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KF POV
We were sitting in the living room, bored as we'll ever be. We were waiting for news on Robin, who was found stable and the bots were out of his system. He was just sleeping it off now. I gave a sigh.
"Anyone got any food?" I asked, hunger pinching my insides. Everyone shook their heads and Artemis smacked me on the head. I glared and sighed again, dramatically throwing myself onto the floor and laying there, groaning. Everyone glared at me for breaking the silence. I shrugged and rolled onto my back.
M'gann gasped randomly and stood up, her eyes panicking.
"What is it?" Kaldur asked.
"I-it's Batman. There's distress coming off him. Somethings wrong." Everyone stood up and sprinted for the med-bay. I got there first.
When I opened the door, I saw Batman hugging Robin with pain obvious on his face. Everyone else caught up by then.
"What happened?"
I almost sighed in relief when Robin turned his head. Batman did a mini glare before laying Robin back down on the bed. He stood up.
"Something went wrong." He said. We widened our eyes. How did Batman get something wrong? Especially for his own partner?
"Did anything... strange happen while his heart monitor?" I widened my eyes a little more after some thought.
"Yeah, his and arm were acting strange." I said, remembering the random bloating and shrinking.
"That was the nanobots self-destructing. It immediately killed every nerve in his left arm and leg, making him..." Batman trailed off for a second.
"Disabled."
We all looked to Robin, who was currently mask-less and starring at the ceiling. He had an abnormally bland voice.
"Me being disabled makes me lose a lot of abilities. Like walking, because my left leg can't move anymore. I can't use a wheelchair, either, because my left arm is useless." He said. We all listened sadly, trying not to look at his dead blue eyes and trying to ignore the self-hate that began to rise into his bland voice.
"I can't hack, because I usually use my left hand to type half the keyboard and my right for the other, so I'll be to slow to actually do anything without being caught and traced."
"Robin." Batman said, noticing the distress in the Team.
"I can't write, because I'm left handed."
Robin let the tears in his eyes fall down his face.
"Robin."
"That takes out the world- competition for the math award."
"Robin."
"I can't do gymnastics and acrobatics."
"Robin, stop." Batman went over and put a hand on his shoulder. Robin narrowed his eyes.
"That's something else I can't be anymore. Robin." He glared at the wall with hate and sadness obvious in his voice. That was all M'gann could take, as she broke down on Superboy.
"Robin, that's enough!" Batman yelled. Robin directed his glare at Batman.
"Enough? Of what? I can't do anything now!" He yelled back. "My left side is dead! I'm useless! There's nothing I can do, and you can't do anything either." He seethed. Batman clenched his fist.
"I know that." Batman said. "I came too late for the serum to save all of you." Robin just turned his head and glared at the other side of the room.
"Just get out." Robin said, his voice finally cracking. We all walked out and spread out to different areas of the Cave. M'gann sat down next to Superboy on the couch, Artemis sat on the armchair, Aqualad leaned against the wall, and I sat at the counter. We stayed like that until Artemis got up.
"We have to see him." She declared, already going towards the med-bay. We were about to object, but decided against it and quickly followed her.
When we got there, we saw that Robin was sleeping silently in his bed, without his mask. We all just sat and waited for him to wake up.
After about five minutes, he started to wake up.
"Exactly how long have you been here?"
We all looked at him as he looked back with a smirk. We were all happy to see him smirking again, and relaxed a little.
"So... about earlier." He started. We all gave him questioning looks, which obviously annoyed him. "What, did you expect me to pretend that it was a dream? Because I know the difference between reality and dreams." The was a silence.
"So, how are you now?" I asked, trying to lighten the mood. All I got are was a bunch of 'Are you stupid?' looks. Artemis shook her head and smacked me on the top of the head.
"Some people were dropped as a baby, you were clearly thrown at a wall." She said. I gave her a mocking hurt look and she gave me a playful glare. Kaldur gave us 'The look' and we stopped.
"Look guys, I don't think I'll ever see you again." He said. We all looked up in shock and confusion.
"I'll probably be bed ridden and stuff, and that means, for a bat, no visitors." I opened my mouth, but he glared at me and said. "Especially not you, Wally." I gave him a mocking fake look and everyone laughed.
"Isn't there anyway we can get you to get back?" Megan asked. Robin was quiet for a second, then he smirked.
"Well... there is this one idea." And he got into the details. Aqualad objected due to the dangers at first, but quickly agreed to help.
About half an hour later, Batman came back in.
"Anything different?" He asked. Robin shook his head.
"No, but can you get me some water?" Batman nodded and went to pour the water, but the moment he he picked it up, Megan splashed all the water onto him. Before he could react, Aqualad electrocuted him to a point of shock. I quickly ran to Robin and got him on my back. M'gann threw a matress and sheet over Batman and we made a run for it. We took the bio-ship and flew away within minutes.
About ten minutes later, we were in front of an old building somewhere on the outskirts of Gotham by a bridge. I grabbed Robin and carried him out the ship. When the others tried to follow, Robin said it'd be safer if they stayed here.
We walked into the house, and Robin directed me throughout the house, leading me down a secret passage and into a surgical room, uncleaned tools scattered throughout the room.
"Come out, Hush." Robin said. "I know you're here, and I need your help."
"And why would I help you?"
Robin narrowed his eyes. "Because I know that you don't leave patients unattended if they need you."
"I don't see how you need me. You can still talk and I see no blood one you."
"I know, but this is something only you can fix. My left arm and leg, their nerves are dead. Nanobots self destruction. You can have the left overs." I cringed when he said that. Suddenly, a man in a trench coat walked out of the shadows and took Robin's left arm and examined it. He then quickly plucked the boy from me and walked to his car. I made a move to stop him, but Robin told me that I should go back to the bio-ship, so I did.
"YOU LEFT HIM THERE?"
I quickly backed away from the archer with my hands up.
"He told me to." I said. She glared at me before walking back to her seat. Kaldur shook his head.
"I agree with Artemis. It was unwise to leave him with the enemy. M'gann, try to find him." He said. She nodded and put a hand to her head and linked us up.
'I'm going to see out of his eyes'
We were on the metal table. Hush was there, cleaning his tools.
"I would give you drugs but you shouldn't feel it, though I'm going to inject you with this body-numbing serum. So that you don't jerk." He said.
"Thanks Dr. Elliot. I owe you on this." Elliot shook his head.
"Even if Bruce is an annoying playboy, you were always... acceptable." Robin chuckled.
"You know you like Bruce. He was your best friend." Elliot glared at the boy.
"After this, I swear I'm just going to hang you off the side of the bridge." He injected Rob with something, and put it away.
"Now, this is going to be painful." He said as he pulled out a knife.
"I can't reach him." M'gann said. Artemis stood up.
"We need to get him." She declared. Kaldur stopped her.
"No, this Elliot may be in the surgical part of this operation already." She glared at him, waiting for the outcome. Suddenly, the rang.
'Hello kids.' A voice said. I widened my eyes.
'What are you doing? You should be in the middle of the surgery!' I yelled back.
'Well, this is my enemy on an operation table, if you were a villain wouldn't you be tempted?' I was silent for a second.
'What do you want?'
'Well, if you want to help so badly... go get me twenty hand pistols and a hundred bullets, and I won't kill the boy.' We all glared and looked at Kaldur.
'Oh, and this'll be the last you here from me because I'm going to destroy this link soon. Can't have Batman finding me.' Kaldur nodded.
'Deal. But you need to finish the surgery by the time we're back.'
'I'll do half, and I'll finish the rest after.' And then the line went dead. I scowled and crushed my link, too. The others did the same and we went off to take from gun stores. Superboy would open backdoors for us to sneak in while Artemis took out cameras and M'gann would hide me and Aqualad, who were getting to guns and ammo. After about half an hour, we had gotten everything and were back at the house. We went in and down the secret passage to the sugerey room. We almost puked at the sight.
Rob was on the metal table, his arm and leg severed from his body. The floor and knives was covered in blood, and he was ghostly pale.
"I'd say he has another ten minutes until death."
I whipped around, seeing Dr. Elliot in white scrubs that were almost red in blood. I threw a duffle bag full of the supplies.
"Here." I spat. "Now finish."
He nodded and quickly picked up a mechanical arm. It reminded me or Terminator due to the fact that it looked so human like and real.
"This should only take half an hour." He said casually. He was out of our sights, but we did see the occasional jerk as a nerve was connected. After half an hour, he stood up.
"I need you to hold him down for this part." He said. We nodded and grabbed his shoulder and chest to keep him from moving. Elliot took a wrench and put it somewhere on his arm and twisted it fast. Robin let out a scream of pain and tried to jerk away. Hush then moved to his leg and repeated the process. He sighed and got a wheelchair. We moved the boy onto it.
"No moving for a month. If you do, you'll regret it." He reached into his scrubs. "Now that that's over." He yanked out a gun and fired, barely missing my ear, but close enough to make it ring.
"Get out."
He fired at us and M'gann and Superboy shielded us as we tried to escape, struggling up the stairs. We heard M'gann cry out in pain and it was silent. A few seconds later, Superboy walked up the stairs with Miss. Martian flying right behind him. She was holding her arm.
"Just a scratch." She said. We nodded and went back into the bio-ship.
"So." Artemis started. "What happened to Hush?"
"He got hurt." Superboy said, giving a quick glance at the sleeping boy wonder. It was disturbing to see him covered in blood, so I took a cloth and began wiping him down.
Once we got back to the Cave, Batman had this huge fit and yelled at us. We told him that we just wanted to get a pizza (The bat refused to give us any pizza, for no reason and Rob was actually spasming on him for it)
After about half an hour, everyone went to bed in their own respective houses/ rooms. I had stayed the longest. I didn't touch his new limbs at all, afraid that they would be metallic and rubbery. Right before I left, I gave it a quick brush. I shivered at the feel of the soft rubber skin. It was somewhat like normal skin, though it had this strange new feel to it. I glanced at him one last time before running home, thinking only of what could happen next.
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