AN: Hey guys! I'm back. Happy Easter and to those of you who guessed that out mystery visitor was Ravager (So pretty much everyone) have a virtual cookie. And those of you who reviewed but didn't guess it was Ravager, you can have cookies too.
Enjoy this (unbeta-ed) chapter of Blue Bird.
Blue Bird
Chapter 10
From the rafters Nightwing watch the fight with some interest, as the three teams; the six members of Young Justice, the guards and the five mystery men and women. As one of the guards tossed one of the mystery women into Artemis Nightwing frowned and pressed a switch concealed in his mask.
His vision zoomed in on the scene and Night caught a proper glimpse at the new arrival, a girl in black and silver, as she cursed then asked Artemis something. Nightwing managed to lip read his name and he smirked.
"Looks like you're finally using the stealth tech." He deactivated the zoom in his mask and made psychic contact with Artemis.
(Artie, she's a friend.)
Artemis started at the sudden contact, (Says who?)
(Me.)
(Like that'll convince me? I'm not entirely sure you're trust worthy either.) Artemis started gesturing, earning a stare from the new arrival.
(Look out for the-) Nightwing's warning died as the new girl drew one of her swords and deflected half a dozen bullets and slammed the hilt into a guard's head.
Nightwing leapt from beam to beam, getting close enough to hear what the two girls were saying.
"You owe me." The girl said, "Up and at 'em Artie or all the competent goons' ll be gone."
Artemis didn't have time to form a reply before her companion took out another guard and said with a smirk; "I'm guessing 'Wing is around then?"
"He says I can trust you." Artemis said, "Can I have the name of the girl I'm meant to trust?"
"Ravager." The girl said, "Bet I can take out more than you."
"You're on." Artemis drew her bow and fired a volley of arrows.
Nightwing leapt on, taking out eight guards as he passed over two grey blurs which seemed to not have noticed each other. A green rhino took down three guards creeping up behind M'Gann, it swiftly turned into a monkey and leapt at another. Aqualad and Superboy were working together, also unaware of their assistant, a black and yellow shadow flipping neatly over guards and taking them out before anyone noticed she was there.
Which left one more.
Nightwing looked around and found Cyborg at the door, attempting to hack his way out, with automatic defences fending off guards.
Nightwing cursed and put a hand to his temple; (Guys, we need to regroup, we're too far spread.)
(You have an overview.) Aqualad said, (Where do you suggest?)
(With Artemis, I'll meet you there.) Nightwing leapt downwards again and pulled a neat flip, landing squarely on the shoulders of one guard who was seconds away from blowing either Artemis or Ravager's head off.
"Focus, Ravager." He called out, taking down another guard.
"Kinda hard when you insist on pulling a disappear/reappear act every time daddy shows up." Ravager complained, slicing through a guard's gun, causing it to misfire and explode in his face.
"Non-lethal." Nightwing said, kicking a guard in the face, sending him staggering back to Ravager, who slammed her knee into the small of his back. He crumpled and Nightwing nodded in approval, "'Arsenal teach you that?"
"I saw Arsenal pull it and copied him." Ravager said.
"While you two have your cosy catch-up session I'm on my own here." Artemis snapped, "Could hold it off for a bit?"
As she spoke half the guards Artemis was fighting vanished and Kid Flash skidded to a halt; and tripped over his own feet.
Ravager smirked; "So smooth, 'Wall-Man'."
Wally spluttered and jumped about a foot in the air when one of the girl's sword hilts collided with a guard's face just behind him. Wally caught it; "Uh, souvenir?"
Ravager held out her hand and Wally handed it over. Aqualad and Superboy joined them, taking out half a dozen more guards between them.
"Who would have this many guards?" M'Gann asked, materialising above them.
"Metahuman containment facility." Ravager muttered; "Brand new, completely illegal and totally empty."
"Right," Nightwing said; "KF, think you can double check?"
"Who appointed you team leader?" Wally folded his arms.
"Kid, do it." Aqualad said, "The rest of us will concentrate on taking out the guards with..." He looked at Ravager who reintroduced herself.
"Um... before we do that..." Nightwing held out his hand to Ravager; "Comm."
The girl handed it over and Nightwing put it in his ear; "Attention crew, this is your captain speaking-"
"Where. Have. You. Been?"
Batgirl's shout was loud enough to draw alarmed looks from all the team except Superboy, who frowned slightly.
"Look, do we have to do this now?" Nightwing asked, "Imp, I need you to clear the fog, Beast Boy and Batgirl, rendezvous with us as we move to take out the guards, Cy hack that door like your life depends on it, 'cause it probably does, and if you're in the mainframe get the specs on this place; who runs it, who funded it, what it's for, the works."
"You got it boss." Cyborg replied.
"Thank you, over and out."
Nightwing handed back the comm. to a frowning Ravager; "What part of 'meta containment facility' did you not get, 'Wing?"
Nightwing rolled his eyes as the others moved into an attack formation; "The bit where you've still got kryptonite under that eye patch."
"Actually, no I don't." Ravager replied, "I just let people think I do, you should have seen Booster's face when Kon told him I knew where he lived."
She looked over at Artemis, who was taking out still more goons. "Now if you'll excuse me I have a challenge to win."
Ravager leapt into the fight with gusto and Nightwing was about to join in too when there was a thud behind him and he turned to find himself looking at several crumpled guards. His secondary comm. buzzed.
"You owe me one Nightwing." Batgirl said.
"Are we keeping score?" Nightwing asked; "'Cause if we are its eight-seven my favour."
The dark-clothed vigilante took out three more guards and the fog of gunfire slowly began to lift, revealing something that made everyone do a double take. A large green alpaca was running around with a silver robot riding on its back, firing a high-tech cannon at the guards.
"What the-" The team froze, but Ravager and Nightwing continued like it was a normal occurrence.
"Cyborg, what's happening with the door?" Nightwing shouted.
"We're in trouble. It was harder to hack than the mainframe." The robot shouted back.
"I'm on it." Nightwing replied, "Impulse, Ravager, cover me."
Ravager nodded and a grey blur picked her up half a second later.
The team came back to itself as Nightwing leapt away and the robot waved, "Hey, I'm Cyborg, the green bean is Beast Boy," He patted the alpaca on the head, "If you see a black and yellow shadow-"
"She can introduce herself," said black and yellow shadow dropped from the ceiling and brought her foot up between a guard's legs. His squeal hit high soprano before he passed out. The young woman turned and gave the faintest of smiles, brushing a strand of red hair from her face; "Batgirl, the boy is blue and black would be my boyfriend."
She stuck her fist out into a goon's face and he crumpled; "So you're the one Nightwing reckons can hit harder than Supey." Wally said, skidding to a halt beside the group; "Complex is clear by the way."
Batgirl rolled her eyes, the grey blur skidded to a halt and deposited Ravager on the floor; "This hyper-active anti-ninja is Impulse."
"Hey." The speedster bounced, "All guards accounted for B.G."
"And the door is open." Nightwing said, joining the group, "All jobs done."
"Good." Batgirl said, and she smacked him, hard, across the face.
"Ow!" Nightwing cried, "What was that for?"
"Last we heard you were going after Deathstroke, alone." Batgirl said. "We thought he'd got you. Again."
"Actually, I'd just seen him going the other way, but you didn't think to ask me; 'Hey Rose, you wouldn't happen to know if Slade's got Nightwing again, would you?'" Ravager said, doing a fair imitation of Batgirl's voice.
"Wait, you let him go?" The alpaca asked.
Everyone stared as the robot dismounted and it turned back into a guy in grey and purple, with green skin. He grinned and turned back to Ravager; "Seriously? You let him, Deathstroke the Terminator, Slade Wilson, the guy you really, really hate, even more than Clock King-"
"Get to the point Gar."
"You let him go?"
"I was about to punch him through a wall and ask what happened to Nightwing, honest." Ravager said, "But Robin called, well... the other Robin, what do I call him? Past Robin? Present Robin?"
"Wait." Artemis held up a hand, "You saw Robin?"
"Batsy, here, put me on bird-sitting duty." Ravager said, "So, yeah, I saw him."
"Then where is he now?" Aqualad asked.
"Our time." Ravager said, "But I'm hoping he'll be along in a bit. We were trying to build a time machine."
"'We' being who?" Nightwing asked.
"Uh, me, past Robin, Kon, Megan, Tempest, Tigress, Flash, Red Robin, Damian, Static, Gear and we got the blue prints from Booster Gold." Ravager replied, shuffling her feet.
"Uh, doesn't Flash have a cosmic treadmill in your time?" Wally asked.
"It, kinda, might have got, a little bit, stolen." Impulse said, tapping his fingers together. "By Professor Zoom."
"Whoops." Wally commented.
"Big whoops." Impulse agreed, "Flash was really mad about it, it was the angriest I've ever seen him, ever."
"It was mildly terrifying." Nightwing said. "Can we go before the cops show up?"
"We have to go in the bioship, don't we?" Impulse asked, and at the various nods he groaned; "Aw man, I mean, no offence to her or anything, but that thin g makes me nauseous."
"Tough luck, Allen." Ravager smirked, "Just aim at Batgirl when you puke."
AN: Next time we find out how they got to this time and how they plan to get back. Also on the way: another mystery visitor and Batman's reaction to the visitors and Ravager looses her temper with Superman.
Until next time!
-Silver