Chapter 7.

Well? This story is wrapping up, sort of.

Enjoy!

(o,o) baby panda returns!\

Since the first round had already been fired, Nightwing was able to dodge them by ducking. Sadly, the Russian defenders didn't just fire one round at a time. Nightwing used his ninja skills and ran up the wall, did a flip and started to jump on the soldiers' heads.

There had been about twenty soldiers, and after twenty-five minutes, Nightwing had taken them all down. Nightwing rubbed his injured shoulder. He could feel how blood soaked his suit, but no one would be able to see it.

I'll take care of it at home.

In the fight he had just won, Nightwing had been shot 12 times. Because of his Kevlar, he would only have 12, huge bruises. Nightwing ran down the hallway. Surprisingly, he found his teammates cell almost immediately. There were five guards.

Nightwing snuck up to the guards, but was seen by one and they all opened fire. Nightwing jumped to the side and roundhouse kicked one of the guards he that guard fell instantly. He slid under another one and grabbed the ankles. Using his momentum, he twisted the guards so that the guard took out another guard as well. That left two. Nightwing threw another hidden knife from his other boot, and pinned one guard to the far wall. The last guard went running.

Using Deathstroke's key card, Nightwing opened the door. Just as the door slowly squeaked open, Nightwing felt a bullet penetrate his Kevlar and sink into his right side. He gasped and turned. The guard pinned to the wall had a gun Nightwing had never seen before in his hand. Before the door's had opened, Nightwing had run over to that guard and knocked him out.

Nightwing went back to the door just as it opened. Nightwing took a gun and put it between the doors so they wouldn't close.

"Guys, is anyone hurt?" Nightwing called. No one answered. Nightwing ran up to a table and took the pulse of Megan. Normal. He went around to everyone and checked their pulses. Normal.

"Drugged." Nightwing whipped around to see Scarab sitting up. Nightwing was at Robin and stroking his brother's hair.

"What happened? He said he wouldn't hurt anyone."

"Who did?"

"I'll tell you as we go along." Nightwing undid the binds and put Robin on his back.

"Yo, Nightwing, how are we going to carry everyone?" Scarab asked. Nightiwng shrugged. "do you have anything in that belt of yours that might help." Nightwing shook his head. His belt had been removed, gone through and emptied; otherwise he would have used it by now.

"No can do, someone took their liberty of searching through my belt, sorry."

"Just grab the girls and let's go!"

They had just gathered everyone when the bomb went off. The wall their backs were too exploded, then a second bomb sent them flying through the hole. The two conscious boys and the unconscious team went flying.

Nightwing, who had landed face down, struggled to get up, but the world spun and a boot kicked him down.

"I gave you a chance, but I know you're just like every other human. You are going to betray everyone you know, you can't stop the lies you will start. Oh, Nightwing, I can see how much pain you are going to cause others, the good news is I'll kill you before that can happen!" Klarion snarled. Klarion grabbed the back of Nightwing's head and yanked him up, making the young hero arch his back at and almost unnatural angle. Klarion put his hands on Nightwing's throat and started whispering. Nightwing felt the air grow cold. His throat began to freeze. Nightwing could feel the ice creeping up his neck. Unlike being frozen by Mr. Freeze, this ice was starting on the inside. Nightwing couldn't breathe.

"No." he choked as the world turned black and the ice froze down his body, turning red where blood was.

Scarab woke up and saw what was happening. Without thinking he shot towards Nightwing and Klarion. He hit Klarion and the Witch flew backwards. Scarab saw the opponents form shift and rapid change. The strange person across the field from him snarled at him, then disappeared into a red hole.

"Nightwing!" Scarab ran up to Nightwing, he saw Nightwing's skin was blue.

"Crap, his body temperature is way below healthy!" Scarab said. He could hear his team waking.

"Megan, the bio ship!" He yelled, not thinking of anything but saving his comrade. "Stay with us Nightwing, keep breathing!" Scarab didn't see the black and orange man sneaking up on his left. He heated up his suit to melt Nightwing a bit, but this also made the armor weaker. He heard the whine of a laser shot just before it went through his side. Scarab turned and saw the mercenary approaching.

"Warning, blaster use will deplete armor protection." His suit warned. Scarab fired. His suit collapsed, and the cold air hit the perfect hole that went through his chest, just under one arm through to under the other.

"Nightwing," Scarab started, "Tell my mom I'm sorry and look out for my prodigy." A blue scarab shaped thing rolled off Scarab's back. "This will find the perfect subject, sorry I didn't program compassion into it… Also, sorry I was such a jerk earlier, I have trust issues, or so they say. You are a really great warrior, protect this world…" Scarab fell over, his blood melting the snow and his heart stopped pounding.

I really apologize if this seemed rushed. I hope this chapter is somewhat new and original!

Sometimes, when I write ahead, I forget you guys don't know what has happened yet and the comments confuse me. Hehe, I should really pay more attention!

Love,

Burning Bright