"Phew, finally made it up. Anyway... holy shit, what are you doing here?!"
At the heroes' gathering point in downtown Gotham City, an intangible Zuo Ci drifted up out of the ground, grumbling as he went.
He was about to say something else when he looked up and spotted Batman's pitch-black figure standing in the middle of the crowd.
With a Robin clinging to his leg.
"No, wait, seriously... how the hell did you do that?"
Zuo Ci turned solid again and stared at Batman, struggling to keep his composure.
Had this old bat secretly been teleporting behind my back? How else could he have gotten here faster than me?
Once Zuo Ci turned intangible, he could ignore all obstacles. He had flown straight up the entire way, which was practically cheating no matter how you looked at it.
Yet not only had Batman gotten here fucking faster, he had even changed his clothes along the way!
And the Talons and Joker were nowhere to be seen. He had probably locked them up, too.
And you still expect me to believe you're an ordinary person?!
"I've identified the cause of Gotham's rampage. The Court of Owls was behind it."
Ignoring Zuo Ci's question, Batman maintained his cold demeanor and calmly explained the sequence of events to everyone.
The root cause of Gotham's massive collapse was, quite simply, those idiotic Owls screwing around.
Since those bastards worshipped Barbatos, they occasionally performed evil rituals, sacrifices, and the like. Of course, most of the time, those accomplished fuck all.
But a few days ago, during another sacrifice, they had accidentally stirred something up. Naturally, it certainly wasn't Barbatos himself.
Instead, they had accidentally awakened numerous members of the Color Council.
The Green, The Red, and the others in this world had all been