Chapter 2.
-Flashback-
It was a gloomy night in Gotham city. The crooks and criminals were out in force, causing chaos and so, Batman and his trusty sidekick Robin were out patrolling. Making the city a safer place by catching the bad guys.
On this particular night, most of the dangerous criminals were having a rest in Arkham Asylum. How long they'd stay there wasn't know but, knowing them they would be out soon and causing even more chaos.
One particular villain however, was causing more trouble than the other but; unlike usual he was being subtle about it. The Scarecrow was experimenting.
This is obviously a bad thing because of the way his experiments can affect the whole city. In this case, the only ones affected will be our heroes. Not that they know that yet. At this point in time all they did know was that they'd stumbled, rather luckily, into Scarecrows lair and had to stop whatever mischievous plan he was cooking up.
And so Batman and Robin descended from the rooftops.
"Stay close Robin, whatever he's up to can't be good" the Batman ordered and after gaining a nod from Robin in reply, the pair of heroes entered the decrepit warehouse that made up The Scarecrows current base of operations.
Quietly they crept through the dark halls, sticking close to the shadows so as not to be seen. However this was not needed as the lair was empty, no guards or minions around, just empty hallways and rooms.
Finally they came upon a door, through which machinery could be heard, along with the mutterings of Scarecrow himself.
Carefully the Bat and the Bird snuck into the room, and the sight upon which they were met with chilled them to the bone. Three babies were strapped to a surgeons table.
Observing the scene in front of them, they were surprised that they had not been detected, the machinery in the lab alone must have cost thousands and for The Scarecrow to not have security measures showed how important his experiment was.
The experiment in this case seemed to be the three children, and although looking upon them from a distance they seemed to be dolls, the beeping of the heart monitors on their chests showed they were alive.
The Scarecrow walked up towards the babes and injected them with a serum that made the children twitch and scream, before changing from their originally bland appearance into the recognisable appearance of one boy and two little girls.
Seeing enough, Batman and Robin sprung into action.
They leapt across the room, Robin towards the babies and Batman towards The Scarecrow. Just as he reached the children, Robin heard Batman shout out in warning as four turrets appeared from the ceiling and started shooting laser beams at the boy wonder.
Robin dodged and weaved, the laser bolts missing him by inches after a particularly close miss that nearly severed his hand, he reached into his utility belt and pulled out his version of the batarang, a birdarang. Throwing the birdarang towards the turrets robin watched as it divided up in mid air and went soaring into the turrets which then exploded upon being hit with the weapon.
Glad the attack had been stopped, Robin rushed towards the children worried that they had been hit by a stray bolt. He searched the first child, the boy, for injuries before sighing in relief when he found none as well as a strong pulse. He discovered them same when checking one the two girls and his relief threatened to overcome him.
Growing up in a circus as large as Haley's meant that he wasn't the only child there however, the fact that the next eldest was three years younger than him, as well as the fact that during performances he would have to look after all the other children, meant that Robin had always been protective of the little ones.
Once he discovered all three children were uninjured Robin turned to the first child again, thinking about how to move the child to somewhere safer without harming the girls. He paused however when he saw fresh blood on the boy, even though his inspection had told him they weren't injured. He checked on the other children and discovered the same blood.
Feeling a slight sting on his palm Robin turned his palm upwards and gazed at the large oozing cut that was there, obviously the blood smeared on the children was his.
The presence of his blood on their skin seemed to change something within the children as they started to glow a dark red and slowly the blood on their skin sank into them.
Panicking, Robin slowly backed away from the babes and turned to alert his mentor of the strange occurrence however he suddenly had to duck as The Scarecrow came flying towards him. The crash and crack that sounded caused Robin to wince as he realised that there would be a few broken bones as a result of that last punch from Batman.
Realising their enemy was out for the count, both heroes turned towards the three children to see that the angry glowing had come to a stop.
Both heroes set to work on tiding up the lair, with Batman slapping cuffs on the villain whilst Robin was working on downloading The Scarecrows research, both keeping an eye on the three babies.
They turned from their work when the three children screamed and ran towards them, horrified when they realised their features were changing from the original bland forms only just recognisable as male and female to three children with silky black hair and the features of a certain boy wonder.