BATMAN. DETECTIVE COMICS #791#792#793 - DC COMICS (2004) 474569

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"tHE SURROGATE": A young pregnant girl staggers into Leslie Thompkins'
clinic with a bullet-wound, and the doctors do their best to save her.
However, during the operation, Leslie is unable to find any trace of the
bullet which caused the wound. Meanwhile, Batman
encounters Biggie Tiny, a former Knights' linebacker now involved with
the Hill's street gangs, who is in the middle of an apparent arms
purchase. During the scuffle, Batman is shot, but the only liquid left
behind is water, not blood. He is contacted by Oracle
and told that Leslie Thompkins needs to see him right away. Batman
leaves as Oracle contacts the GCPD to pick up Biggie and his crew. At her clinic, Leslie asks Batman to find the wounded girl's next
of kin, as her condition is getting progressively worse. The girl,
Neisha Dupris, is currently in the foster care of a woman named Marga
Gonzales. However, when Batman goes to the home of Gonzales, he
encounters a number of parentless children living in squalid conditions.
One of the children tells Batman that Neisha left, intent on going to
live with her sister. Batman contacts Oracle again and asks her to run a
search for any sisters for Neisha and he, in turn, is told that the
GCPD arrived too late to pick up Biggie and his gang. Arriving at Biggie's home, Batman tells the crook he knows Mr. Freeze
supplied the bullets that shot both Neisha and himself, deducing that
the bullets are made of ice. But Batman also knows that Freeze is not
holding the purse strings, but someone else is and that same person
wants Neisha dead. Batman disables the crook and on his way back to
Leslie's clinic is contacted by Oracle, who says she has found a sister
of Neisha's named Helen. When Batman returns, with only a little more
information than he had in the first place, he discovers that everybody
at Leslie's clinic has disappeared.