"Why is the multiverse hell bent on showing Batman in a darklight?"
Even Bruce himself had a ugly face. Having his own mother on the other side was painful enough, did the multiverse have to show him one more ugly part of his various lives?
Later a terrible fight ensued. Superman was visibly different here as his body was slowly starting to be like Darksied. Superman himself said that he didn't have much time to live in this world and they needed to do whatever to bring everything back to normalcy.
In the fight, Superman noticed that Batman was not hurt at all by the Omega beam of the other Batman. It was there he came to know that Batman had died a long time ago, during the fight against Perpetua for the first time.
The reason he was alive was because of the Black lantern. It was then the audience remembered that the Lantern Ring only takes a dead person as the wielder. Many of the people had forgotten that and those who remembered were skeptical about it. And now their theories proved correct.
Diana went on a mission to save the multiverse. While Batman and Superman went to gather the remaining heroes on all the multiverse. It was possible because Perpetua now was fighting Darkest Night
You are asking who is Darkest Night?
Well he is Batman who Laughs!! Not exactly him but at least the brain behind the new form of Batman was!! When Diana killed Batman who Laughs, his brain still remained. Thus his legion brought the brain back and put it inside the skull of a dead version of Dr. Manhattan.
Dr. Manhattan was a wielder of all the positive forces of the DC multiverse and thus with the help of the body of Dr. Manhattan became one of the powerful persons of the DC multiverse and with this new body he went on to fight against Perpetua.
As Diana was doing everything possible to bring the original multiverse back, Perpetua was losing powers. Batman and Superman were forcing people to remember their past, their hopes and dreams and this made her weak. While Darkest Night was just becoming more strong in the fight.
And finally after a long fight, chugging planets at each other, destroying galaxies in their wake, the Darkest Night was finally able to seal away Perpetua and send her back to the cracked Source Wall again.
Ending the terrifying reign of Perpetua but it was not over as a more terrifying being was now sitting on the same throne that Perpetua once sat on. A more cruel being!
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