aircannonsinc Chapter 402 Batman: I think it's so much fun! Hahahaha
Chapter 402 Batman: I think it's so much fun! Hahahaha
Chapter 402 Batman: I think it's so much fun! Hahahaha! (5000-word long chapter)
Not far away, Deathstorm once again willingly became the vessel for capturing Parallax. Bane seized the incessantly screaming Deathstorm and used it like a chamber pot, pouring Parallax's body into it like slurry.
If Deathstorm had not accepted the power of the Black Corruption, and if he had not been transformed by Luther, he might have been able to put up some resistance against Bane. But at this moment, Deathstorm, who was almost completely immersed in the power of the Black Corruption, treated Bane like a grandson meeting his ancestor, letting the other party do as he pleased.
His body was riddled with holes, and the immense yellow power of fear nearly crushed his bones. The intense pain rendered him practically unable to speak coherently.
The operation to capture Parallax was not supposed to be easy, but Parallax had already been bound by Mongo and Sinestro using the methods of Carona and the First Lantern Cult respectively, and had no time to resist.
Meanwhile, Sinestro, who was standing next to him, had also lost his blue light and returned to his yellow light. He seemed to have tried to stop Bane from sucking the Parallax back into the Deathstorm Matrix, but for some reason, he didn't.
For Seneca, a parallax trapped in a container is better than a parallax running around outside, even if the container is a living person—or rather, a living skeleton.
"Isn't that interesting, Huo Rong?"
Just then, the first Lantern Hears Batman's voice.
"The interrelationship between all things is so fascinating."
"What did you do, Batman?"
"The first Lantern Knight asked."
He wanted to say something more, but then the frantic voice rang in his ears again, and he felt the host he was controlling with the ring struggling desperately, resisting him with all his might.
This is illogical.
"Pfft, that's the most interesting part... I didn't do anything."
The first Lantern briefly glanced at the ghost of Carona fleeing outwards. At that moment, the blue ghost coalesced into Carona's face, then crashed into some kind of transparent barrier in outer space not far away, scattering like a bag full of vegetables falling from the third floor.
He then solidified his physical form once more.
"Ah, didn't I mention that to you?" The first Lantern heard Batman say, "From Brainiac's Sphere. In the past, when our cosmic collectors set their sights on a new city, they would use this Sphere to first excavate it from its home planet, like putting it into a giant glass bottle. Then they would use the Shrinking Ray to shrink it down and add it to their collection. Of course, that's all..."
Chen Tao said, "It's impossible to stop Caronna. Even if it's only a portion of his ghostly power."
As expected, following Batman's voice, even though he didn't have any light rings on his hands, Calona's ghost still managed to summon green will energy out of thin air using some method.
He controlled the green will energy to materialize a combination of a drill and a pile driver, attempting to make a hole in the transparent barrier in front of him, but the next second, he found a figure standing behind him.
Blood tears, burning like flames, gushed from Atositas's eyes.
Carona turned to look at the other person.
Despite being in ghost form, he still took a deep breath, then resumed his indifferent expression and turned to look at Atositas.
"Sector 666?"
"That's right."
silence.
"Nothing you'd like to say?"
"I wept for the destruction of your sector, until my last tear fell. I had to resort to this drastic measure to make my fellow human beings realize that emotionless beings cannot protect the universe. But no matter how many times, I will apologize for it."
"I'm sorry," Cardona said. "I..."
"Aa ...
Then Calona let out a chilling scream as Atos seized his ghost and tore him into millions of pieces. But because of the immortal soul unique to the Guardians of the Universe, this part of Calona's ghostly energy would not be so easily destroyed.
The next moment, the red light energy helped Carona's ghostly power reshape its form, but Athocitas did so simply because...
Tear it into pieces again.
"Carona knows he can't escape," Chen Tao said.
He told Genie A.R.: "However, Karona's true form is imprisoned in a cosmic egg. Therefore, destroying these Karona images made of ghostly energy will only severely damage Karona, not truly kill him."
"So, since that's the case, there's no need to put on a tearful, dying expression."
Chen Tao said, "But what surprised me was that... he didn't voluntarily give up this part of his ghostly energy to avoid the mental pain inflicted on him by Atositas. Instead, he maintained the connection with this lump of ghostly energy, letting Atositas vent his anger."
At this moment, Batman simply stopped what he was doing and, as if having a casual conversation, asked the first Genie, "What do you think is the reason for this?"
Before the first Lantern Knight could answer, Chen Tao answered himself:
"Athocitas is venting his anger, while Calona is venting his guilt. He's punishing himself this way, finding psychological compensation for it. That way, next time, he can justify his actions in causing the massacre in Sector 666 because he's already 'paid the price.' Similarly, the next time he faces Athocitas..."
Chen Tao smiled.
"He can kill without any remorse because he has already 'evened things over' with Atochitas."
For some unknown reason, the first Genie didn't do anything at this time, and Sinestro, who was not far away, also remained strangely silent.
The two of them stood there quietly with Chen Tao, watching helplessly as the blob of blue ghostly power was finally exhausted as Atositas relentlessly tore it apart. Even when he tried to piece it back together with red light energy, he could no longer maintain its form, and it eventually slowly dissipated into the universe.
Together they watched as Atochitas roared at the boundless starry sky, a roar filled with unspeakable sorrow, like a homeless, lonely old wolf howling at the moon.
"How did your talk with Sinestro go?"
The first Lantern Man suddenly heard Batman ask a question.
"Sinestro, have you agreed to your terms and decided to help you escape my grasp?"
The first Lantern wore a somewhat grim expression as Batman said, "You whispered with him for so long, and you still couldn't convince Sinestro to help you?"
He realized that Batman had always known about how he had secretly communicated with Sinestro using green will energy while he was distracting Calona during his escape, but he didn't care.
"I have no conflict with you, Batman," said the first Lantern in a deep voice. "I am fundamentally different from villains like Calona or cosmic dictators like Mongo."
"I come from a parallel universe. My mother and I are both scientists. We discovered the emotional spectrum, but then..."
The first Genie recounted his origin story, concluding with a very sincere statement to Chen Tao: "I'm different from dangerous characters like Carona. Releasing him would only bring chaos to the universe, but me?"
He said, "My only grudge was against the Guardians of the Universe, but you've killed them all. I have no one left to avenge myself, so this feud is over. I just need to figure out how to forge the Time Warp again, and then I'll leave your universe and return to the multiverse to continue my search for a way to reverse time and save my home. We'll go our separate ways, Batman."
The face of the first-generation Lantern, composed of green will energy, showed a somewhat sorrowful expression: "I pose no threat to you, Batman."
"I...I just want to go home."
With a thud, his green head was tapped by a toy miniature Batman. He turned to see the ventriloquist holding a miniature Bat in one hand, and another voice echoed in his mind through the ring: "Do not call the Bat God by his name! Call him the great Master Batman!"
"..."
The First Lamp took a deep breath. He had already realized that the coward he possessed was a complete madman, a person with a split personality. The Power Ring was an early creation of his, with too many problems and loopholes to exploit, but this was not the time to consider those things.
"You audacity!" the baby bat in the ventriloquist's hand cursed, "You maggot!"
Then he kept muttering things like "rotten thing," "you dog, do you think you're worthy?" and "Kneel down!" The first Genie ignored him.
He looked at Batman.
"I can help you; I can give you far more than you can imagine."
He said, "No one in this universe understands the emotional spectrum better than me, not even... Carona. I was the first person to impart the emotional spectrum to the Guardians of the Universe."
"I can also give you the Great Heart, you know? It was created by me and the Guardians of the Universe..."
As the first Lantern Knight stated his conditions, Chen Tao shook his head slightly inwardly.
He had read the comics, and there was a reason why he wasn't going to let the first Genie go.
First, the first Green Lantern pilot won't let the Green Lantern Corps off so easily. Although the Guardians of the Universe are destroyed, the Green Lantern Corps still exists, and his resentment is so intense that it's almost impossible for him not to take action against them.
Secondly, even if he gave up, he successfully created the time-travel lamp and planned to leave this universe to continue searching for a solution in other universes...
He will eventually return to this universe.
Because there's one thing even the first Genie didn't know at this time:
About the destruction of his hometown.
The first Genie still doesn't know how his home planet was destroyed; he only knows that Earth-15 was destroyed by a pulse of energy. Therefore, he wants to change the past and prevent the destruction of Earth-15.
But how exactly do we stop it?
He had no clue.
But Chen Tao had read the comics, so he knew.
The person who destroyed Earth 15 is a villain named "Time Trapped".
In other words, if the first Genie wants to prevent the destruction of his hometown, he must find a way to kill the Time Trapped beforehand, so that he can achieve his goal.
So, who exactly is this "trapped person"?
This answer may be somewhat sad...
Because the "Time Trapped One" is the Supreme Little Superman, the Supreme Little Superman on a certain future timeline.
Okay, if we disregard the immense power of Superman Supreme, this situation alone isn't entirely hopeless for Genie #1. However, another serious problem is:
The existence of the character "Time Trapped" has long since become a bug in the timeline of the DC universe, a person who does not exist.
In the storyline of Final Crisis: Legion of the Three Realms, the future elderly Superman has become the ruler sitting at the end of time, but he is not satisfied with this and plans to extend his rule into the past, invading that glorious era, the age of heroes.
Therefore, he used the young Superman Supreme, intending to have him destroy the 31st-century superhero organization "Legion of Superheroes".
In conclusion, after a series of battles and stories, Superman the Youngster finally discovers that the Time Trapped is his future self, a discovery that enrages him.
He refused to believe that his future self had become such an old, twisted, disgusting, and evil schemer. He believed that even if he killed and set fires and destroyed the universe as easily as farting, he would still be a kind and good boy. His ultimate goal was to build a better world, and at that time, his sins would be erased, instead of becoming a villain like the Time Trapped.
So the Supreme Superman gave Time Trapped a punch with all his might. This punch directly caused a time paradox, because at that moment, the Supreme Superman refused his fate of becoming Time Trapped, and Time Trapped disappeared from the timeline!
But that's bad. The Time Trapped caused the destruction of Earth-15, the home planet of the first Green Lantern, which is why he traveled through the multiverse and ultimately led to the establishment of the Green Lantern Corps.
If the Time Trapped were gone, then the first Green Lantern would have stayed in his hometown until he died, and the Green Lantern Corps would never have been born.
If the Green Lantern Corps doesn't exist, then the 31st-century superhero army will simply disappear, the story of Final Crisis: Legion of the Three Realms won't happen, and if this event doesn't occur, Superman the Youngster won't have given Time Traveler a big slap, and then things will come full circle, the timeline won't match, and it won't be able to continue.
What should we do?
No matter what we did, we couldn't fix this bug. Eventually, the timeline was driven to desperation: since we couldn't fix it, we might as well let it continue to run. Anyway, as long as the first Lantern Man's family is gone, the Green Lantern Corps will appear. So I'll just use the Time History Book to preserve the history of the Time Trapped destroying Earth 15 years ago, and then let Superman the Supreme decide not to become a Time Trapped one day. Wouldn't that explain everything?
So this is the current outcome. Everything else has been resolved by the timeline, the timeline has stabilized, and the DC story can continue. Only the world where the first Genie's hometown was blown up has been created.
So for Genie #1, the Time Trapped who blew up his home has become a non-existent person. If you really want to say, it's the future, or some random timeline where the Superman Supreme has done what the Time Trapped was supposed to do, and then suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "I don't want to be a Time Trapped anymore," and then left. The main character is a Superman Supreme in Schrödinger's state.
Prevent?
Block the air.
You have no idea which timeline's Superman destroyed his hometown, so how can you stop it?
(Note: Actually, the one who destroyed Earth-15 was Superman Supreme during the Final Crisis Countdown. After the major event "War of the Sinestro Legion", he was defeated by the Guardians of the Universe through self-destruction and exiled into the infinite multiverse. He accidentally ended up on Earth-15 and then destroyed an Earth in a fit of anger.)
Therefore, everything that the first Genie pursued was destined to be a tragedy.
He was chasing after a non-existent pseudo-person, desperately searching for someone who had long been erased from the timeline, like searching for the remnants of pencil marks on a piece of paper that had been erased by an eraser.
Especially since these remnants have long been covered by new pencil notes, it's even more impossible for the first Lantern to find them.
But even so...
However, Huo Rong still has the opportunity to create a new paradox:
For example, he could find a way to prevent the Green Lantern Corps from being born. Without the Green Lantern Corps, there would be no superhero army. Without the superhero army, Superman the Youngster would not attack the Time Trapped, and the Time Trapped would continue to exist.
Then he might be able to kill the trapped people and save his homeland.
But without the Green Lantern Corps, the timeline would become a complete mess.
This is not an issue that the first Lantern Man would care about, so the conflict between the first Lantern Man and the Green Lantern Corps is fundamentally irreconcilable.
Let him return to the multiverse to continue searching for a solution; sooner or later he'll discover these things and then come back to cause trouble for the Green Lantern Corps.
This behavior is essentially like letting a tiger return to the mountains, so for Chen Tao, it's safer for the first Lantern Knight to stay quietly in the Shadow Cabinet and be a shut-in.
"Not only can I provide you with the emotional spectrum, but I can also help you maintain order in this universe, as long as..."
The first Lantern Knight was still stating his conditions, but Chen Tao interrupted him with a complicated expression.
He genuinely sympathized with the first Lantern Knight's plight, but...
He could never stand by and watch the first Lantern destroy the Green Lantern Corps, and then the entire timeline.
and so……
"Why? Why not?"
The first Lantern Knight was silent for a moment. He looked at Chen Tao's expression under the mask and understood what he meant.
He asked in a deep voice, "I need a reason. This is clearly a win-win situation for both of us. Why refuse?"
Chen Tao looked at him.
He just stared at it, and then thought about it for a long time.
Ultimately, he made a decision.
"It's fun," he said to Genie #1, "because I just want to say no to self-righteous people."
He said to the first Genie, who was trembling with anger from those two sentences, "This is why I refuse you."
Rather than hating the Green Lantern Corps, hating the entire world, hating the entire timeline, you'd be better off hating me, Calamity...
Compared to understanding everything, desperately trying to reverse the past, only to be defeated by everyone, tormented by life's tragedies until you are emaciated and emaciated, you...
It's better to be a little oblivious and know nothing at all.
This is for you, for me, and for all the innocent people who may be affected by the catastrophe you have unleashed—
Both should be better.
(End of this chapter)