RGS Chapter 9
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Wally's P.O.V.
"-now the team is looking for girl Robin and I'm stuck here. Alone. Well... Not alone anymore, but..." I finished explaining the story. It didn't help that Laura had been staring me down the entire story. She reminded me of a bat... Which can and can't be a good thing, depending on the situation.
"So let me get this straight-" Laura took a deep breath. "Dick is a girl, who is kidnapped, most likely because they were using him for an experiment. The team are looking for him, while you sit here on your butt and do nothing as your best friend is most likely being hurt in a deep dark dungeon somewhere?" Laura asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, when you put it like that, I sound like a jerk, but it isn't my fault. It was the Flash who ordered [grounded] me to sit and get better. You think I want to be here? Laughing it up and partying it out with you? No thanks." I rolled my eyes sarcastically, whining about my over protective Uncle. "Not like I can do much anyway." She let out an exasperated sigh.
"Well, maybe you could try using the team computer and try and figure something out?" She crossed her arms over her chest.
"That would be a great idea, IF IT WEREN'T UNDER MAINTENANCE RIGHT NOW!" I was loosing my temper and I started bickering with her like I bickered with Rob. She reminded me a lot of Rob now that I'm thinking of it...
Laura crouched down, banged on a couple of things and tinkered with them, shut the hatch, shut her tool box, stood up, and walked over to the computer, turning it on. All in a few, quick movements.
"Oh sure, couldn't do that earlier." I muttered under my breath, crawling to my crutches and using them to stand up and hobble over to where Laura was now typing furiously on the holographic computer keys. A few screens popped up.
"Look," Laura pointed at one of the screens. "This was this morning at six o'clock." She pulled up the screen a bit bigger. I waited, and was about to say something when nothing happened, but stopped myself. Two people stepped out into the street light. It took me a minute, but then I saw that it was the Joker and Ivy. Tell-tale colors standing out in the dark array of the early morning. I gasped, but before I could say anything, Laura interrupt me. "Watch," she hissed. Vertigo shook hands with someone and he handed something away. They talked a bit and Vertigo separated. The man who talked to Vertigo stepped into the light. He had close cropped hair, that were a lighter color, and a suit. I could barely see half of his face because it were blurry, but, taking a closer look, it wasn't the camera that had the problem, a whole half of his face was scarred.
"Who-?" I stopped short at Laura's shocked, yet grim expression.
"Harvey Dent, Also-Known-As TwoFace. He should be dead. I'm one of the few who knows he died a crook." She turned to me, mouth stretched into a grim line. "If he has Richard..."
"Does he know Robin's identity?" I swallowed, because that would be really bad. Laura shrugged and resumed the video. They all loaded into a van and more people who were farther from the light loaded into the van that was in front of the one now holding TowFace and the Joker. After I thought that was the last of the people out of the hotel, two suited men, with hand guns holstered to their side, held a (hopefully) unconscious Robin. Boy Robin. I cringed at the rips in his suit. I couldn't tell if he was seriously injured, but it was obvious something happened.
A thought hit me. "Why am I seeing this now? Why not earlier? Shouldn't Batman know about this?" I turned to Laura.
"He probably already knows. Tracking them down as we speak."
"But why send the team to the hotel? To get them out of the way?" I growled furiously. I knew the team could help, in more ways then one.
"No. Most likely Batman sent them for further information on his whereabouts. While Batman tracks the license plates or something. Trust me. Batman doesn't do things without a good reason." She scrunched up her eyebrows.
"Oh really? Then what was he thinking, oh great and powerful 'all seeing'?" She glared at me.
"I don't know. I'm not Batman himself. I just know he would do everything in his power to find his son!" Her voice rose at the end, frustration at its peak. "I think he would use everyone and everything to find Robin." She quieted a bit.
I sighed, knowing she was right. I looked back up at the screen, thinking 'please find something guys...'
(I AM JUST A LINE, JUST A LINE, JUST A LITTLE WITTLE LINE. IGNORE ME!)
Artemis' P.O.V.
I was just as excited as they were at finding out anything about Robin, believe me. I just didn't want to venture all the way up the stairs. Because, truthfully, my leg burn was killing me.
So I secretly used the elevator.
To the floor before the top one, of corse. I had to come up the stairs if they thought I used the stairs.
Once I arrived, I saw the entire team already waiting for me. I raised an eyebrow and peered into the room. I gasped.
Inside the room was machines I didn't even recognize. Wires filled every inch of the floor, most seemed to connect to a metal table with cuffs. Broken glass and spilt liquids fizzled on the warmer wires. I carefully made my way over to Aqualad who was standing over an empty brief case, black foam filled the inside of the case, indents of what looked like what used to be test tube holder placements sat empty and displayed in front of us. Almost as if Rob's kidnappers were saying, "haha! You were so close, yet so far away."
I turned to a shaky Zatanna who was leaning over something. I walked over to her and lay a hand on her shoulder, to comfort her, but before any words came out, I saw what she was looking at.
It was a puddle of blood in the middle of the floor. And it didn't take a genius to know where it probably came from.
"He was here." I jumped at M'gann's sudden words. She was levitating, eyes glowing green. I raised an eyebrow and she clarified, "Robin was here."
Batman's P.O.V.
(At the Mount Justice)
I stood in front of the team, along with Laura Combs, a young mechanic, Bruce Wayne's close friend, and Wally's newfound friend. I pulled up the pictures that were taken at the hotel room of the Gotham hotel. Looking through the team's findings.
"And you say there was no note, no attempt of Robin's kidnappers to make contact at all?" I said, my gruff voice echoing in the mountain walls.
Aqualad shook his head, "no, but we did test the blood found in the room. It was matched to that of Robin's."
Superboy stepped forward. "I spoke to a woman, Annie, in room 103. She explained that she saw a bunch of men wheeling in carts and boxes of what looked to be metal and maybe wires into the elevator. Also, she heard a loud thump when she was in the room bellow helping a neighbor. She said that when she checked, a man had told her everything was fine and shut the door." Superboy frowned, "which only proves what we found."
Wally spoke up. "Me and Laura saw a footage from this morning around six. We saw Robin being loaded into a van, along with Joker, the Brain, Ivy, and... TwoFace." My eyebrow raised. Since the beginning of this whole thing, I knew TwoFace's men were involved. I never expected the man himself to arrive. I heard he was alive somehow, the government had taken him to a private facility. One so secure, even I had to double check the footage before confirming that it was Harvey.
What surprised me most, however, was that Wally had discovered this footage.
Laura Combs stepped forward and raised her hand slightly, I nodded, allowing her to speak. She pointed to the holographic keys and said, "if I may...?" I nodded and she pulled up the footage. The team's reaction were in sync. Their breaths all hitched at the same time, (when Robin appeared) and they all started murmuring to each other quietly discussing what they saw to each other.
"It seems we have a lead." I pulled off the license plates of the van. "I traced the license plates to an abandoned Ford factory. The place was deserted. It seem they dumped the vans there. Dead end."
"I thought you said we had a lead." Artemis said, exasperated.
"It doesn't end there. If we can track the company in which the woman-"
"Annie." Superboy interrupted.
"Annie had seen, we may be able to track the codes to the machines. Finding there current whereabouts. Not all of the machinery was in there, I noticed missing spots in the photos of where machinery should be. I believe they took parts of their experiment with them.
"Then let's catch us some bird-nappers." Rocket bravely stated.
(I AM JUST A LINE, JUST A LINE, JUST A LITTLE WITTLE LINE. IGNORE ME!)
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