heard
footsteps and looked up to see a woman in a white nurse' s uniform holding up
a large glass of water with a straw. The womahe straw to Robin' s
lips and said, "you' re dehydrated, drink this." Robin knew he he
water, and he was so helpless that there was or poison him,
so he sipped deeply. The water had a harsh metallic taste. Oh shit,
thought the Boy Wohat was drugged! Now what? The woma as
Robin' s mind began to swim. The harsh white light of the arc lamps begin to
flicker into a million different colors and swirl around him. The pain in
his arms almost seemed to dissipate as the room spun around him.
It' s time, thought the Pied Piper. He dimmed the arc lights and
activated the cooling fans which blew the hot air out of Robin' s cubicle.
Then he walked through the hidden door He lifted Robin' s with one
hand and stared straight into the boy' s heavy-lidded eyes. "I am the Pied
Piper. I have roamed the world slaking my unquenchable hunger for the flesh
of teenage boys and now I have e to Gotham City for the most famous teen
titan of all."
"Those other boys were just bait for you, Robin," the Piper said.
"They' ve already been flushed into the river and that warehouse has been
buro the ground. I' m sure someone will fish them out eventually. You
see, I knew Batman was away with the JLA and I figured you' d figure out that
videotape clue I left for you. And you fell right into my trap. I had
to burn your uniform, since I wasn' t sure where Batman might have hidden his
little trag devices. In fact, your whole body was x-rayed before we
arrived at this facility, just to make sure there weren' t a
transmitters hidden under your skin. We don' t want Batman breaking up our
little party, now do we?"
"I am going to break you, Robin. I am going to make you my slave,"
growl