Destiel101: Sometimes things go wrong, and sometimes things go right. We have yet to find out if it went wrong or right. And I have yet to write that. (Therefore it will not be in this chapter, even though I seem to lead on to it...)
silvertwilightgemini: Chapter 12... maybe... I dunno! Only more things going wrong (or right) in this chapter, maybe...
On that note, don't you just hate it when you know the ending, and how you want to end it, but you just can't get there...
Nightwing started to go over to help but was met by the test subjects. Batgirl and Robin joined Nightwing's side, but before they got a chance to fight, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, and a few other leaguers had temporary restrained the test subjects and the two Beetles. Damian scrambled up from his spot on the ground, feeling the now-new loose ribs in his chest, vibrate as he breathes, and looked back and forth from his niece to his future siblings. Madison had made it on her feet and was leaning up against a half-fallen-over lamp post, and held her hand against the wound on her side. Nightwing and the other members of the bat-clan looked to the future Wayne and Grayson. Damian looked at Madison, behind her and to the right was 223 sneaking up behind the black haired girl in human form "Grayson! Nightingale! Left!"
Wonder Woman and Green Lantern where thrown back as the two Beetles broke free and then freed the test subjects. "Let's go," said Black Beetle. Blue Beetle nodded in agreement. "But they must know who they are messing with," said the Blue Beetle as he spun around toward a tall hotel and shot a beam at it. Causing the side of the building to crumble and the many people inside fall at least twenty stories to the pavement below. Nightwing took one more look at Madison and Damian. Madison had ducked the opposite way her uncle had said and kicked up with her left foot. Damian rushed forward just as Madison pulled something shiny from her brown little pouch on her side. Nightwing turned before he saw the outcome to help the people who where falling.
At least twenty people fell, all where safely caught by the heroes below. Nightwing saved the last girl and carried the little blonde haired blue eyed girl over to her parents. The little girl jumped from Nightwings hold in her and ran to her parents, who stood by the rest of the bat family. The little four-year-old's mother bent down and swooped the girl up, and the girls father rubbed the top of her head. "Maman! Papa! J'ai été sauvé par le chevalier d'ailes!" said the awestruck little girl. "Nightwing, ma petite fille," said the girls mother. The girl's father looks to Nightwing, "Thank you for saving my daughter," he said in a heavy French accent. He then turns to Batgirl and Robin, "Thank you as well." The girl's father turns to Batman who, like always, had just appeared behind his young sidekicks. "Prime Minister," said the Dark Knight, "a helicopter is en-route to come and take you back to France."
The man nodded, "Thank you, Batman. You have trained the young sidekicks very well." Then without another word he pushed his wife and daughter toward a building that was still very much stable. The little girl looked over her mother's shoulder and waved, "Au revoir, mon chevalier! " yelled the little girl as she and her family hid in the shadow of the darkened building. Batgirl let out a giggle, and Robin just smirked at Nightwing. "If you where to ask me," started Batgirl, "that girl is a bit too young for you." Nightwing ignored his teammate's comment and looked over to where Damian and Madison were. In their place was a man with a small piece of metal sticking out of his side. Nightwing rushed over to the man, followed by Robin. Batgirl started to follow but was stopped by Batman, who sent her out, along with the other heroes to go and see if there was any other people stuck in the rubble.
Nightwing got to the man's side, "What's your name?" he quickly asked, forgetting that the man was injured. The man took a shaky breath, "Two-two-three." Robin cut in, "No," he said, "Your name." The man let out a weak laugh that turned into a cough, followed by another shaky breath, "While in the metagene labs, you don't get a name. Only a number." He lifted up his arm to show the dark mark of the number '223' on his arm. "Branded like cattle. Tested on like lab rats. Treated like we have no sense of feel." Nightwing and Robin where speechless, as 223 talked. He dropped his arm and coughed again. "Two-zero-zero came into the labs with two little boys. I don't know how she did it but she escaped. She is strong… but… can't be trusted…" he coughed again and took a shallow breath, "Her alliance is unknown… the little bird knows more than she lets on." He struggled to take one more breath, "Two-zero-zero and her team can't be successful"
Damian rounded a corner into an alley, about three blocks away from where the battle was taking place, caring Madison. "Okay," said Madison squirming in her uncle's arms, "Put me down. We're far enough away." Damian let out a sigh and put the girl down, who immediately backed up against the building and held her side. "That was stupid," started Damian crossing his arms and leaning on the building next to Madison. "What was?" she asked with a slight innocent sound in her voice. Damian sighed and stood up straight and looked at the young girl. "I mean you, not dodging that blast from Beetle," he paused as they both heard an echo of something shuffling around. "We where trained by the best," his voice was a whisper now, "And we live in a world where we are constantly running from Beetle, dodging his attacks, so-on and so-forth. I've seen you dodge that blast before." Damian reached into his pocket and pulled out a small cylindrical tube and held it over Madison's wound.
Madison shrugged, "I guess I was caught off guard." She looked down as the tube glowed a light blue, along with her wound. "Ow," she hissed as the wound slowly closed and healed up. Once it was healed Damian put the alien technology back into his pocket. Madison started to poke the new scar that developed. "Yeah right," he said walking to the entrance of the dead end alley. Madison sighed, "Fine," she said, "It was part of the chain reaction I needed to get started in order to fix the future," she paused, "It was part of the plan. And you said you trusted me and my ability to think out all options." Damian looked at his niece up and down before sighing and putting a hand on her shoulder, "I do because you where trained by Dick. We might have not been blood related, but we are still brothers." Madison gave her uncle a weird look, "Maybe you need to get back to your mom's place. You're going soft." Damian gave Madison a little punch in the arm. They both laughed.
A cough from the dead end, end of the alley. Madison rolled her eyes. "Ivy, it's fine to come out," said Madison. Poison Ivy, not looking a day older since the Injustice League tried to take over the world, stepped out from behind a dumpster. "You two are so predictable," said Poison Ivy, flipping her red hair over her shoulder. Damian glared at her, "Don't you have crops to grow?" asked the future Dark Knight, "If we are going to survive we need to work together-" Poison Ivy cut him off with a laugh, "You are such a buzz kill, Batman. Just like your father. I guess it is in your DNA," she flipped her hair again and looked at Madison, "Anyway, I need seeds, that's why we tracked you two. Little Miss 'Strongest Warrior of the Court of Owls' has the seeds that I need." Poison Ivy put her left hand on her hip, and put her right hand out.
Damian looked at Madison as she pulled out a few packets of unopened seeds. She was about to put the packets in the super villain's hand but pulled up before Poison Ivy got a grip on it. "Remember my rule?" Poison Ivy hung her head back and let out an annoyed sigh, "Yes!," she practically yelled, "Plant one seed, get two back. I know! I know!" Madison nodded and handed her the packets. Poison Ivy snatched them out of Madison hand and headed to the back of the alley, where Icicle Junior came from the sky, on a slide of ice, picked up Poison Ivy and headed off. Madison watched as the ice disappeared behind them. Damian tapped on Madison's shoulder, "We have some trouble." Madison turned around and froze…
Batman walked over to Nightwing and put a hand on his shoulder. "We need to find this 'two-zero-zero'" said Nightwing. Batman grunted in agreement, "But first lets go find the girl and the boy," said the Dark Knight. He felt Nightwing tense and even Robin could see him tense up. "The girl will, most likely, know who this two-zero-zero is," said Batman. Robin nodded, "We will also get a lot of answers as well." Nightwing sighed and looked at Batman and then Robin. "Okay," he finally gave in and stood up. "We'll come back for 223 later," said Batman, leading his two masked sons toward the direction of where Damian and Madison went.
Finding where the two went, turned out to be a bit harder than they thought. Even though the three where trained detectives, the two that they where looking for where, in fact, trained by them. After searching the first two blocks, Robin began to get a bit frustrated. "I think they must have gone the other way-" he started. Nightwing shook his head, "The other way is blocked by debris. And this would have been the most logical way to go, especially with the injuries that the girl had." Robin shrugged and continued to try to find any type of clue. Batman had returned, from a place that Robin and Nightwing didn't even know he had gone, "We will check the next block. They couldn't have gone that far," he said. Robin let out a little annoyed sigh and Nightwing nodded. Batman had, once again, disappeared some where, while Robin and Nightwing started to walk down the street, not really looking for clues and just taking, what they considered, a break.
Nightwing stuck his hand out and stopped Robin, almost making him fall over. "Hey-" started Robin before Nightwing shushed him. Robin was quiet and heard what Nightwing heard. Two voices from a nearby alley. The older hero motioned Robin to follow him quietly toward the voices. When the two got to the alley they stayed around the corner and listened. "-you trusted me and my ability to think out all options," said a girl. There was an audible sigh, "I do because you where trained by Dick. We might have not been blood related, but we are still brothers," said a male. Robin leaned over to Nightwing, "I think these are the two that we are looking for," he stated. Nightwing nodded.
Robin was quiet for a little bit more and then said, "So, Bruce is going to adopt another son?" he older hero gave him a look that said 'really?' and 'not right now'. "Ivy, it's fine to come out," said the girl. Nightwing grew curious and looked around the corner and Robin did the same, the two people that they where looking for had their backs toward them, talking to Poison Ivy. "Do you think they are in an alliance with Poison Ivy?," asked Robin quietly as the two heroes put their backs to the wall again. Nightwing only shrugged and began to listen again. "If we are going to survive we need to work together-" Poison Ivy cut the boy off with a laugh, "You are such a buzz kill, Batman. Just like your father. I guess it runs in your DNA." Nightwing and Robin gave each other a confused look "Anyway," continued Poison Ivy, "I need seeds, that's why we tracked you two. Little Miss 'Strongest Warrior of the Court of Owls' has the seeds that I need."
"Okay," said Nightwing, "Time to end this little meeting." Nightwing stood up from his crouching position, Robin quickly followed. The two walked in front of the alley, just as Poison Ivy and Icicle Junior went off. The boy was the first to turn around and then tapped the girl on the shoulder. "We have some trouble," he said to the girl. Madison turned around and froze, her eyes had the look of shock. "Uh," she started, "Hi?" Damian looked behind them and whispered to Madison, "I hope you agree that we need to escape," Madison nodded slowly not taking her eyes off of Nightwing and Robin. "Good, fire escape. Left building." Robin took a step forward. "You two are coming with us," said the boy wonder. "No," said Damian. Robin didn't really know what to say. It's not everyday that when you tell a possible villain that when they are "coming with us" they just don't say no. Especially as casually as Damian just did.
Nightwing took a step forward, "Yes you are," he said sternly, "We have some questions for you two." Madison nodded, "Well, that's understandable," Damian and Madison slowly started to back up, "Since we just, you know, appeared out of know where, and you just witness, what I'm going to guess, looked like a deal going on with Poison Ivy, so-" Damian and Madison turned quickly and ran toward the fire escape on the nearby brick building. Nightwing and Robin quickly followed, but as soon as they got to the fire escape, the two bats from the future where all ready on the roof, running toward the next building. And once Nightwing and Robin where on the roof, Damian and Madison where two buildings away. "Robin! Follow them, I'll call for help," said Nightwing quickly. Robin nodded and made his way, quickly over the alley ways, onto the next buildings. Nightwing put his hand up to his ear "Robin and I need help. We found two, possible, civilians. Both are, possibly, from the future. And they where making some sort of deal with Poison Ivy. Need assistance. They are escaping over the roof tops. Robin is following them, I am right behind them." And with that, Nightwing started to jump over the gaps between buildings as well.
Damian and Madison didn't dare look back as they jumped, easily, from building to building. "So," panted Damian, growing tired already, "Is getting caught and possible put in jail part of your plan?" he asked still flawlessly jumping over the gaps. Madison shrugged, "Well," she started, "no, not really. But I think if we get to the Safe Zone, we should be fine." Damian looked to Madison, "Should-" he started to ask but missed a step and took a nasty dive, into the cement, flat, roof top. Madison started to slow down but Damian yelled at her, "Keep going! I'll be right behind you!" His niece picked up speed again. The future Batman quickly got up and started to leap to the next building. In mid-air though he stopped, Damian closed his eyes and braced to hit the ground but when he opened his eyes, he saw a green bubble around him. "Great," he mumbled as he looked up to the Green Lantern and slid down the curved side and sat down, and didn't even both to try to escape.
Madison didn't look back but didn't hear her uncle behind her. As she quickly ran, seeing the last couple of buildings before she got to the outer limits of the city, she heard someone flying behind her. At the next alley, she made a quick decent, before zig-zagging through the tiny alley ways. When she saw the path, that would, no doubt in her mind, give her a bit more hope for freedom, she ran into something and fell on the ground. Madison rubbed her chin and looked around at the light blue, glowing orb around her. "Whelp, I know when I'm beat," she basically yelled as Rocket lifted her into the air. Damian started to laugh and could barely talk, "You-you j-just ran into-" he couldn't even finish his sentence.
Madison glared at her mentor, "Hey, Dami, how's your mum" she asked, too, sweetly with a devilish smile on her face but trying to act innocent. Damian quickly stopped laughing. "Hey Mads-" he started, mocking his niece. Rocket rolled her eyes at their antics and followed Green Lantern to where Nightwing, Robin, and Batman where. "Take them to the Watchtower, and get them into the interrogation rooms," said Batman in one tone. Madison groaned, "This is your fault Damian." Damian laughed, "You always say that," he countered. "Because it always is!" she yelled. Rocket looked at Batman, "Can we put a muzzle on one of them? Or both?"
Translations: (Only because I was goofing around with google translate)
Maman! Papa! J'ai été sauvé par le chevalier d'ailes!: Mommy! Daddy! I was saved by the knight of wings!
Nightwing, ma petite fille: Nightwing, my little girl
Au revoir, mon chevalier!: Goodbye, my knight!