One in the same

Part 2

When Robin arrived, the cave was ominously silent. That put Robin onto immediate alert. He crept through the hallways, sticking to the shadows in the search for his missing team-mates.

He found them in the main briefing room, unconsciously sprawled on the floor. From a distance, he noticed something vaguely different about them, and he only realised what it was when he got closer. Just as he worked out what it meant, something hit him in the back, causing him to cry out in pain, as he fell unconscious besides his team-mates.

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Surprisingly, although being the last to be hit, Robin was the first to wake, blinking his bleary eyes open slowly. As soon as the fog in his mind cleared, he noticed something different, he felt different, but in an oddly familiar way. Standing up, he realised why.

He was taller, probably by a few feet, and he wasn't wearing a shirt. It had probably torn during his rapid growth spurt. He still, luckily, had his pants on, as they had stretched thanks to their spandex fabrication. It seemed as though he had been... up-aged? Was that the right word?

Robin shook his head. Back to the matter at hand. Whoever had done this to them was probably still there and had evidently not expected them to wake up as early as he had, as neither he nor any of his team-mates had been in any way restrained.

He couldn't, however, take on any sort of insane sorcerer in his current get-up. Good thing Bats were always prepared.

He crept to the room he stayed in while at the cave, suspicious of the lack of activity. Inputting the access code, he entered his room, locking the door behind him. Going over to his closet, he felt inside for a particular knot in the wood. Having found it, he pressed down hard, causing one of the back panels to disappear from view.

Robin smirked slightly, picking up the suit and mask that lay beneath. Removing any trace of Robin from his person, mask included, he changed into the new suit, the one he hadn't donned for the last 5 years.

Picking up the new, dark blue, domino mask, and putting it on, he smiled to himself.

Time for Nightwing to return from the dead.

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