"Damian Wayne, you have failed this city." The metallic voice spoke

Damian smirked as the hooded figure had an arrow poised at his head, he knew exactly who this was, now it was time to expose him.

He cleared his throat "Io so chi sei, non so perché il tuo qui, ma il vostro tempo è venuto Oliver Queen. (I know who you are, I don't know why your here, but your time has come Oliver Queen.)" Damian's eyes narrowed when he said who it was

Blake looked at the hooded figure, who smiled under his hood; a hand went to his belt and pressed a silver button.

Damian's feet began to move to behind his desk as he looked at Blake "Secure the building, make sure no one else came in, knowing Mister Queen, he didn't come alone."

Blake nodded and walked out as quickly as his older legs would take him, the Hood narrowed his eyes and fired his arrow; Damian quickly responded by throwing his arm through the air, a metallic object slammed into the arrow.

The Hood looked down at a silver throwing star on the ground; he looked up to Damian who took what appeared to be a thin katana sword.

"This sword once belonged to Ra's Al Ghul, though for the life of me I can't understand people called him Ras back in my father's day." Damian pulled the sword out of it's sheathe "my dad had shattered it but restored it; I took it with me when I left. So, let's see if those old bones can keep up with my dad's successor."

Both men immediately went into the offense, their strikes precise and quick, bow matching with sword, Damian could only smile when their weapons collided, he then went on the power play tactic and broke their struggle, slamming his foot into Green Arrow's chest.

John limped down the stairs to the main door, he knew it would happen eventually, that the Green Arrow would show up, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon.

A click of a shotgun caught his ear as he approached the door.

"Don't move." The voice whispered

"Well well," Blake turned his head "It's about time you got here, come on, we gotta stop them before this whole house gets torn apart."

The rain came in through the broken window as the two men continued their fight, Damian's sword strikes were precise as they met Green Arrow's bow but the Hood got the upper hand and knocked the sword from Damian's hand, took aim and fired an arrow right at the young Wayne's head.

Damian's hand went up and he caught the arrow "Did you really think I wouldn't learn a trick or two in my training on how to fight every person in the world?"

The Hood glared and drew two arrows and fired them, Damian smiled as he caught them both with both of his hands and tossed them to the ground. Next came three, they soared through the air as Damian caught two with his hands and stopped one with his foot.

"Oliver, stop this now."

Oliver didn't turn "I can handle this, he knows what happened to her and he's going to tell me."

"He won't tell you because he doesn't know Ollie." The voice said again

Oliver was preparing four arrows when a hand rested on his "Stop this please."

The owner was a woman a year younger than Oliver with shoulder length brownish blonde hair that had a slight curl in it, green eyes and slightly tanned skin with a black corset under a black leather jacket, fishnet stockings and knee length boots.

"Laurel, if I don't, he'll never tell us…"

"What happened to whom?" Damian asked

"Our daughter." Laurel looked up at him "Victoria."

"I thought so, listen, why don't we talk in the Batcave? It's just up the street."

Blake stood in the doorway and escorted Laurel out and called for Barbara to meet them. As Oliver began to move, Damian stood in place.

"Oh, and Oliver?"

Oliver's head turned to Damian free running, letting his foot glaze against the side of his desk as he slammed a fist into Oliver's cheek.

"That's for my busted window."

"It all started six months ago, Victoria disappeared and we didn't know where she was, next thing we know, we're getting reports of you being back in Gotham, we figured you would know where she was."

They had moved to the Batcave, Barbara sat in her wheelchair while Oliver sat beside Laurel while Blake stood near Barbara and Damian stood in the corner.

"No, I had never known she left Starling City, I only knew that she had a job working with the Gotham Gazette."

Oliver sighed; he looked the same as he did when he was twenty-eight years old, only graying and a few creases.

"For you guys to understand what happened, I need to back track a few years." He sighed and leaned back "When Tori was born…I had gotten into an accident, I was struck in the chest and got a pace maker installed, I knew I would need to find a successor, I thought of Arsenal, but Roy is a loose cannon, loyal, but reckless. So I began to train her how to use a bow at the age of ten, by fourteen, Laurel here," He motioned to his wife with his head "trained her on using her intelligence and looks to get the job done while she isn't in cover."

Damian thought for a moment "Wait, so I was the victim of Black Canary's training!?"

Laurel shook her head "Damian, if there is one person Victoria could be honest with, it's you."

"Like my father before me, I found a list of names, men who were corrupting not only my city, but my allies, one of them was a man named Rhino."

His eyebrows rose "Rhino is one of Black Mask's associates; he claimed the False Facers were being recruited from all over."

"She tracked him to Gotham six months ago, when it happened….I lost contact with her, all I know is that Victoria was captured by Black Mask."

"Wait." Damian walked over to his costume and it slowly rose, he removed his glove and walked over to Barbara "Can you run the blood on this and see whose it is; also, check to see how many of those chips Hatter used were missing as of the last shipment theft."

"You got it." Barbara smiled and turned back to the computer

He thought of everything that had happened these last few months, let alone his own family, his mother and father, and his baby sister Maria. He just wondered how much his father thought of his work, let alone if he even knew.

Damian walked away, toward the catwalk leading to the elevator, he felt horrible, his heart was pounding, he had a grim feeling he knew whose blood it was, but he would never admit it.

"She really cared about you when you were in Starling City."

He looked to his side as Laurel approached "When you two graduated, she couldn't stop talking about you and she was so depressed when you went back to Italy."

"I was depressed too." Damian smiled

Laurel smirked "I told her to move on, that you would find her if you really care about her and it seems like you really do." She leaned in close "And I don't know about Oliver, but I approve of you two."

Damian smiled as Barbara spoke up "Damian! Got something for you!"

He ran over to the computer as it finished its scan, she pressed a key and rolled back, Damian looked at the screen and felt the tears build as Victoria's picture appeared on the screen.

"There was one chip missing. Best I can tell, she might have become the first victim of Mad Hatter."

Damian didn't say a word; he walked past them with his glove in hand.

"Damian?" Blake asked

"Hey, where are you going?" Oliver demanded

He didn't say a word; he just grabbed pieces of his costume and began to assemble them on his body.

The cold air washed against his skin, Damian stood on the highest tower overlooking Gotham, which came from the Old Wayne Tower. He couldn't understand any of it, he just needed to be alone, and maybe if it were better if he was alone, without feeling this way, feeling human, maybe if he was just himself as Batman, he wouldn't have to feel pain.

Something wet hit his cowl; he didn't know what it was until he put a gloved hand to his face that was when he realized he had been crying. Crying over someone he had met a few months ago, he had two dates with and had pretty much been lied to the entire time they had been together.

Damian let the tears stream down his face as he looked out at Gotham, determined even more than ever to free his city and the woman he cared about from Black Mask.

Okay, so Green Arrow/The Hood and Black Canary are in Gotham. They will remain in the story until Black Mask is defeated, which will be in about three chapters from now. I'm setting it up so there's going to be an introduction to the end plot for Roman, a preparation chapter and then the major battle that will ensure.

These are the Stephen Amell and Katie Cassidy versions of Arrow and Canary for those who are wondering and for the end bit here, I took what some were reviewing when they said how Damian would react, well, this was only part one of how he reacted. Part two will be coming up in the next three chapters.

So now I won't update for a bit, but don't worry, it'll get really good soon!