Capítulo 730: Out of the window
"What are you talking about?" Batman got up from his seat and asked in a sharp tone. He just heard a version of himself was evil and that too a combination of another person from the native multiverse.
"I will explain to you when I reach the multiverse. We need more people in this conversation and help will be required." John said as he didn't want to repeat to others what he was going to say. He would have to say the same thing to others too. He didn't have enough patience, nor the time to do that. The others too didn't push it. If they wanted to know more they could ask the others about their journey while they were returning. John was in no mood to talk much in the meeting.
"Alright. Come to the Ring. We are waiting for you." Clark had an anxious face just like others. Actually John didn't want to attend this meeting and go straight to the Ring to speak but he knew that the people were anxious to know what had happened.
"Oblivion, you there?" John shouted after coming out of the command center. After a second of silence, a dark figure wrapped in a cloak levitated near him and looked at him with hollow eyes. Oblivion didn't reply and just looked at him with no expression whatsoever.
"Tell the others to come to the Ring. We have a major problem."
Oblivion continued looking at John, probably trying to figure out if John was serious or not. Calling all the abstract beings was a huge matter and the last time it didn't go well for one of them. Now John had asked for calling all of them and that too in the presence of multiversal heroes.
It was not that the beings would commit some sort of crime if they do it, but it feels very weird to them. They are Gods and these heroes are mortals at the end. It didn't fit right. But Oblivion also knew that he couldn't say no to John.
OAA had spoken long ago about it. At the end, Oblivion nodded his head and vanished away from his place. He would have to inform his colleagues about it.
John after this short encounter, took the Harvester and flew away to his home and Emma joined this journey as she wanted to be with John.
"You look stressed." Emma asked as she sat near him while holding his hand.
"I lost for the first time in my life. Won the battle but lost in strategy." John replied in a gloomy tone. He was still not over the fact that he lost in such a helpless way. He didn't expect that someone would one up him from the start. It should never have been a possibility. Emma was silent when she heard his words.
After a moment she finally said
"You have been dreaming of so many things from a very young age. Haven't you?" John nodded his head.
"John, this isn't a fantasy world. Your dreams, your powers have helped you for such a long time. But this, right here, is the real test. You will have to step above your dreams. Sometimes your powers won' solve each and every problem. Sometimes you just need to be yourself to save others instead of just using your powers. Besides, you just lost in a simple strategy. It's not like we lost the war."
John didn't know how to answer this. He knew that Emma was right. His courage, arrogance and his confidence mostly came from the fact that he had read each and every comic out there for both marvel and DC. Over the past one year many things have changed and evolved.
The story of their multiverse had evolved in a direction which he has no idea about. And right now he was still holding on to the beliefs that his comics would save him. It was not comics at this point. This was the point of life and death of himself and the multiverse.
John hugged Emma for a minute before accepting his mistake and apologising. He really needed to be out of the mentality that the comics were gospels. The appearance of the Wall had already changed the fact and he needed to accept it and make their own plans.
"It's good that you understand." Emma said as she gave a sweet smile and sighed in relief a bit after seeing that John had accepted the fact that his dreams might not help him here anymore and he needed to make his own path over the course of time.
John didn't speak more words and at the end slept away on the lap of Emma. Exhaustion and mental stress finally caught up to him and he slid away to his own dreams. His real dreams. Over the course of years he had stopped dreaming. maybe it was a curse of his lie to others. But today on his lap he finally dreamt for the first time he had arrived on Earth.
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Capítulo 731: Assembling the Gods
After 6 hours of travel John and others were back at the Ring. John had a long sleep along the way and a satisfying one. He looked relieved a bit when he stepped his foot at the Ring. Since everyone had recuperated on their way here, everyone from the mission was called to the Hall.
As John entered the Hall he could see the gloomy atmosphere in the room. On the way Batman and others had spoken with his team so he had a vague idea of what was going to happen and how much time they had. 10 months was not fine. Even an infinite time was not fine because there were infinite universes out there and finding each and every Owen will just be a dream.
But none of the others spoke a thing as John took his seat with the others nor did they blame him for the decision he took to leave Dark Claw. The terrorists could never be trusted but John couldn't just take the gamble on the multiverse. None would be able to take it.
"There was a rumor that long ago, there was a war between our multiverse and Wayne's multiverse. The best heroes of both the worlds were chosen and were made to fight against each other for supremacy and to see who was better than the other. So in order to counter it the Spectre and the Living Tribunal came together to make an universe. An Universe unique to its own. An universe which has people that has characteristics of both the multiverse."
John finally spoke about the legends that he had read to others. On his way he didn't speak of the origin of that unique universe and thus he needed to make it clear to everyone as everyone was anxious.
"This is a lie. I have never made any such universe." A voice from the door came . Everyone moved their heads to see who was brave enough to enter such a high profile place without GAIA informing them. But when the people saw their faces none of them went to speak up against their new guests.
Some of the people here had met these existences before and those who had come across them, they were given prior notice about them. The people present were surprised that these abstract beings had shown up. Many of them guessed that it was John who might have asked for their presence in the meeting.
They were the Living Tribunal, Death, Oblivion, In-Betweener, Eternity and Infinity. They were in human heights as opposed to being the normal giants that they were. Even though they were the same heights as average humans, their facial features were the same, so everyone who was up to speed with the abstract beings of the multiverse had an idea of who they were.
"Welcome to the Ring, esteemed guests." Clark got up from his seat and greeted. Everyone in the room got up from their seats and greeted them too as no matter what, they were the Gods of their multiverse. Their multiverse was alive and fine because of their existence.
"Thanks for being so hospitable." Infinity said in her feminine voice and took an empty seat which was just made for them. Everyone got to sit except for Death as giving her anything would just make it crumble.
Death gave a deep glare to each of the abstract beings but there was nothing that she could do to change it. He would have to just stand at her place and not be awkward in front of everyone.
"I didn't make any such universe which has characteristics of both multiverses." the Living tribunal spoke again with his deep voice. Except for Infinity none of the abstract beings spoke another word and it was apparent that only the Living Tribunal had the lean to speak up here.
Last time they spoke because John was a special entity and there were not many people present, but here there were representatives from different multiverses and it would not fit well to speak much in the presence of the mortals.
"I know and as I said before that it was just a rumor. I have no clue about how this universe came into being and that too in the Wall. But one of them definitely has the characteristics of both the multiverse. Assuming that what I have dreamt about is true then their universe is really special and they have the powers joined together."
"So what are we being threatened with?" The Living tribunal asked.
"We have been given 10 months to live." John replied.
"What?"
"Yes. But it's not absolute. There is a way to escape this predicament. You must have known that Owen here has been travelling the multiverse and killing his counterparts. It's because Owen's power comes from Beyonders. But essentially Owen is a time bomb made by the Beyonders. If we kill each and every Owen that is powered by the beyonders in the infinite universe out there we should be safe for the time being." John said as that was his plan.
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