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The team walked up to the house what was blackened. The house gave a creepy sight and the burning smell smelled like death.
A police agent stopped the bright colored heroes. "Sorry, Nobody's passing," the man said not giving the team a second look.
"We need to talk to the commissioner," Kaldur stepped up as leader.
The man in the brown grey police outfit rolled with his eyes and walked off only to return with the man in a the raincoat. "Here yah go," the man said and was off.
"What can I help you with?" the more friendly man asked. He looked a bit old by the gray line in his hair and the big hairy mustache above his lips. his back looked a bit bow forward as if he had worked too long already in his life.
"We're Justice League and would like to have a look in the house of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson," Kaldur said fair and square without making any story. Well just a little, since they still weren't official Leaguers but they were under Batman's leadership. That counted… right?
The man looked at the team for a few moments. Eyes passing by every member. "Good," the man simply said and lead the team to the door. "We have already searched the place for bodies but found none. We have also find something we suspect to be the entrance from the Batcave. But we haven't figure a way in yet," the man told just as fair as the leader just did. "I'll bring you there."
The team fallowed the man through the house. On the way they saw mostly ash but here and there they saw remaining from God knows what they all had in this house. The house's atmosphere was numb and gloomy. It was also a bit frightening… knowing their friend had to flee from this place most likely when it was already on fire.
After a few turns they found their selves in a room which somehow looked the less damaged off all they had seen. They saw remaining's of something what looked like a bookcase which hung open. Wait, a bookcase what hung open!
"Here," the man said as he opened the bookcase further. As the smoked wood moved aside it made place to look at a steel wall.
"Superboy, can you take a look inside?" Kaldur asked turning to the clone.
"Sure," the boy said simply as he started through the wall. "A stairs… that's all."
"And down the stairs?"
"Lots of steal…" the boy gave an annoyed look. "Can't really see the differ."
"Miss Martian can you open this door?" the Atlantean turned to the Martian.
"I can give it a try," the girl said as she first tried with some force to open it but noticed it was locked down. So she sat into the air in a lotus position focusing on opening the door after a few moments of silence stares on the door a loud and heavy metal sound echoed through the room. Another loud sound was heard and then the door slowly moved open.
"Good job miss M!" Kid Flash shouted as he was about to run down the stairs which was no visible.
"Kid Wait!" the red head stopped at the shout from his leader.
"Dude, what's wrong?" the boy asked annoyed. He wanted to see the Batcave sooooo badly!
"You know Batman by now, don't you? The change the place is booby-trapped is really high."
"Hmmm, true… but how do we enter? I don't know all those stupid codes Rob has," the teen said. He had noticed many of Batman's things were voice controlled. He had heard Robin use some codes before and not to forget that the whole Mount Justice was also controllable with voice.
"I can walk down. I can handle many booby-traps so I can check if it's save," The clone said bluntly aware of his steel like skin.
"You sure?" The brown-haired girl asked concern.
"Yeah, why not?" he said and started to walk down. But nothing happened. So the rest assumed it was save and fallowed. Even commissionaire Gordon.
The teens and older man stood in awe as they saw the Batcave appear when they were finally down the long stairs. The first thing what spoke to them was the huge place. They weren't sure if it was just as big or maybe even bigger than the house above it. The second thing they noticed was the super-computer. It was gigantic and it looked even more impressive than the computer in the cave. The huge chair in front of it finished the picture nicely and gave it a mysterious look. All the eyes quickly trailed to the showcase showing two costumes. Batman' and Robin's, both untouched.
"Look!" all eyes shot to the place the speedster pointed. The boy had already proceed the whole Batcave and found a spot he though the Batmobile should have been. "Shouldn't the Batmobile be there?"
"Isn't it anywhere else?" Artemis asked as she looked around not able to proceed all the things in the cave that fast.
The speedster ran to the edge of the lever they were on to have a better look on the spot a few levels lower. "Would this mean they both fled?"
"We can't assume anything yet. We don't even know if the Batmobile is used for a run that both of them were inside," the leader said serious. He wished he could make sure both had left the building safely. But he just couldn't. He had the keep the team with their heads out of the clouds, no assuming until it's sure.
"Fascinating," the team looked back seeing the commissionaire bowing over the computer studying it without touching it. "I never had the slightest idea of Bruce being the Batman, let alone to hid such a cave underneath his house."
"The computer!" Wally zoomed to the machine. "It may can help us finding them! It may tracks down the Batmobile!"
"Maybe, but how do we start it without knowing the password? Or maybe it's even voice controlled. We can't be sure…" Kaldur said unsure.
"What do we have to lose? It doesn't seems like the two are about to return. We don't even know if their still alive!" the blonde girl said sharply. "I vote for trying."
"Me too," Kid Flash spoke holding up a hand.
"Why not?" Superboy said absent still looking around.
Megan just shrugged and Kaldur touched a key at random. The machine growled back to life as the screen flicked on and many holographic windows opened around the teens. A camera like spherical moved down and scanned the teens and the man.
A recognizable voice announced the names of the teens on their turns with the number. Even commissionaire was recognized and his whole name was called out. And confirmed as "trusted".
On the big screen Batman appeared and on the background a younger looking Robin. "If you see this massage it means our secret has been compromised. This massage is only meant for the Justice League or commissionaire Gordon. Both Robin and I are trained and have plans for when this happened. Even if our ways part we'll be able to blend in. For this to succeed we need you all to stay calm and don't search for us. If needed we'll make contact with you. You can look up more information about a day before the alarm is triggered till this very day. Batman and Robin out," the man and the child on the background disappeared.
A list appeared on the screens and the holograms showed what was behind it with text beside it explaining what it was and if needed what it did. The teens started to shove the holograms through the cave looking up curiously what everything was.
Only the commissionaire and Kaldur stayed behind reading the list of things they could check for information. One caught both their attention. "Camera's," the teen say in a breath like voice.
The two oldest of the group people down in the cave glanced at each other before Kaldur selected the choice camera's. Again a list appeared showing some categories. House, Batcave, Gotham, Hall of Justice, Watch Tower, Mount Justice and more. both males their eyes grew. More? There was actually more!
Kaldur selected house and again a list appeared. This time all places and rooms listed up. Kaldur slowly started to feel his heart speeding up. They were pretty close to see what happened to Bruce and Dick. The Atlantean swallowed and selected Dick's room. A little window opened and he could fill in a time.
"Commissionaire, You know when the fire started?" The teen looked up from the screen.
"At or near 1:00," the man answered simply.
The boy typed in 0:00 and found four angels with the same scene of Dick laying in his bed. He slowly stared speed it up until he saw movement. He quickly stopped and they both watched how Two Face entered the room and the boy woke up. They weren't sure if the man had said anything since it was quiet on their end.
An unexpected sound made the two jump "Two face," On one of the angles they could see Two face point a gun on the teens head.
"Good morning little bird and good night." The two automatically closed their eyes and turned their heads away as they heard a gunshot. Well that would explain the leak of Robin in town.
Gordon was the first to open his eyes ready to see the scene from the dead boy. He was used to see corps though it was a natural reaction to look away when the murder happened. But his eyes grew as he saw the boy had dodged the bullet. He rewind the recording seeing what actually happened.
Kaldur looked back to see the man restart the scene but slowed down this time. With wide eyes and pale face he heard the man saying his line again. "Good morning little bird and good night." The slowed down voice spoke. He saw the man firing the gun and how the boy in a sudden move dodged it. He saw the boy looked surprised himself but moved before the man realized the boy had dodged. The boy shot to the man and kicked the deadly machine out of his hands.
"What do you want from me?" Kaldur was able to find a hint of despair in the slowed voice from the boy but mostly was shock.
The black-haired teen ran to the door ready to flee. "What do you think?" the man asked as he picked up the gun from the ground. "Your life."
The boy shut the door blocking the sight on him and the criminal started to shoot bullets through the door as if he couldn't use enough.
The commissionaire stopped the video and went back to the last menu they had seen he looked up the cameras from the hallway before the boy's room and searched for the time the boy had shut the door.
This time the video was on normal speed and showed how the boy duck just in time so the bullets flew over him.
The two males watched with wide eyes how the boy went on in the house, switching from camera to camera till they had seen everything what had happened to him.
-\Day 7 6PM/-
Simon looked around him making sure nobody saw him and entered the "unused" room. He closed the door behind him making as less sound as possible and walked further into the room with a tray full of warm food. As he walked around the corner he met a sight he hadn't expect.
Dick stood on his badly shacking legs and leaning against the wall. The boy seemed to have trouble staying up and suddenly fall down. "Damn it!" the boy hit the wall in frustration and tried to rose again.
"Dick?" the boy shot around only to fall down again from the dizziness what got the better of his head with the fast turn.
"Simon!" the boy said surprised, looking at the man from the ground. "Sorry, hadn't noticed you were here."
"You're okay?" the man sat down beside the boy handing him the tray. "Have you tried to stand more often?"
"For three days now, but today is the first time I reached it to my feet," the boy said laying the tray with warm food down on his lap. He had become hungry from all the effort he had used to get up his feet.
"Why are you pushing yourself so hard?" Simon asked as he took a little piece of the bread form the side dish to nibble on.
"Because I need to get out of here. You can't hide me forever and I don't want to be any problem," the boy said looking away as he started to eat his soup.
"Hey," the man said in a bit insulted voice as he grabbed the boys head and turned it to face him. "You stay here as long as needed. Okay?" he asked stern.
Dick nodded and smiled. "Okay," and turned back to his soup. "Thanks again."
The man's eyes fell on the teen's arm. "How is that wound of yours going?" the man asked watching how the boy carefully eat the hot soup.
"Good, I guess. I haven't really checked it yet…" the teen blew the soup on his spoon before he take a bite. He noticed the concern glance from Simon. "I haven't felt anything from it, that's a good sign."
"You should watch yourself better," the man spoke father like.
"I normally have a father for that. But you'll do perfectly," the boy smirked.
Simon smiled back but in a bit sweeter way. He somehow didn't mind that the kid actually called him dad in an indirect way. It made him smile, feel warm from the inside. It lighten his heart and he caught himself on hoping, thinking, that he could be his son. This boy, Dick, he was so different from every teen he ever met.
"Does this mean I have to baby you now too?" the man joked as he let a heavy hand fall down with a thud on the boy's head. "We'll take a look when you're finish with your dinner," the man had turned a bit more seriously.
"'kay," the teen shrugged and finished his dinner listening to things what happened to the man in his week of work. Though the man said that in all things what ever happened to him it was Dick's arrival who was the most weirdest of all.
Dick placed the trail beside him and took off his shirt. He loosen the bandages and it slowly roll off him as the fabric fall down in the might of the gravity. A good healing wound became visible as the last bit of the bandage slipped away.
The teen frowned at his wound. He could see that the suture must be taken out soon, it was already getting red from the irritation.
"Is there something wrong?" the man wondered seeing how the boy eyed the wound.
"Oh, no, it's just that the suture must be removed soon, that's all," the teen said as he picked up the bandage and started to rewrap his wound.
"Shouldn't you do that then? I'm a little early today so I can get you the first aid kit," the man said as he rose, ready to look up the bright orange box with some alarm numbers written on it.
"But," the teen started hesitating. The man stopped and crouched back down by the boy seeing in his eyes that there was something wrong. "I have not the skill to remove it…" the boy told bowing his head in shame.
He never got to the part of getting the suture out. He did fixed himself often but everything after the first aid was always done by either Alfred or the hospital, if there was a good lie what would fit. Also, his right arm being the one who was shot played a big role. He could figure out how to do it and might messed it up a little but with his left hand he just wasn't that steady. He could hurt himself even worse or reopen his wound.
"I thought you were used to do this?" the man said recalling what the teen told him the first day, to himself.
"Yeah, the first part. But things like this were always solved by either Alfred or the hospital. I have seen it be done a few times but my left hand will not be steady enough to copy that," the boy explained.
"Do you need me to bring you to a hospital?"
"No!" the boy shouted right after the man finished the word hospital with wide eyes. "I can't use a hospital. Not as long as they're looking for me. It's too risky."
"Don't worry. I won't bring you to a hospital if it's that risky," the man said quickly, a bit shocked by the way the boy had reacted. The teen clearly knew what he could and couldn't. "But can I at least bring a doctor down here to fix you?"
Dick thought about suggestion and slowly started to shake his head. "No, they have to note it when they're on "home visit". They know I was shot and will keep an eye on such things."
"What if I bring my own family doctor? I'm sure he won't note it or lie about it if I explain everything to him," the man said as he sat back down the come on the same eye level as the boy.
"I don't want people to risk their own live for me. Plus we're not even sure if he wants to do it."
"I'll pay him a visit and try to find out if he's willing to help a person like you and if he seems to react positively I'll tell him of the situation we're in and I'm sure he will be willing to help," the man told. "He's a really nice man and not to forget a person who wants the best for others."
"But how are you getting him in here? I mean without being seen?"
The man smiled. "I'll think of something. Now rest and I'll see you in the morning," the man said as he rose from his place ready to leave.
"It's already time for your shift?" The boy seemed not too happy with that as he hand the man his tray.
The man nodded and took the empty tray. "Should I give you more next time? you seemed pretty hungry this evening," the man noted. He had heard the boy's stomach rumble and saw how he had eyed the food the second he noticed it. The boy had clearly become more active and he needed more food to keep that up.
"I wouldn't mind that," the boy smiled sheeply. He hadn't dared to asked the man for more food. He already went through so much to take care of him.
The man gave the teen a last smile and left.
I know, I know. It's kinda fillerish… I'm sorry about that… but I just needed this chap to build the story a bit. Hope you guys don't mind.
So any idea how this will end up? ;) Yeah were still not here, mwuahahahahaaa.
The next update will take a bit longer because this was already written and I'm struggling with a little writers block. Also I have other stories to work on and not to forget life asks attention too. So please hang on with me and keep on reviewing because it really helps :D