socalfunplaces Chapter 609 The Call of the Fifth Dimension
Chapter 609 The Call of the Fifth Dimension
Chapter 609 The Call of the Fifth Dimension
The magicians waited listlessly.
They are waiting for Batman to have his "moment of need" as they've said.
Before Bane and the retro Wonder Woman left, he made them all drink that can of green Joker Venom.
"There's nothing to hesitate about, everyone."
Bane said, "I know you may be a little wary of me. Maybe I'm not a good person in this universe, but believe me, in all my years as Batman's sidekick, I've met many of my own alternate universe counterparts, and they certainly weren't good people either."
Bane waved his hand in front of his face: "Cruel, violent, cunning, and vicious—there's even a Bane from a parallel universe who wants to break Batman's back! How terrifying!"
This is a lie.
Bane is full of nonsense. He has never been to any parallel universes with Batman, nor has he ever met any counterparts.
"You would never believe that in some parallel universe, Lois nearly wiped out the Justice League... and there's even a universe where Superman and Batman help each other raise their kids (i.e., The Amazing Twins)! Can you imagine?"
"This is just a precaution," Bane said. "Batman prepared it for you. If you encounter danger, this medicine will protect your minds and prevent you from being poisoned by the Emperor Joker. The effects are long-lasting; Batman originally told you to take it later, but due to unforeseen circumstances—"
Bane gestured slightly to Wonder Woman beside him, then continued, "So you two would be better off having some drinks now."
He spoke for a long time, and then the final, decisive statement was:
"Even if you don't believe me, Batman still gave me the drug in front of me. Don't you trust Batman?"
Fortunately, these mages from the magical world had never actually seen the Dark Knights. Humans cannot simply imagine things they've never seen before. If they had never seen what a mad Batman looked like, they would easily be moved by this statement.
In short, they have done so now, and after drinking it, everyone felt a churning in their stomachs, but on the surface, they didn't feel anything strange.
They sat quietly for a while; some mages began to meditate, while others took out potions to prepare for battle. After exchanging pleasantries, the scene gradually quieted down, and no one spoke any more nonsense.
But at that moment, the quiet environment was broken by Lady Shangdu's voice.
"Something's not right. Why am I sensing a hint of the power of decaying black and the power of the red of all living beings...?"
"There's still some metal spirit..." Phantom Stranger and Doctor Fate, who were standing nearby, gradually noticed as well. They both stood up: "It seems like there's a bit too much added. We didn't have time to look closely when we were drinking it. Now I have a bad feeling about this."
These mages from Queen Hecate's world gradually began to feel that something was amiss.
Retro-style Zatana clutched her stomach: "Is there poison in this pot of green soup? I'm vomiting, Natana..."
He was about to use Zatanna's vomiting magic to expel everything he had drunk when suddenly, the screen in the hall they were in displayed the words Batman had left behind:
"Don't vomit. Sensing other magical forces is normal. Otherwise, how could he resist the power to alter reality?"
The mages exchanged bewildered glances. They all thought it was utter nonsense, because magic wasn't something you could just conjure up on a whim; what Chen Tao said was complete rubbish.
The problem is that this involves the power of five-dimensional beings.
No one at the scene had ever seen a five-dimensional being.
If someone tells you about a perpetual motion machine, you'd probably think they're talking nonsense. But if they claim to have some kind of cosmic energy core or something you don't understand as a variable, you might not be so sure they're a fraud.
"Batman has said that, so let's see what he can actually do in the end," Captain Marvel Shazam said.
Even as a magic warrior, among the many mages present, he was undeniably the worst in terms of magical skill, and almost no one took the little brat's opinion seriously.
"Female fox, what do you think... wait, where did the female fox go?"
(Note: The superhero vixen is a user of the Crimson of All Beings and a magical superhero.)
Hawkman from Queen Hecate's world said, "I sensed a little bit of the power of the Crimson of All Beings. You're right, this is a complete mess. We only saw the green and subconsciously assumed that the person who made this was making Venom, and he wanted us to think that."
He clicked his tongue. "There's way too much stuff added to this. What exactly is Batman trying to do? Haha."
He suddenly laughed twice, his voice rough and deep, sending chills down one's spine.
"No way, Batman's Joker potion is working?" another mage, Zatana, said.
As she spoke, the enormous ornaments under her earlobes swayed slightly, and she followed behind Hawkman, unable to suppress her laughter as her shoulders shrugged.
"Haha, ha...it works pretty quickly, hahahahaha! But, but the problem is, what...what's the point of making us laugh?"
Before Zatana could finish speaking, she was already laughing so hard she couldn't catch her breath and couldn't even speak anymore. She sat in her chair, laughing wildly, but a look of fear suddenly appeared in her eyes.
She desperately turned her head to look at Hawkman, then met his eyes behind the mask as he laughed maniacally. They read the same terror and horror in each other's eyes.
Zatana suddenly waved her hand, intending to overturn a plate of pastries and a water glass on the table to warn her colleagues, but before she could even finish the movement, she was remotely controlled by some unseen force, and the action of overturning the table was changed to lightly pounding the table, which to others looked like an ordinary physical action of hitting something because she couldn't stand the laughter.
The crisis that Zatana truly wanted to express was completely concealed and vanished without a trace in this action.
"Will this be enough to defend against the Emperor Joker's attack? Won't we have to keep laughing until the Emperor Joker attacks? We'll laugh our jaws off!"
As Captain Marvel Shazam spoke, she was completely oblivious to the terror in Hawkman and Zatanna's eyes.
The next person to start laughing was Lady Shangdu. She was probably one of the earlier people to drink the potion, so it seemed like the effects of the potion took effect earlier? Captain Marvel Shazam scratched his head; he had almost forgotten the order in which everyone drank the potion.
The other mages stared at Lady Shangdu, seeing that she seemed about to say something, but were uncontrollably dragged into laughter.
"Hey everyone, does anyone else think something's not right?" The remaining mages who hadn't been laughing looked at their colleagues who had started laughing wildly, and suddenly one of them belatedly said, "This isn't right. For mages, the most important thing is being able to chant incantations. If we can't chant incantations, then we're no different from ordinary people."
The speaker was Phantom Stranger, one of the older mages in the group, while the other two older mages, Doctor Fate and Lady of Shangdu, had already begun to laugh.
Doctor Fate started laughing the instant he stood up. He had originally intended to jump, but the act of bursting into laughter caused him to jump into the air and then crash to the ground with a thud.
He looked like he was desperately trying to do something, but it was all in vain; he couldn't even cast a single spell.
At this point, apart from the idiot Shazam, most people began to realize that something was amiss.
Superhero White Dove suddenly jumped up from her seat, her heart filled with coldness.
First, he took down Hawkman because he could use a hammer made of N metal, a metal with anti-magic properties, one of the five metals that Barbatos used to turn the main universe's Batman into a doorway.
He was the biggest threat, followed by Zatana, who possessed the magic of irony, and Lady Shangdu, one after another.
The mastermind behind the attack ranked everyone present according to their level of threat, and then, like a precise scalpel, began to harvest from the most dangerous people. Before most people could react, they had already become fish on a tray.
"what!"
The Phantom Stranger roared, powerful magical energy about to erupt from his body; even without time to chant an incantation, he still…
But it was too late. He collapsed to the ground laughing wildly, and then an invisible force entangled with the new god Orion, Darkseid's biological son, who had been sent to the new planet of creation as a hostage during his childhood and raised by the Heavenly Father.
One wizard after another fell to the ground. If they had organized a counterattack as soon as they discovered the danger, the outcome might have been slightly different. But at first, everyone thought that the maniacal laughter was actually caused by Batman's drug, so no one reacted immediately.
When they realized what had happened, even the most powerful mages among them were silenced by unstoppable laughter, unable to utter a single word.
Now, they don't even know who attacked them.
Batman? Why is there no reason? Batman helped them save their world and defeat Queen Hecate. Why would he go to such lengths to lure them here, only to attack them on the spot?
Could it be Bane? That makes even less sense. They witnessed firsthand how Bane and Batman worked together, so how could he suddenly betray them?
In the corner of the room, a large lump of mud suddenly and rapidly revealed its true form. A large number of mechanical components made of metal spirits burst out of his body. Soon, three energy cannons stood up behind the mud face, and all sorts of weapons emerged from his body, arming the mud face to the teeth in an instant.
In this specially enhanced state, Mudface carries the power of the Metal Spirit, making it terrifyingly strong. It might even possess the power to withstand Superman's full-force attacks for a short period of time without being killed...
Of course, he's not Superman the Ultimate, but at most a powerful parallel universe superhero like Superman, but he's still a sufficiently strong fighting force.
At this moment, Mudface, while maintaining his heavily armed state, lunged directly at Hawkman.
He needs to steal Hawkman's hammer and then hit Hawkman on the head with it.
This was certainly not meant to knock the opponent unconscious, but rather to use the destructive magic of the N metal to try and break the restraints imposed on the numerous mages by the unknown attacker... Whatever those restraints were, they were very likely magic.
Zatana's laughter continued, her mind a complete blank.
Batman had never mentioned to them that they would encounter such a problem, which seemed to be completely unexpected for Batman.
The fact that the enemy was able to invade this place means that Batman pretended to send them back to his own universe, but secretly kept them here, and was planning something else. All of this was part of the plan of some bystander.
The entire bat-shaped aircraft started up in an instant, and a large number of metal components and weapon kits emerged from the walls, flying continuously toward Mudface.
Numerous tentacles grew from his body and connected to the entire spaceship, making him appear incredibly ferocious.
He snatched Hawkman's hammer and was about to swing it at Hawkman's head when an invisible force propelled his massive body, smashing him against the wall like a lump of mud with a loud bang.
puff!
A piece of mud-faced body tissue exploded and landed in front of Zatana, twitching slightly.
Damn it, damn it. This is terrible. Mudface looks like a backup plan Batman left here to make sure things don't go wrong.
But now, this guarantee seems to be useless.
Uncontrollably laughing wildly, Zatana frantically turned her head, staring intently at the enemy who was about to appear at the door. She knew that everything was now settled, and at this moment, the enemy should usually appear.
They always do that.
The door opened.
Zatana watched as the vixen calmly walked in. As usual, she took three steps at a time, swaying her hips seductively, and walked to her seat, where she slowly sat down.
Immediately afterwards, black smoke rose from her body.
In an instant, he reverted to his original form: an overly thin man wearing a dark eye patch resembling a spiked collar, two pointed bat ears on his head, dressed in a Batman suit, with a wide smile beneath his pale skin.
Zatanna knew who this Batman really was.
"Ha ha ha ha ha, maniacal laughter... the Bat of Maniacal Laughter... you..."
"Oh, is there anyone who can actually speak in complete sentences these days?" The Bat Who Laughs looked down at Zatana, who was laughing incessantly, and then clapped his hands, and Zatana stopped laughing.
Everyone stopped laughing; they stood up in silence and surrounded the laughing bat.
"Very good, very good, ahahaha, my dear companions~" said the Bat of Laughter. "Sit tight, seatbelts on, everyone, it's time to join my ranks."
The mud-faced figure, pinned to the wall, tried to move, but the laughing bat slammed it against the wall again with a single hand.
Beside the Laughing Bat, a pink, five-dimensional imp named "Thunder Sprite" stood loyally at his side.
The Laughing Bat walked to the control panel inside the spaceship's cabin.
"Let me see... a magical ritual that enhances power with Zatana's ironic magic as its core? Like the one used with Zatana?"
(Note: Zatara is Zatana's father. Constantine tricked him into participating in a magical ritual to fight a giant beast, which resulted in the death of Zatana's father. Constantine always causes the deaths of those around him. This incident became the biggest rift between him and Zatana, and they were almost enemies at one point.)
The Bat Who Laughs commented, "A clever move, and it certainly works on five-dimensional beings. But now, it's all mine."
He smiled and said, "Everything is going according to my plan, The Laughing Bat."
Oh, of course, the most urgent task is to check the brains of everyone on site.
Especially Mudface. The Bat Who Laughs needed to know if things were as he thought; he needed to figure out if the memories in these people's minds matched his deductions.
This is the final step in convincing the Batman Who Laughs of something.
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The world of Reverse Lightning.
Chen Tao pressed the headset, and Bane's somewhat urgent voice came through: "Batman, I just left the spaceship, but now I can't contact the sorcerers anymore."
"Where's the life support spaceship I told you to put away?"
"After being shrunk by Brainiac's shrinking light, I was stored in the space you opened for me with the Green Light Ring."
"Bring them out now. That thing should be able to keep you safe."
"But I'm talking about the monks; they've lost contact!"
"understood."
Bane only heard Batman say this calmly.
(End of this chapter)