The screen had cut to black and silence filled the air excluding the soft muffled sobs M'gann was trying hard to quiet down after seeing her best friend being tortured in such a horrible way. The rest of the teen's all feeling anger boiling inside them on how somebody could cause such pain to someone as bright and positive as Jester. They had to get him back. Now.
All eyes were suddenly on Batman who stood very still, still staring at the black screen where the tortured teen was viewed. All but one had failed to noticed the Knights gloved hand clenched to a fist after the screen went black. Robin knew exactly what his mentor was feeling without the older man needing to show any facial expression and it wasn't hard to state the obvious that out of everyone in the room, Batman was taking Jess's disappearance the worst.
When they had found Jester's tracker Robin could visibly see Batman freeze, his jaw clenching tight as he held the blooded tracker in the palm of his hand. He wasted no time getting into action in trying to find him.
They searched non-stop the first day, well, Batman was the one to search non-stop at one point during the super early hours of the morning when Robin was beginning to tire from the search and needed to rest. The Knight had ordered him to head home, despite protesting that he still wanted to stay up and keep searching he headed back to the manor.
Once in the manor never noticed how...quite and dull it was without Jess there. The greenette would fill the manor with loud chats and laugh, it brought more color in the home. Now it was all...bland.
Dick had entered Jess's room that morning for an unknown reason to find Speedy curled up in the clown's pillow on his makeshift hammock bed, wide awake and wondering where his green-haired human friend was. Dick scooped him up, petting his head softly with a finger before exiting and feeding his brother's tiny pet.
it wasn't until later when Speedy couldn't detect his human's sent anymore did the little guy began to fall in a tiny depressive state, stayed curled in a tiny ball.
It wasn't the next day after another unsuccessful search was done, that surprised Dick the most. Though all the rooms in the manor were accessible, there was that Bruce strictly forbade anyone of going in. The door to the said forbidden room was locked tight and Dick and Jess wouldn't dare try to break in the few times they walked past it for they did who knows what punishment Bruce would give them.
Now the room that had been closed off to all was finally undone by the locks and opened just ajar. Seeing this as the only opportunity he will ever get in this lifetime Dick quietly and stealthily rushes to it and carefully peaks inside.
The room was dark which was no surprise. The only hint of light that was brought into the room was the dim sunrays through the thick curtains of the giant window. His eyes wander around to find all the furniture covered in plastic wrapping and the walls covered in tarps. The way everything was sealed away gave him the impression that it was meant to never as it used to be before.
Then he spots Bruce, far on the other side of the room near the window seated in a wrapped covered chair. A small box was seated on his lap and a bunch of small papers he held in his hands, it takes Dick a second to realize that they are actually pictures his mentor was looking at. But what really caught him off guard was the emotional gaze his eyes held by staring at the pictures. Bruce was a master of controlling his emotions as well as his expression and even now his face appeared grim and emotionless but his eyes told everything.
They were full of sadness, pain, and dare he suggests, guilt? He had never seen the older man like this before and it frighted him. What was on those photos that left the Knight so vulnerable?
"Roger that, Aquaman." Batman's reply bring Robin back to the present, mentally standing in attention as the Knight addresses to the team. "The UN will prepare the ransom as a fallback, but it won't come to that."
Robin opens up the broadcast, quickly rewinding and trying hard not to look at the footage of his brother's torture. The screen is lit with the villains behind the attack. "Count Vertigo, The Joker, Poison Ivy, Ultra-Humanite, Atomic Skull, Black Atom, Wotan. 7 heavy hitters. Probably behind everyone and everything we've faced."
"There's your secret society." Wally comments.
"Not so secret anymore," Artemis adds in pointing out the obvious.
"Perhaps after India, they realized we would deduce the truth and saw no point in hiding any longer."
"And how The Joker might have found Jess." M'gann quietly adds.
Dick is still finding it hard to believe how it can be possible for Jess to be taken so easily. The teen was always on guard and can escape anyone's hold simple. Just what did Joker do that made Jess walk straight into his grasp. And the tracker too. No one but he, Jess, and Bruce knew where in his body was hidden. Its almost as if Jess had purposely cut it out of his neck himself. But why though?
Then he recalled the footage before his brother's beating. How his eye has seemed dazed and confused but there were a few times they would shift to the left like there was something or someone he kept looking at who was off camera. Was there someone else with them? A hostage perhaps?
It makes the most sense and he curses his brother's heart of gold and motivation to help everyone. If Joker was using someone against the teen it was a perfect bait because Jess would rather hurt himself than have someone else be hurt.
"Yeah. Destroying cities and Kidnapping Jess was their mistake." Wally states hitting his fist down to his palm with a hyped smirk. "Right now I say we go kick some plant creature butt."
But Batman stops his hopes. "The Justice League will handle the plants. I have a different job for this team."
Disappointment comes crashing down for the redhead. "Oh, man. Uhh!" He grunts while rubbing his arm that the female archer just punched.
Batman continues. "With the plants attacking so many locations simultaneously, there must be a central control system. Your mission is to destroy it."
Zatara steps in already not liking were this was already going. "You realize what you're really asking them to do." He had hoped not, they were still so young.
However, his concerns are proven when the Knight replies without hesitation. "They're ready."
Confused as to what they were talking about Wally pipes in. "Ready? Ready for what? Ow!" Once again rubbing his arm as the blond had punched him. "Will you cut that-"
Artemis couldn't believe how oblivious the speedster was being right now."Hello, Wally. If the big guns are fighting plants, who do you think we'll be fighting?"
"I don't know. I guess we'll Ohh." Realization hits him when the archer points at the screen where the villains are proudly displayed. If the League was going after the plants, then that means they were going after them.
Zatara turns to the Knight sighing. "Well, Batman, I trust you're correct."
"I trust you can locate the enemy."
"Indeed. Wotan's informants suggest sorcery is part of how the plants are controlled. Robin, if you will provide a holo-map, I'll search for signs of concentrated sorcerous activity." Robin opens the holo-map with a few keys. Zatara then steps up, hands out in front of him pointing at the map. Taking a breath he chants a few words before a red dot finally appears on the map."There is where you will find the Injustice League's central control system."
"Coordinates locked in. The Louisiana bayou." Robin says saving the coordinates. Finally, they had a clue of where Jess might be kept.
"We are on our way." Aqualad commands to the team as they sprint away to get suit up. There was no time to waste. Time to take down the Injustice league and get their clown back.
Captain Marvel goes to follow them but is stopped by Batman. "Captain Marvel. For this plan to succeed, the entire Justice League must be seen fighting the plant creatures. You, Zatara, and I are needed elsewhere."
The Knight mentally wished the team luck on their mission and to find Jessie and bring him back, praying that he was alright. However, after many days off his medication, Bruce feard the side effects the teen will endure.
He just hopes that they are not too late.
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His vision of the world around him was full of colorful wisps, snaking around the air. His emerald eyes, now much more dilated and full of more intensity. Everything was bright with color like bright neon lights. He can see blue wisp escaping from his lips after every path he took. His senses were becoming more sensitive than before. His skin tingled with tiny bolts of electricity and he swore that he could hear the movement of his inside organs.
He moaned, but not by the pain but at the new sensation that was flowing through his veins. He felt lighter, flexible. He had no idea what he was feeling but he loved it. Whatever was making this new sensation it drove the pain that was once aching his body fade away, instead, it kinda tickled, in a nice way. The chilling sound of giggles fills the air as the greenette shuts his eyes and drops his head back on the floor turning it left and right as his body spasms with laughter.
He had no idea pain could be this hilarious!
He didn't know why he thought or was feeling like this. But there was one thing for sure.
He didn't want this new feeling to ever go away.
Wow. A lot shorter than I thought. Oh well, you get what you get. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter! Time for part 3.
So yea a lot of stuff is about to go down with the secret room, and Jess off his meds and, oh yea FACT: Jester's real name is Jessie, Bruce named him because he was never given a birth name. Joker would just use pet names or curses.
And today I have two QOD questions to ask you all!
1. Who would be a good voice actor for Jester if he was real? Ryan Reynolds (aka Deadpool) Or Dave Franco (aka Lloyd from the Ninjago Movie.) And say why.
2.) You know how Batman has his Batfam? Well,l what If Jess did the same thing? Take in kids and teens and form his own fam too? What would it be called?
Thank you all and see you on the next chapter!