A/N) Ok here's yet another chapter. I hope you guys find it intense and not choppy. Cuz that's what I was going for.

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"This way, come quickly." Talia walked with graceful speed, leading her fathers project down the hall. His advances had been uncannily fast.

His mind seemed to trouble him less now. Perhaps he realized that trying to think hurt, trying to remember things hurt, so he simply stopped. The discovery of the use of his body seemed to be what he focused on now.

"What exactly do you want me to do now?" He asked, flatly. He seemed to be trying to bit down emotions too. Perfect assassin material, she thought with a slight pleasure. Perhaps she could keep him after all. Batman would never know, and the boy would never have any desire to know.

Perhaps she didn't need to go on with her plan to-

The base broke out in a violent screech.

The boy stiffened and instantly held a defensive position, "What-"

Talia watched unamused as her warriors came pouring in and past her.

"Come." She commanded to her fathers project, "We have a change in plans."

Someone was trying to hack into their base. They would soon regret that decision.

It was strangely easy.

Nightwing knew he should be on double guard, but getting in and finishing this mess was blinding him. He wanted to find out what Al Ghul was up to. He hadn't told Babs and Tim everything. He knew that sort of thing would backfire, but it was too important and unstable a fact to just spout out.

Slowly he crept into the lab after successfully hacking through and shutting down the camera system.

"Ok, Ghul, let's see what you're up to this time." Quickly he found a computer console, his fingers flashed over it, firewalls jumping up every few minutes trying to stop him from finding what he was looking for.

"Yes." With a slight smirk he slipped in his flash drive, downloaded the info and slipped it into his belt. He'd look at it when they got back. Hopefully Batgirl and Robin didn't run into any trouble.

His thoughts scattered as sirens began deafening the base.

His heart flipped. Intruder alert.

"Shit."

Robin and Batgirl stayed silent as the made their way through the darkened hallways. It was silent. Suspiciously silent, Batgirl thought worriedly. Nobody in sight not even a scientist or something.

The continued to crawl through the shadows, coming to a fork in the hall way.

They looked at each other silently. They both split in opposite directions.

Batgirl narrowed her eyes to get used to the dark. Miss calculating her steps she tripped through a door. She gasped and lifted herself up, accidentally pulling at a switch on the wall. The room flashed, lights came on one by one, shining on several strange tubes lining the walls. Batgirl walked forward gingerly.

What she saw almost made her throw up right then and there.

She gasped, clasping her hand over her mouth and stomach.

"Oh my God." She choked out, "Their experimenting- on dead bodies."

The rotting corpses grinned back at her through the red liquid they were floating in.

"My god." She swallowed hard, "Al Ghuls lost his marbles."

She gasped and jumped back as the entire room suddenly lit up.

"Oh no!"

"Intruder Alert, check the labs!"

Batgirl suddenly had a very high sense of what a trapped mouse must feel like.

Ok, just get in, get info, and get out. Tim repeated in his head. Just get in, get info, and get out. He took a deep breath, easier said than done. He shifted down the hallway, ignoring the creeping sense of dread that crawled up his spine.

The base suddenly blared to life. Robin gasped and pulled out his staff instantly. Loud footsteps were heard, he turned, sweat dripped down his brow, whatever was coming, he'd be prepared for it.

The footsteps came faster, harder, more, they seemed to multiply. Oh god, how many were there, Nightwing would kill him for going alone, that is, if he survived this.

The first body collided with him, in panic he swung his staff, it hit a hard, unmoving body.

"Gannark! Get him!"

Robin gasped as he was suddenly pulled, clear off the ground, by two huge hands, dangling like a piece of meat in the air.

"Wait! Stop!" A familiar voice yelled out.

Robin swallowed and hung his head upside-down, "Zatanna?!" He gasped out, "What-what are you doing here?"

"No time Boy Wonder, we gotta get everyone out of here before that witch finds out." She motioned to all the rest that Robin hadn't noticed.

'Whoa."

"Yah, let's go!"

The big man put the small boy down, Zatanna grabbed him and they all resumed their running.

"Zatanna? Why-how-" He tried to ask but too many questions swarmed he couldn't get either out.

"Keep moving!" She yelled pulling on.

Robin decided that was the best decision, if they survived, he'd ask all the questions later.

Hopefully.

Nightwing ran, slid around the corner. Footsteps.

He stopped, crouched down and waited. Five suited ninja ran past, towards where he'd just left. Good, now all he had to do was find Robin and Batgirl and get the hell out of here.

He rounded the corner and hoped, for the first time in a long while, for the best.

"The pods are secure." Dr. Benet informed the men with him, "Come, Talia, I mean, mistress, has given us only five minutes." The short man turned heel and almost ran out of the appalling room.

Up above Batgirl let out a sigh of relief and climbed down from behind the horrible tubes.

"I've got to get out of here." She took a deep breath, willing the horrible images to clear from her head. Got to focus. She turned a corner, gasped, ran into another body, screamed and kicked out, knocking the opposite body across the hall.

"Di-Nightwing!" She gasped, noticing she'd just floored her would be partner, she quickly ran and helped him up, "Come on! We have to get out of here. They - you don't know what their doing I saw-" Someone else ran through and literally tripped over them both. Barbara swore they were going to die.

Talia climbed up to the steps. The intruders were Batman's brats. She knew this. But that wasn't important now. All that mattered was she get her father and the most important warriors and get out of here. She'd instructed the boy to go into the escape jets with the other ninja while she obtained her Father. Then, this place would be dissolved from the earth, once and for all.

Nightwing, Batgirl, and the new body all stood up, forgetting their dire situation.

Batgirl opened her eyes, the other body did the same.

She gasped out, fell into a fighting stance instantly. He was dressed like the ninja here, without a mask.

Nightwing did the same. Neither moved. The ninja, boy? he couldn't have been older than them, looked at them, tensed, then threw a sudden punch in Dicks face. This distracted The red head enough to not catch the sharp kick in her side.

The boy stood over them, Nightwing threw himself forward, hands grasping the boys. They pushed against each other.

"Self destruct, initiated in four minutes." A robotic voice blared over the wall speakers.

"Nightwing!" Batgirl yelled, trying to stop him and get out.

Suddenly the boy stopped. His arms went slack.

"N-Nightwing?" He stuttered out feebly, his green eyes widened, then instantly he began screaming, grabbing his head, he crumpled in what seemed like sheer pain. His body curled in on itself as he shrieked out like someone had stuffed him in a fiery pit.

"Nightwing?" Batgirl felt her breath fly out, whether it was from fear or the boys screams she didn't know.

Nightwing swallowed hard, seemingly immobilized by the boys horrible pain for a second.

"Two minutes."

"DICK!"

He snapped out of it. Turning, grabbing Batgirls hand, they both ran for the exit before they were the ones in the fiery pit.

"Robin!" Hawkgirl called out loudly.

"They didn't get out!" The Boy Wonder looked back at the evacuated building terrified. Batgirl and Nightwing hadn't come out. He had gotten everyone, including an odd girl that seemed extremely lost and torn between staying inside and leaving, out. But his friends, his family. They hadn't-

"I have to go get them!" He yelled, throwing himself into a run. Gannark grabbed his small body and held him struggling in place.

"No, um, Robin," A small girl with pink hair soothed him, "You can't it'll-" The building imploded with an earth shattering noise. Robin gasped out and felt his heart drop out of his chest.

"No. . . " He whispered numbly, the flames reflected in his mask covered eyes., "They-"

"Robin!"

The boy wonder gasped and turned around only to be enveloped in a warm and tight embrace of Batgirl, ""Thank god your ok." She hugged him closer.

Tim refused to cry, but he hugged her back just as hard, "W-what happened?" He stuttered out.

"No time Robin. " Nightwing bit out emotionless, "Come on lets get you, all of you . . " his masked eyes roved over the bunch of new faces and two familiar ones, "of this hell. Now."

Nobody waited to be told twice as they all followed Nightwing to the Bat Jet, in hopes, for most of them, that they could forget the horrors of what they'd left behind.

"Here he is." Her ninja stated, dragging a half conscious boy into their new room, "We just barley salvaged him before the place imploded. I hope, no disrespect mistress, but I hope he was worth the trouble." Her ninja sneered in disgust.

Talia flipped her thick hair over her shoulder and deftly shoved the men out of her room before turning towards the boys slumped form.

He was whimpering in pain and misery.

She reached out and ran her fingers through his dark, slightly discolored hair, "Shshsh, it's all right precious." She soothed, "Your all right now-'

His hand snapped up and grasped her by the wrist with uncompressed strength. She frowned at this affront. Believing she should strike him down into obedience if he carried on. That is, until his green eyes flashing fire, burned into her cold ones. He pushed her down, standing up smoothly, breath sharp and aching, an emotionless face staring down at her.

If she didn't feel his hostile intentions she would have been proud of him.

Her plan of self salvation shattered as he uttered the worst words he could.

"Tell me the truth. Tell me! Who the hell am I?"