A World Not Of His Own

Chapter 1

Dick POV

(4 hours earlier)

"C'mon KF!" I yelled to my friend as we played catch in the bioship. They were all passing the ball around and I was in the middle trying to grab it. I was too short. Then I had a clever idea. I jumped up and grappled on the ceiling. I could be as tall as I needed too. I caught the ball one handed, "Ha! I win!" I jumped down and sat back in my seat. "We are nearing the warehouse," M'gann informed us as she lowered the bioship into an alley behind the warehouse and put it in camouflage mode. Kaldur aka Aqualad was team leader today and he was getting to assign our teams, "M'gann and Artemis. Kid Flash and Robin. Superboy and me. We will each enter at a different point and attack from all ends at the Joker. If there are goons Robin will take Joker and we will get the goons. This is his city after all." We all jumped from the bioship and onto the roof. We split up. I dragged Wally with me to a hole in the roof and looked down. It was at least a twenty foot drop into unknown darkness. "Uh. Can't we just take the front door?" Wally asked hesitantly. I grabbed him set up my grappling hook and jumped in. He nearly shrieked but I covered his mouth. Wally clutched me tightly until we touched the ground then still didn't let go because his eyes were closed. I tapped his shoulder. He released me and was blushing. We were suddenly attacked.

As usual I am the last one standing and my teams only hope. They are all tied up in chairs to watch me fight for my life and their lives. I already hurt one of my legs and my left shoulder was dislocated. I called for Batman an hour ago but no one has showed up to help me. Maybe the signal didn't go through. You would think a fancy piece of Wayne tech can get past a cell phone jammer but it can't. I am helpless and I can't fight much longer. I was right because when they hit my other leg I dropped to my knees. Two goons grabbed me and picked me up. Joker got out a camera. "Aww. You want this memory to last forever. Like they say a picture is worth a thousand words!" I said as I cackled to Joker. I have to admit that I look like crap so I don't know how well that picture is going to look.

Joker turned on the camera and stood where he blocked me from view, "Hello Batsy! I know you are impressed that I hacked your cave and since I went through all this trouble and your birdie went through so much trouble to get here, I thought we would give you a call." The camera turned on me and I tried to keep my eyes open and my head up but I couldn't. "Poor birdie called for your help but my jammer stopped you. Better come pick up you little team. Or what is left. Today I am going to shoot one of your members. And I have invited you to watch the show," Joker said. He side stepped to show me and then pointed a gun at my head. It was no regular gun and he pulled the trigger. I was enveloped in light and it looked like I had disintegrated.