Supreme Superboy woke up.
He saw Batman Dragon standing before him, as if he stood atop Wayne Tower in Gotham City, his pitch-black figure glinting in the darkness.
Between the two of them, the whip-like Spinal Cord Sword had been sealed inside a ring of dark matter energy by Batman Dragon, resembling a brick made from rotten flesh and bone.
World Forger had given up.
Anti-Monitor and Batman Dragon had teamed up to play him for a fool.
If he could not quickly control Supreme Superboy downstream of the Over-Time Stream, then supplying energy to Supreme Superboy upstream during the Infinite Earths Crisis would be utterly meaningless—
No matter how much dark matter energy he fed Supreme Superboy during the Infinite Earths Crisis, he would merely be helping Anti-Monitor replace the energy inside Supreme Superboy with his own Anti-Matter Universe Energy.
"I need this... lump of flesh," Supreme Superboy said.
He did not know, nor was he certain, whether World Forger would return. He could not leave something that might help him strike back at World Forger in Batman Dragon's hands.
"He's yours." Chen Tao did not waste words.
Then both Supreme Superboy and Chen Tao fell silent together.
"Next, we follow the plan," Supreme Superboy said. "We're going to capture the Batman of the Prime Universe."
The silence remained deathly.
Chen Tao had already guessed that Supreme Superboy might have realized something, and Supreme Superboy might also have guessed...
Batman Dragon...
Perhaps would not let him easily find the Old Batman of the Prime Universe.
Batman Dragon and Supreme Superboy had traveled together for some time.
From the moment Supreme Superboy became a mad ape to the moment he sorrowfully transformed back into a human being.
Supreme Superboy's gaze drifted across Batman Dragon's face, lingered briefly on Hero Day's