It was on this day that Batman was jumping from skyscraper to skyscraper when he received telepathic message...Ra's al Ghul, location hidden by scrambling radar znd satellite cloaking inside an internet cafe.

'Salaamu alaikum, Batman. You've done well in vanquishing Poison Ivy, habibi, but the League of Shadows will descend on you soon-quicker than a djinn grants a wish! Do not fall prey to your own fear, Mr Wayne: stay samidoun,' said Ra's Qur'anly and Arabically.

Batman ignored it as he would a mosquito buzzing in his ear. He looked down serenely and wiselu on the Gotham City of eight million hopeless souls of latent criminality desires and midnight diarrhea somnolence. Only a few people were out in this nigth, such as Clayface and Gordon Dent and Batgrirl, unbeknownst to all but the League.

The League myrmidons of masked malevolent mendacity and malignant malfeasance snatched Batgirl from her crimefighting and laughing carried her away, like the abduction of Persephone. They tied the young lady up and gagged her really tight, such that she could hardly struggle and the corners of the Batgirl mouth were pinched, and quickly drool would run down her chin. Batman will be outraged, said one of the goons.

Oh ho ho ho! said the other, we have most sorely bent the wishbone of circumstance, and soon doth it snap!

As it happens Robin could not interpose himself to help: he was in his apartment closet, nude save for his mask, hanging from the ceiling, blackened face and hand around his limp cock. Stale vomit spattered his face and chest, stomach; crusted bits of putrid curdled milk, oatmeal chunks yellow as the flag of Dorset, and decaying raccoon nutsacks; a foot or two away from the Robin corpse, splayed on the floor, was the old Charisma Carpenter Playboy issue.

Meanwhile Batman stood atop the Wayne Enterprises Tower where his parents were shot so many years ago. Bruce knew Mr Ghul and the League of Shadows had returned to wage jihad on Gotham, and he ws the only one who could stop them in time.

Will he rescue Batgirl and defeat Ra's al Ghul and the League of Shadows?

To be cotnuneud.