Chapter 1

I had been away from Gotham for over two years. I had a conflict with Bruce Wayne. I could no longer stand his so-called lofty moral principle. I eventually got the reason why Bruce had no girlfriend, or, at least, friend except Alfred, Jason, and I: He always insisted on his own principle and prohibited me to do what I wanted to do. C'mon! I had my freedom, and why the hell Bruce wanted to deprive me of my own freedom to do things I like. After several quarrels, Bruce fired me as Robin and passed the identity to Jason, a new boy Bruce adopted, while I had no bias on Jason.

After that night, though Alfred, Barbara, Jason tried to stop me, I left Wayne Abbey. I could still find my own world in another city, so I went to Bludhaven where I got help from Blue Beetle. I made myself a new name: Nightwing. I thought that was a process of growing; I was no long the boy wonder who was actually Jason Todd now. I acted as an obligating cop in Bludhaven, and an excellent detective, like what Bruce Wayne did in Gotham. But I started to feel lonely. Meanwhile, the criminals in Bludhaven were becoming increasingly rampant. I needed assistants, just like Batman needed Robin.

My first aim was Cyborg, so as his parents named him. His real name was Victor Stone. I knew him when I was Robin: His parents are both engineers in Wayne Enterprise, exactly, in STAR Lab, and I was Vic's classmate in Gotham High School. Vic, in my memory before that accident, was tall, almost taller than Bruce, playing football in school team, and he was regarded as the most promising athlete in the team. However, just one year after entering school team, Vic was badly injured in a serious fire- in fact, if Batman and Robin had not found him lying on the floor, surrounded by thick smog and toxic chemicals, he would have been killed in the fire. Exactly speaking, Bruce and I just saved part of his body including his head, heart, a part of arms- damn, why I mentioned that! I thought the fire would a life-long nightmare to Victor- if he could dream. For saving their son, the Stones couple stole one of the most cutting edge technologies, a metal bionics armor, from Wayne Enterprise and installed it onto Victor's fragmentary body.

Victor knew Dick Grayson, but he didn't know Dick is Robin or Nightwing. When I found him, he was watching news about Justice League- after he became Cyborg, Bruce introduced him to Justice League, a team full of adult superheroes like Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, and others (Bruce had never told me about the League). As a living computer, Cyborg could easily control the huge computer in Justice League and he quickly became the main assistant for those heroes.

"Hi, Cyborg, haven't seen you for a long time." I greeted to him.

"Oh. Hey! Nightwing." He replied. "What's up?"

"Well, uh... Let me see where I can start." I sit down in front of him. "I need your help. Uh, exactly, I need a lot of people's help. Well, actually, I want to set up a new group with teen heroes."

"Sorry, dude, I'm afraid you find wrong guy. I am already a member of Justice League." Cyborg shook his half-metal head.

"C'MON, Vic. I'm not making mischief. But I really need you, your computer, your power, your calculating brain."

"What's the plan?" Said Vic. "At least, you should tell me your plan."

"Well, there are another three guys." I turned up my laptop, showing Cyborg pictures. "This green boy whose real name is Garfield is generally named Beast Boy, and his superpower, just like his name, is to change his appearance into animals. By the way, he is a vegetarian." I laughed. "This guy: Aqualad. He is the young assistant of Aquaman, king of Atlantis and major member of Justice League. This one, Raven, daughter of Trigon. Relax, unlike her devil father, Raven is on our side. All of us play roles as teen heroes 'n assistants in this world full of adult superheroes like Superman and my foster father, Batman.

"It is true that the Justice League is well-organized. But there are still some places they can not handle, for example, my city, Bludhaven. The shadow from Gotham, especially from Falcone and Marrone, has spread to Bludhaven. Other cities, in the same vein, like Jump City, Central City, and so on- they are experiencing the most serious disaster throughout their histories. If Justice League can't deal with these problems, it is time for us teens to go. We need to work together and become a team. Victor Stone, I need your help."

Silence.

One minute later, Victor raised his head, smiling: "I'm in."

After that, everything became simple. Cyborg and Nightwing found other three guys. Beast Boy joined us as soon as he listened to my plan; Aqualad wanted to discuss with his king before joining us. But when we met Raven, it was not so easy.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." That was all what Raven was repeating. She was, as she said, meditating, floating in the air.

"Uh... Raven?" I hoped it was not wrong to interrupt her.

"Yes?" Raven opened one eye, staring at me. "Oh, Nightwing, I heard about you, and your team."

"So, wanna join us?"

"I don't think you know my evil father and his power which can easily destroy this planet." Raven closed her eyes.

"But we have you, right? You can help us to protect our home, and meanwhile we can help you!" I tried to show a big smile to Raven.

"Uho..." Raven sighed. "Whatever... I'm in."