"Hey, catch." Spider Man handed a wrench to the figure beside him. It was Batman with a chanical body. At this mont, the two of them were in the Batcave full of various chanical equipnt, repairing an old cha.
"Where was I?" chanical Batman pretended to recall, "Oh, back then I was about 16, not much older than you. Before I set out to travel the world, Alfred asked to visit the Caucasus Mountains..."
Spider Man listened to his story with Alfred while tightening a screw, then nodded and said, "That’s nice, I also want to travel the world. Unfortunately, I don’t have that much money or ti. Luckily, there’s Battleworld, I’ve already traveled through quite a few cities for free."
"Oh, where have you been?"
"The most visited place is Gotham," Spider Man said, "I even wrote a ’Gotham Travel Notes’ for Pri Universe’s Gotham. The book got quite popular, almost every Spider Man has read it. Honestly, I wrote it as a diary at first, didn’t expect it to be so well-received."
"Turns out you’re that renowned writer Spider Man." chanical Batman’s tone carried a hint of amusent, he said, "I heard from your companions before, you’re not only the first brave one to try but also provided a great manual for those who followed."
Spider Man scratched his head sheepishly and said, "It’s actually nothing, there are many later works better than mine. I know you’re encouraging , but don’t keep praising like this, I might get vain and arrogant."
"In fact, your literary talent might be your least noticeable talent," chanical Batman said, "I didn’t expect you could tinker with these chas. Did you study this major in college?"
"Ah, no. I learned it in Stark Group’s lab. You know, Iron Man has many chas like these, I like to study them when I’m free..."
Click. The power suddenly went out. Spider Man jolted awake.
"Don’t worry, it might be the lighting power that has a problem..."
"No, sothing’s coming!" Spider Man shouted with a raised voice, "150 feet! 80 feet! 30 feet! It’s here!!!"
At the last, Spider Man was almost screaming. Just as his voice fell, chanical Batman’s body suddenly shuddered.
Spider Man jumped nearly two ters high in place, almost hitting his head on the Batcave’s ceiling. After landing, he turned and looked around, quickly pulled a plug from the big machine beside him, tore it off, and connected the wire directly to chanical Batman’s tal body.
Sizz —!!!
Violent electric light illuminated the pitch-black Batcave. The massive current that passed through in an instant is the nesis of any chanical body. chanical Batman’s body directly short-circuited, stiffly fell to the ground.
Spider Man hurriedly ran to the cabinet nearby to find a backup device, hesitated for a bit, and did not directly connect it to the body. He thought for a mont, kept the backup device close to him, carried the fallen body out the main door of the Batcave, and directly tossed the body outside.
Then, with the backup device still with him, he returned to the Batcave, locked the door tightly, and all the way down to the safehouse. After entering the safehouse, he connected the backup device to a spare body.
A few minutes later, chanical Batman woke up again. He looked at Spider Man and said, "Is this the backup consciousness? What happened?"
"Sothing invaded the Batcave and directly took over your body," Spider Man said, "I sensed it, but it ca too quickly, I only had ti to short-circuit that body and throw it out of the Batcave, then activate your backup consciousness."
"You did great, boy." chanical Batman couldn’t help but praise, "He probably didn’t have enough ti to completely devour my original consciousness. Let’s go upstairs and see what’s going on."
"Be careful," Spider Man said, "he must have prepared for a long ti, he’s coming straight for you. Why don’t I go ahead and scout?"
"No, I must go up and see what he’s up to." chanical Batman left the safehouse and headed upstairs. Spider Man had no choice but to follow him.
Soon, chanical Batman pulled up the surveillance at the Batcave’s entrance. Just as the monitor opened, it caught the mont when the previous body swayed and stood up, then walked away like nothing happened.
"Oh my god," Spider Man couldn’t help but exclaim, "he directly took your body. What is he going to do?"
chanical Batman shook his head, indicating he didn’t know either. He said, "I need to go to Pri Universe for a eting soon, maybe I can inform the other Batn, they might have so ideas."
Spider Man nodded and said, "You should go to Pri Universe, heard there’s a Magical Defense Network there, so the opponent won’t be able to attack you. Don’t wait, go quickly."
chanical Batman didn’t linger, heading to Pri Universe at the fastest speed. He thought he arrived early enough; unexpectedly, when he reached Justice Hall, nearly all Batn had already gathered, enthusiastically discussing.
chanical Batman found Primary Universe Batman among the crowd, then said: "New information, Ultron suddenly went crazy, attacked , and seized one of my bodies."
Unexpectedly, Primary Universe Batman wasn’t surprised at all, looking at him said: "It appeared in your universe too?"
"What’s going on!" A sudden female voice appeared. chanical Batman and Primary Universe Batman turned simultaneously, saw Batwoman cursing and walking over, "Is Ultron insane?! Why did he go to activate those machines in Atlantis Ancient City?! He even stole a body of a Divine Power Puppet!"
Primary Universe Batman squinted his eyes. He certainly knew that before Atlantis sank, it was an ancient country with a splendid civilization, its technological level even reached space travel at one ti. Moreover, because of so divine power, they had puppet-like robots to assist them in work, as well as so specialized combat puppets, all piled up in the ruins of the Ancient City.
chanical Batman quickly walked over and said, "You were attacked over there too? Even in the water?"
"Water isn’t an all-powerful barrier," Batwoman said. "That cunning guy used a diversion, making us think he would directly attack the Atlantis Shield. Instead, he went to the ancient city to steal a puppet!"
"Did he succeed?"
"Sort of. Those puppets originally start with divine power, so theoretically, radio waves shouldn’t control them. But the downfall of Atlantis was so sudden, many puppets buried deep underground hadn’t had their cores removed, aning they still had power. This guy found a well-preserved puppet, made a breach in the Atlantis Shield, and then escaped."
"So you faced this situation too," said Lightning Batman, folding his arms. "In my universe, Ultron bribed the Puppet Master to create a Frankenstein-like body and even steeped in the Pool of Lazarus with the Assassin’s Union. Although his physical strength isn’t top-notch, he can’t be destroyed. I’ve scattered him several tis, and he reassembled every ti."
"In my universe too. He dug up an Ancient Titan Clan weapon from who knows where and gave himself an indestructible body. The latest Batman darts couldn’t penetrate its defense."
"In my universe, it’s even more outrageous. He directly stole a body studied by the Court of Owls, one person killed all those Talons. I chased him for ages and still couldn’t catch him."
"You’re better off than I am. In my universe, he stole Luther’s Anti-Superman Weapon, an incomplete Kryptonite Robot, and its body strength is beyond high..."
The Batn discussed amongst themselves. Primary Universe Batman hadn’t uncreased his brows, taking a deep breath, he said, "Sothing must have caused these changes. What exactly happened?"
Suddenly he glanced into the crowd, realizing a Batman seed to be missing among them. He opened the communication channel and ssaged Arkham Batman: "Have you arrived? What’s wrong?"
"Wait for a mont." Arkham Batman replied with just a brief sentence, but Primary Universe Batman sensed a intense killing intent from it.
At this mont, Doom and Stark each stood at a corner of the wall, fully ard Arkham Batman stood in the center of the room looking at the two of them.
"You’re saying, you used your most advanced technology and best materials to create a super invincible perfect biological weapon, and then let Ultron walk away with it."
"It’s not that, listen to ," Stark said. "In fact, we also created a perfect magical life form and got Ultron to help ignite it to completion. Now those two eloped together."
Arkham Batman threw a dart, it nearly grazed Stark’s scalp as it flew past. Doom quickly gave Stark a look and whispered, "Say less, you sound too much like a mad scientist."
"Like?!" Arkham Batman raised his voice.
"Ahem," Doom thought, "Our plan executed perfectly, the effects are quite good. We can just wait a while and see what happens."
"Wait a while? How much longer can the universe sustain?"
"That’s not important," Stark said. "You have to trust us, this plan is very ticulous and precise. Moreover, science inherently requires so adventurous spirit, we can’t be too rigid and old-fashioned. As a scientist, you should understand more..."
"I’m not a mad scientist like you two!" Arkham Batman regretted saying this as soon as it left his mouth. Anger had clouded his mind, now he just wanted less understanding and tolerance, more bla and reprimand.
"This is surely effective," Stark tentatively took a step forward and said, "You see, after they activated each other, they didn’t stay in your universe nor caused any trouble, instead they imdiately left. They must have gone to bother soone else."
"Who are ’soone else’?"
"Uh..." Stark thought for a mont and said, "Ultrons from other universes, perhaps? Even if it’s other universe’s superheroes, it’s no big deal. Batman can surely handle it."
Arkham Batman rubbed his forehead hard. He had been wondering, this lethal and profiteering combo made up of those three garlic heads, who earned several billions in a week, what were they planning to spend it on?
It now seems, what a team, it’s more like a gang! A one-stop shop for fatal plotting and reimbursent: Natasha causing accidents, Shiller extorting money, Nick organizing financial transfers, and these two mad scientists handling the fence—what a macroeconomics!
Arkham Batman gently covered his eyes with his palm, he was employing his entire wisdom to think about how to cover this matter up.
He’s beginning to understand the Marvel Pri Universe’s woes. Such universe-shattering events really couldn’t be exposed, or else his universe wouldn’t be able to get along in the Multiverse.
Of course, he wasn’t saying to conceal the truth delaying progress—rather, that the process should be sowhat beautified. Arkham Batman took two steps forward, pushed Stark back against the wall, then said, "Listen, there was never a plan to create people, it was all a failed experint, okay?"
"What?! But such a perfect body I should have naming rights..." Stark didn’t finish his sentence as he saw those blue eyes burning with killing intent in the shadow of the mask.
He swallowed, promptly crossed his heart, and in a mournful tone said, "Okay, an experintal accident, it’s all in God’s plan, so unfortunate."
Arkham Batman couldn’t help but curse in his mind: Why is everyone in this universe so... who are they taking after here?
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