SORRY ITS TAKEN SO LONG! Sorry guys, but this week was CrAzY with tornado clean up and church drama and work and stuff. So here, FINALLY, is another chapter.

Oh, and be forewarned *COUGHS* shesXsuperXfreaky *COUGHS* of another cliffie! But it's getting towards the end, really, and these next few chapters are the best!

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.®.®.®.®.®.Chapter 26.®.®.®.®.®.

Vegas

August 17, 14:56 EDT

Caleb lay on the bed, but didn't remain docile for long. Standing, he walked over and and sat down at the computer desk, turning the CPU on. A tiny cord slipped out of his nearly dead phone, as he plugged it into the CPU's USB input. "Okay, Grégoire, let's see who you really work for..."

Vegas

August 17, 15:06 EDT

"Once M'Gann awakes, contact me," Batman ordered before teleporting away, thus concluding the League's interrogation of the team over the incidents that occurred concerning the Casino fire. They purposefully failed in saying anything about the hotel or Robin.

"Well," Wally sighed, "That was a complete waste of time."

"And you were not even present for the beginning," Kaldur moaned.

"Mister Clean was busy showering the ENTIRE time," Artemis grumbled, "Convenient."

"Okay M'Gann, you can come out now," Wally said while knocking on the door of the Martian's room.

"Um, Wally. M'Gann passed out," Conner said, curiously watching the red-head who only continued to speak to the door.

"M'Gann, Bats and them are gone, you can come out," he continued.

After a few moments, the door creaked open, and Wally could see the Martian's paranoid red-orange eye staring at him.

He smiled his signature smirk, comforting the girl while he pushed the door open as she walked out.

Standing from the chair that he was leaning on, Conner's movements matched those of his team as he walked over to M'Gann. "M'Gann."

"M'Gann, we believed that you were still asleep," Kaldur explained, "Are you alright?"

"Yes, thanks to Wally," she said, combing her red hair behind her ear.

"Oh, is that how it is?" Artemis asked, crossing her arms above her swung hips, studying Wally's reaction carefully.

"Yes, yes it is," Wally mocked her back.

"M'Gann, we are most relieved that you-" Kaldur started.

"Oh hello M'Gann! I should probably tell you about Robin," M'Gann interrupted the Atlantean's comforting words.

"Rob! I forgot!" Wally said, but his expression was drowned out by the team's astounded, "ROBIN?"

"Yes, while Wally was in the sewers, after we crawled through the..," her rapid voice trailed off as she took in the confused looks of her team. Sighing, she giggled nervously, "Perhaps it would be better to show you," she said. Raising her hands, she connected their minds.

Vegas

August 17, 15:25 EDT

Rapid pounding on the keyboard was followed by Caleb's muttering. "Ross was one of the few doctors that was unfortunate enough to work with Joker," he was saying, "His short-lived crime spree started shortly afterward. He was accused of multiple assaults against his coworkers, patients, and his wife Cerena."

She was born in France, and lived there most of her life. She majored in psychology and social studies. And apparently, she was very manipulative though very caring. Ross cleaned up once he met her on a business trip in France. They married, but a year and a half ago she disappeared."

After a few more moments of searching, he found the police reports that covered her disappearance. "According to these, Ross beat her one evening, and she was planning on pressing charges, but decided against it once the media got Grace involved," he read, clicking between tabs and different links, "Wait a second, Cerena didn't just disappear after that night, she ran to Vegas."

Switching to Google maps, he conjured up the best possible routes that a fleeing wife might take from DC to Sin City. His blue eyes widened when he saw one path. It was mainly on highways, with one exception. It stopped at a gas station, just one, and that one happened to be THE one where Grace and him tried to escape. "That doesn't make sense," he breathed as he stared at the red line.

"Okay, so Cerena ran to Vegas, without Grace, and took the same route that we did. No way she would leave Grace with Ross, not for long anyway. Wait, she ran a yr and a half ago, and Grace met Grégoire a yr ago. And Jack did mention that they he was a 'hired hand'. Does that include Grégoire too..?"

Pressing his fingertips together, he rested his pointed chin on them in deep concentration, taking a few moments to piece everything together.

Raising a thin, black eyebrow, he looked at the door before Bruno slammed through it. "What the-" the man stammered as he tossed Caleb onto the bed. The child's small body bounced on the bedspread as Bruno started blankly at the computer.

"Tabs are closed, internet is off, and history is wiped," Caleb smirked at the buffoon.

"Smarty," Bruno mocked as he kicked the CPU.

Caleb hoped that he didn't see the phone, but he did. Holding the device, after ripping it from the CPU, he read the onscreen message, "DOWNLOAD INCOMPLETE, what download?"

"Music," Caleb lied, swiping his cell back. There goes sending the downloaded coordinates to the Cave, or the Mountain. "Hey!" he growled as Bruno grabbed his arm that was attached to his hurt shoulder.

"You're coming with me. You and Grace is gonna' meet the boss, and I can't watch you two in different rooms," the Jock said as he drug Caleb across the hallway and into another room. Grace.

"Hey now, WATCH IT!" Dick called as Bruno dug his big hands into the child's back pocket, taking the phone.

"And you'll be doing it without this," he mocked, waving it in Caleb's face, before shoving the child into the room.

Vegas

August 17, 15:25 EDT

After the mental movie, M'Gann was explaining about Robin, or his mind rather.

"He was... angry. Well frustrated, I'm not sure who at though," she was saying.

"Prob us," Wally mumbled.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Artemis growled, for some reason expecting Wally to blame her.

"Well I mean, he's been captured for what, five days now. And for all he knows, we don't even know that he's gone, cuz we're certainly not doing much to find him!" he muttered angrily, but became more and more passionate with his words.

"I don't think he was mad at us. I sensed that he was angry at himself, for some reason," M'Gann broke in, dodging the inevitable verbal battle.

"With himself?" Conner asked simply.

The martian nodded. "He was also in pain, a lot of pain," she continued.

"Perhaps it was some fault of his own that hurt him, or perhaps he blames himself for what has happened," Kaldur tried to understand the little boy.

"That doesn't sound like Rob," Wally slowly shot down the Atlantean. "What else can you tell us?"

"Unfortunately, he was not aware of his location, so I could not tell you where he is," the Martian girl blushed.

"It's okay, we know he's in Vegas, and that's all that matters," Wally said, a little more cheerful than he had been. "Righteyo, let's get crackin!" he said, rubbing his hands together.

"And do what?" the archer asked.

"Find him."

"And how do we do that?"

"When M'Gann sensed him, he had to be in that hotel, place. So we just need to find it,"

"And we can do that by using the computer systems downstairs," Kaldur said, standing excitedly.

"Computers downstairs?" Conner quietly asked, astounded that civilians knew how to work suck things as computers.

"Yes, let's do it!" M'Gann squealed cheerfully as her, Kaldur, Conner, and Artemis ran out, leaving Wally to jog after them.

"Wait, uh guys! Shouldn't someone tell Bats?" he called.

But his teammates didn't hear them, and he wasn't that serious about it anyway. He had to get Rob back, and Bats would take them off it.

Reaching the spacious computer room downstairs, Wally and Artemis assigned themselves to monitors and began digging for maps of the city.

"Okay, Rob taught me how to find the sewer system blueprints for any city," Wally muttered as his emerald eyes danced about the screen.

"Why would you need to know-" Conner began.

"It was a while ago, and... it's complicated," Wally brushed off as he pulled the blueprints up. "Okay, so we were... here once we broke the surface. And the casino is, well was, here... so we were about here," he said pointed to the screen with his half eaten candy bar.

"Wait, when did you," Conner quietly asked, surprised at seeing the food that he swore Wally didn't just have.

"So the door must have been... uh, it's not there," Wally sat u in his chair, puzzled.

"Check again," Kaldur demanded, leaning over the back of the redhead's seat.

"Yeah, I walked here, into there, through there, into there, and around there. It has to be there!" he exclaimed, shoving his palms toward the monitor.

"You mean that it was attached to the 'France in Vegas Luxury Hotel'?" Artemis spoke for the first time.

Sliding his chair over, Wally studied her screen.

"See, it's smack dab over where you said the door was, assuming that it was even there," she shoved the candy bar out of her face.

"Oh it was," Wally mumbled, escaping deep into concentration. "So that's it. Let's go!" he called as he ran out, his team at his heels.