(This chapter took a lot of effort, so please give it a read, everyone.)
When the first ray of morning sunlight fell across First Lantern's face, he sat up in bed, walked out of the room, and saw his mother placing the breakfast she had prepared on the table in the living room.
Huo Rong was no longer transparent from head to toe, with the Seven-Colored Meridians under his control. He had returned to an ordinary human skin tone.
He had surrendered without resistance, but he had neither lost his power nor been restrained in any way.
Even inside the apartment he shared with his mother, he could still easily sense that, hundreds or thousands of kilometers away in outer space, the heroes inside the Justice League Watchtower were arguing endlessly over him.
He was too powerful. To this universe, he was practically an invincible demon king.
But that wasn't important to him, was it? What mattered was the person standing before him.
He sat at the dining table and began eating the breakfast his mother had prepared for him.
Forgive me.
While everyone else was fighting desperately, I was trapped in this dream created from falsehood, unwilling to wake up.
Forgive me.
What should I do?
What should I do?
Tell me, Mother.
First Lantern told his mother that they had to go to STAR Labs, where they worked. He did not explain why they had to go.
He knew that all his actions were being monitored by the Justice League in the Watchtower, but he hoped...
He hoped his mother could give him an answer, as long as he could prove...
The Multiverse was in danger.
Back then, Earth-15 was known as the Perfect Universe. In the era after the Infinite Earths Crisis, it was called the place