Damian growled in frustration. Three days, three fucking days and they still hadn't found anything on the Joker. "Where is that bastard?" That's when the alarm sign popped up on the Bat-computer. "Great," muttered Damian sarcastically. "A robbery." He sighed and called the Young Justice. Tim was still resting, even if he had protested and said that they needed him to find Dick and Jason. Damian would never admit it, but he was worried for his brothers, Tim included. Tim was still injured, and a bullet to the stomach doesn't heal fast.
Someone cleared their throat and Damian spun around. The team stood behind him, looking nervous.
"Did you find anything?" He shook his head. "No, but there is a robbery going on. I need you to go there while I keep on searching for Dick and Jason." Kaldur nodded. "We will put the thief behind bars, but you need to rest. When was the last time you slept?" Damian shrugged. "Don't know. Two days ago?"
"I will look for Dick and Jason," said a voice and everybody turned their heads towards the entrance of the cave. "Tim, you are supposed to sleep. You're still healing." Tim just rolled his eyes. "I am fine. Damian, you'll sleep. Now." Damian glared at Tim, but he knew that his brother wouldn't back down, so he sighed. If he thought about it, he was pretty tired and a bit sleep wouldn't hurt anyone. "Fine, but call me as soon as you find anything." Tim nodded and walked to the Bat-computer, while Damian left. "Don't you have a mission?" He asked the team. Kaldur nodded. "Just be careful, your wound hasn't fully healed yet."
"Yes, yes, now go."
With one last worried glance at Tim, the team left the Batcave as well.
Tim turned his attention to the screen. He noticed with a slight smirk that Damian had managed to hack into the security cameras all around Gotham. "So he did listen during Dick's hacking lessons," he muttered. His eyes searched for anything suspicious, but he found nothing unusual, so he decided with a sigh to watch the Young Justice's mission.
Megan was feeling a lot of different emotions from the team. Most felt guilty, angry or sad. Megan herself felt very sorrowful. Now that they knew that Dick was Robin, things had gotten personal. No one messes with their team without consequences. Megan sighed and asked, 'Is the mind link up?' The team nodded. 'Good,' said Aqualad, taking the lead, 'Let's move. We need to be at the jewellery store before the thief leaves.' They moved forward.
Megan looked through on of the store windows and gasped. 'What the hell is that?!' She could hear Artemis scrowl threw the mind link. 'That's Scarecrow. One of Batman's villains.' Wally snort and looked at him closely. "Well, I bet he doesn't have a girlfriend." Artemis hit him across the head. 'Not important, idiot. And speak through the link, he could hear you.' Wally rolled his eyes. 'Whatever.'
"Let's go in, team,' commanded Aqualad. He took out his weapon and position himself in front of the door. 'I will kick the door open, Miss M., Superboy and Wally will come through the windows and Artemis will follow me, understood?' Everybody nodded their heads and Aqualad hold three fingers up. Then he started the countdown and kicked the door open when his last finger was down. They surrounded the creepy villain, who didn't seem startled at all. Megan narrowed her eyes and took a closer look at the store. Nothing was missing. 'Guys, I don't think he's here to steal something.' And as if he'd heard her, Scarecrow began to speak. "The junior League, how nice of you to show up. Took you long enough." Aqualad growled. "What do you want?"
"Me? I don't want anything, but I see that you are missing someone. Someone you want back." Megan gasped. 'Is he talking about Robin?'
'But that would mean he knows that Dick Grayson is Robin!' Exclaimed Artemis slightly panicked. Aqualad glared at the villain. "If you don't want anything, than why are you here?" Scarecrow laughed. "I lied, I want these beauties." He pointed at a few diamond necklaces. Wally crossed his arms. "And what makes you think that we will just let you walk away with them?" Their opponent smirked. "I am sure you don't want Red Hood and your precious bird to get hurt, do you?" Megan clenched her fists. How dare that monster blackmail them with the health of their friends? And why didn't he refers to them as Dick and Jason? She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on the man's mind. Images flashed threw her own mind as she went through his newest memories.
Robin and Red Hood with domino masks on their faces, Jason being dragged to a dark, little cell, and a scene that she wished she could forget; Robin chained to a table, his mouth opened in a silent scream and his eyes showing too much pain for Megan to handle.
She gasped and pulled out of Scarecrow's mind. "You ok?" Asked Artemis quietly and she nodded. "And now," said the villain who hadn't noticed Miss Martian's penetration of his privacy, "I will take those jewellers, while you stand there and watch." Wally had his fists clenched and growled. "You won't get away with this. We will find Robin and Red Hood and we will stop you and the Joker." Scarecrow just laughed. "I highly doubt that." He winked at the team and started shoving the expensive jewellers inside his pockets and they were unable to do anything against it. They could just stand there and grit their teeth. "See you soon, kids." And then he was gone. "That bastard," growled Aqualad, punching a wall. "Let's go back," muttered Megan gravely. "I need to tell you something."
The team met back at the Batcave, where Damian and Tim were already waiting for them. "What the hell was that!" Exclaimed Tim. "You let Scarecrow go and let him steal the jewellers?" Megan sighed. "Has has allied himself with the Joker. He threatened Robin and Red Hood, so we had to let him go." Tim growled very animal-like, but then his eyes widened. "Wait, what?! He knows who they are?!" Damian ran a hand threw his hair. "This is bad, really bad."
"No-"
Megan was interrupted by Kaldur. "If they found out who Dick and Jason are, then they probably also know your identities."
"Guys-" Megan tried again, but Tim spoke louder than her. "We need to find them, now! And we need to tell Batman!"
"GUYS!" Yelled Megan, anger boiling inside her. Couldn't they just listen to her for once?
"What is it, Megan?" Asked Kaldur nicely, noticing her anger. "Scarecrow doesn't know their secret identities." Tim frowned. "But-"
"I guess that only the Joker knows- what is bad enough. I read Scarecrow's mind and saw that the Joker had put domino masks on Dick's and Jason's face." Tim ran a hand over his face and groaned. "This is still bad. If the Joker doesn't want anyone else to know who they really are, then he's planning to use that information somehow. Maybe sell it, or blackmail us." Megan bit her lip nervously. She wasn't sure weather she should tell them about Dick getting tortured or not. She shuddered as she remembered his painful expression and anger swelled up inside her once again. "Megan?" Asked Tim carefully. "Is there something else you want to tell us?" Megan looked around warily. Everyone was watching her now and she shifted her weight from one foot to the other uncomfortablely. "Well, there is one more thing... I- I saw Robin and he wasn't in a very good condition." She muttered the last part quietly, eyes fixed on the ground. Damian took a sharp breath. "What exactly does 'not in a very good condition' mean?" Megan wrenched her hands. "He- he was screaming and- and he was chained to a metal table, that's all I saw." Tim clenched his fists. "Okay, we need to find them, now. I'm going to call Batman." No one objected, not even Wally, who was more than scared that the Dark Knight would kill them for finding out his secret.
Tim tipped a few thing on the computer and then Batman appeared on the screen. He looked at the teenagers and a scowl appeared on his lips. "You told them." Tim nodded. "We had to, Bruce. We are in trouble, serious trouble. The Joker kidnapped Dick and Jason and he knows that they are Robin and Red Hood and Scarecrow sided with him, but he doesn't know their secret identities, he just thinks that the Joker kidnapped Robin and Hood, and now he is rampaging through Gotham and we can't stop him, because he threatened to hurt Dick and Jason and we believe that the Joker knows our identities, too, and please don't kill us!" He gasped for air and stared as his father-figure warily. Batman took a moment to process everything and the team could see the burning rage in Daddybats' eyes. "I'm on my way." He ended the call and Tim glanced at everyone else. "I hope that Dick and Jason can hold on long enough for Batman to find them. He is the world's greatest detective after all, I am sure he can find them." Damian nodded. "And Dick and Jason are strong. They can do this." The two brothers glanced at each other. They just hoped they would get their brothers back in one piece and that they would still be the same. They both knew that torture could change people.
Dick cought up blood. He was lying on the cold hard ground in his little cell, eyes closed shut. Scarecrow and Joker had stopped asking questions a day ago. His body hurt and he shivered, hugging his knees to his chest as an attempt to keep his body from freezing. It was so cold that he could see his breath in front of his face and he couldn't move a muscle without whimpering in pain. He had tried to sit up a few minutes ago, but a burning fire had raced through his cells and Dick had quickly laid back down again. The only good thing about the cold was, that it was numbing his body, so the burning pain subsided into a dull throbbing. His biggest problem was breathing. Joker and Scarecrow would give him one little cup of water each day and after this day's torture- he shuddered at the thought- his throat was as dry as sandpaper and every breath hurt like a knife tearing his throat apart. Dick hated to show pain in front of his enemys, but the Joker had injected him with some kind of liquid and the pain had been unbearable, so Dick had screamed. And he had screamed for a very long time, because the pain hadn't lessened for what felt like forever. The poison was still in his blood system, weakening Dick, but not killing him. Scarecrow didn't even thought it was necessary to chain him up, so he had just thrown him onto the ground, but it didn't matter, since he couldn't move, much less escape.
Dick missed Jason. He hadn't seen him in the three days they had been held captive and he hated being alone. He needed someone to talk to, someone who would comfort him and give him the typical 'It's going to be okay' talk. And Dick was scared of what the Joker was doing to Jason, considering that he had killed him before.
The creak of the door pulled him out of his thoughts. Not again, he thought. He quickly put on his Poker-face as he heard footsteps approaching. "Let's have some fun, Bird Boy. I'm just finished with your brother, but he didn't give me the satisfaction I wanted. Maybe you will?" Dick wanted to growl, but he could only choke out a gurgling sound. The Joker laughed. "Don't worry, our little Hood is still alive." Relieve washed over Dick and a bit of the tension left his body. The maniac cackled and crouched down next to him. "Why are you so quiet, Pumpkin? Sing for me one more time, will you?"
A/N: So, what do you think? I probably won't be able to update so much the next week, because I 'm writing three freaking class tests , but I write as much as I can.