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Earth-9602, New Gotham
The Life Equation sang through Jay's transformed body, and with it came understanding that made his breath catch.
Freedom.
True freedom, the kind he'd been seeking since he arrived in this world.
He'd sought it through strength at first, accumulating power to never be controlled, resources to never depend on anyone, knowledge to stay ahead of every threat. He'd been wrong about what freedom actually meant. Through Bobby's friendship, he'd learned freedom meant connection without chains. Through Master's teachings, wisdom without arrogance. Watching Peter Parker struggle taught him duty without being consumed. And through loving Domino, through choosing her every day despite his fears, he'd learned the final truth.
Freedom meant the ability to choose. To choose love without losing yourself, sacrifice without martyrdom, connection without surrendering who you are.
The Life Equation embodied all of it, every lesson crystallized into mathematical proof. Life and free will flowed through his cells, rewriting his biology at the conceptual level.
For one transcendent moment, Jay felt what he'd experienced with Franklin's power but clearer and stronger. Cosmic awareness and multiversal perception expanded through him, sensing infinite possibilities, infinite timelines, the power to reshape reality thrumming through every atom.
But this time his body didn't break down. The Life Equation justified existence itself, made his presence a truth reality couldn't deny.
Jay laughed, the sound echoing across dimensional barriers. "I'd forgotten what this felt like, touching the multiverse without paying the price."
Lady Death stared at him, and for the first time in eons, genuine terror crept into her consciousness.
This wasn't possible.
The Life Equation existed in DC's multiverse, not here. It had no place in her domain, shouldn't even manifest in a universe governed by different cosmic laws.
Yet here it stood, incarnate in an outsider's flesh.
"How?" The word escaped barely above a whisper, her scythe materializing in trembling hands. "The Life Equation shouldn't exist in this multiverse! The cosmological barriers should make this impossible!"
Jay's white eyes blazed. "Welcome to the Amalgam Universe, where two cosmologies overlap and the impossible becomes routine."
Death's composure cracked, the elegant mask fracturing. "You outsiders! Always undermining my authority with your resurrections and refusal to accept the natural order! Always dragging your loved ones back like children throwing tantrums!" Her voice rose. "And I can do NOTHING because HE finds it entertaining!"
The One Above All's restrictions burned in her awareness like chains, preventing her from directly harming outsiders without violating cosmic law, unable to claim them without proper cause, forced to watch as they played with death itself.
"Twelve hundred souls!" Death's power flared outward. "You stole twelve hundred from their rest, used Franklin Richards without his permission! And then you dared resurrect Jim Jaspers again just to steal his power!"
Jay dodged, white light blazing as the Life Equation surged through him. "I did what I had to do to protect those I love."
"And now you wield the Life Equation in MY multiverse!" Death's composure shattered. "All this in one year, ONE YEAR since you arrived!"
Her thoughts spiraled to memories of another outsider. The Protégé had mimicked cosmic powers with terrifying ease, copying from Celestials and abstracts, growing so strong he'd nearly overthrown the cosmic hierarchy until the One Above All personally intervened.
"What happens if you're allowed to grow more?" Death's voice carried desperate rage. "How powerful will you become in two years? Five? Ten? Will you reshape multiverses on a whim?" Her scythe elongated. "I will NOT allow another Protégé situation, NEVER AGAIN!"
Death's scythe carved through space, trailing darkness that erased light itself.
Jay's eyes blazed. "You want to see what happens when life faces death directly? Let's find out."
They collided with force that made reality flinch, Life Equation meeting Death's essence in an explosion that vaporized the continent.
The fight was apocalyptic.
Death swung her scythe in patterns that unmade existence. Where the blade passed, life ceased and entropy replaced it.
Jay countered with constructs of pure life energy, shields that absorbed death blows and transformed them into creation. Where Death unmade, Jay rebuilt. Where she ended, he began anew.
They tore through the planet like gods gone mad.
Jay unleashed pure vitality that would force even inanimate matter to develop consciousness. Death absorbed it, flickering between existence and non-existence, and returned fire with accelerated decay that erased matter so thoroughly even the memory faded.
"You can't win!" Death screamed. "I am INEVITABLE, I am THE END!"
"And every death leads to new life!" Jay's fist connected with her face, sending her flying through mountains. "The cycle continues, that's the point!"
Death stumbled back, genuine pain crossing her features for the first time since the universe began. "Impossible! Nothing can hurt me!"
"You're not beyond Life itself." Jay advanced, each step causing spontaneous plant growth in a hundred-mile radius. "Life and Death are equals. The equation proves it mathematically. You end existence while I affirm it, locked in eternal balance."
He threw a barrage of punches carrying the weight of every life that had ever existed. Death blocked desperately, her scythe meeting his fists in explosions that sent shockwaves across dimensional barriers.
They traded blows that reshaped reality with each impact. The merged cosmology of Earth-9602 fractured under the strain. The barriers between Marvel and DC that Access maintained began to weaken.
Finally, Death realized direct combat wouldn't work. The Life Equation countered her at every turn, proving life had equal claim to existence.
She pulled back, her form stabilizing. "If I cannot defeat you through strength..." Her voice echoed across the universe. "Then I will drown you in numbers."
Death raised one pale hand. "Arise."
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