inal by Adric
Tim Drake looked up from his trigory textbook and out the window
into the night sky. A full moon was rising above Wayne Manor, promising a
night of adventure and danger. But Tim was stu his room doing homework!
He hated it when Batman was off with the Justice League of America. As
the third teeo wear the uniform of Robin The Boy Woim often
felt that Batman overprotected him, not allowing him to out on patrol alone.
But then, sidering what had happeo the last Robin - blown to bits
by the Joker - you couldn' t really blame the big Bat.
Tim' s thoughts were interrupted whe Signal suddenly flashed into
the inky black sky. "Yahoo!" thought Tim. He raced down to the Bat Cave
and picked up the special phohat ected him with issiordon
and disguised Tim' s quavery teenage voice to sound like the Batman' s.
"What' s up, issioner?" he asked. "Batman, this is serious. I just
got off the phoh the principal at Gotham High. Four male students
didn' t show up for class on Monday. Now they' re all reported missing. This
m, three more disappeared. Their parents are frantic. These aren' t
runaways, they' re all athletes and outstanding students."
"Any clues? Kidnap demands? Any idea who' s doing this?" asked Robin.
"That' s why I called you," said Gordon. "We just received an anonymous
package. In it was a video that showed all the missing boys. It wasn' t
pretty. They were all naked and tied up in bondage. Very sick. And there
was a hat said to tact you. It says, ' I have e fotham' s
youo make them my toys. Robin is . Tell Batman.' And it' s
sighe Pied Piper."
Tim shuddered. He didn' t like the sound of that threat. What a time
for Batman to be away! "Transmit the video to me with the remote
TV-fereng unit I gave you," said Robin. "I' ll get right on it."
Within a few minut