"The invitation was lost?" Lucifer asked with some doubt, "Impossible, right? I put a lot of security measures in place to ensure we could track people. How could it be lost?"
Greed shook his head and said, "His situation is quite special. Previously, he was hung on the Origin Wall, and the invitation was probably stuck to the wall too. But Bruce's impact on the Origin Wall earlier caused issues with the entire wall, and the invitation might have fallen outside."
Lucifer covered his forehead: "What should we do then? Even if we send him another one, we still need to retrieve the old one, or else someone might sneak in, right?"
"We can slowly look for the old one, but we need to send the new one first. Otherwise, everyone else will have one except him, and he would cause a fuss, wouldn't he?"
Lucifer started searching through the records, saying as he looked, "Who could it possibly be that ended up on the Origin Wall... Oh my God, it's him?"
"Do you know him?" Greed asked.
"Not exactly, but I've heard of him. He's like you, from the outside, but not completely an outsider." Lucifer mumbled a few words and then said, "I'll send him another one then..."
Before the words were finished, an alarm sounded outside, followed by a chaotic commotion. Lucifer hurriedly put down the documents and walked outside, "What's wrong? Why are you panicking?"
"Unidentified material observed!" The angels rushed out in a panic, feathers flying all over the Sanctuary, "The structure that can't be analyzed has jammed the decoder, the entire decoding system is collapsing, and all unknowns are temporarily unrecognizable!"
Lucifer's expression instantly cracked, and with a flap of his wings, he dashed out. Greed followed behind him, and Lucifer rushed into the debugging room, a room Greed couldn't enter, though he could stand outside and listen.
"What's going on? What unidentified material?! Who observed it??" Lucifer asked three rapid-fire questions.
"No idea. Our cosmic structure doesn't have a black box. Logically, there shouldn't be any unobservable substance, but for some reason... Fusion Universe! It's that Fusion Universe!"
"What the heck is this thing? How does this structure... My God, they didn't write anything, just put a Creator God directive here! We can't read it!"
"Can't we just show the program directly?"
"It can't be materialized!" another angel said, "The instruction decoded by our decoder is gibberish!"
"Then compile it into a Divine Artifact or put it in a shell?"
"It's too late. If it was before the other party observed it, it could be disguised, but now seeing the directive, reality is already anchored, it can't be changed!"
"Damn," Lucifer's voice came again, "What the heck is their Creator God doing? Just leaving directive blocks unmasked by the roadside. Anyone can parse them if they see them..."
"If we use their world's decoder, it's fine, but ours can't decode it. And this thing has very high permissions, can't be moved away. Archangel, think of something, otherwise the cosmic recognition will get out of order..."
"I'll think of something, what could I possibly think of, I... Dad!!!"
A ray of light flashed overhead, and Greed outside the door smiled: "OAA is slacking off, God is in trouble."
To speak of the Creator God of two universes, God is more powerful. Because in the early days of DC, there was once an attempt to set the Creator God as God, but because that era was sensitive, the comic company didn't have the authority to interpret scriptures, and many believers resented the company's entertainment of God. So, the writers could only use some titles as a proxy, hinting in the plot at God, without directly saying it.
But that instead elevated God's stature. Being impacted by the real world proved that DC's God is the same God as the God of the three religions, otherwise, like Marvel, they could just create a virtual Creator God, no need to bear religious pressure and force it.
Conversely, a virtual Creator God is more like a plot editing tool, without a prototype reflected in reality. This gives OAA relative freedom, unconstrained by reality.
If you say in the comics that God corresponding to reality is bad, believers will definitely make you pay. Even if setting some enemies of God, you can't make God too weak, nor let God make silly mistakes, or else you'll face pressure.
But Marvel doesn't have this concern. After all, the Creator God is virtual, more like a concept than a personal god. Naturally, he does what he wants. Whatever he did in the comics, nobody in reality would pressure him.
This leads to OAA's relatively uninhibited editing of the world; he doesn't need to find reasons for his unreasonable actions, but instead just says, "I set it this way." Even if this setting is irrational, it doesn't matter at all, because he doesn't need to emphasize his wisdom and power. In a sense, he is more like a god.
But God has to find some reasons to paint things over, and the editors must find reasons for the things God creates; otherwise, it would make God appear illogical and subject to defamation. Therefore, even for Batman's various unreasonable settings, some rationale must be crafted rather than directly saying, "God set it this way."
This also results in Marvel's style being actually more abstract, with many divine artifacts appearing without much origin or reason but with relatively strong settings.
Take the comparison between DC's Anti-Life Equation and Marvel's Infinity Gem; the Anti-Life Equation's formula is actually written out, whether those terms truly have an effect or not, at least the writers attempt to give an explanation of what constitutes anti-life. However, the Infinity Gem is basically just a background setting enhancing strength, simply telling you this thing is very strong without explaining why.
Both approaches have their pros and cons; abstraction means that creation is more free and expansive, but sometimes it can seem illogical. Editing around the real world enhances logic, but sometimes it struggles to escape religious narratives, lowering the degree of freedom.
Marvel's Sentinel Robots also follow this rule; the setting is that they are nemeses of mutants, without worrying about how they counteract them. Just a random phrase like "they target the X gene through some principle" would make much more sense, but in actuality, there hasn't been a direct explanation. It's just a typical black-box divine artifact, like a creator command module that has no special principle—just press the trigger to directly activate the creator's command.
If placed within Marvel, this certainly wouldn't be a problem. OAA may have also crafted similar skin and model generation programs on the spot, so when you're not looking, it's merely a command module; but when observed, he wraps it up into something like a Cosmic Cube. However, switching to another world wouldn't work.
DC here can't decode Marvel's creator command nor has the automated packaging system, so when Magneto slipped into the air wall and observed the command module, it directly locked DC's system decoder.
Actually, there were issues with code conflict in the Fusion Universe before, like two items having the same name but different functions, or different functions with two identical file names, which are manageable.
This time, however, the problem escalated because Lucifer couldn't edit OAA's creator command, and couldn't fix it in the usual way, leaving him no choice but to call God.
In principle, God can fix it. He could even go to the editorial and have the editors change the images. But this matter can't be handled that way, because the Fusion Universe is a collaboration between both sides, and the settings need mutual discussion. A direct change would be impolite.
If there were only Marvel people present, it would be simple to manage, but unfortunately, there's a Supreme Little Superman who can see through the fourth wall. He adopts reader thinking, understanding precisely what absurdities the writer wishes to present. So this setting can't be forcibly changed, like crafting a shell and covering it, claiming it to be some divine artifact—he would definitely insist on prying open that shell.
If you don't want too abrupt a change, you must at least compile a plausible logic set, explaining how the factory-produced Sentinel Robots actually restrain mutants. This isn't difficult; merely altering the program to target mutants' X gene through some means would suffice.
Lucifer discussed with OAA and got this answer. He re-edited a set of Mother Module factory principles and had God write them into the Fusion Universe's factory. God also didn't intervene much and, following the provided settings and background story, re-edited the factory.
In simple terms, along the path of evolution, humanity and mutants have endured long battles. Humanity's physique is weak, far inferior to the powerful mutants, so they have continually sought ways to counter mutants.
At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, during an era of human technological explosion, a chemist researching radioactive materials discovered a special radioactive element that could weaken the X gene. Humans named the radiation from this element "anti-X radiation."
Whenever mutants are exposed to this radiation, their mutant abilities are significantly weakened. Some even lose their mutant abilities entirely, becoming ordinary people incapable of even holding a chicken. Unfortunately, this element also seriously harms humans, and no proper preservation method has been found.
Because of this, when researching weapons against mutants, humans could only consider using robots and absolutely had to employ fully automated production methods, thus creating the "Mother Module" factory for producing powerful Sentinel Robots.
However, these background stories are not important. What's crucial is that at the moment of editorial completion, the Sentinel Robot's mind gained the so-called "anti-X radiation" element, replacing the original creator command and becoming the Sentinel Robot's core.
Therefore, the original creator command block is no longer a necessary effective component of the rule "Sentinel Robots inevitably counter mutants," and thus doesn't have to be the core of the Mother Module factory, nor stay at the forehead of this big head.
In other words, now, anyone who takes this creator command block won't break the destiny rules, as this rule is effectively in place and even has a more interpretable explanation, no longer relying on the command.
Generally, an air wall protection prevents removal, but coincidentally, Magneto slipped inside. He witnessed the entire command intact and saw the whole process of God editing the Mother Module factory. At the moment the anti-X element was generated, he knew what he had to do.
This process sounds complicated but only took an instant. When Magneto reappeared, he looked extremely weak but was filled with a turbulent frenzy.
"Wanda," he shouted, "send me to Reed Richards! Hurry!"
Wanda was perplexed but swiftly acted. She forcibly suppressed the frenzied magnetic field with the power of Scarlet and then transferred Magneto to Reed Richards' presence. When Magneto reached out to touch Reed, the Genesis scroll of God unfolded in Reed's mind.
The entire modification process of the Mother Module factory, along with the creator's command, was transferred into Reed's mind. He floated upon the turbulent sea of magnetic power, seeing clearly the most mysterious truth of this universe.