Robin looked to where Jessie was laid out on an operating table. So you returned your parents memories he thought to her. There was no response and he knew there wouldn't be one until she was completely healed. He turned to leave and came face to face with Batman.
"He's awake."
Robin blinked and then it registered who Batman was talking about. The cold anger from earlier seeped back into his bones. He struggled to control it under Batman's watchful gaze.
"I want you to have a chat with him. Miss Maritain will be waiting for you."
Robin nodded his understanding and stalked off to the holding cells. On the way he got a call from Batgirl.
"Hey Robin."
"What did you find?" Maybe he could use something to twist Gabriel's arm and force him to give up anyone else involved.
"Most of the base was set up to accommodate those people living there. Nothing that tells us who else could be behind this." She hesitated.
"I sense a but." There usually was one.
"Yes." She paused. "What we did find was in the make shift hospital."
Robin swallowed.
"We found a couple of chemicals." She rattled them off and Robin's stomach bottomed out. "They used for preserving and harvesting eggs." She paused again before asking, "Robin, you okay?"
"I'm alright, continue." He wasn't alright but he needed to know.
"There is also stuff for cloning. It looks like someone attempted to clone Jessie first."
He could hear Batgirl flipping through papers.
"They didn't have any success there. The clones couldn't hold any other forms. Apparently it was a direct result of the drugs used to speed up the growth. None of them could handle the stress of switching between characters. The stress of having more than one mind in them broke them. That project was scrapped after the first few months of no success. It looks like they were going to begin removing her eggs tomorrow, and they were going to try and breed more people like Jessie."
The air in whooshed out of Robin's lungs. Gabriel would do this?
"That's not all. It seems Jessie was giving them a lot of trouble. Some of her characters even managed to free her once. It looks like if they had success with the breeding, they were planning on removing Jessie's brain from her body."
Robin's knees nearly gave out under him, he had to put a hand on the wall to keep himself from falling. They planned to do this to Jessie? How could anyone possibly go along with this? He stopped and thought about it. There was no way Gabriel knew about this. Gabriel may have hated him, but he cared for Jessie in his own sick and twisted way. Maybe Gabriel would give up the other person to save Jessie. Robin stood up straighter and quickly moved on to the holding cells.
"Thanks. If you find out anything else tell me."
She gave him a tentative okay before clicking off the communication device. He soon found the cell that Gabriel was in. Megan was standing next to the window and looking in on Gabriel angrily. The man in question was sitting in a steel chair that was welded to the floor. His hands were cuffed together and a chain went down to a ring on the floor. Even his feet were secured to the chair.
"He has some pretty strong telepathic abilities, but the cuffs do inhibit that for the most part. I can protect you from any power he still has. He does seem very weak though."
Robin smiled viciously at the thought. That meant Jessie had hurt him.
"Don't let him see you when we go in. I want him to let his guard down."
"You think you can get him to let his guard down?"
"I think I piss him off, and I have information that should shake him up. You can probably pick the answers out of his mind when that happens."
Megan nodded, but she looked worried, Robin ignored the look of concern. He turned away from her and opened the door to the cell. Leaving the door open wide enough for Megan to float invisibly past him. She hovered behind Gabriel and waited.
Gabriel made a sound that was between a growl and a grunt of distain. His chains clanked against the chair when he rubbed the brand on wrist. It was still a raw red, blood had dried on the back of his hand, and was starting to flake off.
"Come to gloat?"
Robin laughed, but it didn't reach his eyes. There were a lot of things he wanted to do to Gabriel, gloating over him was actually pretty far down the list.
"No, I'm here to ask questions."
Gabriel smirked back at him.
"I want a lawyer."
Robin clicked his tongue and shook his head.
"Funny, I don't remember international terrorists being given lawyers."
Gabriel narrowed his eyes at Robin, confusion edging in his face.
"What do you mean?"
Robin grabbed the remote control for the TV off the window sill. He clicked the power button and brought up the clip of the first attacks on the UN officials. He let clip play all the way through before pausing it.
"We know for a fact you harvested characters from Jessie and implanted them onto other people. They then, as you can see, attacked UN workers on site. Which is roughly the equivalent for attacking the world. Hence the title International terrorist."
Megan's voice broke into his thoughts, This is very strange. He remembers doing this, but he has no idea why he did it. He doesn't even want to, he gains nothing from it.
"We simply want to know who gave you all the money and targeted those people."
Gabriel leaned back in his chair looking very relaxed and rolled his shoulders like he was getting a cramp out.
"Even if I knew I wouldn't-."
"Did they tell you they planned on killing her body and transplanting her brain into a machine?"
The room was deathly quiet. Gabriel suddenly looked unsure of himself. He looked like he was wondering if Robin was trying to trick him.
"What?"
"The team was combing over that makeshift hospital of yours." Robin listed off the drugs and Gabriel went pale. He obviously knew what a few of them were used for. "They were going to basically kill her so she couldn't escape anymore Then they were going to mine her brain until there nothing left and move onto others." Whoever else was behind this clearly hadn't told Gabriel this.
When did we find this, Megan asked.
Robin shared the information Batgirl had shared with him. He could feel Megan's mounting horror as she looked over the information. Gabriel frowned.
"First they tried cloning her, when that didn't work they planned on extracting her eggs and breeding more people like her. Somehow I doubt you were going to be on list of potential fathers." Venom seeped into his tone.
Gabriel stared blankly at the floor trying to come to terms with what Robin was saying. He scrubbed his face desperately trying to control the storm of emotions that had to have been exploding through him.
"It doesn't matter, he wiped my memories of him."
"He?" It was a start.
Gabriel nodded and reclined farther in his chair. He refused to look at Robin. Sighing he looked over his shoulder to where Megan was floating in camouflage mood.
"Hey you."
Robin knew Megan's eyes were wide open even without seeing her. Only Psimon had ever been able to sense her.
What do you want me to do, Robin?
Show yourself, he really does know you're there.
Megan let her camouflage slip and eyed the human boy.
"You can recover my memories."
Megan was very uncomfortable. This would be very different than restoring Alexandra's mind and she hadn't even done that.
"You are more powerful than him, I can feel it."
