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Bruce Wayne was confused, not that he would admit it. He was the Goddamn Batman; he didn't get confused; he knew everything and planned for anything. But still he was confused.
For several years now he had been hearing rumors of a new vigilante, or vigilantes no one was ever sure, and over time he had seen signs that it was a possibility, muggings and other back alley crimes stopped and the victims calling them in, seemingly mostly unharmed. According to each report he had read they were all stopped by children.
He read over the latest report, according to the victim it had been stopped by two blurs, one grey, one black and red, and sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. He didn't know what was going on but he was going to get to the bottom of it, for now he had patrol.
Batman groaned as he groggily woke up to feel chains around his wrists and quickly looked around to see he was in some sort of warehouse and tried to remember what had happened.
There, Two-Face, baseball bat…of all the stupid irony. He heard a door open somewhere and saw Two-Face coming towards him baseball bat in hand, this was not going well.
Alley Cat looked into the warehouse where Two-Face held the Bat. Robin had been on patrol when he had spotted Two-Face taking down the Dark Knight with a baseball bat. After sitting in silence for a minute over the stupid irony they had decided to help him out, after all, if he didn't stop Gotham psychos no one would and they weren't trained enough to handle it on their own, not to mention they didn't have the resources.
For now their plan was simple; go inside, take down goons, take down Two-Face, rescue Bat, get him to Zeta, and eat ice cream in celebration, in that order. The entirety of the Renegades except for Red Hood and Stray who were at home stood on the roof tops around the warehouse where the Bat was being kept. They were going to sneak in and take down as many goons as they could quietly before going full out. As Velocity and Impulse ran inside through the side door Alley Cat, Robin, Arsenal, Tigress, and Cheshire snuck in through the shadows. Girlhunter floated above the roof of the warehouse, invisible, as she kept up a mental communications link and Tempest and Kr waited for when they would enter, they weren't going to go in until after they abandoned stealth as they were the least stealthy of the group.
The take-down started as Velocity knocked out an outer goon and Impulse soon followed with his own. Robin took down two who stood back-to-back and the stealth fight began. After about ten minutes half the grunts had been taken down and that was when Tempest and Kr ran in as the full-out attack began. Once all of the goons had been taken down Two-Face walked out of the back room with a bloody baseball bat and saw all of the unconscious goons. He stared in shock for a moment which was long enough for Robin to toss a knock-out pellet causing him to collapse, unconscious. Robin, Alley Cat, and Arsenal walked into the back room together as the others stayed behind to watch the grunts and call the cops. They saw the Bat tied to the back wall and looking rather worse for the wear although he didn't seem to be unconscious yet.
"Hello," Alley Cat said and Batman watched her warily, "I'm Alley Cat and you're beat up so I'm gonna go over there and untie you and would appreciate it if you didn't try to beat the crap out of me afterwards can we agree to that? Or are you just going to hang there glaring at me in silence?"
"…We have an agreement," he growled out, glaring at her and she smiled.
"Good! Two-Face is unconscious and we're waiting for the cops, that's Robin and Arsenal by the way," she said conversationally as she walked over and began to untie him, "we took all the goons out first and he was so shocked that he kinda just stood there it was kinda funny to see him so shocked if ya' wanna be honest and he stood there so long we just knocked him out. I don't think he was expecting anyone to come rescue you since you're the Big Bad Bat and you work alone and…"
"Do you ever stop talking?" he asked, sounding annoyed and she laughed.
"Yes, honestly I'm just kinda filling in for Robin since he's being so quiet today, or is it tonight, yeah, definitely tonight. That reminds me, Robin why are you so quiet?"
"I made a bet with Velocity that I could be quiet longer than he could, and he broke that bet about two hours ago after five minutes and I'm just proving my point further."
"…Oh, well then. Well, you're all free and stuff and we're gonna go home, bye Batman!" she said cheerily and skipped out of the room.
"Well, she's definitely crazy enough to be a Gothamite," Arsenal mutters and Batman's head whips up to look at him.
"Speedy?"
"Bats, I haven't been Speedy for a long time, hell, I never even met you when I was Speedy although he says Ollie's worked you a couple of times since then. Anyways I would appreciate it if you didn't mention that the first Speedy and the current Speedy are two different people, I happen to like it here."
With that the two Renegades walk out of the room and along with the rest of their family leave as the police pull up and Batman limps out of the warehouse.
"Well, I guess the reports weren't wrong after all," he mutters before heading to the Batmobile. Alfred was going to have kittens over his injuries tonight but after he finished up he was going to start researching these kids and how the first Speedy looked as young as he did when he started minus the arm.
"Batman!" Green Arrow said as he lowered his bow from the Dark Knight, "what are you doing here?"
"I need to speak to Speedy," he growls, "alone."
Green Arrow looks between his protégé and the Bat a few times before Speedy sighs, "I'll be fine Arrow; the Bat's not going to attack me."
"Yeah, well, I'll be over here," he gestures to the next rooftop over before making a running jump to it.
"What are you," Batman growls and Speedy smirks.
"Whatever do you mean Batman? I'm just the second Speedy, although Arrow still thinks he's on the first, honestly, that's the reason real Roy didn't come back after the others rescued him."
Batman blinks for a moment, "what do you mean the real Roy?"
"Can't you figure it out Bats? Honestly you're supposed to be the World's Greatest Detective, why couldn't you figure out I was a clone? I was supposed to unknowingly infiltrate the Justice League, after that I have no idea what I was supposed to do, the Phoenix assholes just implanted a mental suggestion in my mind to do that, they did that to Real Roy and Kr too although I'm not quite sure why considering they were never supposed to leave their pods. But, don't worry, Girlhunter got them out, took about an hour each but they're gone and all that's left are Roy and Ray Harper and Kr, half-human clone of Superman."
Batman freezes at that, "what do you mean clone of Superman?"
"I mean exactly what I say, Phoenix over in Blüdhaven made a clone of Superman titled Project Kr and a clone of Roy Harper, me, titled Project Sidekick. Robin found out and they broke in and got them out, a couple months later they removed the mental suggestions. Problem solved, no traitors, no need to involve the League. I'd suggest looking into Phoenix though, we destroyed all of the DNA but if they got it from Superman once I wouldn't put it past them to do it again."
Batman nods, already thinking of ways to search through it, "I know you won't tell me the names of everyone there, but tell me the name of the group."
"Renegades," Speedy smirks, "we call ourselves the Renegades."
Batman doesn't miss the "we" or "ourselves" as he spoke and watches Speedy run over to the other rooftop to be immediately interrogated by Green Arrow. He won't worry about the Renegades for now, they can take care of themselves and don't seem to take on the big villains and right now he's more interested in Phoenix and their cloning of Superman.
A/N: Yay! New Chapter! Sorry for getting it up so late (my time anyways) but I had an absolutely retarded essay for English. Anywho, now the Renegades have met Batman so the plot thickens *sinister music plays* but now I have not introduced all the characters yet! There is still at least one person possibly more I don't really know at the moment 'cuz I'm about to pass out. I have noticed some people have expressed worry that I will not be introducing M'gann into this fic...THIS IS NOT TRUE! I will be introducing both M'gann and Conner, they're really the only reasons I've introduced J'ann and Christopher (internet cookies for anyone who can figure out why!). To continue this rant I don't actually know where it's going at this point but REVIEW and VOTE ON THE POLL OTHERWISE I'M JUST GOING TO STICK THEIR NAMES IN A HAT! Thanks for reading! :)
~Miss Claw