A Death in the Family Will Reenact Itself Today! Earth-One Crisis Countdown

When Parallax Hal regained consciousness, he felt himself bound tightly from head to toe, like a living zongzi.

Beside him lay the equally miserable First Lantern.

Well, it seemed this was the Losers' Alliance's time. All the losers were here.

Parallax Hal had thought he would be killed outright, but it seemed Emperor Joker and the others had no intention of doing that.

Oh, right. The Losers' Alliance now had a third member.

Hal focused and sensed that, in the corner, there was a small lump...

Hmm.

It seemed to be a person's head—or rather, a dead person's head.

The head's eyes were closed, its face filled with the aura of death. But through the green of his willpower, Hal could sense that the other party was still conscious.

Parallax Hal did not know William Hand. He was the Parallax Hal from the Zero Hour timeline, while William Hand of the Prime Universe had made his first appearance during Blackest Night.

As for the incident in Secret Origins where Hal and Sinestro joined forces to protect William Hand from being prematurely killed by Atrocitus, the Red Lantern—that was history reconstructed after Zero Hour.

Simply put, the history where [Hal knew William] was a new road built after the Zero Hour event, while [he didn't know him] was the old road.

Thus, Hal did not know him now, and the memories poured into him by the Over-Time Stream did not match this face either.

Hal raised his head and examined his surroundings.

He found nothing that could prove where they were.

They were in some enormous white room, clearly created by someone. Where had Emperor Joker sent them?

Hal wanted to check whether the Anti-Matter Universe energy inside him had disappeared or been completely drained away.

But he could not. He