"Strange. Very strange."
In a laboratory that looked rather similar in style to the Batcave, Harley, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Red Hood, and Red Robin gathered around a piece of metal. Harley was relaying Scarlet Witch Wanda's words, while Scarlet Witch Wanda was relaying Stark's.
"The property test data is a complete mess. Some values are clearly random numbers within a given range. That might show up in certain conductors under high-pressure conditions, but are superconductors really that popular for rebar in your universe?"
Red Robin was the only one present who could understand the complex theoretical data. He let out a soft sigh and said, "About half a month ago, when we started building this floating fortress, I noticed this problem."
"At the time, we only wanted to scavenge some scrap from the city, reclaim the metal from destroyed structures, and use it on less important components to save money. Batman wasn't around, and we couldn't exactly march into the Batcave and take his raw materials."
"Midtown is different from Uptown. Most of the buildings here are skyscrapers built with Rebar Concrete, so naturally, rebar is the most common metal. We brought back quite a lot of it. We had originally planned to melt it down directly, but to be safe, I took some samples for material testing."
"The results shocked me, but I thought the instruments here might have been malfunctioning. So I took some time to return to the Batcave and tested it with the most professional equipment there. That was when I discovered that there was definitely something wrong with this metal. Just as you said, it displayed properties that this material should never have been capable of displaying."
"I started suspecting the samples themselves, so we collected dozens of samples from five different locations across