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    Batman blocked a swinging stick with his left hand, then kicked the offending Iceman in the ribs. Sensing danger from behind, he ducked and allowed a second Iceman to sail over his back. Then he punched the first one, sending him sprawling across the room.
    A glance told him Robin was holding his own as well. But they weren’t getting any closer to the giant gem the Icemen were defending.
    Glancing at Freeze, Batman saw the villain ascending the pyramid, a string of guards littering the floor at its base. Clearly, the villain had to be the priority now.
    Touching a stud on his belt, he popped a pair of skates out of the soles of his boots, took a couple of running steps to get up some momentum, and wove an intricate path through the Icemen.
    En route, he bowled one over and grabbed his stick. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Robin had done the same. Together, they raced across the room on narrow steel blades, momentarily free of Freeze’s henchmen, and headed for the pyramid.
    But by then, Freeze had made it to his gun. Grasping it, he turned and fired, creating an ice bridge to the floor.
    “Caution,” he said, his voice devoid of inflection—and all the more sinister for it. “Bridge may ice over.”
    And with that, he slid down the ice bridge to the floor below. Then he began sprinting toward his giant drilling truck.
    Batman had to make a choice—and quickly. Freeze or the gem. He clapped Robin on the shoulder.
    “You get the ice,” he told his compatriot. “I’ll get the Iceman.”
    “Gotcha,” said Robin.
    Batman didn’t watch him make his way back through the maze of thugs—there was no time. But he did hear a series of grunts and curses that told him Robin was doing his job.
    Now it was time for Batman to do his.
    As Freeze raced for his truck, the Dark Knight was closing fast. Fast enough, perhaps, to prevent a clean getaway. Certainly, Freeze seemed to think so—because he spun around in mid-run and fired his cryo-gun.
    Batman ducked, using his cape as an ice shield—and managed to deflect the beam toward one of the Icemen. The thug froze in his tracks.
    Seeking cover, Freeze disappeared behind the giant brontosaurus. At the same time, Robin skated into line with Batman, both of them heading in the same direction.
    With undisguised pride, the boy showed his mentor the diamond. “I got mine,” he breathed. “Where’s yours?”
    Suddenly, the powerful-looking legs of the brontosaurus crusted over with a thick coat of ice. “What killed the dinosaurs?” bellowed Freeze, poking his head out from behind the brontosaurus. “Why, the Ice Age, of course.”
    Then Freeze shoved the beast with all his strength, causing the mighty creature to topple forward. As it hit the floor, it exploded in front of Batman and Robin.
    “He’s definitely extinct,” Robin pointed out—always the master of the painfully obvious.
    He and Batman managed to elude the debris, but had to veer off from their objective to do so. Unfortunately, it allowed the Icemen to catch up with them—and one of the henchmen took the opportunity to slash at Robin’s hand. Again, the gem went tumbling free.
    Another Iceman hit it with his stick. The diamond changed direction and went flying—toward a landing near the museum doors.
    By that time, Freeze had made it to his truck. He was climbing forward to get to the hatch. And the Icemen had encircled the crime fighters, cutting them off from both the villain and the diamond.
    Batman saw one chance. He skated straight at the thugs, pulling a flagpole from a display en route—as if he were planning to engage them in a joust. Picking up on his intent, Robin plucked a flagpole as well.
    But at the last second, just as the Icemen braced themselves for the crime fighters’ assault, Batman and Robin drove their poles into the ice-covered floor and vaulted over the Icemen’s heads. As the thugs watched helplessly, the masked men flew through the air—in the direction of the