Prologue: Far From Done
Dick and Barbara stood for a few minutes stunned and pissed that Jason got away.
"Damn." Barbara said angrily as she headed towards her bike, "Let's go home." She said and drove off.
"This is not going to end for a while." Batman said to himself before leaving in the Batmobile he drove back to Wayne Manor when he arrive in the Batcave he imminently took off his suit and changed into something comfortable.
"Did you get him?" Sara asked.
"No." Dick said setting up a punching bag, "He got away in a helicopter." Dick said wrapping his hands in tape.
"Then why are we in here when we should be out there finding him. ENDING HIM!" Sara said shouting the last two words.
"Spoken just like Jason." Dick said putting a picture of Red hood on the bag, "If we kill him we are no better than he is, I know you've killed on accident those are forgivable. But you're talking murder something WE DON'T DO HERE!" Dick said shouting the final four words to get it through Sara's skull and started beating the crap out of the punching bag relieving stress, "We'll go after him tonight." He said "Now get some rest." Sara walked off angrily and went to sleep. She woke up at eight she only had six hours of sleep and wanted to lay back down and go back to sleep but she had a date with Damian thankfully her father was very flexible and allowed it Sara was seventeen and one month today she knew what she wanted to have a very laid back day seeing the new Gray Ghost movie seemed the perfect thing to do. Sara walked down stairs and there was a blinding purple light in the sky that crashed in the Grayson's front yard Dick, Barbara, and Sara ran outside and saw a very tan almost orange, black haired, green eyed like completely green eyed girl in the crater she made.
"Uh hi are you okay?" Dick asked. The girl floated up and started speaking an alien langue which Dick knew all too familiar, "She's Tamaranen." Dick said.
"How do you know that?" Sara asked as Damian pulled up he walked over to the crater where the Tamaranen girl grabbed Damian by the neck and kissed him on the lips Sara grew angrier by the second once she stopped she could speak perfect English.
"Sorry is anyone here a Richard Grayson?" the girl asked.
"Yes I am." Dick said the girl hugged him.
"Father." She said.
"Whoa." Dick said slowly pulling the girl off him, "Who are you and how do you know I'm your father if that is even possible?"
"Of course, my name is Mar'i Grayson my mother is Koriand'r Tamaranen princess." Mar'i said.
"Yep she's mine." Dick said, "A year before I got back together with Babs during a mission with the Titans Raven's brothers manipulated us into expressing the emotion we had the most toward someone else to that other person Starfire and I had a lot of lust for each other, she and I had sex" he chuckled, "it was the worst sex of my life, later she asked me if I still loved her I said no shortly after she left earth for Tamaran, I never heard from her until a few months ago and she didn't even mention you."
"Because I told her not to I wanted you to know about me when I was ready." Mar'i said, "I still haven't mastered my powers yet, but other than that I am ready and I want to help you."
"What would we call you?" Damian asked.
"Nightstar." Mar'i said, "Actually keeping with the flying animal theme Nightingale
"Are you completely sold on that?" Sara asked angrily, "Nightfire would make more sense. Because if you ever kiss my boyfriend again I'll light you on fire." Sara said and she and Damian left.
"This doesn't make any sense, it's impossible for humans and Tamranens to have children how are you alive?" Dick asked.
"Dad honestly I don't know but I could use help designing a suit." Mar'i said can we go to wherever you go to suit up as Batman.
"Right follow me." Dick motioned Barbara ran after him.
"Dick you can't seriously be trusting her we don't even know if she is your daughter." Barbara pointed out.
"Babs I won't help her with her suit until we know for sure." Richard said, "We are going downstairs to do a DNA test. Once we know if what she says is true then we will work on her suit."
"Okay. Fine by me." Barbara said there was a moment of silence then their son Richard Jr. started crying Barbara sighed, "I got him." She said and ran upstairs as Richard and Mar'i head to the Batcave an hour later Barbara came down right as the results came in, "Well?" Barbara asked.
"She's telling the truth." Dick said, "I was thinking a purple bird logo with a black and purple cape purple leg armor and a purple mask the rest black."
"I like it dad." Mar'i said, "But I already had something in mind, I know what you're thinking it shows some skin do have to remind you what you wore at my age?" she asked and pointed to the glass case holding his Robin suit.
"Point taken." Richard said looking at his daughter then wondered how both is daughter's got his hair color. She liked the leg armor but decided to change it to leggings black boots a black skirt she had a purple v shape on her chest at the very top for some reason she wanted a utility belt her torso armor had no sleeves and she had black gloves it took three hours to make the costume as she was putting the costume on Bette Kane, Hawkfire drove into the Batcave.
"Batman we need to talk by the way digging the new color scheme the black and blue fits you Wingnut." Nightingale snorted Bette looked at her then turned to Richard, "Um care to explain?"
"Long story what do you want?" Dick asked.
"I'm afraid Blüdhaven needs me I'm sorry I need to go." Bette said Richard placed a hand on her shoulder.
"It's okay Bette I understand." Dick said, "Go." Bette ran out of the cave he turned to his daughter fully dressed, "Let's start training." He said as they got into fighting stances.
Elsewhere in Gotham Damian and Sara where just getting out of the movie, "Now I understand why my father loved the Gray Ghost." Damian said.
"I have to say Badass reboot." Sara said they were almost to Damian's car when he turned to face her their green eyes meeting Damian pulled out a box, he opened it to show a Nightwing bird neckless just like what her mom wears every day.
"They were out of bats so I got your dad's old persona." Damian said, "Do you like it?" he asked.
"Damian…I don't know what to say." She said, "Thank you." She said and kissed him.
"Well hello there kiddies." A Red Hood thug said, "This is from Uncle Ja…son." The guy said and pulled out a baseball bat with nails in it, "Unless the girl gives us the neckless." The guy said extending his hand.
"Us?" Damian said right after that he was grabbed by a brute thug the same for Sara, "Hey let her go LET HER GO!" Damian shouted.
"Take the girl into Crime Ally you know what to do" the man chucked the friend taking Sara into Crime Ally and his baseball bat, "We'll take care of the Wayne brat." The guy said and wound up a punch.
"Hey!" a guy around Damian's age walked up he had hazel eyes and a Keystone University lettermen jacket, "pick on someone your own size."
"Who the hell are you?" one of the thugs asked.
"My name is Jai West and you need to stop picking on my friend or I'll hurt you." Jai threatened
"Yeah right little man you're going to need saving." "The thug asked and walked towards him, the man swung at Jai he ducked and swept the man's leg which gave Damian an opening to head-butt the thug holding him and knocked him out with a right hook he walked up to Jai.
"West. Like Wally West so you're Artemis's kid?" Damian asked.
"Let's just say this isn't the first time Artemis and Dad have dated, the woman he…um…"cheated" on her with is my mom." His phone vibrated, "Oh my sister is waiting later Damian you need to comfort your girlfriend." Jai said and sped off at super speed.
"Sara!" Damian shouted and grabbed his staff from his back seat and ran to Crime Ally where Sara was covered in blood, and bleeding in various places most notably her side and the thug was on the ground, dead, with a broken neck, and the bat stuck on his forehead. Damian rushed to her she was crying, "Sara are you okay?" he asked she looked at him tears rolling down her face.
"Can you promise you won't tell my dad?" Sara asked in between sobs.
"Yes I can he won't find out." Damian said and helped her to his car, "After we get you to a hospital." He said and sped towards Gotham general she was stitched up in an hour and home by noon.
"What happened?" Dick asked, "That movie was out two hours ago."
"Some of Red Hoods guys tried to mug us and we got separated I got saved by Jai West and saved Sara but she was hurt so I took her to the hospital and got her stitched up."
"And by 'saved' you mean?" Dick asked.
Damian looked at Sara, "I killed him." He said, "I broke his neck."
"Okay. Let me see the wound." Dick said Sara lifted up her shirt to show a huge scar where the man stabbed her what looks repeatedly with the nail in the bat.
"Dick the man said this is from Uncle Jason, his thugs know who we are." Damian said sounding worried.
"Then it isn't safe here" Dick said, "where's Tim?" he asked.
"Work." Damian said as Richard put on a jacket, "Where are you going?" he asked. Dick didn't reply he just got in his car and drove off. At Wayne Enterprise Tim Wayne was looking at stock at his deck when his assistant buzzed.
"Mr. Wayne a Richard Grayson Sr. is here to see you." She said Tim's eyes widened.
"Send him in." he said and left his desk as Richard walked in, "Dick how can I help you?"
"The Manor is not safe. Jason's thugs know who my family is…biologically the Grayson's will be moving out." He said removing the Deed to Wayne Manor from his jacket pocket, "I want you to have it." Not waiting for a reply Dick placed the deed on Tim's desk and walked off. He then drove home and told the family the real reason, "This is against something I believe. I believe to fix a problem you have to live in it we aren't living in the problem we leave tomorrow. You better start packing." The next day Tim walked up to Dick before they left.
"Hey Richard can I talk to you?" he asked.
"Sure what's up?" Dick replied.
"As you know Stephanie and I are getting married and I like you to be my best man." Tim said.
"Could Connor not make it?" he asked jokingly, "Tim you're like my brother of course I will." The wedding took place two weeks later it was postponed by a large Red Hood attack it was nice and simple no reference to God Tim being an atheist. (Author's note: true fact about Tim Drake he is an atheist in the comics)A month past and the manor was attacked by Harley Quinzel and some thugs, Tim, Stephanie, and Damian were mostly unharmed while Alfred was put into a comatose state. When Dick visited he thought about life and what would happen to his city if he lost his that day he went to down to the Batcave, "It's been two month's since the war started…"