"What? Guilty, is that true?" Tony almost shouted as he said.
"There is no such information in the directory." Guilty replied. Tony and other Avengers now looked at John wanting to know if whatever he told was just a lie or just for humor.
"I told you, when I brought the Ring, I separated it from the weapon. So this can only be used as Noah's Ark." John said.
"Will there be a future where we would have to use the weapon?" 616 Tony asked.
"If there is a future where we are forced to kill off a galaxy to just win a war, the battle has already been lost by us." Clark said and everyone agreed on that. If they ever had to sacrifice a galaxy just to win the war then it would be lost in all sense. Of course if the galaxy didn't have any species then it would be a different conversation but everyone understood what Clark had meant by his words.
"It's fine. Don't take it that seriously, I am just speaking my mind and what I have seen in my dreams." John laughed it out loud when he saw the tense atmosphere. The Illuminati of 616 had always been little over the top and that was what poured out from 616 Tony.
He looked ashamed now when Clark told him that but he didn't think he was wrong. Saving the multiverse at the cost of a galaxy would be a good bargain. But he knew that he couldn't get himself to do it. Saying something and carrying the order out is different.
After reaching the Hall of Justice they had started to discuss how they could lead things from here. Reed of both the universes asked for Umbrella's help in technology as their universe was in the forefront of it. John and Tony were happy to cooperate with that.
As they were discussing there was a sudden call from GAIA.
"We have a situation."
"Put it out GAIA."
"Over the last year I have been keeping an eye on all people who are named as Owen Reese. Yesterday one of them who lives in Texas went into a bar and got himself into a bar brawl. He was bullied alone and at the end he was beaten down and later sent to hospital."
"It should have ended there with a proper complaint to the police as he himself belongs to the police force. But today after recovering for a bit he went in search of all the people who had bullied him. This shouldn't have been of any importance as it was a proper revenge case but in one of the revenge fights he controlled the knife of the other party and stabbed his opponent in his arm." GAIA projected the video where a street camera had captured it.
The video was in good quality and it was very apparent how Owen was able to control the knife by telekinesis and stabbed his opponent. He had the chance of killing his opponent but he didn't and only took revenge in a non lethal way. John got serious seeing this video. Whatever he had expected had come true.
Owen was here, or rather in proper terms, The beyonders had provided him power to be a bomb from beyond the Wall. He probably understood what his job was. And it must have rattled him and let him into the brawl the previous night. His revenge looked very deliberate as it was on the streets where there were proper cameras and he used the powers in broad daylight.
"He works as a police officer so it seems that whatever he has done was to catch the attention of us. He isn't dumb enough to show his powers in broad daylight and it could mean only one thing… He wants to talk to us by showing his powers." Batman said after scrutinising the video.
"So this is a call for 'come and get me'." Reed commented.
"Seems like it."
"Good. Clark and I will go and meet him now. I understand what he might be going through. Please go back to your own universe and keep an eye on your Reese. Him being here means the Reeses of all the universes have been awakened. We just need to know who of them have been awakened. And I will say this again no force or threat to be used. He is a walking bomb."
Everyone nodded their heads. John had been talking of Owen Reese and him being a living bomb for a long time and he had been very careful of this so they needed to pay attention. With the last warning John connected himself with the Living Tribunal through the connection with Phoenix Force.
"Tribunal, can you hear me?"
There was silence and no reply when he spoke for the first time.
"Living Tribunal, can you hear me?" John tried again.
"Yes. Mr. Jameson I heard you the first time. Speak, why did you call?" came the first reply with a loud voice in his head.
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"Damn. He is one grumpy old man." John thought when he first got the reply. The last time he met him was during his fight with Galactus. The Living Tribunal probably didn't like how he did things. But he had 3 personalities so nothing could be speculated correctly of him.
"I called him to be on the lookout. The first attack from the Wall has already been launched and the first person to be hit might be you." John warned the Living Tribunal. The Beyonders attacked all the abstract beings first during the secret wars and thus John needed to keep them. Any damage to the abstract would throw the multiverse off course so he needed to make sure everyone was safe.
There was silence again from the other side. After a few seconds the Living Tribunal finally said
"Is the enemy that powerful?"
"It's not a single enemy. You can specify them as a kind of species who does things for fun. I will advise all of the abstract beings to be together. They wouldn't be that powerful outside the Wall otherwise we would have already been dead. But if they lay a siege on you then it might be difficult to escape so I hope everyone is together and take my warning seriously. OAA had already asked me to call you for help. So this is me asking for help. Save yourselves. We will handle the rest." John said.
"I will call the others. If they don't listen then there is nothing I can do."
"If they die then it's on their shoulders not ours. If you think you are unsafe then come to the Ring. We will handle the rest. The enemies wouldn't dare come close to the Earth as it would interfere with their plan."
The Living Tribunal didn't reply to that and John could already sense that he had gone off the communication. He wasn't sure of how seriously the Living tribunal had taken his words or how the other abstract beings would take his words. John didn't care. The Wall would break one way or the other.
Which abstract beings will be alive? And which ones would die was already up in the air and there was no need to go beyond to save them. They didn't have that much energy to save their lords.
After warning them, John and Clark vanished from the Hall and had reached Barton Hills, Austin, Texas. The place where Owen lived and worked. They had taken the guises of normal people and walked up to the home of Owen. GAIA had already made arrangements so that there would be no police arrest or any kind of action from any security force.
Even SHIELD was told to back off long ago in the matters of Owen.
"GAIA is everything normal around?"
"Yes. You can go in." GAIA replied. John took a deep breath before he went to ring the bell at his apartment. Owen didn't have a family to live with and he lived alone. He was divorced and there was no child involved in the relationship.
"Be calm and let me start talking. You are not very good at socializing." Clark said as he rang the bell.
"Thanks Clark for the heads up." John said. This was true as he had always been a little introvert and he didn't like talking with people who didn't have any connection with him. Only his summons made him feel okay to be around them.
After waiting for a few seconds. The door finally opened slowly and a head popped out. The man looked like he was in 40s but the hair he had didn't go with his age. He had hair which could already be specified as someone who frequents an animecon.
Spiky green colored hair. This hair didn't look anything like the one they had seen in the picture. This was the first indication that Owen wasn't normal or he had been normal all this time but now he had been going through changes that were out of his control and character.
"Mr. Reese, hello. We are from the Ring. We would like to talk about something with you." Clark spoke the first words seeing the face of Reese.
"Ring? Are you the Avengers? Have you come to kill me?"
"Yes. Mr. Reese we are the Avengers but I didn't come here to kill. We just came here to talk to you and if you agree we can even let you join us." Clark said.
"Join you? But I just stabbed a guy on the streets an hour ago."
"We know Mr. Reese that you did that to catch our attention and you are probably scared. It was a good way to get revenge. I might have gone more crazy on them after what they did to you at the bar. You don't have to fear us Mr. Reese. We are here to help you and believe it or not, we have been searching for a person like you for such a long time."
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