Bab 15: Chapter 15
~Watchtower~
Zatanna sighed finally finished with this project. It had taken her two weeks, and frankly she was exhausted and grumpy and more than a bit worried. After checking that Xander was busy with his routine and learning about this world, she headed up to the Watchtower, and once there called Batman to come join her. While she waited she drew a diagram on the board.
_______________W & B _______________
| ___D__ |
| | | |
No longer human - [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][J][ ][ ][C][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] – no longer human
| |______BW_______| |
|_______________BG__________________|
(authors note: when I edit this the lines are where they should be, but in the published version, they are all left justified, please moved the lines over so it makes more sense... sorry)
Batman came in a few minutes later while she was still looking at the board with a worried look. "You have the information I asked for." He was brusque and to the point as always.
"Yes, but I don't think you are going to like it, because it worries me." Zatanna replied gesturing at a chair. "Sit, this is going to take a bit. If you look at that diagram, each set of boxes is a dimension, with multiple realities in it, if you go too far to either side the creatures living there are no longer human. The one with a C in it seems to be the core dimension the one the others reflect or are based off of to some degree. The one with a J is our dimension, and the one with the X is where Xander came from. Now I took a look at you, Barbara, Diana, Xander, Buffy and Willow" She paused thinking how to phrase this, then shrugged "– his friends from his world. Just for fun I even did Superman. If you look up there the lines with BW are all the dimensions some variant of you exists in, in some of them you died with your parents, others you parents never died, some you became the villain and others you just focused on business." She gave him a sharp look, showing she was not talking about his identity lightly.
A deep breath she pointed back to the board. "Diana exists only in a few, and all of those had active interference from the gods, so we know why hers is so narrow. And I refuse to think about that anymore deeply, I might get their attention and frankly I am not interested in their attention." Cutting off any questions Batman might have asked. "Barbara's is very wide and she has a wide variety of lives. Same with Xanders' friends, in some they are married, some they died, only in his dimension was one of them the Slayer, but in the rest of the dimensions they are almost every variation of life, good and bad. Oddly only in a few did Willow and Buffy meet."
Pointing to the board again "Meta humans seem to be clustered in the two or three dimensions next to ours on each side, in other dimensions and realities they are called mutants. But even they tend to have versions in other realities that are variations of themselves."
Zatanna took another breath. "However, Xander only exists in that one dimension, and only in that reality. In all other realities in that dimension, he was killed, turned into a vampire, eaten by demons, or never existed. Almost all of us have other versions, including Kal'el, in some places Krypton never blew up, in others he died on the ship, in still others he got to earth and was no different than anyone else. As far as I can tell Xander is the only Xander that exists and still lives. All the rest are dead, killed or turned. I already said that didn't I?" Zatanna sat a little shaky looking at the picture on the board.
"So what are the ramifications?" Batman asked looking at the board with narrowed eyes.
"Frankly I have no idea. But I will tell you this, I can't find ANYONE else who is a unique, and I mean I looked, I can't find anyone who does not exists living in some other dimension or reality." Zatanna replied not looking at Batman.
Batman's face was an impenetrable mask, relaying no information. "I see. That was not what I expected though it does create some interesting possibilities. Anything else?"
Zatanna thought for a moment then softly "When I travelled through the dimensions and realities I felt like I was hitting lots of cold sticky cobwebs, but nothing painful. When I brought Xander back here he was hit with a bolt of energy that knocked him out for a while. I don't know what it was, or if it means anything." She shrugged looking up at him. "I can say this, I ran a spell or two on him, he is the most caring, honest, loyal, and … unbreakable person I have seen since Superman. In some ways I think his soul might be stronger than our resident Kryptonians, he is like a knight… you are called the Dark Knight by some, I think he might be a White Knight."
She stood up and glanced at the board, not giving him a chance to reply. "Want me to leave it or erase it?"
"Leave it." He said.
She nodded and walked out of the room more than ready to go home, and feeling guilty enough that she decided to actually bake some brownies for dessert for Xander.
Batman stood looking at the diagram for a long time, memorizing it, and them sent a message to Superman and Wonder Woman that he wanted to talk to them. He was silent looking at the board until they got there.
Status Power Mingguan
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