Return

"Now leave. Leave before I change my decision." John said in a cold tone while taking his chains back to his vault. His hands were shaking a bit. For the first time since his reincarnation here, he had been forced to step back.

After the chains were taken away, Dark Claw just stood there while rubbing away the non existent filth in his clothes. He still had a smirk under the mask which everyone could see, signifying that they still couldn't kill him and the Avenger's loss.

"See you soon, Avengers!!" Logan said as he pushed a button from a small remote that he just took out. The next moment a teleportation square covered his body and he vanished.

John was just sitting on the floor exhausted. Not because of physical exhaustion but mental. As a team he had been trying his best to hold on to the hope that his multiverse would not be affected by the Beyonders.

The break of the Wall would already create a huge matter to their multiverse so he wanted to make sure his backyard was safe. He killed Doom long before just because of his fear. A fear that the Molecule Man will just destroy everything.

Even after such a long plan, someone still came and threatened them with the same thing. He was tired.

"John, are you alright?" Jean was a little concerned when John just broke down in his position.

"I am fine. I am just a bit exhausted. So much planning. Just to go to waste." John said.

"We can brood over this later. We need to leave. If she comes, it will not only be just mental exhaustion." Thanos reminded them.

"Yeah, John, we need to leave." Barry also chimed to leave. John just nodded and picked up his body by force. He needed to go home and sleep. Maybe it will help me relieve his exhaustion.

Everyone stepped out of the Hall slowly and started to pick up pace to the same direction they came from. Finding a direction was very difficult in the Wall as everywhere looked the same, but John had put a magical mark near the entrance of the Wall.

So now they could follow it. John and others cast their eyes on the dilapidated big structure that looked like something from the ancient ages of their worlds. Now it was all in ruins because of the fight. They didn't have nostalgia about it but rather a sense of defeat in their eyes when they looked at it.

"We will have to inform everyone of this." Lucifer said in a rare serious voice. He too was concerned about the multiverse. Since he came here with Chloe, he had done nothing but fun here and he didn't want to give it away. He didn't want his customers to leave who enjoyed his piano playing and his bar.

He knew that he would probably survive the destruction. But he didn't want just survival but rather live his life like the way it was. Death in trillions will be traumatic to him too.

"We will." John said as he was now flying at high speed in the front while the rest were using their suit to fly at the fastest speed trying to keep up with John. The others could feel that the loss was weighing heavily on the shoulders of John and he wasn't in the right mind at the moment.

Barry and others were concerned a bit for John but there was nothing that they could do. Only hope that this loss wouldn't break him. All his life John had been winning. His luck, his wealth, his achievements... everything that he had touched had turned to gold.

For the first time he had a setback, everyone was not sure how John would handle this.

"We will have to take him to Banner after this." Wanda whispered to others. Everyone nodded their heads. Everyone was shaken a bit except for Thanos and Jean. Thanos had faced loss before so it didn't really matter. And Jean was from 616.

The mutants had been on the run for a long time. So this loss was not so devastating for her. It took the team 72 hours to return to the same place from where they stepped inside the Wall. Now the crack looked larger than they saw it last time.

The death of Beyonders had somehow triggered the Wall and there would not be much time left before it broke apart. It would probably end when Perpetua starts her last mission and faces obstruction.

John was in a low mood as everyone could feel it but after an hour of brooding he realised that he needed to get his shit together and get over this. He needed to take countermeasures and take the battle to the Amalgam Universe.

That Universe was the main enemy this time rather than Perpetua or the Hands.

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