JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time Page #3

Just be you. You're a great parent.

Gotta go. Bye, now.

Mama, mama!

- Aah!

- Mama! Ha-ha-ha.

Mama!

Me make sure you stay

right here on Earth, Superbaby.

Hello, Superbaby. Hello.

Me doing all wrong.

It is done.

The past has changed,

and there is a paradox in time.

Thou should no longer exist

in this time frame.

And I now have the power

to banish thee away.

Superman.

But that is not all.

Because there is no Superman

in this timeline...

...there would also be no Justice League.

The Justice League is now erased

by mine own hand.

It worked. It worked perfectly.

-They are gone.

-No.

- I'll take them down myself.

- Stop.

You saw how time trapper erased

the entire Justice League from existence.

He could do the very same to us.

We cannot win this fight. We must go.

Legion of doom, l, Lex Luthor,

have eliminated the Justice League.

I now give you the world.

We now rule with none to oppose us.

Let anarchy reign. Let us do

with this pathetic planet as we please.

It is ours, and there is no one left to stop us.

Did you know that most stars in the sky

have died out thousands of years ago?

-What?

-The light takes so long to get here...

...it's already burned out.

We're looking at ghosts in the night sky.

They no longer exist.

Dawnstar, I'm sorry.

If--

if I wasn't so hotheaded, I never would have

let Lex Luthor out of the ice in the first place.

None of this would've ever happened.

And I too am sorry.

If only I had been more willing to be brave,

I would have stopped Lex Luthor...

...before he escaped the 31st century.

-We make lousy superheroes.

-Yes. We are nothing like the Justice League.

I wish we'd have just disappeared

like they did.

Yes, perhaps it would have been better.

Wait, that's it.

Are you thinking what I am thinking?

-That this tunnel really reeks?

-No. Yes, it does.

But more to the point, what if Lex

no longer belonged to this timeline?

If there was a paradox.

Because he truly should not be here

in the first place.

Time trapper would send him packing,

vanish him like the others.

But more importantly,

the paradox would change everything.

If Lex Luthor was never frozen in ice, then

he'd never even make it to the 31st century.

He couldn't come back

and cause all this trouble.

-We'd undo everything that's gone wrong.

-Yes.

All that time, he was lost in those glaciers.

Nobody could find him because nobody

was good enough to track him down.

If we find Lex now,

we could free him from that ice.

He'd never even make it to the 31st century.

But we'd need someone strong enough

to break him out.

Let's do this.

I fear we are going in circles.

It took a massive ice thaw

and hundreds of years for civilization...

...to find Lex frozen in this wasteland.

How am I to do it in only a few minutes?

-Whoa. Definitely not what we were looking for.

-No.

And we all appear

to be looking for the same thing.

Captain cold managed

to put our leader, Lex, in this deep freeze.

And we will find him first and save him.

I swear it.

Well, sorry, guys, you won't.

It's gonna take nearly a millennia to find Lex.

And when it happens,

it definitely won't be by you guys.

It is truth. We are from the future

and know this to be fact.

My friend here

is the best tracker in the galaxy.

The only way you're gonna find your boss

is if you help us.

No, I think better to simply crush you both.

I'll hold them off. Keep looking.

What are you doing?

Keep searching for Lex.

But that's just it. I think I found him.

-Lex Luther's directly beneath you.

-Then let's finish this.

May the warmth of anasissier Talmak

fill you with health.

What? What is going on?

-You did it.

-No, we did it.

Let's just hope it works.

-What are you laughing about?

-The future has been changed by human hand.

Thou no longer belongs in this timeline.

It is now within my known power

to banish thee...

...to the ether of nonexistence.

No, this is impossible.

I control you.

No more.

-If you banish me, you'll go too.

-Not so.

For I remain outside the paradox

because it is within my power.

Lex Luthor, thou art banished

by mine own hand.

No!

As the sands of time run

mine own will shall now be done

I will remake this world in darkness.

We freed Lex Luthor,

but do you think it set everything right again?

That looks like one

of the time trapper's portals.

Only bigger.

Oh, no, he must have gotten

his hourglass away from Lex.

Whatever we did,

we must have made it worse.

-We must set this right, once and for all.

-Wait. What about the time-paradox stuff?

-If he sees us, he'll banish us too.

-I fear we have run out of options.

We have come to stop you, time trapper.

Hmm. It seems that

two little paradoxes were missed in all of this.

No matter, for thou art too late

to save this world or yourselves.

No one remains who can stop me.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

-The Justice League.

-Our plan worked.

So be it, Justice League.

Whoa.

I'm getting distress calls

from all over the planet.

I need the three of you

to save as many lives as you can.

The rest of us have to stop the time trapper

once and for all.

Music to my ears.

Let's shut this operation down.

-Thanks, kid.

-That's what I'm here for.

I could use some big help here.

How do we stop this guy, Dawnstar?

We can't even touch him.

I cannot see the way. But I know you can.

You have the ability

to see the weak point in any object.

Focus your key.

If time trapper has a weakness,

you are the only one that can see it.

But nothing shows up on this guy.

It's like he has no key or energy.

It's all blackness.

The time trapper, he's made of dark matter.

There's only one person among us

that can harm him.

Me? I cannot, val.

All this time you've been telling me

to hold back, but now we need you to strike.

Your light energy is the only thing

that can affect him.

We need you now.

Get the hourglass.

It seems to be his power source.

On it, bats.

Time trapper, time's up.

Turn the hourglass now.

Whew. And the Justice League pull off

another fourth-quarter comeback.

Whew. Well, since I'm here,

I might as well get some roast pig.

Or some fish tacos.

Oh. Better not tell Aquaman.

You two kids did great out there.

You should consider sticking around.

The Justice League could really use

your help in a fight.

Normally, Superman, sir,

I would have jumped at the chance...

...but quite frankly,

I think I've learned my lesson.

Yes, we must go back where we belong.

Changing what has already occurred

has proven far too dangerous.

But fighting along your side has taught us

to face the future with courage.

Well, you're always welcome here.

You two are fine young superheroes.

You should be proud.

Time trapper,

we have one last command of you.

Take us home.

I can't help but feel

there's something I'm forgetting.

Going somewhere, Lex?

Cold. So cold.

Don't worry, Batman's volunteered a nice

warm cell for you at Blackgate prison.

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