What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 894 Batman kneels before the first Lantern, I will inspire you in the name of heroes.
The first Lantern... sits within the metallic, otherworldly space that forms inside the Batman Dragon.

When Superman in the main universe was rescued by Batman Dragon, he instinctively reached out and grabbed Genie I, then brought him along as well.

But the first Lantern didn't care anymore. Having left the fake Earth-15 that he had destroyed with his own hands, he didn't care where he was taken.

What world forgers, what DC multiverse...?

Haha, destroy it, what does it have to do with him?

After experiencing so much, the first Genie's mind has completely collapsed, and he has fallen into utter madness.

Next to the cage of Genie #1 is the prison of Foolish Owl, whom Batman Dragon has kept imprisoned here ever since he captured him.

Foolish Owl was the first to be eliminated, second only to the Emperor Joker. Foolish Owl's foundation was simply too shallow; Batman's Dragon didn't even attempt to use him to create the Heretic Lord…

The timelines of these heretical demon kings are ultimately empty and illusory.

It's somewhat understandable that these heretical demons have power in the current timeline, but Yu Xiao is just an ordinary person in the current timeline. Forcibly turning him into a usable heretical demon king would be a huge waste of power.

So even now... he remains a forgotten prisoner.

The Foolish Owl kept his head down, completely ignoring the crazed First Lantern Knight beside him.

From his perspective, the Joker and the Night Owl, which he imagined, are constantly arguing.

Joker stubbornly believes that their plan has failed, so being locked up here is the best outcome for the multiverse. Even if they escape, it won't change the current state of the multiverse; in fact, it will only make things worse. Meanwhile, Nite Owl accuses Joker of failing to see the situation clearly or even gather intelligence, and arbitrarily concludes that everything Batman Dragon has done is harmful to the DC multiverse. Then he starts bringing up old grievances from Earth-15.

They had been arguing like this for hours, but the Foolish Owl paid no attention to either of them, even though he was the owner of this body.

The main reason was that Foolish Owl knew he was completely finished. His only option now was to sit in jail, eat the food provided by Batman Dragon, and wait. Only if the other party suddenly took pity on him and released him could he see the light of day again.

Although he left some arrangements outside, none of them could be activated here.

Even if it is activated...

Although he was trapped inside the Metal Spirit, Batman Dragon did not completely cut off his communications, and continued to inform him about the recent situation of how the multiverse outside was under threat.

And Yu Xiao happens to fall for this too.

So when the primary personality decides to give up, even if the remaining two secondary personalities have a thousand and one things to do, the Foolish Owl will just lie there and won't take any action.

He thought things would stay that way, but at that moment, Foolish Owl suddenly heard a voice filled with the clown's distinctive tone.

“Well well well…”

At first, Foolish Owl thought the voice came from the Joker. But then he heard the Joker's angry howl and the Night Owl's roar.

Who are you? You don't belong to this body!

"Oh no, we've been found out. But to be honest..."

Startled, the foolish owl abruptly looked up and saw that one of his two personalities had appeared—a character he had never seen before.

Someone had invaded his mind with some kind of telepathic ability, and in that instant, alarm bells rang in the Foolish Owl's mind.

In an instant, the two alternate personalities pounced at the suddenly appearing Emperor Joker, but the Emperor Joker in the Foolish Owl's mind simply waved his hand, and then the two alternate personalities flew away.

This also means that his willpower was completely defeated when facing this clown.

"Damn it, how could you...?"

The fool never had the chance to say another word.

In an instant, his body and mind were taken over by the Emperor Clown. The power of the fifth dimension would be a complete crushing blow to the now weakened Foolish Owl.

Soon, the "Foolish Owl" seemed to leave that emo state. He stood up from his cell, a smile involuntarily creeping onto his lips, but it quickly disappeared, and he reverted to his original foolish owl appearance.

Meanwhile, the increasingly crazed First Lantern was beginning to attempt suicide, destroying his own body within the metallic supernatural space of Batman: Dragon.

But then, some kind of magical power instantly pierced through his body, pinning him to the ground like a nail.

"Don't be silly." The Emperor Joker disguised as a foolish owl... or perhaps some kind of afterimage or memory of him?
In short, he said to the first Lanternman next to him, "Trust me, Batman Dragon will be coming for you soon."

Batman: Dragon originally intended to lock them up together in a similar location, but the Emperor Joker shouldn't have been able to speak to Genie I, yet this restriction was broken.
The first Lantern Man suddenly raised his head.

"What do you want with me? Given my current state, where I'm practically immortal?"

He went berserk again, completely ignoring what the Emperor Joker, controlling the Fool of the World, was about to say to him.

He started yelling and screaming wildly:
"You might as well kill me! I beg you!"

A rational person would ask who the strange voice that suddenly appeared in their cage is at this moment. But right now, our first Genie is just going crazy.

He clutched his head, once again descending into a state of frenzy where he could no longer communicate with humans:
"Ahhhhh, my hometown, the hometown I once saw, it's right in front of me! I could have... if I hadn't done that, in the end I got nothing—"

The Emperor Joker plugged his ear with his little finger, reveling in the other's pain... Jokers have always had this kind of twisted sense of humor.

After the first Lantern Man went berserk, the Emperor Joker finally spoke.

"Goodbye, Batman Dragon won't kill you, after all, you're such a useful tool."

He shrugged and then began to stir up trouble for the first Lantern.

"I'm sure he'll be back in front of you soon, offering you a new goal and plan to revive your home planet Earth 15, like putting a new carrot in front of a hard-working donkey, or making some kind of promise to a plowing ox."

"But you know, those promises will never be kept."

"Imperial Joker, controlling the Foolish Owl, spoke. He was mindful of every change in his tone of voice."

"You see, deep down you know... Earth 15 is gone, and everyone who claims they can help you find your home is just trying to take advantage of you."

"You make an impossible request and then try your best to achieve it, while those who know you can't do it won't remind you."

“They’ll only use you, my friend…”

A cold smile crept across the Emperor Joker's lips.

He saw that on the semi-transparent face of the first Lantern, the original confusion and pain seemed to have found a tangible outlet, turning into a deep-seated hatred.

He hurriedly continued gesturing wildly. For the Joker, superpowers weren't his strongest weapon; language was.

He enjoys bewitching people; the feeling captivates and fascinates him.

"Whether it's Batman Dragon or the World Maker, they're all birds of a feather."

He spoke in the tone of a fool: "They're just using you, making empty promises and giving you false illusions. No one ever intended to keep them. They know your plan is doomed to fail, and their plan is doomed to fail, but they still use you as a pawn to test the waters, and then just throw you here at the end. Tsk tsk tsk, how pathetic."

As the Emperor Joker spoke, he silently pondered. He guessed that the reason Batman Dragon carried Genie I with him must be to achieve some goal, but no matter what the goal was, to activate Genie I, he would have to use his home planet Earth-15 as a raft.

The Emperor Joker went to great lengths to infiltrate the true core of Batman Dragon through Foolish Owl; if he were to simply sit idly by and watch Batman Dragon succeed, his game would lose its meaning.

So many years...

The Emperor Joker even ruled the entire DC multiverse in that flawed outlandish timeline, destroying three sixth-dimensional gods, even though all of this originated from an erased hyper-timeline future...

But the echoes of these events were now deeply etched into the mind of the Emperor Joker.

That loneliness that has lasted for millions of years, the reality of wanting to die but never being able to reach it, that fear...

Hahaha, this is driving the Emperor Joker crazy!
For a player, nothing is more terrifying than ruling the world alone; it's practically torture for the Emperor Joker!

Without goals, without a future, everyone became a puppet in his hands, and there was no joy in it at all...

He can only write and direct his own jokes to amuse himself, and everyone has to listen to him. He has killed the Justice League, resurrected them, and then used them to create countless bizarre and grotesque creatures and so on...

Playing with yourself and entertaining yourself is a never-ending cycle.

The Emperor Joker was so bored that he casually created a world where he could go to work normally. But if you could control everything that happens in this world, even if you created a fake job to satisfy your sense of purpose in life, how could that fill the emptiness in your soul?
Therefore, the Emperor Joker was in extreme pain; he almost gave up, almost gave up entirely, but at a certain moment...

He discovered the light in his life.

Batman: The Dragon.

The other party transferred him from that external time-flowing future to the current time-flowing world. Perhaps from Batman Dragon's perspective, he, the Emperor Joker, was merely receiving the memories of that time-flowing future that had been erased.

But from the Emperor Joker's perspective, being transported from a utterly boring and terrifying world to a vibrant one in the past is an incredible blessing!
Batman: Dragon is like a knight rescuing a princess, saving the Emperor Joker from that terrible time-flipped future, boohoo!
In return, beautiful princess, our Emperor Joker will thwart Batman Dragon's plans, inflict upon him the deepest despair, and watch him wail and cry... This is the Emperor Joker's gift to his knight, Batman!

With the Emperor Joker interfering, it's impossible for Batman Dragon to use Lantern Number One; the Emperor Joker already knows this.

He couldn't wait to see what Batman Dragon would do when he realized he couldn't persuade Genie E. Dragon. Would he take control of Genie's body? Force him to follow his plan?
What can you use to threaten someone who has nothing? It's obviously coercive control, isn't it?

Amidst all this commotion and contemplation, the portal to the mystical metal space was opened.

The Emperor Joker controlled the Foolish Owl to lower his head, making sure Batman Dragon didn't discover him, otherwise it wouldn't be fun at all.

He saw Batman Dragon walk in. Sure enough, the plan still included the original Lantern.

But using Earth-15 to persuade the other party was no longer effective; his heart was filled with hatred, and he would explode at the mere mention of Earth-15.

The first Lantern was filled with resentment at being deceived. His apologies to the fake Earth-15 and his love for his true homeland, driven by the Emperor Joker, had long since turned into hatred for all those who tried to use him.

A person who has nothing must find something to sustain their life, even if it means taking it out on others.

Even the most chaotic hatred is better than a blank void; at least it doesn't cause pain.

As long as you turn your gun on a target and launch an attack, just like a cat panting on a car tire when it's been crushed into a meat patty, you can dispel the despair that is causing you so much pain, at least temporarily.

In the distant past of the DC multiverse, there once existed a person named Parallax Morhal.

After realizing he couldn't rebuild his Beach City, he chose to kill the culprit behind its destruction, the mechanical superman.

But after killing people, Parallax Morhal found that he felt only emptiness in his heart.

But at least in the moment of killing the mechanical superhero, Parallax Morhal's rage was high, and his heart was pounding.

At least for the moment he killed the mechanical superman Hank Henshaw, Parallax Malfur truly felt alive and unleashed his fury on what he considered his enemy.

So come on, come on, light this bomb, Batman: The Dragon, this is the most interesting part 1.

Batman: Dragon, you will be the mechanical superhero Hank Henshaw.

The Emperor Clown was filled with anticipation; this was his favorite game, and he absolutely couldn't let his whereabouts be discovered.

Then the Emperor Joker heard Batman Dragon speak:
"The first Lantern Knight, it's time."

and many more.

What do you mean by kneeling on one knee?
"Become a hero."

What? What did you say?
(End of this chapter)