Three Years Earlier...
Bruce Wayne let the blood drip from his split lip, keeping his breathing steady.
The men dragging him toward the van were professionals—the insignia in theur uniform helped bruce to figure out the identity of the kidnappers.
'Tony Li's men, no doubt'
He could break free, take them down now, but that wasn't the plan.
'Let them take me to their hideout.' Was on his mind.
For years he has been trying to find tony li's whereabout. But despite being a great detective, he cannot deduce where the said man was hiding as he never personally comes out of his shell most of the time.
As they threw him inside the van.
Headlights flashed. A black muscle car sped straight toward them.
The kidnappers barely had time to react before the car swerved, slamming into the front of their van.
The impact wasn't enough to wreck it, but it was enough to make them stumble back. Cursing, they turned toward the driver.
A girl in a costume.
Bruce's eyes narrowed as the girl gripped the wheel, looking as surprised as the men she had just interrupted.
One of the thugs growled, drawing a knife. "You wanna die tonight, lady?"
Another smacked the side of her car.
"Get out!"
'What an idiot, they should be retreating now.. I guess they're confident not getting caught because there's no surveilance around these part of the city.'
The girl didn't move. She was frozen in place and scared, gripping the wheel like it was her lifeline.
'What should i do?' She was confused, she didn't know what to do... 'Am i going to die?' She thought.
"Graaagghhh!!"
One of the men flew and sliding down the cold pavement.
-crack..
The car window's shattered.
"Eeek" scared the girl panicked and pressed the gas instead of reversing back.
Bruce was almost ran over, fortunately he manages to jump up, landing right at the trunk.
Such an spectacular was missed by the girl as she had her eyes close. And when she realized she pressed the wrong pedal, another men slammed hard right at the van where bruce was put into.
"What the hell, they didn't told us he knows how to fight"
The remaining men grabbed their gun, all pointed at bruce.
But before they could pull the trigger, a trash can's lid flew at them and bounced hard on the head of the two men, putting them down in almost instantly.
The last man was frozen, shocked and couldn't believe his eyes. All his friends were put down in less than a minute.
While he was stunned, bruce took this chance to snatch the gun from his hand and giving him a light jab right at his haw, knocking him down.
One of the men who'se pretending to be down silently takes out a knife.
When the girl opened her eyes, she couldn't believe what she was seeing, she couldn't help but ask herself 'what happened?' Why was everyone down?
Eventually her eyes locks on bruce's wide back.
"Mr. Wayne?" She called.
When suddenly one of the men quietly gets up and lunged at bruce with a knife in hand.
"Behind You!!" She screamed...
Even if she didn't point it out, bruce already noticed.
In a swift manner, with so little movement, he caught his arm from behind before pulling and slamming him hard down the concrete that made the man scream in pain before bruce delivers the final punch at his face, finally putting the man to sleep.
"Holy sh*t.. " the girl just learned something new about the famous bruce wayne... She could not believe what she was seeing.
"amazing" she muttered.
After all those actions was a silence.
Bruce exhaled, wiping his face with sweat...
"It's a little hot today" he whispered under his breath.
The girl in the car stared at him with awe, wide-eyed.
After all this fighting and making sure nothing would put the girl in harm, bruce approached her, stopping by the car window.
Knocking at the glass, the girl lowers the window down. Bruce asked. "Why didn't you call the police instead?"
The girl swallowed hard, gripping the wheel tighter. "I-I thought you needed help…"
While she observes bruce physique, her thought was completely different at the mention of the cops, she thought 'Do you even need one?'
Bruce stared at her. The way she fidgeted, and the way her voice shook, she was just a kid playing hero.
Probably...
"Why didn't you call the police instead?" He repeated.
For a moment she was silent.. She never gave an answer for that... No, that was because she never have an answer for that.
She had no idea how close she had come to dying.
Well more importantly, why is someone like bruce wayne doesn't have body guards protecting him? If he has then this incident wouldn't have happened...
Well after seeing what happened today, she kind of understood that it would be him protecting the body guards instead.
For the first time in a long while, bruce didn't know what to say. The silence was loud and the air is kind of awkward.
Hours later, though dissapointed that bruce didn't get tony li's location because of some unseen dumb kindness, he found something that intrigues him very much. Something he found in the van while waiting for the cops who always comes late.
It was a vial with joker's color pallete. Meaning it has green, white and violet and other things.. It was weird looking.
What was it exactly?
As he was about to go, the girl who introduces hersel as barbara kepts looking back at bruce.
With one finger in his mouth, he gestured to her to be quiet, and she did, zipping her mouth close as she waves bye.
"Well, it's not that bad... " he said, atleast he was a filled with a little hope that even in this god forsaken city... There's atleast something more to protect...
And that was the first time he meet barbara... Little did he know that their meeting wouldn't be the last.
He would come across her like once in every 2 months in a library, one time when he took robin with him in the national library, they found barbara sitting silently while reading tons of book.
And when she notices them, she would always wave a silent gesture.
Eventually bruce warms to her...
So maybe it was his fault thats why she is caught by some mentally sick clown called joker... Maybe one way he found how he is a little fond of the girl... And because she is a normal person, she was an easy target like how lois is if everyone knows the true identity of superman.
Bruce sat in the cockpit of the Batwing, the dull hum of the engines silently roared beneath him.
His eyes stayed locked on the screen, watching the comms feed.
Tracking traces and every whisper of movement. Searching for joker and his crew.
After being quiet for a year, he finally decided to move?
Where's are you joker..
Back to the bat-cave, alfred was tending to robin's wounds.
"Ack—!" Dick Grayson winced as antiseptic touched his wounds.
"Please stay still, Master Dick," Alfred said, dabbing carefully.
Robin gritted his teeth, forcing himself to focus on the news playing in the background.
The screen showed wreckage, reporters speaking over footage of a ruined city block.
"…the Justice League successfully defeated two rampaging monsters, preventing any casualties.…"
Dick exhaled. "wow, with that much damage.. I was sure there will be atleast 1 or 2 deaths.. "
Alfred gave him a knowing look.
Back to cyborg, his body being half alien tech. Maybe it's because of that that it was auto repairing itself.
"Batman, this is serious, the kid needs help.. "
He knows that.. But where would he bring the kid?
So far he knows the kid could self heal. But still...
They needed a base for the justice league itself where they could bring they're injured.
Maybe it's because batman still hasn't trusted any of them that much that he can't reveal the location of the batcave.
Well after this he might need to relocate.. Or not.
He can just make it look like he relocated somewhere when he actually didn't..
Then in the coms replied rimuru "I got him"
"Ciel" he silently whispered.
A quick action it was, an illusion magic played in green lantern's head.
To him it looks like rimuru pulled out some kind of sci-fi tech to increase the healing speed of cyborg. But in reality, he was healing him through magic to heal his physical flesh and time control to hasten the repair process.
And when it's done, cyborg was almost as good as new..
"I might need a talk with him when he wakes up.. "
At wonderwoman, she had luthor restrained with her lasso.
"Tempe- " she turned around only to find rimuru gone. "Where did you...?"
Well it doesn't matter..
Meanwhile superman had easily caught tony li.
For now they have all the heads, not knowing that one of the mastermind had passed away by his greed to immortality.
Now the only one who has problem is batman, he could not find the trace of joker...
Pressing on his ear piece, batman contacted the present leagues and told them.
"Keep an eye on them, don't let them escape... I will be back shortly, i just have problems of my own" bruce said.
And as superman was about to ask "Wha- " the call ended with a silent thinning sound.
"The hell... " green lantern muttered.
Meanwhile the joker itself is inside a dark room where barbara is tied. He is accompanied by harley quinn who was watching the entrance.
"That kid" she was infuriated because she thought they were embarassed by a child who's younger than her.
The unconscious girl slowly opens her eyes, just a little gap enough to see what was going on... She was scared and keeps calling for help internally. She could not raise her voice for a reason.
Then suddenly, her ear piece glowed a faint red light that is bareky noticable.
At the sametime batman smiled looking at his radar, looking at the visible target mark.
A/n: Got tons of school work in the previous months, now that everything is all done i guess i should get back into... You know..
Well partly why i didn't updated for so long is because i'm working on my own original novel hoping i could make some money in the WEBNOVEL App...
Just incase some of ya'll asked... No i still haven't published that story...
I guess the plot is something like isekai, like person from modern earth got reincarnated into a fantasy world and suddenly found herself in a very futuristic world where magic isn't a thing...
Kind of like Star Wars but with a Wizard (one person who can use magic in a futuristic sci-fi world)... And theres also aliens.