"Who are you?" asked Batman. "Ever the detective are you not.... Bruce." Batman's eyes widened in shock. Barbara's eyes widened at this too. "He knows who he is, who I am, everything...." "Anyway, we have some girls who are very special to all of you." he smiled, as the heroes image revolved to a blank screen. A single guard still there and he pulled each of the girls to their respective hero. They called the girl's name in surprise and each girl responded with an "MMMPPPPHHH!"

Serenity and Tea who were next to each other, looked at Yugi and Joey. "Yugi, Joey." thought Serenity. "Please don't come, they're out to kill you." Of course her gag would prevent her from saying this out loud. "Link..., Hero of the Winds, don't worry about me, just find another Hyrule." thought Zelda 2. "Batman, come on. You should know that it's... oh forget it you'll probably come anyway." thought Barbara.

"Now heroes." said the boss, "if you want to rescue your girls then you'll come to my world, a portal will open and take you to my world first thing tomorrow morning at 8:00, where you'll face a seperate trial, if you make it that far, you will face me. And you may be able to save these girls? " with a laugh he clicked off the TV.

The girls stood where they were, not making a sound muffled or otherwise. The boss smiled, "get them ready for dinner."

TO BE CONTINUED.