Chapter 3: Help from Above

It seemed like Max felt like he was deceived by his hero the Dark Knight after retrieving his cap from his head after he had disappeared. Virgil soon discovered that one of his scrolls was also missing as well in the fiasco.

"I hate to be the one to say I told you so kid, but now doesn't seem to be the time, we may have to go the long way out of here" said Norman.

"There's no way my mom can pay for all of us to get out of Egypt!" cried Max.

"I speculate someone will be coming to our rescue soon enough" said Virgil.

Virgil was right on that, it was just then that Booster Gold, his sidekick Skeets and the Red Tornado were patrolling the area when the three noticed Max, Virgil and Norman below.

"Wow, Skeets, doesn't it seem like they just lost a battle?" asked Booster Gold.

"Maybe not a battle it was lost, but the war" continued Skeets.

"I say we go in an investigate" added the Red Tornado.

As the three landed where Max, Norman and Virgil were, Max was very disappointed at what happened to him.

"Hey kid, our rides are here" said Norman referring to the trio of heroes.

"How can Batman do this to me?" cried Max.

"Batman was responsible for whatever went wrong here?" asked Red Tornado who was shocked about this, "This is rather interesting, because we've been trying to contact Batman all day and his Bat Cave just so happens to be mostly destroyed."

"Don't you see, it couldn't have been Batman all along!" added Norman who felt right about the pseudo Dark Knight.

"Where ever you may have to go in a hurry, we'll take you there now" said Skeets.

"I do not think you'll be able to understand where or how we'll be getting there" said Virgil.

"Don't worry we'll improvise" continued Booster Gold.

As Booster Gold along with the Red Tornado helped Max, Norman and Virgil up heading back to Max's place, back beneath the Earth, the Dark Knight was getting closer to the source of what caused trouble at his Bat Cave.

"Hmm, that's an odd place" said Batman as he read the scanners on the computer console on the digging machine.

As the digging machine made its way toward its destination, the Dark Knight had literally arrived in the depths of Skullmaster's domain, so as the hatch opened up for the digging machine, the Dark Knight quickly scouted out the area.

"Let's see who lives down here" said Batman.

After a few more minutes, Batman noticed a portal opening up not far from where he was, so he ran toward behind some rocks hiding from whoever was exiting from the portal. As the Dark Knight gazed, it was none other than his arch foe Owlman in his own Batman disguise holding some odd red cap with an M on it which looked familiar to Batman as he read about it as well. Batman carefully followed his arch foe in the hopes of not being seen by him, and ended up following him to a large throne room where Skullmaster was awaiting Owlman's return.

"Just like the way we planned it" said Owlman who was about to hand over the cap to Skullmaster.

"Give me the cap so that I can be set free from this domain!" roared Skullmaster.

"Not so fast there" continued Owlman, "I might want to hang onto this cap unless you cut me a deal."

"What kind of a deal?" asked Skullmaster who was getting rather impatient.

"A deal that'll let me become the world's best thief and harden criminal with this cap" continued Owlman.

"Bah, you don't know any of the scrolls that tell the locations to go to, like I do!" continued Skullmaster, "I was taught by the best!"

"Maybe you should have studied a bit more" said Owlman who was threatening his soon to be former ally a challenge.

Skullmaster grew quite red hot anger at Owlman for not handing over the cap of the Mighty One.

"Listen to me, there is no way even someone like you can escape my domain in one piece alone!" laughed Skullmaster, "Either you hand me the cap or I'll take it from your cold dead hands!"

As Skullmaster took out his sword and was about to raise it at Owlman, a Baterang came out of nowhere and knocked the sword right off his hand.

"The only hands the cap belongs too is it's rightful owner, not neither one of you!" continued Batman.

"Batman, hmm, I must say you were able to elude my lava monsters quite easily" continued Skullmaster.

"You're also going to pay for the destruction of my Bat Cave" continued Batman.

"Let's find out how you two will deal with some of my stone warriors" said Skullmaster as a few of them literally sprouted up from the ground.

Batman knew he needed to get that cap back to its rightful owner and away from Owlman, but first the two needed to escape from the large stone warriors that were coming toward them.

"How the heck did you get into this mess?" cried Batman to Owlman.

"Hey, I wanted to us the cap for my own purposes, helping Skullmaster using his minions against you and retrieve the cap would have been killing two birds with one stone" said Owlman.

"Well, you're a lousy thrower" continued Batman.

As the two continued to be chased by the stone warriors, it only took a few more minutes for Booster Gold, Skeets and the Red Tornado to arrive back at Max's house in no time with Virgil, Norman and Max.

"Wow, you guys are pretty fast" said Max, "maybe I should use you three for transportation instead of my cap."

"We need to get to your destination quickly if you say where I think you're saying your location might be" continued the Red Tornado to Virgil.

"Of course, follow me" said Virgil.