Crimson Embers Chapter 33 K Team: Final Assembly
It has been a week since Team K was disbanded. Although everyone was a little uncomfortable at the beginning, as the saying goes, only a crazy person would be willing to work if he can live without worries. Therefore, everyone quickly adapted.
Even Damian, who had always been reluctant, began to prepare for his own small business.
On the way to Blüdhaven from the outskirts of Gotham City, the young master drove while holding the steering wheel and looking at Barbara who was sleeping soundly in the passenger seat with his eyes squinted.
My girlfriend has been resuming her exercise these days and seems to be eager to return to her normal life.
Of course, the young master would secretly complain that Barbara's restorative training might be a preparation for participating in the "Battle for the Cape" which would start at who knows when. Although it was just a rumor among the Robins of the Bat Family, every Robin took it very seriously.
Although the eldest son has already gone solo, if Bruce is really determined to choose his successor in this way, he cannot stay out of it.
Grayson felt a headache at the thought of competing for the position of Batman with assholes like Jason and Damian.
Those guys used to hang out with Mason. God knows what kind of targeted training Mason has given them. If a fight really breaks out, I'm afraid I'll be the first to be eliminated.
Well, actually there is no need to be so pessimistic.
The major general leaned his hand on the car window. He thought that at the very least he could hold on a little longer than Tim. And if his fiancée wanted that status, wouldn't he have to give up his position?
Thinking of this, Grayson curled his lips and looked at Barbara again.
The sunlight outside the window shines on her long red hair, making this lovely girl look more gentle.
If he didn't know the truth, who would have thought that this little cutie who now has to use a wheelchair to walk was once a powerful hacker who dominated the world?
"If you look at me with that silly grin again, I'll punch you."
Barbara said suddenly with her eyes closed.
Obviously, the affectionate gaze from her fiancé woke her up from her light sleep. After all, he was the intelligence chief of Team K, so she should be a little vigilant.
"Are you sure you want to meet up with Starfire?"
The young master coughed, looked ahead and drove carefully, then asked in a low voice:
"Isn't this a bad idea? I've already said that she and I are just colleagues, and you're still weak. I think you should stay at Gordon's house and recuperate."
"Colleague relationship?"
Barbara sneered and said:
"So that alien woman sending you a swimsuit photo late at night was just a way for colleagues to show goodwill? I have to meet her and tell her something in a woman's way."
"It was just an accident."
The young master felt embarrassed.
He had nothing to say about this. He had clearly deleted the photo. Unfortunately, even without the help of the hacker prosthesis, Barbara could find those little clues with just a flick of her finger.
But the thing is, that was several months ago.
Grayson thought about it and decided to adopt the dove tactic, silently reducing his presence. Just as he was racking his brains to change the topic to something less sharp, Barbara's watch suddenly vibrated.
This sudden situation instantly broke the cold and creepy atmosphere in the car, and Grayson breathed a sigh of relief. However, when he noticed the change in Barbara's expression, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
This...can't be true?
"parking!"
Barbara sat up and said:
"I'm going back to Gotham. Ciri is resurrected, and there's news about Mason."
"Then what are you waiting for? I'll take you back."
The young master immediately drifted gracefully on the road, turned the front of the car back, and at the same time shouted in his heart, "Brother-in-law, you are so kind. You have spared me, your brother-in-law, from being executed on the spot today."
"It's too slow to drive back. You should go back to Blüdhaven by yourself. I'll find you when I'm done."
Barbara had no intention of taking the bus back.
She unzipped her thermal clothes on the chair, took out a suitcase from the side, opened the complex mechanical structure, kicked open the door of the moving car, and jumped up from the passenger seat.
The K team's standard portable anti-superman armor popped out of the briefcase and quickly covered the entire process. When Barbara was about to land, the foot thrusters were turned on to let her float in the air. He closed the car door and said to the young master:
"Don't even think about running away from a live execution! You'd better go back and deal with the things in your apartment that I shouldn't have seen... I won't stay there for too long."
"I've already said that I really don't have any."
Grayson hadn't finished changing his clothes yet when he saw his girlfriend speeding up into the sky.
He stopped the car angrily and walked to the trunk, intending to take out his Batmobile and follow him, but when he opened the door, he saw that the trunk was filled with various suitcases and packed gifts.
Those were all Barbara's belongings.
When he saw these boxes, the young master was startled and immediately understood what his fiancée meant before she left.
Alas!
A wonderful life of cohabitation is about to begin. It turns out that she is not really angry.
Ha, this woman’s mind is really hard to guess.
But his fiancée was running to save his brother-in-law, so how could he, as his future brother-in-law, stay out of it? So the young master quickly changed his clothes and called the other party:
"Jason? Did you get the message? Ciri is resurrected, and Mason has been found. Where are you meeting? I'll be there right away."
"What are you doing here?"
Ertong asked back in surprise and indifference:
"Are you a member of Team K?"
"I'm not, but..."
"If you're not here, then just stay here. This is an internal matter, so don't get involved. It's hard for you to follow our procedures without any training.
We are going to rescue people, not to travel. Isn't it too much to bring a burden with you?"
The second voice of Ertong was disconnected in the next second, which dealt a heavy blow to the young master's fragile heart. He did not think of himself as a burden, so he gritted his teeth and called Damian again.
"Hey, crazy guy, where are you guys meeting?"
He asked.
Damian was silent for a second, then said in a businesslike manner:
"This is Team K's internal secret. Sorry, I can't comment."
"Don't go too far!"
Grayson roared:
"I'm worried about him, too. I should follow your lead! We're all members of the Bat Family, so why are we engaging in team bullying?"
"You really want me to tell you the truth so you can understand what I mean, right?"
The little madman stretched out his voice and said:
"If you have nothing to do, why don't you go to Audisburg and stop a bank robbery there? You should know the rules of the Bat Family. Don't bring shame upon yourself, Grayson.
I'm busy, that's all."
He hung up the phone, which once again hit the young master's heart.
But Grayson snorted, took out a special instrument from his pocket and activated it. He looked at the three tracked red dots on the screen converging at the same place and said:
"Of course I know all the tricks that Robin can use. You forced me to do this! Why don't we start the battle for the cape from now on? Whoever can save Mason will win.
The game begins!
Well, I'll have to give Tim a call, too; I'm sure I could use his tracking skills."
…
"Snap"
The office door was pushed open, and the sweaty kite flyer Charles poked his head out. Seeing the office full of people, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
While muttering that he finally caught up, he walked into the office wearing beach shorts and flip-flops that were obviously vacation style, and sat next to Zha Kang in his pajamas while he winked at him.
"After Damian jumped through twelve dimensions in a row and ran back, where did you rush back from?"
The male wizard flicked a cigarette to Charles, and the kite man held it in his mouth, lit it, blew out a smoke ring, took a few breaths, and then answered:
"On the other side of the Earth, Tahiti activated four short-distance teleportations in succession, flying back at 27 times the speed of sound, and my flight armor almost ran out of fuel.
My son is still playing in the water over there foolishly. I have to get back before .
So what’s the situation now?”
"The situation is that Mason is in danger."
Bizarro regained his sanity through the blue kryptonite and said seriously:
"We have to wait for Ms. Xili to describe the specific information to us, but from what Miss Huazi said, it seems that she has sensed Mason's specific location from the life connection with Mason.
She can send us directly to the captain with a super long-distance transmission."
"The term life connection is strange, and it sounds like an amateur's term."
Zha Kang rolled his eyes and explained:
"That's the concept of shared existence between the two of them. Theoretically, Ciri is dead, and Mason gave her half of his life. Her current state is equivalent to Mason's pendant."
"No matter if there are any accessories or not, we just need to rush over and fight."
Damian said from the other side of the table:
"That's right, that's more reasonable. We just disbanded the team without any sense of ceremony. We should have one final fight together to say goodbye.
I am ready, how about you?
Barbara can't even walk properly now, so my suggestion is to leave her here to take care of Selina who is pregnant, and neither of them can go."
"Go ahead and tell me."
The second barrel stretched out his voice and said:
"You're not afraid that they'll pull out their guns and shoot you, so just go ahead and say that. If you expect them to calm down after something like this, then you're definitely overthinking it."
Just as they were discussing with each other, the office door opened again, and Ciri walked in quickly, followed by Selina. What reassured everyone was that Catwoman was not wearing her tights, which meant that she knew about the situation and did not intend to get involved.
But the bad news is that Barbara came along even in a wheelchair, and she even changed into her hacker uniform.
This time, he is using various technological devices on the wheelchair to adjust the flight posture of the smart drone following him.
"We're leaving soon!"
Ciri made the final decision and said to everyone in the office:
“I don’t know what happened to Mason in the distance, but I can feel that his danger perception has been sounding the alarm, which means that he must be in a very unsafe environment.
The values of the fifth impact are very different from the previous ones, which indirectly shows that there is something fishy going on in this impact. In fact, I think it is most likely related to Mason.
He is an amazing person who always finds his way into various situations.
Since we don’t know what kind of situation we will face this time, I ask everyone to be prepared to deal with a strong enemy, the more prepared the better! ”
"Don't worry about that, Master."
Zha Kang snapped his fingers, allowing magic power to flow throughout his body to complete the change of clothes, and he transformed from a terrible man in tattered pajamas into a super spellcaster wearing a robe and covered with magical weapons.
He said:
"Team K has its own traditions. We always treat every battle as our last. Although Mason took away a very professional manufacturing team and Team K's force has not been upgraded for ten days, we believe that we can still face a bad situation.
The only thing I am worried about now is whether you, who have just been resurrected, have enough control to accurately deliver us to Mason?
As we all know, when it comes to saving lives, the faster and more accurately the better."
"I'm sure!"
Xili replied without hesitation. She looked at Zha Kang and said:
"Also, I'm no longer the Grand Master, so please call me Ciri, thank you."
"Okay, Master."
Zha Kang grinned and asked again:
"But considering the danger of this trip, I still suggest that we bring more people. Apart from anything else, we should at least bring all the Kryptonians with us, right? Zod and Kara are flying this way, and the three bosses of the Ultimate K Team also need to be called over."
At this point, Zha Kang squinted his eyes and looked at the group of people at the table. He said very dissatisfiedly:
"What are you still standing there for? The orders have been given, get to work, everyone!"
"When is it your turn to give orders?"
Damian said unhappily:
"Giving orders and the like, even if Mason isn't here, it should be Barbara who does it."
"I'm already useless, let the scumbag Kang come."
Batgirl, who was sitting in a wheelchair, waved her hand and said:
"Anyway, he is actually one of the backup captains chosen by Mason, and there is nothing wrong with these orders. Let's get to work! Mason is waiting for us."
Twenty minutes later, the sneaky eldest master and Tim Drake, who had received the news, broke into the meeting room, but the room was empty.
"Ah, we still came up empty-handed."
Tim said somewhat disappointedly:
"Compared to this group of monsters, our two original Robins are really not that good. How about we forget it? There are many footprints here, proving that they did not act alone. I suspect that most of the K Corps has already gone there. They are a very trustworthy force. What's more, I found traces of at least three supermen in these footprints."
"So, you've decided to give up before the battle for the cape even begins?"
The young master was not discouraged. While observing the traces left in the conference room, he turned on his bat communicator and dialed a number.
He said to Tim:
"Look for them. It would be best if we can locate their whereabouts. They are Mason's reinforcements, and we are their reinforcements. Use your brain, Tim. Just like all of Batman's countermeasures, we can't just have one layer of insurance... Barry? Are you busy now? Come over to my place. I need your help with Mason's matter."
"Shua"
As soon as Grayson finished speaking, a red figure appeared beside him. Xiao Shan stuffed the taco in his hand into his mouth and said:
"Finally there's news? That's great, we've all been worried about him."
"Don't be so happy yet, we have to find them first."
The elder said:
"We need to be the aid of Team K, so we need something very powerful. Can you open a speed force channel to other dimensions safely when this impact occurs?"
"It certainly wouldn't have worked in the past."
Xiao Shan moved his hands and feet and answered:
"But there is an Eye of Spacetime that extends to every dimension, and the Speed Force flows through it, so as long as I have the exact coordinates, I can send us all there.
But is it okay with just us?"
"If they needed to call for help, Team K would have already called. The fact that they didn't alert anyone else shows that they don't want to escalate the situation. So let's just go, three of us!"
The young master let out a long sigh and said:
"The significance of reinforcements lies not in quantity but in timing. Mason has always led us before, and now it's our turn to repay him."
