Chapter 1

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Gotham City- S

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Gotham City- S.T.A.R. Labs

The Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories was a building featuring a large rectangular light grey base, and cylindrical towers of reflective windows with wider, yet squatter cylindrical sections perched upon them.

Inside, a mid-sized neat work area was darkened and quiet. A red flash of light appeared, which formed into a large ankh shape, and a muscular, red-garbed figure with a silver lower body, gloves, boots, helmet and cape stepped out from it.

The man walked forward, then was followed by another person, this one in a black costume, resembling Batman. The difference was the distinctive gold owl-like insignia on his chest, dual gold armbands on his forearms, a pair of grey spikes that curved towards his head on each shoulder, and the angular black 'eyes' visible within the white eye holes in his mask.

Standing before a work table, the man in black inserted a small, black rectangular device into a slot near a control panel next to a white blocky safe. A light switched from red to green. He opened the microwave-sized door, then pulled out a black, cylindrical, metallic device the size of a small vase. A pair of handles flanked it, as did a pair of pincer-like parts on the top on either side of the nozzle. Rows of small yellow buttons adorned the central shaft. The man paused to study it with a satisfied look.

He heard a whirring noise, growing louder. The man leapt back into a defensive crouch, while his helmeted comrade floated into the air, and both dodged a pair of Batarangs that impacted into the floor with a resounding clang of iron on ceramic.

"You should still be behind bars in your alternate Earth, Owlman!" said a deep voice from the shadows.

A man in grey, with a wide gold utility belt, and blue boots, gloves, cape, and a cowl appeared from the darkness on top of a large storage container.

"Batman!" Owlman growled. "My new 'friend' broke me out," Owlman said tersely, eyes fixed on his enemy as he slowly inched back, a hand poised over the Oscillator.

"A Phase Oscillator," Batman said, tensed to move. "I'd heard a new one was built and figured it wouldn't be safe. Give it up. I'll see you back in a cell on this Earth."

"No thanks," the villain spat back, holding the device closer to himself. "Too many heroes here. I'm going somewhere where there won't be any to stop me."

"Then I'll just have to stop you here!" replied Batman, who rushed towards him.

Owlman backflipped away from him, shielding the device protectively. The helmeted man vanished in a flash of energy, then reappeared above Batman in the high-ceilinged room, hands surrounded by a red glow. He fired down wide beams of ankh-shaped power, the circular tops originating at his hands. Batman leaped aside to narrowly avoid them.

A short distance away, Owlman looked over the device intently, then pressed a button. A white beam shot out of the nozzle to make a circular man-sized black portal a few feet before him. White energy licked like flames around the portal's border. He quickly entered, finger poised over the Oscillator.

"Time to go, Doctor Hate. Thanks for keeping him occupied," Owlman said with aplomb.

The Doctor stopped blasting Batman, teleported to the portal, and stepped in. Batman, with the press of a button, immediately extended his jetpack wings, ignited the thrusters, and flew to the portal while avoiding energy blasts. He grimaced and plunged through the portal the instant before it vanished.

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