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Blue Bird - Chapter 15

By the time they reached the cave again the other time travellers had been released, and were crowding the hangar, awaiting their return with a slightly angry Batman, whose glare told the team to get to the debriefing room without delay, leaving Nightwing to explain the hand-cuffed Ravager, who had been escorted to a holding cell without vents by a sombre-looking Aqualad.

By the end of the anecdote Tigress was crying with laughter and Flash was giving her a look.

"I didn't think you'd have it in you to be so callous, Arty."

The woman's demeanour changed immediately; "I'm an assassin, Wally, I profit from other people's deaths."

Impulse raised an eyebrow, "And you're fine with that?"

Tigress' lips thinned. "No."

"Then why do you do it?" Beast Boy asked, materialising from where he was concealed, as a fly, on the wall.

"Because it's what I'm good at."

"So am I, but you don't see me boasting about it."

Everyone turned at the new voice, and the effect was instantaneous. Beast Boy squeaked and changed back into a fly faster than thought, Impulse fell out of his chair and climbed back onto it just as fast as Nightwing arched an eyebrow, looking mildly amused, "Hey Jason, are you guys the competent rescue team then?"

Arsenal, stationed behind Red Hood and holding something Nightwing assumed was a time machine, grinned; "Who else? Long time no see Nightwing."

Nightwing grinned back, "The League is gonna flip."

"As well they should." Starfire said, nodding in approval, "They were most likely not to be expecting their betters to arrive."

"Too bad they got Ravager along with it." Tigress commented.

Red Hood hadn't missed the remark and, even through the helmet, he looked confused; "So where is Patchy anyway?"

"Holding cells." Tigress supplied.

Arsenal laughed; "What did she do this time?"

Nightwing coughed; "She put Superman's parenting skills on a par with her father's, then didn't tell anyone who her father was, then broke her power pack so everyone could guess."

Starfire frowned; "These people have locked Ravager away for her father's crimes?"

"Uh, not that simple Star." Flash tried, but the Tameranian was having none of it.

"This will not stand!"

With these words she was gone and Red Hood sighed; "Someone stop her before she blows something up."

Arsenal took off after the enraged alien and Red Hood headed in the other direction; "But she does have a point."

Nightwing followed his younger brother with an exasperated air, and Tigress exchanged a look with Batgirl before the two also followed. When they reached the holding cells Red Hood was already there, greeting Ravager and getting to work on the lock, after a full five mines of failure, during which Hood had considered simply blasting the lock off twice, but reconsidered due to advice from all other occupants of the room, who said this would leave Ravager trapped there forever, was when Superman and Batman entered.

By the time the team had arrived an argument was already underway, with Red Hood standing two feet away from Batman and Superman and hurling profanities at them in every language they could think of and then some, they were sure that, at the steady thinning of Batman's mouth, the look of horror on Nightwing's face and the amused glint in Ravager's eye, all three of them could understand every word that was being spoken.

"...and you're locking her up on what grounds?" Hood was saying, "Listen, if everyone in this godforsaken mountain was like their parents we'd have seven more psychopaths running around."

"Are you saying that Ravager is a psychopath then?" Superman asked and Red Hood and Ravager, still in her holding cell behind a pane of glass, burst into laughter.

"No," Nightwing replied, "He's saying he is the psychopath."

"I do have a cell in Arkham." Hood pointed out, "Courtesy of you and Demon Child number one."

Nightwing shrugged; "I said I was sorry, Jay, but you were trying to kill us."

"No I wasn't." Hood replied, "I was trying to humiliate you."

"Consider me humiliated." Nightwing said.

"And consider me bored." Ravager put in, "Can I come out now so we can all go home?"

"No, I'm not done using you as an excuse to shout at Batman." Red Hood muttered.

Rose grinned, "No spoilers, Jay-Bird."

"Don't make me break your face, Thorn-Head."

Nightwing inwardly sighed as Superman and Batman used the lull in conversation as an opportunity to answer a League call and take their leave, the zeta tubes announcing their departure, while M'Gann, standing in the doorway with the others looked confused; "Are they... Flirting?"

"Uh, probably." Kid Flash said, tilting his head, "With these kinds of people it's hard to tell." Then he too was frowning, "Anyway, back on point, who's the new guy?"

Nightwing looked to Batgirl, who nodded; "Like Ravager said, 'no spoilers'."

Nightwing nodded and turned back to the team, gesturing in the direction of Red Hood, who had returned to hacking the lock on Ravager's cell.

"This is Red Hood, he is a good guy, in case you missed the bat-symbol on his chest while he was trying to break Rose out of prison, again."

There was silence for half a second, then-

"What do you mean 'again'?!" Red Hood exploded, "I've never broken anyone out of prison in my life! I was let out, by you."

Ravager coughed, "What about Roy?" but she didn't wait for an answer before she was off too, "And you!" through the glass she pointed at Nightwing, "What d'you mean 'again'?"

At this point Kid Flash shifted slightly, a smirk on his face; "Wow dejavu much?"

Ravager scowled, "Zip it, West. Anyway, I've never been to prison in my life!"

This time it was Tigress' turn to cough in amusement and Ravager's scowl deepened; "It was temporary insanity, cleared with eighteen months of therapy, ask the judge."

Tigress never got he chance to retort because, at that moment, two more people burst into the already crowded room, scattering it's occupants in all directions. Arsenal came first, still toting his time-machine and dragging Starfire behind him.

"Found her!" he called out, unnecessarily gesturing at the princess.

Kid Flash's eyes nearly popped out, and Artemis took the opportunity to use her free hand (the other was covering Robin's eyes) to smack the speedster around the head. Starfire, unaware of the stir her arrival had caused took in the scene with a mild scowl.

"Stand aside." she said, and Red Hood, still working on the lock, scrambled to get out the way.

Ravager's eye widened and she too threw herself to one side as Starfire raised a fist and let loose a torrent of green energy levelled at the bullet-proof glass. It shattered and Ravager stood, picking glass out of her hair and accepting Red Hood's helping hand as she climbed through the hole in the wall.

"A little warning, next time, Princess?" Red Hood grumbled.

"I do not see that it is necessary." Starfire replied, "Now, I think it would be prudent to take our leave, before-"

They never heard the end of that sentence, as at that moment every light in Mount Justice went out with a ominous groan, leaving the place in total darkness.

There was a scramble to activate night vision, and Starfire raised a hand so everyone else could see. Ravager snapped her fingers in Kid Flash's direction and he took the hint, disappearing and reappearing moments later with her cowl.

"Thank you." she slipped it on and activated the night vision, the lens glowing green.

"Anyone got an idea on what happened?"

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