reviews so farHello faithful fans of X. I am runwithanime co-author of this fic. That's right dear fans this is a collaboration fic between darkangelwitch and myself. Let me tell you a collaboration fic is harder than it sounds to do. With time-zone difference, school, homework, finals and holidays. Anyway if you hadn't heard this fic is being rewritten no major changes just adding in some stuff to make it better and to try and fix some grammar.
A few things to know about this fic, this fic take's place in an alternate universe very similar to the young justice universe. Some of those differences will be explained later on. Some ooc will be taking place because of changes in this universe. The villain scene is inspired by the villains of Batman the animated series.
Also for the reviewers of the fic so far, comments to your review can be found at the end of this revised chapter 1
Warning: this fic contains BL, boyxboy, malexmale, boylove, yaoi, mentions of sex, ooc-ness and violence. If you are offended by any of these thing or just don't like it then by all means you may leave.
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A/N This is Darkangelwitch So sorry for this those who are reading this for the first time wouldn't care however I'm sorry the two of us were very busy with final and it's a pain being on the other end of the world with your beta. this story is going to begin from this point I'm taking down the other chapters. This is the second time I'm attempting to re-wright this fic, please forgive me, and please I'm trying do hard not to give comments when we talk about Harley or the Joker, rote in hell you crazy psych, may you be tormented by visions of sanity. I've added small changes to the chapters.
Gotham city
2019, 13, September
Abandoned warehouses by the docks
It was just another night in Gotham, crimes were being committed and psychos were escaping from Arkham Asylum.
In an abandoned warehouse near the docks, five criminals sat around a table, but these weren't your everyday criminals, no these are the members of the infamous rogues gallery of the Batman, and what are these rogues doing in an abandoned warehouse near the docks in the middle of the night? why playing poker of course.
Around the table sat the Joker, Harley Quinn, the Penguin, Two-Face and Poison Ivy, and farther away stood several unimportant henchmen, that will be the bunching bags for tonight.
As the villains sat around in an almost to silent circle, the Joker let out a rather annoyed sigh.
"Ahhh, so has anyone come up with a plan to beat the Bat?" the Joker asked dully.
The other villains glanced over at the Joker with an equally dull expression, which easily translated, as no they haven't, except for one red headed villainess who mouth bloomed into a truly venomous smirk.
"Oh my, has the clown run out of punch lines, or have you finally figured out that you were never funny to begin with? I mean come on laughing gas how desperate can you be." Poison Ivy said giving a small chuckle.
"Shut up you overgrown weed," spat the Joker feeling an angry twitching from his forehead.
"WEED? How dare you?" Poison Ivy interrupted angrily standing up and slamming her hands against the table.
As the argument continue, Harley Quinn looked worriedly between Poison Ivy and Joker not sure on which side to be, her best friend of all friends Poison Ivy, or her dear Snuggle Bear Mister J.
The Penguin didn't really care that much about the argument between Joker and Poison Ivy, arguments between the two were common. There were rumors that a lot of them dealt with Harley Quinn in one form or another. So to pass the time Penguin ate the snacks available and tried to see if he could catch a glance of the others' cards.
Two-Face sat watching his fellow villains, today hadn't been his day, since he first arrived at this forsaken meeting he had been flipping his coin and it kept ending up tails.
It was times like this he thought about seeing a psychologist. Again.
It certainly would be easier if he could shoot someone without flipping a coin.
While thinking this Two-Face flips his coin, heads see the psychologist, tails don't, as the coin lands it turns up tails. He sighs, then his attention lands back on his colleagues who are still in the middle of their bickering.
Watching as the Joker's own smirk became just a little more twisted and he commented "I just have two words for you, SEX POLLEN I mean seriously how desperate is that? What's wrong, were you not getting any?"
Poison Ivy slammed her fists on the table once again."Listen here you two-bit wannabe clown!"
Joker covered his ears with his hands and replied childishly "Oh I'm not gonna listen, your not a scientist and your no villain, your just a damn weed."
"Oooh ohhh I got a good idea Mister J." Harley Quinn interrupted Joker while waving her hands in the air.
"Why don't we kidnapped bird-boy and raise him as are own, he's just so cute." Harley gushed.
There was a moment of silence while all villains present took in what Harley Quinn had said.
"Oh Harley Harley Harley" Joker said while patting Harley on the head, a big smile adorning her face.
"This is why I come up with the punch lines," the Joker told her as he stood up and grabbed Harley by her jester hat and pulled.
"EEP!" Harley let out a scared yelp.
"Let her go, Joker!" Poison Ivy cried out.
"Do you realize how many times we've all kidnapped the bird? It's practically a Gotham pass time by now, where's the originality, HUH?" the Joker yelled out.
"But, but wouldn't it be great to have a Mister J JR to carry on the Joker legacy?" Harley asked tears collecting in her eyes.
"Hmm, why not Joker? you've always liked the plans that hit close to home for the Bat, what better way to get under his skin than to brainwash the bird?" The Penguin asked while talking with his mouth full of peanuts and pretzels.
"Urg, listen here beak nose, have any of you notice that Bats little robin start to get bigger, and then all of a sudden they just show up really small again? If we take that into consideration then each time a robin gets small it's a new robin, and that means that Bats has had at least three robins so far." Joker said as he released Harley.
"The first has to be that acrobatic nut going by Nightwing, their style is just too similar." Muttered Joker as he started to pace.
"He also has one great ass." Poison Ivy voiced out which the others present decided to ignore.
"Now as I was saying, the second Robin was probably the one I left to die; how he survived I really have no idea, not only that, but I'm near damn well sure he's the mook that stole my Red Hood gimmick." muttered the Joker.
"And then finally we have the newest bird, and am I the only one who has notice the lack of interest from the Bat for this one, if we really wanted to hit home we should have brainwashed the first one or even the second one, but no, this one we'll be lucky if he even comes after us." Joker claimed as he slumped down into his chair.
Meanwhile
Outside the abandoned Warehouse.
Atop the roof of an abandoned warehouse couch in the shadows sat a young man with black hair, the boy was wearing skintight black leather suit with a red "X" on the chest, black leather boots that extended to his knees with leather glove that reached to his elbows. His whole suit seemed to shimmer red, what looked like a utility belt wrapped around his waist and a whip that was attached to his hip. He wore a white mask that extended to his ears with a red "X" across it.
This young man is a new thief in Gotham known as Red X. He clenches his fist in anticipation, today was perhaps his only shot at impressing a group of the Batman's rogue gallery. Not many people knew that Batman's rogues got together occasionally to discuss there previous and future plans. It was basically a bragging match between villains. X had a mission to complete and the only way to finish it was to first get in good with the rogues.
X watched the outside of the warehouse his eyes narrowing a bit. The outside of the warehouse currently occupied by the rogues was surrounded by henchmen, and while not the brightest bunch X wanted to get through them as fast as possible. The plan was to use knockout gas on those outside and to make a very loud entrance to really get the rogues attention.
"Better get started then" X muttered to himself.
Inside the warehouse
With Batman's rogue gallery
The doors were suddenly slammed opened, one of the nameless henchmen turned towards it while lifting his gun to the intruder, seeing a boy that didn't look older than 16 years old, he was a bit confused.
"Hey kid what are you doing here?" Henchmen A asked.
At the sound of the disturbance all eyes turned toward the small form leaning on the door in the shadows smirking.
"I'm here looking for a job." The boy said, his voice having a slight English accent.
"I'm called Red X" The mentioned Red X moved from the shadows, some jaws dropped while others ogled, and some whistled. (coughPoisonIvycough)
The Joker was the first to snap out of his daze " this isn't a place for babies, after all you might obtain some undesirable stalkers hanging around a place like this."
"I can take care of myself." Red X muttered smugly looking completely relaxed against the warehouse doors frame.
"Oh really now, than prove it" the Penguin stated with a snap of his fingers.
The Red X smirked and all hell broke lose, one of the henchmen grabbed Red X, and was punch, a sickening crunch could be heard as he was sent flying into another henchman, no doubt a broken nose. Red X then grabbed his whip, and with a flick of his wrist he wrapped the whip around another henchman leg and tripped him.
Red X stood there looking smug as a huge blob of a shadow descended on him, turning around Red X saw that a grotesquely huge henchman had come up behind him, the unnamed henchman started to throw punches but Red X was faster and easily dodged all of them, flipping over the henchman he hit several pressure points to bring not only this Walrus to his knees but several other henchmen that where within his reach by the same means.
Jumping up into the air Red X brought out several small bombs in the shape of X's and threw them to knock out the last of the henchmen.
As all five of the villains sat starring dumbly at the scene Red X grabbed a Mini X bomb and threw it at the Joker.
With a satisfying boom the X Bomb exploded in the Jokers face leaving a slightly chard Joker behind.
With a flick of the whip Red X had Joker in a choke hold.
"Now as I was stating my name is Red X and I have a few conditions
1.I only steal, I never kill,
I take a job I always see it to the end
3.I have a life so I don't want anybody following me.
finally I don't come cheap
Now have we reached an understanding" The Red X asked while tugging on his whip.
In the choke hold the Joker was in he let out a cough of smoke and said "You're in kid."
Red X released the Joker and who found himself falling over unconscious. As the other villains managed to shake off their stupor, the first to speak was Poison Ivy.
"Nice to have you on board Red" Poison Ivy said while smirking, already liking the kids style with how he took the clown down.
As Two-Face and Penguin looked like they wanted to say something they were cut off by a shout from Harley Quinn.
"Yay, now we have a son, now come to mama and give me some sugar" Harley Quinn all but screamed as she jumped up out of her chair with her arms spread wide open.
Once again the room was filled with silence, a very awkward silence the only sound that was heard was Two-Face flipping his coin.
After flipping his coin Two-Face checked it and scolded TAILS again, today he was just out of luck.
While the villains seemed to be preoccupied by the award silence X decided this would be the perfect time to slip out. He'd find them again later to coordinate a job but for now he had to get back and give his report.
Gotham
2019, 11, September
Beneath Wayne Manor, the Bat-Cave
The Bat-cave, which happened to be located beneath Wayne Manor was currently occupied by three brothers who were locked in an argument.
"No. I absolutely refuse. This is a very bad idea." Said a tall well muscled young man with black hair and beautiful blue eyes who looks to be in his early twenties. The young man is wearing a black tux with a blue tie that matched his eyes perfectly. An outfit he was hoping to show off to his lover. The young man clearly appeared to be greatly agitated from the discussion he was having with the two younger men.
"Dick I hate this as much as you do, but this is a good plan" A boy who appears to be in his mid to late teens also with black hair and blue eyes said. He was currently wearing an outfit of red and yellow with a big yellow R over the left side of his chest. He had known that Dick would be overprotective but this was ridiculous.
"Yeah Dicky, let Baby-Bird do his thing" A young man in his late teens with black hair and green eyes said. The mentioned young man leaned against the wall of the Bat-cave a smug smirk on his face. The young man wore a leather jacket with blue jeans in his hands he holds a red full head helmet.
"I don't know Jason have you thought about what if Tim gets hurt or traumatized or" Now known as Dick also know as Richard Grayson aka Nightwing was clearly becoming more agitated as they continued talking. Sometimes Dick wished his family could be a bit more normal. Then maybe he wouldn't have to deal with his younger brothers going on such dangerous mission.
"Dick, stop I'll be fine. Boy am I glad I didn't show you my costume" The boy in his mid to late teens now know as Tim also known as Tim Drake aka Robin said.
"Timmy, please just come on, Bruce will you say something." Dick pleaded to a well muscular man with black hair and blue eyes. The mentioned man was currently sitting in front of a rather large supercomputer a blank expression upon his face.
The man now known as Bruce, as in the Bruce Wayne multi billionaire aka Batman took a second to look over his oldest adoptive son measuring his mental state. While Bruce understood Dicks worries for Tim, and even more so with Jason's brush with death years ago that still weighed heavily in everyone's mind this mission still had to be done.
"Let me explain this again to you Dick. Tim will go undercover to get information.
I can understand your worries but among all of us present Tim is the most likely to succeed in infiltrating Gotham's criminal organization and collect the information needed about the LIGHT."
Dick let out a heavy sigh turning to look at his little brother with a troubling look " Fine, but watch your back. I worry about you." Dick told Tim.
"What's wrong with your costume anyway?" Asked the curious young man now known as Jason as in Jason Todd aka Red Hood.
Tim's face broke out into smirk and simply said. "You'll see."
Gotham City
2019, 15, September
Docks
And now that Nightwing has seen it, he was utterly speechless. Nightwing could only stare as he watched his undercover baby brother run around in a tight form fitting leather costume that left nothing to the imagination. This was unacceptable.
Red Hood himself was gawking under his helmet, which he was very grateful for but at the same time was holding in his laughter while watching the look on Nightwing's face.
Nightwing and Red Hood found them selves at the Gotham Docks. A shipment was arriving in Gotham that Two-Face wanted and Tim had informed them that he was going to be involved so to make sure no one became suspicious of Red X, Nightwing and Red Hood where to confront Red X and give a good performance.
"He didn't" Dick denied in a broken voice.
"Damn. Kid works the black and leather" saying this Red Hood gave a low whistle. Ok he had to admet, his baby brother was pretty sexy, but he was his brother, and that's all he sees him as. Now if he had been a redheaded speedster that would certainly have change things. Of course the twitching that Nightwing was doing because of the comment certainly made the said comment worth it thought Red Hood.
Waiting until Red X was almost directly under them both men jumped down to launch a series of punches and kicks. All of which were dodged.
Red Hood couldn't help but think this was a terribly stupid idea. There was no way Dickie-Bird would go full strength on Timmy mostly because of some moral crap or whatever. As such it was left to the great Red Hood to make things look more real.
Reaching behind his back Red Hood grabbed the shotgun he had been carrying around aiming the said gun at Red X's head.
BANG
The loud noise of the shotgun going off surprised everyone this included both villains and heroes.
As everyone took notice of the shotgun being held in the hands of the vigilante with the red helmet it only took a second to notice the large gapping whole in the crate directly behind Red X the bullet missing the thief's head by a few inch's.
Taking the shock of the others as a sign to continue Red Hood started to shot off a few more bullets watching the criminal scum panic and scramble for cover. Watching this Red Hood began to take aim at some poor foolish henchmen but in the next second foolish henchmen A ran directly into henchmen B, CRACK, the sound of the henchmen colliding was loud. Well those two aren't getting up anytime soon Red Hood thought to himself He then turned his sights to the way Red X had ran.
Red Hood took a logical guess as to what crate Red X was hiding behind. Aiming his shotgun he started to fire only to have the gun grab and forcibly aimed at the sky the shot rang out and managed to hit a crane holding a large wooden crate the rope holding the crate snapping allowing the crate to fall to the ground.
Red Hood looked at the hand grabbing his gun and snarled out "Take your hand off my gun" while ripping the gun away from Nightwing.
"That's all you have to say you could have killed someone" lectured Nightwing, wondering where Red Hood had even gotten the gun. Batman would hear about this later.
"But I didn't" Red Hood said with a muttered "probably". Red Hood's voice was filled with disappointment.
"What do you even think you're doing" Ask Nightwing, completely forgetting about the currant mission and predicament, the two heroes were currently in.
"Handing out justice." said Red Hood taking a notice of the henchmen starting to creep up obviously trying to launch a counter attack. They would have to be dealt with soon.
"This isn't justice Red!" said Nightwing trying to reason with his younger brother.
"Says you!" muttered Red Hood.
Red Hood was practically ready to smash the butt of his gun against Nightwing's head at this point, 'how dare the golden boy lecture him' as Red Hood thought this he noticed a glint from the darkness, in the next moment X throwing stars had pined Nightwing's arms to the crate behind him. Red noticing more 'X' throwing stars heading for him used his gun to block them as Nightwing managed to dislodge the last of the X stars pinning him in place.
But before either hero could locate the thrower of the stars, several henchmen had appeared out of nowhere. Deciding that at close range the shotgun was more of a hindrance then anything else, Red Hood throw it aside and proceeded to fight their foes the old fashioned way, with his fists. The fight was rather quick, with a flick of the wrist Nightwing sent out a set of wing-bombs that electrocuted several of the henchmen while Red Hood started to vent some of his rage by smashing his fist into a few of the henchmen faces and finishing the last with a nasty head-butt. Both breathing slightly heavily they took a chance to look around. Not paying attention to the amount of heavy damage that was done to the docks both heroes realized something. Red X was gone along with whatever the shipment had been and a good deal of henchmen.
"Did we just fall into an amateur's distraction?" Asked Red Hood bewilderedly.
Nightwing just face-palmed.
Meanwhile with Red X
Red X had just delivered the shipment to a very pleased Two-Face. Entering an alley a few miles away from his rendezvous place with Two-Face, Red X proceeded to press a series of buttons that had been cleverly disguised on bricks. In a sudden flash of light Red X disappeared from the alley with none the wiser reappearing in the Bat-Cave.
Looking around the cave Red X saw something that he never thought he would ever see, Batman face palming. Watching the Batman for a few seconds and thinking about the thought of hacking into the security system to acquire a picture of the Dark Knight was interrupted by a loud noise coming from the left of the Batman. Looking over to the noise Red X realized it was his two older brothers once again having one of their spats Red X removed his mask and started to head to the locker-rooms. A nice long shower sounded wonderful at this moment. Before the young man could reach the inviting showers a voice called out from behind him.
" Nice going Baby-Bird. Didn't think you had it in ya" Said Red Hood, feeling rather proud of his younger brother and how he handled their skirmish at the docks.
With the change of conversation Batman looked up and glanced towards Red X and the others. In that instant Batman did a double take staring at his youngest son. His face turning red and a large angry twitch appearing on his forehead.
" Timothy Jackson Drake what do you think you are wearing?" Yelled Bruce Wayne removing his hood. After Bruce's outburst the mood in the cave changed, going from the usual professional atmosphere (or at least as professional as it can be with both Dick and Jason in the same room) it entered the overprotective family mode.
'This is problematic when things get like this lectures are usually involved I hate it when they lecture me' Tim thought.
With the change of mood Tim found Dick in front of him.
"Change that outfit!" Demanded DICK hands on hips and looking like a rather outraged mother.
"Sorry. Already showed myself in it. Can't change it at this point. By the way why should I change it anyway?" Asked Tim innocently. It was really the only way out of this situation.
"Tim we really don't need more stalkers than what Tim Drake and Robin already have." Said Bruce feeling a particularly painful migraine coming on.
"You look naked" Dick said almost shouting voice sounding a bit hysterical.
'And there was dicks brother complex rearing its ugly head, again' Tim thought to himself.
"That's rich coming from the guy who used to wear panties, there's hardly any skin showing and the skin that is showing is only the bottom half of my face" Tim claimed trying to put on an innocent act not that it would really work, Bruce and the others had already developed an immunity to it over the years. 'Besides this outfit will be useful in a more personal plan I have in mind, I'm not letting go of this outfit' thought Tim determinedly.
"T-that's not the same thing."Dick stuttered, remembering that little fact, lucky for him Batman saved him the further embarrassment.
"Tim, just go change. We'll talk about this costume later." Bruce was practically growling. With Bruce's words the discussion was closed, and Tim watched as Dick stood down. Jason on the other hand had at the very beginning taken to leaning against the Bat-Mobile watching amusingly at the scene playing out. 'Smug bastard, he was probably trying to think of a way to use this for his own advantage later' thought Tim with a slight frown forming on his face.
A wicked gleam appeared in Tim's pale blue eyes as he headed towards the showers. 'This may be a mission, but that doesn't mean he couldn't have some fun with it' he thought.
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KFlova: how's it going, thank you for your review. The Artemis scene was a bit rushed and we'll be rewriting that part. Maybe she's meant to be hated or maybe she just misunderstood and needs some help. A love trangle well maybe ;) I do like drama XD. As for X being able to read minds, he was trained by Batman that is your answer.
theGirlNightwing: thanks for loving the story so far. We would also like to point out that we know that Damian isn't the fourth robin but he is the fourth MALE robin. Also while he isn't fourth robin in the comics he may be the fourth robin in this fic, its still up in the air.