Pepatua's Attempt to Persuade Parallax Hal to Surrender, The Unbearable Lightness of Life

No one answered...

Everything had been abandoned, falling into the bottomless well.

By the time Parallax Hal crossed the limits of the Over-Time Stream and saw those monsters casually kneading the timelines across it, he had already realized that with his strength alone, it was nearly impossible to participate in stopping any changes Pepatua or Batman Dragon made to the DC Multiverse.

Even though his consciousness was now connected to himself across countless parallel-universe timelines, and their wills had unnaturally converged in an instant, they still could not change the current state of affairs downstream in the Over-Time Stream.

But Parallax Hal still took one step forward. In that instant, countless versions of Parallax Hal on the split timelines made the same move.

Victorious, defeated, dead, ruling the entire multiverse, mentally broken, turned into cowards, become brutal tyrants...

No, none of this was real. They were merely toys of the Over-Time Stream, toys of Pepatua.

Creating a timeline in which she won and then solidifying it was not Pepatua's ultimate goal. Her greater purpose was to weaken the entire DC Multiverse. The weaker the multiverse became, the more powerful Pepatua would be.

It did not matter if solidifying the history of her victory failed. As long as she succeeded in weakening the DC Multiverse, so what if she were sealed back onto the Source Wall?

Like steel that had been bent back and forth countless times, the seemingly sturdy prison had actually long since become brittle inside.

Re-sealing Pepatua within the Source Wall would only be a temporary victory. The continued weakening of the DC Multiverse was inevitable, and Pepatua's escape would eventually come.

Stopping her today was merely dodging a blade meant to kill. But if the DC Multiverse was frail and sick—

—I told you long ago, Parallax