It was late night in Star city, Roy Harper, the 25 year old man was also known as Arsenal. This red archer had a tough yet awesome time during his childhood, being captured, having half of one of his hands amputated and used to produce a clone, forming the Outlaws with former Robin Jason Todd and the daughter of Deathstroke, Ravanger and his wife Starfire of course. Being recruited into the Teen-titans whist Jason hunted down the Joker, but best of all...becoming part of the Guardians of the galaxy.
Overtime there was a war on Earth, at that time Roy was about 19 and when the war ended, he was 20 years old. That was when the Guardians of the galaxy went separate ways, Starlord and supposedly Gamora left for the stars to find Quill's true parentage. Rocket raccoon, Ranger raccoon, Lady Lylla and Groot went back to Halfworld. Jason and Ravanger got married in California and Drax the destroyer was sent to Russia to train a whole new batch of heroes, eventually he got married and settled down.
Roy and Starfire did the same, crime was hardly a problem. With all the major problems taken care off, Roy could look after his wife...and their daughter, Lian Harper. Lian was two years old, and had her mothers flaming red hair, and her father's eyes. Roy was sitting on a chair in the front lawn, looking up at the stars.
He heard the door creak from behind him, he heard familiar footsteps approach. He glanced back and found Starfire in a normal white blouse, she bent over and kissed Roy on the cheek and asked "What are you doing out here?"
Still looking at the stars, Roy smiled and answered "Nothing much. How's Lian?"
"She's sleeping upstairs. She's tired" Starfire replied
"Yeah...I noticed" Roy yawned as he got up and stretched. "Speaking of which, we should be calling it a day too".
The couple, got up and went inside the house. Locking the door behind them to get some much needed rest.
Meanwhile with Jason in California...
Jason was in the living room of his house, watching the news when his Guardian communicator rang. Jason wondered who would be calling at this time? Maybe Drax wanted to say hi. He grabbed it and answered "Hello, Todd residence. This is Jason Todd speaking"
The voice that came through was heartwarming "Hey buddy" it said
"Rocket! How are you?!" Jason answered, with excitement. "Pretty good...Lylla gave birth by the way"
"That...That's great! How is she? And when did it happen? Yesterday?" Jason asked
"She's fine...it was just a week ago actually. TWINS man...twins"
"That's great to hear man...looks like we're all fathers now"
"Yeah...looks that way. Oh an funny story, I became the king of Halfword"
"Wait...what?!" Jason exclaimed. Rocket explained the whole story to Jason who understood it and congratulated Rocket for his success. He hung up and sat back down on the couch again, his wife Rose and son Grant were upstairs in bed. He turned on the news channel when he heard police sirens outside, he smiled as quickly went down to the basement.
There he grabbed his Red Hood outfit, the iconic black body armor with his red symbol emblazoned on it. He then put on his brown, red stripped, bulletproofed jacket on in addition to his gloves, utility belt, dual pistols and his symbolic Red hood helmet.
He silently went out of the house and used his grappling hook to go up on the roof of a nearby building, once on the top Jason spotted the police car giving chase to a band of criminals armed with machine guns. He glided downwards onto the roof of the pursued car.
The officers in the police car noticed and their eyes widened. The cop on the right signaled the rest via radio "All units stand down, they won't make it far"
"What?! Why?!" asked a confused officer on the other end
"The Red Hood's here" Answered the officer as he cut the line by hanging up the radio. The Criminals in the car's back seat withdrew their pistols and shot upwards on the roof of the car, Jason avoided the shot and attached himself on the car door.
The Thug looked out the window and his eyes widened as he shouted "OH SHIT! IT'S RED HOOD!". The glass broke and Jason grabbed the man out of the car and attached a cable to his leg. The cable was then magnetically attached to a nearby lamp post, leaving the Thug hanging upside down.
Jason threw a canister of gas inside the car and took out the other two Thugs in the back before getting back on the roof and firing a bullet that was designed to emit knockout gas when it impacted. He saw green smoke come out the car's windows and coughing, as the coughing stopped so did the car, Red hood got off of the car's roof and pulled the drivers out of the car. The Cops showed up and saw that the Thugs were out cold.
"Thanks a ton Red Hood" said one of the officers as he placed cuffs on the criminals
"Not a problem" responded Jason "Now if you'll excuse me...I got a wife to get back to"
"By all means Hood, we'll take it from here. Good night" said the other Officer
Red Hood nodded and grappled away, returning from his victory. He opened the door and found Rose on the couch waiting, she looked at him in shock to see him in uniform.
'Oh shit...I'm busted' Jason gulped as he took his mask off and placed it on the table. "I can explain" He said, shaking.
"You don't need to" She said with a smile as she got up. "I know you were busy, it was on the news you know" Rose explained as she bent int and kissed Jason.
"Still...you look pretty good in that" She pointed out as she took his jacket off, and Jason took his body armor off. Revealing his normal house wear attire, a red shirt and cargo pants.
"You must be pretty tired" Rose continued
"Yeah...I'm beat. How's Grant?"
"Out cold in his bed, not even knowing that you're the Red Hod" She smirked
"He'll figure it out...plus he's only one year old" Jason pointed out, chuckling in the process. "Have you seen the news?" Rose asked
"Is this about me?" Jason asked
"No...I hear it's about Earth making it's first intergalactic treaty of peace with extra-terrestrials." Rose explained
"No way" Jason said
"See for yourself" Rose replied as she changed the channel to the news channel, a reporter with black hair was talking. "Breaking news, the United Nations is preparing itself for receiving its' guests tomorrow afternoon."
"Damn..." Jason sighed
"I hope it turns out ok" Rose yawned
With that said, Jason and Rose went upstairs to get some well deserved sleep with their year old son, Grant Todd Wilson.
