AN: This chapter contains violence, Language, disturbing content, and thematic elements. Readers discretion advised.

"Okay Skye. Because people now know about you, you need to be trained to defend yourself. First things first. There are going to be people who are going to try and take you from me. I'm going to teach you how to remain calm."

"How?"

"I'm going to shut the door and turn off the light. Try and stay calm and find your way to the door."

"Okay."

Jason shut off the light and began flashing a strobe light and blaring music.

When Skye opened the door, Jason saw tears in her eyes.

"I'm sorry." Jason said. "Was that scary?"

Skye nodded.

"I'm sorry, but there are people who are going to take you who won't care if you're scared. Do you want to try again?"

"I guess so." Skye said.

one month later.

Jason and Skye were out walking around Gotham when a gun went off. Jason fell to the floor and someone grabbed Skye.

Jason had taught Skye what to do in this situation. She kicked the guy as hard as she could in the balls. The guy fell to the floor in a heap.

A second guy grabbed Skye and slapped a cloth with chloroform on it over Skye's mouth.

Skye tried to not breath in the Chloroform, but she was breathing to heavily and passed out.

Jason

Jason woke up on the ground. He saw a guy holding a cloth to Skye's mouth. 'Chloroform! Don't breathe Skye.'

Skye's head fell to the side and Jason was fueled by holy fire. He launched himself at the guy, but a third guy beat him down.

'No. Don't. Take. Skye.'

When Jason woke up again, he was in an ambulance. "What? Where am I? Where's... SKYE!" Jason jumped up and was pulled back down by restraints.

"Mr. Todd." A Paramedic said. "We need you to calm down so we can help you."

"WHERE'S SKYE! WHERE DID THEY TAKE HER!"

"We don't know, but we need you to calm down."

"NO! YOU NEED TO LET ME OUT OF HERE SO I CAN KILL THE SONS OF BITCHES WHO KIDNAPPED MY SISTER!"

"Sir. We will sedate you if we have to."

"TRY IT! I FUCKING DARE YOU!"

The paramedic reached over Jason with a needle and went to inject him.

Jason broke out of the restraints, grabbed the needle and injected it into the other paramedic. He ran at the door, opened it, and jumped, Rolling on the ground and to his feet. He had to find Skye.

He pulled out his phone and typed in the password for his GPS software. A picture of a bracelet spun on the screen three times before the home screen came up. He saw that Skye was in the warehouse district of Downtown Gotham.

He ran to a garage, opened the door, and inside was a very familiar looking bike. He jumped on and followed Skye's locator to the Warehouse.

When he got there, he heard.

"I'm not the one you have to worry about." Skye said defiantly, awake and full of terrified energy.

Jason was filled with pride.

"Oh yeah?" The man asked. "Well why don't you tell us who we have to worry about."

"My brother."

"Jason Todd?"

"Yeah."

"He's dead little girl."

"Am I?" Jason asked from the shadows asked.

"Who's there?" The man in charge asked.

"Jason!" Skye said excitedly.

"Yeah. Don't worry, I'll have you out of here in a few minutes." Jason said, his voice bouncing off the walls. "You know the problem with this type of room? The acoustics play with your voices, so you don't know where they are coming from."

"Shut up!" The guy in charge yelled.

"Skye. Close your eyes." Jason said. Jason waited for a few seconds before he went to work. He grabbed one guy and broke his neck without remorse. He grabbed another guy, picked him up and broke his back over his leg. "Skye. You can open your eyes now." Jason walked over to Skye and began untying her from the chair.

"What happened to the fourth guy?"

"Fourth guy?" Jason said before he heard something from his left. He ducked and punched upward putting every ounce of strength he could behind the punch.

He felt something break and heard the guy grunt in pain before passing out. He looked at the guy, then at his hand, back at the guy.

"I think you cracked his nuts." Skye snarked.

Phil, Fitz, and Ward all looked squeamish while May and Simmons were trying to look sympathetic but smiled at the clever eight-year old's wit.

"What?" Skye asked. "He totally deserved it."

"What happened to the tracking chip they put in you?" Ward asked.

"I. Uh I cut that out." Jason said.

They looked at him with various expressions.

"Look. It's not a memory I like so I didn't show you guys. I had to hold Skye down with one hand and cut the chip out with the other before stitching her up. I didn't like doing it, but I didn't want to risk going to the doctor in case they were the ones who put it there in the first place."

"If it was anywhere but Gotham, I wouldn't believe you." Phil said. "Gotham is one of the worst places even with the Batman."

"Yeah. Sure." Jason said.

"Where to next?" Phil asked a little confused.

Jason walked forward.

"Hey Skye." Jason said. "I bought you a present."

"You did!" Skye yelled in barely controlled excitement. "What did you get me?"

"It's outside. Come on."

Jason led Skye outside to a large object under a larger tarp.

"Are you ready?"

"YEAH!"

Jason ripped the tarp off. "Ta da."

"This thing?"

"Yeah. What's wrong with it?"

"It looks like something a stalker or a hobo would live in."

"I figured that you might want to have your own mobile base."

"My what?"

"A mobile base."

"A mobile base?"

"Yeah. I can help you make it any way you want."

"Can I put a bed and a desk and a mini gym?"

"Sure. Whatever you want. It can be your fortress of solitude."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you."

"I do want to ask why you want that though?"

"Because. Before I met you, I had nothing. Now I have everything I could have ever wanted."

"That was very sweet." Simmons said.

"We have to keep moving." Jason said.

Jason walked into a warehouse.

"Ah." A maniacal voice said. "Mr. Todd. So good of you to join me. For your entertainment tonight I present..."

Tear gas and knock out gas grenades fell from the ceiling.

Jason put a face mask on.

"Oh. It appears that you were expecting that, but were you expecting this?"

Flash bang grenades went off everywhere.

Jason was hit from behind. The madman hit him till he lost consciousness.

When Jason woke up his hands and feet were tied.

"Oh. Good you're awake. Now I can continue my fun. Try not to pass out this time."

A crowbar came down and struck him. It hurt, but not like the first ten times. The pain was beginning to dull, not by much though. The crowbar struck again. It was as if the madman was reading his thoughts and began hitting him harder.

Then the Joker hit him in the face. "WOW. That looked like it really hurt." Then the Joker hit him three more times and savored every hit like it was a cheese sample. "Whoa, now hold on. That looked like it hurt a lot more. So, let's try and clear it up shall we pumpkin. What hurts more? A?" The Joker hit him again. "Or B?" And he was hit a second time by the Joker. "Forehand?" The Joker hit him a third time. "Or backhand." The Joker hit him again and began laughing his sadistic laugh.

Jason murmured something. The Joker leaned down and said. "A little louder lamb chop. I think that one of your lungs is collapsed. That tends to always impede the oratory." Jason spit blood up at the Joker. The Joker returned the favor by slamming his face into the floor. "Now that was rude. The first boy blunder had manners." Jason smiled even though it hurt. The Joker wiped the blood from his face. "I suppose that I'll have to teach you some manners. So that you can learn to follow in his footsteps better." The Joker contemplated that for a bit. Then said. "Nah... I think that I'll just keep hitting you with this crowbar." Then the Joker laughed as he hit Jason repeatedly with the crowbar. Jason closed his eyes and wished he were somewhere else.

After a while the Joker got tired of beating Jason with the crowbar he put on his overcoat and his hat. He looked at Jason and said. "Okay kiddo I have to go, but it was fun right?" Jason stayed silent. "Well maybe a bit more fun for me than you. I'm just making guesses since your being so quiet. Oh well. Be a good boy, get your homework done, and be in bed by nine. Oh, and if you see the big man tell him I said... hello. The Joker began laughing hysterically and left.

Jason opened his eyes and got to his knees. He slid his handcuffed hands under his legs, so they were in front of him and he tried to stand but fell back down, he looked at the door and figured that it was locked. He crawled towards it and when he got to it was indeed locked. Jason closed his eyes, and he heard it a faint beeping. he looked to his left and saw a bomb. Of course, the Joker planted a bomb. Why wouldn't he? Jason saw it counting down and he knew that he didn't have long.

He crawled to a box he used all his strength to stand only to fall back down he caught the box and it tipped over on him it was big enough for him to fit under. It was a freaking miracle. He fumbled with his utility belt and found a pellet. It had foam in it. He crushed it and he was enveloped in foam. A few seconds later, he felt the explosion.

When he came to, he saw Skye. He needed to get to her. He crawled over towards the outside. "Skye." He called out. He felt something. It was a steel rod. He picked it up. It was the crowbar Joker had used to beat him. He struggled to his feet and walked out using the crowbar as a cane.

"I'LL KILL HIM!" Skye shouted. "I'LL KILL THAT BASTARD FOR WHAT HE DID TO YOU!"

"You're a little late for that sis. I killed him remember."

"He took you away! He made you break your promise to me!"

"And I made him pay."

"Did he suffer?"

"You can tell me when you watch him die."

The S.H.I.E.L.D Team looked nervous.

Jason woke up looking into the face of Talia Al Ghul.

"Hello Jason."

"Where's Skye?"

"She's safe for the time being, but you have to get stronger to keep her safe."

"What about Bruce? He killed Joker, right?"

Talia held up a dated photo of Bruce and some other kid. "He replaced you. As for killing the Joker." She held up a photo taken the day before with the Joker robbing a bank. "You need to get stronger so you can protect Skye."

Over the next year Jason trained as an Assassin.

"You have come far young Jason." Ra's Al Ghul said. "And I do not say that lightly. Most people would have to train for years to get where you are."

"Thank you."

"You are most welcome. Now. Run along to Talia. She has work for you."

"Yes sir." Jason said running to find Talia.

When Jason found Talia, she said. "Grab your gear. You're going to Germany."

Jason went to Germany where he met a man by the name of Egon.

"•Are you Todd? •" A man asked in German.

"What?" Jason asked. He knew German, but he didn't want them to know that.

"I asked if you are Todd." The man asked with a thick German accent.

"Oh. Yeah. That's me."

"Good. Otherwise I would have had to kill you."

Jason flinched.

The man started laughing. "I'm just kidding, but that is what I'm teaching you how to do. I'm teaching you to become a ruthless killer."

Jason "picked up" German very quickly. Killing on the other hand.

"•Todd! You have to be in the mindset of Kill or be killed. Otherwise I am wasting my time, and I don't waste my time. •"

Jason killed the next guy without mercy.

"•Good. Now get out of here. I'll come get you later. •"

Jason left, but he heard Egon yell. "•NO, you asshole. You were supposed to take them to the west gate. •"

'What's at the west gate.' Jason said as he made his way back to the barracks.

When he got to the barracks, he saw that no one was there. He pulled up the hood on his hoodie and made his way to the West gate.

He found a building at the west gate and went inside he saw an energy drink. It was the kind that only Egon drank. He found some rat poison and put some in his drink. 'I may need to make a quick getaway.'

He went to a series of long houses and found an open window. He climbed in and saw rows and rows of kids. 'That sick son of a bitch. He's selling these kids to pedophiles on the side.'

Jason picked the locks on their shackles and led them to the truck. "I'm getting you out of here." He whispered. He drove them to the American Embassy and dropped off the semi along with the location of the camp. Then he went back.

He was walking through the camp when someone attacked him from behind.

"•I can't believe you turned traitor Todd. •" Egon said.

"•Fuck you. •" Jason said in perfect German.

"•Do you really think you can beat me? I show you a few things and you think you can beat me? •"

"•No. That's why I poisoned your drink. •"

When he looked down at Jason and coughed up foam and blood.

"•I'll see you in hell. Last one there wins. •" With that Jason walked away.

May looked like she could have broken a diamond with her teeth, her jaw was clenched so tight.

Ward looked like he wanted to kill someone.

FitzSimmons looked like they were going to be sick.

Phil looked white as a ghost.

Skye looked mad. "I'm glad you killed him." She said.

"So am I." Jason said. "So am I."

They started moving again.

Jason met a guy named Rip.

Rip taught Jason how to drive or fly anything that moved.

On his last day with Rip he was supposed to help a group of mercenaries kill a bunch of kids. Jason wasn't going to do that. He supplied the kids with guns and ammo before the mercenaries were supposed to come kill them. The kids aim sucked, but he'd evened the side a little. He'd shown the kids how to load, aim, and shoot, and let them at it.

He met Rip at the airstrip they were supposed to rendezvous at.

"What happened?" Rip asked.

"Not sure." Jason lied. "I thought they were going up against ankle biters. They should have been fine. Should we wait?"

"No. We've waisted enough time already and this is the second rendezvous they've missed."

"Mind if I catch a lift?"

"Sure, but as a final lesson." Rip tossed him the keys to the helicopter. "How about you fly?"

Jason jumped into the pilot's chair, went through the preflight checklist, and they were off.

"So, let me get this straight." Ward said. "You taught a bunch of boys to kill?"

"No. I taught them to survive in a world that would rather anally fuck them sideways. Is that so wrong?"

"You turned them into the people that were trying to kill them." Phil said.

"I'm sorry for caring!" Jason yelled.

This took all of them by surprise.

"I'm sorry that I cared enough to teach a group of kids how to defend themselves. I'm sorry that I actually had a heart once."

Skye hugged Jason. "You do have a heart. It's just buried under armor so you can make the tough choices that others can't." She glared at the S.H.I.E.L.D team.

"Thanks sis." Jason said hugging her back. "Let's get going. There are three more years to watch."

*BOOM*

An explosion rocked them back and forth.

"Excellent!" A man said. "You are one of my best students."

"Glad I could please."

"You come to London with me. Help me with next Job."

"Okay."

The Man's name was Shurik Ivanko.

They made their way to London.

London England

"You want drink? I am meeting friends. They are Russians. Not as smart as you, but good drinkers."

"Sure. I could stay for a round or two."

Shurik's friends showed up.

Jason covered Skye's ears till the Joke was over

Skye made out one sentence from the conversation through lip reading. "Yes! She had everything, but a face."

Shurik got up and went to the bathroom.

Skye noticed a guy follow him in.

The scene moved outside London. Jason was sitting at a bar with Talia.

"Do you know who the man is?"

"Yuri Karanov. He's part of the Russian Mob.

"That doesn't make my job any easier."

"Then it wouldn't be fun."

"Why does Yuri need a bomber then?"

"This is becoming a habit."

"What is?"

"Your investigations."

"That's not what I'm doing."

"Really? Because the way I see it is I provide you teachers who possess skills that you want to acquire, you study under them, and then half of them end up dead."

Jason became quiet for a long time. "Not without reason. Egon was selling kids to pedophiles, turns out that the surveillance guy ended up with one of the ones I saved in Germany. I did some surveillance on him and found the kid sleeping in a cage. A CAGE! LIKE A FUCKING ANIMAL!" Jason calmed himself down. "I killed the bastard and took the kid to a couple who had been trying for a kid for so long, I helped them push the paperwork, and they got to adopt her. The only thing I could think when I saw that was. It could have been Skye."

"I see."

"The small arms dealer was selling Smack on the side. The only problem is that half of his stock was poison. Actual poison, not a bad mixing, he was selling poison to people."

"I see."

"That close quarters combat instructor. She was planning on killing her husband and daughters. The husband I could see if he was abusing her or her daughters, but her daughters were innocent. So, I killed her."

"Did her daughters remind you of Skye too?"

"Don't Patronize me."

"I wasn't."

"Let's not forget those Mercenaries. I don't feel bad for killing them."

"I never said that you should. I'm not criticizing your work. Im actually impressed."

"Thanks. I guess."

Jason left bar. He had work to do.

He started to do surveillance on Yuri. Yuri was good. He knew that he was being watched, but he didn't care. He would scan every car that came or left, but he didn't seem to notice Jason.

Jason followed him to a farmhouse.

"I don't know what was more stupid..." Shurik said when Yuri entered. "...You coming to bar or making me meet you here."

"The bar was clean. I wasn't Followed. and I come here once a week" Yuri said. "Besides. They got bored watching me play with my nephews."

"What do you need to talk about?"

"We need to move everything up three weeks."

"Impossible. It can't be done."

"We don't have a choice."

"I can't do nine targets in that amount of time. Six, seven if I'm lucky."

"Our business is dying. We are being watched, and our connections know it. I need it done."

"Like I said. I can't do nine targets."

"So long as the blame goes where it should go, I don't care."

"It will, but are you sure it will work?"

"I know Who is assigned to follow us, after this they will be called away. It will work."

Jason left. He didn't like it. These guys were going to blow up 700 people and blame it on Arab Terrorists. It was smart, but he didn't like it. He went back to Shurik's garage, picked the lock, and went inside. He found the bombs, there were eleven in total. "Make more than you need, plan for contingencies."

Jason began making small modifications to the bombs, he was replacing some of the more important wires with faulty wires, so they were duds. He had just finished when he heard.

"What is this?"

Jason turned around.

"What do you think you're doing?" one guy asked.

"Take him!" A second guy yelled.

"You son of a bitch." a third guy said.

'Damn it! I was clumsy, I wasn't listening for an approach. Well at least I'm in London where they don't have guns.' Jason beat the guys down without remorse. He heard a click. 'Damn it. Me and my optimism. They are bad guys, of course they have guns.'

No sooner had Jason made the connection than a fourth guy started shooting at him.

Jason backflipped out of the way, and behind some boxes.

Jason reached for his gun. 'Damn it! I lost my gun doing the handsprings to get away. So stupid, and careless. I didn't even plan for a backway out.

"*Go get him while I cover you! *" A Russian yelled

Jason began pushing the boxes he was behind, towards the exit.

"*We kill him. *" Another voice said.

"*No. They will want information. *"

"*They will want to know what he knows. *" Another voice said.

Jason threw a bomb at them. "*Goodbye*"

The building exploded.

'That could have gone better. Like a lot better, but I've slowed Yuri down, and I need to get out of here.'

"*Who is he? *" A voice asked.

"*I don't care. *" Yuri said. "*Just kill him. *"

'Fuck.' Jason had to think of something fast. "*Wait! *" He yelled. "*Shurik brought me in to help*"

"*Call Shurik. *" Yuri said.

Jason took his Chance to escape.

Skye let out the breath she didn't realize she'd been holding. "I'm glad you got out safe."

May looked at Him. "So that's what you meant the other day about those kids."

"Yeah. I spent a little bit of time looking for them, but thankfully she was the only who I had to find a home for. The others went to good families."

"How- how old was she?" Phil asked. "She was 9." Jason said.

Everyone flinched.

"What was her name?" Simmons asked.

"Her foster parents named her Kora."

"That's a lovely name."

"Yeah. There's still a little more ahead. So, let's go."

They started moving again.

Jason ran to Shurik's home and interrogated him for the information on the bombs.

Shurik had put bombs in backpacks of students.

They were trying to put blame on terrorists who didn't exist.

Jason spent the next several hours collecting the bombs and dismantling them.

He jumped on his bike and chased after another student she was in a car on London bridge.

He took the bag and grabbed the bomb. 'Twenty seconds.' Jason looked over the bridge and saw that no one was under it, so he tossed it over the side.

A few seconds later there was an explosion, and he used it to get away.

"What was that?" Ward said.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that that seemed like an overview of what happened."

"That's because it was. Did you want to watch all of it, or do you want to get out of my mind?"

"I think that Jason does not want to stay in his mind for much longer." Manhunter said.

"No. I really don't. Having to relive my memories all over again. You wouldn't want to either."

"Then let's get out of here as fast as we can." May said.

They started walking again.

"I-I know where the Joker is!" A man yelled.

Jason stopped as he was about to kill him. "Where is he?"

"My brother works for him. He's currently in L.A."

Jason made his way to Los Angeles where he found a Warehouse with two guys standing guard. He took them and started interrogating them.

He found out where the Joker was meeting and went to see what he was doing.

Turns out he was going to poison Gotham's reservoir, but he was going to use a chemical that caught fire when it came in contact with the air.

Jason found out where they were going to meet and made plans of his own.

He got into a car and drove to the docks where Joker was going to pick up the accelerant. He got into the trunk and made the car drive slowly up to the meet.

He heard the sound of bullets hitting the car and waited till they stopped. He hit the detonator and smoke poured out of the car.

He jumped out of the trunk and took off after the Joker. He dragged the Joker to an abandoned filling station at the docks.

"They'll be here soon." The Joker said.

"I think I'm good." Jason said taking a gas nozzle and spraying the Joker. He took out his lighter. 'He'll laugh at first, but then once the burning starts, he'll start screaming. He'll scream until his throat burns.' Jason looked at the Joker. The man who killed him. He needed his death to be slow and painful. So, he left.

He met with Talia later.

"I thought you wanted him dead."

"I do, but I realized something. I need Bruce to be there. I need Bruce to be there when the Joker dies so he knows that it had to be this way. The Joker needs to die."

"What if I told you something? The reason why Bruce won't kill the Joker."

"What is it?"

"What if I told you that the Joker is Bruce's half-brother?"

"I'd call you crazy."

"Good. Because he isn't. I just wanted to make sure that you were serious about this."

"The Joker needs to die, and if Bruce does it. That will be even better."

"Why's that?"

"Bruce will clean up a mistake he should have fixed years ago."

"I have a gift for you." Talia said handing Jason a box.

Inside the box were two more boxes. One had a knife in it, while the other had a red motorcycle helmet.

"What's this?"

"You're final test. Bruce turned his fear of bats into his greatest strength. Now it's your turn. The Joker wore a red hood the night he became Joker. It wasn't like this, but it was a red hood. Take this and conquer your fear. Become the Hero Gotham needs and Kill the Joker."

Jason grabbed his Katana and Crowbar before putting them in the weapons box along with the knife Talia gave him. "First things first. I have to find Skye. Knowing her she's probably gone off the grid, so I'll have to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D to find her. I'll work my way up, and hopefully I'll find her soon."

Six months later.

Jason had started working with a woman by the name of Camilla Reyes.

"I want the Bus. We will take it from Phillip Coulson."

Jason found his way into S.H.I.L.E.D.

AN: So this chapter takes a lot from Red Hood: The Lost Days. I have changed some of it so I didn't just copy and paste from the comics so if you have read Red Hood: The Lost Days and are wondering why some of this is changed, that's why. Also some of this may seem like I skimmed over stuff. I did. I can't really say much about this chapter other than I hope you enjoy. The next chapter will have Jason and Skye reuniting, Jason and Skye visiting Barbara and Dick, Killing the Joker, and the Sunday Dinner at Wayne Manor.