Bruce Wayne was in the audience of the circus. He didn't really the circus. The 14 year old kid was listening to hard rock music on his cassette player. He was there to see the group called the Flying Graysons. The Flying Graysons were a popular circus act that was held in Gotham City every year. Bruce felt indifferent about the circus. In fact, he didn't particularly care about the circus. He personally thought the circus to be very boring. Bruce didn't know why he was in the stupid circus anyways. The people in the audience watched as several people preformed weird and zany acts. Some people did tightrope walking, while other people were shot of a cannon. Bruce kept waiting for the Flying Graysons to show up.

A few minutes later, the Flying Graysons appeared. Bruce marveled at the group. They have been known to do death defying trapeze stunts at various circus's in the past. They were well known. Bruce was excited. The Flying Graysons, consisting of three people: John Grayson, his wife Mary Grayson and their twelve year old son Richard "Dick" Grayson. They were awesome trapeze artists. They preformed spectacles. The Flying Graysons did their standard trapeze artist stuff. The crowd was getting excited. All of a sudden, the trapeze cable snapped like it was nothing. The two Graysons began to fall.

Bruce Wayne, along with just about everybody in the audience were shocked. Bruce felt that he needed to do something to save the Grayson family. The fourteen year old boy put his headphones and cassette player away. He ran down the steps very fast. He jumped into the air. Bruce grabbed Mary Grayson's body in his arms in mid air. He then took out his grappling gun from his belt and aimed it at the falling man's leg. The grappling hook shot out of the gun and wrapped itself around John Grayson's leg. Bruce then tried connecting the grappling hook to something. Bruce and Mary Grayson landed on the ground. John Grayson landed legs first into the ground. He was killed instantly.

Dick Grayson, who was with a group of other circus people cried. He ran up to his father's dead body. Bruce Wayne was shocked. The teenager was just trying to save somebody using a grappling hook of his. The cord automatically unwound itself and went back inside the gun. Bruce then saw a man standing on the balcony. He was a stout man. He was bald, with hair on the sides of his head. Bruce recognized that guy as none other than a local crime boss named Anthony Zucco (That's his real name). Anthony Zucco was a local crime boss. He was ruthless.. He was so bad that it made the Corelone family from the Godfather movies look like a normal family.

Bruce got out of the circus tent with Mary and Dick following him. The teenaged boy find his car, a jet black 1983 Ferrari in the parking lot of the circus tent. Bruce told Dick Grayson and his mother to stand near the car while he dealt with the crime boss who had planned to kill the Graysons, Anthony Zucco. Bruce changed into his Batman outfit behind some bushes. It was dusk outside. Bruce Wayne then proceeded to look for Anthony Zucco. He had to be around the premises somewhere. He spotted Anthony Zucco about to get away in his car.

Bruce sprinted toward the crime boss's car. He grabbed Anthony Zucco by the collar and proceeded to beat the fuck out of the guy. Bruce punched, kicked and used melee weapons on the crime boss and his henchmen. Batman then brought Zucco inside the circus tent in which the Grayson family were just in. He threw the crime boss onto the ground. Dozens of people were running away from the tent. Bruce brought the terrified crime boss into the circus tent.

"Why the fuck did you kill the Flying Graysons?" the fourteen year old costumed boy asked the crime boss. Anthony Zucco was smarter than the fourteen year old Bruce Wayne. He wasn't about to reveal his reasoning why he killed the Graysons to some punk teeange kid. Screw that.

"I ain't telling you shit!" Anthony Zucco said to Batman. Batman was beyond pissed off. He punch the guy in the chest.

"TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FLYING GRAYSONS, NOW!" Bruce yelled at Zucco at the top of his lungs. Zucco was beyond terrified by the kid yelling at him.

"I'll tell you anything you want! Please, don't hurt me!" Zucco said. "There was some extortion money that I wanted the ringleader to pay. I told them that if Mr. Haley didn't pay the money, I would kill the Flying Graysons. The ringleader refused to pay the money I'd asked him. I rigged the trapeze rope to break upon hearing about the ringleader's refusal to pay the money I'd asked him. I wanted the Graysons to die."

"Is this true?" Batman asked the ringleader of the circus, Mr. Haley. "Were you offered by this demon sent from hell to say extortion money?"

"Yes." Mr. Haley said. "I refused because I didn't want to be associated with a criminal scum like Tony Zucco." Bruce turned his attention back to Zucco.

"Who do you work for?" Batman asked the crime boss.

"I ain't telling you that. That's confidential." Zucco said.

"That's unfortunate." Batman said. "That's the wrong answer."

"Why would you want to know who I work for in the first place?" Zucco said. "You're just a puny little kid."

"I will fuel your dreams and visions. You are going to pay for what you did to the Flying Graysons, you understand me. You're not going to get away with this." Batman said to Zucco. "I will find you."

Batman got and started to walk out. Just as he was about to leave, Zucco asked to the boy, "Who the hell are you?"

"I'm Batman." the teeneaged boy said to the crime boss. Bruce walked out of the circus tent. Mary Grayson and her son Dick were still by the Batmobile. Bruce told them to get in the car. Once they got in, Bruce drove away from the circus and toward Wayne Manor. This would be the moment that changed Dick Grayson's life forever.