The installation of the lens housing was a little easier than expected. The real bitch turned out to be how he would switch lenses,but as usual Oracle was one step ahead of him.Inside the box was a small wireless button switch he could put on his belt or where ever it was most convenient for him. Each touch of the button would send a signal to a micro-transceiver built into the lens housing,and cycle through the various types of lenses available.From night vision,infrared,and zoom,which ranged from normal to 12 times magnification. Now he truly had the eyes of a Hawk,or Falcon as the case maybe.
Next he set about the task of transferring his communications gear from his old helmet to the new one,this was even easier to do than the lens system.His commo gear was the product of Ray Palmer the Atom's genius. Matthew didn't know the fine technical aspects of the system,just that somehow he discovered a way to use the GPS satellite system to send and receive,that way the heroes had worldwide instant communications. The Atom also discovered a way to give each hero group or team it's own unique frequency,so as not to step all over each other while on a mission,plus one catch all frequency that was used by everyone used,to call for back-up or the police or whatever was needed. Oracle was rumored to monitor all available frequencies in use,Matthew knew this to be true,but he kept that secret to himself.
Matthew installed to small speakers inside the helmet along with a retractable microphone. Once he was happy with their placement he attached the ultra small transceiver,which was no bigger than a mini-disc,not a mini-disc player,a disc.After all the wires were hooked up, he replaced the helmet webbing and tried on the new head gear to check the fit.He shook his head back and forth to see how it felt on his head.
"Just a tad tighter." He said,making a small adjustment,before trying it on again.
"Perfect"
Next was a communications test,Matthew turned on his radio and used the small controls in his wrist gauntlet to dial up the Titans frequency.
" Hey Wing,you out there?"
"Yeah what's up flyboy?" Nightwing answered back.
"Nada,just a commo check,I'm doing some work on my gear."
"So I hear Oracle told me you were up to something,hope it works out."
"Thanks Wing,I stop catch up to you in a couple days and show you. Later."
"Look forward to it"
Matthew was very satisfied with this test,next he went to work on his arsenal,most of which he'd used in the past they just needed a little updating.


First Matthew tried on his wrist gauntlets,they fit perfectly as he knew the would,all they needed for modifications were repainting. Housed in each gauntlet was a plasma shield generater,when the activation stud was depressed a 1 meter in diameter circle of energy would form.These were powerful enough to deflect most small arms fire,along with some energy weapons. Both shields used in unison could protect you from anything short of a bomb blast.During prototype testing Matthew saw them take everything Lobo could throw at them.The completed versions held up very well under the pounding Superman put them through,oh they finally started to break down,but they would hold up well enough to allow the wearer to retreat to safety,before total failure.
The left hand gauntlet also housed a wireless PDA,with a full color screen,and voice activation.This little item had multiple uses,calling wants and warrants of various bad guys,building schematics,maps,email,video play back,and many, many more.Once his father caught him and his sister downloading porn from the internet.Oh did they get a lecture that night,Matthew smiled at the memory.
Matthew went over to the gun rack lining the wall,and took down his favorite weapon,a stun pistol from his parents home planet of Thanagar.This was one powerful weapon,when set to full,there wasn't a creature alive that could shrug it off,or stay concious.Once he watched his mother put down,both Blockbuster and Gorilla Grodd,it was a site to behold. Putting the weapon back in it's holster,he moved onto all the various items he carried in his belt pouches,all courtesy of Nightwing.Tear gas pellets,mini smoke bombs,plastic riot cuffs,nose filters,different tracking devices,next he wanted to check on his wings.
The wings were still drying from the dye job he gave them,black,with gray and white highlights.These wings looked like real feathers but were really molded from a substance made on Thanagar that gave them same texture and look as real feathers,but were much lighter and super-strong.
While toiling away in the workshop Matthew started thinking about what brought on this urge,no,need to change his image