A BB/YJ Universe Fanfic
The 3rd Gen Team
The Search for Damien
***Ok. Here is the final saga to our alternate universe Batman Beyond series. The first arch is introducing Damian Wayne. In the first series, Bruce learned that his son was still alive. So now Terry and Jason have taken it upon themselves to find him and return him to Bruce before Bruce passes away. This is that story. Reina Grayson has seen Son of Batman and loved it so I thought it would be nice to intro an older Damian Wayne in the BB universe. So here goes nothing! ***
By: Malaizjan P.J. Shultz & Reina Grayson
Chapter 2
Meygan waited until Kevin was off to his first class at Neo Gotham U before dressing 6 month old Rini and taking a Boom Tube to London. Meygan felt like the answers she needed was with Jason Blood.
Meygan knocked on the door.
Jason Blood answered it. He took one look and ushered her inside. "Isn't it too soon for your daughter to be out?"
"This was important." Meygan sat before the fire. "Jason, I need...information."
Jason smiled. "Such as...?"
"What are...omni-wizards?"
Jason didn't say a word. He went to his hidden library and pulled out one of her great-grandfather's books and handed it to her.
With one hand, Meygan's hand glowed. The book opened and flipped through its own pages until the answers she sought were in front of her.
"Omni-Wizards are ancient wizards who have mastered more than 1 primary element. The minimal would be all 4 primary elements. These wizards are tier 6 or stronger and are very adept at hiding the other magics from all... Omni-Wizards are generally threatened by the presence of other Omni-Wizards or unusual powered humans. Few Omni-Wizards exist after the genocide by the Lords of Chaos..."
"Morgan La Fay was a descendant of a Lord of Chaos," Jason piped in.
"Wait...so would I be an Omni-Wizard or an unusual powered human?" she asked Jason.
"What do you think?" Jason asked.
"An unusual powered human."
Rini giggled.
"No way I'm an Omni-Wizard…" Meygan watched as Jason transformed.
"Gone gone the form of man, now rise the demon, Etrigan." Etrigan stared at Meygan, then at Rini. "Omni-Wizards give birth to Omni-Wizards."
Meygan was shocked. "But I...I just do water!"
"You do...but your fire never left you." Meygan stared at him. "To a lesser degree, you are one. And so is Rini."
Rini reached out with her small arms for Etrigan.
The demon looked ready to eat her.
"But why Areina?" she asked him.
"Her twins are powerful. They can slow him down. The "Master" has been corrupted by foul means. But there is a pure form of him."
Meygan was confused. "So he needs to be combined with his pure form?"
"No, he must die. There is no redemption. No hope."
"And my mom?"
"She is in the gravest of dangers. For Camelot to rise, this Master must be defeated."
"Great! As if he isn't hard enough to deal with!" Meygan let out a frustrated sigh.
"Take the book, young princess. There is far more information which may help you."
"Thanks, Etrigan." Meygan smiled at the demon before taking the book and daughter and leaving.
Etrigan watched the daughter of Nightwing leave. He knew the fight with the Omni-Wizard would be the most difficult yet. But the only one who could put a stop to it wasn't Meygan.
Areina and Orin were enjoying a quiet moment while their twin sons took their naps.
Orin rubbed Areina's shoulders. His poor wife had to deal with two powerful infants by herself while he worked with Dick's private security firm.
Areina was looking forward to some private time together when there was a soft knock at the door.
Areina groaned as Orin went to answer it. "If it's Brian again asking us to watch Iesha, DROWN HIM."
Orin chuckled as he opened the door.
It was Meygan, with baby Rini.
Orin ushered then inside.
"Meygan?"
"Sorry Areina. I needed to talk to you. I got some info about the jerk bothering us." Meygan the proceeded to tell Areina and Orin everything she learned while Rini rested in the boys' play pen.
"Wait...you're an Omni-Wizard?!" Areina cried.
"Apparently. …Etrigan told me that my fire magic hadn't left me."
"So that means...you can do both fire and water?" Orin asked.
"I guess so. The only way to figure it out is for me to try."
"And he's targeting me because I'm...?"
"Favored by Merlin."
"Seriously!? Great!"
Meygan eyed her cousin for a moment. She opened a small pocket dimension and pulled out Excalibur. "Touch it."
Areina stared at it, wide-eyed.
Orin looked like an eager kid that just got his favorite toy back. "I can't believe it."
Areina hesitated before touching the hilt of the sword. It glowed for a few seconds before it faded away.
"Why...why are you showing me now?" she asked Meygan.
"If I can't use the sword, then you can."
"Why?"
" 'Cause..." Meygan didn't really answer the question.
"Meygan..." Areina's maternal voice showed.
"Just trust me."
4 days later…
Terry was perched above the condo of Paxton Powers. For the past four days, the son of Blight was nervously pacing and alternated that with work at Wayne-Powers, as if he was waiting on something.
Tonight, he hit pay dirt.
Someone came walking into the room, but Terry didn't recognize the person; something was off though as Paxton seemed to be scared out of his mind by this visitor.
"So has my shipment been sent?" she asked him.
Terry's eyes widened; that was Talia's voice!
"As promised." Paxton stood a little too close to the immortal.
"This time, I expect no mistakes. He nearly broke out."
Terry's eyes widened more.
"He took down 30 people before we could subdue him," Paxton explained.
"See to it that there's no repeat of last week."
Terry heard all that he wanted. He then leaped from the window ledge and activated his rocket boots to return to the Batmobile.
Batcave
Terry had returned quickly, and wanted to check some things out. He started typing on the Batcomputer and found the shipment records for every form of shipping. More typing narrowed the list down to any shipments with Talia's name or even Paxton's and that showed a list of 20.
"Alright, so maybe the team can help me out on this one." Terry said to himself as he printed the list and reached into his belt for his mother box.
He activated it, and walked through the portal to the home of the heroes...Watchtower in space.
Watchtower
Terry arrived, and Syfon was the first one to approach him.
"What's wrong Terry? It's not your turn on Watchtower," Syfon asked.
"I need the team here; I have a case in Gotham and it's too big for me alone," Terry told the resident genius.
"Alright," Syfon said, and he started working with Backpack 2.0 to contact the team.
The team only took ten minutes to get there, and even Meygan was there, just in case she was needed. Serenity was watching Rini, Jay, and Bruce as Areina wanted to be at the meeting and Orin was in Atlantis on an errand. Terry pouted when he saw that Meygan arrived without the little girl he delivered just 6 months ago. The Outlaws had arrived as well and were ready for whatever had come up.
"What's going on, Ter?" Areina asked as she and Max stood beside each other.
"I have some leads on a case that Dick, Jason and I have been working on, but the lead is too big….even for the three of us to handle. I figured we could split this list up and investigate the areas in small teams," Terry informed the team.
"You'll soon match Bruce's reputation of thinking on your feet," Tim said, who wanted to be there to help Syfon coordinate the information should this be a separation mission.
Areina knew a secret about Terry, but she promised her grandfather and the demon Etrigan that she would not reveal it. As the meeting went on, Terry remembered something and he needed Meygan's insight to it.
"At the meeting, there was someone that I had never seen in Gotham before, but the way Paxton was talking, it looks like Ra's has found another body. Kevin, can you get the image from my mind and show it to Meygan?" Terry asked his teammate.
Kevin nodded and soon his eyes were glowing and he only needed a second as the image was fresh. He then turned to Meygan and showed her what he got from Terry's mind.
"THAT'S STRIFE'S BODY!" Meygan shouted. "I knew I should have torn it to pieces!"
"So, after you disembodied Strife, it looks like Ra's wanted to ditch Talia's body." Vincent remarked.
"Don't let Grandpa hear you talk like that. Before Ra's took over Talia's body, he truly loved Talia," Areina told her brother.
"Alright, so what are we looking for?" Shock asked.
"Damian Wayne," Terry told the team. "Bruce's biological son."
The team was floored….well all but Mathen, Areina, and Max.
"Grandpa has a legitimate son?" Molly asked.
"Yes, it happened before Mathen and Marik were born. Bruce told a few of us in a meeting back during the timeline change. He met Damian when the boy was just 16 years old."
"How's Damian still alive…..Bruce said he was killed by Ra's." Max said, remembering the meeting.
"We've discovered that Damian is still alive; the one that was beheaded was a clone of him. Dick, Jason and I have been tracking him down since right before the babies were born." Terry said after he let out a deep breath.
"Alright, so Damian's being brought into Gotham…..let's go!" Andrew said; ready to help his soul mate's grandfather reunite with a lost child. And he was inching to use his Green Lantern Ring.
"We'll split into teams of two and each team will get two locations to check out. Alright: Syfon & Shock; Blue Beetle and Robin; Me & Siren; SBP and Eclipse; Airhawk and Miracle; KF and Archeron; Terry and Komos; Red Bird and Red Hood; Batgirl and Kori; and….." Mathen said as he was still leader of the team.
"Us." Meygan said as she pulled Mona up with her.
"Sorry Meygan, but I'll be alright by myself." Mona said as she pulled her arm from Meygan and glared at her.
"But…." Meygan said, a pout starting to form.
"The pout won't work on me. Rini needs you right now. Besides I'll be fine, I'm a demon remember?" Mona said.
Meygan thought over this and KNEW that Mona was right. "Okay, just be careful sis."
Mona smiled as she looked at her 'sister' then to the team.
"Alright, half the list is in Gotham, the other half in nearby Bludhaven, so let's split it up and search for Damian." Terry said, and with that he keyed in the addresses and the teams started picking their locations.
Mathen and Olivia
NightwingII & Siren were on the catwalk overlooking the unloading of the small freight boat. The ninja assassins were securing the insides of the boat. Then four of them carried out a frozen tube. But the liquid inside was still moving and the person inside was a young man with longish hair.
Siren gasped ever so quietly.
The young man looked so much like Bruce Wayne. It was uncanny.
Nightwing II slowly pulled out a smokescreen ball. He wanted to make sure that he knew who was all there.
Both heroes saw someone exits the boat. They had never seen her before. This female was made out of black stone. But she sparkled, like diamonds.
Her stance was one of authority as she pointed where she wanted the tube at.
The ninjas did as they were guided to do, and the woman slowly turned her head, looking at the windows and exits.
Mathen had a bad feeling about her.
Then, his sister's voice came over his mind. "Abort, abort, abort!"
Both he and Olivia looked at each other, nodded, and they left without incident.
Brian and Vincent
Kid Flash and Archeron were at the warehouse where 20 Cadmus Pods were housed. Both were looking through the window rooftop to see inside.
Both spotted Yami ordering around the Slade Bots, who moved the pods to a truck that waited to be filled.
"Something ain't right," Brian whispered to his brother.
"Yami is there. We have the right spot."
Slowly, vines slithered onto the roof and made their way to both heroes.
Brian then saw a flicker within one of the pods and Meygan's voice filled their minds. "Abort, abort, abort!"
Both stood up.
The vines snatched the two off their feet, wrapping themselves around young heroes, effectively tying them up.
Yami then appeared from the side of the rooftop on a thick vine. He had grown into his powers since they last met. Yami looked more...comfortable in his powers. His eyed were cold as he eyed the two.
"Archeron and Kid Flash; nice to see you again. I was hoping you'd be the ones at this location."
Kid Flash blew a raspberry.
Yami seemed unfazed. "How droll."
Yami turned to Archeron. "And you...I heard you got your father back. I think it's time he deals with loss too..."
Terry
Terry watched as the yacht rode up to the pier and the motor was cut. Komos was there but Cassie, the current Wonder Woman, told him he had to return to the island. Terry let him, realizing that he was doing this solo.
Batman went into camo mode and snuck onto the yacht. He knew his gut was sending out warnings as he waited for a chance to go below deck.
The door that led below opened and a young teen girl was guided out, hands cuffed in front of her, arm being dragged by Ebon, who carried a perpetuating shadow around him.
"Let Go!" the teen girl cried.
"Not today, island brat. Your mother's defied me for the last time!" Ebon told her. He jerked her arm for emphasis.
Terry had enough. He bum rushed Ebon while invisible and knocked him away from the girl. With his back turned, he never saw the girl's bound hands become a mallet and it was swung into Terry, knocking him up against the side of the boat.
Terry was out and the teen girl's mallet was reformed into her hands, still cuffed.
Ebon got up. "Not bad. Now he's ours."
"Glad I could help." she said.
Jason and Areina
Two figures moved light and fast into the old casino in downtown North Metropolis.
They made their way to the upper floors of the building.
The loads of ninja assassins occupied the top 3 floors. But the two mystery figures made it to the top floor without alerting those assassins.
Red Bird and Red Hood poked their heads out from behind a large bookcase that was still intact.
Inside the large open room, most likely was once a gambling room, was Ra's as Strife. One Cadmus Pod was covered and it was being rolled away to a side room. The one remaining pod was empty but Damian Wayne was chained and awaiting transport.
Areina ran over to check on him. He started to stir and when he looked up.
"Reiena...is that you?" His voice weak.
"So you did know her. No Damian, I'm her daughter." Areina said; happy to have found Bruce's first biological son.
"We'll get you out of here soon enough, bro." Jason said, and with that Areina was ready to free him.
"So...I knew you'd try to get him, Jason," came Ra's voice.
Jason worked to pick the lock that kept the chains on Damian.
"Nothing to say?" Ra's continued.
Areina threw a birdarang as three assassins came into the room. "How about bite me?" she responded.
Jason broke the lock and the chains fell. He then gasped.
Areina looked over at Jason. She narrowed her eyes. Jason backed up, a bloody hand over a stomach wound, which bled still. Damian stood up, a sadistic grin on his face. He slashed out at Jason, who dodged with purpose.
"You sonava-" Areina started but she got elbowed in the back of her neck and she instinctively kicked back, nailing her assailant.
'Damian' went after Areina once he reclaimed his balance from the kick. He was kicking and punching with everything he had, but she was dodging it all. Jason was still bleeding, and Ra's watched on with a smile on his face.
Jason looked at Ra's and in his head, he figured it out. Jason pulled out his gun and fired it; forcing Ra's to dodge as Jason ran past the man to get to that covered pod.
Areina then felt throwing stars breeze past her as she continued to dodge 'Damian'.
Jason burst through the fire escape stairs door and ran down the steps. He went down 20 floors in less than two minutes. Jason burst through the door at the bottom of the steps and got a kick in the helmet's face. Jason fell back and another kick hit the outer thigh, followed by a sweep of his legs before he was pinned against the wall.
He caught the leg and threw the person back. Then Jason was met with more assassins.
Red Hood took them out with an efficiency that left them all breathing.
The pod was being loaded into the back of the truck.
Jason ran for it, gun raised on the run and two shots knocked out the two ninja assassins loading the pod. Their legs had a bullet each in them and the pod hit the ground.
Jason rushed to it, punching out both assassins, then tore off the pod's cover. It was Damian. The ex-killer climbed on it, his hand bloody still as he tried to pry open the door while his stomach hurt him. Someone grabbed Jason and tossed him aside. As Jason fell against a parked car, he looked up.
He saw Black Manta's helmet before a fist rung his bell and Jason was out. The figure in all black, wearing the Black Manta helmet, began to kick and punch the limp Red Hood.
The figure was soon halted in its onslaught of Red Hood when it was pulled away and roundhouse kicked in the head. Even with the Manta helmet on, the figure went down and Red Bird appeared to carry the unconscious Jason to safety. Before she had arrived however, the pod containing Damian Wayne was finally loaded into the truck and the truck had left.
Meygan followed Mona a good distance away. No way was she being left behind when the whole op wasn't right.
Yeah, she was retired, but she still kept up her training and magic and focused on her sword training.
She was ready.
Mona sighed as she felt Meygan. She knew she would follow her.
Mona waited until she got to the roof of the Metropolis Steel Factory.
Meygan landed on the same roof. "Sorry."
"You're retired...sis."
"But we could find an uncle of mine, how could I not join in."
"You haven't been on a mission since before Rini was born." Mona saw the look Meygan gave. "Fine. But stay close."
"You know...this could be a trap."
"Knowing Ra's reputation, I'm sure it is."
Mona opened the ventilation shaft before looking back. "Why?"
"Because all of those places being listed. Ra's is playing with us. He's really in Salt Lake City… in the Cadmus lab there."
"How do you know?" Mona asked.
"Precog."
Mona swore in demonic.
"Call it in. These places are a trap."
"The only trap you'll tattle on...is mine."
Meygan and Mona turned around.
A black mass hit both of them. They fell into the shaft.
