Ultimate Crisis: Supreme Superboy Smiles, and Spring Comes to the World, Bat's Little Secret

Ever walked a dog?

When you were toying with someone, you couldn't really let the dog get the meaty bone in its mouth, but you couldn't keep withholding it, either.

If a dog went too long without receiving any reward at all, it would lose its drive.

That was why Chen Tao had to hand the hammer to Prime Universe Bat. He had to let the other party see hope. Supreme Superboy's pursuit was not easy to evade. Even with Sixth Dimension armor, it was a painful process for anyone.

"You dare?"

After Supreme Superboy indirectly took control of Barbatos's true body through the Cosmic Tuning Fork, he had already realized what method Prime Universe Bat had used to stop him from initiating the Fall.

Without Barbatos, how could he create massive amounts of Crisis Energy in the Prime Universe? Especially when he merged the timelines of those three parallel universes back into the Prime Universe's timeline?

Supreme Superboy didn't know. A terrifying answer had appeared in his heart: himself.

He would replace Barbatos and create endless slaughter and death in the Prime Universe. After he restarted the universe, all of it would be erased completely, as though it had never happened. But Supreme Superboy didn't want that.

Supreme Superboy didn't like deliberately murdering ordinary people, though he had done it many times—especially in the most famous incident: Earth-15.

Supreme Superboy destroyed that Earth, directly causing First Lantern to drift to the upper reaches of the Over-Time Stream, where he completed a series of events including sharing the Emotional Spectrum and directly created the Green Lantern Corps.

But in fact...

"Supreme Superboy" and "Time Trapper" were actually products that had split off along two entirely different timelines.

With Earth-15 as the dividing point, Supreme Superboy's history began to split into