John had teleported. He was back to his first ever planet summon. When it happened for the first time, he was ecstatic and for a moment he couldn't even believe it. The system was so powerful that it had brought a whole planet into existence, never mind the individuals.
But now that he had a general direction of the source of power for the system, he could understand why the system was so OP. Anything from the Wall was extraordinary. There was an instance when a White Lantern once managed to cross the Wall without breaking it. It was said he became a God after doing this.
This alone signified how powerful the Wall was. The only difference was that there was the Source Wall on their side too and they needed to do everything possible to save the multiverse, and this time it was two multiverses.
He was sure that the DC people on the other side would try to do the same but their plot had changed. He wasn't even sure if they would succeed. In the comics they were able to succeed because there were many coincidences.
Lex was betrayed by Perpetua so he turned on her. Then the change of allegiance of Super Boy Prime which saved Diana at the end and of course when the Hand came to see what the hell was wrong with the multiverse.
The Hand.
This was a mystery for John too. Very little was said of them. Only thing that could scare Perpetua. Perpetua, who was said to be the mother of the multiverse, feared the Hand so it could already be understood how scary they were. And their multiverse was saved just because the Hand had a change of heart and took pity on them at the end as they fought the army of the Batman who Laughs.
The Hand was probably more powerful than Presence and OAA. And John didn't want to leave this on chance. He needed to save them, long before there was intervention by the Hand. Perpetua and her minions needed to be killed.
The epic story was revolving his mind while he landed at the Citadel. Since he had appeared out of nowhere there was nobody at the Citadel. But he had already alerted the Guardians to appear. He even asked the Blue Lantern Guardians to appear in this meeting.
After a minute of wait, the Guardians from different directions came flying in and took their positions at the Council. Since Ganthet and Sayd were not near, they had appeared at holographic form.
"John Jameson, why the sudden summon?" Appa asked. This might sound rude but it was not. The guardians had been stripped off from the emotions after they had decided to make the rings, so this sounded pretty normal to John.
"The Source Wall is going to break. We need your expertise."
The Guardians who had a normal look on their faces while sitting gripped their armrests. This news was something none of them expected. Not even in their wildest dreams.
"How is this possible? There is no Source Wall in this multiverse. We have checked. There was not supposed to be one." Appa said while trembling. Even his voice was breaking when he said that.
"There is a Source Wal. And it's pretty alive and kicking." said a voice which didn't belong to any of them present in the Citadel. The voice had just appeared out of nowhere, because the person had just teleported himself here.
Normally, they would be on alert as a person had appeared at the Citadel without alarming the defense system of the Oa. But the person who appeared was an acquaintance.
Oblivion!
He was the God of the void outside the multiverse. John suspected that he was the Guardian of the Wall, since he had always stayed outside the multiverse. Even the Guardians weren't fazed by his sudden appearance. They had seen him in John's memories before so they weren't surprised
"You have been looking over the Wall, haven't you? But told the people that you are guarding the void."
"Yes. A necessary lie to fool people and stop them from being curious about a thing which we almost know nothing about. It's fortunate that you know a bit of them, but I can assure you that they would be more scary than you know."
"I understand. So, Guardians, you heard it. The Source Wall exists and it is in the Void." John said.
"We will send half of us to the crack with a team of Green and Blue Lanterns. Since you informed us, I assume that you too have made a team for inspection. Give us 24 hours to assemble a team which would be best for this kind of mission. Oa as of now will pull its resources to manage the Wall and we would be in a state of emergency till the problem is solved. All in favor." Appa said in one breath. He didn't even hesitate a bit in saying this.
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