[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

Picking up Mr. Freeze's head was just a spur of the moment for Jason. After leaving Talia, he suddenly found himself alone and it was difficult to find someone to talk to.

He soon discovered that he and Mr. Freeze could only talk about literature. They could not agree on any other topics as they each had their own opinions.

He also couldn't go to the bar to drink, not to mention that he could only get drunk after two glasses of alcohol, and there were still people who recognized Jason Todd's face.

He is also the current holder of the world record in figure skating. Yes, the record he set had not been broken until 2011, which makes people wonder what the younger generation of figure skaters have been doing in the past four years.

In the end, I might as well go to sleep.

Jason still doesn't like dreaming. He likes a dreamless night because only in this way can he sleep well, although most of the time he can't do so.

Sometimes the maddening whispers of Lazarus would haunt him in his sleep, making him want to destroy something to fill the void in his heart.

Sometimes, the despair of being brainwashed, and the anger and sadness when seeing the new Robin fighting side by side with Batman would surge in my heart.

But this dream was not bad. The blue sea and sky of Hawaii, the yachts running on the sea, the white waves split by the bow, and the tropical fish seen while diving were all great.

The warm sunshine and sea water brought him the long-lost happiness and peace. A blue jay landed on his shoulder.

He murmured, reaching out to touch the little bluebird's wings: "Mulin, have I not seen you for a long time?"

Mu Lin rubbed his palm intimately, chirped softly, opened her wings again, and walked forward with him.

Only then did Jason realize that he was standing on the deck. The sunlight was not strong, and there was that cool sea breeze unique to the early morning, which made him realize that it was morning.

He walked to the front of the ship and saw Talia. Her black hair was a little messy due to the sea breeze. The morning light dyed her hair golden. There was a tenderness in her green eyes that was difficult to describe in words. Just looking at it made people feel warm in their hearts.

"You're just in time for sunrise, my love."

Talia was in his sweet dream, so the moment he woke up, Jason suddenly missed her very much.

Calculating the time difference with the Middle East, he called. Fortunately, Talia was not busy at that time, so she answered the call.

"Baby, I didn't expect you to call me. Did you miss me?"

The moment he heard these words, Jason felt like a decent man being teased by a bad middle-aged man... Anyway, the feeling he had from the dream completely disappeared.

A hint of helplessness flashed across his eyes. He chatted with Talia for a few words, complaining unintentionally: "Everyone here thinks I'm crazy. If they knew that I had been with Lazarus, they would definitely think that I did all this because I had been turned into a madman by that green pool."

Talia added, "But everything you do comes from your heart."

"You know exactly what you are doing. You should have understood that you are no longer on the same path as your former comrades. You have your own path."

Let me say it again, apart from the strange identity of her ex-husband and the complicated relationship between them where it has long been unclear who owes whom more, Talia is really a very attractive and good woman.

"But I'm still curious. Since you know all this, why did you insist on plotting to drag Batman into this? You could obviously kill the Joker yourself."

Talia and Jason had been a couple for four years. She had many memories with both Najim and Jason. She knew Jason very well and the questions she asked were to the point.

Jason sat on the windowsill and replied, "I don't know, maybe I just want to prove something."

"Prove? You want to prove that Batman is wrong, or that you are right? That you now know how to save Gotham?"

Jason lowered his eyes and sighed, "It's a pity that I don't know how to save Gotham."

He is 19 years old this year. He has experienced a lot and has more experience than most people. But in the final analysis, he was sent to the grave before he could even finish college. After waking up, he was brainwashed at every turn. When he traveled around, he concentrated on learning how to kill people, survive in the dark world and gain benefits.

Even Batman doesn't know how to save Gotham, so how could he know?

He just understood that Batman's approach could only slow down Gotham's decline, but could not eradicate the evil deeds of those criminals, so he had to find another way.

Batman believes in the rule of law, while Jason chooses to stand outside the law and deal with criminals in his own way, using fear and killing to deter and control the evil.

Gotham is already rotten to the core. There are very few good law enforcement officers. In other words, there are very few good people alive. Jason firmly believes that there will be no effect if he doesn't take ruthless measures.

The world is not black and white, most of the time, many areas are gray, but Jason believes that at least the city should be made better so that ordinary people don't have to worry about being killed by some psychopath falling from the sky. However, it would be difficult to transform Gotham to that level.

Jason now wants to protect more people. As for how to completely change Gotham, he is not sure. He just wants to protect the lives of innocent people first.

Talia said: "There will be a period in everyone's life when they are looking for the answer to a question. I just hope you can protect yourself. Jason, do you still want to continue with your plan?"

Jason lowered his eyes: "I don't want to be a stranger to him, so I want to give it a try to see if he can change for me."

Even if Batman just took a step back and let him go his own way.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Talia said, "No matter what the result is, I am still by your side. If you want, I can fulfill that promise anytime now."

"Promise?"

"You haven't remembered yet, have you?"

Talia laughed. Her voice was not the soft and pleasant kind, but it was full of the mellowness and sexiness of a mature woman, but it gave Jason strength at this moment.

"It's okay, I'll wait for the day when you remember."

Jason relaxed a little. “I’ll remember it, but don’t make it sound like I’m going to fail, okay? He’s my dad, there’s still a chance he’ll accept me.”

Although even Jason couldn't help but doubt himself while looking forward to it - there were so many unsatisfactory aspects of the second-generation Robin, would anyone really accept the Red Hood now?

Then Jason told himself that Bruce was his father and he had the right to have expectations of Bruce.

Then another voice whispered in his heart, will he really change for you? When you kept silent about that matter, shouldn't you have known that he wouldn't change for anyone? He couldn't take that step, and he wouldn't accept you who had already taken that step.

Jason also felt that he might be a little strange. If it was his old self, he would kill people very neatly, but he would not be able to saw off a head for an hour without any emotion. Was he really affected by the Lazarus Pool? But Jason knew clearly that everything he did was decided by himself.

He wanted to do it all, so he did it without hesitation, and he was able to control himself. In the past, the aftereffects of the Lazarus Pool would make him lose control, but after soaking in the Purification Pool, madness and clarity merged in him, and his self-control had long since returned.

He is Jason Todd himself, not some other monster from the Lazarus Pond. He has not changed, he has just grown up and has firm beliefs. But in the eyes of others, he is a crazy robin. Only Talia still thinks he is normal.

Talia's last words were "Jay, promise me that whatever you do next, don't let yourself get hurt."

……

The first half of Jason's plan went very smoothly. Under his control, Gotham's underworld no longer dared to reach out to children and the campus. He gained the trust of the street children in Crime Alley, gathered those children together and sent them to a safe orphanage, delivering supplies on time so that they could survive.

He pressed Black Mask step by step, forcing Black Mask to seek external help to deal with him. He hired the mercenary group under Deathstroke, but he defeated them again.

Jason had no scruples. He was not even a living person in the legal sense. Jason Todd had been buried in the ground for four years. Talia was keeping Najim O'Goo's identity documents. He was not protected or restricted by the law. He also had gun skills that were even better than the Death Shooter. He could fight in close combat, poison people, plot and kill people, and even snipe from a distance.

Talia said that he could be a killer if he wanted to.

During this period, he also fought with the superheroes of the Batman family. You should know that the Red Hood not only successfully escaped from the pursuit and blockade of Batman and Nightwing, but also used the pre-placed explosives to trap them while running away. Nightwing's right leg was even broken.

He did a really great job.

Finally, Batman began to look for those superheroes in the Justice League who had experienced "resurrection", such as Green Arrow, Green Lantern, and Superman.

Jason knew what he was going to ask. Batman would ask about their resurrection experience and find out the reasons. He would also ask the superheroes on the magic side about the resurrection magic ritual. After investigating over and over again, he finally got the information from Lei Xiao.

Lei Xiao admitted personally that his people found Jason, who had dug himself out of the coffin but lost his mind, a few years ago and put him into the Lazarus Pool.

Lei Xiao didn't say any other words, such as "My daughter married your son", "Your son gave me a grandson", "Your son is an excellent manager of the oil fields and is very good at making money", "Jin Bing also admires him", "My daughter and your son are having an affair". He would never mention such things on his own initiative.

He returned Jason's coffin to Batman, not the intact one that the League of Assassins had placed there as a disguise after Jason crawled out, but the one that Jason had dug up.

Batman opened Jason's coffin again. Inside was a badly worn metal buckle from a belt. There were bloodstains and nail residues on the coffin board.

This is how Jason dug himself out after being resurrected.

Ah Fu stood nearby and could hardly bear to watch any longer.

His expression was complicated, and there was a hint of joy in his tone: "Master Jason is still alive."

Batman stood in front of the coffin, was silent for a while, and replied: "Not necessarily."

The Lazarus Pool is a very strange thing. Lei Xiao used to be a good man, but after he crawled out of it, he became as crazy as a beast for a while, and after he regained his sanity, he became more and more evil.

He didn't know whether the Red Hood who was stirring up trouble in Gotham was still his Jason.

In order to deal with Red Hood, Black Mask finally broke Gotham's most dangerous criminal, the Joker, out of Arkham.

This was an irrational decision, but this was what Red Hood was waiting for. He kidnapped the Joker without hesitation the moment he caused trouble, and the Joker's body tissue was sent to Wayne Manor the next day.

He meant only one thing - the Joker is in my hands, Batman, come see me.

When Jason made the invitation, he vaguely knew that it would be a tragedy, his tragedy, and Batman's tragedy.

The series of fights with Batman recently had made him realize that Bruce did not accept his ideas. To him, he was no different from the criminals when he fired the gun.

Fighting violence with violence and controlling crime is an evil way for superheroes. He has crossed that line, and Batman will come to stop him from doing so. At the same time, Batman must think that his stopping is a salvation for Jason.

"He might think that I did all this because of the pool, and he wants to pull me back to him, like a father wants his child to come home."

Before Jason left, he went to the alley to feed a black cat he named Jerry. They were old friends. A few years ago, Jason personally took Jerry to be sterilized. Now the cat is still willing to rub the back of his hand and eat the dried fish he feeds.

He and Jerry whispered, "I really can't blame him. He still wants to take me home, but I don't want him to save me. I only now understand that Bruce is not omnipotent. At least he doesn't know me as well as he thinks."

"If going home with him means giving up my current ideals and path, I'm afraid I'll never be able to go home, just like you, Jerry. But you have the box, and I... have a promise I don't remember."

The black cat raised its head and meowed softly.

Jason smiled bitterly. "She (referring to Talia) turned out to be the only good thing that happened to me during this period of time."

"But Gotham is my hometown. There are so many children like me here. They need me, and Gotham needs me too. I can't stop fighting because my fight can protect many people."

Jason stood up and said, "I still have to fight Batman again. At least I have to deal with the Joker issue. I will be uneasy every day that son of a bitch lives. He is staring at my father like a venomous snake. Who knows if he will involve my grandfather next time he gets into trouble?"

Jerry didn't understand what Jason was talking about because he was just a cat. It was good enough for Jerry that he could recognize the human who had rescued him by following the smell.

The black cat squatted in the alley, watching the grown-up street kid from Crime Alley leave. The dim light was reflected on him, carrying an inexplicable loneliness and tranquility, as well as a reckless determination.

Jason firmly believes that the city needs more drastic measures to curb crime. For the sake of his ideals, he is willing to become a loner who is considered "crazy" by his family.

But this doesn't mean that he doesn't love Bruce. Bruce will always be his father, mentor, and comrade-in-arms.

After realizing this, Jason relaxed a lot. He was grateful for Dakota's teachings and Talia's promise of "I'll wait for you".

Without them, he certainly wouldn't be so calm now.

Then, the only conflict between him and Bruce was with the Joker.