AN: This is a prequel to my prequel Nightwings not necessary but this will become a sequel to it after a while and even a prequel to Red X Origin.

Disclaimer: I do not own DC Comics DCAU Teen Titans Earth 16 or Batman Begins.

I sat in the stone courtyard, the clouds of the mountain covering me as I meditated. I felt the thick moisture sticking to my beard and shoulder long hair.

"Think back to that moment, that made you come here foreigner," I heard my master say from in front of me.

GOTHAM CITY 17:30 AUG 25TH 1987

I walked out the back door of the theater, all the other families having left already. "I can't believe we watched it again," My father chuckled.

"Oh Thomas, he loved it so very much, I couldn't help it," My mother said, gripping my hand affectionately.

"Money and jewlry, now! Hurry; give it to me!" A man shouted as he came out of the alley that connected to the one we were on.

"Calm down, I'll give you what you want," My father answered, reaching into his jacket pocket and pulling out his wallet, dropping it onto the ground. "I'm getting it, don't worry."

I watched as my father knelt down and picked up his wallet, then handed it to the blonde man.

"Jewlry too," the man said, shooting my father in the stomach. My mother collapsed in front of him before the man pulled off her pearl necklace, shooting her in the back.

GCPD 20:00 AUG 25TH 1987

"Dat kid in theres butle's coming to pick him up, ya 'ear data, 'is butle'!" I heard a man say outside of the small office I was sitting in. "Man dat kids got it good."

"He just lost his parents, no amount of money can change that," another man said as the door opened, revealing a tall man with sandy short cropped hair and thin wire glasses around his gentle blue eyes. "Is that your fathers?" he asked, pointing to my left. I looked where he was pointing and saw my fathers suit coat draped over one of the chairs. I nodded and he picked it up before kneeling down in front of me and putting it over me.

"Thank you sir," I said, about to start crying when he messed up my hair a bit and looked up at me with this e pale blue eyes.

"Call me Jim," he said, picking up a card from his desk and putting it in my fathers coat pocket. "I'm gonna catch him for you kid, but if you need anything, just call me, okay?"

"Okay," I said, breaking into tears as I hugged the man in front of me, him telling me that everything was going to be okay.

HIMALAYAS DEC 8TH 2003

"Do you remember now?" he asked, glaring down at me, his sword touching the side of my neck. "Or does your training end here?"

"I remember."

AN: As you can see This is a Batman origin at the moment, but its time to go in depth on this story. Please review this chapter, and maybe read the other parts of the Earth 97 universe.