Chapter 146 - [AT] Three Options...

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"First of all since you weren't here when I told Batman how I thought my ability works I'll let that slide since 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 that for a fact and so if I give my organs out who knows what'll happen to the recipient aside form some kind of mutation plus if one day I'm somehow fully vaporised I might just start to regenerate out of that organ I gave to a random person and grow out of them killing them in the process or somehow becoming Siamese twins with them which I doubt they'd want so it's best to stay away from that, what I can't let slide however is your thoughts about me using my antibodies to help stop disease and viruses all over the world since you should be smart enough to realise why that a bad idea but since you clearly need me to spell it out for you I'll do it. In the short term the plan to infect me with diseases and viruses and come away with cured and antibodies to form vaccines is great and all but that only in the short term because in the long term it get worse and worse since instead of people researching it every time a disease or virus comes they instead just infect me with it and cure it that way but diseases and viruses mutate over time and so I'll constantly be getting infected with worse and worse viruses that are trying to mutate to overcome me and one day they'll actually succeed and kill me regardless of my regeneration and if that my fate then I doubt anyone else can survive which would mean the end of humanity from a virus that mutated just to kill me and ends up killing everyone, and I bet you'll say that we don't have to go that far and we can only cure the few serious viruses and diseases and then stop but that won't matter as people will be dying from this stuff everyday and instead of waiting for the real search to be done they'll want to get the cure via me and the government will do it too since they don't want to waste money on research and they'd rather do this and crumble to the public opinion of sheep's who only think in the short term so they take me regardless of whether I want to do it and they'd use me for all their problems before eventually humanity gets wiped out by a virus mutates to kill me and I don't know about you but I don't want to be the reason for humanity's extinction, the path to hell is paved with good intentions and it's a slippery slope." ​​

I finish and gasp for air since I rapidly spoke and worked myself up as it got very heated and I forgot to take a breath but that doesn't matter as it's seems I got the point across as while Batman doesn't look too fussed since he already expected it but Barbara looks flabbergasted, speechless, slightly ashamed and while I do think I was a bit too harsh on her I don't regret it since I don't like my intentions being called into action when I'm actually trying to do the right thing though I do fear that I've burnt any bridges I once had with Barbara, I don't regret speaking though because this girl is too optimistic and hopeful and while sometimes I envy her ability to feel such feelings so strongly I also get irritated when it blinds her to truth and reality plus I really don't like thinking about the possibilities and consequences of my abilities existing since it's scary and worries me a lot so it's better to just ignore it as there's nothing I can actually do about it but Barbara's questions and apparently righteous anger at me not trying to use my abilities to help others made me explain it to her and brought these issues to the forefront of my mind and I don't like to think about them and while I dealt with most of my issues before I left the Marvel universe these new abilities of mine have only brought me new and fresh issues that are equally if not more worrying.

Instead of waiting for Barbara to get over her bewilderment and most likely apologise to me for her insinuations about my abilities I don't hate as turn to Batman to phrase some of my own doubts about what's happening and the future, he knows I have abilities and he knows I know all of the identities of the current Bat-family so where can we go from here and how will Batman be assured of my trustworthiness and that I won't reveal their identities to let me go free and get on with my life. "Batman, where do we go from here? You know about my past and my abilities while I know about you and your comrades true identities, frankly I'm not seeing a way you could let me go with such crucial information and I'm also sure that a paranoid guy like you would want to keep tabs on me since I have abilities and powers which gives me the capability to be a threat to people even if I would never to do that but I don't particularly want to be watched every day of my life since I like a bit of privacy. Can we work out some way to go forward, a way for you to trust me and let me live my life with the information I have and not keeping constant surveillance on me everyday, is that possible?" Batman takes a moment to think while interlocking his fingers together under his chin but while he does that Barbara who had just recovered from my talking down to her becomes shocked and speechless again at the fact that not only do I know her true identity but I also know Batman's and Robin's true identities which throws her for a loop so much so that she doesn't get the time to apologise for her earlier infraction, Batman suddenly leans forward and gets up off of his chair (Bat-Chair?) before walking toward me and stopping before me and levelling me with a dead eyed start and pinning his eyes to mine for some kind of intimidation factor which is working very well and I'm sure that he's not trying to be intimidating to me (at least I think so) but he's Batman and this is how he acts so it's natural for him to intimidate me without even thinking about it.

"You have three options, you can only choose one. Option one, you go about your life while allowing us to surveil you for the indefinite future to make sure you don't tell anyone our secrets or use your ability to cause harm, while this will be invasive as long as you'd don't use your abilities in bad ways and don't break the law we would see no need to get into contact with you and you can carry on with your life and even forget about us watching you. Your second option is a more drastic measure, I have a colleague who has a wide range of abilities and if you wanted to take this option they would be able to alter your mind and erase the knowledge of our identities from your mind and you would be able to go on with your life with our even being aware of us and while we would still monitor you because of your abilities it would be far less than it would be if you knew our use ties plus you wouldn't even know you were being monitored and be completely unaware of it allowing you to go about business as usual, this is highly more invasive as we'd alter your memories but that would be it and we'd only do it with your permission." I wait for a moment for him to voice the third option but he doesn't as he seems to want me to chooses between these two options before relenting to the final option which must be much more serious but it seems I'll have to ask for the third option because I can't choose either of these options, with both of these options they will be monitoring my actions and while the first one would be very heavy monitoring I would at least know about it but with the second option even if it was light monitoring I wouldn't know I was being monitored and so I might take some actions that alert the Bat-family which is just as dangerous and both options would make it dangerous and hard for me to manoeuvre though this world since I wouldn't be able to act as freely as I would want to and I wouldn't be able to do anything I'd like to plus I'd rather not be watched by Batman all day which means I'll have to go to the third option since it's my only option left even if it does turn out to be bad it can't be worse then the other options.

"I guess I'll have to go for the third option since I don't want to be put under watch for the rest of my life wondering if you guys are still watching me while I'm in the bathroom on in the bedroom and I don't particularly want anyone in my head or erasing any of my memories since those are a part of me so I guess I'll have to choose option three even if I haven't heard it yet since it's gotta be better than these two options, I just want to have some freedom and the ability to have a personal life without someone watching me like my life's a reality show." I speak my views hoping that the third option would be better and not something like 'now that you've heard it you have to do it' kind of thing since I wouldn't like to be forced into something before I even know what it is so I've asked for the third option and if it turns out I don't like it I can always pick one of the other two options since while they might be inconvenient and restrictive I'm sure I could work out some way around it or some way to get them to reduce the surveillance, I just hope option three isn't something like finding a way to remove my abilities or something since that's make me less of a threat but I highly doubt that's going to be an option since it's way worse than a mind wipe since it'd be essentially killing me since I'd die much earlier without my healing factor than I would with it. "The third option, you might want to think seriously before you take this option as it's not something to decide lightly. You have a spectacular power which grants you a range of abilities and if those abilities are honed properly you could be a force to be reckoned with and you could help a lot of people with your new range of skills and abilities, if you chose this option you would be staying with us here and I would be training you to the best of my ability and you would join us fighting crime in Gotham when I think your ready, you would be saving lives with your abilities and this way we wouldn't have to constantly monitor you since you'd be close to us here and you'd stay with me and D.i.c.k at Wayne Manor. You would become one of us and help fight crime and save others, we'd still be keeping a watch on you but everything I've seen points to you being a good person with the capacity to help others and I want to hone that and you wouldn't be under watch since as we work together and train with each other there wouldn't be a need for surveillance as you be with us most of the time though we would still check in on you every once in a while but we wouldn't be so ham fisted about it. If you choose this option you would become a crimefighter facing dangerous opponents nearly everyday and I can't guarantee your safety ,you might face people like Killer Croc or the worst of the worst like the Joker, do you still want to choose this option?"

Well f.u.c.k...

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