Chapter 12: Bereft

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"Hey. Wake up. Wake up!" A voice yelled as Aero opened her eyes. She saw a domino mask kid around her age and she quickly got up and flew back.

"Who are you?" She interrogated.

"Relax. I'm not here to hurt you. I'm Robin. You know, the Dark Knight's protégé." Robin introduced himself.

"Right. Right." She said, clutching her head in pain. "Why does my head hurt so much?" She asked, levitating back down.

"Same. I can't figure it out too. What's your name?" He asked.

"Aero." She introduced.

"Nice to meet you." He said as he peek over the rock.

"Hide!" He ordered, diving to the side with the girl.

The girl got pushed behind a rock and Robin quickly hid with her. He peeked up to see the soldiers' uniforms on the vehicle.

"Those are Bialyan Republican Army Uniforms. But what are Bialyans doing in, uh, Bialya?" He tapped on the display on his wrist.

"Better question, what are we doing in Bialya?" Aero asked.

Robin looked at the date on his wrist display and widened his eyes in shock. "In September? What happened to March?" He asked loudly.

"September?" The girl repeated, making sure she heard that right.

"Yeah. Let me radio Batman." Robin said, about to press his comms but stopped himself. "Or not.."

"Why not?" Aero questioned.

"I remember Batman saying to maintain radio silence at all times." Robin said, glancing towards the endless desert.

"Okay, sure. Let's just say he did say that." Aero protested.

Robin didn't respond and instead jumped off the short cliff and looked at the rock with the red 'S' symbol on a cloth. Aero levitated down to where he was and looked towards it as well. He walked over and took the ripped cloth to inspect it.

"Unless the Bialyan soldiers love Superman and accidentally drop that, we're in serious trouble." Aero said, pointing to the cloth in Robin's hand.

"Agreed." He said before continuing to move forward.

He looked at his display on his wrist, seeing that he placed a GPS marker in that specific location.

"Follow me." He said, running towards the direction of the GPS marker. Aero followed closely behind, hovering slightly above the air.

She followed him for hours and it had turned night already. They were nearing the GPS marker.

"Wish I could remember why I put a GPS marker here." Robin said.

"Maybe something important like a tent of gears or a hideout?" Aero suggested.

Robin quickly crouched down and so did Aero. He saw a glimpse of the object before crouching down.

"Huh! Guessing that's why." Robin said before peeking up.

He observed the surroundings of the object and found that no one was there. He tried to go before Aero pulled him.

"It may look like no one's there but be cautious." Aero suggested, causing the Boy Wonder to nod.

He and Aero began to close in on the object before getting ambushed by a bunch of Bialyan soldiers coming up from the sand.

The soldiers said something in Bialyan that Robin and Aero couldn't understand. When they began charging towards both of them, Robin released a smoke bomb, temporarily blinding his movement. Aero took the opportunity to take out some of the soldiers while Robin took out the other one.

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