I was actually planning to use Jason in the Rivalry prompt, but then I was like: Nah. I'd probably mess it up.
Also, THIS IS AN AU, Jason got captured and tortured by Joker (Arkham-verse, not comic book) but before he got killed, Batman and Nightwing got there in time. But that experience shifted Jason from hero to anti-hero and he changed from Robin to Red Hood. His relationship with Bruce, Barbara and Dick didn't change; he even grew to see Tim as a brother.
PS: Am I the only one that noticed that most of the guys in the Bat Family have black hair and blue eyes? Damian is the only one who doesn't! He has green eyes.
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The Titans were fighting some random thugs who tried to rob a bank. And although it went fairly easy, the guns got kind of irritating after a while.
After a while, they decided it wasn't worth it and dropped the bags of money, rushing off into the distance. Nightwing was about to go after them, but after hearing the hostages' cries of help, he and the rest of the Titans decided they were more important.
The four thugs ran into a dark alley, stopping for a moment to catch their breath. "Well, that backfired." One of them said.
Another rolled his eyes. "Thank you, for that completely unnecessary comment, Jerry!"
He scoffed. "You're just jealous because I'm better than you."
Before Jerry could comment, another thug- the 'leader' of the group -stepped in. "Larry, Jerry, quit it! We need to get to the save house and think of a new plan!" He growled.
Jerry and Larry glanced at each other as he left. They glanced at the last member of their group, Bob. "What's got Freddy all grumpy?" Larry asked.
Bob just shrugged and all of them followed Freddy, not knowing that they were being watched.
A man wearing a metallic red hood stepped out of the shadows, revealing the red bat symbol on his armored chest.
"Those damn Titans have been saving this city long enough!" Freddy yelled, slamming his fist onto the table. "We need to take them down."
"With all due respect, boss." Larry started, but was cut off by Jerry.
"They're the goddamn Titans, how the hell are we supposed to off them?!" He hissed!
Freddy sighed and rolled his eyes as Larry and Jerry started arguing again. "Bob," he simply said.
The quiet Bob walked up to the two and calmly slammed their heads against each other, effectively shutting them up as both of them rubbed their heads in pain.
"I know they're hard to kill, genius." Freddy hissed. "But we need to get the biggest threat out first; the quiet girl."
"Wasn't she a Demon?!" Larry stated, his eyes wide as fear started to kick in. "She'll kill us before we're even close!"
Freddy threw a coin at his head. "She's a hero! Of course she won't kill!"
"I heard that she isn't much of a hero the moment she loses control," Jerry piped in.
"Maybe, maybe not. You'll never find out."
All of the thugs stood up when they heard the voice; Bob even knocked over his chair.
"Where did that come from?!" Larry squeaked.
"Up here, genius."
They looked up at the dark ceiling, seeing nothing until they heard a sigh and the lights switched on. Their hearts dropped.
A man stood on top of one of the gargoyles in the room, they couldn't see it his face because of the red metallic mask that covered his whole face. The red bat symbol shone proudly as he held the gun up.
"B-Batman?" Jerry stuttered, taking a step back.
He chuckled, the menacing sound echoing through the room. "Not even close."
"Shit, I think that's Red Hood!" Larry said.
"Ding ding ding!" Red Hood mocked. He walked up to the edge of the gargoyle and looked down at them. "I need you guys to do something for me."
"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?" Freddy yelled.
Red Hood rolled his eyes, this guy wasn't really bright, was he? First planning to kill the Titans, and now threatening him? Oh, he was so going to get it.
"You're friend back there already answered that question."
"Listen, pal, I'd rather die than do anything for a costumed freak!" The gang leader spat.
Red Hood smirked and aimed his gun. "That can be arranged; you did yell and insult a guy holding an AK 47."
Freddy paled. "Wait! I didn't mean-"
"Too bad." Red Hood aimed, and shot him straight through the head; not even flinching when the blood splattered across the room.
He jumped down, shooting his grapple hook to slow down the fall so he wouldn't end up breaking his legs. He looked at Freddy's corpse with boredom. "Oh, he's going to feel that in the morning," he chuckled.
He kicked the body out of his way and sat down in one of the chairs; his feet up on the table as he looked at the other three. "Any more questions?"
Jerry growled and lunged at the man, the moment he got close enough Red Hood jumped up and punched the man in the gut. The butt of his gun collided with the back of Jerry's head and the anti-hero proceeded to smash the thugs face against the table; holding it there as he spoke.
"Now, I like you, Jerry. You're a sarcastic little fucker, so I'll leave you alive. But try another attack on me; and your head will be on a stick. Got it?" He hissed, nothing in his voice hinting at a joke; he was dead serious.
Of course Jerry couldn't answer; he was knocked out the moment the gun hit him. Bob felt happy and scared at the same time; scared because of Red Hood, and happy because he didn't have to stop Larry and Jerry from arguing for the time being.
Red Hood calmly dropped Jerry's unconscious body to the ground and looked up at Larry and Bob. "Wanna try and beat me?"
They frantically shook their heads.
"Good."
Nightwing didn't even flinch when the half-demon appeared in his room; he was too busy figuring out how to find those four thugs.
"Could you stop looking for them?" She sighed.
"No, I checked their profiles; some of them were one of the worst rapists. I'm not very comfortable with letting those kind of people walk around freely." He said without looking at her.
Raven shot him one of her rare smiles. "Fine, will you at least come with me for a minute so I can show you something? It's important."
He paused for a moment, debating if he should go or not. Finally, he nodded and got up, just because that smile of hers was making him suspicious and curious at the same time.
She led him to the living room, where the other Titans where already waiting.
Nightwing's eyes immediately locked on the TV screen. The thugs from before were giving themselves to the police. When asked about the missing fourth member, they just said he was shot.
The former Boy Wonder frowned, his suspicions rising by the minute. Now why would they turn themselves in? It just didn't make sense!
This kept going on for months, the Titans fighting, and on the rare times someone managed to escape; they ended up either dead or at the police station. Sometimes when they did catch one of the villains; there were reports of break ins in jail and that certain villain being either beat up or scared to death.
Strangely enough, those villains never tried to break out again.
It took him a while, but Nightwing finally figured it out.
He purposely let Adonis go when they had to fight against him, even going as far as holding Beast Boy back when the changeling wanted to go after the villain that made the Beast stand on edge for some reason.
"Nightwing! What are you doing?" Starfire's English had improved a lot over the years.
He let go of Beast Boy and pressed some buttons on the built in computer in his glove.* "I placed a tracker on him, as helpful as it is to have criminals turn themselves in; the killings need to stop. Last time he or she decapitated someone." A map appeared, showing a red dot that was moving at rapid speed. "We have to hurry."
Raven, Starfire and Beast Boy stayed in the air as they followed Nightwing driving on his motorcycle. Cyborg went after his leader with the T-Car.
They stopped at an abandoned building, the mechanic teen rolled his eye(s) when he saw the large hole smashed into the wood that shut off the building. Apparently, Adonis didn't really know how to be subtle.
"Stay in the shadows," Nightwing muttered before walking in.
Adonis was in the middle of the room; looking around frantically for something.
"You won't find me." A voice called.
Nightwing froze, that voice.
"Show yourself, coward!"
There was silence, before the sound of a gun being pulled off the safety could be heard. "You know what? I'm tired of playing around."
The gun went off, and a black shield appeared before Adonis.
The Titans stepped out of the shadows; Starfire worked quickly and pulled the still frozen Adonis back. Cyborg tied him up when she let go of him.
A chuckle could be heard from the darkness. "Would you look at that, I've been found! That's a first."
Red Hood walked out of the shadows, smirking when he saw Nightwing freeze in place and almost drop his Escrima sticks at the sight of him.
"You electrified the sticks? Nice!" He said.
"Is..is that the bat symbol?" Beast Boy pointed out.
Red Hood groaned. "How come that's the first thing everyone sees?!"
"Maybe because it's kind of obvious?" Nightwing grinned and dropped the defensive stance, surprising the Titans. They watched with wide eyes as their leader walked up to the anti-hero and man hugged him.
"Wait...what?" Cyborg blinked.
Red Hood pushed Nightwing away lightly. "Okay, okay, enough of that! I know you, you know me, that's it!" He chuckled.
The former Boy Wonder rolled his eyes but flinched when he felt all the uneasiness coming from his girlfriend. "Jason, put the gun away. It's making Raven...on edge."
Red Hood raised an eyebrow, even though no one could see it. But he put the safety on his gun anyway and pushed it in Nightwing's chest a bit roughly, the man just rolled his eyes.
"Jason?" Starfire wondered, head tilted in curiosity.
Red Hood didn't even flinch, he smirked when his 'brother' did though. The Titans leader had a lot of explaining to do.
"Yeah...Tim isn't the only one who took the role as Robin..."
"Come on, Dick! You're just proving I'm better than you right now!" Jason taunted, jumping out of the way when Dick threw a punch.
Dick rolled his eyes, this was why he always hated sparring with Jason, the guy was much too competitive. But then again, so was he.
He switched tactics when Jason just kept on dodging his attacks, the acrobat jumped out of the way, grabbed one of the railing's and climbed up. He jumped from railing to railing when he was out of sight; making it harder for Jason to track him down.
Harder, not impossible, the anti-hero was trained by Batman as well. He knew most of the tricks; but not all.
"Seriously? You're pulling a Batman?" Jason called.
Dick smirked and jumped away again when his brother got too close.
Finally he dropped down behind him and went to take him down. Dick was both surprised and impressed when Jason turned around at the right moment and threw a punch, but his balance was a bit off; giving Dick the perfect opportunity to swoop in and knock him down.
"Good job, you managed to get halfway close to beating me," Dick joked and held his hand out for Jason to take.
The second former Robin rolled his eyes but accepted anyway, a smile on his face.
The two men were in the gym; sparring out of costume for once (although Jason was a bit hesitant at first because of the 'J' the Joker burned into his face). It was late and the other Titans had already gone to sleep, but Jason and Dick needed a lot of catching up to do.
And what better way to do that than by beating the crap out of each other?
"A new team, huh?" Jason started, catching the water bottle Dick threw at him.
He nodded and took a drink from his own water bottle.
Jason smirked. "A new love too, apparently. It didn't work out with Barbara?" He grinned when his brother nearly choked on the water.
"Wait, what? Raven-"
"Ah, I never mentioned if it was Raven."
Dick grinned. "Seriously? You're pulling a Batman?" He repeated.
Jason rolled his eyes.
"Raven is..." Dick sighed. "She's just-"
"Scary?"
Dick glared at Jason. "Special," he corrected.
Jason shrugged. "Sorry, but she seriously freaked me out, one of the thugs even said she was the biggest threat and needed to be taken down first."
Something in Dick's eyes flashed; a look Jason was all too familiar with, a look he wore a lot. "What happened to him?"
"Dead." Jason grinned, his grin widening when he saw that Dick didn't even seem to care. He knew enough.
"You love her."
He watched as the acrobat froze in place for a moment, thinking his words through for a moment before finally accepting the truth. "I...guess I do."
Jason rolled his eyes and punched Dick in the shoulder. "When are you planning on telling her, genius?"
Dick looked away, since when was Jason so interested in his love life?! Knowing him, he probably just enjoyed teasing the hell out of him. "I...don't know. We haven't been together very long-"
Jason cut him off. "As a couple? No. But you've been a Titan for what? Five years now? From what I picked up, you two had a very good relationship, even back then."
"You don't just-"
"Jesus, you're just like Tim! If I recall correctly, we were the ones who forced the little nerd to confess to Stephanie!"
"Try that with me and I swear I'll kill you." Dick deadpanned.
Jason laughed. "You can try."
Raven sat quietly on the roof, peacefully watching the sun rise. She sighed when a pair of arms wrapped around her and leaned back against the other early bird of the team.
Nightwing watched the sun with her in silence for a moment before looking down at the dark Titan he managed to get to smile.
She seemed to be oblivious to him watching her; but then again, she could've noticed and just pretend that she wasn't aware, something she did a lot.
Nightwing and Raven were exactly the same in that way, he used to do it a lot when he was still Robin and Starfire had a massive crush on him. Which led the team to believe he was just oblivious as hell, while he just pretended.
He had worked with the world's greatest detective; did they really think he wouldn't see the obvious crush the alien princess had on him? If they did, he was insulted...and his brothers would probably die laughing.
Jason and Tim could be a real annoyance if they wanted to, even if Tim seemed to be the most mature out of all of them; despite being the youngest.
Bruce mentioned it before, stating that the new Robin was even more mature than Barbara.
"If you have something to say, Boy Blunder, than say it." Raven stated in her usual monotone.
He smiled, which made Raven melt a little. She growled when Happy and Love jumped around a blushing Knowledge.
"I love you," he blurted. She froze.
Love fainted a second ago and Happy and Knowledge were currently trying to revive her.
"Raven?" He asked after five minutes of no response, clearly starting to become nervous when he hesitantly pulled away from her and sat down beside her.
The half-demon held her hand up, signaling for him to wait as her eyes closed. "Hold on, you just messed up Nevermore."
Nightwing didn't know if he should laugh or not.
After a couple of minutes, her amethyst eyes snapped open. "Okay, all good now."
Before Nightwing could say anything, she had surprised him by pulling him closer and kissing him. He didn't hesitate to kiss back though.
Meanwhile, a man wearing a red metallic mask was standing on a nearby building and snapped a picture of the two. He grinned as he send the text to three people.
Red Hood: You've been replaced, Babs.
Oracle: I DON'T CARE! LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY ARE! OMG!
He rolled his eyes, he forgot that Barbara could be such a girl sometimes.
Red Hood: May the teasing begin!
Robin: Oh, next time he's in Gotham he's going to wish he was back in Jump ;)
Red Hood: I bet he would wish he was never born if we worked together.
Robin: I'm in.
He hesitated when he was about to open the next text message, was it really smart to send this to The Dark Knight himself?
Batman: First Tim, now Dick, you're next, Jason.
Red Hood: Haha, NO! What about Barbara? She's single too!
Batman: Jim would murder the poor soul who tried to hit on her.
Red Hood: Jim, or you?
Batman: Both.
Red Hood: Let me guess, Bruce Wayne would show up as the overprotective family member and Batman would appear at night to scare the shit out of the guy?
Batman: ...maybe, probably. It's very likely, yes.
Red Hood rolled his eyes and tucked his phone in his pocket with a grin. He jumped off the building and shot his grapple hook, disappearing somewhere no one who wasn't in the Bat Family could find him.
Jason frowned when his phone buzzed as he got out of the shower. He dried his hair, got dressed, and checked the device.
He was put in a group chat titled 'Batcave'.
Nightwing: Check who you send your texts to, genius. I got the picture too. Raven isn't really happy about being watched...
Robin: Shit, Jason, RUN! She's scary when she's mad, believe me, I know. Dick brought her to Gotham once and I happened to witness them argue...I swear she grew a second set of eyes.
Oracle: Duh, Tim, she's half DEMON!
Nightwing: Finally someone gets it right!
Red Hood: ...
Batman: Are you already running?
Oracle: Oh, God, BRUCE!
Robin: XD
Nightwing: Now that you're here, Bruce, you were right.
Batman: I usually am, about what this time?
Nightwing: About Jason being next. He's been hanging out an awful lot with Rose Wilson lately ;)
Red Hood: ...
Oracle: Wait...isn't that Deathstroke's DAUGHTER?! O_o
Robin: Yes, yes she is.
Batman: *bat-glare*
Robin: Oh...you're in for it now, Jason. He used the bat-glare...
Red Hood: SERIOUSLY, DICK, HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL OF THESE THINGS?!
Robin: I learned a while ago to stop questioning these things, to save my sanity. At least it's obvious how Barbara gets her information, but with Dick you might as well stop trying. -,-
Oracle: HEY!
Nightwing: *smirks* I know everything.
Batman: Not everything.
Nightwing: BRUCE WILL YOU STOP RUINING MY GOOD MOOD!
Batman: :)
Oracle...he just used a smiley face...
Red Hood: THE WORLD IS ENDING
Robin: ...
Nightwing: Guys, I think Tim died from shock.
Batman: -_-
Red Hood: WAIT, NO! EVERYTHING IS OKAY, HE USED HIS TRADEMARK FACE!
Robin: Oh thank God.
Oracle: Seriously, how does he switch emotions so quickly?
Nightwing: BARBARA NO!
Robin: Babs, I know you have been more at the GCPD than at the Batcave, so you may not know this, BUT YOU DON'T REALIZE WHAT YOU JUST DID!
Red Hood: And here I thought I was saved from it when I left...
Batman: ...I'm Batman.
Nightwing: GODDAMMIT BRUCE
Red Hood: GODDAMMIT BRUCE
Robin: GODDAMMIT BRUCE
Oracle: Oh...I take it, this happens a lot?
Nightwing: YES
Red Hood: One of the main reasons I left for God's sake!
Robin: YOU GUYS HAVE IT EASY! I'M STUCK WITH THIS UNTIL I CREATE MY OWN SUPERHERO IDENTITY!
Batman: Good luck with that, one of your made up names was Red Robin, I believe?
Oracle: XD
Red Hood: No...I'm not saying anything. This is just too easy to make fun off...Dick, take over for me.
Nightwing: RED ROBIN?! SERIOUSLY?! OH GOD! THANKS BRUCE! NOW I HAVE SOMETHING TO USE AGAINST HIM WHEN HE TEASES ME ABOUT RAVEN!
Robin: WAIT HOW DID YOU- Wait, never mind, you and Dick are exactly the same.
Batman: We're not.
Nightwing: WE'RE NOT!
Nightwing: Wait a second...shit.
Red Hood: You just proved our point, smartass.
Nightwing: Says the idiot who got knocked out because he was too busy drooling about ROSE FREAKING WILSON!
Oracle: Okay, that's it! I'm leaving! This will just end up with Jason and Dick arguing the whole time! BYEEE
*Oracle has exited the group chat*
Robin: WAIT FOR ME
*Robin has exited the group chat*
Batman: Don't kill each other.
*Batman has exited the group chat*
*In Young Justice, Robin has a computer build into his glove. I thought it was cool and used it.
Okay this was more of a Bat Family fic than a Robrae one, but I just couldn't resist! Especially not the text messages!
Although I think I made them OoC...damn it.
