"Mr. Terrific calling Batman."

"Batman receiving." Richard replies as he crosses over the Pacific Ocean at supersonic speed.

"There is a Katarina Samson calling me about an appointment you made with her and is requesting to be allowed onto the Watchtower?"

"Yes, I asked her to come up and evaluate Terra. I need to know if she is heading towards Arkham or Iron Heights." Richard replies as the Easter Islands and its statues pass below him.

"I see, she also says she is offering her assistance to those who might need it after Jump City?"

"That is correct, without Raven or J'onn immediately available; we need to see if Samson can make the others who have been abducted remember what happened, in particular Bushido and Katana."

"Understood. Zatanna as well?"

"Let her know the offer is there, but don't force it on her." Richard knows Zatanna well enough to know that talking to people about her problems was not going to happen unless she wanted to.

"Got it. So did you drop her off?" Terrific continues, switching subjects.

"Yup, she should be reaching the island about now." Richard replies. "Anything I need to know about up there?"

"Only that your alien friend is growing restless, on one hand she wants to go see Terra and on the other; she is trying to work out how that diet you gave her works. From what I hear, she is trying to adapt it to some of her native ingredients or to some that reminds her of those."

"Same old Kori, a word of advice, don't eat anything she offers." Richard says while smiling fondly at the memory.

Oolong Island:

"Think I moved a pinky." Raven sends, trying to sound amused and keeping her exhaustion out of her voice. As long as she is paralyzed, she doesn't dare fall asleep. So far time seems to have slowed just for her, making the night seems eternal as she lies on the beach in her cold and soaked clothes, but she can see the dawn is coming.

"Really?" Wally asks with some optimism leaking into his voice, it was his turn to keep her company, besides Batman who is still there, but remaining silent.

"Fantasy I am afraid." Raven sighs, she wonders a bit how her presence here could have gone unnoticed for so long as she has been on the beach for hours now.

"Morning patrol should be passing by soon." Batman mentions.

"Morning to you too." Raven sends to the man, she had read about the patrols since she had expected to be picked up by one. Actually in the distance, she is sure she can hear a motor over the ocean. "I think it's coming now."

She waits for some 10 minutes as the sound steadily becomes stronger before he hears voices as well.

"I don't get why they have us walking this damn route every morning? No one's stupid enough to come here." A mechanically filtered voice complains. "And there's hours worth of cleaning after every patrol."

"Would you rather mind the nutters pet beasties for the same pay?" Another voice says, it's higher pitched than the other, leaving Raven to assume the speaker is a woman.

"No Sarge." The first one sighs over the rattle of an engine. "Hey what's that?" Raven finds herself in the cone of a flashlight before Sarge replies.

"Looks like another dead refugee to me. Go check it out Joe." Raven can't turn her head to see Joe dismount but she can still hear him, she doesn't even move her eyes as a heavily armored shape comes into view.

Raven can't tell what material the plates are made of, but the armor on his body does give the impression of his muscle structure, much like Raven's own, only bulkier. The helmet only covers the bottom half of his head, leaving his bald head and beady eyes visible, while his mouth and nose is covered by some kind of gas mask. In his hands he is carrying a large rifle of a strange design that looks a little too advanced to just fire bullets.

"Well, is it dead?" Sarge asks, getting Joe to poke Raven's ribs with the nozzle of his weapon, she doesn't say anything since she can't, but her eyebrows twitch at the contact.

"Against all reason, nope. But it's not far from it by the looks of it. Can we throw it back?" Joe asks as he watches Sarge dismount and walk over as well, the shape of the person confirms Raven's guess that Sarge is a woman. She is wearing the same type of armor as Joe, only that her rifle is slung over her shoulder and her helmet covers all of her head, the top that Joe is missing has the superficial design of a hard hat, but covers the eyes behind two large red lenses that glow slightly.

"Hmm, think it might have hit one of the jelly fish. Strange I didn't hear any reports of any ships passing nearby." Sarge says as she looks from Raven to over the ocean. "Guess we have to bring her in for questioning."

"Guess it was worth getting up this morning!" Joe suddenly sounds happy now, inwardly Raven's alarm bells are blaring, but she remains calm, she can't do anything anyways.

"Well, get her loaded up and we will head back." Sarge says, before walking back to the vehicle. Joe shoulders his weapon before bending down and hauling Raven up and throws her over his shoulder, giving her a glimpse of the old fashioned brown jeep the pair had arrived in.

"With all those nuts in there, I wonder why we still drive around in something like this." Joe notes as he walks over and throws Raven into the back, the rough treatment has her head bumping off the deck, but leaving her with a view of the rear of the truck.

"Beats me, probably too lowly for them to bother." Sarge shrugs as Joe gets in before she turns the truck around and drives back along the beach, with Raven bumping along in the back.

"You should move now." Diana mentions.

"Can't, unless I take those two out and I am still paralyzed." Raven sends back, although she is regaining feeling in her limbs again. "Also, these two are expected back somewhere at some point. I will go into a deeper state of meditation till we arrive somewhere."

"Don't." Bruce cuts in.

"I will be aware of the world around me." Raven says before shutting off. While resting and healing herself, she is only dimly aware of the numerous bumps her head receives on the journey before they begin driving on a paved road that eventually turns to concrete, accompanied the increasing sounds of activity around them. Joe and Sarge continue their chitchat, occasionally breaking off to greet someone they pass by. Raven feels a sudden lurch in the jeeps movement before the road seems to become rough again for a while before stopping. Raven is aware of being picked up again before she is carried inside what she feels is a small building or room. Once inside she is puts down again on a table or board before bands are tightened over her ankles, wrists, chest and neck. As a door slams shut the table is suddenly tilted so Raven is standing up, she fakes that the sudden movement wakes her as she peeks at her surroundings with half opened eyes. Finding it to be nothing more than a tin shed built on the bare ground, made of riveted metal with several holes in it that allows the light from the outside to filter inside. Right in front of her, is a table with two terrarium's on it, one containing several large scorpions, the other a very large furry spider.

"Rise and shine cupcake." Joe says as he removes the piece of his armor that covers his lower face, revealing him to have shaved his black beard away hours ago. Raven decides to play victim a little longer, in hopes of either of the two let something slip on their own.

"Eh?I Wha..?! What's going on?" Raven says as she awakens fully, lacing her voice with enough accent to make it seems convincing as she struggles against the bonds holding her.

"Why you have had the fortune of having landed of fair Oolong Island." Joe replies as Sarge takes off her helmet, revealing her to be a woman with long blond hair and cold blue eyes. "Unfortunately for you, your fortunes aren't very good." Joe says giving Raven an unsettling smile.

"Mercenaries." John says with contempt. "Don't feel bad about anything you might do to them."

"Listen kiddo, to wherever you came from, you are dead. Meaning no one will come for you and no one will ever know you ever ended up here." Sarge says as she locks eyes with Raven who quickly shy's away. "From now on, you are the property of Oolong Island and we can do whatever the hell we want with our property!" She continues before flipping the table over so Raven's head is hanging slightly lower than her feet, Joe is quick to throw a piece of cloth over her face.

"Please…I...I have done nothing!" Raven pleads still keeping up the act.

"Oh but you have. Violated borders, illegal immigration, causing us trouble..." Joe says offhandedly, before Raven hears a lid being removed from something, a few seconds later something beings splashing against the cloth covering her face, concentrated on falling on her forehead. While not physically painful, it is very, very uncomfortable and Raven throws her head from side to side to avoid it, only to have someone hold onto her until the water stops falling.

"Now, who are you?" Sarges voice cuts through as Raven heaves for air through the soaked piece of cloth. "No? Well there's an answer for that."

"Ng…no!" Raven manages before another stream of water, falls onto her forehead, this time she is forced to take it all before the cloth is removed, leaving Raven to nearly hyperventilate herself.

"You know, if you keep this up, we may have to employ other methods of persuasion." Joe says as he looks down on her upside down. "So by all means, keep resisting, no one can hear you out her." To his surprise, Raven gives him a big smile.

"That's all I needed to know." Raven says before vanishing in an instant.

"WHAT THE?!" Joe yells at the now empty table, Sarge stares at it for a second before turning to the door.

"Door's blocked!" She growls as she heaves against the thin metal door that refuses to open when it should be. Joe has already picked up his weapon and is already scanning the room as he moves to stand with his back to Sarge and the door.

"Uh, Sarge, what's that?" Joe asks, getting the woman to stop her fight with the door and look over her shoulder, past the table a black flame is steadily growing out of the ground.

"Don't know, kill it!" Sarge yells as she pulls out her own rifle and begins shooting, the blue bolts of their weapons pass right through the flame, burning large holes in the walls, revealing nothing but black on the outside, leaving the single light bulb in the shack to illuminate the room.

"Not working!" Joe yells.

"Of course it's not." A voice says from behind them, before they are shoved forwards into the room. Joe crashes into and over the table with the force while Sarge crashes to the ground after managing to turn around to land on her back. The woman is quite agile it seems as she is quickly back on her feet to face the figure now standing before the door and fires a single shot at the head. The blast is deflected at the last second, before the figure lets the shadows that covered it fall, revealing a tall red skinned woman with four glowing yellow eyes, with an impetuous gesture with a hand Sarges weapon is sent flying into the wall thought no contact was made.

"What the hell are you?!" Sarge growls as she storms forwards with a raised fist to strike the figures head, she doesn't see the movement of the figures hand, but hers is stopped by a palm.

"My turn to ask questions." Raven says as she turns her hand slowly, forcing Sarge onto her knees with pained expression on her face as she grabs her immobilized arm.

"Drop her!" Joe yells, Raven turns to look at him standing with his weapon ready, aiming at her head. "I'm warning you! I will shoot!"

"Are you sure? That doesn't look like a gun." Raven asks without changing her facial expression. Joe keeps staring at her down the barrel of his gun. That is until the barrel buckles and twists for the mouth to face him, revealing it to have changed into a black snake with fangs.

"WOW!" Joe yells before tossing the gun at his feet, as he looks up from it he is greeted by Sarge's backside that crashes into him sending them both to the ground.

"Now then, I have a few questions for you." Raven says as she plants one foot on Sarge's stomach, trapping them both on the ground. "Oh and rest assured, I can be very unpleasant if lied to." Raven says to the two wide eyed guards as she gives them a wicked smile.

A little while later:

"Where is Cale?" Raven asks calmly the frantic woman squirming in her grasp, Joe has been unconscious for a good while now, but that is not what Jennifer, or Sarge as she prefers being called, is seeing. To her eyes, Joe is an already half decomposed corpse being eaten by a swarm of insects. Jennifer herself had torn off her own armor when she felt something moving beneath it, leaving the blonde in a white top and underwear. She isn't uninjured, as she had tried lying, which had earned her a handshake that left her right hand with most of its bones broken. "Well?"

"I…I…can't…" She stammers.

"Sure you can." Raven says as she grabs the woman's left shoulder. "Or do you really want to find out how much this can hurt?" She continues as she digs her fingers into the shoulder, Jennifer begins struggling even more, kicking Raven several times with no effect as blood begins appearing at her shoulder.

"Arg!...No!...Nnnggrrr…" Jennifer stops fighting, instead she squeezes her eyes shut and bites her lips to ignore the pain as tears appear again. "West side…mansion…" She finally sobs, Raven smiles brightly as she pulls her hand away.

"See, that wasn't so hard. Now do you have access to her?" Sarge looks up at her with puffy red eyes.

"I'll never lead you to her." She huffs defiantly.

"That wasn't what I was asking. Do you have access to her?" Raven asks, while idly poking the wounds she had made, punctuating each word of the last sentence.

"Y…yes…"

"Good." Raven says as her features change into a replica of Jennifer, who stares at her wide-eyed. "Now, you sleep." Raven says in Sarges voice as the woman first nods her head a few times before she is fast asleep.

"That could have been done faster and without injuries." Batman says from the inside, finally Raven decides to respond.

"Yes, but I don't invade a mind unless I have to, and I couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't hurt them permanently anyways. And it's not like you are any better with trading injuries for information." Raven sends back to him as she begins to put on Sarges armor.

"I could teach you in how to extract information painlessly." J'onn mentions.

"I will decline that offer J'onn. That it hurts me and them reminds me that it is wrong that I shouldn't be doing it."

"Nice way of holding the moral banner high." Flash adds. "But remind me I don't want to watch any scary movies you pick."

"The Tower was once haunted for a night after I wouldn't admit I got scared during a horror movie." Raven admits.

"Really? Then you should come around Barry's house at Halloween." Wally continues as Raven slips on the chest plate. "Man loves those kinds of movies."

"Like you." Shayera adds.

"Um, yeah…"

"Raven, are you sure getting Cale is such a good idea?" Superman asks.

"From what I gather, she will most likely be the only one who knows every project in progress." Raven sends back.

"So what's the plan, till you reach Adam?" John asks.

"Extract the needed information about his whereabouts and reach him, without raising alarms, hopefully."

"And that with a self appointed president missing?" Superman continues.

"She won't be missed."

"That won't last; they are bound to notice you aren't her." Batman adds.

"Will last as long as it will, from there things get messy." Raven sends back as she puts on the helmet before heading out.

Elsewhere on Oolong Island:

"So the mighty Doom Patrol has been reduced to doormen." Robotman sighs in the metal hallway outside Niles Caulders lab that the Patrol is loitering around in.

"It was solid." Mento adds. "Gar?" Beastboy had been in a mix of disappointment and rage since Mento had visited Caulder, and he wasn't hiding it.

"What?" Beastboy growls but not bothering turning from the wall he is leaning on to face the others.

"We warned each other." Mento says, having given up on his usual attitude which didn't work on Garfield for the moment. "And we have a job to do if she comes this way."

"You have a job to do; I'm not going to stop her." Gar shrugs dismissively.

"Yes you will, you heard that Caulder is working on a cure for you too. Something your friend risks ruining." Elasti-girl says, this has Garfield turn around to face them with an angry expression on his face.

"I never asked for one!" He snaps. "I like what I am, to me this is normal!"

"Honey you can't be serious, look at us." Elasti-girl continues.

"That's Nile's talking." Beastboy says flatly. "Ever since I came back from the Titans, he's been running everything the Patrol was into the ground. Having us run around the globe for bits to his projects that we rarely see anything off and now we are on an island populated by the Brains colleagues! What happened to the whole fight evil thing huh?"

"Guess we wanted it to end." Robotman shrugs. "And your friend isn't gonna ruin my chance for a normal life."

"You couldn't stop her even if you tried to Cliff." Beastboy shrugs. "And I think you will all be sorely disappointed with Caulder." He continues before turning into a falcon and flies off.

Near the west coast of Oolong:

"Extravagant." J'onn notes as the huge collection of buildings that is the presidential residence come into view, to Raven it looks more like a tourist hotel she once saw in a catalogue, one Beastboy had once shoved in her face during one of his campaigns to take a vacation, something Robin always stonewalled.

"Tourist hotel." Raven sends back as she regards the building built on wooden posts painted white and black pyramid shaped roofs. She had elected to walk up to the 'palace' to get the last of the jellyfish poison out of her system, and so she wouldn't have to admit she doesn't know how to drive a car, which would feel like an embarrassment.

"So, what now? I doubt these people let grunts brush shoulders with Cale offhandedly." Superman notes at the two armed guards posted at a ramp leading up to the house.

"Now we hope their scanners aren't so advanced that they can detect me." Raven says as she walks up to the ramp, strangely enough the two guards don't even seem to notice her as she passes by them. "Why am I slightly worried by that?"

"Good scanners, protocol, or you may have picked one of Cale's closer subordinates." Batman mentions, Raven was assuming that his gradual return to the other Leagues meant his mood was improving.

"Last one would make this too easy." Shayera echoes Raven's own thoughts as she walks in the front door, to a reception with a green carpet, circular oak desk and a curly brunette behind it, who looks up from her computer as Raven enters.

"Jennifer, thank God you got here, Cale's been all over the place for you. Get to her office before she decides to tear your head off!" The woman almost shouts at Raven who looks at her in surprise for a second before running down a corridor indicated by a finger.

"But not impossible." Shayera sighs.

"And I was hoping to get out of this bucket." Raven continues as she runs, guiding herself down the hallways by emotions and the number of guards. Finally coming to a closed pair of wood doors with two guards posted outside, where she slows down to a walk. As neither of the guards notice her, Raven wordlessly walks up to the door and knocks.

"Come in." A woman's voice says from the other side as Raven opens the door and walks inside the first thing she notices, is the gun pointing at the side of her head. Raven slowly puts her hands in the air, as the gun wielder pushes the doors closed again. "Remove the helmet." The woman says as she walks into view, revealing her to be a blond in her 40'ties wearing a pair of white pants and a short mint green jacket and a long pearl necklace.

"Veronica Cale, self appointed president for life of Oolong Island." Diana mentions.

"Wonder if the tea grows here?" Raven sends inwards as she unbuckles the helmet.

"Originated here, was taken back to the mainland where it was then grown." Batman continues.

"Hmm, whatever you are, you are good." Veronica says as she studies Raven's stolen features.

"Ma'am?" Raven asks without taking her eyes off the gun dancing in front of her.

"Even the voice, I'd say you were the Martian, but he wouldn't usually bother coming here, so who are you?" Cale says confidently.

"Ma'am, I am first sergeant Jennifer Hale." Raven says as she lowers her hands to stand erect before the armed woman.

"No you're not." Cale says before firing a blast right past Raven's head. "I have been aware of your presence here since you washed up on the shore. Who are you?"

"An interesting thing about Cale and a well hidden fact, she suffers from Coulrophobia." Batman mentions.

"Clouro…what? What's that?" Wally asks.

"Fear of clowns." Raven sends back knowing a bone when she saw one. "I may have decided on a different approach?"

"Hardly, he's with the League and they can't risk an international incident with a stunt like this. Last chance, who are you?" Cale says as she gives Raven a hard stare, Cale nearly jumps out of her shoes as a horn in blown into her ear.

"Hurray for Captain Spaulding, Hurray!" Cale turns her gun to the figure yelling in its overly jovial voice and Raven can feel her sudden fear erupt as she grabs the gun with both hands. The figure doesn't however seem to be overly bothered by this as he pockets his canister. It is a big, overweight man with a white painted face with blue and black makeup around his mouth and eyes along with red painted cheeks and a small black beard. He is wearing a tiny red top hat along with blue, red and white jacket and blue and white striped pants. His jovial smile is blown away with the rest of his face by Cale, who has backed up to a closet, landing him flatly on his back with his feet sticking into the air while one hand plants a flower on his chest.

"What are you doing?!" Cale growls as the gun is pointed back at Raven who hasn't moved.

"Whoo-hoo-hoo!" Cale is knocked over as the closet door is opened and a figure windmills his way out, wearing a pair of big red shoes along with a mostly yellow overly plush outfit with blue sleeves. His face is also painted white, with red lipstick and a large mane of blood-red hair and a red plastic nose. As he comes to a halt next to his fallen comrade, he bends over and pulls the man up by the healed nose and the two begin dancing around in the middle of the room arms locked together. Raven appears not to notice Cale again raising her gun and fires at her, letting it appear as if her head is blown partially away, revealing something with green hair hiding underneath.

"Oh, you shouldn't have done that Doc." Raven says with a changed voice as she turns to Cale as the two clowns stop dancing and faces Cale as well.

"What the hell are you?" Cale growls as she fires at Raven again, this time getting dodged. "GUARDS!"

"Really Doc, I'm insulted you don't know me." Raven continues as she pulls away at the remains of Jennifer's features as the armor falls to the ground at her feet, revealing a gangly man in a purple suit, having used the time to make this a private meeting.

"J-joker…" Cale heaves as the Clown Prince of Crime kicks her gun out of her hand.

"Captain, Pennywise, I believe we need to cheer this woman up!" Raven continues with a deeper voice.

"Hurray for Cale, hurray!" Captain Spaulding yells as he and Pennyworth skips over and picks up Cale by her feet and shoulders.

"NO! What are you?!…Put me down!" Cale yells as she is hoisted into the air, before the two begin tossing her up wards, knocking her into the ceiling a few times.

"Now, put her in the comfy chair!" Raven says as she lets Cale fall all the way to the floor before the two other clowns picks her up and carries her to the chair behind the desk, Cale looks dazed by the treatment, it isn't improved after she is spun around a few times as Raven sits herself on the table waiting for Cale to talk again.

"What are you doing here?" She asks while sinking into her seat to get away from the trio that is crowding around her.

"Oh, I heard about this charming little island you had made for yourself and I came to have a look-see. And I gotta tell ya, this place is even more abysmal than ol' Batsy on a rainy day. So I've decided to cheer you all up with a party, and as you know all parties should start with a big bang!" Raven says as she pulls out a detonator from one of her pockets. "Those power-plants should light this place right up."

"Wait, you'll kill everyone!" Cale almost leaps out of her seat as Raven toys with the red button under her thumb, but is held back by the two other clowns.

"Oh really? Jee, I hadn't thought about that." Raven says while playing into the role and puts on a wounded expression. "You're right, the party would be kinda short." She lights up a second later. "Say I got a great idea, I hear you keep a real party animal here, let say we let him out?"

"W…who?" Cale asks as Pennywise makes shadow animals on the wall with Spaulding, using her lamp.

"A charming fellow they call Adam, likes pulling the limbs off people."

"Him...?! He'll kill us all!" Cale gasps.

"Oh don't you worry your pretty little head off, I plan on taking him far, far away from your island. After all I wouldn't want to waste such talent on your eggheads. Now, you just show me where you keep him and I'll go get him."

"N…No…NO!" Cale says forcibly fighting down her fear. "You can't have him! Kill me if you have to, but I'm not letting near him."

"Strange, usually she doesn't care for anyone but herself." Diana notes, as Cale reacts with the speed of a striking serpent and reaches under her desk and hits a button. Screaming klaxons begins their howling.

"Oh? Guess we do this the nasty way." Raven replies as she engulfs Cale and herself in shadow.