Thanks for all the reviews and thank you for even bother to read this. It makes my little self esteem grow three sizes each day. Anyways...(oh P.S this takes place a little after Failsafe. Continuity boom!)
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The two heroes dropped down into a darken sewers. The sound of their landing echoed throughout the empty waste lines underneath Gotham. It was dark, the only light shining down on them from the manhole above.
Batman pulled out a small black flashlight scanning the empty sewer lines. Robin did the same. He pointed the light down the long channel. "So why are we here again? Not that I don't like exploring the sewers of Gotham at midnight, but I would rather be hanging out with the team right now," Robin said to Batman as they started down the long and elaborate underground system of piping.
"As I explained in the cave," Batman sounded aggravated. "After what happened in the training exercise I think it would be good to keep the team apart for a little while."
Robin stopped talking. He lowered his head and followed Batman. The two walked in a line for the path was narrow and neither of them wished to walk in the green colored water that ran through the sewers of Gotham. Robin kept glancing down at the ill colored water happy he was dry on the concert path that ran parallel to the filth. Mostly he kept his light shined in front of him and Batman. The corridor was dark with their flashlights the only source of light.
"It's pretty dark in here," Robin made small talk. He enjoyed being chatty when him and Batman were out on missions like this.
"There are lights throughout the line. They have been turned off. We are headed to the main hub now to turn them on," Batman informed his partner.
"So we came down here to turn some lights on?" Robin asked with a laugh.
"No. People have been reporting seeing a strange creature down here," Batman said. He could tell that Robin didn't understand by his silence. "There have been reports of a giant crocodile living down here in the sewers."
Robin bursted out laughing. His laughter actually brought a smile to his mentors face, it was nice to hear Robin happy once again. "So we're after the crocodile the sewers? You do know that's just a myth?"the teenager said between laughs. "And not just any croc, a giant, let me guess, man eating crocodile." He laughed louder. "But you get all types in Gotham!"
Suddenly a loud sound echoed through the sewer line. It was a odd sound that neither of the heroes recognized.They couldn't tell if it was some kind of animal noise, or something totally different. Flashing their lights down behind them they scanned the area. Nothing. Just an empty sewer with spray painted walls and sickly looking water rushing by. Batman narrowed his eyes. Everything was quite, but the noise was very disconcerting. His light only allowed him to see a few meters ahead of him then the rest of the maze like sewers were hidden in shadows.
After a while Batman turned, "come on. Let's keep moving."
A loud roar erupted from the waters. With no warning a large creature emerged from the waters and grabbed Batman. The creature roared rapping his monstrous hands around Batman's neck and plowing him into the wall."Batman!" Robin yelled then he got a real good look at the creature holding his mentor.
It was massive and it was in fact a crocodile. Only it had almost human features. The whole thing was covered in green scales but it had on a ripped white shirt, and jeans. The crocodile stood on two massive legs with it's gigantic tail swinging from side to side. It had razor sharp claws for hands that looked like spikes. It's head was narrow with pointed teeth on top and bottom. It roared a foul sound as he lifted Batman into the air.
"Get off of him!" Robin yelled throwing bombs at him with all of his might. The bombs exploded in the crocodile face who tossed Batman to the ground. It roared again seemly unfazed by the bombs.
"Move!" Batman yelled. Him and Robin quickly ran away from the giant monster. Robin clicked off his flashlight and the two of them disappeared into the darkness.
Robin kept running as fast as he could. He could not see where he was going but he ran. The creature had scared him. He had faced all kinds of weird things sense he had became Robin, but not that. Nothing like that. He was panting now, sweat rolling down his face. Robin felt his toes go over an edge and he and Batman quickly made a sharp left. Their footsteps running in the darkness was the only sound and it brought Robin slight comfort to him them. He took another turn running faster than ever before. He felt a little weak for running away from a fight but he was just to scared, plus he wasn't sure how to fight something like that.
He kept running till he noticed their was only the sound of one set of footsteps. "Batman?" he stopped in place. No answer. "Batman!" he called louder into the darkness. Again there was no answer. Robin quickly pulled put his communicator but got nothing but static. "Great," he muttered under his breath. Pulling out his flashlight he looked around him. Everything looked the same and he had no idea where he was. "Great," he said again. Slowly he started walking in the direction he had been running hoping he would find Batman. He kept the flashlight shined down at his feet scared that the light would attract the crocodile.
His footsteps echoed down the empty sewer, his flashlight still brightening the path a head of him. Soon he came to a wall. Moving his flashlight up he saw that the path came to the dead end, the green water running through a small barred hole. "Great!" he said loudly. Sighing he lowered his head wondering what to do next.
A muffled sound touched his ears. Robin gasped his body growing stiff. He took in a deep breath which hurt his lungs. His heart was pounding and he couldn't seem to be able to move. He was too freighted to move. The sewer line was quite again. The only noise was the water rushing through the hole and Robin's heavy breathing. Robin gulped the dead silence sent shivers down his spine making his stomach turn to knots. He had already 'died' once in the last week he didn't want to go through that again.
Robin stood petrified for a while till finally his nerves calmed down. Sighing he let himself relax.
"Tick."
Robin gasped. His hands started to shake.
"Tock."
Robin slowly started to turn around his heart racing, his muscles on fire, and his gut tied into painfully thick knots. He could hardly breath and the air felt like iron.
"Time to feed the Croc."
Robin turned all the way around and pointed his flashlight to see the crocodile standing right behind him. Drool was coming from his mouth leaking in-between it's shark like teeth. Before Robin could grab a bomb from his belt the crocodile grabbed onto Robin launching him into the waters. Robin yelled out in pain, one of it's claws sunk deep into the side of Robin's abdomen. He kept yelling out even as he fell into the water. The water filled his lungs and he struggled to move. He opened his eyes to see he was completely under the water, the monster, with one of it's claws digging into his skin holding him there. He pushed and pulled, the pain in his side growing worse. Robin held his breath, but very quickly he needed to breath again. He opened his mouth letting out the small portion of air still in his lungs. He desperately needed oxygen, he needed to breath.
Suddenly the crocodile let go. Robin wasn't sure what was going on, but he lifted himself up to the top of the water and let in a deep breath of air. He was panting trying to take in as much air as he could. "Robin," a familiar voice called out. Robin looked up to see Batman standing on the edge with hand held out to him. The lights were on now lighting up the whole sewer system. Holding his side Robin got out of the water and onto the path. "Come on, that tranquilizer wont keep him down for long."
The two started running down the path at full speed away from the crocodile. Not after too long Robin started to stumble, the pain of his wound getting to him. The coughed a few times swaying back and forth as he ran. Batman stopped and turned to his partner. Instantly he saw the trail of blood that lead straight to Robin. "What happened?" Batman asked Robin seeing that he was holding his right side tightly.
Robin had a hard time speaking, "nothing...I'm f-f-fine."
Batman grabbed Robin's wrist and lifted his hand from the wound. A large stream of blood poured out from the gash. Batman let out a faint gasp seeing how much blood his partner was losing. His whole uniform was covered in blood and Robin was growing pale.
"I've lost a lot blood. Haven't I?" Robin asked in a soft weak voice. Batman just nodded not able to say anything. Robin began to fall over, but Batman caught him by putting his hand on his shoulder to keep him balanced. Robin panted. "Sorry. I can keep going."
Before Batman could say anything the crocodile's loud roar rattled down the corridor. Batman leaned Robin up against the wall. he was white as a ghost with blood still pouring out of the wound. Robin slid down to his butt still pressed against the wall. "Stay here," Batman ordered.
Robin shook his head, "I can't let you fight that thing alone!" Robin panted harder than ever. He was getting light headed and his vision blurred.
"No." Batman ordered than ran in the direction the roar came from. Robin watched him run off feeling guilt for not being by his side. He was too weak to move, but he prayed his mentor, his father, would be okay.
Batman faced the crocodile. "So this is the Batman," it growled. "Yes, yes I can talk. Call me Killer Croc. I would tell you to tell your friends, but you will not make it out of this alive." Batman did not respond to Killer Croc instead he just glared at him. It charged at Batman, his mouth wide open showing off his massive teeth. Batman pulled out a gadget from his belt. Clicking the gadget a large flame burned from it's end. Batman shoved his hand into Killer Croc's mouth setting fire to his tongue. He quickly pulled out his hand before the crocodile could clamp his massive jaw. Killer Croc yelled as smoke filled his mouth. The flame spread to where his throat was on fire. He fell into the sewer water knocked out smoke still coming from his in-between his teeth.
Batman ran back to where he had left Robin. He stopped dead in his track when he saw Robin was no longer leaned up against the wall. "Robin!" Batman yelled. The teenage boy was laying motionless on the ground blood still covering his body. Batman ran over to side. Turning him over Batman rested the boy on his lap. Blood was everywhere and Batman couldn't see his chest moving. "Robin? Robin? No...! Robin!"
A small breath left Robin's lips. He smiled up at his mentor. "I'm officially not a fan of crocodiles," he said with a painful laugh.
Batman lifted him into the air. Pressing on the commentator in his ear Batman called for Alfred to met him with the medical kit at the closes manhole to their current location. Alfred agreed with panic in his voice. Batman kept holding robin in his arms as he ran to the nearest manhole.
Back in the Bat-cave Batman looked at data on his computer as Robin slept on the medic table behind him. He was breathing heavily and occasional grunted in pain, but calmly slept for the most part. There was large bandage on his wound that had stopped the bleeding. Alfred walked up to Bruce holding tray of tea in his hand.
"How is he?" Alfred asked in his thick British accent.
"You did a good job tending to his wound he should be fine," Bruce said to him not taking his eyes off the computer.
"And how are you sir?" Alfred asked.
"I'm fine," Bruce said strongly.
Alfred set down his tray and crossed his arm. With a look he asked, "are you sure your fine?"
Bruce looked over at Robin resting on the table. "I'll be fine when he's fine Alfred. Until then, until he recovers completely, just...," Bruce sighed stopping mid sentence.
"I know sir, I hate seeing him like this too. But he'll be alright. He's a tough kid." Alfred patted him on the back, "I'm going up to bed. Care to actually sleep in your own bed for a change tonight? It might help you to calm down a bit. A nice warm bed."
"No Alfred." Bruce told him. Alfred nodded and went up to bed. Bruce stayed the whole night at Robins side not leaving till Robin woke up the next day.
Come on guys, your Superheros stop getting hurt all the time! But then there would be no fluff and stuff. Thanks for reading, Killer Croc always use to scare me so I hope (maybe) he scared you a bit too. Thanks again!
