First Lantern + Black Lantern Corpse Parallax Hal =?
"Is this what you were planning to do? Is this your trump card?"
Perpetua had already discovered the mastermind behind all this. Batman Dragon had been trying every possible way to strengthen the First Lantern. Following the timeline upstream along the Over-Time Stream, Perpetua had finally found the past that Batman Dragon had used to lay the groundwork for this.
This was a very simple case of reversing cause and effect.
Perpetua had seen through the trick. At some point in the past, the First Lantern, who had failed to restore Earth-15, suffered complete defeat—and that defeat had also brought death down upon him.
But in the current timeline, Batman Dragon had borrowed Doctor Manhattan's power. Using the Anti-Monitor's power and status, Batman Dragon had acted at that moment to alter the history of the Over-Time Stream. He had twisted the First Lantern's thinking, ensuring that he would not commit suicide after discovering that history could not be restored. Instead, he would continue trying to make one last attempt. (Chapter 807)
This was equivalent to directly granting the First Lantern a [Fated Death]. He could only die at that point in time (Chapter 807); he absolutely could not die at any other time, or that stretch of history would collapse and fall into disorder.
He had turned the First Lantern into a human-shaped Earth-15 event! His death was like Earth-15 supporting the Green Lantern Corps and the entire history of the DC Multiverse, supporting the reality in which Perpetua came down from the wall.
At the same time, Batman Dragon had designed three opportunities for the First Lantern to return. What exactly had the First Lantern experienced during those three returns to history?
How had he gone from cursing Batman to