Chapter 2414: Battle for the Cloak (I)
Chapter 2445: The Battle for the Cape (I)
"President Bruce Wayne was assassinated - the most horrific large-scale terrorist attack in American history! Please listen to our detailed analysis below..."
"At about 2:30 a.m. yesterday, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by terrorists, and President Bruce Wayne, who was working, was unfortunately killed. The spokesman of the U.S. Congress said that this was an extremely terrible terrorist act that could never be tolerated."
"The Daily Planet exclusively reported that corpses frequently appeared on the streets of various places on the East Coast. It was confirmed that most of these suddenly appearing corpses wearing tights were street heroes from various places, and the cause of death was currently unknown."
From the street screens that kept lighting up in the bustling commercial streets to the flashing TVs in the window shops, countless news reports were repeating a terrible and sad news that their best president ever, Bruce Wayne, died in an unspeakable terrorist attack.
With a click, Jason pressed the remote control, and the TV screen was switched to another program, but the news banner below continued to broadcast the news of the president's assassination.
Several Robins from Schiller's universe stood in front of the TV and watched the news seriously. Before Bruce went on a business trip to the dark universe, he specially handed over several Robins from his side to the Batman of the Arkham world. They have been here for a while.
During this time, they actually did not interact much with the Batman of this universe, because the Batman of the Arkham Knight universe has become president and has been rated as the best president in the history of the United States in just a few months.
It is certainly not easy to achieve such results, so the Batman of the Arkham Knight universe has been very busy recently. Except for the Robins chatting with this Batman when they first came here, there has been no communication.
On the contrary, Nightwing, Red Robin, Barbara, and even Jason the Arkham Knight of this universe have a good relationship with them. Although several Robins don't understand why these people don't live in Wayne Manor, they still often get together to eat and chat, or maintain equipment.
Bruce's Robins also have their own equipment, because they have grown up, Dick is in high school, Jason and Tim are in junior high school, although Bruce did not teach them any fighting skills or tactical thinking, but he did get them a lot of strange equipment.
These include but are not limited to the small version of the Ark reactor that Bruce made in his spare time, and a set of nano-folding arm armor that he drives, a staff from Kamar-Taj, a small freezing pistol that can freeze people in dense ice, a small Darkseid near-ground defense team spacecraft, a lot of usable yellow and green light rings, feathers dropped by Michael and Uriel, etc.
What? You ask about those equipment with the title of Bat? It can only be said that the only Bat equipment Bruce has left is the Bat armor and a few bat darts that are only worth watching.
The Robins just finished reading the analysis of the terrorist attack by the Minister of Defense, and the mobile phone on the coffee table rang.
"Hello, this is Barbara. I am communicating with you in the clock tower base. I will soon connect the other three lines. Their code names are Nightwing, Arkham Knight and Robin. Please call me Prophet."
"Okay, ma'am, but I don't think we need to hide our names. I believe this communication line is safe." Dick said.
"I am trying to build a firewall with artificial intelligence." Tim quickly tapped the computer and said, "But I am not a very professional hacker. This is the artificial intelligence that Bruce used to calculate the Gotham building renovation plan. Its specialty is calculation, not security protection, but it is probably enough."
"Thank you very much for your help, Mr. Drake."
"Just call me Tim, Madam Prophet, I believe you have collected all the information about the assassination of the president. Can you briefly talk about the important situation?"
"Okay." Barbara said on the other end of the communicator: "I guess you are packing your equipment. They just received a communication message from the fighting ring system. This time we will have many powerful helpers, and they are on the way."
"Before you are ready, I will try my best to get all the information. The information from the sources is collected and refined, but it has not been fully completed so far, and there are no clues to the truth, but I can take this opportunity to tell you what happened. "
"At 2:32 am last night, a major explosion occurred on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol. At that time, a photography team was shooting a promotional video for the upcoming National Day, so they filmed the explosion. Judging from the performance of the explosion, the detonation point should be in the corridor on the right, where the President's office is located. "
"Within three hours after the explosion, various systems were constantly spreading news to calm the public's panic, and at 6 o'clock this morning, the U.S. Congress and the Federal Bureau of Investigation jointly issued a death notice, officially announcing the death of the current U.S. President Bruce Wayne to the world. "
"How did they report the murderer?"
"They only emphasized that they would arrest the murderer as soon as possible, but they didn't mention his identity, not even a guess. Nightwing and I think this is extremely abnormal."
"What bad news." Jason said as he zipped up his jacket, "But I think we will have more bad news soon."
"Don't be so pessimistic." Dick said to him, "I don't think Batman is really dead. This may be his plan."
"In addition." Barbara's voice with an electric sound came again, "In the footage shot by the promotional film shooting team, Superman appeared behind the exploding Capitol. In just a few seconds of video, he can be seen flying towards the Capitol at the fastest speed, but he fell."
"I processed the footage specially and magnified it about 60 times, and found that there was an extremely small luminous object, like a sharp sword, hitting Superman's chest."
"Just this one time?"
"Just this one time." Barbara La gave a positive answer and said: "Superman showed great pain and fell almost immediately. During the fall, he still tried to fly towards the Capitol, but failed."
"Where is he now?"
"No one knows." Barbara's tone lowered and said: "He is missing, but we can confirm that he is still alive. When Superman came to Gotham, Batman had monitored his physical condition. His powerful and incredible body is almost indestructible."
Jason's uneasy premonition became stronger and stronger. He said: "The body cannot be destroyed, so what about the soul?"
"I'm sorry, I don't know much about this." Barbara could only say this: "But if you have any guesses, you can tell us."
"This may be another bad news."
"We are never afraid of bad news." Another voice appeared in the channel, and it was obviously Nightwing from the Arkham Knight universe.
"Well, if this terrorist attack is aimed at Batman, then I think the situation can still be controlled, because this may be his political enemies, or some extremists who created the accident."
"But the news reports say that many superheroes have died one after another, Superman was attacked, and his whereabouts are unknown, so we can infer that the other party is targeting all superheroes in this universe."
"There are too many superheroes, and the ideas they uphold, the scope of their activities, and the people they have been friends with or offended are completely different. Who would indiscriminately target all of them?"
This question made the channel silent for a while, but soon Robin connected to the channel and said: "Even the craziest criminals in Gotham will not indiscriminately target all heroes in a city. If someone does this, it means that he hates superheroes very much, and it also means that he is extremely evil."
"An explosion is not enough to kill Batman." A deep voice sounded in the channel. Obviously, Arkham Knight joined in. He said: "Even if he is not wearing bat armor and does not carry any equipment, after becoming president, he has arranged protective measures in all areas where he often moves. It is not an ordinary explosion that can break it. '
"That's right, kid, this explosion is not ordinary." A shrill voice suddenly interrupted: "Batman was not defeated by this explosion, but by another more evil thing."
All members of the Bat Family were stunned. Barbara raised her voice and said, "Who are you? How did you join our channel?"
"The firewall is fine." Tim said immediately: "This guy seems to have been here all the time, he even joined earlier than us."
"Who are you?" Dick said: "What is your relationship with Batman?"
"Of course I came earlier than you." The voice "But it doesn't matter. Batman is in big trouble now. He is not dead yet, but he is dying soon."
Everyone stood up, and Nightwing's voice revealed deep worry, "Where are you? How do you know all this?"
"Of course you know where I am. Not long ago, each of you hugged me."
Everyone in the channel was silent for a second, but Barbara suddenly said, "Jason! Your big doll!!"
Footsteps and rustling sounds were heard from the other end of the Arkham Knight's communication channel. It was obvious that he was looking for something.
"Aha! Congratulations on finding me!" The voice in the gap came from the Arkham Knight's channel again, and it seemed a little vague because of the distance.
Soon they heard a bang, as if something fell heavily to the ground, followed by crackling, and Arkham Knight's screams and curses.
"Jason, Jason, are you okay?" Barbara kept asking.
After about dozens of seconds, Arkham Knight returned to the communication channel and said breathlessly: "I caught him. Damn it, I don't know how to describe it, he's like a bat doll that has turned into a spirit!"
"I just want to hide in the bat doll and give you a hug, but I'm not a doll. My name is Bat-Mite, and it's nice to meet you!"