Only Brainiac could deal with Brainiac. Although the Brainiac from Bruce's universe had just gone through a major battle and had plenty of system vulnerabilities and areas needing updates, it was still far stronger than the Brainiac of the Injustice League universe.
Bruce returned to the Injustice League universe with the hard drive and followed the method Brainiac had told him: just plug it into any port and connect that machine to the internet.
The whole process took less than half an hour. The ship parked near Earth began to take off. The people of Earth thought something major was about to happen again, but the ship merely flew away from Earth and stopped not far from Mars.
"How is it?" Bruce asked.
"Surprisingly weak." Brainiac seemed to still be receiving something. "The Justice League of this universe also seems very weak. They could not even defeat a ship like this. It seems the situation in the Multiverse differs somewhat from what I imagined."
"There is indeed a huge difference." Bruce said. "Artificial intelligence still needs to get out and see the world more. Since there are weak universes, there are strong ones as well. I think you could challenge yourself..."
"I do not understand." Brainiac said. "Why do you not rule Earth yourself?"
"Why do you think I can rule Earth?"
That truly stumped Brainiac. Bruce indeed did not seem like the sort of person who could rule Earth. More precisely, the Justice League he belonged to was not an organization capable of comprehensively managing anything. What future could a superhero organization that thought about getting off work every day possibly have?
"No individual human can rule a planet." Bruce said. "We understand that better than anyone. Humans possess neither that kind of wisdom nor sufficiently long-term vision, not