Hola me amigos! This is the last of the intro chapters and it is the one and only BATMAN! Plus featuring a certain bird and cat I have been longing to write this one for so long since it will include the mentors talking about the visions!
Disclaimer: why do I put this in every chapter?
Batman
I knew something was wrong. One second I'm at the Cave and the next I'm floating around in darkness? This probably has something to do with a fifth dimensional creature or a psychic thing like the Teams failsafe mission...
A blur of colour rushes past me. Too quick to get a good look but I swear I saw Selina. I admit I miss her. She's the kind of woman you don't forget, like Diana but somewhat on the silent side. I like that.
Another image, this one stops just long enough for me to get a good look. I see Dick and Alfred being followed by the press, Alfred speeds off in the limo while Dick looks at the floor, nobody is saying anything.
Two images at the same time now, Robin alone on the Gotham rooftops, taking out some thugs like I taught him. Selina shows up on the other image and the two merge to form a single scene with Robin and Catwoman working together.
An image races by and I think I saw a grave in this one. Suddenly a dozen images flood my mind, Dick and Alfred crying over a grave- my grave. Robin in an electric chair as a mad laughter fills my brain, more images of Dick alone in Gotham, screams, there's fire everywhere and Robin tries to help but an explosion erupts in front of him. I scream but there's no noise and I feel the heat from the fire and watch as the flames turn to charcoal and there's no sign of Robin. Tears swell in my eyes and I know my son is dead. Screams of the people of Gotham fill my ears as they cry out for help, Arkham goes up in a ball of fire as does Wayne Manor and half of Gotham. I only wonder for a second where the hell the League is but can't focus enough as images of pain attack my body.
Again I see Dick standing in front of a man covered by shadows. Another one similar but Dick, now older, is not wearing his Robin uniform. The images changed and I heard sirens, saw police cars and officers being blown away and gun fire shot into my brain.
I hear a single scream then open my eyes.
The first thing I see is a red blur and my first instinct is to punch it in the face. Sorry Barry.
"OW! Geez what does this guy lift? That really hurt! Ouch!" Barry's annoying voice fills my ears and I realize I am laying on the floor while the other JL members look down at me.
Kent has a stupid look on his face, "He's awake. I thought you said we were connected?"
I see J'onn nod at him, "Yes but apparently we were not tied to their lives."
"So all the images were, were images of the past." Orin concludes and I have no idea as to what they are talking about. I groan and try to sit up and Kent assists me.
"How are you feeling?"
How was I feeling?! I wanted to tear down all of Gotham until I found Joker and strangled him. I wanted to scream and sob about seeing Alfred's grave, I wanted to know what happened to my son. So NO CLARK I AM NOT OKAY!
"Yes. I'm fine."
He nods his head and I look at them, "What happened?"
"We were kind of hoping you knew." Stupid alien.
"All I know is that I have experienced a variety of subconscious visions concerning my personal life."
"Yeah. The same thing happened to us... Uh- What did you see?"
I glared at Kent telling him I did not want to talk about it. The visions still fresh in my mind and they made me want to vomit.
Thankfully J'onn, one of the few aliens I hold respect for, speaks up.
"Each of us has witnessed these visions similar to yours. All concerning our protegés and the events playing out over a period of three years. All of these visions seem to be leading up to a current event in which each of our proteges will meet."
"And what event would this be?"
J'onn was silent as was everyone else. I did not like that. "What event J'onn?"
"A reunion at the grave of Richard Grayson."
My heart nearly stopped. That can't, isn't, wasn't true. I had seen it. If J'onn was sure that those visions were real then I had seen Dick alive and well.
I tried to remain calm but I'm positive they could hear panick in my voice, "When? When did he..."
"Two years ago. When half of Gotham was destroyed."
Two years. And J'onn said the visions were spanning over three years which meant that Dick had been almost fifteen. In the image I saw Dick but he looked just a little too old to be fifteen... A flashback came to mind as I review each and every image I had seen. I focused on a single image I had seen momentary and concentrated on the background. The memory was Dick fighting some thugs in the street in his newest uniform. He had looked around sixteen but I couldn't be sure. So instead I focused on the paper stand behind him, displaying the days paper and some magazines. Looking closer at the paper hanging on the stand I caught a date.
January 2, 2014.
Three years after New Years and two after the Gotham explosion. I opened the holo-computer on my wrist band, thankfully it still worked, and check the date. March 13, 2014.
"Where are we anyways?" Barry asks. I scan the room. The floor is concrete as are the walls and ceiling and according to the scan we are five feet underground.
"Five feet from the ground, Superman." I didn't even have to finish my sentence as Kent began attacking the ceiling like a drill and in no time at all we are all standing on the surface breathing in the fresh air as if we had been underground for years. Which we have. We ended up in a forest, mostly fur and pine trees and no signs of civilization for at least ten miles in all directions.
Barry streched his legs by running around the forest twice. He stops next to me and streches his arm, "Man that feels good. Can't believe it's been three years since I last ran, but this is great! I get to see Wally again and man am I going to have to apologise big time to him and Iris-OH CRAP! IRISISGOINGTOKILLME! UnlessWallybeatshertoitohmanohmanIreallyhaven'ttho ughtthisthroughhowarewegoingtoexplainthistothekids they
mustbesomadohJesus!"
Barry goes into a wild rant about something I can't understand since he's talking too fast. But I'm thinking the same thing. How in the world are we going to explain this to those kids? We vanished for three years and they must have grown some resentment towards us. Also today was the day they were supposed to be visiting Dick's 'grave'. They all thought he was dead. Two million people died in Gotham and the League wasn't there to help. Of course they would blame us. I only hoped that Alfred wouldn't kill me when I saw him.
Kent floated down next to me, "So now what?"
"We find the kids and try to get them to listen."
"We don't even know where they are."
Kent you're so stupid. "We know exactly where they are going to be."
"And where's that?"
Even Barry is giving Kent a dumb look, "Clark didn't you see anything? We were literally just talking about this!"
All Kent gives is a blank face. Dumbass. I look at J'onn, hoping that he'll explain it in a nice way.
"Each of us has witnessed a vision all relating to a single event. Today all the children will be meeting at six o'clock tonight to visit-" J'onn looks at me. "-Richard's empty grave."
Kent stupid look is finally gone, "So we meet them there. Won't that cause some issues? It's not like they're just going to smile at us and say 'Oh hey guys! Long time no see! How are you?' And we don't know where they are meeting anyways."
"Gotham cemetary." I say like it's the most obvious thing, which it is. "That's the most likely place besides the Wayne family cemetary, which was destroyed in the explosions. We look there first."
I felt Orin's hand on my shoulder, a touch I would usually shove off but I knew Orin needed as much comfort as I did at the moment. I can't imagine what has happened to Kaldur over these three years.
"What are we waiting for then, my friend? Let's go catch up with our young ones."
OMG! This took WAAAAAAYYYY to long to update. Jeez Batman is hard to write. But the good news is that you get to see the team in the next chapter! The whole team plus two(Jade and Roy!) Hope you enjoyed and please review!
It's 1:00 am and I'm tired. goodnight everybody!
