Story: "The Hostage Heart, Part Two" (22 Pages)

Credits: Chuck Dixon (plot, script); Jackson Guice (pencils, inks); Albert De Guzman (letters); Shannon Blanchard (colors); Digital Chameleon (color seperations); Joseph Illidge (edits)

Feature Characters: Oracle, Black Canary II

Supporting Character: Ted Kord

Villains: Blockbuster II (next in Nightwing Vol. 2 #48), Lady Vic, Grimm; Deathstroke; Gorilla Grodd, his troops; Mrs. Desmond (last in Nightwing Vol. 2 #42)

Guest Appearances: Militia, Honey

Synopsis:

Black Canary and the rest of Blockbuster's party come under fire from a group of laster-toting gorillas. Deathstroke goes missing, as he only has a quarrel with Grodd and wishes to slip into Gorilla City undetected. Oracle advises Black Canary to give herself up, as there's no other way to reach the City now. Once there, she is cut off from Oracle (and Ted Kord, who is there to help) due to the technology which masks Gorilla City from the rest of the world.

Oracle contacts Blockbuster for help, a move which does not overly impress Ted - getting a crime boss to hire a terrorist is not his idea of an ethical move. But it might just save Dinah. She and the others are received by Grodd, who agrees to search for a donor heart for Blockbuster. There is, however, one last complication: Deathstroke, who is being pursued by a cadre of gorillas at this very moment.