Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Old Lady and the Wasteland Flashpoint
With the nowhere to release the complaint in his heart, Kewen and his party sat in the Settron chariot, through the window, and the screen display of AI Batman in the car, learning about this steampunk-style Gotham. Through the intelligence gathering of AI Batman, Kewen and the others only learned that a nuclear explosion that originated two years ago covered the entire earth, and after taking away most of the lives, it was a nuclear winter that did not see the light of day.
But how did this nuclear explosion happen, what happened at the time, there is no information at all, that nuclear explosion destroyed too much information, and now the detailed information is still preserved, it is these human cities that were re-established after the nuclear explosion, and the steampunk Gotham in front of me is one of them, not to mention that there is a bat logo on it.
As the Zetron moves slowly through this steampunk-inspired Gotham, the people who survived the nuclear bombing are in their own rooms, pointing at the tech-savvy Zetron through their windows. They are the people who survived the explosion, although the explosion took most of their lives, but there are still a lot of materials remaining, in the past, there were more monks and less porridge, but now they are the opposite, and they live in a normal city, and they can't see despair for the future for the time being.
And little Jonathan and Helena, who had eased up, were also lying on the car window, looking at this steampunk-style city through the window, with curiosity on their faces, this is the first time they have seen Gotham, with the gray sky now, everything has become so weird.
"It's such a strange experience, obviously I was in Gotham before, but now I don't know it again." Seeing the somewhat silent atmosphere in the car, Ke Wen was the first to speak, breaking the embarrassment and said.
"One is a bustling city, the other is a doomsday city, of course it's different, but we entered Gotham with such fanfare, what about Batman at this point in time, where is he?" Damian replied with a bit of a dullness, looking at the bat mark from the bat searchlight in the gray sky, and began to think about what the Batman in this world would be like, after all, he had just seen the Batman of the Injustice universe, and he also wanted to know what he would be like in this world.
But soon, he knew, and just as the Settron turned into an alley, AI Batman began to remind him in the car: "Attention, someone's coming." ”
"yes, we saw that too." In response to AI Batman's words, he saw a black shadow in the distance approaching quickly, and a black elongated sports car sped over. It is said that it is a sports car because of its appearance, but the shell is loaded with too many rough things, thickened steel plates, and a sharp jet hook gun in front of the front of the car.
Not to mention the baffles and ramming corners that are mounted on the outer layer of the sports car, all of which are spiked, and driving this car is like driving a roller. The Batmobile with a rough style stopped in front of the Setron, and Kewen and the others also consciously got out of the car, and Batman had no choice at the beginning, so let's see what they can do in this world.
The headlights turned on, and the person driving this rough bat chariot walked out of the car, with a tall figure, a stronger body, two sharp corners extending from the shoulders, plus red eyes, and the bat mark on the chest with a touch of blood red, this shape, with this backlight, Damien and Helena next to him subconsciously took out their weapons, Helena immediately protected the degraded little Jonathan behind her, looking like an old hen protecting her calf.
And Ke Wen glanced at it, and stood in front of these three little guys for the first time, looking at the guy in front of him who looked more like a bat freak than Batman, this look was really a little different from the Batman he had seen.
In this tense atmosphere of confrontation, the first thing Batman from this point in time did when he saw Curvin was not to ask, but to take out a wine jug from his belt, unscrew it, and pour himself a sip of wine, before saying, "You're in the wrong place, stranger." ”
"Father?" Looking at the Batman in front of them, Damian and Helena were stunned and couldn't help but scream.
"Father?" The Batman of this timeline is also confused.
"Father?" AI Batman also appeared, and when he saw this plausible Batman, the stored data was concluded for the first time, and he also screamed.
"Father?" Ke Wen, who has completely become a melon-eating crowd, was also stunned.
For a while, the scene was a little chaotic, everyone looked at each other, trying to find out the answer from each other's faces. And Ke Wen, who was the first to come back to his senses, corresponded to the title of the entire bat family, and suddenly understood what was going on, looking at the bat family of three generations, not to mention how wonderful it was.
And the second reaction is the Batman of this timeline, or better remembered by another name, the old lady, from the flashpoint event of the new 52 reboot, the world where Bruce Wayne died and his father, Thomas Wayne, became Batman. Flashpoint Batman has already had the experience of meeting a visitor from another timeline, and he has also understood that he has encountered another encounter, and the person he meets this time is still the person he cares about the most.
"Bruce? Is that you? Son! Looking at the projected AI Batman, the old lady's voice was a little excited, and Damian and Helena fell into a circle of confusion again, why is everyone calling Dad.
As an AI, this intelligent Batman who inherited everything from the memory of Bruce Wayne of the Injustice Universe should not have emotions, but the power of phantom technology is here, it can even make people unable to distinguish whether they are a life or a piece of programmed AI, AI Batman's picture shook for a while, revealing Bruce Wayne's face.
"It's me, father, I'm Bruce."
"Oh my God, didn't Barry make it? No, what's going on with your body. The old lady also noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the son in front of him.
"Well, I think it's a bit complicated, Mr. Thomas, and besides, you can't just focus on your son, but your grandson and granddaughter, and well, your grandson's good friend." Ke Wen, who originally wanted to introduce little Jonathan, held back for a long time, but he didn't hold back a rough idea, he can't say that this kid may kidnap your granddaughter in the future, and the old lady will directly take out a gun and shoot little Jonathan in the head now, after all, the current little Jonathan has successfully become a rookie.
"And who are you?"
"I'm just an unlicensed driver running around with a bunch of bear kids." I complained a little, but it gave everyone who was a little confused a room to relax, looking at the son in front of him who seemed to have only a projection, and the pair of children who were said to be his grandchildren by this young man, and the little Jonathan who looked at him timidly behind his granddaughter, and muttered for a while, before the old lady said: "Follow me." ”
With that, he got into his rough style Batmobile and began to lead the way, while Curwen also got into the Settron again, followed the old lady's car, and galloped through the city, stopping at the abandoned Wayne Manor, and passing through the mechanism to the underground Bat Cave. There are no high-tech, crazy and cool cars like the bat caves of my own universe or the unjust universe, there are just a pile of books on the shelves, a simple workshop, an operating table, a display of wine, a mountain of guns and ammunition, a woman in a prison, a family photo of three people, and a big computer that is a little worn.
The old lady got out of the car and took off his hood, revealing his weather-beaten face, gray hair and a sexy chin full of stubble.
"Tell me, everything about you," the old lady, who was sitting there, who had wanted to pour a sip of wine into his mouth, glanced at Damian and the others, thought about it, put the wine down, and waited for Kewen to explain.
"You're so relieved to bring us in?" Ke Wen didn't explain it for the first time, but looked at this bat cave, which can be called an arsenal, and was a little surprised, there was only a part of the portrayal in the animated movie, and he thought that the old lady's bat cave was a place for himself to rest and do surgery, but he didn't expect that the roughness was a little rough, but it still fits the world style.
"Because I'm the only one here I'm qualified to talk to you, and the firepower here is enough to raze all of Gotham City, if you really want to do it."
This is the Batman you know, this character is in the same vein. sighed with emotion, Ke Wen also began to tell the old lady about what he and others had experienced, omitting the part of Dr. Manhattan, and blocking an explosion that was enough to destroy the Met, but he was thrown into the multiverse because of an accident, and then wandered to the injustice universe, and then mentioned a black technology chariot and an AI Batman in Naxi, and then on the way back to his own universe, there was an accident, the universe was right, ran at the wrong time, and came here.
And the old lady looked at the eyes of Damien, Helena and little Jonathan on the side, listened to Cowen's story, and after making sure that he was not lying, there was also a smile on his vicissitudes of life.
"It seems that Barry he succeeded,"
Nonsense, there is a reason why it is unsuccessful to kill the lightning sacrifice, your son now has two wives and an ambiguous one, both children and daughters, and three adopted sons, the DC who speaks is the darkest, and he is the best in the entire Justice League now! kept complaining in his heart that his world was not only restarted because of the flash point, but also because of the chaos of his big fluttering moth, the fate of some people was not as dark as before, but he couldn't say this kind of thing in front of the old lady.
"Kid, can you come and let me see you?" The old lady Thomas Wayne beckoned to Damian and Helena, although the two little ones had never seen Thomas, but the kind of family affection that was thicker than water could not deceive them, and without too much hesitation, they walked up to Thomas.
Looking at Damien's face similar to that of his son when he was a child, and Helena's eyes, Thomas was about to cry, this is the life he wants his son to be able to live, he doesn't mind the fact that he will return to death because of the Flash reboot, as long as his child can live the life he wants, this is his best gift as a parent.
"Since you told your story, then I'll tell you about our world, everything that happened in our timeline, it all started from the incident when the Flash went back in time to try to save his mother, the timeline changed, our world, I became Batman, my wife became the Joker, Bruce died, there was no Justice League, only the Paradise Island and the Atlanteans who kept conquering, and the despair of the end of the world.
The Flash, who realized that he had done something wrong, found me, regained his speed, and after a terrible fight, I killed a speedster named Albert Swan, so that the Flash could get enough speed, go back to the past, stop the Flash who tried to save his mother, put the world back on track, and ensure that your correct timeline is running, and our world, just like that. ”
Damian, who didn't know it, listened to the old lady Thomas tell all this, and couldn't help but be surprised, who would have thought that his universe would experience such a thing. On the contrary, Ke Wen frowned, he knew all this, basically the same as the original plot, but in the original plot, the old lady was seriously injured and was dying, but now the old lady is jumping around, drinking wine, driving cars, and can't see what is wrong at all.
"Are you wondering why our world hasn't been destroyed? Why hasn't this timeline been erased? Yes, young man. The old lady Thomas noticed Kewen's expression and asked directly.
"Almost, can you tell me?"
"Don't worry, young man, this is what I am going to say," the old lady touched Helena's hair, and said in a slow voice: "As you are curious, this timeline should have disappeared with Barry to set things right, but this is not the case, I was seriously injured in that battle, the kind that was about to die, and Captain Atom, who was captured by Atlantis, also started the procedure before Aquaman's death, and was completely detonated, a world-destroying nuclear explosion spread from the Atlantic Ocean to the world, we are like people..."
"Poof!" As the old lady was there to talk about the effects of the Captain Atom explosion, little Jonathan laughed out loud out at the same time.
"What are you laughing at?" Looking at little Jonathan, the old lady said with some displeasure.
"No, I just had a happy thought."
"What's the pleasure of?"
"We don't have Captain Atom in our universe."
As soon as Little Jonathan's words came out, Ke Wen also laughed, although he knew that it was very inappropriate, but Little Jonathan's death looked very much like himself.
"What are you laughing at?" The old lady also asked.
"I think of happy things too," Curvin said, smiling hard.
"What are you happy about?"
"Captain Atom of the Injustice Universe exploded into fireworks in the universe~"
Then, AI Batman and the hooded old lady unleashed DC's most terrible torture, Batman's Gaze ✖️2! In that wordless gaze, Curvin and little Jonathan were forced to crouch in a corner, across a table, peeking at the old lady and the AI Batman.
After shutting up Curvin and little Jonathan with his gaze, the old lady continued: "In that nuclear explosion that destroyed the world, everything became unimportant, the queen of the Amazon and the king of Atlantis died, and I deserved to die, but that person, the man Barry called Superman, I don't know why he did this, his body stood in the nuclear explosion, blocking part of the power of the nuclear explosion, and then I lost consciousness, and when I woke up again, I found that my injuries were healed, But the superman who blocked this part of the explosion and left the seeds of hope in this world is gone, I don't know if he is dead or not, but that area has become a forbidden area for life, no one can enter it, and the world, because of this nuclear explosion, was taken away half of his life, and then because of the nuclear winter, the radiation scattered around the world, took away half of the people again, until these two years, the radiation has been reduced to the point where it cannot be killed, this is stable, and I also use the equipment and technology on the dead steel bones, And those resources that I have saved, I have transformed Gotham into one of the survival bases of humanity today. ”
The story made Ke Wen a little confused, the plot has changed again, I didn't expect such an unfolding, and he also realized a problem at this time, how do he change the plot!