The Fight That Shouldn't Be
Location: Earth, Above the Rocky Mountains
Time: Frozen for everyone but two.
The sky had no color, only data. The clouds had become lines of broken code. Thunder cracked in binary. This was no longer Earth—this was a corrupted battlefield stitched into the edge of existence itself.
Two beings hovered at the center of it all.
Void Sentry—a walking contradiction of chaos and creation.
Redactor Zero—a construct of divine syntax and multiversal law.
> "You should not exist," Redactor said, its voice a hundred machine choruses.
"That's the point," Sentry replied, eyes glowing with the fury of a thousand collapsed identities.
Then the battle began.
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First Blow
Redactor moved faster than thought—literally. Reality warped around it. Every strike wasn't just a physical hit; it rewrote the concept of Sentry's body, trying to remove his narrative from the universe.
Sentry screamed—not in pain, but in rejection.
> "You think I'm a typo? I'm the footnote that rewrites the story."
His counterattack was raw, primal. He unleashed Voidlight, a fusion of the dark entropy of The Void and the radiant atomic energy of his original form. The very fabric of space cracked around them, releasing dimensional aftershocks that reached as far as the Phantom Zone.
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Back on Earth – Metropolis
The Justice League felt it.
Superman staggered. "He's holding back the rewrite."
Wonder Woman gripped her blade. "But he can't do it forever."
Batman watched the pulses in the sky through polarized lenses. "If he loses... we don't just die. We get erased. Retconned like we never mattered."
Flash, returned from the Bleed, added, "Then we make sure he doesn't lose."
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The Fight Escalates
Redactor split into seven mirrored versions of itself, each representing a different aspect of universal law—gravity, time, causality, identity, entropy, origin, and end.
Sentry laughed. "Oh, you brought your little code monkeys?"
He absorbed entropy.
He bent causality.
He refused the end.
Then, fueled by memory, pain, and rebellion—he did the unthinkable:
> He tore one of the Prime Laws apart with his bare hands.
The mirrored Redactor fragment—Origin—shattered into code and screamed as it died. A ripple spread through the multiverse.
Suddenly, cracks appeared in other universes.
Elseworlds flickered.
Old canon rebooted.
Lost timelines began to whisper again.
Redactor paused.
It stared at Sentry with something approximating alarm.
> "This anomaly must not reach the Core."
Sentry grinned savagely. "Then stop me."