Batman looked at Alice, Simon and Rosa. He had a grave air about his as if he wasn't sure what he was meant to do any more.

"There seems to have been a break out at Arkham." he reported. "Poison Ivy is fighting Batman and Robin isn't answering his radio."

"Okay, what are we going to do?" Alice asked, taking everything in. "We better go help them." Rosa pointed out.

Simon smiled at Rosa and they both looked at Batman.

"The boys took the cars and Shift is with Batgirl." Batman pointed out. "We'll have to take the Bat quad-bikes. Two per bike."

Rosa and Simon looked at each other with smiles.

"I'm guessing we're sharing." Alice said with a smile towards Batman.

"Idiot!" Shift finished saying as she teleported back into police headquarters.

She looked at Batgirl who was pinned against the wall by vines and only just glanced at Poison Ivy in time to dodge a blow from a vine. Shift threw herself backwards and looked at Batgirl. Shift grabbed a set of papers from a desk near her. She threw them between her and Poison Ivy, letting them act as a shield to stop the villainess from attacking them. When the papers cleared, Shift wasn't where she was originally. She was using a bat-a-rang from Batgirl's belt to cut the vines. The vines didn't cut easily but a watery green gunk was dripping down the girl's hands, showing she was managing it. Poison Ivy screamed in rage and threw a series of vines at Shift. The girl teleported out of the way of a few but then stopped. She was sure she had heard a familiar voice in the building. It was her pause that gave Ivy time to hit her. She was thrown to the floor. Poison Ivy scanned the two of the girls with a cruel smile. She turned to Shift with curiosity in her eyes.

"Who are you?" Ivy asked.

"Shift!" Ace called as she ran into the room. (Alice is Ace when she is fighting crime!)

Ace and Batman raced into the room. They both looked at Poison Ivy in horror. Their close friends were in danger.

"Shift, why don't you teleport away?" Batman asked as he leapt towards Poison Ivy.

The woman moved out of the way. The man continued to fight her. The vines restraining Batgirl tightened and Shift teleported away to Ace's side.

"Ace, why don't you just... Um...?"

Shift didn't want to give it away. Ace's powers needed an element of surprise to work when Ace couldn't completely focus. A fight ground is not an easy place to focus.

"Working on it!" Ace called.

Shift teleported out of the way of a vine and swung round it, going towards Poison Ivy. Suddenly Ivy stopped aiming vines at them and let Batgirl drop to the floor.

"What's happened?" Batgirl asked.

Batman nodded towards Ace to acknowledge her use of powers.

"Ace used her powers." Shift explained. "Mind control is rather useful."

"More useful than teleporting." Batgirl said.

"Speaking of teleporting, Robin just crashed his motorbike. He can't blame me because I was saving his life so..." Shift smirked.

"Ace, get her to answer our questions." Batman ordered.

"Okay." Ace replied.

She put her powers to on Poison Ivy again and the woman stood still, standing up straight.

"How did you get out of Arkham?" Batman growled.

"Someone planted bombs around the cells. Everyone from Arkham escaped."

Robin glanced back at Warrior and Shade as they began to set their plan into action. Shade was going to tackle Two-Face from behind and Warrior was going to take him from the side. Robin had taken the honour of fighting the criminal from the front not that he saw it as much as of an honour. Robin gave them both a small nod to tell them that they needed to start. Robin started walking towards Two-Face, pretending he didn't know the criminal was there. He needed to distract Two-Face from the other two. He could hear his footsteps echoing round in the night. He moved forwards and felt a hand grip his shoulder. He turned and faked shock.

"Two-Face!"

"Hello, Robin." Two-Face smirked.

He pointed a gun at the boy's forehead and produced his coin. Robin knew he couldn't make a move with the gun pressed against his forehead. He needed to use the element of surprise and Two-Face was going to give Shade and Warrior a few seconds to gain that element. The coin was flipped. Robin watched as Shade emerged from the shadows behind Two-Face. The metal disk turned in the air and Two-Face put his palm out to catch the coin. He waited. It didn't drop. Robin was smiling up at the air near Two-Face's head. The criminal looked to his side. The coin had stopped mid-air, on its side. It looked impossible but Robin knew that Shade was using his powers to keep he coin from dropping. Robin was about to move away from the gun when Warrior slammed into Two-Face, knocking the criminal to the ground. Warrior pulled Two-Face in to a hold as the man stared mystified at the coin.

"What are you meant to do with that?" Robin asked, teasingly.

Shade walked over and let the coin drop into his hand.

"It clearly likes me a lot more than it likes you." Shade smiled, tucking the coin into his pocket.

"What are we meant to do with the criminal?" Warrior asked.

"Hand him to me." a gruff voice said.

"Why would we do that?" Robin asked, dropping into a defensive position.

Everyone turned to look at a figure emerging from the shadows.

"Because I'm Batman!"

Robin looked at Batman with smile.

"Shade was pretty impressive back there." Robin remarked.

Suddenly Rosa rushed out of the shadows. She leapt up and kissed Batman on the cheek.

"Whoa! Um... What on earth are you doing, Dusk?" Shade asked. (Rosa's crime fighting name is Dusk)

"What? You actually believed that Mask was Batman?" Rosa laughed. (Simon's crime fighting name is Mask)

Batman's shape changed until it was Mask standing in front of the teenagers.

"We'll drop Two-Face off at the police station and then return to the cave." Robin said.

Mask and Dusk smiled at each other.

"We'll take the quad bike." Dusk announced and took Mask's hand.

The two wondered off and then, as the three boys were making their way to their vehicles with Two-Face, they pulled their quadbike up in front of them. Dusk was sitting on the back, while Mask drove. Dusk has her head resting against Mask's back and her hands wrapped round his waist.

"I thought we decided that Dusk was better than you at driving." Warrior reasoned.

"She drove on the way here, I'm driving on the way back." Mask smiled.

Shift and Ace were locking Poison Ivy up in the holding cells, leaving the two Bats in their battle ground. Batgirl turned to Batman.

"Is it a bad thing that I can't find my dad?" Batgirl asked.

"We'll call him after we've found Robin and the others." Batman said.

Batman needed the boys to report back so he could work out what seemed to have closed off the city. He looked at Batgirl and could tell she was worried.

"Your dad will be fine." Batman assured her.

Batgirl just wanted to change the subject. She decided that she needed to get answers to her questions to get her mind off the topic.

"Who are the Meta Initiative?" Batgirl asked.

"All of the children, even Warrior, who hasn't got powers, were kidnapped from their homes by people who have certain prejudges against Metas. They were wanted for their powers. I was investigating a series of robberies involving enslaved Metas when I met Shade. People were trying to weaponise his powers."

It was clear to Batgirl that the memories were hard for Batman. Labs that created weapons were bad enough in her experience but labs that took living, breathing humans and attempted to turn them into weapons...

"I rescued him and he refused to leave without Shift. She had been locked up with the rest of the group for experimentation. I let them out and they wanted to rescue all the other Metas. I let them and realised how talented they all were. I offered them protection and training in return for them using their powers for good."

"Because they would be great criminals?"

"They would change the face of crime. Shift, Mask and Ace would make great thieves. A teleporter, a shape shifter, a mind controller? Who would be able to stop them if they acted alone, let alone together? Then there is Warrior: an assassin if ever there was one. He doesn't even have powers. I hate to say it but in a fight between him and Robin, I wouldn't back Robin. Dusk could do practically anything in a world like this. We use electricity everyday. Shade once told me that Dusk is getting close to being able to transmit herself through electrical appliances. Shade himself? No one knows the limits of his powers, how much he can lift and move with his mind."

"So these six kids, they could take control of the planet." Batgirl exclaimed.

"In theory, yes." Batman admitted.

"That's awesome!" Shift exclaimed as she walked into the room.

Ace just looked deep in thought.