What bad thoughts can Batman have?

Chapter 921 The Batman Who Laughs and Batman Dragon's First Collaboration: A Historic Moment

The laughing bat gazes at the starry sky.

On this timeline, galaxies shattered, time was destroyed, and countless fragments of stars formed asteroid belt-like rings that swayed around Earth and other galaxies.

Such a magnificent and beautiful sight came at the cost of destruction.

“You know what, uh…” The Batman Who Laughs had intended to call the nameless old dragon beside him by his name, not Bruce, but the name he knew. But in that instant, he suddenly forgot. He not only forgot what the other person’s name was, but he also completely forgot his intention to call him by his name.

The Bat Who Laughs himself was unaware of this state of thinking that completely bypassed the other person's name.

In short, his words continued.

“We’ve fought many times, with wins and losses, but this time it seems I have no excuse to refuse, does it?”

The laughing bat turned to look at the nameless old dragon.

What a strange feeling! For the first time in history, their interests have completely overlapped.

Neither the Nameless Old Dragon nor the Laughing Bat wanted the Void Hand, the Mother of the Multiverse, nor the Antimonitor to win.

Both of them hoped that all three parties would suffer losses.

The Anti-Monitor rolled back to its position upstream in the Hypertime Stream, Perpetua returned to its Origin Wall, and no one wanted the Void Hand to get involved in anything in the DC multiverse; his best fate was to be rolled back to the outer edge of the DC multiverse.

On the other hand, they both hope that the DC universe will return to a peaceful state and that the current timeline will be erased.

The nameless old dragon naturally wanted to restore the peaceful reality of the DC multiverse and repel all enemies that had invaded it, while the Batman Who Laughs also hoped that the DC multiverse could temporarily return to a peaceful state so that he could sort out the reality that had gone out of control.

Now that Perpetua and the Anti-Monitor have both come down from the wall, things are getting a bit too chaotic and not good for the Batman Who Laughs' plans...

Do you think what he's doing now is part of his plan? No, it's just an aid to his plan, like buying ingredients at the market before eating. If you can't find one ingredient, you can still eat and fill your stomach with another.

Don't think you can keep him in check by not selling food to the Laughing Bat.

He is the Bat Who Laughs, and what he sees is far more profound than what most people in the entire DC multiverse perceive.

When he became aware of the existence of the azure-blue deity known as Doctor Manhattan, and realized the astonishing feat of stealing ten years of the DC multiverse, The Bat Who Laughs began his plan.

The Batman Who Laughs discovered Doctor Manhattan very early on. In the early stages of the New 52, ​​Doctor Manhattan killed Pandora, one of the Trinity of Sin, to prevent his information from being exposed. In the middle stages of the New 52, ​​Doctor Manhattan killed both the new god Metatron and the Earth-3 Night Owl to cover his tracks.

The Bat Who Laughs knows very well that if he shows that he knows or has investigated who Dr. Manhattan is, Dr. Manhattan will use him as an accidental factor in the experiment and eliminate him. He can only pretend that he has no idea who Dr. Manhattan is... Damn Manhattan, making his existence seem like a supernatural tale.

In short, he had previously attempted to emulate Manhattan's actions, stealing a year from the DC multiverse. If his plan to steal a whole year from the DC multiverse had gone smoothly, the Batman Who Laughs was confident he could significantly advance his plans without Doctor Manhattan intervening to kill him.
But this attempt was thwarted by Batman Dragon. In the end, after a desperate struggle, they managed to cut off 52 seconds, but that was still enough.

After stealing time from the DC multiverse, the Batman Who Laughs needs more time than Batman Dragon. He needs Doctor Manhattan to voluntarily relinquish his power and leave the DC multiverse, while the Batman Who Laughs is already prepared to devour his corpse.

This could very well be the greatest meal the Batman Who Laughs could ever create, completing the most important foundational part of his being, allowing him to be legitimately killed by a character of his choosing someday in the future. Ideally, that character would be guided by some destiny of the DC multiverse and kill the Batman Who Laughs in an extremely cruel way, such as with a chainsaw...

The destiny of the DC multiverse is like the tides, you know? Tides rise and fall. When destiny drives the immune cells, that is, the heroes, to complete an operation to expel evil, Manifest Destiny will fall, and the Batman Who Laughs will make a grand return at the moment of the tide's fall, using the power left behind by Doctor Manhattan after his departure, to finally complete the grand farce of invading and controlling the entire DC multiverse.

Then he will bring destruction and end, pure evil... all the scenes that Batman has imagined in his nightmares will play out, and his maniacal laughter guarantees that nothing is more chilling than those screams.

So, although the Bat Who Laughs seems to have done a lot of things, his ultimate goal has never been revealed to anyone.

He laughed wildly and chuckled softly.

Even the three sixth-dimensional gods, Perpetua, the nameless old dragon, and even Dr. Manhattan himself, had no idea what the Batman Who Laughs was doing. They knew nothing about the Batman's purpose, treating him as a crazy little madman, classifying him as the same type as the Joker, and considering him a variant of the Joker. But the Batman Who Laughs was never the Joker.

Therefore, for this longer-term, unknown purpose, the Batman Who Laughs could very well cooperate with the Nameless Old Dragon.

The Nameless Dragon needs to utilize the Batman Who Laughs's arrangements on the Monitor, his power, and his understanding of the Void Hand. Conversely, the Batman Who Laughs needs the Nameless Dragon's help to stabilize the entire DC multiverse and prevent any of the three parties from causing its collapse, thus disrupting his grand plan to seize the power of Manhattan. Their needs are completely complementary, but for the Batman Who Laughs…

If the nameless dragon was unaware of his plan to seize the Manhattan energy, and since the other party's interests were not entirely aligned with his own, how could he convince himself to abandon helping the Void Hand or Perpetua and instead support him in ending all of this and restoring the DC multiverse to safety?
He laughed wildly, waiting for the nameless old dragon to persuade him, even though he knew very well that no matter how the nameless old dragon tried to persuade him, he would agree.

But he still wanted to see how the nameless old dragon planned to persuade him. This was his way of testing the other party, to see if the other party had noticed... something.

The Batman Who Laughs never imagined that Chen Tao would know everything. The Nameless Old Dragon wasn't the only superhero who knew the past history of the DC multiverse from comics and then joined the DC multiverse's epic heroes. Superman Supreme was once such a person, but he never knew about the future of the trans-timeline; he only knew the comics he had read, those trans-timeline "pasts."

Could all of this be...?

In short, based on flawed intelligence, the Bat Who Laughs drew the wrong conclusion.

He also heard the nameless old dragon say, "You're ambitious, Batman Who Laughs. We're all Batmen, and Batmen are never lackeys. You want to be a core leader. Every Batman has an almost obsessive desire to control their teammates. No Batman would tolerate not having the ability to counter their teammates, and no Batman would allow their teammates to rule the world. I believe that even if you've become like this, deep down..."

"We are all Batman." x2
The Laughing Bat and the Nameless Old Dragon spoke at the same time. This feeling of being in sync made the Laughing Bat open its mouth and reveal a vicious smile.

“You know all about Batman’s betrayal,” he said. “And you trust me because…”

“When the Anti-Monitor granted me the ability to become the Anti-Monitor Bat, I began to construct my history as the Anti-Monitor. I mean, to completely replace the Anti-Monitor, just as Barbatos once temporarily replaced the Worldmaker.”

"I will not only seize the power of the anti-monitor, but also occupy his position, temporarily."

The nameless old dragon said, "Although we are not sixth-dimensional gods, no matter how long we occupy the position, we will have to return the position and energy. But if we occupy it for a while, we will at least be qualified to stand in front of Papetua."

"And you, Bat of the Laughing, you have taken over Mandraklark, and Mandraklark is essentially the Monitor. You are another person in the DC multiverse who has the opportunity to temporarily utilize the Monitor's position. The Monitor is already half-crippled, or rather, he has completely broken free from Mandraklark at the cost of abandoning most of his power. A large part of his power is with Mandraklark. If you recover these powers and combine them with the Monitor's original power, it is like finding two pieces of the puzzle and reassembling the Monitor's complete power. This is not just as simple as 1+1, but the difference between complete and incomplete, or rather, the difference between possible and impossible."

"A large part of the World Founder's power still remains in Barbatos, which I can directly utilize. In addition, the World Founder himself is now standing with us to stop his mother. With the World Founder acting as a mediator, plus the Anti-Monitor and Monitor power we have collected, I will now reveal a secret to you: The Bat Who Laughs."

The Batman Who Laughs heard Batman Dragon say, "When the powers of the three sixth-dimensional gods combine, they can create a combined god, the Ultimate Watcher, who has the ability to confront the multiverse's mother, Perpetua."

This is a lie.

Or to put it another way, it's half a lie. The three sixth-dimensional gods can indeed combine to form the Ultimate Monitor, but in the original comics, the Ultimate Monitor only managed to stand up for two pages against Perpetua, who had regained his combined form, before being utterly defeated. Even if he tried to be a hero, he didn't really have much of a show of strength.

Although he was facing Papetuar at his peak, having achieved the ultimate form, the Ultimate Monitor was also much stronger then than it is now. Therefore, with everyone weakened, the battle record is unlikely to change significantly, which is why the Nameless Dragon needed the Mind Robot as reinforcements.

Of course, the nameless old dragon wouldn't tell the laughing bat about such things; the laughing bat only needed to have confidence.

"And I know your method for summoning the Mind Robots. There was definitely some hidden trickery in the methods you provided to sabotage me, but we'll let that slide. I only have one request: help me complete the fusion with the Ultimate Monitor, and summon the Mind Robots to the current timeline to safeguard our plans. Everything is entrusted to you, Bat of the Laughing. If you agree, we'll sign a contract..."

"Don't think you can disobey! This isn't simple fifth-dimensional magic; it's a collaboration achieved through sixth-dimensional divine power. We will each create a hyper-timeline future where the other is completely dead. If one of us breaks our promise, the other can immediately make this future a reality! This is a weapon that only those who wield sixth-dimensional power can control. No one can disobey it. Do you agree?"

He finished speaking at lightning speed, then stared intently at the laughing bat.

Simply put, I have a plan, but it's incomplete. Most of it needs you, Laughing Bat, to clean up my mess. If you don't…

The Laughing Bat saw the hidden meaning in the other's eyes.

If you don't wipe it, I'll kill you alive!

The Laughing Bat looked at the other party and realized that the nameless old dragon was indeed at his wit's end. Therefore, the other party was now capable of anything, even cooperating with a dangerous character like him.

He saw the anxiety in the nameless old dragon's eyes. He guessed that the other party had found the best excuse to convince him. The other party was betting that the Laughing Bat would not remain subservient for long. This was the best solution the other party could think of without knowing about Dr. Manhattan's plan.

The other party must be very worried that he will disagree, and the Batman Who Laughs knows very well that once he refuses Batman Dragon, there will be another well-established method to force him.

However, such a coercive method must carry huge hidden dangers, and it may be an outrageous operation similar to Earth-15, but Batman: Dragon would never do that unless absolutely necessary.

The Earth-15 incident brought profound disaster to the DC multiverse. The nameless old dragon is still paying back the debts he incurred back then. He is far from being so indebted that he has no worries. He will never incur any new debts.

So...

“I agree. It’s a pleasure to work together,” said the Bat of Laughter.

"Now we're teammates, hahaha, this is the biggest joke ever!"

He said, "That's really interesting, haha."

(End of this chapter)