What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 528 When Barbatos and the Anti-Monitor Come Knocking on the Door (with original comic text)
Night Owl was defeated miserably.

As the Joker said, a good plan requires a core that is carried out from beginning to end.

But for Night Owl, his plans are always changing.

At one moment he wanted to team up with Batman to fight the Anti-Monitor, but at another moment he decided to sell out Batman based on the intelligence he got from the Mobius Chair.

After Batman came to him, he thought he could persuade the other party to sacrifice himself. After discovering that the other party had turned the tables and attacked Superboy-Prime, he compromised on this core issue and handed over the right to decide who would launch the Speed ​​Force Storm.

He is hesitant and cautious, good at making plans but lacks decisiveness. He has a lot of trump cards prepared, but only a few of them are key. He lacks a complete decision that is not affected by external forces.

The current situation affected his plan and actions, and eventually turned his plan into a complete mess. He wanted everything, but he didn't grasp the key to anything.

Those who chase after the current situation will eventually be swallowed up by the current situation.

When Batman found Night Owl, he saw him slumped on the ground, having been crushed into a pile of complete mud by the irreversible reality.

Chen Tao took off Night Owl's helmet. Under the heavy, thick armor was just a helpless mortal, like the child who had killed his parents with his own hands in Crime Alley, accidentally killed his brother, and had his hands stained with blood.

Chen Tao immediately checked whether the Night Owl in front of him was a robot or a clone. He pinched the other's chin and took his blood test. The result showed that it was the original one. This result made him feel full of doubts.

He has now separated from Mobius. In their universe, Mobius can still speak clearly, but after entering this universe, his condition is getting worse and worse.

When they first faced each other, Mobius, or the Anti-Monitor, gave him the impression of a cold-blooded demon. Even when his heart was taken out, he remained extremely cold-blooded.

This kind of personality has been maintained until just now - the Anti-Monitor suddenly woke up from some kind of manipulation like a puppet that had broken free from its strings. He showed a lot of emotions similar to those of a mortal, including not only resentment and fear, but even sought an alliance with him on the spot.

This attitude is completely different from before, and it even makes people feel a little scary when they think about it carefully.

And he really didn't expect that... the Mobius in front of him was just a poor fellow coveted by a higher-level power like himself. The only difference now was that he had broken free from these controls, while the other party was still addicted to them.

Yes, that familiar feeling is back.

Night Owl's successive trump cards exploded, and although they failed to stop or change anything, Chen Tao still watched Mobius gradually transform back into the cold anti-monitor.

His face, which had been expressive after he took off his helmet, began to solidify again in a short time after he killed the Galaxy Puppet, turning from a living creature into a relief again.

Although the other party's self-perception was still Mobius rather than the Anti-Monitor, Chen Tao felt more and more uneasy the longer he stayed beside him, so he quickly separated from him while he was still rational and rushed to find Night Owl, intending to complete the replacement reaction between the two universes first and get the Sun with Superboy-Prime imprisoned inside to this universe first, otherwise he would be really unsure.

He originally thought that he would encounter fierce resistance from Night Owl. After all, for the opponent, this was a matter of life and death. Before, he and Mobius had just entered his universe through a small area where the two universes overlapped, and they were hit head-on by a series of ABCD combos of the Night Owl Plan.

Until now, the Anti-Monitor was still slaughtering the seemingly endless number of Yamozhu robots that were besieging him, dealing with the magic explosions created by the propulsion tower system through the targeted use of the magic energy of the Planet's Heart, and extinguishing the forced teleportation array that the Night Owls had somehow created to try to teleport him away.

Ye Xiao was much more prepared than him, and it must have taken a lot of time to prepare these plans. Although he didn't cause any damage at all, it still slowed down their speed, which made Chen Tao feel heavy.

He was worried that before he could meet Night Owl, he would have to go through a large-scale puzzle-solving activity as tedious as collecting the Riddler's question mark boxes in order to find his real body among the many fake bodies set up by Night Owl. He would also have to go through a lot of hardships to crack some other tricks left by the other party in the propulsion tower system, wasting a lot of time, and finally completing the replacement.

But he found the Night Owl's true form so easily. Chen Tao checked the Night Owl from head to toe again, and even thought it was a trap.

After wasting some time, Chen Tao finally realized that he had become a fool. He picked up the limp Night Owl, opened the portal, stepped out, and appeared in...

In front of Luther.

Luther got a spaceship from somewhere and it was in the corner of a sector. Ever since Night Owl went crazy, he took Violent Wolf and Nightwing to escape and then appeared here. Seeing Chen Tao appear here, Luther was overjoyed.

"Batman!"

He came forward with a happy look on his face, then secretly activated the scanner on his armor.

Chen Tao also used the Kryptonian X-ray vision of Speed ​​Bullet to temporarily identify at the cellular level that Luthor was still the Lex Luthor he knew.

After both parties calmly verified the other's authenticity, Luthor grabbed Batman's arm.

"I need your help. I finally found the place where Night Owl hid the Green Lanterns under my control, but Night Owl created a reinforced barrier connected to the magical energy of the propulsion tower system. I can't open it for now, but according to my calculations, as long as I use a strong enough force to attack the weak ones..."

Nightwing was eager to try after seeing Batman nearby and wanted to say a few words, but his attempt to speak was first interrupted by Luthor, and then stopped by Chen Tao with his eyes, so he had to shrink back.

Before Luthor finished speaking, he saw Batman mention the Nite Owl clone in his hand - Luthor thought it was a Nite Owl clone, he had seen too many such flesh and blood puppets controlled by Nite Owl.

But three pink spots of light appeared on Batman's face, and then a large number of tiny mechanical chains exactly the same as Brainiac's stretched out from his arms and pierced directly into the brain of the Night Owl in front of him.

Then Night Owl said, "Everything is as I planned."

"What?" Luther said.

"The password to open the barrier is the pure English letters of the sentence Night Owl just said."

Chen Tao simply read Night Owl's memory. Time was short and he didn't have time to read all of it, so he could only pick out the important ones. Then he told Luther: "That's how Night Owl was set up."

Luther suddenly came to his senses. While controlling his robot outside the spaceship to enter the password on the console, he gave an order to Bizarro outside to come back.

"Let me see... It's actually this password. How ironic." Luthor glanced at Night Owl, who had a metal tube stuck in his forehead, a crooked mouth and squinting eyes, and was completely torn apart by Batman and the cruel reality, with his expression out of control:
"Everything went as planned? Ha! Was being beaten like this part of your plan?"

Chen Tao tilted his head and stared at him, feeling that Luther was implying a certain laughing bat.

"Hurry up," he said. "We don't have much time."

"Okay, two seconds."

Luthor finished the job quickly, and then handed over the situation on the scene to Nightwing: "Make sure they all come out of the barrier! Being trapped in the barrier may prevent them from returning to our universe through replacement. Then..."

Before he could finish his words, Chen Tao grabbed him with a clamp and clamped him under his ribs. He grabbed Night Owl with his other hand. Three pink spots of light flashed on Chen Tao's head, and a metal tube stretched out from his forehead and pointed at Luther.

Luther protested:
"Hey, I never said you could just read my mind like that— Ugh!"

Before he could finish his words, Chen Tao interrupted.

He found the required transmission coordinates, and then the three of them lifted their feet and disappeared behind the sonic boom tunnel again, leaving only Nightwing, who was messy in the wind, facing a bunch of complex instruments made by Luthor. They appeared in the main tower of the propulsion tower. Luthor knew that Batman was very anxious, so he suppressed the question of how the other party caught Night Owl in his heart.

Night Owl is so difficult to deal with that Batman must have gone through countless battles of wits and courage to catch him. It would be a waste of time to ask about these details now.

Chen Tao didn't waste any more words. He threw the limp Night Owl on the seat next to him, and then did the same to Luther, and the two of them sat side by side.

Then he connected the two people's heads with a metal lock of the same type as Brainiac. In an instant, the blood vessels on Luther's forehead jumped, and a large amount of information and knowledge about the entire propulsion tower system from Night Owl was poured into his mind in a short period of time.

"I know how to host the replacement reaction after the superposition of two universes." He gritted his teeth and blood spurted out of his nose. It was the result of the bursting of capillaries in the nasal cavity.

Chen Tao pulled out the metal tube on his forehead, then stretched out his hand, and the power armor worn by Night Owl was transformed into a metal coffin that trapped Night Owl under the deconstruction of the magic of the Metal Spirit.

Anyway, the opponent is just a mortal. Without the power armor, it is impossible for him to break free. All he needs to do is keep a breath.

He threw the Night Owl in the coffin aside, then turned to face Lex Luthor: "Hurry up, ignore the others, and replace the sun of our universe with the sun of this universe first."

He urged hastily, "Superboy-Prime and William are inside."

"be quick!"

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The melting pot of the world.

Emerging from the darkness are tiny flashes of molten potential. This is the place of creation, the place of origin.

For countless generations, the World Forger has forged the hopes and fears of all living things into countless universes here. The most stable ones have risen to the orbit of the universe, while those distorted and unpredictable worlds have been destroyed by Barbatos so that the energy can return to the furnace.

But at this moment, the great craftsman who forged the universe is no longer there. Instead, a giant dragon of destruction is coiled on the corpse of its master, stealing his power.

In the dim light of the World Crucible that was about to go out, Barbatos opened his eyes.

His figure was shrouded in a huge cloak, with only a pair of huge dragon wings slightly folded behind him.

There was a creepy chewing sound coming from his mouth, purple lightning surrounded his body, and a large number of clown dragons crawled timidly beside him.

Then he turned his body slightly and listened attentively.

He heard a faint voice coming from the sky, like a whisper in his ear.

"……It's you."

Barbatos licked his paw, and the beast stood upright.

The sound continued.

"Mobius is mine. Batman is yours."

"Okay." Barbatos agreed immediately.

Then the voice disappeared, as if he had never left.

The Dark Multiverse Dragon crouched down again, baring its fangs and grinning.

That Batman was struggling, he knew it, just as every Batman in every dark multiverse was struggling.

But under Barbatos' rule, everything will end in darkness. And in this darkness, what fool would...

Do you believe you will win?
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Batman Universe.

Fiji.

That damn blue portal appeared again, but it was as if this portal was welded shut. It could only appear in the cave inside the volcano and could not interfere with the existing reality.

"I told you there was no use trying, Time Master."

"That's enough, Bomber Gold. Barbatos has reached an agreement with the Anti-Monitor. Don't you understand? It's like two tigers have agreed on how to share the food after killing you. Now they come knocking on your door and let you choose how to die."

"Relax, the Anti-Monitor can't affect reality. Crisis 1 is the cornerstone of the multiverse, it lays the foundation for the super-time stream. It's like the foundation of a building."

(Note: The first crisis mentioned by Golden Bomber refers to "Crisis on Infinite Earths", which is also the first major event in the DC Universe that restarted the universe, laying the foundation for all subsequent events.)
"But once the foundation collapses, the chain reaction caused by the super-time stream will put the entire multiverse in danger of collapse! Damn it, Golden Pioneer, you don't understand how important our work is, nor how dangerous it is."

The Time Master wailed, "If the Anti-Monitor upstream of the Super Time Stream reaches an agreement with Barbatos, who is already a difficult problem in this time, he will have a chance to reverse his failure in the First Crisis. This is devastating!"

"He can't do it."

"The ice is three feet thick and it didn't freeze overnight. If we keep letting him go like this, sooner or later his plan will come true."

The Time Master scolded, "Don't talk nonsense, I'm trying my best, I have to find a way to interfere - damn it, why? Why can't I interfere no matter what?"

(Note: The fact that the Anti-Monitor would cause the multiverse to collapse if he changed his failed ending in "Crisis on Infinite Earths" was mentioned in "Multiverse Convergence". In the original comics, P52 Superman, Parallax Morhal, the Flash during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and the first-generation Supergirl Kara-El. Note that this Supergirl's name does not have "Zor" in the middle, because she is the first-generation Supergirl, not the sixth-generation Kara-Zor-El. These are two completely different people.

They teamed up at the end of the "Multiverse Convergence" event and stopped the Anti-Monitor, thus successfully restoring the multiverse. I will post the original comic text here↓)

(End of this chapter)