But this wasn't all that was happening. Diana was on the move and she finally found the way to take back everything that they have lost. Because she found the weapon . A weapon which had been with her since she stepped her foot on the mainland.
The Lasso of truth!!
The lasso of Truth was based on the fact that a person could speak the truth only if she or he remembered it. The Lasso was the truth itself. No matter how ugly the truth was, it was what bounded the past and the future together.
With the help of the remaining Anti-Crisis energy she was able to make the remaining heroes remember their past and their aspirations for the future. This included all crisis events that had happened until then. The Flashpoint, the war with the Black Lanterns, the Final Crisis against Darksied... everything.
The more the people remembered the more there was a rise of Anti-Crisis energy and with the remaining power she went to fight against the Darkest Night which was basically a suicide with the amount of power she had.
But she had a plan. With the remaining power she had while she was fighting a hopeless fight against the Darkest Night she was breaking the Source Wall. The Source Wall was still standing though there was a huge crack now.
The Darkest wanted to mend the Wall and then rule over the multiverse and make it on his own image. But if the Wall was broken, the Hands, the people who looked over multiverses. The people who looked over each and every multiverse and made sure they did they work well.
Perpetua belonged to that category. She was one of them once but she had fallen from grace a long time ago when she tried modeling the DC multiverse according to her own image and trying to make an army out of it.
And if Diana did end up destroying the Wall, it would be all over and the Hands will come to erase everything and start from the beginning. There would be no one to tell them about the past, the previous multiverse.
While the Darkest Night tried his best to stop what Diana was doing and enticing her with a separate universe where he wouldn't meddle at all, Diana was staunch on her decision to break everything.
She knew that everything would end with this but she wanted to have that hope. A hope that the Hands would see the good in the hearts of the people who were left and maybe give them a leeway. Meanwhile, the army of Batman and Supeman was fighting the army of Darkest Night.
This was an all out battle. Even Batman used his Ring on the dead body of Batman who Laughs. Superman and Lex Luthor teamed up and beat the shit out of Robin King. Though Ribin King had Kryptonite, he forgot that Superman was dying and he was living under different forms of Kryptonite all this time.
Finally after a long fight, the Source Wall was broken and the hands arrived. The first thing they did was killing the Darkest Night on the depths of the burning Sun of the multiverse. And then proceeded to destroy the multiverse.
Diana and others had already expected that but they wished the people remembered the past. The Hands seeing the sacrifice and going through the memories of Diana and others had decided to restore the multiverse with all the memories intact.
It wouldn't be the same but the memories of the past would remain with the last few people who had fought and this way the multiverse was restored. And with the curtain fell on the whole series.
The series that had the name 'The Darkest Night' on it. And it properly justified the name. Not only the main villain was the Darkest Night but also the whole story was about the Darkest Night metaphorically.
The audience loved the series. It was only the Avengers and the related teams that had a gloomy face because they know whatever in the series was shown, it was real and they would soon have to face the aftermath.
And that day probably wasn't far!!
"I expected it to be worse but holy shit!!"
"The Hands will be a headache for us. They would erase everything when they arrive. We will have to stop them."
"Then we will need the biggest guns, Tony are the new suits ready?"
"Yes, we did a test pilot. We can now travel in the multiverse."
"We will need to infiltrate our home." Bruce out of nowhere pitched his idea. All turned around and looked at him. The whole series here was almost about him and his versions so everyone was kind of sympathetic to him.
But now it seemed like he was very angry with what had happened and he needed to find the solution.
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The solution that he could think of right now was charging into their multiverse.
"Calm down Bruce. It's not like you are responsible for all that has happened. The Batman who laughs isn't you. He can never be you." Clark calmed Bruce. It was a very rare moment for Wayne. He had always been level headed and would do things in a calm and collective manner.
But this series made him agitated. This series tried to destroy the perfect image he had for his parents, made a mockery of his mother and in one version even he himself killed his parents. This was unacceptable and inexcusable.
He needed to beat the shit out of these and make his heart calm down. Bruce here didn't have the policy of 'no-kill' rule like the Wayne of Earth Prime. So he wouldn't have any qualms in killing all the versions of Dark Multiverse Batman. Especially Batman who Laughs.
He, like others, didn't have any idea till what of the story had happened or how much the story had changed because Perpetua wasn't the only person behind the scenes, so in order to get a hold of the situation he wanted to cross over the DC multiverse and take a look of what was going on.
But of course it wasn't easy to cross. Even if the route to the DC multiverse had been figured out, they weren't sure if they would be welcomed or not. Perpetua might allow them to interfere. They had escaped from her hands last time by hiding, but they weren't sure if they could do the same again.
"Do we really want to cross over to the DC multiverse?" Toshiro said in his calm tone signifying that even the other groups were thinking the same and would try to clean the problem before it even started and get a hold of their future. Once the Wall gets broken, there wouldn't be any more chance.
Everyone then looked at John. It was John who had dreamt of their multiverse, and it was him who would have much knowledge of their multiverse. It was him who had produced and created this series and only him would have enough knowledge of the multiverse.
John felt a little ashamed that everyone now was looking at him with such expectations. The Avengers had been controlled by him and his group for a long time and he was one of the leaders of the team. Though Bruce had the ultimate power of decision making in the team, when it came to matters of multiverse, the group would always throw him to the front.
Today was one of those days!!!
"I don't know how that multiverse is faring nor do we know how the story has deviated away. The God of their world had lost a complete hold of his own multiverse. So it can lead to different scenarios where Perpetua wasn't the only pawn. Now we have an enemy which we know very less about and don't really know his ambitions. The 10 month timeline is soon going to end. If our multiverse remains till then we might just pay a visit. But that visit wouldn't be a simple one. Doing that would mean we have declared war and from this point on, our future would go to the point of chaos at an exponential rate."
Everyone took a moment to understand what John had just said. The DC multiverse was in chaos right now and they would have to swim upstream in this chaos and bring balance to their multiverse. But the real problem was even their multiverse was threatened by the Wall and the problem with Owen. Though Owen has been put out of the picture, none of the Avengers were sure if everything was safe and sound.
Their own home might catch fire before they could douse the fire in the neighbours. They needed to take care of their own home first. Though Wayne and others would love to save their previous 'home' but in the end this new world was their new home and that wouldn't change even if they saved the other multiverse.
"Let's wait for the time line to end and then we will go for war." Wayne got up and walked away after saying those words. He was too traumatised by what he had seen and needed a time off. He needed to be alone with his own thoughts for sometime. Clark wanted to go after him, only for Captain America to come up and stop him.
"He needs time alone. The things which we saw were the stuff of nightmares."
"John, you are really cruel to even show the real deal of the multiverse out there." Zatanna came and accused John of showing the raw part of the multiverse. They had lived in the multiverse before but holy shit this was dark.
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