John turned to Clark. He didn't expect that out of all people Clark might have the answer of what just happened. The death of Darkness will be problematic for him as he would have to answer to the Living Tribunal and the other judges. He was always warned of not inserting his hands into the daily lives of people and their struggle.
But he never paid attention. But now this was something which had gone out of his hands. And he had no idea of how he would handle the future, and the Living Tribunal was the least of his worries. He had seen how imbalance destroys everything in the comics. And if the future was remotely related to the whole problem of imbalance, then he would be the sinner of all the multiverse.
"Tell me." John said.
"Do you remember why Shinigami and Quincies fought in the first place? The whole war that should have happened before and was never shown?"
"Yes." John answered. Yhwach was the son of the Soul King and this was the main reason for the war. But the Shinigami's didn't know that secret. Only the highest echelons knew of that. The general information provided for the war was that the Quincies destroyed the souls, and this created a huge imbalance.
And this was true. Quincies power obliterated souls and this created a huge problem for Shinigami.
"You mean to say the power of Yhwach obliterated the soul of Darkness as he is a Quincy?"
"Exactly." Clark said.
John was frozen in his spot when the realisation hit him. Yhwach had always introduced himself as a Quincy to others. So for this reason Clark knew of him. Like others he had seen all the anime and movies of John's work and he had a general idea of the story.
Yhwach had accidentally done something that he had no control over. And for this small infringement, it would create a complication that John might not have any idea of how to handle.
"Fuck!!" John cursed out loud. He let go of the control over Yhwach as it was useless. It was not exactly his fault for what had happened. He just wanted to kill Knull, who would have known that this small change would change everything.
John as Alien X could already feel the imbalance that was breeding slowly in the multiverse. Phoenix came out of his body and sat on his shoulder. Her fiery eyes had a glint as she looked at Yhwach. She knew what just happened and it didn't look good for the future of their multiverse.
"You were always warned of not going out of your way to stop the problems. Now look at what just happened. We are all in a huge mess now." Phoenix said.
"Knull had Darkness with him. He was a God. He had killed Celestials. You wanted me to sit and watch while he destroys 616?"
"Ask yourself, did this problem really need help? They had Light. There weren't toddlers who just had just learned how to be a hero. Eddie would have been the God of Light with no problem. He just needed to suffer a bit. Now look at what had happened. You jumbled the whole future and now we are on a path of no return."
"But he had the Power Cosmic of the Negative Zone with him. Eddie with his little imagination of being Venom might not have been able to defeat Knull." John argued back.
"Oh please!! You already knew how powerful God of Light was when he destroyed All-Black. It would have been a tough battle for sure but I am sure they would have been able to defeat Knull. Now the small change of Yhwach's use of the Light Force has changed everything."
John sighed when he heard this. Maybe Yhwach shouldn't have been summoned in the first place and this whole debacle might not have happened. Now this has turned a wheel and he didn't have a weapon to break the wheel. All he could do was go with the flow.
"We need to go back and inform others of what just happened. Whatever happened has happened and can't be changed back. This involves the death of an ancient being. We won't be able to change it as it was a Nexus Event and TVA won't be able to control it. Loki, are you still at the throne?" John shouted.
Unsurprisingly, Loki appeared out of nowhere. TVA was responsible for all Nexus Events and Beings. And this was a huge Nexus event. The point of no return, just like the death of Christine in What if?
"You have commited quite the crime John. This crime according to the laws of TVA would have you pruned instantly, with no questions asked and no trial." Loki said with a smile.
"It was not me who did this. It was him. Why am I being put in the tough spot?" John asked with a sharp tone.
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"Well you were in the group when this happened. In theory you would have been arrested. It's fortunate that I am now the head of TVA." Loki said with his iconic smile.
"How long have you been hiding?" Clark couldn't help but ask.
"I just arrived. When the sword of this big guy went through his chest, it sent ripples across all timelines." Loki said, but now in a more grave tone. He had been doing this for quite some time now and he had seen fair share of Nexus Events and Beings. TVA was even able to stop many problems before it even started.
But this time, it was special. The problem arrived out of nowhere and from the way the timeline showed branches signified that the effect would be huge one and it would change the multiverse forever.
All they had to see was if the multiverse was going for the good or the worse.
"Loki, I know you want to leave the TVA but at this point of time, I can't let you leave." John said.
"I know that. You don't have to rub it on me. After settling everything this time, I am out."
John and Clark didn't say anything against it and their silence meant that this was the last assignment for Loki in the TVA and after this he would genuinely be free and would get to live his life as he wanted to.
"Alright let's head back. I will have to finish one last thing before Light can be free." Yhwach mentioned.
"You mean Dylan?"
Yhwach nodded his head.
John looked at the place one last time where Knull had turned into ashes. Due to the heat of the sun even the ashes had blown away, there was not even a hint of the being that once terrorized the Celestials and the universe. Nothing was eternal! John got reminded of this once again.
John vanished with Yhwach, Clark and Loki and they appeared again at the headquarters of the Avengers. They could already see that the sky was clearing out. The symbiotes which were struck at the land and the buildings were slowly vanishing away to the sky, returning back to where they came from.
Klyntar.
The war was over!!
After a few minutes of waiting, almost everybody was back. Eddie too had returned and John had ordered Robin to bring Dylan to the headquarters. To get rid of Knull and all of its influence, they need to get rid of the last remnant of his from the body of Dylan.
When Dylan was born, the symbiotes of the upper echelon gave him the power to separate hosts from symbiotes. This was the hole in the card for the symbiotes when Knull breaks from prison. It was unfortunate that this never came to fruition and in fact it almost proved fatal to the symbiotes, as Knull had hidden a part of himself on the body of Dylan.
Yhwach and John knew of this. Yhwach knew of this because the Enigma Force had informed him of this and John knew of this because of comics. Now this was the last work Yhwach needed to do before Light would leave and roam in the multiverse.
"So Knull is dead?" Eddie asked. They all had a smile on their faces. The symbiotes leaving already denoted that they had won. Though many were surprised that Loki had appeared in all of this with the team, none of them complained. Not even the 616-Avengers, where Loki was a major villain and had given pain to almost everyone here during the Realm Wars and even had a personal vendetta against Strange who had lost his dog due to the machinations of Loki.
The 616-Avengers could see that this Loki wasn't their version of Loki so nobody raised an eye on this.
"Knull is dead but there is a problem." Clark said.
"Problem? Did he escape or something?"
"No. It's complicated, we will talk about this after we get rid of the last influence of Knull from the body of Dylan."
"What? My son? Did Knull do something to Dylan?" Eddie got scared and he asked anxiously.
"Yeah he did. But worry not, Yhwach will help us get rid of this in a second. Dylan is on the way here."
"You informed Dylan of this?"
"No. But I had a security detail around him with Robin and my children." John said.
As they were talking, Dylan and others had already arrived. Dylan looked like any other American teenager. But there was a small change in his eyes. His eyes had a very vague spiral black and red line. It was very vague and transparent but anyone with a good eye would be able to notice it.
"Dylan. Are you ok? Are you hurt?"
"I am fine Dad. You don't need to be so protective of me. I can handle myself." Dylan said with little annoyance. His overprotective Dad had been a pain in the ass for him for a long time now.
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