A/N: hehehe... hi? yes i know it has been for ever, but i have had such bad writers block! luckily for ,for you and me, i finally got an idea! once i had an idea the chapter practicably wrote itself! so here you go! thank you guys so much for sticking with me!

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chapter 23

Mark's P.O.V.

I get out of my car and run up to the front door. I need to make sure Amber is alright! When I make it to the door I inhale sharply. The door is open. I burst inside.

"Amber!" I yell as I run through the house. Everything looks normal until I get to the bedroom, where the door is open and the room looks fine - except for the broken window.

"Amber!" I shout again, but there is no answer.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Grayson." Adam's voice fills the room. I spin around, looking for the source of the horrible voice, but there isn't a person in sight.

"I thought you would like to know what has happened to your beautiful wife."

The way Adam says the word 'beautiful' makes me even angrier.

"If you touched my wife I will kill you!" I scream.

"Oh, don't worry. I haven't done anything to her… yet."

The joy in his voice makes me feel like I am going to be sick. I open the closet door, almost ripping it off its hinges.

"Where are you?!"

"Now that, Marky, is for me to know and you to rack your brain over." The psychotic laugh that follows his words echoes through the room.

"Where is my wife?!" I ask the voice that seems to be coming from everywhere now.

"Oh! That's right! I forgot to tell you!"

By now I am pulling drawers out of the dressers trying to find the speaker that is projecting Adam's voice.

"Well, you may know by now that you have a very talented little brother. You know he is very good at what he does, crime fighting and all." When I hear this I freeze. They know that Dick is Robin?

"And in order to get Batman to do what we want we need his little bird."

No no no!

"And in order to get the little bat brat to fork over the info we want, we need leverage."

"No!" I shout in the direction that I think the voice is coming from.

"Oh yes! So I am sorry to inform you that you won't be seeing either of them again!"

This can't be happening!

"Oh no wait… I'm not sorry!"

"When I get through with you you will wish you were never born!" I yell, rage completely taking me over.

"Thank you very much for your cooperation. I will try to stay in touch! Talk to you later, Marky!"

And just like that he was gone.

"No!"

What am i going to do?

Mount Justice:

"Ah! take that, Kal!" Wally's voice rang through the cave. The two boys were playing a video game and Wally was beating Kaldur badly.

"Yeah, yeah, you show off." Artemis said from her spot on the floor where she was reading a book.

"Oh, so you think you can do better?" Wally challenged.

"You think I can't?" Artemis asked sharply, closing her book and standing up. That's when Kaldur knew it was getting serious. He set down the game controller and retreated to a safe distance. By now he'd given up on trying to make the two get along together and knew to just let them fight it out.

"Well, you were the one who said it, not me." Wally had a cheeky smile on and Artemis was determined to wipe it off his face.

"Oh give me that remote! You are going down!"Artemis sat down on the couch next to wally and picked up the game controller.

"Alright, but I'm warning you." Wally told her as he started the game.

"Five bucks says Artemis crushes him." Zatanna said to Conner from their spot at the breakfast bar.

"Yeah right. Have you seen Wally? Artemis doesn't stand a chance!" Conner said.

Soon the loud sound of gunshots and shouting came from the TV as the game began to get intense. Then the trash talk started. To be honest, the rest of the team found it very entertaining.

"I believe Wally will win." Kaldur said, leaning on the counter. "He is very good."

"Artemis has this!" M'ggan assured them. "That girl can do it all!"

Then the sound of Wally's phone going off was heard.

Wally stole a glance at the phone. It was Bruce - wait, why would Bruce be calling? The only time Wally could ever remember Bruce calling him was when something bad happened.

"I can't answer my phone!" he exclaimed.

"Is it important?" M'ggan asked.

"Yes!"

"Then why don't you stop playing and pick it up?" Kaldur asked.

"Because it would be like admitting defeat!" Wally said.

"Ha! You might as well stop now!" Artemis taunted. "Cause I'm going to beat you either way!"

"Not gonna happen!" Wally set the controller in his lap, still pressing buttons with his left hand. and picked the phone up off the couch with his right. He quickly pushed the answer button and put the phone to his ear and held it in place with his shoulder. As soon as his hand was free he picked up the game controller again and continued to play.

"Hello?" he asked into the phone.

"Wally!" Bruce's voice came over the line. That was the second clue that something was wrong. It was Bruce, not Batman. "It took you forever to pick up!"

"I'm sorry but I'm kind of in the middle of something!" he said exasperatedly. "Ha take that!" he shouted at Artemis.

"Look, Wally, this is important!"

Wally sighed. "Okay! What's going on?"

"Have you seen or heard from Dick?"

Wally raised an eyebrow. "Um, no... not since he left the cave last night. Why?"

"Has anyone else talked to him?" Bruce asked, and Wally could hear worry in his voice, which told him that something was definitely wrong.

"Let me check." Wally told him, he then shouted to the group. "Hey has anyone heard from Rob?"

Everyone answered with nos.

"Why do you ask?" Zatanna asked.

"Nope, no one has heard from him." Wally told Bruce, not answering Zatanna's question. "Why do you want to know? Isn't he with you?" Wally asked, as he shot at Artemis in the game.

"No he isn't!" Bruce told him. "He's missing."

"What?!" Wally shouted. In this moment artemis shot his character in the chest ending the game, and sealing her victory.

"Yes!" Artemis and everyone who was betting on her yelled.

"Man!" Conner said, as he started pulling money out of his pocket.

"I do now have the money on me but I will get it to you." Kaldur assured them.

"It's fine Kal." Zatanna told him.

"Ha! I beat you!" Artemis gloated. "Who's the boss now?"

With all the racket Wally couldn't hear Bruce.

"Shut up!" Wally yelled as he stood up from the couch. And the room went quiet. Artemis was about to yell back at him, but he turned his attention to Bruce.

"What do you mean he is missing?!"

When Artemis heard what Wally said she stopped, right before she screamed at him. 'Robin is missing?'

Who ever was on the other end of the call said something.

"Well he can't just be gone!" Wally shouted into the phone. "You couldn't find any clues?" He asked.

After a long moment wally sighed. "Ok. Yeah if we hear anything we'll let you know."

Wally hung up and turned to face the whole team.

"That was Batman." He started. "Robin's gone."

Wayne Manor:

Bruce was sitting in the dining room attempting to eat breakfast. He didn't have much of an apatite, but Alfred pulled him out of the Batcave and practically forced him to eat.

Bruce had been out all night as Batman trying to find a lead on Robin. When he got back to the cave he spent all morning in the cave trying to locate the tracker on Robin's belt, but nothing he did worked. So in an act of desperation he called Wally.

The conversation did not go well. No one at the cave had heard from Robin since he left the night before. So Bruce was back to square one.

He was beginning to lose hope when the doorbell rang.

Alfred was out at the store buying groceries. Bruce knew that he just wanted something to keep his mind off of Dick.

Bruce got up and went to answer the door.

When he opened it he was met with someone he was not expecting to see.

"Mark?" Bruce raised an eyebrow. "The way Dick was talking it sounded like you skipped town."

Mark to a deep breath. "Mr. Wayne, I messed up. I really need your help."

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