Joe was resting in the Medbay, it did not take long for him to recuperate but he wanted a good night's sleep, and the time retardation field kept waking him up.
He was quite tired after the three wars, so he had slept for three days and nights.
Unfortunately while he was asleep an ancient evil stole into the school, before implanting one of the students with a malicious entity, before vanishing yet again into thin air.
halfway across the world, in England, Merlyn commanded his trusted servants, the Captain Britain Corps, to attack Xaviers Institute for the gifted and retrieve Jean Gray.
as they arrived, Joe was awoken by the influx of magical energy as well as the intense pressure on his mental shields from Jean.
He jumped out of his bed, and donned his clothing with a thought even as he melted into his shadow he appeared in the courtyard.
Surprising the attackers he managed to stun them using a spell that he picked up that simulated G-Shock, something most enchantments did not work around.
Using a trick he had picked up during his wanderings he slammed his hands onto the ground before pulsing his magic into it, using the power to summon blocks of dense crystal around the warriors.
He was about to wake them up even as the corrupted Jean Gray attacked.
Used to fighting energy beings he teleported behind her and drained her of the energy with his scythe.
turning back to his captives, their mouths open in shock from the show of strength.
As his gaze bore down on them, he growled, "Who sent you. Why. And where can I find them."
"Never!"
deciding not to waste time he dragged one of them into a small room, after about ten minutes of screaming he came out and took the the skies.
Flying across the atlantic he slammed into the ground near Glastonbury tor.
His wand flicked out before releasing a spell slamming into the ground just in front of the door, causing the earth to form into a spike and smash the door in.
Stepping in he could not sense the mage. But Joe was not to be stalled letting him Mage sight scout around him he sensed magic forming a weakness in the world.
He strode up to it, his scythe appearing in his hand even as he brought is down to slice into the fabric of space and time.
Unfortunately the scythe struck the floor of the tower.
Unknown to him this broke Merlyn's link to the Matrix, and absorbed the energy into himself expanding his already considerable reserves to a a near infinite amount.
Then the information flowed.
Billions of minds all of them his released their knowledge into his mind.
He barely had the presence of mind to activate his Fedilius cloak while he fell to the ground in pain. One of his minds gave him the answer to what had happened.
This person was himself from another dimension who had been adopted by a vampire, a pair of gorgon and a wizard from another dimension and happened to learn a type of magic known as The Kaleidoscope, which allowed the movement from dimension to dimension.
One of the subsets of the skill was to be able to draw power and knowledge from your "Alternates", and Merlyn apparently brute forced something like this.
It allowed him to draw on the power of other "Harry Potters" as well as their knowledge and abilities, it also imprinted him with a small part of their personalities.
Fortunately for him Joe's Death magic allowed him to simply draw on the knowledge and power without killing his alternates as Merlyn had done.
He finally woke up, apparently had teleported to a small barren island. he felt his Zippo vibrating.
Pulling it out and flipping it open the green flames almost exploded int his face. "JOE BLACK! WHY HAVE YOU BEEN IGNORING YOUR ZIPPO! ME AND WANDA WERE GOING CRAZY SEARCHING FOR YOU! ITS BEEN THREE DAYS!" As Kara continued to rant and Joe tried to explain himself, while he was listening he used a technique from one of his other alternates to split his attention and organise his mind.
He realised that the old library system was not going to work so he used a system a harry who had been adopted by the Delacour family and re organised his mind like a computer.
Allowing the HUD to settle into his vision, he sorted all the information according to subject and the alternate that they were from.
As Kara calmed down he answered again.
"Yes Kara, I'm sorry i worried you and the others but i can't quite help it, there was a magical accident involving Merlyn's tower and I got knocked out when I absorbed the knowledge and power of several billion alternate versions of me.
Meh, I'll take out Merlyn and then I'll get back to you.
He used the Kaleidoscope to move to the Otherworld, spotting Merlyn he stunned him.
Knowing about Merlyn's cryptic tendencies he let his Telepathy enter his mind, Merlyn's magical shield not stopping the psychic intrusion.
Leaving the virus in his brain he simply found what he was looking for. Apparently a person named Necrom used something known as the Anti-Phoenix to cause Jean to go crazy.
Noting that the threat was over, he returned home.
However on Ee'rath the Necrom looses concentration and looses control of the re-animated Thor, and dies from a well-aimed swing of Mjolnir.
A/N : The first harry is from Fate's Gamble by lupine horror, the second, Lucky Harry by Pyrgus