Bruce was silent for a moment, then said with an inexplicable tone, "Then, what if I go back to the point in time when Barry Allen changed the past, and restore everything to its proper course?"
Barry Allen sacrificed countless universes to save his mother. Then he just walked away, without any psychological burden.
What's even more infuriating is that in the end, he still held onto a sliver of hope and changed the past.
What good is such a teammate?
Then why couldn't he sacrifice one person to save multiple universes?
This would go against his principles and killing an innocent ordinary person would be too sinful.
But…
Barry Allen's mother might be innocent, but Barry Allen truly isn't!
Bruce was troubled, conflicted, and in pain. If he did this, what difference would there be between him and other dark criminals?
Criminals destroy order for their own selfish reasons, while he would trample on the law for the sake of the world.
But if sacrificing him could bring peace to the entire world, he would be willing to do it, even if it meant giving up his life.
"Bruce, the answer to this question... Your future self decades from now has already given it to you."
Aaron looked at Bruce and calmly said, "Doing this would at most only create another timeline branch, and the world you are in, or at least another universe, would still follow its original path."
Bruce's face was twisted in a grimace. He was far from having the unshakeable composure of the older Bruce, who could face a collapsing mountain without changing his expression.
He would suffer and be tormented by his inability to do anything in the face of a desperate future.
A dark future is not terrifying, but what is despairing is knowing all of this decades in advance, yet racking your brains and still being unable to change the outcome.
That kind of powerlessness and despair is enough to drive anyone mad.
Even worse, some might give up and destroy their own world first.
"Barry Allen!" Bruce roared like a beast.
This was the first time he had remembered that name so profoundly. Even though he had never met the person, he could never forget it.
Even if he died now, he would still shout it with a decaying voice.
"Is there really no way?"
Countless thoughts flashed through Bruce's mind, most of them mad and dark.
His face changed constantly with these dark thoughts, just like the Joker.
His current mental state was quite worrying. If things went wrong, he could become the first Joker.
Finally, he seemed to think of something and said, "No, you must have a way. Otherwise, she wouldn't have come to you."
He looked at Pamela, his grim face scaring her so much that she instinctively hid behind Aaron.
Pamela was just an ordinary college student, where had she ever seen such a scene?
Aaron said, "There are countless universes in this world, and countless universes are destroyed or born every moment. I don't want to manage them, and I can't manage them all."
"So I originally didn't want to interfere with the future of this world."
Bruce's face first darkened, then brightened upon hearing this.
Aaron grabbed Pamela's wrist and pulled her out. "But who made 'you' appear and give me a pretty good gift?"
Bruce didn't understand, and Pamela herself was quite puzzled.
The Green of this world gathered all its power and consciousness, using Pamela as its spokesperson, to come before Aaron.
This was a transaction.
The Green came instinctively, allowing Aaron to gain its power earlier.
Therefore, Aaron didn't mind making a move once.
Zod's arrival, for Keaton Batman, Supergirl, and the two Flash, was an inevitable deadly outcome that could not be reversed, no matter how many times it was changed. But for him, it was merely a trivial matter of a thought.
"First, we need to ensure that no more victims appear."
Aaron raised his index finger and pointed it at the distant sky.
His index finger was vaguely dark, yet it produced invisible ripples that spread in circles throughout the entire universe.
"I have already imprisoned the time of this world. No one can create other time branches on this timeline except for me."
This is the power of the Temporal Loom combined with time itself. Although it cannot compare to the mighty power of the Primordial Furnace, nor is it as stable as the Time Anchor, it can effectively prevent the emergence of time branches.
If the Time Gods existing in the omniverse don't interfere, the timeline of this world will remain constant from now on. Of course, this world is so tiny that such a great god wouldn't even spare it a glance.
Bruce was secretly alarmed. He really wanted to question Aaron's words, but looking at Aaron's confident expression, he strangely chose to believe him.
Unless he could develop time technology in these decades to verify the facts.
But clearly, the Batman of this world, though intelligent, did not possess the wisdom to develop time technology.
Not everyone is Reed Richards or Kang.
At this moment, Bruce realized Aaron's power. He and the other party, both Earthlings, seemed to exist on different dimensions.
Just as ants and humans live in the same world, yet ants struggle to sense the existence of humans.
Aaron continued, "Then, you need to kill Zod and his minions, which is the power to seal the deal."
Bruce clearly had a contingency plan in mind. "I'll go find Kara now. As long as she receives sunlight at the precise time, then decades from now, she'll be able to kill Zod."
"I will search for the so-called Kryptonite as a second contingency."
"Hmm, I can also pre-bury explosives at the site of Zod's spaceship landing. I'll find a way to get a few tens of millions of tons of nuclear bombs."
With the biggest problem solved, Bruce came up with several effective solutions in a matter of seconds.
If one plan failed, there were multiple backups.
He didn't seek to kill the enemy with one blow, but as long as one of them succeeded, that would be victory.
Decades of time were enough to set up hundreds of killing moves.
Aaron was noncommittal about this, merely nodding faintly. "I will take Kara and Pamela with me. The spaceship can be yours. As for the rest... good luck."
Bruce was somewhat regretful that Aaron would take Kara and Pamela, as they were excellent combatants. After all, he heard from the idiot that in another universe, Superman killed Zod and saved the world.
It was a pity this couldn't be repeated.
But it didn't matter, he alone was enough.
It was good that Aaron took them away. Earth didn't need protection from people from other universes or other planets.
A storm of thoughts flashed through Bruce's mind. When he came back to his senses, Aaron and Pamela were gone.
The surrounding crowd was still watching, but he could no longer hear any discussions about Aaron, as if he had been the only one lost in thought all along, and no one else had ever existed.
Bruce was in a daze for a while, finding it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion.
He looked up at the sky.
How wonderful would it be if all of this were fake?
But then, Bruce saw a star streaking across the sky.
It was a normal meteor, but Bruce had a thought.
That was Kara!
Everything was real?!
Their world exchanged Pamela and Kara as compensation for Aaron's exceptional intervention.
It seemed it was time to start preparing.
Aaron and Bruce's conversation was quite concise and swift.
Pamela, as one of the main participants, was utterly bewildered by the transaction process.
She didn't understand the changes in her body, nor did she know what the future crisis was.
Kara, Kryptonite, Zod—she knew none of it.
She only understood 'nuclear bomb'.
Although the United States advocated for happy education for the majority and elite education for a small minority, Pamela knew the terror of a ten-megaton nuclear bomb.
Pamela's face was pale. "Is that guy trying to destroy the world? A ten-megaton nuclear bomb... all of Gotham will be finished."
Aaron smiled and shook his head. "He's not destroying the world, he's protecting it."
"If destroying Gotham can kill Zod, then all sacrifices are worth it."
Pamela was quite shocked. She couldn't understand what Zod had done to warrant such a grand-scale operation against him.
After thinking for a moment, Pamela realized. "Just now, you said you were going to take me? Where are we going?"
Pamela didn't object to Aaron taking her away, handsome men always had privileges.
However, Aaron seemed a bit mysterious and formidable.
"We're going to find your new sister."
Aaron looked up at Kara, who was rapidly descending.
Everything was as he had foreseen: Kara's spaceship, while passing Earth, collided with a stray meteorite. Due to damage to its propulsion system, it was forced to deviate from its intended orbit and land in the Siberian region of Earth.
He was now at the landing site of the spaceship.
About ten minutes later.
Pamela had already seen the meteor fall.
She hesitated. "If I'm not mistaken, it seems to be getting bigger and bigger?"
"Oh no, it's coming straight for us."
Pamela wanted to pull Aaron and run, but Aaron remained motionless.
"No rush."
Aaron motioned for her to relax, then raised his hand to dissipate the flames around the spaceship. His powerful Telekinesis allowed the spaceship to land smoothly.
Pamela watched all of this in astonishment.
And then, Aaron, as if returning to his own home, easily hacked into the spaceship's system, opened the hatch, and entered.
However, upon entering the spaceship, Aaron and Pamela fell silent simultaneously.
The two stared blankly at the infant incubator in the emergency escape pod.
In the incubator, a baby girl less than a year old gazed at them with wide, curious eyes.
Pamela was silent. "This is Kara? My new sister?"
Aaron's lips twitched. "If nothing goes wrong, she is Kara as a baby."
He remembered, in The Flash's universe, Kara was also young. Without exposure to the sun, she wouldn't have had anti-aging abilities.
Thinking about it, she must have been a baby when she first arrived on Earth.
"Never mind, let's take her."
Aaron glanced at the generously endowed Pamela. "You take her out. She's in your care."
"Huh? Me?!"
Pamela was stunned, she was still just a college student. She hadn't even had a boyfriend, how could she take care of a baby?
"I believe in you. You're a natural mother." Aaron said meaningfully.
Huh? Becoming a mother without getting married? Seriously?
Pamela was bewildered. Noticing Aaron's gaze, she looked down at her feet, the mountains were steep and awe-inspiring.
Her young self was bearing a weight she shouldn't have to bear.
But without a doubt, Aaron was right. Pamela was a natural nurturer, with super big breasts.
After a long hesitation, considering the gap between herself and Aaron, and then Kara's pure and innocent gaze, Pamela bent down and brought her out.
Pamela commented with a hint of exasperation, "From sisters to mother and daughter, does it have to be this absurd?"
Aaron's smile became even more enigmatic. "Isn't that even better?"
Huh?!
Pamela was speechless.
Perhaps due to the affinity of The Green, Kara did not reject Pamela.
However, compared to Pamela, who exuded the aura of a mother earth, Kara preferred to look at Aaron.
No other reason, he was just handsome.
Killing all ages, it was a conceptual ability.
Aaron smiled at Kara, and the latter also smiled.
"Let's go."
"Where are we going?" Pamela, holding Kara, was somewhat lost and helpless.
"To the future, decades from now."
Aaron opened a door, then closed it.
The two adults and one child arrived in the world decades later.
At this time, Pamela learned of the deal Aaron and Bruce had struck.
At the same time, she also learned the source of her powers.
Sensing the faint despair and fear emanating from the plants beneath her feet, Pamela couldn't help but be affected, worrying, "Can Bruce really solve the problem?"
"Who knows?"
Aaron didn't give a specific answer, casually picked up Kara, and made little Kara giggle.
At the same time, he also acquired Kara's abilities.
[Infinite Evolution: You possess the potential for infinite evolution, capable of absorbing any energy to stimulate and strengthen cells, and deriving numerous abilities. Moreover, after death, you can evolve adaptive abilities, becoming even more powerful.]
This was a powerful ability evolved by integrating countless powerful physiques such as the Celestial Body, the Nine Realms' Divine Bodies, Survival of the Fittest, Primus and Unicron's power.
Aaron could sense that Infinite Evolution not only evolved his physical quality and status but also comprehensively evolved all of his abilities. This meant that even the weakest ability in his hands could evolve into a supreme ability.
Although strengthening all the powers Aaron had obtained would require an unimaginable amount of energy, for Aaron, the one thing he had in abundance was energy.
He could sense that the moment this ability was born, his body became even hungrier, and his energy absorption rate increased severalfold.
Every one of his abilities was rapidly improving. His already powerful abilities weren't obviously stronger, but those weak and unintegrated abilities developed into at least planetary-level powers within a few seconds.
Perhaps in the near future, every one of his abilities would possess Multiverse-level power.
What's an all-rounder? This is it!
Aaron liked Kara even more, the Kryptonian bloodline really was a pleasant surprise.
In addition, Aaron also obtained the Growth Codex located within Kara.
He possessed the genetic data of all Kryptonians. If he wished, he could revive all the destroyed Kryptonians at any time.
However, he didn't do so immediately. He'd wait until Kara was a bit older.