#694 - You are all my wings

Mera stood in the farm's courtyard, her red hair like burning flames in the setting sun.

Her fingers unconsciously stroked her neck, where the pain from the dream seemed to linger—in the Flashpoint world, Diana's Lasso of Truth had tightened around her skin, and a blade had severed her cervical vertebrae.

"Who do you think you are? Someone without fault?"

Mera took a step back, her hands conjuring water blades.

Diana frowned, the Lasso of Truth shimmering in her hand.

"Of course, I am without fault, and you are a madwoman!"

"You're the crazy woman!"

Mera's voice trembled with anger, "I remember you. I remember how you killed me!"

As she spoke, Mera's water blades sliced through the air, heading straight for Diana's throat.

Diana quickly blocked with her bracelets, the water blades scattering into droplets.

"So you're the crazy woman, angrily blaming others for things that haven't even happened yet!"

Diana tried to approach her, but Mera's water blades attacked again.

"Didn't happen? If it weren't for Peter, that would have been my end!"

Mera's eyes burned with anger as she manipulated the surrounding water, forming a water prison to trap Diana.

Diana's Lasso of Truth sliced through the water prison, the golden light stinging Mera's eyes.

"Then you should find the Wonder Woman from that world."

"You are the same person!"

Mera's water blades condensed again, this time even sharper.

She lunged at Diana, the water blades drawing a silver light.

Diana dodged to the side, the Lasso of Truth wrapping around Mera's wrist.

Mera sneered, twisting her wrist and severing the Lasso of Truth with the water blades.

"You think you can trap me like that?"

Their battle unfolded in the farm, the collision of water blades and the Lasso of Truth stirring up gusts of air.

With a muffled bang, Mera was knocked back several steps by the impact, the water blades dissipating into the air.

Peter, seeing the farm being destroyed again because of their battle, suddenly felt his mood sour.

"Enough! Stop it!"

Peter's voice echoed across the farm.

Hearing Peter's voice, Diana and Mera couldn't help but stop their movements.

Together, they turned their aggrieved and resentful gazes towards Peter.

Peter covered his forehead, feeling quite a headache.

After a moment, he raised his head and said to them, "Alright, Diana, Mera, we have more important things to do. Let's put your conflict aside for now. You are both my wings, and we can't afford to lose you because of conflict, especially since the Flashpoint world isn't your fault."

Diana and Mera asked him together, "Then whose fault is it?"

Peter thought for a moment, then said to them, "It's all that Aquaman kid's fault."

At this moment, in a seaside town in Eastern Europe, Aquaman Arthur Curry, while eating fish stew with potato slices in a tavern, suddenly sneezed.

"Is someone cursing me?"

Arthur rubbed his nose and muttered to himself.

On the other side.

When Steppenwolf stepped into the base, he held the Mother Box he had snatched from the seabed tightly in his hand.

The salty smell of seawater still lingered on his armor, and the bloodstains on his battle axe had dried.

Soon after entering the base, he immediately received a report from his subordinates: the Parademon army that went to attack the Patrick Farm had failed.

"No, impossible!"

In order to deal with Peter and his many children, Steppenwolf had dispatched most of the Parademons under his command.

As a result, the Parademons were almost completely wiped out!

How could this be?!

Somewhat incredulous, he immediately had his subordinates retrieve the footage of the Parademon invasion of Patrick Farm.

Since the Parademon devices had a projection system that could transmit images at any time, Steppenwolf could observe the scene of the Parademons invading Patrick Farm.

Watching the Parademons in the projection being sliced in half by Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, and falling in droves under the magical energy attacks of Loki and Tom, his face became increasingly ugly.

The Parademons swooping down were hit by Boom-Boom, who was wielding a machine gun, before they could even get close to the ground, and crashed to the ground with a "thud."

Then, the blue-haired girl went crazy, constantly firing at the Parademon army, while Vi's gauntlet attacks caused the Parademons to fall continuously.

Watching this scene before him, Steppenwolf's emotions were unable to calm down for a long time.

Peter Patrick, who exactly is he?!

During this invasion of Patrick Farm, Peter did not take action, nor did Clark, Homelander, or Mark. Under these circumstances, his children were able to easily eliminate his Parademon subordinates.

He suddenly became worried about his plan.

Steppenwolf originally wanted to conquer Earth and then give it as a gift to Darkseid in order to gain his forgiveness and return to Apokolips.

But now it seemed that he had encountered the most difficult opponent.

These humans at Patrick Farm would be his biggest opponents in the fight for the Mother Boxes.

It seems that...

He had to speed up his pace.

Turning around, he took the Mother Box he had snatched from the Atlanteans and placed it on the platform for activating Mother Boxes on Apokolips.

As the Mother Box was inserted into the platform, a vast amount of energy spread outward from the platform that activated the two Mother Boxes.

The substantive orange substance formed by the leaked energy, like semi-transparent crystal stones, extended and spread outward, constructing a protective shield around it.

After making the base even more solid, Steppenwolf opened communications with Apokolips.

DeSaad, radiating a terrifying aura and wearing a hood, appeared in the image.

DeSaad, Darkseid's important advisor and a member of the Dark Elite.

DeSaad was insidious and cowardly. Darkseid had killed his brother Drax, but DeSaad did not resist in order to save his own life. Instead, he submitted to the ruler of Apokolips out of fear.

He was originally born on New Genesis, the archenemy of Apokolips.

But when he was a child, he was seduced by Darkseid, left New Genesis, and became a follower of the young Darkseid, so he had a very high seniority in the Dark Elite.

DeSaad's abilities are mainly reflected in his intelligence and cruelty. He is a notorious torturer and scientist on Apokolips, and the Parademon army is his masterpiece.

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"Steppenwolf, tell me what you have learned."

DeSaad asked Steppenwolf in a somber voice.

"I found two awakened Mother Boxes, and I used the power of these two awakened Mother Boxes to complete the fortress's defenses."

DeSaad nodded, "Where is the third Mother Box?"

Steppenwolf replied, "The Parademons sensed its existence and are looking for it. They found people who are tainted with the aura of the Mother Box."

"Very good, interrogate those people and find the third Mother Box."

DeSaad was about to leave after speaking, but he was quickly stopped by Steppenwolf.

Steppenwolf hesitated for a moment, then said to him, "There is one thing, we have encountered some small obstacles on Earth."

DeSaad turned around, "Who is it?"

"Peter Patrick, his children seem to be unusual, and there is also a Kryptonian among them."

"Peter Patrick?"

A thoughtful expression appeared on DeSaad's face, "Then kill him, no matter how powerful he is, otherwise you will never be able to return to Apokolips."

At the same time, at night.

Gotham.

At this time, in Gotham, which was drizzling, the entire city was immersed in the dim night.

Commissioner Gordon walked onto the rooftop where he used to meet Batman.

"Whirr!"

In the pattering rain, a black cloak unfurled, and Batman landed on the ground.

Accompanying him was the Flash.

Gordon turned around, looked at the two of them, and asked, "How many of you are there?"

"Not many, but it should be barely enough for now."

Bruce had been investigating the Parademon invasion, and after receiving a call from Peter in the evening, asking him to find Steppenwolf's lair, he contacted Gordon.

As for the Flash, he was brought along as an assistant.

Gordon walked over and handed a file bag to Bruce.

"There are a total of a dozen eyewitnesses, and their descriptions match the suspects in the Metropolis kidnapping."

Bruce nodded, "It's the Parademons, they must have smelled the aura of the Mother Box."

He already knew about the Parademons and Steppenwolf, as well as their purpose, from Peter.

"Yesterday, eight employees of S.T.A.R. Labs went missing and were kidnapped. Those eight people were kidnapped by Parademons. Eyewitness descriptions also match the Parademons. They may still be alive."

Bruce opened the file bag, looking at it while saying to Gordon.

"No, not eight, nine!"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind.

Bruce and the Flash turned around and saw Cyborg, whose upper body was covered in machinery.

Cyborg walked over and said to the three, "The director of S.T.A.R. Labs was taken away tonight."

Gordon shrugged his shoulders, "Okay, another scientist has been abducted."

Bruce pondered for a moment, then said, "There must be their lair nearby."

Gordon handed a map to Bruce, saying, "I've marked all the eyewitness locations in Metropolis and Gotham. There's no obvious pattern. These ground locations don't intersect."

Bruce took it, opened the map in the rain, and his expression became serious in an instant.

"Yes, they don't intersect on land, but they do intersect at sea. These all point to Stryker's Island, which is between these two cities. These are ventilation shafts, all pointing to a tunnel. That's an abandoned project from Metropolis in 1929. Their lair may be here."

While speaking, Bruce put away the map and said to the Flash, Barry, "Barry, notify Mr. Terrific, we've found a suspected location, but it still needs to be verified."

Gordon listened to Bruce's words, turned around, and looked at the distant skyline of the city, where Stryker's Island could be faintly seen.

"Are you really sure?"

As he spoke, Gordon turned around and saw that Batman and Cyborg had disappeared, leaving only Barry standing there, as stunned as he was.

"Uh... they, they just disappeared like that, that's... that's really rude."

Barry said awkwardly, trying to find something to say.