I flapped my wings and flew through the air after him enjoying the view of the beautiful city. I looked around and stalled when I saw some window washers on a lift near the top of a skyscraper. I hovered as they cut the glass and the bigger one stuck some kind of contraption through the small hole and pulled out a glowing purple, pink, and gold egg. I narrowed my eyes and followed them to the roof top. They looked around and ran towards the neighboring building. I landed and watched as they took off their uniforms revealing casual clothes.

"A piece of cake just like the boss said. It only took five minutes."

I grinned as the red head finished and Batman arrived. "And that could land you five years. Respectively."

He was about to tackle them when a South American vulture attacked him from behind. I spread my wings and flew over to him as the two men fled. The bird came again and I batted it away and watched it fly off. I looked at Batman as he caught his breath.

"You okay?"

He nodded and something caught my eye. "What's that?"

He looked at where I had gestured as I went back to human as he scooped up what was on the roof and studied it closely. "Bird seed?"

He looked back as I looked over the edge of the roof and watched as the vulture left. "Track by air and you follow with the Batmobile?"

He narrowed his eyes at me, "Who's in charge here?"

I giggled, "You."

He nodded as I jumped off the roof. I morphed and opened my wings a split second before I hit the ground. I soared after the vulture and soon saw the Batmobile zoom under me and follow me through the streets of Gotham.

I followed the buzzard into an old factory for bird seed and landed inside on the rafters. The two men I had seen earlier were here. The black haired heavier set man was calmly sitting on the pile of bird seed bag. The red haired man seemed nervous and was pacing.

"Look, the boss told us to meet him here. We meet him here."

I heard a noise the same time they did and looked over my shoulder to see two kids a little younger than me on a railing. The men didn't see them thankfully, and both stood up as the well stairs opened. I growled in my throat when I saw Penguin step out. He looked up at the rafters to my right and squawked. The vulture flew down to him.

"Ahh, Scrap. My loyal pet. Treat?" He brought a piece of meat out of his waist coat and gave it to the bird who flew back up to the rafters.

He turned around as the red haired man shivered. "That bird gives me the willies."

Penguin pointed his umbrella at him. "If it weren't for Scrap you two would be fettering your nests in Gotham state penitentiary. Now where is it!?"

The red haired man quivered before opening the side pouch around his waist and brought out the egg from before. Penguin greedily took it. "Ahh how more does beauty doth defy."

I was about to go and smack that little grin right off his face when Batman swooped in and snatched the pretty little thing right out of his hand. The vulture was about to go after him when I revealed myself and flew after him. I knocked him out of the air with my large beak and hovered as he crashed in front of Penguin. He gawked at me as Batman took care of the goons. We both looked back up at the conveyor belt where the two kids where when we heard it turn on.

"Go get 'em. I'll keep watch on the befuddled pheasants."

He climbed up and saved them before ushering them to the door. "Get out of here Now!" He kicked open the door and the boy turned to him.

"Yes sir."

They both ran off as Batman came back over to me. I flew up into the air as Penguin pointed his umbrella at Batman. "You should have taken your own advice Batman."

A small capsule shot from the tip and exploded when it hit his chest. A toxic gas formed around him as he started to cough. I flew closer to him and flapped my wings driving away the rest of the gas before morphing down to human self and helping him out to the Batmobile. I opened the top and halfway hauled him in when something hit me on the back of the head and I blacked out.

Sherman and Rebertta watched as the girl tried to help Batman into the car when the Penguins umbrella flew out of the building and hit her in the back of the head. She collapsed over Batman, somewhat protecting him. "Come on Rebertta! We gotta help them!"

"I don't know about this."

She followed him anyways and helped him push Batman and the girl in the passenger seat. He sat in the seat while she was on his lap and leaning against his chest. Sherman got in the driver's seat and started pushing random buttons as Penguin and his goons ran out of the factory. "It's those delinquents! Stop them!"

He finally pressed the right button and the top closed.

He started the car but his shorter legs couldn't reach the pedals. He came up with a plan as the bad guys got on the roof of the car. "Climb down there Rebertta and push the long pedal down."

She lightly pushed it and the car took off at frightening speed. He managed to steer it and knock off everyone except the Penguin. He drove up against the side of a building and dragged against it until he jumped off and floated to the ground with his umbrella. "Be found by a couple of fledglings."

Sherman drove all the way to his house and had Rebertta help him cover the Batmobile with cardboard boxes.

He managed to get the girl and Batman out of the car and into the basement. He laid Batman down on the couch and had Rebertta set the girl on the sofa. She soon stirred as Batman slowly woke up.

I slowly opened my eyes as Batman muttered something.

"Ogh, my achin head." I groaned as I sat up. I looked around as I rubbed my head. The two kids who were about two years younger than me came away from Batman and over to where I was seated.

"Who are you?"

"Well I find myself asking you the same question, who are you two?"

"My name's Sherman and this is my friend Rebertta. We rescued you and Batman and now we're laying low in my basement."

My eyes widened as my memory returned. "Where's Batman?"

He pointed at the couch and I somewhat relaxed until the basement doors opened.

"Sherman, what are you doing down there?"

"Nothing mom."

"You're not trying to make gunpowder again are you?"

The three of us ran to the bottom of the steps. "No mom, honest."

"Us and our new friend just saved Batman's life and now we're hiding from the Penguin." Reberta cut in.

"That's very nice. Just don't make a mess."

The door shut and me and Sherman both stared at her. "Nice going bigmouth."

She shrugged. "Sorry Sherman, I guess I panicked."

His mom stopped outside of the basement window, "Sherman, I'm going to the store. Stay out of trouble."

"Yes mom."

She walked off as I examined myself. I was wearing short neon green shorts, white VAN's with white socks, and a grey T-shirt that said 'don't mess with me' in black across the front with a T-rex behind it. Sherman looked out the small window as there was a loud noise. "Oh no."

I ran after him as he went up the staircase and followed him out his front door and into the alley way where two other teenagers, more my age, were standing.

"You guys better leave that alone." He warned.

I noticed the boxes had somehow been knocked off of the Batmobile and I glared at the teens.

"Oh we're really scared now aren't we Frank." The black haired teen said to the red haired teen.

He shoved Sherman back towards me and I caught him before going up to the teen who had pushed Sherman and grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt and brought him up to eye level. "Back off."

I shoved him back towards his pal. He caught him and they climbed into the Batmobile. "Whose ride is this?"

"My Mom, erm, uncles..." The two boys glanced at each other skeptically and then back at Sherman and me. "Okay, it's the Batmobile."

"Psh, yeah right."

I glared at them and Frank slightly shrunk. "Hey Billy, I don't think that they're kidding." Billy shrugged and looked up at the visor.

"Hey what's this?"

He opened it and a removable panel with Anti-venom capsules in it slipped out into his lap.

Sherman muttered to himself and snapped his fingers, "Capsules in the visor! That's what he meant."

He reached in the Batmobile and snatched them from Billy's hand. "Gimme those! It's a matter of life or death." He ran around the Batmobile as the vulture appeared again and swooped in to attack him. I jumped in front of him and grabbed his beak.

"Run Sherman!" I shouted as his talons scored across my cheek and down my arms. He took off running and Frank and Billy soon went after him.

I struggled against the bird and finally positioned myself and kicked it in the gut before running back to Sherman's house. I stumbled through the front door and locked it and the back door before I went down to the basement. I saw them just as they dropped the capsule in Batman's mouth.

"You guys okay?" They turned around and gasped at me. I waved off their concern, "Don't worry about it. It's just a few scratches. Now I'm hoping that you have a plan since you have my boss's belt in your hand." I said while motioning to Batman's utility belt.

He nodded, "It's either them or us. Billy and Frank will stay behind and try to wake up Batman while the rest of us go up and try to sabotage Penguin and his fine feathered finks."

I smiled at his choice of words. "Lets go."

We finished setting the trip wire and all the other booby-traps as I heard them come up to the back door.

"They're here. Come on, let's get upstairs."

They followed me upstairs and we waited as Penguin started to wreck the house with the help of his goons. The black haired creep opened the laundry door and tripped over the trip wire we had just set. He stumbled back into the living room completely wrapped up like a mummy with the rope. I pulled the two kids behind me as the red haired dude started coming up the stairs. We snickered as he stepped on the little spark bombs we had set. He fell back down the stairs and me and Sherman peeked around the wall.

Everything was in chaos so we decided that just for fun we were going to make it worse. I pulled out the two gas bombs and nodded at Sherman. He threw his down the stairs and mine soon followed. The two egg-like projectiles hopped down the stairs before exploding on the ground. That sent the three intruders into a coughing frenzy as we grabbed the galangals.

"Charge!"

I ran down the stairs as Sherman threw his at Penguin, mine soon followed. As the gas cleared he and Rebertta hi-fived while I glared at Penguin. I noticed he still had the umbrella in his hand.

"Run for it!"

They stared at me confused as Penguin chuckled, "Defending your nest, how noble," He said as he sliced through the rope with ease, "how futile." They gasped as I growled. "Get them boys!" We ran back down the hallway and into the basement. I locked the door behind us and we ran down the stairs.

We went over to the couch and I glanced at Frank and Billy, "Anything?"

They shook their heads. "Billy thought he saw him blink."

I was about to say something when the door was kicked in and the three were making their way down the stairs. We were forced against the wall away from Batman as Penguin went over to the egg. "Ahh, I'll take my egg." He paused and pointed his umbrella upwards and the tip turned into a spinning three blade. "And I'll have sliced ham, or in this particular case, sliced bat with it." He brought the blade closer and closer to Batman's neck when I saw his eyes blink and he focused in on Penguin. He grabbed the umbrella and wrenched it out of Penguins grasp and tossed it to the ground before he towered over the short man.

We all cheered as the two goons went over to him. "Your timing is impeccable boys. Take no prisoners!" They charged at him while we watched from the sidelines as both men were thrown aside or against the wall. Penguin stood up against him and pulled the outer covering off of his umbrella revealing a hidden sword. He started swiping and stabbing at Batman who was dodging until he backed up against a desk. He slowly felt around behind him as Penguin poised to make the finale strike. I growled and looked at the group in front of me.

"Step aside." They stared at me as they did and Batman grabbed a screw driver and parried Penguins strike and nearly forced it out of his grasp but Penguin fought dirty and knocked him off balance before knocking him across the room and into a wooden chair.

He fell to the floor unconscious as I began to morph into a Raptor again. "A bit dazed are we Batman?

" He was about to make the finale strike when I growled from behind him. "You would be wise to drop that you fat freeloading buzzard."

He whirled around and pointed his sword. "Which one of you delinquents called me that?" He slightly looked up when he saw me there. He went pale as I growled at him. I bared my teeth and shrieked at him before knocking him away with my tail and he landed against the wall. I turned around to the others and looked them up and down.

"You four okay?" They nodded still to shocked to say anything and I went over to Batman. I began to lightly nudge him with my snout trying to gently wake him up when there was a shout from the other side of the room.

"Look out!"

I turned around and received the warning to late as Penguin drove the sword deep into my side. I shrieked in pain and collapsed to the ground. I slowly and agonizingly morphed back to my human form. I held my gushing side as Batman finally woke up. He stood up and there was something in his eyes along with anger when he glanced at me. He went over to Penguin and knocked the blade out of his hand before kicking him across the room and into the wall where the shelving cracked and everything fell onto of him.

I lay there trying to keep as still as possible to lessen my pain as Frank cheered.

"We're safe!"

"SHERMAN!"

I let a small smile grace my face as Sherman answered him. "You might be, but I'm not."

The basement doors opened as Batman scooped me into his arms. Mrs. Grant came down the stairs with a large frown on her face. "Young man, you have allot of explaining to do."

She gasped when she saw the goons, Penguin, and then Batman holding me.

"Mom, I'd like you to meet Batman."

"Hel-hello." She breathed.

"Ma'am."

Sherman quirked an eyebrow, "Say Batman, you wouldn't happen to be single?"

I laughed even in my pained position as Batman looked slightly unnerved. "Oh gosh."

I heard some of the other kids snicker as Mrs. Grant smacked Sherman on the back of the head. Batman carried me out to the Batmobile as the authorities arrived. Commissioner Gordon stepped out of the squad car and came over to Batman. "So Penguin got beat by a couple of kids?" Batman nodded and he smiled. "That's gonna look real nice in the newspaper."

He caught sight of me in the passenger seat with my bloody side. I held my hand over it and waved with the other. "Who's she?"

Batman sighed and I smiled, "Nobody. Just thought that I'd help him out with this one." I said for him and winced from a spasm as I finished.

Gordon was about to turn and say something to Batman when he heard a door shut and turned around to find Batman gone and the Batmobile starting up. He sighed and shook his head as he walked back over to the squadron where Penguin was currently being hauled into the back of a cop car.

I silently sat in the passenger seat of the Batmobile as we drove back to the Batcave. Something sprayed in my face again and I blacked out.