msmithbooks Chapter 291 Who can catch Reverse-Flash? I'll surpass Darkseid!
Chapter 291 Who can catch Reverse-Flash? I'll surpass Darkseid!
Chapter 291 Who can catch Reverse-Flash...? I'm the best, Darkseid!
"drink!"
Poison Ivy arrived upon hearing the news. For a user of the Green of All Things, the Red of All Things might not be the best place to use the power of the green, but within the magic circle that Batman had specially set up to facilitate her use, Poison Ivy was able to communicate with the Green of All Things without any hindrance.
To put it simply, the place they are in now is no different from the decaying islands caused by the invasion of the Red by the Black Corruption. It's just that Batman and his gang of villains are so powerful that the Totem Council, the true masters of the Red, had to reluctantly accept it. If anyone else had tried to do the same thing in the Kingdom of Life, the Totem Council would have exploded long ago.
Reverse Lightning had barely taken a step when he tripped over the vines growing from the floor beneath his feet. His figure only paused for half a second before more vines caught up with his speed, binding him like countless oil snakes into a dumpling.
The opponent seemed to have lost the ability to resist in an instant, but Poison Ivy did not let her guard down at all.
"You think you can trap me like this? You know nothing about the Speed Force... Ugh!"
Reverse Flash was speaking when he suddenly let out a scream. A giant Rafflesia rose up beside Poison Ivy, its core revealing a weapon that looked like a speaker. It aimed at Reverse Flash and emitted wave after wave of low-frequency sound waves.
"You can use the Speed Force to distort your own molecules, allowing you to pass through most matter in the universe, I know." He heard Poison Ivy's voice: "The most common application of the Speed Force, but it's not without its weaknesses. By constantly changing the frequency of infrasound, we can disrupt your movements. Batman has already considered ways to counter you."
Poison Ivy manipulated more vines to bind Reverse-Lightning even more tightly. Three more identical machines sprouted from the floor, grew from Rafflesia flowers, aimed at Reverse-Lightning, and then spoke in unison.
Having done all this, Poison Ivy wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, exhausted. She turned and hurriedly used the vine in her hand to plug the wound that was still bleeding from Death Shooter's body. As for Killer Crocodile, he had already gotten up from the ground unharmed, his healed body reflected in his cold, beastly eyes.
Just kidding, this is the Red of All Beings, Killer Croc's home turf. He usually draws his power from here, and right now he's standing right here.
"explain!"
He strode quickly, somewhat exasperated, to Poison Ivy, then reached out as if to grab Reverse-Flash's tightly bound collar, but ultimately didn't dare get too close, instead asking from a distance:
"How exactly did you find this place?"
He said, "We've built so many fake bases to confuse the public, so many fake bases made of clay faces... how did you distinguish them?"
Killer Croc raised his wrist, revealing a Batman-style projection communication device that flashed blue light.
"The other Mudface bases didn't report anything unusual to me beforehand, which is impossible. Statistically speaking, the probability of finding the main body on your first visit to a base is extremely low!"
"Even if you kill all the Mudfaces, it won't matter. None of them are real Mudfaces; they're just parts of Mudfaces..."
But Killer Croc stopped mid-sentence. He stared intently at Reverse-Flash on the screen, who was wreaking havoc across different Mudface bases.
He turned his head stiffly.
"If...this guy is Reverse-Lightning, then those people who attacked Clayface's fake fortress..."
"It's a time remnant." Killer Croc turned around and saw another Reverse-Flash leaning against the door frame.
"What...what do you mean? If you are Reverse-Flash, then what we caught..." Killer Croc turned his head and, seeing Ivy's ugly expression, he saw Reverse-Flash, whom they had just caught, disappear into nothingness amidst the vines, as if erased from the world by some kind of eraser with immense power, and then modified into the correct form.
"An advanced technique for applying the Speed Force involves deliberately creating a paradox by constantly traveling back one minute to the present to help oneself, and then utilizing the combat power of these future selves before the paradox is erased."
Killer Croc turned his head and saw another new Reverse-Flash time remnant clone appear in the room. It was trembling at a high frequency, standing in a row with the original Reverse-Flash, which was also trembling, and then they merged into one.
"so……"
He heard Reverse Lightning's voice: "Have you decided how you want to die?"
puff!
Before Reverse-Flash could finish speaking, Killer Croc's body was sliced in half again. Poison Ivy roared in fury, seemingly trying to activate the machines that had appeared from Rafflesia's heart to attack the opponent, but in an instant, those machines, along with the basket that served as their base, were shattered.
"Ah... There won't be a second time. Don't even think about it."
call!
Reverse Lightning turned his head to dodge the punch from behind, then was startled by what he saw.
Half of Superman Clark's face was rotting in front of him, making him look less like a living person and more like a long-dead zombie.
His fist barely grazed Reverse Flash's scalp as it swung.
"My body..." Killer Crocodile seized the opportunity to quickly reattach his almost severed half of his body. Outside, even if he had taken a blow that nearly cleaved him in half, he wouldn't have died, but he would have been in serious trouble. However, here was the Red of All Beings, and he could withstand at least five or six more such injuries.
He got up from the ground and looked at Superman, who was fighting Reverse-Flash.
Something's not right.
Killer Croc, on all fours, rapidly repaired his wounds with his writhing flesh: "Superman is controlled by the Rotten Black... Wait, but why is it still so fast, fast enough to rival Reverse-Flash?"
Killer Croc understood that these magical natural energies, or rather, any means of control, could never guarantee the full exertion of the controlled's power.
(Note: In the original comic "The Fall of the Corruption Kingdom," the Flash, controlled by the Corruption Black, was actually defeated by Animal Man. Animal Man himself stated that his speed had slowed down.)
Then he looked closely and saw that the golden lightning of the Speed Force was flashing on the body of the unconscious zombie superman.
Poison Ivy, however, didn't have the leisure to be as leisurely as Killer Croc. She quickly picked up the heavily wounded Death Shooter, who was still lying on the ground, to prevent him from actually becoming "dead." Then, she grabbed Killer Croc, who was still looking around, hugged Louise in her arms, and turned to flee out of the room.
"I should be grateful that Batman insisted that we hide the traitors and their families separately; now I know why."
As she spoke, she hurried down the steps, constantly manipulating the huge vines to lift up and protect her family members one by one.
"Good heavens, I originally thought that controlling Clark was done by shaking a joystick, going up and down to unleash a Hadouken or something," Killer Croc, who was being held in mid-air by the giant plant controlled by Poison Ivy, continued, "but it turns out to be much simpler than I thought."
He watched as Superman, his body crackling with Speed Force and Reverse-Flash, exchanged blows passionately in the room: "This is supposed to automatically attack a calibration target?"
"Nonsense," Poison Ivy said. "No manipulator can keep up with the reaction speed of Superman's superbrain, even if that brain is already starting to rot."
She explained, "Batman and Bane created an auxiliary attack system for Superman that, by utilizing nanobots on neurons, allows him to fight at the level where Clark fights instinctively."
Then Ivy changed the subject:
"But I must warn you, even with all that preparation, Superman's abilities are only about 7% restored without him regaining consciousness. I don't think Superman can hold out for long. We need to hurry..."
Then Poison Ivy was speechless, because she had just led most of the people out of the hall when she saw Reverse-Flash waiting for them all outside the door.
Where's Superman?
Tied up there and silent until now, Louise immediately shouted, "Where's my husband? What have you done to him?"
Reverse-Flash casually touched his ear: "You were yelling too loudly. He's not dead. Please don't misunderstand, this isn't because I'm merciful, but because he's already a follower of the Black Corruption, so he can't die either. I just sent him to the Corruption Island to play for a while."
Poison Ivy extended a vine, blocking Louis from saying anything more, then she took a deep breath and walked towards Reverse Lightning.
Batman also left her some targeted weapons to deal with Reverse-Flash or Mist Mite, leaving Poison Ivy feeling bitter. However, the effectiveness of these targeted weapons, and whether they can be ignored by the enemy, remains to be seen.
"Kidnapping someone's family is nothing, Elberdeswan?" Poison Ivy spoke, trying to distract Reverse-Flash, while secretly manipulating the Green of All Things to continuously send up weapons, as long as he could assemble a combination sufficient to deal with Reverse-Flash...
However, the other party did not speak. The next moment, Poison Ivy immediately felt the crisis of death. This feeling of imminent death was so real, as if the yellow shadow was about to cut her neck with its trembling hand.
No, it's not. It seems so, it really is. I just didn't have time to realize it.
Poison Ivy could almost feel the opponent swinging a hand blade at her.
Time seemed to stand still, or perhaps a frame had been dropped from the video.
Just as Reverse-Lightning's high-frequency, supersonic hand slash was about to cut open Ivy's chest, a crimson shadow suddenly appeared on the battlefield. He grabbed Reverse-Lightning, and instantly, both of them rolled on the ground.
"Swann!"
Poison Ivy's eyes focused, and the moment she saw the Flash, she immediately realized that once he arrived, the battle would be beyond her control. She swiftly manipulated the plant into a six-legged, spider-like giant, and tossed all her terrified family members onto it before turning and running away.
"Barry!"
Amidst the violent roar of the Speed Force, The Flash, Barry, his body crackling with lightning, stood before Reverse-Flash:
"That's it, Swann. Don't even think about it."
Reverse Lightning looked at him with amusement: "You really think you can...?"
But his expression changed immediately, because at that moment, the space around him suddenly began to shatter, and then a huge suction force enveloped him, pulling him continuously toward the world behind that spatial door.
Reverse-Flash looked bewildered: "You used the Speed Force to create a miniature parallel universe and then created a portal to try and exile me into that parallel universe?"
Reverse-Flash almost laughed out of anger: "Barry Allen, how dare you use the tricks I taught you against me?"
"That tactic works on me..."
With a hiss, before Reverse-Flash could finish speaking, he was immediately sucked into the parallel universe created by the Speed Force.
"Did you succeed?"
The Flash turned his head and saw a flower left on the ground with a lifelike eyeball on it, looking like a surveillance camera left by Poison Ivy: "Would this be enough to trap Reverse-Flash?"
"Obviously, no."
Reality immediately provided the answer to Poison Ivy's question. A rift was torn open in the void once more, and Reverse Flash returned even faster: "Well done, Barry. This parallel universe you created has trapped me for two whole years. It's such a pity. You did a pretty good job creating it, and it shouldn't have been broken through so easily. But you're too inexperienced; after all, you're a novice."
Reverse-Flash looked at Barry, whose face was grim: "And the most important reason is..."
A sinister smile curled at the corner of his mouth: "I've been fooling you all along."
brush!
In the split second before the Flash could even react, he felt a punch to the face and was sent flying backward like a comet!
"My speed—is far—far—faster than yours!"
Punch after punch, The Flash's expression changed drastically. The Reverse-Flash in front of him was no longer the same as when he fought before; his speed was several times faster.
"I have absorbed your Speed Force and created my own Reverse Speed Force—you can't even imagine how strong I am!"
"No one can catch me!!!"
"I am—the God of Speed!"
"The Flash, the Flash, can you hear me?!"
In Poison Ivy's vision, the Flash and Reverse-Flash had become a blur of gold and red, completely indistinguishable: "Are you really alright?"
Then, in the next second, reverse lightning appeared on camera.
He picked up the Flash, who was already beaten to the point of near death, and gently tossed him in front of the camera.
The red in his eyes grew even more dazzling, like a quietly flowing river of blood.
Through the lens he created from plants, Poison Ivy saw the Flash silently say, "Run!"
"Batman will be back soon," the Flash heard Poison Ivy threaten from across the room. "You can't beat him."
No, no, Ivy.
The Flash, held in Reverse-Flash's hand, looked at her with his bruised and swollen eyes.
Hurry, find a way to get away from the Crimson Realm. Don't confront Reverse-Flash head-on. You have no idea that Reverse-Flash's speed has surpassed that of a regular speedster. I was wrong, terribly wrong.
The Flash's eyes showed despair.
Reverse Flash had been toying with him all along; his speed had already surpassed the normal range.
Given Reverse Lightning's current speed, what kind of person could catch him?
Darkseid?
...Huh?
The next second, The Flash blinked.
He stared at the portal that appeared in front of him, almost thinking he was seeing things.
Is it Batman—followed by Darkseid?
?
(End of this chapter)