Life in the Batfamily

Chapter 5

~~back in the dark room~~~~

The batfamily walked around the room trying to see if they had an way to escape. "Let's face it. There's no way out" Rachel sitting down against the wall they were previously chained to. "We can't give up. There has to be a way out" Emily said determined. She looked around the room again thinking about how her sister was correct. They had found no way to escape, they were stuck in here. A thud was heard which startled everyone out of thought. Tim had collapsed to the ground and was holding his back. Emily quickly ran over and lifted up his shirt to see bruises covering his back all red and possibly infected. He was probably hurt when he was thrown through the portal by "Superman". "Can you do anything?" Jason asked. "I don't know. If I had my supplies then yes but right now I don't know" she explained. A thought came to her which caused a smile to appear on her face. She laid down on the ground and started looking underneath the bed for something. "When I attacked Superman and he grabbed me, I used my foot to grab my satchel. I remember being thrown into the room. So,maybe it's-, yes found it" Emily said from underneath the bed. She crawled out from underneath and held up a black satchel. "Your bag!" Sam exclaimed. Emily nodded and pointed to the bed telling Tim to sit down. She rummaged through the back,and pulled out some medical items tending to Tim's bruises. "That should do it. How do you feel?" Emily asked her younger brother hopefully. "Better, thanks" Tim said getting up off it, twisting and turning his back. "Drake's fine but we still can get out of here.!" Emma said practically yelling. Just as she said that a door opened and a bright light shined through blinding the kids. A dark figure stood in the doorway. They placed something down and the door was once again sealed shut. Dick walked forward and grabbed the item to see it was a piece of paper with writing on it. "What does it say?" Jason asked his brother. "Hello kids. Sorry for the violence but I wanted to send your father a message. He wants to change Gotham for the so call ¨better¨. he must know that Gotham is not his city, and that  it never was! Your father took some things that belong to us. He believes he knows the reason why this is happening and who we are. Well, he is wrong.! You will stay here until he gives in. We need something from Batman,and he will give us what we want if he wants to see his kids,his partners alive again! Yes we know who you are,and we are not afraid to use those to our advantage. Until he helps us, this will be your home. Might as well get comfy. "We're never getting out of here."Jason said plainly. "Focus on the bigger issues will you. Somebody else is behind this and they somehow know who we and Bruce are"Emily said, worry creeping into her voice. "Big questions are what did Batman take from them,and what do they need it for?"Tim asked. The batkids all stared at one another wondering what was to happen.

At the watchtower, Batman was trying to use the computers there to track and find his missing kids. So far he had no luck,  was becoming frustrated that someone took his kids from him and somehow vanished without a single trace. He was currently trying to find the location of where the boom tube lead to. The problem was that this one had been used several times before, and whoever was behind this was smart as they hid the location with a very complex firewall that would take even the dark knight a while to hack.
The zeta tubes went off announcing that the senior members of the team,the titans,and the team's mentors had arrived. "Hey Batman, we came to see if you had..." Wally was saying but cut off when he saw what was going on. He ran forward to the escrima stick being analyzed trying to identify the mysterious fingerprints on it. Wally recognized the escrima stick that belonged to one of his best friends, Nightclaw. "What happened to them?"he asked worry for his friends growing bigger and bigger by the minute. "Nightwing,Nightclaw,Red hoods,Red Robin,Red Jay,Robin,and Jay were all captured by someone disguised as Superman" Batman explained, now facing the heroes. "This can't be a coincidence. Yesterday, I found Superman unconscious in a warehouse in Metropolis"Superboy said clenching his fist. "My main goal right now is to find them. I found Nightclaw's weapon on the ground which means that she tried to fight him off but failed. I also found some of her blood on the floor which meant that probably when he first grabbed her, she tried to fight back,and he in response hit her. Which would have caused Nightwing to get involved but judging by the motherbox I found, he was probably hit through it and while he was turned around Nightclaw grabbed a baton and tried to hit him with it but he stopped her, knocked her unconscious and he took her through and to wherever they took the rest of them" Batman explained hiding the worry for his kids creeping into his voice. "Maybe I can be of help" Raven the empath said. Raven walked forward into the middle of the room and sat with her legs crossed, meditating. Cold air slowly filled the room as the empath focused her powers on finding her friends. Then out of nowhere her eyes glowed white and Raven teleported out of the watchtower.
A cold chill blew through the dark room. All the batkids turned to see as a pillar of smoke formed in the middle of the room. "Raven!" Emily exclaimed in joy of her friend arriving. The smoke disappeared and now standing in place of the smoke was a pale girl with long black hair wearing a white dress. "Richard,Jackie. Thank Azar" Raven said walking forward and hugging her friends. "What are you doing here?" Dick asked wondering if what he was thinking was true. "Batman is trying to find you all and I assumed that I could use my powers to find your location."Raven explained to them. "That be great but, you're now stuck in here with us"Damian growled in anger. "Maybe you can help us. You can teleport outside of here and see where we are. Then you can go back to Batman and tell him where we are." Emily said with a smile growing on her face. "I will try" Raven said. She walked away from her friends,raised her hands in the air as smoke started to surround her. "Don't lose hope. We will find you" Raven said before disappearing.
Raven appeared outside in front of some buildings. She looked around to see where she was. She saw some street signs that she committed to memory so she could inform Batman where his kids were. A figure slowly crept up behind her. She turned around and she was immediately hit with a taser. The empath screamed in pain right before collapsing to the ground. The figure pulled out a vile and sprayed it in her face and watched as she breathed it in. Underneath the mask, the mysterious figure smiled. They retreated back into the shadows waiting,watching.
The empath slowly awoke,and clutched her head in pain. She looked around and saw that she was somehow in the medbay at the watchtower. Donna troy walked into the room and smiled when she saw her friend was awake. "Good to see that you're awake."Donna said. "There is bad news. What is it?"Raven asked her. Donna's smile faded and she let out a deep sigh. "You teleported yourself here, still unconscious. Batman ran a test and found a combination of chemicals in your bloodstream which we did remove. But combined they affect the memory portion of the brain,and causes you to forget some things. So, the question is what do you remember?"Donna explained. "I remember everything up to me teleporting out of here" Raven said with a sad look in her eyes. "So whoever is behind this, doesn't want us to know where they are and are willing to do whatever it takes to stay hidden" a voice said behind the two. Batman stood in the doorway looking at the holo-computer on his glove.  "We can try to use the chemicals to find their location by tracing their radiation signals back to where they were manufactured"the dark knight explained to the two. "Which could help us find their location"Raven said with a smile on her face. "Hopefully" Batman said walking away.