signingbooks Chapter 215 Wonder Woman's Princess Carry, Scarecrow vs. Shazam
Chapter 215 Wonder Woman's Princess Carry, Scarecrow vs. Shazam
Chapter 215 Wonder Woman's Princess Carry, Scarecrow's Bewitching of Shazam
"I don't have time for you to play games!"
"No, this won't work. Absolutely no chance."
Billy felt like he was back in that night.
The hazy mist, the creaking and groaning of the tram, and the roar of a monster outside the window—it all seemed like the deepest dream of a boy huddled under the covers on a midsummer night.
then……
The bewildered boy pushed open the carriage door and saw the old wizard sitting high at the very top of the hall.
His hair flowed like seaweed, and he wore a long linen robe. His staff rested on his right arm, and he propped his head up with one hand, carefully examining the boy before him.
"Someone like you is not capable of shouldering heavy responsibilities."
He drew this conclusion.
"Now that I've summoned a child, my magic must have weakened."
"I'm not a child anymore, and who are you? And what kind of damn place is this?"
Billy heard himself shouting.
"This is my home, and you are only entitled to answer when questioned. I am the last member of the Magic Council and the steward of Eternal Stone Castle! The greatest magical fortress in history!"
"Hey, listen up, you perverted old man. You might fool a six-year-old, but if you dare take another step closer, I'll beat you to a pulp."
"Hmph! The search for spells not only brought me a child, but also an ill-mannered one. I'd better hurry up and get through this."
Billy's pupils reflected the wizard raising his staff, lightning crackling around it and piercing through his body: "Is this boy the magical warrior I've been searching for? Is this boy a being of ultimate good?"
Boom!
Billy saw himself lying on the ground. He heard the old wizard say, "Why should magic make me waste my time on these flawed things? Evil has been unleashed. God, forgive me, Black Adam will be free soon."
"What did you just do to me?" Billy looked up and saw the old wizard speaking while blood flowed from all seven orifices. His already emaciated head gradually began to show a bluish-black color, the kind that only the dead would show.
Maggots emerged from his eye sockets, devouring half his face into bone in mere seconds, yet he remained oblivious, saying:
"As I have done for many others, I have reviewed your life story in search of a truly virtuous person. But you are just as imperfect as the souls I have brought before... No! More than imperfect, you are utterly corrupt!"
The withered wizard grabbed Billy by the collar: "You liar! Liar! You used the abilities I gave you to steal money from a bank ATM? A coward like you would have run away if you actually saw Black Adam!"
"You possess not a single good quality; you stole my power with your sweet words!"
"Give me back my power! Give it back! You're incapable of bearing any burden! You're a useless piece of trash, a liar! I made the wrong choice!"
"ah!!!"
Billy yelled and stood up, clutching his head, then crashed to the ground with a thud, his hard skull slamming into the table and sending it sliding off the smooth floor.
He scrambled to his feet, looking disheveled, and saw his classmates and teachers staring at him.
"Oh, Billy, are you feeling unwell?" he heard his teacher, Mr. Wilson, say softly to him from the podium.
A few weeks ago, this pot-bellied middle-aged man would probably have been shouting angrily or making sarcastic remarks about his behavior in class, which he said was "not something a normal child would do."
But at this moment, his face, which was wrinkled like a pile of excrement, was filled with disgusting flattery and ingratiation. He was calling out "Daddy" rather than "Billy."
Mr. Wayne's funding of the school made all the teachers and students realize Billy's status. In just a few weeks, Billy became the most unapproachable person in the school. Even the most acerbic teachers would become kind and amiable under the intimidation of money and power.
It was so intimate it was almost disgusting.
Billy was not happy at all about the preferential treatment he received.
If Mr. Wilson had used vicious language to curse him or made sarcastic remarks, he might have directly and fearlessly insulted him in return. But now, the way Mr. Wilson acted as if he wanted to lick the soles of his shoes only filled Billy with fear.
This is not the treatment he deserves.
You see, he didn't think it was real at the time; he thought he was just asleep on the train and had a bizarre dream.
He told the old wizard a long story about how no one is perfect, and then the wizard, as if he had lost his mind, said strange things like, "You have the fire of hope, you are the one I have been waiting for," and then inexplicably bestowed power upon him. He didn't even know what had happened.
Then, the infamous Mr. Bruce Wayne came to their school and crushed over 90% of his troubles with his greenbacks. All those who bothered him—Mr. Blair, the wealthy man, and his three scoundrel sons whose hobby was bullying others, and the acerbic Principal Beach—were utterly defeated by Mr. Bruce Wayne's divine might.
Billy knew something was wrong with his situation. A normal person would be happy to discover they had superpowers and made a super friend who could improve their life with a flick of their finger, right?
But... Belgium often thinks about those who place their hopes on him. They call him a god, thinking he can solve anything, but Billy knows it's not true. He's just a little boy, and a morally questionable one at that. His first reaction after gaining superpowers is to steal from bank ATMs.
"I'm fine, Mr. Wilson."
Billy shook his head. He refused special treatment. He didn't skip school or do anything rebellious or naughty. Instead, he attended classes quietly until the afternoon when most of his classmates went to clubs or went home. Only then did Billy slowly put away his textbooks, sling his backpack over his shoulder, and head to the infirmary.
The infirmary was huge, and Billy made his way through a maze of turns to the psychology clinic. Inside, many students were quietly reading.
Billy knew that the clinic was also the venue for a mental health club.
He walked past the other students and knocked on the door of the innermost small consultation room: "Dr. Fell, I'm here again, um..."
When Billy called Dr. Phil by his name, he had no idea that "Phil" actually sounded somewhat like "fear".
It's only a slight resemblance, neither much nor little, not enough to evoke any associations.
"Diagnosis," Billy then heard Dr. Phil's voice coming from the small examination room.
Warm, kind, and powerful.
"Just a little free diagnosis, Billy. There's absolutely no need to be ashamed of it; modern people are under a lot of stress."
The voice dispelled Billy's shyness with just a few words. The boy breathed a sigh of relief, pushed open the door, and saw the tall and thin Dr. Phil sitting in the main seat.
His limbs were thin and bony, like the arms of a scarecrow.
"Ah, you've come, Billy." Dr. Phil politely invited Billy to sit down, without a trace of obsequiousness. This made Billy very comfortable.
The other person truly lived up to their reputation as a psychologist; every move they made was like a gentle breeze, leaving no room for displeasure.
"So...where were we?"
"...Dr. Phil, aren't you going to sit down?" Billy asked.
He saw Dr. Phil walk excitedly to the window, straightening his thin, tall body like a scarecrow watching over crows in a wheat field.
"I'm fine, I can stand. Let's discuss the topic we interrupted last time: fear."
"You're afraid you're not doing well enough, aren't you, Billy?"
He said, "...responsibility and ability must be relative. The most important reason why humans are social animals is because they can cooperate and divide labor..."
"...Find what you're good at, Billy, and what you're not good at..."
The scarecrow, disguised as Dr. Phil, subtly curled the corners of its mouth into a smile: "You can totally entrust this position to someone who is good at these things."
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"Kara Zo El has been on Earth for over 37 hours," Chen Tao said.
"Um."
"This means she has absorbed enough yellow sunlight to turn her into a powerful girl."
"Um."
"Okay, Diana, I admit it, the reason I was making small talk was because I wanted you to change how you were holding me."
Chen Tao finally spoke out, though he had no other choice.
When Diana led him to the stealth plane, they discovered that the plane's fuel tank was coincidentally and inexplicably broken, and there wasn't a single drop of fuel inside.
Alfred expressed great surprise and deep regret on the communication channel. Chen Tao was completely convinced that this was not his doing.
At first, Chen Tao tried to transform into the Broken Bat and fly on his own. Yes, that was a good idea, to be able to run alongside Wonder Woman. But the truth is, he couldn't keep up with Wonder Woman's speed on the ground at all.
Diana's demigod status granted her unimaginable speed, second only to Superman, Cheetah, and a few speedsters who wielded the Speed Force.
After Chen Tao synchronized with the Broken Bat, his flight speed was indeed fast enough, but it was still not enough in front of the female warrior. At first, he could barely keep up in the complicated city center, but he was soon left behind by the female warrior.
In short, since there are no supersonic planes to ride in, the situation has become Wonder Woman carrying Chen Tao around on the ground...
"I'm telling you, I'm Batman," Chen Tao said. "You can't just carry me around like a cat. Even if I have a nanotech body that allows me to transform into a shapeless blob, that's not a skill for you to carry me around."
"Okay," he heard the female warrior say. He thought he was finally free from that embarrassing position, but in the blink of an eye, he found himself being carried in a princess carry.
"..."
Chen Tao was saying something at first, but then he quickly changed his mind...
This is fine too, let's leave it at that, haha.
So he stopped talking, covered his face with nanobots, and what Wonder Woman was holding looked more like a giant black cat than a person.
With the threat of being seen gone, Wonder Woman, carrying Batman, quickly arrived at the location where Supergirl had appeared.
This is on the outskirts of Kansas, where dense forests lie across the river from vast farmlands. A gentle breeze carries the rustling sound of the trees.
Chen Tao got off Diana and quickly got into work mode.
"This location was pinpointed by Superman in the Lonely Fortress using Kryptonian technology combined with Superdog Little Krypton's keen sense of smell," Chen Tao said.
"The accuracy rate is probably over 90%. To be honest, this place is not particularly far from the crash site; it's much closer than I imagined."
She'd been falling for over a day and had only moved so little—either she was lost, or she was too scared to go out. Either way, he was wary. "Once we find the Kryptonians, we'll act together."
Chen Tao said. He glanced at Diana, who was already perched in the tree.
"Natural scenery, right?" Chen Tao said, "So we can't let this natural scenery be destroyed. We need to stop it in an instant and prevent further damage as much as possible."
Diana knew what Chen Tao meant but didn't say. The greater the destruction their battle caused, the more likely they were to attract personnel from an organization called "the Government."
"So we must search carefully." Chen Tao tossed a communicator to Diana and said, "Superman and his dog will provide technical guidance. Once we find the person—"
boom!
But as soon as he finished speaking, a loud bang erupted from the nearby jungle, followed by a series of deafening explosions.
Chen Tao and Wonder Woman exchanged a glance.
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Have you ever had this feeling?
It felt like I had been asleep for a very long time, like a lifetime.
There are also some strange dreams, things you could never have imagined, yet when you wake up... the dream continues?!
Kara looked at her hands.
Almost unable to stand, but who feels tired in their dreams?
The Kryptonian girl looked down at her S-rank uniform and cape. It was the sigil of the El family. She stared at the emblem for a moment, then tilted her head and laughed three times in a silly manner.
However, I knew it was a dream.
Because I can only wear this formal uniform in my dreams, otherwise my mother will kill me. I will wear it to receive my degree in a year from my graduation ceremony—if I graduate at all.
I know this is a dream, because since I was a toddler, there has never been any other species on Krypton besides Kryptonians.
And if this isn't a dream...
I died long ago because I was outdoors without a ventilator and all my organs failed.
But at this moment... all I can feel is a cool sensation—
breeze?
Kara saw the stones on the ground tremble, and then a large number of armored robots broke through the jungle barrier, pointing all sorts of guns and cannons at her: "Don't move!!! Aliens, this is Earth!!!"
(End of this chapter)