PFC Chapter 2456: Battle for the Cloak (2)
Chapter 2456: Battle for the Cloak (2)
Chapter 2456: Battle for the Cloak (XII)
"What happened, Jason?" Barbara frowned and said, "Are you okay? Do you remember what happened before you passed out?"
"The two of us found the main switch of the protective device, but it was a huge machine, so we decided to dismantle its core and bring it back to the Batcave. Halfway through the dismantling, he passed out," said Robin.
"I think he's just too tired." Nightwing said, "I've seen him wandering around Gotham in the middle of the night several times. This is the downside of staying up late."
"SHUT UP!" the Arkham Knight roared, so loud that it startled everyone around them.
Barbara obviously noticed Jason's abnormality. She stopped Nightwing and Robin who wanted to continue asking questions, and slowed down her voice, trying her best to use her feminine characteristics to express her attitude that she had no intention of attacking.
"Don't be afraid, Jason, you are at home now. We are all with you. We won't let you get hurt."
The Arkham Knight waved his hands vigorously. He knew that Barbara misunderstood that he had a traumatic disorder, but in fact it was not the case at all. He took a deep breath, took the water glass handed to him by Alfred, gulped down a large glass of water and said.
"No, it's not my problem, it's Batman. Something's wrong with Batman. He's been badly injured and is now completely trapped."
"How did you get the news about Batman?"
Arkham Knight sighed, and finally said: "Last night, a strange alien creature ran into my body. He called himself a symbiote."
"Batman also has one inside him. They are the father and son. They can sense each other's status through a special neural medium and can even communicate."
"Before, the one inside me said that he couldn't sense the symbiote inside Batman, so I guessed that he was trapped. But now the signal is coming out because the symbiote inside Batman has almost used up all of its energy in order to repair his body."
Everyone gasped, Robin looked at Arkham Knight and said, "You mean, Batman's injuries are so severe that even this alien creature can't repair them."
"So far, so good," the Arkham Knight said, reflecting on what he had seen. "The wounds are healing slowly, but new ones are appearing all the time. His enemies don't seem to want to kill him, but only to torture him."
By the end of his speech, the Arkham Knight had no strength left and his body began to tremble uncontrollably. It was obvious that the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder was not completely without trace.
Nightwing immediately pushed him down on the bed, pressing half of his body on his shoulders, Robin quickly brought the sedative, and Barbara injected it into the Arkham Knight.
After the twitching stopped, Jason's eyes under the mask had become lifeless.
Suddenly Nightwing was knocked over, and the Arkham Knight sat up suddenly. He muttered to himself like a wandering soul, "I have to save him, I have to save him."
"Calm down, Jason." Although Barbara was also immersed in the sadness of Batman's experience, she still said: "Now our job is to protect Gotham for Batman, and then we can start to save him. Otherwise, what's the point of destroying Gotham when Batman comes back?"
The Arkham Knight couldn't hear anything at all. He pushed away Robin who was trying to stop him and stumbled out the door. Robin chased after him and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Washington, he's in Washington!"
The three people in the room looked at each other, and Nightwing said, "We can't let him leave like this. He is in the period of illness now."
Barbara took a deep breath and said, "Everything is fine now, isn't it? Except for a problem he had when he was taking the medicine, he has completely recovered since then, and the doctor also said he can stop taking the medicine."
"That's what mental illness is like," Robin said. "Even if he has completely recovered in the previous stage, he will still have problems if he is stimulated again. We have to stop him. I'll go."
Barbara and Nightwing both hesitated to talk. In fact, they all understood that although Jason's knot about the later Robin seemed to have nothing to do on the surface, it was hard to say whether he would bring up the past again now that he was stimulated.
Just as they were discussing this, the younger Robins came in. Because they had just seen the Arkham Knight rushing out in a hurry, they thought there was some emergency, so they came up to check it out.
After hearing what they said about Arkham Knight, they didn't rush to chase him. Instead, they said, "We don't think Batman is the kind of father who can watch his children suffer and remain indifferent. He wasn't in the past, and he won't be now."
"Jason's tragedy before was very likely just an accident, but now it is obviously not." Tim said: "Could it be that Batman didn't think that if Jason found out about his current condition, Jason would feel very painful? If he knew, how could he send the signal back?"
"Even if he wanted Jason to know, he should have contacted Jason through the symbiote from the beginning, instead of contacting him now and making him see how much pain he was in. This is not what Batman would do."
The three people in the room immediately realized that they were so overwhelmed by Jason's condition that they forgot to look at the matter from Batman's perspective.
The Arkham Knight was the one with the most fragile mental state among them. Although he had been almost cured before, it had not been that long in total. The stable period was less than a year. If he was stimulated again at this time, not only would all his previous efforts be wasted, but it would also be a catastrophe.
Batman must know this. He already feels guilty for what Jason has gone through. If he really suffered, he would definitely try his best to prevent any information from flowing to Jason and causing him to be stimulated again. This may also explain why the symbiote could have communicated, but Jason was unable to receive the signal. It is very likely that Batman unilaterally blocked him.
Something unexpected must have happened afterwards. Several people suspected that Batman might have really been unable to hold on, which led to a flaw in his defense and he was no longer able to block the signal of the symbiote, giving the opponent an opportunity to take advantage.
"They just want to trick Jason over." Barbara's voice began to tremble. "They want to use Jason to threaten Batman, once again."
"Then we have to get him back as soon as possible." Dick said, "His mental state is already unstable. Whether he can save Batman is another matter. He may kill himself. Even if he is injured, Batman will be distracted, and it will be more difficult for the two of them to escape."
"Don't worry," Jason said. "Batman is the bait they use to catch the Arkham Knight, but we can just eat the bait without biting the hook."
"What do you mean?"
"What we need most now is Batman's location information. If the other party can send out the signal, it means there must be an output port, which is likely not far from Batman's location."
"If they want to trick Arkham Knight into taking the bait, they have to tell him the location. Otherwise, where is he going to go? And if they want to break Batman's will and kill Jason in front of him, they might even bring Jason directly to Batman."
"You mean..."
"Stealing one thing and changing another." Jason said with a smile.
"But when they bring him to Batman, they will definitely subdue him, and the hood will be taken off. How can we disguise ourselves as him?"
"Why should we pretend to be him? Isn't there a ready-made version of him here?"
Soon the Red Hood from the main universe appeared in the room, and after a fight, Nightwing managed to pin him down, and Jason took off his hood.
"Are you guys sick? Isn't there a ready-made person without a mask? Why do you have to look at my face?!!!" Red Hood roared angrily: "Give me back my hood!"
"Well, he looks a little different." Robin looked at Barbara, asking for her opinion and said, "There are fewer scars on his face, too."
"The scar is easy to deal with, just put on makeup, but he looks younger, and his eyes look a little different."
“That’s enough.” Jason said, “Besides you guys, who else has carefully watched the Jason in your universe? I guess the other party hasn’t seen many of them either. Jason, that’s enough.”
The Red Hood finally broke free and said, "You don't want me to go over there in place of Jason from this universe? That's unbelievable!"
"What? You don't dare?"
"He can fight Batman for a whole night, can I?" Red Hood admitted bluntly, "If he can't do it, what's the point of sending me?"
"But he has mental problems now." Dick said, "I'm not asking you to go and fight with them. You just need to stay awake, send back your location coordinates, and delay as much time as possible."
"Don't worry, we have a spaceship. Once we find the location, we can fly over your head in less than 5 seconds." Jason snapped his fingers and said, "The ammunition of the freezing gun is also sufficient. It can freeze everything within a kilometer range in an instant. Even if you only have one breath left, you will not be killed."
"But that five-dimensional man is a problem." Barbara said immediately, "He is not in the same dimension as us. The means of attack we use here may not be effective against him. We still have to find a way to get rid of him first."
"I actually have some ideas about this." Jason said, "I asked many times in the Doujie system group, and finally someone replied to me. It was a superman from a certain universe. He said that he had met a five-dimensional person, but he was not called a bat mite, but a troublemaker."
"The way to deal with this guy is very simple. Just make him say his name backwards, and he will be expelled to the fifth dimension and will not be able to come back for a short time. I guess the name mentioned by the guy who looks like a bat doll turned into a spirit also means the same thing."
"But how do we know the name of that fifth-dimensional demon?"
"I'm afraid we'll have to ask his master." Jason said, "Since it was King Robin who ordered this, he must know his name, but we can't alert him in advance, so it's best to let him say it unintentionally."
"It seems you already have a plan."
"Of course, we can do this..."
Finally going back to China!
(End of this chapter)