Chapter 4: Arissa's Appearance
Gotham Academy had been closed for the next two weeks until repairs were done on the damages the phantom soldiers had done, Bruce was being really overprotective now that there had been a threat made against his son. Dick hadn't been allowed to go outside the Manor, he was only allowed in the Batcave or use the zeta-tubes to go to Mount Justice, he had received calls and texts from Barbara since the night of he dance, he told her he was fine and that Bruce had picked him up after he ran out of the gym
But things had gotten even stranger ever since the team had asked him if he knew Basolk but he still had no memory of ever meeting him, Bruce had called Haley to ask him about Dick's past
"Growing up had Dick ever hit his head" He knew this was a dumb question but he had to eliminate any possible answer he could get for what was going on
"Why? Is he alright?!"
"He's fine, there has just been something going on with him and I'm trying to figure out what it is"
"John and Mary took very good care of him, they told me everything about him growing up so I'm sure they would have told me if he had hurt his head"
So he could cross off that answer on his list but then he remembered how Dick had mumbled in modern English while he was in a coma "Just one more thing, has he ever had any strange nightmares when he was younger"
"Mary had told me about nightmares he had of a women" this surprised him "but it was only when he was 3 after that the dreams stopped"
"Thank you Haley"
"Your welcome, I hope Dick gets better soon"
When the call ended he tapped a button on his computer that brought the research he had been doing up on the screen, thanks to the call he learned that the women in Dick's dreams had to be more than just a figment of his imagination. He had done more research on the man that had appeared at Gotham Academy, the last seen photo of him was in 1924 and apparently he had wreaked havoc in Minoque, Wisconsin people had called the witnesses crazy for saying they had seen men made of black stone riding horses with wings and some othere who could glow until everything just stopped.
He had also ran a search for soldiers dressed in black armor through the computer's history database and had come up with several paranormal articles of people throughout the past saying they had seen men in black suddenly dissipate in small towns.
After he got done reading all this information he still had no idea how any of this was connected to Dick, he hadn't even been born yet when any of this had happened, though if this had happened again he had a feeling they would have to call in Doctor Fate to help with these...people. He felt bad he still had no answers for Dick, he couldn't keep him within arms reach forever
Batman had called an all hands on deck when Snow Fortresses in the sky had caused a massive snow storm to hit the entire country. Dick had gone with Superboy and Wolf until he transferred to the Batwing with Bruce then headed to the first weather machine to join Flash, Aquaman, and Aqualad. They jumped down from the hatch once they were above it Batman throwing three batarangs at three of the defense machines on the surface destroying them while he jumped on top of another and stuck an explosive to it but when his hand was on the machine his hand began glowing blue so he quickly jumped back off and he machine exploded in a blue flash of light
He only got a second to look at his hand "What the-?" he muttered before he heard a shout from behind him and turned to see Kaldur us Aquaman as a springboard to jump into the air and use his water whips to destroy another machine. The flash ran past them using his super speed to successfully dismantling the last of the weather machine's defense
"Well I'd say this goes under the win column for us" He smirked to Batman and he could see out of the corner of his eye that it made him smirk too "So what now?"
"We have to bring down this weather machine to stop the blizzards, use the all the explosives in your belt and place them on the anti gravity stabilizers"
"Got it" Taking out another grappling hook he fired it and swung off to the stabilizers on the right side 8f the machine attached every explosive he had onto them, when he turned around to head back to Batman he saw the shadow of someone go around he corner of the fortress. "Batman?" he walked in that direction but there was no one there so he figured he was just seeing things
He met back up with Bruce at the Batwing "The bombs are set"
He nodded "When the stabilizers blow the entire fortress will go, Aquaman, Flash, and Aqualad have already gotten clear of the blast radius"
The Batwing took off into the air and when he was sure they were far enough he took out the detonator "Now?"
Batman checked on a screen first "We're clear" giving him the signal to press the button, with that he heard a large explosion from the direction they had come in and noticed smoke beginning to rise from the clouds
"The league destroyed the five ice fortresses but failed to capture whomever was behind them" Batman had gone to Belle Reve with Flash to speak to director Hugo Strange about their list of suspects "But Icicle Sr., Icicle Jr., Killer Frost, Captain Cold, and are by far the most likely suspects"
"That's impossible" Strangle taped a few buttons on his screen bringing up four screens of security footage "All five were in their cells for the duration of the crisis"
Bruce and Barry turned to each other stunned by the revelation, if none of their regular ice wielding criminals had been behind the snow crisis, who had?
While Bruce had gone to Belle Reve, Dick had changed out of his arctic gear into his normal training gear wanting to get out his frustrations with still having no answers to what was happening to his life using his erisma sticks on a training dummy in the training sector of the Batcave. The sound of clapping and high heels walking across the cave floor made him stop and turn around
A women dressed in silver royal dress, with a long pale blue coat and black high heeled boots had come up behind him, when he saw her face though he instantly recognized her from the women in his nightmares "Wonderous battle skills you have learned in this life Ranver" she stopped clapping instead crossing her arms
Dick had begun feeling that the women in his nightmares wasn't just a dream anymore, its been happening to many times for it to be "Who are you?"
She snorted letting out a small laugh "Captain Basolk reported correctly, your memories of your past lives have truly been blocked. You do not even remember your true family" She rose her hand and made a floating screen appear showing a pegasus struggling to haul a cart of supplies while someone whipped it "I suppose you don't even remember her?"
Dick winced every time the pegasus was whipped but he didn't recall ever seeing it before, he didn't even know they actually exsisted
"I see" She took the screen away and began pacing the floor but he didn't dare move from his spot hoping Bruce would be showing up any second
Arissa stopped pacing when she realized something "That is why Konshen nor Oshiana have come for you isn't it; your power signal is not strong enough for them to sense without your memory. And here I thought they just needed another push, I wasted my time creating those weather fortress to draw them out"
Dick's eyes widened "You caused all those blizzards?"
She smirked "Why of course, how do you think they just appeared out of thin air overnight. The citizens of Rolasia have become quite useful to me in the past 5 centuries" she shook her head turning back to the subject they were on before "Enough of that though, it looks like I am going to have to release your memories so your foolish siblings can locate you" and with a wave of her hand he was brought to her hand by the neck "This should bring back memories shouldn't it?
He began struggling to get out of her grasp but the women is stronger than she looks, her eyes began glowing a grayish color and a symbol appeared on her head before an immense amount of pain erupted in his head. He let out a strangled cry as she continued to drill into his mind
RECOGNIZED: BATMAN: 02
When Bruce walked into the cave the last thing he was expecting to see was a women having Dick by the throat, he saw her eyes were glowing so she wasn't a normal human being but what shock hi, was patterns of glowing blue lines along Dicks arms and head were flickering
He quickly went into action throwing a batarang at the women but when it hit she disappeared into a flock of ghostly crows making Dick fall to the ground still writhing in pain the blue patterned light had not stopped flickering with he women gone though
"Dick!" He fell to his knees beside his son " Can you hear me?! " but he didn't seem to because he was clutching his head in pain "Dick! Talk to me!" he tried grabbing him to try and calm down
Alfred having heard the commotion from upstairs came down to see what was going on "Master Bruce, what on ear-" He paused when he saw Dick glowing and writing in pain "My goodness! Master Richard!" he dropped the tray he had been holding and ran up to the two
Dick couldn't stand the pain any longer and with a large flash of blue light that blinded Bruce and Alfred he fainted the flickering finally coming to a stop
Bruce swiftly checked for his pulse letting out a sigh of relief when he found one meaning he was only unconscious "Contact and tell her to meet us at the Mountain"
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