Drained

Oddly short this chapter is. (Whoa, too much star wars) Sorry about cutting another story but my computer seems to have some bugs so…it's a really long story. I hope this one won't get bugged. I might add a prologue but I need you guys to decide.

Dead, but still alive, was the only description Batman could think of about the body laying on the ground before him. He checked the elderly man's pulse, which was now nonexistent, but couldn't understand why he seemed like he was dead. The pupils were rolled back, body functions have shut down but the body itself, was warm. If the man was dead, he should have been cold like ice cubes.

"Doesn't make any sense," Batman said as he got up from his examination. "A body doesn't shut down and die and still be warm."

"Some kind of disease?" Black Canary, who was searching for some sort of evidence through the manor foyer the body was found.

"What disease does this?" Batman said as he turned around. His eyes widened at what he saw from above.

"What are you looking at?" Black Canary asked as she turned around. She was surprised at what she saw too.

A grey...creature that had the figure of a man, with simple, red circles as eyes, was watching them from the wall. It leapt down from the wall and went for Black Canary.

Batman went into action and pulled out a bat-a-rang and threw it at the creature. The black weapon smacked the thing right in the face. The creature fell to the floor but immediately recovered, unfazed by the attack.

"Take this!" Black Canary said as she slammed her foot right into the creatures torso, knocking through the doors and out into the man's lawn. Black Canary followed it outside and Batman went to pick up his bat-a-rang before following his felloe crime fighter.

The creature landed on its 2 feet, seemingly unfazed by the attack. Black Canary then punched it in the face and then kneed it in the gut. The creature went sprawling several feet away but got up quickly, unhurt.

"Thing knows how to take a beating," Black Canary said before she began delivering more powerful blows.

Batman, was watching the basically one sided fight, analyzing the situation.

The creature finally fell to the ground and Black Canary lifted it into the air by its own shoulders.

"What were you doing in that house? Were you the one attacking that man?" Black Canary interrogated, expecting the thing to answer.

The creature only opened its…mouth, which seemed more like a gaping hole, and bit Black Canary on the neck. The superhero suddenly felt weak and let go of the creature, before falling to the floor, limp.

"Dinah!" Batman screamed as he ran for his fellow crime fighter. He examined her, observing the same symptoms as the man back in the Manor did, not that he was surprised. Before he could do anything else, the creature lunged at him, but Batman knew better and leapt out of the way.

The creature swung its leg in a straight and semi-circular motion. Batman was surprised at that technique, as it was one of Black Canary's moves. The creature struck Batman in the ribs and Batman staggered from the force of the blow. The creature then followed with a back hand strike, another of Black Canary's, but this time, Batman grabbed the strange being's wrist and then kicked it in the stomach.

Considering the fact that Batman and Black Canary went under the same tutelage at one point, and that the monster seemed to have taken her fighting knowledge, Batman blocked and countered every blow. Right hook, dodge. Left roundhouse kick, block.

The battle began to wear down the Dark Knight and soon, he took a strong punch to the chin. Batman used the force of the punch to back flip several times, getting away from the creature.

Batman was breathing heavily and saw that the creature showed no signs of fatigue. As the creature approached, Batman decided to take a new approach.

He pulled out a bat-a-rang and said, "Catch," before flinging it at his enemy. The creature did catch it, but it soon exploded in its face and the creature was covered in smoke. As it cleared, Batman saw that the creature had lost a large portion of its torso, half of an arm was missing and the face was completely disfigured. It seemed like victory but Batman gasped as the creature regenerated back into its original state.

The creature, opened the mouth like hole again and what Batman saw next, he didn't see coming. The creature let out a sonic scream, just like Black Canary's, straight at him. Batman used all the energy he had to avoid the sonic attack, barely staying ahead of it. He ran toward Black Canary, scooped her up and activated his communicator.

"J'onn, I need you to get us out of here, now!" Batman shouted through heavy breathing.

"You need assistance?" J'onn asked from the other side of the transmission, not believing what he was hearing.

"NOW!" Batman ordered. He then fell down, unable to continue. He felt his molecules separating just as the sonic scream came at him.

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Seconds later, Batman, holding an unconscious Black Canary, appeared on the teleportation pad in the monitor womb, where J'onn and several technicians were waiting. Batman was breathing heavily as he slowly let Black Canary down to the ground.

"Batman, what happened?" J'onn asked as he helped his fellow founding member up.

"Some sort of creature, attacked. It was like a leech in a human shape except it absorbed powers. It was the one that attacked the man and her," Batman explained.

"DINAH!" Green Arrow's voice yelled from across the room. He saw his lover unconscious (more like a coma) and ran as quickly as possible toward her. He was there in seconds and held her in his arms. "What happened to her?" Green Arrow demanded as he looked up to the two core council members.

"Batman said she was attacked by some sort of leech that absorbs her powers and abilities and apparently her life force," J'onn said as he hung Batman's arm over his neck.

"Is she dead?" Green Arrow asked, hoping he didn't get a yes.

"No,' J'onn said as his eyes started glowing. "Her mind still exists in this plane. She only appears to be in some sort of strange deathlike coma." J'onn then looked over to two technicians. "Get her to the med lab," J'onn ordered.

"I'll do it," Green Arrow said as he picked Black Canary up. He quietly walked away.