Ezra was not at all pleased to see his two teachers attack each other. He really thought this would be going better. Bruce probably would be dead if not for Superman's aid, despite what the detective claimed. Now, that's not to say he wasn't expecting a fight, because he was, but he figured they would be over it by now. Bruce didn't approve of the crew at first, clearly, but he soon got over it and handled it much better than Kanan did.
As they arrived in the cave, the light flickered on as Bruce walked to the batcomputer, while Jason and Barbara stood close to him, both in their Red Hood and Batgirl suits. Ezra walked in behind Bruce, followed by Damian, Dick, Tim, and The Ghost Crew.
"How was patrol?" Bruce asked Jason, who shrugged.
"Nothing interesting, just some muggers and a robbery, nothing on Joker though." He replied.
"Don't worry, we don't need anything else." Bruce said, as Jason raised an eyebrow.
"Start talking."
"One sec." Bruce said as he started typing on the keyboard.
Ezra walked to the corner of the room, as Damian and Tim went to help out Bruce, and Dick followed Ezra.
"You alright?" Dick asked his friend.
"No," Ezra said, like it was obvious, "My crew is against me, Bruce almost died, and now Clark's babysitting them."
"You think that they'll forgive you?"
"No."
Dick sigh, like he was trying to get Ezra to realize something.
"What about that girl, uh, Sabine?" Ezra nodded, "Well, she doesn't know what her father really was, does she?"
"No, but I'm not sure telling her will make it better." Ezra replied, still stuck on his decision.
"That's for you to decide." Dick said.
Just as he finished his sentence, the batcomputer's screen came on, showing a camera feed, a feed that Ezra saw during his training, a feed that no one touched unless it was necessary. Ezra watched as Bruce turned to face the crew.
"You want to know why Ezra never told you who he really was?" Bruce asked, "It's because of this man."
Bruce turned back to the screen, and pressed the play button. Ezra noticed Jason's hands tighten around his pistols.
A light came on, revealing a boy laying in the middle of the floor. It was tiled, with markings etched on them. The boy was wearing a suit similar to Damian's, but everything was heavily damaged, the armor was burnt and bloody, the cape was torn off, and the mask was torn in two.
"Tell them your name." A voice said from out of the frame. The boy did not speak, "TELL THEM YOUR NAME!" The voice shouted, it was crazed and demented.
"My n-name, is Jason Todd." The boy stuttered, as the Red Hood looked to the floor.
"And who are you?"
"I-I'm a minion to the great lord Joker." The boy said.
"And who is the great lord Joker." The voice asked softly, but creepily.
Young Jason laughed, "A scum bag who can't seem to tell when he's gonna get caught!"
There was silence for a moment, And then a figure walked into view, he was wearing a purple tuxedo, with pants to match, and a yellow dress shirt under it, but the most unmistakable feature was his face, ghostly white, with green hair and a blood red smile.
"Now, that's not how we talk to your elders bird brain, I guess you'll need some dicipline." With that, the figure revealed a crowbar, a crowbar that now was in the evidence locker in the batcave. The Joker then started beating the living crap out of Jason, blood flying everywhere, Jason tried to get up, but was smacked with the crowbar again, and again.
Jason fell, and was out cold. Joker walked off, but then another scene was shown, Jason hung up to the ceiling, as Joker walked into view again.
"How long are you planning to wait before he comes and finds you?" Joker asked as he got in Jason's face.
"As long as it takes." Jason growled.
Joker laughed, "Well, that would be a while, because old batsy boy has a new partner."
Jason's head shot up, as Joker pulled out some photos, "See, he's not you is he? Heheheh."
"No," Jason mumbled, "No that's not real!"
"Oh it is, he's thrown you out! Tossed you away like an unwanted puppy," Joker grabbed something from the darkness, a pike covered in molten glass, which caused Hera's jaw to drop, Jason was released onto the ground, "Can we keep him daddy, pretty please? I'll take real good care of him!" Joker said in high pitched voice.
Jason started to crawl away, but Joker was faster as Jason pleaded him to stop, but the video ended just before Jason was hit with the smoldering pike.
All eyes went to Jason, Hera was in utter shock. And Kanan had his hand covering his mouth.
"You see what I mean now?" Bruce growled.
"I-" Kanan stuttered, "Yes."
"Who was that?" Zeb asked.
"The Joker," Ezra answered, "The living, breathing form of evil."
"Wait," Hera said, her eyes widening, "You said he was on Krownest?"
Bruce nodded, "Yes, unfortunately yes."
Sabine stared at him, "How do I get back?"
"Through the portal, but we need to-" Bruce didn't get to finish.
"I'm going now." She stated, and walked toward the metal ring that was in the center of the cave, but Dick got in front of her.
"I can't let you do that." He said.
"Move, or you will be moved." She growled at him.
Dick stood his ground.
She started to turn away, but came back with a punch to Dick's face.
Damian surged foward, but was hit in the face with Zeb's staff, and was knocked to the ground. But as Zeb was about to hit Damian, Bruce rushed in and yanked the staff out of Zeb's hands and hit him, shocking the lasat. Bruce was pushed off the platform by Kanan, as he fell into the depths below.
"FATHER!" Damian yelled, as he took the sword out from his sheath.
Nightwing was pushed off the platform too, but not before he managed to turn off the portal. Sabine growled in frustration, and she lept down to fight him. Hera started shooting Barbara with her pistol, Batgirl managed to dodge them all. Ezra's suit came to him, forming itself around him, and he activated the kyber setting. He blocked Kanan's attack on Damian with the spikes on his gauntlets as soon as his suit started working.
"So after all we've been through," Kanan spat, "You side with them?"
"You made the decision clear." Ezra shot back, as he grabbed his own saber and brought it down on Kanan's.
Ezra blocked four more swings, before he was hit in the head with the but of Hera's pistol, and then got pushed off the platform, and landed in the training area. Kanan flipped down to where he landed. Right after that one of the walls exploded, with Nightwing getting thrown out of it, and Sabine standing behind the wall with her sonic gauntlets. Ezra sprung up in time to dodge Kanan's saber, and punch him in the head.
Kanan swung again, this time hitting Ezra's chest, but being Batwing and all, Ezra managed to sweep Kanan's legs out from under him.
He heard the sound of a jetpack near him, and he lept out of the way as Sabine crashed Nightwing onto the ground. She got up and faced Ezra, who was shocked that Nightwing could only stand up to her for about 3 minutes.
Ezra took out his saber, but noticed Sabine didn't have her's.
"Lose the saber?" Ezra asked slyly.
Sabine smirked, "One of the good things about having an overprotective mother is that she goes wherever I go, so when I get in trouble," Ursa Wren landed beside her, holding the saber, "She's right there to help."
Okay, now Ezra was scared. Even with the suit Ezra wouldn't be able to take Ursa even by herself. Now Sabine was there too? No way.
Ursa and Sabine advanced, Ezra charged, which was stupid. Ursa ducked his punch, and hit him in the gut, "Honestly," She said, throwing Ezra back to the ground, and putting her sword close to his neck, "I don't know why I thought you could save my husband.
She raised the sword, about to kill him, but fast as lightning, someone blocked the blade. Ezra looked up, as Batman stood there, in full armor, and he had Ursa's blade caught in his spikes, "Who's weak now, Wren?" Batman growled, and he smirked.
Dick's head went up, "Bats is smiling, you should probably surrender."
Batman went into a fighting stance, Ursa did the same. Ezra wasn't sure who would win, they were both evenly skilled, and this would probably be the longest fight since when Bats and Sups first met.
Batman or Ursa Wren? Who will win?
CLIFFHANGER! I HAVE NO REGRETS! Okay, sorry for the wait, school started up and I've been really busy, but you can consider this my number one project. And I thought of that match up two days ago, and I was trying to figure out how it would go down. I'm not sure if I did it right or not. Anyway, place your bets in the review section, and the next chapter will be completely Batman Vs Ursa, the whole time. Ninja VS Warrior, Bat VS Mandalorian. Who will triumph?
