I Do Not Own Anything.
Dick jolted awake, his hand pressed against his chest, he panted for a little bit before rolling off the bed. Nightmare.
He dressed in his uniform and placed on his mask, glancing at the clock, 2 am, no-one was up yet, unless they didn't sleep.
It had been a week since the Talon incident, everyone was starting to forget about it, like one of those random criminal encounters that were almost daily.
Dick walked to the mission room, that night he had slept in the Cave, mostly to study his Krolotean vocabulary, he was quite close to fluent but was still looking for some synonyms for certain words that were untranslatable.
Richard looked all over the rotating letters that would have been foreign to him a few months ago, multitasking was his thing so he had another screen up where he was hacking submarine sonar to try and figure out where Kaldur and Artemis were, his excuse was that he was looking for La'gaan, he was partially doing that, but he also wanted to make sure that his teammates were safe.
The room was abnormally quiet, he half expected a Talon or monster to jump out and kill him, or attack the Team, he glanced at the security footage, it was a little stalker but he turned that window off when he was sure that they were okay.
"A little overprotective don't you think?"
Barbara put her chin on his shoulder while she looked at what he was doing
"Just a precaution"
"Bat-Paranoia? Hasn't gotten me yet"
"It'll come later on"
"You were so much more fun before"
"How's the stab?"
"Still hurts."
Dick nodded and said
"Why don't you get some rest, I've got things to do"
"What kind of things?"
"Stuff."
"What kind of stuff?"
"I'd rather not have this conversation"
"Why not?"
"It's annoying"
"How annoying?"
"Very."
Batgirl smirked, then turned on her heels and walked towards her room, she turned around again and asked.
"How long has it been since you've gotten a good night of sleep?"
"Meaning?"
"No nightmares, more than five straight hours"
"… Three years. Not counting when I was sedated or unconscious, I usually do two hours then accumulate naps"
Babs glared at him, that was just not right.
"If you don't get to sleep soon I'm going to sedate you"
"Try, I'm working"
The redhead scowled then resumed walking towards her room, Dick smiled at her retreating form, he won this round.
He dragged krolotean words all over the screen and then a silly idea formed in his head, he lined them up into a perfect 3 dimensional sphere and smiled at the glowing blue object about the size of his fist, he made a swift exaggerated gesture with both his hands imitating an explosion and the words suddenly spread out in a round band all around him.
He smiled and spun it with one hand, staring at the strange writing that went around him, he stopped it and moved certain words around. It was really fun, but he didn't let his amusement show, it was supposed to be work after all.
Tim hid perfectly and watched the ribbon of incomprehensible words spin slowly around Dick as Nightwing rearranged the letters and words.
Dick pulled a screen in front of him and checked the news, then slid the window outside of his little ribbon of Krolotean words.
Robin smiled when Nightwing sent the little band of letters spinning all around him, Dick looked up
"I know you're up there, come on"
Tim's shoulders slumped, he wasn't really that good at stealth, but he supposed that no-one could hide this close to a trained bat without being caught.
"Whatcha doing?"
"Working, why aren't you asleep?"
"Not tired, why aren't you sleeping?"
"Don't sleep"
"You're human, you sleep"
"Maybe I'm not human"
"Maybe you aren't"
"Maybe you should go to sleep now"
"Maybe I shouldn't"
"Maybe this is all a dream and to wake up you need to go back to bed so you can have this conversation in real life."
"Maybe I hate you"
"Maybe you don't"
"Maybe I should follow you around annoyingly"
"Maybe you should go to sleep right now"
Tim glared but still walked back to bed. Dick waited and turned off everything before walking out through the zeta tube.
He reappeared in Gotham, where he mounted his carefully hidden motorcycle, then he drove off.
A different Talon then the one the batkids had encountered a week ago stood on the power lines near a house in Palo Alto.
Wally stared at where Artemis was supposed to sit, he glared holes into it, willing her to appear, he missed her already but knew she wasn't coming back, not for a few months at least,
Nelson whined and put his head on Wally's leg, the ex-speedster smiled and affectionately rubbed his dog's head.
"I know bud, I miss her too"
He glanced at the time
"'Bout time for pizza right?"
The dog tilted his head and his ears perked
"I'll take that as a yes"
He stood up and reached towards the phone, Nelson swiftly turned and growled at the window, fur standing on end.
"What is it? A bird?"
The lights suddenly went out, the storm outside worsened and wind battered the walls of the small house.
A large burly man in black was standing in the window, it was as creepy as one of Nightwing sudden appearances, but the wind and the dark that made the trees sway behind him in the mid-dark while hiding the lamplights outside made it scarier than Dick's ninja stealth appearances that the ex-boy wonder did better than anyone.
Nelson growled one last time before fleeing to one of the other rooms. Wally's hand went behind his back and pushed the small button that called Nightwing when he was really in trouble,
"I hope you called in my successor, or else this would be a pointless expedition"
"Who?"
The window was opened, the wind gusted into the house and made the papers on Wally's desk flutter up and swirl around the room.
The owl mask was creepy, making Wally back into the counter, c'mon Dick, hurry up, the owl masked man was just giving off a scary and dangerous vibe.
"Wh-what do you want with me?"
"Nothing, let's just wait for a little bit until our boy gets here"
"What're you talking about?"
"You know, Kid Flash"
Eeeek, the creepy guy knew who he was before, most likely knew any connections with the Flash, making Wally leverage.
"Just leave me alone!"
Just as the speedster was about to zoom off, a throwing knife impaled the hood of his jacket, pinning it to the wall, two others trapped his sleeves, stupid baggy clothing. Wally looked up and gulped at the sight of the black owl.
Author's note: Sorry that this chapter was later than the others, I'll explain a lot next chapter, this one was just to get Wally in there somewhere.
Review! Please, I'd like to know if you have any questions.
Also, I didn't read the comics so don't yell at me if I get personalities wrong, I just did a lot of research. :)
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