Points of Redemption

Prologue:

She had never encountered such a marvelous being in her entire life. Curiosity and bravery these were the only tools she had taken with her as she fled her own world of the Amazonians, and into 'man's world'. She had known that it wouldn't be easy, but had she known that it would change her life forever? The man that stood in front of her was; the key, the light, the solution. The one.

He had every reason to be loved. The money, the fame, the looks and the glory. But when the most essential thing to him had been taken away from him, he became; the dark, the mysterious, the feared. The Dark Knight.

The past is the key.

Chapter I

Diana walked into the lab room and immediately froze at the sight of Hal and Wally tying down batman to a wide steel platform. The Dark Knight was visibly struggling against the two, demanding that they let him free from the restraints.

She walked over quietly and watched with interest, "what are you doing?"

Green Lantern looked up and replied with a small grin on his face, "we're trying a new experiment,"

"…on Batman?" Diana asked, confused by the role each member held in the scene (usually it was Wally that was first to test the new stuff.)

"Yeah, he was more than willing to help out," the Hal glanced back at the struggling man and nodded slightly.

"Well what are you going to do to him?" Diana asked as she looked around them and noticed a monitor that was hooked up to batman's wrists.

"Bats created a machine that allows us to peer into a person's subconscious mind, something like a 4th dimension or something," Flash shrugged his shoulders as he buckled the last belt that binded the knight down to the platform, "thought we'd give him a taste of his own medicine,"

"Release me!" Batman demanded, glaring at the two men who had captured him.

"Now, now… You lost the bet fair and square, besides you owe me for leaving me locked up in the training room for an extra 4 hours last week," Wally grinned as he noticed Batman grind his teeth in frustration.

"J'onn can read my mind! This machine wasn't meant to be played around with," He sighed heavily as he finally gave up on attempting escape, "It's still in its trial phase meaning… I'm not sure what the outcome could be,"

Diana slowly crossed her arms and began to contemplate whether she should assist Batman or just watch by the sidelines and see what happens. It had all seemed like a joke anyway. Wally most likely wanted to get revenge on him for leaving him in a room filled with re-spawning killer robots by embarrassing him in front of Hal and herself. She giggled at the thought that the almighty Batman was receiving a thorough lesson from the petite-in-comparison Flash.

Her moment of glee seized to exist when she felt the notorious glare of Batman fall upon her. Even though he was strapped to a table and completely harmless, she felt threatened by the intensity of his eyes as they bore down into her own.

"All done," Wally smirked as he took a second to look at the handy work he had done on Batman. Even his well-known escape routines could not possibly get him out of this one.

"I'm guessing you originally made this thing to interrogate people?" Wonder Woman asked curiously as she walked a little closer to the monitor and examined it before turning back to Batman. She raised an eyebrow waiting for the answer to her question.

"Originally…yes. But look where it's gotten me…" He sighed and shook his head, "this isn't something to be playing around with,"

"Relax buddy, everything's alright. Let me just go get my camera and get a quick photo of this to get a good laugh out of it after I'm done being beat to a pulp," before Batman could reply, Wally had zoomed out of the room leaving the three of them to wait for his return.

Hal walked over to the monitor and tilted his head as he took a look at the mechanics of the machine, "this is all you need to be able to read the subconscious mind of someone?"

"Yes," Batman couldn't keep his irritation hidden. Thankfully after Flash had a good laugh about it, he would finally release him and he could finally get back to working on the finishing touches of the machine. He closed his eyes trying to keep his frustration in check. For someone that was known as the fastest man alive, he sure took his sweet time.

Suddenly he heard a crackling sound over by where Hal stood. Batman craned his neck to the side to find the monitor pulsing in random colors. His eyes were wide in disbelief the machine was reacting to something or somebody.

"Diana!" Hal yelled and reached out a hand to her direction. The expression on his face morphed into one of complete and utter shock.

Batman looked over and gaped when he saw the Amazonian woman standing on his other side begin to disintegrate and disappear. Balling up his hands into fists, he struggled against the bindings that had held him down and yelled at Hal,

"The machine! Cancel the operation! HURRY!" Batman quickly took a glance back at Wonder Woman's disappearing figure, more than half her body had already disintegrated. His jaw became slack as she soon disappeared completely into thin air.

It took them a few seconds to take in what had just happened. Then there was a crash sound at the entrance of the room. Both their heads snapped up in that direction and saw Wally standing there with a camera broken on the floor. His expression was one of shock and disbelief.

"W-What happened? Where'd she go?" Wally ran over to the spot she had been in just a second ago and looked around the place trying to find her in the room.

"It seems as though… she just vanquished into thin air…" Hal murmured still trying to process what had just happened. He looked over to Batman who was still tied down, "Batman?"

"Bring Superman here. NOW!" He furrowed his eyebrows in deep concern as he kept his gaze steady on the area where Diana stood just seconds ago.

What had they gotten themselves into?

A/N: Hi guys~~ I'm sorta very bad at this, but the story is interesting and I hope you enjoy it!

**I know Batman was a little out of character in this chapter, but please bare with it, I assure you... it gets better. :)

The story is about Diana traveling through a fourth dimension where everything she does seems to affect the outcome of the future. She tries to find her way back to the 'present' day where everything is back to normal, but she comes across a huge dilemma on her journey; love.