A/N: "Dialog" like that is spoken in Tamaranian.

I Don't own Batman or Teen Titans, If i did there would be season 6 coming out fast.

"Welcome back, I guess you are here to listen to more of my journey." Kress says to you, "Have a seat, this is a chapter long in the telling" Kress says, moving a hand and pulling you up a seat.

You notice that the room is darker and the book is already sitting on the table opened to the second chapter.

Kress steps across from you sitting and with the candle only illuminating the book begins to tell his tale.

"I had recently landed just outside of Gothem City alone and as such I had no choice but to explore onwards and hope that I'd somehow find information about my sister in a land where I didn't know the language."

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Kress walked across the road that led to the city, his footsteps fast as he was trying to make haste, he may have had a dark outfit on and his features hidden but he stuck out like a wolf amongst lambs. " How much longer? " he muttered to himself as the road went on and on.

After an hour of walking he had entered the city, the galactic guide he carried has said that humans where in a bronze age where the sword ruled and there was no electricity. The book was outdated, he realized looking around, but customs rarely changed and to live amidst such people he'd need money, but that was a task for after he had his bearings.

Kress' eyes narrowed as he felt the cylinder of a gun put to his back, "Hay F--ka give me yo money!" the person whispered, Kress turned slowly examining this 6'3 figure that was towering over him. "Interesting, a physique like that and he holds a ranged weapon to me, and that did sound like a threat whatever he said, plus he is definitely no planet guard." Kress' eyes gleamed " Hands off fool or I shall break you. " he muttered in Tamaranian, in a low voice,

"What you little f--ka, you gi--" the thug was interrupted by a thumb to the back of his head from a guy in a black outfit with a cowl and mask who leaped off just as quick as he came. " So there are warriors here that are strong. Interesting. "

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You looked at Kress in the eye for a second the candle seeming to fail in illuminating his face that was close enough to be seen in the full light.

He got up and walked to the window closing it thunder resonating a second later.

Kress walks over to the table once more the candlelight now flickering across the walls.

"Shall we continue?"

1. Yes, Keep reading

2. No, Close the Book I had enough for now (Close the Fic).

"Yes, keep reading." You say looking at the book that seemed so far from done.

Kress sits back down across from you, and continues to read.

"It was clear to me then that this person was one of the people that held the city together. This Batman, as they call him, fought and delivered justice to the city that needed it. I however cared not for this because I did not think I was going to stay after getting my sister off of this planet." he turned the page "I was wrong."

"Police sirens seemed to blare a lot during the nights of the city and the light seemed to avoid the corners, it was a sleepless night me wandering, a mask to hide a corrupt and dark world that festered onwards too the doom one themselves or there pray." he scrolled his finger to a water spot on the page. "The first day, I went by a bin containing litter and in it I found this empty book riddled with an unwritten story."

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Kress looked up into the sky it was raining slightly when an object in a bin filled with soggy paper caught his eye, walking over he lifted it out of the bin and looked at a few of the pages non existent words seemed to leap out too him and when he listened he heard not the rain of earth but of Tamaran, his own memories seemed to leap forth into his mind when he stared.

Bruce Wayne looked at the figure from his park bench his hunt last night as batman leaving him no time to investigate this person who was dressed in a large brown holocaust cloak.

A raindrop fell landing in the empty page Kress was looking at, the drop seemed to fall as normal but to him it was louder to his senses then gunfire, he closed the book and sat down on the bench and looked into the window of a machine shop that had monitors flashing vague and some fake images of the person he saw last night.

" We are being watched, this person has been here a lot, his energies are around this place, when he comes here later follow him and don't be spotted, he will show us our path. " Kress' inner voice spoke into his mind, rarely did it speak and when it did it always saved him.

Bruce felt like he was being watched by this stranger and didn't like it, but as he went to say hi to the person and investigate his target got up and left, "Without me Gothem is falling back into its old pattern. I have to stay here instead of with the Justice League." Wayne thought to himself walking off.

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"Days of cat and mouse followed, roles reversing, I'd watch him from corners and he'd see me and then he'd watch me and I'd spot him, but always I avoided direct contact but as time went on I realized that this person was in fact an heir to a fortune, and lived in an estate in Gothem and that in itself interested me." Kress continued the storm outside getting worse a cold chill echoing the room.

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Kress ran through the night, he had heard the sirens and knew that the manor would be empty so he ran his Tamaranian eyes seeing the places where sensors and cameras where hidden, " We must hurry the night is half done but his place is well guarded from intruders, there are heat seeking, night vision, trip lasers, alarms and touch sensors... " Kress glared from the tree top " How will I do this? not even my eyes can see hidden energies. " He listened "Feel with your senses, you cannot fly but you are in tune with energy enough, close your eyes and I shall grant you the ability to see energy and sound." He closed his eyes and under his eyelids he started to see sound echoing off of the terrain, the earth itself seemed to pulse with a life the slight vibrations of energy on certain parts of the manor. Kress grinned leaping down but when he landed his own landing that made hardly a sound almost blinded him with a flash of sensory overload. "It's too sensitive!" "No its not, you are sneaking and need to see in a way that will show you your path and move lightly enough that you don't overload yourself, when you do this you will go unheard your noise echoing the earth and your path on the quieter earth is the one not used. In combat this will be useful against those that are not seen and those that are fast." Kress ran adapting his footfalls so that his eyes didn't flash as he moved, he then ran and seeing a gap leaped over the manor fence he immediately felt the eyes of heat seeking cameras turning his direction his own blood rushing then things seemed too slow even himself as his mind seemed to accelerate.

He ran his heart rushing his blood flowing but he made no sound and leaped up to a closed window, gripping its mantle he propelled himself farther up until he saw a disruption in the energy of a lock in one of the windows. He ran from the windows ledge along the wall making no sound landing on the windowsill. He felt the window pane and saw the energy, he made a starbolt in his hand and let the energies of the lock go through the starbolt, the starbolt slowly went from green to blue and he slowly lifted the window holding the starbolt between the magnetic readers then he slipped his other hand under touching the tabs using his hand as a channel for the energy he lifted the window more and more slipping his other hand in now the window was open both arms channeling the energy then he slipped in and closed the window removing his hand and seeing there was nothing in the room opened his eyes and took in the room.

The room seemed bright after having his eyes shut for almost 5 minutes but it was unlit, it was a storage room of some kind, he opened a box not making a sound and in it saw weapons that where at least 200 years old, he closed his eyes and went to leave "Wait, some of the weapons here are strong enough for Tamaranian use, and far older then some of the other stuff." He slowly opened another box in it was a pair of Kama "No." He moved on to the next and the next until he sensed an odd energy from one box, he reached over and opened it slowly "Look at it with your other eyes." Kress closed his eyes and looked at it resonated an odd energy that seemed to be what was disrupting the lock and its shape didn't resonate at all. "That is the weapon, it's made of one element of metal: Dark Iron, and it is roughly 20 feet long and an inch wide." Kress took the chain in his hand it was heavy for a chain "200 pounds altogether." He looked under it and saw a 1 foot diameter gleaming 4 point shuriken with a little hook in the middle that fit the chain. "An odd weapon that only those of supreme reflex, strength and coordination would be able to master, a weapon we will be able to use with some time and practice." He nodded taking it up and wrapped the chain around his waist the star held on his back with the leather holder that was also in the box. "Odd the chain makes no noise at all…" He clanked the chain on itself but the metal didn't let a sound escape it. "Let's move on, morning is only 2 hours off." He nodded closing the boxes and putting them back the way they where before left running out of the room not making a noise closing his eyes to watch his environment...

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"So I went downwards, through rooms and rooms and dodging the butler that was wandering around. I finally came to Bruce Wayne's study."

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Kress walked in closing the door to the exact same almost closed position it was in when he found it he took the hair that was tied to the nod and put it back leaving no trace of his coming or going. He walked around the room looking at the books his eyes slowly adapting to see them in a way that he was able to read them. "How? How can I Read these Books written in a different language?" The inner voice spoke answering his question "It is a long lost part of the Tamaran blood, Just as your mouth is able to learn from another on contact your eyes learn from seeing sights meant to communicate. You may not be able to fly but your older blood awakens in you." He read some of the covers "Von Gough, Sherlock..." His eyes drifted to a book "The Raven?" He reached over grabbing the book but was assailed by a vision of 4 red eyes glaring at him, he gritted his teeth and just as fast as it came it was gone."Interesting, some dark presence is connected to that book." He closed his eyes and muck like his book this one seemed connected to someone else, "I know I might regret this but I'm taking that book, its like the one I found earlier filled with hidden answers waiting for me to write them down." he took the book and put it away in his traveling satchel which was filled by the two books.

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At the mention of the book things seemed to get darker in the room the book in front of you and Kress's page turned as if by a breeze that wasn't in the room.

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The room had no inner security but there was something odd about one of the statue's the wall behind it resonated and there was a circle shape resonation at its feet, whatever that statue was it hid a secret door.

Batman looked up at the sky his night was going well he had stopped the Penguin once again, but the weather was perfect now in the sky was a large bird shaped cloud that came much like the storm that day when he saw the cloaked figure for the first time reading the empty book out of the trash bin. It worried him but there where things he still needed too do, gathering up the stolen money from Penguin's hideout being one of them.

Kress walked slowly down the corridor deep into a cave that sat under the manor, It was deep but when he reached the end of the hall he saw a large computer in the middle, he went to use it but his inner voice stopped him "This computer is wired to the security system and there is no way to activate it without triggering some alarm." Kress nodded moving on looking in some of the rooms making sure to use his alarm trick on the doors.

He went into a room that had all sorts of weird objects A hat, some odd gear, a few masks and a container of green gas and some bomb shaped dispensers for it he took the vile of gas and looked it "What is this gas?" He thought to himself "Release a tiny bit into the air, its not a virus." He opened the cap for a split second sniffed the air and immediately felt himself falling over his face muscle's trying to contract and his lungs tightening over and over before his body forced it out. "Interesting, Its a gas the causes your lungs to contract and all the muscles on your body to contract, enough of this will pull your face into a smile and cause your heart too stop killing you in a way that looks like you are silently laughing." Kress grinned knowing this was a super concentrated batch designed for being copied to make more. "For it to have any affect on a Tamaranian, it must be affective." He took the gas cylinder after opening the panel of its stand and hotwiring its scale to register the canisters weight on it before moving on to the next room.

The next room had several different designs for the bat suit and a few red ones with an R on it meant for a skinnier person, "So our stalker, Bruce Wayne is that vigilante from that night, Interesting." He looked around until he saw a cape that was black and longer then the others, he walked to it looking it had electrically charged gloves next to it, He grinned grabbing it and throwing it on seeing there was no security system on it. He looked at down at himself he then charged a little energy into the cape which expanded into a solid winged shape reminiscent of a bat "An interesting device." He muttered under his breath leaving the room and looking at the computer "I have 5 minutes to get out of here tops, there's that vehicle." he thought looking at the batmobile "But this cave will take 4 minutes to get out of..." he grinned grabbing the side of the computer removing the panel "Lets see, board, some sort of enhancers that look protected from even dust, that's got to be the information storage device." He reached, unplugged the hard drive and put it next to his books.

He ran down to the vehicle which was ready for use cockpit opened, he leaped in landing on the leather seat and grinned evilly, This was a nice vehicle wheel for steering, pedals for stop and go, shifters for whatever and a key hole... He looked at the key hole and looked under the dash.

Alfred walked into the bat cave to find it was dark "Master Bruce?" he looked down into the batmobile and saw Batman's cloak "Oh good, I thought you where someone else for a second."

Kress kept examining the wire, not understanding a word the butler said but he decided not to react or show himself.

"What are you doing sir you just got back and now you want to test out the new cape and the new boosters on the road?" Alfred looked worried when he didn't respond. "Penguin got away and you are going after him?" The vehicles engine started when Alfred realized, he wasn't examining the vehicle, he was hotwiring it. "GET OUT OF THERE YOU IMPOST---" He was cut off by the boosters kicking in.

Kress grinned stepping on a pedal, nothing happened, he then pressed the other with his foot full pressure; the car raced forward and hit the closed vehicle exit.

"NOOO!" Alfred yelled in sheer horror hearing the front end of the Batmobile crunch sickeningly into the door, he ran trying to turn on the computer to commandeer the car only to find it wouldn't even start at all.

Kress pressed another button.

Alfred dove to the floor as a missile flew out of the Batmobile blowing out the door.

Kress turned the wheel to hard turning putting the petal to the metal trying to aim to the exit, He went skidding ramming the cave wall making another sickening crunch and the rear light got busted out he shifted the gear to R then and did the same this time blasting backward through the trophy room trashing most of the trophies "Got it..." he put the pedal down softly turning racing out the cave door hole knocking off the passenger mirror and scraping off the paint on the right side, he raced down the cave keeping to the right and ramming the wall a sudden turn came and he hit straight into the stalagmite.

Alfred heard another sickening crunching metal sound from the tunnel.

Kress then pulled back going back a bit, the road and stalagmite turned left suddenly slamming the passenger side again folding in the door and tearing off all the plating of the rear right of the car.

Alfred Panicked and tried for his cell phone, he called Batman.

Kress finally made it out onto the road. "Well so much for subtle tactics." Kress smiled the wind was now on his face (Because he left the windshield in the bat cave with the fenders and right car door), he was going at least 140 MPH it was all and all a successful time, with the information on Batman's disk his search was under way.

"Hello this is Bruce Wayne." Batman said answering the phone, "Oh thank God, it's you!"

Batman looked confused, "Alfred what's going on? Why aren't you using the Comm.?" Alfred trembled the response "Well you see..."

"WHAT?" Batman's yell could be heard from many miles away.

Kress heard a dinging sound of metal hitting the pavement. " Stupid Peace of crap. " Kress aimed his hand backwards into the back and shot a starbolt through the bottom of the car punching another hole in it and severing the already hanging muffler. Smoke piled out of the ex-batmobile as it made its way down the road.

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"Its time to take a pause, if you want more, I will have more later." Kress says to you. Kress then walks and puts out the candle, when you blink you are sitting in the study room it is morning, you get up and look around to see if it was a dream or not.

"Be here later and more will be shown to you..."