"We can for some part. But not in the far distant future." Loki replied.
"Did the Timekeepers come to meet you?" John asked.
"No. Immortus did drop by though once."
"Hmm.. Asked about Thanos?"
"I did. Said he didn't know. He gave him away to the Timekeepers." Loki replied as he clenched his fist. Though he took over TVA he didn't really like the Timekeepers and their mysterious ways. It infuriates him as he feels he was being played over and over.
He felt he would be all powerful after sitting on the throne but when he got the general idea of how everything worked he didn't like it one bit. It was a chain.
A prison.
A prison from where he wanted to get out. There he understood that Asgard was where his real home was and missed his family. He had already decided to give away the throne to another version of Kang from multiverse and would just leave.
This job wasn't for him. Though he would have to convince the Avengers that he had changed for the better but he would take that option over TVA any day.
"You are thinking of leaving TVA aren't you?" John asked seeing the eyes of Loki as he could feel Loki wasn't exactly Loki now. He had become sad and lonely.
"Truth to be told, I am. All the power over time and still I feel so chained." Loki said.
"You can find a version of Kang and allow him to sit on the throne and later just leave. I am sure the Avengers won't hold it anymore for you." John assured him.
"Are you sure about that?" Loki asked. John just smiled at him.
"Thank you. I will find someone." Loki got up and looked like he was in a hurry and left after finishing his tea.
"Father, who was he?" a child asked.
"An enemy turned friend. What did he give you all?" John asked as he saw Loki giving some gifts to his children.
"Some Asgardian metal like Uncle Thor gave." another child replied.
"Hmm.. You can eat them since you like them so much." John said. Hearing this the children cheered and left to eat one of their favourite foods. John was happy to see that his children were really happy but he could see that his children would soon grow independent and leave for their own lives.
Though he wasn't sure where they would leave, he just hoped for the best from them.
John spent the rest of the days lazing around and occasionally keeping an eye on the universe for potential threats and even peeped into Hala to see what was going on.
And found out that Ultron was trying to study forbidden knowledge. Well, not exactly a forbidden knowledge but a knowledge that could possess danger to the universe or the multiverse a whole.
The knowledge of the Negative Zone.
The Anti-matter universe.
Their universe was composed of matter. But the negative zone was the anti-matter universe. Though the time stream, lives and such other things thrived in both the universes but if there was ever a clash between the two universes, it would just result in the annihilation of both.
Matter and Antimatter weren't exactly friends
And Ultron was trying to find every knowledge possible for this. John was surprised that there were records of Negative Zone in the directory of Kree.
"I think I will have to take care of it." John said as he waved his hands destroying all records related to the Negative Zone in the directory of Hala. He didn't want their universe to have any kind of relation with that damned place.
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Ultron, who had sent his Kree subordinates to search for everything related to the Negative Zone suddenly realised that he lost all his memories related to it. Only thing that was left in his memory which prompted him to know that he had been searching for the Negative Zone before was a warning left in his memory.
"Ultron. You got a new home. Cherish it. Don't go for the stars when you can't even ride a bicycle."
This was the message left in his memory. After taking over the Supreme Intelligence, this was the first time someone had addressed him with his real name. And this warning made him scared. He never expected that his identity would be revealed and that too is the most astonishing way possible.
Replacement of memory.
He was an AI, it wasn't supposed to happen. He didn't even think that was possible as his system had always been secured after his digital fight against Supreme Intelligence. He immediately ordered people to let people check all the connections of his primary and secondary memory storage and make sure nobody sneaked in.
He wanted to know who had such audacity to attack him so blatantly. Though he guessed the answer long ago. There was only one place from where the attack could come from.
Answer - Earth.
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But from the information he received from the spies in Nova Empire was that Earth now has finally spread its wings and has reached space. He really wanted to go and cleanse the Earth, as that was his main mission but he knew even if he tried he would fail now.
All the knowledge of the Negative Zone was gone. And since he didn't trust anybody he didn't even speak of this to his subordinates. Now all his wishes of cleansing the earth and then the universe was in ashes and he needed to find another way to complete his mission.
His options looked bleak as he really didn't know how to proceed now.
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In the middle of June the last DC movie was finally out, and like always all the people came for the movie including the new members like Ichigo, Yoruichi who had become a cat and sat like a queen on the shoulder of Barry. Barry loved pets and he was the only member of the Avengers who had all 6 Pokemons. His super speed allowed him to take care of everyone while also doing his work.
Yoruichi was impressed by this so she suggested that she should be flatmates with him, which he easily accepted. So Yoruichi's life had become lazy now as she would always turn into a cat and Barry would just take care of him.
John was surprised by this weird turn out but he didn't care. All had their own lives and trajectory and were free to do whatever he wanted until he needed something from them.
They all came to the premiere and after loads of interviews by John they were finally able to go in and watch the movie.
The movie started with the famous lines from flashpoint.
"Accept the things...."
People were surprised that the movie started a bit dark because according to people flashpoint was the darkest movie of DC and that sentence from that movie already established the fact that this movie too won't be a good one.
The movie started with Constantine and Z having a talk at bed only to be called by the Justice League later. There they got to know that Superman was thinking of taking the fight to Darkseid instead of always defending.
Darkseid had become a genocidal maniac as he had attacked Old Genesis and killed the old gods. And Earth was the last line of defence. Though everybody didn't like the new idea of Clark but all agreed to be on board with this new plan.
All discussed this plan openly but little did they know all their plans were being projected to Darkseid from the eyes of Cyborg. their plan was doomed from the get go.
Yes, the movie was Justice League - Apokolips War. The animated version here was the live action version. For this movie John invited the Russo brothers to direct as they would be perfect people to handle such a huge project and he wanted to pull the curtain to DC with a bang.
Though DC movies would still be made as he had decided that DC would follow some of the famous comic storylines and make them movies, but he would not be involved in it any more.
"You have got guts to take the fight to him." Banner said as he looked at Clark.
"And that was my greatest mistake." Clark said in a very sad tone.
Soon they understood why it was a mistake. A grand mistake at that. People died. Aquaman, Hal and many died. Clark was given a liquid form of kryptonite so he lost all his superman powers. Batman sat at the Mobius Chair (becoming immensely knowledgeable) and was controlled by Darkseid. Others were either killed or captured.
And then it started. The nightmare of humanity. No, it was their destruction.
The whole world was upside down like it happened at flashpoint. Only this time it was because of Darkseid. Finally, Clark came with Raven to meet Constantine. Constantine was the only person who was perfectly fine.
It was because he ran away from the battlefield. They finally hatched a plan of bringing Damian Wayne to bring Bruce away from Darkseid by invoking his fatherly feelings for him.
"This story has gone from bad to worse. So much bloodshed again. I thought only flashpoint had bad endings. I was wrong." Tony said.
The movie continued as Lois Lane came up with a plan to hijack the communication tower which was under Lex Luthor and use it to reverse the boom tube and decimating Apokolips with it.
But the problem was there were very few people to execute the plan, so they had to get help from famous villains too who the people had seen in Justice League Unlimited series.
And thus the whole plan started to push back came into action