s-grearang that would discharge a powerful
dose of nerve gas on impact. Holding his breath, he crashed through the
skylight to the floor in a hail of metal and glass, and expertly slung the
Batarang at the Pied Piper. The Batarang exploded into a cloud of gas but
the massive figure of the Pied Piper tinued his relentless meical
flogging motion. "It' s a trap, Robin!" screamed one of the boys. "That' s
not the Piper, it' s a robot!"
Robin turned quickly to assess the situation when he felt a stinging
pain in his calf. He looked at his leg and saw a tranquilizer dart embedded
in his flesh. Out of nowhere, another hit his shoulder. Robin tucked and
rolled across the floor, assuming a defeance when a third dart
landed in his thigh. He couldn' t see where they were ing from. Robin
tried to dive across the floor but his leg collapsed under his weight as the
dart' s venom began to take effect. Instinctively, Robin reached for the
SOS alarm in his utility belt' s buckle but before he could trigger the
signal, a massive hand grabbed his forearm and pulled it away from his belt.
Robin mao look up into the grinning, black-hooded face of the Pied
Piper before everything dissolved into blaess…
PART 2
Robin' s eyes fluttered open in pitch darkness and the Boy Wonder
immediately grimaced from the ag pain shooting throughout his body.
Okay, he thought, fighting to trol his breathing and stave off panic,
I' m still alive. He remembered Batman' s lessons and started to take
iory of his surroundings. He was naked and suspended by his wrists.
And his mask was gone, although for now, that was the least of his problems.
From the incredible pain in his arms, Robin guessed he had been dangling
there for at least several hours. He looked down and saw that his ankles
were manacled ahered to the floor, so h