Justice League II: Dread

Chapter Eight: Star City

Star City, 8/21/15, 10:09 AM

Batman sighed as he felt his forehead standing in the middle of the street.  The street was blocked off on both sides by police cars while Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Wonderwoman examined the area.  Batman looked over the area where he had found heat signatures and fingerprints on the pavement.

"Well?"  Wonderwoman asked putting her hands on her hips as Batman crouched on the ground.

"I don't know who took him.  It could've been this metahuman he found or someone else."  Batman looked up at her, "I'm not sure.  But Black Lightning is now currently M.I.A."

"The locals saw nothing."  Martian Manhunter reported walking over, "The police chief has told me that no calls were sent in and no sightings have been recorded since."

"So he just disappeared into the night?"  Wonderwoman asked angrily, "Someone kidnapped him!"

"We don't know that...yet."  Batman retorted, "Give me some more time, I can find something if I'm given time."

"Fine."  Wonderwoman sighed, "You always do anyways..."

Batman raised an eyebrow at her as she muttered that.  He looked back down at the pavement and narrowed his eyes.

"I heard on the radio that Aquaman hasn't sent out any communications from Atlantis in a while.  Perhaps someone should check in on them."

"If you're trying to tell me to go down there and check then just tell me."  Wonderwoman replied angrily walking towards the nearest zeta-tube, "I'll go check."

"What's wrong with her?"  Batman muttered angrily.

"Perhaps you should try being a bit more understanding."  Martian Manhunter commented with a smile, "You two are very alike."

"Alike?"  Batman glared up at the martian, "I'd say barely."

"Say what you like."  Martian simply kept smiling,  "Even martians understand the prospect of love."

"We don't have room for that in our types of jobs."  Batman replied as he examined the ground.

"Yet it's the thing most of us need the most."  Martian Manhunter replied walking after Wonderwoman, "I'm going to go back to the Hall.  Superman needed me for something."

"Fine."  Batman muttered as he kept searching the ground for clues.  Hopefully, he would find something soon.

Poseidonis, 8/21/15, 10:20 AM

Wonderwoman looked around as she swam through the zeta-tube.  She widened her eyes as her eyes laid upon the destruction before her.  Poseidonis was in ruins.  Pillars were floating in the middle of the room and buildings were destroyed left and right.

"What the hell?"  Wonderwoman whispered as she swam through the formerly grand halls.  She gasped as she saw bodies floating all around.  She swam cautiously now.

"NO!"  A voice yelled a few paces away.  She quickly swam forward reaching a larger room where the bodies of several soldiers floated around.  In the middle of the room was a huge creature and a smaller figure.

"Stop!"  Wonderwoman boosted herself forward kicking the creature away and helping the smaller figure up, "Tula?"  She asked recognizing the Atlantean girl.

"Wonderwoman!"  Tula replied with hope, "You must help us!  It's Prince Orm!  He's evil!"

"What?"  Wonderwoman asked in confusion, "Orm?"

"YOU!"  A voice yelled from the other side of the room, she looked up to see a man in a golden mask standing there with a large trident in his hand.  Similar to the one Aquaman used.