Chapter 5: Another Attack

It was about nine o'clock pm and Robert Hood was on the League's computer looking at Batman's file. He was not surprised to discover that Batman had no powers to speak of according to the file, but the knowledge of that perplexed him. How is that he was able to lift that large of a rock off the ground, even in the slightest degree? It puzzled him as did the fact that he had garlic weapons. He looked at the cameras in the medical bay where Batman and Sandra were talking.

"Why is he being so friendly with her?" Robert muttered. The alarm sounded and Stargirl's face appeared on the screen.

"Watchtower, it's Stargirl. We need back-up," Stargirl said. "We've found another vampire. We're at the harbor in Metropolis."

"This is Robert Hood," Robert responded. "Batman and I are on our way." He ended the call and turned to see Batman behind him. "I believe you hear her. We're needed."

Stargirl and Cyborg were battling a vampire. This one though looked more like a classic Dracula female vampire and he was proving to be quite troublesome.

"Don't come any closer," the vampire demanded. She grabbed a little boy and held him by his neck. "Or I'll kill him." Stargirl and Cyborg stopped.

"Not again," Batman muttered. Robert looked over at him.

"What do you mean not again?" Robert asked.

"Nothing," Batman responded hastily. Batman's attention was on the boy the vampire was holding. He was small, looked about ten, had black hair, and blue eyes. He then muttered, "Just like Jason." He then turned to Robert and said louder, "Do you have any garlic bullets?" Robert pulled out his gun.

"Yes why?" Robert said.

"How good of a shot are you?" Batman asked.

"Very, but you didn't answer my question," Robert responded.

"I'll distract her," Batman told him. "Once her claws are away from his neck, shot her. But no head shots." He then disappeared into the shadows leaving Robert to ponder what he had heard. Who was Jason?

"PUT. THE BOY. DOWN," Batman ordered. He was above the vampire and in the shadows. She looked for who had spoken.

"Who's there?" she demanded. "Show yourself!" Her grip on the boy started to slip.

"I won't ask twice," Batman informed her. Stargirl and Cyborg were a bit confused but still remained on guard. The vampire was getting a little shaken up at this point.

"Don't come any closer!" she exclaimed as she backed into a wall. "I...I'll...kill him." Robert then shot her in her right shoulder with a garlic bullet.

"Ahhh!" she exclaimed. She dropped the boy so she could try to stop the bleeding. Robert then shot her in her left shoulder. She screamed again. The boy ran to Stargirl and hugged her. Cyborg then shot her with his sonic cannon which knocked her out. Batman dropped down and Robert climbed down from the roof via an fire escape ladder. Batman walked towards the vampire, hand cuffed her, and handed her to Robert.

"Where are you going to take her?" Cyborg asked.

"I've already contacted a colleague of mine," Robert said. "We've already arranged a trial for her and soon after she'll be delivered to the Monster Prison Camp." He turned his eyes to Batman who, unknown to himself, had tensed a bit at the mention of the camp. He quickly relaxed soon after but it was enough to make Robert suspicious.

Robert was in the Watchtower monitor room scrolling through the the security footage of Batman and the vampire woman in the medical bay. He was watching each one and none of them seemed suspicious yet.

"What are you doing?" Wonder Woman asked as she entered the room and walked towards him. "Besides the obvious."

"Just making sure she hasn't done anything to him while he was with her," Robert said.

"She has a name, you know?" Wonder Woman responded. "And it's Sandra."

"How well do you know Batman?" Robert asked.

"Not too well but I consider ourselves friends, why?" Wonder Woman responded.

"Has he ever displayed any signs of having powers?" Robert asked.

"Not really, well, yes, once," Wonder Woman admitted. "When he pulled that large rock off of me when we were hunting down David Cain. That thing had to be at least 500 pounds. Other than that nothing." Robert watched and listened to another footage and noticed that the audio didn't match their lip movements.

"Odd," Robert muttered. He gestured for Wonder Woman to come closer. "Listen to this." He rewind the footage.

"You didn't deserve to go there," Batman said on the recording. "From the way Robert described it you wouldn't last a week." The second statement, according to the visual video, it was Sandra who had spoken.

"I agree that is...peculiar," Wonder Woman responded. "The audio doesn't match the visual video."

"Which means someone went back and edited," Robert told her. "And I think we both know who it was."

"But why?" Wonder Woman questioned. "He doesn't seem to have a motive for doing this."

"I think I know why," Robert said. He pulled out a file from underneath his chair and handed it to her. She opened it and saw a photo of a young boy about 10, with pale skin, blue eyes, black hair, and tiny fangs, and he was holding a chalk sign with a long and complicated number on it. "The boy's name is Jason Todd." Wonder Woman looked through the file as Robert talked. "He's a half-human half-vampire. He was arrested for stealing money from an audio insurance place and he was sentenced to 5 years in the Monster Prison Camp. About a year into his sentence, however; he tried to escape along with John Valjean. John Valjean escaped but Jason was killed a prison guard by accident before he could." Wonder Woman closed file.

"What does this have to do with Batman?" Wonder Woman asked.

"Because earlier this evening when we were stopping a vampire from killing a young boy Batman said "Just like Jason"," Robert explained. "The young boy we saved looks physically identical to Jason Todd. Also Batman shifted when I mentioned the Monster Prison Camp like he was afraid of it."

"So you're thinking..." Wonder Woman started.

"I think that Batman is John Valjean," Robert finished.

True or false. What do you think?