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Didi's expression smoothed into that casual smile as she waved at Lady Death like they were old friends at a coffee shop instead of two cosmic entities standing in planetary ruins.
"Hey, Lady! Been a while! When was the last time? Axel's visit?" She tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Right, definitely when the Brothers woke up!" Her eyes twinkled. "And we need to have a serious talk about 'maintaining cosmic balance,' because creating omega-level threats without the One Above All's explicit permission and letting FURY breach the Fourth Wall? That's dancing awfully close to the line."
Lady Death's face twisted with rage and confusion. "What are you doing outside the Source Wall? This is MY multiverse! I'm the Death Incarnate here!"
Didi's smile widened. "Well,Ā Axel AsherĀ was such a sweetheart when he merged the two universes, left a backdoor for me before he bounced. Wasn't that thoughtful?"
"Of course it's another outsider!" Lady Death spat the word like poison. "Access! That meddling, reality-crossing..."
"You and your thing about outsiders." Didi's voice cut through, still cheerful but carrying weight. "Isn't that the real reason you're obsessed with Jay?"
Jay's brain was melting because his Comic Book Nerd perk was supplying details faster than he could process. 'Axel Asher, aka Access. The Amalgam character who could travel between DC and Marvel. After the Brothers made both universes fight, Access merged them and created the Amalgam Universe. He was a transmigrator? Like me? Another outsider who came here and changed everything?'
His still-glowing hand lowered slowly as the implications hit him. If Access had been a transmigrator, if he'd merged entire multiverses and just left, what did that say about other outsiders and the limits of their power? And what did it say about Didi that she'd known him, that she still spoke with Access even now outside of their multiverses?
Jay stepped back, white eyes tracking between Didi's hand on his shoulder and her cheerful face. She'd been friendly, helpful even, but she was Death itself wearing a young girl's smile, an Endless who'd witnessed the beginning of multiverses.
Didi noticed as her smile faltered with genuine concern. "Oh, don't be like that. I'm not here to hurt you. I'm here to stop you both from doing something catastrophically stupid."
"Like I'd trust anything you say!" Lady Death's patience snapped.
Her scythe materialized again but wrong this time, growing until it towered three stories high while the blade pulsed with power that made even Jay flinch. Death's form changed as flesh melted like wax and peeled away to reveal gleaming bone beneath. Her black robes transformed into essence of death itself, darkness so absolute it consumed everything it touched.
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The Life Equation recoiled instinctively because this wasn't just death as a concept but Death's true form, the thing that waited at the end of all things.
"I've had ENOUGH!" Death's voice carried multiple tones now, overlapping frequencies that made Jay's ears bleed. "I couldn't go all out against a mortal, especially an outsider with HIS mark, but you?" The skeletal figure pointed the massive scythe at Didi. "Another aspect of Death on MY territory? Now I can FINALLY unleash everything!"
The scythe swung down as Jay felt the strike even though it wasn't aimed at him, the conceptual weight pressing against his consciousness like gravity multiplied by infinity.
Didi's hand left Jay's shoulder as she grabbed the Ankh at her neck, her cheerful demeanor dropping away. An overcoat materialized around her, woven from darkness that felt different from Lady Death's. Where Death's essence felt like ending and nothing, Didi's darkness felt like transition and gentle release.'
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"Been a while since I went all out." Didi's smile matched the cosmic weight she carried now. "Good to get some exercise."
Jay poured more power into the Life Equation with white light blazing brighter, his cosmic awareness searching for escape routes. Because he'd just glimpsed their true power levels. Lady Death fully unleashed was operating at a level that made his universal reality warping look like a child's toy. And Didi matched it perfectly.
His calculations all came back the same: he couldn't stop this, and he definitely couldn't survive this.
Lady Death's scythe descended as Didi raised her Ankh, darkness swirling. Reality screamed as two fundamental forces prepared to collide.
And in that moment before impact, a massive Ankh appeared.
Not the one on Didi's necklace but a symbol a hundred feet tall, golden light and cosmic authority cutting through the building energy. Both Deaths froze mid-attack, their weapons stopping inches from contact.
Lady Death's skeletal form stepped back with bone grinding against bone. "No. Not him. Not now."
Didi's darkness receded as she actually sighed. "Well, that's one way to kill the mood."
Jay tracked the massive Ankh as golden light poured from its center and three figures emerged, each one carrying weight that made the Deaths' power feel almost manageable by comparison.
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The first made Jay's breath catch.
The Living Tribunal.
Three golden faces looking in different directions: Equity gazing forward with impartial judgment, Necessity weighing cosmic balance, and Vengeance looking back at past consequences. The fourth face hidden behind a veil suggested mysteries beyond mortal comprehension. The Tribunal's presence stabilized reality itself.
The second figure carried equal weight from a different source.
The Spectre.
Emerald cloak billowing, God's wrath given form. Jay recognized the host immediately: Hal Jordan, greatest Green Lantern who'd died and been chosen as the Presence's vessel. The air burned with righteous power.
The third figure stood between these juggernauts and somehow matched them through sheer mystical authority.
Doctor Strangefate.
Doctor Strange's Cloak of Levitation merged with Doctor Fate's Helmet of Nabu, the Eye of Agamotto pulsing in sync with the Amulet of Anubis, and Professor Xavier's psychic presence woven through everything. Sorcerer Supreme of the Amalgam Universe, three of the most powerful mystics and psychics fused into one being.
Doctor Strangefate's voice carried the weight of two multiverses merged as one.
"In the name of the Brothers, STOP!" Each word fell like a hammer, reverberating through dimensions. "Can you not see? My Earth is collapsing beneath you! My entire universe will follow!"
Jay felt it through his cosmic awareness: how the Amalgam cosmology was tearing at the seams, fracturing under forces it was never meant to contain.
Lady Death's skeletal form turned toward Doctor Strangefate, her massive scythe rising. "You DARE stand between me and this imposter? You dare command DEATH ITSELF?"
The scythe swung with the weight of every ending in the multiverse behind it.
The Living Tribunal moved with a gesture that was casual, almost dismissive, but carried absolute authority.
Three voices spoke as one. "Lady Death, you are hereby contained for violation of cosmic law, abuse of power, and deliberate endangerment of this unique reality. Your actions have crossed boundaries we cannot permit."
Golden chains materialized, bindings woven from cosmic order itself. They wrapped around Lady Death's skeletal form before she could react, the scythe dissolving as the chains tightened, reducing a multiversal force to a prisoner.
"NO!" Lady Death's scream carried eons of rage. "This is INJUSTICE! My right! My domain! My authority all of them were violated!" Bone cracked against divine constraint as she thrashed. "I was BOUND by law to defend my realm!"
The Living Tribunal's three faces remained impassive. "Except this isn't your realm, not fully. Death of the Endless has equal authority here by right of the merge. You knew this and tried to fight her anyway."
The Spectre's green eyes fixed on Didi with silent question: would she resist as well?
Didi shrugged as darkness dissipated, her Ankh returning to normal size. "Hey, Hal! Long time no see! Didn't expect you to come all the way out here, but I'm glad you did. This was getting messy."
The Spectre's expression didn't change, just that unwavering stare that weighed souls.
Lady Death kept screaming as the chains tightened, her skeletal form trying to shift, to escape. "This isn't over! When my brother learns of this, when Oblivion sees what you've done to his sister, there will be consequences! The abstracts will not stand for this insult!"
The cosmic entities stood unmoved.
Then as one they turned to Jay.
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