Prologue.
"Ok, Batman, we're here, what is it?" Black Canary asked with an exasperated sigh. J'onn, Aquaman, Flash, Green Arrow, and Fate nodded.
"I called you all because during watch duty at the tower I detected a large surge of unknown energy." He glared.
Barry spoke up. "Well yeah, then I get why Fate's here, magic and all, but what are the rest of us here for? Space tech is more up Green Lantern's alley."
"I called you all specifically because while scanning, I found traces of Young Justice and Red Arrow's DNA signature. I looked at Mount Justice's security feed around the time of the spike but they were all accounted for. I gathered you all to investigate if someone, or something, is targeting them."
Everyone's backs stiffened and they looked more intently at the door to the old and abandoned antique shop. No one had to wonder why they didn't call Superman. They walked through the door to a large room coated in a thick layer of dust and began looking for anything suspicious.
"Are all history rooms this desolate on the surface world?" Orin asked confused.
"Only the ones that don't make a profit." Barry joked, only to get flicked in the side of the head by Dinah. "I'm not wrong!" Barry defended.
"It may not be as empty as it appears." J'onn spoke plainly. When he had everyone's attention he lifted one hand to his head and the other help out to the room around him. His eyes began to glow.
"You mean there's something alive in hear besides us and the rats?" Ollie asked tense.
"I'm unsure if 'alive' would be a suitable term, but there is a consciousness originating from…" slowly he turned in a circle, stopping when his hand pointed in the direction of a large decaying, wooden wardrobe. "There."
"Uh, anyone else getting major Narnia vibes here?" Barry commented. He was met with blank stares. "Ok then, just me."
"There is most definitely a magical pulse coming from that direction, but I do not believe it is the furniture causing it. Perhaps something behind it though." Fate declared.
Green arrow and Aquaman stepped forwards and roughly pushed it to the side. With the wardrobe gone a solid cement door with five sets of locks could be seen. Batman instantly started working on those. They were easy enough to deal with because most were either passcodes or a regular key lock.
The door slid out of the way with a low crunch. A gust of clean air came out displacing lots of dust. Past the door were many stairs and when Ollie peaked down he saw it went for about 5 stories and there was a faint purple light flickering at the bottom. J'onn lifted his arm and everyone but Dr. Fate who could fly himself, levitated then lowered to the ground, completely ignoring the stairs.
The room at the bottom was small and grey, concrete walls, and no windows or light bulbs. The only source of light was a bizarre multipoint 3D star crystal in the center of the room surrounded by a halo of purple.
Orin looked to Dr. Fate, "Is this the source of the energy?"
"Yes," he answered, "but do not touch it." Ollie jerked his hand back from where it was reaching out towards the object. "The light around the anomaly is not from the crystal itself. It is a force field, step aside and allow me to disperse it."
15 minutes later the field dissipated and as if to a flick of a switch; gravity pulled the star to the ground. Everyone's breath caught in their throats.
"I got it!" Flash shouted, dashing forward and jumping to catch it. Batman quickly found his voice again, "NO! Flash wait!"
Too late.
The object landed gently in Flash's hands. There was a flash of light and they wobbled as their balance was thrown off.
The gasped as the light cleared, and when the heroes looked up, found they were no longer in the basement of the antique shop. In fact, they had no idea where they were. It was obvious they stood in what used to be a street but the buildings around them were nothing but rubble. With no street sign in sight; they were as good as lost. The Flash glanced down and yelped when he noticed the star was no longer in his hands. Another odd thing to notice was the sky seemed to be a dark red and the air was thick and hard to breath.
"Zatara!"