AN: Welcome to the longest ARC of them all. Here we will see two worlds collide...In seriousness, hope you guys like what happens next! ENJOY.

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Seventy: Welcome to the New World

Up above the clouds, looking down from the stars was the Satellite Watchtower, a base used by the Justice League. It has been there for years and is used both for surveillance and to be the first line of defense against any threats from beyond the stars.

Right now though, everyone was scrambling inside. The last thing everyone remembered, a bright light flashed that enveloped their vision...only for them to see the moon shattered with odd energy inside the cracks.

But it was what Mr. Terrific observed down below them, that made even him shutter. He pressed a button on the computer column.

"This is Mr. Terrific, we have an emergency! Everyone get ready to be transported to the tower!"

But no response.

"What's going on!? Anyone read me?"

Behind him Green Arrow came over to ask the obvious.

"So, there's a situation happening?"

"Of course there is. I've lost all communication with the leaguers on the ground."

"Can't you just beam us down there?"

"...You really want to risk going down there?"

Mr. Terrific pointed down...and Green Arrow's eyes widened as he couldn't comprehend what he was looking at.

"The hell is that?"

"...That would be the real situation."

Below them...a shattered Earth, with the same energy filling in the cracks...however the most terrifying aspect to this, was the fact that this Earth almost two times the size of the regular one.

Earth had been reshaped.

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Emilia slowly woke up as she rubbed the back of her head, making a noise of drowsiness. She looked around and saw that she was in some sort of alleyway, she quickly dusted herself off as she saw what exactly she was covered...sand.

"Finally awake, I suppose?"

"Ah, Beatrice!"

Beatrice was ahead of her sitting on crate as she folded her arms, she might as well have been telling her that she was bored waititng for her. From behind Emilia's ear, Puck emerged from her hair and nugged her cheeks.

"Puck! You're okay...thank goodness."

"I'm also glad you're doing fine, Lia."

With their happy reunion done, Beatrice got up and dusted herself off. She then motioned Emilia over with her hands as Emilia let Puck rest on her shoulder. When she got closer to the spirit...that's when she began to hear noises she had no idea of what they were. They sounded foreign, mysterious and odd.

When Beatrice and Emilia exited the alleyway, they saw that they were in a grand bustling marketplace, beyond it was a unique city, one they had never seen before. Around these markets were strange machines that seemed to go by and make noise.

"Beatrice...are those-"

"-Indeed, I believe those would be...cars, I suppose. Betty recalls all the tales Subaru and Bruce told us about them, so it's safe to assume those are indeed them."

Emilia stared around in wonder of all the different looking people, their strange clothing and the odd animals with humps on their backs.

"..But wait! Doesn't that mean...you know?"

"Emilia has come to the right conclusion...it appears, we have been taken to their world, I suppose."

"...Where's Subaru? And Rem? And everybody else?"

Emilia almost raced off, before being held back by Beatrice.

"Stop this at once, I suppose! We need to keep our heads clear. I'm worried about Subaru and the others too, but right now we need to explore around our environment. Either we run into the others or we don't and we can get a better understanding of where we are and what to do next, I suppose."

"...I guess you're right then."

Beatrice took a deep breath and took Emilia's hand, she put on a warm smile for her, probably to relax her more.

"Let's go find the others then."

"Yeah, sure thing!"

The two walked through the city and were amazed by everything around them. For being a city located in a desert, the city was filled with life. Emilia and Beatrice found it humorous when Puck got too close to an animal called a camel and it sneezed on him, the two of them couldn't stop laughing.

They met with many shopkeepers and were eventually told by a kind old lady that they were in a country called Kahndaq. The kind old lady was petting Puck when she suggested to them to go to the palace, that maybe someone there would help them.

As the they continued through the streets, many people were staring and whispering at the three. At first Emilia was scared that they were offended by her being a half-elf, but Puck shook his head.

"It's amazing Lia! They all think you're pretty and gorgeous."

"R-Really!?"

"Yeah, that's what they all seemed to be whispering about."

"Wow...this world really is different than ours...Hehe, kind of like it."

The comments were indeed about Emilia's beauty, not only that, but many older ladies and young boys were commenting how cute Beatrice was. And everyone was puzzled by the cat floating next to them. But here, things would just be like that.

Now they took a rest near a small fountain watching everyone go about their business.

"You know Beatrice…"

"What is it, I suppose?"

"I..I'd really like to get in a car with Subaru, or maybe even learn how to use one. They seem so interesting."

"Betty is also fascinated in how they operate, maybe when we find the others, we'll ask Subaru and Bruce how exactly they work."

Peole sat around them on the fountain using their cells, reading books...but one man in a hoodie sat on the other side of them with a metal briefcase. Suddenly, a bank across from them was getting robbed by six masked men. Many citizens ran for their lives, but Emilia and Beatrice stayed alert. They saw exactly what they were using, and it made Emilia's blood boil.

"G-Guns…"

She put an especially angry look, Puck could sense the anger in her heart. He quickly understood why she would hate guns.

"Lia, what do you want to do?"

"We have to stop them!"

Emilia and Beatrice dashed forward, one of the robbers tried to shoot at them, but Emilia quickly put up an ice shield, actually blocking the bullets. When he tried to aim downward at her legs, Beatrice made it over the side.

"Minya!"

The robber had his head blasted apart, two of the other attempted to fire on Beatrice, but they were frozen in ice. Emilia turned around to see it was a hooded man with an odd weapon that looked like a gun, mist was escaping the barrel.

Emilia turned her attention back to the remaining three so she summoned a plethora of ice spears, each one shot down on their feet and froze them solid. She then heard a car speed off and saw a panicking masked man driving it.

"Oh no you don't!"

Emilia got Puck's help and accurately fired an ice spear at the tire, tearing it apart. The car spun out of control before the hooded man fired from his gun again, it shot an ice glacier out of the ground which the car crashed into. The driver got out and held his head with one hand and an Ak-47 in the other, when he saw the hooded man, he aimed his gun at him, but Beatrice was now behind him and kicked him in the back of the head. When he lost his footing she low kicked him.

"Hi-yah, I suppose!"

"OOF!"

He fell on the back of his head, before Puck flew over and froze him in place. Beatrice dusted herslef and crossed her arms.

"That was annoying, I suppose."

Emilia breathed a sigh of relief with the battle over, but many citizens were trying to thank her for her participation in stopping the robbers, but she quickly made her way through the mob and met Beatrice and Puck near the fountain.

"Hey you guys, boy was that something."

"Truly, Betty was shocked at how utterly weak that man earlier was, I suppose. Even Subaru could beat him."

"Subaru is pretty tough now."

She blushed as she said this, making the little spirt nod in agreement with her.

Emilia then saw that hooded figure was moving away so she quickly grabbed Beatrice's hand and hurried to meet with him.

"Um, excuse me.!"

"...?"

The hooded man turned around and looked at the two people.

"What do ya want?"

The man seemed to have a rude demeanor to him, it seemed to upset Beatrice, but Emilia was unfazed by it. She did a polite bow.

"Thank you very much for your help today. I might have been in real trouble if you didn't get involved. So you have my thanks."

"It's not really anything to be thankful for, I just didn't like those guys ruining a nice day like today. Just me doing my thing."

"Either way, you helped a lot of people."

The hooded man sighed loudly as he took off his hood, and rubbed his forehead. He was a young looking man with brown hair and brown eyes, he had a laid back expression as he glanced at Emilia and Beatrice...then..

"Is that a flying cat?"

"Um, yes. He's my contracted spirit Puck."

Puck floated over and put out his paw for him to shake.

"The name's Puck, nice to meet you."

"Yo."

"And what's your name?"

He coughed a bit before letting them know.

"Leonard Snart."

"Hmmmm...interesting fella."

Puck floated back to Emilia, but before they could even answer anything, a lightning bolt struck ahead of them, they saw a man in a black costume with a bright yellow lightning bolt symbol on his chest. His black cape still had electricity flowing around it.

He quickly walked over to them.

"Will someone care to explain what is going on here?"

Luckily, his anger was curbed when several officers came to him and explained what had occurred. He nodded and looked over at them, noticing the strange girls with Snart and…

"Is that a flying cat?"

"Goodness, are they that odd around here?"

"The only one I know about is not the most friendliest creature in the cosmos."

"Well have no fear sir, Puck is suuuuper good! Well behaved!"

Puck kaughed hearing Emilia say that and winked at him, making the man narrow his eyes a bit.

"So, Captain Cold...who are these ladies with you?"

"Don't know they just showed up all of sudden."

Emilia then realized the rudness she displayed not introducing herself.

"Oh pardon me. Ahem! My name is Emilia."

She then looked down and happily nodded at Beatrice.

"My name is Beatrice, the Great Spirit contracted with Natsuki Subaru. I am the master of Yin magic, I suppose."

The two men looked at each other as they had no idea what to think of them.

"Oh, excuse me mister but could you help us get to the palace?"

"...What do you need to do at the palace?"

"We need to see whoever is in charge! We need their assistance to help us find our friends!"

"Your friends? You have lost them?"

"Yeah, Subaru and the others disappeared after that light hit-"

The man got closer to them with an expectant expression, even Leonard was quite surprised they also remembered the light.

"What do you know of that light from earlier?"

"Nothing much...when it hit, we all got seperated, me, Subaru, Frederica, Batman and-"

"-Wait...what did you just say?!"

"B-Batman. He's one of the people we're looking for."

The man soon put a hand on his chin as he contemplated…

"Alright, I'll have some people drive you to the palace, there we may speak more comfortably."

"Oh, thank you so much...oh I didn't get your name?"

"I am Black Adam. I am the ruler of this nation you stand in."

"...EHHHH?! You're the king of this country? Oh my, it is an honor to meet you, Black Adam-sama."

Emilia quickly bowed again and made it evident she was aware how to behave around royalty. Black Adam nodded at this as he floated in the air.

"We shall meet at the palace."

He flew away quickly...that's when they thought about it...cars, people who can fly, and guns.

Beatrice, Puck and Emilia faced each other as they solved the mystery.

"WE'RE IN BATMAN'S WORLD!"

Leonard scratched his head watching the oddballs converse.

Now in a limousine that was sent to pick them up, the group was now on the way to the palace. They had a insightful conversation with Leonard about Kahndaq and the world they themselves were from.

"Soooo, you guys use crap like magic and spells in your world?"

"Yeah, but you don't seem too suprised by all this."

"Hey, I've seen some crazy things in my life. I won't doubt you on that."

"That's the exact opposite of how I reacted! I was so surprised when Subaru and Batman said these kind of things I reeeally though they were crazy!"

Emilia laughed off the comment, even as Beatrice tilted her head at Leonard.

"What's up kid?"

"Firstly, Betty is an all powerful spirit, so compared to everyone here you are the youngest one here, child, I suppose."

"Jeez, talk about ego."

"Anyways, I sense that you have an affinity."

"Affinity?"

Puck floated over and sat next to Leonard.

"Yeah, I sensed it too Betty! This guy has a high affinity towards Spirits!"

"What the hell does that mean?"

"It means you have the higher capability to have a spirit be contracted to you than most people, like how I am with Lia and Betty is with Subaru."

"Huh, that does sound interesting."

Leonard chuckled to himself as he looked out the window...then Emilia cleared her throat.

"So Leonard-san, Black Adam-sama called you Captain Cold, is that like how Batman is not really his name?"

"Wow, you even know Batman's real name?...Though I suppose you won't tell me what it is?"

"Nope!"

"Alright then. Captain Cold was a title I had about three years ago...I was a pretty nasty guy back then, I just did some bad things here and there...but, I had to change with the times, so I decided to do this one last deal and retire for good."

"And what would that be?"

"...I'm going to give Black Adam my Frost Gun, sell it's schematics to him for a high price and live nicely in some mansion somewhere, I guess. It's the least I can do to redeem myself."

"...Man, you say some crude things, just like Deathstroke-san."

Emilia sounded disappointed with his response, making Leonard chuckle-

"Wait! Did you just say Deathstroke?!"

"Yeah, Slade-sensei is very dark in his humor like-"

"-Yeah yeah! I'm asking you if you knew that dude?!"

"Well of course! He's my bodygaurd and martial arts teacher after all!"

Leonard held his head in pure exhaustion, he was obviously shell shocked to hear that she knew him too. Emilia and Beatrice sighed while Puck playfully tilted his head at the tired looking man.

Now inside the palace, the four went through the great halls and made it through some large doors. Inside, they saw Black Adam sitting on his throne as he was speaking with a very pretty woman.

All of them, except Leonard did a small bow, Emilia saw this and yanked his ear and made him bow as well. Black Adam was suprised to see this, but did appreciate it.

He stood up as his wife left to take care of other tasks. He got up from his throne.

"Before I handle the matter with Snart, Emilia, Beatrice and you, Puck. You must tell me what exactly is going on here!"

Emilia took a deep breath and put her hands on her hips.

"You're for quite the story Black Adam-sama."

And so...she began to tell him everything she knew….

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Hearing something she was unfamiliar with, Rem opened her eyes to feel something underneath her. It was a kind of dirt that she was quite unknown with.

"Huh?"

She looked ahead and saw nothing but a vast lake, one too large to traverse, too vast to know the distance of and too frightening for her. She quickly got up and wiped herself free of the dirt and looked around.

"Subaru-kun?! Subaru-kun?! Emilia-sama?! Nee-sama?! NEE-SAMA!"

She looked around but all she saw was a steep cliff and...someone laying on the ground a few feet away. She ran over to see who exactly who it was.

"Ah! Garf!"

She saw it was Garf who was laying head first in the dirt, she pulled him up and slapped him awake.

"Wake up wake up! Wake up Garf! Subaru-kun and Nee-sama are in danger!"

"Oof! Ow! Knock off th' slappin'!"

She stopped for a moment then began slapping him again.

"Your eyes aren't fully open Garf! Open them or Rem will open them for you!"

"Cause' they're swellin'! Yer the one makin' them this way!"

Rem let go of Garfiel and looked around. Garfiel rubbed his face as he pulled himself together.

"Garf, where are we?!"

"...Looks like we're on some kinda' island. I read tha' they exist near Vollachia."

"So we're near Vollachia?"

"Dunno, but we should go an' explore a bit."

They both nodded as they both started jumping up the cliff side. Once at the top, they saw that there was indeed nothing but water, far as the eye can see. Rem and Garfiel took big sniffs in the air.

But they didn't find anything.

"..."

"Don' worry Rem, Boss and the others should be doin' jus' fine. We just gotta keep lookin."

"But...Rem can't smell him anywhere nearby. And I'm worried about Nee-sama and the others too…"

It was obvious Rem was trembling at the idea of her friends being hurt or worse. Garfiel put a hand on her shoulder and sighed.

"It's alright ta be anxious Rem, but we gotta keep out wits and shit. We need ta go and find everyone. Tha' way we'll be ta able to fix this mess."

"...Okay...Subaru-kun will know what to do."

"Yeah."

The two turned around to see a flat grassland, ahead was a lush forest and huge mountains. So they decided to venture further.

They went through the forest for quite a long time, both were determined to find out where they were. Nothing was clear of where they were but both of them were always surprised by beautiful white birds that they had never seen before.

Even then, Rem felt something odd…

"Garf…"

"Yeah...someone's watchin' us…"

Just then several people leapt out of the top of the trees and tried stabbing them with spears. Garfiel stomped on the ground kicked used a single foot to kick the spears away. Rem summoned her Morningstar and swiped one of the warriors away. One of them attempted to charge at her with a sword, she dodged each strike, before she tripped the assailant with her chain and punched her through a tree.

Garfiel roared as he caught a sword in his teeth in his teeth and broke it, kicking his opponent away. Another one...came charging at him on a flying horse. Garfiel smashed the ground, grabbed the piece of earth and tossed it at her. She dodged it, but didn't realize Garfiel jumped on the boulder, kicked off of it and punched her off her horse. He then grabbed the horse and slammed it on another opponent.

Rem kneed one of them in the face, before twirling in the air and firing ice spears at her opponents.

"Huma!"

They stabbed them in the shoulders, legs and arms. She took advantage and punched each one with a chain wrapped fist. She was ready to defend herself again, when she heard Garfiel scream.

"Garf?!"

"UAGGGGHHHHH!"

He was wrapped in a shining golden rope and was raised up high in the air...there was powerful looking woman in a colorful armor with an eagle symbol on her chest bone area and metal bracelets. She also had a shield and sword sheathed away. Her black hair swayed as she was floating in the air.

Rem tried to reach him, but more warriors appeared around her and she had no choice but defend herself.

She pulled him up as she unsheathed her sword and put it on his cheek.

"Who are you!?"

"I'm Garfiel Tinsel."

"What are you doing on my island?!"

"We're lookin' for our buddies!"

"On this island?! Are you mad?!"

"NAH! We're lookin' for them! We lost em' in th' light!"

The woman's blue eyes widened as she tightened the rope around Garfiel.

"Who are you looking for?!"

"Natsuki Subaru, my sister Frederica Baumann, Ram, Bruce Wayne, Petra Leyte and-"

The rope was further tightened around him as her brows raised.

"Bruce...Bruce Wayne?! How do you know Bruce Wayne?!"

"We've known him for years! He's also my sis's fiance!"

She slowly loosened her grip and yelled down.

"Warriors! Stand down! I order you all to stop!"

Rem saw that all the warrior quickly backed away from her and lowered her weapons...when she took a closer look at them, she saw that they were all women. She was surprised to see this, but shook her head and was prepared to do whatever she could to prepare to fight. However she calmed down when she saw the flying woman float down and put Garfiel down.

"Garf!"

She ran over to check on him, but he was still wrapped up in the strange rope. Rem looked up at the woman who stared down at her...that's when the woman noticed her hair clip. It was quite obvious what it entailed.

"You also know Bruce?"

"Of course, Rem is a humble maid serving him and Subaru-kun. And he's been Rem's friend for many years."

"...I see."

She turned around and pulled Garfiel up. She then raised her hand.

"Bring the injured with us, and these two are coming with us for questioning."

Rem saw no choice in the matter so she gave one of them her Morningstar and they moved out of the forest.

Once out of the forest they saw a humongous city with beautiful white marble buildings large towers and trees. Ahead of it all was the large body of water from before.

"So pretty."

"This is soooo cool!"

Rem gazed around as all the denizens were watching them with curiosity, noticing a big detail.

"Garf...look it's only women."

"Yer right! Where are all th' dudes?"

The woman finally turned around to further explain herself.

"Then I can see you both have no idea where you are?"

They both shook their head side to side.

"Very well, this is the island of Themyscira. It is an Amazonian Island protected by the gods...no men are allowed here."

"Oh! That's almost unbelievable, but looking around Rem can see this is the truth."

She then panicked.

"D-Does that mean Subaru-kun won't be able to come with Rem here?"

"Subaru?"

"Yes, Rem's beloved hero Natsuki Subaru! He and Bruce-san are considered the Great Sage and Champion Hero of our kingdom."

"...How long have you know Bruce?"

"...Mm, about three years now."

She looked away before she took a deep breath.

"And you say he has a fiance?"

"Well, he's engaged to two women and has a baby on the way."

"I see-WAIT HUH?!"

She couldn't help but turn her head and have flushed cheeks as she heard this.

"B-Bruce is engaged with two people?!"

"Yes, Frederica onee san is his first wife and Sarah-sama is his second. Oh and it's his first wife that's pregnant."

Her eyes were spinning as she heard this but shook her head and made an annoyed face, but Rem giggled a bit.

"Oh, you never told me your own name miss-?"

"-Diana. I am Queen Diana of Themyscira."

Both Garfiel and Rem stopped dead in their tracks as they stared wide eyed.

"Diana-sama! You are a queen?!"

"Duuuude! Tha' is so sick!"

Diana brushed her hair away from her face as she the two do a polite bow, she giggled to herself and they kept moving.

The party reached their final destination...Diana was now sitting on her throne as she looked down at the two people standing before her. They could sense the intensity in the air...from what they also learned earlier, men were usually killed if they set foot there, but it seemed Diana was making an exception.

Garfiel and Rem took their moment to make themselves presentable and introduced themselves.

"Hey, the name's Garfiel Tinsel, I am th' Strongest Shield! Nice to meet ya'!"

"It is a pleasure to meet you, I am Rem, loyal servant servant to the two great heroes, Batman and Rem's dearly beloved Natsuki Subaru."

They both smiled, making Diana relax…

"Now please tell me, everything you know…"

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Frederica and Subaru were now top of an apartment complex rooftop, looking around at the mismatched city. Some buildings were Gotham's and the others were Lugnica's...down below the police and knights were trying to get things in order, with dragon carriages having nowhere to go and demi-humans trying to explain themselves to the residents of this world.

Subaru sighed...he saw the mismatched environment had cracks in the ground with a white energy inside.

"Just what is going on?"

"Subaru-sama."

Subaru glanced back at Frederica as she pointed to the Bat Symbol in the sky.

"Do you think that might be a way to help us?"

"Hopefully, I used the very same thing once to get Bruce-san's attention for us to meet."

"Then he may be doing the same thing?"

Subaru gave a quick smirk and nod.

Frederica held onto Subaru and she jumped. She jumped from rooftop to rooftop getting closer to the place of origin for the searchlight…

A wheel chair bound orange haired woman with glasses was waiting for awhile...until she saw her intended party.

"Hey there."

"Been really outrageous today."

Landing in front of Commissioner Barbara Gordon was Batman. His suit was very similar to the one Bruce always wore but with a much more yellow and blue scheme in mind.

"So can you tell me what's happening Dick?"

"Not sure, but it seemed to be an event that affected the entire world. Whatever that light was, the Batcave detected strange energies in it."

"Strange energies?"

"Yeah, apparently it detected some kind of energy entering our world...something similar to what the magcal folks have."

"You think this is magic based?"

Batman looked out to his city and lowered his shoulders.

"I couldn't say for sure."

"...Regardless, my officers have been reporting strange people appearing all over the city. We're going to treat this matter as a refugee crisis and help them as we get to the bottom of this."

"Good idea maybe then-"

They suddenly heard a voice yelling. He looked down the side and saw what appeared to be a golden haired woman holding onto a a young man in a tracksuit, jumping up at them.

As they landed on the rooftop, the two of them fixed themselves as they looked over.

"Batman-san!"

"...?"

Batman made it clear to them he was Batman by making his voice deeper and speaking with them.

"Do I know you?"

"...Y-You okay? You're voice sounds kind of funny."

"This is my voice-"

Subaru was then pulled away by Frederica who was slowly transforming free arm into her cat form.

This made Barbara grab her pistol and Batman grab some Batarangs.

"Frederica? What are you doing?!"

"That isn't him!"

"H-How can you tell?"

"I can tell...I would always know his smell above anyone elses...this man is another impostor!"

She was gritting her sharp teeth at them as she was getting in a battle position. Just the idea of another impostor, similar to those they saw back at the capital made her soul churn in rage.

Luckily for all of them…

"Answer me! What have you done with Bruce?!"

"...What?"

His voice lowered down and he slowly put down the Batarang, Barbara lowered her gun slightly.

"What do you mean Bruce?"

Subaru saw his chance and took it.

"That's our friend's name, Bruce Wayne, the REAL Batman."

"...NO, that's not possible."

He took a step back, making Subaru ponder a bit.

"Wait...Wait a minute! Bruce told me he had a replacement in his world as Batman! You, you're Dick Grayson right?!"

"Oh my god...so you know where Bruce is?! He...He isn't dead?"

Batman removed his mask and revealed a young handsome man with combed hair. His dark blue eyes stared into Subaru's mismatched eyes. Frederica finally relaxed and stood firm next to Subaru.

"So, he's okay?"

"Okay? Hmmmmm...he gets hurt a lot, but all in all he's fine."

Barbara holstered her gun and rolled her wheelchair to them.

"Excuse me, but how can we believe in anything you're saying?"

"Yeah it is hard to believe...but it's the truth. Me and Bruce have been friends for three years."

"...But he's been missing for six years."

Subaru and Frederica were quite shocked to hear, that in his world, Bruce had been missing for a total of six years.

"Subaru-sama, do you think it has to do with the Sand Time you guys faced?"

"Maybe, but when that happened it only skipped us forward less than year."

The other two look perplexed by what they were saying so Subaru gave a quick rundown of their Quest to the Watchtower.

"You mean to tell me that all happened to you guys?"

"I wasn't with them in particular when it happened, but to me it was like Bruce and Subaru-sama were gone for a whole year."

"...So wild, can't believe Bruce was sent to another world, especially one we couldn't find."

Just then, sparks of yellow electricty shot up from the side of the building and out of it appeared a slender man with blue eyes and wearing a suit with red all around and electric symbols all over his body, predominetly on his chest.

"Batman we've-"

Before he could even finish he saw a maskless Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon and two strangers staring at him.

"...Are you insane?! Put your mask back on!"

"It's alright, they know who I am."

"Beg your pardon?"

Subaru and Frederica analyzed this stranger and rembered some of the tales Bruce told them about his world...one of which...

"AH!"

"OH!"

Both Frederica and Subaru happily pointed at the man and both excitedly called him out.

"You're Barry Allen! The World's Fastest Man!"

Flash kept an expressionless face...then it fell apart instantly.

"W-W-What the hell?! How do they know me?! Why do they know my identity?! And why are they looking me like they discovered a new species?!"

Subaru and Frederica were staring at him with sparkles forming around their eyes.

Dick leaned his back against the wall as he sighed.

"Barry...they know Bruce."

"...What? But he's well you know-"

"-No, they've been with him since he disappeared."

"Outrageous."

Flash looked at the two of them and tilted his head slightly.

"Prove it."

"Um, Bruce said that you like to look up trivia and then recite them back to people as 'Flash Facts'."

"...Uhhhh, Anything else?"

"Oh! Bruce once said that when you were 16, you ended up going to a fair and-"

"-STOP! Okay, you know Bruce...he promised he would never tell anyone that story."

Barry sighed as now everyone understood they knew Bruce Wayne.

Subaru put out his hand to introduce himself. Flash quickly dahsed to him and shook his hand.

"Introductions a little late, but oh well...my name is Barry Allen, also known as the Flash, fastest man alive."

"It's awesome to meet you! My name is Natsuki Subaru."

Behind Subaru, Frederica stepped forward and did a elegant curteous bow.

"Greetings to you all, my name is Frederica W. Baumann, I am a humble maid at the residence where these two reside."

"O-Oh, wow. Never had someone bow to me like that before, makes me a little nervous. Haha."

Flash rubbed the back of his head and laughed a bit.

The others introduced themselves as well.

"I'm Dick Grayson, the current Batman. It's great to meet ya. This lovely lady right next to me is Commissioner Barbara Gordon."

"Hello."

Barbara then glanced at Frederica and had to ask.

"Forgive me for asking, but you have a W in your name...why's that?"

Frederica blushed and covered her goofy grin with a hand.

"I am betrothed to Bruce Wayne, and we even have a child on the way."

Frederica happily rubbed her belly as the three on the roof nodded their heads...then screamed in surprise from what they just heard.

Barry was using his super speed to dash back and forth.

"That's insane! Bruce is getting married and he has a kid on the way?! Are we talking abou the same Batman here?"

"He is a rough person to be with, but I worked hard to get him to love me."

She winked at Barry who slumped his shoulders down in defeat. Dick was holding his head as his entire world was spinning. But he shook his head and made it clear what they would be doing next.

"Alright, everyone! We'ere going to discuss things more at the Batcave, I'm going to contact the Batwing to take us there."

"Okay!"

"Flash, meet us over there."

Flash nodded and gave a cheeky goodbye wave before running off at incredible speed.

The Batwing appeared above them before lowering down next to the edge of the building, making Subaru and Frederica feel nostalgia from what they were seeing.

"Alright everyone hop in!"

Batman, Subaru and Frederica got inside, they all glanced up at Barbara, who nodded at them. Even if she wanted to go with them, she was still the commissioner, so she had work to do.

"See ya Barbs."

"Yeah."

The roof of the Batwing closed and it jetted off.

Inside, Batman looked back at them.

"Tell me everything you can when we get there."

"Alright, but man...have we got a story for you."

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Through the brushes and trees emerged Batman in his new knight armor, glancing around so he could find anything useful. But he heard more noises behind him and sighed.

"Still, I'm dissapointed that of all the people I got seperated with...it had to be you."

Roswaal smiled at him as made his way past a tree.

"Ohhhh my, it hurts when you say such stinging comments like that Bruce-san."

"I can't help but feel that way when you're nearby. Still, enough with the jokes already, we need to keep moving and find out where we are exactly."

"Whaaat about your comm link? Does it noooot work?"

"No, I've tried already, whatever that light was it seemed to fry a lot of communication systems. So we should just keep moving."

"Leaaaad the way then."

As Batman and Roswaal continued trecking through the wooded areas, smashing branches and pushing away bushes...Roswaal's eyes darkened, his mind was a mess of questions filled with anger.

"Why did this happen?! We were so close to out end goal! Then those idiots looking like Natsuki Subaru and Batman attacked...the light appeared and….ARGGHH! How is this happening?!"

He glanced at the back of Batman then sighed quietly.

"Nonetheless, I must continue on...use Bruce as a shield if need be. I have to survive in order to find my way...to her."

Now out of the forest, Batman saw a dirt road...but it was one that looked frighteningly familiar. He looked to his side...and he stared engagingly at what he was looking at.

"Oh my god…"

"Whaaat is it Bruce-san?"

"Roswaal look at that."

Roswaal turned his head only to be quite shell shocked by what he was looking at.

"It's impossible…"

"But it's right there...it's….YOUR MANSION."

Ahead of them, down the dirt road, was the Roswaal Mansion standing tall, and not the smoldering wreckage that they last saw it as.

"Roswaal...we need to investigate."

"Sure, but what doooo you expect to find?"

"Answers hopefully."

The two men walked straight to the gates and opened them, they were still cautious, not knowing if this was some sort of illusion or trap. Roswaal glanced around and looked up at the sky...it was still the afternoon hours, maybe just a few minutes after the light hit them. They were now at the door, Batman pulled out his sword and looked back at Roswaal, whispering to him.

"Be ready for anything Roswaal."

"Of course…"

They opened the door and saw the usual entryway from two years ago. Batman silently entered and observed all around him. Roswaal shut the door behind and was also being careful.

Then they heard footsteps. Both of them got in their own respective battle stances-

"Roswaal-sama, you've returned. Welcome back."

Both men lowered thier guard when they saw a certain pink haired maid looking down at them from the top of the stairs.

"R-Ram?"

"Is something wrong Roswaal-sama?"

She hurried down stairs to check on her master but turned her attention to Bruce.

"H-Have you brought a guest with you Roswaal-sama?"

"Ram?"

Both men looked at each other in utter confusion, Roswaal decided to ask her.

"Ram, whaaaat are you saying? It's Batman-san, don't you think you're being a little harsh-"

"-But Roswaal-sama, I've never met this man before in my life."

"B-But we were aaaaall just together in the capital just a few minutes ago."

Ram reached up and touched Roswaal's cheeks.

"Are you well? You don't seem to be having a fever."

"...You don't remember him-"

Then Batman looked up and saw another familiar face coming down the stairs.

"Nee-sama, what is happening? Is someone here?"

"...R-Rem?"

Keeping a hand on the sides of the staircase was Rem, but she was in her usual uniform and not the one Subaru designed for her.

Bruce noticed she had a pale face and had bags under her eyes, she was struggling to get down the stairs, and when it was obvious she was about to trip...Batman ran up the stairs and held her close.

When he held her, he noticed she was breathing shallowly and was sweating profusely.

"Rem, are you okay? What's wrong-"

"-DON'T TOUCH MY LITTLE SISTER!"

Batman was knocked away by Ram, who quickly held Rem instead.

Roswaal went over to Batman to see if he was okay. He nodded, showing he was fine. They looked at Ram who was harshly glaring at Bruce.

"How dare you touch my sister...WHO ARE YOU!? Why do you know our names?! Why are with Roswaal-sama!? Answer me!"

"Ram...We're friends. We've been friends for three years now."

"Madness! I've never met you in my life!"

"But right now we were all just at the capital together. You, me, Rem, Roswaal, Subaru, Emilia and-"

"-DON'T YOU DARE MENTION THAT SCUM'S NAME TO ME!"

Roswaal and Batman flinched hearing Ram roar at Batman. She had a look akin to murder plastered on her face.

"That worthless bastard is dead to me!"

"What do you mean? What happened to Subaru?!"

"What happened?...What a joke, he was at the capital with my little sister after he was left there, having an embarrassing hissy fit at the castle."

"...When the Royal Selection started."

"...And what does he do? When my sister shows him her devotion, love and willingness to help him?...HE RAN AWAY FROM HER!"

"No, he ran away from her?"

Rem had tears forming on the corner of her eyes as Ram held her tighter.

"My sister cried for days when she returned by herself. I have never seen her so hurt in my entire life...IF I EVER SEE THAT TRASH AGAIN I'LL KILL HIM!"

"I don't believe it."

"And now as you can see...my sister is being eaten away as her mana is being drained even as we speak in an attempt to find him! I hate seeing her like this! I want to help Rem...help her move on...but all she ever thinks about is finding him...even if it kills her!"

Ram was now also beginning to cry, Batman tried to get close, but she fired a windblade next to him.

"Stay away from us!"

"Ram I only want to help."

"I don't want help from anyone associated with that boy!"

He then stopped and tried to think of something…..anything...but...

"Y-You know Subaru-kun?"

"Rem...rest, you don't need-"

"-Where is he? Do you know?"

Rem looked up at Batman with tired eyes, the sight was quite painful for him to see.

"Yes, I know Natsuki Subaru...on that day you were going to confess to him that you loved him right?"

"...Wuh?"

"You were going to tell him about what your plans were, to run away to Kararagi and start a new life together, to have a family...and of the two of you, you wanted to be the first to pass away, surrounded by your children and their children. You would patiently for him in the next life, right?"

"...AH."

Rem was now drenched in tears.

"Wh-Who told you that?"

"Subaru did, where I'm from...he didn't abandon you, he stayed by your side and you did the same. He's gone through hell and back to help you and save you. A powerless young man who rose to the occasion and did the impossible. The Subaru you know...is completely different from the one I know."

Rem's eyes closed as she smiled, she wanted to keep the image of a brave Subaru in her mind.

Batman nodded and checked with Roswaal.

"Bruce-san, this is-"

"-Yes this is an alternate reality. One where Subaru ran away from his struggles against the White Whale and the Witch's Cult...it also appears it's a reality where I never came here either."

"Buuuuut, what do we do with this information?"

"...Let's go check outside."

The two men dashed outside and glanced around.

"Roswaal...fly up and look to the east of us."

"Ooookay."

Roswaal flew high up into the air, leaving Batman on the ground. Ram was helping Rem letting her lean on her shoulder.

She was glancing at Batman who was looking up at the sky…

Roswaal flew down to meet with Batman.

"Well?"

"...There is a city nearby, it's unrecognizable to me."

"...Take me up so I can see for myself."

Roswaal nodded and held on to Batman, they flew up in the air, soon past the clouds, there they could see the city itself, mixed with the environment around.

"It's Metropolis."

He knew this because he could see the Daily Planet at the center.

"Take me down, I know what's going on."

Now down on the grassy floor, Roswaal put his hands on his hips while Ram and Rem were sitting down.

Batman sighed deeply as he looked over at them.

"Well we have some problems to deal with."

"Whaaaat exactly is it?"

"It's a Converged Earth."

"...Care to explain?"

"It seems the Society caused your reality to splinter away and merge with my own, thus the different timelines and places in your home have physically merged with my own."

"Foooor what purpose would they do this?"

"...They did say they wanted to destroy the multiverse. This could just be their first step."

Ram and Rem were absolutely confused by what they were saying. So Rem raised her hand.

"Um, Batman-sama, what does this mean exactly."

"Like I said, in this world Subaru ran away from you and I never came here. But in my reality, he became Emilia's knight and I was able to meet you all."

"Subaru-kun...is he a hero?"

"Well, without him we couldn't have defeated the White Whale and Sizable Hare."

"...Subaru-kun...so amazing."

Ram scoffed though.

"Nonsense! That coward would never accomplish such feats!"

"In this world, no...but with us, he has."

Bruce smirked and Roswaal quietly chuckled to himself. Ram had so much confusion in her mind she had no idea of what to say or do.

Batman then remembered something.

"Beatrice. Is she still inside the mansion?"

"Um, yes…?"

Batman rushed inside, Ram tried to stop him but was supised when Roswaal ordered her to let him be.

Batman opened several doors, before finally opening the one door he was looking for.

"And who is so rude, to interrupt me, I suppose?"

"...Beatrice."

Beatrice was sitting in her usual stool looking up at him like he was a complete stranger. He had tried to come up with any idea that would get her out of there, but all of them ended with her escaping or fighting him. He needed to decide...so he did.

"Beatrice, give me your Book of Knowledge."

"How do you know-"

"-You've been stuck here for more than four hundred years now. I'm sorry I took so long. I am here to set you free from the burden Echidna left with you."

"It...can't be…"

"...I am "They", and I am here to get you out of here."

Beatrice dropped her book and slapped him. He didn't feel anything due to his helmet, but he could see the pain and joy plastered on her face.

"H-How could make Betty wait so long! Betty has waited for so many years, I suppose! Do you-DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH I'VE BEEN SUFFERING?!"

"...I do, and I apologize again."

He removed his helmet and looked her straight in the eyes.

"Let's go Beatrice."

She then bawled as she hugged him around the neck. She cried for a good few minutes still hugging him.

Still...he lied.

His good friend that he knew as well as he would a sister, he had just lied to in front of her face.

But he knew it was the only way of getting her out, he was no Natsuki Subaru...he couldn't use the same words as him and he knew that. He did this for her sake...but he still felt horrible about it.

Beatrice handed him her book, to which he tossed it in the air and fired a yang beam at it, bruning it to ashes.

"What have you done, I suppose?!"

"We don't need something that preordanes our fates Beatrice, we decide our own destiny's from now on. We choose where we go and what we do...okay?"

"...Sure, I suppose."

Beatirce nodded at him as she watched him put his helemt back on...she then grabbed his hand.

"Yes?"

"...I-It's time we make our contract, I suppose...so that Betty will be your contracted spirit."

"But I don't have a high affinity to spirits."

"Not a problem, Betty is more than powerful enough to move around this. Do not look down on me, I suppose!"

"Right."

Beatrice and Batman formed their contract...and now this world's Beatrice was his Contracted Spirit.

Batman held Beatrice's hand and took her out of the library, not noticing that Beatrice was looking up at him with a smile.

"I looked into his mind...he is not a bad person at all, I suppose. Betty has never met such a kind hearted individual before...risking himself to lie to Betty. But...he did it with care."

Beatrice kept smiling at him, even as her cheeks flushed.

Now outside the mansion, they saw that a dragon carriage was parked outside and two other familiar faces were there talking with the others.

"Felix! Emilia!"

The two turned around as they saw what appeared to be a complete stranger holding hands with a small girl.

"B-Beatrice? What are you doing outside the mansion?!"

"Easy there girl, yell any louder and you will rupture one of Betty's eardrums, I suppose."

She then took a breath and held his hand tighter.

"This is Bruce Wayne, he is Betty's contracted partner."

"AH! You have a partner now?!"

Emilia glanced at the intimidating looking knight, but was supirsed to sense no ill will from him.

"Emilia, it's...good to see you."

"Y-You know me?"

"In a way, yes."

Emilia was quite confused about the matter, he then glanced over at Felix.

"Ferris, what are you doing here?"

"F-Ferri-chan...is here to help Emilia-sama, as ordered by Crusch-sama."

"...I take it to help find Subaru, right?"

"How do nyou know?"

"A hunch."

Batman then saw the peole that were gathered around and nodded.

"Alright, we need to get things ready for our departure. First let's go through the basic rundown on everything...make sure everyone is cuaght up."

So Batman decided to lay the groundwork…

"That's insane!"

Emilia and Ferris were beyond shocked at what Batman had explained to them, they were slightly in denial, but the light they saw earlier was a bit of proof to his claim.

Beatrice was struggling to believe that in this other world she was contracted with Natsuki Subaru, she got along with him well enough, but never saw being in such a position with him.

"Nyo! Nyo! What you're saying is crazy! Nyah! How in the world is that even possible?!"

"Well, that's why we need to investigate further, we need to leave here and find the others...hopefully we can find out everything we need to learn."

Batman looked to the east where Metropolis was...and made a displeased face under his helmet.

"Can't believe I have to do this…"

"Batman-san?"

Batman took in a deep breath and exhaled.

"Banana muffin."

Everyone tilted their heads when he said this...only to tremble when they heard two large booming sounds in the sky. When they looked up they saw two red streaks fly by before they quickly descend and crashed into the ground ahead of them.

Ram and Rem got in front of them, Rem was feeling better than ever now that her contract with Beatrice to find Subaru was over. Ferris stood in front of Emilia, and Puck appeared as well.

From the cloud of dirt emerged two figures...a strong looking man and quite gorgeous girl. They had the same red symbol on their chest and had red capes that fluttered in behind them.

The man with his bright black hair and blue eyes glanced at them all, before his eyes landed on Batman, his eyes turned slightly white...then it stopped and he began to have his brows raised.

"B-Bruce?"

"Hello Clark."

Superman raced forward and hugged Batman tightly.

"Oh thank god! We all thought you were dead! It's so good to see you again!"

"Sure, now will you please let me go?"

"Oh, sorry."

Batman sighed as he introduced them.

"Everyone, this is Superman, he is a good friend of mine."

"...Oh."

"Behind him is his cousin, Supergirl."

Supergirl flew over to them and was suprised at all the pretty girls around Bruce.

"Are all these girls your friends?"

"Well, they're actually alternate versiosn of them...and next to me is some guy I put up with named Roswaal L. Mathers."

"Haha, I guess you still have that brooding attitude in you."

Roswaal chuckled a bit, but Supergirl noticed Beatrice slightly hide behind Batman, she waved at her and she simply nodded.

Supergirl looked at Ferris and was excited.

"Oh wow, that girl has cat ears! That's really cute!"

"Actually Ferris...is a boy."

"...Um, yeahm right. No guy looks cute like that!"

"Check for yourself."

Supergirl focused her sight at him, then blushed intensely and rubbed her eyes.

"AGH! Okay! Okay! He's a boy! I believe you!"

After talking with the two for a good while, Superman stood there with his arms crossed.

"Damn, a Converged Earth huh? This isn't going to be easy to fix."

"No, but we need to get a start on it."

"How so?"

Batman glanced back at the others and then to Clark.

"We need to go the Batcave, we might be able to find out more information than would be beneficial to us."

"Well alright, but…"

"Don't worry, Roswaal can fly he can take Ram, while you two carry the carriage over there with the rest of us inside."

"Well alright then."

Superman discussed things with Supergirl, when Rem tugged on Batman's cape.

"Will...Will Rem be able to see Subaru-kun?"

"Maybe not this version, but you might be able to meet the version I know?"

"...Rem would love that!"

Rem smiled happily up at Batman who nodded in agreement. He continued walking hand in hand with Beatrice...not noticing that Rem had her eyes darkened as she smiled softly, clutching her dress tightly.

"Subaru-kun...Rem will finally have you…"

Otto was rubbing his hand on his cheek as he continued napping-

"How long do you plan to sleep?!"

"Whuzat?!"

He was kicked in the back and sent crashing into a wall. He fumbled a bit before he stood straight up.

"Is that anyway to wake someone up?!"

"Hmph! Maybe next time I'll toss you awake."

"That's even worse!"

Ram sighed as she looked at the tired looking man in front of him. Then behind her another familiar, albeit non-human face appeared.

"I see you are here as well then."

Patrasche walked over and seemed to nod in agreement, the three of them glanced around and saw they were in some sort of hallway.

"Where are we Ram?"

"No idea, when I woke up I was in another hallway, eventually I found what I thought was your corpse...but sadly the detection of a heartbeat proved otherwise."

"I wish you kept those painful comments strictly for Natsuki-san."

"Hmph. Leaving the Mayonnaise Menace aside, we should probably find an exit and find the others."

"G-Good idea."

So they continued down the hall and tried many of the doors.

Ram opened one and saw nothing but a large collection of items, she had no interest so she closed it.

Otto opened one and a huge bright light shot out of it, a heavenly choir sung out of it and Otto simply closed the door. Ram looked back at the wide eyed boy.

"Well?"

"...Broom closet."

Patrasche bit a door open and went through, she continued walking through this odd floor, so she looked up only to see the top of Otto and Ram's heads. She let out a grunt and they both looked up, all of them yelped in surprise, Patrasche ran back and was now in the hallway with them.

Ram ran to open a door, there what she saw was a dark ocean with a giant serpent rising from the waves. She shut it closed.

Otto opened a door, only to see a humongous slimy giant eye staring back at him, he screamed as he shut the door.

Ram opened another one, and a large grey faced man in a world of fire of brimstone was glaring at her, she closed it.

Patrasche opened a door with her mouth and saw six skeletons playing poker in a darkly lit room.

"What the hell?! Are you opening a barn or something, close the fucking door!"

Patrasche slammed the door shut.

Otto opened a door and saw a small pink colored dog with yellow teeth looking up at him, when the dog screamed he made a scary exaggerated face, making Otto scream as well and he shut the door.

Ram opened another one and she saw the clouds and open sky, she panicked and shut the door.

Patrasche opened her next door and saw endless flight of spiraling staircases, with an old man looking back at her, in the far distance.

"Don't even bother. Oh wait! Did the Cubs ever win the world-"

She shut the door.

All three of them were now out of breath and just tired of all the weird doors they put up with.

"Wh-wh-whats... haaaa.. with this place?"

"I don't know….haaaaa….haaaaaa...but I'm concerned we may never get out of here. I'm tired carry me."

"Stop putting everything on me please!"

"...Useless."

"Once my heart gives out will be mocking my soul next?!"

Just then, a door opened and man in a tan trench-coat appeared yawning as he did.

"Now that was a good bloody nap!"

He rubbed his eyes and glanced over at the three. He took a few seconds to rub the back of his blonde hair.

"Hey there, want some drinks? Also, how'd you get in here?"

"Shouldn't that have been the first question?!"

Otto got up and put on a pleading face.

"Mister, please help us, we don't know where we are and we need to really get out of here!"

"Hey hey there now, don't you be crying now or nothing. We'll settle these thing under right on time, all right?"

The man nodded then made it to a door and his hand glowed bright blue, he then gripped the doorknob and turned it...but when he opened it there was lush lobby with a nice fireplace.

"Come on in."

They hesitated at first but eventually got through, with the mysterious man closing the door behind him.

They sat on the couch, while Patrasche sat on the ground next to them.

"Thirsty? Got some good scotch on me."

He poured some glasses as Ram and Otto observed all around them. They saw that outside of the window, the place they were in was in some snowy landscape.

Otto noticed a book next to him so he opened it.

"AGGGHHHH!"

From the book sprouted massive tentacles that were about to ensnare Otto, Ram was bout to fight, but the mysterious man ran over shouted some words...the tentacles returned inside the book and it closed.

"Oops, I was looking for that book for awhile. I guess it was misplaced badly this time."

"To leave such a dangerous book lying about, are you mad!?"

"Hahaha, kind of loose in the noggin a bit!"

He gave them their glasses and gave Patrasche a bowl of water, which she drank happily from.

The man sat across from them and took a chug from his cup. He then pulled out a cigarette and lit it, taking a big puff of it.

"Alright, what are your names? ME? I'm the greatest bastard this world has ever seen, name's John Constantine, and right now you're in my my home."

Otto and Ram took sips of their drinks and relaxed.

"I am Ram, I am a humble maid for the Magrave, Roswaal L. Mathers, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Oh courteous lass, I like it."

He then turned his attention to Otto who chugged down his drink to get more courage.

"My name is Otto Suwen, I am a member of the Emilia Camp. Pleased to meet you. Oh and sitting over there is my friend's Ground Dragon, Patrasche."

She let out a small roar, making Constantine nod, he finished his drink and finally got serious.

"Now, you mind telling this tried bugger what the hell you are all doin' here?"

Ram and Otto explained their story to him as best as they could.

"Jesus Christ, we got more problems than we thought...and who'd think good ol' Bats was still alive? Crazy shit there."

He chugged down another glass of scotch and put out his cigarette on an ashtray.

He lit up another cigarette and looked at his uninvited guests.

"And to think that light sent you three here to my House of Mystery. Causality is a real bitch I guess."

"Constantine-sama, do you have any idea of how to contact our friends?"

"Well Ram, I think I have a friend who is coming over who might be able to help."

Suddenly, a large glowing ankh symbol appeared on the wall nearby Constantine, emerging through it was a golden masked figure. The symbol disappeared behind him.

"Hey there! Want to a drink, got plenty to get ya hard and ready."

"I am more than well on that regard…"

He then glanced at the three others staring at him, Constantine then used his thumb to point the new guy out.

"Hey there gang, that there is Dr. Fate, he's one of the best around when it comes to magic."

Dr. Fate floated over and gazed at them, his glowing white eyes then shut as he took a breath, which Otto noticed.

"I was hoping this wouldn't happen."

"What do you mean?"

"I will explain everything in due time...but right now we must prepare to gather the others."

Dr Fate looked at the window…

"Before it's too late."

Outside the House of Mystery floated in the sky, behind the mountains that obscured it from prying eyes was the capital on Gusteko, still burning even after the Society left in shambles.

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Sarah was walking hand in hand with Petra, they were in some unknown city they didn't recognize. However, Sarah had some idea of where they were.

"Yes, we must be in Kararagi. I've read books on the subject and it does remind me of this."

"But that means we're really far away from the capital."

"Yes, Do not panic though, we'll meet with the others no doubt about it."

She looked up at her with a worried expression, so she smiled down at the young maid.

"Yes, those two will think of something right?"

"...Y-Yeah!"

The two nodded then noticed something bright green fly over them and land a few feet away from them...they decided to take the chance and ask for help. They ran over to him and they noticed he was dark skinned man with an all green uniform.

"U-Um excuse me sir!"

"Hm?"

He turned around and they noticed his white eyes and the strange symbol on his chest, however Petra put on a brave face.

"Sir can you help us!? We're lost and we need to get back home."

"Well young lady, I have a lot on my plate, I wish I could help...but the entire world is in-"

"-Hold on a second, Sarah-san don't you remember?! The people Bruce-sama talked about being from his world?! Didn't he say something about a green warrior?!"

Sarah thought a bit, she was about to mention Swamp Thing but looked back at the man and shook her head. Then it hit her.

"Yes, Oh! You're John Stewart the Green Lantern!"

"Wha...how do you know me?"

"Bruce told us about you."

"...Bruce? You mean Batman?! How do you know him?!"

"Hmph, Yes...He is my fiance and I've known him for a while."

"Fiance?! Lady you're gonna have to tell me something more concrete than that."

"He said that something called Old Yeller made y-"

"-Enough! I see you know him!...Barry promised he would never tell that story to anyone else."

John looked at the two of them and had to ask.

"So...who are you two?"

Petra went first and did a polite bow.

"Hello there Green Lantern-sama, my name is Petra Leyte, I am a maid to the Magrave's establishment where Bruce Wayne and Natsuki Subaru reside."

"Oh-Oh well, nice to meet you."

John felt humbled so he did a quick bow as well. Then Sarah put her fist to where her heart was and stood firm.

"Yes, I am Sarah W. Remendis, bodygaurd to her betrothed Bruce Wayne and his future wife."

"Wow, you ain't kidding, you even have his last name."

She blushed a bit and nodded. Green Lantern was about to ask them some more questions...before Petra noticed a group behind Lantern. She held her breath as she walked around him.

"Um hey Petra what's wrong?"

"...Yes, Petra what is it?"

She then slowly kept walking until she was right in front of the group. The group stopped when they noticed her.

"S-S…"

Tears formed in the corner of her eyes as she smiled at them, specifically one person.

"Subaru."

In front of them was Natsuki Subaru, much older and with a small ponytail.

Rem with longer hair in a blue kimono.

A small child with blue hair and eyes, that looked exactly like Subaru.

Hodling hands with Rem was a small girl with a cute hoodie on, black hair and hazel eyes.

Subaru looked at the girl trying to figure out who she was...then...he remembered…

"P-Petra?"

"Subaru."

"N-No that's impossible…"

Subaru took a step back, but this made Petra more sad. Rem then recognized her as well.

"Petra-chan? Y-You're okay! But...what are you doing here?"

Rigel was tilting his head at the girl his parents seemed to know.

"Hey pops, did you have a kid we didn't knwo about?"

He made his usual joke, but when he turned to look at his dad, he saw that he was dead serious.

"Rigel, now's not the time for jokes, son."

"...O-Okay."

Even Rigel was taken aback when he saw the usually goofy dad suddenly turn dead serious.

"Petra...what are you doing here?"

"Subaru...I was-"

Then something crashed through a building behind them and they turned to face it. Coming out of the debris from the ground was a strange black and blue armored figure. Green Lantern recognized him.

"Chale! How come I never get the easy ones."

"Blue Beetle! What's wrong?!

"I don't know you tell me…"

He then noticed all the people around him so he waved.

"Hola! I'm the Blue Beetle, you know coolest member of the Justice League!?"

Then, fire blasted out of the building he went through, he dodged it and his hands turned to giant cannons and he fired beams back.

"Jaime! What's happening?!"

"Um...we got a really cranky person right now."

From the burned building emerged was a villain the regulars hadn't seen in a long while.

"Great one of Ivo's machines…"

Red Tornado emerged from the burning wreckage.

"TELL ME WHERE I AM! OR I WILL BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND!"

Two voices sounded off behind him.

"Not likely."

He was then hit from behind and something blasted him across the way into an adjacent building.

From the smoke jumped out two figures, Rigel raised his fist in the air.

"Hell yeah! Now the real heroes are here."

Emerging from the smoke were Halibel and Batman, still donning his Justice Armor.

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Rainhard had his sword drawn and was swatting away green fire balls, they crashed through the windows and ignited the walls.

"We don't care if you've been gone for six years...to show your face here again is just an insult!"

Felt stood next to Deathstroke, as he narrowed his eye at them. Chin, Ton and Kan also got ready to get in a tussle.

Beast Boy ran forward and turned into a rhino, Reinhard stabbed the ground and used the sword as a balancing support to kick the charging beast across the face, knocking him out in one hit. Beast Boy went back to normal and his unconscious body rolled on the ground.

Starfire, Wonder Girl, Static Shock and Raven all prepared to attack the intruders that were aiding the villainous Deathstroke in breaking into Titans Tower, which was on the shores of a unknown burning country called Vollachia.

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Ivy was on top of a tower with Crusch as they saw Priestella was now on a shore line...they saw a metal man fly down to meet with someone on the shoreline.

"Let's go and talk with them."

"Okay, let me get us down."

As teh vines carried them away they made it to the shore line and met with the two individuals.

"Excuse me, but may you two assit us?"

"Huh, what the- HOLY CRAP!"

Cyborg then aimed his arm cannon at them, while Aquaman readied his trident, Pamela screamed at Crusch.

"Crusch get behind me, they still remember the old me!"

Crusch just got closer and spread her arms wide.

"I will not allow you to harm my friend! Lower your weapons so we can speak evenly!"

Pamela lowered her vines and got anxious on what they would do. Cyborg and Aquaman looked at each other for a few moments, before they lowered their weapons.

"Okay, you got our attention."

"Now speak your business with us."

Crusch lowered her arms and took a breath.

"I am Crusch Karsten, and I believe something has happened to our two worlds."

The two heroes got interested and were now ready to talk.

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Anastasia and her Fangs of Iron Members saw the Roswaal Estate and the strange people that introduced themselves to her.

One was a man named Mister Miracle. The other his wife, Big Barda.

They seemed to get along, mostly thanks to Ricardo and Big Barda seemingly starting to be friends.

Mimi was looking around, still worried about Garfiel, so she ran over to Mr. Miracle.

"Hey Hey! You perform miracles right?! Do one for Mimi!"

"Um, I don't really perform things like tha-"

"-Please help Mimi get to Garfiel safely!"

"Listen, I…"

He then saw that she was trembling and looking like she was about to cry, so he sighed softly and patted her shoulder. When she looked up at him, he gave a relaxed smile.

"No worries, then...I'll perform every miracle I can muster to help you."

Her eyes brightened up and she quickly hugged him, but even he was shocked by her strength.

Big Barda looked over and smiled to herself.

Then the doors suddenly opened and out came two butlers...BUTLERS. Anastasia raised her brows seeing this.

"Huh? Um, something doesn't seem right…"

Everyone, even Big Barda and Mr. Miracle tilred their heads at what they were seeing.

"Hello dear guests...how may we help you?"

In front of this new rag tag team, were two butlers that looked identical to each other, but one had pink hair and the other blue….

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"Ferris keep going!"

Wilhelm cut down another powerful knight that was covered in dark armor, with a helmet similar to Batman's, as he ran to catch up...behind him in the distance, was a large black tower where the destroyed palace to the capital was. Above that dark tower, clouds circled around it, a large glowing Bat Symbol was floating above it. The sky up above, grey and depressing.

Ferris kept running through the empty streets alongside their new friends. When five more knights appeared. The girl next to Ferris jumped ahead and let out a humongous sonic scream. The knights flew away, but one caught the edge of a building and shot his was to them...only to shot through the same building with a tornado shot.

"Nyah! Thanks you two!"

"No worries cutie we're stuck together today."

Black Canary and Red Tornado ran with Ferris before an even larger knight crashed through a wall and straight at them. He roared as he lifted a giant battle axe to slam it down on them.

Wilhelm shot the air and slice the giant knight's head clean off. Red Tornado grabbed Ferris and dodged his collapsing body.

Red Tornado nodded at Wilhelm.

[We must get off the streets to avoid anymore conflict.]

"Yes, but where would we go?"

Suddenly, a manhole cover opened up and a hand waved at them, Black Canary took the hint.

"Looks like that's our getaway. Let's go!"

They all rushed down the hole before the cloaked figure covered it shut. They were now in the sewers of the capital, the cloaked figure motioned them to follow. They then went through secret entrance after booby trapped entrance. Many passages and tunnels...until they made it to a metal door. The cloaked figure knocked in a peculiar way...the a small hole opened up on the wall, they could see an eye looking through, then it closed.

Soon the door opened and inside they saw it…

"My word…"

[Astounding..]

A large base of sorts was there, a literal small encampment of warriors, they all stared at them before the cloaked figure revealed themself.

"I honestly thought I was seeing things when I was looking at you all, but I can see it really is you."

"P...Petra-chan?"

Petra, now with scar across her cute face and much older than the one they last saw. Her hair much longer and her cute red ribbon now torn up considerably.

She was also wearing Natsuki Subaru's tracksuit, even if it was torn up considerably.

From the crowd, Ferris' eyes widened when she saw someone she almost didn't recognize.

"Crusch-sama…?"

Crusch, now with much shorter hair that barely reached her shoulder was almost trembling seeing her old friend. The left side of her face was badly burned…

"Oh nyo…"

Crusch wiped away her stray tears with her left hand...showing everyone that she was missing two fingers, her pinky and ring finger. It made Ferris want to collapse seeing her in such a state.

"Now then, let us leave pleasantries aside, we must speak with you all at once."

"Yes...but where are we?"

"Simple...the last bastion for freedom against the Master Swordsman."

Everyone was silent as they heard this. Crusch did a slight bow before she smiled at them.

"We welcome you, to the Partisans."

All the soldiers and citizens around her roared in applause around her, making the four of them nervous about what they had to say…

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The Sage Council were staring down at the mysterious man who appeared in front of them.

"Tell us who you are."

"They call me the Phantom Stranger."

Phantom Stranger looked up at them and stared deep into their souls...making them know they needed to listen.

"We must prepare ourselves…"

"For what?"

"The battle to stop this misuse of power."

He looked out the window to see a mismatched version of Britain and half the capital of Lugnica.

"And what happens if we fail stranger?"

"...Then not just our worlds will fall."

Everyone held their breaths as the Phantom Stranger clenched his hands into fists.

"Everything...will fall."

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Priscilla and Julius were surrounded outside a large palace, many strong looking warriors surrounded them...so Julius summoned his spirits all around him. They too were prepared to fight.

"Wait!"

The warriors lowered their weapons, the two of them looked up at a balcony and saw a warrior with a large red scarf. He jumped down and landed in front of them, giving them a better look.

He was a warrior adorned in a shimmering metal they had never seen before, he was strong looking for sure. His mask had no holes, with bat ears much like Batman's, his glowing artifical eyes would send shivers down anyone's spine and a strong white H symbol was on his chest.

Julius aimed the tip of his sword at him.

"Are you another impostor of Batman?!"

"...Batman? You mean the one running around Gotham right now?"

"No, the one I have been friends with for three years now!"

"...I see then, tell me more."

He raised his head, lowered his shoulders and clenched his strong fists.

Julius still couldn't stand seeing him.

"Who are you?! Why do wear armor that looks like Batman's?!"

"Easy really…"

He then clutched his chest pointed at himself with his thumb…

"I am the son of Batman, the Heretic against his corroded ideals."

Julius and Priscilla stared at him...Heretic then motioned towards the main entrance.

"Come inside, I welcome the friends of my foolish father...to the base for the League of Assassins."

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Split apart in this brand new world, our heroes must find out the true nature of their circumstances….and what the Apocatastasis Society's true plans are.