mousepad-d2 Chapter 672 The Laughing Bat: I will not be part of their plan now.
Chapter 672 The Laughing Bat: I will not be part of their plan now.
Chapter 672 The Laughing Bat: Am I not part of their plan now?
Barbatos breathed a sigh of relief.
He finally escaped back to the melting pot of the world, returned to his old lair, and regained his sense of security.
The Bat of Laughter finally realized something was wrong.
At dawn, the eerie lamp raised its head in confusion.
By this time, he was no longer as vicious as before.
He was utterly defeated. When it comes to dealing with teammates, the Batman Who Laughs is even more capable than the main universe's Batman.
In the "Dark Night Metal" incident, when the Red Death was cleansed of his evil Bruce personality by the pure energy of the positive matter universe, his body was completely controlled by Barry Allen of the Red Death universe, which made him rebel against the Dark Knights in a real sense. However, he died instantly due to the Batman Who Laughs's scheme, and did not even live for four storyboards.
The Laughing Bat has prepared countermeasures for each of his teammates to ensure they are completely under his control.
Even though Batman: Dragon allowed the first Lantern's attack to invade his brain, these arrangements still worked successfully.
Barbatos endowed the Bat of Laughter with the energy that naturally allows it to be given to others. The Bat of Laughter injected Barbatos' dark matter cosmic energy into the Dawn Lantern, but at the same time, it added something else to this energy.
When the Dawn Lantern tried to attack the Laughing Bat, the dark matter cosmic energy he had acquired caused his entire body to rebel. The Laughing Bat had more than a dozen ways to slaughter his teammates in various ways, but he chose the only one that used Barbatos energy.
He needs to demonstrate his strength and ability, but at the same time, he needs Barbatos to attribute his ability to defeat the Dawn Lantern to the help of his energy.
The Batman Who Laughs had flawless control over this mindset, but Barbatos was thinking completely differently. This dark multiverse dragon was preoccupied with the Dawn Lantern and didn't even give the Batman Who Laughs a chance to boast or show off his eloquence before forcibly silencing him and throwing him back into his cage.
If Papetua, the mother of the multiverse who was still trapped at this point, had also had the same awareness during the Death Metal era to shut up the maniac's nonsense, then perhaps there wouldn't have been so many problems later on.
The Laughing Bat was speechless as Barbatos flicked his wrist and locked him back into his cage.
All his previous speculations about Barbatos's mindset were completely overturned, and he realized that the other party must have completely changed his way of thinking for some reason.
Although the Batman Who Laughs had other plans, this incident did indeed slow down his chances of escaping Barbatos's prison and made his original plans even more difficult to carry out.
And all of this is simply because...
"Is all of this part of Batman: Dragon Plan?"
The Laughing Bat stopped laughing. He curled up and hid in the iron cage that Barbatos had repaired with a flick of his wrist. He looked at Barbatos in the distance, who was fussing over the Dawn Lamp, like a resentful woman in a cold palace watching the emperor stroll arm in arm with his new lover.
He mentally went over the entire Batman: Dragon plan, and the more he thought about it, the more unbelievable and inconceivable it seemed.
How could someone outside of infinite space and time have foreseen his entire plan to regain Barbatos's trust using the Dawn Lantern, and then turned the tables on him, causing him to fall into such a predicament?
How could the timing and the event be so perfectly timed?
Unless it's all a coincidence, which is impossible.
Kuangxiao shook his head. He himself was a master of planning, and in their world, coincidences never happened.
It was all planned. If what happened today was just a fluke by Batman, the Laughing Batman, he would have devoured this iron cage on the spot!
The Batman Who Laughs silently reviewed the situation in his mind. In fact, when he recruited the Red Death and the Destroyer, he had already noticed the abnormality in them. However, he never expected that Batman Dragon could directly control the bodies of those Batmen in parallel universes who were being controlled. This lack of information allowed Batman to be fully aware of his actions, thus successfully predicting his reaction and putting him back in the cage.
But it doesn't matter, all of this is part of the Batman Who Laughs's plan.
It may sound ridiculous to still be repeating this phrase in his current predicament, but for the Laughing Man, his plan is not linear, but network-like.
Although his current plan has been thwarted by Batman Dragon, more of his plans are still in progress and will soon be successful.
The failure of one plan cannot affect the overall situation of the Batman Laughing's eventual escape and reappointment by Barbatos; at most, it can only delay his escape.
Being outmaneuvered by Batman Dragon once won't be enough to defeat the Batman Who Laughs. He will soon launch a new Plan B that he has prepared in advance to get Barbatos to release him from his cage.
Even in the current situation, the Batman Who Laughs was not incapable of influencing the Dawn Lantern and getting it to speak on his behalf to persuade Barbatos to release him, but he ultimately did not do so.
It's a small matter to suffer a loss of face and be helped by the Dawn Lantern, but if Batman Dragon adds something to the Dawn Lantern's consciousness, then things will get really interesting.
The Batman Who Laughs hadn't forgotten how Batman Dragon had deliberately connected it to the consciousness of the Dawn Lantern, then used it to lure the first Lantern into attacking him and causing him to suffer a great loss.
So this time he decided to use Plan B, which had absolutely nothing to do with the Dawn Lantern, and thus...
Wait, that's not right.
As the Bat of Laughter pondered this point, he couldn't help but begin to doubt himself again.
Damn it, is it possible that he's not going to find the Dawn Lantern right now, and that's also part of Batman Dragon's plan?
Oh no, this really is the Batman Dragon Paradox. The Batman Who Laughs shook his head, erasing this absurd, infinitely nested idea from his mind.
He curled up again, silently waiting for his chance. Don't rush, don't rush.
Not far away, Barbatos's voice echoed in the ears of the Laughing Bat.
"You are fully capable of leading the Dark Knights, Dawn's Lantern. I'm certain you're the one I've been searching for..."
"Your lights-out program..."
The laughing bat remained expressionless.
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When the Emperor Joker plunged the blade into the back of the first Lantern, both the first Lantern and Chen Tao were taken aback.
Chen Tao never expected that the Emperor Joker would attack the First Lantern Man for such a ridiculous reason as protecting himself, and coincidentally, the First Lantern Man didn't expect it either.
The Joker's actions perfectly illustrated why the actions of a madman are unpredictable. Didn't he want to hurt Batman? Didn't he want to cause Batman pain? And weren't the actions of the first Lantern Knight exactly the same?
But at a crucial moment, he stabbed the first Lantern in the back without any reason, or if you had to find a reason, it would be the so-called "Batman hit the first Lantern".
But wasn't it you, Emperor Clown, who ordered the other side to fight?
The Emperor Joker was the initiator of this alliance; the other side's shifts in thinking completely defy any logical reasoning.
The first Lantern had just suffered psychological trauma in the process of trying to implant fear, and then suddenly he was backstabbed by the Emperor Joker.
He was both shocked and furious, and turned to shout at the Emperor Clown:
"Are you crazy?"
The Joker has indeed gone mad, but that statement still sounds like a strong enough deterrent.
"Are you insane, Joker?" The first Lantern heard the voice of the Anti-Monitor Dragon, a voice filled with astonishment.
Great, it seems most people in the world are normal after all. The first Lantern realized that this was entirely the Emperor Joker's personal madness, and it seemed that he had no connection with his teammates at all.
Even so, the Emperor Joker's entanglement prevented him from doing anything to Batman Dragon. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Tao quickly broke through space and escaped the battlefield.
What a joke! Even Barbatos ran away, what's he doing staying behind? Taking on five opponents by himself?
Chen Tao never forgot his purpose: he needed to drag Reverse Flash's universe back onto the right track, like a stranded ship, and then bring it to the Dark Multiverse fortress he had built, forcibly attaching it to the fortress like a chained ship.
As for the other objective stemming from the threat posed by the Black Death Emperor, that was already a problem for Chen Tao to solve.
It wasn't because the miniature version of the spirit of existence had already been implanted in Parallax Morhal's chest; the main reason was that when the Black Death Emperor chose William Hand as his host for his arrival in reality, the darkest night in Chen Tao's universe crumbled on its own.
The Emperor Joker's current attack on Genie E. is indeed a good opportunity. Barbatos has also run away in advance, so Chen Tao doesn't need to worry that Barbatos will be captured and devoured by the Emperor Joker and his gang once he leaves.
[Warning: You can only synchronize Dawn Ghost Lamps at most...]
Amidst the rambling of the Alfred Protocol, Chen Tao continued to amplify the darkness created by the lights-out program, misleading the Black Death Emperor and Brainiac while quickly leaving the battlefield.
He tore through space and disappeared.
Meanwhile, the original Lantern, who remained in place, also saw it: "Damn it, you guys have to stop Batman Dragon!"
As he said this, he turned his head and saw the anti-monitor dragon approaching him.
He gave the order directly to the other man: "You have to stop this crazed buffoon and prevent his schizophrenia from ruining our plan. Black Death Brainiac, we must stop Batman Dragon's escape now, while he's breaking through the air..."
Before he could finish speaking, the Anti-Monitor Dragon's claws suddenly tore half of his body apart.
The first Lantern turned his head, looking at the other person in surprise, then turned his head back and saw the Black Death Emperor looking around, while Brainiac appeared in the void...
This was the first time Brainiac had shown his full body to everyone.
He stared intently at the first Lantern, and then the first Lantern felt the Anti-Monitor Dragon behind him suddenly coil up and bind his entire body.
In an instant, it was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over Batman's head. He finally realized that the Emperor Joker's attack on him was not a spur-of-the-moment rebellion, but a premeditated plan in which the Anti-Monitor Dragon and Brainiac were both involved. Their real goal was not Batman, but to use Batman Dragon to weaken themselves...
In this way, they can ultimately achieve their goal!
But the first Lantern Knight wasn't without his trump cards.
"Where are my troops?" he roared.
But no one responded to him.
Hidden in an alternate dimension outside the battlefield, a large number of members of the Third Legion are besieging a man in black robes.
The Time Trapped One swung his fist, tearing a member of the Third Legion to pieces with a single punch. As he was torn apart, the bodies of the other members were also gradually reduced to ashes.
Immediately afterwards, some kind of spacetime distortion occurred, and all the injuries were healed, but every member of the Third Legion looked dejected.
They are the original Lanterns from the future timeline who have returned to the present timeline. They were all injured in the final battle and are far less powerful than the current original Lanterns.
Sometimes, a slight difference in strength can result in being slaughtered as mere cannon fodder. If these guys weren't so adept at manipulating timelines, the Time Trapped could create a grandfather paradox by killing just one of them, thus erasing all other Third Legion members who came after that person.
However, they used some kind of time-rebooting ability to keep them all unharmed, but this protection became increasingly difficult as the Time Trapped attacked.
The members of the Third Army were in disarray, resisting while asking each other questions.
"This is impossible. Why don't I have any memories of this? I..."
"Me neither! In my memory, the Time Trapped should still be trapped in the time flow. How did this guy get back?"
"Never mind how he got back, he's the Supreme Superman from the evil timeline, what should we do?"
"Is anyone here? Has anyone dealt with this guy before?"
"I know how to synthesize Kryptonite from the Primordial Earth, but... but the Time Trapped shouldn't have come down at this time, I haven't created it yet!"
"I've said it before, we should absorb all the emotional energy from Earth 1..."
"Stop talking nonsense. Why didn't anyone warn us?"
Where are our new members?
The members of the Third Legion questioned each other, roaring with resentment.
But no one could respond to them.
After receiving no response from anyone, the first Lantern finally realized it.
He suddenly broke free from the restraints of the Anti-Monitor Dragon, then clutched his wound and pointed at the three enemies who had just been allies who had surrounded him.
"You...you all..." he said, "Why did you capture me?"
"For a fun stage performance, Mr. Stage Props," the Emperor Clown said calmly, "everyone unanimously chose you as the prop for the show."
Are you happy?
(End of this chapter)