Chapter 39: Kryptonite & Preparations

Chapter 39: Kryptonite & Preparations

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"Every journey begins with a single step. We just have to have patience."

-Milly Thompson, (Trigun)

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<(Bruce Wayne POV)>

"Hey, Bruce. How is the little stupid dog doing? Still alive?" Slade asked while munching on some popcorn.

"Yeah, I gave him some proper treatment after administering first aid back in Kansas, even took him to one of the best vets in Gotham to get advice on his diet and stuff. He should be alright in a couple of days." I answered with an annoyed scowl on my face while carefully and slowly petting the sleeping puppy lying beside me.

Ace as was his name was a high-pedigree puppy of the German Shepherd breed also known as an Alsatian. What I had deduced from its blood, whoever had bred him had done so in an effort to make him some form of combat dog instead of a normal working dog or just a fancy pet. According to the vet's expert opinion, one of his parents was probably an East European Shepherd which was mostly a Russian military version of the German Shepherd breed. So Ace was definitely not some run-of-the-mill mutt.

But the thing was despite his amazing praiseworthy lineage, he was a severely abused puppy who had somehow escaped its fate by running away. He had bite and scratch marks everywhere, even wounds on his legs caused by a whip of some kind. Presumably, his last owner was some kind of dog breeder for an illegal dog-fighting ring according to the veterinarian's hypothesis. But he wasn't sure, he could only guess since we didn't find any sort of information on the owner from Ace's collar.

Regardless, the little puppy was much better now and had even regained consciousness. At first, he was a little hostile toward us due to trust issues because of his rough history after waking up but after doing some trust-building exercises for a few days and giving him proper treatment and nourishment, he has been slowly warming up to us, especially me and Alfred since we look after him the most because Selina according to her own admission was more of a cat person and Vicki could only be present for a few hours in the mansion since she had her own home and family.

"That's good. Maybe I could train him as a military dog for you. I know most of the methods that the current various military organizations use to train expert combat dogs. Also, I always wanted to train a dog to bite someone's balls off, maybe he could finally fulfill that long-standing dream of mine." Slade said with a dreamy expression on his face like he was imagining the puppy trying to chew on a pair of balls.

"That's not happening Mr. Wilson. I have already decided to train Ace in the ethics of a proper and gentle dog with perfect manners as what would be expected from a pet belonging to the only Wayne heir. There will be NO ball biting in my presence, at least not those attached to any living being." Alfred said as he walked in with a big fancy plate in his hands that had a single large bone on it for Ace to chew and play with when he woke up.

"Oh come on, you lovable English bastard, you suck the fun out of everything in my life. It's only because of you that I realized my wife is not the ultimate evil, you are." Wilson grunted and huffed like an annoyed teenager.

"A gentleman dog or a combat dog biting off balls. It sounds to me like you would have to live a double life like me due to all the expectations. I wonder if I could train you to be a Bat-dog to put even Clark and Krypto to shame. Although I might have to work on that name a little. Bat-dog doesn't exactly seem to roll off the tongue or sound all that threatening or cool, does it?" I smiled and rubbed the head of the sleeping puppy as it released a happy sound of contentment from its mouth like it was having a beautiful dream.

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*Boom* Another explosion rattled my laboratory as a bunch of kryptonite samples blew out everywhere with so much force that some of them even got stuck on the walls.

"Is that what you meant when you said you were having a blast in your lab while working? Because I can definitely see it." Selina gulped as she got back up from the ground, thanking god for still being alive since there was now a sharp knife-like Kryptonite impaled into the wall just behind her head.

"And nuclear decay under certain conditions or some other artificial methods only change this unique energy slightly giving the crystal some unique attribute that affects Kryptonians in different ways, mostly harmfully but affects them nonetheless like blue or red kryptonite." Cortana completed my observations.

"Yes. But that also means we can use this energy inside Kryptonites. We can study it and maybe even replicate it for our own weaponry. That's why they do not seem to be compatible with a nuclear fusion reactor like the ARC reactor. Why would they work with a technology that produces energy since they are themselves a source of such unique immense energy? Also, I think we might have found our replacement for Vitarays Cortana." I smiled as gears began turning inside my head and my intuitive intelligence began to work again.

"Woof" Even Ace barked infected with my own renewed excitement.

Kryptonite might just be the thing I am looking for starting my own super soldier project. I was considering using Vitarays as an energy source to kickstart the Compound V and Supersoldier serum projects but now that I have this unique energy, there is a good chance that I can use this. After all, if Metallo can feed off Kryptonite energy, then why can't I? Although, I'll have to be real cautious about this since I'll be entering some uncharted territory of science if I continue with this project.

But still, I can't leave this area of power unexplored especially since I now have basically complete unrestricted access to the formula of mirakuru (which by the way was most probably derived from either Electrum or Dionesium or some other unique element along those lines) after I got my hands on Slade's DNA samples. Truthfully, it was too easy since even though he is very careful to never leave his hair or blood samples intact, he still jerks off sometimes and just throws away the tissues like nobody's business. Maybe he thinks nobody is nasty enough to collect them but unfortunately, he has no idea what I am truly capable of.

I smirk as I cannot help but take a peek at the disposed Wall-E droid at the corner of the Bat cave, the ten thousand dollar state-of-the-art cleaning droid I had to sacrifice to collect his 'trash' from the trashbin.

Yeah, there was no way I was going to touch them with my own hands even if I was wearing ten pairs of gloves and doing it in the name of science. Hell, even the tests were completely run by the machines and everything was handled by Cortana's 'tentacles'.

Now, since there is no way I can make a risk and side-effect-free Kryptonian serum to give me Superman powers in the near future, I'll just have to focus on the compound V and Mirakuru-enhanced super soldier serum although even that will take me a couple of years to perfect especially since I intend to use both on myself. I'll only be focusing on the Extremis once I perfect nanotechnology. But maybe I could add some spider-themed stuff in it too or maybe the OZ serum that gives immortality. Yeah, that would be OP.

Imagine a Batman with spider powers. I think I'll be quite a unique Batman if that happens. I could not help but laugh as I continued to picture myself slinging through the city. But unfortunately, at that time, I had no idea what the twisted humor of the multiverse had planned for me.

I had no idea that for me, it was soon gonna be Batmin' Time.

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