Chapter 9 "Epilogue"

(Wayne Manor - two weeks after the Arkham incident.)

Bruce felt the slight pain from the still tender areas where they removed the armor piercing shrapnel from his chest. He was lucky that not of it hit his heart or lungs. They did have to dig part of the shrapnel out that was slowly moving toward his heart however. The process had kept him in surgery for the better part of three days.

He looked to see Diana who had stayed at the manor with him never once leaving and also dawning a new uniform. She relied too much on the 'indestructible' Amazonian armor. Her new uniform was a black suit close to his own. It even brandished a bat on the front of it. Her way of saying she was staying in Gotham to keep an eye on him. Dick had been forced to move back into the manor. He knew that right now he was upstairs with Donna near by. The girl had been driving herself crazy taking care of him. The morphine drip helped with the pain he was going through. Bane had broken both arms, his legs, one hip, three ribs, and finally his spine. He hoped that Dick could pull out of it.

"Bruce... We need to go to Clark and Lois' apartment. They're taking the bandages off today." Diana said as she looked at him.

He nodded and soon they were out the door and in one of the cars. Alfred had agreed to stay behind and watch over master Dick and Miss Donna. The drive was fairly uneventful. Bruce was glad for the company, and even gladder that Diana was staying with him. He wasn't going to admit it, but he was glad for part of the outcome. They reached Clark's apartment building and both he and Diana walked in and rode the elevator up to Clark's floor. They exited and walked to the door to the home of their friend. Diana knocked softly and soon the door was opened by Lois who greeted them with a soft smile.

"Clark, Diana and Bruce are here." She said as she neared him.

Clark faced toward them with the bandages covering his eyes. They heard J'onn as he walked into the room and slowly cut the bandage. He began pulling it off and soon they were greeted with his new eyes. Everyone seemed to notice that they were a strange color of green. The greenish tint seemed to look like the same green that was on old twenty dollar bills. He smiled at Lois and reached for her. She felt him pinch her on the butt softly and smiled at him.

"I take it that you can see." J'onn said.

"I can... I can't see like I could before though." Clark said as he looked at J'onn.

"It will take time for your eyes to adjust to your Kryptonian DNA. After all they are human eyes." J'onn said as he smiled at Clark.

Wally wheeled toward them. Grendle had taken his ability to walk. The monster had crushed his lower spine and it was amazing that the doctors was able to save his life and his legs. He turned to Shayera who had stayed with him afterward. She hadn't left him and together they had moved into a wheel chair accessible home. Bruce could tell that she was still hurting over what happened to John.

"Diana... Have you heard from Kara?" Clark asked as he looked at the Amazon Princess

"Yes, She's doing well on Themyscira. She's also asked that we take it easy on Talia if we catch her. It would appear that they bonded some." Diana said as she looked at Clark.

"Speaking of which... Any official report come about what happened to Luthor?" Wally asked.

"Officially he was assisting the escape and fell onto a large sharp piece of metal. It has been ruled as an accident." Bruce said as he looked at everyone.

Finally someone coughed and the name was brought up.

"What about the Lordfrieza guy? What did we know about him?" Clark asked.

"I can answer that." Lois said before the others could say anything.

"I did some foot work and found out that his real name was Chris Lauder. He was married to a Mrs Tridenty Lauder and worked for a part of the government you aren't going to know about by just asking. They were in the Cadmus headquarters when Luthor used the cannon to fire at the earth. She shoved him into some kind of experimental bomb shelter, but the radiation leaked in. It messed with his already traumatized mind. From what the guys at morgue office said there was no way he could have really completely understood what he was doing. He was just hurting those who had hurt him. And to him..." she started before Bruce nodded.

"He blamed the league. I see. His job was an information agent... A sort of hacker or spy right?" Lois asked as she looked at Bruce.

"I figured it out when I saw him. He was an information agent, and a good enough one that he actually was able to get into our databases and download our weaknesses for Waller. I guess that the information he downloaded was something he still remembered." Bruce said as he looked at them.

"So what happens now?" Wally asked.

"We rebuild. We go on and we learn from our mistakes." Diana said with a regal voice.