Chapter 2! Expect maybe one more chapter today. I'm in the zone!
In case you want to know, Robin was having a very bad day. First, he had to eat tofu bacon because they were out of cereal, then he got hit by a rather large plant and, as much he would like to think he was invincible, got knocked out. And now this. Now it appeared he had been kidnapped and woke up in a place he didn't know, surrounded by strangers.
But was he really kidnapped? Surely if he was they would have him in a cell or tied up or something. And the rest of the titans would be on their way. But, try as he might, Robin could not think up a better explanation for the current circumstances.
The tall, muscular boy in a black shirt with a superman logo (which, oddly enough, made Robin think perhaps they were crazed fans.) spoke up. "Robin, are you okay?"
Robin knew he had to find out what was going on and he knew the fastest was to be direct. "Who are you people, and why did you bring me here?"
The expressions on his supposed kidnappers were... odd, to say the least. Some held a mixture of confusion and concern while others were unreadable and one was even amused.
The amused one, a redheaded teenager about fifteen, was the first to speak. "Alright Robin, very funny. I knew we were bored, but faking memory loss?" He shook his head. "That's just lame."
This was very much not the reaction he expected.
For a moment, his mind went momentarily blank. Then the fight or flight instinct kicked in. While normally fight would be the first thing he came to, this time, for some reason, flight was his priority. He ran down the first hallway he came to, leaving the strangers standing behind him open-mouthed.
Aqualad was the first to regain his bearings and speak. "Now," he said, "we call batman."
Robin was running for several minutes down the pretty much abandoned halls until finally, he came to a dead end. His eyes glinting, he located the vents on the ceiling and found his way into them, only one thing on his mind- escape. Then he noticed something odd as he was crawling.
He wasn't wearing his costume. He was wearing a very basic black hoodie over a green shirt. This wasn't right. Robin always wore his costume. Even when he slept.
He searched the pockets until he found his utility belt. He sighed. At least I have this, he thought. But something wasn't right about it. There was no communicator and no staff. Bombs, batarangs and other deadly weapons but there wasn't his weapon. He felt practically naked without it.
Oh, right, getting out.
He continued to crawl. Then he heard voices from beneath him. Voices he assumed to be of his captors and yet there was one he recognized. Batman!
"So you say he just ran away after apparently not recognizing you?" Batman asked the kidnappers. Which, like almost everything else today, was odd. He had left Batman ages ago, and besides, why would he be working with the kidnappers? Should he have recognized them?
Robin crawled forward until he came to the vent above the room he woke up in. He could see the room fully. Batman was standing with the teenagers.
The green girl spoke up. "Yes, it was very odd. We have to find him!"
Batman cleared his throat. "That wont be necessary. I have a strong suspicion he's in that vent up there, listening to us talk." Batman pointed at the Boy Wonder's hiding place.
Crud. He kicked out the vent cover and tossed what he hoped was a smoke bomb as he continued to run through the vent.
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