Ok. Here we go… More stuff for the Robin fanatics. (Like my good friend Turq. Hello if you're reading this.)
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Chapter 12:- The Secrets Of Static
At lunch, Dick, Kori, Vic and Jinx sat at their table. They still grieved for Gar, and the odd disappearance of Raven did not lighten their spirits.
The dorky looking boy came with a newspaper for Raven, but he handed it to Dick in Raven's absence. No-one else had any letters.
Dick looked at the newspaper's headline. DOCTOR GOES INSANE. He picked it up and read the first line.
"Guys…"
"What?" asked Vic.
"Listen to this," said Dick, reading the newspaper aloud. "Dr. Samuel Register, who currently possesses two PhDs for biological sciences, was found in a hospital room pinned to the wall by many of his own surgical knives and syringes. When he was discovered he was sprouting purple scales from head to toe, a major symptom of a disease known as Sakutia, and rambling on like mad man about a witch dressed in black and a key to the animal world. Since there is no known cure for Sakutia, Register is being kept in Lake City hospital where his colleagues are working on a cure. Specialists have been called in from Metropolis and Keystone to work on the cure. The patient Register was treating, a Mr. Garfield Logan - a local school boy - had also been diagnosed with Sakutia and is currently missing, presumed dead. But how Register was pinned to a wall, and what drove him insane is a mystery L.C.P.D. detectives are still trying to solve as well as Logan's whereabouts."
"Damn it," said Vic.
Kori bowed her head in grief and started to mutter something in another tongue.
"Victor!" came a gaspyvoice from the doorway.
Vic spun around and saw an old African American man, standing in the doorway. He got up, went over to him and hugged him. It was all very formal, and unnatural.
They pulled away. "What are you doing here Dad?"
"They called me in to work on the Sakutia cure…"
"I see. Then you better get to the hospital, I guess."
"Actually I must see the principal… But I wanted to see my son first."
Vic smiled. "I'll see you later then."
"Yes. Goodbye," and with that he walked away.
Vic walked back to the table.
"That was all very serious," said Jinx.
"It always is with my father."
"Why?"
"We never get on. He wants me to be a science teacher or something when all I want to do is play football…"
Jinx smiled painfully and patted her friend on the back.
Dick stood up. "Well I've got stuff to do. See you guys later."
Kori stood up. "Dick. Please allow me to come with you."
"OK. C'mon."
Minutes later, Starfire were speeding between the rooftops, and Robin was swinging gracefully beside her.
"Where are we heading Robin?"
"The hospital. The third up on the right."
Robin fired a rope towards a building edge and swung toward the building, then completely let go of his rope and caught the window, landing gracefully. He opened the window, let Starfire fly in, then jumped in himself and closed the window.
"What are we looking for?" asked Starfire.
Robin put a finger to his lips. "I need to know if Register's telling the truth." He walked over to the area where the knife holes were and fingered the holes. He walked around the room and saw the knives in plastic baggies on a table near the doorway. He went over and shined an ultraviolet light on them, and saw nothing. "Either the culprit used special gloves that don't leave residue… or he didn't touch these knives at all."
Robin examined the door and saw the heavy locks on the side. "Premium LexCorp locks. Near impossible to break through on the wrong side of the door."
He went over to the window and examined it with his ultraviolet light as well. Once again, nothing. "How did the culprit escape with touching the window?" He glanced over at the stretchers. One was missing. "Whoever did this took Gar with them. Probably alive."
He walked over to the stretchers and looked at it, then noticed the hair on his arm standing on end. "Static electricity."
He pulled out one of the hairs from his head, and held it close to where the missing stretcher would have been, then let go. The hair flew and clung to the place.
"Gotcha," Robin said, pulling out another hair and examining the knives with the same method, and the same results. He walked to the window, the hair was attracted again. He opened the window, and let go of the hair and it floated off into the air, attracted by the static.
Robin reached up for more hair, then changed his mind and grabbed a rubber glove, inflated it, tied a knot in the end, and let it go. It floated in the same path as the hair did, except the glove was a lot more visible.
"Let's go Star," said Robin, jumping out the window and firing a rope. Starfire flew out the window, very confused.
"Robin, what are we doing?" asked as Robin ran along the rooftops as she flew next to him.
"However the culprit is doing the things he does, he's leaving behind a trail of static, the balloon, and my hair, clings to. Assuming he used his power all the way to his destination, probably have to because he took the stretcher, the balloon with cling to the static and take us all the way to where he's hiding Gar."
A couple minutes of following the balloon and they found themselves of the roof of their own school, the balloon clinging to the door of the old abandoned shed out back.
"He's in there," said Robin.
"Then let us go get him," said Starfire, taking off.
Robin grabbed her leg. "Wait." He pointed at the black-garbed girl running towards the shed, holding food in her hands. "Why is Raven here? And why does she have food?"
Robin scowled. "It's her. She's our culprit. She wasn't trying to kidnap Gar, she was trying to save him from something." He turned to Starfire. "Let's get down there as Dick and Kori. It'll be easier to confront her like that."
"Yes, Robin. But we must hurry."
"Why?"
"Because someone else is about to confront her."
Robin glanced down at Raven. It was then he saw Johnny Rancid coming up behind her, smiling evilly.
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Here we go gang. Time for some action next chapter methinks! Next:- When Titans Clash