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The gun went off and hit the body with a thunk. The black clothed body flew backwards and rammed into Batman. Batman caught Robin. He was bleeding heavily from a gun wound in the center of his chest. The alien screamed. Batman threw two bat-a-rangs. They erupted in gas. The creature start to choke as the gas stayed concentrated around it. It fell over with boils popping up on its skin.
Robin was gasping n Batman's arms.
"Why Robin?' he asked. Somehow it sounded as if he was unemotional. That façade ended with Robin's comment.
"You're too important to everyone." Robin's voice was weak.
"You are important too Rob." Wally sniffed. His team had surrounded him.
"Megan, please bring us as fast as you can to the Watchtower." Batman ordered, Megan barley hesitated as she heard Batman's voice crack.
"Too important." Robin whispered. Blood started to leak out of the corner of his mouth.
"Hold on Robin, we're almost safe." Robin cocked his head ever so slightly in confusion.
"Robin? Who is he? Is he your son? He must be lucky to have such a nice dad." Robin's voice got quieter and quieter.
"Robin." Artemis breathed. The girls were all almost crying. Wally was too. Superboy had a stony face, Kaldur looked worried.
"Richard… Don't leave me." Batman whispered into Dick's ear. He wanted to hug the boy, but that could only hurt the boy. Instead he used the bottom of his cape to tie a turret around Robin's chest.
"Kaldur, type in BBW02 so the Watchtower knows who we are." Batman ordered. Kaldur did. A few minutes later they arrived. Robin was unconscious and barely breathing. As soon as they walked in Flash ran up and took Robin from Batman's arms. He raced off to the Medical Bay. Batman started to follow him when Superboy grabbed his shoulder.
"Is Richard your son?" Superboy said quietly. The YJ team turned to look at the duo talking. They had heard Conner's question.
"Conner..." Wally started but was shocked into silence when Batman nodded his head. Conner let go of the Dark Knight's shoulder and watched him hurry into the Medical Bay.
"I never thought Batman would have a family." Artemis said softly. She turned to Wally and hugged him. "I can't believe how well they hid their relations." She said crying. Wally patted her shoulder, but he kept quiet about what he knew. The team was asked to wait in the main hall of the Watchtower while Robin was operated on.
When Batman came into the Med Bay, Black Canary was running around getting everything ready for the operation to save the young hero's life. She went over to Robin and lifted him up to peer at the bullet wound from both sides.
"It went through." She said. She grabbed some small shears and started to cut away the mesh on Robin's back. They all heard the heart monitor speed up. Batman walked briskly over to Robin's head. He bent down and held the dark-haired boy's head. He started to sing softly into his ear. The tune was old, the words foreign. Everyone in the room felt oddly calm as they heard it. Robin's heartbeat slowed down.
"Batman, when Robin first came in, he called for help to me.: J'hn said to Batman. Batman looked at the Martian while singing the quiet song to Robin.
"He wants you to see what happened. He fell into this half a coma after he gave the permission to enter his mind to me. We should do this while he is relaxed, and while they are operating so no one will try to bother us." Batman nodded and kept up the song. J'hn's eyes turned green and they entered Robin's memories.
Black Canary had stepped aside and left because she was shaking to mush to help Robin. Flash was the head doctor now. Flash had removed the disgusting shirt Robin had worn. He examined Robin's chest wound and removed the turret. Blood ran down Robin's bare chest slowly. Flash looked over and smiled at his crew. Superman and Wonder Woman looked confused.
"It is a straight shot, clean and perfect. All we have to do is close it. It is just under his sternum, and missed his spinal chord because of the angle. The muscle around it is bruised, but we can't really do anything about that. We just need to close it and make sure the rest of him is ok." Flash explained.
"I'll sew the wound shut." Wonder Woman said. She then proceeded to do so. Flash moved onto Robin's neck.
"These will need stitched too. They punctures wounds are deep. One pierced his jugular, thus why he is bleeding from his mouth. That doesn't have much of a cure except time. I'll stitch these up quickly." Flash began doing what he said.
"Flash, Dianna, these bruises on his legs, they're from a cane. He also has burn marks." Superman said.
"What?" Flash asked. "Wait; let me finish sewing up his throat." He finished quickly and came to look at what Superman was saying. They had, or rather Batman had, changed Robin into soft cotton pants. Superman had seen bruises on the ankle and pushed up the pant leg to examine more of it. He had seen more bruises on Robin's leg. Flash looked at them too.
"Yeah, looks like they beat him, actually that looks like Penguin's cane…" only Dianna was moving while the two men thought about it.
"It looks like John and Bruce are seeing what happened." She said finally. The small group looked at the two men just standing there, still as rocks. Suddenly the two men grabbed their heads and fell over, pain etched across their features.
OOOHHH! What HAPPENED TO BATMAN AND MARTIAN MANHUNTER? Find out next chapter-
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