msmithbooks Chapter 990 The Laughing Bat: If You Were Given Another Chance to Choose
Chapter 990 The Laughing Bat: If You Were Given Another Chance to Choose
Chapter 990 The Laughing Bat, If You Were Given Another Chance...
Long before the Batman Who Laughs embraced Mandrake and transformed himself, but even earlier, when the Batman Who Laughs had just begun to be transformed by the Joker Virus, the Batman Who Laughs had already completely lost all sense of pain.
The kind of pain that would cause suffering and discomfort to normal creatures, and that they would try to avoid as much as possible, has become an addictive dopamine surge for the Laughing Bat.
He became instinctively drawn to pain, whether his own or someone else's, and whatever it was, it only brought him satisfaction through maniacal laughter.
He should have been changed by the Laughter Virus long ago; he shouldn't have been a normal being anymore, haha! Hee! He's the Laughter, and he's been this freak for many years.
But now... it seems everything has changed.
The pain, which had long been dormant, groaned in discontent towards the laughing bat, but the laughing bat felt no pleasure in this suffering, only exhaustion.
The world changed in the eyes of the maniacal laughter, no longer the gloomy and dark place it once was, as if someone who had been blind for a long time had regained a glimmer of color.
The maniac felt his mind was calm, seemingly devoid of emotion. He still clearly remembered his plans: to steal the power of Doctor Manhattan, to steal the Unity, to create the Quantum Batman, and then to take his place and control the entire DC multiverse.
Yes, he fully remembers and empathizes with the person he was when he made those plans.
In fact, he was no different from before; he was still the Batman Who Laughs and still intended to carry out his plans, but now his primary task was to figure out his current situation.
The Bat Who Laughs is now calm. This extraordinary calmness, while not affecting his personal will, has simply made him more rational—
It's also more like Batman.
For some unknown reason, he was unfortunately stripped of all his supernatural powers. With his current strength, the only way he could have done this was through some kind of time-rewriting. Did Perpetua win? Or was it Batman and Dragon? Did they rewrite their timelines to control themselves?
But why bother? Wouldn't it be better to just kill him? Obviously, that's the best solution for them, right?
The Bat of Laughter got out of bed and found himself wearing only his underwear, but his skin was still as pale as a clown's after the transformation.
He tried to find a weapon in the drawer of the table, and he did find one.
But for some reason, the Laughing Batman felt extremely tired. Killing and destroying all the personalities that Batman Dragon had infused into him had placed a tremendous burden on him. He barely managed to hold onto the table and then found a pair of surgical scissors inside it.
He laughed wildly, gripping the surgical scissors tightly in his palm.
In a fleeting moment, perhaps a moment of distraction during his maniacal laughter, the surgical scissors seemed to transform into his curved scythe, a curved scythe forged from dark metal.
The Laughing One used this scythe to kill many other Bruces in the Dark Multiverse. Just thinking about the feeling of blood splattering on his face is enough to make him smirk.
But he blinked.
There was no sickle, only a scalpel lying coldly in his palm.
A bloodthirsty smile appeared on his maniacal face.
Regardless of who orchestrated all of this, the Laughing One will slit the neck of the first creature to enter the room, no matter which member of the bat family it is.
He is the Bat Who Laughs, and malice is his...
With a clang, the laughing bat heard the sound of the cup falling to the ground and shattering.
As a potential attacker, this would be an absolutely foolish move. He laughed to himself, thinking this.
He lowered his head, sensing the approaching footsteps; it was his butler, Alfred.
Although he didn't know which Alfred it was, it was definitely a reality overwritten by Batman: Dragon.
He was ready; once he got close enough, he would plunge the knife into the other man's neck.
"Master! You're awake!"
Kuang Xiao's body stiffened for a moment. According to his estimation, Alfred was not only an old butler, but also a retired soldier, and the person who knew him best.
Alfred was the last member he killed after he was transformed into the Batman Who Laughs and killed the entire Bat family.
You see, the Batman Who Laughs has never said how he defeated his Alfred.
In fact, in my universe, Alfred was the last one killed by the Bat Who Laughs.
The Bat Who Laughs silently pondered something that even the Bat Who Laughs himself didn't realize: as he thought, he began to separate the first-person pronoun "I" from the Bat Who Laughs.
Alfred is truly terrifying. He's like the father of the Batman Who Laughs. No one understands Batman better than Alfred, and all he did was try to see the last vestige of that boy, the carefree Bruce, in Batman's shadow.
Fighting one's father is always difficult and arduous. Alfred alone posed more danger than the entire Justice League posed to the Batman Who Laughs. After the Batman Who Laughs ruthlessly slaughtered the entire Justice League and most of the superheroes and villains on Earth, Alfred fought the Batman Who Laughs for a very long time, longer than anyone else.
Alfred was indeed incredibly strong. He manipulated the Batcave, the Batmobile, everything to take down the Batman Who Laughs. All the contingency plans I had prepared to prevent myself from becoming evil were used by Alfred. Destroying the Faulty Robot was the closest the Batman Who Laughs ever came to death. Fortunately, his acting was convincing enough that he successfully persuaded Damian to be foolish enough to willingly accept my conversion and become his Robin Who Laughs… Oh, good boy. He thought he could resist the conversion and then think like the Man Who Laughs, thus completely defeating his father, the Batman Who Laughs.
(Note: In the Batman Who Laughs solo comic, the same Laughing Virus is injected to acquire the mind of the Laughing Maniac, thereby defeating the Batman Who Laughs. The main universe Batman also did this. However, Damian in the Batman Who Laughs universe did not escape the influence of the Laughing Virus like the main universe Batman did; instead, he completely succumbed to it. This was not because Damian was foolish, but because, driven to the brink, he made the same choice as the main universe Batman, but without achieving a good result.)
We were locked in a stalemate for a long time, but the Batman Who Laughs gradually lost ground. It wasn't just my backup plan, but also Alfred's many other plans. The truth is, my old butler could have won. He even found Luther's backup plan and started mass-producing the Bizarro Legion... everything.
But then the Bat Who Laughs convinced Alfred that there was still goodness in my heart, that your child... Bruce Wayne, was still alive inside me... Ha.
So Alfred surrendered. His thinking changed, and when he acted with the intention of capturing the Bat of Laughter alive rather than killing him, he could no longer win.
The Batman Who Laughs then trapped him in a snare, and Alfred didn't even have a chance to use the backup plans that could have killed the Batman Who Laughs.
The Laughing Bat fed Alfred scraps and brainwashed him day and night, taking a full year to drive him insane.
Damian Wayne and Alfred are the only two living people left in the Batman Who Laughs universe, even though they are both insane now.
They are still my beloved son and old housekeeper. I'm so glad they're still alive and can be with me, hahaha!
The Bat Who Laughs wanted to laugh out loud, but he knew he couldn't. Alfred was the most dangerous enemy, and even the slightest illusion in his mind would make it easier for the Bat Who Laughs to kill him.
Oh……
The Batman Who Laughs was trembling with excitement. Capturing and driving Alfred mad once again was like playing a game he had already played before; even revisiting familiar territory filled him with joy.
He concealed the knife in his hand and then embraced Alfred: "My God, Bruce, you're finally awake! You've been in a coma for four months after killing the Joker, but now the Joker virus is finally out of your body. You're finally awake! Oh, you're finally awake!"
The Batman Who Laughs felt a little bewildered. This wasn't right. How could a timeline created by Batman Dragon be designed like this? Batman Dragon was truly foolish. If the Batman Who Laughs had designed the timeline to deal with him, he would have designed it so that Alfred completely captured his timeline, and then superheroes from other parallel universes would team up to imprison him. That would have been the best solution.
But now Batman Dragon has been foolish enough to make such a mess of things. The Laughing Man has decided to take action. He will first kill Alfred, then kill the other characters in this timeline, find a way to regain his power, and then escape. He still has many backup plans. Even if the timeline has been altered, it will not affect his ability to use those backup plans to escape.
However, Alfred's words caused him to pause his actions slightly.
"I called Damian and Dick in. Everyone's back and has been with you. It's so good to see you awake, Bruce."
Does that mean the entire bat family is outside the door?
The Laughing Bat immediately withdrew the knife that was about to plunge into Alfred's head.
A wise man knows when to yield. He no longer possesses the divine power of Mandrake and the Hand of the Void, and he needs time to regain them. He wouldn't be foolish enough to confront the entire Bat Clan now.
When he killed his kids, he made them work themselves to the bone beforehand under the guise of a training session. Otherwise, if even one kid failed to dodge when he pulled out his Uzi and ambushed them, it would be a testament to his inadequate training as Batman.
Only he knew how terrifying his children were; they were intelligent, powerful, and had potential. He had to plan carefully when killing them.
Alfred went out, and the Batman Who Laughs seemed to be lying quietly on the bed, not moving at all, but in reality he was constantly trying to feel the power he had gained.
Perpetua's finger, 52 seconds, the power of the story, the corrupting power of Mandrak's divine power, the corrupting power of the DC multiverse, the essence of a malevolent noble...
There was nothing there.
The Bat Who Laughs took a deep breath; he had one last card to play.
A bit of power from Doctor Manhattan, which he hid upstream in the infinite dark multiverse, planted like a seed. When the season comes—referring to Doctor Manhattan's death—it will take root and sprout, producing a Doctor Manhattan version of Batman for the DC multiverse, and then he will laugh wildly and usurp the throne.
If he uses even a little bit of the power of the connection with Dr. Manhattan, which is combined with the dark matter energy of the Dark Multiverse, he can confirm his existence by activating that seed, because the Quantum God has existed at every point in time since the moment of his birth. If the Quantum God exists, then the maniacal laughter that controls all kinds of powers should also exist.
If he can prove this logic, he will be able to reclaim his power from the DC multiverse, regardless of how history is altered.
Just as he was lost in thought, the door opened, and his entire bat family rushed toward him. Almost simultaneously, the Batman Who Laughs felt his former power, albeit only a little, but still enough to easily kill his bat family.
In fact, The Laughing always regretted that he killed his bat family too quickly, resulting in the deaths of everyone. If he could, he would have liked to spare his bat offspring's lives and slowly toy with them, draining their last drop of blood. But now that the timeline has been altered, it's clearly not the time to play around.
When he kills Papetua and becomes the ruler of the DC multiverse, freely manipulating the hypertime flow, he will have plenty of time to play around with it. Of course, by then, he probably won't like the old way of playing anymore.
So, let's take action.
But wouldn't it be a waste to kill the entire bat family like that?
The Bat Who Laughs shook his head. This was the second time he had considered sparing the Bat Family's lives. But time was running out, and the truth was that even if he had to choose again, he would still choose to play the game of laughter. Nothing could be funnier than that!
This feels amazing! It's the best fucking feeling in the world! Everyone should experience this! Gotham, do you hear me? Hahahaha! Thank you, Joker! Thank you! This wouldn't be possible without you!
Blood spurted out, and by the time the Batman Who Laughs came to his senses, the entire Bat-family, except for Jason who pulled out his gun, was dead.
He looked at Alfred, who was trembling not far away.
Oh, spare Alfred's life, just as he has done before.
How about that?
The Laughing Bat suddenly blinked.
Alfred, whom he had subdued not far away, suddenly became the World Maker.
(End of this chapter)