"So we are like chargers to these Gods?" Hal asked.
"Yes." John replied.
"No wonder Thanos lost his sanity. He must have seen the death of his own home planet. And this led to him taking up arms against them in a weird way." Yen said.
"Yes. Well Thanos has another history. Don't care much about it. I will take care of the Celestials. If we can't even stop a Celestial, I don't think we have the right to even speak about Black Winter." John said.
"True. That will be our ultimate test. To see if we are worthy enough to face Black Winter." Wayne said.
"Why do they even care about us? They abandoned us. They should stay the f**k out of our way." Tony said as he was angry that as a species they served only as a charger for Gods. He hated this feeling of powerlessness.
"It is what it is. Celestials work on multiverse levels not on a single universe." John said.
"Who was this Immortus guy?" Parker asked as they seemed to have forgotten that the first person who started this downhill was him.
"He is Kang. Well, the future version of Kang. The one truly appointed by the Timekeepers." John said.
"Oh. Loki has a huge headache it seems." Diana said.
"Yes he does. So now you know all." John said. This new information that John gave was too much for all. First it was the Creator and then came the lesser Gods. This was enough to change the whole world for them.
They didn't know such beings even existed and now they know that they exist, they turned out not to be so good.
"John, when is this new celestial is going to be born?" Tony asked.
"I am not sure. A year or so maybe." John said.
"F**k" Geralt said.
"Will we be powerful enough?" Clint murmured.
"We have to be. There is no other way." John said. He just hoped that the new video that he just captured was enough to push his fan values to a high level. And pray that there would be an update. An update is what he needed now.
"I know you all are feeling down now, but we had taken this path the moment we decided to face Black Winter. This is just a bump on the road. There are no shortcuts here." Steve said.
"Together we will face, whatever comes." Wayne said.
"Together." all shouted in unison.
"I know all of you are tired. You all can go home and collect yourselves. We all need a rest after all of this." John said. All nodded at it. Then Guilty Spark appeared as he teleported people to their homes.
Only John, Wayne and Tony remained in their seats.
"Still angry that I didn't tell you about the Celestials. You have always been preaching of no secrets but you yourself kept such a secret from us." Tony said.
"Tony you have to understand that what I know is dangerous. If I go on telling all the secrets you will shaking in fear. One Black Winter has given you enough problems. I can see that you hardly pass time with Pepper now. Do you think over working yourself will solve the problem?" John asked.
"We aren't Gods Tony. I have said this to you before. We can only try with what we can, but that doesn't mean we will lose ourselves in pursuit of power. No power will be enough power. There will always be new threats. New dangers. Do you think that Black Winter will be the last enemy we face? That is just the start."
"I didn't tell you about them only because of this. You have seen how Black Winter made many of us. Clint has stopped sleeping. Natasha just trains all day. Oliver almost had a breakup with Felicity. Do yo think this is healthy for us. Knowing the future?" John asked.
Tony became silent when he said this. He knew that knowing too much was always a problem. He just didn't expect that dangers were just right at their doorstep.
"Go home Tony. Spend time with Pepper. Fights will always be there. We have come a long way from facing terrorists to Gods. We will crush our enemies. We might die along the way, but we can never say that we didn't try." Wayne added to it.
"Yeah. GAIA are the videos ready?" John asked changing the topic now.
"Even after all this all you care about is videos?" Tony asked.
"It's my hobby. Keeps my sanity. You too need to find a hobby. You are going nuts. Calm yourself down." John said
"I will think about it." Tony murmured.
"The videos are ready. Do you want me to upload it everywhere?" GAIA asked.
"Yes upload it on all platforms. Both here and the universe. Tell Lex to handle this." John said.
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There will be double uploads tomorrow if there are more than 350 power stone donations by the end of the day.
Thank you.