Extraordinary times called for extraordinary measures.
As time passed, the Resistance Army grew increasingly powerful. By now, it had even split into two major organizations whose international reputations rivaled that of the former Justice League.
One was called the Freedom Front, composed primarily of former supervillains whom Batman had recruited into the Resistance Army.
Lex Luthor led them. After Superman's "defeat and death," Injustice Batman had helped clear Lex Luthor's name, confirming that he had been embedded within the Superman Regime all along, providing assistance to the Resistance Army.
The other was called the New Horizon Alliance, composed primarily of Injustice Batman and former superheroes who had disapproved of Superman's actions back then.
Injustice Batman served as its leader.
Although subtle differences in their respective ideologies had begun to emerge from the moment the organization split in two, little time had passed, so they could still get along peacefully.
Shane and his companions received particularly favorable treatment from both.
In the world as it had been before, Chronos could never have obtained such generous research conditions from the Justice League.
Now, however, he had ample funding from the New Horizon Alliance and material resources from the Freedom Front.
Combined with the rare elements obtained from the Fortress of Solitude, Chronos, who had an enormous laboratory all to himself, made tremendous daily progress on his new armor.
At Zhou Zhanxie's suggestion, Shane had also temporarily abandoned the idea of heading home immediately. Initially, he had thought that returning to his original world right away might spare him from this place's corrosive influence. He certainly did not want his forgetfulness to grow any worse.
But Zhou believed that if Shane returned rashly, he might bring that harmful influence back to their original universe.
They still did not know where that power originated,