A/N: So I said it was finished... after a review from marryinelmo, I
decided to develop the supposed one shot into more of a three or four
shot story.
marryinelmo: is it really finished? Not any more.
hitman a.k.a. HBK: thanks for the review.
butterflyV: okay, you guys convinced me, I'll keep going!
"Peace, friend there be many battles yet to commence oh dark rider of the night"
The man who dressed quite similar to Captain Ahab from Moby Dick said, raising Batman up by the shoulders and passing him something that looked like a taught of rum.
"I'll pass"
"Be it suited to thyself, worthy adversary"
Batman looked around to see the rest of the Justice League in various states of battle with what looked like a naval crew from the whaling age.
"Why are you"
"Aiding thee?"
Batman nodded, shaking the blurriness out of his head,
"Simple, great Knight of the Dark: my quarrel is not with thee, but the Aquatic lord who joins thee in membership"
"You're here for Aquaman?"
"Correct, Sir. He meddles too greatly in the affairs of the sea-faring life"
"Right... Diana!" Batman shouted, as three of the crew tied Wonder Woman's limp body to her golden lasso and tied that to a gigantic anchor, sending it careening into the sea. Trying to rise, Batman found himself tied down by the burly man with the harpoon and rum.
"Is that woman your possession?"
"What?"
"Is the scantily-clad woman a member of your personal entourage?"
"... Yes, whatever will get her out of the water!"
"Very well, Sir Knight. I will rescue your fair heroine to your ample strength" the Captain said, swinging his officer's coat off and diving into the water more than 100 meters below. For some reason, Batman couldn't get loose, until the Captain came bounding out of the water holding a limp Wonder Woman in his arms. Releasing the Amazon Princess to Batman's arms, the Captain said,
"She must bed well for one such as you to worry of her safety. Answer not, I must battle the blue-garbed crusader" leaping up to where Superman was making mincemeat out of what looked to be a midshipman.
Working quickly, Batman laid Diana down, untied her, checked for breathing and immediately breathing into her lungs, then doing three compressions on her chest. She didn't breath.
"Damn" Batman breathed, pumping three more breaths into Diana's lungs, followed by three more chest compressions, this time to feel water gurgle up as he turned her onto her side and held her stomach and head as she coughed up water and some seaweed. Shaking slightly, Diana coughed and sputtered, clinging to Batman's knee as she took a long strand of seaweed out of her mouth with her other hand, before slapping it as far away from herself as she could. Taking deep breaths, she spat out more water as Batman flung his cape over her.
"Easy"
"I'm... [cough] going to send [cough] those wimps to Tartarus" Diana wheezed, trying to rise, but falling back down as Batman caught her.
"Woa, Diana. You swallowed a lot of water,"
"Whose side are you on?"
"The one that will keep you alive. Plus, it looks like Flash has things settled"
Batman nodded to where the Flash stood roping a dozen crew members and Superman flew down with the knocked out Captain tied in his own coat. Diana took several deep breaths, as Batman laced his arm around her waist and helped pull her up.
"I could do it myself" Diana barked,
"You're welcome, Princess" Batman nodded, swinging his cape back in place. Flash came barreling up just in time to see Diana take a step, lose her balance and get caught by the Dark Knight.
"Wow, Princess you okay?"
If it hadn't been for his speed, Flash would have gotten slapped.
"Alrighty then, I'm going over by J'onn, he DOESN'T hit me" Flash said, backing away slowly, Batman gave him an apologetic shrug, Flash reminded himself to write it down in his journal: Batman being apologetic would never happen again.
Batman turned back to Wonder Woman when he heard her groan.
"What do you remember?"
"Those prancing seamen hit me with something... resonant I can remember the clank sounded almost musical then everything went dark."
"Perhaps you should get checked out in the Watchtower"
"No, I'm fine" Diana replied, tying her lasso in place before lifting off... only to spasm and fall. Catching her, Batman felt Diana's forehead as he held her while she shook her head and blinked.
"Vertigo?" Batman asked, as Diana leant over Batman's hold and threw up over the side of the space they stood on. Diana groaned,
"Everything's swirling..." before she threw up more water, seaweed and lunch over the pier and groaned again.
"Sorry..." she said weakly, as she clung to Batman's cape to stay in a semblance of vertical.
"Shh, Diana. Close your eyes" She complied by gripping his cape tighter as he gripped under her knees, and shoulders, lifting her up and walking towards the rest of the League, in time to notice the Amazon Princess had passed out completely.
"Batman, what's wrong with Diana?" Superman asked, after a word with the authorities who were carting the Captain and his Crew away.
"She was hit by something"
"Yeah, Crazy the Captain tried to hit me with something, too... Well his wacky gang of sailor dudes tried, but he started it" Flash said, complete with actions.
"Can you be more specific?"
"All I saw was Diana unconscious being tied to a giant anchor and thrown into the ocean. If the Captain hadn't interveined, she would have drowned"
"Waitaminute, did you say Coco the Loco Sea Captain SAVED our fair Princess?"
"Yes."
"Why?" Green Lantern asked, suddenly getting very interested. Did they just see Batman blush? Couldn't have... could he?
"The Captain had me tied down, he saved her as per my request"
"Huh?" Flash asked,
"He told the Captain they were lovers" J'onn the Martian Manhunter said, entering the conversation to get a nod from Batman and the surprised looks on all the League's faces.
"Getting some, Bats?"
"The Captain seemed to think I wasn't his enemy. By creating a situation where he believed as he put it Diana 'belonged' to me, he was more than happy to get her out of the water. I wasn't about to correct his supposition if it meant saving Wonder Woman's life. There, can we go now?" Batman growled, daring any more conversation as he trudged with Diana in his arms to the Javelin 7. The rest of the League looked at each other before they heard Batman shout,
"Move out, People! NOW!"
"Y'heard the Bat, s'go!" Flash said, running on to the Javelin where he found Batman securing Wonder Woman to a chair that suspended into a bed.
"Didn't know those did that"
"Flash, you pilot the Javelin"
"Woa, you serious?"
"Fastest man, fastest pilot, now go to the controls!" Batman barked, as Flash saluted and buckled himself in while the rest of the League entered and buckled in, J'onn took the co-pilot seat, Batman buckled himself up beside Wonder Woman and took her pulse as she moaned infintesimally at the contact.
Back on the Watchtower, Batman sat at Wonder Woman's side scanning a readout of her vitals.
"It has been two days, and you have not slept or eaten" J'onn said, phasing through the floor into the room.
"Can't you use a door?"
"Doors take too long"
"Don't I know it"
"I will watch her"
"Thanks, but I'd rather be here"
"Superman wishes to have your head for making him do an extra shift of monitor duty"
"Everyone has to fill in for Diana's shifts"
"He means your shift, he did hers already and has a date with Lois Lane in half an hour"
"Remind me to send her my consolations" Batman said, standing and tossing the Martian the chart.
"Notify me if her stats change, and if she wakes up God help you,"
"What do you mean?"
"Have you ever handled a cranky Amazon?"
"No"
"Pray you don't have to"
"Flash left some food and coffee for you at the... where did he go?" the Martian looked around the room puzzled to see no Batman before shrugging, sitting down in the previously occupied chair, pulling out two knitting needles and some yarn and sitting to knit what he imagined to be a sweater.
Walking by, Superman took a double-back as he thought he saw J'onn knitting.
"J'onn?"
Looking up to see Superman with a confused look on his face, J'onn answered,
"I promised your mother I would knit her a sweater for the next Church craft sale"
Superman nodded, remembering Ma Kent teaching the Martian how to knit at Christmas time.
From up at the Monitor Station, Batman chuckled as he bit on an apple and watched the Martian mutter,
"I dropped a stitch" after Superman walked away nodding.
marryinelmo: is it really finished? Not any more.
hitman a.k.a. HBK: thanks for the review.
butterflyV: okay, you guys convinced me, I'll keep going!
"Peace, friend there be many battles yet to commence oh dark rider of the night"
The man who dressed quite similar to Captain Ahab from Moby Dick said, raising Batman up by the shoulders and passing him something that looked like a taught of rum.
"I'll pass"
"Be it suited to thyself, worthy adversary"
Batman looked around to see the rest of the Justice League in various states of battle with what looked like a naval crew from the whaling age.
"Why are you"
"Aiding thee?"
Batman nodded, shaking the blurriness out of his head,
"Simple, great Knight of the Dark: my quarrel is not with thee, but the Aquatic lord who joins thee in membership"
"You're here for Aquaman?"
"Correct, Sir. He meddles too greatly in the affairs of the sea-faring life"
"Right... Diana!" Batman shouted, as three of the crew tied Wonder Woman's limp body to her golden lasso and tied that to a gigantic anchor, sending it careening into the sea. Trying to rise, Batman found himself tied down by the burly man with the harpoon and rum.
"Is that woman your possession?"
"What?"
"Is the scantily-clad woman a member of your personal entourage?"
"... Yes, whatever will get her out of the water!"
"Very well, Sir Knight. I will rescue your fair heroine to your ample strength" the Captain said, swinging his officer's coat off and diving into the water more than 100 meters below. For some reason, Batman couldn't get loose, until the Captain came bounding out of the water holding a limp Wonder Woman in his arms. Releasing the Amazon Princess to Batman's arms, the Captain said,
"She must bed well for one such as you to worry of her safety. Answer not, I must battle the blue-garbed crusader" leaping up to where Superman was making mincemeat out of what looked to be a midshipman.
Working quickly, Batman laid Diana down, untied her, checked for breathing and immediately breathing into her lungs, then doing three compressions on her chest. She didn't breath.
"Damn" Batman breathed, pumping three more breaths into Diana's lungs, followed by three more chest compressions, this time to feel water gurgle up as he turned her onto her side and held her stomach and head as she coughed up water and some seaweed. Shaking slightly, Diana coughed and sputtered, clinging to Batman's knee as she took a long strand of seaweed out of her mouth with her other hand, before slapping it as far away from herself as she could. Taking deep breaths, she spat out more water as Batman flung his cape over her.
"Easy"
"I'm... [cough] going to send [cough] those wimps to Tartarus" Diana wheezed, trying to rise, but falling back down as Batman caught her.
"Woa, Diana. You swallowed a lot of water,"
"Whose side are you on?"
"The one that will keep you alive. Plus, it looks like Flash has things settled"
Batman nodded to where the Flash stood roping a dozen crew members and Superman flew down with the knocked out Captain tied in his own coat. Diana took several deep breaths, as Batman laced his arm around her waist and helped pull her up.
"I could do it myself" Diana barked,
"You're welcome, Princess" Batman nodded, swinging his cape back in place. Flash came barreling up just in time to see Diana take a step, lose her balance and get caught by the Dark Knight.
"Wow, Princess you okay?"
If it hadn't been for his speed, Flash would have gotten slapped.
"Alrighty then, I'm going over by J'onn, he DOESN'T hit me" Flash said, backing away slowly, Batman gave him an apologetic shrug, Flash reminded himself to write it down in his journal: Batman being apologetic would never happen again.
Batman turned back to Wonder Woman when he heard her groan.
"What do you remember?"
"Those prancing seamen hit me with something... resonant I can remember the clank sounded almost musical then everything went dark."
"Perhaps you should get checked out in the Watchtower"
"No, I'm fine" Diana replied, tying her lasso in place before lifting off... only to spasm and fall. Catching her, Batman felt Diana's forehead as he held her while she shook her head and blinked.
"Vertigo?" Batman asked, as Diana leant over Batman's hold and threw up over the side of the space they stood on. Diana groaned,
"Everything's swirling..." before she threw up more water, seaweed and lunch over the pier and groaned again.
"Sorry..." she said weakly, as she clung to Batman's cape to stay in a semblance of vertical.
"Shh, Diana. Close your eyes" She complied by gripping his cape tighter as he gripped under her knees, and shoulders, lifting her up and walking towards the rest of the League, in time to notice the Amazon Princess had passed out completely.
"Batman, what's wrong with Diana?" Superman asked, after a word with the authorities who were carting the Captain and his Crew away.
"She was hit by something"
"Yeah, Crazy the Captain tried to hit me with something, too... Well his wacky gang of sailor dudes tried, but he started it" Flash said, complete with actions.
"Can you be more specific?"
"All I saw was Diana unconscious being tied to a giant anchor and thrown into the ocean. If the Captain hadn't interveined, she would have drowned"
"Waitaminute, did you say Coco the Loco Sea Captain SAVED our fair Princess?"
"Yes."
"Why?" Green Lantern asked, suddenly getting very interested. Did they just see Batman blush? Couldn't have... could he?
"The Captain had me tied down, he saved her as per my request"
"Huh?" Flash asked,
"He told the Captain they were lovers" J'onn the Martian Manhunter said, entering the conversation to get a nod from Batman and the surprised looks on all the League's faces.
"Getting some, Bats?"
"The Captain seemed to think I wasn't his enemy. By creating a situation where he believed as he put it Diana 'belonged' to me, he was more than happy to get her out of the water. I wasn't about to correct his supposition if it meant saving Wonder Woman's life. There, can we go now?" Batman growled, daring any more conversation as he trudged with Diana in his arms to the Javelin 7. The rest of the League looked at each other before they heard Batman shout,
"Move out, People! NOW!"
"Y'heard the Bat, s'go!" Flash said, running on to the Javelin where he found Batman securing Wonder Woman to a chair that suspended into a bed.
"Didn't know those did that"
"Flash, you pilot the Javelin"
"Woa, you serious?"
"Fastest man, fastest pilot, now go to the controls!" Batman barked, as Flash saluted and buckled himself in while the rest of the League entered and buckled in, J'onn took the co-pilot seat, Batman buckled himself up beside Wonder Woman and took her pulse as she moaned infintesimally at the contact.
Back on the Watchtower, Batman sat at Wonder Woman's side scanning a readout of her vitals.
"It has been two days, and you have not slept or eaten" J'onn said, phasing through the floor into the room.
"Can't you use a door?"
"Doors take too long"
"Don't I know it"
"I will watch her"
"Thanks, but I'd rather be here"
"Superman wishes to have your head for making him do an extra shift of monitor duty"
"Everyone has to fill in for Diana's shifts"
"He means your shift, he did hers already and has a date with Lois Lane in half an hour"
"Remind me to send her my consolations" Batman said, standing and tossing the Martian the chart.
"Notify me if her stats change, and if she wakes up God help you,"
"What do you mean?"
"Have you ever handled a cranky Amazon?"
"No"
"Pray you don't have to"
"Flash left some food and coffee for you at the... where did he go?" the Martian looked around the room puzzled to see no Batman before shrugging, sitting down in the previously occupied chair, pulling out two knitting needles and some yarn and sitting to knit what he imagined to be a sweater.
Walking by, Superman took a double-back as he thought he saw J'onn knitting.
"J'onn?"
Looking up to see Superman with a confused look on his face, J'onn answered,
"I promised your mother I would knit her a sweater for the next Church craft sale"
Superman nodded, remembering Ma Kent teaching the Martian how to knit at Christmas time.
From up at the Monitor Station, Batman chuckled as he bit on an apple and watched the Martian mutter,
"I dropped a stitch" after Superman walked away nodding.