Little short piece I thought up based on one of the well-known Batman catch-phrases. Hope you enjoy! (sigh… repeating myself gets annoying)

Disclaimer: Characters are not mine, but out of interest is the phrase 'The world's greatest detective' copyrighted? If it is not mine well… I'm not exactly going to carry it off in a bag labelled 'swag'

'So Batsy leaves it up to the second greatest detectives to catch me, I'm offended.' Two-face said dryly before spraying the rooftop with machine gun fire. Robin and Nightwing dived for cover and met each-other's eyes. Robin nodded once as his partner called out.

'Actually Two-face…'

'What?' The psychopath snapped, the thought he might not have thought of something unbearable.

'We're not the second greatest detectives…'

'WHAT?' He clutched his coin to his chest, two was so important to him, only ever twos were allowed. Two sides to his coin, two faces, a suit and tie split into two.

'Yeah, we're third best.' Robin ducked as machine gun fire came his way. Nightwing pulled him closer to him for cover.

'THAT'S NOT TRUE.' He could live with Batman not facing him, second best and all that.

'It is,' Nightwing put on an insistent tone. 'Me and Robin have talked about this, y'know how it goes at tournaments when the two participants after the first are equal they are both given third place instead…'

'I'll kill you!'

'Yeah. Yeah, you say that every time.' Nightwing yawned noticeably as Two-face charged but both he and Robin were ready with bat-a-rangs and less than two seconds later he was out for the count. Robin looked thoughtful for a moment as Nightwing bound the madman.

'Nightwing?'

'Yeah,'

'What will he do when he realises that two athletes behind first are always given second?'

'Nothing pleasant.' Nightwing said bluntly, he then added brightly 'I'm still the better detective.'

'Are not!' Robin protested even though he knew his surrogate brother was teasing him. It was a sensitive subject though.

'Are too! Who lost their prized Bruce Lee DVD this morning then?'

'I… I thought it was behind- hey how'd you know?' He stammered until he caught Nightwing's jubilant expression. 'You stole it!'

'That I did. It makes a very handy coaster. Took me practically telling you to work it out, world's third-best detective!'

'Why you-' Robin leapt at Nightwing and wrestled for a moment before realising there was a very dangerous criminal lying next to them. Robin sighed and then grinned evilly as Nightwing looked slightly apprehensive. 'I will have my revenge…'

This is set pre-conversation II. I am thinking of linking some of these in together, albeit randomly, while some may remain completely random.

Iudex Acerbus- Thanks, and I'm glad you liked them I have at least a couple more semi-planned.

Yourperfectdisaster- Hmm there's not much of a storyline to go on here but I am really happy you enjoy them a lot, it makes writing them worthwhile.

Errant of the Violet Shockers- It's great you like this series so far and I hope you will enjoy this piece too.

Thank you to everyone for reviewing, and those silent readers out there it would be nice to know what you think even if you thought it needed a little work. I'm open to ideas.