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Previously in An Unforgettable Trip: story A
"The…future?" Superboy asked. "What do you mean?"
"Exactly what I said" Nightwing replied. "You all have jumped about eight years into the future."
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Chapter 4
The team stared at Nightwing like he had suddenly sprouted a second head. They just couldn't wrap their minds around what he had just told them.
"Wait," Kid Flash said, breaking the silence "how do you know that it's eight years?"
"Because I remember it happening" Nightwing replied.
"How can you remember that if you-" Artemis started.
"Ah-ah" Nightwing said cutting her off and wagging his finger at her. "I'm not gonna tell you anything like that."
"But-" Artemis exclaimed.
"Sorry, kid" Nightwing said, cutting her off again. "I like to keep my personal information to myself." Artemis gave him an exasperated look before huffing and turning away.
"Is that what you were talking about when you said our communicators were outdated?" Superboy asked after a moment – no longer seeing the older hero as a threat.
"Yes, the League periodically updates the communicators, and when they do the old ones become useless." Nightwing replied looking over to where Superboy was standing.
There was another brief silence before Kid Flash spoke out.
"So you remember when this happened, so you know how it turns out, right?" Kid Flash asked. Nightwing was about to answer when a scream echoed through the alley. The team looked around startled by the sudden noise. When they looked back to Nightwing, he was gone.
"Where'd he go?" M'gann asked.
"I didn't hear him leave" Superboy said.
"Perhaps he went to investigate the scream." Aqualad stated thoughtfully.
"Then let's go find it, too" Kid Flash said excitedly. It wasn't hard to track down, Superboy could hear fighting and they simply followed the sound to another alley.
Nightwing had two blue escrima sticks; one in each had, and was beating some poor, unfortunate thug senseless. A woman was being held captive by two other thugs, both with terrified looks on their faces. A fourth thug was off to the side digging through his pocket and muttering about stupid heroes and their showing up at the worst times. Nightwing, finished with the first thug, turned to the fourth one who had just pulled out a gun. The woman screamed again and flailed around trying to get the other two men to let her go.
"Should we help him?" M'gann asked looking from Nightwing to the gun with concern.
"I am not sure that we should interfere" Aqualad replied reluctantly.
They didn't have to worry because as soon as the gun was pointed toward Nightwing he sprung forward, catching the thug by surprise. Because really, who moves toward a gun that is pointed at them? He knocked the gun from the man's hand and knocked him out with a well-executed uppercut to the thug's chin. The man landed on his back three feet away with a thud. The other two thugs watched this occur with growing horror, and as the other fell, they let the woman go and started running away.
"Now who said you could leave?" Nightwing asked pulling something from his utility belt. The men continued to run with renewed vigor as Nightwing threw two objects after them. The objects popped open and both thugs, wrapped in cords, fell to the ground. Nightwing turned away from them to the unconscious thugs and tied them up as well.
The woman had slipped down to the ground shaking and was now looking up at Nightwing with awe. "Are you alright?" Nightwing asked in a gentle voice holding a hand out to her. The woman could only nod as Nightwing pulled her to her feet. Once she had composed herself, she thanked him and he told her to get home as soon as possible.
Once she had left, Nightwing walked back over to the thugs and threw something down next to them. "The police will be here soon, so we should get moving" Nightwing said turning to the teens. He started walking back to the alley they had been in before.
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Yay longer! This one's like triple the length of the last one :D
This is the first time I've wrote a fight-type scene (it was very one-sided) so I hope it was good enough. I don't know why someone would have to dig through their pockets to find a gun, it would probably be the only thing in there, but that wouldn't be any fun now would it?
If anyone was curious about the 'story A' thing in the 'previously in…' part at the top, I decided that the part with the team and Nightwing will be story A and the part with Robin story B. 'Sides what's the point of telling you what last happened when it has nothing to do with what's going on in the story now? This is also why I didn't have a 'previously' thing on the chapter 3 (if anyone noticed) and why I changed it from 'last time in…' to 'previously in…'
I'll try and update soon! Buh-bye!
