Batman who was already dead was having none of it and directly flew out to punch John who had just appeared. Beat first, talk later. But Batman was going to be disappointed and he was stopped by an invisible wall in front of John. The wall was so strong that even two consecutive punches couldn't do anything to the wall.
Batman was surprised more by this. He knew that he had already died and death gave him perfect control over his muscles and bones and the human body tended to have more strength when one has perfect control over their bodies.
He at that point was pretty sure that this was magic and the person who had appeared was a magician or at least someone with powers.
"Who are you?" Batman asked.
"I am John Jameson. I have come a long way in search of you and to make sure the universes left don't fall into more destruction."
"John Jameson... John Jameson... I know no other magician or any kind of mutant of that name from here. Fuck.. Why can't I remember what happened?"
"Batman who Laughs has wiped away all the things of the past and your memories haven't returned yet. But even if you do, you won't be able to remember me." John said.
"You know what is wrong with this world?" Batman asked.
"Oh yes. It's a long story." John said as he sat beside Batman. He could see that Batman was confused. He could tell that he was the owner of the Black Lantern and he was sure that he died before.
The fact that he was using a dark thing to be alive was disgusting to himself but he had no other choice. He could feel that the world was wrong and he was going to find out what was wrong but he could tell that the problem arose from the Bat Castle from the nearby continent. John meanwhile was a little confused about it too. After the mess with the multiverse, only Batman and Superman remembered the past mainly because the death of a person goes beyond Past, Present and Future, while Superman was caught instead of being killed in order to be used as a battery for the sun of the planet Earth.
This too had changed. It seemed like Dr. Strange Fate really did something and had his hands here.
"Tell me why are you here?" Batman asked. He could tell that even bringing the dead zombies won't be of help and this person named John didn't retaliate even after he tried to punch. Though Batman didn't trust this new guy that popped out of nowhere. He at least didn't have any malice for now.
"To help us overthrow the evil regime that is ruling the universe and bring back everything that you have lost."
"Us?"
""We have an army arriving in the next few hours. Your zombies would be of great help." John said.
"What do you want?" Batman wanted to know what this new 'magician' really wants.
"To bring back the old multiverse and make sure it survives and not under the rule of a demented version of you. Want to go and see Diana?" John asked.
"Diana!! Alright." Batman said and before he could say any other word John just teleported him to the underground castle of Themyscira where others were located. Diana had a rare smile on her face seeing the stupidity of Luffy who was clamouring about meat and even the guy named Goku joined their shenanigans.
But what gave her true happiness was when Batman arrived. She couldn't hold it anymore and went to hug Batman. He had missed her. She felt like she was glad that Batman she knew was still alive. Batman was taken aback by the sudden assault and was almost ready to defend but after seeing a known person had hugged him, he didn't stop.
"Hello Bruce.."
"Hello Diana. uhh... Seems like a long time ago."
"It's not actually, though you both feel that a lifetime has passed you both fought together not much time ago and since there is no past to the world, you both feel like an eternity has passed."
"Diana you understood what we spoke before, you can explain it to him. I thought Batman had his old memories but I was wrong." John said.
Diana then explained what John had spoken of before. Actually Diana was still skeptical of what John and this new team had said bit somehow she could feel that what John said was right. Probably because John had the Phoenix Force and he was the embodiment of life force.
Batman being the paranoid of the group didn't believe what John said at all but for now he would dance with them as he needed allies now. As Diana was talking with Bruce, John received a call.
The call he had been waiting for!
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Yes! A phone call!! It had been a long time since John had to use the old ways for communication. He could use his omniscience but that might trigger the senses of Perpetua who was busy draining the power of the remaining universes as they made plans.
This call was from the Harvester as they were finally in the signal range. John opened Fixit which has been in half slumber mode for such a long time. John had almost forgotten about the little transformer.
"Strange, where are you?"
"According to Hal we are still 3 sectors away from the Milky Way galaxy. Will need 2 more hours to reach." Strange gave John the good news. It meant that everything went fine and Perpetua didn't come after them. It was probably because she was busy with other universes or someone was playing a trick on them.
John hadn't let go of the notion that the enemies were playing cat and mouse with them otherwise in no circumstances they would have sent Robin King to his 'death' and that too in the Wall.
A neutral territory.
There was definitely something fishy here but it didn't matter. Only the bigger fists win at the end. John believed that and now was charging towards the enemy. He wasn't blind but there was nothing that he could do here.
"Are those your friends?" Bruce asked as he saw John taking a call.
"Yes. They are 2 hours out."
"Do you have any plans?"
"Yes. Storm the Bat Castle. Take down Batman who Laughs and all other evil versions of you. All of them come from the Dark Multiverse and I will warn some of them are truly demented to the extreme. So I would like your focus."
"You seem like you are confident of taking down this so-called Batman who laughs."
"I can fight against him. But this multiverse is your territory plus there is Perpetua who herself was the ancient ruler of the multiverse until the Hand came and imprisoned her. So we have two strong enemies. And I want to take down the weakest before he gains a power that crosses the threshold of the universe." John said.
"And how do you want to do this?" Diana asked.
"Do you know your lasso of truth is one of the most powerful things that could help us liberate the world from the chains?" John asked.
"What? What do you mean?" Diana was surprised by the words and she didn't understand the meaning. John then explained the whole theory of Past, Present and Future and at the end telling her that this lasso could liberate the world and make people remember the past which in turn will give rise to the positive forces and weaken the negative forces which are ruling their universe right now.
"Good theory!! But how do we trust you?" Bruce asked.
"You don't have to. Lobo is right now coming to Earth as we speak. He will explain to you better." John said. In the comics it was Lobo who helped Diana get to the place where the Truth was and thus with the help of her Lasso she became a God which destroyed the current multiverse. (Lobo was introduced as a villain but later he was turned into a bounty hunter in the universe who would do anything for money. In the comics, after Lex Luthor fell out of grace in the eyes of Perpetua, he in resentment asked Lobo to help him bring her down in exchange of money and thus Lobo ended up helping Diana. )
"Lobo? That maniac? Why will I trust him?" Diana asked.
"Because he knows your past, Diana. Lex remembers the past. He was the last herald of Perpetua. The last champion before Batman who Laughs took away everything. Oh yeah! He would do anything for money so you can ask him about it too." John said. He wasn't exactly being convincing here but he could only do so much.
Diana and Bruce asked for privacy as they needed to make sure that they were dealing with the correct people. John had a team and from the looks of it, it might be a huge team. The power play was weak on their side but there was nothing they could do. But then Diana mentioned a name that Bruce had almost forgotten.
Clark Kent. Superman!
They needed Superman if they wanted to have an equal deal with the allies. But both of them didn't remember what happened to Superman. So again they had to come to John for answers shamelessly.
"Superman is alive but he won't be for long. He is being turned into Darksied by the Darksied Batman as we speak. He is forced to be the battery of the sun of this Earth so you will have to go and rescue him."
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