Supreme Superboy, Have You Ever Suffered a Crushing Defeat?

For a long time, I had worked desperately hard, trying to change history that had long since been set in stone. In places many people had never seen, history had already been rewritten by me countless times.

Listen to me. These were all stories that had never been known. I had witnessed scenes beyond the imagination of you mortals.

I had witnessed Parallax Hal and Supreme Superboy achieve total victory. They controlled the entire universe, molding the timeline and reality like clay, yet they could never create a perfection that satisfied them.

No matter how many times they started over, their furious roars and curses hurled at each other still echoed in my ears.

I had seen Barbatos devour the entire multiverse like a cake. He had sat there chewing ravenously amid the hysterical screams of countless lives, yet what ruled over everything in the end... was endless emptiness.

After eating everything, Barbatos had sat alone in a void. I had met his hollow gaze and seen the bewilderment in his eyes.

I had escaped from the utterly insane and chaotic world created by Emperor Joker.

And on the eve of my transcendence, Emperor Joker was still battling madly across the universe against a Batman he had imagined into existence with Fifth Dimension God-power. The violent radiance flickered restlessly among the nebulae.

I had seen worlds collapse.

I had witnessed the most regretful choices, the most tragic abandonments, the most helpless betrayals, the most painful obsessions, and the most dazzling deaths, flickering like stars...

And all of it would be buried in the Over-Time Stream, returning to time, returning to death, just like tears...

Vanishing in the rain.

Who was I?

I was First Lantern.

Or you could call me Huo Rong. I was the butterfly in the shadows of