The Comprehensive Evolution of American Comics.

Chapter 1091

"Oh!" Bart covered his mouth. "Sorry, you shouldn't know this yet."

“We really shouldn’t have known,” Barry sighed. “If you really are from the future, you should understand how much of an impact it would have on the world if you revealed things that would happen in the future.”

The butterfly effect is a well-worn topic, so I won't go into too much detail here. The classic movie "Back to the Future" is a good example of it.

"It's good that you told me something that might have already happened."

Barry was still there, relieved that nothing irreversible had happened, unaware that his grandson had traveled from the future to the present to change the future.

“Let’s not talk about this nonsense for now.” Barry rubbed his face. “In short, you haven’t gained my complete trust yet, so if you want to prove your identity, you’ll need to go through a series of tests.”

“Of course, I know Nightwing just explained it to me.” Bart saluted Barry like a Boy Scout.

“Nightwing?” Barry turned to look at Robin behind him. “Has your team recently gotten a new member? Or did someone change their codename?”

Robin frowned and said, "There is no one named Nightwing in our team, and I was the one who explained the relevant matters to him."

"In other words, if he really is from the future, then Nightwing should be my future codename."

While Robin was explaining, Bart covered his mouth again, clearly indicating that Robin's guess was correct.

"Nightwing is a good name," Lightning Boy said, patting Robin on the shoulder.

"It sounds cool, and it sounds very bat-like, it's really like the kind of name you can think of."

"Let's put the name aside for now." Robin pushed away Kid Lightning's hand. "Listen, Bart, until everything is answered, we'll treat you as a time traveler, so please do what a time traveler should do."

"Don't tell us anything more about the future."

The next sentence was spoken almost word by word, and you could tell how serious Robin was from her tone.

For a moment, Flash was dazed as he looked at the serious Robin; he had even just seen a glimpse of Batman in the latter.

It was at this moment that the Flash realized that Robin seemed to have grown quite a bit taller without him noticing, and was even almost as tall as Superboy next to him.

It has been almost two years since the Young Justice League was founded, and the children are all in their growth period, so it is normal for them to change every day.

"Understood, sir." Bart was not affected by the sharp words at all. He also saluted Robin. His carefree and optimistic appearance really made him seem like a member of the Lightning family.

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Robin shook his head speechlessly and said, "Let's take him for a blood test first."

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The results of the experiment are in. According to the kinship test, Bart is indeed very likely to be Barry's grandson. Their genetic similarity is basically within the range of grandfather and grandson.

However, since a kinship test is not a parentage test, the result is not conclusive and cannot completely dispel everyone's doubts. Nevertheless, the fact that he can use the Speed ​​Force, the kinship test is correct, and his personality is very similar to Barry's, combined with these three points, has largely convinced everyone.

However, Bart felt that wasn't enough, so he pulled everyone to see his time machine to prove his identity.

“Right here.” Bart, like a host introducing a star, spread his hands to show everyone a wall—the wall at the deepest part of the training ground.

"Aha! Don't speak yet. I know you must think I'm playing a trick on you, but that's not actually the case."

"Actually, this is my first time time travel, so I don't have any experience. I just didn't expect that I would make a mistake on my first time traveling through time and end up traveling directly into a wall."

"Fortunately, I have the power that my grandfather passed down to me. I was able to walk out of the wall with ease using the speed vibration, which is why your base's alarms did not detect me."

Before anyone could ask anything, Bart's mouth had already blurted everything out like a light machine gun. However, just like before, this kid unconsciously used the Speed ​​Force when he spoke.

Zatanna frowned. Although she could understand what Bart was saying through the boy, she could still hear the garbled chatter, which sounded like a videotape being sped up, and was like noise.

"So, if we want to retrieve the time machine you mentioned, we need to break through the wall first?"

Stargirl, leaning on her star staff, said, "I have a feeling this isn't a good idea."

"Little Zatanna?" The Martian girl looked at Zatanna, who stepped forward and opened her arms.

"Open the road!"

The ironic magic exit revealed a hole, about the height of a person, in the originally solid wall. As the hole deepened, everyone finally saw the time machine that Bart had mentioned.

"Hold on with the magic, I'll pull that thing out."

After saying that, Superboy walked closer and reached out to touch the time machine. With a little effort, he pulled out the person-sized object. Seeing this, Zatanna also used magic to restore the wall to its original state.

Having escaped the narrow gap, everyone was able to see the shuttle in its entirety. It was a capsule-like cabin about the height of a person, with nothing particularly noteworthy about it. If you threw it on the street, no one would guess that this thing could travel through time.

Lightning Boy raised this question, after all, this thing in front of him looked really boring.

“No doubt about it, I came here in this.” Bart leaned closer and touched it from left to right. “But I don’t know if it’s because of time travel or because it got stuck in the wall, it’s broken now, and I don’t know if it can be repaired in this era.”

"I originally planned to travel around this era for a while and then go back, but it seems I'll have to stay a little longer now."

Bart looked somewhat downcast, but even if the machine hadn't broken down, he would have stayed longer, since he came here to change the future.

“In that case, I’ll take this to the Justice League and let them see it.” Barry patted the shuttle, feeling its weight.

"Okay, obviously I can't carry this thing. Can any of you help me take it to the Hall of Justice?"

The Flash shrugged. Strength is the Flash family's weakness. Although they never lack offensive means, it's obviously better to leave the physical demands to others when strength is required.

(End of this chapter)