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[hr][center][h3][b]March 20th, 2005[/b][/h3][/center]
[center][b]University of Gotham, Botanical Gardens (11:50 PM)[/b][/center]

What had started as an average, everyday night of robbers and gangsters had turned into a rather uncomfortable game of cat and mouse, or maybe you could call it 'Bird and Worm'? That's certainly the most of what one Dick Grayson thought of the good Doctor Jason Woodrue at that exact moment. The man in question had not only woken up pretty much every college student in the area when they'd much rather spend their time sleeping, but had the nerve to be an anti-metahuman supremacist. One thing was certainly still true about humanity, and that's that they feared what they didn't understand. That, or they just [i]really[/i] liked persecuting each other.

"[b]I know you're out there! I said stay back![/b]" fear was evident in Woodrue's voice, as if his frantically darting his eyes back and forth between trees, vines, and other flora didn't make it obvious enough. The Boy Wonder was far more focused on the distressed redheaded teenager he was holding to his person with a syringe at her neck. 

[color=A93838]"What kind of monster drags students out of bed at this hour?"[/color] 

"[b]This filth doesn't deserve to live.[/b]" The Doctor had practically jumped out of his skin when he realized that he'd backed himself against the wall of the gardens' central chamber and was now faced with a recently-emerged-from-the-shadows, domino mask wearing vigilante only a few yards in front of him.

[color=A93838]"I'd let the girl go if I were you, Doctor."[/color]

[b]"Really, and why's that, huh?[/b]

Before the Boy Wonder had an opportunity to respond, his eyes widened when the Doctor's captive bit down on her captor's hand. Hard. Jason Woodrue let out a shriek of pain and the university student only managed to get a few steps away from him before he leapt upon her. The hall was filled with the two's screams for roughly three seconds before the echo of a fist connecting with a man's jaw. Then there was an eerie quiet only broken by the newly freed hostage's sobs. First things first, Robin made sure to zip-cuff what he hoped would be his last catch of the night before reaching his hand out to his female elder.

[color=A93838]"Did he hurt you?"[/color] Dick was met with his rescuee squirming away from him and burying her face in her sleeves.

[color=39b54a]"I...I don't think so."[/color] the girl choked through tears. 

[color=A93838]"Don't worry, you're going to be okay. Can you tell me your name?"[/color]

[color=39b54a]"P-Pamela."[/color]

[color=A93838]"Well Pamela, let me get you out of here."[/color] 

[color=39b54a]"Who are you?"[/color]

[color=A93838]"Robin. Resident Boy Wonder."[/color] 

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Only halfway to the exit of the building, Pamela suddenly collapsed to the ground, and Dick couldn't exactly say he knew what to do when the plants around them seemed to react before he did. Leaves fluttered, vines seemed to snake toward them, and the aroma of a thousand different varieties of sap and toxins bombarded Dick's sinuses before Pamela had so much as cried out in pain. It was one of the most surreal experiences Dick could say he had seen in his relatively short career as a vigilante, and there was only one thought that filled his head when he saw what appeared to be a root sprout from Pamela's leg.

[color=A93838]"That can't be good."[/color]