WonderWoman, J'onn, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Hawkgirl were standing at the exact place they were told to meet Batman, who was not there.
"He was here, right?" Flash was the first to speak.
"This is were he said to meet him." J'onn said.
"Maybe you should try looking for him J'onn." Hawgirl said, looking at her martian friend.
J'onn closed his eyes, and mentally scanned the area. "I think I sense him inside the building, but something is wrong. He's not alone in his mind. I'm going to see if I can get closer to him." J'onn mentally dove into Batman's mind.
"Batman." J'onn appeared in time to prevent a masked woman from cutting Batman in two with the sword she was swinging around. The sudden apearance of the green martian startled the woman, and she faltered. Batman swung his pipe at her, knocking her down long enough for him to catch his breath, and talk to J'onn.
"You have to get the rest of the League. I need you help." Batman said, pushing J'onn away from the woman. "Hurry. I'll be fine. You have to stop the Jacobs."
J'onn left Batman's mind and returned to the rest of his team. "Batman is in trouble. We have to get in there and help him. We have to hurry. A masked woman has somehow entered his mind, and is trying to kill him."
The League went full assault into the building. They found the room that Batman was being held in, with ease. The buikding was empty, except for the one room. Jacobs was standing at the comupter. "Well, well, well. What do we have here. I figured it was only a matter of time before I saw the rest of you. You would never leave a comrade behind, unless you had to. It was your mistake though. Sweetheart, please take care of them as well."
The League looked at the tube. The girl who was fighting Batman was still floating there. "That's her. She's the one trying to kill Batman." J'onn said.
"Yes, and now you will also suffer the same fate as your friend." Jacobs said.
"No, Batman is not dead." WonderWoman said.
"You are right WonderWoman, Batman is still alive, but not for much longer, take a look." Jacobs pointed to the figure, hanging from the ceiling. "He doesn't have much longer. My sweet Dreamscape will end him soon enough."
Batman was sweating, and withering in pain. Green Lantern was by in his almost as fast as Flash. "Batman." He breathed.
Inside his head, Batman was still fighting Dreamscape. He was loosing though. He was tired, and hurt, and he knew that he didn't have much longer for his team to help him before there would be nothing left for them to save.
"Raven, please." Batman said, not even paying attention to what he was saying. He was now laying on the ground, bleeding, and unable to move.
Dreamscape froze. "What did you say?" She asked.
Batman also paused. What had he said? "I called you Raven. That is your real name. You are Raven Thorne, daughter of Theodore and Maggie Thorne, younger sister to Kyle Thorne. You have a life to go back to. You have to remember." Batman said. He didn't feel even the slightest bit weak, pleading with this girl. He saw that it was making her fight back, even if she didn't see it.
"My name is Raven." Dreamscape lowered her sword, then raised it again. "My name is Raven." With a lot of effort, Dreamscape threw the sword across the rooftop. It scooted to the edge. Dreamscape was shaking. "They're here. You are going to be saved. Be safe Batman. He's going to be so mad. He's going to be so mad I fought back, and didn't kill you."
"Then I guess we're going to have to stop him, and make sure he doesn't do anything to you, aren't we. If I get you out of the tube, can you stop him?" Batman asked.
"Yes." Dreamscape was still shaking. "But I can only slow him down. He had built up a tolerance to me. He had made it verhy hard for mme to enter his mind."
"That'll be enough. Can you send me back?" Batman asked, standing up, all his injuries forgotten. The blue light returned. Batman woke up to see his team fighting a heavily armed Jacobs. They were doing pretty well, but they needed help. Luckily their fight had freed him of his chains, so Batman rushed to the computer, and started typing.
'You have to put in the code.' Dreamscape's voice said in Batman's head. 'It's sweet dreams.'
Batman typed the code is, and the tube deactivated, setting the foating girl free. A huge blast of steam cut view of Dreamscape off.
"What have you done? You let her go. It will take me forever to get her back in." Jacobs said, as if he weren't surrounded by the Justice League.
"Not this time." Dreamscape's voice was strong. The air cleared and there she was, mask and hood up, and eyes glowing. Jacobs stopped moving, and Superman took his chances. He grabbed a piece of metal, and wrapped it around the doctor. The glow in Dreamscape's eyes faded, and she stood, staring at the League. She nodded to Batman, and passed out. Flash rushed forward, and caught the girl before she could hit the floor.
"Who is she?" J'onn asked.
"Our new prisioner." Batman said, walking up to his team.
"Batman, you're bleeding." Hawkgirl went to her friend's side. Batman looked down, and saw that he was in fact bleeding. All the wounds he had recieved from Dreamscape in the dream world, had actually appeared on him in the outside world. He had been wondering how it would have killed him.
Batman looked back up at his team, and everything started getting blury. "Don't talk to her until I'm there." He said.
"What do you mean? Where are you going?" GL asked. Batman said nothing else as everything finally went dark, and he felt himself falling, and being caught, then nothing else.
"Let's get them back to the Watch Tower. We can look them both over better there, and if she attacks, we might have a better chance." Superman said, picking his friend up.
Everyone agreed, and they all left the building. They would return later for the equitment. GL volinteered to take Jacobs to the police, and flew off with the sleeping man.
The remaining memebers went to the Javelin and headed for the Watch Tower. Once there, Superman put Batman in the med bay, and Flash laid the girl beside him. Superman set to work, bandaging Batman's wounds, which weren't as bad as they had thought. Bad enough for him to need stitches in some of them.
After taking care of Batman, Superman turned to the girl. He wasn't sure what to do for her. He didn't want to be the one to remove her clothes to check for injuries. She was a woman, and Superman thought of himself as a gentleman. He walked to the comuicator on the wall. "Hawgirl, WonderWoman, will you both please come to the med bay? I need your help with something." He said.
'Sure thing Superman. We're on our way.' WonderWoman answered.
A little while later, the two woman walked in. "What do you need help with Superman?" Hawkgirl asked.
"Will you two please tend to her. I don't want to remove her clothing." Superman said.
"Of course. We'll handle it. Thank you for caring about her modesty." WonderWoman said. Superman was one of the few good men in the world. He was comsiderate of woman, but she also knew that he would do whatever was necessary if they hadn't been there to help him.
"Thank you. I'll be back later to check on you and them." Superman left the two woman to work.
WonderWoman and Hawkgirl started to remove the layers of clothing wrapped around the girl. They were made of beautiful fabrics, and they both thought the costume fit her well. Too bad she was probably the enemy, the two woman would have loved to have another female memeber.
WonderWoman and Hawkgirl examined the woman, and found onlt a few injuries. They left her mask on just enough for them to not be able to see her face. It was a hard mask to work around. They bandaged her and put her clothes back on. After making sure she would be okay, they put her in a holding cell to wait for her and Batman to wake up.
