Talon ch8

Dick's eyes fly open as he jumps off the bed and runs into the hallway. Superboy catches Miss Martian and gently sits her in a chair before running after Dick.

"What the heck just happened?" Wally asks.

"Well, Conner will catch him then we can ask." Artemis says.

'Megan, he's in the air vents again. I need help.'

"Superboy just told me he's trying to escape. We need to find him."

They file out of the room as Wally searches the entire mountain. He runs through every room twice while Kaldur locks down the mountain. The rest contact Batman and the League.

"What?" He growls.

"We have a problem." Wally says.

"What?"

"Dick sort of escaped. He's in the Cave but he's not in his room."

"I'll be there soon." And his face blips off the screen.

True to his word, Batman arrives in the Cave as he heads straight for the computer banks. He opens up multiple screens and types in codes. Soon enough one picture pops up with the map of the ventilation shafts. It shows Dick is...right above them? The Team looks up just as he hops down on top of Batman. Dick pulls a knife out of who knows where and tries to shove it in Batman's face but his gauntlet successfully stops it. Batman throws Dick off him as Conner runs to grab him. Conner gets a slight grip on his clothes but just as soon as it's there, it's gone.

"Gahh, get back here." Conner growls.

He runs after Dick and tackles the boy to the ground. Conner lands on top but slowly he starts rising. Dick pushes him off and starts running again. Megan grabs him with her telekinesis but for some reason she has trouble keeping a grip on him. He falls to the floor and keeps running as Artemis and Roy shoot high density polyurethane foam arrows at him. They both hit Dick as he starts to slow and the foam hardens. But it starts to crack and he punches a hole through it. Kaldur issues his water bearers and grabs hold of Dick and pulls him towards Batman where a set of high security handcuffs are slapped over his wrists.

"The Court has sentenced you to die."

"Snap out of it Richard. What would your parents think of your life?"

"I thought so, bring back that Richard. The Court has corrupt you. We can build you back up."

Dick glares at Batman and jumps at him in a fit of rage. He breaks the handcuffs and jumps on Batman. Artemis grabs her crossbow and loads it with the freeze arrows she had replicated. Soon enough it's full and she starts shooting at the Talon that is still trying to kill Batman. She gets some lucky shots and slows him down. Soon enough Conner and Kaldur jump in grabbing Dick off Batman.

"Take him to the cell."

Con and Kal drag Dick to a concrete cell with no vents so he can't escape. The only way out is through three lead lined doors with complicated passwords that are changed every other day. They place Dick on the cot and use some chain Batman had left to tie him to the wall. They walk out of the first door and open the window at the top putting a special air conditioner that keeps the room just above zero before closing the other two doors and activating all the security.

"Isn't this a bit much?" Wally asks.

"Well, he's different. He was good before then something just clicked and he was bad again." Conner says.

"Megan, what did you see while in his mind?"

"Well, he was thinking of a training session. There was a man, he said something along the lines of 'all of you won't be getting out of here alive.'" Megan says.

"Well, he was trained by the Court of Owls. From nursery rhymes my mom used to tell me it's not uncommon for kids to disappear and between five month periods over 90 percent of them are found dead."

"But you live in Starling City with Green Arrow I thought." Wally asks suspiciously.

"Well, before she left. I stayed with her and I remember the stories. It's not that hard."

"We must stay on task Kid Flash." Kaldur says.

"Fine." He grumbles.

"What else did you see M'gann?"

"I-I don't remember much else. When he was forcing me out that caused me to lose some gained information."

"That is alright Miss Martian. Wally what do you know about Richard?"

"Well, I have this one picture of him in the circus. I don't know which circus though."

"Well give me the photo and I can scan it through the computer."

"I don't think you have the capacity to understand the computer, Artemis."

"Give it here, Baywatch."

"Whatever."

Wally lazily hands the picture to Artemis and she takes one look at it. Her eyebrows furrow as she looks closely at it.

"Wow, you are dense, Baywatch."

"What do you mean?"

"This is Haly's Traveling Circus. It's simple to see. The poster right here," she points to one behind little Richard," has the large logo and the Flying Grayson's were famous.

A/N: okay so I am really super sorry for not updating in anything for over a month. I haven't been able to actually like anything I've written and I really want to rewrite some of the chapters in Traught Streetlife so that update will be delayed. I am however writing fiction stories with the CP gang, and another story with all OC's of mine. I will make sure to have a better longer chapter for the next update. Ok so FF hates me and I don't even know if the whole chapter will upload so sorry if it doesn't but I'm tired and frustrated with everything

-Leo