Shane carried Battle Beast to Salem City in the Injustice Universe.
Apparently, though, not every universe's Doctor Fate liked to settle in Salem City.
Shane and Rob, who had put on a simple disguise, made a circuit of Salem City without finding the slightest trace of Doctor Fate.
They did, however, come across a religious group spontaneously formed by the locals.
Its members held prayers and handed out food and drinks in a church, centered on the theme that "Superheroes were dead."
Shane and Rob slipped into the group, hoping to ask these Salem City locals about Doctor Fate's whereabouts.
But Rob's enormous build and deliberate attempts to hide his face made some of the residents extremely wary of them. They seemed worried the two were spies sent by the Superman Regime.
Only one old woman quietly asked who they were looking for after collecting her daily ration of food.
Shane told her plainly, but the old woman shook her head and said she had never heard of Doctor Fate.
This world's Doctor Fate seemed to have gone into seclusion so early that even his reputation had faded away.
Shane tried describing Doctor Fate's appearance instead.
"He wears gold armor over a black undersuit. Uh, he used to be a Superhero too, I guess?" The old woman, carrying a bag of bread, ended up leading him to a memorial portrait.
The portrait wasn't of Doctor Fate. Even if someone of his caliber died, he wouldn't end up being commemorated here by some clandestine human religious group.
The old woman rambled on about the person in the portrait.
He had been a young man who, swayed by government propaganda, had answered a secret recruitment call. He underwent genetic modification and donned Battle Armor made with Earth's most advanced technology at the