The city glittered with neon beneath the nightfall, low, heavy clouds hanging overhead. It had always been like this, as though it had never known sunlight.
Nighttime activities here were always dangerous. Everyone was part of the steel jungle—either hunter or prey.
A married couple had just taken their son to see "Zorro" at the cinema. The city's residents were marching because of an incident caused by a Joker, forcing them to take a darker alley to reach another street, where their loyal butler Alfred was waiting in the car.
But in the alley, they were attacked by thugs. A man wearing a Joker mask shot the couple for their money.
The young child suffered a mental breakdown. All he remembered was his mother's scattering pearl necklace, and a seven-spotted ladybug that had somehow violated its biological clock and flown past him.
This time, Su Ming did not bother watching any further. He knew the ending from the beginning.
That child had to be Bruce Wilson. After his parents were murdered, he would grow up determined to change the city.
So he became a mercenary, using the black-and-red colors of the ladybug he had seen as his costume, and named himself Deadpool.
The two stood in the darkness at the far end of the alley. The criminal had just run past them when Su Ming merely sighed and said flatly to Wade, "There's something I need to tell you."
"Hm? What is it, Slade?" Wade stopped what he was doing. He had been planning to adjust the time and follow this Deadpool's journey as he grew up.
"Batwoman was recently infected with The Batman Who Laughs Virus and Joker Toxin. Her mental state is extremely unstable." Su Ming pulled Wade out of the alley and into the marching crowd of