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Friday, November 24, 2011, 13:41

Robin gasped as the fiery liquid entered his veins. Lex Luthor had been using more and more of the combined fear and Joker gas, and the Boy Wonder was being pushed to the edge of his limits and beyond. He couldn't take much more before he broke, and he was afraid of what would happen then. The world wouldn't be able to handle him going rogue. He was too skilled, knew the heroes too will.

The clock was running, and there wasn't much time left. It was a race to see who would win.

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Batgirl slipped into the Bright Sun Inn, very carefully not activating the motion sensors. Slipping through the shadows –what few there were –and watched Lex Luthor climb up the stairs from the basement. Slipping down them after he was gone, the soundproof door Batgirl found was baffling. Carefully pushing against it, she found it was locked. Pulling a bobby pin out of her belt –her dad had taught her how to pick locks –she picked it, and carefully slipped through it.

The barrage of screams that hit her senses was like being thrown into a brick wall. She could tell instantly they were Robin's, because who else would they be torturing?

Finding the door at the end of the hall, she carefully slipped in the room to find the Boy Wonder strapped down on an upright examination table, mask still intact. Strewn around the room were empty hypodermic needles, and the floor was splattered with blood. Robin was covered in it.

Making her way over to the captive vigilante, Batgirl figured he had been hit with some sort of hybrid fear/Joker gas, from the strangled giggles the boy strained out from time to time. Reaching up to pick the locks on the cuffs holding the Dark Squire on the table, she very carefully did so. When they were all unlocked, Robin grabbed her and held on for dear life.

It was then that Batgirl realized that she would be unable to leave stealthily with the fact that her charge was drugged with stimulants. Making her way over to the table, still holding the heavy hero, she looked for a sedative. Aha. There was a very strong dose of morphine in the cupboard, along with various other unopened drugs and clean hypodermic needles.

Emptying the bottle of morphine into one of the fresh needles, she very carefully injected the contents into the bird's bloodstream. The heavy anesthetic working, he was soon out cold in her arms, and Batgirl made her escape with him.

Out to the airfield, she noticed her flight was almost ready. How the hell was she supposed to carry Robin with her, though? Thinking, she pulled a length of sturdy rope from her belt and tied him to her before making her way aboard the wing of the plane, barely making it in time as the aircraft took off.

Friday, November 24, 2011, 20:54

Carrying an unconscious bird across Gotham was difficult- especially when said unconscious bird weighed one hundred and ten pounds and they were traveling by grapple.

Setting down her charge under the tree, Batgirl took off her cape to tear it into strips. Robin needed it more than she did, and carefully removing the Boy Wonder's cape and top so as not to disturb his mask, she began wrapping her torn cape around his bloody and bruised torso. Moving on to splinting his broken arm and legs, she knew she had to find someone. Wait- hadn't what's-his-face Kravitz taken care of Robin and Artemis recently? Haggy, Hagga, Hagai! That was his name- Hagai. He now worked for Wayne Enterprises, and Batgirl knew he was on-duty in the medical clinic the Wayne testing facility had. Back to grappling across Gotham with and injured Robin on her back.

Wayne Testing Facility, Friday, November 24, 2011, 22:09

"So, you found our missing Robin it seems," Hagai struck Batgirl as a nice person.

"Yes sir. And, as you can see, he really needs medical attention," the no-longer-caped girl pointed out.

"So it would seem. I'll get him up to Gotham SC. Don't worry, I won't let any of the bozos mess with his mask," the Israeli assured.

"Let me know when he's out of surgery," Batgirl informed, flitting off. She would be needing a new costume; this one had bloodstains on it.

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"So it was successful? Is he okay?" Batgirl was in civvies, dark glasses covering her face as she followed Hagai to the room Robin was staying in at Gotham General, with Hagai as his doctor.

"He's expected to make a full recovery. But what I don't get is the type of chemicals they used on him- we don't have an antidote to the stuff, so we're keeping him sedated until it runs itself out of his system, but its effects are that of combined Joker venom and fear gas. It's baffling," Kravitz explained.

"So when should he be out of the hospital?" Batgirl asked, enthusiastic.

"About a month, but if I were you I wouldn't let him back out for another month after that," Hagai suggested.

"Okay," Batgirl replied. "I need to be getting back home."

"I imagine. If you were mine, I would be worried sick," Hagai replied as Batgirl slipped off to return to her room and remove her sunglasses. Deciding to check on her dad, she found him sitting on the couch with his knees up to his chin.

"Dad? Are you okay?" Babs called softly.

"No. I'm not. You just, disappeared. You worried me." Jim Gordon lifted his head to meet the worried brown eyes of his daughter.

"I'm sorry, but I was doing something I had to do," she replied, still soft.

"Like what?" Jim replied bitterly. "Worry me half to death?"

"I'm making a difference," Babs replied, turning around to head back to her room. "I might have saved someone's life today." She disappeared back down the hallway to her room.

"Huh. Just like the Bat," Jim remarked.

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