Part 6
What has gone before..
Prometheus has escaped once more after his last capture, and while lying low happened to capture the young Worlds Finest pairing of Supergirl and Batgirl. He brainwashed them to be his slaves and has used their knowledge to capture Oracle. Oracle meanwhile had sent out 2 teams to find the missing heroines. both teams, consisting of Huntress, Power Girl, Black Canary and Catwoman have also been captured and brainwashed.
Huntress was sold to the Joker, whom she fucked to death; she has taken his place at the head of his crime empire. Prometheus has corrupted the world computer networks and the big guns of the world are busy putting out fires globally, trusting Batman and his remaining allies (including Green Arrow) to find and neutralize Prometheus.
But currently Nightwing stands waiting for the arrival of a mysterious ally, Robin is unconscious and Spoiler is standing naked before the Joker! Prometheus meanwhile is sleeping peacefully between his two young first captives.. Read on!
Cast: Prometheus, Batgirl (Cassandra Cain), Supergirl (Linda Danvers), Power Girl (Karen Starr), Black Canary (Dinah Lance), Catwoman (Selina Kyle), Oracle (Barbara Gordon), Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) - Joker II, Nightwing (Dick Grayson), Robin (Jason Todd), Batman (Bruce Wayne), Superman (Clark Kent), Green Arrow (Oliver Queen), Spoiler (Stephanie)
Chapter 17
Ollie roared through the streets on his borrowed batcycle to the address that he'd been given. He dodged crowds and groups of people, even those with obvious ill intent. this was too important to start getting sidetracked by side issues.
He pulled into the deserted warehouse and parked next to Nightwing's bike; he quickly climbed down the open manhole there into the satellite bat-cave.
"You must be Nightwing." He said as reached the ground to see a young man wearing a black and blue outfit watching him. For some reason the young man had a huge grin on his face.
"Green Arrow? Great to see you again!" the young man walked up to him and shook his hand vigorously.
"Again? We've met before?"
Nightwing smiled. "The last time we met I was wearing a Robin outfit!"
Ollie was amazed. "Robin? As in leader of the Titan's? Roy's Pal? Gees, you've grown up quickly."
"Thanks. the fact that you only remember me from 8 years ago helps, I'm sure! Anyhow, we've got work to do."
"Yep, we can have the official reunion later. Where to?"
"Follow me." Said Dick, climbing up the ladder.
They reached the surface, replaced the manhole cover and headed off into the night on their bikes.
Batman.
He reached the lock-up garage where Oracle had directed the Huntress and opened it. Inside was unspectacular - a couple of chairs, a table and a computer monitor hooked up to a GSM link and a camera. Obviously Oracle had set up a videoconference here; the data feed would have been direct from her computer - no clues there.
On the table, though, there was a map of Gotham and surrounds. Two arrows were drawn in black ink: one pointed North to a large circled area about 50 miles along the interstate. Unfortunately the circle covered an area 50 miles square. The second indicated a similar zone to the West.
The areas were too large for them to search effectively in the time they had available but it was a start. He closed up the lockup and set off for the bar where he planned to rendezvous with his team.
Nightwing.
They stood on the building across the road from the bar (Ironically the very building that Supergirl herself had stood on a few days earlier) and surveyed the scene below. Spoiler's and Robin's motorcycles were in an alley about a hundred metres away. Their engines were already cool - they had been there for a while.
"Something's gone wrong, Arrow."
A grunt by reply indicated that Arrow agreed with Dick. Outside the bar stood one hood, looking calmly up and down the street while smoking a cigarette.
"I've got to get in there - you stay here and cover me."
In a flash he was gone. "Kids getting more and more like the bat." mused Ollie as he watched the scene below.
Nightwing was already on the other side of the road, creeping towards the bar entrance from doorway to doorway.
"Might as well give the kid a hand." thought Ollie as he saw Nightwing now only 10 metres from the hood. He let fly an arrow.
Nightwing crouched, prepared to pounce on the hood when suddenly a green flash streaked down, hitting the hood and knocking him out cold. Nightwing bent down and picked up the boxing glove arrow. He looked up towards the rooftop and shook his head. A wave came from the green figure on the rooftop. "I can see his big grin from down here!" thought Dick as he prepared to enter.
Spoiler's Woe
"And don't even think of moving, sweetie." Snarled the Joker, striding into the room with two of the henchmen at her side.
Of the remaining three, two stood by the door: their guns trained on her and Robin while one stepped outside. Joker walked up to Robin and lifted his head by his hair. Seeing no reaction from the boy wonder she dropped it again on the floor.
"Put this hero in a chair and tie him up." Ordered the Joker. "Remove his gloves and belt, and pull his pants down around his ankles."
Silently one of the goons moved to comply.
"Wh. who are you?" asked Spoiler, trying to cover her breasts and cunt with her hands and arms.
"Can't you tell from the outfit, sweetie? I'm the Joker." Came the reply.
"But. I thought the Joker was a man!" said Steph. She hoped if she kept talking and kept Joker talking maybe they would escape harm.
"Was, but not any more!" Joker let out a shrill laugh then slapped Steph across the cheek. "now shut up and let me think for a minute."
One of the henchmen by the door called out. "Hey, Joker. These two are still alive." The gunman indicated the bouncer and the customer who had originally had the gun.
"No, no they're not." Murmured the Joker, deep in thought.
The henchman nodded and put the gun against the bouncer's temple and fired, killing him instantly. He then walked up to the customer and shot him in an identical fashion. The customer was blown out of his chair by the force of the blast and came to rest on the floor.
"Done, boss." Came the call from one of the men working on Robin. Steph turned to look and saw Robin tied to the chair firmly, and his pants around his ankles. He was naked from his waist to his ankles.
"OK, boys. Let's have some fun. I'll take the boy wonder while you guys can take it in turns of two to have some fun with this blonde bimbo. I want the guys not fucking to be there (she indicated) and there in the room, to cover everything. Oh, and blondie. You try anything clever and we'll blow you and your boyfriend away. Be nice!"
With that she turned to Robin and smiled. Quickly she shook of her shoes and pulled off her pants before sitting down on Robin's lap. "Time for a wet dream, boy blunder." She said while her hand started massaging his cock.
Despite his unconscious state he became hard instantly.
"Mmmmm, good. You're a BIG boy!" she smiled and raised herself up and lowered herself onto his cock.
Spoiler meanwhile found herself roughly grabbed from behind and thrown on top of one of the grinning hoods on a bar table. She gasped as the hood that threw her there roughly opened her legs and hoisted her onto his friends waiting and eager cock.
"No!" she gasped as she felt him impale her and start thrusting from below. The other hood meanwhile quickly dropped his pants and took up position behind her. She felt his cockhead at the entrance to her arse and stiffened in shock as she felt him enter her deep.
"Uuugh!" she cried out as the pain of the entrance hit her, and the friction from his ragged thrusts started to hurt. Meanwhile the hood under her was still thrusting away merrily. She attempted to move a little, to try to find a position to reduce her discomfort but there wasn't one available to her, and while her cunt produced liquids to lubricate the rapid entry and exit of the hood's cock, her backside had no such luxury.
Her discomfort was increased by the fact that the hood behind her was clearly enjoying himself, with long, hard strokes into her, and by the fact that his cock was bigger than the guy's underneath her. She felt them both building up speed, and the guy behind her roughly grabbed her breasts, pinching her nipples at the same time.
"Oooow!" she cried.
The man behind her smiled at her pain and pinched again, harder. "OWWW" she cried again and tried to struggle against his rough hands, but her movements were just what her rapists were looking for. As she wiggled her hips and her breasts jiggled from the movement the man beneath her came with a roar. She grimaced as she felt his halitosis-ridden breath on her face and his cockhead explode within her.
"Ugh!" she gasped at the violence of his orgasm, and she felt herself pushed down on the man underneath her as the henchman on top of her also came, and then collapsed his weight on her. Slowly she felt their members shrink inside her until the man on top pulled himself out of her and picked her up, lifting her off the guy underneath's cock.
"Right," said one of the men, with a snarl. "Time to swap."
Robin meanwhile was still passed out. He was coming to though as the sensation of the Joker riding his cock began to filter through his senses. Joker laughed again and again in glee as she rode him hard. "I killed the last man I fucked, Robin red-head. Will you get the same?" she asked while she humped.
Slowly the voice and the sensation woke him. "Wha?" he asked
Joker grabbed his mouth and pulled him into a deep, biting kiss that opened his eyes to his predicament. He saw Joker's hideously pained face bouncing up and down in front of his; her breasts gleefully bouncing almost out of the confines of the jacket.
In shock he started deflating immediately. Joker leaned close to him and whispered "Keep it up, sonny, or you and your blonde headed bimbo are going to get it!"
Robin grasped her intent immediately and concentrated on maintaining his erection. The thing was though; he didn't have to concentrate very hard! Once he got over the initial shock of his predicament he had to admit that the sensation of her bouncing up and down on his cock was very pleasant indeed.. Being a virgin he had never experienced anything like it: the feeling of his long member rubbing up and down a well lubricated, yet tight passage. Very enjoyable indeed. He gasped as she grabbed his head and thrust it between her breasts as they moved up and down. Robin managed to point his face downwards slightly in order to maintain an air passage through which to breath, and for a second allowed himself to enjoy the sensation of her breasts rubbing up and down over his ears. With a sudden grip and a roar though she came. She clenched down on his cock and moved up with even more speed and uncontrollably Robin felt his orgasm building. A few more thrusts down on his cock and he grunted as he came inside her.
She continued to hump for a few seconds more.
"I want all your cum, boy wonder. She said as she thrust up and down one last time and he felt himself clench and release one last stream of cum into her.
She smiled as she stood up, leaving his softening cock exposed to the air.
"I guess now I'm having twins - one of them is your baby and one's the old Joker's!" and she peeled off another hideous laugh.
Robin looked across the room to where Spoiler lay. The two men were just pulling out of her: she looked broken, thought Robin.
Suddenly the door crashed open and Nightwing rolled into the room. He stood up as two guns suddenly swung around to draw a bead on him, and dived behind the bouncer's counter. Two shots rang out and two impact holes appeared on the side of the counter.
"Oh, Nightwing." Cooed Joker seductively. "You can come out now. otherwise we'll put bullet holes in your friends' heads!"
Robin heard a click and felt cold metal pressed against his temple. He swallowed. He saw Dick peer around the corner of the counter and saw him weigh up the situation. He stood up with his hands above his head.
The Joker laughed again. She indicated the hood who had been under Spoiler. "You. Close that door and do to him what you did to Robin here." She kissed Robin on the cheek as she said that.
The hood walked across to Nightwing and forcefully sat him down on a chair near to Robin's. He removed Nightwing's gloves and belt and then cuffed his hands through the chair. Finally Dick felt his pants pulled down and left around his ankles.
The guard left him and walked over to stand watch while the other two guards moved towards Stephanie. Joker moved over and sat on Nightwing's lap.
She kissed him deeply and began stoking his cock, and pretty soon he was hard as rock. Dick recognized the kiss and opened his mouth amazed. "Hunt.. Helena?" he asked.
She smiled as she buried his shaft within herself. "Once, maybe, but I'm much better now!" she said between gasps as she moved up and down the full length of his cock. Nightwing gasped as her touch reminded him so much of the few evenings (and mornings) they had spent together. before the quake, he realized. She kissed him again, and to his own shock he found himself kissing back.
"That's it, Lover." She whispered in his ear as she moved faster and faster on him.
He gasped as she suddenly came, clenching down on his cock and burying him in a heavy embrace. Her stroke faltered for a moment then returned. Her pace continued at its fast pace and she came again, harder this time. He gasped as he tried to hold back but couldn't, and with a gasp came deep and hard inside her. His pelvis thrust against his bonds as he tried to put more of his seed inside her until finally she stopped and sat down on his cock. She gave him another strong kiss then.
"Thanks, lover." She whispered as her face pulled back and the moment where Dick forgot who he was fucking and remembered who she used to be vanished and he gasped.
"Helena, what happened to you?" he asked.
She smiled and punched him heavily on the jaw.
"What do you mean what happened to me?" she asked. "After your years of refusal and intolerance is it any wonder I turned my back on you and the bat? And when a better opportunity for my own advancement came along is it any wonder that I took it? And the fact that the one means I get to screw you, both figuratively and literally is purely a bonus."
The venom in her words stung him hard - maybe they had let her down a little. But they had tried to bring her around. hadn't they?
Things had not gotten any better for Spoiler meanwhile. The guards had exchanged duties, and she now found two fresh men grabbing her. She gasped as one hoisted her up and pulled her legs around his waist. He then mounted her on his cock. she grunted as her passage, now lubricated by her previous rapist's cum easily took his large member. Then she felt his mouth on hers, while his strong hands supported her under her armpits. His mouth moved down and she felt him gently kiss and lick at her nipples.
"Uhh!" she gasped. God, this man had a good touch. She felt him start to move slowly inside her.
Then she felt another cock pressing into her raw arse and gasped as it penetrated, thrusting deep inside. Thanks to the previous rapist's cum, this time was not nearly as painful, and although she hated to admit it, she was turned on by the whole situation.
She began to groan in time with their thrusts, and her sexual excitement was heightened by both the man in her cunt, who was reaching down and licking her nipples between thrusts, and the man behind her, who was kissing her neck and nibbling her ears. Her groans became louder and more sexual as her excitement, once began, started to build. Her movements started to become less about avoiding the pain of their thrusts, and more about enjoying the sensation in her sex.
She felt the two men rising towards a crescendo, while at the same time her own orgasm began to rise. Sensing her excitement, the two men began to thrust harder and faster, driving her faster towards her ultimate climax. With a hard thrust she felt the man behind her grunt and cum inside her.
"Ooooh!" she gasped as he thrust twice more hard into her backside. With the increased lubrication now of his cum she was almost enjoying the but-fuck. The man in her cunt started thrusting harder as well until finally she came, thrusting her head backwards to look to the ceiling while pushing her breasts out and grinding her pelvis closer against his.
"Uuuurgh!" she gasped through the pleasure of the orgasm as she felt her passage close firmly over his cock while he thrust hard, again and again. The pleasure she was now feeling from her rape was now overwhelming her, and she felt another orgasm building as the first subsided.
"Ohhh, yes, yes!" she gasped as his pace picked up until he suddenly came.
"Gaaah!" he gasped as he felt his jism surge out of his own cock and into her. Her orgasm was almost within reach as she felt the first man withdraw from her backside and the second one pull her off his cock and put her back on the table.
"Finish me!" she pleaded, but he just looked at her and smiled. She found her own hand suddenly at her sex as she massaged her clitoris.
"Uuh!" she gasped as she felt the orgasm almost there, within reach until finally.
"Aaaaaaaaah!" she came.
She pulled her hand away from her sex as she recovered there on the table. She opened her eyes to see the two men leering at her. The shame of the moment overwhelmed her and she turned her face to the side and buried it in her hands.
"God," I can smell my own cum on my fingers." She gasped and let out a sob.
She looked across at Nightwing and Robin, both still bound in their chairs, looking at her with pity in their eyes. Joker laughed.
"Quite an eager little victim we have here, it seems!" she laughed and kissed Steph on the forehead. "Now what more fun can I have with you poor innocent victims."
She picked up Spoiler and carried her over to Robin. "Tell you what, slut. If you can make both these fine young men cum within 10 minutes I won't kill you all."
Spoiler's head shot up in shock. "No!" shouted Robin. "She's been through enough. Let her go now."
Joker grabbed Robin by the jaw and tightened her grip painfully. "You see, my little stud. I hold the guns, I make the rules. You now have nine and a half minutes left to cum in blondie. Do you want to waste any more time?"
Steph had gotten the message, and was even now sitting on Robin's lap. Slowly she raised her hips and lowered herself on his cock. "I'm sorry." She whispered, tears running down her face.
Robin just nodded and relaxed and tried to enjoy the sensation, to put out of his mind the four guns pointing at them. Steph reached across and took Nightwing's cock in her hand. She started moving it up and down his shaft while raising and lowering herself on Robin's cock.
Robin tried to picture himself doing this elsewhere, perhaps in his bed at home with Stephanie making love to him voluntarily instead of at the end of a pointed gun. He thought about his feelings for her. how they had grown closer during her pregnancy and how they had, for a time, been a couple before No Mans Land and his move to Brentwood put paid to that. He smiled and began to enjoy the actions. Hell, he's wanted to do this for a long time anyway, he thought, and he began to gasp and strain against his bonds to thrust into her a little.
She noticed the change and forgetting herself for a moment put both hands around Tim's neck and began to ride him harder. Soon he found his own gasping getting more strained until finally he came: he strained against every bond which held him as he tried to thrust up into her and let out a grunt as he felt the last of his jism leave his cock and flow into Steph's womb.
She hugged him and kissed him, looking deep into hi eyes with deep sorrow. He nodded.He understood.
"Two minutes, lovebirds!" laughed the Joker.
Spoiler gasped in shock. "Nightwing!"
"Ready when you are." Smiled Nightwing. Two minutes.. He cleared his mind of the situation and thought about the women he'd loved, of the women he'd made love to. He gasped as suddenly he felt Spoiler's mouth over his cock. God, she was good at this!
He thought about the times he had made love. to Starfire, to Helena as Spoiler's hand moved expertly up and down his shaft while her tongue played with his cockhead. Her other hand gently massaged his balls, coaxing his sperm out.
His orgasm rose quickly and he gasped as she suddenly put her finger up his backside. "Wha..?" he gasped as she rubbed her fingertip against his prostate and uncontrollably he came, shooting a thick wad of cum straight down her throat. She continued a few more strokes along his shaft, coaxing out the last of his cum before taking her mouth off his cockhead. She looked up at him wiping her mouth and smiled.
"Sorry about that, but I thought we were running out of time." She said.
Nightwing cleared his throat. "No, errr, no worries. Anything for the fight against crime." He smiled to try to break the tension.
"Yes, very good, dears." Said the Joker. "But you missed your deadline by five seconds. Your time was up."
"No, Helena. Your time is up!" The Batman stood in the doorway.
Joker turned calmly while her gun came up, trained on Spoiler's head and Nightwing's crotch. "Please, Batman. I prefer Joker nowadays. And why do you say that my time is up when I have guns trained on both you and your pet rabbits here?"
"Because. Put down your guns and give yourself up. and I might go easy on you."
Joker laughed her insane laugh again. "Batman, one more move and I will blow this pretty little girl away. Then my men will put bullets into both Robin's and Nightwing's heads. If one of them gets lucky, they might even hit you, but I doubt that. You seem pretty good at dodging bullets. But it won't matter. Your partners will all be dead! Nyahahaha!"
Batman was shocked. The depth of her belief in herself as the Joker was not something he had envisaged. Listening to her at the door he had been certain that faced with the cold water of reality, she would fold. That did not seem to be the case. Whatever the cause of the change, it had been done effectively. Possibly irrevocably. The predicament of his partners had ruled out any type of assault, and Helena's threat to their lives had forced him to play his hand, even though he wasn't quite ready for it. He put his hands up.
"Take me and let the others go." He said.
"No, no. I don't think so. I think I'll take you and keep the others here to watch!" A henchman walked up to him. He removed his cape and gloves before leading him to a chair. Before Batman could sit down he felt his utility belt removed and his pants pulled down around his ankles. The he was pushed into his seat and his hands cuffed through the metal bars backing the chair.
"Put another pair of cuffs on." Ordered the Joker, and Batman felt another snap of metal behind him as his hands were double bound. "Now, watch this boys." She smiled as she reached into a bag and pulled out three grenades.
"Batman, please hold your hands together." The politeness of the request seemed to match the insanity of the situation, but Batman did as he was asked.
"Now the biggest threat from you, Mr Bat is that you will use your nimble fingers to do some damage to my little scheme here. So. this grenade will go in this hand;" she pulled the pin out of a grenade and inserted it in his one hand "and this grenade will go in the other." And she pulled out the pin on another grenade and placed it in his other hand. "Now you keep a good hold on those grenades, Batman. I wouldn't want the father of my fourth child to die unexpectedly now. And anyway, this third grenade I will place between your hands like so." she balanced the grenade between the backs of his closed fists. Again the pin was removed. ".So if Batman moves his hands AT ALL.. Kaboom!"
Batman remained silent. she had effectively neutralized any chance he might have had of picking his locks, but he was trying hard to think of a way out of this.
"Blondie!"
Spoiler started in surprise. Joker was obviously calling her. "Yes, errr, Joker."
"Do me a favour, please. I'm going to fuck Batman now but I'm worried that I don't know where his dick's been. Clean it for me."
Spoiler gasped. Batman's cock was bigger than any she had seen before. plus he was the Batman, she couldn't.. although she had to admit that in her darker moments she had fantasized about it a little, especially now that she was working much closer with him.
Batman watched her carefully as she knelt down in front of him and took his cock into her mouth. Batman prided himself on his mastery of his mind over his body, but had to admit it was a strain not to get turned on by her sucking and licking at his member.
"Now, Batman. I can see you gritting your teeth in strain. Let yourself go or I might grow impatient with her and put a bullet through her brain. Of course, it'll take out your cock as well in one shot."
In shock Spoiler began to lick and suck at his cock harder, with more urgency and Batman, realizing her insanity and the probability of her following up on her threat, allowed his cock to go hard. Spoiler almost choked as it sprang to life, filling out inside her mouth. For a second she was deep-throating him until she pulled back to allow her tongue to sweep across and around his cock head.
"Don't forget his balls, dearie." Said the Joker with a laugh, and Spoiler took her mouth off his cock and carefully placed it over each of his balls, sucking gently and cleaning them with her tongue.
"OK, all clean now. Thanks slut." Laughed the Joker and pushed her away. "Now Batman, I know you could hold out forever, but if you don't cum inside me pretty darned quickly I might grow bored and put a bullet in someone's head."
With that she raised her leg over his lap and sat down directly on his cock.
"Mmmmm, yes!" she smiled as she buried him fully inside her.
Slowly she began to move up and down. Her hands went over his shoulders and her breasts pushed into his face. Batman smiled and came.
She looked at him. "Very funny, big boy, but that wasn't nearly good enough. Lucky you have such mastery over your body otherwise there'd be a problem in you staying hard now. as it is I want to scream your name in pleasure. then we might stop." She began moving again.
Batman grunted as he quickly overcame the sensitivity of his cock to start enjoying the new movements. Joker was grinding herself along the full length of his cock before thrusting back down on it suddenly. But her movements gradually became smoother and slightly shorter as she felt her own orgasm building.
Batman gasped as he started falling under the spell of the sensation coming from his cock, and gasped and grunted with her movements as they picked up in speed. He considered. maybe an earth shattering orgasm would break the spell that she was under.
He began to kiss he neck, moving his tongue up until her earlobe was in his mouth and then he nibbled a little.
"Uuuh!" Joker murmured as she continued to ride him. Her pace picked up further as his mouth found her lips and began to kiss her passionately, gently biting her lip as his mouth temporarily left hers before plunging back in. Her hands went to the back of his cowl and she pulled his head tight in towards hers as they kissed passionately, while all the time she ground herself onto his lap and then off again.
Finally she could hold her orgasm no longer and screamed "BATMAAAAAN!" as her hips bucked wildly over his cock. She plowed down twice more until Batman could take the strain no more and let out a gasp as he, too, came. She thrust her chest out as she felt him come inside her and her one breast sprang free of the jacket and landed in Bruce's mouth. He gave it a suck and a nibble as he felt his own powerful orgasm slowly fading away into the background, and her movements slowed to a stop as she recovered from hers.
They sat like that, recovering for a few moments, gasping for air and breathing in each other's scent until Joker stood up and looked around.
"Well, that was fun, Bats. And you were such a good lay that I'm going to let you and your friends go alive. I don't want my kids to grow up knowing I killed their Daddies. Rufus! "she suddenly shouted at one of her henchmen. "Get your dick out of her mouth!"
One of the henchmen had taken advantage of Spoiler's shocked state to order her to give him a blow job, which she had been doing with some gusto. He quickly pushed Steph's head away. "Yes boss!" he said, pulling up his pants at the same time. The 4 hoods quickly left the bar, with Joker bringing up the rear, and climbed into the corvette parked there. Mere seconds after the rape had ended they were gone.
"Damn," said the Joker as they drove away. "I left my pants there. Ah, well. Rufus, let's go loot a clothes shop!"
"Aye Aye, Captain!" he said as they swung around a corner and headed for the shopping district.
Green Arrow.
"This is ridiculous," thought Ollie as Batman disappeared into the Bar. "Nightwing goes in and tells me to stay outside, now Bats goes in and orders me to stay here and keep watch. What the hell am I doing here anyway?"
It had now been 15 minutes since Batman had disappeared. What was going on?
Suddenly the front door opened and four men and a woman, without any pants on and dressed like the Joker climbed into a car and drove off. Arrow quickly pulled an arrow and fired it at the car. It hit the back fender and then bounced off. Ollie pulled out a homing beacon tracker and switched it on. The beacon was moving in line with the car - success. Now to go and see what was happening in the bar.
He climbed down the fire escape and entered the bar to be greeted by an amazing site. A naked blonde girl was bending over Nightwing's hands, trying to pick some handcuffs, while he, Robin and Batman sat in their chairs naked from the waist down.
"What the?" he asked. The pungent smell of sex hung around the room.
"Ollie, just cut Robin and Nightwing free and then we can get me out of here." Said Batman. His voice sounded almost like a sigh, thought Ollie as he pulled an blow-torch arrow from his quiver and walked over to take over from the girl.
She gratefully passed on the duty to him and scurried back to pull on her clothes and restore her dignity.
Ollie quickly cut through Robin's and Nightwing's bonds, freeing their hands. They quickly stood up and pulled their pants up. Ollie checked around the back of Batman's hands and whistled.
"Jees, Bats, what happened here?" He took one of the grenades out of Batman's hand, taking care not to release the clip. The pins were lying on the floor, and he carefully reinserted one.
Nightwing meanwhile took the other grenade from Batman's hand. He took a pin from Ollie and reinserted with a sigh of relief - another one neutralized. Green Arrow took the final grenade from between the hands and neutralized that one. Batman tensed his arms and pulled, breaking the chains of both pairs of handcuffs. Nightwing handed him a lock pick and within ten seconds he had removed the four handcuff ends from his wrists and was picking up his utility belt and reattaching his cape to his cowl.
"Prometheus has just made his first mistake." Growled Batman as he stalked out of the bar, the others following. Robin put his arm around Spoiler while they walked and she accepted the comfort gladly.
"I put a tracer on the Joker's car, Bats. Looks like she's downtown at the moment."
"I know. We'll pick up her trail later. Now we need to go back to the cave." They retrieved their bikes from the various hiding positions and headed off as the sun started breaking over the horizon to welcome the new day.
They returned to the Batcave. Bruce climbed wearily off his motorcycle and walked over to the computer and checked on the progress of the activity he had set it working on before he had left. A window showed seventy five percent complete - another three hours at least before it was ready.
"Everyone take a break for a few hours. Meet back here at eleven o'clock." Said Bruce, removing his cowl.
Robin was shocked. "Batman. Steph!"
Batman turned around. "After what we've been through tonight, Steph especially, there are no secrets between us. Go rest."
Nightwing turned to go. "Ollie, I'll show you a room."
"Yeah, maybe you can tell me what happened on the way up." he replied as they walked up the stairs.
Stephanie had taken off her mask as soon as she had dismounted the motorbike. Her shock at Batman revealing his identity to her was minor in relation to the shock when the recognized the face. But she realized that now was neither the time nor the place to raise it. Tim had also removed his mask; he took her hand and led her upstairs to the bedrooms, leaving Bruce alone in the cave.
He pulled out a laptop and set a programme in action on it. work out every possible name which was an anagram of Jack Napier. He then headed for a shower. After his shower he sat in the chair and fell asleep with just a towel around his waist.
Robin showed Steph to her room.
"Tim, don't leave me alone. please." She asked.
"Sure," he said, entering the room with her. A king sized bed was made up ready for guests. Robin wondered if any had ever stayed as he pulled back the curtains to let some sunlight into the room. He turned to see Steph coming out of the bathroom, pulling her top off over her head. He heard the sound of the bath running.
"Steph!"
She looked up at him as she shook her arms free of her shirt sleeves. She walked up to him and gave him a hug. She kissed him deeply.
"I don't want to be judged, Tim. I don't want to be raped again, and I don't want to be the rapist. I just want to be loved." Tears were pouring from her eyes as she looked at him, and her back shuddered as she choked back sobs.
There was nothing Tim could say. He held her until her sobs subsided and she broke away from him to go to the bathtub.
"Come in with me, please." She asked, and Tim followed. He sat next to the bathtub, naked except for a towel around his waist while she bathed and talked to her about Batman, about Robin. About how he came to be Robin and what impact it had had on his life. It felt good to talk to someone about this, he had to admit.
While she washed her hair he took a shower, and as he climbed out of the shower stall she was emerging from the bath. She already looked a lot better than she had, and he wondered what part of that was being able to wash away the grime of the experience and what part was he talking to her and being a friend.
Oracle had told him once about when, as Batgirl, she had been raped. She had said that the hardest part about it was having no one to talk to about it. She hadn't been able to get hold of Batman and Dick had been out of town with the Titans. She had told him, so he would know if he was ever in the situation of having to counsel a rape victim, that the best thing that anyone could do was talk. He hoped that it had been enough.
Steph rubbed her hair dry and then climbed into the bed. She patted the spot beside her and indicated that he should join her. After a moment's hesitation he did, climbing under the covers and sliding up next to her. She put her arm over his shoulder and her head on his chest.
"Thank you, Tim." She murmured, as she fell asleep.
As he felt his eyelids grow heavy Tim swore revenge.
At ten-thirty a knock on the door woke him. He looked up as Alfred walked in, carrying a tray. Steph raised her head wearily.
"Master Tim, Miss Stephanie." Nodded Alfred as he put the tray down on the bed. Not waiting for a response, he left.
"How're you?" Tim asked as she pulled herself up to sit.
"Fine.. Better, anyway." She said. "Hungry."
Tim pulled the tray between them and raised the metal cover to reveal a platter of bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and French bread. "Dig in." he said, smiling.
Half an hour later they were in the Batcave. Steph had insisted that she was fine and ready to help where she could, and the others raised no comment when they arrived in the cavern.
Bruce was dressed again, and turned to address them.
"I set this computer to extract whatever data was still intact on the other computer before we left last night." He started. "It was a long process but I've been able to recover most of the data. The virus attacks the OS, it seems and does relatively minor damage to the files. About sixty percent of the data has been restored; of the data lost most was in this 'old' computer, but what I was particularly looking for was not here, but has been recovered. The land ownership details of the lands around Gotham, especially those to the North and South West should reveal where Prometheus is hiding."
"How, Bruce. I'm sure he wouldn't buy a property under his own name, nor any known alias." Asked Nightwing.
"Prometheus wouldn't, for sure, but the Joker would. Prometheus sold the Huntress to the Joker. I'm convinced that the price was a 'Hide-out' for Prometheus while he pulled this operation. The computer can't match any of Joker's known alias's to the properties in the designated areas; nor can it find an anagram of Joker's name. So he must have registered it under the name of one of his henchmen."
Nightwing continued, knowing what Batman was to say next. "So we go down there, break a few heads, get a few names and our search should be pinpointed."
"Exactly, Dick. And this time we'll have the drop on them. it should be easy enough to take out the gang. Arrow, is your beacon still transmitting?"
"I've plugged the beacon's frequency into your bat-computer, Bats. it's currently here." The display showed a red light on a street in one of the poorer areas of Gotham: one that hadn't even been rebuilt since the quake.
"Good. That's where Joker's hideout is. Kit up: we roll in one hour. Tim, come here please."
Robin left Steph's side and walked over to Batman. "What's wrong, Bruce."
Batman came straight to the point. Talking softly he asked, "Can Spoiler handle today after what happened yesterday?"
"Well, I spoke to her about it and she seems fine."
"Tim, she killed a man yesterday: I'm more worried that she might lose it while we fight today and kill again."
Robin was shocked. He hadn't realized that she had killed the Barman.
"Sure, Bruce. I'll keep a close eye on her." He said and walked back to Steph.
The group kitted up and was soon ready to go. "Robin, you and Spoiler take one bike and follow us in the Batmobile."
They climbed into their assigned vehicles and were on their way.
What will they find back at the Joker's hideout, and what has Prometheus been up to?
Continued in Part 7...