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AN – There are some things that happen in this chapter that are probably a little out of character, but there's another note at the end of the chapter that explains it better. I hope you all like this chapter!

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Batman and Superman followed the Flash to the living room where Wonder Woman, Black Canary and Green Arrow were, apparently, waiting for them. They looked over at them when they heard the three come in, but they didn't say anything. They simply turned their heads back to face the TV that was on. Batman was about to ask what was going on, but then he saw what was on the screen and froze.

"Reports have been coming in almost non-stop in the last two hours of masked people attacking civilians in old Gotham. These attackers are also suspected of being responsible for breaking into the homeless shelter and the medical clinic. There are also rumours floating around that they have broken into Wayne Enterprises though no one has confirmed that yet. Details are still coming but the police are urging everyone to stay in doors and keep the doors and windows locked." The reported said as a dark and grainy picture of a Talon appeared in the corner of the screen. Batman felt his blood begin to boil. He had expected that the Court would retaliate in some way for their attack on their base and for rescuing Dick, but he never imagined it would be like this. This was way too public than what the Court preferred, and they had never attacked civilians on the streets before. At least, not that he was aware of. What on earth was going on?

"I thought you said the Court stays hidden. That they don't want anyone to know that they actually exist. What are they doing?" The Green Arrow asked, turning his gaze from the screen to Batman.

"They're starting a war." Batman answered, keeping his own gaze on the TV, watching what was happening in his city. Filled with even more anger than before, he turned around and started walked towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Superman asked, already going after the Dark Knight.

"To Gotham, to take down the Court, once and for all." Batman answered as he reached the door. Before he could actually leave the room though, Superman grabbed his arm and stopped him.

"Batman, you can't do it alone." Superman said when Batman turned around to face him.

"This has nothing to do with the League." Batman insisted through clenched teeth as he squeezed his hands into tight fists.

"Maybe not, but it has to do with you, and with Nightwing. Not to mention they hired Deathstroke who attacked the Team. The Team made up of our proteges, our sidekicks. And you brought them to rescue Nightwing, so they've already fought the Court. That brings us into it." Wonder Woman stated as she crossed her arms.

"You said that this happened because they thought Nightwing was alone. Let's show them that he's not." Superman then added. Batman stared at him, then looked over at the door.

Realizing what Batman was now worried about, the Flash cut in and said, "The Team can stay here and watch Nightwing. He'll be safe here, with them."

Batman stared at the heroes in the room with room. He wanted to argue with them. After all, the Court was his enemy, Gotham was his city, and Dick was his son. He didn't want them involved. However, seeing the determined expressions on their faces, Batman wasn't sure he'd win that argument. He hardly ever lost any arguments he got in with any members of the League, but now he wasn't sure. And Wonder Woman did have a point. Plus, as much as he hated to admit it, he could use the help.

"There's nothing I can say to stop you, is there?" Bruce asked, and in response, every single person in the room shook their heads. With an annoyed sigh, he said, "Alright, let's go."

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Artemis walked slowly towards the infirmary room, balancing the sandwiches that M'gann made on the plate she was carrying. After Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Black Canary, Green Arrow and the Flash told them what was going on in Gotham about an hour ago, they left to go take care of it, with Martian Manhunter joining them, and ordered the Team to stay with Dick. They all then quickly rushed to Dick's room to see him, but after a few minutes, Dr. Mid-Nite came in and said that they all couldn't be in there as a lot of people could agitate Dick when he woke up. So, she and M'gann went to the kitchen to make some food for everyone while the others decided to either go to the monitor room where Red Tornado was or to the living room to watch the news in the hopes of finding out what was all going on in Gotham. Only Barbara, Wally, and Roy were left in Dick's room to watch over him, waiting for him to wake up.

As she entered the room, she quickly found the three redheads in chairs surrounding the hospital bed. Dick was still fast asleep which slightly disappointed the blonde. She knew that he needed his rest but she was hoping that he would be awake by now. She even brought an extra sandwich for him just in case. Since he was still asleep though, she walked over to Barbara and Roy as they were the closest to her. Hearing her approach, Barbara turned her head to look at her.

"Here. Thought you guys would be hungry." Artemis told her as she handed one of the sandwiches to Barbara.

Taking it, Barbara gave her a small smile and said, "Thanks Artemis."

Artemis then went to go over to Roy to give him his sandwich, but saw that he was sound asleep. So she put it on the table beside him and whispered to Barbara, "Make sure Roy eats this when he wakes up."

When Barbara nodded, Artemis turned her attention to Wally. He hadn't moved at all since she entered the room, which was extremely worrying. Wally was hardly ever not moving, even when he was asleep. He and Dick actually had that in common. Since he didn't seem to not what was going on, Artemis walked over to him and held out one of the remaining sandwiches right in front of his face. Wally finally looked over at her, but only for a few seconds before his gaze turned back to Dick. He also didn't touch the food at all.

"You need to eat Wally. You're going to collapse if you don't. And Dick needs you to be up and alert." Artemis told him when he didn't take the food from her.

"I just wish he'd wake up." Wally replied, watching Dick's sleeping form.

Sighing, Artemis put the sandwich down on the table next to the bed, crouched down beside her boyfriend and said, "Dr. Mid-Nite says he needs his rest. The more he rests, the quicker he recovers."

"None of this should've happened. We should've been there for him." Wally told her, shaking his head as he spoke.

"We knew nothing about the Court Wally." Artemis reminded him, trying to ease the guilt that she knew he had been carrying ever since Dick was kidnapped.

"Because I was too busy being mad at him for being mad at us for leaving the Team." Wally responded. Raising his head to look up at her, he continued, "He's my best friend Artemis. We used to tell each other everything. I was one of the first people he told his secret identity, I was one of the only people who knew everything about his life. We kept no secrets from each other. Even the whole plan with the invasion I knew about. But this, the Court, his great-grandfather, I knew nothing about any of it."

"He didn't want us to know Wally." Barbara chimed in. She had been doing her best to tune out the conversation as she wasn't a part of it, but with nothing to really distract her and with Wally's voice getting louder, she couldn't help it. And she couldn't help joining in when she heard what the speedster was saying.

Turning his head in her direction, Wally asked, "Why? Did he think that we would suddenly think he was an assassin or something? Did he think that we would think less of him because of who his great-grandfather was?"

"I don't know." Barbara answered. She had been asking herself the same thing ever since she learned about the Court, "But we can ask him that when he wakes up."

"If he'll even talk to us after everything we did, after everything I did." Wally muttered, turning his gaze back to Dick.

After that, the room became quiet as everyone waited for Dick to wake up.

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While Artemis took dome food to the infirmary, M'gann took a tray of the sandwiches they made in the opposite direction to the living room where the majority of the Team was. Tim and Cassie were sitting on the sofa watching the TV with Gar who was on the couch beside them. Kaldur was also sitting on the couch, but on the other end talking quietly with Conner who was sitting on the chair near him. Bart and Jaime weren't there, which meant that they were probably in the monitor room with Red Tornado.

"Any update?" Gar asked, looking up at M'gann when he saw her enter the room with a large tray of sandwiches for the others.

"Not that I know of. Artemis just went in with some food for Barbara, Roy and Wally." M'gann answered, putting the tray on the coffee table before grabbing one and going to sit beside the green shapeshifter.

"That's good, they need to eat." Kaldur said, reaching for a sandwich. He had noticed that the three redheads hadn't been eating as much as they should've or getting enough sleep. He tried to get them to rest and eat, but they barely listened to him. He didn't blame them though, he knew that they were worried, they all were.

"Any word from Batman, and the others?" M'gann then asked, looking at the others.

"None yet. Not even on the news." Tim informed her. They had kept the TV on, hoping to see what was going on since they knew that they wouldn't be getting any updates from the League, but there hadn't been anything about the situation in Gotham since Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, the Flash, and Martian Manhunter left.

Suddenly Conner stood up with a growl, kicking the chair he was sitting on backwards and stormed to the other end of the room.

"Conner!" Kaldur shouted, standing up along with M'gann while the others flinched back in shock.

"I hate this. Dick's our teammate, we should be out there helping take out the people who are hunting him, not sitting here being useless." Conner told them as he turned around to face them, his voice loud enough that it could be considered shouting.

M'gann sighed and floated over to her boyfriend. Putting her hands on both of his cheeks, she said in a calm voice, "It is because he is our teammate that we are here Conner. He needs us at his side, for when he wakes up. If the Court messed with his head like they are apparently capable of doing, then we need to be here to help him, just like with Deathstroke."

Conner still looked upset with the whole thing, but calmed down and nodded, which caused M'gann to smile. Suddenly, Tim spoke up, "What happened with Deathstroke?"

Kaldur looked over at Conner and M'gann, who were also looking at him with unsure expressions. The Atlantean had hoped that with everything going on that Tim had forgotten the obvious history between Dick and Slade Wilson but apparently not. He had tried to brush the subject off earlier as there were more important things going on and it wasn't his place to tell him with all happened. He didn't really want to tell them, it was Dick's story not his, but now that Tim brought it up in front of Cassie and Gar which could make it harder for him to avoid answering and the fact that Tim could easily hack into the Team's files, along with Batman's, and find out himself what happened made him think that he should tell him. If he was the one who told him, then maybe he could tell him the basics and keep Tim from looking for anymore information.

So, Kaldur sighed and said, "About a year after the Light infiltrated the Watchtower, Deathstroke showed up on our radar. He was, at the time, suspected to be working with the Light. There were people, reporters, police officers, politicians who were on the League's side that started, having deadly accidents. We believed that the Light was having Deathstroke doing that so they could have people under their thumb replaces those now dead. But because there was no proof and there were no obvious connections between their deaths, the League had us look into it."

"We ended up catching Deathstroke right in the act. We saved the person he was trying to kill, but that didn't convince the officials that the other deaths were also done by Deathstroke. So we decided to track down Deathstroke and find proof by ourselves. But Deathstroke surprised us, and kidnapped Dick." Kaldur then paused, allowing Cassie to a chance to speak.

"What? Why?" Cassie asked, completely confused as to why an assassin would kidnap someone who was getting in their way.

"We didn't know. It took us over a month to get a lead on where Deathstroke took him, but by the time we got there, they were both gone." M'gann replied, lowering her eyes to look at the floor. Even though it had happened years ago, she still felt guilt that it had taken so long to figure out where Slade was keeping their friend and teammate only to arrive and find them gone.

"But we had him on the run, and were able to track him down to an old hideout, in Siberia." Conner added, seeing the guilty expression on his girlfriend's face.

"We were able to get Dick out, but he was, very badly injured. Deathstroke had been torturing him. And Deathstroke was able to damage the bio-ship. We were able hide in the bio-ship, but we were unable to take off for almost four hours. It took Dick two months to physically recover from what Slade Wilson did to him." Kaldur then finished the story.

"Why did Deathstroke kidnap him though?" Cassie repeated her earlier question when she had still gotten no answer.

"Apparently, he wanted Dick to be his apprentice, and wouldn't take no for an answer." Conner answered with an angry and disgusted voice.

"Deathstroke wanted him, the Court wants him. Dick's pretty popular." Tim commented, though he wasn't really surprised. He had known for years how talented, strong and skilled Dick was. He had to be to become Batman's partner, especially at such a young age.

"He's very skilled. It's why he became our leader." Kaldur said with a small, proud smile. He had always known, ever since the Team was first started, that Dick would be their leader. He only became leader until the youngest yet most experienced hero was old enough. And when he was, he stepped aside and let him take the spot that belonged to him.

"It's why he knew what to do when the invasion happened." M'gann added. When everyone turned to look at her with confused expressions, she added, "Despite how much it hurt that he didn't trust us, he was right. If we knew that Kaldur was a mole, we wouldn't have fought that hard against him. And if we knew that Artemis's death was fake, we wouldn't have reacted as much as we needed too to convince the Light we believed she was dead. And considering that Roy had been mole and none of us saw it coming, or with Jaime, being kept in the dark was the best way to ensure that the plan succeeded."

The room was then quiet as they thought about what M'gann said, all silently agreeing with her. Then Cassie asked, "So, what now?"

"Now, we wait for Dick to recover from this and for the League to deal with the Court. Then, we apologize." Kaldur answered.

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Batman drove the batmobile towards old Gotham as fast as he could. He had already wasted enough time going to the Cave, but he needed to. He had to get some more weapons that he knew he'd need to stop the Talons, he was running low since the fight at the Court's hideout, and get the car. He knew that using the zeta-tubes would be faster, but it would be better to have the car there in case someone got injured, so they could get out of there as fast as possible.

As he entered the oldest part of the city, he noticed the change immediately. There was no one on the streets, all the lights from the apartments and houses were off, even the bars and clubs were closed and locked up. He couldn't even see anyone lurking in the alleys. The place was dead like he had never seen before. His attention was taken off of that though by a Talon standing in the middle of the street. Batman immediately braked, slid to a stop, put the car in park, got out, and walked over to the Talon. He was surprised though when the Talon took off his helmet and revealed himself to be Lincoln March.

"Welcome back to Gotham Batman." March greeted him with a smile, coming to stand about five feet in front of him.

"Openly having a bunch of Talons attack people, that's quite a bold move for the Court, March. Did you really think no one would notice that?" Batman questioned, standing still though his eyes quickly scanned his surroundings, looking for any Talons that could be in the area. Since March had taken the electrum and activated it, he was just as much of a threat as the Talons and if there were others in the area, then taking him down would be even more difficult.

"I hoped you would. I wanted to talk to you, and I figured this way, you'll know exactly how far I'm willing to go to get what I want." March replied, still grinning.

"And what is it you want?" Batman asked. He knew the answer, but he needed to keep March talking so he could get more information about what he was planning.

"I want what you took from us. I want the Gray Son." March answered, sounding as though he was starting to get irritated.

"Not going to happen." Batman immediately told him, shaking his head as he did so. At that, March became furious.

"He doesn't belong to you. He belongs to us, was promised to us. You have no right to take him. Just like you have no right to try and take this city. Gotham and Richard Grayson belong to the Court of Owls, and always will." March snapped, his voice getting louder than it was before.

"Nightwing is not an object. He is a person, and has made it clear that he wants nothing to do with you, with Cobb, or with the Court. He doesn't belong to you. He doesn't belong to anyone." Not even me, Batman thought to himself before he added, "And neither does Gotham."

"You got lucky last time we fought. Do you really think you can survive another war with the Owls?" March asked, a smug look replacing the anger, "You have no idea, how far I'm willing to go to take both Gotham and Nightwing back."

As March spoke, Batman saw at least ten Talons suddenly appear from the alleys and roof tops. They slowly walked towards their leader, their swords out and ready to be used. Batman didn't let that faze him though. After all, March wasn't the only one who had help in fighting this battle.

"And you have no idea how far I'm willing to go to keep them out of your hands." Batman replied, staring down March despite the fact that he was clearly outnumbered. March suddenly looked a little unnerved and his eyes focused on something behind Batman, which told the Dark Knight that Superman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow and Black Canary had arrived. He clearly wasn't expecting that.

Smirking at the uneasy expression that was now on March's face, Batman said, "You want a war? You've got one."

So you wanna start a war in the age of icons, so you wanna be immortal with a loaded gun, so you wanna start a war – Start a War, Klergy

AN – Yeah, I know the Court probably would never do something so public, but they kind of did do something like this in the comics City of Owls and Night of Owls, and honestly, this is where I saw this story going. Basically, Lincoln March is basically so angry that he failed to stop Batman from taking their Gray Son and is terrified of the person actually in charge of the Court and is desperate. So he's thinking that if he takes down Batman and others who stand in the Court's way, his failure will be overlooked because he destroyed Batman and got Dick to become their Gray Son but isn't thinking about the possible consequences of his actions. That's why he's doing this. Also, I threw in some Conner and M'gann because I realized that I hardly had them in the story and that kind of bugged me. Line at the end of the chapter and the chapter title is from the song Start a War by Klergy, it's a really good song and I thought it suited this chapter, you guys should check it out. Hope you all like this chapter! See you all next time!