What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 781 Buzz Lightyear suddenly realized that he was a... toy

Things mourn.

This is a Japanese loanword that refers to something that is beautiful and splendid at the moment, but is destined to be short-lived.

The beautiful cherry blossoms will eventually wither sadly and resolutely; no matter how shocking the announcement is, it will ultimately be nothing more than an echo in an empty valley. No matter how stunningly beautiful a girl was in her lifetime, in the end, she will be nothing more than a pile of bones under the yellow sand.

Fate is unpredictable and time flies, this is why: mono no aware.

My old friend, you know I will leave, sooner or later.

One day, I will no longer be myself. I am like the setting sun before the night, like a lamp that will soon be lit and then go out.

But at least today, my friend...

I will fight for you!

I am Super Monkey Supreme, a monkey living in the multiverse.

I'm just a guy called Batman Dragon, a weird creature created by the magical power of the Red of All Creatures.

My life is destined to be short, but it must be brilliant and passionate.

It's like cherry blossoms are all over the sky, and they are falling...

The stars are like rain.

……

……

……

In the melting pot of the world.

For some unknown reason, the Monitor did not compete with the Anti-Monitor for control of Barbatos' body, so that although the two of them now work together to control Barbatos, in fact the main controller is still the Anti-Monitor himself.

In fact, upon closer inspection, the observer's actions have been somewhat strange since very early on.

Not only did he give the tuning fork, an important prop to suppress the Anti-Monitor, to the Owl of the Clueless World, but he also later joined forces with the Anti-Monitor, whom he had always been hostile to.

The Monitor so easily gave up his behavioral logic of targeting the Anti-Monitor, suppressing him, clamping him, and preventing him from invading the downstream of the hyper-time stream since the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

There must be a reason for this, and the Anti-Monitor has no idea of ​​it -

Weird.

But even though he knew that the Monitor was definitely planning something in secret, the Anti-Monitor had no other choice.

While he often appears to have the upper hand in confrontations with his brother, in reality many of the Anti-Monitor's actions are counted by the Monitor.

For example, during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Anti-Monitor brainwashed the Monitor's adopted daughter Lyla and killed the Monitor from behind with a sneak attack. The Monitor, in turn, used his own death to activate the Cosmic Tuning Fork, laying the foundation for the heroes' ultimate victory in the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

The Anti-Monitor is of course wary of his brother, but no matter what, in the current situation, he has achieved his goal. Even if the Monitor turns against him now, he has the ability to confront him directly.

So now, he only needs to manipulate Barbatos to create enough crisis force, and then he can continue with his plan to completely release himself.

The only obstacle is the Batman Dragon in front of him and the...

Superboy-Prime?
Something seems wrong. When the Anti-Monitor saw him for the first time, he recognized Superboy, the little lunatic who had killed the Anti-Monitor once before (Note: This incident happened at the end of the Sinestro Corps War). Even if he turned into ash, the Anti-Monitor still remembered him.

But the other party is a little strange now.

This guy's face was covered with monkey hair. He didn't have the aloof, fierce look that was unique to Superman Prime. Instead, he looked a little silly and stupid.

Then he looked at Batman's Dragon standing with Superboy-Prime. Wait, how did this guy get in?
The Anti-Monitor realized something was wrong.

"You and Batman Dragon are completely mixed up," he said. "They become clothes on your body and then blend in with you."

"Are you sure?"

Chen Tao asked the Supreme Little Super Monkey in a low voice.

Now the other party did not give Chen Tao a cold look or pretend not to hear him at all.

"About three or seven." The Supreme Little Super Monkey nodded.

Chen Tao understood and nodded.

Although the two of them seemed to have a slightly different understanding of the 70-30 split, at least at this moment they had completed the correct communication.

"Hanging out with Batman would be the dumbest decision you've ever made, Superboy-Prime. And what's with all that facial hair?"

The Anti-Surveillance Agent said this while gently raising his hand. Chen Tao was very familiar with the Anti-Surveillance Agent's actions. As soon as he raised his hand, Chen Tao knew what he was going to do.

He immediately sent a whole essay to the Supreme Little Super Monkey in the telepathic channel on the battlefield, like a stressed cat, and emphasized to the Supreme Little Super Monkey again:

“Pay attention. I’ll tell you again. As I said, the Anti-Monitor is actually quite timid right now. Even if he’s driving the Barbatos, he doesn’t want to confront you head-on. He will definitely raise his hand to teleport you away first. But as long as you follow the method I said, you can come back quickly, and each time you come back faster than the last time, as long as…”

Before he could finish his words, there was a swish and the Supreme Little Super Monkey disappeared right on the spot.

Chen Tao did not seem flustered.

This is a predictable scene. In other words, it would be weird if the Anti-Monitor were to stupidly confront the Super Monkey Supreme head-on right now.

The Anti-Monitor controlled Barbatos' body and exiled the Supreme Super Monkey with a wave of his hand. He then turned around and wanted to do the same to Chen Tao and Hero Day, but in the end no one was teleported away.

"You forgot that I am the servant god of Barbatos, and on Hero's Day I also gave him the same identity as a member of the Dark Knights." Chen Tao said.

He curled his lips and said, "If you were the real Barbatos, you would be able to manipulate the World Crucible and teleport us away, but you are not him. You can only bear the body of Lord Barbatos, but you can never become him!"

The Anti-Monitor doesn't even bother to say it.

Barbatos is just a dog, and who wants to be a dog?

Okay, dog might be a bit too much, Barbatos is a tiger that thinks he’s a dog.

Without long-term planning and precise strikes, it would be almost impossible for the anti-surveillance agent to control the other party.

Even though he has control now, the use of Barbatos' abilities is completely based on his own use of antimatter energy, and it has nothing to do with the opponent's body.

In fact, Chen Tao had considered giving Super Monkey-Prime an identity of the Dark Knights before, and sharing Chen Tao's dark matter cosmic energy with him, but Super Monkey-Prime's biological position was too powerful, that is, the overwrite of the timeline, which could have an impact on Super Monkey-Prime's body that looked like an ancient Greek demigod. "Can't we just exile him?" The Anti-Monitor was stunned for a moment, but he reacted just as quickly. The next second, Hero Day discovered that he and Batman were separated!
But Hero Day was relatively calm, because Batman Dragon had told him about this possibility beforehand. He was always so smart and took everything that might happen into consideration, and this time the other party was not wrong either.

Hero Day looked around very vigilantly. Now he just needed to hold on for a little while and wait for Batman Dragon to counterattack.

This process will be quick, and soon Batman Dragon will come and meet him, and then all Hero Day has to do is to keep sending messages to Superboy-Prime, while Chen Tao uses Hero Day to command Superboy to repeat this process over and over again until Barbatos' true willpower is induced, and the Anti-Monitor is driven out of Barbatos' body.

Hero Day retreated a distance along the separated World Crucible area and finally found a rock wall. He leaned his back against the rock wall. This was the World Crucible with rolling heat waves. The Anti-Monitor had just controlled Barbatos and it was impossible for him to jump out of the rock wall and attack him.

But at this moment, a telepathic link connected him.

Originally, Hero Day wanted to cut off Batman immediately, so he prepared a plan for him on how to fight back if he was mentally manipulated by the Anti-Monitor.

He also has a big bomb called the Joker's Memory in his possession. According to Batman Dragon, if anyone dares to use mind control on you, you can just throw this crazy circus at him, which will be enough to fight back.

But the current situation seems to be different from what was said before in Batman: Dragon.

He got a bunch of memories, a bunch of memories of the Anti-Monitor.

This is a, this is a...

Hero Day's eyes widened.

He saw a towering giant, a giant with blue skin and a huge hammer, and he knew him.

Batman once told him that it was the World Forger, their enemy, the sixth-dimensional god who had captured Superman of the main universe, the monster they were about to face.

And for today, for Heroes Day.

The plaything of creation, trembling in the face of its own god.

You see, we told that story before.

Buzz Lightyear walks into a room and sees a commercial for himself on TV.

There was never any Heroes' Day, just... just a dummy created entirely by the World Forger.

The world has never been so naked.

Everything exists by chance, lacking inherent purpose and meaning.

This awareness brings a strong sense of discomfort to Heroes Day, manifesting as a kind of mental nausea, similar to a deep reflection on the nature of life.

Life lacks an intrinsic purpose, and pursuit and effort are ultimately futile. No matter how hard you try, all of this is just a falsehood and will eventually lead to extinction. The process itself is meaningless.

The heroic identity he was proud of was imposed from outside.

Appeared.

In the Anti-Monitor's memory, the World Forger was not able to create a living being in an instant as easily as it is now.

In the most ancient past, when the three brothers worked together to seal their mother Papetua in the Wall of Origin, they had a good time working together.

More than once during that time, the Anti-Monitor witnessed how their brother, the World Forger, created worlds, by first kneading a replica out of nothingness using energy.

Then give it shape little by little.

The Anti-Monitor specifically sought out a World Forger to create a Doomsday scenario in a dark multiverse.

At that time, the World Forger was not very skilled. He was slow in creating worlds and creatures.

On Hero's Day, you can see a creature exactly like you being created bit by bit, like kneading a clay toy.

The World Forger even accidentally pinched it a little wrong, and then flattened the energy and redid it, like a kid who had ruined a figurine.

Then soon time changed, the times changed, and the World Forger became faster and more skilled in creating universes. He now rarely creates a single character. He usually creates the entire universe and all the characters in it together.

Countless parallel universes, countless doomsdays, all those memories, beautiful, vicious, and sad, are just silk threads gently woven by the World Forger.

"Do not!!!!"

Hero Day roared in despair, and in an instant he forgot all that Chen Tao had taught him before, including the underlying logic of victory that Chen Tao had taught him: protect himself → summon Superboy Supreme.

This is a complete destruction and collapse on the values ​​and spiritual level. Someone has used clear evidence to prove the mistakes and subversion of your entire life before, and all the signs you have had before have made it clear to you that this is not a false lie.

Damn Buzz Lightyear, you actually realized it, you had already guessed it, from the moment you found out that you couldn't actually become the Superman of the main universe, you didn't even dare to ask Batman the Dragon.

You are deliberately avoiding the question, "If I was once Hero Day, then could I try to succeed the Prime Universe Superman and temporarily replace Superboy-Prime?"

You are deliberately avoiding this question because deep down, you actually know the doubts about yourself.

You guessed it.

You are not stupid at all.

But now that someone has pointed it out to you, you can no longer avoid it.

Hero Day didn't care about anything anymore. He rushed towards Barbatos who suddenly appeared in front of him instead of running away immediately.

"I'm a hero! I can defeat you!"

Yes, that's right. A hero is someone who creates miracles. For a hero, creating miracles is his job and his ability.

For a hero, the most important quality is not his fighting ability nor his superpowers and wisdom, but his ability to create miracles.

There are many people in the DC multiverse who have great power but are unknown, such as characters like Soul Eater and anti-heroes like Black Spider.

They may have great power, or perhaps wisdom that rivals Batman, but they are not heroes, they are just mortals, and they cannot work miracles.

So make it happen to me, a miracle, happen!!!
Hero Day rushed over like crazy, and this played into the Anti-Monitor's hands. Batman Dragon used the fifth dimension's power to create a magic for Hero Day that was difficult to grasp in an instant. If he wanted to break it, he would be counterattacked by Batman Dragon, but now Hero Day rushed towards him himself.

If he still can't catch the other person, wouldn't he be an idiot?

Heroes Day is suicide, but it's not suicide either.

Attacking the villain symbolizes his adherence to a fictitious identity, an attempt to escape from his true self, and this escape ultimately leads to the toy Buzz Lightyear...

Broke his arm.

(End of this chapter)