"Has anyone found anything yet?" Batman asked over his comm. link. Once in California**, the group of heroes had split up to do their different tasks. They had been at it for nearly two hours already, with no luck.

"Nothing here," Flash responded.

"Or here," Kid Flash added.

"Nothing," Superman reported.

"None of the normal hideouts have any clues either," Green Arrow stated. "Any luck with the techy stuff?"

"No," Batman answered. "Come back here. We need to think of a new strategy."

Shutting of his comm., the Dark Knight sighed. He was tired, physically and mentally. He knew the others must be the same, but he also knew that none of them would quit until they found Dick.

Wally and Roy had made it plainly obvious that they truly believed Dick was just being manipulated somehow. Clark, Oliver and Barry wanted to think that too, but seemed to be trying to ignore the situation all together. As for Bruce, he just wanted to find his son and prove him innocent. After seeing how his ward reacted in Roy's apartment, he just couldn't bring himself to think that Dick was doing it of his own accord. The only tricky part would be figuring out how to fix whatever had been done to him.

Sighing again as the Flashes zoomed into sight, Batman found himself wishing all of this was just over already. Or better yet, had never happened. Superman arrived, and as the four heroes waited for the last two, Batman's phone began to ring. Wait... Batman had a comm. link, not a phone. It was Bruce's phone that he found himself answering.

"I'm a bit busy at the moment," Batman said, instantly becoming Bruce Wayne again.

"And I'm extremely confused. Now we understand each other," said the voice on the other end of the line.

"Dick?" Bruce asked, catching the attention of his fellow heroes.

"No, Mark Twain. Who else would be calling you at two thirty in the morning?"

"I'm really not in the mood for your sarcasm, Dick. Now, where are you?"

"A telephone booth on the edge of Coast City."

"How on earth did you get there?" Bruce grumbled. Off to the side, Kid Flash seemed to be nearly vibrating out of his skin.

"I was really hoping you could tell me that. I blanked out on the way to meet you a Star's Zeta Tube. I have no idea what's going on."

Sighing for what seemed like the millionth time, Bruce told Dick to stay put before hanging up and turning to the rest of his crew, who were paying rapt attention.

"He's in Coast City and says he doesn't recall anything that happened."

"Well, let's go then!" Wally said, about to zoom away.

"Hold!" Batman ordered before he could leave. "You and your mentor go get the Arrows first. We're all going together, in case anything goes wrong."

Fortunately, nothing went wrong for once. Dick was standing outside the booth when they all got there. He was relieved to see that none of them really seemed angry, just worried. Using a Zeta Tube in Coast City that no one knew existed but Batman, it wasn't long until they were all back at the Batcave.

"So, time to stab me with a bunch of needles?" Dick asked.

"If you think you can handle it," Bruce responded, pulling off his cowl. The rest of the heroes had already done the same, hoping it would make Dick feel better about the whole situation.

It was obvious to everyone that he was pretty shaken up over everything they had told him he did that night. He was even more worried about what he could've done that they didn't know about.

As Alfred and Bruce performed multitudes of tests on the bird, Roy and Wally made sure to keep him distracted by talking nonstop. Barry, Clark and Oliver attempted to join in, but they couldn't stop noticing the increasing frown on Bruce's face as he continued the tests. After nearly an hour, Bruce finally announced he was done.

"Well, doctor, what's wrong with me?" Dick asked, good naturedly.

"Nothing," Bruce said stoically.

"W-What?" Dick asked, dumbfounded.

"There's nothing wrong with you," was the cold answer he got. "There is nothing in your whole body that could have caused any of this. Meaning you did it on your own."

Plot twist! What's that? You need an explanation? I'll think about it.

**Star City in in California. A lot pf people seem to think Star, Central and Gotham are all right next to each other, but they're not. Star City is in California, Central City is in Missouri, and Gotham City is in New Jersey. Just thought I'd make that clear.

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