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what the hell ppl?! xDDDD what have i done to deserve that?!...and Wally show up again
i think it's mostly a mix of story line, flash back and drabbel
~Wayne Manor~
"So Richard, anything you wanna tell me?"
At that moment Alfred appeared in the door way "Masters Bruce and Timothy as well as Miss Stephanie has returned home" He announced and Dick almost fist bumped in the air but kept his hands holding the coffee cup to keep his calm pose when Bruce came in with Steph and Tim following and bumped into his back when he stopped so suddenly, Jason tried to keep his face neutral when they both peaked in on either side of Bruce.
"Ms. Vale...I wasn't aware you were here..." Bruce said calmly but the bats in the room plus dog and butler could feel that it wasn't Bruce talking, but Batman. Vicki didn't bat a eye as she looked at the newly arrived before turning her attention back on Dick "I came to get a few puzzle pieces...Like why Richard ends up paralyzed the second Nightwing disappears off the face of the Earth"
"When did he disappear?" Dick quirked a brow at her.
"After Blüdhaven was destroyed"
"Then I had been in this wheelchair for 5 months...Sorry!" (Not) Dick took a sip from his coffee when Vicki sprang up and that very second Titus flew up with teeth bared at her, ready to bite if she did anything that counted as hurting.
Again, she didn't bat a lid...Or sit back down.
"I will find out who he is and you aren't off the hook either-" She finally shut up when Jason threw back the pillow he had been holding to his side to reveal his gun pointing at her, however, Jason knew that Dick had seen him take out the clip before joining them. Vicky looked at him then Dick and accepted defeat and let Alfred show her the door, the trio by the door just stood aside until the door closed.
"Nightwing?" Bruce asked surprised.
"And she's redhead! What- How- Why the hell are redheads after me?!" Dick groaned as he locked the wheels and let Jason help him to the couch and lift his legs so he was laying down before he slammed a pillow in his face, further proving his frustration of the subject.
Tim snorted and Steph pressed her face into Bruce's back to calm her giggles while Jason sat back down, slamming the clip back in this place, secured the gun and sent Titus to place it under his pillow in his room. Bruce hadn't liked the idea first but after training the dogs with a toy version he didn't say anything. The door opened again and Oliver was let in by Alfred.
"Finally caught up huh?" Tim grinned as Oliver groaned "Your traffic is worse then Star City! Anyway-" Here he clapped his hands together and flatten them against each other when he turned towards Dick "-We need your help, like badly! Those codes are driving half the hero community nuts! We've sent it to every solo and groups who might have a clue about it but...We yield and you are the only one left! Please help"
Richard sat up slowly taking a moment to think about it, Oliver and a few (Like 10 plus the Bats) still trusted him and when they needed his help he never turned them down but...This was different. Oliver didn't say anything because he understood why Dick was taking his time thinking about it and so he waited, sometimes looking at Bruce. Finally, Dick threw the pillow aside and got into the wheelchair.
"Got the codes with you?"
"My lips are covered with concrete kid!" (his lips are shut, he won't tell the league)
~Batcave~
"...This...Is suppose...to be hard?!" Dick chipped for breath when he got a look on the codes and started laughing for over 3 minuets, by then Oliver had collapsed in a chair knowing that those codes were history! The eldest Robin cracked his fingers and Damian finally found the stopwatch on his phone and started it, he so wanted to see his brother make fools out of every hacker in the world.
30 seconds had gone when "Done, cracked, translate and printed" Dick leaned back with a few papers already stapled in the upper left corner, Oliver flew up and hugged the bird before grabbing the stack and ran for his car "Thank you Dick! Let me know if you want a reward!" He shouted.
"Uh...Don't really want one but if it makes him happier..." Dick said as his siblings were a laughing mess on the floor and turned back towards the screen, something about this seemed...Wrong. He taped a few more keys and soon he didn't even hear his family call so they left him, few hours later he didn't even notice Alfred place a tray near him.
Only when most of the family were out on patrol did he tap finally key and leaned back with a sigh, grabbing the sandwich from the new tray and was on his second apple when the league comm went on. Superboy, Miss Martian and several others in the Team had been kidnapped and they had neither visual or contact. Dick debated if he should get involved or stay back...
He started hacking the building and was glad to see Impulse's comm-link outside the signal jammer's range and that someone on the Team had plugged in one of his flashdrives, giving him full control of everything...Like they knew he was watching them, knew he was always there for them.
Dick cracked his fingers hard this time and fired up his icon on the Watchtower screen "Birdwatcher here, I have their location and all their tech is fried, data chips in weapons have already shorted them out and now metas other then the Team are present!"
'What the hell are you doing here?!'
Great, Wally was at the Watchtower...Just great.
"You're welcome" He grumbled and got hold of the Team "Superboy it's-" Aaand he forget they still hated him.
'Get off this channel you traitor'
Dick just shock his head "Just shut up and scrap the door, all tech is fried and I swear you can practically flick the door off the hinges" He heard how the door gave in and slammed into the wall before he got a 'Sorry' out of the clone, next he guided the Team out of the building and warned them of incoming guards. All though it was a small thing he was doing he felt better helping those who needed him.
20 minuets later Superboy told him they were safe and Dick signed off.
A breeze behind him made him sigh, once again he was going to get hurt as he took off the wireless headset from his left ear and turned the wheelchair to look at Superman "Impulse left his comm-link outside the signal jammer's range and I guess Beast Boy plugged in one of my flashdrives into their system, like they knew I would act when I heard the broadcast...I'm sorry I intervened" He said the moment their eyes locked.
Superman's face slowly turned from anger to understanding and sighed "The Invasion stunt is still being brought up sometimes and honestly...Knowing that everyone put their trust in you only to find out you didn't trust us and did all that...It can't be forgiven and forgotten, and I know Green Arrow came to you to crack those codes. We were trying to avoid that part but in the end...I guess you were the only one left who could do it" Dick looked at his feet and pulled up the screen he had been working on for hours and copied everything to a flashdrive that he handed to Superman.
"Be glad I gave you this if Conner or Red Arrow's cells suddenly brakes down, this will save them if you want to do this without me" He turned around and felt how Superman took off, he was just about to contact the family when a fist came flying and he got thrown out of the wheelchair.
Next he got kicked in the back and that sent him further away from the wheelchair and computer banks "That's for interfering with everything! No one needs you! How the hell are you not 6 feet under yet?! You can't walk or fight! Why don't you accept that you are weak?!" Wally shouted as he sent another fist in Dick's face, that would either leave a mark or a black eye. Once Wally felt he had punched him enough and saw the blood from his ex-friend's nose and mouth did he speed away, Dick taped his watch and called for Alfred telling him why was being called and why. The butler was not happy.
~Watchtower~
"Nightwing did this?"
Green Arrow gulped as he stood in front of the League with Beast Boy and Impulse, all three who had dragged Nightwing into JLA business.
"I still think we should have tossed him in jail!" Gardner shouted and Hal tried really hard not to send the loudmouthed lantern in another coma, some actually had the nerve to whisper agreements when Hawkman stood up.
"If Nightwing hadn't interfered the kids could have been killed in that warehouse and we wouldn't have known! Without him we would have lost in the Invasion! He has no powers, he gave up everything that had to do with 'normal life' to save us! He even sacrificed his LEGS! We all know acrobatics meant everything to him...How can you just turn your backs at the kid who has saved all of us several times?...He saved an entire planet!" Hawkman was heaving for breath when he was done but he wasn't sure they were listening or even cared.
"He lied to us" Wonder Woman said and was surprised when several members at the table stood up:
Black Canary
The Hawks
Captain Atom
Green Lantern Jordan
Captain Marvel
Doctor Fate
"Well...This League just got 8 members short" Green Arrow stated before they all threw their member cards on the floor and left. No one looked back.
~Batcave~
"YOU DID WHAT?!"
Everyone rubbed their ringing ears and every bat in the cave ceiling got so freaked out they evacuated. Batman for once looked shocked at the now former JLA members "What? They wouldn't accept that you sacrificed your own legs and wings for Earth! We almost went crazy so here we are! Hoping we can still call you if we run into any problem?" Hal said as Dick rested his elbows on his knees covering his face, like he couldn't believe what they had told him 10 minuets ago.
He was turned towards the screen so no one saw his face but when he turned the wheelchair even the Bats gaped at him.
Dick still had fresh bruises on his face, stitches on both cheeks and his lip was split "Wally came around, physically sore...Emotionally...I might be close to stab myse- NOT going to do it though before you freak out Batman" Dick held up a hand when he saw the family freeze and Batman almost crushed the armrests of the chair he was sitting in.
"Well, we have to get back to our cities now, mind if we use your zeta tube?"
"You said yourselves that you still wanted our help, why stop using it now?" Red Robin voiced where he and the others were fixing their gear, soon it was just the Bats left and Red Hood sighed before heading to the training room with Cass and Damian trailing after.
"You do one...Tiny thing and suddenly the Reach are forgotten and you're the bad guy" Dick sighed and rubbing his eyes, wincing when he touched a bruise "And suicide is out of the question with you guys as a family" He turned to them all and felt like a kid again when a full fledged Batglare was sent by the Bat-father himself. sure it didn't affect him but yikes he was screwed for saying that!
After about an hour of lecturing the family headed upstairs and soon even the gym Bats headed upstairs and Dick waited a few moments before going in there himself.
~2 Hours Later~
Dick opened his eyes and breathed heavily as he struggled to take another step but he just couldn't, looking behind him he almost let go on the pole when he saw that he had passed 4 tapes...
He had walked 4 meters...
He...Dick grinned as he eyed the foot-stool close by and slowly let go of the pole to hold out his arms like he was walking a line, one step...then another...then a 4th...Dick smiled brightly when he reached the foot-stool. He could walk with out the pole!
He really did it...
Soon...Nightwing would fly again!
~Wayne Manor (silly me xD Bruce is born February 19, not around the Fall months) - End of December~
Time passed Summer became Fall and then winter.
Dick had started to walk around in his room a little but some days he really had to rest from walking and computer stuff, first time he had spent most of the day in bed Alfred got worried enough to call Leslie which only scared the family because they thought Dick's health was starting to fail. He did get a high fever after spending almost 2 weeks awake working as Birdwatcher and then spent the suppose-to-be resting hours walking until he almost fell but he did recover and was now more careful to keep his training a secret.
He was in his own study when he heard running outside and something about birthday, gifts and Dad...Oh right! Bruce's birthday was coming up soon...In like 2 months! Dick grinned as he finished the last paper and then wheeled to Bruce's study to find him doing what Dick just finished but he had three piles! Dick grinned as he wheeled in, grabbed a pile and grinned like crazy at Bruce's shocked look as he wheeled out and managed to shut the door. He was almost inside his study when he heard Bruce come after him.
"Oh boy!" Dick grinned and manged to place the paper stack on the coffee table in front of the fire place when the door flew up and he was being spun in the air. They both ended up on the couch when half the room started to move but Dick was trapped as Bruce wouldn't let go.
"Did you just snatch one of my piles?" Bruce growled playfully in his ear.
"I finished mine so I thought I'd snatch yours!" Dck laughed as he got back in the wheelchair so fast it toppled over and he crashed on the floor "Dick!" Bruce ran forward as Dick tried to sit up and looked at his legs, now that he thought about it...He hadn't done any 'Get up from the floor training', just walking back and forth.
He didn't know he was moving his leg until Bruce gasped "D-Dick...Your leg..."
What?
Dick had to look himself and was surprised when he could move his foot, then his knee...Dick took his deepest breath yet and moved so that he was sitting and then he slowly got up on his own, Bruce hovered beside him with his arms half out if Dick should fall. This time there wasn't anything to hold him up...And Bruce never got a change to see his first steps so...
"Dad? Move back a little...Like near the desk"
"Dick I-"
The bat glare his son had mastered actually froze his tongue so he did as asked and stepped back so he was near the desk...3 meters from Dick.
Dick kept his blues eyes on Bruce's slightly darker and took a step forward, then three before he wavered a little but manged to stay standing and took another few. He was almost near Bruce when the older man caught on what his son was doing...
He was taking his first steps...and Dick wanted him to see it...Just like a baby was taking it's first steps! Bruce let his tears fall as he reached out to catch his son, his own child when he got close enough but this time when Dick stumbled he was sweating and breathing hard but he manged to face plant into his father's chest. Bruce lower then both on the floor and cried.
Dick hadn't been getting weaker...
He had grown stronger.
all day...all night...
07:56...IN THE GOD FRICKING MORNING! breakfast and sleep!
Patience ppl xD