[Comprehensive British and American] Bat Parenting Encyclopedia

Your reflexes are not as sharp as I remember

After taking down a gangster drug deal in Gotham Harbor, Bruce stood next to the stunned or subdued villains in the [-]s all over the floor, dropped a flare, and the rest of the job was for Sheriff Gordon and the GCPD .

He hurriedly stepped into the Batmobile, his heavy cloak raised in an arc—tonight was quite rewarding, and if he was lucky, he would just catch up with Baby Helena's second night milk when he returned to the mansion.

The Batmobile drives through the waterfall and onto the Batcave parking pad.In a hurry, Bruce removed his Kevlar suit and took a quick shower right in the Batcave—in case any germs got into the mansion and baby's room.

Dressed in simple and light sweatpants and a black T, Bruce entered the mansion through the elevator. Since Damian was still in the Titan Tower, the whole old mansion was even more quiet—the baby hadn’t woken up.

Now is the time when she may have to cancel her second night feed, so sometimes she won't wake up.The know-it-all (self-proclaimed?) Jason said on the phone that there is no need to wake up for feedings—sleeping through the night is also good for the baby's development.

But Bruce still decided to wait for a while, in addition to waiting to see if Helena needs to be fed by her father at night, he also wanted to take advantage of this deserted night to relax and wait for the adrenaline rush from the night watch to subside.

He walked into the side hall with his father's bust, took a book, sat down on the sofa, and bathed in the moonlight in front of the French windows.

Everything happens in an instant.

The huge floor-to-ceiling windows at the back shattered with a "crash--" and the alarm that the mansion was invaded was beeping.

With his amazing reflexes, Bruce rolled from the sofa to the front at the moment the broken glass hit the ground, and took a low defensive posture, like a cheetah ready to go.

The first attack landed on him before he could see who the intruder was, and he was thrown backwards into the bookcase.

This kind of attack is nothing compared to what he received during the night patrol, or when he was performing space missions with his teammates.His only worry was whether Ah Fu heard the alarm and brought Helena through the secret passage to the safe house under the mansion.

That safe house, separate from the mansion and the Batcave, was designed by Bruce and Damian for her after having a baby.

According to the drill and the programming of the two artificial nannies, once the alarm sounded that the mansion was breached, Ah Fu would hold Helena in his arms and hide in a fireproof safe house with drinking water and food along the secret passage. A nanny with heavy firepower will go to protect her.

Thinking of this, Bruce felt a little relieved.

The worry about the baby just now slowed his reaction by half a beat, and now it's time for Bruce to fight back.He didn't mind the shattered glass digging into his arms as he pulled himself up, blood dripping down his fingers.

His pupils only dilated slightly when he saw his attacker's attire.

"So it's you." Bruce whispered to the intruder in full bat suit in front of him, "You are the future Tim."

"Good evening, Bruce." Adult Tim didn't use a voice changer, and Bruce recognized a voice similar to that of 16-year-old Tim.

"Your reaction is not as sensitive as I remember." Future Tim said to Bruce.

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Don't look at how cool he left a sentence now, Timothy was actually panicking in his heart at this moment.

——At the age of 36, can he beat Bruce, who is also 36 years old and in his prime?Even if Mrs. Shiva had trained him, Timothy didn't have the confidence in close combat.

——How did this "beating father" scene happen?

Timothy believes that all the bloody arrangements in front of him should be blamed on Doctor Strange who used magic to play the "high-dimensional world".

Back to a few days ago——

"The part that belongs to science, I understand," Tony Stark crossed his arms, frowning as he looked at Doctor Strange's explanatory diagram drawn with magical golden circles, with an unconvinced expression on his face, as if he wanted to mark an F directly for correcting a paper "But I don't understand magic, are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure," Doctor Strange said for what he felt was the 108th time, "Helena - the big one - uses a technology we don't understand, probably Brainiac Yes, a five-dimensional space has been built to envelop us in it."

This "whole package" is completely beyond our comprehension as three-dimensional beings—not just the whole world in the spatial dimension, but the past and future of the whole world.

For the five-dimensional world, whether it is to step into the future or go back to the past, it is as easy as climbing and walking, and it can be embodied.

We can only make a superficial analogy, and time has also become something that can be manipulated for her.

"That's why all the changes you make lead to the end of the world," Doctor Strange explained to Timothy.

Higher-dimensional enemies are no strangers to Doctor Strange - Dormammu is one.But the situation is slightly different from this time. Timothy is not willing to regard Helena as an enemy. This is the bottom line of Doctor Strange's temporary teammate.

"The good news is that Helena is not strictly a five-dimensional person, she is just using tools," Stephen continued to explain: "So we can locate her, capture her, and let her release the clamp on the world timeline."

"This is why she didn't disappear after you changed history, similar to your situation—" he said to Timothy: "At our current point in time, there are two Timothy Drakes at the same time."

"But the difference from you is that we can understand that there are multiple Helenas on this timeline at the same time, just look at where she uses the five-dimensional construction tool to place herself."

"Then you said you could use magic to locate her..." Tony shook his head, "This is too unscientific."

Doctor Strange spread his hands helplessly, saying that he knew that there was no principle that Tony could not understand, but magic was another system of principles.

——The implication is, Tony, you give up.

"I don't understand why she doesn't want to change?" Tony looked at the magical five-dimensional demonstration map drawn by Stephen, and was rarely distressed. "I just went to her party not long ago. She is a happy little girl."

Counting, Helena is only one year older than the child he and Pepper will have.

And Timothy said that in the original timeline, he and Pepper had no children, so the current timeline is obviously a better world.

It is also the world he wants to protect.

"As long as she lets go, she can start over. Leave the fate of the world to the adults to worry about." Tony said bitterly.

Today's children, it's hard to manage!

To this, Timothy didn't know how to answer.

Lust for power?

Unwilling to fate?

Disappointment with a loved one?

……

His Helena was not a happy little girl.

"So, blood is needed for positioning, and blood is the introduction of many magics-but considering that you all feel that it is inhumane to go directly to the baby's blood..." Doctor Strange muttered.

Taking the baby's blood is not only inhumane, but also difficult, okay?

Even if you don't count Batman who may jump out to protect the child, to get a baby's blood in Wayne Mansion, you have to go through an IronNanny whose force value is about equal to that of Iron Man, and a Supermanny who is about equal to Superman.

——Basically, you must have the ability to destroy Zhenglian and Avengers in order to get the magic introduction.

In this comparison, even Batman, the immediate family member, seems amiable.

"How's your relationship with Batman at this point in time? Can you get close to him?" Tony asked Timothy, making a mock needle-stick gesture.

Hehe—is the Dark Knight someone you can stick a needle in so close to and expect him not to notice?

Therefore, I can only find someone to fight with him, and collect the blood that comes out. Anyway, magic does not require the purity of the blood.

Think of an excuse to justify the fight, and leave it to Batman to track down and cover up the truth with lies, as they always do.

Doctor Strange raised an eyebrow at Tony's unreliable suggestion.

"I don't know much about Batman, can't we just kindly ask for help?"

Tony didn't bother to talk to Stephen about the extent of Batman's self-assertion in his actions—it would take days.This is a person who can guard against his teammates and prepare several sets of group destruction plans. Cooperating with him is basically equivalent to setting a flag for himself.

As for "help"?Tony just wants to laugh - like you Doctor Strange had someone else help you when you beat Dormammu.

Therefore, all Chaoying should actually go to the Stark Group's teamwork training class.

As for who's going to fight Batman—

"I'll go, I'll—" Tony barely raised his hand positively.

At this, Timothy just wanted to roll his eyes, and Tony Stark almost wrote "I wonder who Batman is" on his face.

But with Tony's belief in Bruce's silly and sweet personality, even if he got Batman's blood, Tony might not compare to Bruce.So Timothy wasn't worried at all.

PlanA - Tony goes to challenge Batman for a hearty fight.

PlanB - Timothy figured out a way.

After Iron Man's provocation failed, this unreliable task was handed over to Timothy.

In fact, it is easy to get close to Bruce Wayne on many private occasions, but for the current Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne and Batman are still two people.So Timothy can't go directly to Bruce who is a playboy.

Anyway, Bruce and Batman's "suspected cohabitation" is a well-known thing in the Super Premier League, and didn't Tony himself say that Batman will come to "visit" to raise a baby? ...So he simply killed the mansion directly.

According to Timothy's understanding of Bruce, he must have doubted his time travel at this time, so it's better to show his cards directly and find out how much the other party knows.

Under Bruce's words and deeds for many years, Timothy did not fully trust Tony. He knew that Iron Man should have doubts and thoughts that he did not share with him.

Several men have their own ghosts.

Only Stephen Strange is a little more detached - he is obsessed with the fifth dimension created by Helena.

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Timothy stared at the piece of broken glass on the ground that collected Bruce's blood—by visual inspection, it was more than ten milliliters, which was enough for Doctor Strange's magical requirements.

Timothy didn't want to continue fighting with Bruce, so he had to think of a decisive retreat for himself.

At this time, he activated the explosives/explosives that had been placed in the garden of the mansion in advance——"Boom", even the Gotham Police Station would be alarmed.

"The next explosive will be activated in a minute—just above the air valve of the safe house you made for the baby." Timothy said softly.

"Impossible," Bruce clenched his fists, "You can't know where the safe house is."

"Do you want to bet, Bruce," Timothy said, "Since I'm from the future..."

"I know that you have collected a lot of investigation materials about me, and I am here today for them." Timothy turned his head and gestured to the clock on the wall to Bruce, "40 seconds, Bruce, if you want a child, you still want your investigation , you choose yourself."

Bruce: "...?!"

Wait a minute, Tim, how did my future self raise you and make you such a rebellious child? !

On the side of Timothy, who seemed calm and confident, he actually didn't know the location of the safe house at all. He just guessed that he built one in Bruce's way of doing things.

It's all bluffing, betting on the worries about children that parents cannot relieve.

—he won the bet.

Bruce threw an exploding/explosive batarang at him, and after the smoke cleared, he was gone.

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"Damn-"

The moment Bruce rushed out of the mansion, he knew he had been fooled.

There are two sets of air circulation systems in the safe house, and there is a spare one after the bombing.How could he have forgotten all of a sudden? !

But a strange impulse and heartache made him continue to rush to where the child was.

Sure enough, Sanity was eaten by the bat dog.

All he wanted now was to make sure the baby was okay.

He called Clark the first time, only he could take down a bomb in 40 seconds with minimal harm.

Clark reached it in ten seconds—and scanned the entire garden in five seconds—as Bruce had guessed, without bombs.

The two of them were on the ground, one in the air, without talking, and nodded in the distance, counting it as the fastest and most efficient communication, and then Clark rushed into the sky to track down the future Tim.

Bruce wiped his forehead with trembling hands in the garden under the night sky, and his fast heartbeat finally began to calm down.

The remorse and unwillingness to be easily fooled is left far behind by the luck that there is no bomb.

If the information is gone, it will be gone, as long as the child is fine.

As he walks back to the mansion, Bruce doesn't hold positive expectations for Clarke's ability to track down Tim from the future.

He checked the old house all over before reporting the news that Ah Fu was safe through the encrypted communicator.

A few minutes later, Ah Fu hugged the awakened child on his shoulders and found Bruce in the living room of the main house.

"Master Bruce, I'm sorry I'm late, according to our drill..." Ah Fu patted the baby's back and said to Bruce.

The baby, who was wearing a pink and white sleeping bag, was resting his small head on the old butler's shoulder, squinting uncomfortably at the sudden light.

The black hair sticking to the forehead——Due to design restrictions, the passage from the safe house to the mansion is not air-conditioned, and it is very stuffy.

"Yes, no matter what happens to us, the first step is to take the baby and hide immediately," Bruce interrupted Fu's apology, "You did a good job, Fu."

Regarding the old butler's further inquiries, Bruce shook his head.

"No, I don't know what Tim wants to do other than destroy data."

He glanced at the child who was all right, "Take her away, there are a lot of broken glass here, and it's easy to slip."

Seeing the old butler's gaze fixed on his slashed arm, Bruce nodded indifferently, "I'll handle it myself."

But at this moment Helena had adapted to the light, she raised her little head from the old butler's shoulder, opened her eyes wide, and saw Bruce's arm.

The baby's face changed in an instant, looking at the blood that was still oozing, and then at Bruce's face, the corners of his mouth pulled down.

In the next second, he burst into tears.

It was almost a level of tragedy that Bruce had never seen before.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Is the fear of blood a human instinct?

Or did she understand that her father was injured?