Chapter 49

A/N: hey guys! Welcome back for the next chapter! Good to see y'all again! Anyways, remember, I just own my OCs I don't own Jurassic Park or Young Justice.

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"Bold is raptor."

Telepathy/flashbacks

Metropolis, December 1, 10:35EST

"All right, let's focus on the mission," Batgirl said as Bumblebee came over, Beast Boy in bird form landing on her shoulder, "We still need to protect Ms. Harjavti."

"Yeah, without any of the big guns," Bumblebee muttered.

"It's not ideal but Devastation disappeared too. So maybe the worst it over…" she trailed off as a shadow came over them. Looking up, they hissed through their teeth. Above the city, a giant alien ship loomed over them. From the center a small device fell from the sky.

"You just had to say things couldn't get worse!" Bumblebee grit her teeth. "Bumblebee to Cave, Metropolis is under attack! There's a huge ship overhead and it fired off some kind of—Ah!" The comm screeched in her ear and a giant blue dome appeared over the city. Reaching for her comm again, she tried to make another call, "Beta Squad to Black Lightning?"

/Yes, Beta, I read you/ the Leaguer answered.

"So the comms inside the domes still work," Bumblebee said turning to Batgirl.

/Yes, but I can't reach the Watchtower and the local Zeta Tubes are offline/

"Cave's not responding either," she replied as she followed Batgirl to the edge of the dome, "Force field's cut us off from everything but the visible light spectrum," she knelt down digging into the soil, "it even descends into the earth and there's a slight curvature. I don't think we're under a dome, I think the whole city's trapped in a sphere."

"Bee suit up and go with Gar," Batgirl ordered. "This might all be one big distraction to get to Ms. Harjavti."

"Way ahead of you," she smirked pulling up her hood and shrinking. "But here's my question? Do you think that's where Superboy and the others got taken to?"

A green bird flew through the crowd towards the stage. Flying above it, Beast Boy transformed, rolling to a land on the platform. "Ms. Harjavti!" he called.

"GET BACK!" one of the security team yelled.

"Wait!" she said stretching out an arm, "He's a friend. Beast Boy, do you know what's going on?"

"No," he shook his head, "but we don't want to take any chances. So let's get you out of this crowd."

-.-

The Moon, 15:52UTC

"SHAZAM!" Captain Marvel managed to shout after several minutes of struggling. Lightning shot down, and the hero was replaced by Billy Batson. "Darn it," the teen muttered, "I thought that magic lightning would shatter this thing—Hey, that dumb noise! It's still annoying but it only works on Cap, not me!"

Onyx would've made a wry remark for his brilliant deduction cause the teen was still stuck in the damn crystal. However, the infernal ringing in his ear made it difficult to think, let alone move. It was probably why a good portion of the others in these things were only semi-conscious if they were at all.

Another flash of light blinded the hybrid for a moment. Forcing his eyes to blink, Onyx glared at the culprit. Captain Atom was now in his non-hero form. "You were right," the man grinned, "the inhibitor noise is specific to my other form."

"Yeah, but we're still stuck!" Billy reminded.

Captain Atom huffed, "Speak for yourself kid!"

The sound of shattering crystal temporarily overwhelmed the infernal hum of the inhibitor. "Way to go Cap!" Billy cheered as the older hero landed on the ground. Wrapping his jacket around his arm, he punched the inhibitor next to what had been his prison, shattering it under a single punch.

"Should be safe now." Another flash filled the room and Captain Atom stood back in his regular uniform. His fists began to glow and the infernal hum came to a stop as he blasted the sources.

Onyx grinned, feeling the dull ache that had been in his body face away. Crystal shattered around him as he forced his way out. Landing on the ground, he gave his mother a small nod as she approached with Superman and Conner.

"You ok?" he asked quietly.

"I'm fine babe," Skylar reassured kissing his cheek. "Thanks for worrying though."

"Uh…a little help?" Billy called. "The noisemaker thingy?"

"I got it," Clark chuckled.

Once Captain Marvel was back, the group turned to the other crystal pillars, looking at the prisoners inside. "We should free Major Force," Captain Marvel spoke.

"Do we have to?" Atom groaned.

Diana stretched out an arm, resting it on his shoulder, "Captain, I know you've resisted all attempts to admit Major to the League and since he's your friend, we've respected your wishes. But Major Force is a hero."

Captain Atom scoffed, "Yeah, a hero and such a good friend. Look, eventually we'll have to release everyone here," he motioned to all the villains, "but right now we don't know who's behind this, we don't even know where we are."

"Well, we know none of these guys are responsible," Sky said motioning to those still stuck, "and we know we're not where we were earlier."

"No shit," Conner deadpanned.

The redhead shrugged, "Just saying; I'm not wrong."

"There are too many questions," Captain Atom interrupted. "So as the League's newly-elected leader, I'm pulling rank. We keep this in the family until we get some answers."

"That might not be a bad idea," Superman called.

They all turned to the Man of Steel, striding over in front of the column where he stood. "This alien, calls himself Draaga, he showed up in Metropolis a year ago. Challenged me to single combat; wouldn't take no for an answer."

"I remember, you and Conner barely beat him," Onyx remembered crossing his arms. "Sky and I were expecting back-up to be called if it went on any longer."

"We probably would have if we didn't manage to stop him," Conner confirmed. "Guy left without a word; never found out how he heard of Superman."

"The point is Draaga was tough," Captain Atom reminded, "and he's only one of many. Whoever took them—and us—isn't someone we should underestimate."

"I don't want to sound immodest, but we're the Big Guns of the Justice League," Captain Marvel smirked, "whoever brought us here did the underestimating."

"I bet it now gets three times harder now that he said that," Skylar deadpanned.

Onyx shrugged, "I bet five times."

"Loser buys dinner?"

"Sure."

-.-

New Mexico, 09:00MST

"I don't want to tell you your business ese, but if the desination's Metropolis, then why are we headed west?" Blue Beetle asked as he flew behind Wonder Girl and Nightwing on the Supercycle.

"Because, when you fly with this team the shortest distance between two points isn't a straight line. Still, we're headed for Taos, New Mexico."

"Taos? Why Taos?" Jamie inquired as the descended towards a building.

"And spoil the surprise?" Nightwing smirked. "Where's the fun in that? But anyways, glad you came kid."

Ignoring the fact he was called a kid, Jamie just shrugged, "Yeah well, I don't know what I was thinking ese. My parents don't even know—"

"They know," Nightwing interrupted.

"WHAT?!"

"You're a minor," Nightwing deadpanned, "the Justice League checked before we made contact. They agreed that if you're going to be a hero, you better learn how to do it right."

"New kid's been scanned and assigned a designation. You're good to go when she is."

"She?"

"Great," Nightwing nodded, "Supercycle, sphere-mode please."

The cycle beeped, folding down into her sphere form. "Whoa! That was tight!" Beetle grinned before glancing behind him. "What does that even mean?"

"Means it's time to go," Nightwing spoke, motioning to the tunnel in the back of the room.

"Go? Go where? Hate to tell you ese, buy you're leading us to a one-way tunnel? If we're late for a crisis shouldn't we be boarding the Justice Jet or something?"

"Crises," Nightwing corrected, "plural, and this is better than a jet."

"Recognized: Nightwing—B01. Sphere—C01. Wonder Girl—B24. Blue Beetle—A12."

"This is wild," Jamie grinned as the Zeta Tube began to power up.

-.-

The Moon, 17:13UST

"We're on the Moon," Onyx said.

"Yep," Skylar nodded.

"The Moon."

"Yes, babe, we established that."

"But, the moon!" he grinned pointing outside the window.

"Aren't you concerned how we got to the fucking moon?!" she exclaimed.

"Aren't you excited to be in space?!" he replied.

"We go to space all the time," Clark remarked.

"The watchtower doesn't count," Onyx waved him off.

"Ok, excitement aside, how did this structure get here?" Conner asked.

"That's the least of our worries," Diana spoke up. "We thought escape, but the real problem is how we get home?"

"Hold our breath and pray?" Skylar suggested raising a hand.

"We are not doing that."

-.-

Metropolis, 13:45EST

"So, if the trouble's in Metropolis, why'd we do the Star Trek thing into Gotham?" Blue Beetle asked.

"That's why," Nightwing said pointing as they flew closer to the city, which stood with a blue dome covering it.

"Oh…got it."

"Etaerc a cipocsorcim eloh ni siht dleif rof Mota!" Zatanna chanted as they came to a landing.

"And luck?" Nightwing called.

"Not yet," Silver Swan answered landing beside him.

"Communications?"

"Visual only," she answered crossing her arms, metallic wings flicking, "no radio, sound, zeta-tube, even J'ohn's telepathy can't get through."

"And where is Martian Manhunter?"

"Attempting to densit-shift through the force-field," a voice replied making Blue jump as the hero rose from the ground next to him. "Attempting and failing."

"Can't vibrate through either!" Flash huffed skidding to a stop.

"Whatever this is, it's not compatible with my systems," Swan huffed. "Zatanna?"

"No luck. I can't even seem to summon enough mystic energy to cut even the smallest hole."

A small figure landed on Swan's wing, "The field's energy lattice appears solid down to the sub-atomic level, and my miniaturization limits out at regular atomic."

A drill came from the ground, before reforming into a man, "Gang! This thing isn't a dome at all. It's a sphere surrounding the entire city."

As they spoke, Blue leaned over to speak to Wonder Girl, "Ok, I know this is all bad news, but…"

"Coolest day of your life?" the blonde grinned.

"Totally."

"Tornado, where's the rest of the League?" Atom asked. "We could use—"

/Earth's three Green Lanterns are off-planet, as are the Hawks and our cooperative delegation. Batman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, and Black Canary are otherwise occupied, but may be summoned if their presence is deemed necessary and/or useful. The whereabouts of Dr. Fate remains unknown, as has been since before Superman, Wonder Woman, Captain Atom, Captain Marvel, and the others were abducted to the moon. Finally, Black Lightning is among the approximately four-million humans trapped inside Metropolis/

"He's in good company," Nightwing sighed resting his palm against the dome as Barbra pressed her own hand back.

-.-

The Moon, 19:36UTC

"I feel like we've been walking in circles," Skylar groaned.

"Same," Conner nodded, "I can't get my bearings in here."

"Maybe because we have been," Clark answered. Narrowing his eyes, the man sighed, "The crystalline walls have so many facets my x-ray vision's useless."

"Maybe we're going about this the wrong way," Captain Marvel spoke up, "Captain Atom, can you use your quantum senses zero in on high-energy signatures?"

"Maybe."

"Great! Cause anything capable of transport from the Earth to the Moon would require boatloads of juice!"

"So we can commandeer them to go—" a bright light flashed, cutting Superboy off, "home?"

"Attention weapons…"

Remix bared her fangs as Nightmare bristled, giving a low growl, "I don't know who this bastard is, but I'm going to whoop their ass."

"I'll help."

"Please hold for universal translation of directive from First Leader Kylstar." It was then they noticed the giant crystal being looming over them. "Translating directive. Kylstar states that these weapons belong in weapons room four. However, customized weapon containers are currently non-functional. Weapons will remain here till containment is repaired."

"That's not our first choice," Captain Atom replied.

"Choice equals non-sequitur weapons room containers must be repaired. Current container provides sustaining gases, but no nourishment required for journey."

"Journey?!"

"WE'RE NOT YOUR FUCKING WEAPONS!" Remix screamed flaring her wings. "AND WE'RE NOT GOING ON WHATEVER FUCKING JOURNEY THIS IS!"

The floor rumbled underneath them, looking outside, they could see the ship they were in leaving the moon's surface. "Ok, we may have a problem…" Captain Marvel muttered.

"Gee, wonder what that could possible be?" Nightmare deadpanned.

"The guy drives a convertible in space, I'm impressed."

All heads snapped back towards their captor. That's when they realized he was standing outside.

"Well shit."