Jason's Pov
Last night was a disaster. First a girl showed up in replacements uniform, had all his gear and fought similar to him. We tried to contact him his comm was dead, off line. After Damian tried to kill her we brought back to the batcave where she told more of her back story and her name, Taylor Jacqueline Drake.
Wow, replacement is hot as a girl. My life is strange. I'm not going to lie life was easier, when I was dead.
Anyway, I was walking to breakfast and there she was talking Alfred sipping on coffee. Breakfast in Wayne Manor is never what regular people think of breakfast time, it's usually at 12:00 p.m. or 1:00 p.m. The idle rich.
She looks me in the eye and tells me, "Hi, Jason I took the liberty of the internet and batcave files our lives are mostly the same. I just wanted to ask if you and my male counterpart good friends. My sister Jasmine and I love pranking Dahlia." She smiles and takes her hand and gets her hair out of her face.
"I tried to kill him twice but, we are o.k. now, I guess." I said lamely. Taylor is like the replacement, no way B. just handed her the passwords the batcomputer I'd lay odds she hacked it.
"Oh, I wish I could meet him Brea and my sisters are probably loving him. Steven's face is going to be priceless when he finds out that I am gone." She just started laughing. Not like Tim who laughs at things like Damian tripping over Titus down the stairs, or when Dick accidently butt dialed him and said a few things that were later used for blackmail.
Alfred asked, "May I inquire who Steven is?"
"My boyfriend, or better known in the night as Spoiler. Dahlia wanted him to be Batboy, but he refused." Taylor thought that was funny I already called Stephanie, who arrived just in time for breakfast.
"Where is she?" she burst through the doors. I knew, I just knew that fireworks were going to happen, I pulled out my phone. Blackmail is the best kind of mail. She must have spotted Taylor, she was in a pair of Damian's sweats and a tee shirt that belonged to me at one time. Stephanie came within an inch of her and said, "If any harm comes to him there won't be a place in the multiverse you can hide." Taylor never backed down.
"Is he not trained to take care of himself?" Taylor asked as Stephanie punched her in the nose.
I was so filming this. This was better than the best reality show, I thought as I watched it all unfold.
Taylor and Stephanie where fighting now both pretty evenly matched. By the time Alfred broke them up Taylor's nose was bleeding and Stephanie's left eye was beginning to swell.
Alfred sighed, "I hope you both will remember the rule no fighting in the kitchen. I hope you won't fight at all that won't help Tim or anyone. I think he will fine Mistress Stephanie, if he can survive Ras he can live with four females till we get him back."
"Sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I just miss everyone back home. What was that about Ras?" Taylor apologized as she pinched the bridge of her nose to get the blood to stop.
Stephanie explained with an occasional comment from yours truly.
"Ras never did that on my earth he has two sons, so an heir was never a problem. Tim sounds brave, but like he has no clue how to ask for help. I know I have that problem, I don't know a bat who doesn't."
Breakfast was entertaining, Damian kept glaring at Taylor. Stephanie tried to keep a conversation with Dick, and Bruce wasn't there at all. He was down in the Batcave working on a way to get Replacement back.
"Drake, I challenge you to spar." Damian said after he was done eating.
"I accept." Taylor smiled as she and Damian went to spar. We all trailed behind them.
On the mats they laid down the rules as Taylor braided her ebony black hair. Dick was the referee, it was decided that no weapons just hands.
I leaned back on the wall as the show began. Damian was expecting Tim, who was bigger than him. Taylor is smaller and Damian found that she was prepared for his smaller size. Damian compensated for it and he was gaining for a while. She didn't hold back, like I thought she would. The fight was long and Taylor was the victor.
"Thanks for the exercise, Damian. We should do it again before I leave."
"How do you fight like that?" I asked her wondering about it.
"On my earth Jasmine, my earth's Red Hood tried to kill me after that Brea made sure my training was more intense." Taylor said.
Damian didn't get to reply to that conversation because the Batcomputer lit up as it showed a police alert, hostage situation in Gotham National Bank.
"Suit up." Dick said and everyone jumped into action.
Meanwhile on Earth 11
Tim's POV
I woke up earlier than usual, well earlier than I do when I haven't pulled an all nighter. I walked into the kitchen as Agnes was pulling out banana chocolate muffins out. They smelled like home, at Wayne Manor.
"Good morning." I told her as cheerfully as I could without caffeine actively running in my blood stream.
"Good morning" Agnes replied in her crisp English accent.
"Do you have any coffee?" I asked hesitantly, to be honest Agnes seemed scarier than Batwoman. She reminded me of Alfred and a little of my mother.
"On the counter, cups are in the left cabinet." Same place as home. I got out a cup that had on it "1# Superhero!" It was that or "Girls Rule" after three cups of coffee I could think correctly.
"Back home, Alfred our butler and grandfather of sorts, worked with MI6 did you do anything like that?" I asked she seemed to have an air of confidence as she walked that I wanted to say was military. Agnes lit up as she spoke.
"Not MI6, I worked for the Queens Protection unit. I stopped many threats against her." She pointed to her side, "I caught that threat, right there."
"I bet you have a lot of stories, Alfred always would tell me stories back when I was Robin. I loved it." I told her, as I thought back to the stoic man who was the closest to a grandfather I had. He supported me as Robin when no one else did.
"I must have worn out the girls on my stories. When Jasmine came back after the pit, she wasn't right, so when she tried to kill Taylor twice, Brea got her to come here. We worked with her until the pit dissipated and she was more stable." Agnes got a far off look on her face as she must have recalled the memories. "I told her stories to keep her calm." I was happy that Jasmine seemed like she had a happy ending Jason was still volatile and easily set off.
"How is she and Taylor now?" I sincerely wondered, Jason and I at least had a working relationship, I could work with him better than Dick lately.
"Best of friends, at first it was the shock of being replaced, then anger at Brea. When she got over it and got to know Taylor she was very protective of her." Agnes said. I was eating a muffin as we spoke, Alfred needs this recipe I thought, as I ate it slowly savoring it.
The girls walked in Jasmine was in her Hood outfit, complete with cargo pants and black leather jacket. Her hair was up in a braid wrapped around her head, her white streak reminded me of Anna from Frozen. (Dick made me watch it.)
"I'm going to be gone for a bit. Kodanda and Roya need me for a bit." I guess those are this earths outlaws. She left looking at me sadly.
"Agnes, call me when Taylor comes home. Bye, if I never see you again, Tim." I watched as she hugged Agnes. She looked at me questioning and then we did an awkward elbow bump. A minute passed and I heard a motorcycle's roar.
Brea and Dahlia came in for breakfast. Dahlia seemed cheerful as she spoke to me.
"Good morning, little brother." That's a little new but, she reminds me of Dick.
"Uh, good morning Dahlia, good morning Brea."
Dahlia smiled as she ate her breakfast. "See if you from anther earth and you're adopted by a Wayne and I am adopted by a Wayne it means we are siblings. Who care about the semantics of it all?" she finished her muffin and gave me a hug. That's the Grayson cuddle/hug I know so well.
"Oh, you must work out a lot." She released me from the hug. "I want you to meet some more of the Batfamily today. Brea is working on getting you back where you belong. I want you to meet Benjamin, Steven, and Casper. They will just love you. Maybe not Steven." Dahlia smile. "Thanks for breakfast, Agnes."
I followed her to the living room and we talked for a while. Benjamin is Barbara's counterpart, Steven is Stephanie's and Casper's is Cass. I hated just sitting, but it was nice to get some background on these bats.
I heard the familiar sound of a wheelchair on the old Manor's wood floor. If I closed my eyes I could have sworn it was Barbara.
"Hey, Baby this is my little brother from a different universe." Dahlia got up and walked over to the young man in wheel chair with auburn hair and glasses who, was eyeing me very suspiciously. I noticed beside him was a blonde and an Asian teenage who had a slight build.
"Hello, I'm Tim, or at night I'm better known as Red Robin." I said better to get that over with.
"This is the surprise you call and tell me about?" Steven all most yelled. "Where is Taylor?"
"Calm down, Taylor and Tim have are on switched earths. So he knows everyone, but on that earth everyone is a switched gender." Dahlia explained. That was a good explanation. "Brea is working on getting them back."
"Tim good." Casper said after he sized me up in a few seconds.
"Thanks." I felt at ease with all of them except Steven. I wondered how Steph was getting along with Taylor.
"There has been a break out in Arkham!" Steven said as he looked at his phone. "Joker, Harvey, Riddler, and Ivy."
"We'll have to be careful tonight. They will probably split up. Tim, what's your experience with Ivy?" Dahlia commented.
"I can take her, well, him. So does he have control over woman? In my world it's men and fire works great against her."
"He does have control over women and fire and plants never mix." Ben interjected.
We went to the cave to strategize. Brea was still working on getting me and Taylor back to where we belong. It was decided that I would go after Ivy, Blackbat and Batwoman would go after Joker and Harvey Quinn. It was weird Harvey Quinn, a Peter Isly, Eve Nigma, and Joker. Nightwing and Spoiler would go after The Riddler.
When twilight faded we suited up it was different. My stab wound wasn't bad I would be able to take care of myself, like I always have.
I grappled on to a building as Oracle's voice came through, "Everyone on comms?"
A chorus of "yes" came through as he gave a warning. "Be careful out there watch each other's back." With that the line was pretty silent.
I was fine with that. I had grown accustom to working by myself so looking at the green houses by myself wasn't too bad. I liked the freedom of swinging through Gotham at night. When I was Robin there was nothing like wind through my hair.
I was beginning to think that this Poison Ivy was different than mine, it took the fifth green
house before I found him. It was still weird to think about Poison Ivy as a man. I thought sarcastically, that he should have been the "Jolly Green Giant" instead of Poison Ivy.
I looked around finding the exits and the best entrance. I softly ran to the door and snuck behind him.
"Well, I wondered when a bat would come." Maybe I didn't sneak as well as I thought I did. He turned around. "Red Robin's outfit, not Red Robin. Extra fun for me and my babies." His voice came out in equal parts velvety and sinister.
Suddenly vines came out from all over the green house I took out a large bladed birderang and sliced vines as I threw fire pellets from my belt. Flames soon wilted vines. That enraged Poison Ivy.
"I was going to have fun with you, but for that I will kill you." He spat out venomously. All the vines came closer and started to wrap around my legs as they tightened I struggled to break free.
