#but just picture Pygg freed from the mind control and chasing Tetch

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Alright but there’s been abductions of 16-24 year old women of some exact height. Batman and co. have no leads until one day Tim sees a girl dressed just like Alice from Wonderland. I mean the talking, outfit, hair, everything except he can make out the faint scars on her face and there’s something off about her, like she’s not even really there. He gets her prints and runs them and they see she’s one of the kidnapped victims and more than that, looked nothing like Alice at all. They figure it must be the Mad Hatter and figure their best bet, is to send in Steph for an undercover mission. She is a bit taller than kidnap victims but they dressed her up as Alice and sent her out. It isn’t long until the MH’s goons grab her but she notices something about them. They’re dollotrons. She is not going to go through with a visit to the professor. She fights them off and leaves a tracker on one as she breaks off and they only stop the chase once she breaks into the main streets. She goes into an open building and curls up her legs to her chest on the first chair she sees. Then over the com, “Spoiler? Report in. What’s happening? Your tracker and location aren’t in the same position.” Stephanie wipes her face before answering, “It’s Pygg. The tracker is on one of his dollotrons…sorry, I ran off after I placed the tracker on the one…I-” She hears Bruce but doesn’t make out the words that are being said. She’s been kidnapped before, been held hostage by some of the most vile rogues Gotham has ever birthed in its accursed underworld. She’s been hurt before. But, Pygg, what he does to his victims…she was never able to sleep well after having to deal with his “perfections”. “Spoiler?” She hears her code name but that’s all, she doesn’t know why she’s this shaken. Not much later, Tim enters the building and squats in front of her, “Spoiler, you’re safe you know that?” She starts crying, “There were so many of them! I don’t know how I broke away! I compromised the mission!” Tim grabs her hand and squeezes it, “Batman, Black Bat and Robin are going to where the van went. They’ll capture Pygg and do what they can for the survivors. Spoiler, do you want to go back to the cave or home?” “Ca-cave, I need to apologize to Batman.” Tim chuckles. She doesn’t know why, but she chalks it up to him trying to cheer her up by laughing at her. She kicks him lightly, “Don’t laugh at me jerk.” Tim stands up, pulling her up with him, “You didn’t hear a thing he said to you, did you?” Steph shakes her head. “He said you did a good job and did the right thing. He’s happy you’re safe. We’re all happy you’re safe. Now let’s get back to the cave.”

-At the cave-

Bruce walks in and takes off the cowl as Cass peels of her mask along with her youngest brother. “Brown, I see that you are fine. Are you capable of speech yet?” Stephanie runs up and hugs Bruce, apologizing as she buries her head into his chest. To her surprise, she feels a pat of her head. “You did a good job Steph. Anyways, it was much better than if you had been taken.” “Why? Wasn’t the plan to go undercover and relay you the info?” “Mad Hatter.” Cass’s words come as a shock to her, “What do you mean?” Bruce letting her keep hugging him tells her. “Jarvis had managed to get ahold of Pygg which is why the dollotrons all looked like Alice. They’re both in custody and we saved five women.” “But there were-” Damian scoffs, interrupting, “5 is better than none Brown and it’s not including you, so that’s 6 that didn’t get killed. So take the W as Drake and Thomas say.”