[Gotham city]
Ivy ran as fast as she could. She was running away from the Joker who was lazily trying to cause bodily harm to her. Her heart was pounding. She was struggling for a breath of air. Ivy kept looking over her shoulder for the clown prince of crime.
Ivy was only trying to get a plane or train ticket to Los Angelus to see her best friend Dick Grayson who worked at NCIS as G Callen.
Even that she was Poison Ivy to the public. She still had a soft side. Though she was only Poison Ivy when she was wearing green leotards and vines, and right now she was wearing skinny jeans and a pull over.
She soon stopped at the sight of a mangled body in a white suit covered in blood. Ivy saw it was a navy officer from the nearby navy yard and tried to help him with the nearby plants. But it was too late. She called the police on the phone Dick got for her the first time she was in LA after he moved there and waited.
By the time the police arrived at the scene Ivy was crying over the body mourning the loss of a good soul. She had discovered his name was Vice Admiral John Gringotts. She remembered John from school. He was in Dick's advanced classed.
The police asked her some questions on who might have done it or would have it done. She didn't know. There could be tons of people in the city who could have done it minus Mr. Freeze.
Once it was done, Ivy shakily took out her phone and called Bruce to pick her up from the crime scene. Or have Alfred come pick her up. As Ivy waited she remembered her youth and how she grew up. She grew up in a wealthy family and went to a school for kids like her. And that's how she met Dick.
She was a loner. No one liked her much. And when the new kid came in claiming to be Bruce Wayne's ward and thought she was the best kid in the school, she began to have hope. And she was said to be the only girl, besides Selina, Bruce let up to Dick's room.
Dick told her everything. Even the part he was the vigilante Robin. And when she became Poison Ivy, she told him. Dick tried effortlessly to help his best friend, but nothing. The public called her an anti-hero like Selina. Because she did all the right things but she sometimes did it illegally.
[Los Angelus]
It had been a nice day outside when Hetty said Callen and his team along with herself were going to Gotham City to help GCPD on investigating a Navy officer's murder. And Gotham's police commissioner asked for that group too knowing full well what happened to Dick Grayson. Hetty looked over to Callen. And being the cousin of Alfred Penyworth, Bruce Wayne's Butler, she was the one who Callen had called to help him turn his back on being a vigilante.
Hetty noticed that her toughest and most agile agent was slightly scared. And she understood why. Even though Callen went home for Christmas and such, it was telling the team why some people in Gotham would call him Dick would be a problem. And Hetty noted that Callen has faced Gotham's most terrifying villains such as The Joker, as Robin and was not scared like he was now.
"G, is there something wrong?" Sam asked
Sam thought, since meeting Callen, the 'g' meant Gerry or something. What he didn't know was the 'g' was meant for Callen's birth last name of Grayson.
Callen didn't answer and the team noticed. Callen just kept his head in his hands.
"I think that Mr. Callen is trying to deal with going home not on his scheduled time." Hetty said
The team looked to Hetty in shock. They didn't know that Gotham was Callen's hometown. Hetty then turned to the young dirty blonde hero most of the GCPD thought was no better then the criminals he beat up.
"Mr. Grayson, please just answer them. You faced real vile men like The Joker and The Penguin countless times in Gotham as your alter-ego. So don't be a chicken now. So think of Miss. Kyle. I heard she was quite nice to you when she met you and married Bruce." Hetty said
Hetty then left the group with Callen yelling that Selina was the anti-hero in the equation like Ivy was. Hetty wanted to call Alfred to pick her and Callen up at the airport.
That left the others confused. They wondered why Hetty called Callen Grayson. They also wondered who The Joker and The Penguin were. And what alter-ego was she talking about? They all turned to Callen for answers. G then began his tale of his past in the crime capital of America known as Gotham City leaving out the part about him being Robin. He even told them about Selina Kyle, the troubled woman that his 'father' grew up with then married.
Callen then brought up a photo of the clown prince of crime to the screen. He explained that The Joker's real name was Jerome and was the son of a circus's snake whisperer that was a drunk and sleeping with different men and phony blind psychic. And he then explained that it was the same circus his family belonged to. They were known as the flying Grayson's and they were trapeze acrobats.
"I know that circus. My parents said that they went to it the night I was conceived." Kensi said
Everyone shivered at the thought of Kensi's parents getting down after a circus performance.
[Gotham City]
Bruce was sitting at the dining room table eating lunch with his wife Selina, his biological son Damion and his adopted kids Jason Todd and Tim Drake when the phone rang. Alfred answered like always. And with a a smile Alfred hung up the receiver.
"Who was that Alfred?" Bruce asked
"Oh, it was my cousin Hetty. She, Master Dick and their team are flying in to help the GCPD with the murdered Navy officer investigation. So she asked if I could pick her and Master Dick up at the airport." Alfred said
This made a smile grow on Bruce's face. He turned to Jason and Tim.
"Jason, Tim." Bruce said
The two looked up to Bruce and did their normal routine.
"I want you to make the most corny, embarrassing sign you can think of with 'I'm looking for Dick Grayson' plastered in big lettering. Got it?" Bruce said
"Time frame?" Tim asked
Alfred slipped Bruce a piece of paper.
"0900 tomorrow morning. Now get going!" Bruce said after reading Alfred's note
"Sir, Yes, Sir!" Jason and Tim said with a mock salute
The two teenagers ran up to their shared office to start the project. Bruce made arrangements so the NCIS team could use his private jet to get here. He sent a message to Dick and Hetty to let them know about the jet. But he soon returned to his wife and child.
"Are you happy now Bruce?" Selina asked with a smile
"Of course I am Selina. There is nothing more for filling then teaming up with Jason and Tim and taking down Dick. You should know it had been a tradition since he left for the marines." Bruce said
"Of course. Silly me." Selina said sarcastically
[Wayne Enterprises Jet]
The team arrived the jet. 98% of the team was amazed by it. They noticed that G and Hetty were not. The pilot came out.
"Mr. Grayson welcome back." The pilot said with a smile
G and the pilot shook hands like they were old friends. But it was just because G had flown from here to Gotham and back again numerous times.
"It's good to be back Captain. How've you been?" G said
"I've been good. And you?" The pilot said
"I've been good. So what's the ETA?" G asked
"We should arrive there at 1:30 PM Gotham time." The pilot said
Callen nodded. Everyone went onto the plane and to a spot. Once comfy the plane took off. Once stable the team started to talk about the case. G prayed that when they got to Gotham his alter-ego of Robin, Batman's sidekick, stayed a secret.
"Now why would some one kill a vice admiral of the navy?" Sam asked
"It could be any number of people in Gotham city not counting Mr. Freeze. And the perp located in Gotham could range from The Joker level of crime to the typical guy the LAPD would see. Or it could be a new guy trying to make a name for himself not knowing newbies are targeted by the big guys." G said
"Why is that?" Deeks asked
"Because they screw up more. They're beginners. They don't know how to commit a crime in Gotham unless they had a teacher. And not many of Gotham's crime royalty or rouges are willing to teach a new criminal the know how. Hell, the clown prince of crime known as the Joker hates being a teacher unless he was teaching Harley Quinn a lesson in something." G said
"Who is the big guys?" Nell asked
"Batman and Robin. The police especially with Gordon as commissioner. Gotham's crime royals and their minions. Mainly the Joker because he's crazy." G said
"What's on the files?" Kensi asked
"John was born and raised in Gotham so he knew the dangers of the city. Came from a somewhat wealthy family. Oh, and get this. He went to the same schools as Callen." Sam said
"Okay I'll admit I saw him in passing and had a few advanced classes with him because he was older than me. But I wasn't actually friends with him. He was an annoying little twerp." G said
"How were you not friends with him because of that reason?" Nell asked
"I was born into a circus family. I was homeschooled for years. Then I became Bruce Wayne's ward after two-face killed my parents. And a lot of people only wanted to become my friend so they could get stuff from Bruce. And John was one of them. My only true friend was a girl named Ivy Brooks." G said
"Huh." Sam said looking at the file
"What?" Eric asked
"The person who reported the murder was named Ivy Brooks." Sam said
"Is there a back story on her?" Kensi asked
"Came from a wealthy family of high end lawyers and scientists who were friends with the Wayne Family. Didn't have any friends till she met Dick Grayson aka G Callen. A botanical science prodigy from a young age. Spent more time at Wayne manor then her own penthouse apartment." Sam said
Then G remembered something Ivy said to him in high school right after the accident.
'In my family, you're either a scientist or a lawyer.'
And right after that Callen said that she could be a Herbologist or Botanist or both. That he would do whatever it took to help her become a plant scientist. G was luck that Ivy was only able to control plants.
(Ivy was in Dick's room. She was scared. She had an accident a week ago involving her and some plants in the Wayne Enterprises greenhouse. She was lucky that Dick was there helping her and saved her life and took her to the ER in his mustang.
"In my family, you're either a scientist or a lawyer." Ivy said
"I'll do whatever it takes to make you a plant scientist Ivy. I promise." Dick said
Dick then kissed Ivy passionately on the lips showing her his love. Ivy kissed him back. They soon laid down on the bed with Dick on top. They soon got under the sheets and took off their clothes.)