Black Canary
Mount Justice
"I'm telling you, Batman's got himself a side kick or something. Some kid, not even old enough to probably even tie his shoes!" Wonder Woman was explaining to a rather amused looking Black Canary.
"So you're telling me this kid, the one 'not even old enough to tie his shoes' was sneaking around the Mountain and you couldn't find him? And he somehow stole your lasso? Ya ok, whatever…" the blond women turned to leave, rolling her eyes as she went.
"HEY! You heard Oliver, he's seen him too! I'm not lying here!" the black haired women said with slight annoyance at her friends disbelief.
"Ya ya, I'm gonna go train with some drones," BC said to her hero as she exited the room, amusement clear in her voice. Diana turned to go to the kitchen, trying to get her mind off of the Boy Wonder and the Dark Knight.
"Side-kick? I prefer the term partner!" came a giggly voice from in front of Diana, the woman looked up from her walk and found said Boy Wonder crouching on the counter in the kitchen. Wonder Woman opened her mouth to confront the boy but was stopped when she saw Batman enter the room from the other side.
The dark dressed vigilante calmly get a glass of water and looked at the female hero in slight amusement at the later's obvious confusion and slight amazement. Diana opened her mouth to say something, but noticed Batman's slight glare in Robin's direction. She watched in amazement as the Boy Wonder stuck his tongue out at his mentor, while the Dark Knight continued to glare. Finally the boy sighed in defeat and flipped of the counter.
"No one was using the counter anyway," the young be grumbled sullenly as he exited the room, having just held a whole argument with the Caped Crusader without even opening his mouth. The female hero looked at her fellow Leaguer in amazement only to have him look back at her in a glare that made her feel like he was mocking her. She opened her mouth to question him about the young boy, but thought better of it.
After all he was a Bat. (A/N it fit so perfectly!)
Training Room
Black Canary swept her feet across the floor, taking down all the drones around her. Each and every one of them fell and the blond hero stood up with a slight smirk on her face. She was just starting her combat workout and was hoping to improve her aerial moves and flips.
She went to program the drones to a harder setting when she felt a pair of eyes staring at her. The hero knew that most of the other Leaguers would announce their presence to her, and that the Dark Knight, being the only one that wouldn't, would have been watching her via camera and not by standing in the room. Gathering her wits and pulling up her guard, the screecher swiftly turned only to find the room empty.
Looking around, Black Canary saw no one in the room, and there were only so many doorways to lurk in. The hero went back to programming her drones, even though she still felt the hairs prickle at her neck, alerting her to someone else's presence.
Decided to ignore it, and go on with her workout, the women brushed it off as Batman's paranoia rubbing off on her. The hero started the drones and was met by a much faster assault than she expected, swiftly trying to flip over them, Black Canary's leg was caught by one of them and she was slammed to the ground. She rolled to the side avoiding another attack and pushed herself off the ground.
She watched the drones come at her at a much greater speed and agility than she programmed and as she ducked at of the way of a kick from one of them, she was met with a punch, meaning the skill set was also greater than she set.
Growling in anger and slight pain from the punch to the gut, the hero stalked over to the computer system and tried to power down the drones, but when she hit the power off button, she was met with nothing. And looking over, the drones were still coming at her.
She hit it several more times, before decided to try to by-pass security codes to shut off the workout system all together. When she tried to type in her ID, she was met with an access denied box, after typing it in again, music starting blasting from the computer. Scaring the hero into jumping back and for some reason causing the drones to finally shut down.
NANANANANA NANANANA BATMAN!
Black Canary, after turning to find the drones had shut off, turned back to look at the computer in anger, before turning back to the drones and exercise floor, "BATMAN!" She screeched, causing some of the drones to completely shatter.
"Batman says not to let anger get the better of you," came a sardonic voice from above the hero. Looking around, Black Canary saw no one, but after a few moments, a black and yellow blur fell from the shadowy rafters. The older hero watched as the young acrobat did a few flips before landing in front of her.
"It's a Batrule," he said flippantly. "You're lucky I just set the drone's programs, and didn't come down her myself," the small boy continued with a grin. The older hero analyzed him for a second, seeing the R on his chest and his small stature.
"You're Batman's new partner," the hero finally said, causing the young vigilante to grin because of the use of partner and not sidekick.
"That I am!" he said with enthusiasm, bouncing on the balls of his feet in excitement, causing Black Canary to chuckle to herself, before returning to a more serious attitude when she realized what the kid had done.
"So what? Batman gave you all the codes to Mount Justice?!" her mind raced she thought of all the things the kid had access to, everyone's secret IDs and a lot of other personal stuff that some kid shouldn't just know.
"Batman? Give me something? Give anyone something? Do you know the man?" the little bird said with a cackle, he then promptly dropped to the floor, scaring the older hero when she thought he was hurt, only for him to come back up, standing on his hands.
He walked a ways from her then flipped back, all the time apparently subconscious just needing to move and let off some energy. Smirking, the boy looked up to the older hero, "I just hacked that system," he pulled up a holographic computer on his wrist, "I mean I already had access from hacking it earlier with Wonder Woman, so it wasn't hard to just brush back in. I mean really the firewalls on that thing are like play dough."
"So you're telling me you hacked the Justice League's home base computer system, probably the most powerful system on this planet?"
The young acrobat rolled his eyes, the effect lost under his domino mask, "On this planet? Paaa-llleeeaasee. The Batcave computer was so much harder to hack, it gave me an actual challenge. This system might rival the US government, but you know Bats, he's the Goddamn Batman, paranoid as anyone can get."
"So Batman lets you hack all these system? What, is this your form of fun or something?" the blond hero asked in a slight disgust, mainly angry at the boy's seemingly lack of childhood.
"Oh he doesn't really want me to, well honestly I don't think he cares, I think it might amuse him," the older hero paled, Batman amused? There was no way that would ever happen, "But he can't really stop me, oh trust me he tried, he set up new security and everything, but I didn't help much, just slowed me for a few minutes. And it is kinda fun, much more challenging than playing those stupid video games that are so easy to beat."
Black Canary was about to retort that those games weren't really that easy, especially after watching Olivia and his ward, Roy yelling at the tv and games more times than she would like to count, but was stopped by the little bird.
"And anyway, that's all beside the point, the real reason I stopped you had nothing to do with the hacking, I saw you working on your aerial moves, so I thought I might try to help you," the Boy Wonder said with a smirk and then with a dramatic sigh continued, "Especially after I was informed that, or erm more informed myself via the computer system, that the League had no aerial specialist, and Batman was as close as they came. Which is kinda sad, but don't tell him that, so I figured I would come and help you! And plus the big bad Bats not gonna help anyone."
"You wanna help me kid? That's cute and all, but I think I'll be fine on my own," the blond hero said with an eye roll as she turned back to program the drones once more.
"HEY!" he yelled, getting her attention and making her turn with an eye raised, "If you think you are so good, then why don't we spar right now? You don't use your screech and I won't use my weapons. Deal?" the young acrobat asked sticking at his hand to shake hers.
"Whatever kid, but if I'm not blamed if you get hurt," she said with a smirk, grasping his hand before stepping back and crouching into a fighting stance. The little bird smirked a shit eating smirk in turn before stepping back as well. The older hero was slightly thrown off when he just stood there, not prepping to fight at all.
"Ready?" she asked in slight confusion, but received a nod from the young vigilante which she took as her signal to start. Black Canary charged the small acrobat, and was inches away from grasping the collar of his shirt to flip him when he wasn't there. She felt the impact of his small hands on her shoulder's as he flipped over her, and she heard the eerie cackle sound through the air.
"I thought you were gonna improve aerial skills? That just looked like your same old moves," the little bird taunted, much to the older hero's annoyance.
"How do I know these aren't your same old moves?" she shot back, whirling around brining her leg up to take him down only to find he slipped into a split. She stopped her leg and lunged at him, but he moved in the last second with ease and went into a handstand then flipped backwards.
"Ha! Do you think I can use the same moves with Bats? The man that's probably the top in hand to hand combat in the world? I don't have 'same old moves' and after a while it gets hard to use the same once you know so many, I mean Bats has already got me mastering six different forms of martial arts." The boy said nonchalantly, looking at the older hero with a raised eye brow, daring her to make the next move.
The woman stared at the little bird in slight awe and a lot of disbelief looking at his small stature and all around goofiness. He kept talking though, oblivious to her discomfort and just not caring.
"Well I probably shouldn't have told you that, I mean it's always better for you to underestimate me, that a Batrule, just fyi. So can we just get his over with soon, I'm in the mood too spar with eskrima sticks or maybe even fence, I haven't done that in while," the little acrobat babbled on, shifting his weight to rest on one leg and pulling his hand up to rub his chin in the classic thinker pose.
The older hero took this opportunity of his distraction rush him once more, flipping and bringing her legs down to slam on him, but he flipped last minute, meeting her in midair and doing a fast split kicking her in the stomach and sending her crashing toward the ground.
"You're learning!" the little boy said excitedly, "Trying to take me when my guard appears to be down!" He grinned down at the older women before holding out his hand to help her up. Rather embarrassed, the hero took his hand pulling herself up while simultaneously pushing him down, which Robin, of course, saw coming from her body language and look of outrage at being bested by a nine year old.
He used her momentum to pull herself up and went with the pull down, still grasping her hand and flipping her as he went, slamming her on her back with an oof.
Smiling she looked at the young vigilante with newfound respect, "Well kid, you're something, aren't you?" she asked as she let him help her up for real this time. "Maybe you can help me with my aerial moves."
"Maybe another time Miss Canary, Batman's waiting!" and with that the boy cartwheeled out the door, and the female hero almost let a gasp of surprise leave her lips as she saw the Dark Knight appear from the shadows to follow his young partner. Nodding in her direction, Dinah tried to suppress her surprise, she had never seen the Dark Knight acknowledge someone, not even with a head nod.
The hero watched in amazement as the pair left the room, heading toward the Zeta Tubes. That brightly dressed boy was changing Dark Knights in ways no one thought possible.
Well then again he was a Bat…
Epilogue (of just this chapter)
Batcave
"I don't know where you picked it up from, but I don't want to hear you use the term 'Goddamn Batman' every again, Richard. Do you hear me?" Gotham's billionaire playboy sternly asked his small ward.
"But Bruuuuce! It's your catch phrase! I so want one too!" the boy whined looking at his adoptive father with big puppy dog eyes, having taken off his domino mask.
The older man turned away, knowing that if he looked into those eyes, he would lose all control and authority, "If you don't stop I'll tell Alfred," he threatened.
"Fine," the ebony haired boy said with pout as he crossed his arms.
"And what was that with Black Canary about my aerial skills being sad?"
"Well they are!" the boy called as he ran from his father and mentor, knowing he would get it in training tomorrow for saying that.
HEY! SO I thought I'd add that little cute part at the end, a lil daddybats moment, kinda…
Anyway, so I think I'll do martian manhunter next but idk who to do after him.
IMPORTANT: Which other Leaguers?
After I finish doing the Leaguers I'm gonna start on how he meets the sidekicks…