A/N: Once again, I am extremely sorry that it took me so long to update… I've just been busy lately, and life in general hasn't exactly been nice either. So, please read, review, and enjoy!
Oh, and one last thing! I am going to do a sequel… But, I need to know if I should skip five years ahead or just five month's? You can decide by voting on my new poll!
(Mount Justice)
"Black Canary – B-1-3…" The caves computer announced, as the female heroin made her way from the Zeta-tubes and into the living room area.
"Hello is anyone here?" Canary called, as she slowly glanced around the room looking for one of the team member's; however, the only thing she spotted was Wolf hooked onto a strong leather leash that was tied to one of the large metal support beams.
Instantly Dinah was by Wolf's side, unhooking him from his restraints and pulling off the oversized collar. While on missions, Conner would temporarily place the big dog on a leash and collar; hence preventing Wolf from getting into any mischief.
"Hey boy," Dinah said softly. "Where is everyone?"
As soon as Wolf knew he was free from the leash, he instantly headed toward Red Tornado who was still off line.
Canary curiously followed Wolf into the kitchen where Red Tornado stood utterly still. Dinah quickly sprinted up beside Red Tornado and started to examine the android; nevertheless, she didn't see anything wrong with his computerized systems. Finally Dinah realized that the kid's must have shut the android off; therefore, making it easier for the team to sneak out of the cave.
"They didn't?!" Dinah said in utter disbelief, as she hastily pulled two fingers up to her Comm-link. "Canary to Batman…"
"This is Batman, what is it?" The Dark Knight questioned, already knowing something was wrong from the blonde's anxious tone.
"The teams not at the cave… I think they might have gone to look for Robin," Canary explained.
Bruce smashed his fist in frustration "I'll get Martian Man Hunter to try and contact them, meanwhile I want you to head down to the warehouse and see if they're there… I'll send a team to meet; " Batman directed, while waiting for her reply.
"Understood," Canary said, as she headed for the Zeta tubes.
"Good, Batman out." Batman said as he went back to staring at the computer screen that was replaying one of Joker's latest video when something caught his eye.
Way in the back corner of the room, there was red letter's that looked like they were written in blood.
Without further ado, Batman quickly zoomed in and immediately got the computer to clear the image up. "Abandoned oil f" The sentence wasn't finished, but it didn't take a rocket scientist to make out the last word.
"Abandoned oil factory." Batman whispered to himself as he quickly typed in "Gotham's abandoned oil factories" and instantly the screen appeared with oil factories that had been abandoned or shut down. Batman slowly scanned through the list of factories when one of them caught his eye.
There was an abandoned factory in the middle of an old forest at the end of Gotham.
"What better place to hide, then somewhere where no one will ever think to look?" Batman thought to himself.
Quickly Batman made his way out of the room and down to the bat-mobile.
Joker was going to pay for what he did to Robin, and Bruce was going to make sure that this punishment was one that Joker would never forget.
(Bio Ship)
"How much longer Miss Martian?" Aqualad asked.
"Only five or ten minutes." Megan stated, as she continued to navigate the Bio-ship through the cloudless skies.
"Incoming call from the league," Conner announced.
"Don't answer it. It's probably Batman or Martian Man Hunter, and if they figure out what we're doing they'll kill us." Wally said frantically, as he shot up from his seat.
"What's the point they probably already know where we're headed?" Rocket pointed out.
"Because then they'll force us to go back to the cave," Conner simply explained.
"Wait, so does that mean that the league's in control of everything? Like, they have specific time that we should all be in bed?" Rocket said with a tint of sarcasm in her voice; however, no one found any humor in her comment.
"Alright, I've blocked the league from trying to contact us." Miss Martian informed her team mate's, while trying to switch the subject in the process.
"Good," Wally said with a sigh, as he slowly turned his head to see Robin's empty seat.
Wally took a deep breath as tear's threatened to fall for what seemed like the millionth time today, but he refused to let them fall this time; he had to be strong for his team mates and he had to be strong for Robin.
Artemis noticed the distress in the speedster's eye's and wanted to go and comfort him, but she knew it would do no good… Wally had been beating himself up over Robin's abduction ever since he was taken, even though they all had told him numerous times that it wasn't his fault; he just didn't seem to believe them.
Artemis slowly reached forward's and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder anyway. "You okay?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine; just thinking." Wally declared, trying not to sound upset.
"Wally, it's okay to be upset," Artemis softly told the speedster hoping to bring him some sort of comfort.
"I'm not upset!" Wally snapped, causing Artemis to jump from his sudden outburst.
"Okay, if you say so…" Artemis replied while holding her hand's up defensively, as she slowly sat back in her seat.
She was worried for Wally; she feared that he wasn't going to be the same after all of this was over, but the thing she feared the most was what would happen if Robin didn't make it. What if they didn't save him in time and he died? What would happen to the team; more importantly what would happen to Wally?
(Joker's hideout)
The warehouse was dead silent; Joker had headed out about an hour ago to leave one more clue for Batman… Since in the Joker's mind he thought that it was only fair to give Batman one last clue that would lead him directly to Robin before he finished the kid off, but little did the mad-man know Batman already knew where they were.
David slowly walked over to Robin's trembling form, and laid a hand on his shoulder and instantly Robin's head shot up.
There was so much hurt in the young boy's eyes; he looked deathly pale and he had cuts and bruises up and down both arm's and legs… Not to mention the bruises that ran across his partially bare abdomen, including the stab wound and the large knife mark that trailed down his face; he just looked dead.
"Calm down kid," David whispered to the young boy.
"J-just get away from me." Robin stuttered, trying not to show fear but he failed miserably when another bout of warm tears swam down his pale cheeks.
David quickly turned around to see Joker's other goon standing up and slowly approaching them.
"Hey get rid of that filthy thing, it's stinking up the place." David said gesturing to the barrel that was still filed with the dirty water.
"Why me?" The goon questioned.
"Because I told you so," David affirmed in a 'don't mess with me' sort of tone.
"Fine!" The goon finally obeyed, as he grabbed a hold of the barrel and began to haul it out the backdoor mumbling unspeakable things about David in the process.
As soon as David saw that the other goon was gone, he slowly turned back around to face Robin.
"Listen, I'm going to find some way to get you out of here okay? But I need you to calm down for me." David informed the scared teen, but Robin didn't reply. "Kid pay attention, I'm sorry about what ha…" David didn't get a chance to finish before he was cut off by Robin.
"Just leave me alone!" Robin begged, as tears continued to spill down his grimy blood covered cheeks.
David gave Robin a sad look, for he knew that the kid was scared and he understood why.
He was about to argue once more with the boy, to at least let him look over his wound's while he had the opportunity, but he never got the chance because Joker had come barging through the door with a happy/evil smile plastered on his painted face.
"Turn on the TV and let's watch the show!" Joker said as he ran up to a TV that they had stolen and turned it on… Instantly an image of the old warehouse where Robin had been abducted from appeared on the screen.
"May I ask why we're watching this?" David questioned.
"Quiet, you'll mess it up!" Joker snapped, as he looked back at the TV. "You might not want to miss this kid, because this is going to be a bang."
(The Bio Ship)
Miss Martian stood from her seat and announced that they had arrived at their destination, and instantaneously everyone was on their feet and ready for action.
"Alright, Zatanna and Rocket you two will go around back while Kid Flash Artemis go around front… Superboy and Miss Martian, I want you two to stay in the Bio ship incase anything goes wrong." Aqualad instructed, as everyone nodded their agreement.
"Alright, then let's move out." Wally said as he walked towards the large hole that Miss Martian had opened in the belly of the ship and grabbed a hold of the one of the dangling cables, thus sliding down to the solid grown below.
Finally, everyone was in position and ready to enter the warehouse.
"Alright, is everyone on line?" Miss Martian questioned through mind link.
Soon enough everyone replied, and then they slowly but surely entered the empty warehouse.
Wally was the first to enter the building, as he slowly looked around memories from the night of their youngest team member's abduction hit him like a ton of bricks.
Immediately Wally started to feel panicked, as waves of nausea washed over him. He still blamed himself for what had happened that night, and he just couldn't seem to shake off that awful feeling of failure.
Wally was instantly pulled from his thoughts when he felt Artemis's soft hand placed on his shoulder once again.
"You okay?" Artemis asked.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Wally replied.
"Alright everyone, let's have a look around then." Aqualad ordered.
Gradually, and cautiously the team scanned the warehouse; however, they weren't having any luck.
Artemis slowly walked over to a closed closet (which appeared to have once been a janitors storage room) Artemis gently twisted the doors rusted mental knob and yanked the door open to see three bomb's ready to go off in twenty-five seconds.
"Guy's, we need to get out of here right now!" The Archer said urgently. "There are three bomb's ready to go off at any second!" Artemis explained, as she quickly back away from the closet and made her way over to Zatanna.
Everyone then quickly gathered and headed towards the main doors with Wally in the front.
Ten
Wally quickly ran up to the door and turned the door handles, but they wouldn't budge.
Eight
"We're locked in." Wally said frantically.
Seven
"Can we disarm the bomb?" Aqualad questioned.
"No, if we do that this whole place might blow!" Artemis explained, as she started to panic.
Five, Four, Three, Two, One…
Suddenly the warehouse blew and burst into flames.
TBC…
A/N Okay, first off… We're just going to pretend that the last two months never happened! *Nervous chuckle* Okay, so maybe they did… Yeah, but I'm really sorry that is took me this long to update.
Anyways, I am also sorry that this chapter is only a *barf comes up throat* filler chapter. I will try to have the next chapter up ASAP.
Special dedication to my 100th reviewer: .Nightingale
Shout out's to: All of my amazing reader's and reviewer's, you guy's rock!
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