Chapter 1434: Music, Assemble, and Training Together

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Luke wasn’t in a hurry as he chatted with Alfred.

Whether it was Plan A or Project Oracle or whatever, everything was in place.

Alfred wasn’t human, and chatting with Luke took up almost zero of its digital processing. At that moment, it had already sent out various instructions; not a second had been wasted.

In the Bat Cave base, Frank stopped taking notes of the plan on the virtual screen when several small orange lights suddenly started flashing.

Bobo’s cheery warning rang out in a timely manner. “Commander, Plan A has been set in mention. Please get ready.”

Frank hummed and said, “Got it. Right, play a song.”

Bobo asked, “What song would you like to listen to?”

Frank: “Whatever. Make it something a little more cheerful.”

Bobo: “Yes, Commander.”

Instantly, a song rang out. “Are you ready, kids? Aye aye, Captain. I can’t hear you…”

Frank: “…Bobo, you…”

Bobo: “What are your instructions, Commander?”

After a brief silence, Frank finally said, “Keep the music down so that it doesn’t affect the comms.”

Bobo: “No problem, Commander.”

…

In New Jersey, Mindy suddenly sat up in bed and took off her pink teddy bear night cap. She grabbed the phone on her nightstand, which was ringing with a special tone.

After confirming that the message was correct, she immediately opened the door and ran out. “Dad, Dad, it’s the alarm.”

Damon, who had just put down his phone, nodded. “Let’s go.”

“Tree Hollow, open sesame,” Mindy shouted.

Ever since she learned that Batman’s base was called the Bat Cave, she had immediately given their underground arsenal the name Tree Hollow, with Damon’s permission.

This was very fitting, since compared with the Bat Cave, it was as small and cute as a tree hole.

…

In Nassau County, Ivan put down a welding torch and grinned at the reminder from the A.I. program. He walked toward the armor that was on the side. “It’s time to show off my technology again. Tony Stark, this time, I’m going to blind your dog eyes.”

He had picked up this phrase from Luke, who had let it slip in one of their chats.

…

In the seaside villa, Alice picked up her phone and saw the message. She was about to get up, when she saw a new message.

She opened it, only to see that it was from Big Dipper, who told her not to go out tonight; instead, he would pass on the relevant information.

Alice hesitated for a moment before she agreed.

According to the setup for the special force, from the moment she received this callout, she might have to leave her daughter at any time to participate in the battle.

However, she couldn’t leave her daughter Carrie for too long, so she didn’t have to go to the rendezvous point unless it was absolutely necessary. She just needed to be on standby.

Frank hadn’t objected to this.

Luke didn’t reveal Alice’s exact situation. He only said that she had family to take care of, and Frank immediately agreed.

Frank looked more favorably on this “teammate.”

They weren’t risking their lives as masked vigilantes for the sake of fame and profit; there was no way he would ask them to abandon their families!

If the other party really was that sort of person, he would look down on them.

If Damon hadn’t shown enough regret, and if Luke hadn’t set boundaries, Frank might’ve really crippled Damon.

The little turtles and their master were the last to arrive at the Bat Cave, and Frank didn’t waste any time as he directly began to lay out the mission.

Everybody was ready for battle. Ivan, Damon and Mindy, the little turtles and their master and Angel would stay on the newly renovated second floor of the underground base for the time being.

Everyone had their own living space, and wouldn’t disturb each other unless they wanted to talk in private.

At the same time, Frank called the security guards and gave them five days off.

The four security guards were surprised that Mr. Hammersmith, who had a cold face and an even colder heart, would give them so much leave. However, this man had already amply demonstrated his decisive nature after several minor incidents.

Without asking any further questions, they happily started their leave.

Without needing to worry about the security guards, the superheroes didn’t need to be as cautious with a lot of things in the Bat Cave.

The people who had assembled listened as Frank laid out how they were to work together and then performed some tactical drills.

This training took place in the inner room on the surface in the factory.

Most of the materials here had already been used up.

Some of the equipment had been stored in the Bat Cave, and some of the finished products were in Luke’s inventory.

A factory that was more than a thousand square meters in size actually wasn’t big enough for everybody to move around.

It was even more impossible for them to wear their suits here, and they could only wear ordinary clothes.

However, the little turtles and their master still wore combat uniforms and covered up their builds, determined not to show their faces. Even the turtle shells under their uniforms were explained away by Luke as weight training tools.

In the face of such nonsense, everybody pretended not to notice. Whether they believed it or not was up to them.

This sort of non-armor training was only for cultivating familiarity and teamwork with each other.

With more familiarity and rapport, everyone would be more resolute in following orders in battle and wouldn’t easily hesitate or pull back and make a mistake.

The sparring sessions, both bare-handed and with weapons, were more well-received than Luke had expected.

Except for Damon, who was less interested, everybody else was excited, even Ivan, the weakest of the lot.

In his words, while he wasn’t good at this sort of fighting, it didn’t stop him from observing and experiencing it for himself so that he would be able to deal with similar opponents in the future.

Ivan looked at Luke, who was wearing the face of Big Ben.

Clearly, this person, who had been trounced twice by Batman, still had some ambition.

But Luke then took Angel down easily with his bare hands.

In a sparring session with weapons, Luke took on the four little turtles on his own with just two metal rods.

Luke never fell into a disadvantage even in a 1v4. If Ivan went one on one with him, he would definitely be crushed.

It was as if the small spark in Ivan’s heart was doused.

These combat skills were beyond his imagination.

Unless he used a large-scale weapon, like a missile, he really couldn’t think of any countermeasures.

Also, if he could use that sort of weapon, naturally, so could Batman.

The bat darts were very famous, but not for one second did Ivan believe that these lousy metal discs were Batman’s strongest weapon.

It was just like how Batman was superb at using batons, but he had never used them outside.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t, but that it was unnecessary.

If Batman really didn’t have any technology, where did his armor come from?

If Ivan really courted death, he didn’t think that Batman would rather die than use a high-end weapon to deal with him.