Superman: Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman

Author:Marv Wolfman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

BEYOND THE SILENT NIGHT

In ancient Greece, mortals had come to believe the Gods

were immortal. But myth does not make fact. What casually

appeared to them to be eternity was still, in reality, finite. The

Gods knew the truth, but sometimes even they forgot.

—The Monitor Tapes Vol. 2 Pg. 91

Lyla—Earth—1

Whiteness still dominated the Monitor's universe, but it was

punctuated now by a planetary quintet.

Alexander Luthor and Lyla—having expended all her

power bringing the universes here, she was Lyla again and not Harbinger—

found themselves on a small, floating asteroid overlooking a circle of five

Earths.

"We saved them, Lyla." Luthor couldn't contain his excitement as he stared at the Earths, almost identical in their features, but so different in what made up their souls.

He pointed into the distance. "Sixty-four million miles away from us are five Mars and three hundred million miles beyond them are five Jupiters. If

we could pull out far enough we would see five solar systems, five galaxies, and ultimately five universes."

Lyla wasn't listening, her mind was thinking of the Monitor and his final

wishes. This was the moment for which he had died but what Lyla saw was

not his final hope.

She cursed herself again for killing him, despite knowing she could do

nothing else, despite understanding his death was not only anticipated but

necessary. She felt lost because she knew only he could tell her what needed to be done now.

"We've bought time, Alex. Not solutions. The Anti-Monitor moved too

quickly. And again we weren't ready."

"But the Earths are safe." Lyla turned back to the planets, shaking her head, angry at the failure he couldn't understand.

"We slowed down the vibrations separating the universes but they

haven't stopped. They're still moving together, and when they finally merge, 200

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everything will still be destroyed. I don't know why... but I was expecting

more."

"But we now have time. And we need to use it to our advantage."

Pariah appeared suddenly beside them. "Alex is right, Lyla. For the first time I see hope."

He pointed to the Earths, a circle of worlds beginning their final

revolutions. "There was a reason the Monitor selected these heroes. We

need to bring them to us again. And this time they need to learn the truth."

"We've always told them the truth," Lyla said angrily. "The universes are dying and the Anti-Monitor is responsible."

Alex nodded, saying, "We just saved five universes. We've done

everything we can. There is no other truth."

Pariah kept watching the planets. "Alex, there's always another truth.

The truth about the Anti-Monitor for one. They don't know that. They also

don't know the truth about me. No one ever has."

"Please. Just bring them here. There should be at least one from each

Earth. They can tell the others. I want them to know what I did. And I

need them to know it's because of me that all their universes are being

destroyed."

"You?" Alex reached to grab him, but Pariah disappeared and Alex's hands were left clutching empty space. He turned back to Lyla, angry and

confused. "Is it possible?"

Lyla shrugged helplessly. "Let's do what he's asked."

Fifty-four

Can anything exist before existence?

I would have bet the farm, the cows, and even Inga, the farmer's

daughter, that the answer was no.

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