Sorry for the late update but I hope his ch. makes up for it.
Robin P.O.V
"Everyone gather in the debriefing room!" I order frowning when Angel catches my eye and I shake my head. "Has something occurred?" Kaldur asks when we're all in the room and waiting for Batman to explain why he asked us all to come here.
"There's been a breakout at Arkham Asylum where very specific criminals have escaped and we need to get them to Bel-Rev. You will be split up into two teams one will investigate the crime scene the others will go ahead to where I believe they are hiding out at."
Kf raises his hand like the idiot he is and I roll my eyes (not that anyone can see). "Uh, Batman who are the escapees?" Before Batman can reply I pull up their mug shots on my wrist computer "Clay face, Joker and Ivy." I say quickly.
Batman glares at me and I smile cheekily "Robin seems to have answered your question. This is only a mission to get them back the League will interrogate them to see why they were allowed to escape. The Team is only to get them back and bring them to us, understood?" we all nod.
"That being said the team going to investigate the crime scene and gather evidence is Artemis, Raquel and of course Robin. Angel, Miss Martian, Kid Flash, Superboy you will go ahead to see if you can capture the escaped criminals." Batman adds ignoring our confused expressions.
"Wait, why do they get to go ahead?" I asked outraged that I had to stay behind and probably miss most of the action. "Because they can travel faster, and you're needed to see if the criminals left any clues as to what they were going to do. Zatanna, Kaldur and you two are staying." Batman growls making me wince and take a step back.
I feel Angel put a hand on my shoulder and give me a half -hearted smile. I shrug it off understanding why Batman needs me at the 'crime scene'; I'll just have to work fast. "Robin has the coordinates for the crime scene and will be leading the investigation." I can't help but grin enjoying the idea of getting to redeem myself from last time when I sent everyone to their deaths.
"Miss Martian you are in charge of making sure we catch those criminals understand?" Batman says looking at Miss M to make sure she can handle it. Miss M nods and Batman says "You guys get to the Bio-Ship Angel you have the coordinates to the hideout, Go!" At his dismissal we all get into action running to the Bio-Ship or in the case of the other team running, and teleporting to our locations.
We get to the Asylum where the criminals broke out of in about an hour at which point I lead everyone to the 'scene' and it's pretty obvious how they escaped but still I go over the footage the security camera caught just to be sure. After confirming the by standers story of Clay face getting angry and smashing down the wall allowing the others to escape the camera goes dead when he takes the camera out.
"Artemis go check out Clay faces room Raquel you check out Black spider's room and I've got Joker and Ivy covered I order disappearing. After another half hour of searching and investigating we group up and they all tell me there was nothing out of place. I nod "Joker and Ivy had nothing weird either and Harley had no idea the Joker was planning an escape." We all frown unsure what to do next when I get an incoming call form KF.
"Robin!" Kf yells and I hear some static, immediately I point the Team to the Bio-Ship anticipating what Kf's going to say next. "We need help!" he yells and then the static cuts him off the line going silent.
- Break line_-
We jump out of the Bio-Ship and run inside the empty building that's still under construction. The first thing we see if Superboy knocking Clay face out with a solid punch to the face. Miss M. had Ivy under control and Kf's tying up Black spider. Rocket and Artemis help them and I see Miss M. knocking Ivy out with a tiny dart that I know belongs to Angel.
I let the others handle everything and run to Miss M. "Where did you get that from?" I ask snatching the now empty dart from her hand. Her eyes widen I surprise but she answers "Angel gave it to me to use on Ivy before chasing after Joker who cut her arm."
I try to mask my worry with surprise and run down the right where she says they disappeared to and find a few splatters of blood but nobody until I hear some wheezing behind a pole. I follow the wheezing and see Joker sitting there miserably his thigh bleeding from a cut that was obviously made by Angel's sword the only problem is her sword is gone and Joker seems kind of well.. drugged. Angel knocks her enemies out but she doesn't usually drug them.
This is weird even for her.
"Where is she you bastard." I ask kicking Joker in the ribs. He coughs up a bit of blood but manages to laugh in my face when he answers "The Doc said he wanted to have fun with the lovely little Angel." I glare at him not understanding what he meant by 'the Doc?' I kick him in the ribs causing him to cough and ask angrily "where is she!" Joker glares at me his eyelids beginning to droop "The Doc drugged me I'll be out in a minute but your friend may not have that long bird boy." He cackles wildly before passing out.
I look around to see where she could be and see a door further down the hall half open. I run and burst through the door but see nothing. The room is empty except a couple of filing cabinets, a closet and a dresser that's locked.
Wait why would a dresser need to be locked?
I go over and put my ear to the door of the dresser and hear nothing at first, but eventually I can hear what sounds like panicked shallow breathing. Without thinking I call Super boy's name knowing he'll hear me without alerting the others. He walks in looking confused until I point to the dresser door. After a moment his eyes widen and he rips open the door.
Inside is Angel her hair disheveled a large cut on her arm with her arms wrapped tightly around her legs her usually bright green/silver eyes are only green and wide open staring blankly ahead her hands were trembling her breathing too fast.
"Angel, Angel can you hear me?" I ask. "I'm sorry." She mumbles quietly. "Angel you're ok. Do you think you can come out now?" I ask gently taking her hand. "Please stop I won't scream anymore, really!" she yells pulling her hand away from me. I stand there shocked and Superboy asks "What's wrong with her?" I don't respond because I don't know. "Angel your safe it's okay to come out now." I say gently hoping to coax her out of the dresser.
She continues to stare forward, it's almost like she can't even see me. "I just want to see my family, please I won't ever run away again." She begs her eyes squeezing shut. I exchange a look with SB but he's equally as lost as me. I reach for her hand again but stop when she presses against her back against the dresses in an attempt to get away from us. "I just wanted to go home." She begs quietly her eyes opening tears gathering in her eyes.
Superboy reacts by reaching forward and trying to pull her out by her arm. He manages to get her out but she screams and shoves him away her eyes wild and terrified. "Don't touch her, your only scaring her!" A deep voice growls behind us.
I turn and see Batman standing there glaring at Super boy. I stare at him wondering what he's doing here when he says "Get the Team out of here it's not safe and head back to the Cave. I'll handle Angel." Me and Super boy stand here stunned unsure what to do.
"Now!" Batman yells. Superboy leaves to get the others and I'm following him when Batman puts a hand on my shoulder holding me back. "I Need you to help me with Angel." He says and I nod.
"How long has she been like this?" he asks watching her back up into a corner away from us. "I found her like this but it she was separated from the Team for about an hour by the time we got her out." I reply and he nods. "She's on Fear toxin and from the looks of it a heavy dosage." My eyes widen shocked she's not worse.
"What do we do?" I ask scared for her. "We need to get her back to the Bat Cave but first we need to calm her down so she'll come with us." "How?" "Try comforting her she should recognize you." I nod.
"Angel, It's me Robin." I say stepping closer. She backs into the wall. "Your safe now you know, I won't hurt you." I add gently taking a few steps closer. "Liar you always say that!' she screams angry. I slowly get closer so I don't scare her and reply "No, I promise I won't hurt you , come on it's time to go home." Her lip trembles and she manages to get out a shaky "Home?" I nod. "Really?" she asks. "Yeah we're going home, ok now come with me." I say holding my hand out. She looks at me and I see the silver return to her eyes a bit of the fear fading.
She steps forward taking my hand. Batman seems to sigh in relief until she passes out. Batman manages to catch her and holds her gently in his arms the worry evident in his eyes. "Let's go before it's too late." He orders.
So yeah.. review if you want to read more, this chapter and the following chapters are actually part of the plot. Thanks for reading :D
Btw: the mission sounds sketchy because it was all a set up as you will find out in the following chapters.