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