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Isolated—Superboy, chapter 1
Location: the Kent's farm
Conner was getting worried. It was getting late on Sunday night, and Max hadn't returned from wherever he had gone for the weekend. He had been a bit secretive about it, but Conner had been busy with the Titans and hadn't really tried to pin him down on it. He suspected that Max was doing some JLA work or trying to figure out who stole his file.
"Do you want to ask Clark if he knows anything?" Martha asked. "It is getting late, so perhaps it's best to see if anyone knows where Max is. I hope he hasn't decided to disappear on us."
"I think we'd better call," Jonathan said. "It's getting too late."
A quick phone call to Clark revealed that he didn't know where Max was. He promised to look into things and get back to them as soon as possible.
Location: Wayne Manor
Bruce was sitting down to dinner when he received a telepathic message from J'onn.
'What is it?' he thought.
'Kal-El has a question for you,' J'onn told him. 'I will link us all.'
'What's the situation?' Bruce asked, knowing that Clark wouldn't contact him like this normally.
'Did Max leave Gotham already?' Clark asked. 'He hasn't arrived home yet. My parents and Conner are getting worried.'
'He left three hours ago. He should have arrived by now. Can you hear his heartbeat?'
'I can't. J'onn, can you sense him?'
'Give me a moment while I check,' J'onn said. 'I cannot find him. I have not sensed any mental trauma either, so he is alive.'
'I know the route he takes,' Bruce told them. 'We can have it scanned for when he would have traveled along it. It is possible he has been abducted.'
'It appears that may be the most likely explanation,' J'onn sent.
Location: Titan's Tower
Superboy had flown back when he received word that Match may have been abducted. He wanted to be on hand for any news.
When the scans of Match's flight path came in, he frowned. Match was visible until he flew into a storm and vanished afterwards.
"Do you think there's anything unusual about that storm?" he asked.
Over the communications channel, Oracle said, "I'm scanning it now. There was an elevated neutrino activity and an energy discharge inconsistent with lightning strikes."
"Check for residual energy on an infrared wavelength and an increase of noble gases in the area," Batman ordered.
"They're there...oh."
"What's that mean?" Superboy asked. "A translation, please!"
Superman answered. "It means a boom tube went off in that storm."
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