The distance in miles remaining until Fort Bragg is reached, count down rapidly on the computer screen in the Batplane. Once it reaches 200, Batman decelerates from mach one, slowly to a steady 800 MH; he keeps a steady eye out for other mile markers he'll also need to decelerates on.

.

Wonder Woman's arms and legs shift about wildly as she free falls back to the earth unconscious in the moonlight.

.

Superman chases after Green Lantern, almost literally on his heels, trying just inches from Green Lantern's feet to grab a hold of them. Green Lantern speeds up, forms a Jai-alai scoop, catches Superman in it, and flicks Superman away. Superman slows himself to a stop and re-orients himself to see Green Lantern. His eyes start to glow red and when he's about to fire, Wonder Woman's body hits him over the head and continues to fall.

"Wonder Woman!" Green Lantern flies off quickly after her. Superman follows.

.

Circe watches as Green Lantern forms a sphere around Wonder Woman and heads toward her, Superman, too. They land and see Hawk Girl unconscious on the ground. Green Lantern brings Wonder Woman to himself, removing the sphere and just carrying her. He hears someone behind him and quickly turns to see Superman. He holds out his ring and it glows brightly.

"You wanna fight some more? Come get some."

"It's okay – whatever happened to me, I'm back. Apparently I literally have to get knocked over the head to get some sense knocked into me," Superman then bends over to examine Hawk Girl. "What have you done to her?"

Circe replies, "Just told her a bed time story. Once upon a time there were men and a big bomb went off. The end."

"I've had enough of your games," Green Lantern approaches.

Circe opens her mouth and lets out of the sine wave tone. Superman falls back under and Wonder Woman, who was just coming to, falls back under as well. Except Green Lantern, who has formed a sphere around himself; the sphere vibrates like water on the top of a speaker cone playing music.

"Not this time, Circe."

"Siren," she stops briefly and continues with the tone.

"Whatever. Hawk Girl and I saw you doing it with your mouth, so I'm allowing the sphere to attune and vibrate to the sound waves so that frequency range can't enter. The jigs up."

"Oh, damn, if only I had thought of that. Oh, wait – I did. Did you know I'm a very talented singer?"

"Yeah, yeah, a chanteuse. Big whoop," he starts walking over, figuring out how to move the sphere from around him, to around her.

"Better still – ever heard of Gregorian singers? They can sing two different notes at the same time. Ever heard an alpha wave before? Oh, you can't – it's below the range of human hearing. But your brain can. Let's see if you can block both," she opens her mouth and both come out.

Green Lantern tries to compensate by shifting the vibration rate around, but fails. His body's muscles relax and the sphere dissipates.

"Good," Circe looks on.

Circe sees a shadow cast before her from somebody behind her being lit up by a base search light. She turns around.

"Batman. I was hoping you'd show."

"Funs over, Circe. There's a cell with your name on it in the maximum security wing of Arkham," he walks over steadily, darkened in front by the bright light on his back.

Circe's smug smile disappears, "Not this time, Batman. You're gonna climb down into that silo with me and override the launch sequence lock out. And then maybe I'll let you live."

"You're as crazy as the Joker. Lady – what's your problem?"

"Oh, nothing personal – I just kinda hate all men," she smiles.

"And in this fantasy where I go down in the silo to help you commit genocide, are there also elves and unicorns?"

Circe purses her lips, "You'll help me or else your friends Superman and Green Lantern will make you."

"I don't care who you get to push me around – I'll never comply with your insanity."

Circe finally gets a look of anger on her face, "You have to! If I put you … you'll probably not be conscious enough to figure out…" she stops and thinks for a couple of seconds, "fine – we'll do it my way," she opens her mouth and lets out the high-pitched sine wave.

Batman immediately covers his ears and backs up slowly.

"No!" Batman drops to his knees and clenches his teeth. Then he stops and his hands fall to his sides.

"Stand up," she orders.

"Yes, Circe," Batman stands up.

"Climb down into that silo and override the security system to launch the nuclear missile," she points.

"Yes, Circe," he begins walking over.

"Superman – once we're in there, rip that silo dome off; I don't want any more delays."

"Yes."

As Batman and Circe climb down, Superman begins ripping the dome off.

"Guards – he's allowed in," Circe calls out.

"Yes," both call back in unison.

Batman steps onto the catwalk service floor of the silo, followed by Circe. The dome is finally ripped off.

"Batman, can you get that door open?" she points to the control room.

"Yes, Circe," he pulls out a metal wire grappling hook shooter with a pointed end an aims. He fires it and it buries into the control panel for the door. He presses a button and the line crackles with electricity and blows out the panel. The door opens.

Circe runs in but doesn't spot the second key needed to normally launch. She tries the computer, but finds it locked out. She points at the computer after straightening up, when she looks at Batman, "Break into the computer and launch the missiles."

"Yes, Circe," Batman sits and begins typing fast.

Circe claps her hands together and smiles, almost giddy with excitement.

"Where to fire, where to fire? I got it – Congress! The American people will know I'm serious then. Hell, they might even thank me, make me queen. Target the missile to hit in between the Senate and the House of Representatives!"

"Yes, Circe."

"And shit off those damn alarms!"

"Yes, Circe," he types and a few seconds later the alarms shut off.

"The Joker, the Riddler, the Toy Man, Lex Luthor – I've finally done what none of those incompetent men could: defeat the Justice League. Oh, I know – the Flash isn't here, but if he shows I'll just tell him to slam into a brick wall at full speed. I hear he's human – probably make a big splat on some wall."

The computer speaks over the intercom in the room and outside it: "System Override accessed. System overridden."

"Yes! Well, let's waste no time. Once Washington finds out a nuclear missile system has been overridden, they'll start evacuating Congress. Give it a two minute countdown so I can get out of here and to safety."

"Yes, Circe."

"And you and the guards just stay right here and watch it launch. Activate the countdown!"

"Yes, Circe," he moves a finger to the enter button as Circe runs out to the ladder. He presses it.

Suddenly a loud sound like the fuzzy sound of a channel that doesn't exist on an old rabbit ears television, blares over the intercom and over the outside speakers.

Circe stops and covers her ears. She runs back to the control room, "What are you doing, you idiot?"

Batman stands up and presses a few buttons and the intercom in the room cuts off, "It's called white noise. Right now Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Hawk Girl and Superman are all waking up from the hypnotic state you put them in."

"I don't know how you got out of it…" she reaches behind herself and slams the door shut, blocking out the white noise, "but you're about to go back," she opens wide and lets out the sine wave.

Batman walks up to her, unphased and in complete control.

"That's impossible! No man can resist the Siren's song!"

"When out ear piece communicators crackled and damaged their cones, I realized that you had to be controlling people's minds with some kind of sound generating device. However, since Mad Hatter had no such device, I took a gamble that you were somehow able to make that sound s with your vocal chords."

"I'd love to stay and chat…" Circe turns around to exit the room, but sees Hawk Girl, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Superman all there with their arms folded, not looking too happy. She turns back around.

"My cape and cowl have a Faraday mesh built in to protect my ear piece and devices from an EMP blast. The frequency range of an EMP wave covers the human range of hearing. Furthermore, the presence of not one but two guns just dropped to the ground gave you away. I knew then you were somehow able to produce sounds outside the human ear's ability to process; I added an extra layer of shielding inside my cowl to block alpha, beta, delta, gamma and theta waves. I played along until I could get access to a computer to use to transmit the white noise over speakers with. Normally the Joker and the Riddler are smart enough not to allow me access to anything that might potentially stop them."

"Agh!" Circe punches Batman in the stomach.

Batman looks down, then back up, not even moving a fraction of an inch from the punch, "Really?"

"You wouldn't hit a pretty powerless girl like me, would you?" she smiles innocently.

"You're right, I probably wouldn't," he locks hand cuffs on her wrists, "And for your information, Catwoman is a much better looking criminal."

"Arrr…" she growls angrily.

Batman ties a scarf around her head, covering her mouth, "This is also fitted with a Faraday mesh and wave blocking materials," Batman then walks back to the keyboard and types until the white noise is shut off.

The door opens and Batman escorts Circe out.

"Can I hit her? Just once. It's okay if I do it – I'm a woman," Hawk Girl says angrily, looking to hit something.

"No," Batman replies as he takes the grappling wire out of the panel and rolls it up to fit in a belt pouch.

"Here," I'll fly you both up since she can't climb," says Superman.

Superman grabs a hold of Batman and Circe with his arms and flies up. Hawk Girl and Green Lantern stay behind to check on the guards.

Once a few feet away from the silo, he land and lets both of them go. He walks with them as the Batplane lowers to the ground after Batman signals it with the controls in his belt buckle.

"So…" says Superman, "have a thing for Catwoman, do you?"

Batman gives Superman the bat-glare.

"Still have super hearing, even over white noise."

Batman stops under the hovering Batplane and pulls out a grappling hook, "I'll handle it from here. This is a Gotham City police department problem now," he fires straight up into the Batplane; it catches and he pulls it taut to make sure it is secure.

"Wait a second – she nearly killed tons of people, made us battle each other, and controlled us like puppets – don't you have anything to say?" asks Superman.

"Obliged," he presses the retract button and it rolls up fast into the Batplane. The belly door closes.

Hawk Girl and Green Lantern fly over to Superman and land to each side of him. Wonder Woman goes around checking on soldiers.

"Everything good here?" Hawk Girl asks.

"Everything's fine."

"I explained what happened to base command. They wanna brief us before we leave."

The Batplane flies up and away into the moonlit night sky.

.

Hours later at Arkham Asylum. Inside, a guard escorts Circe into the maximum security wing hall while Batman and Gordon follow behind. They pass by Tetch's empty cell.

Penguin looks out from his bed, "Ah, a beautiful girl who can sing and loves Bach that isn't a professional singer or in an orchestra – I should have known it was too good to be true."

Gordon speaks, "the warden has temporarily assigned her a violent offender cell with just a food slot that has a lock on it so she can't sing to anyone."

"And I'll provide ear and head protection so she can't control guards minds," Batman offers.

"Thanks. It'll have to do until we can think of a better solution."

They pass by the Riddler's cell. He looks at her, "I can't believe I used to date you."

They all stop at a cell with no bars, just a metal door. The guard unlocks it and opens it.

"Circe, the guard is going to un-cuff you. You will walk into the cell and once the door is closed, you may untie that thing covering your mouth," says Gordon.

The guard removes the handcuffs and Circe walks in. The guard closes the cell door and locks it.

"Thank you, guards. You may leave us now."

The guard walks away to the hall exit door.

"Unfortunately, Batman, whatever we do here is only temporary. Knowing the unfortunate revolving door system Arkham has become, even Circe is likely to get out years from now. It's ironic," he walks with Batman back to the exit, "the very thing she could have made a living off of, her voice, might have to go in order to rejoin society. I don't know what the legalities are, but she'll probably have to go under the knife in an operation to get rid of her vocal abilities. And it gives me to pleasure to say that even though she did try to get me killed. Which, by the way, thanks for preventing."

"No problem," he and Gordon reach the end.

The view pans back to her cell, then cross fades into her cell where she is on her knees and looking down at the floor as she clenches her fists.

"I know why the caged little bird sings … and this little bird will sing again….." the view fades to black as the lights shut back off for the night.

.

-THE END-