Fair warning, this chapter will contain a surprising twist for everyone. Hope you like it.

As they all waited in the hospital waiting room, eventually, a doctor came out.

"How is he?" Nichelle asked.

"I'm so sorry Mrs. Payne, we did everything we could, but the bullet severely damaged his spinal column. There's a very good chance that he'll never walk again." the doctor said and Nichelle broke down in tears.

"Can we see him?" Jen asked.

"Actually, he asked to speak to Jennifer Pierce in private before he had any other visitors." the doctor said, much to Jen's surprise as she looked at Khalil's mother, who nodded at her.

"Are you sure it's okay that I see him before you?" Jen asked Nichelle, who nodded.

"Honestly Jen, it's not that surprising, since you are the person who was with him when he got shot." Nichelle said and Jen nodded before she allowed the doctor to lead her to Khalil's room.

"Hey J." Khalil said with a pained smile as he saw her enter his hospital room.

"Hey Khalil." Jen said.

"Well, this certainly brings back memories doesn't it?" Khalil asked, causing Jen to stop in her tracks.

"What do you mean?" Jen asked.

"I mean you coming to visit me in the hospital after Tobias Whale had me shot." Khalil said.

"Khalil, what are you talking about?" Jen asked, not daring to hope.

"Jen, ever since I got shot, I've been having these flashes, memories of another life, but I don't understand how." Khalil said and Jen sighed as she now understood what was happening.

"It's a long story. One that honestly, even I don't fully understand, but my dad might." Jen said as she pressed the button to call the nurse and asked them to bring her dad back. Alone.

"Khalil. What's going on?" Jefferson asked when he joined them.

"Dad, Khalil remembers everything. Somehow." Jen said.

"You remember the way things were before the Crisis." Jefferson said.

"What crisis?" Khalil asked.

"Look, it's complicated and hard to explain, but I forget, do they cover the multiverse theory in high school?" Jefferson asked.

"I've heard of it from TV. The theory where there are different versions of reality?" Khalil asked, trying to wrap his head around this.

"Exactly. Except it's not a theory, it's real. Or at least it was real. There used to be infinite earths in the multiverse, but they were wiped out in a crisis, including our earth. Jen and I were both taken off world before our original earth was wiped out." Jefferson said.

"Okay then, but if they were wiped out, then how do we still exist?" Khalil asked.

"I don't know the full details, but what I do know is that some new friends of mine were able to restart the universe and in the process, they fused our earth with their own." Jefferson said.

"So you're saying that the memories I have are from the old reality?" Khalil asked.

"Exactly. Though how you remember them I don't know, since it would take more than a bullet wound to restore your memories." Jefferson said.

"I can answer that." a new voice said and Jen jumped when she saw a black man with head ridges and the most ridiculous outfit she'd ever seen standing there.

"I thought you were dead." Jefferson said.

"Dad, you know this guy?" Jen asked.

"I met him once before the end of the world and I saw him die." Jefferson said.

"As did nearly everyone else, including yourself. And yet I am alive again, just as you are." Mar Novu said.

"Who are you?" Jen asked.

"I am Mar Novu, though some call me the Monitor. I am the one who restored Khalil Payne's memories." Novu said.

"Why would you make me remember all the terrible things I did as both myself and Painkiller? Why would you make me remember killing my own mother?" Khalil asked.

"To ensure that you did not make the same mistakes again. Your first death was a result of trusting Tobias Whale. Now you know better." Novu said.

"If you restored my memories, can you restore my legs?" Khalil asked, but Novu shook his head.

"I am sorry, but I cannot. I have already interfered in the timeline too much by restoring your memories. Besides, it would be too hard to explain how you went from being paralyzed to being completely healed." Novu said.

"Is there anything you can do to help us with that?" Jen asked, a little annoyed.

"Reach out to Oliver Queen and Kara Danvers. I believe that they might be able to help provide you with a potential solution." Novu said as he vanished.

"I don't like him." Jen said.

"From what I heard, not many people do. But he is a necessary ally." Jefferson said as he left Jen alone with Khalil so he could bring the others up to speed.