Elsewhere in Gotham, Robin and Lois were back in the car with Robin still at the wheel of the vehicle. Lois on the other hand, was still holding on to a handle, due to the speed of the vehicle.

"So, what have you gotten about this Augustus Goreman?" Lois asked.

Robin typed on a computer on the dashboard that showed the driver's license of the missing Wayne Enterprise employee. "Augustus Goreman. Born December 1st 1985, two time divorcee and father of two. Before he worked at Wayne Enterprises he was working the odd jobs. Telephone repair man, nuclear safety advisor, waiter and currently is the safety advisor at Wayne Enterprises."

"Diverse job list." Lois remarked.

"Yup." Robin replied. "He has been working with the company for three months until he was reported missing by his boyfriend. But of course, there's that 48 hour window before the police do anything to find them. Unless you're me or Batman."

"Do you think this Gus guy could be Mockingbird and just faked his disappearance?" Lois asked. "I mean, two divorces. That's a lot of alimony to pay off."

"He might not be doing well financially, but his job is well payed." Robin explained. "Fifty grand a month."

"Oh wow." Lois remarked. "No way a guy like him is Mockingbird."

"Yeah, that's what I'm thinking." Robin said.

As they continued to drive through Gotham, they drove past the Iceberg Lounge which looked to be under intense lockdown. Robin would have investigated, but he knew Bruce had it covered.

Then, Robin decided to break the silence between him and his new partner. "So, what's it like having an alien for a boyfriend?"

Lois almost choked by the suddenness of the question. "Excuse me?!"

"Hey, it's cool that you have an alien for a boyfriend." Robin said. "I mean, if I had an alien girlfriend, that would be the coolest thing! I mean, it would probably depend on the type of species, but still."

"Honestly, Clark isn't really comfortable being referred to as an alien." Lois explained. "He doesn't know what he is."

"Okay, how do you feel about having an extra terrestrial for a boyfriend?" Robin asked.

"You know, I never thought about it." Lois explained. "Coming out of your mouth now, I realise I'm in an inter species relationship with someone not of this planet! Not that there's anything wrong with it! I mean, he's a lot better than my last relationships. I mean, they were almost inhumane with how big of a jerks they were."

"So…Ironically, your boyfriend from outer space is more human either of us?" Robin remarked. "Huh, that's deep."

"Clark, he's just so kind, loyal and caring." Lois gushed a little before sighing. "But, when your boyfriend happens to be a superhero, it's kind of worrying. He's invincible sure, but he takes a lot of hits. One time, he vanished for four days because he was captured by this Task Force X and was tortured. And do you wanna know who tortured him?!"

Robin chuckled. "Don't tell me, you're Dad." He looked at Lois with a jokey smile. But then, it vanished once she saw how serious she looked. "Wait, your Dad?!"

"Yup. Turns out, Dad was so set in believing that Superman was a threat that he captured him and tortured him." Lois explained.

Robin was indeed surprised. "I mean, I get Dads tend to be judgey about who their daughters are dating, but he took it to another level."

"He doesn't know that Superman and Clark are the same person!" Lois exclaimed. "I hope not anyway. I don't know, I haven't seen him since that Thanksgiving incident."

"Yeah, big spaceship almost entering small rural town in Kansas was going to get media coverage." Robin said. "Shame they went with the ambitious special effects response. Like, what kind of person would try and make an effect that unfilmable and ambitious?"

Robin began to ponder who could and shrugged his shoulders. "James Cameron?"

Lois exhaled. "Sure, him. I still worry for Clark. Bane could stand against him in a fight. What if he does something to him? What if he breaks his back? What if he captures him? I love Clark, but even I think this relationship is gonna have some risks."

"Hey, it's not like he's disappearing months on end leaving you alone." Robin remarked.

"Is that a reference to something?" Lois asked.

"Bruce told me about some kid from another universe who essentially told him his life story as he waited for a portal to open." Robin explained. "Also mentioned how his Dad screwed him over, how he screwed over his girlfriend and how his name is very ironic."

"What was his name?" Lois asked.

"I think his name was….I don't know if I wanna say it, it's so stupid." Robin replied. "Oh, we're here!"

He stopped the car a couple of blocks away from Wayne Tower. Once the duo got out, Lois instantly ran to a nearby trash can and threw up in it.

"Are you gonna keep doing that every time we get out of the car?" Robin asked.

"Kid, the sooner we leave the Batmobile the better." Lois replied as she wiped away her bit of saliva on her sleeve.

"Batmobile?" Robin asked. "Did you just call the car Batmobile?"

"Were you really gonna be calling that hunk of junk The Car?" Lois asked.

"Well….It just sounds ridiculous." Robin protested.

"You're named after a red bellied bird and that's where you draw the line?" Lois retorted.

"Yeah." Robin replied bluntly.

"Well, come on then, we got a supposed kidnapping to solve." Lois was about to walk to the tower when all of a sudden, Robin used his staff to stop her.

"Hang on, we have to take a few precautions first." Robin said. "Wayne Enterprises has a lot active cameras, so you'd be making additional progress to your criminal record if you were caught."

"So…Do I wear a ski mask?" Lois asked. "Or are you going to erase the footage?"

"It's fun, but it's more nifty when you have a guy on the inside." Robin explained as he tapped on some buttons on his wrist. "Lucius, I'm gonna need you to take the security down."

"Of course, Mr Grayson. I'm on it." Lucius said.

Inside Wayne Enterprise tower, in the monitor room, a lone security guard was watching the various monitors filming all the areas in the building.

He appeared to be a man of Asian descent whom appeared to be bored at staring at nothing all night. Just as he dipped his donut in a cup of coffee, he suddenly heard the sound of the desk phone ringing. He put it on speaker.

"Calnan speaking." The guard said.

"Lenny, this is Lucius Fox. Listen, you've done enough, why don't you take the night off? And that's not a suggestion, that is a direct order."

The guard, instead of arguing, instantly jumped off his seat, turned off all feeds, locked the security room, exited the building and locked the door.

Once the guard left, he jumped into his car and drove off, all while Robin and Lois watched on from the shadows of an ally. "Okay, we're in." Lois was about to walk over to the building when Robin stopped her.

"Sit down on that bench." Robin commanded.

"Uh…." Lois, despite being baffled by the request, sat on the nearby bench.

"Okay, now I need you to stretch your feet out." Lois did as the kid complied.

Robin got on his knees and pulled what appeared to be a two pieces of sticky Saran wrap that he stuck on the sole of Lois' left foot.

"What are you putting on my foot?" Lois asked.

"A little device Lucius made." Robin replied. "Helps us go anywhere without leaving a trace of footprints."

"So, wait, Lucius Fox is with you?" Lois asked.

"Who do you think manufactures our gadgets?" Robin retorted.

"Uh…Someone who's good at robotics and mechanics?" Lois responded.

"Definition of Lucius." Robin remarked. "Also, you'll definitely need these." He handed a pair of disposable gloves for Lois.

"And did he invent these?" Lois asked.

Robin gave her a deadpan stare. "No, these were invented by William Stewart Halstead."

Lois, embarrassed by her comment, just took them and out them on. "Right, of course."

Later, the dynamic duo were closing in on the building and stopped by in front of the sliding doors. Robin tapped on his wrist and in a few seconds, the sliding doors opened automatically.

Robin and Lois entered the building and found the monitor room. Lois tried opening it, but it was locked. Robin noticed that there was a device on the wall that scanned ID cards.

Unfortunately, they didn't have any forms of identification to get in. But thankfully, Robin managed to hack through that, causing the door to be unlocked.

They entered the monitor room, with Lois looking at Robin with admiration. "Seriously kid, how do you know so much about hacking?"

"I just happen to be good at it." Robin replied. "Believe it or not, I actually managed to hack a Russian satellite one time."

Lois looked worried by that statement. "Well, that's worrying."

Robin switched on the monitor, causing every camera to activate all at once. They turned all the screens on and began to look at the current feed. One of them happened to be showing live footage of the duo in the very room they were standing in.

Lois turned around to look at the camera that was filming them and gave a nervous grin. "Uh…Robin, should we be concerned about that?" Lois asked.

"We shouldn't." Robin replied. "Lucius will just delete this."

"Oh Robin, I should warn you, that there might be a few blind spots. We've been trying to get them repaired and I've had a ton of technicians working on them. But there appears to be a very bad glitch in the system."

"I should hope they won't stop me from getting the information I need." Robin said.

Lois sighed. "If I knew we were breaking and entering, I should have brought my own mask."

"We have a spare bat mask at the cave." Robin said. "You could have pretended to be my sidekick. Batgirl."

Lois looked insulted. "Batgirl?!"

"Or Batwoman. Or, if you wanna be very PC, Bat Person." Robin joked before typing on the computer. "Alright, alright, so, let's go through the footage." Robin began to rewind the footage. "Let me know if you see anything strange."

As Lois watched the footage she was noticing a lot of blind spots flashing on screen which did cause her to feel a little surprised. Then, she saw footage of what looked like a couple making out before entering the janitor's closet.

Another, she saw Alexander making notes on some random weapons. She grimaced about seeing him again after what he had been saying to Superman.

Thankfully, she felt better when she saw there was footage of Vicki Vale being dragged out by security.

"See anything interesting?" Robin asked.

"Very." Lois smiled.

"Besides, Vicki Vale getting what was coming." Robin said.

"Right, sorry." Lois said. "Where was Gus last known location."

Robin smiled. "Ah. Now that, is a place to start. Reports say he was last seen heading to the locker room to acquire a change of clothing and he allegedly never returned."

Robin began to look at the live footage of the locker room and began to rewind it. So far, there was nothing, then male workers changing out of their clothes, Edward throwing something wrapped in a napkin in a trash can before a blind spot that went on for two minutes and then Gus entering the locker room.

Robin paused before fast forwarding. But after Gus' locker entrance, the footage went out. Robin reversed the footage and then fast forward the footage repeatedly but all he got was the same results.

"Huh. That's convenient luck." Robin remarked.

"Yeah." Lois replied. "Hang on, look at this monitor." She pointed to another one that appeared to be covered in static.

"So?" Robin asked.

"Reverse it." He accepted Lois' request and reversed the footage so now they were seeing what appeared to be the armoury.

She pointed to what looked like someone placing a handle for a gun on the table. "Fast forward." He fast forward the footage and soon it was covered in static. Then, he fast forward the footage to reveal that the handle was gone.

"Huh."

Then, he investigated the back ally and noticed that footage seemed to static. Then, he looked at the shipping area and saw a bunch of shipping crates ready to be used. But then, after the static, there were only a couple of crates missing.

"I don't think it's the system that's the problem." Robin said. "I think, someone is tampering with it. That's why Mockingbird has been difficult to track down! They've been tampering with the system!"

"How that security guard didn't see anything is a bit of a problem." Lois remarked.

"Yeah. Hope he isn't fired." Robin said. "He's kind of a nice guy."

"Let's go through some more of the footage." Lois suggested. "There's gotta be something we missed."

For the last few minutes, the duo went through the footage and so far found nothing. But then, Robin stopped at a certain spot.

"What?" Lois asked.

"Look at that." Robin pointed to footage of what appeared to be a nervous Wayne Enterprise employee disposing of something wrapped in a napkin. As he did, he rubbed the back of his neck.

"Okay, even he coughed up something he shouldn't have or he must have murdered someone." Lois remarked.

"Hmmm, I should get the employee list up." Robin scanned the image of the lean suspect and about 12 seconds later, he got a profile. "Ah, Edward Nashton. Born October 14th, 2000. Graduated in science and engineering with high degrees from Gotham University and has been working as a top engineer and scientist for a couple of years. Orphaned at birth, diagnosed with autism at 4 and wasn't adopted into the Nashton family until 6."

"What does that have to do with this?" Lois asked.

"Don't know." Robin replied. "Perhaps he wants to ruin Bruce Wayne because he feels envious of him getting everything while he didn't. Perhaps the family wasn't too good to him as thirteen years after adopting him, Charles and Clare Nashton were arrested for money laundering, assault and conspiracy to murder messing with his psyche. Or since Edward is intelligent, he thinks he has a superior intellect and wishes to show it off. Or maybe he felt belittled for being different and wanted to take his anger out on the world."

Lois stared at the kid with a blank stare. "Those are some far fetched theories."

Robin shrugged his shoulders. "Fun to guess. But, in order to see if my theories are correct, we need to start where Gus was most likely taken from."

Later, the two of them had entered the male locker room to find any clues that might explain what could have happened to Gus.

Lois was grinning. "You know, this is my second time in a guy's locker room."

Robin froze at that statement. "I'm sorry, what?"

"Oh ya, know." Lois blew a raspberry. "High school mischief.

Robin just stared at the woman in disappointment. "Unbelievable."

They walked to the trash can where Edward disposed of the napkin which was thankfully still there. Robin picked it up and felt something in it. He unwrapped whatever was wrapped inside of it and found what appeared to be a wrench.

The Boy Wonder analysed the blunt tool and looked to Lois. "Well, least we know what tool he used."

"Is Gus, dead?" Lois asked.

"Hopefully with a head concussion that might need treatment." Robin said.

Then, they noticed what appeared to be writing on the napkin. And these weren't any kind of writing, they were three sets of numbers. 0-6-9.

"0-6-9?" Lois remarked. "What is that?"

"Not sure." Robin replied. He removed the weapon from the napkin and noticed another bit of writing under the numbers that read 'Look in my locker (45) and the other numbers will right in front of your face.'

"Is that a threat or a clue?" Lois asked.

"Both most likely." Robin replied. "You go ahead and unlock his locker while I analyse the napkin. You've unlocked lockers before, haven't you?"

Lois laughed. "Believe me, if I had a nickel for every time they changed my combination, I would probably have enough to buy a laboratory for myself."

She got off the floor and began to survey the locker room while Robin began to analyse the napkin. As he did, he noticed there was a bit of dried blood on it, implying the hit must have been hard.

Then, he turned the napkin around and found some more pieces of writing.

Meanwhile, Lois found the locker that had 45 engraved on it. "Bingo." She saw that the locker had a padlock attached to the door.

"Ah, it's one of those." Thankfully, she found what looked to be a bobby pin placed on the floor. She picked it up with a raised brow. "Awfully convenient." She walked towards his locker and began fiddling with the pin to get the locker open.

While she did that, Robin flipped the napkin on the other side where he found another message written on it. 'Riddle me this: I am a bird that has done heinous things. Yet I am the symbol of innocence. What am I?'

Robin looked baffled by the riddle. "Innocence? A bird that symbolises innocence?"

Back with Lois, she was busy wiggling the pin in the lock trying her best to unlock it. "Come on. I know I almost have it."

Robin, feeling like he should cheat, he tapped into his wrist to go on the worldwide web to search up what it meant. But he wished the results didn't come up. Because the results were directed at a Mockingbird.

It was at this moment, Robin came to the realisation on what was being said. Edward Nashton wasn't just the main suspect in the disappearance of Augustus Goreman, but he was Mockingbird.

Robin was about to call out for Lois when he suddenly heard a bang and Lois screaming. The Boy Wonder ran to the location of Lois and was shocked by what he saw.

Lois, had her hands covered against her face and green paint splattered all over her white shirt and dark green coat.

"Lois?!" Robin yelled.

"Robin, is that you?!" Lois removed her hands from her face to reveal that she had green paint all over her face and her eyes squinted.

"What happened?!" Robin asked.

Lois, due to the sudden blindness tripped and fell on her rear on the floor. "Uh!"

Robin looked in the locker and found what was in Nashton's locker. There was a spring trap covered in paint which gave Robin the clue as to how Lois got paint on herself. And another message stuck on the left side of the locker. 'Hai, diddle diddle, second fiddle.'

Robin didn't have time to decipher this message and just ran to help Lois whom was panting on the floor, her eyes still squinted.

As he got a closer look at the paint on Lois' head, he saw that there were marks on her forehead. They were numbers. And they were 4, 8 and 4.

Robin decided to put focus on those numbers later and felt obligated to help Lois. "Lois!"

Lois just cringed in intense pain by the paint stinging her eyes and face. "Lois, I'm gonna need you to open your eyes as slow as possible."

Lois, despite the intense pain, slowly opened her eyes. Her eyesight was slightly blurry but thankfully she wasn't blind, just struggling to see a bit.

"Lois!" Robin held up two fingers to her face. "How many fingers am I holding?"

Lois cringed. "Two….Two…"

"Okay, good to know you aren't blind." Robin said as he pulled her on her feet. "Let's get you cleaned up."

"What about the numbers?" Lois asked.

"I got them." Robin assured her as he pushed his finger against his ear. "Alfred, I need you to decipher these numbers. They're most likely radio frequencies."

"On it, sir." Alfred said. "Is this the location of our mysterious Mockingbird?"

"Most likely." Robin replied.

"Master Grayson, might I suggest you wait and have Master Wayne and Mr Kent help you two out?" Alfred suggested.

"Look, I can handle this." Robin said. "I appreciate the concern. But Edward Nashton is a lean geek who likes riddles and childish pranks. What can go wrong?"

Robin, despite his height, was still able to carry Lois in order to wash the paint off her face. Once they were done, they were going to find Edward Nashton.

Elsewhere, Lucius Fox was leaving his house in a very suburban neighbourhood. "I won't be home until this afternoon!" Lucius yelled out.

"Be safe, dear!" Yelled out a female voice.

Lucius began walking towards his small, red car, while carrying his briefcase. Since, he was about to go to work and he was always up in the early hours of the morning so he could have time to make sure all systems were in order.

He entered the driver's side of the car and sat down. He put on his seatbelt and pushed his key into the ignition. When all of a sudden, he felt someone pressing what felt like a gun on his back.

"Don't scream." In the backseat of his side of the car, was none other than Carla. "All I need you to do is drive."

Lucius, despite being scared and reluctant, went with Carla's request and began to drive his vehicle. "May I inquire on where you want to take me."

"You're going to meet Bane." Carla replied. "And perhaps, Mockingbird if we get the chance."