"You're saying I'm going to die?"
If this were a game, a big golden question mark would surely pop up above Harley's head.
"To be precise, you'll be killed by Carnage Joker…"
Barry Allen was interrupted by Harley before he could finish.
"Hold on, let me ask you a question first…"
"Since you're a time traveler, then Carnage and Joker… did you bring them here?"
Upon hearing Harley's guess, Barry didn't hesitate and nodded.
"That's right, it was me… Doctor Quinzell! Please remain calm!"
Harley swung her Adamantium bat at Barry's head.
"Motherfucker! Do you really think I'm easy to bully? Since you brought them here, it's no problem for you to die with them, right?"
But the man in front of her was an Extreme Speedster from the future, and Harley and Venom posed no threat to him whatsoever.
After easily dodging dozens of swings from Harley, Barry saw that she was still indignant, but finally stopped swinging her bat.
"Doctor Quinzell, if I wanted to harm you, you wouldn't have any chance to resist." Barry shook his head. "Doesn't that show my sincerity?"
Harley also noticed this.
But she still couldn't fully trust the man in front of her.
Don't let her craziness fool you, her high intelligence, unleashed by her madness, gave her an unusually keen insight amidst her wild thoughts.
"Then tell me, why would you tell me I'll be killed, and at the same time bring the killer who will kill me to this present time?"
Harley rested her bat on her shoulder, staring directly at Barry.
"Okay, I'm glad you're willing to listen to my explanation."
Barry sighed in relief and began to explain slowly.
"In the history I know, although you were killed by Carnage and Joker, it wasn't now, but exactly one year from today."
"And although the killer was Carnage, it wasn't the Carnage who returned from the future, but the original Carnage born on this timeline."
"It possessed Joker, who had escaped Batman's imprisonment, but was completely controlled by Joker, and ambushed and killed you when you were on a solo mission."
"Then… a series of events were triggered."
"Ragnarok in Asgard, leading to the fall of Hela, Goddess of Death."
"An invasion from an outer Universe, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a large portion of its senior Agents were erased from reality, including Agent Ada."
"Then… Dante completely… collapsed."
"After that, too many things happened. He, along with Superman, Batman, Iron Man, and Queen Elsa, who had also lost everything, completely destroyed the entire World… no, the order of the entire Universe."
"They conquered and armed the entire Universe, then used it as a Base to declare war on the entire Multiverse!"
"Ultimately… the Multiverse was destroyed in an instant." Barry said a lot in one breath, and couldn't help but pause here. "Now, I am the last remaining Universe remnant from that destroyed future, and soon, I too will be completely erased due to the Multiverse's destruction."
"Before that! I must leave hope! Leave a hope that might rewrite the future! So I disrupted the timelines of Carnage, Joker, you, and myself! By disrupting everything, there's a possibility of avoiding that desperate future!"
"But having witnessed that completely insane Dante, I can no longer trust him! I only trust you, Doctor Quinzell!"
Harley said nothing.
She was the craziest, but also the most excellent, psychiatrist in the entire Federal Bureau of Investigation.
From all of Barry's words and actions, she saw only sincerity, without a hint of pretense.
Moreover, as the Team Base's exclusive psychiatrist, Barry would subconsciously touch his nose and ears when lying.
This small gesture never appeared.
Rather than saying she trusted Barry, it was more accurate to say she trusted her own professional expertise.
"Alright, you've successfully convinced me." Harley sighed. "What do we do next?"
"The futures of Carnage, Joker, and you have all been successfully rewritten, next is… myself." Seeing this, Barry immediately climbed into the tall, silver-black armor.
A blue-white Speed Force flashed past.
Barry and Harley disappeared from their original spot.
The next moment, they appeared in an abandoned air-raid shelter north of Washington.
"Woah, this feeling is a bit… strange."
"Doctor Quinzell, time is short, I can't explain the principles of the Speed Force to you now."
Harley shook her head, finding it hard to imagine that in an instant she had traveled from a sewer in Los Angeles to northern Washington.
Then she saw the familiar Barry lying on a mattress.
After emerging from the armor again, Barry immediately began to act.
Through continuous assembly, a treadmill appeared in front of Harley.
"Uh, at a time like this, do you still have time to work out?"
"…Doctor Quinzell, your wild statements are truly something I haven't heard in a long time." Barry gave a wry smile, then stepped onto the treadmill. "This is the Cosmic Treadmill. It can absorb the energy of the Speed Force and convert it into other forms of energy for human use. Of course, directly sending the Speed Force into another person's body is also possible."
"Send it into another person's body? What do you mean by that?" Harley frowned.
She saw the words "seeking death" in the man's eyes.
"This is the last step in disrupting my own timeline." Barry said with a smile, "I activated the Speed Force energy with a lightning bolt after the Federal Bureau of Investigation erasure event."
"And what I need to do now is to move that time forward, directly injecting the Speed Force into my current self."
"Doctor Quinzell, believe me, if the Federal Bureau of Investigation of this era has an Extreme Speedster, it will certainly be able to avoid those bad endings that shouldn't occur."
"Then what will happen to… you?" Harley asked the crucial question. "You said you don't have much time left."
"That's right, so I will transfer the Speed Force, along with my life, entirely into his body."
"That armor was forged using Uru metal and Dagon stone through the Speed Force, and it won't be erased. Consider it a gift from me to myself… though I couldn't meet him."
Harley sighed deeply.
She knew it was time to say goodbye.
"So, how should I explain your identity to Barry and my Pudding?"
"Just say… I am Savitar, the God of Speed from the future."
"Come to find a perfect ending."
With that said, as the Speed Force on his body lit up, his speed suddenly increased to its limit.
A few minutes later, accompanied by a roar of pain and liberation, all the Speed Force was transferred into Barry's body through the Cosmic Treadmill.
And "Savitar" completely dissipated into the Universe.
Not even a single cell remained.
Only that armor, glowing with a faint blue light, indicated that a scarred Extreme Speedster…
Had once existed.
(To be continued.)
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