Here's Alpha Squad guys. I'm pretty sure that you'll like the twist I gave you here. This has been a tough chapter to write. I may get a short chapter in tomorrow before my sister's party, but if not expect three on Sunday. And one will be a doozy, and when I say doozy I mean death.

Enjoy!

Nightwing was driving the Batmobile through a winding mountain road as fast as he could, mainly to get Robin who was complaining the entire ride in the backseat to shut up. They were nearly to their destination.

"You know," said Robin for the 3rd time in nearly 20 minutes. "Batman would've had us to Star City almost 30 minutes ago."

"Well," said Nightwing looking into the rearview mirror so he could see Robin. "I'm not Batman."

"That's for damn sure."

"You know what Tim why don't you just shut the f-"

"GUYS KNOCK IT OFF," roared Kid Flash running outside over comm.

"Alert," said the Batcomputer. "There is a robbery in place at 1st National Bank on 1390 Percy Street."

"Are the gunman armed?"

"Accessing bank cameras….. 8 gunman, 5 are armed."

Nightwing thought for a second and then asked the computer," who is attacking Star City?"

"Analyzing….. It is the Ultra Humanite."

Nightwing touched his comm. link and asked," KF can you handle the Humanite just until me and Boy I can't shut the hell up Wonder finish with this robbery?"

Kid Flash said," I'm on it." And then he zoomed ahead of them.

Robin folded his arms and said," Ultra Humanite takes priority over a robbery."

Nightwing shook his head no and replied," not when there are armed gunman."

"Let the police handle it, Kid Flash is going to need our help."

"Chill out man and stop having such a pinecone up your ass. We'll go whup on some henchman and if you take out more than me, you can drive the Batmobile to Star City."

Robin glared at him for a second then replied," you promise?"

Nightwing laughed. "I promise dude."

"Then what are you waiting for? Hit the gas."

Nightwing shifted gears, turned the car around and headed to the bank. When the adopted brother duo got to the bank, Nightwing immediately noticed the get away car, but there were no bad guys running to it. The getaway car was to stay away until it was time for a pick-up.

"Something isn't right," he said.

"What is it," asked Robin.

"The getaway car is here."

"And there are no bad guys rushing to it. I'll check it out." Robin walked over to the car and gasped when he got to the driver side door. "Nightwing the driver's dead."

"What finished him?"

"A sniper and by the looks of it a damn good one."

Nightwing walked over to investigate and he saw. The bullet passed right through the temporal lobe which would've given an instant death. The getaway driver was a young Asian male in his mid-twenties.

"In the bank now," ordered Nightwing.

The duo walked inside the bank. The floor of the bank was completely painted with blood, but it was deserted except for eight bodies. Eight dead bodies which the blood surely came from. Nightwing and Robin investigated all of them. Two of them had taken gunshots right through the eyes, four been shot right in the jugular, and the last two had been stabbed so hard in their kidneys that the organs were lying on the ground. Nightwing looked over at Robin. The kid was convulsing badly, and only one thing came after convulsing. And right on time Robin fell to his knees and vomited all over the bank floor. Nightwing went over and rubbed kid brother's back until he finished.

"First time seeing death on the job," asked Nightwing. Robin didn't speak, he just shook his head yes. "The first time I saw something this bad I was only 9. Joker had attacked a hospital and before Batman and I could stop him he managed to hang three people off the side of the building. All of them were children my age." Nightwing was silent for minute. "For an entire week all I could see when I closed my eyes were those children and that helped me in a way."

Robin wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and stood up. "How did it help you?"

"Because I never wanted to see that happen to someone else it drove me to become stronger."

Robin wiped sweat off his brow and exhaled deeply. "Thanks Dick."

Nightwing put an arm around Robin and said," any time dude."

"Uh can you do me a favor?"

Nightwing smirked and said," like I have to ask? Of course I won't tell the old man you barfed, but he'd kill us if we didn't get the police down here."

Robin nodded and got on his holo-computer to type, but he stopped when he saw a woman stand up from behind the teller's desk. They both looked at her and she walked over to them.

"Is it over," she whimpered. "Is the fighting over?"

Nightwing took out a small flashlight and looked at her eyes. "She's in shock," he said. "Have you alerted the police?"

Robin typed in a few more keys and said," they're on their way."

"Then we need to be on ours. It's obvious there's nothing we can do for these guys."

Nightwing scooped the scared woman up and walked with her in his arms, Robin followed him. As soon as they were outside of the bank, there was a whip. Nightwing's face was blasted with blood; he looked down and saw the woman had a hole in her head. They both ducked behind the Batmobile. Nightwing gently placed the dead woman on the ground, wiped his face and activated his cowl's vision mode. He could see a man walking away holding a sniper rifle three buildings away.

"Let's go," ordered Nightwing and Robin nodded. They both pulled out their grapples and climbed up to the nearest building. As soon as they popped up, a bullet whizzed past Robin's shoulder just missing it.

"Take cover," yelled Robin. They each dived behind the same pillar.

"Reverse," suggested Nightwing.

Robin shook his head and said," you go reverse, and I'll go electrical."

Nightwing nodded and pulled out a reverse shuriken, while Robin pulled out a blue electrical birdrang. They went in opposite direction and flung the gadgets. The sniper fired with absolute precision and hit Robin's electrical birdrang first. There was a small electrical explosion. Nightwing's shuriken was too close so he dodged it. Nightwing smiled as the gadget turned and reversed, but at the last second the sniper turned and fired at it destroying it. The duo took cover behind another large pillar.

"Well," said Robin with a smile. "This guy is bringing it."

Nightwing laughed and said," that's true, but we've been trained by the best."

"So what next?"

"Plan C, Maneuver 10."

"That's such a cheap way to take out bad guys. Plan A, Maneuver 5."

"I don't any inferno grenades with me."

They both looked at each other and together said," Plan B, Maneuver 1."

Nightwing slowly and carefully peeked out of cover to get a better look. The sniper was in cover on the next building. Nightwing and Robin together threw a smokescreen on their building, and on the next one over. Then running out of the smokescreen they jumped off the building and grappled from different directions so they wouldn't go together. Nightwing swung on the sniper's building and turned his vision mode on. Robin was already in the smoke and combating with the sniper. He was wearing some kind of helmet. And he was good. He blocked every one of Robin's attacks and finally responded with a back flip that sent the Boy Wonder flying back. Nightwing ran into the smokescreen and charged at him and did a spinning kick. The guy blocked it, and managed to send him flying. Nightwing sprung back up at once. Only four people were able to block that kick. Two of them were on the Watchtower, one was on the Beta Squad, and the last one was dead. Their enemy exited the smokescreen wearing a leather jacket, and a combat suit get-up. His face was concealed by a red biker helmet.

"Plan B, Maneuver 1, ah such nostalgia."

Nightwing literally felt his heart drop. He knew that voice. He had missed hearing it so much. It couldn't be. There was no way possible. Nightwing pulled out his escrima sticks and Robin followed suit and pulled out his Bo staff.

"Jason," whispered Nightwing. "Jason is that you?"

The man took off his red helmet to reveal a face that Nightwing thought he would never see again. Short haircut similar to his own. He was wearing his usual familiar cocky sneer. There wasn't any sign about him that said he'd been dead for a year. Jason Todd was standing right in front of him.

Robin was utterly confused asked," who is he Nightwing?"

"Nightwing," drawled Jason. "I just want you to know Dick I always hated that name." Jason reached inside his boots and pulled out two kris (daggers with a jagged edge) and began to twirl them.

"Jason did you kill those people," asked Nightwing.

"Yes, they were robbing the bank. You could send them to jail, but they were never going to learn. They had to pay."

"We don't kill," said Robin.

"I'm not one of you."

"You know Bruce so you must be one of us."

"Speak when your spoken to brat and not before."

"How are you still alive," asked Nightwing. "I... I saw what your body looked like after the Joker finished with you. I was at your funeral, and was there when we buried you at the Manor. How are you alive?"

"Sorry Dick, I got what I came here for. That's a story for another day."

"And what did you come for?"

Jason walked over to a spot and pulled up a suitcase. He opened it and it was full of cash. "I ordered those men to rob the bank. But I told them that if one person was hurt, I was going to make them beg for a quick death. Apparantly they thought I was joking."

Nightwing couldn't believe what he was hearing. Jason ordered the bank robbery. And then he slaughtered those men like cattle? Jason was always a bit hot headed, but he didn't have it in him to kill people. Or did he?

"You executed those men in the bank," said Robin extending his Bo. "You're not going anywhere."

"Kid you are no where in my league in terms of fighting," boasted Jason.

"You'd be suprised."

"Do me a favor Dick and control him before he gets his ass hurt."

"Answer me this Jason," said Nightwing. "Does Bruce know that you're alive?"

"At the moment no. I've had to hide with some powerful people so our 'father' doesn't know that I'm alive. But I just couldn't resist showing myself to you brother."

Nightwing lowered his escrima sticks and looked down. "Never let your enemy get the better of you mentally." Batman had drilled that into his head for years. But even if he wanted to, he couldn't bring himself to bring Jason in.

As if Jason was reading his mind he said," don't worry Dick. If push came to shove I couldn't kill you either."

Nightwing looked up and saw that Jason had a handgun pulled on him and Robin. He immediately stood in front of Robin protectively.

"One thing before you go," said Nightwing. "Do you work for the Light?"

Jason picked up his red helmet, his sniper rifle, his cash, put his weapons away, and walked to the side of the building. "You always loved asking questions that you knew the answer to brother," replied Jason placing the helmet back on. He looked at duo shortly before jumping off the ledge. Robin pushed past Nightwing and scanned the area.

"Fuck," growled the Boy Wonder. "He's gone." He ran up to Nightwing and grabbed the front of his uniform and shook him. "Why did you let him get away with the money? Why didn't you even attempt to stop him?"

Nightwing glared at Robin and then sank a fist as hard as he could into his stomach. Robin let out a wail of pain then passed out. Nightwing pressed a button on his suit and picked the boy up and carried him the ledge. The Batmobile appeared and he jumped off the building landing on the car. He placed the knocked out Tim in the back, got in the front, revved up the engine and headed back to the Cave.

"What a fucking day," Dick growled to himself snatchng off his domino mask and flinging it to the floor. He clicked his comm. link on and said," Bruce we have a HUGE goddamned problem."