“Sinestro…”
Barry shuddered as he sensed the other party’s maniacal eyes.
He felt like he was a mouse on the operating table, waiting to be dissected.
“Haha, we’re old friends too, Flash.”
Sinestro withdrew his inner excitement and returned to his expressionless, indifferent look.
The more success was within reach, the calmer he would be.
“What do you want? Sinestro, there is no reason to harm intelligent life in the sector; it is against the rules of the Green Lantern Corps!”
Barry quickly warned.
He was good friends with Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern, and he knew a few things about the Green Lantern Corps.
Those little blue men from Oa called themselves the ‘Guardians of the Universe’.
They set up the Green Lantern Corps to maintain the order of each sector — roughly understood as the universal version of the United States, interfering with the development of civilisations on other planets in the name of bringing advanced, liberating ideas.
“Are you expecting me to follow the rules of the Green Lantern Corps and let you go?”
Sinestro seemed to have heard a funny joke. He grinned while mocking, “Why are you superheroes always so naive? Rules will never become the chain that binds the strong.”
Barry’s heart felt cold, trying to mobilise the strength in his body, trying to break free from the restraint on the seat through high-speed vibration.
However, Reverse-Flash had somehow weakened him, and he could not connect to the Speed Force at all.
“Don’t bother struggling, Flash.”
The Reverse-Flash, who was standing by the side, struck a timely blow.
As Barry Allen’s nemesis, he had studied Speed Force much more thoroughly in certain aspects.
In fact, half of the success of the Flash today was due to Reverse-Flash’s training.
“No one will come to your rescue even if you scream your throat out!”
Reverse-Flash delivered the standard villainous laugh, knowing that he had already taken care of Batman.
Together with the military’s secret weapon, suppressing Superman wasn’t a problem.
Without help, the Flash wasn’t the slightest threat.
Facing Sinestro and Reverse-Flash, the alliance of the two villains, what else could he do besides running away?
“I have teammates!”
Barry blurted it out in desperation.
At this critical moment, he immediately thought of the Kryptonian cousin who was in Australia, hooking up with Wonder Woman.
The Flash was well aware of the situation he was about to face — being drained of the Speed Force and reduced to a human power generator.
Through Abin Sur’s message and Luke’s analysis, Barry understood Sinestro’s evil plan.
The other party intended to use Speed Force to rewrite the timeline again, thus shaping a whole new time and space.
This was a feasible plan.
Barry was different from other speedsters.
He was the generator of Speed Force, not just a user.
Every step he took while running was creating the Speed Force.
So, with the help of instruments and equipment, such as the Cosmic Treadmill…
Making Barry run, like a hamster on a wheel…
Then he would be the human power generator, constantly generating Speed Force to power Sinestro.
Something like this wasn’t unheard of before.
For example, the Flash once faced Zoom from Earth 2.
He used this scheme to drain Barry Allen’s body from the Speed Force.
“You mean, the other Kryptonian?”
Sinestro sneered and burst Barry’s fantasy bubble.
“He has been away from Central City for quite some time, which is why I waited until now to start the plan…”
Kryptonians are indeed very powerful, but as long as the plan was completed first, the other party would be deleted from the timeline.
No matter how powerful Superman’s fists were, even if it could break a planet…
But so what?
He wouldn’t be able to change the fate that was destined to happen.
“Barry Allen, you don’t have to struggle anymore. Just obey my orders.”
Sinestro’s patience was running out.
“Rebuilding the multiverse, what a great plan. You should be happy to be a part of it.”
He waved his hand, signalling Reverse-Flash to activate the Cosmic Treadmill that had been completed.
Barry almost cursed. For the Flash, people would know that his anger was reaching boiling point.
In the Justice League, everyone knew that the Flash was the one with the best temperament.
“This isn’t a bad ending for you.”
While testing the machine, Reverse-Flash laughed at Barry.
“Be a good generator, for your mother’s sake.”
Sinestro untied the restraint belt on the seat. The Flash was so weak that he couldn’t escape.
He couldn’t do anything but allow himself to be tied to the treadmill to power it and provide energy.
Di di!
Di di di!
The Power Ring made a sound.
“Someone’s approaching?”
Just as Luke used the Power Ring to find Sinestro’s location, he would also be aware of it.
“There’s still a Green Lantern on Earth?”
Before Sinestro could figure it out, a tall figure fell from the sky, smashed to the ground, spattering a circle of smoke and dust.
“You took my friend …” and the only key to the main universe.
Luke didn’t say the second half of his sentence and silently thought so.
He coldly scanned the room as if a cold Siberian current had passed through, causing a chill to rise in the hearts of both Sinestro and Reverse-Flash.
This was an intense momentum that produced a spiritual wave.
“Kryptonian.”
Sinestro’s expression changed. He was focused on Luke’s Power Ring.
“How did you get Abin Sur’s …”
Abin Sur’s Power Ring was never recalled by the Guardians of the Universe, but it ended up in the hands of a Kryptonian….
“Surprised?”
Luke raised the Power Ring and aimed at Sinestro.
“I’m more curious, Sinestro; what led you to find out about all this?”
The flashpoint event led to the restart of the multiverse…
The Guardians of the Universe on Planet Oa, as well as those higher-level concepts of the universe, such as the Endless, should all be aware of it.
But such existences wouldn’t care. After all, this wasn’t the first reboot of the universe.
There had been many flashpoint events before.
For example, the well-known ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths.’
The struggle between the Monitor and Anti-Monitor eventually spread to the multiverse.
In that crisis, the Flash, Barry Allen, sacrificed himself, destroyed the Antimatter Cannon and saved the last main universe.
It seems that from then on, the Flash’s sacrifice had become a tradition for every big event.
“Someone gave me a prophecy and a revelation.”
Sinestro pursed his lips and replied.
…
…
It all started with Abin Sur arriving on Earth and looking for the Entity of the white light of life.
It was well known that The Entity is the living embodiment of the White Light of Creation that gave birth to all living things in the universe.
For a long time, the Guardians of the Universe claimed that the planet Oa was the centre of the stars, the starting point of all intelligent life.
But why was the White Light of Creation placed on Earth, a backward and remote sector?
From then on, Sinestro had doubts about everything the Guardians of the Universe had said.
Behind a lie, there must be countless other lies!
Sinestro found the imprisoned Atrocitus and demanded answers.
Speaking of that person, the timeline will have to move back several centuries.
A long time ago, the Guardians of the Universe, who had nothing better to do, had not yet established the Green Lantern Corps.
The cosmic police, which was responsible for maintaining each sector’s security and public order, were the Manhunters.
However, because of a major system failure — in fact, an elaborate conspiracy….
The Manhunters got the wrong instructions, taking sector 666 as a target.
The group of machines that had no compassion nor the ability to think would only obey orders.
They slaughtered all the residents of the sector without question or hesitation.
This was the true story of the famous ‘Massacre of Sector 666’.
Afterwards, the Guardians of the Universe covered it up and kept it quiet.
They learned their lesson, exchanging the robot Manhunters for the Green Lantern Corps.
A more reliable cosmic police force composed entirely of intelligent life.
But they didn’t realise that there were survivors of the massacre on the various planets of sector 666.
That person was Atrocitus.
He was originally a psychologist living in sector 666, the planet Ryut.
Because of witnessing the tragic scene where his wife and child were killed by Manhunters, and the whole planet was dyed red with blood…
As the only surviving life of Ryut, for the rest of his life, Atrocitus’s entire purpose in life turned to revenge.
Other than that, there was nothing left!
He and four other survivors from Sector 666 formed the ‘The Five Inversions.’
They opposed the order set by the Guardians of the Universe and were constantly at odds with it.
Through plundering and fighting, the Five Inversions established power and ruled a huge star field.
However, they were still too young and weak, compared to the Guardians of the Universe, who had been rooted in the stars for billions of years and had a profound background.
The little blue men defeated the Five Inversions and used the imperial capital, Ysmault, which they rebuilt as a prison.
They sentenced Atrocitus and others to life imprisonment!
In order to show their benevolence, the Guardians of the Universe allowed the Five Inversions to live.
But they could never leave the barren, pitiful planet.
On the planet Ysmault, Atrocitus killed the other four members and became the last survivor of Sector 666.
When he reached extreme rage and had no other emotions, the red light representing rage descended.
This was the origin story of the Red Lantern Corps leader, the first Red Lantern demon in the universe.
It was also the person who foresaw the great event of ‘Blackest Night’, which was already recorded in the Book of Oa.
Atrocitus wanted to kill the key figures in advance, the ‘Black Hand’, William Hand, to bring about the end of the world.
As a result, Hal Jordan and Sinestro, who were chasing him, caught him on the spot and sent him to prison on planet Oa.
Of course, the former didn’t become the Green Lantern in the Flashpoint timeline.
Therefore, it became Sinestro’s task alone.
He captured Atrocitus and learned about the Flashpoint through his opponent’s precognition.
The so-called precognition was to have a dialogue with the future by sacrificing the blood of living beings.
Judging from several predictions made by Atrocitus, the accuracy was quite high.
“I told Abin Sur, but he didn’t believe me and couldn’t understand me.”
Sinestro kept a cold expression and whispered, “If he could see what I saw, maybe he would be on my side.”
“The consequences of the Flashpoint go beyond the collapse of this space-time! Darkness and even more darkness will come!”
Luke grimaced. What the other person called ‘darkness’ probably meant that after Dr Manhattan came, the doomsday bell rang.
And, the outbreak of the big ‘Metal’ event, ‘the Batman Who Laughs’ from the Dark Multiverse, leading to Barbatos.
Finally, the Source Wall was broken, The Omega Titans, The Presence …
If that really happened, it would be dark indeed.
“To be honest, I’m a little tired of hearing this, and in order to save more people, I’ve decided to sacrifice the few.”
Luke shook his head, looked straight at Sinestro, and spoke in a deep voice, “If you’re determined to be a villain, then don’t look for excuses.”
“Not to mention, you’re in my way!”
Boom!
The dark red cloak lifted up high, drawing out a swift afterimage.
