"You can run, run as fast as you can but you'll never catch me because I am the gingerbread man! Ahahahahahaha!"

'He's over there!" Red Robin calls.

"No! It came from over here you idiot!" Robin yells.

Everyone is spred out all over the rooftop of the old museum. Red Robin is to the far left of Batman while Robin is to the far right. He sees Batgirls shadow some feet in front of him, purched on the edge of the roof, scanning the streets. He shifts his eyes to the spot Red Hood should be but, of course, he's not there.

"Red Hood. Where the hell are you!?" Batman calls into his com. The manacle laughing continues all around them.

"Calm your shorts Bat-wonder. I'm just checking the left wing."

"I already checked. There is nothing there."

"Yea? Well, I haven't."

"Get back into position. Now!"

"You may be wearing the Bat-suit Dickie but you are no Batman. That whole Bat-growle was way off. It's more dark, sadistic grunt. Less pouty boy who isn't getting his way."

"Jason, stop being such a dick and get your ass back up here. Unless you want a repeat of last time you tried to go after the Joker by yourself." Robin says with a dark smile.

"Robin! Language. And stop using names!" Batman growls.

"Amateurs." Red Robin mumbles. His wrist beeps. "Hey guys. I got a ping."

"Where?"

"It's coming from...right here. He's right on top of us."

Everyone is scanning the rooftop but they see nothing. Robin goes to move but Batman stops him. "Hold your positions."

"But he is not here. He could be-"

"I said, hold!" The former Boy Wonder grumbles not sounding at all like himself.

Robins face is defiant but he stays.

"Hey guys? There is something down here." Hoods voice comes in over the coms.

"What is it?"

"I'm not sure. Gonna take a closer look."

Red Robin is scrutinizing the screan on his arm. "I'm definitely getting some kind of reading from the left wing. Should we go and check it out? Joker is obviously not up here. That laughing is on a loop."

"Hood. Stay where you are. We are coming down." Batman orders.

"Do whatever you want. I'm*static* waiting for*static* though."

"What was that?" More static. "Red Hood, come in."


"Where did he go?" Red Robin asks. A green light is shooting out of his arm as it scans the area around them.

The left wing of the museum is currently being remodeled so there are plastic tarps, metal beams, dust and machines everywhere.

"There!" Red Robin calls out, facing a huge steel safe that almost touches the cealing of the lowest part of the museum.

Batgirl whistles. "This is new. I don't remember seeing this giant hunk of metal the last time I came here."

Red Robin is scrutinizing the contents on his computer. "It's not technically even here."

"Really?" She knocks her nuckles against it two times. "Sure seems like it's here. Technically."

He gives her a look. "I mean, there is no record of it in the inventory. Or even in recent shipments."

Robin bangs against the door. "Hay Hood! You still breathing in there?"

"Robin. Stop that." Batman sighs staring at the safe, while the computer chip in his ocular leans scans the organic compounds of the box. "Red Robin, do you see that?"

"The safe, it's not all steel. It's lined with something." Red replies.

"What the heck would you need to line a steel safe with? What's stronger than steel?" Batgirl asks, examining the side of it. "You know, besides the Man of Steel."

Red Robin looks meaningfully at Batman. "Led."

They hear a click and look twards the safe to see Robin opening the door. As he does a bright green light spills out of the opening. They see Red Hood standing there, shining a light on the mountain of green crystals.

"Kryptonite." Red Hood says without looking at them.


They had given the entire museum another thorough sweep. Joker was nowhere to be found and they still had no idea why there was a giant safe full of Kryptonite. Did it even have anything to do with Joker?

"Alright team, we are obviously not going to get any further with this tonight. Gather whatever information you have, we will log it into the Batcave computer and than rest up. Tomarrow is another day."

"But that psychotic scumbag is still out there." Robin protests, jumping off his shadowy pirtch.

"This is Gotham after all. Joker is always out there somewhere."

"Father would never rest until he found him."

Batman sighs. "We'll find him Robin."

"But-"

"Enough."

"Isn't it past your bedtime anyway." Red Robin interjects without looking at them. His hands are flying across his wist. "Alright, everything I have logged is backed up into the Caves computer mainfraim. I'll start organizing and cross referencing everything once we get back."

'Tomarrow Red, get some rest tonight." Batman says, patina him on the shoulder.

Robin folds his arms. "Yea. Isn't it past your bedtime."

Red Robin does all he can to ignore the current Robin snide comment. "First thing than."


"Hey Hood! What cha doing? Groups the other way." Batgirl asks, leaning causally against the railing of a stairwell looking down at Red Hood in a back ally of the museum.

"Got a lead on where Joker disappeared too, wanna join me? I'll make it worth your wiled."

She rolls her eyes. "I highly doubt that." She jumps over the railing and without turning to look at him, starts walking. "Well, you coming?"

He sees that her wrist is glowing, she's already synced up to his GPS tracker, or had she found Jokers location all on her own? Whatever, she's in. "Right behind ya babe. I'll watch your back."