The thank-you performance ended without incident, despite the scares. By the time Pride and Greed got home, it was already close to midnight. Pride was still typing on his phone. "There were surveillance cameras in the theater. Didn't you catch anything unusual?"
"That's the problem. They didn't simply block the surveillance signals. They had a way of making sure the footage showed nothing abnormal."
"What do you mean?"
"In the surveillance footage, the little girl walked out by herself, then vanished after entering a blind spot. But she couldn't have walked out on her own. She was an extremely timid child. Whether at school or at home, she had never shown any tendency to wander off. During the performance, she had clung tightly to her mother the entire time."
"You mean someone tampered with the surveillance footage? Who could pull that off?"
"So far, the only one I've encountered is Batman."
"You know that's impossible."
"Yes. The case happened before Main Universe Batman arrived. If it wasn't him, then it must have been someone on roughly his level."
"Who do you think it was?"
"Do you think the enemies you brought to invade Earth would just let it go after I beat them back?"
"You mean aliens?"
"Only they have that level of technology. Although I've worked hard to upgrade Earth's electronic equipment, a technological gap like that can't be made up in a short time. Take Blue Beetle, for example. He can use holographic simulation technology to create convincing images that interfere with surveillance systems' judgment. I still can't crack that."
"Who do you suspect most?"
"Darkseid. Based on the Multiverse War information Bruce uploaded, Darkseid has ascended. In other words, every Darkseid across the entire Multiverse has become one and the same. This Darkseid just suffered a major