The bomb clicked. "MMPH?" said Barbara in confusion as she opened her eyes. Standing in front of her was Nightwing and Robin; Nightwing had just turned out the bomb, he smiled as he and Robin walked over to the bound and gagged girls, he bent down and removed the gag from Barbara's mouth, who let out a little gasp of air. "It's about time, you two got here." She said.
The girls had been untied; Robin was motioning for them to leave. "Get to your cabins and we'll get there and tell you to leave. Got it? Good. Go!" he said, as the girls ran out of the door.
"Oh by the way, we brought you something." He said, handing her the Batgirl costume. Barbara could only smile.
"Thanks." She said. She turned around and began to take off her shirt, as she began to lift it up, she turned around. "Do you two mind?" she asked.
"Oh sorry." Said Nightwing and Robin as they turned their backs, though they couldn't resist peeking a little….
The trio then approached the cabins.
"All right, let's get these kids out of here. Then go after the Mad Hatter." Said Nightwing.
"Right." Said Batgirl.
"How did it feel being the one to be saved Batgirl?" asked Robin, smiling.
"OK, so you've saved me once, I've saved you like 500 times." She replied.
"Please, I've saved both of you a million times." Said Nightwing laughing at Batgirl and Robin's astounded looks.
And so the kids were ordered to evacuate, Nightwing shouted.
"Run as far as you can! Or maybe further!" he said. "OK, you two ready?" he said turning to Batgirl and Robin. They nodded.
Minutes later, they were at the dome.
"So how do you two want to enter? Through the roof or through the front door?" asked Batgirl.
"Do we do it any other way?" asked Nightwing.
"Silly me." Said Batgirl, smiling.
The Mad Hatter was inside, yelling at the returning henchmen. "What do you mean that the boys weren't shot? What do you mean that the girls weren't blown up?"
"Just what we said boss, nothing happened." He said, stretching his arms out.
"Oh, this is not good. It's time like this that I'd expect Batman to show up."
Suddenly a sound of window clashing came down and down came Batgirl, Robin and Nightwing. The Mad Hatter had a bit of dumbfounded look. "Not exactly who I was expecting, but get them!" he shouted, he pointed his finger at the trio.
His goons took out clubs.
"Watch, we probably won't even have to move in order to take care of these guys." Said Batgirl.
Matt swung his fist at Nightwing, who dodged and gave him an undercut. Another good threw a kick at Batgirl who dodged and while letting out a karate yell, smacked him across the face. Robin took care of the third goon with a kick to the shins.
The Mad Hatter just smiled and clapped. "Very good, children. You defeated my henchmen with only one hit."
"Let's just say it was easy." Said Batgirl. "Now just surrender yourself, you can go back to Arkham and we'll be done with this."
"Well, I admit, I'm no match for all three of you. But I always an ace up my sleeve." He said, pressing a button on his vest. Before the crime fighters could even react, an electric cage formed from around all three of them.
"Hey! What kind of cage is this?" asked Batgirl.
"Obviously an electric one.' Said Nightwing.
"Well, I was hoping I'd catch Batman, but his kids will do. For one who caused me to lose my love, Alice, I will now make him pay for making him lose his children!" he yelled angrily.
Batgirl and Robin looked at each other scared, while Nightwing let out a scowl…
Nightwing slowly opened his eyes, having been knocked out from the Mad Hatter. He groaned a little as he opened his eyes, he sat up only to discover himself sitting in a chair, his hands were tied behind him, Batgirl and Robin were next to him, they had their hands tied as well. "My aching head." he said to himself.
"Awake?" said the Mad Hatter. "Good."
"What are you waiting for?" asked Nightwing. "Just do it."
"Kill you?" said the Mad Hatter, pretending to be shocked. "Not yet."
Batgirl and Robin slowly came to. "Man what happened?" asked Batgirl.
"Easy, you were gassed so we could lead you three here. Though I'm surprised that Batman would send you three instead of himself."
"Batman's... busy." said Robin.
"Is he now?" said Mad Hatter. "No matter. I'll glady take the ones who are special to him away like he did to me."
"Batman wasn't responsible for what you did to Alice. You did it yourself." said Batgirl.
"Fool!" he said to her. "What do you know? We could've had a happy life together if it wasn't for him!"
"Right. Like you'd want to have a puppet for a wife." said Nightwing.
"It didn't have to be that way. Batman was going to take her away."
"Well, you were turning innocent people into characters from a kid's book." said Batgirl.
"It was my idea of a happy fantasy!"
"Your nuts." said Robin.
"Like your fantasys are any better kid." said Batgirl.
"Guys, this is not the time to argue." said Nightwing.
"Indeed it isn't. You three will have bigger problems. Take them into that room there." he said, turning to his goons and pointing at the the nearby door.
"Sure thing boss." said Matt.
Making the three crimefighters stand, they carried clubs in their hands forcing them to walk forward.
"Got any plans?" Batgirl asked to Nightwing.
"One." said Nightwing, smiling slightly.
The trio was tied from shoulders to toe with more rope. They were placed carefully on a table. The Mad Hatter walked over and after checking the ropes on each of them. Closed a wooden board locking Batgirl, Nightwing and Robin's head into places.
"Off with their heads." he said. He smiled as he walked out the door.
"You ever notice how the bad guy always leaves in this scenes?" said Robin.
"Oh would you shut up?" said Batgirl.
The rope that was holding the guillotine in place was beginning to break.
"How does Batman get out of these things?" asked Robin.
"Well for one, he doesn't let himself get into these things." said Batgirl. "Nightwing, that plan of yours?"
Nightwing smiled as he broke free of his ropes. "Working on it." Then he lifted up the bar with his two hands. The guillotine began to come down, Nightwing grabbed the still bound Batgirl and Robin and leapt to safety. Batgirl and Robin panted at the closeness of it. Nightwing brushed himself off. "See what happens when you two skip escape art training?"
"Oh, just untie us already." said Batgirl.
"Did I hear a please?"
Meanwhile the Mad Hatter gloated to his men. "Alright, let's get those brats out here and we'll send the ransom notes. Now that those three are out of the way, I think we have it easy."
"Don't be so sure." said Batgirl. The Mad Hatter gulped and turned around only to be met by a punch from Nightwing.
"You villians need to work on better traps." said Robin.
The Mad Hatter growled, he then turned to his subordinates. "Well what are you waiting for? Get them!" he yelled.
The goons rallied up and charged at the trio, one swung a fist at Batgirl, but she dodged and kicked him clear across the room. Robin dodged another punch and responded with a kick to the face of his own. Nightwing ducked under another goon's intended blow and uppercutted him across the face. The Mad Hatter watched with horror as each of his men went down. He tried to make a run for it, but Nightwing threw some ropes out which tied the Mad Hatter's legs together. He groaned as he hit the ground. "This wasn't supposed to happen!" he yelled.
"Yeah, but what can you do about it?" asked Batgirl.
As the trio began to pride themselves on their victory. They were interruped by a clapping. At first they looked at each other confused. But then they turned their heads to see Batman standing in the doorway clapping his hands.
"Brillant. Absolutely brillant." he declared. "But" he said. "What are you going to do about them?" he said, pointing his finger in their direction. Nightwing and the others turned their heads to see dozens of other men, holding clubs or chains in their hands. They sneered and began to walk forward.
"I don't think so." said Batman, as he snapped his fingers, and dozens of cops came plowing through the windows. Commissioner Gordon appeared behind Batman, pointing his gun at the scene.
"Commissioner, I shall leave the finding of the kidnapped children to you."
"We'll find them." he said. "Anything else?" he turned around and noticed that Batman was gone, as were Batgirl, Nightwing and Robin. He sighed. "Why do I even bother?"
Back at Wayne Manyor.
"So we did good?" asked Barbara.
"Yes. The Mad Hatter is back behind bars in Arkham Asylum. So you did good."
"I know of a way to celebrate this. TV time! I don't know how people can go without it for a week!" Tim exclaimed as he ran over to the couch and grabbed the remote, but before he could turn it on. Dick grabbed it from him.
"Hey!" Tim shouted.
"Sorry kid. I choose the channel." he said, but Tim grabbed the remote.
"I don't think so." he said.
"Boys. Boys." said Barbara, walking over. "This is no way for men to behave. It's a lucky thing I'm a woman." she too grabbed the remote. "Now let me have it."
"No way!" let out Tim.
The arguments began again as Bruce watching the scene, could only sigh. Alfred walked over with a tray in his hands and smiled.
"Well it is a family Master Bruce. However you planning to teach the "kids" some manners?"
"Alfred, teaching them how to fight crime is hard enough. I'm afraid even I can't do everything." Bruce smiled.
The End
