I stood at the top of the building, ready to reach for my Katanas at a moment's notice. I still wasn't too sure about this new guy that they had signed me up to fight with.

He was a tall guy, but he couldn't be any older than I was based on information given. He wore a black leather jacket with a hood covering the upper part of his face, which was secondly protected by a pair of sun glasses which was odd for this time of night. He had on black leather pants and shoes as well, and a cotton black shirt. The only thing not black about this guy was his skin, which was only shown through the gap in his hood since he had on black gloves as well.

"I do not appreciate your distrust Ravager V." I looked at him, and he turned his head showing a silver crucifix attached to his chocker, and a crooked smile etched on his face. He quickly changed back to his normal expression then looked down at the lab below us. "I'll take out the gaurds on the roofs; you get ready to move on my signal."

I was about to protest when he disappeared into the shadows below us, and not metaphorically. I guess that's why they call him shadow Hood.

I looked at the building, and slowly guards began disappearing into the ground. They all appeared in a pile at the edge of the building, the black clad villain nodding at me as he came up with them.

I grabbed my daggers and through them at the heads of the guards killing them instantly. Shadow Hood bent over them and closed their eyes.

"Eius et animae omnium fidelium defunctorum per dei misericordiam requieuscant in pace." I looked at him never having heard something like that before. "You go inside; I need to finish some things up and try to avoid excess killing." Shadow Hood obviously didn't know much about my family if he was asking something like that.

I walked in the building and hit a few bullets killing the shooters, and I began to walk towards the real prise. I grabbed the head guard's badge, and opened the door to the vault, and saw it, the box that held the Amazing Amazo's arm. I grabbed the box, and walked out to see one of the strangest sights ever.

Every dead man had a bible and a crucifix and a bible on their chest. They had been laid strait, and coins put on their eyes, the wound and blood all cleaned, and the weapon removed. Kneeling over one of the bodies was Shadow Hood saying that same chant as he put two coins on his eyes.

"I said to avoid excess killing, these things aren't cheap you know!" he seemed genuinely angry with me, but he simply stood up and took the box. "Have you ever teleported before?" I shook my head and he smiled, are hands still in contact as I felt as if I was being consumed by the shadow we were standing on.

We ended up inside the back of and armoured van filled with money, and when I looked to see the driver through the great was my father, and a man dressed almost identically to Shadow Hood, I guess that must be Shadow, but instead of the Jacket he wore an over coat with a hood.

"Well done kids, the fifth peace of Amazo belongs to us." I smiled at my father's praise, and saw that Shadow Hood and his mentor had disappeared. "Don't worry Ravager V, they do that quite often.

I stood in my police uniform looking over the freshest group of body's that the Catholic killer had left. I didn't really like that name though, it just didn't seem to fit to me, but I was just a cop working in homicide, not much I could do about names.

"What do you have for me Officer Grayson?" I looked at detective Duncan; a tall black man who wore a black exercise shirt with his gun strapped around his back. He had on his usually khaki slacks and brown leather boots.

"Well it appears that the men outside were killed by a tall man with a knife, but the wounds as usual were cleaned and covered by hair." Duncan nodded as we walked into the lab entrance. "The guards in here were all killed by bullets coming at a low angle suggesting a short shooter, but we haven't been able to run ballistics yet."

"Was anything stolen officer Grayson." I turned to my cousin's voice, and saw Blue Bat, Nightjay, Shadow Bat and Red X walking in through the front door.

"We haven't gone over all of the evidence, but the absence of the head guards key card suggests that the robbery took place in the vault." Blue Bat nodded and walked forward towards the vault, X moved his hands like he was using a keyboard and the door opened immediately.

"Was the Bat too busy to come himself?" asked detective Duncan, annoyed the sidekicks' presents. "Isn't this Nightwings turf?" Nightjay turned to the detective and stared at him angrily for a few seconds. "Is this too small a case for heroes they had to send sidekicks?"

Blue Bat began to turn but X grabbed his shoulder. "Nightwing is currently on a mission trying to hunt down the other stolen objects before they can be put together Detective Duncan, now please get everyone besides officer Grayson and yourself out of the building."

Detective Duncan turned and started ushering everyone out of the lab as I looked at Willis, quite amazed at how much he had grown since his ninth birthday.

"Okay Willis, we can talk freely now." I turned to Detective Duncan shocked at how he knew who Willis was. "Don't look so shocked Grayson, you must have wondered how I disapeare when Gaurdian shows up." Now that I thought about it he was right, everytime he vanished Gaurdian would show up.

"I sent theme away to reminde you of your origin." Duncan narrowed his eyes thinking for a few seconds, then nodded. "I also wanted to tell you that the knifes came from a roof top, and that there are four unconcious victims on the roof, there are probably two people, and one of them is doing the ritual." we were walkiing down the hall way to the vault, and X turned his face towards a stack of boxes.

"Is something wrong X?" Willis turned to Blue Bat and nodded slowly. "Would you like to inform the rest of us?"

Red X put his right hand where I assume his ear was. "Red X to tower; the Catholic killer has taken a piece of Amazo." By the tone in my younger cousins voice I doubted that there was anything amazing about Amazo.