Chapter 139 - [AT] Biological Variant...

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"From there it was pretty easy as once I was 70% sure you were the Batman I invested all my time into investigating you and Richard Grayson (where is he by the way, I haven't seen him yet) and I discovered that D.i.c.k before he became your ward was part of the Flying Graysons with his parents before their untimely death and when I saw the similarities between Robins suit and the outfit used by the performers in the Flying Graysons act it wants all that hard to connect the dots and come to an answer, Bruce Wayne was Batman and while I was almost certain I couldn't fully trust my conclusion as while I may have disregarded your public persona mask that didn't mean it was actually you as there was still some doubt and so upon the rooftop I tried to subtly manipulate you by using Thomas Wayne and either it worked or it didn't and I wouldn't lose anything either way so when I saw that it worked it was all but confirmed that you were the Batman." I finish and I can see Batman drinking it all in and while most of my dialogue right now was bullshit I just made up none of it was false and pretty much all of it was fact so there would be no way for him to disprove that, everything I said was correct and plausible especially the similarity between Robins costume and D.i.c.k Grayson's outfit when he was in the circus with his parents.

"I see." Batman simply says after my speech and after taking it all in, that's all he has to say which I'm surprised at and the atmosphere is getting pretty stale so I decide to try and continue the conversation while also adding some advice. "If I might, you should really see about changing Robin's costume. Seeing the similarities between it and the one D.i.c.k Grayson wore in the the circus was definitive, it was pretty much the nail in the coffin..." I speak aloud my thoughts hoping to convince him to change Robins costume because while I appreciate the homage to his parents and the fact that it's his old circus costume the fact remains that the kid is dressed in bright green, red and yellow which I suppose is okay but it's made worse by the fact that his costume is basically a green child sized baby grow that leaves half of his arms uncovered apart from the bright green gloves and all of his legs uncovered apart from his feet which are covered in bright green 'pixie' boots which are just disgusting and over that he just has a red vest with three ties keeping it closer, a black belt tying it for some reason because I don't think it's a utility belt since I can spot any pouches and over all that is a bright yellow cape that wraps around his shoulders and connects underneath his chin but for some reason attached in top is a yellow shirt collar which is part of the cape and looks very f.u.c.kin weird, I can respect him trying to pay homage to his parents and the circus by basing his costume off of his acrobat uniform in the circus but there's gotta be a line I mean the kid is basically dressing up like Namor which is just weird and I really want his bad costume to change not only because it looks terrible (but also somehow inexplicably works) but because it hardly covers the kids body apart from his vitals which is just wrong. "Robin's costume will be discussed with him but I do see your point, I let him do it because even my own costume is an homage to my father since he once dressed up as a bat at a Halloween party. I can understand why he did it but if it's helping others like you to discover our identity's then it will have to be rectified, though it's none of your concern so don't worry about it."

Damn he just told me straight up without any hesitation but I guess that must be because he already knows I know his identity so there's not much he can do there and all of the information he just gave me is inconsequential and doesn't really mean anything but I'm glad that he didn't take me knowing his identity in a bad way, more importantly I finally realised that the Bat-Suit (that looked like it was made for a kid by there mother and more in line for a costume party than an actual functioning Batsuit) in that display case I saw earlier must be Thomas Wayne's Batman party costume so no wonder it was in a display case despite it's quality and the fact that it was more central than some of the other displays in the Batcave as it holds more importance. "Your abilities, tell me about them. How you discovered them, what really happened for you to end up in New York, the limitations, the advantages and disadvantages and more importantly anybody who knows about your abilities and anyone who might have your DNA." Before I can speak again it seems that the Batman has decided that it's no longer time to chat and so he gets straight to business and lists out his demands of what he wants to know and it takes a braver man then me to not listen when the Batman talks, all I've gotta do is tell the truth which should be pretty easy since there's nothing I really want to conceal here since my ten generation ability is already out of the bag and so I should try and be as open as possible about it and hopefully win some points and trust with Batman. "Straight to the point eh, well I suppose there's no point beating around the bush. First of all everything I told you about myself is true apart from what really happened the day I was out into the back of that white van but I suppose I should start from the beginning which is when I got my ability, it was when I was five years old and it was my first day as a drug mule for the matron and the drug dealer and so when I had been given the package to deliver I was off in my way to the rooftop of a building where I would hide the package underneath the nesting in a pigeon coup but when I got there and was doing so a man approached me and tried to steal the package from me but I'm since doing this job correctly was the difference between starving and being fed for the first time in ages I held on and fought back with all of my power before eventually I fell off of the roof and went splat on the paved alleyway down below behind the building where thankfully no one was around."

The Batman frowns and I'm confused as to why, he shouldn't be upset that I was tossed off of a building and went splat since he can clearly see me fine as day now and he has already figured out that this was when I got my power so why is he frowning. "There was nothing else in the alley? No chemical spills, no broken down electrical wires, there wasn't any unusual weather or lightning?" He asks and I understand why he's frowning as he's trying to work out from whence my powers came and while the possibility that it was my own body changing that produced my powers is very high he can't ignore the possibility that it may have happened from outside influences and if so are there possibly any others which I'm pretty sure isn't possible, I own gained my healing ability because of my rewriting of reality with the clear instruction that I would live to my current age among other instructions and so when I fell off of that building the universe had to make sure I lived but since I went splat they could only give me my healing factor to survive that but who's to say the method in which it gave me my regeneration because either it could've just granted it to me or they could've put an elaborate plan into motion to grant me these ability which could mean that the elements to my regeneration could be out there and possibly used by someone else. "There was nothing like that, it was as clear a day as you can get for Gotham, when I woke up hours later in the alleyway I was only covered in my own blood, there wasn't any green goo or toxic materials in the alleyway and the alleyway was bout as clean as an alleyway could be but there wasn't anything there that could provoke such a change in the human body. I've tried to research it before when I wasn't drowning in some of my temporary vices but I didn't manage to get very far." Honestly my DC self did try a few times before the merge to investigate the source of his powers but he didn't stick to it as he was more interested in finding out all the possible advantages of his abilities instead of the origin of them and now that I'm in control I can do that as well but since my body is a merge between spider powers and also healing powers there may be no way to actually tell the origin of my power as it may be entirely mystical since the universe was involved and if there is then it will take a long time to figure it out properly, Batman probably already has an idea to my power and it's origin.

"From the sample I've reviewed there is nothing I can see to explain your abilities apart from the unusual balance of your blood but that's not impossible and if your theory is correct about your body being that all of your cells are quantum entangled which means that when any of your cells realise where the true body is then any cells not attached to the body stop regenerating making it just ordinary DNA without the regeneration included then I wouldn't be able to discover anything from this sample but I do have a few theories, my first and utmost theory right now is that you posses the Metagene which is a biological variant that some humans have and while not a lot is known about this gene it is being heavily researched since an absurd amount of powered people are appearing in recent days and so far what has been found is that the gene often lays dormant until a moment of extraordinary physiological stress activates it and upon activation it would use the source of the biostress as a catalyst for "genetic change" resulting in metahuman abilities which I suspect is how your powers came into being as you fell off the roof and impacted the ground. There isn't much more I can figure out about your abilities origins without a sample and since your cells are quantum entangled that would be impossible, the only way to research it would be to analyse your DNA while it is still connected to you and for that to happen it would have to be an integral part of you that isn't reproducing constantly and so I would have to dissect you to discover anything more about your powers so I can analyse you from the inside and while I know that you would survive I have no reason to do so and put thou through that pain, unless you want to in which case I can put you in contact with some scientists who could do that for you and be discreet as possible." I rapidly shake my head in the negative when he offers me that option and though it's hard to tell I think his lip is slightly upturned and he's taking amus.e.m.e.nt in my panic, what an asshole though I'm glad he won't be trying to unravel more about the origin of my ability since that would require him to do a live dissection of me and I don't think that's something he wants to do especially to someone who hasn't done anything wrong and has been helpful to him so far.

After that moment of levity Batman returns to the topic at hand, the topic being my abilities and him wanting to know as much as possible about them. "The white van, tell me about it. What really happened that day." He asks and I guess I have no other option to tell him but I'm glad that at least by clearing this upon no one is gonna believe I slept in a refrigerator surround by meat that I pissed on, apart from Commissioner Gordon who won't be privy to this conversation...

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