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There will be two chapters one for Batman and one for Flash

Pairings: None...

Chapter 1: Bruce Wayne/Batman

The last person Bruce expected to see was Barry standing on his doorstep, hopping from one foot to another.

"Barry, what—?" That was as far as he got to complete the sentence before Barry rushed in the door at super speed, running around in the house.

"Barry!" The speedster just kept running around, looking for something, or someone. "Barry! Stop, or I swear I will glue your feet to the ground and eat ice cream in front of you for hours!" It was a bad threat, he knew it, but the blond blur was giving him a headache. Besides he'd seen Dick do it to Wally once hopefully the two speedsters were alike when it came to torture.

Barry froze and looked at Bruce, but none of the usually humor was in his eyes. Instead there was a strange fear mixed in with the blue irises. His lower lip was twitching as if he was trying not to break down; the blond was shaking so hard that he nearly vibrated in place, until Bruce glared at him and he stopped. For a second the familiar sheepish smile appeared before it dispersed and was replaced with the fearful frown.

"That's better, now what's wrong?" Bruce barely had time to ask the question before Barry was rambling off. His mouth moving quickly as he speed talked, but Bruce could still hear the worry and stress in his words.

"Barry," Bruce said rubbing his head. He was fast, but not that fast. Usually he was pretty good at understanding speedsters, years of Wally being Dick's best friend did that to a guy, but currently Barry was going way to fast. "Slow down."

Taking a breath Barry asked, "Did Wally come over here? I can't find him, figured he came back here with Little Bats."

Suddenly ice cold fear started to creep into Bruce's body. That was never a question you wanted to hear, when you couldn't answer yes.

Apparently Barry saw the worry cross Bruce's usually emotionless face because he paled and began to ramble again, threatening to vibrate through the floor.

"Barry! Stop! I'm sure he's just out with Robin somewhere. Probably hanging out at the Cave or something," Bruce didn't know who he was trying to convince Barry or himself.

"Bruce, he didn't come home to eat we were going to go and eat European food in Europe! He doesn't just pass up on that!" Barry was no longer trying to control his speed; he was now vibrating quickly in place the floor smoking under his feet. "If he doesn't eat soon, he's gonna die of starvation! Bruce this is serious!"

Bruce tried to stay calm as he looked at the panicking speedster in front of him, but in truth it was hard. There were very few things that could panic a speedster that they couldn't cover up with jokes. With Barry, Wally was one of those things.

Gulping Batman placed his finger up to his ear and tapped his communicator. "Robin come in….Robin answer me!" Only static filled his ears as fear began to nestle in his heart. This wasn't right, Barry was right, something was very wrong. Tapping it again, he called the whole team, only static answered him.

"Don't you think I tried that!" Barry exclaimed, his face red as he tried to control anger that was replacing fear. "Come on you're the world's greatest detective so detective-ate already Bats!" He screamed.

"Shhh, not so loud," Bruce hushed him, worried about his secret identity.

"Dick and Wally are missing and you're worried about some stupid secret ID!"

"Barry, I didn't mean—"Again he was cut off when his body suddenly lurched and he found himself in the Batcave.

Glaring Barry ordered, "Change and then we are going to the Cave."

Bruce stared at the speedster in front of him, surprised at the outburst of command, before running off to get changed.

When Bruce came back Barry was already in costume messing with the ring on his finger nervously. Muttering things like, Wally being hungry and please don't be dead.

Bruce's stomach clenched with fear as he tried to get the Zeta-Tubes to work, red access denied words flashing across the screen. He couldn't reach the Cave his knees buckled in fear for the one of two people who made him happy. His little bird couldn't be gone.

Finally Batman steadied himself and regaining his composure went over to Flash.

"Run."

It was a simple word, but Batman knew that it struck fear into the older speedster's heart. Batman hated running with Flash, he preferred his own many types of Bat vehicles.

In what felt like mere seconds Batman was in front of the Cave, Barry let him get off before he quickly entered the Cave. He was aware of Barry behind him, and he felt the wind as the speedster jogged in place. Fear making it impossible for him to hold still.

Then his eyes widened and fear clutched his heart as he tried not to let threatening tears pour. Lying all over the floor were scattered Bat-arranges and broken arrows, but what stood out the most was the yellow and black cape.

Swiftly Batman swept down and clutched to the cape, as if it were going to disappear any second and with it his little bird. His son in all, but flesh and blood.

"We're gonna find them Bats, just you wait," He was semi-aware of Barry trying to comfort him, before Barry finished. "You wait here I'm gonna have a look around." Too late did he realize what Barry was going to do.

"Barry wait—"Bruce shook his head as he watched the speedster leave, never careful enough. "This could all be a trap." He finished lamely.

Carefully Bruce edged around the walls, hidden in the shadows, protected by the darkness surrounding him.

Until he saw a blur of red, skid to a stop, and then silence, not a word, escaped the blond man's lips, nor did he make any movement.

If it had been anyone else Batman would've ignored it, but speedsters didn't hold still, at all. Even when sleeping they tended to jerk back and forth, or at least Wally did. Batman smirked remembering the time the speedster had slept over at the manor, that had been an….interesting experience.

"Flash what's wrong?" Batman asked making the speedster jump. His face was deathly pale and even with his mask on Batman could see the fear in his eyes. As the white holes for his eyes widened like flying saucers.

Barry didn't say a word just ran down a flight of stairs and to the hanger below, and then Batman saw why.

Out cold inside the hanger were six team members. All scattered around like rag dolls, lying awkwardly on the ground. Except in the case of Superboy and Wally who were stuck upright in what appeared to be metal. That's when Bruce noticed how the metal bended around their form, it hadn't simple been bent around them. No it had been melted and then cooled. Batman could only imagine the pain both of them had gone through. Superboy wasn't that invincible and Wally didn't have any invincibility. For the latter burns were inevitable.

Then he saw, Dick. Sprawled out across the ground was his little bird. He looked so small without his cape. One arm pinned underneath him and another spread out in front a Bat-arrange still tight in his grip.

Batman jumped the rail and ran over to him, ignoring Barry, who was frantically trying to wake up his nephew.

He felt for a heartbeat and sighed when he found it, and saw his chest rising and falling, when he turned him over. "Robin, wake up," he said shaking the fallen bird. "Robin. Robin! Richard! Dick! Come on kid wake up!"

Nothing, shaking him, Batman felt tears prick at his eyes. Until finally a cough rang out, and he sighed with relief hugging the boy tightly.

"Where are they?" He asked groggily.

"Who?" Batman asked, squeezing the boy tighter, silently threatening to kill whoever had hurt his son.

"The Reds," the boy coughed as his eyes fluttered open; then shot open as he looked around.

"They're gone. All of them. Gone," he said looking over at Kid Flash who looked in pain, terrified, and angry all at the same time. These emotions were so rare, so alien, to a speedsters face. As he shared a fear that only the two of them knew about.

Quickly Batman looked over at Flash and for once they knew exactly what the other was thinking and quickly both called in the Justice League.

Stay tuned! I'm gonna do Barry's POV next!

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