I do not own anything except for Nighthunter, everything else belongs to their rightful owners who are sadly not me.
Robin walked into the old apartment, any other day he would be discusted by the decay of the wood floor and the mold climbing the walls, he just stood there
"JASON!"
Tim yeled, listening for the reply, his hand traveled to Dick's knife strapped to Tim's smaller belt, he just felt better with it, even though Nightwing didn't let him use it, not that Dick would know, he was dead, so couldn't chide his sucessor for taking out a knife on gang members.
Soon enough, Red Hood stepped out of the shadows
"I thought Batsy said no secret identities out in the field, or are you thinking that since DaddyBats isn't here he doesn't care?"
"Why did you do it?"
Jason looked around, genuenly confused
"Do what?"
"Kill Nightwing"
"Mmmm, I didn't kill Goldie"
"Don't be stupid, I know that you've been jealous of all the attention Batman gives Nightwing"
Tim pulled out his bo staff holding it against Jason's throat, the older boy smiled and said
"I have a slight idea of what you're talking about, but take me to Mount Justice and I'll explain everything."
Robin's eyes narrowed, don't fall for it, don't fall for it Drake. He replied almost robotically
"Fine."
He fell for it.
Jason smiled knowingly, replacing his helmet.
Back at The Cave…
"So why should we trust you?"
Bart asked for the billionth time, Red Hood was sitting in the lounge, more like tied up actually. But he was still sitting.
"You shouldn't, once Batgirl comes back with that blood sample it'll all make sense"
"I don't know why you're still alive, you killed Nightwing, we have proof"
Conner growled at the crime lord, who utterly ignored him. Barbara came back in, shock written all over her face
"You need to come see this"
The Team members that were present ran after the girl in grey and yellow, they were all in uniform for some inexplicable reason.
Red Hood sighed, they had forgotten that he was currently tied very well to a chair, he squirmed then blew a rasberry.
Robin's birdarang flew past his ear in a near perfect arc and landed just shy of his arm, slicing the ropes and allowing Jason to stand up easily, obviously whatever Batgirl had found proved him right.
He was met with glares of the Team but most of them were looking down, either upset about the death or shamed at being wrong, he would gloat later.
Tim glanced back at him
"So, how'd you know?"
"Pine."
Batgirl raised an eyebrow
"Huh?"
"Pine, Nightwing always smells like pine, mostly it's faint but last night he didn't smell like it at all, he smelled more like clover"
Conner glanced at the villain
"You sniff him?"
"He doesn't notice."
"What other things do you know that we don't?"
"I killed Nightwing because the dead body that's in the Batcave is made of plant cells, technically never alive, cloned from the real Nightwing. The actual Nightwing that has been leading you for one year is still alive"
Wonder Girl put her hand over her mouth, Jason looked around to catch the expressions of everyone else.
Tim stared at the ground and said
"Now the real question is; If the real Nightwing is still alive, where is he?"
Dick gasped in a huge breath, coughing a few times before putting his hand on his chest, it tingled a little there, the last thing he remembered was… oh, being run through by his own knife. Ow. He felt his chest a little, he still had his uniform on, but there wasn't a hole, no wound or even a bruise when he lifted it.
"When you're done looking under your shirt can we play?"
Nightwing looked up and saw a little girl, she had raven hair cropped to her shoulders and moonlight pale skin, bright and huge sapphire eyes stared at him through a black domino mask. She smiled, no, smirked, that smirk was oddly familiar, his eyes widened.
That was his smirk, the one he saw in pictures of himself and in the mirror.
"Hello Nightwing, I'm Nighthunter, your technical sister and clone"
Author's Note: Yeah, I'm making the chapters really short but the cliffhangers are kinda reflex for me, like in the series, the commercial breaks are always at the good parts. Sorry if the character's behavior is a little off, I'm new to this.
But if you'll review I'll get better and give you a better reading experience, so please do.