Life in the Batfamily

Chapter 6

3 days later...

Emily walked back and forth in their cell, waiting, wondering. ¨Emily, can you please stop pacing. It's not helping¨ Sam said. ¨Sorry, I'm just wondering if Raven's okay.¨ Emily said now standing still. All of the batkids hung their heads. Since, no one had come for them yet, they had to assume that Raven had not been able to tell them where they were. A creak echoed throughout the room as the door opened,and brought some very rare light into the dark room. Two figures entered the room, and stood by the door as a third person entered the room. The eldests kids stepped forward in front of their siblings, ready for anything. ¨Calm down now. We are not here to fight,we are here to make a deal.¨ said the mysterious third person.  ¨Why would we ever make a deal with you?¨ Emily spat gritting her teeth trying to fight the urge of attacking the people who were responsible for putting her family in danger just so they could get to Batman. ¨If the two of you would follow us then I promise everything will be explained¨ the figure said pointing at Dick and Emily. The two looked back at the rest of their family thinking about if they should trust these people. What choice did they have? The two nodded in response and walked forward to join the figure. Now that they had some light they could see that the figure was wearing a suit and a mask that resembled an owl. The guards and the masked figure led the two eldest bat kids out of the room,and through a hallway. A question came to mind in Dick Grayson's head. Why us?
The remaining proteges of the bat sat in their cell waiting to see what was going to happen next. Once again, the door creaked open and several shadowy figures entered in. The proteges were pushed onto their knees with their hands soon cuffed behind their backs. Before any of them could do anything, all of them were blinded. The figures brought them to their feet and walked them out of their room. Rachel Todd could tell that they had to be underground and far away from the city due to her not hearing any of the Gotham commute. They led them through many twists and turns which led Rachel to believe that she and her siblings had to be walking through a labyrinth. They were probably trying to confuse them so that they couldn't find their way back.  After what felt like a couple more minutes, the siblings were shoved to the ground. It didn't take long for each one of them to get free from their bonds. ¨Where are we?¨ Rachel asked. Sam pulled out her phone and after typing on it for a few minutes she was able to isolate their location.  ¨We are almost outside of Gotham¨ Sam said pointing at her map. ¨Well, what are we supposed to do now? We are down two people!¨ Jason pointed out. ¨We get back to the watchtower. Dick and Emily gave us a chance to figure out what's going on. We should take it¨ Rachel said, now being the voice of reason. Soon enough they started on their journey to Gotham City. Once there, they walked into an alley where the only thing there was an old phone booth. One by one they went inside and were zeta tubed to the watchtower.

At the watchtower:
    Batman was thinking about what his next move should be when he heard the zeta tube go off announcing that six people had arrived. He turned around and saw six of his kids and proteges standing there. Batman smiled and welcomed them back home but before he could ask them, the teams came in and welcomed the returning heroes home. ¨At least most of us made it home¨ Tim said with a sad look in his eyes. All of them held their heads down thinking about how they had got here. "Yeah, speaking of most of you. Where's Nightwing and Nightclaw?" Flash( Wally West) asked, looking around, hoping to see them. ¨The people holding us captive let us go but Graysons had to stay behind. They wanted to discuss a deal with them¨ Damian explained. ¨Why them?¨ Tigress asked. ¨We don't know. But, with you six here, we can find them and the people responsible for this¨ Batman said clenching his fist. All the heroes nodded yes in response. ¨Suit up¨ Batman said. ¨We're going to get my kids back¨ Batman said as the heroes walked away to prepare for the fight.
    As the heroes walked away to prepare to save their friends, Batman walked to the computer to finish what he was working on. He had figured that this was not a former employee behind this but someone else. There was no way his former employee could pull off something like this. Whoever was behind this, they were somehow connected to Dick and Emily. One of the chemicals Raven had been exposed to, he had seen somewhere before. He pulled up Dick and Emily's files and looked for anything to do with a chemical known as Electrum. They wanted the two of them for a reason but what was it? Where they somehow tied into the people behind this? He found nothing about the chemical but an old case at haly circus. The two reported finding an old book with a list of names in them with the last two names being theirs. They had not figured out what it meant as this was a case the two were still working on. What was going on with Dick and Emily?