Life in the Batfamily

Chapter 4

Emma awoke slowly and when she did, she felt cold. She looked around and saw, she was locked in some room probably underground. She was lying on a very old and rusty bed and next to her was her brother. "Damian,wake up" she said shaking him awake. Damian protested and slept. Emma rolled her eyes as he was causing her to take extreme measures. Which she didn't mind one bit. Emma slapped Damian across the face which woke him up quickly. "What did you do that for!?" Damian asked his sister. She gestured to the room they were now in. Emma heard a noise like a groan and got off the bed she was on to look around. She didn't have to look far to find all of her brothers and sisters chained to the wall. "Damian, give me a boost" Emma told her brother, whose face now had a red hand mark on it. He grunted in response,and helped her undo the chains holding Emily. Emily collapsed to the ground. "Grayson!" Emma yelled. She groaned but soon got up on her feet. She looked around and saw the others chained up. She helped Damian and Emma release the rest of their siblings from their chains hanging them on the wall. "Where are we?" Tim asked. They all looked at the eldests hoping that they had an answer. "From what I can tell we have to be in a basement or storage room" Emily said. She closed her eyes and put her hand to the ground. "Leaky pipe dripping water but there are pipes above it that are running" she continued. "So, there is someone living above us" Jason said. "Probably our captors,and evil superman" Rachel said. The four youngest stared at the oldest as they did not know that Superman was behind this. "A copy of Superman knocked out Batman and threw us through a portal which I guess lead us here" Dick explained. Emily thought about what happened with Superman which involuntarily brought her hand to her neck. "Grayson, what happened to your neck?" Damian asked. Her neck had a red hand mark on it. "I tried to fight back but he was too fast" Emily said avoiding eye contact with her family. "He grabbed me by my neck and squeezed just enough until I passed out." she explained. "If only I was stronger" she thought. "If I was stronger than I could have helped my family stay out of harm's way" she thought to herself.

~~~meanwhile~~~~

Batman awoke feeling groggy and in pain. He rubbed the back of his head trying to remember what happened. He remembered coming in here finding all of his kids asleep and then Superman came in and knocked him out.  He looked around the room trying to figure out what happened while he was unconscious. He figured that whoever that was pretending to be superman came in and used a boom tube to kidnap his kids. His former worker or whoever was behind this must have figured that Batman would get involved as he is a friend of Bruce Wayne. He found a device lying on the ground near the far wall. He picked it up and examined the device. It was a motherbox that would have activated a boom tube which could have been used as a means of getaway device. Batman continued to examine the room to see if he could find any clues about what else might have happened. As he was trying to find some more clues about what happened, he noticed how the light from the halls was reflecting off an object on the ground. He walked over and saw that it was an escrima stick. One of his kids, most likely Emily had tried to fight off their captor. He clenched his fist holding the baton in anger at the idea that he had failed to protect his kids. "I will find you." he said to no one in particular. "Stay safe" he thought to himself.