The bio ship and Bat-wing landed in an abandoned parking lot. When they were all standing in front of the building, the young heroes turned to Batman.

"So what is the plan?" Kaldur asked.

"We go in and get Robin out. You took down Clayface, so there we won't have to worry about him," Batman replied as he started walking in.

Kaldur nodded and followed him in, followed by everyone else.

The room they walked into was dark. M'gann tried turning on the lights, but they didn't come on. Batman just kept walking, leaving the young heroes in the room alone.

"So where do you think Robin is being held?" M'gann asked as she looked around in the dark.

"I don't know, but we're not gonna find him just standing around. Let's go!" Wally said racing out of the room after Batman.

Everyone followed Wally out of the room, but just as M'gann was about to walk out of the room, something grabbed her, covered her mouth, and pulled her back into the room. M'gann tried to scream out, but whatever was covering her mouth made it impossible to do so.

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"Did you hear something?" Tiffany asked as she turned from pulling off the goop.

Tiffany had finally got Robin's hands free and they were both now trying to get the goop off of his legs after he freed her hands.

Robin looked up and in the same direction as Tiffany and replied, "Yeah, it sounded like talking."

"Maybe the team found us," she said standing up.

Robin went back to pulling the goop off of his legs. "Well, it's about time."

Tiffany turned around and looked at him a bit surprised. "That's all you're going to say about it, that it's about time?"

He stopped for a moment then continued as he looked up at her. "It's been what, a week? They should have found me way before now."

"Well," she said as she again helped him pull off the goop, "I don't blame them for that."

Robin stopped and looked at her very surprised. "What?"

"Well, they thought they had you back."

Robin looked at her now confused and then realized what she was talking about. "Clayface being me."

"Yeah."

They sat there in silence for a few minutes just pulling off the goop. After a few more minutes, they had Robin completely free.

They both stood up and Tiffany walked up to him and stood very close to him, looking straight into his eyes. Robin's eyes got a little wider and his mind was freaking. 'Oh man, oh man, ohman.'

They stood there, looking into each other's eyes, until they heard someone hit the door.

"What the..." Robin said as he looked away from Tiffany then walked over to the door.

Tiffany sighed then followed him over to the door.

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Batman went deeper into the house with the team behind him. They went into another room and looked around. That's when Superboy realized that M'gann was missing.

"Hey, where's M'gann?"

Everyone turned around to look at the clone then looked around the room.

"Yeah, where is she? I swear she was right behind me when we went out of the room," Wally said still looking for the Martian in question.

Just then, something hit Wally in the back and pushed him into the wall and pinned him there.

"Hey, what's the big idea," Wally said as he tried to get free from the stuff holding him there.

Batman turned to look at Wally then yelled to the other two, "It's Clayface, watch your back!"

Superboy and Kaldur stood back-to-back in a fighting stance and waited for Clayface's next attack. Batman pulled out a bat-a-rang, ready to throw it when he saw Clayface.

They stood there for a minute and then Clayface attacked. Batman threw the bat-a-rang then ran toward him followed by Superboy and Kaldur.

Clayface dodged the bat-a-rang and punches that were thrown at him and reached out and punched all three of them at once.

"Hello, a little help over here," Wally said. He wanted out so he could help beat Clayface's butt.

Batman, Superboy, and Kaldur got up and Batman looked over to Kaldur. "Help Kid Flash." With that, Batman and Superboy charged for Clayface.

Kaldur ran over to Wally and started pulling at the goop when something grabbed him and pulled him away. "Agghhh!" Clayface threw Kaldur into the wall on the other side of the room from Wally and he bounced off the wall and fell unconscious onto the floor.

Superboy looked over to Kaldur, which was a mistake, and Clayface hit him and pushed him into the wall then covered him from head to toe with goop. He could see Superboy move around under the goop. He smiled until he saw a hand pop out of the goop, but it fell limp after a few seconds.

With all the others defeated, Batman narrowed his eyes at Clayface.

"Looks like you're alone, Batman," Clayface said as he grinned, "and soon you will be defeated as well."

"I don't think so," Batman said and then charged forward pulling out a taser.

Clayface laughed and dodged the strings from the taser and they few into the goop that held Wally. Wally screamed as the electricity surged through his body and he fell unconscious.

Batman stared at Wally and Clayface swung his arm into Batman. Batman went flying through the air and hit a door and fell to the ground.

Clayface came up to the now dizzy Batman and changed his arm into the shape of a sword.

"Fair well, Batman."

On the other side of the door, Robin was trying to break the door down by hitting his shoulder against it. He stopped when he heard a yell and saw a dirty looking sword sticking through the door.

Tiffany gasped and covered her mouth. Robin and Tiffany both just stood there in shock, staring at the sword and then watching it disappear.

'That sounded like Batman's yell,' he thought panic starting to consume him.

Tiffany ran over to Robin and got as close as she could to him. As soon as she did, the door opened and Clayface walked in.

"Well, I see you got free from your restraint," Clayface said with a big, sinister grin on his face.

Robin didn't pay attention to what Clayface said. He just stared at the unmoving form behind him. Clayface saw this and glanced behind himself then back to Robin.

"You staring at his broken form? Well," he said as he stepped aside, "why don't you go to him before he leaves this world forever."

Robin didn't move, didn't talk, didn't even seem to hear what he said. He just stood there staring at Batman. Tiffany finally took a step forward and sort of pulled him along. He finally started to move on his own and after a few seconds they made it to the unmoving body.

Robin knelt down beside Batman and turned him over so that he could see his masked face. A single tear slipped down his cheek as he lifted Batman's upper body off the ground.

'No. No, you can't be dead.' He closed his eyes tight and leaned in closer to Batman's body. Tiffany just stood back watching the two then looked around at the others in the room. She could see a hand sticking out of some goop not moving. Kid Flash was up against a wall with goop covering everything but his lower legs and his head, but she could see that there was goop covering his nose and mouth, suffocating him. And then she looked toward Aqualad. He was lying on the ground with goop covering just his head. She looked back down at Robin and Batman, who had not moved at all then up at Clayface.

"You are a monster," she said quietly but angrily.

Clayface just smiled at her and walked right up to her. She didn't move because she knew that if he wanted her, he would be able to get her no matter what she did.

Robin didn't pay attention to anything around him. He just sat there crying into Batman's shoulder.

'Come on. Come on. Move! You have to get up!'

Just then, a hand came up behind his head. He shot open his eyes and quickly sat up and stared down at his mentor. That's when he realized that his eyes were open, but he could see that it was hard for him to keep them open.

"R... Robin... you... you have... to get... out," Batman said barely a whisper, choking on blood that was now coming out of his mouth.

Robin shook his head. "No, not without you. You need help. The Justice League will..." Batman shook his head and stopped Robin from finishing his sentence.

A few more tears made their way down Robin's cheeks as he watched his mentor move his hand to his utility belt. Batman pulled out another taser and gave it to Robin. Robin took it and then Batman's hand fell and landed on his stomach. Robin was watching his mentor, his father, die before his eyes, but he knew that Batman wanted him to take Clayface down.

He gently laid Batman back down on the floor and stood up. He turned around to see Clayface holding Tiffany by the neck, strangling her, and talking to her. As a few more tears fell down his cheek, he raised the taser and aimed it at Clayface then fired it.

Clayface screamed in pain before melting down to a pile of mush on the floor. Tiffany gasped for air as she too fell to the floor. She looked up at Robin, rubbing her throat, and saw the tears falling from his face. Robin lowered his arm and Tiffany got up and went over to him, hugging him tight.

Robin hugged her back, and buried his face into her neck. After a few minutes, they broke away from the hug and Robin finally looked around the room at the others. He saw his friends sprawled out across the room in death traps.

He ran to Wally and pulled the goop off his face and then he and Tiffany pulled him off the wall and laid him gently on the floor. He was barely breathing.

"Come on KF, wake up," he said to the speedster as he shook him.

Wally started coughing quite hard and finally opened his eyes. "Rob?"

Tiffany smiled as she looked at Wally. "He's ok."

Robin immediately went over to Kaldur and started pulling away the goop when he saw that the Atlantien was still breathing too.

Kaldur took in a deep breath as soon as the goop was away from his nose and mouth and then started coughing. As soon as he was done coughing he looked up at Robin. "Robin, what happened?"

"In a minute, first we have to help Supy," he said as he stood up and headed over to where Superboy was pinned against the wall.

By now Wally had had enough time to recover and joined Robin and Tiffany in pulling the goop off of Superboy. After a minute or two, Kaldur came over and joined in as well.

As soon as they got Superboy free and laid him on the ground, Superman came flying in the room.

"Superman," Wally said a little surprised, "what are you doing here?"

"Batman called us with the location and said that he may need backup and to stand by. About ten minutes ago, we got the call that he needed backup," Superman said as he walked toward the young heroes.

Robin looked down and then toward Batman then ran to his side. He saw that he was still breathing, but barely, and knew that he was going to be ok now. 'He has to be.'

Superman's eyes went wide when he saw what condition the Dark Knight was in. Just then Wonder Woman and Green Lantern (Hal Jorden) walked in, and both of their eyes went wide when they saw Batman lying there in a pool of blood.

"Oh no," Wonder Woman said as she covered her mouth with her hand.

"You can help him, right?" Robin asked as he looked up at the three older heroes, fear creeping up in his voice.

"We'll try our best, Robin," Superman answered, trying to sound confident.

Robin looked back down at Batman and tears started to fall down his cheeks again. Wonder Woman saw this and walked over and knelt down beside him as Green Lantern used his ring to carry Batman out of the room.

"Hey," Wonder Woman said as she lifted Robin's chin so he was looking up at her, "he's gonna be ok."

Robin looked in her eyes and saw that she wasn't completely sure about that herself, and threw himself into her arms and started crying. Wonder Woman just sat there and rubbed the back of his head as she looked toward Superman. 'Bruce, you better not leave your son.'

After a few more minutes of silence, Wally finally looked around and noticed that M'gann was still not there. "Hey, what happened to M'gann?"

"We found her the other room and J'onn took her to the bio ship. She was in pretty sad shape when we found her," Superman said as they all started to walk out of the room, Robin walking next to Wonder Woman, with her arm around his shoulders, still sniffing a bit.

"Is she gonna be alright?" Superboy asked.

"She should be fine. J'onn doesn't think the damage was too severe," Wonder Woman answered.

They walked the rest of the way in silence and then Superman turned to the group. "I'm gonna go to the Watch Tower and check on Batman," he said before turning and flying off.

"Why don't you all go back to the mountain and wait there," Wonder Woman said with her arm still around Robin.

"What about you?" Kaldur asked.

"I'm gonna take Robin up to the Watch Tower. One of us will keep you informed on Batman's condition," she replied.

The team nodded and then boarded the bio ship. Wonder Woman and Robin watched as the ship took off then Wonder Woman turned to Robin and said, "Is there a way to get the Bat-wing back to the Batcave?"

Robin nodded and they both went over to the Bat-wing. Robin jumped up and got off a message to Commissioner Gordon to come and pick up Clayface. As soon as he ended his communication, he pushed a few buttons, then jumped down as soon as it started taking off. When it was out of view, they then headed for the Watch Tower.