redvbooks Chapter 203 The Flash Tied to the Batmobile
Chapter 203 The Flash Tied to the Batmobile
Chapter 203 The Flash Tied to the Batmobile (A long chapter of 5000 words, please read on, sob sob)
I am Grodd the gorilla.
I was born in the heart of Africa, near the Congo Basin.
There lies Gorilla City, my homeland. Because of a meteorite carrying the Speed Force, our race's thinking was accelerated by the Speed Force, granting us superhuman intelligence. As a result, we have worshipped the Speed Force as a god throughout the ages.
This was a foolish act. Our ignorant ancestors believed that lightning contained divine power; that was utter nonsense.
The so-called Speed Force is just a natural phenomenon, like water and fire.
If he doesn't approve of us, then the right thing to do is to take action directly... and take it back!
Grodd the gorilla stood atop the tallest building in the area, looking down at Midtown... the home of The Flash.
Blue skies and white clouds, a peaceful and serene world.
This is truly the most beautiful moment.
"Grud the gorilla thought."
People erected a statue of The Flash, a gleaming golden body with an inscription at its base.
People come and go, and countless people take photos under this statue, as if they are worshipping their god.
Grodd glanced at the bank not far across the street from the Flash Memorial, then turned his gaze to a coffee shop on the street.
He knew the weather wizard was there, with Elsa, whom he had already controlled, beside him. Not far away, the turtle man, along with Petty, was also ready.
Everything was leisurely, slow, and well-arranged.
Grodd the gorilla started to like the feeling.
Captain Cold and Heatwave began causing chaos in the streets, openly attacking a bank and then toppling a nearby Flash statue, plunging the streets into turmoil.
Just as I, King Gerudo, foresaw.
Gerud squinted, casually pulled a banana from his pocket, ate it, and then quietly threw the peel downstairs.
He didn't want his collaborators to find out he was eating a banana. The association of "gorilla" and "banana" could lead to some silly misunderstandings.
He hated being treated like a stupid monkey who could be appeased with bananas, but thankfully no one has ever dared to think that way.
Because he is King Gerudo, he wears a crown!
On the street, the Weather Wizard appeared as planned and engaged in a fierce battle with Captain Cold, who had attacked him. Upon seeing the former captain who had caused him to lose control of his superpowers at every turn, the Weather Wizard was instantly enraged, while Captain Cold, whose mind was completely controlled, also unleashed deadly attacks without any mercy.
Meanwhile, Grodd was still thinking about The Flash.
The giant gorilla, as tall as two people, rested its chin on its hand, like a melancholy young girl, lost in thought.
He kept his head down, ignoring everything he had designed below.
Those humans. They worship you so much, Flash.
They treat you like a god. But... I can always see through them...
Your deepest will.
Your darkest secret.
A secret you dare not tell your family and friends.
The real you...
He will always be the child who can't save his mother.
A young man unable to prove his father's innocence.
A man who has nothing but his job.
A person no one loves.
Barry Allen, your life has stagnated. Until you encountered the Speed Force... until you became the Flash!
The gorilla Grud saw the crimson runner sprinting towards him from a distance.
You have friends, you have the ability to catch the real killer of your mother, you have the opportunity to prove your father's innocence, you have everything...
Speed Force makes you unique; Speed Force gives you the life you've always dreamed of.
You conceal your abilities, cherishing them, because deep down you know...
Without the Speed Force, you're a piece of trash!
Gerud opened his mouth and grinned silently.
He saw the Turtle Man appear beside the Weather Wizard with the Flash's girlfriend, Patty, while the Flash was caught between Captain Cold and Heatwave.
He stood up.
From a distance of over a hundred meters, he controlled Elsa and delivered the lines he had prepared beforehand:
"You have no idea what the burden of responsibility comes with!"
"I killed my husband for the sake of this family!"
Gerud chuckled softly.
He had already prepared the script.
The other two members of the Rogues, Mirror Master and Golden Glide, have received the message he sent as Captain Cold, and all the actors are in place.
Once the Weather Wizard kills the Flash's girlfriend, the two will be sworn enemies, and at that point, nothing can be said.
He turned to look at the lightning rod beside him; the crazier Flash got, the less Speed Force this device could absorb…
"What? You killed my brother Claudio? Oh, I actually knew about that a long time ago."
Gerud suddenly froze.
"You've already done it, but we're family. Claudio is already dead, and I can't lose another family member. So, I'll just let this go."
?
Gruud felt his ape brain freeze for a moment.
call.
He shook his head, thinking quickly.
Because he needed the Weather Wizard's superpowers to completely spiral out of control, he dared not enter the Weather Wizard's mind. Firstly, he feared the Weather Wizard would become aware of his abilities, and secondly, since the Weather Wizard now relied entirely on emotions to unleash his powers, interfering with his thoughts could lead to various unforeseen consequences.
Therefore, he never considered the possibility that the weather wizard might know what Elsa had done.
This is terrible.
But then he heard something even more shocking.
"Actually, you don't know this, but from childhood to adulthood, I've always wished I were a girl."
?
"Wearing a short skirt, black stockings, and makeup, dressing up as a bunny girl to go to nightclubs to pick up rich guys is what I, Ma Dong, love to do most."
"Huh?" The gorilla Grodd opened his mouth wide, his expression exactly the same as the Flash's not far away.
"What did you say?"
The weather wizard below took off his clothes, revealing his bare upper body:
"Yes, yes, I am a pervert! I not only like wearing black stockings, but I also like taking my clothes off and kissing dogs' butts! But Claudio always stops me from doing it, and I've been annoyed with him for a long time. You killing him is practically my savior!"
Completely absorbed by what was below, the gorilla Grud was oblivious to the fact that in a nearby corner, through a smooth tile, the weather wizard crouching with Chen Tao in a mirrored space was going crazy.
"My reputation is completely ruined!" He blankly reached out and grabbed Chen Tao's collar, having already forgotten his fear: "I'm now infamous in Midtown!"
He clutched his head: "Sam!!! You never said Batman would let Mudface ruin my reputation like this!!! I shouldn't have used the fog halfway through and then sneaked away with you guys—I'll fight you!!!!"
He turned around and grabbed the Mirror Master by the neck, feeling as if his depression had been half cured.
Chen Tao ignored the weather wizard. He fired rapidly, his eyes gleaming white light, intently observing the basic structure of the lightning rod around Gerudo with his X-ray vision.
"Wow, this has nothing to do with me!!! My job was just to help that fake guy pretend to be the real one and then sneak up through the mirror dimension. Who knew that Batman's henchman, Clayface, would cause this mess?!"
Lightning began to flash in the weather wizard's eyes.
The golden glider nervously pulled out his stun gun: "Ma Dong, calm down!"
"Reason? What reason do you expect me to have?! I'm just—" But despite saying this, the weather wizard eventually calmed down.
"Wait!" But he paused, then suddenly realized and said, "Aren't there many people and news media down here right now?"
The Golden Glider and the Mirror Master exchanged a glance.
Then, in the next second, the man and woman acted simultaneously, striking with their clubs twice, knocking the weather wizard unconscious to the ground, and then skillfully splashing a bucket of water on his face.
"Have you calmed down? Have you accepted it?"
The weather wizard looked like his whole family had died.
Chen Tao turned to look at him.
The time gained by having Mudface act silly to distract Grud was not enough for him to figure out the lightning rod in front of him.
Even with Professor Darwin's help and the previously analyzed blood of the Flash, Barry Allen, it would be difficult for him to simply and crudely apply it to the high-tech equipment belonging to Gorilla City in front of him.
He needs someone to buy him more time.
So he looked at the weather wizard.
The weather wizard was also looking at him.
"Even if I die—"
"We just need to stall him for a little while," Chen Tao said. "Just a little while."
The weather wizard sighed. He turned to the golden glider: "How could the Rogue Gang cooperate with someone like that?"
Knowing he was in the wrong, the golden glider turned his head away, not daring to speak.
The Weather Wizard sighed again. As a member of the Rogues, one should obey the gang's assignments, just as Captain Cold always assigned the Magician to keep watch. No matter how boring or absurd the task, members of the Rogues must fulfill their duties; that is the meaning of teamwork.
The current acting leader of the Rogue Gang is the Golden Glider, and he must obey the leader's decisions.
Now the Golden Glider is making him listen to Batman.
So the Weather Wizard, pinching his nose and with a sour face, walked out of the mirror space. He deliberately spoke loudly behind Gerudo and said awkwardly, "I am... the Weather Wizard."
He took two deep breaths, and then, with great willpower, managed to deliver his lines:
"I've always liked being a girl since I was little."
The burly man with a full beard had barely finished speaking when he felt an urge to cover his face and flee.
Upon hearing this, Chen Tao immediately stopped what he was doing.
Perhaps he didn't explain clearly... His original intention was actually to send the weather wizard out to attack Gerudo, thus buying him more time to study Gerudo's machine, or even for Gerudo to create a storm to provide cover for him, allowing him to use nanobots to tamper with Gerudo's machine—
Instead of sending him out to replicate the deliberately bizarre content of the clay-faced characters!
However, judging from the gorilla Groud's stunned expression as he turned around, the goal of stalling for time had been achieved, so it wasn't a big problem.
Aside from the weather wizard's personal reputation.
"This is the weather wizard's personal behavior, it has nothing to do with me, it has nothing to do with me..."
The other party seemed to have made a great decision. If he told the weather wizard that he had made a mistake at this point, the other party might really lose control of his superpowers. Chen Tao decided to swallow his original plan and continue to devote most of his energy to seeing through the lightning rod machine.
The gorilla Grud steadied himself. He looked at the weather wizard posing preening in front of him: "You disgusting, perverted freak! But don't think I'll try to read your mind."
He said, "Someone told you beforehand that Elsa killed your brother... Was it Batman? Typical detective. Well then, I wouldn't be stupid enough to try to control you or read your mind."
Chen Tao's heart skipped a beat as he heard Gerud say:
"A friend of mine told me the specific details of Batman's fight against Brainiac. He has a kind of mental contamination specifically targeting telepaths, right? If I were to invade your mind, that would probably be exactly what he wants right now."
Chen Tao sighed. Gruud was quite cautious; he knew to gather intelligence before the battle.
Could his well-informed friend be Reverse Flash? Chen Tao hadn't forgotten him; at this moment, he, like Cisco and Catherine, was not on the battlefield.
Chen Tao had tricked the telepaths so many times before using the Joker's mindset, so this level of information had already been leaked. If Reverse Flash wanted to collect this information, he wouldn't be able to hide it from him at all.
It's a real shame, because he had already tampered with the Weather Wizard's mind. If Grodd dared to invade the Weather Wizard's mind, he could immediately connect to it remotely, and then he could immediately synchronize with the Joker, and the battle would be over.
"You guys go out too, Golden Glider, Mirror Master," Chen Tao said. "Try to stall Grodd as long as possible. The Flash is almost done with Captain Cold and Heatwave. If you guys work together, you should be able to hold out even longer."
No sooner had he finished speaking than The Flash appeared on the rooftop.
He stood beside the Weather Wizard: "To be honest, ever since I gained the Speed Force and witnessed superhumans like Superman and Batman, I thought nothing in this world could surprise me anymore."
His gaze lingered on Grud: "But I still never imagined that one day I would be fighting a talking gorilla!"
Then, in the next instant, he felt a wild beast roar in his mind, the pain almost causing him to collapse to his knees. But in an instant, his mind and brain accelerated at lightning speed, causing the pain from this mental shock to vanish in a mere half-second. So, to an outsider, he only appeared to stagger slightly.
Although Chen Tao was analyzing the lightning rod, he was also keeping a portion of his attention on the battlefield. This was a mental shock to Gerud; Gerud was now hesitant to enter other people's "homes" at will, but he could still easily throw stones at them.
Chen Tao released a small number of nanobots and began to secretly tamper with Gerudo's lightning rod.
The reverse lightning has still not appeared.
The weather wizard conjured a small blizzard in his hand, and the Speed Force began to swirl in Gerud's eyes. The Flash transformed into a bolt of lightning and charged directly at him, only to be struck in mid-air by the ape's mental attack, letting out a muffled groan as blood spilled from his mouth and nose.
A battle seemed imminent, but the next second...
"Grud, stop wasting your breath on these people."
Chen Tao was certain.
Speak of the devil and he appears; Reverse Lightning appearing in battle is the most reassuring thing.
He saw the yellow figure appear next to the lightning rod: "Activate it quickly!"
Ignoring Barry the Flash's astonishment, he pressed the lightning rod twice.
hum!
In an instant, everything stopped.
Time seemed to slow down like a snail... except for The Flash, Barry Allen.
The Flash looked down and saw that every pedestrian on the street was frozen in place, like an insect encased in amber.
He saw the condensed storm stagnate in the weather wizard's palm, his mouth still open, his slightly agape expression lifeless like a wax figure.
"Can you feel it, Flash?"
He heard Grud's voice.
The Flash whirled around: "What did you do?"
"That's a lightning rod, a technology you don't understand, Flash. It can create a supersonic field."
Groud strolled slowly, ignoring the weather wizard who was standing there, and walked towards the Flash.
"The Central City you cherish so much is now frozen, because all the Speed Force within it has been drained. All the inhabitants of Central City, including the love of your life, are trapped in this moment. And Batman, whom you considered your greatest asset—he cannot escape even in the Mirror Dimension."
Gorilla Grodd turned to Reverse-Flash: "You think I didn't suspect Batman was trying to spy on my equipment? But Batman is just an ordinary human without the Speed Force."
He said, "There's absolutely no way he could be in the Speed Field..."
"Idiot," he heard Reverse-Flash say. "You smart-but-foolish ape."
Reverse Lightning grabbed the lightning rod and kept channeling its Speed Force into it.
He turned the machine on too early; the device was supposed to draw more Speed Force from Barry.
But for now... it's enough.
The gorilla Grodd suddenly turned around and saw the Flash appear in front of Batman, who was crawling out of the mirror space like a snail.
The moment his hand touched Chen Tao's shoulder, Chen Tao was simultaneously accelerated to Barry's speed.
"No time for words, Barry," the Flash heard Batman say. "I only have one question for you. Do you trust me?"
“Of course, Mr. Wayne.” Barry’s gaze swept over the two dangerous enemies standing there. He nodded sharply, his eyes resolute. “We must join forces to fight them. Tell me, Mr. Wayne, what do you want me to do? Whatever you ask me to do, I will obey unconditionally.”
He said, "Even though you didn't tell me everything, you must have been prepared for this situation, right?"
"Yes."
Chen Tao nodded.
He whispered to Barry, "Quick, stand in front of me!"
He put his two feet together, and in a flash, they turned into wheels.
Barry stared intently at Chen Tao's feet, which had transformed into two wheels.
"Don't just stand there like an idiot!"
"oh oh!"
When Barry saw Reverse-Flash, now covered in red lightning, charging towards him, he immediately stood in front of Batman without hesitation, reaching out to try and block Reverse-Flash's attack.
Then the next moment...
Barry felt something hard pressing against his buttocks.
He glanced to the side and saw Batman, Mr. Bruce Wayne...
It turned into a Batmobile.
The Flash: ?
Then, in the next second, countless tiny mechanical cables extended from the front of the car, binding the Flash tightly.
The wheels turned, and with a whoosh, before Reverse-Flash's attack arrived, the Flash, who was strapped to the front of the car, and Chen Tao, who had transformed into the Batmobile, began to run.
(End of this chapter)