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"Damn it Bruce!" Green Arrow screamed "get rid of it!"
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Batman stared at the dummy of his son, how could he be so stupid? It' didn't even have blood on it, it couldn't possibly been Dick, he was just so desperate to get him back…
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Superman ripped the dummy from Batman hands and flew up into the sky, he stopped and threw the bomb as far as he could, it got smaller, and smaller…smaller.
BOOM! Like a fire work, it exploded. Pieces of plastic robin rained from the sky and that in itself made Batman sob.
The teens stood in shock watching the usually brooding man cry, frankly they thought they'd never see the day Batman expressed emotion other than hatred. Today was that day.
"Batman" said Aqualad "we will keep searching for Robin" he place a hand on the man's shoulder, "we will not rest"
The other muttered agreements.
Batman looked up at the boy and then at his friends and then at the ground,
"When we get Robin back you can't tell him I cried" he said wiping his face,
"Why not?" Black Canary asked kneeling next to Bruce, Batman smiled
"Because he'll kick my ass" the heroes chuckled as Bruce stood up
"Somehow I believe that" J'onn said with a chuckle, Red tornado stood silently,
"What's wrong RT?" Artemis asked placing a hand on the androids shoulder; the red hero looked up and at her
"Would it be a surprise if I said I missed Robin?"
"Hell yeah that's a surprise!" said Flash "I thought you couldn't feel!"
"As did I" The robot said "but still I feel worry" there was silence, Megan and Superboy held hands and looked at each other
"We all do" Megan said softly
"Robin has taught us each something, he brings us laughter, he brings us light and when being faced with the possibility of loosing that light, loosing someone we ALL love, we all begin to do things that we and others didn't know possible, we are desperate lads." Aqua man sighed as he spoke grabbing Aqualad into a quick hug, "But we will…bring him home"
The heroes stood in respectful silence.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
A boat chimed at the docks beside the warehouse, a few heroes briefly turned their heads but it was ignored.
"Does that mean the Riddler has had a dummy the whole time?" Wally said looking hopefully at his mentor, Flash in turn looked at Batman,
"No" Batman said "I have a gut feeling that Robin really is in terrible danger right now" he dropped his head "and I promised to keep him safe" he mumbled, the heroes looked at him with sympathy
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Went the boat again,
"HELLLOOOO Batman!" Came the Riddler's voice like a game show host, his wickedly gleeful voice over what sounded like a megaphone. "As you can tell I set that little trap up for you! Too bad you lived…hmmm." Silence as the heroes followed the voice frantically to the docks
"Well the emotional breakdown at the end was worth IT!" The heroes stopped on the edge of the docks a boat was pulling away. "I STILL HAVE ROBIN! HAHAHAHAHAHEHO! And there's NOTHING you can do to stop meeeeeeeee!" the boat disappeared in the afternoon mist.
Aqualad and Aquaman posed to dive into the water after the boat,
"STOP!" Batman bellowed, the two atlantians ignored him "STOP, DAMN IT STOP!" They paused by now the boat was gone.
"What the hell? We could have stopped him!" Aqualad fumed "I thought you wanted to get Robin back! Or was that just a ruse to make us think you actually cared!"
Silence followed. And followed and followed.
Batman finally reached down and picked up a batarang and posed to throw it at the young atlantian, its deadly sharp edges gleamed in the sun. The heroes gasped and Aquaman jumped in front of his protégée,
But by then the weapon had already left the enraged man's hand and was speeding dangerously towards the teen and his mentor.
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