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"I know how to use all the gear I'll go down and find it. Besides if for some odd reason killer croc is down there I've got the stuff to deal with him," Dick said slipping the wet suit on over his costume.

Wally didn't waste the time arguing Dick knew was he was doing and that was that.

He didn't want to think about his fear right at that moment. If he thought about it, it could come true. But no matter how much he tried to distract himself his mind always wondered back to it. What if Bart was down there with his communicator?

Dick had dropped down into the water while Wally was lost in thought. He knew there wasn't going to be any evidence to find so he went straight to finding the communicator. It didn't take long before he was on his way back up to the surface.

"Pull me up KF," He called up to him.

No response.

"KF?"

Still no response.

"Kid Flash! A little help?!"

"Oh sorry dude, I wasn't paying attention."

"It's fine just get me back up there."

"Um," he said before looking down, "was there anything down there with the communicator?"

Dick smiled up at him, "Impulse wasn't down there, he's still alive."

Wally let out the breath he hadn't realised he's been holding. Bart was alive. Now they just needed to actually find the boys.

Dick was pulled up back into the plane.

Unlike Wally he wasn't taking comfort in the fact that they didn't find the boys with their communicators. He should have, he knew that. But there wasn't even the slightest clue other than that they were placed there keep them busy. He had no idea where to even start looking for the boys. He didn't even know who took them.

"What's up man?"

"I don't even know where to start," Dick admitted.

Wally's face fell. Dick felt bad. Wally had been taking the little victories and he'd ruined that for him.

"I'm sorry man. I know you were excited we didn't find Bart down there."

"No it's fine. You're right. We don't know where to go. Do you at least have any idea who took them?"

He didn't find anything at all evidence wise which could, in some ways, help him.

"What are you thinking about?" Wally asked interrupting his thoughts.

"I was just thinking that the lack of evidence could be considered evidence. If clayface had kidnapped them, which is highly unlikely because it's not his style, there would have been clay on the communicator," Dick said.

He suddenly started scratching at his chest. Wally knew what he was doing. Dick's scar was right there.

"Was it him?" He asked.

Dick shook his head, "No if he'd been the one to take them we would have heard something from him by now. That or he would have left something behind. He would have boasted about it."

"I remember Uncle B said he sent them a video."

"And the room we were taken from was covered in joker gas."

The boys sat in silence for a moment. They had just been hovering over the water unsure where to go.

"We need to figure out where they were taken from," Dick finally said ending their silence.

"How are we going to do that?"

He shrugged. He wasn't sure yet. Their best bet was to head back to the cave. Maybe there would be some ideas there.

Meanwhile

Tim was starting to come to. There was an obnoxious noise disrupting his sleep.

"I'm just saying I think you could really use a different leader. That two-face guy doesn't seem like he's all there."

What was Bart doing in his room?

"Would someone please shut the kid up," Poison Ivy said.

Poison Ivy? He groaned and shifted. He couldn't move. What was happening? Opening his eyes and trying to yank himself free of whatever was restraining him the memories came flooding back. They'd been kidnapped by Ivy, Scarecrow, the Riddler and Two-face. They were in big trouble.

He looked around; both himself and Bart were tied down to chairs. His utilitybelt had been taken but their masks remained covering their faces.

"Robin you're alive!"

"Impulse just don't say anything, it's probably best if you're quiet."

"Thank you Robin," Ivy said brushing her fingers through his hair.

It was really hard to stay focused when she was paying that much attention to him. Her pheromones were driving him insane.

He leaned into her touch. He wanted to get away from her but she was just so intoxicating.

"Robin?"

Thankfully Bart snapped him out of the spell Ivy had over him. He pulled back away from her.

"I'm fine Impulse."

"You won't be for long," Two-face said stepping into the room.

Looking around Tim noticed that everyone was there now. At least there wouldn't be any sneak attacks.

"Harvey-"

"Harvey's not here right now," He said stepping in front of the boys.

They were positioned side by side and forced to pay attention to him.

"I'm going to tell you a story I once heard when I inhabited a cell next to the Jokers in Arkham," He said.

He moved out of their view for only a second and returned with a baseball bat.

Tim cringed. Alfred had told him about Dick's experience with Two-face and that he was beating within an inch of his life with a baseball bat.

"I see you've heard about my little incident with the first boy blunder," He said grinning.

Tim didn't respond. Two-face wasn't the kind of villain who needed a show. He was more than content doing all the talking. Of course he was also the most willing to pull the trigger if the coin told him to.

"Back to the story; Once upon a time there was a little bird and a little speedster. They were out doing whatever little mini heroes do when suddenly a master plan went into effect. The Joker kidnapped the mini heroes when they went to investigate. They should have brought their daddies along with them."

"Harvey dear," Ivy said wrapping herself around him, "I don't think the kiddies are interested in your story."

"Well I'll have to make it more interesting then don't I?" He stepped closer to the boys, "The first thing he had to do was prevent the speedster from escaping. Ropes wouldn't hold him if he didn't want them to, would they?" He asked Bart.

Bart looked away. He would be able to vibrate out of the ropes in a heartbeat but he wouldn't be able to carry Tim unconscious and they'd been under constant supervision since he woke up.

Harvey took his baseball bat and smashed it against both of Bart's knees until they were both very broken. Bart couldn't be strong; he screamed and cried out the entire time. He felt like he was letting Tim down by being so weak.

"Of course he used a crow bar, but I prefer Betsy here."

"Leave him alone," Tim snapped.

Two-face turned his attention to Tim, "He didn't leave the little bird out of all the fun either," He said bringing his baseball bat down hard against Tim's knee.

Everyone in the room heard the crack. Tim grunted and cringed but held it together. He breathed in deeply trying very hard to push the pain away. It wasn't working very well.

In the seat next to him Bart was leaning as far forward as his restraints would let him attempting to breathe through his own pain. He wasn't having any luck and continued crying out from time to time.

"That's all you'll hear of the story for now. We'll be back later," Two-face said escorting his fellow cohorts out with him.

Tim leaned for side to side managing to turn his chair so he was facing Bart, "I need you to listen to me very carefully. I know that you're faster than both the Flash and Kid Flash so you can actually heal yourself pretty quick but you can't right now."

"Wh-why not?" Bart asked looking up at him.

He was sweating; Tim couldn't tell if it was because his body was going through so much stress trying to heal or because of the pain he was in.

"Because with your legs this badly broken they won't naturally heal right, you could never run again if you let yourself heal."

Bart tensed, "Never?"

"Never," Tim answered, "Impulse you have to slow yourself down to a normal human speed and you have to do it now."

"Ok."

"This means that this is only going to get worse."

"If you can do it so can I."

Tim laughed a little, "Ok."

He wanted to say that he was trained by Batman and would probably be better off but he kept his mouth shut. This was going to be hard enough of the both of them.

Back at the cave

They'd been wracking their brains trying to figure out where to start looking.

"I've finally got an idea," He said running over to the computer to type madly away.

"What is it?"

"There's no guarantee this will lead us to anything but we're going to try it out. I'm getting the computer to access all alarms that were activated within the hour before their distress signals went off."

They filtered through all of them. Nothing stuck out as odd. There were mostly house alarms which were all deactivated. The one thing that stood out was the alarm going off to an abandoned building. Why would an alarm be going off there?

"I think I found the place," Dick said pointing to it on the map.

Him and Wally exchanged off looks but shrugged and got into the plane again.

"This is starting to sound familiar," Wally whispered voicing both their concerns.

"Kidnapped while responding to an alarm going off in a building? Yes. But it's not him; we wouldn't be having such a hard time figuring out what happened if it was."

"Are you sure?"

"I'd bet my life on it."


Another Chapter down. Hope you enjoyed it. I've got the night off so I might just get another chapter up tonight. If I don't have it up by tonight I'll get it up by around 5pm tomorrowish we'll see. Anyway please review I do enjoy reading them! Thanks for taking the time to read this though I really appreciate everything.