Where are we?

no one was moving, they were all to shocked to say or do anything, and I used that to my advantage, I quickly went to my father and taking a syringe out of my belt, I put the needle to his wrist and injected him with the clear liquid, before going to Robin and doing the same to him.


seeing me inject Batman and Robin with an unknown liquid seemed to snap the Martian Man-hunter out of his shock, he looked at me questioningly and I quickly explained.


"I injected them with 'Pretejs Indigs' the antidote to 'Zehir Desi'," I explained and the minute I started talking the others all snapped out of their shock and listened, "they've been poisoned before with 'Zehir Desi' and it's the only Poisson they don't keep an antidote for in there belts, so I keep it in mine."


"why don't they keep it in their own belts?" Wally asked me.


"because with any other Poisson they will have time to get the antidote out of there belts in time," I explained, "but with 'Zehir Desi' it knocks you out immediately, so it's safer for me to carry the antidote with me."


"and it's come in handy many times," we all turned to look at Batman and Robin as they both sat up. and then I remembered that the two of them were supposed to be at a party as there other selves, and that there would be questions if they didn't show.


"you two are supposed to be at that party," I quickly said and then both of them were up and heading towards the Zeta-Beam, before disappearing threw it, turning back to the other people in the room I saw that they were all staring at me.


"are you going to explain?" Artemis asked me, "because I would like to know why no one knew that Batman has a daughter."


"same." most of the others said, or they just nodded in agreement.


I nodded and headed to the living room, with every one else following me, I sat down on the couch and Conner sat down beside me, before rapping his arms around me, and then we both forgot that there were others in the room and we kissed, a long and loving kiss that made me completely forget about what had just happened in the infirmary.


some one cleared their throat, and then something was being poured onto Conner and I, braking apart and looking up we saw Wally standing above us holding a bucket that used to hold the ice-cream that was know all over Conner and I, I started to get mad but then I looked at Conner and seeing him I started laughing, completely forgetting my anger, and looking at Conner I knew that he felt the same way as me, and that he wasn't angry, soon both of us were laughing and the others in the room were just looking at us as if we were insane.


we finally managed to stop laughing, and we both looked at each other and nodded in silent agreement before looking at Wally, who got an extremal scared look on his face as soon as he noticed our looks, he turned to run but before he even took a step Conner and I had grabbed him and where carrying him towards the kitchen but right as we entered the kitchen there was a bright flash and everything went dark.


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Ann's P.O.V.


"do you think their dead?"


the voice came to me from darkness, and almost instantly I could once again move, I opened my eyes and looked at the the boys standing over me, "I'm alive,"


the boys stepped back and I sat up and looked at my surroundings, I was on a beach, there are trees around the edge of the beach and there is a playground further down the beach, and the only people on the beach seemed to be, me, the two boys and an our cold Super-boy. moving towards Super-boy I started trying to find a way to wake him up, after a couple minutes of trying and failing to wake him up, I kissed him, and almost instantly Conner was awake and kissing me back, after about five minutes of me and Conner making-out one of the little boys came and poled on my arm, braking apart Conner and I looked at the boys.


the two boys where wearing the weirdest clothing I have ever seen, they both have on shorts that go to their knees, and where as their shorts look normal their shirts look anything but, they are both wearing blue shirts that have buttons all over the sleeves, and on the front of the shirt is a picture of a bunch of airplanes, but the picture is moving, the planes are flying around on the shirt, and then there is their sandals, which had little jets on the sides, making it appear so that the boys look like they are floating, one of the only things that is normal about the boys is their hair, which is just a plain hair cut.


"can you help us find our dad?" one of the little boys asked me, he looked to be about six, and by looking into his eyes I could tell he was scared, the other boy looked exactly like the first and I could tell they were twins immediately, "we lost our daddy and we can't find him."


"of course we'll help you find your dad," I told them and climbing to our feet Conner and I took the hands of the twins and started heading up the beach, "what are your names?"


"I'm Cody and he's Johnny," one of the boys said, "our dad brought us to the beach to play but we lost him and know we can't find him."


"I'm sure we can find your father if we all work together," I told Cody while squeezing his hand. "know, where was the last place you saw your father?"


"over there by those trees," Cody said pointing towards a group of trees ahead, and just as he pointed a man stepped out of the trees and both boys ran to him yelling dad, the man hugged both boys and then turned to Conner and I, the minute he saw us his eyes widened and his jaw dropped.


"it can't be," the man said, "how can you two be here?"


"that's the problem," I explained to the man, "We don't know where here is, one minute we where walking to our kitchen and the next we woke up on this beach with your boys."


"please, follow me," the man said as he turned, but when Conner and I made no move to follow him, he turned towards us and smiled, "please. Anna-Beth, Conner, I mean you no harm."


the two of us looked at each-other in shock when he said our names, but we followed him when he turned around again and started walking away with his sons beside him, after half-an-hour of walking we came to a car, but it wasn't just a car, because it was floating. Conner and I climbed into the back with, Cody and Johny, and in seconds we were in the air and flying.


"who are you?" Conner asked the man as soon as we were in the air, he and I are siting together an holding hands.


"my name is CK," the man told us. "or at least that's what all my friends call me, and I would like to think that the two of you are my friends."


"where are we CK?" I asked him.


"I can't explain here, you'll have to wait until we get to headquarters." CK answered looking at Cody and Johnny, who are looking out the windows at all of the passing buildings.


"and when will we get to headquarters?" Conner asked CK, something I'd noticed about Conner was that since I had arrived he has become more, social and outgoing. I've been with the team for almost three months and Conner has changed a lot from the boy that he was at school, and when I first saw him as Super-boy.


"can we go to headquarters with you dad, please." Cody interrupted, he drew out the a in 'please' like a child did then they really wanted their parents to say yes. and then I realised that Johnny hadn't spoken at all since we met him, Cody was always the one talking, "we want to see Lilyan, we haven't seen her in forever."


"not this time boys, you'll have to go to stay with your uncle for the rest of the day while I take care of our geust's." CK told the boys, "but I'll make sure you see Lilyan soon."


"okay, but can we cause uncle Jay trouble?" Cody asked with such a hopeful voice that I figured that his father probably didn't like them causing his uncle trouble.


"fine, but you can't make him get arrested again. alright?" CK told him.


"thank you daddy." Cody said before he high-five his twin, who smiled at him in return.


after awhile we came to a building a cabin that was hidden among a group of trees, the car stopped and Cody and Johnny climbed out and ran to the door before going inside, CK took us up once again, CK pressed a button and we were flying higher and higher until we were in space, after ten minutes of flying around, the Justice League Watchtower came into view, and it looked exactly like it did when my father took me there the day I became Shadow, but then no one was in the tower, it was just me and my dad. we landed in the hanger bay and we climbed out of the car. CK looked at us and brought two cloaks out of the front seat, then handing them to us, he to,d us to put them on and then turned and headed towards a door with Conner and I following close behind.


"keep your head's down and your mouths closed." CK said leading us threw the door, "I'll explain everything as soon as we're alone."


CK lead us into the hall, and there were people everywhere, they were dressed in the most obscure clothes I have ever seen, some of them were flying down the hall and others were walking, but all of them were dressed in costumes, and all of them looked like they had just lost some-one very important to them. CK lead us down the hall and into another one, and after going through two more halls CK lead us too a door and opening it he showed us into a meeting room, and stepping into the room it took my breath away, there were statues of the original seven all around the room, and the biggest one was of Batman, whose statue was in the middle of the room and whose head touched the ceiling.


"CK, where are we?" I asked him as soon as the door was closed behind us and we were alone in the room.


"it's not really a matter of where," CK told us, "as it is a matter of, when."


"what do you mean?" Conner asked CK before I could.


"this is the year 2169," CK told us, and we were instantly quited, because if it was the year 2169 then that meant that, "you've come 157 years into the future,"


"why did we come forward in time?" Conner asked, I was still to stunned to speak.


"because I called you here." the voice came from behind the statue of Batman, and as he spoke the last word and man stepped out from behind it, the man had white hair and grey eyes, and he walked with a limp, but as he came closer CK nodded and stepped back in respect.


"Father." CK said, "why would you bring them here?"


"because ever since I was a child my father, and grandfather where telling me stories about, Shadow and Super-Boy," the old man (CK's father) told us, "and now we are facing a threat that we can't defeat on our own and I have the tools to bring Shadow and Super-Boy to our aid, I couldn't just let that chance pass, I had a way to save us and I took it."


the old man then turned to Conner and I, "my name is Ola, and I'm the leader of the Justice League in this time, three Weeks ago a villain appeared and none of us have been able to defeat him, not even when we have ten of our best members working together, they were still defeated, we are lucky that no one was killed. I brought the two of you here because I hoped that you would be able to defeat him."


"why would we be able to defeat this man if your best members can't?" Conner asked confused. "why do you think we can help you?"


"because you are, Shadow and Super-Boy." Ola said as if that explained everything, "there is no one like the two of you, there never has been and there never will be, we need the two of you and without you the Justice League will be no more."


Conner and I looked at each-other, and we agreed at the same time without even speaking, we both agreed that we need to help the League, and that it could be the only way to get back to our own time, so we turned back to Ola, "tell us as much as you can about this villain."


Ola and CK looked at each other and smiled before Ola turned his back on us and walked over to a table that ran around the base of the statue of Batman, Conner and I followed after him with CK right next to us, Ola started pressing buttons as soon as he got to the table and a couple of minutes latter a hologram came up of a man, he had blue hair and his clothes were all bright pink, with a purple tie , rainbow belt and red shoes, he looked like an even more colorful version of the Joker.


"he call's himself the Color-master, he has a belt that makes what ever he can think of appear as a drawing and then he can make it become real by pressing a button on his belt, every time we try to fight him he makes something that we just can't beat, it's as if he knows our weakness' and how to stop us." Ola told us, as he looked at Conner and I to see our reactions "but who could possibly know the weakness of two people that are truly unpredictable"


"is that all you can tell us about him?" I asked Ola, and he just nodded and looked at the ground as if to say that he was sorry that he didn't know more, "all right, but I need my suit, I don't know if Conner needs any-thing."


Conner looked at me, and then back to Ola, "I don't need any-thing for myself, but Ann and I both need some-thing to eat."


"oh, of course, how inconsiderate of me." CK said before he headed out a door to our left, he reappeared a couple minutes later with a platter of fruit, cheese and crackers, he set the platter on the table and Conner and I started to eat as we listen to CK. "I can get your suit Shadow, it will only take me a couple minutes."


CK left again, this time out of a door that was on the other side of the room, and after five minutes he returned again, this time with a pile of clothes in his hands, he gave me the pile and then pointed towards a door to our right, going into the room I saw that it was a bathroom, and I quickly changed into my suit, I went back into the room to find the others in the exact same positions they were in when I left them, telling me that they hadn't done any talking, CK and Ola both looked at me in shock when they saw me and I instantly knew why.


"I had heard that your suit made your appearance change," CK said and his father nodded in agreement, "but I never thought I would live to see it."


"it helps keep the villains from learning who I am," I explained, "if the only features they see are wrong then they wont be able to identify me."


"clever," Ola said, "the Color-Master is very predictable, he only attacks on Saturdays, and today is a Friday, so we have a day until he attacks again, so the two of you should rest."


Conner and i didn't even argue, or ask questions, instead we just went over to one of the coaches that were by the wall, Conner lay down on the coach and I lay-ed down beside him, he rapped his arms around my waist and poled me closer to him, I snuggled into his chest and we were soon both asleep.


"Conner, Anna-Beth, it's time to wake up." CK said some-time later, I slowly opened my eyes and Conner and I sat up.


"good morning beautiful." Conner said as he poled me onto his lap and kissed me, I kissed him back and I'm sure it would have turned into a full out make-out session had it not been for CK standing in front of us, CK chuckled as we poled apart, "the Color-Master is robbing Gotham City Bank,"


the two of us nodded and stood up, we followed CK through a door and it led us to a landing-bay, and there in the middle of the bay, was the Bat-mobile.


"I figured you would want a vehicle you were familiar with, and the Bat-mobile was just sitting in the bat-cave like it has been for the past 100 years, I didn't think any-one would mind if I brought it to you for your mission."


"thank you, I know my way to the bank, so you don't need to show us the way," I told CK, but the I hesitated, "it is still in the middle of Gotham city right?"


"yes, nothing has really changed in Gotham," CK told us, "they have the flying car's, and the new clothes, and they have the new electronics and things, but none of the buildings have really changed, and neither has the crimes."


"I'm glad Gotham hasn't really changed, I would hate for my home to entirely disappear from the world." I said, and CK nodded and smiled as he ran his hands over the Bat-mobile.


"I know what you mean, I love Gotham and I hope it never changes." CK said, and then his head snapped up as if he just realised what he had said, and then I realised that he hadn't meant to tell me that he was from Gotham. "before you ask, yes I live in Gotham, and no, I'm not going to tell you who I'm related too."


"we should be leaving," I said as Conner and I looked at each other, "the sooner we take this villain down the sooner Conner and I can go back to our own time."


"than I wish you the best of luck." CK said, as Conner and I climbed into the Bat-mobile, we both nodded to CK and Ola (who had joined us minutes ago) and than I started the Bat-mobile and we were off, and on our way to Gotham city, it took us fifteen minutes to get to Gotham and only a couple seconds to find the bank, the bank looked normal but then the front doors opened and out stepped a man that looked exactly like the villain that CK and Ola had shown us a picture of the day before.


"I think that guy might be color blind," Conner said almost making me laugh, but being Batman's daughter I was very good at keeping my emotions hidden, and keeping myself from laughing, many people think that Batman doesn't have a sense of humor because he never smiles or laughs, but they are wrong, my father has a great sense of humor, he just doesn't show it when others are around, and he's made me an expert at hiding my emotions and feelings as well.


"or he just has a very bad sense of fashion," I said, and I could tell that he almost laughed, Conner was just as good at hiding his feelings as my father and I, but it was still easy for me to read him, which I find quit amusing since my father has told me quit a few times that he could never tell what Conner was feeling or thinking because he couldn't read him.


we landed right in front of Color-Master, and the look on his face told me that he thought Batman had come back from the dead, his face turned from shock and horror when Conner and I climbed out, to humor and cruelty, he laughed and then his hand went to his belt and seconds later there was a gaunt 'wolf thing' in front of us, it has the head and body of a wolf, but it has a hissing snake for a tail, and it has fangs that looked like they belong on a saber tooth tiger.


"my baby will tare you both to shreds." Color-Master said as he laughed but his laugh disappeared and his smile turned into a O of shock when Conner walked right up to the animal and rapped his arms around it's neck, before polling back and starting to pet the animal, turning to me Conner smiled.


"her name is Eris." Conner told me as he petted the animal, then he turned back to Color-Master and frowned, "is she going to disappear?"


"I can make objects appear, I can't make them disappear." Color-Master told Conner, and the tone of voice he used made it clear he thought Conner was stupid for thinking he could make her disappear.


while he was talking to Conner I had slipped behind Color-Master, and then I had his belt in my hands and had injected him with 'me-reg', a knock-out solution so strong that it had Color-Master out the minute the first drop was injected into him. turning to Conner I smiled at him, and then I noticed all the people standing around, there were police, regular Gotham people and tons of members of the League that we had seen when we were at the Watchtower. and all of the people around us were cheering.


"well that was easy." I told Conner, and he just smiled at me before turning back to Eris and hugged her around the neck, then he turned to me and coming towards me he rapped his arms around my waist and kissed me.


"can I keep Eris?" he asked me as we poled apart, and all I could do was nod, we went back to the Bat-Mobile and climbed in, and Eris jumped onto Conner's lap, with her snake tale around his waist so she wouldn't fall off. "where are we going?"


"to the Bat-cave, I'm hoping that my father's time transporter is still there." I told Conner, "and if it is then we can go home."


"why is it called a time 'transporter'?" Conner asked me.


"it's called a transporter because my father doesn't use it on people, he uses it when he has to transport an item to another time to help himself." I explained to Conner, my father would send a message back-words or forwards in time to himself to warn himself about a villain and how to stop him/her.


it took us ten minutes to get to the cave, and oddly enough the pass-word was still the same as it was in my time, but of course it would be, Batman has had the same pass-word since he first became Batman, to help him remember why he became Batman, and you guessed it, the password was the day he watched his parents murdered. going into the cave I saw that nothing had changed, everything was still the same as it was when I was last in the cave, when I got the capsules for my dad. I went over to the transporter and started messing around with it to get it to work.


"that thing hasn't worked in years." turning Conner and I saw CK and Ola coming down the stairs that lead to the manor.


"what are you doing here?" I demanded, "only family is supposed to be in the manor."


"we are family." CK said, and when I looked at his in confusion he smiled at me. "I'm your great, great, great, great, great grandson,"


"what?" I asked, not sure I had heard him right.


"you and I are family Anna-Beth." CK said, "and as much as I would like to I can't tell you who you marry."


"I already know who I'm going to marry." I said looking at Conner who looked back at me and smiled as he entangled our fingers together, and then Eris jumped on us and started liking our faces, "Eris stop." I yelled and surprisingly she listened and stopped licking us.


"what is that?" CK and Ola said together as they jumped both jumped back in fright.


"this is Eris." Conner said, "my new pet."


"can we just forget about Eris and go home?" I asked CK and he just nodded before going over to the computer and started typing something in, seconds later a portal of some kind opened and CK gestured for us to go through.


"this will take you home," CK said, "you will arrive in the exact same place that you were taken from, in the kitchen on Mount-Justice carrying Wally, you will be in the same clothes and no one will know that this even happened unless you tell them."


"we will have to tell them." Conner said, and when we looked at him in confusion, he explained. "we will have to explain if we are going to keep Eris."


"and we will be keeping Eris," I said, "so your right and we'll have to explain all of this."


"good bye." Conner and I both said at the same time before stepping through the portal, and sure enough we found our selves in our own time once again, we were in the kitchen holding Wally between us, we looked at each-other and then we just dropped Wally on the ground and headed back into the living-room and sat down on the coach. every-one was looking at us, we looked at each-other and then we yelled together. "Eris." as soon as we yelled her name our new pet came out of no where and jumped onto the coach, every-one jumped back in shock the minute Eris showed up, and then Conner and I once gain spoke as one, "we have something to tell you," and we went on to tell them all that had happened.


********************************authors note IMPORTANT PLEASE READ.***********************************


in my story I'm going to make it so that Conner does age, and grow into a man.

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