Chapter 9: DCAU + Injustice: Comings
DCAU
"They're not there anymore are they?" Superman asked.
"No, they're not," Raven said coming out of her trance. "They've jumped worlds and they just set of the alarm at a prison called Belle Reve."
"But I thought the boxes were connected to Cyborg?" Beastboy questioned.
"They are," Nightwing clarified.
"Then why would they be teleported into Belle Reve? Even if Cyborg is there for hero work why would they have triggered the alarm?" Beastboy pondered.
"Beatboy's right," Flash said. "They wouldn't have triggered the alarm if Cyborg was there on hero business."
"So, I'm a bad guy in this universe?" Cyborg concluded.
"Looks that way," Nightwing said.
"Well, that certainly eliminates some of them," Cyborg said. He typed in something and pulled the ones that matched the results. "These are the universes where some of us or all of us are villains."
"Still to many to search one by one though," Nightwing said. "We need to something to narrow it down."
"Raven, do you think you can pry into Diana's mind again?" Hawgirl asked.
"Not right now," Raven said shaking her head. "It takes a lot of magic and energy to do that without jumping dimensions." Flash and Beastboy were pondering over what Raven had said. Their eyes eventually found their Injustice video game case. They looked at each other and realized the answer.
"Injustice!" they exclaimed.
"What?!" Cyborg questioned.
"Try searching for a world similar to the one in that game," Flash said. "Trust me on this one." Cyborg did and he found the right world.
"That's it! That's the world I saw them in," Raven said.
"How do you know?" Lantern asked. Raven glared at him.
"So now the question is how do we get them back?" Superman stated.
Injustice
"Who are you?"
"I'm you from an alternate universe."
"You expect us to believe that."
"Easy Firestorm."
"Regardless of what you think, it's true."
"What did Father tell us when we fell into the bats' cave?"
"Why do we fall Bruce? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up." Batman (Injustice) turned the lights on and revealed himself to his counterpart and his girlfriend. They were in a large room in Belle Reve.
"It's him," Batman (Injustice) told his hidden teammates. "Now what were you two doing near Cyborg's cell?"
"Nothing," Wonder Woman told him. "We had just arrived in this universe and had no intention of freeing him. We didn't even know he was there."
"How do we know you're not ours?" Green Arrow asked stepping out of the shadows with his bow in hand.
"What movie were we trapped in?" Batman (Injustice) asked. Wonder Woman was puzzled.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Wonder Woman answered.
"She's not ours," Flash said as he came into the light. "Ours would know the answer in a heartbeat." Green Lantern (Hal Jordon) flew out and quickly scanned her with his ring.
"Also she is operating at a different frequency than the rest of us," Lantern told them. He then scanned the other Batman (DCAU). "Him too." The others came out. They were Batgirl, Supergirl, Black Canary, Firestorm, Blue Beetle, Firestorm, Harley Quinn, Flash, and Green Lantern. Green Arrow lowered his bow.
"Forgive the precautions, but we've had bad history with our Wonder Woman," Lantern told them.
"Why is she…" Batman (DCAU) started while pointing at Harley.
"Relax, she's with us," his counterpart told him.
"Yeah! I work for Batman now!" Harley said. "No more crime for me!"
"What happened to Joker?" Batman (DCAU) asked. The room grew solumn in an instant.
"We'll tell you all about it when we get to the hall," Canary said. "It's a sore subject for all of us."
"But to answer your question, he was murdered," Harley answered. "By Superman."
DCAU
"I might be able to make something to pull them back to us," Cyborg said. "Or at least make something so that we can talk to them."
"Any way we can help?" Superman asked.
"Not really," Cyborg responded. "Although if anyone's any good with tools I'd appreciate it."
"I'll help," Flash said. Cyborg then left the room with Nightwing and Flash.
"So…can I have your autograph?" Beastboy asked Superman. He held out a Sharpie and the Injustice video game case. Superman hesitantly took the Sharpie and signed the case. He noticed that Batman's signature was on it as well.
"You got Batman to sign this?" Superman questioned.
"Yeah, it took several visits but he got so tired of me asking that he eventually caved in and signed it," Beastboy said.
"Come friends! I have made us breakfast!" Starfire told them. The breakfast was French toast with syrup, bacon, and eggs, though they were a bit burned. Beastboy was the first to dare to eat it. He smiled.
"This is great, Star!" Beastboy said. "You're getting better." Raven ate some of hers too and smirked.
"Not bad," Raven said. Starfire smiled.
"Thank you," Starfire said. The Leaguers then hesitantly ate it and found that it actually tasted pretty good.
"So how did you guys get that game?" Superman asked Beastboy. "I'm pretty sure you didn't get that at the nearest video game store."
"No, we didn't," Beastboy said. "We got it in an alternate universe where we're all comic book characters. I got it while we were there because I thought it looked cool. And it is."
"The story though is kind of disturbing, even for me," Raven added.
"You've played it?" Hawkgirl questioned.
"Yes, mainly as myself on verses with the computer," Raven said.
"So what's the story?" Lantern (John Stewart) asked. The titans looked at each other saying in their eyes, 'You want to tell them?' Raven then got up and headed for the door.
"I'm going to help Cyborg, Nightwing, and Flash," Raven announced. "Don't wait up." She left.
"Well the story is…," Beastboy began.
"Superman and several other heroes became evil and conquered the world," Starfire stated. "After Superman murdered the Joker."
