Chapter 2
A strange lab.
Computers were on, carrying on some duty. Operating them was a man with spectacles. He was named Dr Hugo Strange.
"Yes!" he cried. "Soon, extra life on Earth will be vanished"
"The Amazons and Atlanteans are not worthy to live on Earth. Now that I have persuaded them to fight each other, they will be soon wiped out from this world!"
A long evil laughter followed.
Gotham City.
Bruce Wayne was in the Wayne Enterprises, with Lucius Fox, who were striding to the collection room. They entered the room and saw that their most recent activity had vanished.
"Where is the egg, Mr. Fox?" asked Bruce.
"I don't know, Mr. Wayne. I had received a call morning saying that the egg had been stolen" said Fox.
"Damn it! Do we have the footage?"
Bruce was guided to the security room. He was shown the footage of the previous night. On simultaneous rewinding and forwarding, they stopped when a strange man entered the room. He was wearing a black coat, with a hood. He took a small pouch from his bag. He directed it towards the egg and in two seconds, the large egg (about fifteen times wider than a football) was inside a small pouch!
Bruce was shocked.
"How's this possible, Mr. Wayne?" asked Fox, who was completely dumbstruck.
"We can recover it" said Bruce. "Give me five days"
Central City.
Barry Allen was sitting in his secret warehouse, where he undertook operations as The Flash. Barry could travel at extreme speeds, thanks to a lightning that had struck him. Barry was working on his speed, throwing a bottle of peas into the air, and recollecting them all one by one back into the bottle, making none fall to the ground.
Amidst his practice, the lights went off. Barry raced to the power supply of the warehouse, to check the electricity supply.
"Oh, damn!" he said.
He raced back to the warehouse, in his superhuman speed. But as he entered the door, he was hit by something. Barry fell to the ground. The lights were on in a jiffy. Barry could see the Batman in his room.
"Well, Allen, I think you should really work on running in the dark" said Bruce.
"Yeah, I've been doing it for the past week" said Barry, getting up slowly. "Well, what makes you come here?"
"The newly built egg has been stolen from the Wayne Enterprises" he said.
"Oh! So you want me to solve the case?" said Barry.
"Listen, Barry. The egg is not built for civilian purpose. I made it built for Diana, as she wanted it to give it to her people" explained Bruce.
"Why to worry? Maybe Diana herself stole it to surprise you"
"No jokes, Barry"
"Fine, what do we do now?"
"Go to Themyscira"
"What's that now?"
"Diana's homeworld"
"Listen, I hate islands. You cannot force me into this"
"Justice League, Barry. You're a member of the Justice League. You have to come"
Bruce took Barry outside the warehouse, and showed him his Batwing.
"Wow, I've never seen you in this" said Barry.
"Let's go" said Bruce, as Barry and he got into the vehicle, ready for take-off.
The next morning, in the wee hours, they reached Themyscira. They slowly got down from the Batwing.
"Well, not as bad as I thought" said Barry.
It was three in the morning, and Batman and Barry were in their civilian dress. They walked through their path, then all of sudden, a woman appeared in front of them. She pointed her sword towards them.
"Umm… We aren't Atlanteans. We are here to meet Diana Prince" said Barry.
Bruce stared at Barry, in an apologetic gesture of scolding.
"How can I trust you?" she asked.
"Well, if you can't show us the way, we'll find it ourselves" said Bruce.
The woman nonchalantly started guiding them to Diana, with her knife pointed towards the superheroes.
"Well," said Barry in a voice that only Bruce could hear. "What do we ask Diana now?"
"That her egg has been stolen" replied Bruce.
"That's it?" said Barry. "For saying six words, we've come so far?"
"We don't know if it takes six words or six hours" said Bruce.
"Well, if I knew the route, I would just finish this work in five minutes. You know, travel from Central City to this island, just say those shitty six words, and then return to my city"
"How much time would you take, lady?" asked Barry.
The woman stopped.
"Sorry, I didn't mean that. Please show us the way?"
She pointed to the door behind her. She knocked it three times. In a few seconds came Diana Prince, alias the Wonder Woman.
"Bruce!" she exclaimed, and hugged him. Barry was jealous. "Hi, Barry" she said, to an unenthusiastic Allen.
She took them to a silent and free place.
"So, what makes you come here?" asked Diana.
"I'm sorry to say that the egg that you've asked for has gone missing" said Bruce.
"Missing? But how?" said Diana.
"I don't know, it was a man who could fit buildings into a small pouch" said Bruce.
"Well, if I'm allowed to ask, what kind of egg is it" said Barry, to the two heroes.
"Recently, I had asked Bruce if he could prepare me an egg which could allow my people to catch fish and octopus"
"From Atlantis?" asked Barry.
Diana did not reply. She kept her eyes down.
"Anything wrong?" asked Bruce.
"Atlantis is three miles away from here" said Diana.
"So, let's meet Arthur" said Barry.
"If you excuse me, I've got to sleep" said Diana, and she left.
After a minute of silence, Barry said "Well, we've got to go, too"
"Not too early" said Bruce. "We've got to stay for a day"
"Obviously not" said Barry. "If you're not driving the wing, I'm gonna travel on water"
"You know the route, Allen?"
"God, where do we stay?"
Bruce looked at the Batwing, and then at Barry.
"Damn, the worst place to sleep"
