CHAPTER 5-JOKER JOKES AGAIN

"Baby brother?!" Dick exclaimed. "How could you? Not even married! Don't you know that's a sin!" Robert looked at him confused.

"Oh! You think she's pregnant! Oh, no, no, no, no, no!" Dick looked at him distressed.

"You mean she's not?"

"Well of course not! That would just be wrong!"

"Then how am I getting a baby bro?"

"Well how else can you? By adopting of course!"

"Adopting? But you've adopted me already." Alicia walked up,

"Yes but we feel that-"

"I don't care how you feel!" Robert looked down at him disappointed.

"Now let her finish." He says.

"Anyways, We feel that you need another person in your life. Like a sibling."

"But, I've always been an only child." Dick didn't get what she was saying.

"Well not by the looks of Robin and Batgirl." Dick stared back at her. What did she just say?

"W-what about Batgirl and Robin?"

"Well you are Robin!" Dick gasped. How in the world did she know that!

"Oh come now Dick, you don't think we wouldn't find out sooner or later with all that Batman things lying around do you?" Robert said. What Batman things? He never left anything like that lying around. Robert giggled and smiled.

"Why are you laughing!?" Dick said. "There's nothing to laugh about!" Robert stopped laughing, but then he started again. Giggling, he couldn't hold it in. Then he got the thought. Alicia, she was giggling too. "No. Robert, you've been poisoned with the laugh gas. That means, I'll get it soon too if I don't take action." He looked at the two. "I'm sorry I failed you." Alicia and Robert looked at each other and started cracking up with laughter. It wouldn't stop. Dick just looked hopeless. The last people left to care about him were poisoned.

"You really think we've been poisoned! By the Jokers laugh gas!" They started to laugh more, and more, till it filled the whole apartment building. Dick looked up. He didn't know what was going on. Then he remembered. Robert had laughed when he first met him. He had laughed when they were in the car. Now he laughed again. Hysterically laughing. That voice, Alicia's country accent, and her attitude toward Bruce. Roberts laughter, and his attitude toward Bruce. They were two of the same. Two alike. Both didn't like Bruce, both laughed at silly things, something people wouldn't laugh at. Now Dick knew. Joker and Harley hadn't poisoned them. They were Joker and Harley.

"You monsters! How did you figure out that I was Robin and Bats was-"

"Bruce?" Jokers face was revealed from the makeup, and Harleys too. "Simple, after you all saved us from Rumor, we decided to follow you little critters home. When we saw you go into the cave, we knew we couldn't hack the security system, we're not stupid. Anyways, we went walking over the hill. And surprise, surprise, Wayne mansion was almost right above the cave. Really need to come up with better security next time."

"Of course, if there is a next time!" Harley says and plunges toward Dick. He takes his pole from a bag he was carrying and sticks it into the wall. He jumps up and lands on top of his pole as Harley plunges into the wall beneath him.

"So how did you all come up with the idea about adopting me. The real Social Services would never let you near my profiles. How did you know about Bruce not really adopting me?" Joker smirked.

"We made it up." He slung dick across the room into the couch.

"Just wait until I get a hold of Bruce about this!"

"Yes, go ahead, call him. It'll just make our plan more maniacal."

"What plan?"

"Harley, you mind informing our guest?" He snapped his fingers.

"Not a problem, you see, if you don't become our little boy and be a little joker jr. Then we'll blow this town to smithereens!"

"There's no way you can!"

"Oh really. Why did you think I was gone for the longest time? Vacation? I was putting time bombs every where which will start in about a minute if you don't agree."

"Batman will find them!"

"Oh on the contraire! You see, these bombs are so tiny, not even an ant could see 'em."

"Then how can you?" Harley looked at him.

"Ok, they're a little big! But they're still smaller then the usual! So either you agree or the city pays, Robin." Dick looked up in the sky. Through the window. He wouldn't ever be able to see Bruce again if he said no. But then, he won't be able to anyways. If he did say no. Then the ones he cares about most would be dead. They all would be dead.

"Fine, I'll do it." Harley smiled and laughed. She had Robin wrapped around her finger.

*************************************************************ok, I know. This chapter was a little bit shorter than the others. I'll admit it. But for all you robin lovers out there, I want you to check out my new story in the Teen Titans column. It's called Friends Don't Know Everything. Well if this chapter is a little cruddy then you'll know why. It's late, 9:55, I was on writers block for the longest time so I flopped it all up. Oh well, please review on all chapters you've read!