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Chapter 791 Foolish Owl: Damn it, someone's robbing us, where's the law?
Chapter 791 Foolish Owl: Damn it, someone's robbing us, where's the law?
In the history of the DC multiverse, the most famous theft was committed by Dr. Manhattan.
He stole ten years from the DC universe to observe the consequences of doing so, thus directly creating the New 52 era, an act that led to a series of farcical consequences.
For example, before the New 52, Batman was a mature hero who had been fighting for justice in Gotham for about 12 to 15 years before joining the Justice League.
This number varies slightly depending on the different cosmic restart periods, but it is generally no less than ten years.
However, Dr. Manhattan's ten-year theft directly led to the fact that Batman's original history of more than ten years was compressed into two to five years in the New 52 era.
At least by the time of "New 52 Batman: Immortal Saga," when Falcone returned for revenge, Batman had only been in power for 5 years, while "New 52 Justice League: Origins," the assembly of the New 52 Justice League, had already taken place.
So you're telling me that Batman ruined four Robins, one Batgirl, one Batgirl, and one Batwing in just two or three years?
What is Robin in Batman?
Is it a consumable item that will break down in less than a year?
Oh, right, during this time, Batman also experienced Year Zero, the Laughing Contest, crushing Falcone, and incidentally had a one-night stand with Talia, created Damian, and a whole host of other events. Is he really that busy?
Furthermore, during this period, the Third Robin even had time to create the Teen Titans?
Does this timeline match up?
The minor timeline bugs were minor issues, but what was truly outrageous was that the superhero army, the Justice Society of America, and many others were wiped out by him, including Superman's parents. Doctor Manhattan orchestrated a car accident, causing Superman's parents in the main universe to crash their car into a tree, resulting in their deaths.
A bunch of people disappeared. It can be said that before the Doomsday Bell event caused Dr. Manhattan to leave the DC multiverse and return the 10 years, the entire multiverse was in a semi-crippled state from the New 52 until the end of the Rebirth period.
Various bizarre timeline bugs and historical errors kept popping up, like a large piece of flesh was missing and then barely sewn back together; problems were inevitable.
Of course, not everyone in the main universe is a fool. Many people are aware of Dr. Manhattan's existence, but they have all been silenced by Dr. Manhattan.
For example, Pandora, one of the three original sins and a mage on the magic side, discovered the existence of Dr. Manhattan during the Three-Body War in the New 52 and was then directly eliminated by Dr. Manhattan.
Following the Trisolaran War, the Earth-3 Crime Syndicate invaded the main universe, and evil was eternal. The Night Owl of Earth-3 sat on the Möbius Chair, and then he and the new god Metron were reduced to dust by Dr. Manhattan.
Wally, who once served as the Flash, knew of Doctor Manhattan's existence, and then he was completely erased...
In short, the timeline has just continued like this. So what if we get into a fight with Dr. Manhattan? Let's just make do.
But as it turns out...
Some things you can do, others can do too.
Once you're the first to do it, it's practically inevitable that a second person will follow suit.
The Batman Who Laughs' ability to steal timelines is actually the result of a series of coincidences. It's hard to say whether these were all part of the Batman Who Laughs' plan, but it would certainly claim so.
Whether or not the Batman Who Laughs had thought of it beforehand, he would always claim that he had, in order to intimidate the enemy and demoralize them.
The arrival of Batman: Dragon on Earth-15 further tore apart the already crippled multiverse. As things have progressed, the Void Hand, which was originally confined outside the DC multiverse by an artifact called the Miracle Machine, finally has the opportunity to intervene in the internal affairs of the DC multiverse, and even briefly cooperates with Perpetua.
These are all consequences of the DC multiverse being too weak, but the Laughing One doesn't care about any of that.
The Bat Who Laughs is not a clown. A clown has no specific purpose, but the Bat Who Laughs does.
From beginning to end, the purpose of the maniac laugh has always been clear: he never works for anyone else, he only works for himself.
When Dr. Manhattan realized with surprise what the Batman Who Laughs was up to, his first thought was to check if the Batman had noticed him. The conclusion was that the Batman hadn't; he had simply been thinking the same thing Dr. Manhattan had once considered.
The timeline of the main universe is like a tree branch. The original timeline is the trunk, and the branches are like the arrival of the UK, the apocalypse, and the Flashpoint. When the branches reach a certain point in time, this history will end.
For example, the ending of the British invasion is that Animal Man and Swamp Thing defeat Akane and restart the timeline.
The Flashpoint timeline ends with Thomas Wayne stabbing Reverse-Flash to death, and the Flash, Barry, gaining enough speed to erase this timeline...
These branching paths are all very short, basically ending in the 21st century, unlike the normal timeline of the main universe, which extends all the way to the 33rd century and even further into the future.
Batman: The Dragon, Foolish Owl, and The Bat Who Laughs—replacing the main universe's timeline with these three branching timelines is like wrapping the soft branches of a tree around the trunk, obscuring the main trunk.
The punch that Superman the Supreme threw should have knocked away the branches blocking the main axis, sending them flying back to their original positions and revealing the main universe's timeline again.
But with the Batman Who Laughs intervening, these three timelines...
It actually broke off directly from the main universe's timeline!
Click!
In an instant, Chen Tao's expression changed drastically. The timeline seemed to crack, and he felt as if his whole being was about to split open.
"...To rebuild a perfect new world! We must..."
The Supreme Superman, who had just declared victory, suddenly froze.
For a moment, even the Supreme Little Superman panicked, like a monkey who had accidentally broken a glass:
"Wait, no, I definitely didn't..."
On the timeline of the main universe.
"No!"
In the cosmic tuning fork, the foolish owl clutched his head and yelled.
In an instant, the afterimages of Joker and Night Owl flickered behind him, a mistake of history that was repeatedly rewriting his story.
The Foolish Owl, trembling violently, lunged at the control panel of his spaceship. His attire was constantly being rewritten by history, sometimes transforming into the classic, cool blue Night Owl suit, sometimes into a combination of the Joker's comical and flamboyant outfit and the Night Owl, and sometimes back into a pure Joker costume...
Night Owl lunged into the storage room at the deepest part of the spaceship, opened it with trembling hands, but before he could even step inside, Joker fell to the ground with a thud. The history of Joker Owl's leg being cut off on a certain timeline was once again written onto Foolish Owl.
In a short period of time, he quickly switched identities four times.
Then, the next second, he was able to stand up again. He hurriedly stumbled into the secret room, grabbed the sea-blue can that was lifted from the floor, and put it into the alternate dimension opened up by the future technology in the all-powerful belt.
In an instant, the rewriting of history on all the fools and owls came to a halt.
The N52 Superman essence given by Dr. Manhattan helped Foolish Owl stabilize his own history; even simple contact was enough to help Foolish Owl stop having epileptic seizures as before.
History has been fractured!
The Foolish Owl got up from the ground, his head buzzing. No wonder he felt that the Bat of Laughter had been a little less forceful when he was fighting him for the Cosmic Tuning Fork. It turned out that Batman was waiting for him here!
The trunk and branches of the tree have been completely severed. It can be said that at this moment, the reality of the cosmic tuning fork has become the only remaining connection between the two—the last bit of bark that has not yet been completely severed.
The Foolish Owl's eyes were almost red. He had already received a message from Batman informing him that Superman Supreme would be coming soon to continue their plan in the main universe to use Barbatos' Dark Night Metal to create Crisis Energy and repair the universe. But the Batman Who Laughs pulled this stunt, making his next plan even more difficult.
However, after thinking for a while, Yu Xiao calmed down again.
Fortunately, he still has his spaceship, and he controls the killing machine. This identity has not yet been revealed to Batman Dragon, so he still has a trump card.
Things haven't gotten to the worst yet...
The Foolish Owl blinked.
here……
Well, this was originally his spaceship's lair. He's been operating the Killing Machine in another spaceship, so no one should know the location of this one, not even the Bats Laughing. Foolish Owl is confident of that.
But now, a portal has appeared right in front of him in a very open and blatant way.
With a whoosh, all the weapons in the entire secret chamber activated in the next moment. Foolish Owl tumbled and leaped backward, performing a classic bat-like somersault in mid-air before landing behind a bunker that had risen out of thin air. The two enemies who jumped out of the portal immediately suffered a devastating attack from countless weapons.
"My God... hurry up and check! A bullet can only withstand you for 10 seconds at most!"
The screams of the Golden Vanguard were giving the Time Master a headache. Amidst a barrage of varied attacks, the Time Master was sweating profusely.
"I know! Stop yelling, but even though Foolish Owl gave us the method to control his ship before, it will take me time to wrest control of the ship from him now. Time, do you understand?"
The Foolish Owl didn't understand what the Golden Vanguard was talking about, nor did he understand who the Time Master was.
The Time Master said that the Foolish Owl had taught him how to control the spaceship, but they traveled through time in reverse. For the Foolish Owl, the "before" mentioned by the Time Master was the future he had not yet experienced.
Golden Vanguard used some kind of timeline deflection to transform Foolish Owl's attack. Foolish Owl's weapons, prepared for the secret chamber, were incredibly powerful, enough to give even Batman Dragon himself a run for his money. They even had anti-magic spells specifically designed to counter five-dimensional magic. However, when they hit the timeline shield erected by Golden Vanguard's AI assistant bullets, they were completely ineffective.
The Time Master dismantled the time-jump device on their wrecked spaceship and temporarily attached it to the armor of the Golden Vanguard. Although the power was too low to allow them to travel through time, it was enough to redirect all of the Foolish Owl's attacks to other locations in the timeline.
It could be 10 minutes later, or it could be 10 years later; the timing is random and even the Golden Vanguard can't control it.
Maybe some unlucky soul will appear at the right time and run straight into these attacks, but it shouldn't be that coincidental, right?
The Foolish Owl was getting a little anxious. He realized that his attack seemed to have no effect. He activated his authority again, and a death ray that he had modified specifically to deal with the World Forgers was fired by a transmitter instantly assembled by nanobots, hitting the Golden Vanguard squarely in the face.
The Foolish Owl had studied the state of the World Forger and knew that he controlled the body of Parallax Demon Hal, while also kidnapping the Black Death Emperor, who also controlled Hal's body.
Therefore, this attack was a pure mix of Black Lantern energy and the power of the Emotional Spectrum, designed to activate the Black Death Emperor and Parallax Morhal, causing them to rebel against the World Builders.
It must be said that great minds think alike. Although Batman Dragon and Foolish Owl had never communicated, their approaches to solving the problem were surprisingly similar. However, the attack was quickly deflected by the time engine and ended up somewhere in the timeline. At this moment when the timeline was broken, only God knows where the attack truly went.
The foolish owl remained silent, only drawing his weapon repeatedly.
He's now biting into the Golden Vanguard's first kill, chipping a mouthful of teeth. What can he do besides keep pulling out his trump cards to try and counterattack?
An attack of antimatter cosmic energy struck the Golden Vanguard once again.
This is specifically designed for the Anti-Monitor. As long as the Anti-Monitor appears downstream of the Hypertime Stream, it will inevitably shake the history of the Infinite Earth Crisis, which will also affect the stability of the Hypertime Stream, and the Hypertime Stream will inevitably backfire on it.
The Anti-Monitor had mitigated this backlash to the extreme through the authorization of the Anti-Monitor Dragon and Barbatos, as well as the Monitor's laissez-faire attitude. However, the Foolish Owl did the opposite, giving the Anti-Monitor a free dose of antimatter cosmic energy.
This energy isn't actually that powerful, but in the context of hypertime travel, it's basically translated as, "Hey, look, there's a timeline bug here with shimmering antimatter cosmic energy! Come fix it!!!"
This is a special attack against the Anti-Monitor. Foolish Owl is desperate now, so he's using this attack on the Golden Vanguard as well. As expected, it will be completely useless.
The attack was teleported away by time deflection again, and it's unknown when it will reappear or which unlucky person it will land on.
"Is it done yet? My legs are about to give way!" Golden Vanguard shouted as all sorts of colorful attacks exploded in front of him. Foolish Owl jumped up and down in a panic, and then he finally heard the voice of the Time Master.
"I'm all better."
The next second, a large number of nanobots climbed onto Yu Xiao's body, ensuring his safety. Then, the entire spaceship disappeared under Yu Xiao's feet with a whoosh.
The Foolish Owl floated ten thousand meters above the main universe's metropolis in the timeline. Below him were all sorts of ordinary citizens whose lives were constantly being rewritten by history. They would become corpses one moment, Brother Eye mechanical insects the next, and then the air in the Flashpoint timeline the next.
The Foolish Owl floated alone in the air, looking like a fool. His spaceship, along with countless weapons, was all snatched away by the Golden Vanguard and the Time Master. Fortunately, the essence of Superman N and some of his belongings were still in his all-powerful belt, but everything else was taken by the two robbers.
A gust of wind blew by, and the foolish owl felt a chill run through his body.
He was trembling with anger.
More importantly, he had no idea who the two robbers were, nor did he have the time or energy to recover the losses.
Holy crap, this is robbery! Robbery!!!
What exactly is going on?
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(I've been so tired these past two days, I just collapsed into bed as soon as I got back. I got up at 10:00 to write this to make sure it's of good quality. I'm half an hour late, sorry sob.)
(End of this chapter)