"You are sure you have seen the light..."
Black Adam opened his eyes.
In the dark rainy night, his eyes were like ignited flames, illuminating the darkness in front of him.
The previous conversation was still echoing in his mind.
"But you still put yourself in things you don't understand, Sivana... There is no place for you in the magical world, especially at the hub that connects various continents."
He looked up and saw the lights of Billy Batson's foster home, glowing with light.
"...You know what the Meditation Mite can do..."
He thought about what Sivana had just said to him.
"You were also present when Meditation Mite spread fear to the Magic Continent for the first time... What he planned this time is destined to be unstoppable."
"So join him and join us."
Black Adam pursed his lips.
The last time Black Adam joined someone else's camp, it was because he was imprisoned and whipped.
He broke free from his shackles, like a lion in the mountains and wild fields. He killed the whip-bearer who had shackled him, and he crushed the slave owner's head like a grape.
But this time it's different...different from the past.
This time, the shackles that restrained him were not made of fine iron, so they could not be broken free.
If the heart has been hung up on false reins, and you are obediently wearing a slave collar, then even the power of Thunder Shazam, which can destroy gold and break jade, may not be able to do anything, right?
However, is it not just Black Adam who is bound by the false reins?
inside the house.
Billy Batson opened his eyes in the darkness.
He turned over and sat up on the bed, staring blankly at the dark night.
He carefully climbed out of bed and crossed Darla, the youngest black child in his foster family, a cute but noisy little girl whom he did not want to disturb as much as possible.
Billy stood at the window.
The recent events had left him physically and mentally exhausted. What he meant was that after the initial excitement and surprise, a superhero career wasn't as easy as he thought.
Nightwing, Dick Grayson, Supergirl, Kara Kent, The Flash, Barry Allen, they all do far better than themselves. They are true heroes who have the courage to take responsibility, and they are just little brats who abuse their power.
Batman has been through enough while he's busy with other things. Some biochemical monsters that appeared in the city, giant beasts made of all kinds of messy magic, these should have been his responsibility, the responsibility of the magic guards.
But he messed up and made a mess. Although his power far exceeded these ordinary monsters, he was still fooled by these low-IQ things and killed many innocent civilians.
He watched parents lose their children in front of him.
He watched with his own eyes as the children lost their mothers, and those beautiful families were broken and destroyed, and then wailed in the dark midnight.
These are his responsibilities.
Just like what Dr. Phil who liked to play scarecrow in the school counseling room said to him, wasn't it?
Billy held his chin.
People must do what they can.
If the police don't even know how to use a gun, they will only kill the hostages and themselves when facing the gangsters, and they may even open fire and kill innocent bystanders.
Doctors who don't know any medical skills boldly perform heart transplants on people, and the end result will only be one more corpse in the morgue.
Suddenly assuming a high position without ability will only kill others.
The power of Thunder Shazam should be given to people who are truly worthy of their power, such as Batman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, etc., instead of being abused by an incompetent guy like himself.
Billy thought so, and then he walked to his desk and took out a magic book from the drawer with the faint light.
He snapped his fingers, performed a little magic to prevent the light from shining on the sleeping "brothers and sisters", and turned on the lamp.
He opened the magic book and found the page on it that shared the power of Thunder Shazam with others.
"Your magic is boundless...your ultimate power! Say the secret!"
He chanted silently. Although he has learned a lot of magic after becoming a superhero, to be honest, the spell to share the power of Shazam with others is too complicated, and he still can't figure out what it is.
Black Adam once tried to seize his power... To be honest, he was not that willing to die. Who could expect a 10-year-old child to be strong-willed after being beaten to death almost?
But he really can’t give it!
"Billy?"
Billy turned his head and saw Mary, the eldest sister in her foster family and the "eldest daughter" in this unrelated family, climbing out of bed.
She was woken up.
Billy smiled apologetically at the other party, and then said: "I just can't sleep..."
But just then, he heard a noise downstairs.
He and Mary looked at each other.
"I just needed to go to the bathroom," Mary said.
Together they walked along the steps from the bedroom on the second floor to the living room and saw the hall was brightly lit.
Then Billy froze.
He saw a man whose face vaguely resembled his own standing at the door. His adoptive parents were with him.
The man raised his head and happened to see Billy coming down the stairs.
"Oh My God."
the man said.
"Billy?"
Billy didn't know why tears came to his eyes.
"dad?"
he asked.
"Dad!" He rushed over and the two hugged each other tightly.
"I've been looking for you for a long time and finally found you." Billy's father said.
"This...is this really you?"
"Oh, Billy, I'm sorry." Billy heard what the other person said. On the rainy night outside, it was raining heavily.
During Billy's childhood, he escaped from the orphanage countless times and ran in the dark and rainy nights.
He had fantasized about someone saying this to him countless times.
"Oh, Billy. You never should have lived a life alone. I'm sorry, I really am."
"You were born in Zambrotta, Minnesota... on a thunderstorm night."
"We were about to drive to the hospital and your mom, Marilyn, was pregnant with you, and I still remember her saying to me, 'I'm not going to make it, CC, now.'"
"A bolt of lightning blocked our path, and that's where you came into the world, in that car."
"That night, we left Minnesota, and Marilyn's father was waiting in the hospital... He didn't approve of our relationship, and he planned to take you and your mother away from me."
"We drove all the way to Philadelphia and we put down roots there. I wanted to be the best husband and father in the world, Billy. You should know that. Every weekend I would take you to the zoo to see the tigers. You were so love them..."
Now...at this time.
Billy Batson sits on the doorstep of his adoptive parents' home with his biological father, CC Batson.
They need a little private space.
Billy held a photo, in which Billy's father and his mother, Marilyn, were hugging themselves with smiles on their faces, and behind them was a tiger from the zoo.
Looking at photos like this, anyone’s heart will soften.
But in the end Billy didn't get carried away. He resisted the urge to stop looking at the photos.
"That's great, Father. But... where were you before?"
"I……"
Billy's father was silent for a moment.
"I miss those days, when everything was so beautiful, when your mother and I were still a family."
"I am not proud at all of the past ten years. I got into some trouble. I left to protect you and your mother. In fact, I am not suitable to be your father... I went to jail."
"Prison?" Billy's last vigilance was gradually dissipating.
"But that's the past me. I've served my sentence, I'm out of prison, and I'm looking for you everywhere." Billy's biological father put his arm around his shoulders.
"Where's mom?" Billy asked.
"I...I also want to find your mother, of course, I really want to. But maybe we can find her together. I think she may have gone back to her hometown, Zambrotta, Minnesota. That will be my next stop, I think. I want you to come with me, Billy."
"You're still on parole, right?"
"Your mother was the love of my life Billy, I had to find him, I had to make sure she was okay."
"Nothing is more important than family," Billy's biological father said.
Billy finally made up his mind.
"I will find a solution to your sentence." He suppressed the excitement and excitement in his heart.
"I'll try to get them to help me, I mean, I know some friends."
He saw his father smiling, as if he didn't believe it at all. But Billy was still happy.
It was the best day of his life.
"Okay, I found you. But it's too late now. I have to leave first, Billy."
They sat together for a while, and finally, Billy's biological father stood up and said, "I'll come see you tomorrow, um, and talk about fostering your family. But now might not be a good time."
He didn't wait for Billy to speak and grabbed his shoulders: "We need your foster family to give you some buffer time. You know, they took care of you when I was away. I'm grateful to them."
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"Do you think Black Adam is suspicious?"
In a dark corner, Dr. Sivana's hands are wrapped with lightning and controlling magic.
"Our real plan?"
The Meditation Mite's voice sounded in Dr. Sivana's ears.
"It doesn't matter if he gets suspicious, he's willing to do whatever it takes to bring back the people he's lost in order to protect the people he loves."
With Dr. Sivana's continuous manipulation, a lightning teleportation portal gradually flashed into the space in front of him.
"Come on now, Sivana, the matter is done, let's leave it to Black Adam. While Batman is entangled with Green Lantern and the alien magician Atrocitus, this precious time Now, it’s time to join forces with our allies to find the key to the monster land.”
Not far from Billy Batson's foster family house.
Billy's biological father was walking alone on the road, wrapped in a coat.
He turned to look at the store not far away, where a father and son were having a dinner together.
“A banana sundae and two spoons!”
"And a big helping of Fudge, Dad!"
Billy's biological father, Old Batson, stared at the father and son with some envy for a while. This action also confirmed what Billy Batson, who was secretly observing not far away, once again confirmed in his mind.
He's paranoid enough, like Batman.
This can't be false, and it can never be false.
"Mr. Batson?"
However, at this moment, Billy's heart stopped beating for a second.
He saw eight figures flying down from a tall building not far away, and the leader was Black Adam.
"You have to come with us." Black Adam, wrapped in thunder and lightning, hovered in front of Billy's biological father, scaring him so much that he stepped back. People on the street saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly fled.
Old Batson stared at the grotesque Seven Deadly Sins next to Black Adam.
"What are those things? Who are you?"
"Billy will finally know what real pain is, and I'll get a huge kick out of it...as long as you die first."
Thunder and lightning twined in Black Adam's eyes, but faster than it was Billy, who transformed into Shazam and rushed towards him like a whirlwind.
Billy punched Black Adam and sent him flying backwards.
The seven deadly sins lined up in a row just stared blankly.
"Oh my God, you...you are the superhero!" Billy's biological father said.
"Yes sir, now I need you to come with me. I have to take you to a safe place... tell you... you don't need to worry." Billy said hesitantly, but he finally showed a bright smile: "everything will get better."
"The same is true for me, and the same is true for Kandak, but it has nothing to do with you." But then Black Adam came back at a faster speed. He grabbed Billy's collar and pressed him down. Rubbing on the ground.
"We caught the father, what are we going to do to him?"
Billy turned his head and saw his father CC Batson being pulled into the sky by the Seven Deadly Sins.
"What do you want him to do?"
He struggled to resist Black Adam's fist.
"Eventually I will leave him to die, and you will follow!"
Bang bang bang!
Billy tried his best to block the opponent, and then he saw those monsters trying to take his father away from his sight.
"dad!"
He roared and rushed towards the Seven Deadly Sins, but strangely Black Adam didn't stop him.
In the melee, he saw his father fall and fall toward the ground.
"No!"
"dad!"
"He's dying, warrior. Your weak heart has weakened itself, Billy Batson!"
"Please! Please let me save him - I can't lose him now!"
Billy roared, but the Seven Deadly Sins clung to him and wouldn't let him go.
He saw his father about to hit the ground.
He remembered the formula in the magic book.
A once obscure curse.
And the words of the old wizard Shazam.
“…it’s not just flight and power and the spells you can weave…there’s so much, you have to learn to guard your family, like I should have…Family is what it can be, not what it is The way it is meant to be, this is your secret spell, your ultimate power..."
"Now...say that name."
"Shazam!"
Boom!
A bolt of lightning struck Billy's biological father, and the endless power of Thunder Shazam was then shared into his body.
Old Batson looked at his hands in amazement. He had changed into a new appearance, wearing a Thunder Shazam cape, with thunder and lightning flashing on his chest.
"Oh my God."
There was a look of ferocious surprise on the corner of his mouth, like an insect singing viciously.
(End of chapter)
