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Green Lantern was flying through space with the Javelin behind him; it was encased in a green aura coming from his ring. The justice League had been fairly quiet in recent weeks. Until they had received a distress signal from an alien escape pod, naturally the League had investigated and the pod contained two alien children. Green Lantern had been able to identify them and understand them thanks to his power rings universal translator.
The children had told him that their planet was being invaded and begged them to help, the League had agreed to not only take the children home but also help out in any way they could.
Batman had elected to stay behind and keep an eye on things on earth, Alucard was initially not going to go but one of Batmans glares changed his mind. When they arrived the League were informed of the situation and quickly got involved in fighting for the planets freedom against the invading army. Alucard hadn't actually participated in the battle and he mainly stayed behind to aid the planets civilians. He found them pleasant enough to talk to...if not a little strange.
In the end the battle had been won, the invading force gave up and a peace agreement was formed between the two worlds; the Justice League were celebrated as heroes. They had stayed for a celebration feast in there honour before heading back to earth. Unfortunately the Javelin they had come in had been damaged in the fight and was no longer able to fly through space, Green Lantern had offered to tow it back to earth with the League riding inside.
Thankfully he had enough energy in his power ring to do so.
"Alright we just entered our solar system," Green Lantern announced through the Javelins speakers.
"Finally, I can't wait to get home," Flash said.
"Me either, I could use a shower," Hawk Girl claimed "I still have some sand stuck in my feathers from that dessert storm I had to fly through,"
"We told you to go over it," Superman claimed.
"I did go over it...that stupid anti-gravity field set up made the storm go higher," Hawk Girl complained.
"I still do not see why I had to come...you did not need me," Alucard claimed "I did very little to help,"
"You saved those citizens, if you hadn't been there they would have been killed by that recon squad...you save a lot of lives," Superman said.
"He's right, we were in the front lines. None of use could've got there in time," Wonder Woman agreed.
"Speak for yourselves," Flash snorted.
"I'm sorry but I seem to remember you were the one with a crushed leg," Hawk Girl pointed out.
"By the way...how is your leg?" Alucard asked.
"All good, best thing about super speed is super-fast healing," Flash smiled "Broken bones only take about an hour to heal...two at max,"
"Must be nice to have natural healing factors," Green Lanterns voice came through the speakers.
"It is rather handy," J'onn admitted.
"Does your ring not provide a protective energy field that negates damage and injury?" Alucard asked.
"Yeah but I still feel it, and if my ring goes out than I'm as mortal as everyone else," Green Lantern said.
"Present compony excluded of course," Wonder Woman added and gave Alucard a sly wink.
Alucard turned away to look out the window.
"So Alucard this has got to be your first time off world," Flash said changing the subject "What do you think?"
"It was...an experience," Alucard answered still looking out into space.
"That's it?" Superman asked "Just an experience?"
"Yes," Alucard agreed.
"Still it must make a nice change, after all you haven't been to off world before right?" Hawk Girl asked.
"I suppose, the culture and food was different...and the citizens had strange habits,"
"Didn't they think you were some evil god or something?" Flash asked.
"Yes, apparently vampires serve as messengers of the night goddess," Alucard explained "they were very insistent on making offerings to me,"
"Oh what kind?" Wonder Woman asked curiously.
"Their Pants...apparently if I was a messenger for a good or light gods they would have offered me there shirts and if I was an actual god they would have given me their hats," Alucard claimed.
"Huh...so that's why nobody was wearing pants at the feast," Superman said "Makes you wonder what their gods do with the pants,"
"Personally I would rather not think about it," Alucard responded, he then turned to Hawk Girl "By the way...are you not from another planet?"
"Yes Thanagar," Hawk Girl answered.
"Why do you not go home?" Alucard asked.
"Thanagar is too far away, with earth's current technology I'd be long dead by the time I'd make it back," Hawk Girl said sadly.
"I see...I apologise for bringing it up," Alucard said.
"It's fine, I've been on earth for 5yrs now and while it's defiantly no Thanagar it's a pretty good planet," Hawk Girl said "It's peaceful,"
"So does earth have anything that Thanagar doesn't?" Flash asked.
"Lots of things, but then earth has a lot of things that Thanagar doesn't have too," Hawk girl claimed.
"Like what?" Green Lantern asked through the speakers.
"Well first off everyone can fly on Thanager...do you have any idea how long it took me to realise that humans didn't fly?" Hawk Girl asked.
"You didn't know?" Superman asked.
"No, I mean you were on the news and there was Lantern flying around...I thought you lot grew into your wings once you were older or you had made them invisible somehow," Hawk Girl claimed "Thanagerans are born with wings but they don't become strong enough to carry us until adolesce. For two and half years I thought humans just had some way of hiding them,"
"Wait...so for two and a half years you thought humans had hidden wings?" Flash asked very amused.
"If you make a joke or laugh I will make you wish you could fly away from me," Hawk Girl threatened.
"How long have you been on earth?" Alucard asked.
"4 years now," Hawk Girl answered.
Alucard turned away from the window and looked over at Hawk Girl.
"If it makes you feel any better I spend the first part of my childhood believing that there were invisible animals living in our cottage walls," Alucard supplied.
"Really?" J'onn asked "what made you believe that?"
"When I was a child my father would often entertain me with living shadows before I went to sleep...they would take on different animal forms and I came to believe that those animals lived in our walls," Alucard claimed.
"That's sounds like fun…but what made you think they were invisible?" Flash asked.
"One day I went looking for them and when I could not find them I asked my mother and she said that the animals were invisible and only came out to entertain good children," Alucard explained "Of course as I grew, I realised it had merely been my father manipulating the shadows,"
The League continued to chat about childhood beliefs and turns out Flash believed that there are is a monster in his washing machine that eats his socks as he always has odd Socks. The League had a good joke about it until Alucard informed them that there was a species of Imps that did in fact like to steal clothes while they were being cleaned and that socks were their favourite.
Flash was a bit taken back by this and Alucard was forced to tell him how to prevent the Imps from stealing his socks.
After another hour of being towed through space the Javelin finally approached earth.
"Finally home sweet home," Flash said happily.
"Yeah just in time too, I'm running low and will need a very long recharge as soon as we get back," Green Lantern agreed.
Superman activated the planes radio.
"Javelin to Watch Tower, we're coming in," Superman said.
"Pity, I was just beginning to enjoy the peace and quiet," Batman voice responded "Hanger bay doors are opening now,"
"Same old Bats," Flash smiled.
As the League was approaching the Watchtower a Bright light erupted from the planet and spread out into the cosmos, it caused a massive shockwave and Green Lantern struggled to hold onto the Javelin as it and those inside felt it as well and were all knocked out of their seats and thrown around the interior of the plane.
The shock wave only lasted a second or two but once it had passed Green Lantern noticed something very important was missing.
"Guys...the Watchtower is gone," Green Lantern said wordily.
The rest of the group picked themselves up and saw that where the Watch Tower was a few moments ago there was nothing there. Superman rushed to the Javelins console and tried to Contact Batman on the radio but didn't get any repose.
"He's gone...and so is the Watchtower," J'onn announced as a yellow glow faded from his eyes.
"How?" Wonder Woman asked.
"I don't know but we're going to find out," Superman said.
He activated the Javelins scanners but did not pick up anything above the planet, there was no debris, radiation or any sign that the Leagues Space Station was ever there. The Scanners did pick up an unusual energy signature that originated from the planet, with no other leads Green Lantern flew down to the earth to investigate whatever the scanners had picked up.
The Javelin landed in a large city that no one recognised the buildings were all close together and the streets were fairly clean but there were no people around.
"Where are we?"
"I think...this is Metropolis," Superman said.
"How can you tell?" J'onn asked.
Superman pointed to a nearby building witch had a familiar golden globe on top that read the Daily Planet. However the globe was being held in a large fist that had a tight hold over it and the building itself was a lot smaller than what Superman remembered. They looked around
"This can't be Metropolis...can it?" Wonder Woman asked.
"Well either the city council did some massive high speed redecorating while we were gone or..." Flash started.
"Or what?" J'onn asked.
"I don't know...I was hoping one of you had something to finish that sentence," Flash claimed.
As they started to wander around Alucard stopped in front of a sign that had a picture of a young looking man smiling and the words Leader written underneath. The vampire looked at the surrounding buildings and noticed that there were other pictures of him as well and a strange symbol that he did not recognise.
"This man's picture is everywhere," Alucard commented "As is this symbol,"
"We noticed," Green Lantern agreed, he sounded angry.
"I am unfamiliar with both this man and symbol, who is he and what does it mean?" Alucard asked.
"I don't know about this man but the symbol...Be grateful that you don't know," Superman said in a similar tone to Green Lanterns "This symbol that brought a lot of death and misery to the whole world,"
"Hey you lot," a new voice said.
The League turned and saw two men in some kind of grey military uniform approach them.
"This area is off limits, show me your papers," the man demanded.
"What?" Green Lantern asked.
"You heard me, show me your identification papers, only authorised personal are allowed here," the man repeated as he came over.
"Sorry but my Identity is a secret...chicks love a man of mystery after all," Flash joked.
Both Wonder Woman and Hawk Girl rolled their eyes, however the men did not think it was funny.
"That's it your under arrest," the man said.
"Under what charge?" Hawk Girl demanded stepping in front of Flash.
"Out of the way woman," the man said and tried shove her away.
Hawk Girl was not having it or her teammate unlawfully arrested, she grabbed the man's arm and swiftly pulled it behind his back before flipping him over and throwing him into a tree. The second man looked at his fallen pater and instantly called for backup and shot a flare into the sky.
The reinforcements must have been close by as a few seconds later two more men ran around the corner and started to shoot at the League, Green Lantern put up shield to block the bullets. This barrier did not last long five high tech hover crafts quickly descended upon the group.
"SCATTER!" Green Lantern cried as he dropped the shield.
Those who could fly took the air and started to destroy the hover crafts, Superman and Wonder Woman punched through the wings. Hawk Girl and smashed her mace into the front causing the controls to be unresponsive...and explode, Alucard used his sword to cleanly slice both wings off in one stroke and J'onn phased through his taking the engine out as he passed through it.
Flash took out the men on the ground who were shooting at those in the air. He then looked up to check on his friends and he saw in the distance another group of hover crafts heading there way. This group was much bigger than the last one.
"Guys we got more headed our way," Flash called out, warning the others.
"Great there's more of them," Superman said irritably.
"Let them come," Hawk Girl said eagerly.
The League got ready to for the next wave but suddenly a new but familer voice caught Flash's attention.
"Over here," a familiar voice called out.
Flash turned to where the voice came from and standing there just out of the shadow was a man about Batman's height and build, he was wearing some kind of battle Armor instead of his usual cape and cowl. He had a hard black helmet over the top of his head.
"Bats?" Flash asked.
The rest of the League looked down and saw someone skulking in the shadows of an ally between buildings.
"Follow me," the man demanded and he ran back into the ally.
The League didn't hesitate and followed their friend, he had gone into a man hole and the League followed. the man hole led to an old train station where a train was conveniently parked underneath. Once the League was inside the man started the train and it sped off at high speed. The League was not ready for it and were thrown back into a pile against the back of the train.
"Who's hand is that?" Hawk Girl asked as she felt someone's hand on her butt and squeeze it.
"My bad sorry," Flash admitted and quickly pulled his hand out.
Hawk Girl glared at him and the League untangled themselves and stood up. They rode the train all the way to the end of the line where it continued through a fake wall and eventually stopped at a hidden underground storage area. There were stacked boxes covered with sheets and broken down vehicles and that looked like they had been stripped. On the upper level a large computer.
"This is too weird, I'm going to get some answers," Flash said.
"Flash wait..." Superman started but Flash had already run off.
Flash instantly caught up with the Batman look alike but and put his hand on his shoulder.
"Hey I've got some questions," Flash said.
The second he said the whole area was filled with armed men and women, they all had the same type of guns that the men who attacked the League on the surface did but they were all wearing similar outfits to the Batman look alike. Flash took a step back.
"Because we're surrounded," Superman finished with a sigh.
"I'll ask the questions," the Batman Look alike said seriously "Who are you?"
"What?" Hawk Girl asked in surprise.
"I said who are you? I saw what you did up their and the Resistance could use you...if you can be trusted that is,"
The League stared at the Dark Knight in shock, why was he acing like this was the first chance they had met.
"Bats...your starting to scare me more than usual," Flash said concerned.
"I scare a lot of people now answer the question," he demanded.
"What are you talking about, we're your friends," Wonder Woman claimed.
"I don't have friends," the Batman look alike claimed.
"Well that explains a lot," Flash muttered.
"You've known us for at least for at least a few years now," Green Lantern claimed as he walked up to the lookalike.
"Except me, you have only known me for a short time," Alucard added from the back.
J'onn narrowed his eyes and focused as he quickly scanned the Batman lookalikes mind, he did not like to delve into the Leagues minds as it was not only did his people consider it to be rude to probe the thoughts of his closest friends but also he respected them and their privacy. However given the situation he decided to take a quick peek and then they widened in surprise.
"He's telling the truth. He has no memory of us," J'onn announced.
"What?" Superman gasped "how can that be?"
"I am not sure but not only that his mind is open to me, not closed off. His mental defences are almost non existent," J'onn continued.
"I thought you said it was rude to poke around in our heads without our permission," Flash claimed.
"I merely focused on us or anything to do with the Justice League nothing more," J'onn assured "Given our situation I deemed it necessary. Regardless, this man in front of us has no Idea who we are or any memory of the Justice League,"
The reveal that one of them could probe peoples minds did not seem to help and the lookalike grabbed a gun from one of the nearby men and pointed it straight at the League.
"I won't ask again, who are you?" he said seriously.
Superman had had enough of this and he used his speed to instantly appear in front of the lookalike and yanked his weapon straight out of his hand. The Batman look alike was stunned at the speed and power that Superman had displayed, however it was quickly replaced by a look of defiance and he glared at the man of steel unwilling to show him any kind of fear.
"If we wanted to hurt you we would have done it already," Superman said seriously.
They both stared intently at each other, neither one showing any kind of fear or backing down. After a few intense seconds the look like gave a hand signal and the people that had surrounded them lowered their weapons. Superman gave him back his weapon but it had been bent out of shape.
"Opps...sorry about that," Superman said sheepishly.
The Batman look alike took the weapon and looked at it before tossing it away over his shoulder.
"Let's talk," he said.
He led the group up to the computer where the League introduced themselves and explained how where they had come from.
"Is there something we can call you by?" J'onn asked.
"The regime calls me Fledermaus," Fledermaus introduced.
"That's German for Bat," Superman supplied.
"Huh…I guess no matter what Bats will be Bats," Flash said.
"What Regime are you talking about?" Wonder Woman asked.
"It's the name for the current government in power...though it's more like a dictatorship than a government," Fledermaus claimed.
He then explained how the world was run and how the people had no rights and only those in a high political position were well off while workers and others were left in near poverty like conditions.
"So this Regime is like the evil empire...does that make you the rebel alliance?" Flash asked.
Superman and Green Lantern rolled their eyes.
"I suppose that is one way of putting it," Fledermaus agreed "I started the resistance after the storm troopers broke into my house and took me and my parents,"
"Hey storm troopers…it is the Empire," Flash joked "I bet their terrible shots too,"
"Took them where?" Superman asked ignoring Flash.
"For processing, but they really tortured them to death for speaking out against the Regime. Once they were gone I was sent to a rehabilitation camp...it was not pleasant,"
"Incredible," Superman said.
"Not really, that kind of thing happens every day," Fledermaus claimed.
While the others had been talking Alucard had been looking down on the resistance fighters, they were mostly kids and teen and there were very few adults among them. Alucard had been quite thus far, he did not understand how politicians worked in the present day as it was vastly different to what he had grown up with so he was content to listen and observe the situation.
"Some of them are just children," Alucard observed as he watched the resitance.
The League and Fledermaus and walked over to join him in looking down over the resistance members.
"We're all outcasts, orphans, criminals in the regimes eyes," Fledermaus claimed "Who better to fight the regime than those that have the most need to see it end,"
Alucard thought back to his friends Trevor and Sypha, they had been outcasts from society too. A durnk ex-commutated hunter, a speaker magician from a tribe of nomads and a half vampire who did not fit in either the human or supernatural world. Yet despite that they had done the impossible and Alucard had little doubt that even though this resistance would have a very hard fight ahead they could succeed as well.
"There is one thing that those who rule by fear and oppressing others forget…there are more people being oppressed then there are of those doing the oppressing," Alucard claimed.
Fledermaus smiled, he was starting to like this new group of strange and powerful beings.
"How long has this regime been in power?" Green Lantern asked.
"Since World War 2," Fledermaus answered.
"But...didn't we win that war?" Flash asked.
"No, we didn't," Fledermaus claimed.
He walked back over to the computer and booted up a picture of the Nazi Army. The League and Alucard came over to get a better look and crowded round the computer.
"They did," Fledermaus claimed.
The members of the Justice League who knew earth's history looked shocked at the picture; the only one who was not shocked was Alucard. He looked at the picture and was confused as to why the league was reacting this way.
'What is World War 2…was there a first world war?' Alucard wondered as he observed the rest of leagues reactions. He made a mental note to look into if they figured out what happened as it was clearly important.
"What...how could we have lost World War 2?" Green Lantern asked "the Allies invaded and landed on the beaches of the province of Normandy on D-Day and..."
"It was a disaster, D-Day was the beginning for the end of the war," Fledermaus claimed "when the allies landed there were no German troops,"
"Then where were they?" Superman asked.
"The same time the allies invaded Normandy the Germans were launching an all-out assault on our forces...in our own territory," Fledermaus claimed "because all our soldiers were part of the D-Day invasion force there was no one left to protect the Allies home border and once the Germans landed...well it was only a matter of time before the allies surrendered,"
"That...that can't be right...how did history suddenly change?" Superman asked in shock.
"That is question isn't it?" a new voice said.
The League whirled around and standing behind them was a tall but young looking effeminate man. He was very formally dressed in a white outfit with grey cloves and a grey ruffled scarf. He had white hair and grey half gear marking under his eyes. He was holding a pocket watch that was attached to a long silver chain coming out of his left pocket it was open and he looked at it.
"Hmm...your 3 seconds late...or is this thing fast again?" the man said and looked at his watch critically.
"Oh well not that it matters very much," he snapped the watch shut and put it in his right pocket.
"Who are you?" Superman demanded.
"Oh where are my manners...My name is Aeon, and I am the Keeper and Guardian of Time," Aeon introduced.
"Aeon…don't you mean Eon?" Green Lantern asked.
"Oh no…Eon is a very unpleasant man and if I am being quite honest a bit stuck up and a jerk," Aeon claimed with a smile "I am much more charming,"
The League looked at each other unsure how to respond to this strange man who had suddenly appeared from nowhere.
"Is he a friend of yours?" Fledermaus asked the League.
"No, he's not," Superman responded.
"Well not yet anyway," Aeon said cryptically "and we never will be at this rate,"
"What do you want?" Hawk Girl demanded.
"Hmm so angry...you really should do something about that my dear Shayera. It will not serve your mission well," Aeon warned.
Hawk Girl was taken aback by this.
"How do you…" She started.
"As for being friends...well I am more associated with Alucard here than most of you," Aeon continued and gestured to the vampire.
"How do you know my name?" Alucard demanded.
"You and I will be working very very closely together very soon...you and the Belmonts," Aeon claimed.
"What do you know of the Belmonts," Alucard demanded fiercely. He would not let this man harm his friends' descendants.
"Everything but that is in the future," Aeon stated cryptically.
Suddenly Aeons face turned very serious and he looked down deep in thought.
"Or…was it in the past…wait…am I even in the right present?" he trailed off and started looking around "hmm...maybe I went too far past the dinosaurs,"
He then looked up at the Justice League.
"What day is it again?" Aeon asked.
"Enough, how did you get past my men?" Fledermaus demanded.
"Hm…Oh you mean them?" Aeon asked and looked over his shoulder and down at the resistance.
None of them were moving at all, in fact they looked like they had just stopped altogether.
"What did you do to them?" Fledermaus demanded.
"Oh don't worry, I just froze time for everyone and everything in the universe but us," Aeon said with a smile "they'll be fine…I think,"
"You think?" Superman asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Well every so often you encounter a being who is sensitive to the time stream and if you manipulate time within 500 feet of them it causes some unpleasant side effects," Aeon said.
"What kind of side-affects?" Flash asked.
"Nothing to major just their head imploding or they cease to exist all together," Aeon claimed casually.
The League stared at him in horror.
"But that rarely happens anymore I'm fairly sure Saint Germain fixed that issue…or he will fix it," Aeon assured "at least I think he fixed it, that sort of incident has not happened in the last ten thousand years so I assume he fixed it…hmm…I should probably check on that when I'm done here,"
"You don't sound very sure," Superman stated.
"Well when you live outside time and pop in and out of the time stream on a regular basis you lose track of which events are supposed to happen when and what order they happen in and where you are and have been," Aeon shrugged "you can hardly blame me for that,"
The League stared at Aeon in shock clearly not believing or understanding anything he had just said.
"You…live outside of time?" Flash asked.
"Oh yes, I have a lovely little home on the very edge of existence that looks over oblivion," Aeon smiled "You should come visit, its lovey this time of year. Although technically it's lovey all the time since time doesn't move at all at my house,"
"This man is clearly insane," Fledermaus said.
"Oh no not anymore. I've been insane. I wasn't that fond of it; to be honest it was fairly boring so I decided go back to being sane," Aeon claimed "Besides sanity is all a matter of perspective, you will find the most insane people have a better understanding of the universe than those who are sane,"
"If that's the case then why did you decide to go sane?" J'onn asked.
"Oh that…I lost a bet," Aeon shrugged "But I like to think I won by losing,"
"But if you're the guardian of time doesn't that mean you would have known the outcome of the bet before it was made?" Flash asked "and if that is the case couldn't you have won,"
"I could have and I did…the fact is I chose to lose because of the outcome I saw," Aeon claimed.
"So…you chose to lose to win and the victor actually lost by winning," Wonder Woman
"Exactly…my you are smart Diana. But that is to be expected from the goddess of truth," Aeon said with a smile.
"Thank you but I'm not a goddess," Wonder Woman claimed.
"Really…did I get that wrong?" Aeon asked.
He pulled out his pocket watch again and looked at it.
"Oh I see…yes you are still a demi-god. Give it a few more years and you will catch up," Aeon said.
Wonder Woman stared at him in shock and disbelief.
"Enough, how do you know us?" Hawk Girl demanded irritably.
"As I have said I am the Guardian of Time. It is my job to know all and to make sure time flows as it should and there are no...well let's just say interference's with the time line," Aeon claimed.
"Interference's?" Wonder Woman asked.
"Meddling if you will," Aeon clarified "Time has been altered in ways that just should not happen…its amazing really. Change one event and the whole future is altered in ways that can never be imagined,"
"What do you mean?" Fledermaus asked
"Your world should not exist. World War 2 should have been won by the Allies," Aeon claimed "But Vandal Savage altered that outcome and well this world is the result,"
"Who is Vandal Savage?" Alucard asked.
Fledermaus turned back to the computer and booted up another image, this one of a proud man in his early thirties with a nice tight haircut and a proud yet stoic look on his face. The image just screamed arrogance.
"He's the leader of the Regime, his great grandfather was a military genius during World War 2 and history states it was Savage the first who lead the Regime to power," Fledermaus claimed.
"Well…that is only half right," Aeon said.
"What does that mean?" Fledermaus asked.
"As I said this future…at least this version of the future shouldn't exist," Aeon claimed "The Vandal Savage of the future…the one where the Axis powers were defeated created a time machine and changed the outcome of the war,"
"Time Travel is impossible," Fledermaus scoffed.
"No it's not, anyone can do it. In fact all of you do it at some point," Aeon claimed.
Aeons eyes then shifted and he focused on the vampire.
"Isn't that right Alucard?" he asked seriously.
"I…I don't know what you're talking about," Alucard responded nervously.
"Very well have it your way," Aeon said with a shrug.
"So…you're saying that my life…my whole world is like this because Savage went back in time and altered history?" Fledermaus asked.
"In a sense yes," Aeon answered.
"If it's true and Time has been altered than why are you here?" Green Lantern asked "if it's your job to look after the timeline then just fix it,"
"Oh no I'm not going to fix the timeline...you're going to do it," Aeon claimed.
"I'm sorry?" Flash asked.
"Apology accepted," Aeon responded.
"No...I mean what do you mean we are going to fix it?" Flash clarified.
"Oh...I thought you were apologising for the giant spaghetti monster you unleashed and the religion you started to cover up the event," Aeon said.
"Wait...Flash did what now?" Superman asked.
"Or will unleash...I get confused when dealing with beings who live inside the time stream," Aeon said.
"I meant I didn't understand what you said," Flash clarified again.
"Oh that. You see in order for the future you know to happen certain events need to happen in the past as they did before in order to restore the future to its proper course," Aeon claimed.
"So in order to preserve the future we have to go back in time to fix the past," J'onn summarised.
"Exactly...you catch on quick, but that is to be expected of the race who figured out one of the universes greatest puzzles," Aeon said happily.
"What's he talking about?" Hawk Girl asked.
"I have no Idea," J'onn answered.
"How will we change the past?" Superman asked.
"I will send you back into the past but once you arrive you will have only 48hrs to right the wrongs done to history," Aeon claimed.
"Why such a small window?" J'onn asked.
"Because any longer and this future will happen," Aeon claimed.
"Gee...no pressure," Flash said.
"Well only if you want to end up in an infinite time loop of you going back in time over and over again only to fail every time," Aeon said as he twirled a bit of his hair around his finger.
"Why us though?" Superman asked.
"Because you did so before," Aeon answered.
"What…are you telling us that we were in WW2?" Green Lantern asked.
"Oh yes and the Wild West, the Middle Ages, the year 2055 and..." Aeon listed.
"Hold on we were where...when?" Flash asked.
"For some of you the past is your future, and the future is the past,"
The League looked very very confused.
"Try not to think too hard about it, you'll only end up confusing yourselves. But know this is not the first time I will appear before you and it will not be the last either,"
"But none of us have ever met you before," Alucard pointed out.
"This is the first meeting for you but for me it's our...what are we up too…5th...maybe 6th," Aeon stated.
"This guy is weird," Fledermaus commented.
"Or is 7th...no 7th was the thing with the universal black hole," Aeon muttered to himself.
"I like him," Flash said.
The others rolled their eyes.
"Anyway shall we get started, I would very much like to put history back on track," Aeon said.
"Alight, let's go save history," Flash said enthusiastically.
Superman turned to Fledermaus.
"Are you coming with us?"
"This future your from…it's not ruled by oppression and fear?" Fledermaus asked.
"No it's not," Superman claimed
"Then if you succeed then then there will be no Savage, No regime, no resistance…No storm troopers. If that's the case my parents will never have been murdered," Fledermaus claimed.
"Well actually…" Aeon started.
"I can't promise that," Superman interrupted in a sad tone.
"Still I can't come with you, if you fail then someone will need to stay and continue to fight against Savage," Fledermaus said.
"You do understand that if we succeed you…this version of you will never exist," Alucard pointed out "nor will the world you know,"
"There is nothing in this world that would make me happier," Fledermaus said.
"Alright one time portal for 7 coming right up," Aeon said cheerily.
Aeon pulled out his watch and clicked the button on the top, the pocket watch glowed sliver and morphed into a larger pocket watch that was attached to a very long looking grey blade. There was a thick chain attached to the side that led into Aeons pocket.
Aeon picked up the sword and leapt over the edge of the balcony; he floated down to the ground level and tapped the ground with the pointed downward of his clockwork sword. A huge vortex opened up and began to suck things the air in. But the surrounding objects and people were not affected by it, the only ones who could feel the effects of the vortex was the Justice League.
Aeon floated back to up to the balcony and hovered in the air.
"If you jump in you will be transported to the 1944, I even altered the tunnel slightly so you will appear in Europe," Aeon claimed.
"How do we get back?" Superman asked.
"In 48hrs I will open another vortex; it will bring you back to the present. No matter where you are you will be pulled in," Aeon claimed.
"Hold on how will we know what to change?" Green Lantern asked "how do we know we're not making the future worse?"
"Oh don't worry about the minor details, just do what you do best and you'll be fine," Aeon assured with a smile.
"I think that is definitely something we should worry about," Green Lantern respond.
"But If you're always second guessing your actions you won't change anything," Aeon claimed "So don't worry about it,"
"Oh well…last one to the past is a rotten egg," Flash said and he ran and jumped off to the balcony and fell into the vortex.
The rest of the League followed him jumping in one after another; Wonder Woman heisted and looked back at this world's version of Batman before she too jumped into the vortex. Once they were all gone Aeon closed the vortex and his clock sword reverted back into a pocket watch.
Aeon floated back over to Fledermaus and landed next to him.
"So…tea?" he offered.
"Tea…really?" Fledermaus "I just find out that my whole life and world is lie and you offer me tea?"
Aeon pulled out his pocket watch again and opened it to look at the time.
"Got to do something to pass the time while you fade out of existence," Aeon shrugged "and I have found tea makes the process easer,"
"Wait….what do you mean fade out of existence?"
"Hmm….oh that. It's just since those men in tights are changing the past the future will change too. In a few moments you and everyone else will probably no longer exist,"
"Probably?"
"Well…there is always a chance that the League will fail," Aeon claimed "In which case I will have a teeny-tiny time paradox to deal with,"
"A…Time Paradox?"
"Yes…but don't worry it will only be a little one it won't completely reset time and blow up the universe or anything like that,"
"It won't?"
"Oh no there are safeguards in place for that now," Aeon assured.
"Now….you mean you didn't before?"
"Well….no….but you know what they say. You can't perfect safeguards without blowing up all of time and space and rewriting the universe a few times," Aeon said with a big smile.
"How many times has that happened…exactly?"
"Eh I lost count," Aeon shrugged "But it shouldn't happen at least not this time anyway…or was it next time that was the success… "
Fledermaus walked over to the railing and looked at the spot where the league had just disappeared through a portal.
"And if they do succeed?" he asked.
"Then time will change and you will be replaced with different version of you as will the whole world," Aeon answered.
"How long, will it take for the change to take place?"
"It will be a few minute, give time a bit to catch up. But don't worry you won't feel or notice the difference," Aeon said seriously.
Aeon waved his hand and a table with a tray of a white tea pot, a bowl of sugar cubes and two white cups and saucers with silver spoons appeared in between the two.
"Now one lump or two?" Aeon asked as he picked up the pot and poured himself a cup.