The Universe's Mixer

"It's been ten days," Windy said as he came onto the screens of the televisions, computers, and phones of The City "since the devastating storm that crashed through our lives. People have spent that time cleaning up, and getting back to normal."

He walked past a map on a green screen, showing the general outline of the islands all lived, pointing with a special laser that showed up as an arrow on the television, but was just a light to him.

"We've certainly seen some whacky weather in this city of ours, but that was our biggest storm to date. There were reports of broken windows, roofs torn off, flooding, things ruined. Even our beloved library was hit. But thanks to one woman, it should be fixed in no time.

"The storm moved in an irregular pattern, and even left a few things alone completely. We've checked our radar from the day, and can't explain this phenomenon. There was no warning that a storm was even near us."

Windy smiled at the camera. "Certainly not as much fun as the snow storm we had a few years ago."

Pictures of storm damage flashed in a box to the left of Windy's face.

"As you can see, there were a lot of issues caused by this freak storm. But we've had many reports that things are pretty much back to normal out there." The smile faded "You can all rest easy. The City knows who did this, and The City won't let them go unpunished."

With an even bigger smile, a picture of a puppy popped up to cover the green screen where the map was. "And now for today's Adopt-A-Mutt!"

Zee had learned that there really was just no way to leave the City. She swore Shadowcrest was laughing at her but at least it let her back inside. She had also learned that a handful of people she knew were here too. Batman. Superman, though he might be gone now. Ollie and...Dinah.

She and Dinah had been pretty good friends during their JLA days, but after the memory wipe with Batman and subsequent tribunal that led to Zatanna being kicked off the League there had been a bit of a falling out between the two fishnet wearing women. Not that Zee could blame Dinah. The mystic had come to regret her actions, but she hadn't had the guts to try to contact her old friend.

But now that they all were stuck in this place Zee thought to try to contact her. Somehow a City phone book had managed to find its way into Shadowcrest and sure enough. There was a listing for Dinah's flower shop in the yellow pages. Zee couldn't help but smile. Some things never change. She decided to nut up and try to go see Dinah at the shop.

She changed her clothes then left with the address for Dinah's shop written down and a map of the city she'd torn out of the phone book so she had some clue of where she was going. Not that it helped entirely with the City as torn up as it was from the storm, but eventually she found her way to the right place.

The florist shop took some damaged and for a moment Zee thought maybe Dinah wouldn't be here. Her second thought was that Dinah wouldn't leave it on a bet wanting to put it back the way it was with her bare hands so Zee poked her head in through one of the broken windows. "Hello?"