Author's Note: I do not own any of the characters of the DC Nation. Crow is an O.C…ish.
Anyways, I hope people enjoy the story. I'll try to upload about 1,000 words each time I put in new "chapter"… author notes aren't included.
If anyone feels as if the story isn't very good… well, you'll just have to tell my why. I am always open to criticism. I choose a T rating because there are some things kids shouldn't be reading… don't know if the rating will change, still working on plot and all that.
"Looky, looky, what the cage brought in," the Joker laughed, "a little birdy to play with."
"Oh come on Mr. J," Quinn pulled at the Joker's arm as he got up from his seat. "let's find out who he is this time."
"All in time Babs. All in time." The Joker's laughter rang out through the compound.
Eleven Months Later:
Crow walked into mayor's office a knife balanced on the tip of his finger. As he passed by the glass bookshelf he stopped to look himself in the mirror. His hair had grown out an inch or two since the last time he was here. It was bleached white and green at the tips. The mask held on his face had been added to with purple and black diamond on each eye.
Crow smacked his lips the red bright against his painted pale skin. His un-occupied hand reached out and touched the mask. If only he could take it off, but as he tried to peel it off he felt the mask hold on tighter to his skin. Almost like a suction cup. Crow gritted his teeth.
"Come on Crow, not the mask again."
"No," Crow replied, "You know what I was thinking Babs. Your right. I need to change to a more purplish color. The red is just too striking." Crow looked his whole body over the mirror. He had on a bright lime green, long-sleeved, silk blouse. On top of the button up blouse was an obsidian vest that had two dancing Crow birds on each breast pocket, one green and one a royal purple. The back held a calligraphy J. The "J" was written in purple and outlined in the same lime green as his shirt. The "J" was so that he'd never forget who he belonged to. He had on black silk pants that clung to him. He also had on a set of what looked like ballet shoes, but as he turned away from the mirror revealed that there was no sole to them. "…The rest of the outfit has grown on me…. Sort of." Crow shifted his hand and pulled the dagger back into his sleeve. As he walked towards the Mayors' desk , Crow could feel all the knifes hidden under his clothing shift with him.
He smiled, pearly whites showing, "oh Gov'ner," Crow adopted a British accent as he turned the governor's chair around, "Help us out here won't ya?" the governor was tapped down to his chair eye glaring at Crow as laughter filled the room.
"Oh Crow. You're just like your father." Bab's voice filled the room as she placed a hand on his shoulder. Crow's smile fell from his face and he shook Bab's hand off of him.
"So Mayor, here's the deal," Crow dropped the British accent. "You see there's a problem here and you're the only one that can fix it."
"Yeah Mayor." Bab sat onto the Mayor of Gothom's lap. "Yeah see, we want Mister J back and you're in the way."
"So," Crow produced a different knife from under his sleeve. "Here's what we're going to do," he pushed it into the neck of the mayor, "you're going to call Batman and ask him to give us Mister J or," Crow put a bit more preassure onto the knife drawing blood from the mayor's kneck, "We. Are. Going. To. Kill…" Crow removed the knife. "Did you think we were going to say kill you?" Bab's laughed. "No," Crow put the knife back onto the mayor's neck. He pushed the knife back in, "We're going to kill thousands." He held out his other hand and Babs set a small black device in his hands, "you see this?"
Crow walked away from the mayor and then spun him around to look out the window. Outside the window the street was packed with cops, their guns pointed towards them. "You see them." He pushed the mayor's chair into the window, slamming the guys face closer to them. "Put the two together. If we don't get Mister J back, we're going to have some uncontrolled fun." He released the mayor and watched the man fall to the floor. As soon as the mayor was out of his graps the police fired at the villain. The bullets hit the fire proof glass, but that didn't matter when the dust settled the Joker's troops had already disappeared out of the office.
Ten minutes later:
Batman was in the mayor's office looking all the evidence over. He'd already watched the video fed and was left with only one puzzling question. What was the box? He'd run his scans on them and couldn't figure out what it was. It was unresponsive to anything. He walked over to the desk and picked the small box back up.
"Any idea what it is Batman."
"No." His gruff voice answered the officer. If only Robin was here, he'd of figured it out by now. Just as he spoke the black object lifted into the air and started to flash a timer. It was a boom. The time read in stark white color: "00:10", and had already started to count down. Batman through himself over the Mayor who had just walked in yelling to everyone else, "Get down."
The boom went off with a bang…
… and some fireworks and a sign popped up. Purple and green confetti sprung out of it with a loud bat screech and a green flare on one side and a purple on the other. The sign read, "Ha Ha." And was scribbled in what looked like blood.
Then all the TV's all across Gotham turned on to the faces of two clowns, Quinn and Crow. The two laughing and then Crow stopped. "There I laughed with you." He left the picture and Quinn was left on stage all by herself.
Quinn smiled back at the camera, "heheh," She looked behind her, "Hold on just a moment."
The whole city watched as she walked away from the camera. The audience could hear whispering and then Babs was pulling Crow back on to the set.
Crow sighed, "We were just at the mayor's and laid down some law."
Quinn spoke up, "We want Mister J back."
Crow glared at Quinn. Quinn put her hands over her mouth, "So we left a gift for the Major, and Batman just set if off. It wasn't a bomb, at least that one wasn't." An image of Gotham was flashed on the screen. It had several brightly colored purple and green dots that were flashing. The dots appeared to have no set order or reason to them but they scattered and filled the whole city.
"Give us Mister J back or we'll start setting off each one of these." The screen was supposed to go off at this point but it kept rolling. Babs walked over to Crow and wrapped her arms around him.
"Come on, Crow." The two leaned together and then Crow looked at the camera.
"Turn it off already." The screen went dark and then the map was flashed on the screen again.
"Batman what's the chance that those two did set up bombs?"
An officer replied before Batman go the chance, "I dunno know. Quinn most likely not, but Crow…" Every eye turned to Batman. He stood looking at the box still floating in the air, could those hold bombs? How'd the fireworks, confetti, and sign fit in the box to begin with was beyond him. It wasn't humanly possible.
This meant he was going to have to call in some friends. Gotham was going to need some help and the cape wonder wasn't going to be enough.
He looked over at the sign; this wasn't the only thing the two had up their sleeves. That blood had to be somebodies, and Batman got a sinking feeling in his stomach that he knew whose blood it was going to turn out to be—his missing son's Richard Grayson.
Mount Justice:
The Young Justice Team gathered into the entrance to the cave. Red Tornado had called them back from the previous mission the group had been on. It had been a simple information gathering mission that had been put onto the back burner when the Bat had called.
His face looked grim, more so than usual, as he stared down the young teens. Aqualad, Kid Flash, Super Boy, Zatana, and Miss Martian starred back at him, their faces eager. Ever since Robin disappeared almost a year ago, the team had had little contact with Bat and tonight they held onto the possibility that he might have news about his protégé.
"Gotham is in trouble."
Dun. Dun. Dun.
So, I'm also a mediocre artist and will be posting a picture of Crow on my profile… when I get a version I actually want the rest of the world to see.
