"You really are on a whole different level now. Aren't you?" Steve lamented.
"I am the same old person, Captain. It's just now I will have too much information on my head. I can only switch off the constant flow of information." John said as he assured everybody that he was still the same.
"So our universe is back with the multiverse. Is it a good thing or a bad one?" Tony asked as the normal people felt no change when John said that they were back with the multiverse.
"It's a good thing. But there is a downside. This might lead to more people crossing over to our universe now." John lied. The Black Winter was done so now he could spend his fan values as much as he pleased. He didn't need to care about anything anymore.
"More people? From where?" Tony asked.
"I have no idea. I might be omnipotent but not in every sense. I can't always know the future." John lied again as he always had an idea who would be coming. But here, as of now, he hadn't decided.
"Alright. Be it an ally or an enemy. We will face it together. Let's stop here for now." Wayne said as he got up and started walking away. Following that all of them left.
John was back at his home but he shuddered the moment he returned because he saw an angry woman standing on the patio looking at him. It was Emma. And before he could defend or say anything she asked
"You asked the Guardians not to include me in the fight against the Black Winter. Didn't you?"
"Uhh...No.. I don't know what you are talking about." John replied as he moved his head to avoid the eyes of her. It was him who asked the Guardians not to inform her of the battle. In the battle John couldn't let himself be distracted so he chose the most viable option possible.
Not to include her in the battle and keep her as far as possible from all of this.
"Liar.. You asked the Guardians not to include me in this whole assault and I was never informed." Emma said in a more stern tone. John sighed, he knew he couldn't hide the truth from her for a long time and had to come out with the truth.
"Let's go inside and discuss this, can we?" John said. Emma didn't speak and just went inside. Followed by John. And then the whole argument started. Well, it was more of a scolding and less of an argument.
But finally after a lot of convincing she calmed down. She really didn't like being away from the whole battle. But John just denied her that. She only accepted John's reasons after the assurance that she would be present if a major battle breaks out in the future.
John in order to make it up to her made a candlelight dinner and took her to a romantic date. It was there that Emma understood that her boyfriend had just been elevated to Godhood after being the host of Phoenix Force.
She was very happy to know this. Being the girlfriend of the host of a cosmic entity was a huge thing and she was genuinely ecstatic to know of all this.
John on the other hand was just happy that Emma had calmed down. He wanted nothing more but to see her smile and all he did was to preserve that smile and preserve the smiles of his loved ones.
Earth on the other hand got to see Galactus. The satellites like last time caught pictures of him. And this being was bigger than the last one. There was a whole lot of discussion on all of this and it added more when the rumours came that all the Avengers and even the Teen Titans vanished for sometime after this new being appeared.
There was debate on the internet and speculations of him as usual. Neither Umbrella nor Avengers came up and gave any information of why such beings have started appearing one after another.
But unlike last time, the people weren't deeply concerned about who appeared and who not as long as it didn't affect their lives. Humanity had the notion that now, since they had Pokemons and mythical ones at that, they would always be protected as Pokemons now lived on the same Earth too.
John, who knew what was going on on Earth, was happy to see such a response. The next day Emma had to leave as there were less lanterns in the universe now and even though new lanterns had been chosen they needed to be trained for combat. So all the remaining Lanterns had more work for the time being as they had to look after more sectors as a whole.
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