Chapter 129 - [AT] DNA Playground...

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"H-How is this possible? Y- You. There's nothing even remotely special about your blood, it's completely ordinary!" He says in disbelief and I'm quite offended that he just basically called me nothing special though it doesn't put a dampener on my mood since he found the results I expected him to because I already knew that he would find nothing and it's precisely why I agreed to do all of these tests (apart from the check up of my genital and anus, not doing that for this old fuddy duddy) since I knew that he would come up with nothing when he reviewed the tests since I've already tested everything about my regeneration ability (well at least my DC version did, he tested the f.u.c.k out of this thing) and since the time that I've been here in this universe after the merge I used whatever time I had to fiddle with my powers and stuff and being the paranoid piece of shit that I am I immediately came up with ways to hide my abilities and powers to the best of my ability and in the process I learned quite a few things which I could easily do with the pre knowledge that my DC self discovered during all his years in high school and Metropolis university of which I've greatly reaped the benefits, of course even then and even my past DC self couldn't unearth all of the mysteries of my ability but what he did find even if he couldn't explain it properly (although he had theories that he couldn't test) was probably the biggest advantage of my regeneration/healing factor, I'm currently reaping the rewards of that great discovery as shown by the fact that Alfred is confused by the sight of my very ordinary, non-special and very mundane blood (given that he's not explored all of the bloods contents which I'm grateful for) when he knows for a fact that I have some type of power that helped me survive underneath that factory building for two months and came out without a scratch because I all but confirmed it when I came in and he asked/ alluded about it and since I knew that there was no way to feasibly explain how I could live under there for two months so I told him what he wanted to hear and what the Batman knows (even if he doesn't know exactly) so as to avoid more suspicion and weariness from the current members of the BatFamily (speaking of which where is Robin? I know he's around somewhere but I don't know exactly how old he is).

"Ha, surprised you did it? Surprised me as well when I found out, couldn't understand it but I had a few theories but unfortunately I'm not willing to test them out." I tell him trying to seem as open as possible about my abilities hoping that when Batman later reviews what I did show in here if he's not watching right now (because he will definitely watch what I'm doing in here, he's Batman) he would be suspicious if I didn't tell Alfred anything but then again he might be even more suspicious if I just start to tell Alfred everything about my abilities so I will have to do a carefully balance of both by telling Alfred mostly about my abilities while also holding a few things back that Batman might think we're to important to tell a random guy in a bat mask and butler outfit, Alfred looks at me in response to my humour at the situation and he seems irritated that I let him do it I even when I knew the results though he does still seem a bit shocked but I felt it best to let him discover this for himself instead of me telling him and getting him a bit weary at the fact that I already knew plus this way he'd feel some more trust towards me as I let him take my blood. "You... you knew that this was gonna happen? Why didn't you tell me? And why is your blood so normal when your clearly have powers that aided you in surviving underneath that collapsed factory building for two weeks? That's not normal and it should definitely show that you are a meta-human or something." Alfred word vomits but even then he doesn't lose his disposition and asked everything clear and calmly which belays the fact that he is desperate to know why he could not find anything out from my blood as there is a chance that they can't find anything out from my blood when he clearly knows that I have powers than what are the chances that there are a lot of other people out there with powers but it doesn't show in their blood which is a frightening thought, of course that's not possible since my powers are very specific and I know the exact reason for this phenomenon as my previous self discovered it before the merge and had some of his theories about it but I have largely confirmed a single theory though I am unwilling to test if it's true.

"Alfred, I graduated from Metropolis University with PhDs in Biology, Chemistry and Computer Science. Did you honestly expect me not to try and figure out my own abilities and test my own blood for anything, it's pretty much the first thing I tried to do when I got into science and the reason I to biology and chemistry though it turns out I couldn't fully investigate it. I knew that you weren't going to find much in my blood that could be an indicator of my power which we both know by now is regeneration or a healing factor or whatever you wanna call it but I knew seeing is believing and you wouldn't believe me at face value and would probably believe that I was lying so I let you take my blood and see the results for yourself, I believed it would be that much easier for both of us this way and it would probably make you not think me trying to deceive you if I had told you before you discovered it yourself. As for why my blood shows as being ordinary when I clearly have a healing factor I don't have a proven fact about why my blood is as it is but I do have a theory that I'm pretty certain on but unfortunately I don't want to test my theory, and I'm not gonna budge on that issue." I tell him answering each of his questions in turn but not really explaining the last one as if I'm trying not to explain it while knowing that I'm gonna have to do it reluctantly which should give me some more credibility (at least with Alfred if not anyone else, I'm pretty sure Batman isn't gonna give a shit) and make the rest of what I say believable, Alfred looks at me clearly waiting for me to elaborate on my theory but he ends up staring at me for a few moments before he realised I wasn't going to expand on it and so he had to ask me himself. "And what is this theory? I by aren't you willing to test it?" He asks and I take a breath before sighing and rub bling my forehead before I eventually decide to reluctantly tell him, I'm trying to sell it and I actually don't want to tell anyone this so I guess it works. "My theory is that all of my cells are quantum entangled which means that when any of my cells realise where the true body is then any cells not attached to the body stop regenerating making it just my ordinary DNA without the regeneration included, but I don't know now this for a fact and I am not willing to risk myself trying to follow through on a test to prove it when it doesn't really matter in the end. Basically any piece of me that isn't connected to my main body or the part of me with the most mass then it isn't going to regenerate and my main body or the part of me with the most mass will start regenerating what I lost, but it gets a bit more complicated from there when you try and find out the exact limits and start to ask some very complicated question which I can't seem to find the answers to."

Of course there is a lot more that I'm not telling him like the fact that I've come up with several ways to pretty much get rid of all the DNA in my blood (or at least most of it) which is the most likely way that people would get my DNA and even than my blood only has around the lifespan of around an hour (maybe even under, still trying to work on getting it lower) so even if my blood gets spilled outside of my body and somebody finds it they would have to get it to a lab and analysed in under an hour which is nearly impossible and even then only the slightest bit of DNA is in it for them to find which would take even longer and so by the time that they would be able to get to my DNA my blood would already be dead and gone and no longer be able to be used, I've done this in quite an ingenious way if I do say so myself as usually red blood cells have a lifespan of 120 days and they have no DNA in them so I managed to reduce the lifespan to around an hour or so and filled most of my blood with red blood cells while using the very most minimal amount of white blood cells, plasma and platelets that I require and while for the average man this would result in a severe case of anaemia my regeneration actually takes care of that and gets rid of the ill side effects and not only that but with my rate of regeneration I can produce way more red blood cells than a normal man who produces around around 2 million a minute I produce more than a thousand times that which makes up for any negative side effects and when the red blood cells die after every hour the homophobia is broken up and the iron is salvaged and transferred to the bone marrow to be used again in the production of more red blood cells, all of this being possible through the increased control of my body that my regeneration/healing factor has given me (is my power really a healing factor or is that just a side effect since I can actually control some aspects of my body, I'm sure wolverine or dead pool can't do that).

Of course in this scenario I didn't really do anything and let them take my regular blood away (my blood isn't irradiated or anything on account of my regeneration that somehow got rid of all the radiation that came from my spider powers while leaving the powers behind so I don't have to worry about them finding about my spider powers as they would actually need flesh to get anywhere with that) since I want this process to be as smooth as possible plus if Batman noticed that my blood died to soon or there isn't enough DNA inside it then he will get even more suspicious so I let Alfred take a blood sample that has enough red blood cells and just enough white blood cells, platelets and plasma as well as DNA that it won't look suspicious and I made sure to change the blood Alfred took so that it had no spider power DNA or anything in it, Alfred doesn't seem to have clicked on to anything though and I don't expect him to as he is instead more preoccupied by my alluding to an experiment that I don't want to do. "How would you possibly be able to prove your theory? And why are you so unwilling to go through with proving it when you clearly know how to?" Alfred asks and I smile at the hook line and sinker, know I've just got to give enough info without really revealing anything. "The only way I've tough of to prove my theory is to cut off the tip of my finger and place it in a corner and then cut off a full finger and place it in a different corner before entirely vaporising myself and seeing which finger I regenerate from because if I'm correct and all of my cells are quantum entangled then each of my cells would have an entire memory of the rest of my body and so I would be able to fully regenerate from the full finger no matter how long that takes and not from the finger tip as it has less matter than the full finger, you can see why I don't want to try this sort of experiment as it is very risky with a high chance of death."

Alfred gulps but otherwise doesn't show anything else and I wouldn't even have been able to spot that without my enhanced senses, but I know exactly how he is feeling when he speaks next. "Yes, I can see why. It certainly doesn't seem to be worth the risk, does it..?"

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