Art 3-Poetry: A Dream within a Dream.

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Gin and Batman keep waiting while they heard sounds a battle in the building. Watching some explosions and green lights on the building before an outburst occur.

Gin and Batman dodged the sudden Green Lantern that destroyed their `cage´ and was being thrown towards a fuel truck, blasting it.

Batman grabbed the box meanwhile Gin choose to hide because he sense the approaching figure of Superman. `I will hide for now while collecting some information about Superman, may be useful in the future if things get bad'.

Gin quickly started to write in the ground [Following my words of command, the wind shall stop the sound and the light will hide me from the sight of my enemies. Concealment]. The wind around Gin started to stop transmitting sound towards them, and the light distorted making it appearing as if he was not there.

Watching how Batman and Superman started a unilateral battle where Batman keep attacking with different objects but destroyed or nullified by the man of steel.

`Batman is clearly testing his weapons against him, and putting him on an unknown side by ignoring his questions about the creature, the box or his assumption of him being at the side of the creature.' Gin though only interrupted by an angry Green Lantern.

"Round 2, fly-boy." Said Green Lantern rushing and shooting chains towards Superman. "Lantern, no!" Exclaimed Batman.

Still hitting Superman, Green Lantern chained him up, only earning a mocking smile from Superman while saying "Chains? You are funny." Breaking the chains and sending away him away.

Now side by side Batman said, "We won't stopped him. He is pissed off. We have to talk to him." `Well, if you rushed to him and started to attack him without an explanation it is natural for him to be angry.' Gin retorted in his mind.

"Talk to him? Wait, where is Gin?" Questioned his temporal ally, however, failed to get an answer as Superman flied towards them. Green Lantern quickly made a shield around them but the punch still caused them to fly towards the city.

Seeing Superman continuous attack and moving fast in the city, Gin canceled the Art of Concealment. "Man, now I have to follow them."

A few minutes later arriving where he can see them surrounded by a police helicopter. They would likely avoid the authority and will go into the sewers again. `Not again in the sewers.' Gin thought while releasing a sigh. `Have to move fast.'

Gin started to move faster towards, if someone could even catch a glimpse of him, they would only see him move with dancing steps. Rushing into the sewers with them only to barely dodge a punch of Superman. `He is fast.' Superman thought while getting ready to punch him, but was stop by Batman.

"Stop! He is an ally." Batman quickly said and added with narrowed eyes, "Where were you while we were fighting him off?" "Do you expected for me to fight him too? I'm not in the same level as him" Gin retorted.

"Stop that, we have to move" Said Superman. As the four of them started to move Gin asked, "So, was the box from this red and blue guy?"

"No, it is not Kryptonian, but we know that some strategically placed these boxes. We have to find out who and why, before it's too late." Batman replied and they started to think some possible causes.

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In the hell like headquarters, a giant figure sitting on a throne is receiving a report from his minions.

"DeSaad, What do you have to report from our agents on Earth?" The giant in the throne asked. "Sir, the powerful one has found the mother box, the one the mistakenly call Superman."

"…And?" "These defenders are protecting their planet. We are in danger of losing the element of surprise, my lord. I humbly ask that you move up your timetable." DeSaad requested his lord while silently waiting for his decision.

"Let the invasion begin." The giant figure order.

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S.T.A.R Labs currently were experimenting with the mother box, trying to pry into the technology behind it and any information of the current creatures and attacks.

The Champion of the football game, Victor, enter the room hoping that his father can talk to him. "I don't have time right now." Dr. Stone said. "Make time." Victor slightly angry said.

The two then started to argued, Victor hoping that by telling him about the game and how there were some scouters trying to recruit him to make their teams shine, can make him feel a little guilty and started to view his dreams or goals with in another view.

Just to get his hopes crushed, "Open your eyes son. Look at the world we are living today. We are witnessing the birth of a new race of Super-humans. Beings, who can fly, tear through buildings and outrun racecars!

"They'll make what you can do obsolete. In that world, throwing a football is a joke!". "You are never coming to one of my games, are you?" Victor asked with a dejected expression. "No". Was the reply he got.

A bip sound and his co-worker interrupted the talk with his son. "Dr. Stone, something is happening." "We can talk about this later." Said Dr. Stone, leaving a thinking Victor.

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Metropolis, in an abandoned warehouse, four figures are talking.

"So, what are you three doing here? Metropolis is my territory." Superman asked the trio.

"There've been reports of mysterious kidnappings across the country." Batman said.

"We have them here too. Figure that was life in big city. You think the disappearances and these things are connected?" Superman inquired. "They are connected." Batman replied.

"So, these monsters they're…" Green Lantern said, "Are soldiers, expendable soldiers that planted these devices at all cost. That is military tactic. We maybe stirring out the barrel before a full scaling invasion." Batman said satisfying his doubts but making a new one.

"You are paranoid. Let's just cra—" Green Lantern stopped as he was getting his arm hold by a smiling Gin. "Don't be stupid and try to break something we don't fully understand. It may cause an explosion and you will put a risk on the civilians by doing that.

"And I think it is an invasion, as I think I got a grasp on something." Gin said to the surprise of Superman and Green Lantern and getting an approval nod by Batman for stopping Green Lantern.

Seeing their looks to continue, he said "The humans that are getting kidnapped are probably getting use to produce these creatures or maybe even worse…" Gin paused as he looked at them with a serious expression, Superman and Green Lantern getting in disbelief of the hypothesis. "They are getting converted into these soldiers.

"No need to be tense, that is only my speculation and I'm more inclined towards the former." Gin said regaining his mocking smile.

"Indeed, that would be the worst case of all these kidna—" Batman stopped as the mother box started to bip.

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In S.T.A.R Labs, they a similar situation as the mother they hold started to do the same. Only for Victor to grabbed in rage. As for why… well…

Poem: 'A Dream within a Dream' by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?