GOTHAM CITY. NO POV

It has been over a month since Jason has disappeared, Batman and the others have spent most of that time doing everything they can to find him. Following every clue, getting help from magic users, even getting some members of the Justice League to help. Barbara and Tim stayed awake for days on end searching through the notes they found from the weapon before it exploded, the clock tower now littered with empty coffee mugs. The only time they slept was when Alfred came and made them go to sleep.

“Fuuck…” Tim groaned as he rubbed his forehead. “Still nothing. We have been searching for the energy signature from Jason after he was hit, but still nothing!” He tossed his coffee mug at the wall and shattered.

“We have to keep trying. If it was one of us. Jason would never give up, he would go to hell and fight Trigon if he had to,” Barbara said as she touched Tim’s shoulder. Tim sighed and nodded.

“I know, I know. It’s just…frustrating,” Tim said as he looked back at the screens, titling his head “What if we search the other energy signatures of the others?”

“We tried that, but it didn’t do much,” Barbara said.

“Yeah, but what if we were able to combine the energy signatures with Jason’s, it’s possible that the blast sent the objects where Jason went. If we were able to make the signature stronger by adding it together with the same readings, we could find Jason!” Tim explained.

“Tim…that's…!” Barbara started to pull up the video of the bank heist while Tim gathered all the energy signatures that went off by each object that was hit back the blast. After that, Tim and Barbara started to combine the energy and started to see a small little trail of some kind. “Okay, add that to hear, cross reference it with known universes, finding wave patterns…I’m getting something!”

“These readings are showing the same signs, and the wave patterns are getting similar!” Tim smiled as the two kept working. Barbara then called Batman.

Batman was driving down the road of Gotham patrolling the city when he got the call.

“Oracle, any updates on finding Jason?”

“We may have found something. We were looking at the energy signatures left behind when Jason was hit, after mixing the signature readings together we found they revealed a bit more together than by themselves. If we can just strengthen it a bit more, we can find out which universe Jason is in,” Barbara explained.

“I’ll call Zatana and have her help. Keep looking, we can’t afford to miss anything,” Batman told her.

Suddenly an explosion rang out and Batman sped down the road towards a burning building. Batman then ejected from the car and glided down and crashed through a window. Batman ran inside the burning building and started rescuing the people trapped inside. The fire department and police came rushing to the scene but Batman had saved most of the civilians inside, until another explosion erupted. Batman glided out a window with a little girl holding on to him. Batman landed down as the little girl ran to her parents.

“BATMAN!” A voice called out from inside the building, crashing out from the roof came a man in an advanced flight suit, large yellow visors, and wielding an advanced-looking flamethrower. “You thought you could snuff out the flames? Kekekeke! The fire shall dance once more and light Gotham ablaze!” Firefly laughed.

The people screamed as the police took aim at Firefly.

“The flame will burn this city to ash!” Firefly laughed as he then flew off. Batman quickly ran back to the Batmobile and chased after Firefly. Firefly looked back and smirked as he saw Batman chasing him.

“I got Batman on my tail, just as planned,” Firefly said into the radio in his helmet.

“Good. Two-Face, Penguin, start your part of the plan,” Lex ordered.

“Yeah, yeah, on it.” Penguin scoffed as he then smirked, lighting a cigar and pushing a button as multiple explosions went off. The explosions were from multiple banks across the city and Two-Face and Penguins thugs stormed in and started robbing the place.

“Sir!” Alfred called out to Batman on his comm link.

“What is it, Alfred?”

“Multiple explosions went off and banks all across Gotham are being robbed,” Alfred told Batman

“Get Nightwing and Robin to go to the banks,” Batman said.

“Two-Face and Penguin appear to be at these two banks, sir.” Alfred pulled up the map that showed Penguin and Two-Face at both ends of the city.

“Send Nightwing to Two-Face and Robin to Penguin. I’ll handle Firefly,” Batman said, swerving to the side to dodge a powerful blast of flames from Firefly.

“The fire shall turn you and all of Gotham to ash!” Firefly mocked as he threw down some incendiary grenades. They went off around the Batmobile but its armor held. Batman kept speeding up and dodging more fire from Firefly.

Cars were caught in the line of Firefly’s flames and exploded upon impact but Batman kept speeding through. Batman then ejected from the Batmobile and flew towards Firefly. Firefly turned and tried to fire at Batman but Batman quickly threw two batarangs and hit Firefly right in his wings. Soon the batarangs electrocuted him and his suit short circuited. Batman then tackled Firefly and flew him into an abandoned building. Batman kicked the flamethrower out of Firefly’s hands, punching Firefly right in the face and broke part of his yellow visor.

Firefly tried to fly but Batman fired a grappling hook and it hit Firefly in the back, pulling him towards him Batman then clotheslining him. Firefly grunted as he hit the floor, slowly pushing himself until Batman grabbed him by his mechanical wings and threw him through a wall. Batman ran in through the destroyed wall and started beating Firefly repeatedly, breaking his visor.

“Sir!” Alfred called out over the comms. “Riddler has taken hostages at city hall and has put a timer,” Alfred explained. Batman looked down at Firefly and held him up.

“Why are you all attacking now? You have been quiet for so long, tell me!” Batman slammed Firefly into a Bathroom.

“Burn in hell!” Firefly swung at Batman, but Batman easily ducked under the swing and threw Firefly into the sink, smashing it and then kicking his head against the toilet, also breaking it. Batman held up his fist and shouted.

“What are you all planning?!”

“W-We…we were…paid by Lex Luthor! H-He wanted…us to…BURN!” Suddenly the chest piece of Firefly’s suit opened up to reveal some sort of bomb. Batman went wide eyed but quickly grabbed the armor and grunted loudly as he ripped off the chest piece of the armor. Running out Batman threw the bomb outside as it exploded. With that distraction Firefly jumped out and started flying with his boots.

“Gotham will burn, Batman! And I will see to it that you and your little brats are nothing more than a pile of ash!: Firefly shouted as he then aimed his boots down at Batman, amping up the power as it sent a small wave of flames at Batman. Using his cape to help defend against the flames, Batman threw a batarang out the window. It turned and stabbed Firefly in one of his boots, causing it to malfunction and stop working. Firefly screamed as he flew out of control and crashed into buildings before finally falling and crashing through a truck. Firefly groaned in pain, seeing Batman standing over him. “Damn…you-” Firefly was then stomped on the head and knocked out by Batman.

“Batman, Robin and I are heading to take down Two-Face and Penguin, but we just got word of Kite-Man dropping bombs downtown,” Nightwing said.

“I’m on it!” Red Robin said.

“You’re supposed to be helping Oracle,” Batman said as he cuffed Firefly.

“We got bigger problems to deal with, and all that information will be worthless if we lose Gotham,” Red Robin told Batman

“Fine. All of this is a diversion, Lex Luthor has them all on a payroll. Oracle?”

“Here.”

“Search for Lex Luthor. We need to know his location now,” Batman said as he got in the Batmobile.

“On it.” Oracle started typing away at her computer.

Batman started driving towards downtown and saw multiple explosions going off, people screaming as they ran for cover. Batman sped up and then ejected from his seat, soaring through the air as he then used his grappling hook to grab on to Kite-Man. Flying towards Kite-Man, Batman grabbed on to his kite and moved it down onto a roof. Once close, Batman tore up the kite and tackled Kite-Man down to the ground. Batman then punched Kite-Man right across his jaw, knocking him out.

“Alfred, give me an update on Riddler.” Batman requested

“Right away, sir. It appears that Riddler has trapped some politicians in some sort of death box. He is demanding for you, sir,” Alfred updated Batman.

“I’m on my way.” Batman then dangled Kite-Man off a building and flew down to the Batmobile, speeding off towards city hall.

Over with Nightwing, he was perched on a gargoyle that was around inside the bank Two-Face was robbing. Two-Face wore a black and white suit with a bullet proof vest on while dual wielding two machine guns. Two-Face’s men were loading up two armored trucks they hijacked to burst through the safes.

“Everyone just stay down and no one will get hurt,” Dent said. “Or else you wanna get filled with lead.” He fired off a few shots inti the air as the people yelped and screamed in terror. Nightwing gritted his teeth as he then threw down four smoke bombs down below and started beating some of the thugs that were loading up the truck.

“It’s Nightwing!” A thug shouted as the others aimed their guns and started shooting.

Nightwing used his great acrobatics to flip and dodge the hail of bullets. Nightwing slid behind a desk and looked up, throwing two wing-dings and cutting down two chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. The chandeliers fell down, causing the thugs to run away to avoid getting crushed. Nightwing used this opportunity to spring into action and jumped from behind cover, bashing the thugs over the head with his batons. One thug aimed at Nightwing with a pistol and fired, but Nightwing ducked and threw his baton at the thug’s nuts. The thug dropped to his knees in pain as Nightwing then slid over to him and kicked the thug in the face.

“Eat this!” Two-Face then fired a hail of bullets as Nightwing rolled off behind the desks. Two-Face kept firing as the bullets were tearing the desks apart. Nightwing looked around as he tried to find a way out of his current situation, soon hearing a grenade roll next to him he jumped out of the way and threw a wing-ding but the explosion sent Nightwing flying into a table.

“Explosions are just not my friends lately.” Nightwing groaned as he then found himself staring down the barrel of a gun.

“Ahh, the famous Nightwing. I heard Joker took out the reject, but I really hope I get to take out the original pain in the ass.” Two-Face then held a coin in his hand, “What will fate decide today?” Two-Face then flipped the coin. But before the coin could land back in his hand, Nightwing’s wing-ding pierced Two-Face’s hand, causing him to shout in pain. Nightwing then lunged forward and brought his two batons to Tow-Face’s chest, electrocuting him. Two-Face screamed and then collapsed on to the floor, his body twitching a bit as he passed out. Nightwing panted a bit and called in his success.

“Two-Face is down,” Nightwing said to his comm link.

“Copy that. Robin, have you subdued the Penguin yet?” Batman asked as he was now perched on the roof of City Hall. Gunshots could be hear over the comms as Robin responded.

“Working on it!” Robin said. Robin was currently running across the second floor of the bank as he was dodging hailstones of bullets from Penguin’s men.

“Get the little runt!” Penguin shouted as he fired his umbrella gun at Robin.

Robin jumped off the ledge of the second floor and threw down two batarangs at two thugs, knocking the weapons out of their hands. Robin rolled down and kicked another thug in the knee, breaking it as Robin then wrapped his legs around the thug’s head and tossed him into a desk. Robin then took out his sword and lunged forward at one of the unarmed thugs, using the blunt side of his katana. Robin slammed it down on the thug’s shoulder, bringing him to his knees and then roundhouse kicked the side of his head. The other thug charged at Robin from behind but Robin thrusted his katana backwards, the blade nearly piercing through the thug’s head. The thug reeled back and tripped, Robin used this opportunity to backflip and slam his heel into the thug’s face.

“You fuckin’ flying rat!” Penguin fired his umbrella, now on auto-fire mode. Robin leaped out of the line of fire but got nicked in the arm. Robin grunted in pain and ran up a pillar, using his grappling hook to scale up to the second floor and kept running.

Robin ran across the second floor and then jumped off the railing and threw his katana at Penguin’s umbrella, it stabbed right through the tip and the umbrella exploded.

“Gah!” Penguin fell back and held his wrist in pain, he stood up and started to try and run away. Robin smirked as he swooped down and landed on Penguin. “Git off me, ya damn brat!”

“Shut it!” Robin stomped his foot on the Penguin's head, knocking him out. “Penguin is apprehended,” Robin said as he put on cuffs on the Penguin and then the rest of his thugs.

“Clayface is attacking Ace Chemicals,” Alfred said over the comms.

“I’m already at the scene. Whoa!” Red Robin said as he dodged a giant hammer from Clayface. Red Robin ran across the hall of Ace Chemicals while avoiding attacks from Clayface as the large monster-man gave chase.

“Stay still, little runt!”

“Bleh!” Red Robin stuck out his tongue and quickly turned a corner, narrowly dodging a sword hand from Clayface. Clayface growled in anger and turned into a puddle as he slid through the ventilation system. Red entered a room full of chemicals, he looked around and pulled out two of Mr. Freeze’s absolute zero grenades.

“Okay, let’s see here.” Red started searching around the small lab and grabbing different chemicals and began mixing them together. “Who’s the smartmouth now?” He chuckled, a small sad smile forming on his face as he remembered Jason would poke fun at him for being a nerd, but Jason was always supportive of him. “We’ll get you back, brother, I promise.”

He looked at the reaction of the chemicals and smirked to himself as he had just enough to take down Clayface. Closing the beakers, Red put them in his belt just as Clayface appeared from the vents, he spread himself enough to clones of himself, their hands forming into hammers, swords, and other weapons.

“Nowhere to run now, little bird,” one of the clones said while brandishing his sword arm.

“If you give up now,” Another said while forming hammerheads on his arms.

“We’ll only break an arm and a leg,” A third chuckled while making his arm into a morning star.

Red Robin spun his steel bo-staff and eyed the Clayface clones.

“In the words of a…guy I know, fuck off, shitface!” Red Robin smirked. The Clayface with a sword ran forward and started swinging his sword hand at Red Robin. Red Robin ducked and dodged the swings as the Clayface with Hammerheads charged from behind. Red saw this and thrusted his bo-staff behind him, stabbing the clone in the stomach, but he merely laughed.

“Hahaha! That won’t work on-huh?” The Clay-hammer looked down as he felt something funny inside him, suddenly a loud screeching sound was heard as Clay-hammer exploded. Red had used a supersonic weapon in his bo-staff to disrupt Clay’s body.

“You bastard!” Clay-sword brought down his sword on Red but he quickly pointed his bo-staff at him. The tip opened to reveal a strange rune and it glowed bright blue. Suddenly a powerful surge of electricity was unleashed on Clay-sword, the heat causing him to harden and turn into solid rock.

“Thank you, Constantine,” Red muttered to himself as he got that little upgrade thanks to the infamous magic user. Clay-star let out a war cry as he outstretched his fists and started swinging wildly, knocking over chemicals like acid and deadly fumes all over the place. Red covered his nose and held his breath as he jumped over and rolled away from the wild attacks before jumping out of a window and using his grappling hook to get up to a catwalk, multiple massive vats of chemicals.

“RRAAAAAAGH!” Clayface roared as he bursts through the doors, growing in size as he stretched out his arms to try and grab Red Robin, but he flipped and outran his attacks.

“Hold still!” Clayface shouted as he gave chase, Red smirked as he saw Clayface come after him. He attached the freeze grenades to two batarangs and threw them, they flew through the air and stabbed themselves in the support beams of the catwalk. The grenades went off and froze the support beams, and due to the weight of Clayface giant form it gave out underneath them. Red Robin used a grappling hook to avoid falling while Clayface fell into one of the vats of chemicals. He splashed into the chemicals and roared in pain and anger.

“I’ll kill you!” Clayface shouted.

“I think it’s time you learn a bit about chemistry!” Red Robin then threw the beakers into the vat, suddenly a cloud of vapor appeared and Clayface was being turned into stone.

“No no no nooooooooo!” Clayface screamed as he then fell silent as he was turned into an ugly statue.

“Clayface is down, he won’t be a problem for a while,” Red Robin said over the comms.

“Good work, I just finished wrapping up with Riddler,” Batman said as a gagged Nigma was dangling from the ceiling while his hands and feet were cuffed together.

“Batman! We have a problem!” Jim Gordon said as he and his team of officers came into City Hall.

“What is it, Commissioner?” Batman asked.

“It’s Joker, he escaped! They found the dead body of a guard in his place back in his cell.” Jim explained. Batman narrowed his eyes as he thought about what was going on, that was when he received an urgent message from Oracle.

“I just detected a major energy surge under Wayne tech, the energy readings are similar to the readings we got from Jason,” Oracle told Batman. Batman then pressed a few buttons on his wrists and ran out of City Hall into the Batmobile.

“Nightwing, Red Robin, I called the Batwing to pick you two up, I’ll get Damian. Meet in the hidden entrance underground. Oracle, can you get a precise location where?” Batman asked.

“Give me a second…got it! It’s down deep under the tunnels of Gotham. Sending exact coordinates now,” Oracle said as the Bat Family were given the location in their masks.

Meanwhile, underground, Joker was driving in his Jokermobile while Harley Quinn giggled to herself with her head out the window.

“Woohoo! Faster, Mister J!” Harley giggled as her long blonde hair flew in the wind and her eyes shined.

"Harley! What did I say? Gotta keep up appearances!” Joker told her as Harley Quinn shyly nodded and sat back down, reaching into her pocket she pulled out a pair of eye contacts and put them on, showing that she now has blue eyes. “There, much better, darling.” Joker laughed as he sped up. Soon reaching a large open area that was filled with dozens and dozens of assassins from the League of Shadows and had a few of the most infamous criminals ever all together. Reverse Flash, Bane, Mr. Freeze, Enchantress, to name a few.

“Anyone order a clown!? Hahahahaha!” Joker laughed as he and Harley stepped out of the car.

“About time you got here. What took you so long?” Lex demanded to know as he wore a heavily armored and advanced war suit.

“Oh, don’t be such a whiner. Just had to pick up the misses.” Joker smiled as he kissed Harley passionately and roughly. Causing Lex and some of the other villains to gag.

“Just shut up and get ready! We can’t avoid missing this chance. The others have played their part in slowing down Batman and his annoying brats. We have been sending supplies to the other side and they have begun the next phase of our plan.” Lex explained as he typed away at a computer.

“Ugh, how much longer do we have to wait? I’m getting bored.” A man wearing a yellow and red suit said in an annoyed tone. The Reverse Flash.

“You promised me a cure, Luthor. You better now back down from our agreement.” A man with a deep cold voice said as the sound of a weapon powering up could be heard. Mr. Freeze.

“Easy, popsicle.” Deathstroke told the man as he aimed a sword at the man’s head.

“Calm down, all of you! Once we get word on the other side on how things are going we will move ahead.” Lex said.

“Grodd, how’s it looking on the other side?: Lex asked as an image of a large gorilla appeared on screen.

“We have everything we need and we have sent scouts to explore this new world. They will report back in a few days,” Gorilla Grodd said.

“Very good. Now, let’s-” Lex was cut off as an alarm went off. Switching screens Lex could see the Batmobile and Batwing racing through the tunnels. “Blast! Everyone! Get into position!” Lex ordered.

“Finally, some action!” The man in yellow said excitedly.

“Not yet! We can’t risk exposing ourselves further!” Lex said “Quickly, go through the portal! We can deal with Batman another time.”

“Grrr! If this fails, I’ll make sure you were never born,” The yellow man said as he then dashed off into the portal.

“Not unless I break him first.” Bane remarked as he stepped through the portal. Soon the others all stepped into the portal as well and Joker laughed. The crazed clown walked to the portal just as the Batwing and Batmobile appeared. Joker turned back and laughed.

“Sorry, Bats! But we gotta reschedule our playdate to another time.” The Joker laughed as he and Harley skipped through the portal.

Batman ran after Joker but was stopped when two assassins blocked his path with their swords trained on him.

“Red Robin! Find out where that portal leads to! Nightwing, Robin, protect him!” Batman ordered as he ducked under a swing and used his gauntlets to block another strike. Batman cut the sword in half and he grabbed the assassin by the head and brought his head down on his knee, shattering his nose. Batman then kicked the assassin into the other.

Red Robin made his way to the computer while Nightwing and Robin followed him.

“Oracle, I’m sending you any information I can find here,” Red Robin said as he started typing away at the keys. Bypassing all of Lex’s security.

Nightwing used his batons to block and counter three assassins attacks while Damian fought off a few with his katana. Robin saw a squad of assassins up above on a catwalk with guns aimed at them.

“Initiate protocol: Blackwater!” Robin shouted, suddenly the Batwing flew up towards the squad and began shooting bean bags at them. The attacks hit like a brick as the firing squad was taken down.

Batman charged forward at the portal but was then kicked in the face by Deathstroke.

“I’ve been waiting a long time for this, Batman.” Deathstroke took out his bo-staff and twirled it around a bit.

“Slade.” Batman narrowed his eyes as the two warriors circled each other.

“You should feel honored, Batman. You are one of the few who I respect enough to do whatever it takes to kill you,” Deathstroke said

“I’m flattered,” Batman scoffed.

Suddenly Batman ducked as a beam of energy was fired from Deathstroke’s bo-staff, Deathstroke then charged at Batman. Swinging his bo-staff at the dark knight. Batman flipped over his attacks and blocked it as he then punched Deathstroke in the face and kneed him in the gut. Deathstroke grunted and then back-kicked Batman in the chest, then whacking him across the face with his staff. The two warriors traded blow after blow and Batman was being pushed back. Batman grabbed Deathstroke’s staff but was pushed back, bending back as Deathstroke smirked under his mask. Batman noticed an assassin running up from behind Slade and once he was close enough Batman kicked the assassin and used him as a wall to flip over Slade and punch Slade in the face. Once on the ground, Batman began to repeatedly punch Deathstroke in the face over and over. Deathstroke groaned and then took out a pistol to try and shoot Batman, but the dark knight grabbed it and twisted his wrist. Deathstroke then wrapped his legs around Batman and threw him off him. Batman quickly turned his body and landed on his feet, only to be attacked by three assassins.

“It’s been fun, but now we must continue our fight another day, Batman,” Deathstroke said as he ran through the portal.

“No!” Batman broke one of the assassin’s blades and hit his jaw with his elbow. Batman then grabbed the blade of another assassin and shoulder bashed him, knocking the weapon out of his hand and roundhouse kicked his skull, bringing his head down to the ground. The last assassin jumped and brought down his sword but Batman sidestepped away and then broke the assassin’s left arm with his knee before bringing down his elbow on his skull. Knocking him out.

Batman tried charging to the portal but more assassins got in the way, suddenly the computer screen showed Lex Luthor.

“Greetings, Batman and little brats. I do apologize for not welcoming you personally, but I had more important matters to attend to. But don’t worry, I leave you all with a gift.” Lex Luthor smirked as an alarm rang out.

“Oracle, use all the information I sent to try and find Jason!” Red Robin shouted as the cave started exploding all around them. The entrances are being blocked by debris. The Assassins kept up their attacks on Batman and the others as they were pushed back together.

“We gotta get out of here!” Nightwing said as he bashed his baton over an assassin’s head.

“The entrances are blocked and we’re too far deep to blast our way out with the Batwing or Batmobile!” Robin said as he slashed an assassin in the leg and kicked him down.

“It looks like this is the end!” Red Robin blew some assassins away with his sonic weapon.

“No! Not tonight!” Batman said as he then called Oracle. “Call the Justice League, get them to help!” Batman said as he broke an assassin’s leg and tossed him away towards other assassins. Suddenly the machine started going haywire and sparks flew and some assassins were hit and they disappeared.

“That doesn’t look good,” Nightwing said as he jumped out of the way from some falling debris. The machine let out more power until it exploded, Batman and the others getting caught in the blast

“Batman? Dick? Tim?! Damian?!” Oracle cried out but all she heard was static.

Darkness. The void. That was all Batman could see. He was used to it, he stared into the abyss countless times before, then a light appeared. The light got brighter and Batman slowly opened his eyes, his vision returning to him as he groaned in pain. His body ached everywhere but he found the strength to stand up. Hearing the sound of traffic, people clamoring, and the buzz of Gotham.

“Wait.” Batman looked up and saw a…horse? A…flying horse…person? Flying overhead. Batman used his grappling hook to scale up a building and saw…Well, it sure as hell wasn’t Gotham. Batman gasped as he saw... Horse people? Walking around like humans. They had human-like bodies and hands, but that’s where the resemblance ends as they also had pony-like faces, hooves, tails, and different color coats. Batman noticed there were Unicorns, Pegasus, and normal horse people.

“This is where Jason has been sent to?” Batman asked out loud. “Nightwing, do you read me? Nightwing?” Batman tried reaching for the others using the comms but they didn’t work, cursing under his breath Batman used his grappling hook to soar through the air of this strange new city.

Batman would spend the next few days learning more about this world by breaking into the library and interrogating the scum of the city. He would also spend time fixing his communicator using tools he had in his utility belt.

Batman was inside an old apartment room whose guests left and was fixing his comms.

“Done.” Batman said to himself as he put on the cowl, turning on his communicator he took a deep breath and spoke "Jason?”

…

Nothing. Batman sighed softly until…

“…Bruce?”

Author's Note

Edited by the amazing WurkyWilk358! Go check him out as well as other league's stories^^ Don't forget to drop a comment on what you thought of the chapter. I love you all!