"What you should be focusing on, shouldn't it be what he wants to do?" Hospital Gown Bruce spread his hands at their argument. "Obviously, he's carrying out a plan to achieve some goal. Shouldn't that be your focus? What is his plan? What does he want to do?"
"You know?" Bruce stopped arguing, his probing gaze falling on Hospital Gown Bruce.
"I'm grateful that when he helped me escape Nightmare, he didn't tamper with my memories. Those memories weren't worth remembering, but the other me—or rather, the blackened me after merging with the Joker—did leave me with some very important memories." Hospital Gown Bruce pulled over a chair and sat down with one leg crossed over the other. "He should have looked through those dark memories. What he wanted was to find a way into the Dark Multiverse. Or rather, the residence of the true mastermind behind it all."
"You know how to get in?" Bruce narrowed his eyes. Stephen, standing beside him, also fell silent and listened intently to Hospital Gown Bruce.
"Of course I know. That Barbatos dreamed of me doing exactly that." Hospital Gown Bruce added an explanation. "Barbatos can be understood as a dragon that destroys worlds. The Master of the Dark Multiverse. At least, that's what it told me. It worships despair and pursues destruction. Its greatest wish is to erode and destroy the stable Prime Universes, sending them into ruin."
"The Batman Who Laughs—the dark me—borrowed its power to travel to various Dark Multiverses, gathering a group of companions to serve as the vanguard for invading the Prime Universe."
"The method for opening a gateway to the Dark Multiverse isn't difficult either. You only need to gather five special, powerful metals. With you, Bruce, as the vessel, the conditions for opening the gateway can