I woke up, streching, and then crawled out of bed. I tugged the blankets into place and then walked downstairs. I entered the kitchen, and immediatly heard, "SURPRISE!"

I jumped a little, and saw everyone standing in the middle of the kitchen, Alfred was holding a cake, Dick had on a party hat, and threw confetti into my face. Dad and Mom were standing there with a HUGE box inbetween them. Damian had his arms crossed, and did not look happy about having to wear a party hat. Grandma and Grandpa were there too.

I laughed, "What are you doing?"

Dad smiled, "It's your birthday, remember?"

Mom nodded, "Your fifteen now."

I did some quick mental math, "Oh yeah, it is my birthday."

Alfred cut the cake, and let me tell you, Alfred made the cake himself, so that cake rocked. Then Mom and Dad pushed the box infront of me, and I opened it carefully to see it was full of styrophome packing peanuts. I dug threw the box, and my fingers brushed against something cold, and metal. I pushed my other arm down in it, and pulled it out. My eyes widend, and I quickly turned to Mom and Dad. "Please tell me this is not a joke."

Mom smiled, "It's not a joke."

Grandpa piped up, "It was all your Dad's idea."

Dad nodded, "I got George to do the paint job on it."

I looked down a the object in my hands. It was just like Dad's red hood, but it was black. I put it on, and smiled beneath it, "How do I look?"

"Like a girl wearing Pajamas and a motorcycle helmet." Damian said, smirking.

"Shut-up umpa lumpa I'm not talking to you." I said.

"You look great." Said Mom.

Dad nodded, "Even if your wearing pajamas."

I looked down at my pajamas, they weren't really pajaamas at all. Just a pair of oversized boxers and a black tee shirt. I looked back up, and smiled again, taking the helmet off, "Can we go on patrol tonight?"

Dad nodded, "Yep, just Red Hood, Black Hood, and Blue Jay."

We all looked at Mom, and she smiled, "Don't expect me to sit around here while all of you are out crime fighting."

Dick smiled, and said, "Well, looks like the Bat family just got notably bigger."

Damian rolled his eyes, "Well, now that this pointless activity is over, can we get on with our lives?"

I glared at him, "Why? All your life is filled with is me beating you at video games." It was true, I had gotten a lot better at the games Damian had, and it was showing because I often beat him.

He glared, "I still beat you way more times than you beat me."

"Put your money where you mouth is." I said.

"Can do, twentey dollars?" He asked.

"Deal."

We spent three hours trying to beat each other at his video games until Alfred had to stop us.

LATER THAT NIGHT:

Four van's pulled up to each other while I watched from a roof top. Scarecrow stepped out, and he and his goons unloaded his fear gas. They started hooking it up to a machine.

"Black Hood, do you have the target in sight? Over." Dick asked over the comlink.

"Yeah he's right infront of me, can I shoot him?"I asked, taking out one of my guns.

"No. You know the rules. Over." He said.

"I would just soot him in the leg, nothing vital I swear." I defended.

"No, then they would all scatter at the sound of gun fire. I know that seemes fun to you, but here we get thigns done quickly and safley." Dick stressed.

"Fine, but I really doubt that." I mummbled, "Where's Wonder Boy anyways?"

"He's not with you?" Dick asked, worried.

"Nope, I thought he was with you." I said.

"Ask Red Hood if he's seen him." Dick said.

"OK, what channel is he on?"I asked.

"He's not right next to you?" Dick asked, even more worried.

"No, I'm alone." I said.

"Calm down you too, me and the brat are fine." Said Dad over the link.

"I'm not a brat." Damian growled.

"Yep, he's fine." I commented.

"No one asked your oppinion Todd!" Damian snapped.

"No one has to, it's a free country and I'll do what I want Wayne!" I hissed.

"You two pay attention to the mission. I'll take Scarecrow, Robin, Black Hood, you two take out his goons, Red Hood, you mind taking out whatever that Machine is?" Dick instructed us, but asked Jason. I think he was hesitant on ordering Jason to do anything because Jason had just come back, and didn't want to do something wrong so as to make Jason leave. He didn't want Jason to leave because Jason was technically Dick's little brother.

"Yeah sure, whatever Batsy." Dad dismissed. He's the only one allowed to call him that.

"On three guys. One, two... three!" Batman shouted.

We jumped into action. I pulled out my guns, and quickly shot at the two first goons, hitting their calves, and making them scream in pain.I jumped into the air, and crossed my arms across my chest, still holding the guns in either one. I ended the small flip by kicking another one in the face as he tried to grab me. I kicked off of his face, and did a back flip in the air, landing on my feet. Damian landed behind me, and knocked out two thugs that rushed us.

I fired at two more thugs, hiting them in the legs, temporarily paralising them. Damian quickly rushed the others, knocking them out almost instantly. Dad hastily typed at the keyboard, trying to hack it. I got on one side of him, and Damian on the oither. Thugs rushed at us, trying to stop Dad, but me and Damian fended them off. "Any time now Pop." I said, hiting on across the face with the butt of my gun.

"Keep your pants on, I'm almost done." He said, typing faster.

Batman cornered Scare Crow, and with one punch, he was out cold. No wonder this guy needed so many thugs. "Got it!" Shouted Dad. One last thug ran up, trying to grab Jason, me and Damian jumped at him at the same time, both punching him in the face. He fell to the ground, knocked out cold.

I turned to Dad, "About time." I said unamused.

He rolled his eyes, "Hey, I got the job done."

I shrugged, "Can we go now? I have a biology test tomrrow."

We tied up Scarecrow and his goons and went home. I failed to notice the man a few roofs over, who was filming the whole thing. If I had, I would have seen the orange jail suit, and clown mask.

OK, so, orange jail suit and clown mask, huh? Joker Henchmen! But what's the Joker Henchmen doing filming them? What possible interest would the Joker have in the Batfamily?

Justin: THe same interest he's had since the first issue of Batman came out. Idiot.

Me:... Ok, just for that, next chapter your going through seriouse pain.

Justin: Ha! Bring it on, I'm Justin freakin Todd, I can take it!