Robin lay on the ground his face swollen and bloody from the beating he had just received at the hand of the Joker and a stray crowbar. The teen looked around blankly his eyes eventually ending up on a blond middle-aged woman named Sheila Haywood she stared back for only a split second before looking away from her son. Whom she had handed over to The Joker.
"Now, now boy blunder." The Joker cooed, kneeling down next to Robin grabbing the boys chin and forcing the boy to look him in the eyes. "We aren't done yet. I still need to introduce you to the other side of DR crowbar. Hahahaha!" The boy didn't see the crowbar strike his chin, but he felt it knock two of his teeth out.
Dick Grayson woke up on his bed and sat up clutching his chest, the momentum of which seemed to stir some dormant pain in his skull causing him to groan aloud.
"Rough night?" The sudden voice caused Dick to jump and turn to see a man sitting in a chair next to the bed. The man was in his early forties with jet black hair he wore a simple black top with matching black dress pants, it took Dick a moment but soon recognized the man as his adoptive father Bruce Wayne.
"Ugh, what are you doing here?"
"Around three A.M. Alfred received a picture of you unconscious with a bruise on your temple. He informed me and I decided to make sure you were ok or at the very least still alive." Bruce explained calmly.
"And how did you find me?" Dick asked feeling his aching head to find it was not only swollen but was also bandaged.
"I found you in the same state you are now."
"So you found me in my underwear with my head all bandaged up?" Dick said with his standard wit.
"Exactly." Dick's head seemed to snap over to the older man. An action he instantly regretted. And the two stared at each other in uneasy silence.
"The Red Hood knows who I am and where I live?" Dick's voice had lost all sense of sarcasm and had adopted a low serious tone.
"It would seem so." Bruce replied with the same calmness as before.
Glynda Goodwitch watched as the airship docked at beacons landing bay. The majority of passengers were students who had gone to Vale in order to go shopping or spend time with friends and relatives. Some of the students stopped to greet her while others tried their best to blend into the crowd and slip by unnoticed. After the majority of students were gone a young man stepped out. He stood at six feet tall and wore a plain black leather jacket over a simple white dress shirt. His pants were a pair of simple black dress pants, and his shoes were brown loafers. His short black hair had been combed over in order to give a more professional appearance.
"Good morning mister Todd. My name is Glynda Goodwitch." Glynda greeted the man offering him her hand.
"Good morning to you too Glynda, but please just call me Jason." Jason stated Shaking her hand and giving her a small smile.
"I'll be sure to do that. Now if you would please follow me." She turned and began to walk towards the academy. She pulled out her scroll and began reviewing his profile. "I must say the things you claim are rather impressive for someone who did not attend a combat school."
"I had a good teacher."
"Well, I'm sure they would be proud to see you passing on what they taught you to others."
"I'm honestly not sure if he would be." Jason said chuckling "If you don't count me he's only had two students."
"Perhaps he wanted his students to be the ones to pass down his teachings rather than himself." Jason pondered on her statement and began to think back to his time as Robin Bruce had never given the impression that he wanted Jason to teach others, hell he remembered a story Dick had told him about when he tried to teach Starfire a basic technique and Bruce went off on him. Yet at the same time on the few occasions that Dick had decided to visit the topic of Nightwing acquiring a sidekick of his own had come up rather often.
"I... don't know. It was always hard to get a read on that man." Jason shook the feeling off and smiled once again at Glynda. "You know anyone like that?"
"Well..." Glynda paused as she approached the elevator door. "I suppose Ozpin can be that way at times, but you always know that he means well." She said before pressing the button. the door immediately opened and the two stepped inside before Glynda pressed the button to take them to the top floor.
"You're leaving? And now of all times?" Dick nearly shouted at Bruce who stayed perfectly still, but had an agitated look on his face.
"There is an issue with The Leauge of Assassins that I can't ignore at the moment." At the statement, Dick remembered Tim had actually told him about the current situation apparently Talia had lead Bruce into some sort of trap and claimed to have had a child with him. Tim and said child were apparently at each other's throats.
"And what about the Red Hood?"
"You are perfectly capable of taking care of him on your own."
"He kicked my ass just last night!" Dick shouted at the elder man
"Because you weren't prepared!" Bruce snapped back causing dick to jump slightly. "Remember what I taught you, watch your opponent everyone has their weakness. you simply have to find it."
"I..." Dick hesitated "Are you sure?"
"Do you truly believe I would leave you to take care of this by yourself if I wasn't?"
"No." Dick smiled at his mentor "I won't let you down Bruce"
The elevator reached the top floor and Jason and Glynda stepped out into the circular room and approached a silver-haired, middle-aged man sitting at the other end of the room. The man whom Jason assumed was Ozpin stood and walked around the desk to meet them.
"Greetings Mister Todd." Ozpin greeted holding out his hand.
"Please just call me Jason." Jason once again requested. Ozpin simply nodded.
"Jason it is then." Ozpin said before taking a sip of his coffee. "Now Jason I must say your resume is rather impressive." Jason smiled to himself, the truth was that resume was about fifty-percent bullshit. Any hint of an education was a flat out lie and the references were either paid off with money stolen from Bruce Waynes bank account or threatened at Gunpoint. But that didn't matter the important part was his combat skills, none of which he needed to exaggerate. "To put it bluntly if you are telling the truth I'd say you have yourself a job. All that is needed at this point if a simple test."
"What kind of test?" Jason said raising an eyebrow.
"Don't worry it should be no issue for you." Ozpin walked past Jason and Glynda "Glynda please call the students for an assembly." Ozpin turned to Jason with a sly grin on his face. "Class is canceled today, the teachers are needed for a meeting."
I feel I have to announce that due to this story distracting me from my other one (I'm not trying to play favorites this one is just easier to write for some reason.) I will not even start to write the next chapter for RWBY: Under The Red Hood Until I have finished/edited/published the next chapter for my other Fanfic I'm currently writing.
So yeah that's why you're gonna have to wait half a year for the next chapter.
As always please tell me how I can improve my writing or just call me a worthless hack with less writing talent than Hideo Kojima. At this point, I'll take what I can get.