Chapter 304: Destiny Has Been Waiting for a Long Time (Part 2)
"Ever since Darkseid, known as the Dark Lord by the Justice League, disappeared from a portal, the tall giant has never returned..."
Metropolis.
On the coastline, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern are teaming up to fight Steppenwolf.
The general from Apokolips, although besieged by many people alone, still strolls leisurely and easily deals with the attacks of everyone.
Not far away, a news helicopter is fearlessly approaching.
"Did Darkseid escape? And Batman, as a core figure of the Justice League, has not appeared on the battlefield..."
"Where did he go? Is he related to Darkseid's disappearance?"
"Where will the fate of our planet and the fate of mankind be led?"
"This is Perry White from the Daily Planet, and we are following up all the actions of the Justice League for you in real time..."
Perry White, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet, put down the microphone, and the cameraman next to him turned the camera back to the two groups of Wonder Woman and Steppenwolf who were still fighting not far away. Editor-in-chief White wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked him in a low voice: "Contact Louis. Ryan and Clark Kent?"
"Not at all, Mr. White. Even Jimmy Olsen can't be contacted."
The fat cameraman replied: "No matter how I call, they don't respond."
"When they come back, I'm going to teach them a lesson!" Editor-in-Chief White was a little exasperated: "I just gave them a vacation, not to let them leave the earth!"
He said to the photographer: "Keep in touch, I want them to start writing press releases now!"
He roared in a low voice: "As long as they are still on earth, even the end of the world can't stop me from making them work overtime! And!"
He scolded the helicopter pilot :
"Look at you, you coward! Fly the plane closer, I want the whole country, no, the whole world to see the expression on Steppenwolf's face!"
"But we are already very close. If we get any closer, we will probably be affected by the aftermath of the battle. Then..."
"As long as you don't fly to a place where the aftermath of their battle may be affected, there will be no problem!"
But Editor-in-Chief White interrupted him: "Now people all over the world are watching this good show! Do you know how much money our entire TV station can make in just one second?"
Editor-in-Chief White raised his hand and clenched it in the air:
"This gold that fell from the sky was not available to anyone when Brainiac invaded the earth last time. I can get it, but look, this time he is right in front of you!" He encouraged loudly: "The Daily Planet must be the radio station closest to the battlefield, which will make us the most influential news agency in the United States and even the world!" "You, me, the three of us will be recorded in human history! This is not an opportunity that can be obtained casually!" After teaching the helicopter pilot a lesson, Editor-in-Chief White turned to the cameraman and said, "Zoom in, zoom in! Oh, my God, Wonder Woman beat Steppenwolf away, where is he now? Find him quickly!" "Yes, Mr. White, I will..." The photographer was talking, but suddenly stopped. Half of his body was frozen there, and his voice was trembling:
"Mr. White?"
"What's wrong?"
"It's... Batman!"
"What?"
When he heard the word Batman, Editor White immediately became excited. He stuck his head out of the helicopter and looked around:
"Batman? Where is Batman?"
Then he slapped the cameraman on the forehead: "There is none at all, are you kidding?"
"No, no, Mr. White... Look at this."
But he heard the cameraman's voice trembling, and the other party turned over his tablet and showed it to Editor White: "It's Batman, he hacked my computer and sent us a live broadcast request!"
Editor White grabbed the cameraman's computer, and he saw that the people confronting each other on the screen were Batman and Darkseid.
"Oh my God." Editor White heard the cameraman groaning: "This is not a prank, this is really the picture Batman broadcasts to us... I never thought in my life that Batman would become our front-line reporter one day!" "Great!" Editor White was so happy that he almost jumped up. He plugged the tablet into the computer next to him in ecstasy: "Great, our Batman is so awesome!" He was overjoyed: "Lois Lane and Clark Kent, I declare that Batman is now the most powerful front-line reporter of our Daily Planet!" He quickly typed on the computer for a while: "No matter what Batman wants us to broadcast and what his purpose is, for us, there is only one thing we have to do..." "Broadcast what Batman sends us with all our lives, and then make a fortune!" ... ... ... ... Chen Tao knew very well that Darkseid had been waiting for this moment. He bet that the first second he saw Superboy Prime, Darkseid must have been thinking about how to bring this powerful Kryptonian under his command. "What do you want to do, Batman..."
Chen Tao turned his head and met the angry eyes of Reverse Flash.
He got up from the ground with a gloomy face.
"Your mission is not over yet, Reverse Flash." Then he heard Batman tell him: "At least not yet."
Then Reverse Flash saw Batman no longer paying attention to him, but walked in front of Darkseid.
"I really don't understand why you can still laugh at this point."
He heard Darkseid say.
"Can you tell me how you did it?"
The Lord of Apokolips heard Batman ask: "Just consider it as satisfying the little wish of a dying person."
Reverse Flash heard Batman deliberately emphasize the word dying, as if he meant something.
"I have a small part of the incomplete anti-life equation, and I have integrated it into the Omega Effect."
Darkseid said: "You don't need to understand what the anti-life equation is. You only need to know that such a small part of the anti-life equation is not enough for me to control the mind of this super Kryptonian, unless..."
"Unless Superboy Prime is seriously injured." Chen Tao finished the words after unless for him.
"Yes, yes, that's right, you are too smart, Batman." Darkseid said: "So this is the opportunity I have been waiting for. By you... by you, the person who personally released Superboy Prime from the Origin Wall and knows him best, you will make a plan to severely injure him and achieve the purpose of controlling him."
"Your kind grandmother and your son Kalibak have not appeared on the battlefield."
Chen Tao said.
"Yes, and they are here to stop the Flash from running."
Darkseid grinned.
Thousands of kilometers away, the Flash Barry Allen roared in despair.
He was trapped in the dark blue energy field. During this period, Barry kept trying to vibrate his own molecules to pass through this blue translucent force field. However, the final result was that every time he was about to pass through the field, a sonic boom channel would appear beside him, and then he would be teleported back to the blue field.
Kalibak and the kind grandmother were standing next to the sea-blue field at this moment.
"Give up."
Kalibak said: "We used the data collected from the reverse flash before, and spent a lot of effort and wasted a lot of time to catch up with the assembly of this set of devices to trap you."
He saw his figure reflected in the pupils of the Flash Barry Allen.
"This set of devices is specially made for you."
Hundreds of kilometers away, countless tiny nanorobots flew up from Chen Tao's body, forming a display screen, and through the octopus machine left on the Flash before, they easily broadcast what Kalibak said.
"And this means..." Compared with Batman, the reverse flash looked even uglier.
He has now regained the ability to move.
He saw the speed force of gold, red and black begin to wrap around Batman, and then he began to run at a speed that humans could not understand, and the Prime Superboy, whose eyes were flashing with the red flames of the Omega Effect, followed closely behind.
Then he saw Batman change his appearance to Doomsday again, and fight with Prime Superboy... That transformation form is called the Destroyer, but for now it looks like Batman is being ravaged unilaterally.
"I... I have to leave here, and then save Flash, and then let him die in battle like I saw in history..."
Reverse Flash just thought so, and then saw the green lantern ring on his hand light up, and then projected two pictures to him.
"This is Perry White, editor-in-chief of the Daily Planet. We suddenly received an image sent to us by Batman. It's a live broadcast! Batman vs. Darkseid! Exclusively from the Daily Planet... What, Batman also sent a live broadcast to other newspapers at the same time? Damn! How could he do this?!"
Reverse Flash turned his head and looked at another picture.
The Flash, trapped in the dark blue field, trembled all over, and strands of golden speed force began to leave his body and roared into the octopus machine in his chest.
The Flash uniform transformed by the machine also changed color at the same time, allowing Barry to wear the yellow uniform of Reverse Flash, which also meant that -
Reverse Flash lowered his head and saw that the octopus machine had automatically flown out of the different dimension space opened by the green lantern ring at some point, and then directly entangled his body.
And he also found that his body had lost control of himself.
The huge speed force was absorbed from the other end of the machine by the Flash and poured directly into his body, and the ring also opened the space at almost the same time, pouring the remaining water from the Lazarus Pool on him.
Reverse Flash widened his eyes.
He felt that the injuries that originally caused him endless pain were quickly healed under the flushing of the huge speed force, and the life-filled spring water of the Lazarus Pool was also nourishing his body that had been baptized by death.
He looked at the Flash uniform that had covered the yellow Reverse Flash uniform, and then looked at his image appearing in Perry White's live studio.
He heard the voice of the green lantern ring:
"Albert Swan from Earth--"
"The destiny has been waiting for a long time!"
Reverse Flash grinned. In that instant, he understood everything. He couldn't help but burst into laughter. He grabbed the ring and the uniform on his body and laughed breathlessly:
"Hahaha, hahahahaha, hahahahaha!"
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Many, many years ago.
Bang!
The young Albert Swan was pushed heavily into the mud. His body was immediately covered with mud, which made his carefully sewn but actually very shoddy red Flash uniform a mess.
"Hahahahaha..."
"I'm laughing to death. This skinny guy actually wants to be the Flash..."
Bang!
Blood flowed out.
Bang!
"Stop hitting him. You will kill him like this..."
Bang!
"What does it matter? He is an orphan who lives in an orphanage."
"Do you think anyone will stand up for him?"
So when the crowd dispersed, the young Swan panted, turned over, climbed out of the mud pit, and carefully tried to wipe off the mud stuck on the red uniform.
Boom!
It was late, and heavy rain poured down.
The young Swan cried while wiping the mud off the Flash's uniform.
"I will definitely become the Flash... I am the Flash!"
The blood flowing from his nose mixed with rain and tears:
"I will definitely become the Flash of the new era, you bunch of people who laugh at me... I will erase all of you from the timeline, no one can stop me from becoming the Flash - no one can!"
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My name is Albert Swan, and I am the only son in the family.
My father accidentally killed my mother, so I was left alone in the end.
I have no friends, no family, no love... but I have the Flash.
I watched all the videos and studied every story of the Flash. In the darkest moments of Albert Swan's life, the Flash was always running in my mind.
And I have always been grateful for this.
A few days later, Swan heard that the school bus that the kids who bullied him before was in had a car accident. The bad kids were sitting together, and then a steel beam that crashed into the school bus had their heads cut off.
I think they deserved it.
…
"What is going on?"
The young Albert Swan sat in the laboratory in a white coat of a scientific researcher, thinking.
"I just thought yesterday that if Hope died, it would be easier for me to get the experimental opportunity... and then he really fell down the stairs and became paralyzed!"
"Is there such an amazing coincidence in the world?"
"But it doesn't matter."
His eyes showed deep malice and ecstasy: "Those who have offended me... those who prevented me from becoming the Flash... you all deserve to die!"
…
"Damn it!"
Under the light, the older Albert Swan hugged his head.
He angrily tore off his badge and threw him to the ground.
On the clean badge was a line of small words:
Professor Albert Swan.
"I am already an expert in the field of Flash research. No one knows the Flash better than me, but I still can't grasp the Speed Force... I still can't become the Flash. Speed Force... respond to me, respond to me quickly!"
...
"Speed Force!!! I succeeded!!!"
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"No! No! I am the Flash, not the Flash's enemy, the Reverse Flash!"
...
"Why! Why can't I erase the Flash... I want to replace you, I should have replaced you!!!"
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"If... If I am destined not to be the Flash... Then I will become your opposite, your ultimate nightmare..."
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Now, at this moment.
"Albert Swan."
Reverse Flash heard the ring make a sound:
"I never force people."
"I need you to sacrifice to help me defeat Darkseid, but if you don't want to sacrifice... I can also give you a chance."