A/N: My long awaited Wild West AU is finally (kinda) here. Or at least the prologue is. Please tell me what you think and then whether you would prefer me to get far along in the story before I start posting chapters (consistent, but will probably take a long time) or post what I have when I have it (inconsistent). Thanks a bunch. Vocabulary is at the bottom.


Prologue

"Bruce, have you seen these reports?" Richard Grayson, adopted son of one of Gotham's City most prestigious city leaders, dropped a stack of paper's on his caretaker's desk.

Bruce Wayne looked up from a brown study. "Those are the reports about the thumping amount of varmits showing up recently?"

Richard nodded and sat down across the desk from Bruce. "Doing anything about it?"

Bruce shook his head. "You know just as well as I do that everyone's too dragged out."

"Not everyone."

"Who isn't then? The Man of Steel? He's just got his plow cleaned by Luthor. Queen's too occupied by his Lance. Diana-"He fell silent. Bruce had been living tally with the woman for a month, but they had recently had a big fight. The stubborn woman had returned to her home with Amazons, where he could not contact her. Richard sometimes wondered if he was actually more upset than Bruce over Diana's departure—Selina had never been one of his favorites of Bruce's lady friends.

"Do you remember the plan we discussed a few months ago?" Bruce nodded slowly. "I know you aren't completely happy with it, but everyone is someone you can tie to."

"I have been thinking about it."

"And?" Richard leaned toward Bruce in anticipation.

"Let fly with your plan."


Vocab:

brown study: deep thought

thumping: great, large

varmit: vermin-though in this case, not small animals

too dragged out: tired

let fly: go ahead

if anyone finds western slang for lady friends let me know; I couldn't find any at the time