You Want to Etch This Reunion Forever into Your Mind

When you were experiencing the warmest, happiest, gentlest moments of your life.

You would, at some point, in some instant,

wearing a faint smile, look deeply around at everything surrounding you.

You would desperately imprint everything around you into your mind, because you knew...

Days as happy and blissful as today were few and far between in your life. You wanted to remember today's feelings forever, and those feelings...

Were enough to illuminate and warm your bitterly cold life.

What healed us was not present satisfaction or material things, but memories.

The more beautiful memories you had once made, the greater your hope.

"I'll always remember today."

Upstream in the endless Over-Time Stream, this was Earth-15 before its destruction.

First Lantern was surrounded by his friends at the center. This was his world. His mother stood beside him, and together they raised their glasses.

Upstream on the Prime Universe's Flashpoint timeline, today was Bruce Wayne's eighth birthday.

Martha Wayne and Thomas Wayne were celebrating with him. At the birthday party, little Bruce said he wanted to see the newly released movie Zorro's Mask, and Thomas promised to make time for the three of them to watch it together.

On the current timeline of the Over-Time Stream, Hero Day was eating with his friend Supreme Superboy Monkey. Supreme Superboy Monkey had somehow gotten hold of a plastic disposable cup and filled it with freshly squeezed juice.

There was no better era than this. Whether it was Superboy Monkey or Hero Day, they both had some understanding of their circumstances—at least a faint premonition.

But today, this moment, at least right now, when they met, they had to raise their glasses.

Different spacetime continuums and histories crossed paths. First Lantern, the Waynes, and Hero Day raised the drinks in their hands at