5 Minutes before that
Batman was looking for a way to escape when the door opened and he was also carefull for a trap. But when he enterd the hallway, he was standing near a corner when he heard a another door open and quickley hid behind the corner, readying two batarangs. Not to expose his cover, Batman reached into his utility belt and reached out a very small and short ball, wich had the size of a bee and Batman placed it very carefully on the corner side of the wall and with a tap to his head, activated the device he called the BatSpy.
The BatSpy was a spying camera could stick to almost every surface and could move in any direction because of his ball-form. By tapping on his head,Batman had activated the BatSpy's system and with a remote control on his utility belt's interface he moved the BatSpy to look in the corner and to see who's out there through a vidscreen in his mask. The BatSpy slowley moved into the hallway to see who's out there.
It seemed to be an man, wearing a yellow and blue spandex suit, and on his hands he seemed to have metal claws attached. The man seemed to sniff several times, as if he was trying to smell if anyone was here, but luckily Batman's suit and equipment havw been deprived of any scent. The man waited for several seconds and than headed to the hallway the opposite direction of Batman. He must be some kind of guard or henchmen and Batman needed to take him out quickley. Batman leapt from behind the corner and threw the two batarangs to the guard, and the two hit the back of the guard's neck who fell down on his knees.
Strange, thought Batman because normally humans would drop KO the ground the second the batarang hits them but this one seems to be only lightly affected. Batman decided to finish the job and run up to the guard, until he was close enough to use his TD(Target Identifaction) who analyzed the target and than searched through the database wich contained all known criminals,terrorist and super-villains and saw that no files were found on this person. The TD also analyzed the physical status of a target and it seemed that his heart rate was still high. Batman figured that this has to be some Meta-human and prepared a Tai Kwon Do kick in the back of his neck to disable him.
But than seconds before he could launch his disabling atack, his TD alerterd him of a sudden rise of adreline's levels in the target and Batman stopped just in time to avoid the sudden swing of the guard with his metal claws.
In reaction Batman sent a side thrust kick to the guard's head and when it connected, it was like a steel wall and Batman nearly broke his foot and just barely evaded the next atack by the guard by rolling under his swing.
Batman found that he did not have time for this and it will likely attract other guards so he took out two of his Bat-tasers, projectiles wich generated almost 15,000 volts on contact, and threw them at the guard who managed to slice up one of them but the other one connected and the guard was knocked back by the shock.
Batman quickly moved towards him and grabbed his throat and tried to disable by snapping one of his arteries in the throat. Batman grabbed the artery with two fingers and was about to twist when the guard raised quickly his hand and placed it to the side of Batman's head and said.
"One move bub, and you'll get a triple brain surgery for free!"
The guard sounded like he is from Canada and Batman replied in what others called the "Voice".
"Not until i got some answers, and you are going to give me those. Where am i?"
"I was about to ask the same thing, but you beat me too it,"
Batman and the guard looked up to where the new voice came from and they saw him at the same time.
He was standing about 10 metres from the both of them, wielding two silver-coloured Remington-shotguns in his hands as if they were pistols. Under the short stainless steel barrels, hightech laserdiodes were attached who emitted blue laser dots, and both were aimed at the foreheads of Batman and the guard.
"Well what have we here? A Batman and a Wolverine trying to kill each other, aren't you two going to far in your DC-vs-Marvel debate?"
The man was complety clad in black.
A black combat suit
A black bulletproof vest
A black icehockey helmet
And his face, a rugged,rough,unshaven face, went partially hidden under a wraparound sunglas with amber-coloured glass.
The man in black came forward and strode careless to the two dangerous men. Batman studied his black bulletproof vest, who also served as an utility vest. It was outfitted with a bizzare collection of objects: handcuffs,pitons(clamhooks that alpinists use) a mini-oxygen tank for a short time underwater, also known as the Pony Bottle and even a mini blowtorch.
The man in black seemed to figure a way out of this situation and finally said.
"You, go off him and you, stand up really slow."
Batman and Wolverine did what he asked, but only to get close enough to disarm him but the black-clad man was smart enough to stay out their reach and said.
"Knight is the name, Aloyius Knight, bountyhunter. I guess you both were just as suprised as me when we woke up here and heard that voice."
Batman and Wolverine nodded, and were again confused. Surely there has to be someone here who belonged to the organization who have kidnapped them.
"Well bub, i guess we three have to work our way out of here than."
Knight smiled and lowered his Remingtons.
"I guess we'll do that, "Logan"..."
And for the first time this day, Wolverine was truelly suprised.
Somewhere else
Preston was near the door when it opened and before it was fully open,Preston had already slung out a Beretta and pointed it towards the opening.
He waited for a minute with his Beretta aimed for the door and finally moved through it, very careful of an ambush or something like.
Preston checked the hallway for any traps or enemies, but it seemed clear and Preston entered the hallway. In the wall in front of him, another door opened and Preston reacted by slinging himself on the other wall to avoid being seen. After several seconds, a man walked through the door with the most unsual uniform Preston has ever seen.
The man wore a dark blue jumpsuit and rather heavy looking green boots,elbow and knee protectors,gloves and a utility belt with in the middle a golden eagle supporting a shield with the colours of the ancient United States on it.
On his right shoulder there was a giant golden shoulderpad in the form of a eagle and on his left shoulder a "normal" golden shoulderpad.
The man also wore a dark blue helmet, with red lining it and a visior protecting the eyes but the lower part of the face and his neck were unprotected. He also wielded a strange pistol, who looked like those children toy guns Preston found during a raid on sense offenders.
When the man was out of the door, Preston was about to slam him KO with the but of his Beretta when the man somehow noticed Preston and putted his weapon in the face of Preston who at the same time pressed his weapon in the face of the unknown man.
"Don't move, creep!"
Preston and the unknown man stood at a very dangerous standoff...that's if the man's weapon was really dangerous, and not a kid toy, thought Preston. They both continued to hold it in each other faces until the unknown man finally said.
"Okay creep, lay down your weapon and prepared to be judged!"
"You first" Preston replied.
"Alright funny guy, you are now arrested and convicted of threating a Judge,kidnapping a Judge and carrying a illegal firearm. That's at least for life in New Aspen, and that's if your lucky!"
The so-called "Judge" than pressed a button on his ray-gun, who suddenly began to hum and several lights on it lit up, partially convincing Preston that he has to take this guy seriously.
" You are now under the arrest for sense offence and will be incinerated for your crimes, and " added Preston with a smirk " that's if you are lucky!"
Than Preston face changed seriously and said.
"Who are you? are you working for Father or Dupont, and why have you kidnapped me? Answer me!"
The judge was beginning to look confused and replied
" What do you mean creep. You and your soon-to-be-convicted comrades are the ones who kidnapped me!"
"You are you saying that...you are kidnapped too?" Wich sounded as complete nonsense to Preston as why Father and the Council would abuct such a weirdo as well, god knowing where he came from..
Judge Joseph Dredd, didn't what to do with the situation.
One minute he was chasing some Death-Cultists after their atack on a hospital with the result of killing 20,000 people and than suddenly he was here, laying on a bed in a strange room and appartenly some very good holo-vid of New York in the beginning of the 21th century.
Somehow somebody managed to take him out KO, and drag him here without having a 100 Judges on his tail, so this creep must be very good and rich.
When he first encountered the man in black, he was sure that he was one of the creeps who abducted him but wasn't not very sure anymore.
"What's your name..creep."
"Cleric John Preston of the Tetra Grammaton Order of Libria...judge."
What the hell was a cleric,thought Dredd at the same moment Preston was thinking what a judge was.
After waiting several minutes in silent tension, both men slowley,very slowley, lowered their weapons but kept them at the ready.
"So you are saying that you aren't a part of this?"
"That's right, cleric, and in case you don't know it, i'm Judge Dredd of Mega-City One."
"And i'm Colonel Jack O'Neill of the United States Airforce, The one with two ll's and a sense of humour,"
Preston and Dredd quickly turned and raised their weapons to face the newcomer, who also, in clothing,stood in complete constrast with the other two. The newcomer wore a green military uniform with a black utility belt,cap and sunglasses who seemed inaprioate for this kind of situation. The man also wielded a FN P90, Preston recognized the weapon because the Cleaners who came always after the sweepers and clerics, used them.
The P90 was currently lowered, and the man seemed not to be hostile towards them.
"Say again?" Preston asked because the man seemed to be totally out of his place, just like him and Dredd so he reckoned that this wasn't one of their abducters either.
"Colonel Jack O'Neill of the United States Airforce, and forget about that thing about O'Neil because you two don't seem to have a sense of humour either."