The Justice League Watchtower

Your mode of transport was simply a rippling hole of humming electric yellow energy that hung in air like... a hole in the world.

"What is that thing?" you asked, the question ignored again as you followed the agent and walked closer to the apparent tear in reality. He put a finger to his ear.

"I have the asset," he told whoever was on the line.

"The asset?" you repeated, now a little affronted. Many aspects of tonight were becoming increasingly uncomfortable as you tried to hold your bathrobe together, a cold breeze growing around you. Glaring at the back of the agent's head you tried to get your original question answered.

"Where. Are. We. Going?" you asked, though you needed to yell the last word in order to be heard over the growing hum from the circle of power, which should have worried you but you were getting too mad to care. The agent finally turned to look at you and there was the slightest hint of a smile on his face.

"To meet your heroes," he said, before the hole in the world exploded in a blinding flash of light and deafening boom.

***

When your vision and hearing finally faded back you found yourself indoors under glaring artificial light. You could feel the cold metal floor through your thin slippers. The agent was gone. You looked around and the place reminded you of the state of the art laboratory you worked... only this place was probably fifty times larger and not just because the ceiling was so high you had to squint to make out the fixtures. Obviously you had been teleported... but to where? You observed this rather sterile looking environment, turning slowly, then saw the giant window behind you. Outside was the vast blackness of space. And also the planet Earth. You ran up to the glass, seeing your blue and green home in its entirety, awed by the majesty of it all... and the realisation that you were very far away.

"Greetings Doctor Doe."

"AH!"

You spun around, surprised (but eventually thankful) to find you were not alone. Hovering before you was quite clearly some kind of robot, a humanoid upperbody in it's general build but entirely made of metallic alloys and with a screen for a face. It beeped and booped like something out of science fiction, emanating a low blue light where some of its joints were.

"Welcome to the Justice League Watchtower," said the robot in it's friendly and nonthreatening voice. It was smaller than you, and despite its futuristic construction was obviously designed to appear as non-threatening to you as possible. Appearances could be deceiving, which seemed fitting to you when its words finally sunk in.

"Justice League? What?" you tilted your head at the robot. "What am I doing here?"

"Your services are required, Doctor Doe. Please follow me." And without waiting for your response it turned and began to hover away.