Slade frowned as he downloaded the data from the computer disk Renegade had stolen from Wayne Towers. As he ahd expected it had taken a few days to decode the information but something was wrong. Maybe he had decoded it wrong because this wasn't information of the cities underground powerlines, this was…a recipe for chocolate chip cookies!

"Renegade!"

"What?" the boy limped around the corner, his concussion was finally starting to fade, but the bruising on his face was still prominent; he had his shirt removed, showing the scar from the surgery he had needed to fix his lung.

The limp however was new, and Slade could not recall him injuring it on his mission. The younger was obviously still on the drugs so he couldn't feel the pain, maybe his leg was deteriorating faster than he had intisipated. After all he had only taken away the pain, not sured him, with the amount of movement and pressure he was placing on the limp it was only a certain amount of time before it gave up.

"I don't like your tone" said Slade turning back to the computer

"Sorry, I would curtse but my bodies a little stiff" Dick said sarcastically. Letting the comment slide, Slade continued.

"Did you get the disk from where I instructed?" the other raised a masked eyebrow

"Duh, I fell threw the glass remember" he said indicating to the scar on his chest and the black and purple marks on his face.

"Then what's this?" Dick lent forward reading the information on the screen

"A cookie recipe?" he said confused, then his eyes widened slightly, this was the recipe for Alfred's cookies. Which meant this wasn't the right disk and there was only one person who would have swapped them.

"Batman"

"Get your suit, we're leaving" Dick straightened and then gasped as he was slammed into the wall.

"I don't know what your father thinks he's planning but if you even think about defying me you'll be dead before you can say Justice League" Renegade nodded and followed the man round the back of their hide out.

15 minutes later they were on the roof

"What's the plan?"

"Get away from here before your little friends show up"

"Might be a little late for that Death Stroke" Both men turned to see the Justice League had surrounded them, Superman came forward and took hold of Slade.

"There's no where to go Wilson" said Batman he turned to the other "Nightwing, come".

The younger man didn't move "Nightwing" the Dark Knight repeated "He makes a move we take him down, your safe" but Renegade shook his head.

"No"

Wonderwoman stood forward holding out her hand "Come on, let's go home" he took a step back as Batman took a step forward.

"Nightwing?"

"This is all your fault" he said "If you had just taken a second to listen to me none of this would have happened. But you just passed me off as crazy!"

"What did you want me to do?" the younger suddenly became angry

"Have faith in me" the smoke bomb was unexpected, once it cleared Superman was on the floor groaning, a green rock balanced on his chest and both Death Stroke and Renegade were gone.

"What do we do now?" asked Superman as Bat's helped him up.

"I don't know"

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"I'm impressed" Renegade frowned as they ran

"Why?"

"I would have thought you would have run back to Daddybats the first oppotuinuty you had"

"Well I guess you don't know me as well as you thought" they were silent for a while as they ran over the roof tops

"Where are we going?" Renegade asked finally
"Don't ask questions, just follow" Dickw as about to obey when a voice echoed through his mind.

"Nightwing!?" He flinched slightly in surprise but kept on running, hoping Slade hadn't seen.

"M'gann?"

"Oh Thank God! Please we need your help, Joker ambushed us with Belle Rev collars, none of us can use our powers completely! Night, he's got Robin, he's going to kill Robin!"

Renegades eyes widened behind his mask and for the first time since this nightmare began, he forgot about Slade's hold on him and darted off in the direction M'gann was leading him.

In that moment only Tim mattered, Joker would not take away another of his brothers.

"Renegade!" Slade shouted as the younger ran off, he growled and pulled out a detonator, one that would shut off the drug in his apprentices suit…but he paused.

The younger had seemed panicked over something. He didn't want to kill the boy unless he outright defied him. So replacing the small box back into this belt he followed the ex-hero.

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M'gann could feel the tears that were threatening to fall, but she would not let them show. Due to the collar around her neck she was unable to use most of her powers, she just thanked Mars that she was able to communicate with the others over the mind link.

Robin was being held by the throat over the edge of the building by the Joker.

"Jingle Bells, Batman smells, the first Robin is bad!the seconds Dead, or not so dead but Joker killed the last! Ha ha ha !"

"T…That…does…doesn't even…f…fit the…song" Robin Chocked out causing the Joker to frown before returning to his normal manic smile.

"Really? I thought it was quite catching! But then again you might not know much about that…since no ones going to catch you!"

Come on Night thought M'gann but then super boy was talking through the mind link.

"He's not coming M'gann" A few tears fell from her eyes.

"Bye Bye Birdie!"

The next few seconds went in some what slow motion. A flash of silver knocked the Joker off balance before he could throw the boy wonder. Robin fell but was able to grab hold of a wire on the side of the building that was attached to a satalite.

"What they hell?" said Joker but the next thing he knew he was on his back a pain in his chest from being kicked and above him was a man in a black suit.

"Well Well Well, if it isn't the ex Nightwing, yes I heard you were batting for the other team these days shall we say. It Renegade now isn't it?" he laughed and earned himself another kick before the man in black grabbed the dirty purple suit and brought him close to his face.

"If you ever try to hurt my family again, I'll be sure to ignore Batman one rule just for you" there was so much hatred and anger in the mans face that even the Joker took a moment to pause and collect himself.

"Whatever you say Boss" he saluted before being head butted and falling unconcoius.

"Help!" Renegade turned to the edge of the building walking over to help his brother up.

"Don't take another step Renegade" he turned to see Slade standing over the knock out clown, in his hand was the box Dick knew could kill him.

"Help, I'm slipping!" the voice made Dick turn again to the edge of the building

"This is your last warning, take another step towards the Boy wonder and your dead"

Young Justice held their breaths; they knew this was the crossing line. If Nightwing went with Slade now they would never get him back.

"You stopped me going to Batman" said Renegade he then turned to Slade with the same anger he had shown the Joker "But you won't keep me from my brother" he closed the distance between him and the edge of the building, reaching down and grabbing Robin just as the teenagers hand slipped.

"I got you Buddy" Robin hugged his brother hard once he was on solid ground.

"I thought I was gonna die, Just like J"

"I wouldn't let that happen" Robin pulled away and smiled but had to hold in a panicked scream when the older doubled over hands grasping his leg.

"The pain comes back first before the heart begins to give out. I'd say you have maybe 3 minutes to live" said Slade his finger pressing down on the button.

"No!" cried Robin but he felt a hand on his shoulder and saw Nightwing straightening himself back up.

The hero ripped the platted S from his chest and threw it at Death Strokes feet.

"We don't have much time then" he said and then he attacked.

A/N We are so close to the end! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! please review! Karin x