"Sheriff, they've all left."
In Sepulk's control room, the Adjutant reported this to Deathstroke, who was staring at the Anti-Mother Boxes floating in midair.
Everyone had gone to investigate the clues they had claimed. Only Superboy-Prime had gone off to play with his friends, while John Stewart flew toward Green Lantern headquarters.
Black-red light shrouded the spacious hall, while the sphere containing The Totality of The Upside-Down Man slowly rotated within the Fire Pits, where only a tiny flame remained.
Sepulk and the Spectre Universe no longer used Omega Energy. As a precaution, the energy source had been replaced with sorcery. The process was simple: state the wish one wanted fulfilled in reverse, then force The Upside-Down Man to make it happen.
"I promised Harley I'd take her and her friends racing in the Mad Max world. Let her get ready herself, and bring Bobo along while she's at it." Su Ming smoked as he looked at the sphere, then sighed. "I need to go somewhere else and meet the greatest physicist in the Omniverse."
"Heavenly Reed of Earth-X? Or that messy-haired Rick?" The Adjutant asked as she prepared the teleportation.
Clearly, the Sheriff had lied when he told everyone he was going on vacation to rest. He was planning to go somewhere dangerous alone.
"Heavenly Reed stopped being a scientist long ago. He's a God Among Men. As for Grandpa Rick, he previously lied to me about being unable to leave his own multiverse, so I don't want much to do with him anymore. Besides, I said physicist. More specifically, the greatest expert in quantum physics."
Deathstroke rejected the Adjutant's suggestions. Smiling, he stubbed out his cigarette and tossed the butt into the Fire Pits, watching it release a wisp of smoke before being instantly annihilated.
"Then it seems