The Birthday Surprise

Ch. 4: Information

Robin woke up in the Bat-Infirmary. He looked around and saw no one there with him.

'What happened?' he thought. 'How did I get back to the Batcave? And where is Batman?'

He got up from the table and felt a little dizzy at first but then it quickly went away. He walked over to the Bat-Computer and sat down.

'And what happened to that girl? I didn't see her after the fight,' he thought as he started typing on the keyboard. Just then, he heard a sound coming from behind him. He turned around to see Batman walking toward him.

"I take it you're feeling better?" Batman asked as he came up behind Robin.

Robin turned back to the computer continued typing as he replied, "Yeah, I felt a little dizzy when I first stood up, but it's gone now." He turned to look at Batman again. "How did I get back here?"

"Flash and the kids at the mountain called trying to figure out where you were when you came in. They told me you got beat up and that I needed to get over there. When I got there you were unconscious on the couch and I brought you back here so Alfred could fix you up."

"Oh," he said as he turned back to the computer to finish what he was doing.

Batman looked at the screen then looked at him. "What are you doing?"

Robin froze for a second. "Ummm... looking up the guy that attacked me." It wasn't a lie, just not the whole truth. He was looking up the guy that attacked him, but he wasn't about to tell Batman that he got attacked by going after this guy because of what a girl said.

A picture popped up of a big man with very short hair and a scar on his right cheek that runs down to his chin. Robin punched a few more buttons on the keyboard then got up to get the picture and information he printed out.

"This is the guy that attacked you?" Batman asked examining the guy more closely.

"Yeah," Robin said walking back to the computer. When he sat down, he exited out of the information and started a new search.

"Why did he come after you?" Batman asked suddenly.

Robin froze. He knew he should tell Batman about the girl and this guy that keeps following her, but she didn't want Batman or the police involved.

Robin tried to avoid answering the question and continued his search, but Batman said in a more forceful voice, "Robin, answer me."

Robin slowly looked at Batman. He didn't know what to say so Batman wouldn't learn what he was doing.

"Well... I..."

Batman looked at him with his famous Bat-Stare. Robin started fidgeting under this stare.

Robin finally let out a huge sigh of defeat and opened his mouth to answer, "Well..."

"Sir," Alfred said interrupting Robin before he could tell Batman everything, "there's a call from the Wayne Tech. Building. They need to ask you about the Wayne Foundation Charity Ball this Saturday."

"Thank you, Alfred, tell them I'll be there in a minute."

"Very good, Sir."

Alfred tuned and entered the Bat-Elevator. Batman turned back toward Robin and said, "We'll finish this later."

Batman changed into his civilian clothes and left in the Bat-Elevator as Robin just sat at the Bat-Computer, watching Bruce get into the elevator.

Once Bruce was gone, Robin let out a sigh of relief and turned back to the computer to finish his second search.