The three of them dragged the bound Darkseid toward Sepulk. The Cosmic Tyrant, trapped in a nightmare, wore a savage expression. No one knew what he was dreaming about.
Barbatos was merely a god of the Dark Multiverse, not a fully realized Multiversal-level being. Still, it had brushed against that threshold. It was just a little stronger than Darkseid within a Single Universe. After all, it had once been besieged by over a hundred Superheroes and only lost after being ambushed by Martian Manhunter and Su Ming with Tenth Metal.
The Cosmic Tuning Fork it left behind was filled with dark whispers and nightmares—the most agonizing, tormenting fragments extracted from the dreams of countless heroes.
Since Earth had faced one crisis after another following the "Metal" incident, the Tuning Fork had not been properly dealt with after being moved out of Gotham. It had simply been piled away in the Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic.
The Justice League had several places to store trophies. Magical items were kept in the Great Library, deeper beneath Justice League Dark's underground base. Less threatening trophies, or replicas of them, were displayed in the Hall of Justice. The most dangerous Biological Weapons and technologies mortals could not comprehend were stored in the Fortress of Solitude under Superman's supervision.
Deep in the Arctic, the Fortress of Solitude contained an armory, research facilities, an entrance to the Phantom Zone, lounges, holding cells for exotic beasts, Kryptonian technology's main control center, and more. All maintenance and management were handled by Kryptonian robot butlers.
It was supposedly Superman's second home, but he rarely went there. Whenever he had time, he preferred returning to Martha in Kansas. Over time, the Fortress of Solitude gradually became the Justice League's warehouse.
Whenever anyone in the Justice League picked up some