FBI: Chapter 175/176

Chapter 175: Escape

Dante rubbed his eyes, then looked at the screen of his personal terminal again…

It was Coulson's big face.

"Holy crap! Are you going to scare me to death with your big forehead, Baldy?"

"Dante, if you call me 'Baldy' again, I will absolutely explode on you!"

Coulson in the terminal rolled his eyes, then continued.

"I will send all the on-site information to your personal terminal in a moment."

With that, Coulson disconnected.

Dante exhaled deeply.

That pale face… he definitely didn't see it wrong.

It was Joker.

When Carnage meets Joker…

One is the most cunning and brutal among the Symbiotes, and the other is the craziest one even among Gotham's collection of psychopaths.

The two of them getting together, it's really a TNND mutual attraction.

Combined with the newspaper Jefferson found from the future…

"Damn it, Joker is going after Harley!"

Dante gritted his teeth, that green-haired bastard…

"Dante, don't be impulsive." Captain Carter suddenly pressed Dante's shoulder. "An opponent like Joker is absolutely not someone you can deal with when you're hot-headed. Calm down first."

Dante took several deep breaths before he managed to calm down.

Captain Carter nodded. The young Dante was indeed different from the middle-aged version.

He listens to advice.

"We don't even know the exact locations of Carnage and Joker right now, so even if we wanted to find him for a humane extermination, we couldn't."

Captain Carter's words struck a chord with Dante.

The most urgent task now is to find this bastard first.

Dante slapped his forehead.

Damn it.

What's the use of me thinking wildly here?

Go find Batman.

If anyone in the world understands Joker best, it must be Batman.

…

Bruce Wayne had just returned home from the Wayne Group building.

Today was the day for the regular shareholders' meeting.

Although it was just a formality, as the largest shareholder and actual controller of Wayne Group, he definitely had to meet the shareholders.

But once they met, there would be no avoiding drinks.

However, the drinking capacity of a bunch of old guys was, at most, enough to make him slightly tipsy.

Bruce Wayne leaned back on the sofa, loosened his tie, and let out a long breath.

"Alfred? Could you get me a bottle of water from the fridge, please? Thank you."

Not long after he finished speaking, a hand handed him a bottle of mineral water that looked expensive.

Bruce Wayne glanced out of the corner of his eye, immediately grabbed the hand, and prepared to subdue the other party…

But it didn't budge.

He turned his head and saw Alfred shrugging at him from not far away, and Dante with a mischievous smile.

"Don't be like that, Bruce, I'm getting you water, and you're trying to subdue me?"

"Who told you to not say anything with Alfred? I thought… something happened."

Bruce Wayne pouted, shook off Dante's hand, then took the mineral water and drank it all.

After hydrating, the slightly tipsy feeling immediately began to recede.

"Young Master Bruce, it's not my fault, Young Master Dante has something to discuss with you."

Alfred pointed to the ground.

"It's about what's down below."

Bruce Wayne immediately looked at Dante's face, and seeing no hint of a smile in Dante's eyes, he knew that something serious had truly happened this time.

So he stood up without hesitation and operated the mechanism in front of Dante.

A passage opened on the ground.

"Tsk tsk tsk, Bruce, if your sister-in-law knew you were using her statue as the mechanism to open the Batcave, what do you think would happen?"

"Dante, you don't need to sow discord, she already found out about this."

Bruce Wayne finished speaking and walked down on his own.

"Young Master Dante, he's just being stubborn." Alfred said with a smile. "Anyone with eyes knows that he loves her so much, he wishes every single thing around him had Miss Selina's mark."

Dante pouted.

Isn't this just a love-struck fool?

At this moment, Dante temporarily and selectively forgot why he had come to find Bruce Wayne.

Following behind Bruce Wayne, Dante and Alfred also entered the Batcave.

"Alright, Dante, what happened this time that made you come to me personally… Did another Storybrooke Town-like place pop up in America?"

Bruce Wayne turned around and asked.

But Dante only shook his head, then took out his Federal Bureau of Investigation personal terminal.

"You should look at this first."

With that, he pulled up the on-site surveillance footage that Coulson had just packaged and sent over.

Bruce Wayne took the terminal, initially calm. Although the scene was very bloody, it was still within his tolerance.

But when Carnage, with the green hair, turned around, Bruce Wayne indeed had the same reaction as Dante.

"When did this… happen?"

"This surveillance was found today in a villa in Los Angeles, and the filming date was yesterday."

"But this… impossible, right?"

"Nothing's impossible, Bruce." Dante pressed Bruce Wayne's shoulder. "The Joker's body I asked you to keep an eye on… where is it?"

Bruce Wayne immediately stood up, didn't speak, and headed straight for the lowest level of the Batcave.

Dante and Alfred exchanged glances, then followed him down.

After a burst of machine activation noise, a metal coffin made entirely of nano-alloy appeared before their eyes.

After slowly opening, Joker's body, soaked in some kind of preservative liquid, was displayed before the three of them.

Dante frowned.

"Holy crap, you actually collected it?"

"If you can't speak properly, don't speak. This is a restraint cage I specially made. Even if he revives, he will be drowned again and again because he cannot escape. Forever sinking between life and death."

Dante listened to Bruce Wayne's narration, then leaned closer to observe.

"Has he revived already?"

"More than once." Bruce Wayne glanced at the detection device beside him. "To be precise, twenty-six times."

Dante operated the monitoring device a few times, pulling up the detailed log.

"But the last revival was ten days ago, and there has been no revival reaction since then."

Alfred, however, kept staring at Joker, then pointed with his hand.

"Look closely, isn't this body a bit too…"

"Too soft?"

Dante and Bruce Wayne exchanged glances, then immediately removed the bulletproof glass container inside the metal cage.

"Splash—"

As the preservative flowed out, Bruce Wayne directly reached his hand toward Joker's face…

With a "plop," it went straight through.

Dante's face turned ashen.

This…

(To be continued.)

Chapter 176 Harley Quinn... Is Missing

"Batman! This is what you call strict supervision!?"

"Dante, have you lost your mind!?" Bruce Wayne gritted his teeth, looking at Dante. "More than ten days ago, didn't you know where I was!?"

Dante was about to scold Batman again, but suddenly he couldn't.

More than ten days ago…

The two of them were still pushing carts miserably in Storybrooke Town.

No matter how you put it, the Joker escaped from Bruce Wayne's confinement.

He must take responsibility.

Dante checked the device's detection log again.

Then he knocked on the iron lump.

"Look, ten days ago, an external contact was detected, lasting 0.001 seconds… your gadget's recording accuracy is quite precise, isn't it?"

"Not only is the time precise, but it can also prevent false alarms. This is definitely not a false touch caused by some rustling."

Bruce Wayne frowned, looking at Dante.

"You… do you know something?"

"Bruce, have you heard of Extreme Speedsters?" Dante looked at the 0.001-second data, then asked Bruce Wayne.

"Extreme Speedsters? What kind of strange ability users are these?"

Dante nodded and began to explain.

"So-called Extreme Speedsters are a group of ability users who use 'Speed Force' or 'Reverse Speed Force'. Their abilities are very complex. Simply put, they are very fast, extremely fast, fast enough to travel through time."

"If even you don't know of their existence, then it seems that Extreme Speedsters haven't been born in this era yet."

Bruce Wayne was stunned.

What does it mean to travel through time?

What does it mean that if I don't know, they haven't been born yet?

Do I really look like someone who monitors all special ability users globally?

…Well, he actually is.

Especially after this guy Dante popped up, he became even more convinced of his idea.

Those who transcend mortals must have means prepared to deal with them becoming criminals.

Of course, Dante was an exception.

If he really turned evil, it would basically be over.

As someone with few friends, he actively befriended Dante, even becoming quite good friends, partly with the idea of restricting Dante through emotional ties.

The friendship was real, and the purpose was also real.

But these were all later matters. It was the Extreme Speedsters Dante mentioned that truly surprised him.

Traveling through time?

"You mean, an Extreme Speedster from the future rescued the Joker? And then made him look like he did in the video?"

"That's basically the situation." Dante nodded. "However, what's on the Joker isn't a modification, but rather a creature called a Symbiote that has possessed him."

"Symbiote?"

"Hmm, we'll talk about this knowledge point after we deal with the Joker." Dante shrugged. "This stuff is quite troublesome. It's best to have a teaching aid on hand, it makes it easier to explain. You'll need a sample if you want to study Symbiotes, won't you?"

…

Fury placed the newspaper back on the table.

"A newspaper from the future?"

"A Symbiote Joker and an Extreme Speedster from the future?"

"Dante, what other surprises do you have that I don't know about?"

Dante took half a step back.

He could already feel the resentment from Fury.

"So do you believe this?"

"Nonsense! Dare I not believe it?" Fury gritted his teeth slightly. "The Joker's target is clearly Harley Quinn! If the target were you, I wouldn't bother!"

"It's good that you believe all of this."

Dante nodded, then raised his hand and opened a portal.

Then the Legends entered in single file.

"Come on, come and meet the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Legendary Team."

"This is… what does this mean?" Fury's single eye rarely showed confusion. "What Legendary Team? Why don't I know about such a codename?"

"Well… because they are Federal Bureau of Investigation agents from the future."

"…This isn't something you cooked up again, is it?"

"Of course not me!" Dante faced Fury's questioning with righteous indignation. "It was clearly formed by the future me! I'm not taking this blame!"

"So, at the end of the day, isn't it still you!?"

To be honest, although his worldview was once again impacted, for Fury…

It wasn't that unacceptable.

After all, Dante had done many things to reshape his worldview.

It's just an extra temporal special forces team out of nowhere.

Small matter.

"This is their Captain, and also my student… although her teacher is actually the future me." Dante brought Sarah Lance in front of Fury. "She will tell you everything about this incident."

"Hello Director Fury… this is my first time seeing a younger you."

"By your meaning, I haven't retired in the future? What about Dante? What about Coulson? And Hill?"

"You actually have retired, but after Teacher disappeared, you were forced to come back and preside over the overall situation."

"…So, after all that, I'm still working for free?"

After a couple of soft laughs, Fury motioned for Sarah Lance to continue.

As Sarah Lance narrated, Fury's expression gradually became serious.

He hadn't expected that if this incident wasn't handled well, it could become the flashpoint that completely disrupted the timeline.

"Dante."

"What's up, Fury?"

"Have your Star Team protect Harley twenty-four hours a day, starting now! I don't believe that with three Gods present, this Joker can still succeed!"

"Isn't that obvious? I already informed Hela on the way here."

Fury's idea coincided with Dante's.

Even Carnage Joker plus an Extreme Speedster couldn't break through the protection of Asgard's three siblings.

Not to mention there are also Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, the siblings. As long as Pietro can entangle the Extreme Speedster, then the Extreme Speedster will become Wanda's target.

This is also why Dante put all his attention on finding the Joker.

Because that was the only difficulty.

He didn't want to use Harley Quinn as bait and directly wait for the rabbit.

But no sooner had Dante finished speaking than Dante's personal terminal rang again.

Hela's voice came through.

"Dante, your plan just had a small flaw."

"Flaw?"

"Because… Harley Quinn is gone!"

(To be continued.)