What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 527: Good is not absolute enough, and bad is not thorough enough
"Tell me, Night Owl."

Night Owl heard Joker ask, "How does it feel to be used as a sacrifice?"

"I can't...I can't just collapse here."

Thomas Wayne Jr. may feel frustrated and may have negative emotions, but Night Owl cannot. He should respond immediately as soon as he discovers an unexpected situation, just like a sophisticated instrument.

So even though Thomas Wayne Jr. was wailing in despair at this moment, Night Owl immediately took action.

He ran for his life the moment he saw Batman and the Anti-Monitor joining forces.

Luther thought he had modified his propulsion tower, but Night Owl had always ensured that he had the ability to block this displacement reaction at the critical moment, which was as easy as adding a hidden switch to a simple circuit.

The shielding network he prepared was supposed to block any travel between the two universes, so that Batman could not come and interfere with him, Luthor's preparations could be cut off, and he could sit back and relax. But now with the cooperation of Batman and the Anti-Monitor, the two of them pierced through the protective net he had woven with Starro between the two universes like an iron spike, and appeared directly in his world.

"But it's not over yet." Night Owl hypnotized himself: "I still have the strength to fight back."

He quickly made a new plan for himself: "The replacement between universes cannot start so quickly, especially when the preparations made by Lex Luthor did not really take effect, or only partially took effect."

"As long as I can quickly expel the Anti-Monitor and Batman from my universe and prevent them from taking away my propulsion tower system, I can launch a speed force storm at Batman's universe without any scruples at such a close distance..."

(Note: Chapter 495 mentioned that Night Owl's original plan was for him to launch a speed force storm against the Batman universe, but he gave up after being threatened by Batman, but he still retained this ability.)
“No matter what conditions Batman and the Anti-Monitor reach, his universe will always be the soft underbelly that Batman cannot give up. Once he plans to go back to save his own universe, he will inevitably have differences with the Anti-Monitor. Then they will have no time to care about me.”

It has to be said that this plan similar to the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao that Ye Xiao came up with temporarily in a short period of time is feasible, because in essence this is not something he came up with on a whim, but is based on the rational use of existing resources.

But there is a premise for all this.

Stop Batman and the Anti-Monitor from taking over his propulsion tower system.

Therefore, he had to...

"I told you, you're done, Night Owl. It's come time for retribution."

He heard the Joker, the phantom of his imagination, chattering and mocking him.

"Your damn plans are so screwed up, useless and boring."

He heard the Joker say, "If you had made up your mind to sacrifice Batman's world early in your plan, you wouldn't have wasted your time on Lord Orm and the Blood Lord."

(Note: Early on, before Night Owl killed Metron, sat on the Mobius Chair, and made it clear that the Anti-Monitor was unbeatable, he tried to team up with Batman to fight the Anti-Monitor instead of sacrificing him. The Joker was mocking this.)
Nite Owl knew that he couldn't escape Batman and the Anti-Monitor with his own speed, as one of them could transform into a form that could utilize the Speed ​​Force, and the other was a creature that could completely be called a god.

Even if Night Owl was wearing power armor, he could not match the speed of these two.

But fortunately, when Batman and the Anti-Monitor stepped out of the portal, they were in a fragile space and could not move immediately, which gave Night Owl a very short time to react.

He immediately remotely mobilized a large amount of magical energy belonging to the heart of the planet and passed it to the unfortunate Greer. After losing the group of cosmic overlords to help her share and channel the energy, Greer was already overwhelmed, but Night Owl did not care about that.

He poured all the magical energy into Nataza's body, and then used irony magic on her.

(Note: The parallel universe counterpart of Zatanna, the master of irony magic, was mentioned in Chapter 505. Night Owl used Nataza to control energy, but in the conversation with Luther in Chapter 508, it was confirmed that this was only an auxiliary means)
The powerful anti-verbal magic briefly blocked the Anti-Monitor and Batman's time to act - at the cost of Nataza suffering tons of magical backlash and almost dying.

Night Owl opened the portal and fell to the floor of the safe house, gasping for breath. Here he would not be discovered by Batman and the Anti-Monitor for the time being, so he could at least hold out for a little while.

He felt his heart pounding and the blood rushing to his brain driven by fear.

He raised his head and saw the Joker in front of him lying in a chaise longue position.

"Hey, Thomas. Have you ever thought about this? If you had made your goal clear from the beginning, treated Batman completely cruelly, and entangled him in your shadow step by step, with the advantages of intelligence and prior preparation, you would have escaped leisurely by now, and watched Batman and the Anti-Monitor fight to the death, hehe!" said the Joker.

Night Owl glared at the other party.

"Oh, honey, don't look at me like that. I'm a reflection of you. I'm you and I'm two sides of the same coin! I'm your imagination, remember? This is your inner voice, and wow, it's so romantic to speak in my image."

Night Owl had no time to waste. He did not answer Joker's words at all. He staggered to the operating table of the safe house and used the backdoor it left in the system. After skipping a series of complicated identity authentication links, Night Owl activated his new folder.

The Joker keeps babbling on, as crazy as ever, and goes on: "Or, you're kind to the end, and you open up to Batman, and you two brothers join forces, fucking double swords, and fight against the Anti-Monitor together, and promise to never give up on anyone, and you're all fired up!"

He shrugged and continued:
"Well, so this is just a corny but awesome epic, and you guys are probably going to get beaten to a pulp in the final battle, but guess what, you win!"

“This looks like a good ending.”

"Warning, emergency countermeasure plan has been activated."

Night Owl turned a deaf ear to what Joker said. He was concentrating on staring at the screen.

He had just been in one of the propulsion towers, trying to create a shielding network to separate the two universes.

When Batman and the Anti-Monitor broke through the shielding and came to this universe, they were guided by the shielding network, just like there was a hole at the bottom of a giant trampoline, and naturally fell through the hole to the lower position.

That is, the Anti-Monitor and Batman are not on the Earth of the Nite Owl Universe, but on a propulsion tower placed in another universe sector that can be used as an attack target.

Night Owl took a deep breath.

He looked around and found that the Joker had disappeared beside him without him knowing when...

Well, he got lucky.

"Activating... Emergency Countermeasure Plan A"

Words flashed rapidly on his screen:

"The Galaxy Puppet is originally a war weapon with self-awareness. It is huge, even close to the size of the Milky Way. Most of the time, it uses its own energy to condense into smaller clones to communicate with creatures that are much smaller than it."

"But he still has a weakness. There is a miniature planet embedded in his forehead, which is only 1/10 the size of a normal planet. It is his control core, the central nervous system, and also his only weakness.

Based on the transformation of the Galaxy Puppet in secret, we can control his actions through the micro planet. When necessary, he will be a fatal blow. "

This is the log that Night Owl wrote for this plan, in case if he is not the one to initiate this plan, other people he trusts can still complete it excellently.

This plan was originally intended to target the many backup plans left by Night Owl when the universe overlords banded together to oppose him after escaping from this universe. Now, although the Galaxy Puppet has been drained, it has reduced the difficulty of his control.

Then use the propulsion tower system to inject a large amount of planetary heart energy into the body of the Galaxy Puppet...

"I just need to drive them out as quickly as possible." Night Owl gritted his teeth. In the wide angle on the screen, the huge and shocking planet giant was howling to the sky, and countless small planets were smashed to pieces by him in the universe.

A battle puppet as huge as a galaxy, which is the origin of the name "Galaxy Puppet".

"Do you really think you can fight the Anti-Monitor with this thing? Come on, you know deep down that this thing is complete bullshit. It's useless except to comfort you now."

The Joker's voice rang out again, clearer than any time Thomas had heard it before.

"Tell me, Night Owl. My friend, my plaything, how long are you going to struggle?"

Night Owl didn't say anything. He stared at the screen intently. Then he saw on the screen that the galactic puppet he controlled remotely was waving his fist, which was bigger than a planet, viciously at the Anti-Monitor and Batman.

A large number of innocent planets were reduced to ashes in this galaxy-spanning attack. Ye Xiao felt his mouth dry and his tongue parched. The opponent's powerful force gave him a little illusion.

He looked at another screen which showed the current status of Batman and the Anti-Monitor. Batman had transformed into a state with wings growing from his ribs, looking like a dragon in human skin.

You see, it looks like Batman is going to use some of his powers.

This gave Night Owl some illusions, making him really think that he could...

The next moment, the screen went black, and another picture was quickly transferred to the main screen, followed by a mechanical prompt sound:
"The plan failed, the Galaxy Golem is dead. The Galaxy Golem has been destroyed head-on."

A huge feeling of suffocation gripped Night Owl's heart.

He felt he couldn't breathe.

He felt as if he was now handcuffed and lying on the ground, with Batman pressing his knee on his neck.

He couldn't breathe.

"Initiating: Emergency Countermeasure Plan B"

A large number of Yamozhu robots were released by the program that Night Owl had pre-programmed. Each of them had the same combat power as an ordinary Green Lantern, except that they had no emotions. This was their only shortcoming.

Human wave tactics, when facing the Anti-Monitor and Batman...

There is no egg use.

He looked at the robots floating in the universe that survived the Anti-Monitor's attack.

Dr. Ivo has put all his heart and soul into his creations, but he may not know that these things are under the surveillance of the shameless plagiarist Night Owl, and he has also made them into mass production.

Dr. Ivo still thinks that he is an important ally of Night Owl with his Amozo robots, but in fact he is just a researcher.

"Warning, activating: Emergency Countermeasure Plan C."

"Bombardment with magical energy infused into the heart of the planet. Warning, doing so is likely to cause irreversible damage to your universe. Are you sure..."

Night Owl confirmed it quickly, but he also guessed that such an attack would be no different from a tickle to opponents of the level of Batman and Anti-Monitor.

At this time, he should have continued to come up with some plans until he could temporarily push the two enemies away from his universe as he had imagined.

however……

"I told you, Thomas."

The owl computer in front of Night Owl automatically activated Emergency Plan D.

But Ye Xiao himself knew very well that these plans were weaker than the last. If the previous Galaxy Puppets couldn't do anything about it, then these little things would be even more impossible.

"You had the opportunity to choose before that. If you had chosen either of the two options, you and your universe would not have fallen into this situation today."

Night Owl heard the Joker say, "But you can't have it both ways, Thomas. Traitors and warriors are completely different species. You can never be compatible with both."

"So why the hesitation? Why did you want to team up with Batman in the first place?"

Night Owl sat in the chair in a daze. He knew very well that the plan he had prepared would not be able to do anything to those two people, but he no longer had any other plans.

He sat in the chair blankly, like a robot that had lost its purpose.

then……

Everything around him began to disappear. This safe house was also part of a propulsion tower system.

If Batman is determined to empty his universe, then everything in this safe house related to the propulsion tower system will be taken away as well.

So Night Owl... can only groan now.

He fell to the ground helplessly, as desperate as a wounded beast.

He still wanted to hypnotize himself into doing something, but it was no longer possible.

"No matter which direction you choose, it's correct, but you chose nothing." Night Owl heard the Joker squatting down and whispering softly in his ear:

"You're not good enough, but you're not bad enough..."

The Joker lowered his head and sighed softly:

"You...you."

“That’s why it’s so painful.”

(End of this chapter)