THE WATCHTOWER

September 6th 22:37 EDT

Nightwing walked silently through the halls of the watchtower, arms folded behind his back. It had been five years since the old team had each gone their separate ways, some joined the justice league officially like Superboy, Miss Martian and Aqualad. Others like himself and Artemis, now going by Tigress decide to run solo for a while. Five long years, but today was the day that changed, today was the day.

The sound of a muffled, yet all too familiar voices filled his ears as he stood outside the room, listening in, unable to quite make out what was being said. Show time, he thought to himself as he slid open the door. As the door slid open, he was greeted by the sight of his old team, Artemis, Connor, Megan and Kaldur, all sat around a circular metal table.

"Finally, you want to tell us why you called us all here, Grayson?" Tigress asked, a warm smile on her face at seeing her old friend again

"Yes, while it is good to see you all again, I too am wondering as to why you called for this reunion, and why on the Watchtower?" Kaldur asked, the usual serious, yet kind look on his face

"Alright, alright I get it, your all wondering why I asked you to come here" Nightwing said, chuckling a little at his friends' impatience. "Well, I had a whole speech planned out, but I guess I'll just come out and say it…. I want to put the team back together" Nightwing stated, an excited grin curling onto his lips

"What us? Aren't we a little too, you know, known to do the kind of stuff we did back in the day?" Connor asked, raising an eyebrow, quizzically at the former boy wonder

"Your exactly right, Connor. That's why we wouldn't be the team, we would be teaching the team, training them. All you need to know is in these folders" Nightwing explained as he tossed a pile of folders onto the table

"Like Black canary and the others did for us?" Megan asked, her face lighting up as Nightwing explained his plan

"Exactly, so… what you guys say?" Nightwing asked as he stared intensely at his old friend, eagerly awaiting their response

Kaldur was the first to stand up, then Megan, then Connor and finally Artemis "We're in" they all say in unison, each taking a folder and leaving the room. They had some recruiting to do.

WASHINGTON D.C.

The Smithsonian national museum of natural history

September 8th 01:00 EDT

Atalanta raised her platinum, wrist length bracelets up, blocking the masked thugs attack as he brought his electrified staff down in her direction, with a loud grunt she shoved the thug back, her Amazonian strength sending him skidding backwards. The thug steadied himself against one of the exhibits and prepared to charge again, but the young hero was one step ahead, striking the thug with a hard backhand the second she had an opening, the force of the blow sending the thug slamming into the museums wall before slumping over, very unconscious.

The sound of more fighting, followed by grunts of pain caused Atalanta to turn, seeing Wonder Woman, her mentor, holding an unconscious thug with a second one slumped over at her feet, she gave Atalanta an approving grin as she dropped the thug she was holding

"Screw this, I'm getting out of here" the last thug exclaimed as he grabbed black duffel bag filled with various rare exhibits, the obvious goal of this heist gone terribly wrong.

Atalanta spun on her heels, keeping the escaping thug in her sights as she drew her Xiphos broadsword, tossing it in the air before catching it by the blade. She then threw the sword, sending it hurtling through the air, before slamming against the final thug's head, pommel first, sending him crumbling to the ground.

"Very well done, Erinys. Your training is paying off" Wonder Woman said, placing a hand on her student shoulder and smiling down at her, proudly

"Thank you, your majesty" Atalanta said in a thick Greek accent, a light blush creeping on her cheeks as the princess of her people praised her abilities.

The sound of clapping filled the room as a black haired, masked man entered, a blue bird emblem on his chest "Wow, that was impressive" the man said as he made his way over to Atalanta, shaking Wonder Woman's hand as he did. "You must be Erinys, your probably wonder who I am" the man begins say before being cut off.

"Your Nightwing!" Atalanta yelled excitedly, her eyes widening as she shakes the hero's hand eagerly "I have heard many stories about you, it is an honour to meet you... But, what are you doing here?" the Amazonian squealed

"I'm…. glad to hear it" Nightwing says, taken aback by the girls, almost fan like eagerness. He looks towards Wonder Woman, who gives him a nod of approval before he pulls back his hand and clears his throat "Actually Erinys, I'm here to ask you something, how would you like to be part of a team?" Nightwing asks smirking

MONGOLIA

September 8th 23:48

Vandal Savage sat silently at his desk, drumming his fingers against its surface as he waited. Soon six holographic screens pop up, each with its respective member of the Light on it

"I trust there a reason you called this meeting, Luthor?" Savage asked as he stared intensely at the bald genius

"Indeed, there is, Vandal. As you all know our plans are moving forwards, faster than we could have anticipated. Securing the war world and the allegiance made with our new-found ally has greatly improved our standing" Lex explains, folding his arms as he continues his spiel "How every I feel that with this new found footing, we should also take steps to better secure it"

"And what did you have in mind to accomplish this, Lex" Vandal replied, clasping his hands together and listening intently.

"I believe that we should take a page from our enemies book, I think we should form a small convert team of talented youths, to act where we cannot" Lex explained, about to go into further detail before the sound of a scoff cuts him off

"Please, why should the Light reply on children to accomplish our goal?" Queen bee says in an unimpressed tone.

"Should I remind you, Queen bee that it was a group of children that infiltrated your country, defeated the elites of your military and foiled the plans of the reach" Lex growls, causing Queen bee to scowl and look away "I believe that those young… heroes prove my point, we must not underestimated the passion of youth"

Vandal sits silently for a few minutes, thinking over Luthor's plan, the man made a valid point "Very well, Luthor, you have my blessing to form this team. Deathstroke! I want you to find youngster with the talents we need" Vandal booms and he look over to the mercenary

"Yes sir, I have a few in mind in fact" Deathstroke says, smirking under his mask before cutting off his hologram

VENEZUELA

September 9th 00:15

"Did you not hear me! They know where I am, you said a helicopter would be here and hour ago" A pale man in a lab coat yells into a phone, fear clear in his voice

"Dr Freidkin, we've told you, its on its way, are you sure the package is secure?" the voice on the other end of the line says softly, trying to calm the terrified man

"Yes! Yes, I uploaded it, its perfectly safe. I held up my side of the bargain, now you hold up yours! You said you could keep me safe" Dr Freidkin scream into the phone as the distant sound of helicopter blades filled the air

Meanwhile somewhere else in the jungle villa two armed guards are patrolling the grounds, the sound of glass breaking causes one of the to walk ahead, as he does a figure dressed in black sneaks behind the second guard, impaling him through the neck with their Jian sword, the first guard turned around just in time to register the razor sharp throwing knife imbedding itself in his eye socket. As he falls dead the masked assassin made her way through the villa compound until she is outside of the Dr's room, the sound of the helicopter landing filling her ears, she was running out of time. She slowly pushes open the door, her Jian held firmly in her grasp as she sneaks towards the distracted scientist.

A flash of lightning suddenly lights up the room, Dr Freidkin lets out a terrified scream as he see's the assassin's reflection, quickly turning he throws the phone at her, which she slaps aside

"Help!" the Dr screams as he runs out of the window, landing hard but scurrying to his feet, begin to run towards the helicopter, The assassin in hot pursuit. Just as he nears the landing pad the assassin pounces on him, pinning him to the floor and holding her sword against his heart, she raises her hands preparing to deliver the killing blow. Suddenly the night is filled with sound of gunshots as bullets hitting stone behind her as the two of the Dr's guards begin to fire at her, the distraction is enough for the Dr to strike the assassin hard in the head, knocking her off him. He crawls to his feet, tears streaming down his face as his run towards the chopper as his men cover his escape. Suddenly he feels a sharp pain in his arm as a throwing knife slices deep into his bicep, he lets out a scream of pain as he climbs into the chopper

"GO, GO, GO! He screams to the pilot as his two guards both fall death as throwing knives land hard into their head. The pilot pulled on the controls, dragging the chopper into the air just as the assassin started to close in again. The Dr breathed a sigh of relief as he sees the assassins for shrink in the distance, as he did he feels his arm begin to throb violently and he started to struggle to breath, ripping off his sleeve he see that his veins have begun to turn black as poison courses through his blood stream, he lets out a few more gasps and coughs, the black veins soon covering his body. His heart then gave out and he was dead, his body tumbling out of the side of the chopper into the jungle below.

Meanwhile back on the landing pad the assassin smiles to herself as she watches the distant speck of the Dr's corpse fall towards the ground, she then taps against her wrist, causing a hologram of black figure to pop up "the good Dr is dead, Slade" The girl says into the communications device

"Good job viper, now report back to base, I have a new job for you" the distorted voice of her long-time mentor says before closing the hologram

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