Albert Swann sits in his own cage, his name is Reverse-Flash, and he has been chasing the Flash's reflection since many years ago.
At this moment, standing in front of him was Batman.
"A Flash uniform?"
Reverse-Flash looked down at what Batman had thrown at him and scoffed.
His hood had already been taken off by Batman. Reverse Flash lowered his head, letting his messy brown hair hang down on his forehead:
"What are you doing again, Batman?"
"Oh, wait. Let me guess first."
He suddenly waved his hand to stop Chen Tao's words, and then said, "Do you want me to help you with this or that?"
"Don't even think about it."
"It's ridiculous," he said.
He barely gave Chen Tao a chance to speak: "Come on, how are you going to convince me? Threaten? Or use the bargaining chip to let me go back to the future?"
He looked at the other person: "You can mention it. But you know that it is all in vain."
"If you don't help me, then I'll have to go find The Flash."
Then he heard Batman's voice calmly:
"Think about it, this is a chance. A chance to become a hero once and for all."
Reverse Flash remained silent.
"Isn't this what you've always wanted? To be a hero. You'll have your place in history, starring in a chapter in a great epic. You've wanted to step into the shoes of The Flash so many times, and now is your chance. Right in front of you.”
Reverse-Flash responded with silence.
Seeing that Swann was not getting enough, Chen Tao's voice became a little gloomy again:
"Don't take yourself so seriously, Swann. I will never use you as my last trump card. You clearly know that I have Turtle and Gorilla Grodd."
"So you go use them, what do you want from me?" Reverse Lightning said.
He looked at Batman: "Your behavior is very strange, very strange. Why does it have to be me?"
Then he saw green light flashing on Batman's body, wisps of green entwining around his body, and finally condensed into the appearance of Green Lantern, the Green Lantern logo from Oa and the green lantern on Batman's chest. Batarangs fuse together.
The other party stretched out his hand, and soon the ring on his hand began to tremble slightly, and then a green lantern ring was copied.
This is one of the many functions of the Green Lantern Ring, which allows others to possess Green Lantern's abilities by creating temporary replicas.
Sinestro has used this trick many times in comic book history, and even helped Hal Jordan continue to use the power of the Green Lantern even after he was fired from the Green Lantern Corps.
"This is a green light ring. You can control it with willpower. It can provide you with certain protection by embodying armor."
Chen Tao told Reverse Flash: "You can choose to be miserable here, or you can choose to do another thing."
"Anyway...I left something with you."
He dropped the ring in front of Reverse-Flash, along with the Flash's uniform.
Then he didn't say anything more and disappeared behind the golden vortex portal in front of Reverse Lightning.
Reverse Flash was left alone and confused, staring at the things in front of him in a daze.
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I'm Superboy-Prime.
I feel myself flowing.
The world changed in my eyes, gentle and familiar.
That's my world...
That golden age of heroes. Every hero's soul is as bright as gold.
Then I witnessed the brokenness.
I know what people say about me. I am a devil who wants to destroy the world. I try to destroy reality and reshape a new world. I am a murderer who wants to murder hundreds of millions of people. I defeated the Justice League with overwhelming force and slaughtered those heroes who were admired and loved by people.
I let their warm blood splatter on my face. I am a butcher with blood on my hands.
I know, I know everything.
But...I do all those things for a reason.
Everything I did was to get them back... her back.
I was born in the Origin universe, where all superheroes are comic book characters.
My girlfriend Laurie was my world until the end.
I will always remember that bonfire party at the beach, but it was the first time I discovered my superpowers.
That night, I looked up at the sky all night, and I heard some strange noise, as if someone was calling my name high in the sky, as if someone needed my help.
So I jumped and fell.
I will never forget that first fall.
Laurie helped me up off the ground, she chuckled and said "Nice try, Superboy."
Yes...I think that's what she said at that time.
Her eyes contain all the beauty under the starry sky. Her kisses had a good smell and felt like an electric shock, no matter how many times they were kissed.
We walked together by the beach that night and we talked for hours about our fears, our hopes, the future we shared together, we talked about getting married, getting dogs, having children, even though I felt like there was something Dragging me, calling me.
Then I saw the meteorite.
I flew, I gained superpowers.
I flew into the night sky, where I met Superman, Clark Kent, who was also flying. He comes from another earth. I'd read in comics that there were infinite parallel Earths in the multiverse, I just didn't know that was all true.
I happily go with him to save the universe.
Everything I read about, everyone I read about I met in person, Superman told me that I had the power to help save all of reality from the various threats I'd been reading about for months.
And when we were fighting bloody battles, the multiverse collapsed into a single universe. I was not there at the time, but I knew that Laurie was dead, as well as my parents, my friends...
All gone.
I also never got a chance to say goodbye to Laurie.
I tried so hard to accept this fact...but a few years later, when I had the opportunity to resurrect Laurie, and everyone...
I have to give it a try.
I was in tremendous pain and I let it out.
Then I was forced to kill so many heroes that I turned into a monster.
This brings me to where I am now.
But you know what’s the funniest thing?
I've long since stopped caring.
I've seen a lot of people come and go.
Superman (the major event of "The Death of Superman"), Batman (Batman once "died" in "Final Crisis", but it was just an illusion), Green Lantern (in "The End of the Night", Hal once died together with the Sun-Eater) two Robin (Jason Todd, also known as the Red Hood, died in "Death in the Family", Superboy-Prime shattered reality with a punch and resurrected him)...
Some of them were even killed by me, but the timeline was restarted and they were all resurrected.
So...what does it matter?
Is there really anything else that matters?
I mean, the timeline always restarts, every few years, even faster and faster in the last two years. No one's choice has any meaning, because as long as time is restarted, everything before will be overthrown, and those things that have really happened will be overwritten by new history, and then become "never." What happened”.
So what significance does this history have?
I have no idea.
There is no point in those heroes fighting against me. Since timelines and history will always be rewritten, why can't I write a better ending?
When Chen Tao and Darkseid returned to Apokolips, they saw Superboy Prime sitting quietly on the top of a ruins, with demonoid corpses everywhere under his feet.
Bones piled up, blood flowed into a river, and countless green blood gathered into a pool of blood at Chen Tao's feet, flowing endlessly. Chen Tao weighed his feet and stepped on a demonoid that was still alive.
He could even feel the other person's muscles trembling in the soles of his feet.
He raised his head and looked at the Supreme Superboy standing at the top. He looked down at his opponent with his god-like indifference and aloofness.
Blood Slaughterer, who was supposed to completely control the opponent's mind, has now turned into a half-empty, half-real shadow. It is constantly gathering not far behind Superboy-Prime, coiling and spinning in mid-air like a snake. , but dare not approach the other party's body.
The Superboy Supreme in front of him had surprisingly used his own power to force the Blood Slaughter out of his body.
"No! Please! Don't push me away, you need me!"
The lamp beast of angry emotional energy is now like a drug addict addicted to flour.
It can't stop lusting after Superboy-Prime, but some huge deterrent still makes it afraid. It looks at Superboy-Prime from a distance and doesn't dare to take a step too far.
This may be because Superboy Prime has clenched his fist, or it may be because of the huge canyon that has appeared on Apokolips next to him and was forcibly blasted out by his fist.
Chen Tao guessed that Xuetu Niu must have been punched by Superboy Prime a few times just now. Even if the lamp beast is difficult to destroy, being hit by Superboy-Prime's fist is definitely not a fun experience.
In the multiverse, any god who can change reality, whether it is Perpetua or Dr. Manhattan, their changes to reality are based on various strange powers, such as crisis energy, anti-crisis energy, etc. wait wait wait……
But only Superboy-Prime is different.
He changed the universe purely through brute force, pure power.
So even if he doesn't return to his prime, his hit is significant.
Superboy-Prime's eyes focused on Darkseid's rocky face.
The Lord of Apokolips originally planned to maintain his signature expressionless face, but soon gave up.
He subconsciously raised his fist and raised it flat above his chest.
Superboy-Prime, who has regained his senses, is even more terrifying than when he was in a mad state. If the former was just a crazy beast, furiously attacking everything around him, now he is a willful child who lost his temper and broke the universe. , a child with his own hatred and joys and sorrows, which is far more terrifying than a beast that attacks everyone indiscriminately.
"Darkseid."
Superboy Supreme said, his eyes passing over the Lord of Apokolips and resting on Chen Tao:
"Batman."
Then he said concisely and concisely:
"I'm going to kill you all."
"If you have any idea, use it immediately, Batman."
Darkseid whispered to Chen Tao: "He is extremely dangerous now."
He looked at the calm face of Superboy Prime with fear. Darkseid, who always liked to act expressionless to intimidate others, finally met a calm face that was even more creepy than him.
Then he turned his head and saw Batman looking at him with a half-smile, and he couldn't help but feel annoyed.
"You still want me to make the first move? Do you still think I have reservations?"
Darkseid said:
"Don't be ridiculous. If I had the power to deal with Superboy-Prime, I wouldn't cooperate with you."
"You already had an idea in mind, didn't you? Darkseid. The first moment you saw me."
Chen Tao's body was entangled with black and red lightning, and the turtle and Gorilla Grodd groaned almost simultaneously in countless distant spaces.
As the red and gold figure appeared on the battlefield, Chen Tao stood in front of Darkseid.
And Darkseid cooperated very well and once again summoned the black runner. He cooperated so tacitly, as if he wasn't the one who just said I couldn't deal with Superboy-Prime.
Chen Tao carefully looked at the black runner standing quietly beside him.
It represents the inevitable death of life, and it is the specific aspect of the law of death. Just as the second sister of Death in the Endless Family represents death that frees mercy and sympathy, the Black Death Emperor represents the inevitable end of the universe and the ultimate opponent of living things.
But in previous battles, he still had difficulty breaking through Superboy-Prime's defenses. But at that time, Superboy-Prime was still going crazy, but now he had regained his composure. If Darkseid summoned it again, even with the cooperation of Batman Chen Tao, would it be able to do anything to Superboy-Prime? Hurt?
Chen Tao let out a sigh of relief.
He raised his head and looked into Superboy-Prime's crimson eyes.
"Superboy-Prime."
He called the other person by name and then said:
"I know what you want to do."
He said sincerely:
"I know how you feel. The ability to tamper with history and change the past at will is so fascinating, but once you use it, it is like opening Pandora's box. When you change the first time, you want to change the second time. I just want to do it a third time.”
"However……"
"There are so many things worth regretting in life, and they cannot be changed one by one."
He said: "Stop it before it's too late. This is my last advice to you."
"I……"
But before Superboy-Prime had time to speak, he saw the other person's face change into his own.
(End of chapter)
