harnesses, and a huge hulking figure who must be the Pied Piper. From
the warehouses and began to search each building for some sign of the Pied
wearing nothing but a black leather codpiece, with leather straps
the boy' s screams reverberate through the heavy glass of the skylight.
faced down an in one of those buildings a few months ago.
Robin prepared a ga
Robin' s vantage, he judged the Piper to be nearly 7 feet tall. He was
seven teenage boys. They had all been stripped naked, blindfolded, and
chest of one of the boys with a large cat o' ails, and Robin could hear
sexually manipulated. Robin rewound the video and played it again, this
the old abandoned warehouse buildings at Gotham harbor. He and Batman had
crisscrossing his massively muscled chest, huge shoulders and arms. His
gagged. Some were spreadeagled in manacles, others were being stretched in
image. He stared at the s for some clue, and then finally spotted it.
time using the Bat Cave' s extensive video-editing equipment to enhahe
Piper' s dungeon. He could see several of the boys writhing iher
face was covered by a black leather mask. He looked like a cross between
shot, the back wall of the room was clearly visible. Robin immediately
Tim ged into his Robin suit, checked his utility belt to make sure
leather harnesses. Several had full eres, suggesting that they' d been
es, Robin was staring ily at a video showing
Hulk Hogan and Batman' s old nemesis, Bahe Piper was flogging the
reized the oversized, distinctively-colored red bricks as being one of
Piper. Ohird roof, Tim gazed through a skylight and saw the Pied
The boys were in a dark room decorated to resemble a dungeon. In one
he got to the harbor, he used his Batrope to climb to the roof of one of
it was fully stocked, and roared out of the BatCave on his jetcycle. When