Another gag, another day, another semi-argument between Nightwing and Arsenal with a cameo from Batman. Follows on from conversation I

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'Look I said I was sorry Roy,'

'How the hell do you guys do that?'

'Trade secret, Bruce would kill me if I told you.'

Arsenal grumbled and reshuffled his feet as he looked sideways at his friend and considered for a moment pushing him off the roof but dismissed it, Nightwing would probably show off anyway and do his quadruple somersault. 'You owe me.'

'Since when Feather-brains? I gave the arrow back to you, all the little feathery bits intact.' He smirked. Roy simply glared in response. Dick was about to sigh before he was struck by a brilliant idea. Whoever said he didn't have a sense of humour…'Fine ok… I have a plan…'

'You always have a plan. Most of them involve me doing something I will regret later'

'But you're going to like this one.'

'Really,' Roy said flatly.

'Yep,'

'I doubt it.'

'You don't know what it is yet.'

'Depends on if you have the guts to carry it out,'

'Are you calling me a coward, short pants?' Roy's lips pursed tightly but he raised an eyebrow quizzically. He knew Nightwing wasn't one to stoop that low which meant he was up to something. Big time.

'You've always been afraid of Bruce.' Nightwing provoked his friend into listening to him 'But if you can get away with this…'

Then Roy grinned at his friend. So this was why he had led the Titans all these years then. This would be too good. 'I'm in.'

Batman waited next to the gargoyle that overlooked central Gotham. Nightwing had called him and told him there were some unusual activities going on down there, and he muttered angrily under his breath when he saw nothing out of the ordinary- until.

There. He caught the arrow, easy. He rolled his eyes beneath the opaque lenses, but times like that were always hidden if one of his protégés caught that he shuddered to think what would happen. About to drop the arrow to the ground he looked closely at it. Oh no. This wasn't one of Harper's normal arrows this was-

There was a loud explosion, and an angry Batman was left with singed pink eyebrows, and a stunned expression.

-a trick arrow.

Harper had fired a trick arrow.

Even worse he heard Roy and Dick's laughter drifting across the Gotham rooftops. His pride could only take so much so he fired a Bat line into the darkness.

He arrived back at the manor to find his eyebrows had indeed been burnt off. He swore his revenge on Harper and spent three days in the cave snapping at anyone who came within ten yards.

He then decided to try and find the eyebrows he wore as Matches Malone to see if that would look any better… it didn't.

A little revenge for Roy at last, but an angry Bat on your hands is not a good thing might have to watch his back for a while...Here are my responses to the reviews:

cajun-beauty: I'm going to be carrying on with this for a while in between other things but I'll be swapping characters a few times. Thanks for reading : )

DC Lady: Really glad you liked it and I hope you enjoy this installment. Bat training beats all.

Lavender Gaia: Trying to find Roy at the moment is "needle in a haystack" territory, but he should turn up soon. Arsenal and Nightwing are great characters to write, you get to have so much fun when they're competing with each other.

Coldfiredragon: The old costume is a classic, traffic light colours never fade ; ) That one moment where Roy gets freaked out by Batman catching the arrow sticks in my mind, I thought it would be interesting to put another angle (or two) on it.

Thank you to everyone for reviewing, I really appreciate it.