Twinkle twinkle little bat,
How I wonder what you're at.
Up above the world so high,
Like a tea-tray in the sky,
Twinkle twinkle little bat,
How I wonder what you're at.
Dick clipped his belt on, heart racing.
He could hear someone singing, just outside his door, something about bats and tea.
A shot was fired, blowing his unlocked door open.
Amness stood there, eyes wide, a machine gun in her hand, a manic grin on her face.
He leapt off his bed, flipping through the air and propelling himself over her.
When his feet hit the floor, he ran, hearing her stagger along behind him.
"But, you're hardly a bat, are you, little bird?" She giggled, a mad little sound.
Aqualad's door banged open, and he began to step out, but she knocked him back in, and screamed "No time to say Hello Goodbye!"
'I'm late, I'm late, I'm late." Robin muttered, racing on.
He felt the brush of wind go by, and KF was beside him, in nothing but boxers, eyes wide.
"Dude, what the HELL is going on?" He dodged a couple bullets.
"Don't know, but we need to get her somewhere that gun doesn't matter."
:. Robin, What?.:
:. M'gann, I need you in the training room, now. Get the barrier ready .:
:. On it .:
He raced into the training room as a handful of bullets buried themselves in the wall.
She followed him, straight across the barrier. M'gann threw the switch, and they sat beck to look at their captive.
She was spouting things that sounded like gibberish, made no sense.
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimbel in the wabe all mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe. Mimsy. Wheee!"
"Amness! Amness! Can you hear me?" She didn't acknowledge them at all.
"M'gann, can you link with her?" She frowned for a second, and shook her head.
"No, she's locked me out somehow."
Robin sighed, and glanced at the others. Time to test a horrible theory.
"Elsie?" She froze, before turning around, very slowly.
Her voice was almost a whisper, when she spoke, and she was very, very pale.
"How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail?"
"By pouring waters of the Nile on every shining scale." She stared at him, before collapsing to her knees.
"She'll let you in, now." Robin sounded tired, tired and sad.