- The Atom: The human lung, mother nature is truly our greatest architect. Look, dendritic cells, alveoli...
- Aquaman: Yes, yes, all very interesting. But how small are we?
- The Atom: About 15 microns. Small enough to slip between Batman's cells without damage. And uh, that's Batman's cilia you're hanging from.
- Aquaman: Cilia an sillier! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Alley-oop!
- Aquaman: Good boy. You were magnificent. Yes, big hug!
- The Atom: He's not hugging you. "He" is merely interpreting you as a foreign body to be surrounded and destroyed.
- Aquaman: Sure feels like a hug to me. And since we found you in Batman's blood stream, I think we'll name you Platelet.
- The Atom: Except that's a lymphocyte.
- Aquaman: Platelet it is!
- Aquaman: Come on doc, write us a heroic prescription.
- The Atom: I don't know... every course of action I can think of leads to unacceptable consequences.
- Aquaman: Then this is not the time to think, but the time to act!
- The Atom: What are you doing?
- Aquaman: Drawing their forces so you can destroy the seed cell.
- The Atom: But you'll never survive!
- Aquaman: Perhaps, but at least I'll have one heck of a story!
- The Atom: This goes beyond medicine. Batman's cells are mutating. Before long, they'll overwhelm his central nervous system, causing a loss of motor control, then paralysis, and finally...
- Batman: Then we don't have much time. Chemo's headed out to sea, straight for the Bialyan nuclear test site.
- Aquaman: Forget Chemo, old chum. The Navy can handle him.
- The Atom: He's right. The only way to halt this process is for me to go into your body and destroy the organisms myself.
- Aquaman: Sounds like an adventure. Think you might need a strong swimmer along? One with the heart of a beluga whale?
- The Atom: Oh, I don't think...
- Batman: Take him. You'll need the muscle.
- The Atom: [sighing] Oh... then promise me you won't do anything foolish. Activity makes the virus spread faster, okay? Say "ah", and remember, stay put.
- [he shrinks himself and Aquaman]
- Batman: [opening his mouth] Ah.
- [thinking]
- Batman: I thought they'd never leave.
- Aquaman: I've not seen heroics like yours since the time I saved an elderly merman from a pack of great whites. Good show. But, you know, coming to my aid like that was not the rational course of action, doc.
- The Atom: Let's call it a momentary lapse in judgment.
- Aquaman: Our victory, though, has come at a great cost. Ah, Platelet.
- The Atom: I'm so sorry, Aquaman. He was a valiant steed. But lymphocytes never last long.
- Aquaman: Come, then, let us honor Platelet and live as heroes. Take us home, old chum.
- The Atom: [cut to a few minutes later] There's only one way out. Left at the jugular, then on toward a tear duct.
- Aquaman: Tear duct? But surely... Batman never cries.
- Batman: Your mind is twisted, Brain. You can think about the error of your ways while doing hard time in a Bialyan prison.
- Babyface: Okay, boys, grab the loot. And maybe a couple of those suckers, too.
- Plastic Man: Not so fast, Babyface.
- Elongated Man: You've been caught by the long arms of the law.
- Babyface: Well, if it isn't Plastic Man and, uh... uh, and, uh...
- Elongated Man: Elongated Man. You know, the ductile detective?
- Babyface: Uh, never heard of you.
- Batman: [thinking] Chemo went to a lot of trouble to get that nuke. But for whom is the question. Who's the real brain behind this mindless brute?
- The Brain: [a transmission appears] You poor, pitiful fool, Batman. I believe this is checkmate.
- Batman: The Brain. Ironic.
- The Brain: As much fun as it was watching you match wits with Chemo, our little toy is now going where no one will get to it.
- [Chemo swallows the nuke]
- The Brain: And if the Bialyan people do not surrender to my rule, my lackey's corrosive juices will eat through the bomb's housing, causing an explosion that will destroy their entire country. But before we get to that nasty business, Batman, I think it is time for Chemo to put you out of your misery.
- Elongated Man: I just don't get it. I'm more professional, the better detective, and yet the public prefers you.
- Plastic Man: Ooh, not just the public, my D-list doppelganger. Batman, too.
- [using his powers to stop one of Babyface's goons]
- Plastic Man: Oh, yeah. The Caped Crusader prefers to work with moi.
- Elongated Man: Please. The Dark Knight only turns to you when I'm on another case, and then only as a last resort.
- Plastic Man: Dude, you're delusional. Bats and I are best buds. We hang out even when there's no evildoing to be undone.
- [imitating Babyface, Elongated Man takes down another thug; coming across the scene, Plastic Man takes the bags of money nearby]
- Elongated Man: I would think Batman prefers a partner who doesn't pilfer criminal proceeds.
- Plastic Man: Low blow, highbrow.
- The Atom: Now's the time for thinking, not fighting.
- Aquaman: Ha! The problem with you, Atom, is that you think when you should feel.
- The Atom: Time to try things my way. A simple electromagnetic shock will destroy them and cure Batman in the process. Observe.
- [firing a weapon at the phyllosilicates]
- The Atom: See? Thinking's not so tough. Maybe you should try it sometime.
- Babyface: That taffy puller should keep you wrapped up for a while, see?
- Elongated Man: This kind of incompetence is exactly why Batman always chooses me.
- Plastic Man: He'd rather work with me any day of the week.
- Batman: [taking down Babyface] Truth be told, between the two of you... I prefer to work alone.
- Batman: [thinking, pursuing Chemo] My body grows weaker with each passing moment. Only the thought of the destruction that walking chemical spill will wreak keeps me focused.
- Aquaman: Worry not, Poindexter. I shall lead us to safer ground.
- The Atom: Wait. At our size, blood vessels are raging rivers of death.
- Aquaman: [sending out a telepathic beam] Not if I summon us a sturdy steed.
- The Atom: And what exactly are you going to summon? This is not the ocean. There are no fish in Batman's...
- [a lymphocyte squeaks]
- The Atom: I stand corrected.