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Taking Flight

Chapter 3- Static

Incoming transmission from Watchtower.

Dick looked at the screen, and debated for a moment ignoring it. He was still pissed at everyone. People who had got angry at him for no reason. People who had been talking behind his back, and acting weird about it. His so called "friends" and "Mentors". The people who trusted, but forced to act like he didn't. But he decided he may actually need some help on this one, and to alleviate the

Worries they might have. It was fair, he was only 16, and he would have to protect a whole city all by himself, and it would be especially dangerous considering he was only 16. But he was trained for this. By the best. And even though everyone was relying on him, he had no teammates to control him. To stop him doing what was right, and what was needed.

He pressed a few buttons, and the com screen came up, and he suddenly saw Batman straight out, with, strangely, emotion etched all over his face. It was mix between desperation, anger, and grief. A slight glimpse of relief washed over his face, but desperation replaced it soon after.

"Dick, you need to get out of there now, Gotham is lost, it's all over!" Dick stood there shocked, not only had Bruce called him Dick, which caused the some of the team, and some of the JLA to look at each other in confusion, except Wally, Superman and Manhunter. But Dick was mostly shocked that Batman had given up on Gotham suddenly, even though it was his only home.

Dick got angry at that, so he started speaking, calmly, but with an aura of pure and utter anger seeping out of every word. "Why would you just give up on Gotham, Batman? It was, no, IS your home, and you would just abandon it?" His voice was steadily rising. He wouldn't shout, but his voice was rising, and filled with such a commanding voice that none of the team or League, or even Batman, had ever heard. "And plus, even if I wanted to leave, I can't. No way out, No way out of this No Man's Land. It will be horror here. You are lucky Agent A had gone out to Metropolis for a weeks' vacation. And if I did leave, who would protect the people from the Shadows, and mainly from the gangs that have burst out of Blackgate. I have already figured out that Ra's released Riddler, Two-Face, Penguin and Black Mask to lead the gangs. Who's gunna stop them?"

Everyone in the Watchtower was shocked. They had never seen Robin this angry. It wasn't like the anger after Wally had talked about his parents; it was pure, all-consuming fury, which he was somehow controlling. "I don't need any of your help, I do NOT need your advice, I will do this all by myself, or die in the attempt." Everyone flinched at those last words, knowing, that even though he had never said anything before. Bruce knew that he was being serious, Dick loved Gotham. It was his home. The first place he really stayed in for more than a few months. The place that took him in after the accident.

"Rob, don't talk like that, you can't die, what would we do? What would Zatanna do?" Wally demanded of him, storming up to the screen. Dick was pleased to see, even though he had his mask on, his nose has covered up, in a type of brace. But the words shocked him. To his core. He never thought about that. Everyone in the Watchtower saw Rob's anger ebb away, and replaced with shock, but it only lasted a few seconds, before anger replaced it. "I know everyone would be hurting, and I would never want that, but if I could save millions of people, with only the cost of MY life, I would do it. I would. If it was the only way." They stood shocked at his words, except from Batman, who knew that he felt like this as well. The rest of the team were shocked.

Wally looked visibly shocked, and in a quiet voice, "How could you say that? We care about you! No one wants you gone!" Dick's anger flared at this comment. He saw on his watch, he only had 1 minute left of the time before the connection left, but he couldn't let these guys down easily.

"It really seems like you've cared over the past few weeks, talking behind my back, do you think I really wouldn't know, and no one will tell me, what the HELL is going on! I know you do care, but I really can't be arsed to care about you! Luckily for me, I need time to think, and this communication blockage will give me time to think about it! So leave me alone, coz you have all pissed me off!"

Zatanna came on, and was about to speak, but Dick stormed in,

"Zee, you can't say anything, you say you think I can't trust you coz I won't tell you my Identity! I trust you, but it's really Batman who doesn't trust me, I am at no fault here! I know you mean well, and I love that, but I am in no mood at the moment, and the connections about to go, I need you to know I-"

The connection cut off at that moment, leaving only static. He didn't finish his sentence. There was no need. She knew what he was going to say, even if he hadn't said it before. No one can help him now. He quickly looked back over the video of Ra's talking, and noticed something strange in the background, a coloured glass window with writing on it? He zoomed in. He flipped the image, and saw something that gave him a flash of hope. It was one of the signs for the Sionis Steelworks. He had a lead, all he needed to do now was get to the other side of the city, break into the Steel Mill, take some of the Fear Gas, and come back here with the sample. Without getting found by master assassin's and mobs of angry gang members, and Ra's himself. And he had no one to help or guide him.

Well, Dick does love a challenge.