"This thing..."
Miao Mu's form shattered. A body that large consumed a terrifying amount of energy, even with his vast reserves.
But he couldn't keep spending it like that. After changing back, Miao Mu jumped onto the wreckage of the Mechanical Giant that had been crushed into the ground.
He picked up a shattered piece of the AllSpark Stone.
Miao Mu cautiously fed some magical energy into it, but there was no response. It was like an ordinary stone.
But before this, a soul had once resided within it.
"General Lane, nice to meet you. I'm Miao Mu."
"Uh... hello."
General Lane stared at Miao Mu's distinctly Asian features and froze for a moment before hurriedly reaching out to shake his hand.
"Oh, right. You should be smoking a corncob pipe, wearing a pair of frog-eye sunglasses and a peaked cap. You'd look just like MacArthur!"
Miao Mu offered the compliment with complete sincerity, but General Lane frowned. That compliment... Well, that wasn't important.
"I need to head to the nearest military base immediately, mobilize the National Guard to suppress this situation, declare wartime status, and fight back!"
General Lane's eyes widened, carrying an imposing air, but he had no idea that Congress had already handled most of the problems.
It was all thanks to him drawing away part of the attention.
Batman and Miao Mu exchanged a glance.
"Here are the keys to the truck. Good luck!"
Batman tossed Miao Mu the keys to the garbage truck from before. Miao Mu then tossed them to General Lane and made an encouraging fist.
Then the two of them hurried away. Six enormous wings sprouted from Miao Mu's back, like the fleshy wings of a pterosaur.
With one powerful beat of all six wings, he shot into the sky.
Batman promptly