There was a reason Batman never allowed Meta humans into Gotham. The more of a challenge the villains came across the more dangerous and crazy they became. Having the Batman alone in the city had proven that when the likes of Joker and the Riddler had shown their faces. But, like cutting the head of a hydra, the more Villains Batman defeated the more they seemed to bleed out of Gotham's shadows. But there was also a reason he never allowed Young Justice to work in his city. The villains within the darkness here were far different from anything else they had encountered and Batman, though cold and heartless on the outside, never wanted his young team to come into harm's way when it came to these creeps. This concern was only confirmed on the one occasion he ignored that rule.

It was snowing hard, Robin found himself shivering despite the thermal layering in his suit. There had been a mass kidnapping of school children who were on a trip to Gotham Park. Robin had convinced Batman to let the Team take the mission. Batman would be there in the distance should they need help but as far as they could see this was the work of an everyday criminal rather than a Gotham special. The mission was a success so far, they had found the children tied up by the river surrounded by guards in balaclavas holding guns. The young heroes took them down, freed the children and were now supervising as they were removed from the park and the snow, back to their worried parents.

"Any idea if there was a ring leader?" asked Artemis over the mind link.
"No idea" said Robin "It seems pretty low standard so I think these guys might be pretty much the intelligence of the operation." He saw the archer crack a smile at this.
"Well that's probably a good thing" said Kaldur "I'm not sure how we would have fared if this was a plan devised by one of Gotham's darker villains" he looked over his team mates. All seemed fairly pleased the mission did not escalate in danger; Super Boy however was looking out at the water with a frown.
"What's wrong Supes?" Thought Robin tilting his head to the side slightly when he saw the clone shrug. Connor's eyes still didn't leave the dark churning murk.
"I dunno, it might just be the snow messing up my hearing but I think something up with the water." Robin turned to look; due to the weather the water was pretty murky and had a strong current but other than that there was nothing unusual about it.
"I think it might just be the snow Supes" Robin smiled. The teams eyes soon widened however as something erupted from the water, its huge mouth clamping around their youngest members leg and pulling him down into the freezing waters.
"Robin!" screamed M'gann as they all ran over to the bank where moments before Robin had been stood. They could see splashing in the water as the creature thrashed around. Aqualad took a run at the water and dived after his friend. After a few moments of stillness the Atlantian head broke the surface.
"Call Batman!" he yelled before diving back under.
"Kid Flash to Batman Kid Flash to Batman!"
"What's going on down there?"
"Something's got Rob!" The line went dead at that point and Wally knew he was on his way. Meanwhile the rest of the team could do nothing but watch the water. Finally their leader spoke through the mind link.
"Miss Martian the creature is coming to the surface, try and hold it." Just as predicted it emerged from the water. M'gann used her telekinesis to freeze the being before she froze herself in shock. The creature they had captured was a crocodile. In human clothing.

"Miss Martian knock him out" Batman strode purposefully over to them "Where's Robin?" Kaldur broke through the water just as Miss M caused Killer Croc to lose consciousness. The Atlantian walked up the bank carefully dragging the boy wonder by his cape. Batman ran down his eyes widened at how his son was being handled.
"It was the only way I could think of moving him without touching any of his wounds. You can see hardly anything down there." But now they were up on the surface Aqualad could take in the sight of the boy. He had a gash on his head from where he had hit the bank as he was pulled. His left arm was dislocated the other wrist swollen, possibly fractured, mostly likely from when the beast had gone into a death role. But worst was his left leg where the jaws had locked on. The bone looked to be intact but the teeth marks went right down through skin and muscle. Even the bullet proof Kevlar that made up Robin's suit had been torn to pieces over the wound.
"Batman to Watch Tower. I need a beam to take myself and Robin up. Robin is critically injured. I repeat critically injured. Send back up to remove the bastard that did this". After a few moments there was a light then Batman and his partner were gone leaving the team waiting with an unconscious half human half reptile for the league, not knowing if their friend was going to live or die.

"Get him on a cart" said Dinah when she saw the two bats. Batman laid his son down and helped the female hero to push him to the med bay to meet Martian Manhunter.
"What happened?" asked J'ohn when they entered.
"Killer Croc, from what Aqualad told me he grabbed hold of his leg, dragged him under and went into a death roll." Flash, who had come in just after them, noticed that Batman's voice had started to rise slightly in pitch and his hands had the shadow of a tremor as he pealed away Robin's mask.
"Was he conscious when he was pulled from the water" asked Dinah as she lifted Robin's eye lid with a torch in hand.
"No and he didn't regain consciousness at an point" they went to checking the rest of the boys injuries and trying to stop the bleeding from his leg.
"His wrist in fractured and the other shoulder dislocated" said Flash quickly checking over the upper half, he could already see the bruises beginning to form over the boys pale skin.
"Those can wait; we need to stop his leg bleeding! Get him into surgery!" Cried Dinah as the bloody started to pool and spill over the table, despite the gauze being pushing onto the wound. She pushed the Dark Knight out of the way, Batman could do nothing but watch as they wheeled his son away.

A/N Hi guys, so after years of putting it off, I have finally edited this Trilogy! It is by no means perfect, but it no longer makes me cry in shame when I read it! I hope you will agree that it is better than the original! If this is your first time reading, enjoy! Karin xx (As a side note, the text is really close together...as you can see...any one know how to change this, I've tried everything!)