The New Adventures Of The Justice League

Chapter Two: Break-Ins

Once he was back in Gotham Batman found plenty of other things to occupy his mind instead of the mysterious Captain Marvel. Granted, he did wonder who the Captain was but still; one of the labs at Wayne Enterprises being broken into did tend to take precedence. It had been an easy matter to take down the three thieves, none of whom had any fight savvy whatsoever, the third had simply surrendered the second he saw Batman! But before he called the police on them Batman wanted answers; so, as the three sat nervously a table in the aforementioned lab, trembling while Batman glared at them he best considered how to go about this. After deciding to attack their weakest link first he hovered in the shadows and, with a deep, sinister voice asked, "Why did you break in here?"

The thief trembled but didn't say a word. He was a teenager, no more than sixteen or seventeen and was red-headed with a face full of freckles and green eyes. The other two thieves were adults, both in their early twenties and with brown hair and eyes Batman decided that they were probably related.

"Tell me who sent you here," he ordered. "None of you are smart enough to get in here on your own so someone put you up to it. Tell me who it was and I'll see that the courts go easy on you."

"Maybe we should tell him," one of the brown haired men said, glancing uneasily at his brother.

"No way," the other man hissed. "You heard what they said; if we talk they'll kill our families."

"I don't care," the teenager chimed in. "I've got five brothers and sisters to support. I'm not going to do them much good in jail."

"You're not going to do them much good if they're dead either," the first man that had spoken pointed out.

Batman had heard enough. Stepping out of the shadows he cleared his throat and said, "I can protect your families for you if that's what you're worried about. I can arrange twenty-four hour protection for both them and you."

"No offense, Mr. Batman sir," the teenager said. "But not even you can protect us from…" he swallowed and looked around uneasily before whispering, "Cadmus."

Batman frowned. "What's Cadmus?" he asked.

But the teenager was shaking his head. "I've already said too much." And with that he leaned back and didn't say another word.

Batman was still frowning even as the police carted the three men away, after promising Bruce Wayne that they would arrange protection for the crooks. Who or what was Cadmus and why had it spooked those men so? Oh well. This was definitely a job for Batman…and his stupendous computers that could find anything or anybody.


Two hours later Batman was, and this was a first for him, forced to admit defeat. He could find no files anywhere in the world that referenced Cadmus. None. Growing infuriated at the lack of results he finally decided to put it to the side and concentrate on something else. That always seemed to do the trick before. After taking a deep breath he began searching for Captain Marvel. He might as well figure out who their mysterious helper was. But, once again, he found nothing. Apparently the previous day was the first time Captain Marvel had ever been spotted. There was absolutely no record of him in Fawcett City or any other city for that matter. Batman quickly decided he didn't like the way his week was going so far. He was just about to call it a night when one of his computers pinged, telling him that he had a caller.

"Computer, id caller," he ordered.

"Caller, Superman. Priority, urgent."

"Open a channel," he decided. He debated about putting his cowl back on but decided against it. Superman already knew his secret identity; there was no reason to hide from him. "What is it, Clark?" he asked when Superman's face filled the screen.

"Bruce, have you ever heard of Cadmus?" Superman asked.

Instantly Bruce's plans of going to bed that night vanished down the drain. "Why?" he asked.

"Because someone broke into a lab here in Metropolis. I managed to catch him but all he would say was Cadmus and beyond that nothing."

Bruce frowned. "The same thing happened here too. I assume your thieves were also amateurs."

Before Superman could respond the computer pinged and said, "Caller, Hawkgirl. Priority, urgent."

Bruce groaned and opened the channel.

"Cadmus," Hawkgirl said by way of greeting.

Ping. "Caller, Wonder Woman. Priority, urgent. Caller, Flash. Priority, urgent. Caller…"

Bruce interrupted the computer by saying, "Superman, call a meeting at the Watchtower. Apparently Cadmus isn't limited to just Gotham and Metropolis."

"Understood." Almost immediately alarms began sounding, alerting Batman about the meeting. "Superman out."

"Hawkgirl out."


"Well, well," Lex Luthor leaned back in his comfortable office chair, tapping his fingers together. "It would appear that 'Cadmus' has been very busy tonight. At least that idiot Sivana did something right. Although I should probably increase security here as well. No doubt Savage and Sivana are aware that I intend to betray them which is exactly what I want them to think. They'll be so busy trying to keep an eye on me that they won't even pay any attention to…other aspects of our projects." His smile grew as he spotted Captain Marvel on TV, fighting a giant alien robot. "And at least my investment is paying off nicely. It does everything they said and then some…"


A/N: I know Captain Marvel didn't show up very much in this chapter but he should make an appearance in the next one. Hope you guys like, thanks for all the reviews last chapter and please keep them coming!