One Hour After The Tape Was Sent
Reiena had recovered from the beating and electrocution about an hour ago, and was now back in the room that had become her cell. She could handle anything as Cardinal; but right now she was Reiena, the ex-circus performer that was now living a billionaire kid's life. Her body ached from the bruises that had formed, and she seemed to lose hope, but not all of it.
Just then, the door opened, and Mercy came walking in carrying something. When it was set on the table in the room, the gotham kid noticed that it was food. Mercy left out, but Lex entered.
"I figured you needed some nourishment, of course you were hurt by Mercy, and Bruce knows that, but what kind of person would I be if I let you starve." Lex said, and this earned a glare from the fire dancer.
"How do I know it's not poisoned?" Reiena stated.
"If you insist, I will eat a bite of it myself." Lex said, mentally complementing the girl on her wit. Reiena nodded slightly and Lex took that as a 'good ahead, I dare you'.
Lex took a bit of the mashed potatoes with one of the two forks provided, and stayed there for a couple of minutes, and when she was satisfied that she wasn't going to be poisoned, the teen started cautiously eating. Happy that he had convinced the girl that he was just making sure she was properly nourished, Lex headed out of the cell and left Reiena alone again.
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Back in the suite, Dick was working furiously on his holo-computer, trying to get a lock on something that he hadn't even told Bruce about. The main reason that Reiena wore that Hotel Transylvania bracelet was that she and Dick had developed, on their own time with Wally's help in the science division, a transmitter that is sprayed on. The transmitter itself was sprayed onto the bat, and could be traced even over the path it took.
Soon enough, Dick had locked onto the most current path and gave his legendary laugh, low enough that Bruce didn't hear, then got ready to head out as Robin to save his sister.
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Bruce had been watching what Dick did, and even though he already knew about the tracer spray on Reiena's bracelet, Robin had a better chance of saving Reiena without her getting hurt than if Batman went as well. Another thing that was considered was that if Luthor sent another message or anything, then Bruce Wayne had to be there to receive the message.
"Stay safe, Robin." Bruce said to himself as Dick headed out the bedroom window to track down his sister.
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One Hour Later
Geneva was large, but Robin finally made it to where the tracer led him, and when he saw it, he just rolled his eyes.
"Even Luthor is getting cliché." The boy wonder said as he surveyed the abandoned warehouse.
One thing that caught his eye was the glint of sunlight coming from behind the building. When Robin arrived at the spot, he was shocked, there lay Metallo and he wasn't moving. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed that the metallic man's kryptonite heart was missing. The only conclusion this was showing was that Luthor was mad enough to remove the one thing that activated Metallo so he couldn't mess up the plan again.
As the 13 year old protégé was walking around the warehouse, he heard something, and was elated that it was his sister's voice. The boy wonder listened.
"Luthor is so going to pay when I get out of this." Reiena could be heard saying.
"Sis." Robin said softly through the window he was listening at.
"Robin, oh my gosh, so it worked?" Reiena questioned as she turned to the window.
"Yea, thank goodness, I had to weed out where we were before you were taken, but after that it was nothing, remind me to thank KF next time we see him." Robin said as he looked from his sister and down.
A couple of seconds later he looked back up and started using a small acetylene torch in the bars (replaced the glass window after it was blown out with Reiena's escape attempt). It didn't take long before Robin was able to drop down into the room and he was met with a bear hug from his sister.
"Hey, I like getting hugs from beautiful girls, but I don't think my sister would approve." Robin said, both jokingly and keeping up the rouse that he was Dick Grayson, Reiena's twin brother.
"Thank you for developing that tracer spray." Reiena said.
"Anytime, now, let's get you out of here and back to your family." Robin said as the hug was released.
Reiena got over to the window and Robin bend down and locked his fingers together so the Gotham teen could step on them and get out the window without making too much noise. Just then, they both heard footsteps coming, and Robin used all his strength to get Reiena out before the people that were coming opened the door. Reiena was standing on the barrels under the window, and she looked in the window at her brother.
"Go, you've been here long enough." Robin said, and Reiena's eyes were starting to tear up. "Oh, here."
Reiena reached her hand in quickly and grabbed what was in Robin's hand, her bracelet. With the tears still in her eyes, she disappeared. Just as Robin let out a sigh of relief, the door opened and Luthor stepped in. When he saw his hostage was gone and Robin was still in the room, his face displayed anger, but after a second, a smirk came to his lips.
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One Hour Later
Bruce was starting to worry about Robin, since he figured that it wouldn't take long, but two hours, even Robin could have gotten into trouble in that time. Just then, there was a knock at the door, and Bruce headed over to it quickly. When the billionaire opened the door, there was Reiena, with cuts all over her face and arms along with bruises. He didn't say anything as he pulled her into a hug.
"Bruce, we have to go save him." Reiena said as she was released from the hug.
"What happened?" Bruce asked.
"Robin found me, but before he could get out, someone was coming." Reiena said, tears threatening to leave her eyes.
"Let's get you cleaned up, then we'll come up with a plan, I'm just glad to see you're alright." Bruce said as he walked into the kitchen and wet a rag to get the bits of dried blood off of his daughters face.
"Luthor's not going to be alright if Robin's gravely hurt." Reiena said as she suddenly went into Cardinal mode.
okay, Luthor is so going down, but did anything happen to Robin during that missing hour, you'll just have to stay tuned to find out.
