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Outside Dimensional Space

Within an empty dark void of space a man appears wearing a golden necklace, with a blue fedora and trench coat. No one knows who this man is or his past, but many have dubbed him the Phantom Stranger. A being that helps the heroes of the Multiverse from time to time. He turns to speak, "To understand what is currently unfolding, I must detail the events of the past. A group calling themselves Leviathan run by Talia al gul has tried to take over the world and brainwash the children into serving their tyrannical governing body. With this they have also have weapon that will detonate every nuke on the planet, leaving the earth with an Ultimatum. Surrender or die. However Batman and his team Batman Inc, along with his family have stopped this atrocity from occurring. As well as the outcome is, it came with a heavy cost to the Batman and his family. The death of Damian Wayne, killed by a clone created to be his superior. As a result of this the Batfamily took a heavy toll on morale and leaving them broken.

Where RWBY and JNPR didn't even realize what had occurred for when this happened they were off world, helping a man on a planet called Rann, he was known to many as Strange."

This is where we find them, back in their apartment within Metropolis, soon getting news that will shatter their souls to come.


June 4th, 5:00 P.M. (Eastern Standard Time)

Metropolis, New York, United States of America

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"FINALLY, WE ARE BACK HOME!" Ruby exclaimed as she plopped down onto her couch exhausted from the week long mission they took for the Justice League.

"Oh my god. I am literally going to sleep until winter comes. Don't even try to wake me up, unless something funny is happening or the world is ending. Preferably the first part." Yang explained as she was walking to her room.

Weiss, Blake, and JNPR weren't as exaggerated as the sisters were, but were pretty homesick themselves. JNPR sat next to the comatose Ruby Rose, and turned on the Tv to watch some shows. Weiss tried to get Ruby to sit correctly, but she was stubborn in laying face down on the couch.

"Ruby don't be overdramatic, the people of Rann gave us our own rooms and wasn't even that difficult in stopping the threat. Just a bunch of Kroloteans, which on Rann literally means translates to thief." Blake dryly remarked as she was trying to get Ruby to move out of the way. "We took them down in like 3 days and had the rest of the week to ourselves. Hell, Strange let you us his jetpack to fly around the planet! I thought you being the little kid of the group would jump at the thought of using a jetpack shooting stuff down with a sniper rifle" She mildly mocked to Ruby who finally looked up towards Blake with an offended face.

"Hey!" she said with a pout

This was interupted by a knocking on their door, Weiss moved to look who was at their door at this hour of the night. She looked to see who it was, and it was none other than Clark, or as they most knowingly call him Superman. She opens the door for the Man of Steel and asks "Hey Clark what are you doing here and why are you wearing a suit?"

"Um... Did you guys... receive our messages to you on Rann?" he solemnly asks with a pained expression on his face

Weiss and Nora pick up on his expression and wonder why he looked that way. Weiss explained how their communications got crushed and jammed on their mission two days when they arrived on Rann. This brought Clark to an even greater shocked expression. His eyes widening and his lower lip quivering at the thought of what he needs to tell them. JNPR, Weiss, Blake, and even Ruby see the state the Man of Steel was in and increasingly became worried.

"Can you call Yang in, She needs to hear this as well" Clark explained with a clear frown on his face. He sat down in front of the couch readying himself to tell them the news

Blake brought a begrudging Yang to the Living room with everyone there looking at Clark with Concerned faces. "Heya, Sups what are ya doing here now and is it important that it can't wait until the morning?" Yang cautiously asks Superman, feeling the tension in the room rise.

"Yeah Clark what's wrong" Ruby innocently asks. Clark with a pained expression trying to think of ways to soften the blow, to try not to hurt them. But he knows that in whatever way he tries to tell them, no matter how soft, no matter how much he didn't want to hurt them will hurt them.

"You guys will want to sit down" Clark advised the two teams

In all the time they have known Clark, Superman, they have never seen him like this before, never this... sad. Each team sitting on either side of the couch wondering what or who made Clark act this way. They have seen him fight a 5th dimensional imp with reality warping powers, a clone of himself that says the opposite of what he actually wants or does, and an immortal Alien who rides around on a space bike and he never wavered or batted an eye when facing them. So when he was adamantly trying not to avoid whatever he had to say, brought them to a cold sweat.

Ruby broke the small silence, "Whatever it is we'll be able to take, it just tell us". Everyone on the couch nodding with Ruby's statement.

"...D-Damian..." Clark paused for a few seconds trying to force himself to say they words.

"What about Damian? Is he going on a mission for a while?" Nora asks as she try's to lean in, giving the Man of Steel comforting eyes

Clark summons every ounce of courage to finish his sentence and finally said, "Damian... is Dead"

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"what" Yang says with wide eyes and the last world hanging in the air.

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"While you guys were gone, Talia Al Gul tried to take over Gotham and the world. She... She had a device that threatened the world. Batman with a team of his own tried to take on the terrorist group. Damian saw a little girl with the device, and tried to protect her. That is when a man Bruce said was called the Heretic, a supposed clone of Damian to be superior in every way. Damian... Damian protected the girl with all his might from the Heretic. Dick told me that he was actually winning against his "superior".

Both teams listening to what Superman had to say, shocked and confused on how he is dead if he was beating him.

"But then reinforcements came and … shot him … with bullets and arrows. Dick told me that he kept calling them cowards, and demanding his mother to call of Heretic."

Each word stinging as they had to hear about what had happened to their friend. To a child.

"Batman tried to get their in time, but... he was too late. Heretic killed him". After that everything else became a blur, Weiss numbingly showed Clark out with him asking if they were going to be alright. They all nod saying that they were fine, ... they lied.

They all immediately left when they knew Superman was gone, they didn't want to believe it, they couldn't believe it. But they had to make sure themselves, to see if their comrade had died.


June 4th, 7:30 P.M. (Eastern Standard Time)

Gotham City, New Jersey, United States of America

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They arrived at the front of Wayne Manor, Ruby ran up and knocked on the door hoping someone would come.

"ALFRED!" Ruby called out for the resident butler while increasingly hyperventilating,

Weiss pulled Ruby away from the door and reached into her pocket for a key to unlock the door. They walked inside and down the quiet halls wondering where everyone is. Bruce had to have been dealing with the pain the only way he knows how, Dick must be with the Titans comforting him, but for everyone else they didn't know where they were. They passed by the library, with Nora seeing Alfred... He was sitting down with a glass of Bourbon next to him, his face showing evidence of tears, and passed out. When Nora saw this she ran up to his side with worried eyes. She saw what he was staring at... a painting of the family... an unfinished painting. Nora saw the painting, amazed with how much he put onto it. It held everyone he cared about the most Bruce, Alfred, Tim, Dick. Both teams in the library now looking at the painting Damian created, but the thing about the painting that surprised them the most was how it had both RWBY and JNPR in it. The only part of the painting that wasn't finished was Damian fact that he prioritized his family over himself gripped their hearts to their core.

Alfred started to wake up and shot his eyes open when he saw Nora beside him

"Master Valkyrie, I-I didn't hear you come in. Oh you all came back from your mission". Alfred tried to hide the hurt and pain in his voice.

"I'll go fetch you some tea"

Nora held his hand, kneeling down to his eye level. "No… Alfred it's okay. You always take care of us yourself, let us take the flak and let us take care of you".

JNPR silently agreed that they would stay with Alfred to make sure he was ok. Jaune explained to Ruby that she and her team can go to Damian themselves. "It'll give you guys to say what you need to say alone"

RWBY then left out to the courtyard, and finally came to the place that now holds Damian Wayne.

They all stood in silence, shocked to believe of what they heard is true. The first one to cry was Ruby, she cried so heavily that she couldn't even stand and collapsed on her hands and knees. Yang bent down trying to help her sister, but when seeing her tears realized he was really gone and was the next to cry. That is when the floodgates opened and everyone started the cry. Yang peered over to her right and saw another grave, she instinctively knew that it held Talia even with no evidence to back it up. She slowly got back up and punched the grave into rocks. She kept hitting and hitting and hitting it in efforts to try and get rid of the pain that was holding onto her. But it never left, it was just running it's course.

After they tried to pick themselves and Ruby up, Nora suggests, "We should say a few words, for... for Damian". They all agree, Weiss wanting going first.

"Damian, I know we met on the wrong foot... and I know how we h-haven't always treated each other the best at times. Me calling you rude whenever you disappeared and you acting out and your personality towards everyone. But I know that deep down in your heart you really are a caring person who wants to help people. I also hope that you know that I never hated you and that I understand your constant desperate need to make your family proud of you. …Goodbye". She ended with new tears in her eyes stepping back for the next person to talk.

Yang hesitantly stepped up, she never was good with expressing sorrow. "Hey Robin. You Remember that time we spent exploring Gotham in the day and some guy tried to rob us. HaHaHa... it cracks me up whenever I think about it, and you always had the best response to whatever people said. To tell you the truth it always irritated me how you made it so easy to make me laugh, You weren't even making any jokes. But on a serious note, I want you to know that I always thought you were born to be Batman and would've been even better than Bruce.

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I wish I could've seen you grow into it. See you later kid."

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The only person who still hasn't talked to Damian was Ruby. In her mind she can't accept it, nor could she be okay with moving on. No matter how much she tried to deny it, she was still a kid in heart. So she started to run away, or tried to run away. But the rest of RWBY just held her as she continued to cry into the night.

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"I'm going to miss you Damian, a lot. And I hope you know I considered us friends. Like I told you what would happen, when we first went out t".

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That was the only thing she could say to Damian's grave that wasn't muffled by her cries


RWBY came back inside the Manor, checking to see if Alfred was taken cared of before they went Home. They saw JNPR put Alfred in his bed, Jaune looked up at the female team.

"Are you guys ready to go home?"

RWBY silently nodded, headed out the way they came in. However as they were about to leave the house, they heard a roar of engines downstairs. The two teams realized that they didn't even try to check on Bruce. The two teams were scared to see what kind of state Bruce was going through. They walked down the stairs to the cave, to silently see how Bruce was taking everything in.

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They all saw Bruce leave the batmobile bloody and tired. He must have taken down dozens of crimes tonight.

He went into the showers to clean himself off and get out of the suit. But as he was walking towards the stairs, he knocked over Damian's green robin mask. Inside the cover had a note addressed to Bruce … it was his final words.

When Bruce finished reading the note, causing him to crumple it up. Punching his locker in a fit of raging sorrow. Ace was looking at Bruce with saddened and scared eyes. But in the end Bruce just held Damian's uniform, begging for him to be back in his life, and silently sobbing at the thought of his son being dead because of him.

RWBY and JNPR just watched as they were shocked at how broken Bruce had truly become in the absence of his son. The two teams knew how strong Bruce was for the demons he fights in his heart. Even though their relationship has been strained when they learned about his contingency plans. But as he was right now, Ruby didn't care about what he did. All she knew is that he needs her help.

She walked down the rest of the stairs with the rest following behind her. The two teams stood near Bruce as he wept on the floor. Ruby picked up the crumpled note near him and started to read it to see what was able to shatter the dark knights heart

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Father,

I'm sure you'll be angry with me for disobeying you again but I don't care, I will not let you fight leviathan alone. You need me and I will always be at your side.

Because it will be hard for me to say these words face to face, I want you to know that Mother may have given me life but you taught me how to live and be better than the weapon they wanted me to be. I will always be thankful for that.

Remember Justice not Vengeance

Love and respect

your son

Damian

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She looked at Bruce with sorrowed eyes, dropped to her knees and hugged him. Trying anything to help his aching and tormented heart. The rest read the note, slowly coming to hug Bruce as he sobbed into the night.


Alright first Chapter DOWN! I am new to writing as a whole, so please tell me what I am doing wrong or can improve. All I ask is that you be respectful in displaying those criticisms. The reason I did Requiem for Damian is when I read the chapters that involved the Batfamily in Hunters of Justice and thought "Wow, I really want them to read Requiem for Damian".

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So if you guys have any improvements you want me to do message me, and please make suggestions. I might make a sequel to this one since I am interested in this storyline

(P.S. if you are wondering why there are periods that the far end of some blank spaces, its because FFN doesn't allow blank spaces. And I require them for dramatic effect)