What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 556: Batman steps into the Anti-Monitor and is now in league with Barbatos

In the melting pot of the world.

Barbatos, the Dragon of the Dark Multiverse, is savoring the many powers that Anti-Monitor's becoming the Dragon of Barbatos has given him.

Frankly speaking, even after the backlash against the World Forger, Barbatos still knew very little about the nature of the power of these sixth-dimensional gods.

But this time, the Anti-Monitor's active surrender brought him not only psychological satisfaction, but also a great deal of knowledge about the nature of the three brothers' power. This knowledge was absorbed by Barbatos through the status of the Dragon Barbatos, making it stronger.

For example, why did the Anti-Monitor launch the Crisis on Infinite Earths: because the three brothers jointly backstabbed their mother, Papetua, the Mother of the Multiverse, causing her to become the Origin Wall. The Origin Wall became the edge of the multiverse guarding it, which made the original marginal antimatter universe of the multiverse suddenly redundant.

The Anti-Monitor's domain has become useless waste, so he launched the Crisis on Infinite Earths to seize the Monitor's positive matter universe by devouring it...

This knowledge, especially the content about how to increase one's power by expanding the scope of one's authority, is exactly what Barbatos, the powerful but shallow evil dragon who turned against his former master, lacks the most.

Barbatos has his own plans. He has been planning to invade the main world since a very early time. (Note: For example, during the Final Crisis, the main universe Batman was teleported back to ancient times... the final battle, the infection of the Dionysus factor, and so on, many events, Barbatos is constantly infecting the main universe Batman with metal)

But no matter whether it is the Barbatos Dragon Manufacturing Plan or the Dark Knights Recruitment Plan, for Barbatos, these plans are just "side quests" surrounding his plan of steadily invading the main universe. Even if this side plan provides him with important gains such as the anti-monitor brain, the monitor's location, and the anti-monitor's puppet, it still cannot change the essence of these plans not being his main focus.

So after Barbatos empowered the puppet controlled by the Anti-Monitor, he completely shifted his focus from the upcoming battle back to understanding this knowledge.

After all, no matter what the Anti-Monitor is like, what Batman is like, or even the Anti-Monitor's plan, none of these are taken seriously by Barbatos. In this war, Barbatos has always been the one hiding behind the scenes, sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai.

From the dark multiverse to the bright positive matter universe, no matter how Batman and the Anti-Monitor fight, what does it have to do with him, Barbatos?
Then Barbatos was suddenly startled by the huge changes in the multiverse.

The future of the multiverse timeline is originally unknown, just like you don't know when a road will be repaved. Not to mention Barbatos, even Dr. Manhattan cannot say that he fully understands how the future will develop.

(Note: For details, please refer to the DC event "Doomsday Clock", Dr. Manhattan VS Superman, he only saw two results, but in fact the third result happened.)
Most of the time, under Barbatos' observation, he could only see the future of the timeline, but the future of the super-time flow was a fog, just like being able to see the end of the road but not knowing when the road would be repaired again.

But now, Barbatos suddenly discovered that in the future of the multiverse, there appeared a timeline of destruction that had not yet solidified.

?

Barbatos couldn't help but pause in his action of gnawing on the World Forger's corpse, and even his claws, which were constantly trying to figure out the Anti-Monitor experience pack, stopped rubbing.

How come the multiverse is about to be destroyed when he hasn't invaded it yet?
It was clearly him who started preparing first, including the planning on Batman in the main universe and the formation of the Dark Knights. He made so many preparations, but they had no time to be launched. How come they were suddenly useless?

???

Barbatos did not appear in that timeline because he was now strong enough, unless he was willing to intervene.

But the problem is that on that timeline, Parallax Mohal and Superboy-Prime, who repeatedly reinstalled the system in the main universe of the multiverse, completely disrupted Barbatos' plans!
Look at what they did:

They tried to prevent Batman's parents from dying, they tried to prevent Superman's planet Krypton from being destroyed, they tried to prevent Aquaman Arthur's father from dying...

There is also the Flash's mother, Green Arrow's father, and Martian Manhunter's family. This insane and forced "whole family alive" plan almost destroyed DC's main universe.

Due to the underlying operating logic that crises are bound to occur in the multiverse, even if Batman avoids Crime Alley, his parents will always die in different ways every few years. Even if Superman's Krypton does not explode due to his brute force in a short period of time, it will eventually turn into a giant firework in the universe for various reasons.

This is why the World Forgers have always only wanted to hammer out a multiverse of their own, rather than thinking about transforming the multiverse created by their own mother. This place is designed this way from the underlying logical operation, and it cannot be controlled by brute force at all!
Moreover, the stubbornness of Parallax Demon Hal and Superboy-Prime was far beyond Barbatos's imagination. Most people would give up when they found that some things could not be changed no matter how they restarted the universe, but these two were almost obsessed. Anyway, after I used brute force to modify the universe, peace would be maintained for a few years, and then a crisis would occur. So I would just wait until the crisis occurred and then restart the universe again!
This extremely "clever" plan allows them to make restarting the universe as easy as eating and drinking. This will not only make Bruce Wayne in the main universe repeatedly experience the scene of his parents' death in several universe restarts, but will also cause the entire multiverse to begin to decline.

Batman starts killing people, Superman becomes extremely indifferent, and Martian Manhunter starts using his shape-shifting abilities to gather power...

The light and moral side of the heroes is disappearing, which is direct evidence that the immune system of the entire multiverse is weakening.

Although Barbatos wants to invade the main universe, he just wants to establish the order of Barbatos.

After the entire multiverse is under his command, the immune system superheroes of the multiverse will be reconstructed by him and become the force to protect him, Barbatos. However, what Parallax Hal and Superboy-Prime did was to completely destroy the multiverse!
Barbatos' authority and power come from the dark multiverse, which means that he shares the same fate with the entire multiverse.

There was no point in talking about grand plans and ambitions now. They went bankrupt on the spot. Barbatos didn't even bother to gnaw on the corpse of the World Forger, but stood up directly.

"Damn it!"

The DC Universe had already been severely damaged after the experiment conducted by Dr. Manhattan (Dr. Manhattan stole the DC Universe for 10 years). It was like a healthy person was taken away for a live experiment. Barbatos originally thought that this was a good opportunity for him to invade the main universe while the immune system of the multiverse was weakened. But now it seems...

Barbatos tried to leave the World Forge, but he couldn't. This was the only thing he didn't lie to the Anti-Monitor about. Perhaps the Anti-Monitor thought he was just making an excuse because he didn't want to interrupt his absorption of the World Forger's power, but the truth was far more complicated than the Anti-Monitor thought.

Barbatos' power comes from the World Forger, and the World Forger's authority comes from its ability to forge the universe in the World Forge.

Only when the Dragon of Barbatos returns to his place can Barbatos fully retain his powerful strength after leaving the World Forge. Perhaps the World Forger can leave the World Forge at will, but Barbatos, who has not yet completely absorbed his power, cannot do so.

Even if he forced himself to leave the World Forge, his strength would be weakened to the extreme. What would be the use?

But the bad thing now is that the authority of the Dragon Barbatos has been divided into two, one in the Batman of the dark multiverse and the other in the Anti-Monitor, which makes Barbatos very passive.

He immediately tried to inflict his own pollution on Batman, more pollution, and as long as he could control him, he would be able to merge Batman and the puppet controlled by the Anti-Monitor into one, becoming the complete Dragon of Barbatos, thus filling the position and releasing Barbatos.

In this way, Barbatos will be able to intervene in that destructive timeline, and even by erasing that destructive timeline, he can lay more foreshadowing for Barbatos to rule the main universe in the current timeline and push the future in that direction as much as possible.

then……

The pollution of Barbatos hit the golden wills of many heroes and caused a bloody disaster.

"Batman swallowed all those heroes?" Barbatos then realized that the current Dark Multiverse Batman was simply a walking immune system.

Not only did he trick the heroes who acted as immune systems, but he also connected his own minds with them. Don't even mention whether Barbatos has the ability to forcibly crush the will of these heroes. Even if he can, doing so would be tantamount to going against the entire multiverse, which has already been weakened by Parallax Demon Hal and Superboy-Prime. If Barbatos kills the last bit of immune cells...

Damn, when did I, Barbatos, become the savior of the multiverse?
Even though Barbatos thought so, he really couldn't do it. He had reason and plans, and he couldn't just do it regardless of the consequences like Hal and Superman did.

"What do you want, Batman?"

When Barbatos saw Batman's completely dinosaur-like face with a grin from ear to ear, he knew that something was wrong.

"I want you to give up the authority over the Dragon of Barbatos. This authority originally belonged to you, but now you already have a better one."

"That's impossible. I would rather let the multiverse be destroyed."

Chen Tao's proposal was immediately rejected by Barbatos. Chen Tao's meaning was very simple. He asked Barbatos to give up the direct control over the personality of [Barbatos Dragon] and transform this personality back to the [Dark Multiverse Dragon] of the World Forger period. He openly told Barbatos that he wanted to steal this godhood and become a god with complete free will.

This is absolutely unbearable for Barbatos.

Doesn't he know how he got to the top?

He was originally the Dragon of the Dark Multiverse, and then he turned against the World Forger.

If he gives up control of this status, then Batman, who has become the dragon of the dark multiverse, can also retaliate against him. Doesn't this mean that Cao Wei first usurped the Han Dynasty and was then usurped by Sima, and he handed his life into the hands of others? This discussion can collapse from the beginning.

"I will never allow such a thing to happen, so you'd better give up this idea as soon as possible." Barbatos said, "The status of the Barbatos Dragon can never be changed, but I can allow you to merge with the Anti-Monitor temporarily and synthesize a complete status. Then I need you to travel through space and come to the World Crucible to take my place here, so that I can rectify the broken timeline in the future. You are a hero, and you must have a spirit of self-sacrifice."

"I'm the villain."

"..."

"Barbatos, I will never allow myself to lose my free will and become your pawn. You must give me a chance to escape your control, otherwise everything I do will be meaningless!"

"I object!"

The Anti-Monitor's voice interrupted, almost exploding with anger: "Barbatos, you dog, our previous deal was..."

Then his voice was instantly cut off by Barbatos: "Now you are my dog!"

The Anti-Monitor wanted to curse, but then his voice disappeared in the connection between Chen Tao and Barbatos.

"I can give you full control of the body you merged with the Anti-Monitor. When you transform into the Dragon of Barbatos and take my place at the Forge of the World, I will leave there to suppress the destruction of future timelines."

Barbatos said: "Parallax and Superboy-Prime are indeed very strong, but they are not the characters who were supposed to appear in the current timeline. I have the ability to deal with them as long as I don't confront them head-on.

Then the multiverse will be saved and the timeline will be repaired. I allow you to abandon the status of the Dragon of Barbatos and return to the positive matter universe with a portion of the antimatter energy of the Anti-Monitor and the heroes you swallowed. At that time, I was suppressing the future timeline and was powerless to stop it. "

"How dare you use my power as a favor?" The Anti-Monitor's power interrupted again: "You dirty, little, cowardly dog—"

His voice was cut off again. In the real world, the Anti-Monitor was controlling the puppet and trying his best to escape the three-way fight between Parallax Demon Hal and Superboy-Prime. He rushed towards Chen Tao who was squatting and watching the fight.

"I'll kill you!"

"This deal makes perfect sense. Make your decision, Batman."

Barbatos said: "I have already made the biggest concession. If you still don't know what's good for you..."

"I agree."

Barbatos was relieved. In fact, he still had an advantage. In the process of sorting out the future timeline, it could make his invasion and rule easier, and even almost certain to win.

Chen Tao also felt relieved. You see, Barbatos proposed a solution himself, and he believed in his idea.

First propose a condition that Barbatos will never accept, and then let the other party make a condition himself - this method may be crude, but fortunately Barbatos has no time to care about this now.

The Anti-Monitor also felt relieved - what the hell was he relieved about? He was about to explode with rage.

Everyone present got what they wanted, except for him, the Anti-Monitor, who was the only loser. He invested too much, not only selling his body, but also selling his brothers, and investing so much energy!

He rushed towards Batman desperately, but then he found that he could not move. Barbatos interfered with his actions. He took the initiative to become Barbatos' dog. Barbatos' influence on him was much deeper than that on Batman.

Then he saw Batman lying behind him.

"No, damn it!"

The Anti-Monitor's dragon-like bullet head turned and looked at Chen Tao: "I will remember you, I will..."

Then, as Chen Tao stood up, the two of them merged into one, like two pieces of melted wax mixing and melting into a new shape.

"very good."

Barbatos said.

He felt he had some control over Batman, but he gave it up. He kept his word, and Batman saw it.

"Open the portal to the Forge of Worlds. You will surely know what to do."

Chen Tao nodded, then he flapped his wings and intentionally or unintentionally began to fly towards Superboy-Prime and Parallax Hal who were confronting each other not far away.

"Yes, speed up."

Barbatos said, "The portal is open!"

As a huge golden portal lights up, traveling through the infinite universe, the World Crucible is right behind it.

Barbatos saw the Batman approaching, closer, and closer.

Then he suddenly turned 180 degrees and slapped Parallax Demon Hal and Superboy-Prime, who were still fighting, into the portal.

The roar of their fierce fight instantly rang out in the World Crucible. Barbatos opened his mouth in confusion when he saw the two gods appear in his home.

"what?"

Then he heard Batman's words.

"Come on, Lord Barbatos, save the world!!!"

(End of this chapter)