July 5th 2014

Downtown Metropolis

9:00 P.M

His head was throbbing. Kal-El pushed the bus off from top of him. He was tired, his armor was damaged, fairly badly. He prepared himself to get up, get into this fight when suddenly.

BAM

CRACK

POW

The Manhunter came blitzing in, fists flying. This whole day had been a nightmare. And even now, a full day later he didn't understand why. What had gone so wrong that everything would come to this. Everybody was broken, Diana, Flash, Hal, Bruce, Arthur. Everybody.

"Surrender Superman. Give up, and let us Take you into Custody. Please, before I have to do something I really do not want to. Give up." Said the Manhunter. And all the pain that he was in, he thought about it.

July 5th 2014

Metropolis

9:00 AM

Waking up from last nights celebrations, Clark felt like a million dollars. The office party was fun. He and Louis had a nice time. He wondered to himself, would there would be some time he could tell her he was Superman?

He made himself breakfast, sat down and turned on the news. To his surprise, something must have happened the night prior.

"Maxwell Lord was found dead this morning. Lord, 31, was found dead atop the space needle…" His focus shifted. He heard sirens going off down the block. Using X-Ray vision, he saw a bank robbery going on. They looked heavily armed, one man even had a mini-gun. He got up and began to go to the window. The suit formed around him, and off he was. From below, he heard gasps. people were pointing. why were they surprised? He had been donning the suit for over a year now. Why was this surprising anybody?"

(Back at Clark Kent's Apartment)

The News woman continued "Lord was found slain surrounded by the members of the Justice League, along with several police officers. Many members of the League were seen to have killed cops. A search warrant has been issued for all the members. The president is currently waiting to call in the Justice League of America until further notice."

(Back at the Bank with Superman)

"Come on you Son's a Bitches, hurry up." Yelled the man with the minigun. He was spraying at the police. Several members were down, some possibly dead. As the other two members began to Exit, Clark lowered himself from the skies, arms crossed, legs together. The gangsters gave him a look of horror, dropping their weapons and their bags of money, and running, sprinting to the police.

Clark floated to Commissioner Corporon, who had a peculiar scowl, far worse than he usually had, and one that would fit better on Gordon.

"Superman, thank you, but…" and he cut him off. He had to go to the Watchtower. They had a meeting. Jordan was coming back today, and they needed to go over some things. Tension increasing in the Ukraine and if they could help resolve some of the issues in the area. Aquaman wanted to talk about the situation with Kandaq, supposedly they had been dumping nuclear waste into the Mediterranean. And that wasn't mentioning the issue hal had that Hal had, the amount of incursions within 10 light-years (not that far to a space faring species like the Khunds or the Ramptors.) So they needed to meet.

Around 10 minutes later he was at the watchtower. Aquaman, Jordan, Wonder Woman and Flash were there. Batman was, surprise surprise, a no show. To be fair, he told him he would stop by later and tell him what they did.

"Now that everyone is here, i think we have something we need to talk about." said the Flash "It's really important."

Everybody sat down, in the meeting hall. There were dozens of chairs, although as day after day passed, the thought that anybody was going to actually join the league became a less and less likely possibility. To be fair, the other two leagues had about as likely odds of gaining new members. Most heroes were far more interested in working solo. Which confounded him, Just look at Batman, a founding member of the Justice League who almost never showed his face, still apart of it.

Flash turned on a television, and he didn't look what the other members of the league looked like, but he imagined much the same. Shock and Horror.

"Lord was found slain surrounded by the members of the Justice League, along with several police officers. Many members of the League were seen to have killed cops. A search warrant has been issued for all the members. The president is currently waiting to call in the Justice League of America until further notice."

Jordan spoke up first. "Wait, I wasn't even home last night, I was still in space, how can they buy this ccrap?!"

"Doesn't matter. Every news station in the world is reporting on this. Were wanted by the Federal Government, and I'm almost positive that we're going to get hunted no matter where we go."

"Pardon me, but who is this Maxwell Lord? Because i do not recall Killing a man by decapitation!" Yelled Wonder Woman

"Maxwell Lord was a part of the Republican Party and was a top choice for the race for President. He announced his intentions to run. He is also a former representative for Washington, very successful. He supplied arms and weapons through his family company Lord Industrial, multi Billion Dollar corporation." Said Flash

"But he was a man of no great importance, he was not a leader, but a coward." she replied

"Doesn't matter. mess with a man who supplies the U.S Army and they will come after you. Now were in the crossfire."

"I was in Atlantis, not remotely close to the Surface." said Arthur.

"I was at a party." He said "But that's not important. Right now we need to figure out our next course of action."

"We can not go to the United States, and wherever we do go, we need to go carefully. Government will be after us wherever we go." Said Jordan

The others began to stand up and argue. But he got up, and walked to the window. They were above the United States. What happened.

His concentration was broken when the alarm went off. Kelor spoke over the alarm "Incoming high speed projectile detected." He could see a missile flying high speed at the watchtower, two of them. He would be unable to get to an airlock in time. They were going to get hit.

"Hit the Deck!" Yelled Lantern, throwing up a barrier. In a calculated effort, Lantern put it around Himself and the others, everyone but him. He knew it was the correct decision, he would be fine.

BOOM
BOOM

His solar visor formed to meet the lack of oxygen, and he flew outside, and saw the results. There was a hole where the window he was standing at was, The other one hit the engine. They were dead in the water.

He tapped his head set twice and spoke "Kelor Attempt to repair engines to operational condition and lock off the damaged parts of the ship from the rest."

"Compliance."

"Lantern what's the situation?" he asked

He saw Lantern build a airlocked platform for Aquaman and Flash, Wonder Woman (And her not magic shield which formed around her when there was 'danger' in her immediate vicinity.) Was free and about.

"Everybody's good. What do we do now?"

"Where do we go?" asked the Flash.

Clark thought. There was nowhere in the world they would not be hunted. But what if they hid in plain sight?

"Go to Metropolis. Stay low and hide out in my apartment. Lantern you know where it is." He said.

"What about hiding? They're going to be looking for anybody even remotely resembling a Justice Leaguer. And Arthur's face stands out, its pretty unmistakable." Said Flash

"Go in low. It might sound bad, but go through the sewers, and get out in the industrial park."

"We need to be careful, Stewart can locate me very easily, right now he is out past the Oort Cloud, but if word reaches the Guardians, he will be coming for me."

"He is probably already going to tell them as we speak." Said Wonder Woman.

"This is our best chance. We can not go to Atlantis. We would not want to be caught in the maelstrom of harboring Fugitives."

"This is a story for another time, Just Go. When you get to the city, Lay low, don't use your powers. Lantern, take your ring off. Stewart can't find you if he can locate your ring. Hide in my apartment if you need to. We will get in contact with one another later."

"And where are you going to hide?" Asked Wonder Woman

"Im going to go to Gotham to make sure Batman is ok.

And they were all off.

Gotham City

Diamond District

9:30

Clark landed in the Diamond district, thankfully without alerting Gordon or the Police. He tapped his watch, he could not afford to be detected. He put his glasses on and began looking for his friend. He searched many of the area's where he knew Bruce was when he was in the costume, The East End, Financial District, Industrial Park. No sign

His phone rang. The Phone. He answered almost immediately. "Bruce?"

"Old Quarter, three blocks north of the clocktower. Hurry." and he hung up. Bruce sounded like he was in some sort of serious pain. Clark looked around and jumped as far as he could to make up time.

He landed in the Old quarter, nobody was out, Using his X-rays, he saw that this block he landed on was almost entirely abandoned. He looked for the tower. He was right next to it. "What luck, did not even aim for it."

He began to run a normal pace for a human. When he got to where he needed to be, he started to listen for heartbeats. There was only one, and it was faint. He hoped to hell it was Bruce. He turned the corner of the alley.

And there lay Bruce Wayne. Bleeding out of several large cut, and breathing slowly. He ran to his friend, praying it wasn't to late.

"Bruce, what happened?!" he asked, kneeling close to his friend. He took off his sports coat, and blanketed it over his friend. He was cold, almost freezing.

"Cops actually got a good shot off last night. Right in the leg, tore right through. I fell down and cut up my arm and chest pretty bad. Think i might have cracked a rib or to. Maybe i have a concussion. I've been taking some adderall I found in a drugstore to keep focused. Ill have to bust this guy when i get better. Had cocaine in the back there to."

"Bruce you need to be quiet, keep your strength. Ill call Alfred. Get you home Safe."

"Kent you need to fly me. I've been losing blood all night, I don't think I can wait."

Clark didn't want to fly. He needed to keep a low profile. But Bruce would die if he didn't hurry. It was a risk he was willing to take. He picked up his friend and very slowly ascended into the sky. Clouds were rolling in, low hanging. He got above them and then turned around and flew as fast as he could backwards, to avoid giving Bruce windburn. He got to the waterfall behind Wayne Manor and navigated his way to the Batcave. Alfred was waiting there, asleep, along with Robin. Whose face lit up like Christmas Morning upon seeing him with his mentor.

'Alfred Wake Up, Bruce is back and he's with Superman." Yelled the ecstatic young child.

Alfred Jolted awake, and picked up his doctors bag. He walked over to a corner of the cave and flipped a switch. Up rose a medical table, equipped with a fully functioning Emergency Room set of equipment. Alfred put down the doctors bag and began to Prepare himself for surgery, and a lot of blood.

"Master Kent I hate to ask, but i will need the assistance of someone on this operation."

"I can help Alfred."

"No master Dick, I'm afraid you're too young to be of assistance here." Dick walked away arm's crossed visibly upset he could help his adopted father.

"Sure thing Alfred" he said beginning to put on the medical attire "What do you need me to do."

And they Began to fix Bruce Wayne. Because Batman, the one man who could lose blood all night, and place his leg, in the middle of a Gotham back alley. Batman was unbreakable.