Everyone who had been absorbed in the future Dick described jolted.
Right!
Ghost King Nightwing's target was the whole world. He wanted to turn the entire planet into a kingdom of vampires.
His early days in hiding were easy enough to explain: Ghost King Nightwing had simply disguised himself too well. After all, he had even fooled his adoptive father, Batman, so it was understandable that the others hadn't known.
But then Ghost King Nightwing had personally killed Batman as a public spectacle and ordered Firestorm to burn down every forest in the world, using thick smoke to block out the sun, and all-out war had erupted between vampires and humans.
With things getting that bad, even a hermit living deep in the wilderness should have noticed something was wrong. Yet in Dick's account, not a single member of the Avengers had appeared from beginning to end.
"With things already at that point, with the world order completely collapsed, how could the Justice League be the only ones fighting alone?"
Bruce prompted Dick, "Think it through again. Are you sure there wasn't anyone else? Just look at Tony's temperament. There's no way he'd sit quietly on the sidelines."
Dick quickly went over his dream again and said with certainty, "No. And it wasn't just the Avengers. Aside from groups fighting for justice like the Justice League and the Teen Titans, and the supervillains on the opposite side, like the Suicide Squad, I didn't see any other organized superheroes in the dream... actually, I didn't even see a single unfamiliar person with powers!"
Dick finally shook off the dream's muddled haze completely. "That's not right! We have more than just the Justice League here!"
Aside from the Justice League, there were clearly other powerful superheroes on this land!
The Avengers, Iron