radiothebook Chapter 721 He shouted about bonds and courage, and then he became Darkseid.
Chapter 721 He shouted about bonds and courage, and then he became Darkseid.
Chapter 721 He shouted about bonds and courage, and then he became Darkseid.
I'm Jessica Cruz, and you see, I'm not exactly a veteran Green Lantern.
When the Crime Syndicate invaded our universe, Hal Jordan from a parallel universe died, and the ring of divine power he carried needed to choose a sufficiently cowardly host.
So it chose me... Why not? What could be more cowardly than a little girl who escaped from a group of serial killers, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and trembled in her room every day?
Many things happened after that: the Amozzo virus, the Darkseid War...
The ring once tried to control me, but in the end I decided to sacrifice myself, and this act caused the ring to be taken away by death in my place. As a result, I obtained a new Green Lantern ring and rejoined the Green Lantern Corps.
While Hal was away, my teammate Simon and I were in charge of Justice League affairs. But this time, things were just too big.
Before the entire Justice League began its operation, I used my ring to summon Hal on Planet OA.
Simon and I have mostly played the role of henchmen in the Justice League, but this time we're facing an enemy at the level of being able to resist time travel. I mean... I don't really understand what time travel is, but this seems much stronger than ordinary villains like the Prophet.
Sure enough, the Luthor from that parallel universe tried to be clever from the start... He didn't agree with us on the Superman issue, so he planned to act first and ask for permission later, making it a fait accompli. Batman discovered this, and we were separated. I had to defeat the enemy in front of me, a Hal Jordan from another version of a parallel universe.
I am fully confident...
Okay, I didn't.
How scary is HAL in a parallel universe! QwQ
I frantically messaged Hal using my Green Lantern ring; he was almost there. But before he arrived, a Batman from another parallel universe, also using a Green Lantern ring, came to our aid.
I know this sounds chaotic, but the battlefield is even more chaotic right now.
Things ended up like this in a muddle!
boom!!!!
At this moment, right now.
Hal, who had just entered the Firestorm Matrix space of the main universe, was hit by a barrage of heavy punches from more than 10 Parademons.
He scrambled to his feet, then suddenly realized that the pure white ground around him had darkened, and then it was pitch black.
Hal frowned, raised the ring, and it glowed green, intending to illuminate the surrounding darkness.
It's not lit yet.
No response.
"What the hell?"
He frowned. "The ring. Contact Jessica."
"I'm here." He had just lit up for a moment, but quickly reconnected with the other person, and the two of them met up.
"Where's Simon?"
"Here he is." Jessica used her ring to lift up Simon, the Green Lantern whose limbs had been broken. His eyes were closed, and he had fallen into a coma. Even his Green Lantern costume had disappeared.
Tell me what happened.
"We couldn't beat him at first, he was too good. QwQ"
Jessica said, "But then a Batman from a parallel universe came along. He called himself the Dawn Lantern, and he helped us fight that enemy, Hal."
"Then?"
"Then the enemy Hal was utterly defeated, and the Dawn Lantern had a special method to counter the Lantern Ring, called the 'Light-Out Procedure'."
"So, have we won now?"
"No, then after Hal was cornered, he spouted a bunch of nonsense about resolve, bonds, a last-ditch effort, and having a trump card, and then suddenly he turned into Darkseid!"
???
Hal was completely bewildered by all this nonsense.
When will this darkness end?
"This complete darkness is the Dawn Lantern's shutdown process; sometimes it stops, and sometimes it reappears. QwQ"
Jessica said, "Watch out, there are a lot of Parademons around—"
He had only spoken halfway when the entire space suddenly lit up.
As darkness receded and light filled the sky, Jessica and the unconscious Simon found themselves in a vast, silvery-white space, like a huge, angular, cubic room.
High above, there were layers upon layers of Parademons.
Sound was returning. No longer was there only deathly silence. A vast horde of Parademons swirled and circled, protecting the enemy at their center.
On that obsidian-like face, one can still vaguely see the shadow of Hal Jordan.
He had one hand behind his back and the other hand around the neck of a Batman.
It is the Dawn Ghost Lamp.
At the edge of the Parademon Legion, a large number of dark blue Dawn Lanterns were devoured by the Parademon.
The terrifyingly shaped giant birds, bats, and monstrous dragons were swarmed by the Parademons and torn to shreds.
With one hand, Dawn Lantern forcefully gripped Darkseidhar's hand that was pinching his neck, while with the other hand, it raised the ring towards the other's face.
The next moment, a huge energy wave erupted from his ring, hitting Darkseid squarely in the face, but it didn't even make him tilt his head.
"bed bugs."
When Hal from the main universe heard the other party's voice, he felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
He immediately flew towards them, and the Parademons spotted the three below and surged towards them like waves.
"Hal?" Jessica asked nervously, not out of fear.
"Find a way to wake Simon up. We need his fighting ability. He still has his ring, so he can fight even if his limbs are broken."
Hal issued the order with a serious expression, demonstrating his leadership skills.
Jessica slapped Simon across the face, and he immediately snapped out of it: "Jessica?"
He hadn't quite grasped what was happening, but Jessica slapped him to obey: "Charge with us!"
The next moment, the green lights of the three people combined to create a concrete image of a giant drill truck.
The Green Lantern Corps is guaranteed to be wiped out if they have more than five members. Now that they only have three members, they can unleash their maximum fighting power through cooperation.
"When you reach Darkseid, you'll need to protect yourselves, and then... uh."
Hal originally wanted to say something like "This is Hal's solo performance," but considering the consequences of being punched on the back before and saying those words to Darkseid when the Justice League was first formed in the main universe, Hal ultimately chose to keep quiet.
They flew over and plunged directly into the horde of Parademons, causing countless Parademons to tumble and fly everywhere.
The Dawn Lantern, held in Darkseidhar's hand, struggled desperately, forcing the other to focus its attention on itself.
"Listen, Jessica. If this guy really is Hal Jordan from some parallel universe, something's very wrong with him right now."
Amidst the deafening roar of countless Parademons screaming outside, Hal from the main universe whispered to Jessica, "These Parademons are ridiculously strong. Although they are slightly weaker than the Parademons from the main universe back then, they are still outrageously powerful."
He said, "Based on your power, if this Dawn Lamp can create darkness that obscures the light of my lamp ring, then Darkseidhar's power, which is currently suppressing the opponent, must be considerable."
Hal gritted his teeth: "I suspect..."
"What do you suspect?"
"The other person has lost consciousness, right?"
"The Hal from that parallel universe was talking to us before, but this guy is no different from Darkseid now," Simon said from the side. "He even mentioned Jessica's death and resurrection!" (Note: Events that occurred during the Darkseid War in the New 52)
"But if the other person is me from a parallel universe, he shouldn't know these things in the first place."
Hal from the main universe said, "Unless their universe also experienced a Darkseid War, the histories between different parallel universes are generally vastly different."
He took a deep breath and then came to a conclusion:
"This guy could very well be Darkseid himself."
Jessica said, "I don't understand..."
With a deafening roar, the excavator they had built together smashed through a formation of several Parademons, bringing them ever closer to Darkseidhar.
"After the final crisis, Darkseid's divine essence shattered, and his immortal soul fell to the mortal realm. From then on, he no longer had a physical body, only avatars, all of which were fragments of his divine essence, including Darkseid in the Dark Multiverse."
Hal from the main universe said, "After Flashpoint, during the New 52 era, Darkseid's strongest avatar from Earth 0 invaded the main universe, leading to the formation of the Justice League in the main universe—wait, how do I know all this so clearly?"
As he spoke, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. Someone had possessed him with green light energy, and this person's thoughts and consciousness were very similar to his, resonating with him, which was why he could speak these words through his mouth when the other person was unresponsive.
But now Hal realized what was happening and noticed the other party's presence, so the other party was immediately expelled from his body.
A large mass of green energy suddenly surged from his body, coalescing into the image of Hal in front of the three of them.
Jessica was so startled that she almost fired an energy beam at the suddenly appearing figure, but was stopped by Hal from the main universe.
He looked at the other person: "Are you Hal from that parallel universe?"
"Yes, it's me, I need help." Alliance Hal was devastated.
He took a deep breath and said, "In our universe, we defeated Darkseid and killed him. Darkseid's death shattered his godhood, and at that time, every member of our Justice League was forced to collectively declare himself a god to fill the void in his universe."
"But after that, Batman inherited a quarter of the Dark Multiverse Dragon... You can think of it as another god. He transformed the entire universe, turning its nature into something like a fortress. The godhoods that remained within each person lost their meaning, and so these godhoods dissipated—but that's just what the other members think."
"Luthor and I have prepared an ultimate plan that we haven't told the other members: based on the Omega effect, he used Darkseid's daughter Grell, who was imprisoned, to release Darkseid's divinity from that baby and created an ultimate weapon specifically for me that would allow me to transform into Darkseid himself."
"Because Green Lantern has the strongest willpower in the entire Justice League."
After hearing this, Hal from the main universe almost cursed. He spoke on behalf of the other party, explaining why he had chosen the Alliance Hal.
"Yes, that's exactly why I became the final user."
"You've all gone mad, Luthor's gone mad, and your decision-makers' gone mad." Hal from the main universe was almost incoherent: "But now you've failed. Your ultimate weapon has resurrected Darkseid within you, and not only that—"
"It's also possible that Darkseid's main consciousness has been resurrected," Hal of the Alliance said bitterly. "He mentioned the final crisis when facing the Dawn Lantern, and he mentioned Jessica's death during the Darkseid War when facing her. These are things that Darkseid from my universe could not know."
"Ever since the final crisis, Darkseid has been trying to find a chance to be resurrected. His main consciousness wanders among his various avatars, seeking an opportunity to collect the fragments."
"These memories all come from your universe's Batman... He knows a lot. So what do we do now?"
"It's simple, your parallel universe self," Hal said. "You need to enter my mind to help me fight Darkseid. Luthor and I once considered the possibility of becoming Darkseid and then being unable to revert back. Zatanna helped us create something that could reabsorb Amazonian magic from Darkseid's divine essence. It's the one Grell used."
(Note: In the main universe, during the Darkseid Wars of the New 52 era, Greer used Amazonian magic to absorb all the Darkseid fragments from the Justice League using the baby born to Superqueen, and then directly resurrected Darkseid himself using that baby. In Chen Tao's universe, Greer was captured alive by Lex Luthor, and her knowledge was similarly drained.)
"Your willpower is the strongest. Only when our willpower is combined can we have a chance to expel Darkseid from my body, and then I can end this transformation!"
Please.
In the main universe, Hal knew he had no other choice. When he saw the Dawn Lantern being beaten like a dead dog, gradually losing all its power to resist, he knew he had no other option.
So he did as instructed. He knew Darkseid must have laid a trap for the other's will, targeting the things he and Hal of the Alliance feared most—this was bound to be a profound test. He wasn't sure if he was prepared to face it.
What will he see? A grieving mother? A resurrected father? Sinestro? Or perhaps the destruction of OA?
However, when he followed the other party directly into the consciousness of Alliance Hal.
He found himself transformed into a tiny Green Lantern baby, while in front of him stood a giant Batman mom holding a pacifier.
He heard the other person say:
"Time to eat!"
Damn it, the first one to come up is the fear of the Alliance Hal.
What kind of nonsense is this? I'm speechless.
(End of this chapter)