Archive footage. Reel #340, 12/29/11 23:45:00s.

"Cats and Birds"

Nightwing and Robin looked at Wayne while he suited up. He hadn't lost much by being locked up in here, perhaps a tooth and some humanity, Dick surmised, not being a psychologist or expert doctor, it was hard to tell.
"Find Selina, get her out of here, I'm going to find Strange." Batman said, turning on his heel and running down the corridor.

Dick and Tim looked down at the case and Dick step a timer on it. They then looked at each other and ran down to the next corridor, Tim tossed a smoke bomb into the guard station and they both took out the guards sat there.
"We need to search the cells, Selina will be here somewhere." Dick said, his eyes skimming over the many CCTV sets showing the cells. Most of them were empty, one had a mass huddled on a bed, and two more had occupants, but he couldn't see Selina anywhere. He tapped at keys on the keyboard and green lights showed over door to show they'd been unlocked.

Tim had already gone, pulling door's open everywhere he went and calling out for Catwoman.
Nightwing followed him down, overtaking him quickly. "Hey, this one's locked still..." He said, using his shoulder to try and budge it.
Robin looked up and over the door, and reached behind on his utility belt for Bruce's spare explosive gel gun, as well as his own. "Here, spray the hinges, I'll get the locks." He said and handed Dick the spare gel gun before making a start on the locks at the top and right side of the door.

Dick wasn't against violence, but the gadgets Batman & Robin used could be used for violence, what if Bruce wasn't in control? What if The Dark Knight wanted revenge on Strange for capturing him, and Selina?
After they'd got the door sprayed they both stepped back.
"Selina? Uh...Catwoman? If you can hear this, stay away from the door, we're going to blow our way in!" Tim called through and then looked at Dick before the both of them took cover.

Tim glanced over at Dick, who muttered "Fire in the hole..." And both of them pressed the plungers on the detonators.
Around the door miniature implosions occurred, blowing the locks and hinges to smouldering chunks of metal. The door fell outward towards them and leant against the wall in the corridor.
Both Bat-Boys ran towards the door, Nightwing jumped off the wall, swung on a light and slid down the door, rolling across the floor and coming to a stop before a broken Selina Kyle.
Robin leapt in after Nightwing and stood behind him.

Half expecting trouble to be inside the room, Tim had his fists raised, two smoke bombs between the fingers of his left hand and his staff un-extended in his right. The scene that confronted them both, however, was silent, barring the sounds of gunfire outside. Selina was on a small bed in the corner of the room, bruises lined her arms from gripping fingers; her Catwoman uniform had been ripped in...places...and her usually pristine and seductive make-up were smeared down her cheeks. Her head slowly turned and looked at the boys with red eyes and dry blood on her lips.

Both Dick and Tim stared at her with their mouths hanging open. "Miss Kyle? It's time to go." Nightwing said, helping her to her feet.
Selina looked at Nightwing and then hopped forward on one leg with him. "Robin, help me here," Dick said as they reached the door.
Robin helped Nightwing carry Selina through the doorway and half way along the corridor, listening to the mayhem outside.
"Oracle? Where is Batman?" Dick asked.

"I wish I could tell you, D...Nightwing," Oracle faltered, "He's been out of radio contact since he left you guys."
Dick and Tim exchanged worried looks.
"Let's get her to the Batwing, she can't fight anymore." Dick said, moments before the butt of a machine gun smashed into Dick's jaw, stunning him and causing him to trip over his own feet and go sprawling.
Robin turned to react but the guard grunted as a foot connected with his jaw and spun him head-first into the wall, knocking him out

Selina looked down at Nightwing and helped him up, "Don't assume anything about me, Bird-Boy," she said.
Nightwing frowned, but Robin couldn't help but smirk.
"We need to get you out of here, Miss Kyle," Tim said.
Selina looked like she was going to argue but simply nodded. Dick turned and began to lead them through the maze of corridors, using his sonar-vision and specially placed tracers to help them find their way back.

As they turned the corner into the central block; a huge room with rows of desks and computers, with a high, old fashioned ceiling similar to the ceiling of Wayne Manor's utility wing. In the centre of the room was a bit pillar with vents crossing through it and a small maintenance route big enough to just about stand up in. Dick pushed Robin and Catwoman back into the corner and looked at Tim, who nodded and sat Selina against the wall, starting to attend to her wounds, while Dick turned back to the doorway and lifted his arm, using his sonar vision to pick out a guard investigating a fallen colleague and shot him with a wrist dart, his cries and stunned gunshots into the plaster of a cubicle wall attracting the other guards around the room.

Dick watched them all start moving towards the far side of the room before stepping out and quickly grappling up to the corner of the room and looking down over them. He quickly grappled up to the centre column.

Selina pushed Robin's hands away, "I'm fine, kid...I'll...I'll live, okay?" She said, and Robin could hear the tone in her face, and he'd never heard Catwoman stutter before. He nodded slightly and peered around the corner to see Dick take down a guard from above, feet landing squarely on his shoulders, causing him to go down quickly. Nightwing then turned to the last guard and beat him senseless, using the guards' own knife to pin him to the wall.

Tim stood and stepped into the room, startling Dick into blindly throwing a Wingding at him, but Tim, thanks to years of training, managed to take a step back before it hit him. He yanked it out of the wall and looked it over.
"Huh...heavy duty." He said.
"Gets the job done," Dick countered, "Let's get going," he added as he walked over to Tim and Selina and helped Selina back to her feet again.
Dick went to her left side while Tim helped her from the right side.

Together they walked through the cubicles towards the door on the other side of the room, when an alarm started to blare around them.
Tim turned on his detective vision and saw they'd tripped a fail-safe laser. Dick turned to Tim and both of them began to drag Selina towards the exit. Then they saw it, a metal grate sliding down the doorway slowly, but with increasing speed, Nightwing flung Catwoman and Robin towards it and they both rolled underneath before it slammed shut.

Tim quickly stood up and tried to lift the grate, grunting uselessly and not budging it an inch.
"Don't bother, its pure steel," Nightwing said, on the other side of the grate.
"What about you? How will you get out?"
"I'll find Batman, we'll get out, you get Selina back to the cave, get her rested up," Dick said and then turned and ran across the room, jumping and using his grapnel gun to propel himself into the vent at the top of the pillar.
Tim watched and then helped Selina up, "Come on...we gotta go," he said and helped her along to the Batwing.