piratefiction Chapter 724 The Foolish Tyrant Reappears
Chapter 724 The Foolish Tyrant Reappears
Chapter 724 The Foolish Tyrant Returns (Happy New Year!)
"You really should do something."
Thomas Wayne, the Night Owl, was sitting in his spaceship.
No, the owl is long dead. What lives now is just a new self, a foolish madman.
Perhaps we can call him a foolish owl.
At this moment, Foolish Owl was sitting in his spaceship, with a lush primeval jungle on the outside.
This is the Cretaceous period. The Foolish Owl has been hiding in the current timeline downstream of the time flow, like hiding in the dried cement on one side of the road, watching from afar how the other end is snapped off with a snap, completely losing its entire future.
This spaceship was Lady Styx's vessel, and Lady Styx is now dead. The Foolish Owl is adept at using underhanded tactics against his teammates, and he proves effective at crucial moments.
Nevertheless, it still took him a long time to repair the spaceship.
He had initially teleported the entire Dark Knights to this spaceship, where they wrecked it. In the end, the Foolish Owl banished them all to the Triassic period in different dark multiverses, completely eliminating them from his clutches.
However, it's relatively easy to repair a spaceship once it's damaged, but once the brain is damaged... that's a bit more troublesome.
"You really should do something. Can you hear me? Let's analyze the situation:"
Sitting in the driver's seat, the foolish owl turned his head slightly. In the passenger seat, a figment of his imagination was chattering incessantly:
"Of the seven members of the Justice League, apart from Superman being taken by the World Maker, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern Hal, and Aquaman are already in Batman's hands. You only have the ability to interfere with two others: The Flash and Cyborg."
This illusion was dressed in the Night Owl's standard blue uniform, with a gloomy expression, yet inexplicably appeared more irritable than the original Night Owl.
Let's call this illusion conjured up by the foolish owl "Night Owl".
Then, another voice interrupted Night Owl: "Ah-ha—don't do that, Night Owl, old friend, you never learn to change, do you?"
Foolish Owl turned his head, and Joker hopped out from a seat behind him.
He walked over to Night Owl and sat on the armrest of his seat, his pale face bearing a sinister smile.
He reached out to put his hand on Night Owl's shoulder, a gesture that made the man frown, but in the end, Joker didn't put his hand on Night Owl's shoulder, but instead placed it on the back of the seat behind him.
"Don't do that, Thomas, we've discussed it." He pointed to the foolish owl who had been silently watching the two of them from the side.
"We've talked about letting kids do the right thing, haven't we? Think about it, a brand new superhero! Trained by a real superhero and a villain who thinks he's a superhero! What could be more hilarious than that, Pudding? Hmm?"
Night Owl's face remained unchanged. The half of his face beneath the mask appeared unresponsive, but Joker noticed his displeasure from the slight downward tilt of his lips, about 0.3 millimeters.
This pleased the Joker.
"You can't drive me away with willpower anymore."
The Joker said, "Right now, we're all figments of our imaginations. One 'imaginary friend' can't be driven away by willpower alone, can it? We're evenly matched, neck and neck. Just like before!"
He laughed loudly and brought his nose close to the night owl's ear: "We hate each other, yet we're forever entangled!"
Then, in an instant, both Night Owl and Joker vanished.
Yu Xiao steadied himself.
He turned his attention back to the console, and then he saw the face of the Night Owl appear on the screen on the left side of the console.
Generally speaking, the left is radical, and the right is conservative. Therefore, the owl appearing on the left is just right.
Conservative and radical are relative concepts. In this matter, the Night Owl's attitude is:
"The Sandman has given us enough information."
He said, "As things stand, the only way is to restart the world, which will allow us to deal with both Perpetua and the Void Hand at the same time."
The foolish owl remained silent.
Yes, before his ship traversed the gap between the Hypertime Stream and the Dark Multiverse and the Light Multiverse, crashing into the Cretaceous period of the main universe, in a dream, the Sandman Daniel of the Infinite Family revealed the current state of the Hypertime Stream to him and explained why the current timeline of the Hypertime Stream was broken.
The Sandman had no other choice; the World Builder's Death Dream was less a prison and more a curse.
As long as the World Forger remains in a state of death, this curse will continue to affect the Sandman and constantly weaken his abilities.
The fact that he was able to briefly escape thanks to the influence of Barbatos and the World Forger was already the limit of what Daniel could do. He was quickly pulled back into that dream, unable to escape no matter what he did—
Until the World Maker got what he wanted.
A superhero from the main universe, the real deal, cash on delivery.
The World Forger took the treasure and left the multiverse. Although he had not yet fully obtained the promised energy, which was certainly important, his priority now was to hide Superman, forge the core as quickly as possible, and then use the energy to forge the outer shell.
So with the World Forger's temporary departure, Sandman was finally able to emerge from his dream again, but he no longer dared to believe in Batman Dragon, who had accepted Barbatos's power and become Barbatos Dragon.
Although the other party doesn't seem to be under Barbatos's control right now, it's still a risk. For Sandman Daniel, it makes no difference whether the main universe is controlled by Barbatos or by Perpetua; both are unacceptable outcomes.
And Batman in the main universe...
Foolish Owl could still remember the slight darkening on Owl's face when he mentioned the main universe's Batman, but in any case, Sandman Daniel finally found his best warning target: Foolish Owl, who was now a superhero, and although mentally unstable, he was still smart enough.
Even a crazy superhero is still a superhero; just look at Batman: Dragon.
"Hey, you know what? Now in the Fifth Dimension, they call that Batman Dragon 'Batman Supreme'!"
Foolish Owl's thoughts drifted slightly as he saw the Joker's face appear on the screen to his right.
"Don't look at me like that. I can tell from your expression that you still think Thomas and I are just figments of your imagination. But you should know..."
On the screen, the Joker pointed to his head, then shook his index finger, making a "Little Genius, Smart Brain" gesture.
"Imagination belongs to the fifth dimension, or rather, the fifth dimension is the world constructed by imagination. What makes you think that the two of us, Night Owl and I, constructed by imagination, don't truly exist in the fifth dimension?"
The fool knew he couldn't be fooled by his own fantasies; if he believed the other party, he would go completely insane.
These imaginary friends can only talk to him but cannot help him solve all the problems in reality. If he really regarded them as real people and had any expectations of them, he should be going to Arkham Asylum now.
He had actually discussed the fifth dimension with Sandman Daniel, and it was Sandman Daniel who told him that the fifth-dimensional sprites called Batman the Dragon the Supreme Batman.
What the Joker is saying now is just information he has learned being subconsciously relayed by these imaginary friends.
"Don't interrupt," Night Owl said from the side. "Let me analyze this for you, kid. We need to reboot the universe to suppress the Void Hand and Perpetua. That's what superheroes should do. And the only people who are capable and qualified to help us are: Genie A.R., Superman Supreme, and Parallax Morhal."
The Joker wanted to say more: "I agree with that, but on another issue, I..."
But he was interrupted by Night Owl halfway through his sentence: "Shut up, let me speak first."
The next moment, a large blob of sticky white glue was shot onto Joker's face, and Foolish Owl stared blankly at him.
This shows that in his inner fantasy, he clearly leans more towards the Night Owl's idea, which is why the Joker was silenced.
He calmly analyzed his own heart, then coldly watched his two imaginary friends argue.
"Every member of the Justice League is an important part of the DC multiverse. Of the seven Justice League leaders, Batman Supreme already has three. If we really want to compete with Batman for the right to define the universe, we need at least two more Justice League members. Their existence is the cornerstone of the multiverse."
He stated, "It's clear we can't forge members of the Justice League out of thin air like the World Forgers did."
That's right, the World Forger has the ability to do it because he is a sixth-dimensional god who can forge most of the Justice League members, although they may not be Bruce Wayne or Barry Allen.
(Note: In the "Sixth Dimension" event, the Flash created by the World Forger was Wally, and Batman was not Bruce.)
Even if it's the only multiverse core he couldn't forge, "Superman," he could solve the problem by becoming Superman himself, not to mention that he now has a real Superman.
"Of the remaining two Justice League members, the Flash has the ability to communicate with the Speed Force, which makes him the only member of the Justice League who can travel through time at will without external force. This is why the viruses always deal with Barry, the immune cell, first during major crises."
Night Owl said, "Unless someone can completely destroy the Time Stream, the Flash must not fall into the hands of the Batman Supreme."
(Note: In Dark Night Death Metal, the multiverse's mother, Perpetua, truly destroyed the Hypertime Stream.)
"And then there's Cyborg. His abilities may be insignificant, but his power comes from the Mother Box."
He told Foolish Owl, "The Mother Box is in Darkseid's hands; we can't take it. Besides, it's only useful if it's on Cyborg. Cyborg's Mother Box can help us draw power from the multiverse by directly connecting to the X-Element. We absolutely cannot give it up again."
He said, "We have lost Wonder Woman's hope."
He said, "We must bring back the two Justice League members, even if it means by kidnapping them."
"No, you can't do that, darling. This isn't funny at all. I finally managed to get rid of Night Owl. You can't become the next one like him, as bad as him, my sweetheart."
He muttered to Foolish Owl, "We're about to commit to being superheroes, and people like Night Owl are always trying to kidnap people and force them to do what we think is right..."
"Is this still considered a heroic act?"
"This is to save the entire multiverse, I'm forced to do it. I've been saving the world all along. I've told you, I'm not the villain, you are!"
His voice was met with an even louder rebuttal from Night Owl: "Look at what you've done! You've destroyed the order I established in Gotham, bringing chaos, slaughter, and death in the name of justice, and you never repent, as if it were some glorious mission!"
After cursing his old rival, he turned to the foolish owl, his voice growing louder and louder, signifying his superiority:
"We only use certain methods for the sake of justice, which doesn't mean we're not superheroes. We need to utilize the characteristics of villains to achieve our righteous goals. As long as the final outcome is just, the means used are not the point."
Even Batman Supreme has recruited villains, hasn't he? Forcing others is even more ridiculous. If someone wants to commit suicide, would you respect their free will? The multiverse is dying, about to die. Now is not the time to think about free will or anything like that. Members of the Justice League in the main universe, if you can persuade them, persuade them; if you can't, force them!
The Joker tried to argue, but the next moment he was smeared with a blob of white glue in his face again.
Yu Xiao glanced at the other party, but remained unmoved.
The Joker still wanted to speak, but he desperately whimpered and tore at the slime, unable to utter a word for a moment.
And the owl spoke faster and faster:
"Don't hesitate, we need killing machines!"
"This only member of the Dark Knights who is not under our control will be an excellent cover and weapon for us."
"We'll use him to capture two Justice League members, then we can contact the allies we need, and then..."
On the screen, Night Owl spoke slowly and deliberately. Beside him was the Joker, his mouth gagged and unable to speak; in front of him was the Foolish Owl, lost in thought; and behind him, beyond the spaceship, lay a lush, tranquil forest.
His voice echoed throughout the spacecraft's main control room.
"We must both turn the tide and save the entire multiverse!"
(End of this chapter)