A/N: Sorry about such a long wait. I hope you like this chapter. Send me some suggestions for future ideas for this story and other stories. Anything will do. THANKS-RAGGON
Batman and Wally-Flash were being led to their rooms by the residents of the cave: Beast Boy, Superboy, and Miss Martian.
"So, is there a Beast Boy in the alternate dimension?" asked Beast Boy.
"Yes, there is. He is a public figure and a member of a superhero team called the Titans," growled Batman as he glared at Beast Boy. Beast Boy who never spent a lot of time with Batman unless it was for missions briefing, was surprised by the powerful and scary aura that the man gave off. He never felt it until now unless only this Batman had that effect on people.
"N-n-noted," stammered Beast Boy.
"How about us?" asked Superboy.
"Neither of you exist. We have a Martian Manhunter but he is the only survivor of the Martian race. There is no Superboy just a Superman and a Supergirl," Batman broke the news to the aliens coldly.
Superboy and Miss Martian stopped and were surprised by the fact that they didn't exist.
"Sheesh," whispered Wally-Flash to Batman, "Did you have to be so rough with them?"
Batman swiveled to look at Wally-Flash, "Yes, and there is no point in whispering. There is a boy with super hearing and a telepath. They know what we're saying."
Wally-Flash looked back at the two alien teens, then back at Batman and continued in a normal voice, "We are guests here after all, we might as well be polite to our hosts."
"I am polite. I am not trying to lie or sugarcoat anything about them. And I am just normally scary," he replied.
"Umm, excuse me, but these are your rooms," said Miss Martian as she gestured towards to two rooms on the right of the hall.
Batman strode into the first room and Wally-Flash walked into the other.
"There friendly," said Superboy sarcastically.
"Wally-Flash seemed fine, the other Batman seems a bit…. Tense," said Miss Martian.
"What do you think Nightwing?" asked Superboy.
Nightwing stepped out of the nearly non-existent shadows of the hallway and into the light. "There trustworthy enough. I don't think that they are dangerous or would attack us. But even still, I'm working on a way to send them back."
"How long do you think they're going to stay?" asked Beast Boy.
"It depends. The entire league is still in mourning," said Nightwing. "We're not sure how to send them back. I'm investigating magical and scientific paths."
Batman's eyes narrowed, what did he mean by the league was in mourning? Had someone died? What if something similar to what happened in the Justice Lord's world happened here. He couldn't allow that.
When the four members of the Team left the hallway to discuss the matter elsewhere Batman went over to Wally-Flash's room to discuss matters with him. They had left the door unlocked and it seemed evident that a little bit of trust had been put into them.
"Flash," Batman appeared suddenly behind Flash who had been examining the room.
"Sheesh," Flash jumped up and glared at him, "Do you always have to do that?"
"Do what, walk?"Batman quizzed. "I need you to investigate something in this world. It seemed that they're in mourning over something. I don't know what yet but right now I want you to go out and talk to them. Asses the situation."
"Why?" Flash was confused and sounded a lot like Batman wanted him to spy on them.
"If there in mourning, something bad had to happen. If someone died, I don't want any more Justice Lords."
Flash's eyes shot open as he realized where Batman was getting to. He didn't want another version of the Justice Lords especially when this League seemed to be bigger than his own.
Meanwhile in the Mission Room, Nightwing was talking to Doctor Fate and Zatanna, "How long would it take for you to send them back?"
"I do not know," said Doctor Fate.
"What do you mean? You don't know?" Nightwing was surprised that such a powerful Lord of Order couldn't solve their problem.
"Your problem is undoubtedly caused by technology, there is no magical imprint that I could follow or trace to help me send them back. Besides if I used magic to affect another universe, some magic would leave this universe and the equilibrium would be destroyed. No magic came in from their universe, and the balance of this universe and that universe must be maintained. There must be balance," Doctor Fate crossed his arms.
"But…"
Doctor Fate cut Nightwing off, "Fate has spoken and Fate is correct. Magic shall not be used to send them back." Doctor Fate cut off communications with the young hero.
Nightwing turned to Zatanna, she smiled softly at him, "I'm sorry Nightwing. Fate is correct. If I use magic to send them back, there would be a ripple effect that could damage both universes."
"It's okay, Zee, I understand," Nightwing sighed as he shut off the communication with her. He tried locating the Atom and see if he knew anything that could be of assistance. But the Atom wasn't picking up his communicator.
"Need help?" Batman appeared behind him.
Nightwing sighed, "Yes. I need to send you back to your world but I don't know how."
"You're not good at science are you?" Batman said.
"Give me a laptop and some Pringles and I'll hack the Pentagon in a minute."
"Give me the specs on what happened," Batman told him. He looked at the holographic display in the Cave. Their technology was higher than theirs, his keyboard were only metal and solid.
"Well, since Impulse's time machine crashed here," Batman raised his eyes, "Long story, tourist from the future, grandson of the Flash. We've been trying to fix it but to no success. We can't touch the technology at all, at most we can tutor Impulse in basic mechanics and let him try to fix it. The machine emits a combination of Chronotron and Zeta radiation. Which is what you would expect of a time machine. My theory is that whatever sent you here crossed over with the radiation from the time machine and sent you here."
"That would make sense, the failsafe on the Dimensional Transporter I was examining probably intended us for an abandoned or uninhabitable dimension. That time machine might have saved mine and the Flash's lives."
"Excuse me," a scarlet streak sped through the Mission room and into the kitchen where Wally-Flash tried to scavenge for more food.
Superboya and Mal were sitting on the counter discussing something in mumbled voices to look up suddenly at the sudden speedster. Miss Martian and Beast Boy were sitting on the couch where Miss Martian was reading him a book on animals.
Wally-Flash took another quarter of the food in the kitchen and was about to dig in when he realized that everyone was looking at him. "Why's it so gloomy in here? It's almost like someone died," Wally-Flash's mouth was in a wide smile. Everyone in the room looked up when he said that.
Miss Martian said in a quiet voice, "Someone did die."
Wally-Flash's eyes looked down as he realized that someone did die and that Bats was right. "Who?"
"Artemis," Superboy.
As the scene took place in the kitchen, Batman and Nightwing were working on the problem of how to send him back to their dimension.
"Who died?"
Nightwing looked sharply at Batman. How could he know? "A valued member of the Team."
"Artemis was one of the bravest, smartest, and above all most heroic person I've ever met," Superboy was explaining who Artemis was to Wally.
"She didn't have any powers but she fought for all that was right and just with all her strength and all her might," Miss Martian continued.
"How?" Batman asked.
"It was my fault," Nightwing looked like he was crying. He hated doing this, lying to everyone, and even to himself to make it that more believable. "I asked her to come back. It was the stupidest thing I've ever done."
"Let me show you something," Mal took Wally-Flash to the Grotto. Miss Martian and Superboy followed him to where the memorials of their fallen members stood.
"This was her," he showed him the statue of the blond archer.
"Not only that she wasn't the first person to die on my watch. Aquagirl died too and I couldn't save her. One of the members of the Team was taken too. Lagoon Boy wasn't the most liked but he was a part of the Team, and this all happened when I was there. I couldn't do anything," Nightwing opened himself up to Batman. It wasn't his Bruce but it was good enough. He needed to let out even a tiny bit of his emotions out, he couldn't keep this mask forever. This mask of lies.
"She was amazing, wasn't she?" Wally-Flash smiled sadly to the nods of the three teens.
"Ask your other self, she was his girlfriend."
Wally-Flash whirled on his toes. That must be why his other self was so sad and sullen. How could I have been so insensitive to myself?
A/N: Merry Christmas. Sorry about such a sad chapter. I hope that you enjoyed the ending because I enjoyed writing it. R&R and please send me ideas. Ideas for anything works. Oneshots, Traught, Funny things, doesn't matter. I could go for some fresh ideas.
