stonecrandall Chapter 207 The Red Death Descends! The Turtle Tied to the Batmobile
Chapter 207 The Red Death Descends! The Turtle Tied to the Batmobile
Chapter 207 The Red Death Descends! The Turtle Man Tied to the Batmobile (Please continue reading, sob sob)
"Help, Batman, my leg is broken, ahhhhh—"
Chen Tao rushed to the side of the Flash, who was clutching his leg and screaming in pain. The Flash thought Batman was there to help him up, so he reached out his hand.
"Aaaaaah, Batman! My legs, ahaaaah—"
The Turtle Man slammed his cudgel into Jason's calf from behind, a blow far more powerful than the one the Joker had delivered to Jason's ribs years ago.
The Flash's shinbone and flesh were shattered together, exposing the white bone fragments to the air. Broken bones and tendons, blood was flowing freely.
The intense pain brought tears to Barry's eyes. He stretched out his hand, waiting for his teammates to help him up.
But his good teammate Batman decisively ignored the other's screams. He pushed the Flash away, and just as he propped himself up, with tears in his eyes waiting for help, he fell to the ground with a thud, aggravating his wounds once again. If it weren't for his broken leg, he would have almost jumped up from the ground in pain.
"??? Weren't you here to help me up??? Batman? Huh?"
Chen Tao had no time to pay attention to the Flash's astonishment. The most important thing now was to touch the blood dripping from the Flash before Groud and the Turtle Man could react.
He grabbed the blood and watched helplessly as it seeped into his body.
hum!
hum!
hum!
Chen Tao held his head in his hands.
"Things are getting worse! Midtown is about to fall apart!"
He heard Barry's voice... no, this Barry's voice was more mature, more desperate; he was wailing in despair:
"We shouldn't fight each other. Time is running out. You're the smartest person I know... This matter is more important than either of us. We must act now... It's not too late!"
"As always, you're too late, Flash."
Chen Tao heard himself say that.
He looked down and saw that he was wearing Captain Cold's glasses, holding the Weather Wand in his right hand and the Freeze Gun in his left, the muzzle of which was pointed directly at the Flash in front of him.
The Flash?
Chen Tao said:
"It's time to hand over the Speed Force to someone else."
"No, I refuse!" he heard the Flash, enveloped in the Speed Force, reply. "Batman, I told you, I won't give you the Speed Force! I've also lost someone I love, but..."
[WARNING! WARNING! The Nightmare Batman "Red Death" is far too powerful and will severely damage Batman's morality and completely destroy his sanity!]
The mechanical voice of the Alfred Protocol came from the horizon, and Chen Tao felt himself being pulled along, involuntarily uttering the next line:
"Then you should understand that if you're unwilling to help me, I'll force you to comply!"
[WARNING! WARNING! Batman's danger level detected: E]
The scene changes, and Chen Tao sees himself driving the Batmobile with The Flash strapped to the front.
"No! You can't obtain the Speed Force this way! You can't force it! It will tear us both apart—"
Hmm... those words sound somewhat familiar, as if he had heard them before.
Chen Tao thought to himself.
It seems that no matter which parallel universe the Flash is in, the things he says when he finds himself strapped to the Batmobile are pretty much the same.
However, even though he had realized that these were the memories of the Red Death, Chen Tao still couldn't change anything. He could only watch helplessly as the Red Death, whom he had possessed, carried the Flash into the Speed Force storm amidst the Flash's desperate howls.
[At his current level, Batman is incapable of withstanding the contamination from a Batman of SS-level danger!]
The scene has changed again.
Chen Tao saw a sky shrouded in a storm of speed force before him.
The world is collapsing, destroyed by the rampage of the Speed Force. Lightning pierces through a building in the distance, but the falling debris freezes in mid-air before accelerating its descent. The balance of time and the Speed Force is completely out of control.
In Chen Tao's mind, he heard the voice of The Flash, Barry, screaming at the top of his lungs.
"Bruce! It's Barry! Stay away from him, don't listen..."
While Batman is often jokingly referred to as the fusion material used to create Nightmare Batman by fusing with other Justice League members, Red Death, the Nightmare Batman, is undoubtedly special—
Because he is the only one of the seven Batmen who truly merged with the Flash, and the craftsman who fused these two materials was the Speed Force.
[Activating mandatory protocol protection strategy: overcharge protection]
Chen Tao saw himself turn around and face the laughing bat.
The feeling was strange. He was seeing the other person from a subjective perspective, like a first-person view in a game, but at the same time, a third-person perspective was also presented to him. The two perspectives existed simultaneously in a state that was hard to describe in words, making him both detached and immersed in witnessing everything before him.
"Who are you... what are you?"
"Hehehe... Someone who looks just like you."
Chen Tao heard the voice of the laughing bat, deep, mysterious, and full of treacherous seduction.
"I lost my world simply because it was born in this lowly place."
"The lower class?"
Chen Tao heard himself say that.
[Batman #52, the protocol will automatically protect your sanity from damage. At your current danger level, you can only synchronize with "Red Death" for a maximum of 0.1283 seconds!]
Chen Tao felt that familiar pulling sensation again, just like he did with the Synchronous Torturer.
It's as if an invisible membrane separates me from the world, or like a fish swimming in water being caught in a net.
But strangely, unlike the last time when he was in a daze, Chen Tao felt more clear-headed, as if he were having a lucid dream.
He ignored the feeling of being dragged along, and he had a vague feeling that he could actually do this.
He continued to listen to the Bat of Laughter in an indescribable manner, a mix of subjective and objective observation. Chen Tao could even see the wrinkles on the other man's upturned lips.
"Our world was never meant to last long; it was destined to perish. This is the cruel law of nature here."
Chen Tao tried to manipulate "himself," that is, the Red Death Demon, to speak, but his mouth was as if it were glued shut, and he couldn't utter a single witty remark.
"You can feel it yourself, can't you? Right now. Your time is almost up, but what if I told you that in a place far beyond our reach, there is another world, destined to exist?"
Chen Tao realized that he had finally regained the right to speak. He wanted to try saying something strange like, "What you said is all right, but hehehehe!" or snorting. Actually, he didn't dare to do anything too outrageous, afraid that it might cause some unknown consequences. His main purpose was to try to see if he could control the Red Death Demon's body.
However, he still uncontrollably uttered the lines that Red Death Demon should have said:
Tell me in detail.
"My master Barbatos sent me to find some powerful heroes..."
Chen Tao felt the pulling force behind him suddenly increase, and he knew it was time for him to leave.
"...Let them go and conquer that world, and turn it into a home for all of us dark orphans."
"What do you say? Did we make a deal?"
"make a deal."
"Hahaha! Welcome! Welcome! My new friend, welcome to the Dark Knights!"
Chen Tao heard the laughing bat's laughter. The laughter was so infectious, and the chaotic madness it contained resonated deeply with Chen Tao, making it all too familiar. He almost instinctively laughed along.
"Haha, haha, ahahahaha!"
The laughter of the Laughing Bat abruptly stopped. Chen Tao stared blankly at the Red Death Demon, who was clutching his stomach and laughing so hard he couldn't straighten up.
"Why are you like the Destroyer? Don't try to laugh like me, I'm warning you—no, it's not the Flash spying on me, who is it! Who's watching me? This is no illusion—"
And that was the last thing Chen Tao heard.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Chen Tao opened his eyes, and in front of him lay Flash, groaning and moaning.
The fall aggravated his leg injury, and the excessive blood loss in a short period of time caused his face to turn pale under his mask.
Chen Tao blinked.
"Oh dear, who did this to my good buddy, The Flash?"
He declared indignantly, "Watch me avenge you!"
"No, it's...it's no longer necessary." The Flash's voice trembled slightly, and Chen Tao realized that the other's pale face was not entirely due to blood loss.
Chen Tao turned around and saw the Turtle Man, who had just broken the Flash's leg with a crowbar, now lying on the ground, his limbs twisted and covered in blood. Beside him lay a crowbar, twisted beyond recognition; the thick iron bar was now bent into a grotesque shape.
Uh, no, this degree of distortion looks like it was caused by hitting someone hard. In short, this stick is now twisted like a pretzel and is no longer usable.
Chen Tao looked at the turtle man and then noticed that the man's face was covered with wrinkles and age spots.
Although the turtle man always had white hair, Chen Tao clearly remembered that his face had always looked like that of a middle-aged man, not an old man.
"What just happened?" Chen Tao asked Barry in a low voice.
Despite the pain in his leg, Flash whispered to Chen Tao:
"Batman, you just suddenly went berserk and transformed into a crimson armored man with the Speed Force and a bat symbol on his chest."
Barry said, "The turtle man tried to attack you. He used static force to slow down your time, and then he was almost crushed to the ground as if he were carrying a load of tens of tons of iron."
"But your speed only slowed down a little. The turtle-man blocked you in a hurry, and then a lot of the Speed Force was absorbed by you, turning from gold into a deep red bat."
"Then you attacked the turtle man many times, and the Stasis Field couldn't hold up and shattered. You rushed up and broke every bone in the turtle man's body with a crowbar, and then summoned more crimson bats. These bats seem to be the embodiment of the Speed Force? No matter how you did it, you changed his appearance to what it is now."
"You were going to attack Groud, but you turned back before you could even get out of there," the Flash said in a low voice. "Your crowbar attacks when you're berserk are a little scary, bro."
He looked at the turtle-man, whose body was riddled with fractures and who lay on the ground like a human pig, groaning incessantly.
The opponent was beaten so badly, yet he was still alive. The Flash felt a pang of sympathy: "That's too brutal—though it's inappropriate to say that, and it's almost like I'm having a bout of saintly sentimentality, but I have to say, I'm almost starting to feel sorry for Turtle Man."
Chen Tao was speechless.
He turned around and saw the golden-haired gorilla Grodd standing in the same "gorilla scared" pose. Judging from his position, it seemed that he had run halfway when he suddenly saw Chen Tao transform into the Red Death and started to go berserk. So he slammed on the brakes and then watched helplessly as Batman beat up the turtle man.
"You can no longer use that power." The gorilla Groud remained standing there in a fearful posture, and said in a deep voice, "Reverse-Flash told me that your transformations have a time limit."
As soon as Gerd uttered those words, he immediately realized he was in trouble. Saying "Reverse Lightning told me" was not only impossible to glean any valuable information from the other person's expression, but it also completely exposed his fear and apprehension. It was utterly idiotic.
"you guess."
And what happened next was exactly what Grodd had expected: Batman didn't reveal any useful information to him at all, which left Grodd frozen in place.
Should they attack? If the opponent could transform back into that red monster, such an attack would undoubtedly come at a terrible cost. Right now, Grud was still absorbing the speed boost provided by the lightning rod. The gorilla knew he would grow stronger over time, so it seemed unnecessary for him to...
The gorilla hesitated for a long time, but ultimately didn't dare to go forward. He watched as Batman walked up to the turtle-man and injected him with some kind of drug—was it adrenaline or some other emergency treatment? Was Batman treating the turtle-man?
The gorilla Grodd is not a beast who knows nothing about human society. On the contrary, he is very clear about the ridiculous no-kill rule of superheroes in human society.
For example, Superman, who has now disappeared, and Batman, who has been in Gotham for so many years, have never killed a single criminal; at most, they've broken their legs.
So Batman is now just...
"Awoooo ...
The turtle-man, whose bones were all broken, jumped up from the ground. His head was throbbing with blood, his temples were throbbing, his bones were connected by the robot, and his muscles were brutally repaired by the power of the Crimson of All Beings. He was in so much pain that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
The pain of the nanorobots being forced into his bone marrow pushed him to the limits of modern medicine, although the robots also played a significant role in supporting his bones, enabling him to perform such an impossible action.
Taking advantage of the gorilla Grud's hesitation to approach, Chen Tao picked up the turtle-man, who had barely regained some mobility, from the ground, and then the next moment...
The turtle-man immediately felt something hard pressing against his buttocks.
He glanced to the side and saw that Batman had put his feet together, transforming into the Batmobile once again.
Turtle Man: ?
"What do you want to do? Waaaaah—"
Then, in the next second, countless tiny mechanical cables extended from the front of the vehicle, binding the turtle man tightly.
"What the hell!" The Flash, sitting next to him, stared wide-eyed.
Then the Flash saw several mechanical cables coiling towards him, and Barry, terrified, disregarded his broken leg and tried to escape using both his hands and feet.
"No! Batman, please don't tie me to the Batmobile anymore! Help! Someone save me, Gorilla Groud!"
The gorilla Grud stared blankly as his enemy began to beg for help, his face utterly dazed.
"Stop embarrassing yourself, come back here." Chen Tao, now in the Batmobile, was speechless. He used the mechanical cable to pull the Flash back, who hadn't climbed far. Barry looked like he was being dragged into an abyss, frantically grabbing at the ground with his hands: "Mom!"
He turned to Chen Tao and pleaded, "Please let me go, I really can't go any further!"
"I'm just putting you in the back seat to prevent you from getting killed by Gerud while I'm focusing on static force. Why are you making such a fuss?"
Speechless, Chen Tao tossed him into the back seat of the car, then transformed his head into that of the Joker, ready to confront the mental onslaught of the gorilla Grodd at any moment.
"Ready?" He gave the turtle-man a crazy grin, which the turtle-man found more terrifying than anything else in the world.
"Ready? Let's go!"
As the Turtle-Man screamed in agony, Batman's car immediately started moving again.
(End of this chapter)