The girl turned toward Ezra at the sound of her name, and nodded to him.

Ezra wasn't sure how to react, he simply nodded back, as Barbara followed the guy back into the shadows. He knew, he knew now. Ezra knew that they knew.

7 years ago, when Ezra was 10, he got mixed up in some mugging in back alley, between a family with a small daughter, maybe four or five, and a baby boy in their arms, and then there was the Black Crow, an organization that kills any and all people that double cross them. Ezra, had just been walking out of a store that he had stole some fruit from, when he walked right in between them by accident. Little Ezra dropped his fruit and tried to sprint away, but one of the big guys from the gang grabbed him by the collar.

"Where do ya think you're going kid?" The bulky man asked with a grin.

"Home?" Ezra suggested.

"No witnesses, boss's orders." One masked thug said, putting a cartrige in a DT-29, then snapping it shut.

"He's just a kid man, can we just get the money from the parents and leave?" One guy asked.

The masked one turned and shot, one, precise bullet through the head of the guy.

Ezra jumped in fear, watching the guy fall to the ground.

"Anymore objections?" The man in the mask shouted, "Good."

One thug took a brief case from the dad and handed it to the guy who kept Ezra in his place.

Then, Ezra felt a barrel of a blaster at the back of his head.

"Kill them." The masked man said, and walked off.

Ezra prepared himself for the end, but before he shut his eyes, a shadow fell over the group of thugs in the dim moonlight. A shadow that Ezra would learn to respect and even trust, as eventually, he would make that shadow too, as a figure dropped down onto the ground. It was all black, large, pointy ears pierced the heart of the young 10 year old. It looked up, revealing pure, white eyes. But it was just a mask, a real scary one, but still a mask. He rose, revealing black armor, spikes on the arms, metal plating, and most notable, the greatest symbol that eventually he would bear on his chest- a bat.

Batman.

"What the kriff is that thing?" One of the thugs asked.

"Some kinda bat thing?" Another suggested.

"You idiots," The masked one said, "He's just a guy."

Ezra had no idea who this guy was, but he then threw something on the ground, and Ezra fell onto the ground, as the man holding him screamed. Blaster fire rang out through a cloud of smoke that just appeared, shouts echoed, but one by one, were each silenced. When the smoke cleared, the family had fled, and Ezra backed into a corner, terrified. There the man stood, looking at Ezra with two fingers on the left side of his head, where Ezra assumed, if the guy was human of course, would be where his ears were.

"Jesus, Bruce..." Dick said through Batman's comm.

"What?" Batman asked, wanting to know where he was.

"You're in a different universe."

"What?"

"Yeah, but that's not all."

"What now?" Bruce asked his friend.

"This- kid, has an abnormal amount of energy, not shown by anything or anyone we've ever seen."

"What kind of energy?"

"Super powers?" Dick answered uneasily.

"Who is he?" Batman asked looking at the child in front of him, who seemed to be in shock.

"Ummmm, ah, here we go- Ezra Bridger, 10 years of age, home world Lothal, lives in communications tower and- oh."

"What?"

"His parents are gone, Bruce." Dick said.

"Gone?" Bruce asked him, with a sad look on his face, remembering his own life when he was 10.

"Taken, to a place that described as impossible to get to." Dick replied.

"Do you have their prison logs?"

"Let me check..." Dick clicked around on the batcomputer, "It says their dead, Bruce."

The Dark Knight entered his own thoughts, as he saw the back of the Monarch, the funeral, Alfred being there to help him through it.

"That's not all of it either," Nightwing said, "People with the same type of energy are being hunted by the government, an evil government, anyways. He will be executed on sight if he is found by one of these... Inquisitors."

that sent a chill down Batman's spine, this was a young boy who will be executed just because he had gifts that were likely dangerous to this government.

Batman knelt down infront of the boy.

"Ezra, right?" He asked, the boy backed away but slowly nodded.

"Where are your parents?" The detective asked even though he already knew.

"Gone." Ezra replied.

"Listen," Batman told him, "I want you to come with me, you're being hunted."

Ezra pointed to one of the thugs, "Like them?"

"Worse."

"Will I come back?" Ezra asked.

"I don't know." Batman replied.

Ezra looked around, unsure.

"I promise you," Batman told him, "I can keep you safe from them, I can teach how to fight them."

Ezra looked at him, "Promise?"

"Promise."

Ezra hesitated, but got up, Batman guided him toward where Nightwing had opened a portal, little did they know, what the future would bring.

I think the mind trick worked, SonYukiGoku'sSister. Also, FossilQueen1984, Ezra is kind of in the time of when he with the ghost crew Bruce Wayne Star Wars version, but in the time of this chapter, he was only a student. Also, the fandom that I referred to in the last chapter is Planet Of The Apes, don't expect to see them anytime soon, but you WILL see them at some point. Next few chapters will be part of Ezra and the crew fighting Ra's, and also revealing more of Ezra's training, and why he is more than any other of Batman's partners. The next chapter should appear at some point on Tuesday or Wedensday. Bye!