What bad intentions could Batman have?.

Do you remember that moment?

When did your life truly begin?

When Batman put on his cowl for the first time, Wonder Woman left Paradise Island for the first time, and Superman pulled open his clothes in the alley for the first time to reveal that S.

Or, let's make the story more explicit.

When Professor Albert Swann, the Reverse Flash, observed the Speed ​​Force in the laboratory for the first time, the golden lightning flashed a dreamy reflection in his pupils.

You take that first step and become a new person.

Was it scary, or did it feel like you were finally breathing?

You've spent so many years alone, not even sure what you were looking for.

But you finally found yourself and your life.

You are no longer alone now.

You come together like streams forming a river.

You’re telling the same story, and you’re reaching out to each other like you always knew they’d be there.

And the adventures, did you ever dream that you would have so many adventures? You saved the universe! And the timeline, and the existence of this world itself.

again and again.

Amid the ruins, Albert Swan turned his head and looked at Thomas Wayne who was looking at him.

Poor old Thomas, the father of Batman Bruce Wayne, but he is the Batman of this world, the current Batman.

His youngest son died in an accident when he was 8 years old.

The other man held a gun against Albert Swan's forehead.

Beside him, Cyborg screamed: "Are you crazy? You killed Superman?! Fuck Wayne, we need him, he can save the world!"

Under the feet of Cyborg and Thomas, Superman, who was as skinny as a stick and looked like a skeleton, died tragically on the ground.

"Not this... I don't want this world." Thomas Wayne pointed the muzzle of the gun at Swan's forehead.

"I just want a world where my son is still alive."

He said.

Cyborg covered his head and yelled, "You're crazy, Wayne. We had a chance..."

No one cares what he says.

Reverse Flash Albert Swan just looked at Thomas Wayne with pity, looking at this old man who went crazy for his beloved son.

He exhaled slowly, then took one step ahead of Thomas Wayne and said everything Thomas was going to say next.

"Swan can change everything, he can bring him back, I have to force him... to bring Bruce back."

Thomas Wayne was stunned.

Reverse Flash Albert Swann has many abilities. He is a genius in developing the Speed ​​Force, but the only ability that does not include mind reading is among Albert Swann's abilities.

That is the talent of Gorilla Grodd. Each of the Flash's enemies has unique abilities, and no two enemies have abilities that overlap or approach each other.

But Reverse Flash still did it, he repeated what he was going to say before he spoke it out loud.

Thomas Wayne, who was extremely intelligent, realized something.

His gun clattered to the ground.

The whole person staggered backward.

"How could you... this... this is impossible..."

"What?" Cyborg was confused. Even though Victor Stone had the most powerful electronic brain on earth, about 3/4 of his brain was covered with muscles unique to football players. (Note: Although Cyborg's body is made of metal except for his heart and lungs, only 1/4 of his head is replaced by metal)

Thomas Wayne was furious. He jumped up suddenly and grabbed the collar of the Reverse Flash Albert Swan: "You are lying to me, you are lying to me - you bastard!"

He shouted angrily, "You must——"

"You have to go back in time and restart the world to change everything. You have to do that."

Reverse-Flash sadly uttered all the words that Thomas Wayne was going to say next, and this fact made Thomas's legs completely go weak and he just fell down.

And Reverse Flash also finished the second half of the sentence:

"Otherwise I will stop you forever, until the end of time or my life!"

Swan turned to look at the dumbfounded Cyborg.

"I'm sorry Victor, but you won't remember this soon enough, so I guess I don't need to apologize too seriously. And you, Clark."

He said to the corpse on the ground: "Thomas failed to kill you in previous reincarnations, but you were killed by him this time. You are so unlucky. But time will be restarted soon and you will be resurrected, so there is no point in this."

Batman Thomas Wayne hung his head.

"You've been back there a lot, haven't you, Swan?"

he whispered.

"Yes, I'm sorry, old friend." said Reverse Flash.

"I'm sorry to tell you this only now, but I tried to tell you the truth in advance, but the end result was that the end came earlier."

"You guessed it right, it is true, I have come back many times. But no matter what I change, the timeline will always lead things to a bad ending."

"My son is dead, my wife is going crazy, and my whole world is falling apart! All because you wanted to get one better than him!"

(Note: This universe is a reflection of the main universe event Flashpoint. In this event, in order to save his mother, the Flash accidentally restarted the entire multiverse under the secret influence of Dr. Manhattan and Reverse Flash Swan, causing everything to change)

Faced with the accusations of old Thomas Wayne, Reverse-Flash Albert Swan did not answer "I am indeed better" like his previous self in the timeline.

He was young, cruel and vicious at the time. He asked Thomas Wayne to look around and told him that the Flash Barry Allen was dead, and this dirty and smelly reality was a reflection of Barry Allen's failure.

But he never thought that this world was not only Barry Allen's, but also his.

This is also Albert Swan's world.

Therefore, Reverse Flash Swan sincerely apologized to Thomas Wayne, even though he had apologized countless times in his endless reincarnations.

"I'm sorry, Thomas. I've long been trying to give you the gift of a Gotham without Batman and without my interference."

Reverse Flash Swan said: "But no matter how hard I try, Bruce Wayne can't live past the age of ten."

"I solved Crime Alley, car accidents, and earthquakes, but in the last reincarnation, even though I guarded all night, Bruce Wayne still got food poisoning from accidentally eating a sandwich made by Martha Wayne. The poisoning reaction was extremely severe, and it developed together with the allergic reaction, causing Bruce Wayne to die at the age of 9 years and 11 months. Martha Wayne went crazy because of this, and once again became the Joker like in the previous reincarnation."

Reverse Flash said: "And this reincarnation..."

"Bruce Wayne, 8 years and months old, drowned because Martha let him go to the swimming pool." Thomas Wayne looked ashen: "Martha went crazy because of this."

"Yes." said Reverse-Flash.

"It's not just Bruce. There are other things in this world, such as the death of Mela, the alliance between the old gods and the new gods, the destruction of the earth, the civil war..." Swan said, "I try to postpone these things, but every time I postpone them to a limit, they will inevitably collapse."

"Those things will always happen." Reverse Flash Albert Swan said slowly.

But the most terrifying thing is not just this.

look.

You are the Reverse Flash.

In order to save your universe, you reset it to the furthest timeline you can before the end of the world.

again and again.

Taking the death of the Flash Barry Allen's mother as the node, you can only go back a few decades at most.

You restart the timeline again and again, as if there is no end to it all.

But you know that's not the case.

One day, this seemingly endless cycle will have to end. Everything will come to an end, the universe will be destroyed, and the sea of ​​stars will dry up.

Yes, that's right, of all people, you should know best -

Nothing lasts forever.

That scares you, doesn't it? The end.

Is that why you never stop? Because you have nothing else?

But you chose to do it anyway.

You even begin to look forward to the end.

In a certain reincarnation, Albert Swann, the Reverse Flash, roared to the sky at the Apokolips army that was about to destroy the Earth. He killed all the New Gods until he was covered in wounds and exhausted.

And all these cycles are being drawn again as the timeline is restarted as Reverse Flash runs at a high speed.

Damn it, damn it, destroy it, what price will it take for all this to finally end? Finally have an end?

Death?

It's no use. In the endless cycle, you have died before, but soon you find that you have been resurrected by the timeline.

In one reincarnation, Albert Swann, the Reverse Flash, jumped out of the grave, gasping for breath. He touched the hole on his forehead in surprise, which was shot by Thomas Wayne.

The timeline resurrected him in a Schrodinger state of being dead but not completely dead.

Even death cannot bring you peace.

Stories always call you back, and not even death can set you free.

Did that make you feel trapped?

Years keep passing, and time restarts again and again. But you never stop, you never stop running.

Reverse Flash finally accepted it all. He accepted the premise that he could never stop the end of the world. The future was too far away, and the past was too hard to look back on. Reverse Flash chose to live in the present.

He befriends Dr. Thomas Wayne, who holds little Bruce, 7, in his arms.

He went on a picnic with his friend's family.

Even though he knew that in at least another year, little Bruce Wayne would die for some reason and this happy family would fall apart.

But so what, he couldn't change that.

Living in the moment.

Have you become so used to these things that you have already become so cold-blooded that you would reset the timeline to the past without blinking an eye before the end of the world?

But…in those quiet moments, those endless breaths between the end of the world, have you ever thought?

Is this all you can be?

All your pain, all your loss, what are you going to do to show it?

Albert Swann, the Reverse Flash, wandered in front of Barry Allen's grave, leaning on the grave with a sad look on his face.

No one can chase and run with him anymore... everything he did. No one knows, not even Thomas Wayne knows the memory of the previous reincarnation.

Albert Swan, the Reverse Flash, is always alone. It is meaningless for him to talk to anyone about anything. Once the timeline is restarted, he will become a stranger to everyone again, or even an enemy. And everything he has done to maintain law and order, save the world, and heal crises will never happen after the timeline is restarted.

Is the world a safer place, or are you only dragging others into your own doomed tragedy, no matter how hard you try?

Nothing, nothing. Everything he had done would be erased.

Is the world a better place, or was Barry Allen right after all?

There was nothing, nothing. He had tried countless ways and times to prevent that doomsday.

Have you ever inspired anyone, or have you become nothing more than a hollow symbol, a machine that keeps restarting timelines and lost its power long ago?

I think so.

My name is Albert Swan, and I am rebooting my timeline, as I have done many times before.

I'm just an empty shell, living in a world before the apocalypse. Trapped in a cage.

"Yes, but look at your life, the cautious, empty life you lead, completing reincarnations again and again like going to work, greedily feeling the few warm moments in those reincarnations, and then waiting for the end of the world to come, and then restarting time again."

"You know that if you continue like this, your universe will eventually fall apart, but no matter how hard you try, you can't change anything."

Reverse Flash Albert heard the voice in his ear.

"Listen, does this feel like the truth to you about your life?"

Reverse-Flash heard the whispers, the voice whispering in his ear.

"You can feel it, right? Your life now is not enough. You are definitely not living to wait for death. You have been very brave, you have been brave for so many people... Can't you be brave for yourself again?"

“Can you see that your life is meaningless and then step up and make a difference?”

"Can you take that step, like you did all those years ago, can you be strong enough to look the lie in the face, even if you have woven your entire world around it, and then tear it apart at all costs and start over again?"

Albert Swan, the Reverse Flash, turned to look at the old Batman. In order to force him to restart the timeline to save his Bruce, the other party shot and killed the Superman next to him.

But Reverse Flash knows that his hopes will always be in vain.

But no matter what...

"He's brave enough, are you?"

The whisper was spoken in his ear.

"Okay." Reverse Flash said.

"I've been thinking about it for a long time, I know. I agree with your proposal."

"Inspecting the Mohar."

"What do you want me to do?"