Chapter 1457: The Bird and the Return (2)
About two hours ago, a well-fed Jason and Tim planned to go to the East End and do their homework with the friends Jason had known before, mainly because they didn't want to run into Thomas, who might come back, and then be added more damn etiquette lessons.
They got dressed, and when they were about to go out, they met Bruce, who came back with Aisha, Bruce was rarely not wearing a formal suit, but wearing a long-sleeved cashmere sweater and a double-breasted coat, and the Aisha in his arms was a complete copy of him, but with an extra scarf, his face was hot and red, and he was cute like a doll.
Bruce wrapped the scarves of each of them tightly and told them that they had to come back to bed by nine o'clock, and then sent them out.
After Jason and Tim left, Bruce took Aisha to change clothes, Aisha went to kindergarten for a year, and her self-care skills were already very strong, and she was able to do things like changing clothes by herself, which also made Bruce dismiss the idea of hiring an older woman to be her nanny, and planned to bring it herself.
But this does not mean that Aisha has become a good girl, and within a few minutes of her entering the cloakroom, Bruce found that she was gnawing on the wardrobe drawer, which is not accurate, and most of the wardrobe drawer has already entered her stomach.
Bruce rushed in to subdue her, so he didn't hear the manor door, and Alfred hadn't returned to see Jason and Tim off, nor did he pay attention to the situation outside the door.
In front of the gate of Wayne Manor, a golden lightning bolt came from afar, and the dazzling golden light exploded in a short moment, and the figures of several people were revealed.
"The Flash! You can't be on Batman's side this time, we can't run away when he's in trouble......" Before the tone of condemnation was completely over, the environment completely changed, the voice stopped abruptly, and several figures were stunned in place.
Barry Allen, who was wearing the Flash uniform, spread his hands and said, "You should know that neither I nor you can disobey Batman's orders, he always has a way to achieve his goal, and it has nothing to do with our will." "Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Gordon in the main universe, was previously paralyzed by the Joker's shooting, but after Flashpoint, she regained her mobility through surgery and returned as a Batgirl.
Standing behind her, also looking at Barry with disapproving gaze is Nightwing, that is, Dick of the Main Universe, Batman's first Robin, who once left Brughhaven and became an independent hero, but later returned to the Bat family.
"Barry, what are you crazy about? If we run away from an enemy, what's the point of us going back to Batman? I warn you, send us back quickly! Jason, who was wearing a red hood, stepped forward and pushed Barry's shoulder, Barry looked at him helplessly and said, "I said everything, it's not for me to decide, believe it or not, I'll send you back, and another Flash will send you over again in the next second." ”
"You're terrible!" Another slightly immature voice came from the back, and a boy who was obviously much younger than them came up impatiently and said, "You listen to Batman for everything, don't you have your own father?" Barry's face immediately sank, and Tim, the red Robin next to him, who was wearing a red and green Robin uniform, took the boy's arm and said, "Damian, don't talk like that." Barry took a deep breath and did not look at them again, but walked straight forward, pushed the gate of Wayne Manor in front of him, and said, "I advise you to be more restrained." ”
"Cut, was I scared?" Damian raised his voice and said, "'Batman's Good Baby', how about this new title?" Barry pushed the door open, and several people followed him towards Wayne Manor, looking at everything here with disgruntled and critical eyes, and Red Hood spoke, "I bet the bat cave in this universe must not be very good, and I am afraid that even the collection room will not be filled." Nightwing didn't speak, but he silently observed everything here, and Red Robin Tim began to deduce from all the details about what had happened here.
"I really don't know what Batman thinks." Barbara opened her mouth and said, "Our universe is not safe, is this universe better?" Why should we run away from something we can't escape? ”
"I'll say it one last time, pay attention to the language." Barry walked up the steps and knocked on the main entrance to the manor building. Red Robin Tim frowned slightly and said, "What are you afraid of?" ”
"A lot."
"For example?" Barry turned to look at them and said, "I advise you not to talk like that, because none of the Batmen of this world would dare to do that." ”
With a "squeak", the door opened, and suddenly, all the members of the bat family focused their eyes on the person who opened the door, and then they were all stunned.
This Bruce Wayne is too young. Red Hood froze in place for a few seconds, then turned to look at Nightwing and poked him with his elbow, saying, "I bet he's about your age." ”
"He's not going to just graduate from college, is he?" Red Robin asked suspiciously, he opened his mouth and closed it again, but as if he couldn't hold it back, he still said, "So Batman was like this when he was young?" It looks, it looks ......" Red Robin snorted for a long time, and couldn't describe what the style was, but in short, it was completely different from the Batman they remembered.
It's not just a matter of age, the Bruce Wayne in front of him is not as strong as the Batman they knew, he is thinner, the blue eyes in his eye sockets are now more transparent, and his eyes are not so mysterious and unpredictable.
He wasn't like the Batman they knew, who always had a full Batsuit whenever and wherever he appeared.
Bruce wore a long-sleeved turtleneck sweater and dark brown wide-legged pants, black half-length hair tied back at the back of his head, a few messy strands of hair falling in front of his forehead, a drawer with suspicious tooth marks in one hand, and a little girl who looked like him in the other.
It's hard to say that this image is life-like, except that his face is a young version of Bruce Wayne, he looks more like a desperate housewife who has been fighting with her rebellious son, lazy husband, difficult neighbors, and even the mother of a classmate who has been competing with her son for half her life.
But the impact of this image is really enough, and he makes the members of the Bat family who first arrived here completely forget Batman's heinous deeds of throwing them here completely regardless of their opinions, and instead have two questions swirling in their minds -
"This is Batman?" 、
"How did this Batman get mixed up like this?"
"Hey, Bruce, long time no see, remember me?" Barry stepped forward with a smile.
Bruce put Aisha down and took her hand to prevent her from rushing out to bite, and he looked at Barry, as if waiting for him to give an explanation.
Barry took out a letter from his bosom, handed it to Bruce, and said, "Your professor asked me to bring it to you, and he was in a hurry to attend an academic conference in Washington, D.C., and the letter contained all the explanations. Bruce opened the letter, and Barry said, "But I still have to explain to you in advance, the Batman of our world wants to send the members of the Bat family to stay for a while, and he was supposed to entrust it to Professor Schiller, but he has been busy lately, so he asked me to send them to you." Bruce read Schiller's letter as he glanced up at the members of the Bat family who were staring at him in unison.
After a while, he folded the letter back and stuffed it back into the envelope, led Aisha back a few steps, opened the door a little wider, and said, "Please come in." "Not a single one moved.
Bruce stepped back a little more, making more space, and Barbara looked into Bruce's eyes as if she was incredible, and asked, "You just let us in?" What about security equipment? Where are you going to get them out of? ”
"There is no security equipment." Bruce picked up Aisha again and said, "The letter has already told you about your basic situation, come in." "A few people, you look at me, I look at you, no one dares to be the first to take a step.
Thankfully, Barry became the first warrior to eat crabs, and he walked through the door - no strange scanning lights, no trap controls falling from the sky, no electric shockers, and no cameras that suddenly turned.
He walked up to Bruce safely and steadily, and reached out to tease Aisha, Red Hood swallowed his saliva, looked left and right, and said, "Okay, I'll come first, you guys look at Damian." With that, as if he had mustered up the courage to die, he was the first to step up the steps, stretched out one leg and carefully crossed the threshold of the gate.
As soon as he looked up, he saw Bruce looking at him with a neurotic look. Red Hood had no time to pay attention to his gaze, he stared intently at the foot he had landed on the ground, feeling if he had landed on the ground, and after feeling the solid touch of the floor, he quickly lifted the other foot and stepped forward.
Three seconds later, the man was still standing, and the red hood let out a sigh,
With a "whoosh", he scurried to the open space next to the sofa and beckoned to the others. Nightwing grabbed Damian's wrist with Barbara and Red Robin Tim on both wings, and when they both reached the place where Red Hood was, they found that Bruce's gaze had changed to sympathy for the mentally retarded.
"Listen, this Batman isn't where we want to be." Nightwing was the first to speak, "So no matter what, you can't find a place to lock us up, and if you do, you have to lock us up, you can't separate us, because we have to take care of Damian, and he's still a child." Red Robin Tim didn't seem to approve of his way of negotiating, so he stepped forward and said.
"We're not impersonated by aliens, we're not transformed by Clay Face or the Nameless Lady, we're not robotic anigans created by Luthor, we're not under the mind control of Hugo or the Mad Hatter, we're not threatened by the Joker, we're not enchanted, we're not doubles for the League of Assassins scouring the globe – we're just a family of bats from another universe." As soon as Bruce opened his mouth to speak, Red Robin Tim immediately said, "I know you want us to get out of your Gotham, but it's obviously not what we want to get in, so I think we can make a deal." Bruce looked at him and asked, "What deal?" ”
"Since the situation is urgent, then we can ......"
"Stop, what's the urgency now?"
"The situation is not urgent, how can you agree that Batman from another universe will send us to your Gotham and let us enter Wayne Manor?"
"He's bluffing!" Caught by Nightwing, Damien said in a sharp tone, "Is there a time when Gotham is not urgent?" Red Robin Tim then said to himself, "We can merge with the Teen Titans of your world and hand over the leadership to the leader of your Teen Titans here, and we can also wear surveillance devices, but you can't lock us up or force us to act." ”
"I don't agree." Bruce said.
"Why?" Red Robin Tim regretted asking this question, because he knew that the answer he would hear must be
"Because I'm Batman". And what he heard was.
"Because I don't know what a Teenage Titan is."