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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The more John revealed, the more dizzy they became. This world was wrong in so many ways. Even the famous Superman was used as a battery. Was this a Matrix or something? At the end they had to believe the words of John as there was no other clue.
"So should we approach the Castle Bat?"
"We will go underground and since it's a huge castle it has to have an underground sewer. So we will use that and charge inside. It is inside Castle Bat that Superman is imprisoned. We will free him and take care of Batman who laughs. Batman, I know your no kill rule but I will definitely kill and turn his body into ashes. So I hope you won't stop me." John said. The no kill rule of Batman was still on and due to him being merciful was the reason Batman who Laughs escaped from prison and ushered the reign of his terror.
John didn't want to commit the same mistake again on behalf of Batman. He didn't want to leave the chance that the Batman who Laughs would turn into the Darkest Night and then it would be a nightmare.
Swamp-Thing was looking at all of this and hearing the stories with interest. He looked really bad. There were almost no muscles on his body. The skin was sticking to his skeletal bones and in fact at many places the organs could be seen as there was no skin to cover it. It seemed like he was alive just because of luck.
John took pity on him and gave him a little force so that at least he could be better and not look so pathetic. The Swamp thing was a great spy and they needed people like him. Castle Bat wasn't easy and it would take a lot of time to search for the sewer so they better ask for his help. And of course, John would make sure he didn't have to commit suicide near Castle Black like the original story.
Since he had arrived he would have made sure to save as many as possible.
Bruce and Diana had opened the map of the world and were surprised by the huge change of Swamp Thing. Diana in particular was very happy to see her old friend better.
"Help me locate the entrance of the sewer, old friend?" Diana asked. Swamp Thing then proceeded to draw the whole sewage structure of Castle Black and even the places where they could encounter walls and guards.
"We will need a distraction. I am sure even the sewage would be heavily guarded."
"The Avengers would deploy three teams for them to assault Castle Black in broad daylight so that we occupy their attention. Two teams would go with us under Castle Black. One will follow Diana for her to gain the power of Truth thus liberating the Past and the Present. And the other team would follow Batman who will help to release Superman. Batman you can choose any team you like or follow your own path but this is the route I calculated and this is the most optimum way to confront the enemy. Batman who Laughs is the herald of Perpetua so I will have to make sure he doesn't interfere."
Bruce and Diana both accepted this and they were relieved that John wasn't asking them to follow his plans. At least he was good on the surface, only the actions would prove later as he rolled his Black Lantern Ring on his finger. Diana still didn't know that Bruce was dead and John too didn't tell that secret. It was better for her not to know.
As the plans were being made on which sewer to attack and which to leave, John again got a call.
"We are outside the Solar System. Point us magically, and we will be there." Strange said. John's eyes shined as he made magic signs with his hand. He could open a portal but his magic was more in tune with this world so he needed to avoid using Dr. Fate's magic as much as possible.
"Got the coordinates." Strange responded after a few seconds.
And in the next moment a circular portal appeared in the Hall of the Castle. Actually there were multiple circular portals. And from these portals emerged the people that John, Goku and others were waiting for.
Bruce and Diana didn't recognize more than half of them, and even Diana who had the lasso of truth didn't have recollection of any of them. But shit hit the fan when Batman and Superman of John's own world came.
They had their eyes wide open. When John said that he would bring his own team, they didn't expect this. Even Diana from John's world had arrived. The two superheroes didn't know what to say after seeing this.
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