Chapter 10…Back and Forth

Dick still had a hold of Shooting Star when they appeared on a grassy lawn. They struggled and started rolling all over the place trying to grab the device from each other.

"Let it go!" Shooting Star exclaimed.

"No you let go!" Dick yelled back. Shooting Star put his foot on Dicks face trying to push away from him but he would not budge. Suddenly alarms were set off and started blaring all around them. They both stopped and looked around. "Now look what you did!"

"What I did?! You're the one who wouldn't give it up!" They started struggling for it again when a familiar voice was heard,

"Dick?" They both stopped again and turned to the voice. There stood Bruce – his Bruce!

"B…Bruce?" Shooting Star pushed him over then and grabbed the device as Alfred turned off the alarms.

"There! I took you back to your dimension now stop fighting with me!" Dick looked around; he couldn't believe he was back home.

"You still had kidnapped him!" Bruce said. Shooting Star had a look of shock towards Bruce.

"Kidnapped?! I didn't kidnap anyone; the blasted kid attacked me and made the device go off transporting us to where he didn't belong."

"But where you do, right?" Dick said. Shooting Star stared at him.

"Yes, I do belong there."

"Are you who they call Bart?" Bruce asked. Dick turned surprised he knew that name. "The dimensions are getting connected – in other words, I talked to myself." Dick was wigged out by this.

"Connected?" Shooting Star said curiously. "Well…that's interesting."

"Yes, when Dick went with you to your dimension we became connected. Just like when you showed that girl her other self, she started to have dreams about her."

"Woah, really? Epic!" Bruce was angered by this.

"No, not epic!"

"Not epic?"

"Grrr, don't you see what you've done?!" Shooting Star rolled their eyes.

"Well, he's back where he belongs so it won't be connected anymore."

"If that was how to solve the problem then that woman you showed it to wouldn't still be having dreams after a week."

"THAT woman has a name ya know." Shooting Star said sharply. Bruce and Dick looked at each other in wonder.

"So you know her?" Dick asked. Shooting Star paused then brushed it off.

"It doesn't matter; so how do you propose that we stop the dimensions from being connected?"

"The only way is for everyone to be in their correct dimension and to destroy that device." Bruce pointed towards the revolutionizer. Shooting Star held it close to him.

"Yeah, no way. Not happening."

"It's the only way!" Shooting Star smirked.

"Well, if it is then that means I have to be in my dimension and I have to destroy it and I'm not destroying it." The shooting star glared at them. "So, try and stop me." He started typing things into it as Dick and Bruce gave each other a simultaneous look and nodded. They couldn't let him get away. "Sayonara Bruce and Di…wha?!" They both leaped towards him as a bright light flashed engulfed all three of them.

…

"I can't believe Bart would do something like this!" Martha exclaimed as she hid her face in her palms. "I can't believe anything anymore…."

"Martha…please…" Thomas touched her shoulder.

"Don't you touch me!" She snapped as she pushed away his hand. "I especially can't believe you! You killed our son!"

"He wasn't our son! That was my mistake in the first place!"

"He was our son! Maybe not from our dimension but he had our genes! You killed him and now you're killing our other son!"

"How am I killing Bart?!"

"Maybe if you had told him or us about the past we wouldn't be in this situation!"

"Guys, please let's not argue – there's nothing we can really do about it unless they just pop back up." Selina said. Just then a bright flash appeared as Shooting Star, Dick, and Bruce all were struggling for the device. "I stand corrected." Bruce punched Shooting Star in the face. He stumbled back in agony and held his face.

"OW! Why you have to hit so hard man?!" He exclaimed. The three finally noticed that they were back in the other dimension making them pause and look around. "Oh, hey…we're back, and with a new member!" The Wayne's stared at Bruce and he stared back. He couldn't believe what he was seeing – his parents, Selina, and of course – himself. He had to shake it off and get a grip of the situation though.

"Another Bruce?" Selina asked.

"Oh, this is not good…" The Bruce of this dimension stated.

"Bart! You have to stop this right now!" Thomas exclaimed. Shooting Star glared at him.

"Stop calling me that! My name is Shooting Star!"

"Bart honey, we know it's you!" Martha said.

"Drop the act and give us that stupid thing!" Bruce demanded. Shooting Star looked around at them all.

"My name is not Bart and this "thing" is not stupid! You always think something that isn't your invention is stupid!"

"That thing is dangerous! What if you get hurt?!" Martha said.

"You're always so worried that something will happen to us! That house is like a jail with all those stupid security stuff around and I'm sick of it! I just wanted to get away from there and see what life would have been like if you all weren't around! I just wanted to make peoples lives better! And this is what I get in repayment?!" Martha started to cry and hid in Thomas' arms.

"Bart! You're upsetting mom!" Bruce screamed. Dick and Bruce were just in awe of everything that was going on. Shooting Star twitched and became enraged.

"My name….is not….BART!" Just then a bright flash went off as he disappeared.

"Wait! No!" Thomas exclaimed but he was gone. "Drat! This is bad…really bad…" He stared at Bruce and Dick who did not know what to say. "Why did you two come back?! Why are you here?" Bruce still was trying to gain his composure from seeing his parents.

"We thought we could get the device back and go back to our dimension and destroy it. That way the dimensions wouldn't be connected anymore." Dick said. "But uh…you all were having a family dispute." Thomas grew agitated.

"Don't you know you all could die?!" Dick and Bruce's eyes grew wide.

"D…die?" Thomas just screamed into the air not know what to say.

"Yeah, apparently there can't be two of the same person in the same dimension otherwise the universe will try and fix itself and get rid of one." This dimension Bruce stated. "Which means…" He looked at Bruce. "You need to get back to your dimension otherwise one of us is toast." Martha screamed,

"No! Not again!"

"Again?" Dick asked. Bruce sighed and said,

"We need to catch you all up."