Universes Reverse

Chapter Six: Warehouse- Location Undisclosed

Oh, my aching head. The Scarlet Speedster thought as he came to. What happened?

He couldn't move. Flash glanced down to see that he was strapped into some sort of stiff and constricting apparatus. He felt that his arms, chest, and feet were in the confines of some strong and cold metallic substance. His eyesight was still blurry as he glanced over to his right, but he recognized smudges of the black and gray, and the red, white, blue and gold costumes.

"Bats, Diana!" he exclaimed.

"Shh!" he heard the voice of the Amazon Princess quietly utter. "Quiet or they'll hear you."

"Who will hear?" he asked, lowering his voice. "What's going on?"

The black and gray blur turned his direction, "If you haven't noticed," Batman's grim voice soon whispered, "we are being held captive, now if you be quiet I am trying to figure a way out of this."

Snippy as usual. The red and gold costumed speed demon thought, sarcastically. I wonder how long it will take for him to come with his genius plan? Probably forever. We don't have forever! We need to get out of here now!

Then an idea came to the fastest man alive.

"Think no more." he soon stated, "I'll get us out."

"Flash! Don't" Wonder Woman whispered, emphatically.

But it was too late. When the Scarlet Speedster tried to vibrate out his confides, electricity surged through his body. He stopped immediately, letting out an audible yelp of pain.

Suddenly a baritone voice was heard, "Those titanium steel bonds are lined with motion sensors, so if any slight movement of escape is detected it sends an electrical shock wave through the person's body."

Flash's vision cleared enough for him to see a figure approaching from the shadows before them into the bluish tinge lighting that shined down on him and his three other comrades from above.

"So if you know what best for you," the bald headed man in yellow-green jumpsuit soon stated, "I'd suggest that you banish any fleeting thought of escape."

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"Luthor." the Dark Knight enunciated with disgust.

Lex Luthor was the head of LexCorp and a main rival of Superman as well the League. He caused a lot of trouble for them in the past and had escaped from prison 7 months previously. He was held on the account for nearly taking control of the world, in which he and Brianac melded together. Fortunately, Flash was able to stop them and Brainac was destroyed in the process.

"What do want from us?" he heard Diana demand.

The criminal mastermind's evil smirk slivered across his face and chuckled as he turned in her direction.

"My dear princess," he said with his diabolical charm and sophistication, "I am surprised that your detective bat friend has not told you already."

Luthor shifted his gaze to the Caped Crusader, who glared back at him in return.

"After my escape from prison and the incident on that island, I have since busied myself with a certain project of mine…"

"Oh great!" Flash said, interrupting the villain's speech. "What has the brilliantly mad scientist concoct in his lab this time?!?"

The rival of the Man of Steel shot angry stare at the fast hero.

The Scarlet Speedster was going to expound but the Batman sternly glared at him, indicating him to keep his opinions to himself.

Why can't he learn when to keep his mouth shut? The Caped Crusader irately thought.

Luthor now back in control went on with his story. "Now what was going to…oh yes! As you can very well see, I have power to render your passing from this life. However, as much as I like to right now," he said staring at speed demon, "I spare you for an even greater humiliation."

"And what is that exactly?"

"It all goes back to my personal project, Wonder Woman. It took a quite of bit of research and testing before I could get it to perfection though."

"Would you please cut the chase here and tell us already what you…"

"Dimensional teleportation." the Dark Knight proclaimed, interrupting Flash.

All attention in the room was shifted to the World's Greatest Detective.

Looking directly at Superman's enemy, Batman continued, "For the past few months you have had your researchers at LexCorp working on a project that stated it was exploring the forces of electro-magnetism and light-wave manipulation. But what they were really studying was the inner workings of an Apokolips boom tube. From there you took the information and created your own version but instead of distance teleportation like the original, you modified it for dimensional travel. You then planned to use it to teleport all your enemies to a dimension where they will never be seen ever again."

His two teammates stared at him with shocked disbelief.

Luthor then glared at the Dark Knight, "And that is why you all have to be my premature test subjects."

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"What?!?" Flash and Wonder Woman exclaimed.

"I was concerned that you Batman would reveal my plan before it was ready to go to the next stage. Fortunately, after my first successful tests made sure that the technology functioned correctly, I prepared for this. So thankfully, you found out a little too late, but still you are a liability as well as your friends."

"You will not get away with this, Luthor." the Caped Crusader boldly pronounced, "And neither will MRD."

The former business tycoon cast him a glance, "I see you know about that too, but do you really know who they are?"

"They are a company…"

"Wrong!" Luthor shouted, interrupting him. "You are dealing with something so much bigger than that. So much bigger."

"Whoever they may be," Wonder Woman said glaring angrily at the evil genius, "both of you will be discovered, and brought to justice."

"The only problem with that plan Princess is there is nothing to discover. Truth of the matter is the MRD does not exist…at least not in this dimension. But let us get back to the business at hand."

All stared at him fixedly as rival of Superman then turned his back towards them.

"My modified boom tube is about to send you all to a dimension where none of you will have a chance of survival. And there will be no way of ever getting back without it."

"You monster!" She strained against the titanium restraints.

The suppressed laughter of the Luthor was the only response to Diana's exclamation. She turned and glanced over at the Dark Knight beside her.

Bruce, forgive me.

The evil bald head genius then procured from his belt a remote-like device, very similar to an Apokoliptic boom tube.

"So say goodbye to all that you know, for everything you thought you knew is about to change."

And with that Lex Luthor pointed the device in the direction of the captured heroes. A beam of white light burst forth and enveloped them. In an instant the only evidence of Batman, Wonder Woman, and Flash's existence were the three empty titanium apparatuses.

I added more content to this chapter that I found to be lacking from my original version. I do admit I was in rush when I wrote it. I hope this revised chapter brings more to story!