Harley's choice!

Link felt a frustration he had not known in a long time.

It was not the thrill of meeting a worthy opponent, but the sheer helplessness of being pinned down and ground into the dirt by the rules.

The Reality Stone could not warp the laws here, the Time Stone could not discern the flow of time in this place, and the Power Stone's energy vanished like a clay ox sinking into the sea. Even that sliver of the Omega Effect he had plucked from Darkseid could not "erase" anything in the surrounding environment.

This damned place, Vormir, was like a higher-dimensional bug that existed outside the universe.

"Do you see? Before true destiny, you are no different from a mortal."

Red Skull's hollow voice echoed across the mountaintop, brimming with gloating mockery pent up over billions of years.

Fuck, this shitty stone comes with domain suppression too? Can't play fair, can you?

Link cursed inwardly, his gaze growing colder. He had ruled Earth and taken Darkseid head-on. All along, he had broken the rules through greater strength and even more unreasonable methods. But now, for the first time, he had encountered a barrier of rules in which he could not even find a door.

Sacrifice the one he loved?

His gaze instinctively swept toward Harley Quinn beside him.

Harley was idly kicking a pebble with the tip of her shoe, humming a tuneless song, seemingly unconcerned by the mystical nonsense unfolding before her.

Feeling Link's gaze, she lifted her head and gave him a wide, carefree smile.

That very smile instantly soothed much of the irritation that had risen in Link's heart from his helplessness.

He could lose his power. He could lose his authority. But that smile... he did not want to lose it.

Yet while he did