With Wayne's signal and the encouragement and recognition from his companions in the mental connection, Barry Allen used the second force he mastered, or it could be said that this was the power that truly belonged to him.
Speed Force.
Thunder spread across the void, and everything seemed to have been rewound. Clark and the others were like flickering images, madly rewinding with Barry's figure.
When everything went back to normal and time resumed its normal flow, Barry Allen appeared on a familiar street.
The GG signs and news screens on the streets were all showing an impressive scene.
Clark, as Superman, tragically killed his fellow man, General Zod.
Looking at the cheering crowd around him, Barry pulled up his hood, lowered his head, stopped a car and headed towards Gotham.
…
Bruce Wayne descended from the manor to the Batbase he had built. In the darkness, he sensitively sensed something was wrong ahead. While on guard, he stood on the stopped elevator, grasped the railing, and jumped out of the elevator.
"Who are you?"
Looking at the figure standing at the edge of the groundwater, Wayne asked behind him.
"Barry Allen, one of the members of your future team. From one year later." Barry turned around and looked at Bruce in the bat suit.
Bruce Wayne just looked at Barry quietly, in silence.
"Don't you have anything to ask, Mr. Wayne?" Barry looked at the silent Wayne in a daze.
"That's ridiculous."
"I know this is ridiculous, but I'm telling the truth. The future Mr. Wayne told me some of your deepest secrets so I could gain your trust."
"Don't talk about that. I want to hear what happened."
"This all starts with Steve, a time traveler..." Barry pondered for a moment before recounting everything he knew, including energy, Thanos, and the unfinished final battle in the future.
After saying that, Barry spread his hands, looking embarrassed: "I want to change something, but my power alone is too weak."
"In other words, we have to stop Steve's actions and seal the ring on his hand to buy us more time, right?" Wayne summarized what Barry wanted to express.
"That's it." Barry breathed a long sigh of relief. "Because of the spread of energy, it attracted Sinestro of the Yellow Lantern Corps. The lantern beasts that Sinestro brought resonated with the energy here, attracting Thanos. And Thanos caused a series of terrible things to happen. We can't control the possibility of Captain America's arrival, but we can control and delay Thanos' arrival."
"That's probably going to be hard to do," Wayne said.
"Why?" Barry looked at Wayne in surprise.
"If that power is truly as miraculous as you claim, then once it appeared, it would have already affected our world. Gotham is a perfect breeding ground. If we don't master the knowledge Steve taught us, we will have to face the chaos caused by that energy. If we master it, we will become part of the infection. Unless we can discover Captain as soon as he arrives and control him, we might be able to delay the onset of some infection. Of course, this is just a possibility.
This energy may have been created to spread the infection. Do you know the exact time the captain will arrive?"
"Twenty-five days from now. You learned this time from the captain himself." Barry thought for a moment and said.
"There's still some time, isn't there?" Wayne shrugged.
"Do you really believe me?" Barry felt a little unreal about how smoothly things were going.
"I don't trust you, but I'm good at waiting," Wayne said. "No one knows my new identity except Alfu. The fact that you found your way here is already worth my consideration. Everything will be clear in 25 days, right? But until then, I hope you can stay with me."
"I still need to gather the other members." Barry was a little embarrassed.
"Once the facts come out, your words will be more convincing." Wayne glanced at him.
"Actually, there's no need to bother."
A thick, familiar voice that frightened Barry sounded from the darkness as a third party.
Bruce Wayne turned around and saw a purple giant nearly three meters tall walking out from the wall.
"Thanos!" Barry was filled with disbelief when he saw the newcomer. He shouted, "You should be here at least three months from now. Why are you here now?"
"Why am I here now? That's a good question, kid." Facing Barry's near-collapse shout, Thanos simply smiled, stepped forward, and patted his head with his broad hand. "Time is a force of order. When you manipulate it, you're also inevitably manipulated by it. It can solve many problems, but when you're not the only one mastering it, its backlash can be quite powerful."
"Why?" Barry looked at Thanos standing in front of him. He even had the urge to use the Speed Force once again to time travel. But he couldn't guarantee that Thanos would follow him on his next trip.
"You also control time?" Wayne looked at Thanos scrutinizingly. He could feel a strong and deadly threat from this strange, non-human person.
"Space and time are both Luke's forte. His research into both is far beyond your imagination. He has a variety of technological solutions to deal with them.
If the universe is described as a system, then reversing time is like returning to a certain point in time in the system. Coincidentally, I also have some authority over this universe, and I also have the power to back up time.
When I overlay the backed-up time onto the altered timeline, all your changes and reversals will be in vain. Granted, returning to the past may seem like you have countless new paths, but in reality, time has given you very few choices. Under the overlay, you will inevitably return to the starting point.
No matter how many times you travel back and forth, how many times you change, how many times you struggle, at the end of one year, it will still be me. Luke's energy and I are something you cannot erase from this universe."
Thanos raised his psychic glove that was flashing with light, and the time around him seemed to accelerate. His voice seemed to come from far away, and also seemed to be very close, but every word fell clearly into the ears of Barry and the others.