"I..."
Parallax Hal blinked. He felt himself swimming through invisible energy, a jelly-like substance flowing beside his ears like a tide and creating bizarre ripples.
He was Parallax Hal. He had personally created the Zero Hour Crisis. At that moment, everything had turned to ashes before his eyes. And yes, my friend—
From the moment he escaped upstream along the Over-Time Stream, he had already finished reading all the history that followed, including how he would fail during the Zero Hour Crisis, then return to or Star with Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, attempt to drain or's energy, and be stopped by Kyle Rayner...
After experiencing everything, he would ultimately perish alongside Sun-Eater, completely saving the DC Multiverse and bringing Final Night to an end.
But truly experiencing those events and merely seeing that history were ultimately two entirely different things. Before experiencing those events, no one could truly empathize with them.
Thus, Parallax Hal still chose without hesitation to continue wreaking havoc downstream along the Over-Time Stream, trying to restart that universe and change the fact that his home had been destroyed. Yet things soon began changing more and more, far beyond Hal's expectations.
First, he met his future self—Hal Jordan of the Prime Universe. This made him realize... it seemed no one remembered or cared about anything he had done upstream along the Over-Time Stream.
In the future that lay downstream along the Over-Time Stream, the DC Multiverse had regenerated a Coast City, while Hal Jordan had taken on a new form after the multiverse had undergone several reboots.
Although, theoretically speaking, Parallax Hal and the Hal downstream along the Over-Time Stream were still the same person, Parallax Hal could no longer understand this future version of himself. Nor did anyone care about the Coast City that had been