[British and American] Jason Wayne's Struggle

"Former journalist and current member of the Resistance, Ms. Lois Lane, took this photo on the front lines of the battlefield."

Doctor Doom projected a photo and enlarged the lower left corner. It was a blurry yellow figure, and the Flash stood up immediately.

He said solemnly: "It's Reverse Flash."

"It seems that this matter is indeed related to him."

Jason peeled the orange, put half of it in Sharp Claw Dick's hand, and ate a slice himself. He found it a bit too sour. He glanced at Sharp Claw Dick and found that he was eating it very well, so he simply stuffed the orange in his hand into his hand.

Actually, Sharp Claw Dick felt jealous, but he just couldn't refuse the food Jason stuffed in his mouth: "..."

He lowered his head meekly and ate the orange while listening to Jason and others holding a combat meeting. Although Jason was thin, his small body housed the soul of a tactical master.

Jason has clear thinking and sharp vision. He has only been in this world for less than a week, but he can point out the source of the chaos in this world - the hostility between Wonder Woman and Aquaman, and Hydra and mutants.

Originally, the mutants had very strong fighting power, but they could not withstand the traitors within their ranks, which gave Hydra the opportunity to unite the forces of the anti-mutant faction in the Militarum government and brainwash several powerful mutants among Xavier's genius students. If Magneto had not appeared with the Brotherhood, the entire academy would have been wiped out.

Currently, the people over there are led by Mr. Fantastic, who are joining forces with Magneto to resist Hydra, so the dispute over there will not affect the Latverian front for the time being.

"After the war is over, I will work with Mr. Fantastic and the Princess of Wakanda to conduct a joint consultation on Professor X to see if we can wake him up. If he can wake up, we can bring back Rogers, Tony Stark, and those brainwashed people."

But what they need to solve most urgently now is Wonder Woman and Aquaman.

The two will have a decisive battle near Latveria one day later. According to information from an informant of Doctor Doom, Atlantis kidnapped the Atom (whose body was atomized and could release powerful energy) and made an instrument to amplify his power. He and the instrument were placed near the continental shelf. Once he loses to Wonder Woman, the machine will start.

Then everyone can see that the Atom and the European continental plate disappear from the earth together.

After listening to Doctor Doom's description of the situation, Batman nodded and said, "Divide our forces into two groups. One group will stop those two monsters, and the other group will destroy the machine and rescue the Atom."

Neither task is easy.

Wonder Woman and Aquaman both have their own armies and supporters, and there are many powerful people with special powers under their command. The battlefield will definitely be bloody and no one will be safe.

And there must be watchers near the Atom and the machine.

The Flash said seriously, "I'm going to the battlefield, and there's a good chance that Reverse Flash will go there."

At the same time, powerful fighters such as Shazam and Carl will naturally go to the front line, and Doctor Doom will also go. He is the main force on the magic side and needs to deal with the magical characters on Wonder Woman's side.

Jason and Dick the Claw were assigned to the team to rescue the Atom and the Continental Shelf along with Bucky and Wakanda King Black Panther.

Jason held his chin with both hands and asked in confusion: "What can we use to destroy that instrument?"

The green-haired girl who had been sitting in the corner stood up, the smell of gunpowder still lingering on her body.

"I can destroy that instrument."

Doctor Doom raised his hand and introduced: "She is Lorna, the daughter of Magneto. She can manipulate magnetic fields and metals. Her code name is Polaris."

Jason recognized the girl. When he first met Mindy, he had investigated a case of missing classmates. Lorna was the friend of the missing girl. He once thought she was an important clue.

He asked with some surprise: "Are you Magneto's daughter?"

Lorna replied with a sour face: "I just knew about this not long ago. Also, I have no intention of recognizing him at the moment. It's just that I don't want to see those two superhumans go crazy and destroy the world, so I came here to help."

I don't know why, but this girl also gives people a strong feeling of being in the alliance of father-worried people. Oh, why did he say that?

Before the battle begins, they can also rest together in the Latverian Palace, especially Jason, who has been working hard since coming to this world and has hardly eaten well.

He was already skinny, with no extra fat on his body, and now he could even feel his ribs easily.

Come to think of it, he really treated himself badly.

Claw Dick beside him also looked like he hadn't had a good life for a long time, so that night, Jason borrowed the palace's kitchen and made cream of mushroom soup and special cookies. After thinking for a while, he also made Kansas-style apple pie and found a lot of Eastern European ingredients in the warehouse.

After the cookies were out of the oven, Jason first sent two plates to the war room, one for Doctor Doom (after all, he was eating and living in someone else's house now) and one for his grandfather.

No one could resist delicious food. Both Sharp Claw Dick and Carl were very enthusiastic about the food, especially Carl. He stuffed his mouth with apple pie, his cheeks bulged like a squirrel, and he couldn't even chew properly, but still wanted to keep stuffing more.

Jason found it both funny and sad. To be honest, he never thought that he would one day see a refugee version of the Son of Light.

"Eat slowly. There's more. Don't overeat."

Carl nodded repeatedly and gave Jason a pure smile: “Thank you, friend.”

This smile doesn’t have the reassuring power of a “Super Smile”, but rather it’s like that of a naive child.

Jason replied affirmatively: "Yes, I am your friend."

Claw Dick seemed to be choked at this time. He coughed a few times. Jason quickly patted his back and handed him a glass of water. Claw Dick took the glass and drank it with his head tilted back.

I don’t know why, but at this moment Jason felt like he was raising two children.

It is obvious that one of these two guys is 1.78 meters tall and the other is 1.9 meters tall, but Jason, who is only 1.43 meters tall, looks the most like a genuine kid!

Thinking of this, he took a sip of the bread sauce and squinted his eyes: "It feels a little different from the bread sauce in Lithuania."

Latvia is a country located near the Baltic Sea. In the early days, it was deeply influenced by the Soviet Union, and its food is full of Eastern European style, but the cuisine most similar to theirs is from neighboring Lithuania.

Jason also made potato meatballs and Russian pancakes. He didn't know if his cooking was authentic, but Claw Dick and Carl were very supportive.

Jason was glad that they liked it. He meant that he knew that this kind of food full of the breath of life had its own healing effect, just like when he was living in Crime Alley, no matter how hard his life was, as long as he ate delicious food, that day would not be considered bad.

Claw Dick and Carl were both poor children, even poorer than Jason had been before. Jason had seen them full of energy and looked up to them, so he felt sad for everything they encountered in this world.

They should have been heroes. Even though they encountered setbacks, they were never thrown into the quagmire by fate to struggle miserably.

Ugh, why was he calling them kids in his mind again? Was it a side effect of raising Damian, Peter, and Mindy?

They had their meal in the palace garden. The cool night breeze blew, and the aroma of food spread all over the table. Jason smoothed Claw Dick's hair and handed them drinks. When he found a mint plant in the grass, he picked two mint leaves and gave one to Carl and one to Claw Dick.

Carl held the leaf and smelled it at Jason's signal, showing a surprised expression. Jason burst into laughter, so he laughed too. Well, it looked a little silly.

Karl looked at Jason’s smiling face and pointed to his heart: “Jay, what does this feel like?”

Jason replied: "It's the feeling of being alive"

The Flash stood not far away, his eyes gradually softened and he breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, after coming to this world, he was also at a loss. He just wanted to save his mother, but he dragged the whole world into war, which made the Flash's heart full of guilt and pressure.

But for some reason, he felt much better now.

Perhaps it was because he saw a person who, even if the world might end tomorrow, would still take his two children tonight to experience what life is.

Bucky stood on the balcony, looking at the three "children" in the garden, raised his eyebrows, supported himself on the railing with one hand, flipped over, and landed handsomely on the white stone bricks of the garden.

Seeing those kids eating with such relish, he also wanted to have a bite.

Jason welcomed Bucky's arrival. Excluding the difference in their appearance and actual age, they unexpectedly had something in common. Bucky was a humorous and talkative person, and Jason found him very interesting.

They didn't talk about the war, but about New York. Bucky talked about New York seventy years ago, and Jason talked about New York seventy years later. Carl and Claw Dick were responsible for eating and listening.

Bucky: "Brooklyn was already a mess when I was young. There were always a lot of hooligans running around. Steve had a strong sense of justice, so he always fought with the hooligans. But usually the hooligans beat him, but he never admitted defeat. After I woke up, I wanted to go to Brooklyn again, but it had been destroyed in the war."

Jason responded, "Brooklyn where I am is fine, although it's still very chaotic, but the most chaotic place in New York at that time was actually Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan. By the way, I live in Queens."

Bucky: "Wow, you're from Queens."

There is a mystery about Queens and Brooklyn. Specifically, these two districts are different from Manhattan across the river. They are famous for having a large number of civilians, poor public security, and they like to complain about each other.

To use an analogy that may not be entirely appropriate - Manhattan (within the Third Ring Road), Queens (Changping), and Brooklyn (Mentougou).

Jason is from Gotham, but it's true that he lives in Queens.

Bucky patted Jason on the shoulder. “You know what? I really miss Brooklyn’s roast beef and sausage sandwiches. But it’s been seventy years, so that store is probably gone.”

Jason: "It's normal. People always miss the taste of their hometown. I'm from Gotham. Although I have a great time in New York, I can't help but miss the taste of Gotham's spicy hot dogs."

They got along better and better. Bucky wasn't the kind of person who could chat with Jason about art or literature, but he was such a pleasure to be around.

Jason also told Bucky a lot about Steve in his world. Bucky listened very carefully. When he heard that they had fought off the alien army that invaded New York together, he patted Jason on the shoulder and called him "good boy".

I guess in his mind, Jason is equivalent to another comrade-in-arms.

Later, Jason took Carl and Claw Dick to clean up the table full of dishes. The two children obediently washed the dishes under his guidance.

Jason could see that Carl and Claw Dick were in a good mood because of this dinner. Well, when he went to his grandfather to collect the dishes, his grandfather was still silent, but he touched his little head.

Doctor Doom saw Batman staring at the surveillance camera and asked, "Do you still have doubts about him being your grandson?"

Batman said solemnly: "I no longer doubt him."

The cookies with a family flavor were obviously inherited from Alfred, but the strange thing was that Jason's habit of adding a lot of milk to the cookies reminded him of Martha before she turned into a clown.

He left the war room, and Doctor Doom sat in his original seat, stroking a crystal ball at hand from time to time.

It was a relic left by his mother, a gypsy witch, and also the prop he used to receive messages from the Ancient One in a parallel world.

He chuckled.

"Ancient One wants you to take Jason Todd as your student? That sounds good."

A voice exactly the same as his came from the crystal ball.

"I haven't agreed yet. I'm currently waiting and watching. Ancient One hopes that he can learn not only magic but also politics from me. But you know, no one knows whether a young man who has been brainwashed by an orthodox superhero for several years can become a politician."

"He doesn't look like an orthodox superhero. The way he dealt with Hydra was similar to that of a robber. He looks more like a lawless gang leader from nowhere."

"It sounds even worse. Politics is a game that combines order and human nature. Would a person who is used to freedom be willing to return to the constraints of the system? I will continue to observe him."

At this point, no one still knows what the two Doctors of Doom communicated when the two world lines intersected.

……

On the second day, Jason took Claw Dick, Bucky, Black Panther, and Lorna on a submarine and entered the ocean.

Black Panther was driving the submarine. He said jokingly, "This is my first time to go to sea for a mission. I didn't expect to go to Atlantis, the deepest part of the ocean. Do any of you know the terrain of Atlantis?"

Jason was the only one in the audience who raised his hand, and everyone looked at him.

Little Robin blinked: "My father's computer has maps of Atlantis and architectural diagrams, but I don't know if the two worlds are the same."

There was silence in the submarine.

After a while, Buggy said, "I remember now, you said before that your father and the Aquaman from another world are teammates, right? Their relationship is so good that they can even exchange this?"

Black Panther then asked, "Why did your father want to get a map of your teammates' hometowns? From what you said, it seems to be a very detailed one. From what I know, this should be considered confidential information."

Jason: "..."

Don't ask him why he has Atlantis military secrets in the Batcomputer, just like don't ask him why he has a map of Paradise Island in the Batcomputer.

The question is that Batman needs to have a backup plan.

In short, Jason successfully guided everyone to find Atlantis, and Atlantis is a beautiful underwater city with a unique style different from the one on the ground. When everyone in the submarine saw this city for the first time, they couldn't help but open their eyes wide.

The visual impact of the beauty coming from another civilization is something that will be unforgettable for a lifetime.

Dick from the original world once told Jason that one of his favorite cities was Atlantis, but unfortunately, Jason at that time could not appreciate Atlantis very much. When he was finally able to appreciate the beautiful scenery calmly, Claw Dick who was by his side could not see those scenery.

Claw Dick himself didn't care much about the visual regret. Last night's dinner and plenty of rest made him look full of energy.

Another thing that made Jason feel uncomfortable was that after they dived into Atlantis, they needed to wear a deep-sea diving suit provided by Doctor Doom to resist the water pressure of the deep sea and get oxygen, but the suit was too heavy. The skinny version of Jason ran out of strength halfway through the walk and had to let Bucky carry him.

Jason could only cover his face and remain silent. He felt that he had never been so embarrassed in his life.

Bucky weighed him. “It’s okay. You’re very light. It’s not hard to hold you.”

Black Panther found the kid's "unhappy cat" expression funny, so he was kind enough to comfort him, "Look at the bright side. Because of you, our mission progress is at least 50% faster. You don't have to worry about some minor physical problems... poof!"

At this moment, Atlantis shook violently and everyone hurried to steady themselves.

Bucky looked up, his expression serious.

"The fight has already started up there. We need to speed up. Who knows when Aquaman will activate that instrument?"

Everyone started running, and Jason pointed the way. "Run over there. That's where Atlantis used to store the Mother Boxes. Doctor Doom has calculated that it's close to the continental shelf."

Although his fighting ability is almost zero in front of superhumans, Jason is also very good at pointing the way.

"Wait, I remember now, why should we run? I can teleport!"

Jason immediately asked everyone to stop, jumped to the ground, and drew circles with his left and right hands. The next second, golden circles appeared under everyone's feet at the same time.

With a whoosh, they enjoyed the pleasure of falling.