Chapter Seven

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Previously: J'onn walked in carrying an unconscious and battered Flash. "It appears Liz is wanted by more than one person." He said as he laid flash down on the bed next to Liz's. He retrieved the note from his tightly clenched hand. It read, "Bring Liz to crime alley at three o' clock or the next one of you we meet will die."

Liz woke up to Kipper's face peering over her. Upon seeing that she was awake he licked her face eagerly. 'My head! I feel like I've been hit with a ton of bricks.' She looked to her left to escape the full attack of Kipper's tongue and that's when she saw Flash. 'Oh my god! What have they done to him?' She sat up and tried to get out of bed but the effort was too much for her. Turning to Kipper she thought, 'Kipper, move my bed right next to Flash's bed. Ok?' Kipper nodded his head and shoved the bed with his head until it touched Flash's. 'Thanks Kipper.' She reached her hand out and gently placed it on Flash's cheek. Liz concentrated as her blue fire magic burst from her arm to heal Flash. Liz smiled falling back down on her bed when she realized Flash was staring at her with his mouth ajar.

"Thanks." He said with a slight awe in his voice. "Please, don't mention it." She whispered using up the last of her energy. Batman burst into the room just as she fell into an even deeper sleep than before.

"What happened?" Batman demanded at the Flash. "She healed me. I didn't realize it until she was already done." Flash replied while scratching his neck. Batman checked Liz to make sure she wasn't in or going into a coma. After seeing she was okay he still glared at Flash as he stormed out of the room. "She did it! Not me!" was Flash's weak protest as the door closed behind Batman. Kipper quietly pushed the beds apart again and lay down at the end of her bed as small as a squirrel.

Batman had gone to find his shape-shifting friend J'onn J'onzz, the Martian man hunter. He found him studying the data they had collected on Kipper and Liz in the main room. In specific they're DNA and as he turned Batman was standing beside him. "J'onn? I have a plan, and I'm going to need your help."

Liz walked down crime alley in a trench coat. It was raining and was very dreary for three o'clock in the morning. When she was halfway down the alley the shadows started moving. A shadow lunged and Liz fell to the ground tackled by an unknown power hungry gang member. He drugged her and called his boss. "We got her boss, where to now?"

A deep gravely voice replied, "Good, now tie her up and bring her over to the base you fool! Where else???" Three more members appeared from the shadows and into the streetlights and fled carrying Liz. One of them dimly noticed a shadow following them that looked like a cape but shook his head figuring he was still suffering from a hang over.

Liz was roughly thrown at the feet of a new mobster; Pasher. "Good, now leave us." As soon as the henchmen left Pasher started pacing around Liz. He saw that she was starting to stir. "Do you remember me wench? You came to me five years ago seeking help for your "dragon problem" and ended up making me loose my left hand!" He kicked her side, but his foot was stuck. She had grabbed his leg with a green arm. He tried to stumble backwards but fell flat on his butt for the arm wasn't letting go. Her whole body seemingly melted into a green blob except for the arm and the blob formed into J'onn J'onzz. "I'll have to tell her you said hi." Was his remark as he picked him up by his foot and flung him across the room. WHACK! He hit the wall with a sharp impact and slumped to the floor; barely conscious enough to shout, "THUGS, SEIZE HIM!!!" and sat rolling his head slowly. The thugs burst through the door and started to take aim at the Martian only to be knocked out by none other than Batman.

Batman practically lunged at Pasher. He grabbed his collar and brought him close enough to his face so that Pasher could feel the moisture from his breath. He said slowly, "Don't you dare come after Liz, or you'll regret that you ever lived once I'm through with you." He flung him at the oncoming thugs and called Commissioner Gordon only repeating their location before hanging up to knock out more thugs.

Liz struggled in her sleep setting several things around her on fire as she tossed and turned in her sleep. All Kipper could do was extinguish the fire and whine snuggling next to his sister trying to offer her comfort. She was dreaming how Batman and J'onn were fighting for her and then she was actually in the fight. An astral-projection and able to fling enemies about, heal her friends, burn things and freeze them too.

The fighting momentarily stopped as a blurry image of Liz appeared beside Batman. A burst of fire flew from her hand and hit his nearest enemy but when Batman tried to touch her his hand went through her. 'Don't worry, she's an astral projection.' J'onn told Batman with his mind. He knocked out another thug but was attacked by three more. Liz was setting fire to the place and then she saw Batman's cloak had started to melt she let loose her ice. 'Batman, J'onn! Come put your hands inside of my projection. Hurry!' Without hesitating they put they're hands in her and she released her ice and the whole building froze over and some of the street outside. 'Don't remove you're hands yet. I have to get Kipper to teleport you out. He's on his way.' She disappeared as he appeared. They immediately grabbed onto him and off they went back outside the building to examine the damage they had done and to see if the police had arrived yet.

Liz sighed in her weary sleep as Flash burst in the room since the fire alarm had gone off in there. Liz was surrounded by a wall of fire but was sleeping peacefully completely unaware of the danger surrounding her. Flash created wind funnels that sucked the air from the fire on one side and managed to extinguish the flames by taking away the oxygen. Liz started coughing and Flash picked her up and took her to her real room in the tower. Wonder Woman arrived later to find Flash fast asleep on a chair by her bedside. She smiled and leaned on the doorway frame watching the two sleep when Liz started struggling in her sleep. Wonder Woman gasped and raced off to find Superman and to get help.

Back to Batman and J'onn. They were watching the frozen thugs get hauled away as Kipper started whining and pawing Batman's leg. J'onn said, "Something is amiss at the tower, hold onto Kipper." Batman and J'onn grabbed a wing tip and watched as the golden light engulfed them and then receded and they were at the watchtower. Batman rushed to medical bay but seeing the scorched remains of it he ran towards Liz's bedroom and also into Wonder Woman.

"Where are you going?" asked Batman pausing momentarily.

"Going to get Superman, Liz is struggling in her sleep and sweating up a storm almost like her shadow is being painfully taken away from her." Wonder Woman replied.

"Ok, Superman will know what to do, and I'll meet you back in Liz's room." Batman said and took off down the hall to find Liz. He found Flash sitting in his chair beside her bed and looking very concerned and worried while trying to keep an ice pack in place upon her forehead.

"Hey Bats!" Ignoring the greeting from Flash, Batman went to the other side of her bed and Liz stirred and rolled on her side towards Flash. The sheet slid till her back was revealed (the red dress had long since been shredded to pieces much to Liz's and Wonder Woman's regret.) Batman's eyes widened as he saw all of the silver scars revealed across on her back. He gingerly traced one till he reached the end of it and Liz gasped and her wings unfurled from where she had shrunk them against her back. Batman gave the wings room but still continued to scan her back. 'Who would do this to such a girl? And if she has this many scars on her back alone then what about the rest of her? How did I not notice this before? I bet she was using magic to conceal them but it doesn't work when she's asleep.' Supermen burst into the room and Wonder Woman was soon behind him.

Superman noticed how carefully Batman was studying her so he decided to find out what it was. As soon as he glanced at her back he gasped with astonishment with a twist of horror. He too noticed the silver scars lining her back. He tried to touch one but the wings shifted and were in the way. "I believe I know how to treat her but I need to take her home since the equipment I need isn't here." Batman said without looking at Superman. "You keep Kipper here so he doesn't disturb her treatment."

"Okay, but what are you going to do?" Superman said before Wonder Woman could protest.

"Trial and error, I'll send if I need anything." Batman replied while wrapping her in sheets.

"But what if you come under attack and need us?" Wonder Woman protested weakly. Batman didn't even dignify that with a response. Superman picked Liz up and carried her to the javelin that would take her back to earth. He strapped her in and left as soon as he saw that Batman had sat down in the pilot's seat. The javelin took off towards earth with Batman hoping he could find her a treatment in time.