Brad pulled a silvery metal rod shaped like a pen from his pocket, about a finger and a half thick, with a golden-orange crystal set into its tip.
It was a simple space-time travel device he had built, borrowing a few tricks from the Yellow of Fear. Brad had discovered that the power of the emotional spectrum existed in most DC universes, making it a natural positioning system.
In universes ravaged by crises and destruction, people's fear was the best amplifier for those signals. With this Space-Time Pen, he no longer needed to locate those ruined universes one by one. Instead, he could filter their frequencies to find the places of despair that needed hope most.
Of course, it also had the basic ability to travel to known points in space-time.
He pointed it forward like a magic wand, and an azure vortex appeared before him.
Casually slipping the Space-Time Pen back into his coat's inner pocket, Brad stepped through the vortex, crossing straight from the Injustice Universe into the Justice Lords Universe.
He arrived right beside Batman and Lord Batman.
The two had received the blueprint sample for the improved Parallel Universe Detector that Brad had sent them and were assembling the device in the Batcave according to its specifications. Of the four universes, only the Lords' world had yet to finish building one.
But Brad had not come to help. Two Batmen working together could hardly fail at such a simple task.
He had come to ask some questions.
Judging by the universes he had encountered so far, the timeline of the universe Brad had chosen was earlier than the other parallel timelines. In other words, its development was somewhat behind theirs.
In the universe where he had taken refuge, Superman was young enough to have only just