Old friends

John had vanished again from his place. He had to ask for more help if possible and he knew a perfect place from where he can get one. A place where he had visited before and saved it. A place which owes a debt of life to him.

Earth TRN891.

The Earth which had gone through Flashpoint and once faced a huge disaster.Their Avengers saved them once and now it was time for them to lend them help. He didn't expect that he would have asked for help but it was required. Each Earth that John had visited and had connection would be under scrutiny by him.

Owen was too huge of a variable to pass by and they needed all the resources available for disposal. And their Earth could prove to be a major help for them.

John had appeared at the Avengers Tower of Tony Stark. Since most of the things on this Earth were equivalent to 616 so many things remained the same here. He appeared at the rooftop, and this time there were no machine guns to welcome him like last time.

The last time was embarrassing as Tony had defense mechanisms all over the Tower, for fear of intruders. But this time when he had arrived there was no sound, no alarms, nothing.

Peaceful silence.

John went down stairs from the roof and knocked on the door. The door opened automatically and a robotic voice said

"Welcome Mr. Jameson, Mr. Stark and others are at the conference hall with the others. He said you can go to the Hall where you can meet everyone."

"Everyone?"

"Yes Sir, after you had arrived I informed Mr. Stark and he called everyone through video conferencing."

John's eyebrows raised hearing this. He was pretty sure that his appearance on the roof must have alerted Tony, but seeing that it was him that had appeared he might have called everyone. It was thoughtful of Tony and a little unpredictable of his character.

John walked a few steps and took some turns to reach the hall. As he opened the door, he saw Tony sitting on a chair sipping his drink while others too was sitting on a chair at a big oval table. Everyone was sitting, the only difference was that the others were sitting but their presence was not in the room.

It was a hologram of everyone. It was Reed, T'Challa, Professor X, Namor and other people who sat high on the authority of the Avengers.

"It's been some time Mr. Jameson since we last saw you." Reed said.

"Yeah. I never wanted to come here as the appearance of other beings from a parallel world affects the timeline. But I had no other options but to pay a visit here. I am just surprised that Tony was sharp enough to all everyone." John replied.

"Well, Living with Barry made me understand that people don't casually travel into multiverse,a nd even if they do, it is because they had no other options. We are not having any problems with any villains as of late so I can only assume that something must have happened at the multiverse for you to show up. Your team is more powerful than us which means that the whole problem is bigger than we think. Am I right?" Tony said all these in one stretch. It was like he had become a detective as he deducted all of this with just his appearance alone. John looked at Tony with an astonishing face.

"When did you become Batman?" John asked.

"That friend of yours rubbed off one me.. hehehe... Now tell me. Am I right?" Tony asked with anticipation, wanting to know if his thoughts were right.

"Yes. We do have a problem and this problem is multiversal level. And we need your help if you want to help that is. We need the brightest minds with the problems and make sure we are working at full capacity with all the resources we have." John said without much explaining the problem. he would have to explain it anyway to the 616 people so he was waiting for all to come together.

The Guardians would be more fit for this role.

"What is the problem?" Black Panther asked.

"The problem is a little complicated. All I can say now is in the worst case scenario, there would be no multiverse out there and we would end up in a single universe, while others would be just killed. Trillions and trillions of life will die."

The faces of everyone changed while listening to the last sentence. They thought the problem would be like a new enemy who was hell bent on conquering the multiverse, but it seemed like they had a bigger problem than they thought. After a moment of silence, Reed said

"What can we do to help Mr. Jameson?" John smiled at it and said

"I want you...."

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