"Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy go after him!" Batman gave the order.
"Wha-us?"
"Yes."
"Cool." Kid Flash grinned.
…
Guest Room…
"Yes."
"Cool."
Aqualad sighed. After Nightwing has shushed him and Team out he made sure to stick a microphone to the wall. He learned this from Nightwing. He never thought that he will use the microphone contra Nightwing.
Future before the machine sent the Team to the past…
"Are you sure that you do not want to be in the Team anymore?"
"Yes, Kaldur." said Dick through the telephone, while he was working on the machine. After weeks of learning he was close to build this machine. This asterous machine, which can save Wally, his best friend.
"Do you want to lead the Team or why did you leave?"
"No, I don't want it, you are the leader. That's not why I left. I want some time…"
"Then it is Kid Flash's loss."
"Yep." that day… That damned day! Everything was so quick that he couldn't even think about the consequences… No. It wasn't just that day. It was this invasion, everything… Kaldur made his role, Nightwing entered the leader role and everything went as planned until… That day. Wally disappeared and he was staring… Dick was standing there… He couldn't cry, he was trained to be as stoic as he can. He couldn't even think about what happened. But after that…
They were in the Watchtower. Aqualad became the leader again, but Nightwing was feeling sadness. He played his role. He smiled, he moved, behaved like nothing happened, but inside of him was pain. Later he went home. He entered his apartment and collapsed on the bed. He took off his mask and looked at the ceiling. 'First Jay, now Wally.' he thought. A tear ran down his face.
"Fuck." he sat up. He knew he must think about a way to help them or at least Wally. He looked to his bedside table. A photo was on it with him as Robin, Roy, when he was still Speedy and Wally. They were smiling. It was that day which is nowhere to be found in his mind like someone erased it… Weird…
He opened his laptop and quickly searched for scientist which encountered or wrote about the Speed Force…
"Nightwing? Dick?"
"Um… Sorry Kaldur I got lost in my thoughts anyway I was working on a machine can you and the Team visit me today? And bring Tigress too, I think I can save Wally."
Past…
Suddenly the door opened and Batman, Superman and Aquaman stepped inside.
"We have questions…"
"Questions about Nightwing." Superman cut in Batman's words. "What have happened between Kid Flash and Nightwing?"
"I have asked Nightwing to take the mantle of leadership while I was playing my role as Black Manta's loyal son."
"Kaldur I'm sorry…" Aquaman whispered ashamed.
"Do not apologize my King." after Aquaman has looked back at the boy he began again. "It was my idea to bring Wally and Artemis back. Artemis took the Tigress name and played her role as a good ally. Everything went as I planned, but in the final there was a Final Magnetic Disruptor. Flash and Impulse raced surrounding it but they could not make enough kinetic energy to stop it. Wally has joined them but he was too slow and… After a while he… Disappeared saving the world… Nightwing left the Team and began to build his machine. I know that he visited hundreds of scientist and that he got in some kind of trouble which involved his past."
"What kind of trouble?" Batman stopped Aqualad.
"He was talking about owls." Batman's eyes widened. 'Oh no… Not them.'
"What did he say about them?" Aqualad was taken aback by the fact that Batman was suddenly angry and determined. Did he say something bad? He was talking about owls, some birds… Maybe the bats and the birds doesn't like each other?
"That they are dangerous and we must avoid them." somehow Batman's gaze was hurting him. "I do not know why he has said that about birds. He said that if they attack us it is because of him. I do not know what he was referring at." Batman got up and stormed out. "Did I day something bad?"
"I don't know."
Somewhere in the vents…
"Man, Rob, how can you be so quick?" Speedy groaned from Wally's back.
"Rob, wait! We aren't some hyperactive kids." KF whimpered. "Man, and I thought I'm the fastest boy alive."
"Not in the vents."
"You are so slow." Robin chuckled. "What the …"
"What?" Speedy groaned after KF has stopped.
"He is in front of me." Robin whispered.
"What? I cannot hear a word!"
"He said I'm in front of him." a matured voice came to Speedy.
"What now?" KF asked Speedy. As I said he is the only thirteen year old so he must know everything! At least this is what KF, Rob, Batman and every other hero thinks about him…
"Call Batman."
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