Howdy y'all! Well here is chapter 8…
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On with the show….
Like Toy Soldiers
Chapter 8
Steele City at night is quite a sight to see. A city that looks dismal in the daytime is totally transformed by the night sky, the glittering moon. Most people think that it is beautiful. Alexander Grayson however thinks that it is still a dismal, crappy city. Why is that? Because he has had to stand out in the cold of a Steele City summer night for four hours. Because he is utterly freezing and Bruce says that super heroes don't wear jackets. Because Becky is being a total head case. Because while Becky gets the cool black Batgirl outfit he is stuck wearing a geeky pair of green pants and a clashing red top. Bruce says that Alfred is making him a new uniform. Alex says whatever. Alex is bored to death.
"You there 'Xander?" Becky asks, waving a hand in front of the boy's masked face
"Unfortunately, yes" Alex answers
Becky rolls her eyes and sits down on the edge of the roof of the apartment building. Unlike Alex she has been on night patrol. But before, it has always been with Bruce. Bruce always finds trouble. He finds a person who threw a candy wrapper on the floor and makes them pick it up. Bruce finds a little old lady to help cross the street.
It is also different because before she had not passed the test. Before she was merely a little girl tagging along. Tonight she is a real super hero. A real bored super hero.
Becky shuts her eyes. She hears he mother's voice but only faintly. Becky is scared. Becky can barely even remember what her mother's voice sounds like anymore. She shuts her eyes and sees something in her mind's eye. A coin, flipping through the air. The communicators buzz in Alex and Becky's pockets. There is finally trouble on this cold night, and Becky knows who it is. Becky's worst nightmare who haunts her every bad dream….
…Two Face…
Gotham at night. It was a mystical sight and now that he lived here Doug thought of checking it out. He sat on the roof of the apartment building he called home and stared off into space.
"This is stupid" Doug remarked as he shivered in the chill of the early summer night. He drummed his fingers on the roofs edge.
"Not really" a voice replied. Doug had no need to turn around to see who it was
"How'd you know I was up here mom?" Doug asked
Raven smiled "Motherly intuition"
Doug smirked "Telepathy?"
She laughed and sat down on the roofs edge beside her son "You over analyze things Douglas"
Doug stared down at the city street below "Hey mom?"
She nodded "Yes?"
"If someone was to do something bad in order to do something good would it be bad?"
"Uhm…. well I suppose so Douglas. What do you mean exactly?"
"I mean like let's say someone was to…. threaten someone into rejoining a group they were once in so the threatener can have a normal life. Would that be bad?"
Raven laughed, "I suppose so Dougey. Now go to bed, its way past your bed time"
"Okay. Goodnight mom" Doug said heading in. He turned the corner and walked down a flight of steps to his family's apartment. He turned the key and walked into the small place he called home. He walked into his unpacked room, jumped on the bed, turned into a tiny kitten and curled up….
Raven sat on the roof. Roofs meant a lot to her, she had never really thought of it before. Not this roof per say but another roof. The roof of titans tower. She had sat there many a time. She had meditated there, watched the others play volley ball there, meditated there some more, shared her first kiss with Beastboy there, meditated some more. But most of all, she had been with her friends there. The Titans. Her family basically. Raven narrowed her eyes and focused in on Wayne manor. She wondered what her old friends, Robin and Starfire, were up to now….
The Grayson's 2021 Ferrari pulled up into the driveway of Wayne manor after a long visit at the doctors.
"Don't say it" Kori pleaded
"Say what?" Richard asked playfully
She sighed, "Please don't say 'I told you so'"
He smiled "Fine"
"Thank you" She said, leaning her head against his chest
"Told you so, I did" he laughed
"Ha ha funny. We have a tamerainien word for those who annoy and it isn't very nice…" She smirked
"Really?" He said opening the car door as they stepped out. They walked inside and upstairs to their bedroom.
"Mm love you go to bed, I'm going to check up on Alex" Richard said wrapping his arms around her
"Alright. Tell him I love him" Starfire said sleepily
"I will" Richard said bending down to Kori's stomach "Goodnight to you little girl and or boy"
"And or? How can it be…. never mind. Are you going to insist speaking to my stomach for the next 9 months again?"
Richard smiled and nodded "Always. Goodnight my love" He said, kissing her gently
"Pleasant Slorvax" She said heading back to the bedroom. She lay down and sighed. Looking at her stomach she said "Pleasant Slorvax to you too, little one, and may you turn out to be more normal then your big brother" She laughed
It wasn't Two Face, instead it was petty burglars. Still, in every one of them Becky saw the scarred and evil face of Two Face….
Becky sat in the living room of Steele City Wayne manor, her eyes peeking over the edge of her book. It was a book about Cars. "My parents didn't die in a car crash, did they?" Becky askedBruce looked up from his book about the complex anatomy of bats "excuse me?"
"If my mother was so strong she wouldn't have been so easily defeated. You're hiding something from me"
Bruce shook his head "I don't understand"
"Of course you do. All you all ever do is lie"
Bruce sighed, "You're a smart girl Rebecca"
"Who killed them?"
Bruce paused and shook his head.
"Bruce I'm 10 years old now. I want to know the truth, no matter what cost"
"Two Face. Harvey Two face. In an attempt to pick us off one by one he bombed your parents car. Your father was killed instantly; your mother was paralyzed from the waist down. She managed to injure two face a little herself, but he killed her with some poisonous toxins. I'm sorry Rebecca"…
Becky found that behind her batgirl mask she was crying. With a single punch she broke one of the burglar's neck. She heard it snap. She smiled….
Alex fired a Starbolt at one of the burglars. It pushed him into a wall and Alex punched him. Blood everywhere, the burglar collapsed to the ground, his eyes rolling to the back of his head. Alex didn't see a burglar fall. Instead he saw Cam the bully in the pool of blood. Alex smiled….
…One burglar left. Two face in Becky's eyes. Rex the Bully in Alex's. A bat-a-rang is thrown, knocking the burglar down. An Alien strength punch is directed at the burglar's stomach. The thief gasps. The last thing he sees in his conscious state is a mass of bolts of light fired at his face….
Two new heroes. Both different but they share one thing in common: they both seek revenge….
Richard walked down to the batcave, walked up to the communicator screen and dialed Bruce's number.
"Hello?" The older mans image flashed on screen
"Hey Bruce, just wanted to see how Alex was doing" Richard said, sitting down
"Doing great. He and Becky are becoming really good friends"
"Great. Can I speak to him?"
"He…. decided to hit the sack early. We had a busy day today, we went to the amusement park, we went on a nature hike…"
"A nature hike? Alex? Doesn't sound like my son…. what have you been feeding him?"
Bruce laughed "maybe some time away from home did him good. Can I ask a favor of you Richard?"
"Sure Bruce. Shoot"
"I think some time away from home would be good for Rebecca too. I was wondering, do you think she can stay with you? Maybe for the school year so she can meet some new people…"
"Of course! We'd love to have Becky here" Richard replied
"Great. So tomorrow when I send Alex home she'll be coming with"
"Sounds good. Goodnight Bruce"
"Goodnight Robin"…
The next morning Alex and Becky packed their things. For Alex it was just the bag of a weeks worth of clothes he had brought with him. For Becky it was a year's worth. She couldn't believe Bruce was making her leave here. Leave the house she had lived in for 7 years; leave Uncle Alfred, her only real family…
Becky had all her clothes packed. She took a box and put in most of her books, video games, and pictures. One was a picture of her and her Uncle Alfred in London when she was 4 at a family reunion. Her parents were in the back round along with some assorted cousins. The next was her most prized possessions: a portrait of her and her parents that had been taken 3 weeks before they died. Becky held back a tear and put the picture in the box, along with her laptop computer. She closed the box and then reopened it, pulling out her family's picture and scanning it into the computer, making another copy. She printed out the copy and stuck it in a crack in the wall. Now her family lived on in this house too.
"Rebecca" He uncle said from the doorway "ready to go?"
She nodded and shut the box. She wasn't sure when she'd see her Uncle again. She found herself crying, and Alfred hugging her…..
Alex held his duffle bag in his hand and headed towards the door "Bye Alfred" He said
"Goodbye master Alexander and remember; to do good is one thing. Become a hero and you become something different entirely," Alfred said
Alex looked puzzled "What is that?"
Alfred smiled "A legend, Mr. Grayson"….
To be continued…Next Time: Becky and Alex soon find that the streets of Gotham are nothing like in the video games…
All right y'all well that was chapter 8, please review and I'll try to have 9 up soon! May the Force be with you all!