Again I DON'T OWN JUSTICE LEAGUE! thanks for those of you that reviewed...now enjoy the third chapter!

Shayera and John now stood in front of the Midway City Historical Museum where Carter worked, and what they found troubled them. There were a couple ambulances and a police car out front…and of course a Batmobile in the back. Coming from the building was Carter on a stretcher being led towards an ambulance, followed by Batman. Shayera immediately rushed up to Batman and the stretcher followed by John only a step behind.

"What's wrong with him?" She asked with a worried expression on her face.

"He has a very bad concussion, and he's been in a coma for almost an hour now, or at least that's what I can gather so far." He then looked to the nurse and raised a hand. "Hold on." The three of them walked up to him and stood beside Hannah who was also standing there. She had tears in her eyes.

"Hannah? I'm Shayera Hol." She shook hands with the woman.

"Yes, I've heard much about you." Uh oh…

"Yea?" Shayera said and saw the expression in the woman's face, she was scared and sad, she obviously didn't want to loose him. "Look, I'm sorry we couldn't get here sooner…but I promise you we'll help him as best we can." She said reassuringly.

"Thank you." Hannah replied with a slight smile. John watched and a small smile of his own came on his face…that was one of the reasons he had fallen in love with her. He soon shook it off and turned to Batman.

"How bad is it?"

"Hmm…pretty bad, there's no telling how long the coma will last."

"Do we know what caused it yet?" Shayera added in. Batman shook his head.

"No. He has a bump on his head from the concussion…but its no ordinary concussion. Have a look." Batman pulled back the bandaging around Carter's forehead to reveal a large round hump on it.

"It doesn't look that unusual to me."

"No, but there are a few properties to it that would lead me to believe that…something from the inside did this…possibly to get out." Shayera and John just stared at him.

"Wait, wait…are you talking about Shadow Thief?" John whispered to Batman a little shocked.

"It's possible."

"But how? I thought he was gone?" Shayera said louder than necessary, again she had a lot on her mind at the moment.

"I said it was possible. It could be that Carter only trapped him inside his mind." Batman said with a glare that meant quiet down.

"So you think that's the reason for his injury?" John added in as Shayera listened.

"I don't know, but I do know that we need to figure this out, I have a feeling that this is only the beginning of our problems."

"Fine, then where-" Shayera was cut off by a small tremor passing. Both she and GL looked at Batman. "What was that?"

"A slight tremor…Do you know anything about these?" Batman asked questionably as he gave her his 'bat-glare.'

"What do you mean? Why would I know anything about this I didn't even know there where any tremors in Midway City!" She said using moving her arms and hands in exclamation as she talked.

"These tremors are getting larger by the hour and they occur at the exact same time in three separate location…here, Egypt, and the Gobi Dessert." She was a bit surprised at first but only for half a second as anger replaced it.

"What are you trying to say, that I caused those tremors!? I've been right here with you how am I suppose to do that, they're in three separate places around the world!"

"It can be done." Batman said still keeping his straight emotionless face and stoic voice.

"Stop it! Both of you!" They both turned to look at John who had just spoken. "Both of you need to stop it right now! Batman, I realize that Shayera seems like the only connection but you can't just jump to conclusions!"

"Exactly! Look, Batman, I know you don't trust me just like the rest of the world, but I seriously have no idea what is going on." Why is John even on my side? Shayera and Batman kept up their staring contest for another minute until the Green Lantern interrupted.

"This isn't the time for this! We need to get back to the problem at hand. Carter's injury remember?" He said in his normal determined military way. They finally both turned to him and nodded.

"Fine, then where do we begin?" Shayera said as she tried to calm down and focus on the situation.

"Excuse me, maybe I can help." Hannah piped up and they all turned to her. "Last night when Carter and I were going to lock up his office and the museum , he said he wanted to stay a while longer and study something he found the other day. At first I didn't comply because he'd been having strange headaches lately, but finally I agreed. When I came back in the morning…" She stopped with tears in her eyes again.

"Do you have any idea what he was studying?" Shayera said trying to sound as sympathetic and reassuring as possible as she did with most citizens that needed her help for something like this.

"Yes, come, I'll show you." She nodded and led them inside the museum,. As they walked towards his office she spoke to them again. "Before I became carter's girlfriend, I was his secretary, I still am, and I have access to all his findings. He was most interested in Ancient Egyptian and Thanagarian Artifacts which of course went with his whole Hawkman thing." The three Justice League stopped.

"You know about his identity then?" Shayera whispered to Hannah.

"Like I said…I have access to all, his findings." She said with a slight smile on her face, the other three just nodded in response. "Anyway, as I was saying, he was interested in Thanagarian Artifacts, and when he found this piece in Midway…well he just had to examine it. I remember him saying that it wasn't quite Thanagarian, but maybe you can make it out Shayera."

"I guess we'll see." As she said this Hannah opened a door to their right and the four of them walked inside a small office.

Hannah closed the door behind her and walked over to the desk. She picked up a small almost square object off the table. As she brought it closer it looked much like a thin blackened metal panel.

"Here." Hannah said quietly as she dropped the heavy object into Shayera's hands.

As soon as it went into her hands, John and Batman stepped nearer to her to look at the device. The minute Shayera looked at the strange carvings on the panel, her eyes went wide and she dropped it, almost on her feet, with her mouth wide open, in complete shock. She had her eyes fixed on the metal panel. No…It can't be…

"Shayera, what's wrong?" John asked almost with a hint of worry in his voice. Batman quickly picked up the panel with his gloved hands and brought it away from her incase it had any sort of power over her, like kryptonite to Superman.

She turned to face him and the others. She looked at him straight in the eyes allowing him to see, only for a moment, the fear in her eyes.

"That's not Thanagarian, John,…it's Gordanian…"

OH Cliff hanger! okay well please review and tell me what you thought of it.