Volume 4: The Last Day Chapter 49 Damian: First Lesson of Freshman Orientation
In the lobby of the Justice League's watchtower, Captain Jack, who stayed here, could still hear the sounds of fighting and Zack's screams coming from the lounge not far away.
And the low roar of some strange creature.
It seems that even with the temporary kryptonite, it is not easy to defeat the Kryptonian girl. Or is Zack Kang using Kara, the Kryptonian warrior, to test the power of the new weapon he has?
In short, the noise was not right, which made the pirate captain, who had been in a bad mood recently, curl his lips.
He looked down at the young black man lying at his feet and the white-haired professor who looked elegant. He took out the healing potion and couldn't help but said to Damian who was dragging Barbara beside him:
"You naughty boy! You're too ruthless, aren't you? Look at the way you cut him with the knife. You almost cut his arm off."
"You have no idea of Firestorm's combat power, pirate."
Damian, wearing a domino eyepatch, said rudely:
“Jex is just an impulsive black kid, but when he and Professor Stein become one through the Firestorm Matrix, his impulses and fighting spirit can be controlled and guided by his wise mind.
In order to defeat them I had to find a way to separate them, so it was impossible for me to hold back.
And it just looks miserable.”
Damian glanced at the Teen Titan in front of him, scoffing at the injuries he had inflicted on the young Black, and said:
“As long as they are re-integrated, all injuries will be healed.
These guys who rely on superpowers to fight are so unreasonable, but fate is fair. Their power is given to them, and they don’t know how to use this gift at all.
And their so-called 'luck' is nothing compared to the skills and strength I have acquired through countless trials and tribulations."
"Your idea is exactly the same as Bruce's. Should I say that you two are worthy of being father and son?"
Barbara complained to Damian while sitting in a wheelchair:
"Also, I heard that Grayson has been trying to get you to join the Teen Titans. Even if you are not interested in their recruitment, there is no need to respond so strongly, right?"
"Shut up!"
Damian snorted, put the samurai sword back into the scabbard behind his back, crossed his arms and said:
"This time, your captain Mason personally asked me for help. Otherwise, do you think I would waste my time playing games with a bunch of half-grown kids? They keep saying they want to pursue justice, but they don't even know what the Justice League is doing!
They blindly worship those heroes but I don't see them taking any real necessary actions, it's like they're just playing house.
And your boyfriend Dick Grayson...
He was supposed to be Batman's best sidekick and part of Gotham's lore of terror.
However, he indulged in depravity. Not only did he leave his mentor, he also ran away to an unknown small town and even hung out with a group of kids under the guise of "guidance".
I didn't see any Rise of the Teen Titans, I just saw that perky-assed guy hanging out with a flirty alien woman.
Tsk tsk, Barbara, what's wrong with you?
Isn't your charm enough to seduce Grayson to be devoted to you? Why do you let a lowly alien woman interfere in your relationship?
Would a distressed alien princess also admire the buttocks of an earthly man? "
"Snap"
A light bulb above Damian's head suddenly exploded, and the noise startled Damian. Then he saw the halo of the Batgirl's eyes in the wheelchair turned into a dangerous dark red.
Barbara stared at him as if he were dead, and said quietly:
"I have to remind you that we are now in a space station built with various high-tech equipment, and the program I am running has already taken control of the defense system of the watchtower.
We are now nearly a thousand kilometers above the ground...
If you dare to say one more word about my relationship with Grayson, I will throw you out of here! With just one command, you won't even feel the pain, you annoying Damian.
I promise!"
"I don't bother to say more about them."
Damian snorted, crossed his arms, looked at Jack who was treating the wounded, and said:
"What about your mission? Didn't you say you were here to rescue a useless team member? In my opinion, you should just throw him out of space. There can't be any weak links in a qualified team."
"Hey, kid!"
The tone of being in charge made the old team members very unhappy. Captain Jack took a sip of wine and scolded:
"Don't even mention that you haven't joined yet. Even if you did join, you'd still be a junior. You keep saying that you want to do the right thing to prove yourself, but you can't even imagine what we've been through.
No matter how ruthless you are, it cannot prove how strong you are.
Any pirate on my ship is more ruthless than you, but so what? We still lost miserably, and even lost our own world..."
"Okay, Jack, I know you've been in a bad mood lately, but don't get angry with that naughty kid with a good background."
At this time, Zha Kang pushed open the door of the lounge and stepped forward to stop the dispute.
He was unharmed, holding the still glowing Slytherin locket in his hand, and behind him, the second barrel was carrying the unconscious supergirl Kara Zor-El.
The latter was wearing the same classic red and blue suit as Superman, but he was not wearing any underwear but a red miniskirt.
There were no wounds on her body. It seemed that Zha Kang had used temporary kryptonite and magic to subdue this difficult but seriously inexperienced Kryptonian girl.
"Boy, you are awesome."
Old Gunscum Kang glanced at Damian who had caused public outrage. He sneered, blew a puff of smoke and said to Damian:
"Just because Mason needs your help doesn't mean you can take advantage of him. You see, you dare to confront others because you know they are all good people and won't do anything to you.
But if you've heard the story of Lord John, you'd better learn your lesson.
Brother Mason, who can protect you, is not here now.
I have the final say here.
Understand?"
Damian, who was stubborn and fond of picking fights, wanted to retort, but Ertong came over with a man and slapped him on the back of the head, suppressing all his retorts.
It’s strange to say, Damian is fearless and even dares to play tricks on the master, but he is very afraid of Ertong.
Maybe it was really as Ertong said. During his time in Nandarbat, he probably beat this naughty kid so much that it left him with some psychological trauma.
“Next stage!”
Zha Kang glanced around and saw that all the people who needed to be taken away were in place, so he winked at Barbara in the wheelchair. Batgirl nodded and touched her forehead lightly to connect to the main control program of the watchtower.
After a few seconds, she said:
“John, take Jack and the two barrels down the road in front of you. I will help you open the doors. Just go through the doors that will open automatically.
Charles was imprisoned at the bottom.
Once you have rescued him, I will show you the way to the prison area of the Watchtower, where everything we seek is stored."
"And you?"
Ertong asked, and Barbara pointed to the ground and said:
"I'll stay here. Ultra needs my help to physically access the database core area of the watchtower. Cyborg's desperate struggle has just physically disconnected the network there.
Don't worry about me, Jason.
Damian will protect me."
"It's him I'm worried about."
Ertong glanced at the unconvinced rice and whispered:
"This little lunatic was brought up by Lei Xiaogu, so it's no surprise that he did something crazy."
"Don't underestimate me."
Batgirl pouted and said:
"I have participated in two K-Team wars and survived unscathed, Jason. Little Damian's skills are no match for me.
Now that Ultra controls the entire Watchtower, I am safer here than in Gotham.
Like I said just now, if this kid dares to do something bad, I will throw him into outer space from any vent. John is right, Mason, the only one who can protect him, is not here now.
It is understandable that a small "mistake" would occur during such a dangerous mission."
After saying these words that were intended to intimidate Damian, Barbara extended her hand and pointed forward.
The hatch in front that was originally blocked suddenly slid open to both sides, and the sharp alarm sound also quieted down at this moment.
With a blue light flickering in her eyes, she accepted the delegation of authority from Ultra, and within a few seconds she had taken over all the surveillance cameras in the entire watchtower. After switching the internal defense system to friendly mode, the road to the Kite Man's cage became smooth sailing.
“This little gadget is really amazing.”
Blowing smoke rings, Zha Kang played with the Slytherin pendant in his hand and said to Barbara:
"A tiny chip inserted into any port can paralyze the entire headquarters of the Justice League. It's like data magic.
Alas, I am beginning to regret not studying hard when I was in school, and ended up embarking on the path of magic. "
"Stop it, John."
Barbara rolled her eyes and said:
"Since I met Judy, I would study hard with her hacker manual every night before going to bed. It took me three whole days just to decipher the program instructions that Otto left in my mind.
This thing requires not only talent but also hard work.
You are really not suited to this line of work.”
"Ha, just kidding, girl."
Zha Kang rubbed his hands, and strode into the passage in front of him with Ertong and Jack. Before entering the gravity elevator, he instructed Barbara:
"Remember to help us open the 'Justice League Treasury' later. It's a shame to leave empty-handed after coming here with so much difficulty. After all, the 'technical support' from the Next Life Team is not free ."
"I'm starting to crack it now, it might take some time."
The light in Barbara's pupils changed from blue to red, and the cracking process began.
Ultra quickly withdrew a part of the threads and temporarily transferred them to the Watchtower host to release Batgirl's own computing power. This was a kind of "burden reduction" and made her feel that her forehead was not so hot.
The data life provided to them by the Afterlife Team was really powerful and mysterious, and... to be honest, it was quite gentle.
"What are you looking at?"
Barbara, who was sitting in a wheelchair, suddenly turned around after a few seconds and looked at Damian beside her. She stroked her fiery red hair and asked:
"Is there something dirty on my face that bothers you?"
"No, I'm just curious about your eyes."
After the others left, Da Mi's tone of voice didn't sound so annoying anymore.
It seems that this child does have some difficulties in interpersonal communication. The hedgehog posture just now was not directed at anyone intentionally. It was just a "self-protection mechanism" when facing strangers.
Mason once complained that all the men in the Wayne family have "fear of making friends", and now it seems that Damian has perfectly inherited this defect.
In response to Barbara's question, Rice said honestly:
"Normal people's eyes don't glow, but I've never seen a fake eye as flexible as yours."
“This is a bionic eye.”
Barbara pointed to her left eye and explained:
“It’s technology from the future, but it’s not a ‘fake eye’. It’s an organ cloned from my genes with some sophisticated plug-ins added in.
Theoretically, this is my eye. Installing a data interface in my head and this eye will allow me to go further on the road of hacking.
Of course, this is just the beginning and I still have a lot to learn.
I know what you're thinking, Damian.
But no one forced me to do it.”
"Oh, so you are also a lunatic who seeks power and is willing to accept self-transformation?"
Damian curled his lips and said sarcastically:
"I thought Mason would examine people's character when selecting them."
"You stinky kid..."
Gentle Barbara shook her head helplessly.
While directing Zhakang to move quickly through the intricate watchtower via the team's internal communications, she signaled Damian to push his wheelchair towards the main database.
"Damian, I don't know why you want to join us, and I don't want to persuade you. I know some things about your past, and you are obviously not someone who can be persuaded by just a few words from others."
In the descending gravity elevator, Batgirl said to her future companions:
"But what I want to tell you is that Team K is not the survival of the fittest place you imagine, and you don't have to regard everyone you meet as your competitor."
"I know."
Damian crossed his arms and said coldly:
"Otherwise, the pirate who just spoke rudely to me should have been eliminated long ago. He is not even as good as an elite ninja. It is hard to imagine why Mason kept him in the team."
"Because his world had just been destroyed, and we, along with Jack, had saved nearly a million people, sending them into a fragile new world that could collapse at any moment just hours before the destruction."
Barbara says:
"Jack wasn't lying or being sarcastic, Damian. He was telling the truth. You couldn't even dream of what we've been through in the past month or so.
We faced the apocalypse alone, we stood with the gods in a drowned world, dangerous outsiders came to destroy us but we prevailed.
It was a hard-fought win.
Before that, I had never thought that I would accept this kind of transformation. But after coming back alive that day, I didn't care about it anymore.
It's not because I'm scared.
Simply because I knew that if I wanted to accomplish such a feat again in this era of disaster, then I had to make myself stronger.
This is not the kind of sacrifice you seek to make, Damian. We are making this sacrifice for a higher purpose.
This is true for me, this is true for Jason, and this is true for Mason.
If you want to join us, you must first change your mindset. You can’t just randomly provoke conflicts to prove that you are stronger than others. Your strength should be used in a more reasonable way.”
"Are you really only twenty-four years old this year?"
Damian was silent for a few seconds, then he said venomously:
"Why do you speak in the same tone as my grandfather? He is almost 900 years old this year."
"You can make such dangerous jokes that could cause you to die unexpectedly at any time."
Barbara snorted and said:
“But you and I both know that you should listen to what I tell you today. You’d better change your style, otherwise Mason will be very unhappy.
Our captain is a kind man.
And your foster mother is also on the team, so you'd better behave yourself."
"Don't mention Selina to me!"
Rice complained:
"That woman is disloyal. Batman must be crazy to choose her. My mother is more..."
"She slept with Jason, oh my god!"
Barbara covered her eyes and said:
"Don't wash her off at this point. Selina is not even one-tenth as bad as your mother in this regard. Okay, put away your samurai sword and push me in now.
I need a few minutes to restart the subnet connection here."
"Can't you just go on your own?"
Damian said coldly, knowing that Barbara had already recovered.
Batgirl pointed to her head and said:
"The activation of the separation chip just now almost exploded my frontal lobe. If I dare to stand up now, I will vomit. You don't want me to vomit all over you, do you?"
"whispering sound"
The little lunatic curled his lips.
But he still pushed Barbara into the main database, and then saw Barbara pull out a cable from her left wrist and connect it to the database interface.
This discovery made Damian certain that Barbara Gordon had not only made modifications to her eyes, but perhaps this pretending to be weak Batgirl had replaced her entire body with deadly weapons.
Tsk, as expected, every member of Team K is good at pretending!
If you really believe them, you're crazy.
but……
Damian pushed the wheelchair and thought:
Barbara Gordon is indeed believable, well, definitely more believable than the evil Mason with a bad heart and Jason Todd, the bastard who enjoys beating him up!
Therefore, the first step to take control of Team K is to win over Barbara.
"Damian, go and stand guard outside the data room. I don't want to be disturbed while the data is connected."
Batgirl interrupted Da Mi's "evil" thoughts with a faint electronic sound of instructions. He responded obediently and walked out the door.
Oh, this is not obedience!
He thought.
This was just a means to paralyze Barbara. He needed to pretend to be well-behaved in order to win Barbara Gordon's trust, and she would be a breakthrough.
Just wait, Mason Cooper, one day I will lead your K-Team!
Woohahahaha.
"Don't laugh like that, Damian, it sounds creepy."
"Oh well."
