Sandra was very difficult at this age.
That's the conclusion Tim has come to these days trying to wring some useful news out of Sandra's mouth.
No, it should be said that no matter what age Sandra is, it is very difficult to deal with.
Thinking of Sandra, who was always a headache because of her too easy to trust others, Tim began to seriously recall what happened to Sandra in their world when she was growing up. Into such a silly and sweet look.
How do you think this scheming look is the most in line with her growth experience? How long did it take Daphne to change Sandra from this look to the look when he met her?
After working under Bat Dad and Bat Cubs for so long, he is able to control his emotions freely.Now Tim can only vaguely see the thorny vigilance of Sandra when she was young, and feel a more mature and tolerant kindness from her.
Unlike when she was young, despite hiding all her vigilance, she could still feel the alienation under her smile. Now Sandra only needs to think, and no one can detect what she wants to know from under her smile. , She hid all her emotions impeccably, and showed them only what she wanted them to see.
It didn't look like the angry and irascible beast that they saw Sandra on the first day.
Tim didn't know whether to be happy or sorry for Sandra's change, but in the end he couldn't say anything.After all, Sandra in this world is not the Sandra they know, and this world is not their world. If Sandra is still as innocent as Sandra in their world, she may not be in Superman. During the five years of ruling the world, he was still active on the battlefield as the mainstay of the rebel army.
In fact, when all the resistance actions are hidden underground, only Sandra, who is still active and can cause a lot of trouble, has the ability to attract the attention of Superman and the others, and only she can bear it Withstand such blows and leave room for retaliation.
Tim, who has browsed through the remaining video materials in the past five years, has a new understanding of the world, and the idea that he and Tony guessed before has gradually taken root in his heart.
After all, only the parallel world can explain why everything, even if Sandra has not seen it with her own eyes or even if she has seen it with her own eyes, it is impossible to construct such a detailed thing, why it appears vividly and flawlessly in their eyes. in front of.But if it's a parallel world...
Then the Sandra they faced before is likely to be the "real" Sandra.Perhaps they would not have died in the first place, and it was all because of their intervention that the trajectory of their lives deviated, and in the end...
Facing the kind of ending that had to die.
To force the phantom to die in order to save the real Sandra is something Tim can do, but when the "Sandra" they have seen is not just a false, fabricated existence Tim began to feel uneasy about the things he had done before.
What if those Sandras weren't just a false vision... but real, living people?
This kind of thought stubbornly took root in his heart like a poisonous weed, eroding his thoughts crazily, making him doubt what he did in this world for the first time.He was questioning whether his actions were correct, whether it was because of his plan that other innocent people were killed or killed, whether it was because of their intervention that Sandra, who could have survived, had to die in the most fraught place they had ever been. The age of vitality and hope.
And this Sandra doesn't seem to be as close to Tim as they thought.In fact, she didn't hide her appearance at all. Among the few of them, Sandra was closest to Tony.Tim also asked Barbara about this, but Barbara just gave him a meaningful look and said: "There are some things you don't need to be too concerned about, little red bird."
"If you want to know about this kind of thing, you might as well ask Sandy directly, it's much better than asking me."
Barbara didn't answer Tim's question directly, but just said this to him, but it also made Tim's confusion pile up more and more.
Sandra was more busy than they thought. Except for the first day when they met them, they didn't see Sandra in this safe house for more than half a day. Every time they saw her, she was not She came back full of gunpowder smoke and full of hostility, and fell into the infirmary with a tired look and wounds all over her body. Most of her free time was spent communicating with Tony, or with Barbara and others. Bruce exchanged information. What was redundant was not that they didn't want to inquire, but that they didn't have time to inquire from her.
"Do you need to talk to me, little boss, Honey?"
Sandra was lying on the bed in the medical room a little bored.In the previous attack, she encountered the superhuman tyrant who was escorting Superman's tyrannical army. All the bones in her body were almost broken by the opponent's hammer, but even if she was not killed by her hammer, she suffered serious injuries. They had to lie down and rest in the simple medical room in the safe house of Barbara for a period of time. As for whether this period of time referred to a day or a week, this was something they knew well.
Even if Barbara really wanted Sandra to lie in bed and rest for a period of time, they did not have this condition, and Sandra would not accept such a request.
Sandra, who did not maintain her flying bird posture, was lying between the snow-white pillow covers, looking pale and frightening.The dull snow-white curly hair wrapped her thin face in undulating frost-white waves, making her small face look even smaller, but her strange reddish-brown eyes that stood out even bigger, When looking towards Tim, there is always an illusion of piercing his body.
"Let me guess, you should have doubts about my attitude, my world, and people like us?"
Sandra turned her head sideways and narrowed her eyes. Because of this action, the hair that covered the long scar on her cheek made her look closer to the Sandra who was learning in a hurry by his side in Tim's memory. Della also made Tim discover that she doesn't look much older. It can even be said that she looks exactly the same as the original Sandra except for being a little thinner.
At the beginning, he would think that the age difference between her and Bruce was not so big, probably because of the exhausted, almost overwhelming sense of fatigue in her.
"I'm really sorry that I'm not the Sandra of your world. I guess she, including you, is being harassed by evil birds now," Sandra smiled indifferently. It's not an important thing for her now, "But because our world is highly similar to your world, I can't tell you how I got rid of the evil bird—it might be inappropriate to say how to solve it, It should be how I drove away the evil birds."
Even though she said so, Sandra still blinked at him, "accidentally" revealed her solution to the trouble of the evil bird as if she didn't care at all, and then her eyes fell on Tim's side It was rare for Tony, who seemed a little uncomfortable, raised his hand to press the corner of his lips and laughed.
"I've never seen you like this before, honey," Tim noticed that Sandra's voice was always extraordinarily soft when she looked at Tony, and even her expression had a bit of real tenderness , "This is really rare, should I take a photo as a memory?"
"I never knew you could be so talkative. If I record the conversation and play it to our Sandra, will she explode in shame?"
Tony almost subconsciously opened his mouth to refute her, and realized that Sandra was helping him relax, but he really wasn't so nervous anymore.
"There are some little secrets that I don't want you to know because I don't want you to be embarrassed. Besides, these little secrets are not particularly important. Even if our world and your world overlap to a certain extent, we have to experience The future is different, and the life that Sandra and I are facing is different after all, so there is no need for you to know these little secrets that belong to me and you who I know."
Sandra never hid from them how special she was to Tony, and never worried about what they saw in her.None of these things really mattered, the things they wanted to know from her never conflicted with the things she wanted to tell them.
"There are some things I've always wanted to tell you... but I didn't have the chance to tell you in person before you were alive." Sandra squinted her eyes, her vision seemed a little dazed, as if she was watching them seriously, and it seemed that she was just Looking through them at other people she once knew, once familiar with, those she cherished who are no longer by her side now.
"But although you are not the people I knew originally, it shouldn't matter if I tell you... as long as you don't tell Sandra in your world... there is no need to let her know these things, if she knows these things If you don't, she will definitely jump up in fright, I guess you won't let me know, little boss, will you?"
Sandra seems to have seen that Tim is secretly recording their communication with pinhole cameras and recorders, but she doesn't mind.She knew his temper as Tim knew hers.And talking about these things with Tim is only because she really wants to tell them... Even if the people she is facing now are just from another world, except for the face and figure that still resemble her memory Except for those people among them, there is no one who has experienced so many ups and downs with her.
"I have too many things I want to say to you... But if I talk about it now, the time is definitely not enough."
Tim heard the hoarseness in her voice, and was about to stop her from speaking, but was interrupted by her raising her hand.
"I don't know if I don't talk about it this time, there will be opportunities in the future. So don't interrupt me, just treat it as a respect for an elder. Speaking of it, I am older than you and more experienced than you." Enriched, I never thought I would have the day to reason with you, little boss."
Tim felt that something was wrong, and he always felt that Sandra looked like she was saying her last words, but she was not the kind of person who would casually abandon their unfinished business and let herself die like this, So he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and because he wanted to get more information from Sandra, he didn't stop Sandra from continuing.
"Although... this kind of thing is indeed tiring and troublesome, and until now I don't know whether I am suitable for such an identity, but I never regret being involved in this mess."
Sandra was talking more to herself than to Tim.
But this trance only lasted for a moment, and soon Tim saw her look away, raised her hand to pat his forehead and then blocked his eyes.The expression on Sandra's face, who lost her vision for a short while, seemed to collapse all of a sudden, like a collapsed dam, unable to stop the torrent of emotions, letting those torrential emotions come from the small half of her face that was exposed It poured down, roaring and galloping, swallowing everything it touched and getting involved.
"What am I talking to you..."
She covered her face and said to herself like this, then turned her face and said to Tim and the others: "Sorry, I may not be suitable to chat with you now, if possible, can I trouble you to avoid it?"
"That's not what you said just now, little pigeon." Tony complained to her half-truthfully, but stood up as he said.
"Patients and girls always have a bit of willful privilege, not to mention I have both, can't you accommodate me a little?"
Sandra's smiling voice came from the other side.Tim stood up, relying on the reflection of the glass window to vaguely see a little bit of Sandra's distraught pale face.
When she realized that all the movement in the room had disappeared, and only her weak and almost imperceptible breathing was still rising and falling, Sandra couldn't support her body anymore, and her whole body seemed to be stretched out. He lay on the bed and closed his eyes tightly.The muscles on her cheeks tensed tightly, and she bit her cheeks tightly, until a sweet rusty smell came from her mouth, and she let go of her clenched teeth as if nothing had happened, only a pair of The red-brown pupils were as red as a fire.
what is she doing...
What the hell is she doing...
They were all dead, and the people she wanted to confide in had long since died.
Hatred burned her eyes like gasoline poured on sparks, and Sandra raised her hand to cover her chest, panting hard twice as if she was dying, and flexed her fingers to tightly grab the front of her chest , the whole person shivered and shrank into the bed, the frosty white curly hair spread out on her face, covering all her emotions under the invisible dark tide.
"Babs," the hoarse voice whispered slowly through the headset into Barbara's ears, "I can act anytime."
"But your body..."
"It's okay," Sandra curled up sideways between the quilts, her hoarse voice slowly passed over Barbara's ears, "you don't have to worry about me too much. I've survived more serious injuries than this one, this time I can do the same."
"Sandy," that's all Barbara called her, "we can't afford to lose anyone."
Sandra was silent for a long time before replying softly: "I know."
"Me too."
Her eyes seemed to be burning with a prairie fire, and she bared her teeth and claws to drag her into the burning prison and burn her to death.
Their plan was carried out quietly, and by the time Tim realized that they had started that plan, things had reached an irreversible point.
"You guys go first," Barbara put on her Batwoman mask and faced Tim with awe-inspiring face, "This is already our battlefield."
"It's ours too," Tim said in his red Robin outfit without any intention of backing down, and the others behind him also changed into their original battle attire, facing Barbara in the same way, "Since we have already faced this kind of thing, it is impossible for us to just leave like this."
"This matter has nothing to do with you, and we don't want to involve other people who have nothing to do with this matter into our war."
Barbara was stopped by Tim. She knew that the boy who looked like Batman the most in this family had already planned the next plan. Even if she insisted on asking them to leave, he probably wouldn't listen. Stop her now. After coming down, it is obvious that there is already a plan for the next action.
But no.
They have already learned a lesson. The previous heavy casualties almost caused Sandra to collapse. This time, no matter what, she will not let these few people who have not experienced this tragic war come from the parallel world. These immature people got involved.
They have long been prepared to send these people back to their original world while opening the time-space channel of another parallel world. After obtaining Tony's genes, the data and technologies that could not be extracted because of his death have been regenerated. Bruce took control, and they didn't need to keep them in this battlefield anymore.
"I know your plan, and I know what you want to do. We can interfere with other members of the Justice League, at least it won't let Blue Bird face Superman with interference from other people. Her injury hasn't healed yet , your manpower is not enough, plus us, even if Superman is mentally prepared, it is impossible to really stop all of us for a while."
Tim naturally knew how to persuade Barbara.Everyone in their family has nothing to do with each other, even if the other party is determined not to let them get involved, in the end they can always get involved again. They are family members, and it is precisely because In this regard, it is especially easy for them to let the other party show their feet to themselves.
"...Sandy knew he was going to go crazy."
Barbara said this in silence for a moment, but Tim knew she was giving in to him.
Sandra spread out the wings behind her, each shiny, clean and beautiful azure feather as if covered with grease perfectly integrated her figure with the sky, only the shining rainbow The wing feathers engraved with ancient and mysterious magic lines still glowed strangely in circles under the sunlight, which also completely exposed Sandra's figure to Superman's eyes.
"It's really unexpected." A corner of the starry robe was rolled up by the wind, and Sandra's slender figure was like a pampas grass swaying in the wind, vulnerable to a single blow in front of Superman's strong body.
"Superman, who was once admired by most heroes, was the first among all superheroes to betray his abilities."
Sandra turned a blind eye to Wonder Woman who was following Superman. The face covered by the mask made it impossible to see any emotional fluctuations. She just said this to Superman so plainly.
It can be said that Superman hates Sandra, who has repeatedly harmed himself and is still active on the front line of the battlefield.But the ability that Sandra possesses is the ability to completely restrain his magic. Without the help of Wonder Woman or Hawkgirl, it is really difficult for him alone to chew on Sandra's hard bone, even if she Her neck was so fragile that it would break if he poked it on her cervical spine, but he couldn't break through the magic shield around her and really break her neck.
"You Gotham people are always virtuous," the tyrant in a red cloak folded his arms, showing a cautious expression that suppressed anger and contempt, "Le Loyalty is playing some hide-and-seek games with those lunatics and psychopaths, making countless Innocent people fall prey to your game and you play it over and over again - I just made the right choice and done it once and for all, youarewele."
He said the last sentence with a bit of sarcasm. Sandra clenched her thin palm that was covered under the robe, and almost pinched the round object in her palm. She couldn't even control the burning in her heart. A raging fire.
"Stomping the law under your feet, arrogantly dictating others to act in accordance with your ideas, as long as there is something wrong, you will be beaten, kicked and jailed by your thugs-thugs, you call this The right choice?"
The hoarse voice sounded harsh and sharp, and Sandra's sharp nails scratched her palm.The blood soaked the cuff along with the elongated wound, and then she pierced it into the wound in the palm of her hand along with the cloth.
"It's for their own good! So that they won't be like Louise and Cosmopolitan—"
"Louise?!"
The sudden high-pitched voice almost tore the eardrum, and the scream with magical power spread towards the surroundings like waves. Sandra took off the mask on her face and threw it towards Superman. The fragile mask hit the steel His body was like snow falling from a pine branch, shattered into pale and thin pieces and falling down in the wind.
She snarled at him like an enraged beast: "Louis, Louise, you keep saying that it is for Louise, what are you doing now that seems to be for Louise?! Curb everything People's freedom, controlling the voice in everyone's throat, and even threatening all regimes to disarm them like you bow your head and surrender - you just treat this world as your own property and transform it according to your own wishes! You don't need to put on a high-sounding human skin and pretend to be a human here!"
"shut up!"
Wonder Woman drew out her sword and pointed it at Sandra, her beautiful face was already full of anger.
"You're insulting our greatness."
A sneer overflowed from her throat, Sandra's eyes were as sharp as a bird of prey, and she said mockingly: "Great?"
"If you cut off the heads of innocent people, strangled the necks of rebels, concealed the weakness of others and started wars—this method is called great, then I have nothing to say."
"What do you know? What do you think you are doing? You are an alien and a god, do you know what a 'human' is?!"
The wings that were quietly spreading slightly behind Sandra stretched to the extreme. Wonder Woman vigilantly picked up her shield to block in front of her. There was a faint red light in Superman's eyes, obviously lost. With the desire to continue the conversation with Sandra, he said coldly: "Is this what you want to tell me today?"
"No—of course not," Sandra showed a strange smile on her face, the scar that tore her delicate face twitched slightly with her movement, twisting into a rift full of malice, " These words—these high-sounding words are certainly not what I want to say to you."
Dozens of strong magic barriers were erected around her like a city wall to protect her tightly. Wonder Woman's heart skipped a beat, and she drew her sword to chop it off without hesitation, but it was difficult to break through Sandra for a while. defense.
Sandra stretched out her hand, and she held the red ring wrapped in a thin layer of magic film in her palm. She held it weakly on her palm. When she turned her fingertips, the foam-like magic film burst instantly. , The words from the ring made Barbara, who was monitoring the changes here through the headset, instantly change her face.
[Intelligent life has been locked.Sandra Thain of Earth, your heart seeths with rage.You belong to the Red Lantern Corps. 】
The mechanically cold voice was caught by Sandra before it even disappeared. She put the red light ring on her middle finger without hesitation, and the energy like blood overflowed from her mouth. , ignoring Barbara's obstruction in the headset, read out the oath of belonging to the Red Lantern Corps word by word.
"With blood and rage of crimson red,
Rippedfromacorpseofreshlydead, (taken from Weihan's corpse,)
We'llburnyouall, (burn your heart with hatred,)
Thatisyourfate (forge your fate!)"
The pain of her heart being replaced by the red light ring made Sandra curl up and tremble uncontrollably, and her life was forcibly stripped from her body.The red energy burning with anger replaced her beating heart and flowing blood, and the azure feathers fell down lightly like withered leaves, like withered branches that couldn't hold back the leaves that were blown away by the autumn wind. Sporadic swirling children fell from the sky.Her pair of broad and beautiful wings gradually carbonized and shrank as the feathers flew away, and finally crumbled into fly ash behind her like crushed coal, raising a pitch black.
She raised her head, and the scarlet red energy gradually replaced the blood flowing in her body and spilled out of her mouth, even her vision was covered by a misty red.Burning the hatred and anger in her heart, the lantern ring burst out with unimaginable energy, covering her body with an energy layer like boiling blood or burning flames, and when Wonder Woman slashed open her magic barrier The timing was just right, and he easily blocked the sharp weapon bestowed by the gods.
The bones reintegrated and grew into the shape of wings and pierced her body. Sandra heard the cracking sound of the bones deforming and twisting in her body, and also heard the cracking sound of her muscles being torn apart by sharp bone spurs.The body that was arched due to the pain involuntarily leaned back as if she had received some traction, revealing her pale and ferocious face due to the pain
Her original reddish-brown eyes were scarlet and almost dripping with blood. Even though her body was so painful that she could hardly maintain her expression, she still reached out her hand steadily to grab Wonder Woman's sharp blade, and the gasoline-like red energy flowed along. Her lips overflowed and landed on Wonder Woman's body, causing burning pain.
"I've wanted to do this for a long time." Her voice was trembling and hoarse, as if she couldn't bear the pain but trembled with excitement.She turned her gaze to Superman, paying no attention to Wonder Woman.
"Now I can finally try this for a while."
Sandra's body blurred into a scarlet afterimage, and before Superman and Wonder Woman could react, she punched him hard in the stomach, and grabbed his waist as he arched in pain. He slammed his head on the door heavily.
The scarlet energy released thick and majestic energy like ignited gasoline, enveloping Sandra and Superman, forcing Wonder Woman to step back, looking ashen as a prairie fire The same red energy spread out and twisted and ignited half of the sky.
"The words I really want to pinch your neck and open your head to pour in are not what I just told you."
The protruding knuckles were so sharp that they almost tore her pale skin, Sandra screamed and choked on Superman's neck with a shrill smile, scarlet tears of blood poured out of her eyes, and before the blood dripped down, it turned into a A scarlet mist hangs in the air.
"Your lover and child died?"
Sandra held Superman's throat tightly with one hand. Even though the strength of his wrist was so strong that she could vaguely feel it even with the red light ring resisting, she still refused to let go. With one hand clenched into a fist, he punched and punched Superman's face with all his strength.
"Your city is gone?"
An angry roar lingered in her chest, she grinned grinningly, cried and howled, and finally said that these emotions burned herself as fuel, howling at the bottom of her lungs.
"My lover is gone!"
"You only remember that the clown took away your loved ones and loved ones, why don't you remember how you took my loved ones and loved ones away from me?!"
The brand new wings ripped open her body and twisted her bones to grow wildly behind her like mushrooms after a rain. Sandra was as indifferent as if she couldn't feel the pain in her body, only her fists were wrapped in red. The energy punched Superman hard in the face.
"Why do you... why do you take them away from me!"
"Why are you?!"
The blood splashed from the wound on her back vaporized into gushes of red energy and burned Superman. Sandra's throat could not bear the load and coughed twice, and a cloud of blood sprayed from her mouth. She came out, blurring her ferocious angry and mournful face.
"Give them back to me——!!!!!!!"
[Blue Bird!blue bird! Sangy! 】
Barbara called her almost panickedly on the other end of the headset, but Sandra couldn't hear anything now.
Tim, Warren, Bucky, and... Tony.
These names are engraved on the tip of her heart like bleeding scars, even just thinking about her hurts.
There used to be their figures accompanying her in her world, but now there is only a piece of barren scorched earth left.Until she saw them in the parallel world, she thought that she could calmly face the loss of them by her side, and she always thought that she still followed Bruce to save the world from falling behind. Into the hands of Superman, so that the world can finally make its own voice, instead of being played by Superman in applause.
But it wasn't until she saw them that she discovered from her trembling fingertips, from her chest filled with pus and blood, how could she face their death calmly, how could she let go of their death.
She still accompanied Bruce day and night to face threats from her former companions in this world, just for revenge.
She wanders in the world unwillingly, and what supports her has never been those great goals that are upright, only raging anger.
She wanted to kill him to fill the void in her heart, she wanted to kill him to pour out the anger in her heart with his blood, she wanted to kill him... she wanted to kill him!
"Do you know how long I've wanted to do this?"
She pinched Superman's neck tightly with both hands, watching his bloodstained and bruised face, with faint gloomy faces, and blue veins on his vigorous arms.
"Since Dick died...since Tim disappeared, since Damian betrayed us..."
"From Helena dying in Wonder Woman's noose, from you breaking Bruce's back, from Warren dying in your hot gaze, from Tony detonating his suit, from Bucky dying in your solitude Castle... Ha, you are still imprisoning your parents in your cage, right? It seems that they failed to teach you well... After all, you are just an alien in human skin, a self-confessed Just a powerful and hypocritical monster!"
"What right do you have to blame the world for being too cruel to you after taking everything from others?!"
The brand-new pitch-black wings behind her took away all the magic power in Sandra's body at the moment of growth.The moment her magic power was overdrawn, her hands couldn't help trembling, and Superman finally broke free from her hands.
After the magic power was overdrawn for a moment, the ring of Ouroboros broke due to a fault in the magic power cycle, resulting in a very violent magical disorder. In this disorder, Barbara, who was originally connected with Sandra, was completely The news from Sandra was lost, only the rustling sound was still coming from the other end of the headset.Sandra, who has lost her magical defense, is still difficult to support under Superman's hands even if she has the defense of the red light ring, but she bullies her like crazy and doesn't care at all, completely abandoning her advantage Flesh and Superman fight directly.The cloud-like scarlet energy around her gradually flourished, burning the blue sky red.
When Barbara arrived, what she saw was the red energy that burned half of the sky like a raging fire, and three people fighting together in the sky.
It was obviously very difficult for Sandra to resist Superman and Wonder Woman alone, but after her injury, the energy supplied to her by the red light ring became more and more, and the red energy escaping from her body almost formed in the sky. A thick fog that cannot be penetrated by sight, only Superman's heat vision and Wonder Woman's golden mantra lasso tearing apart the red eyes can be vaguely seen.
That's the conclusion Tim has come to these days trying to wring some useful news out of Sandra's mouth.
No, it should be said that no matter what age Sandra is, it is very difficult to deal with.
Thinking of Sandra, who was always a headache because of her too easy to trust others, Tim began to seriously recall what happened to Sandra in their world when she was growing up. Into such a silly and sweet look.
How do you think this scheming look is the most in line with her growth experience? How long did it take Daphne to change Sandra from this look to the look when he met her?
After working under Bat Dad and Bat Cubs for so long, he is able to control his emotions freely.Now Tim can only vaguely see the thorny vigilance of Sandra when she was young, and feel a more mature and tolerant kindness from her.
Unlike when she was young, despite hiding all her vigilance, she could still feel the alienation under her smile. Now Sandra only needs to think, and no one can detect what she wants to know from under her smile. , She hid all her emotions impeccably, and showed them only what she wanted them to see.
It didn't look like the angry and irascible beast that they saw Sandra on the first day.
Tim didn't know whether to be happy or sorry for Sandra's change, but in the end he couldn't say anything.After all, Sandra in this world is not the Sandra they know, and this world is not their world. If Sandra is still as innocent as Sandra in their world, she may not be in Superman. During the five years of ruling the world, he was still active on the battlefield as the mainstay of the rebel army.
In fact, when all the resistance actions are hidden underground, only Sandra, who is still active and can cause a lot of trouble, has the ability to attract the attention of Superman and the others, and only she can bear it Withstand such blows and leave room for retaliation.
Tim, who has browsed through the remaining video materials in the past five years, has a new understanding of the world, and the idea that he and Tony guessed before has gradually taken root in his heart.
After all, only the parallel world can explain why everything, even if Sandra has not seen it with her own eyes or even if she has seen it with her own eyes, it is impossible to construct such a detailed thing, why it appears vividly and flawlessly in their eyes. in front of.But if it's a parallel world...
Then the Sandra they faced before is likely to be the "real" Sandra.Perhaps they would not have died in the first place, and it was all because of their intervention that the trajectory of their lives deviated, and in the end...
Facing the kind of ending that had to die.
To force the phantom to die in order to save the real Sandra is something Tim can do, but when the "Sandra" they have seen is not just a false, fabricated existence Tim began to feel uneasy about the things he had done before.
What if those Sandras weren't just a false vision... but real, living people?
This kind of thought stubbornly took root in his heart like a poisonous weed, eroding his thoughts crazily, making him doubt what he did in this world for the first time.He was questioning whether his actions were correct, whether it was because of his plan that other innocent people were killed or killed, whether it was because of their intervention that Sandra, who could have survived, had to die in the most fraught place they had ever been. The age of vitality and hope.
And this Sandra doesn't seem to be as close to Tim as they thought.In fact, she didn't hide her appearance at all. Among the few of them, Sandra was closest to Tony.Tim also asked Barbara about this, but Barbara just gave him a meaningful look and said: "There are some things you don't need to be too concerned about, little red bird."
"If you want to know about this kind of thing, you might as well ask Sandy directly, it's much better than asking me."
Barbara didn't answer Tim's question directly, but just said this to him, but it also made Tim's confusion pile up more and more.
Sandra was more busy than they thought. Except for the first day when they met them, they didn't see Sandra in this safe house for more than half a day. Every time they saw her, she was not She came back full of gunpowder smoke and full of hostility, and fell into the infirmary with a tired look and wounds all over her body. Most of her free time was spent communicating with Tony, or with Barbara and others. Bruce exchanged information. What was redundant was not that they didn't want to inquire, but that they didn't have time to inquire from her.
"Do you need to talk to me, little boss, Honey?"
Sandra was lying on the bed in the medical room a little bored.In the previous attack, she encountered the superhuman tyrant who was escorting Superman's tyrannical army. All the bones in her body were almost broken by the opponent's hammer, but even if she was not killed by her hammer, she suffered serious injuries. They had to lie down and rest in the simple medical room in the safe house of Barbara for a period of time. As for whether this period of time referred to a day or a week, this was something they knew well.
Even if Barbara really wanted Sandra to lie in bed and rest for a period of time, they did not have this condition, and Sandra would not accept such a request.
Sandra, who did not maintain her flying bird posture, was lying between the snow-white pillow covers, looking pale and frightening.The dull snow-white curly hair wrapped her thin face in undulating frost-white waves, making her small face look even smaller, but her strange reddish-brown eyes that stood out even bigger, When looking towards Tim, there is always an illusion of piercing his body.
"Let me guess, you should have doubts about my attitude, my world, and people like us?"
Sandra turned her head sideways and narrowed her eyes. Because of this action, the hair that covered the long scar on her cheek made her look closer to the Sandra who was learning in a hurry by his side in Tim's memory. Della also made Tim discover that she doesn't look much older. It can even be said that she looks exactly the same as the original Sandra except for being a little thinner.
At the beginning, he would think that the age difference between her and Bruce was not so big, probably because of the exhausted, almost overwhelming sense of fatigue in her.
"I'm really sorry that I'm not the Sandra of your world. I guess she, including you, is being harassed by evil birds now," Sandra smiled indifferently. It's not an important thing for her now, "But because our world is highly similar to your world, I can't tell you how I got rid of the evil bird—it might be inappropriate to say how to solve it, It should be how I drove away the evil birds."
Even though she said so, Sandra still blinked at him, "accidentally" revealed her solution to the trouble of the evil bird as if she didn't care at all, and then her eyes fell on Tim's side It was rare for Tony, who seemed a little uncomfortable, raised his hand to press the corner of his lips and laughed.
"I've never seen you like this before, honey," Tim noticed that Sandra's voice was always extraordinarily soft when she looked at Tony, and even her expression had a bit of real tenderness , "This is really rare, should I take a photo as a memory?"
"I never knew you could be so talkative. If I record the conversation and play it to our Sandra, will she explode in shame?"
Tony almost subconsciously opened his mouth to refute her, and realized that Sandra was helping him relax, but he really wasn't so nervous anymore.
"There are some little secrets that I don't want you to know because I don't want you to be embarrassed. Besides, these little secrets are not particularly important. Even if our world and your world overlap to a certain extent, we have to experience The future is different, and the life that Sandra and I are facing is different after all, so there is no need for you to know these little secrets that belong to me and you who I know."
Sandra never hid from them how special she was to Tony, and never worried about what they saw in her.None of these things really mattered, the things they wanted to know from her never conflicted with the things she wanted to tell them.
"There are some things I've always wanted to tell you... but I didn't have the chance to tell you in person before you were alive." Sandra squinted her eyes, her vision seemed a little dazed, as if she was watching them seriously, and it seemed that she was just Looking through them at other people she once knew, once familiar with, those she cherished who are no longer by her side now.
"But although you are not the people I knew originally, it shouldn't matter if I tell you... as long as you don't tell Sandra in your world... there is no need to let her know these things, if she knows these things If you don't, she will definitely jump up in fright, I guess you won't let me know, little boss, will you?"
Sandra seems to have seen that Tim is secretly recording their communication with pinhole cameras and recorders, but she doesn't mind.She knew his temper as Tim knew hers.And talking about these things with Tim is only because she really wants to tell them... Even if the people she is facing now are just from another world, except for the face and figure that still resemble her memory Except for those people among them, there is no one who has experienced so many ups and downs with her.
"I have too many things I want to say to you... But if I talk about it now, the time is definitely not enough."
Tim heard the hoarseness in her voice, and was about to stop her from speaking, but was interrupted by her raising her hand.
"I don't know if I don't talk about it this time, there will be opportunities in the future. So don't interrupt me, just treat it as a respect for an elder. Speaking of it, I am older than you and more experienced than you." Enriched, I never thought I would have the day to reason with you, little boss."
Tim felt that something was wrong, and he always felt that Sandra looked like she was saying her last words, but she was not the kind of person who would casually abandon their unfinished business and let herself die like this, So he suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and because he wanted to get more information from Sandra, he didn't stop Sandra from continuing.
"Although... this kind of thing is indeed tiring and troublesome, and until now I don't know whether I am suitable for such an identity, but I never regret being involved in this mess."
Sandra was talking more to herself than to Tim.
But this trance only lasted for a moment, and soon Tim saw her look away, raised her hand to pat his forehead and then blocked his eyes.The expression on Sandra's face, who lost her vision for a short while, seemed to collapse all of a sudden, like a collapsed dam, unable to stop the torrent of emotions, letting those torrential emotions come from the small half of her face that was exposed It poured down, roaring and galloping, swallowing everything it touched and getting involved.
"What am I talking to you..."
She covered her face and said to herself like this, then turned her face and said to Tim and the others: "Sorry, I may not be suitable to chat with you now, if possible, can I trouble you to avoid it?"
"That's not what you said just now, little pigeon." Tony complained to her half-truthfully, but stood up as he said.
"Patients and girls always have a bit of willful privilege, not to mention I have both, can't you accommodate me a little?"
Sandra's smiling voice came from the other side.Tim stood up, relying on the reflection of the glass window to vaguely see a little bit of Sandra's distraught pale face.
When she realized that all the movement in the room had disappeared, and only her weak and almost imperceptible breathing was still rising and falling, Sandra couldn't support her body anymore, and her whole body seemed to be stretched out. He lay on the bed and closed his eyes tightly.The muscles on her cheeks tensed tightly, and she bit her cheeks tightly, until a sweet rusty smell came from her mouth, and she let go of her clenched teeth as if nothing had happened, only a pair of The red-brown pupils were as red as a fire.
what is she doing...
What the hell is she doing...
They were all dead, and the people she wanted to confide in had long since died.
Hatred burned her eyes like gasoline poured on sparks, and Sandra raised her hand to cover her chest, panting hard twice as if she was dying, and flexed her fingers to tightly grab the front of her chest , the whole person shivered and shrank into the bed, the frosty white curly hair spread out on her face, covering all her emotions under the invisible dark tide.
"Babs," the hoarse voice whispered slowly through the headset into Barbara's ears, "I can act anytime."
"But your body..."
"It's okay," Sandra curled up sideways between the quilts, her hoarse voice slowly passed over Barbara's ears, "you don't have to worry about me too much. I've survived more serious injuries than this one, this time I can do the same."
"Sandy," that's all Barbara called her, "we can't afford to lose anyone."
Sandra was silent for a long time before replying softly: "I know."
"Me too."
Her eyes seemed to be burning with a prairie fire, and she bared her teeth and claws to drag her into the burning prison and burn her to death.
Their plan was carried out quietly, and by the time Tim realized that they had started that plan, things had reached an irreversible point.
"You guys go first," Barbara put on her Batwoman mask and faced Tim with awe-inspiring face, "This is already our battlefield."
"It's ours too," Tim said in his red Robin outfit without any intention of backing down, and the others behind him also changed into their original battle attire, facing Barbara in the same way, "Since we have already faced this kind of thing, it is impossible for us to just leave like this."
"This matter has nothing to do with you, and we don't want to involve other people who have nothing to do with this matter into our war."
Barbara was stopped by Tim. She knew that the boy who looked like Batman the most in this family had already planned the next plan. Even if she insisted on asking them to leave, he probably wouldn't listen. Stop her now. After coming down, it is obvious that there is already a plan for the next action.
But no.
They have already learned a lesson. The previous heavy casualties almost caused Sandra to collapse. This time, no matter what, she will not let these few people who have not experienced this tragic war come from the parallel world. These immature people got involved.
They have long been prepared to send these people back to their original world while opening the time-space channel of another parallel world. After obtaining Tony's genes, the data and technologies that could not be extracted because of his death have been regenerated. Bruce took control, and they didn't need to keep them in this battlefield anymore.
"I know your plan, and I know what you want to do. We can interfere with other members of the Justice League, at least it won't let Blue Bird face Superman with interference from other people. Her injury hasn't healed yet , your manpower is not enough, plus us, even if Superman is mentally prepared, it is impossible to really stop all of us for a while."
Tim naturally knew how to persuade Barbara.Everyone in their family has nothing to do with each other, even if the other party is determined not to let them get involved, in the end they can always get involved again. They are family members, and it is precisely because In this regard, it is especially easy for them to let the other party show their feet to themselves.
"...Sandy knew he was going to go crazy."
Barbara said this in silence for a moment, but Tim knew she was giving in to him.
Sandra spread out the wings behind her, each shiny, clean and beautiful azure feather as if covered with grease perfectly integrated her figure with the sky, only the shining rainbow The wing feathers engraved with ancient and mysterious magic lines still glowed strangely in circles under the sunlight, which also completely exposed Sandra's figure to Superman's eyes.
"It's really unexpected." A corner of the starry robe was rolled up by the wind, and Sandra's slender figure was like a pampas grass swaying in the wind, vulnerable to a single blow in front of Superman's strong body.
"Superman, who was once admired by most heroes, was the first among all superheroes to betray his abilities."
Sandra turned a blind eye to Wonder Woman who was following Superman. The face covered by the mask made it impossible to see any emotional fluctuations. She just said this to Superman so plainly.
It can be said that Superman hates Sandra, who has repeatedly harmed himself and is still active on the front line of the battlefield.But the ability that Sandra possesses is the ability to completely restrain his magic. Without the help of Wonder Woman or Hawkgirl, it is really difficult for him alone to chew on Sandra's hard bone, even if she Her neck was so fragile that it would break if he poked it on her cervical spine, but he couldn't break through the magic shield around her and really break her neck.
"You Gotham people are always virtuous," the tyrant in a red cloak folded his arms, showing a cautious expression that suppressed anger and contempt, "Le Loyalty is playing some hide-and-seek games with those lunatics and psychopaths, making countless Innocent people fall prey to your game and you play it over and over again - I just made the right choice and done it once and for all, youarewele."
He said the last sentence with a bit of sarcasm. Sandra clenched her thin palm that was covered under the robe, and almost pinched the round object in her palm. She couldn't even control the burning in her heart. A raging fire.
"Stomping the law under your feet, arrogantly dictating others to act in accordance with your ideas, as long as there is something wrong, you will be beaten, kicked and jailed by your thugs-thugs, you call this The right choice?"
The hoarse voice sounded harsh and sharp, and Sandra's sharp nails scratched her palm.The blood soaked the cuff along with the elongated wound, and then she pierced it into the wound in the palm of her hand along with the cloth.
"It's for their own good! So that they won't be like Louise and Cosmopolitan—"
"Louise?!"
The sudden high-pitched voice almost tore the eardrum, and the scream with magical power spread towards the surroundings like waves. Sandra took off the mask on her face and threw it towards Superman. The fragile mask hit the steel His body was like snow falling from a pine branch, shattered into pale and thin pieces and falling down in the wind.
She snarled at him like an enraged beast: "Louis, Louise, you keep saying that it is for Louise, what are you doing now that seems to be for Louise?! Curb everything People's freedom, controlling the voice in everyone's throat, and even threatening all regimes to disarm them like you bow your head and surrender - you just treat this world as your own property and transform it according to your own wishes! You don't need to put on a high-sounding human skin and pretend to be a human here!"
"shut up!"
Wonder Woman drew out her sword and pointed it at Sandra, her beautiful face was already full of anger.
"You're insulting our greatness."
A sneer overflowed from her throat, Sandra's eyes were as sharp as a bird of prey, and she said mockingly: "Great?"
"If you cut off the heads of innocent people, strangled the necks of rebels, concealed the weakness of others and started wars—this method is called great, then I have nothing to say."
"What do you know? What do you think you are doing? You are an alien and a god, do you know what a 'human' is?!"
The wings that were quietly spreading slightly behind Sandra stretched to the extreme. Wonder Woman vigilantly picked up her shield to block in front of her. There was a faint red light in Superman's eyes, obviously lost. With the desire to continue the conversation with Sandra, he said coldly: "Is this what you want to tell me today?"
"No—of course not," Sandra showed a strange smile on her face, the scar that tore her delicate face twitched slightly with her movement, twisting into a rift full of malice, " These words—these high-sounding words are certainly not what I want to say to you."
Dozens of strong magic barriers were erected around her like a city wall to protect her tightly. Wonder Woman's heart skipped a beat, and she drew her sword to chop it off without hesitation, but it was difficult to break through Sandra for a while. defense.
Sandra stretched out her hand, and she held the red ring wrapped in a thin layer of magic film in her palm. She held it weakly on her palm. When she turned her fingertips, the foam-like magic film burst instantly. , The words from the ring made Barbara, who was monitoring the changes here through the headset, instantly change her face.
[Intelligent life has been locked.Sandra Thain of Earth, your heart seeths with rage.You belong to the Red Lantern Corps. 】
The mechanically cold voice was caught by Sandra before it even disappeared. She put the red light ring on her middle finger without hesitation, and the energy like blood overflowed from her mouth. , ignoring Barbara's obstruction in the headset, read out the oath of belonging to the Red Lantern Corps word by word.
"With blood and rage of crimson red,
Rippedfromacorpseofreshlydead, (taken from Weihan's corpse,)
We'llburnyouall, (burn your heart with hatred,)
Thatisyourfate (forge your fate!)"
The pain of her heart being replaced by the red light ring made Sandra curl up and tremble uncontrollably, and her life was forcibly stripped from her body.The red energy burning with anger replaced her beating heart and flowing blood, and the azure feathers fell down lightly like withered leaves, like withered branches that couldn't hold back the leaves that were blown away by the autumn wind. Sporadic swirling children fell from the sky.Her pair of broad and beautiful wings gradually carbonized and shrank as the feathers flew away, and finally crumbled into fly ash behind her like crushed coal, raising a pitch black.
She raised her head, and the scarlet red energy gradually replaced the blood flowing in her body and spilled out of her mouth, even her vision was covered by a misty red.Burning the hatred and anger in her heart, the lantern ring burst out with unimaginable energy, covering her body with an energy layer like boiling blood or burning flames, and when Wonder Woman slashed open her magic barrier The timing was just right, and he easily blocked the sharp weapon bestowed by the gods.
The bones reintegrated and grew into the shape of wings and pierced her body. Sandra heard the cracking sound of the bones deforming and twisting in her body, and also heard the cracking sound of her muscles being torn apart by sharp bone spurs.The body that was arched due to the pain involuntarily leaned back as if she had received some traction, revealing her pale and ferocious face due to the pain
Her original reddish-brown eyes were scarlet and almost dripping with blood. Even though her body was so painful that she could hardly maintain her expression, she still reached out her hand steadily to grab Wonder Woman's sharp blade, and the gasoline-like red energy flowed along. Her lips overflowed and landed on Wonder Woman's body, causing burning pain.
"I've wanted to do this for a long time." Her voice was trembling and hoarse, as if she couldn't bear the pain but trembled with excitement.She turned her gaze to Superman, paying no attention to Wonder Woman.
"Now I can finally try this for a while."
Sandra's body blurred into a scarlet afterimage, and before Superman and Wonder Woman could react, she punched him hard in the stomach, and grabbed his waist as he arched in pain. He slammed his head on the door heavily.
The scarlet energy released thick and majestic energy like ignited gasoline, enveloping Sandra and Superman, forcing Wonder Woman to step back, looking ashen as a prairie fire The same red energy spread out and twisted and ignited half of the sky.
"The words I really want to pinch your neck and open your head to pour in are not what I just told you."
The protruding knuckles were so sharp that they almost tore her pale skin, Sandra screamed and choked on Superman's neck with a shrill smile, scarlet tears of blood poured out of her eyes, and before the blood dripped down, it turned into a A scarlet mist hangs in the air.
"Your lover and child died?"
Sandra held Superman's throat tightly with one hand. Even though the strength of his wrist was so strong that she could vaguely feel it even with the red light ring resisting, she still refused to let go. With one hand clenched into a fist, he punched and punched Superman's face with all his strength.
"Your city is gone?"
An angry roar lingered in her chest, she grinned grinningly, cried and howled, and finally said that these emotions burned herself as fuel, howling at the bottom of her lungs.
"My lover is gone!"
"You only remember that the clown took away your loved ones and loved ones, why don't you remember how you took my loved ones and loved ones away from me?!"
The brand new wings ripped open her body and twisted her bones to grow wildly behind her like mushrooms after a rain. Sandra was as indifferent as if she couldn't feel the pain in her body, only her fists were wrapped in red. The energy punched Superman hard in the face.
"Why do you... why do you take them away from me!"
"Why are you?!"
The blood splashed from the wound on her back vaporized into gushes of red energy and burned Superman. Sandra's throat could not bear the load and coughed twice, and a cloud of blood sprayed from her mouth. She came out, blurring her ferocious angry and mournful face.
"Give them back to me——!!!!!!!"
[Blue Bird!blue bird! Sangy! 】
Barbara called her almost panickedly on the other end of the headset, but Sandra couldn't hear anything now.
Tim, Warren, Bucky, and... Tony.
These names are engraved on the tip of her heart like bleeding scars, even just thinking about her hurts.
There used to be their figures accompanying her in her world, but now there is only a piece of barren scorched earth left.Until she saw them in the parallel world, she thought that she could calmly face the loss of them by her side, and she always thought that she still followed Bruce to save the world from falling behind. Into the hands of Superman, so that the world can finally make its own voice, instead of being played by Superman in applause.
But it wasn't until she saw them that she discovered from her trembling fingertips, from her chest filled with pus and blood, how could she face their death calmly, how could she let go of their death.
She still accompanied Bruce day and night to face threats from her former companions in this world, just for revenge.
She wanders in the world unwillingly, and what supports her has never been those great goals that are upright, only raging anger.
She wanted to kill him to fill the void in her heart, she wanted to kill him to pour out the anger in her heart with his blood, she wanted to kill him... she wanted to kill him!
"Do you know how long I've wanted to do this?"
She pinched Superman's neck tightly with both hands, watching his bloodstained and bruised face, with faint gloomy faces, and blue veins on his vigorous arms.
"Since Dick died...since Tim disappeared, since Damian betrayed us..."
"From Helena dying in Wonder Woman's noose, from you breaking Bruce's back, from Warren dying in your hot gaze, from Tony detonating his suit, from Bucky dying in your solitude Castle... Ha, you are still imprisoning your parents in your cage, right? It seems that they failed to teach you well... After all, you are just an alien in human skin, a self-confessed Just a powerful and hypocritical monster!"
"What right do you have to blame the world for being too cruel to you after taking everything from others?!"
The brand-new pitch-black wings behind her took away all the magic power in Sandra's body at the moment of growth.The moment her magic power was overdrawn, her hands couldn't help trembling, and Superman finally broke free from her hands.
After the magic power was overdrawn for a moment, the ring of Ouroboros broke due to a fault in the magic power cycle, resulting in a very violent magical disorder. In this disorder, Barbara, who was originally connected with Sandra, was completely The news from Sandra was lost, only the rustling sound was still coming from the other end of the headset.Sandra, who has lost her magical defense, is still difficult to support under Superman's hands even if she has the defense of the red light ring, but she bullies her like crazy and doesn't care at all, completely abandoning her advantage Flesh and Superman fight directly.The cloud-like scarlet energy around her gradually flourished, burning the blue sky red.
When Barbara arrived, what she saw was the red energy that burned half of the sky like a raging fire, and three people fighting together in the sky.
It was obviously very difficult for Sandra to resist Superman and Wonder Woman alone, but after her injury, the energy supplied to her by the red light ring became more and more, and the red energy escaping from her body almost formed in the sky. A thick fog that cannot be penetrated by sight, only Superman's heat vision and Wonder Woman's golden mantra lasso tearing apart the red eyes can be vaguely seen.
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