Chapter 63: A Father's Son

Authors Note: Thank you all again for your lovey reviews. Just so you know I am getting started on my injustice fic and II have some small bios on my homepage so give it a looksee. Also I might update Injustice fic sooner than later but I'm not 100% sure yet, but I'll let you know and I also made a quick couple of pics of Shadow and Breeze on my Deviantart account it is in my home page profile. Okay get ready for more epic-ness.

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The team laid sitting around eating dinner in the living room of the penthouse going over their latest discovery. Bruce having a son, no one could believe it and yet there was evidence staring them in the face.

"Maybe it was Bane's son didn't him and Talia have a thing?" Hilary joked getting a few laughs.

"Nah, he was a potential candidate for the head of the demon but Ra's decided against it at the last minute." Max said while eating his steak.

"Damian is the son of Bruce Wayne and Ra's Al Ghul. There's no getting around it." Jayden confirmed as he filled another glass full of whiskey.

"Hmm, so what do we do now?" Sarah asked. Everyone looked at Jayden for an answer and anxiously too as he sipped his whiskey. After a long while he finally said.

"Nothing."

Everyone's jaws dropped at that. The son of Talia Al Ghul was now a part of the Bat family plotting god knows what and they weren't going to do anything to stop him. This time Blaze stepped up.

"Jayden you and I both know that Damian is working for Ra's in some way." Blaze stated. "We can't just wait for him to make his move. What if his plan is to earn his trust and get into his data base or steal his weapons?"

"Bruce isn't that naïve and neither am I." Jayden defended. "Besides Blaze what are you gonna do, rush over to Wayne Manor and burn the little bastard?"

At this Blaze remained silent as Flynn moved over to him.

"He's right, if we just attack not only will Ra's and Talia send an army of assassins after us, but we'll have Batman and the Justice League to deal with." Flynn explained to his young friend. "It's best we just keep our eyes open and our guard up, okay?"

"Okay." Blaze said.

"Alright, we'll I don't know about you guys but I'm beat." Jenny said stretching. "I am going to bed."

"Yeah me too." Sarah said as the two scurried off to Jenny's room, probably having a little sleep over. Ally smiled at their child like behavior and left as well. By the end of it there was only Jayden, Flynn, Jason and Max.

Max took a sip of water and leaned back in his chair and checked down the hall then the room. When he was sure that no one was around he nodded to his friends. Jayden nodded back as he pulled out his laptop, his friends soon gathered behind him and looked down at the screen.

"Are you sure about this Jayden?" Jason asked in a nervous. "I mean Ally will be pissed if she finds out you didn't include her on this."

"Her, what about Hilary and Jenny?" Flynn stated.

"Not to mention the team." Max chipped in casually. Jayden let out a heavy sigh and looked at his team.

"Look, I need answers and Bruce isn't going to give them to me and neither is his bastard child." Jayden snapped. "He said something about catching up, I need to know what he meant by that."

"Maybe he wanted to tally up your kills with his." Flynn suggested. "He is Ra's Al Ghul's grandson he probably killed at a younger age then us."

"Then what about Talia?" Jayden said glaring at Flynn who leaned back a bit. "She's been on my ass for a while, why?"

"The same reason she's been on Bruce's." Max said. "She's the messenger and she's been sent to recruit you."

"And yet when I turned her down I'm still alive." Jayden stated sarcastically.

"And you think he has the answers?" Max asked.

"I know he does." Jayden said with determination.

"And why are we here and no one else?" Jason asked.

"You and Flynn are my brothers and wouldn't betray me or rat me out to Ally and Max knows more about the head of the demon than anyone. He would want some payback just in case things go south." Jayden explained as he logged into a secret account. "Sam is a blabber mouth he would tell Kris and Kris would tell Ally. Same for Blaze and Thomas, Mark is like her older brother due to his mistakes as a little brother to Selina and Maria…"

"Enough, all I'm hearing is that you don't want Ally to find out." Max said in a stern tone. Jayden grind his teeth in frustration as he turned to his friend. "Why?"

"I don't want her there in case things get bad." Jayden strained while taking a deep breath.

"She's seen bad there is nothing that girl…"

Max was interrupted when Jayden grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and glared into his eyes.

"I. Don't. Want. Her. There. In case. Things. Get. Bad." Jayden said slowly and in a stern tone He let go of his friend just as his computer screened turned on to reveal the man himself. "Ra's Al Ghul."

"Warrior and his Pupil." Ra's said as he looked at Jason then at Max and Flynn. "And of course the Grim Reaper of Gotham and the Ronin. It has been awhile since we have last seen each other. How goes the hunt?"

"You mean on Slade or on us, cause we took Slade down, but now there's a bounty on us." Jayden stated. "Any idea who placed it on us?"

"Yes, and before you get aggravated it wasn't me or my organization." Ra's stated. "It was a former disciple of mine and his new master."

"Who is it, The Shadow Man?" Flynn asked.

"No, much worse." Ra's snickered.

"The man burned down Gotham just to get his son to come after him, how much worse can this guy be?" Jason asked.

"He's the one who wishes Trigon's return."

This caused the whole team to freeze. They didn't expect this much information in so little time.

"Come to my headquarters in Gotham, ten minutes." The screen went blank and showed an address. Jayden quickly got to his feet and grabbed his equipment. Flynn was a little concerned at this point.

"Jayden are you sure you don't want to get the rest of the team?" Flynn said, grabbing his cloak and scythe.

"What did I say Flynn?" Jayden said, not even looking at him as he loaded his shotgun with shells.

"I know you don't want her to be there in case you flip out and go apes shit on Ra's." Flynn said. Thinking about how Hilary would think about him ditching her.

"Let's go." Shadow said as he and the rest of his team left the building.

Ally sat in her bed with her black kitten in her lap while watching the T.V which had a security camera linked to it in the living room. She saw everything as she turned it off and went out in the living room to check the rest of the team.

"He really did it huh?" Star asked. Ally nodded as she put up her hood. Mystico quickly wrapped her arms around her.

"I'm so sorry Ally." She said with sincerity.

"I know he was just worried about losing me, but It still hurts." She said in a weak voice. God now she was on the verge of crying. At this point Whisper came up to her.

"Hey, we'll go get him and after we get what we need out of Ra's we'll watch as you beat up your man." She said in her gruff voice as humorus as she could. Ally sniffed and nodded.

"Are you Sarah saying this or is this you Whisper?" Ally joked earning a few giggles and laughs from the group. Whisper blushed and pulled her hat down.

"Can we just go?" She snapped and stormed out of the room.

"C'mon," Surge said as he wrapped an arm around her. "Jayden will never admit it, but he needs you now more than ever."

Ally nodded and walked out with him giving him a sly grin the whole time. When they got to the jeep Surge finally asked.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Who was that girl you were talking to at the gym earlier tonight?" She asked in a sly tone.

Surge's only response was the red tint glowing on his cheeks.

(!)

To say Sarina was in a bad mood was an understatement. She was actually pissed off to the point where she could even feel whatever psychotic counterpart she may have had could pop up out of nowhere and go on a shooting spree. And her dad would be so proud.

They just showed Damian the batcave and all he did was insult her and Tim all night. Sarina wanted to knock the little bastard out but Alfred being a boss took the little bastard child to his room. She giggled when the butler twisted his ear and dragged him to his room. Only he could discipline a crazy bastard like him and get away with it.

She was now sitting alone in the batcave staring at the computer trying to see if this little monster was the son of Batman. DNA from his hair and saliva matched. Blood sample matched she even went as far to check Bruce's childhood photos to see if there was some resemblance. She managed to find one with Bruce and his father and matched it with a recent photo of Damian. She let out another angry grunt when they matched again.

"Dammit!" She shouted. She ran her hand through her messy blonde hair and let out another grunt when she found a green strand of hair. She quickly applied the medicine Dr. Fries gave her when she looked back at the photo of Bruce and realized he was the adult not the child.

Sarina's eyes narrowed and she didn't notice it before but this wasn't a picture of Thomas Wayne and a young Bruce.

It was a picture of Bruce and young Jayden.

She clicked on Jayden's face and zoomed in and realized that both of his eyes were blue, which was funny since he has a blue eye and a green eye. She looked back at Jayden's file and looked up his Adonis formula.

It said it was triggered by an enzyme in his brain and his accelerated heart rate. Make's sense, Bruce said that when you get angry your brain releases an enzyme that reduces your intelligence and he was so angry and scared at Jason's death I guess he triggered it.

"Heh, talk about going super sayian." She giggled to herself. It also said that in the mix his left eye turned green due to his blood stream mixed with the new chemicals. "Weird."

But what was even weirder was that when Jayden was a boy with blue eyes, his eyes looked just like Bruce's. Not by color but by similarity, they just had that same fire in their eyes.

When she went back and grabbed the actual photo of Bruce, she compared it Damian's and no surprise it matched. What did surprise her was that Jayden's photo matched as well.

"What the hell…" She was getting nervous she was about to check into this more when an unknown caller appeared on the screen. She could have gotten Bruce but she had an urge to keep acting in charge. She clicked it on and watched Talia's face appeared on the monitor.

"Batgirl, where's Bruce?" She asked.

"Tending to your son, what's up?" She asked still on edge.

"Jayden, he's coming to our headquarters…My father is about to tell him something that could break him." Talia said with a bit of hurt in her voice. Batgirl looked over at the photo of young Jayden smiling with Bruce and knew what she was talking about.

"Send me the coordinates I'll tell Bruce." She said with determination.

(!)

Shadow, Dusk, Reaper and Ronin were now standing in the center of Ra's Al Ghul's chamber. It was an underground railroad built back when he would help transport goods in the civil war. Question is was he for slavery or against it.

"I'm so glad you came, though I thought you would be alone." He grunted looking over at Shadow's team.

"Say's the guy who has twenty assassins cover our asses." Ronin snapped, Shadow settled him down quickly and looked over at Ra's.

"Let's get down to business, who is after us?" Shadow asked his right hand gripping his shotgun handle.

"Light." Ra's sneered.

"Why would Savage want us dead, I thought he would want the Justice League and the young ones taken care of?" Shadow asked.

"Not The Light, just Light." Ra's explained. "You see there was a boy who discovered that the human soul is always filled with sin or darkness as he calls it. He stated that a human soul has been consumed by Greed, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy, Pride and Lust they can be consumed and harnessed for a greater purpose."

"The soul collectors," Reaper stated. "He's the one who has been absorbing the souls of criminals."

"Yes, you see long ago a group of Satanist believed that they could manipulate the darkness of one's soul and manifest their own power. They were not as bad as today, but they were the first soul eaters."

"Like Gallagher." Dusk said. "But he was already a soul eater how did he harness the power of dark souls?"

"Simple, he became a full fledge soul eater by selling his soul to Satan." Ra's chuckled. "Or as he goes by the name Trigon."

"The dark shadow he uses is his manifested dark power." Shadow stated as Ra's nodded.

"Yes, he must have wanted to get payback on you for killing him and what better way to kill a shadow with a shadow."

"What is this Light guy's name Ra's?" Ronin asked, with aggravation.

"His name is Adrian Baron." Ra's said. Shadow actually knew the name.

"Isn't he the head master of Oxford in the UK." Shadow asked. "What's he want with Trigon and why does he want us dead?"

"He doesn't want you dead…not yet anyways." Ra's chuckled. "He wants more dark souls and since you were actually dumb enough to wipe out half of the scum of the earth I say he's got enough."

The realization hit them like a kick in the ass. They had probably just given this bastard the power he needed to destroy the world. They needed to find this guy, but they needed proof other than a mad man's word. Adrian Baron was the most respected man in London and the Shadow Warriors were the most hated group of people right now. They needed to plan things out carefully.

"Okay, that's him, but what about Cyrus?" Shadow asked. "And how does he have my power?"

"Ah yes, you see I found him one day in Germany when a few of my assassins went rouge." He explained. "I went there to kill them but when I did one of them had a son. He didn't have a name so I called him Cyrus. I trained him and he became one of my top assassins and even a potential heir to my throne. But as fate would have it, he started to become tormented from the killing. He said he heard voices in his mind of every person he killed and eventually turned against us. He disappeared after a short while and my guess is Adrian found him and managed to calm him down. As for your power he probably synthesized a perfect sample from your blood and mastered it himself."

"Dammit now we got a fucking lunatic master assassin with god like powers." Dusk snapped.

"Okay, now one last question, you and Damian." Shadow said in a low voice. A cold shiver went down his spine as Ra's smiled at him.

"You see Damian mostly stayed with his mother, she hardly let me near him." He chuckled. "He has potential, but he is wild he has too much to prove. My guess he wanted to be like you. You were supposed to be the future of my order."

"Why, why me?" He snapped. "Who the hell are you and what am I to you?" Shadow shouted aiming his shotgun at Ra's.

"You still haven't put it together have you?" Ra's said. "Didn't you ever wonder why Batman never hauled you in for all those killing, even though he knew where you lived, or why he never let the Justice League attack you and your organization?"

Shadow started to panic as he looked at Ra's with wide eyes.

"Or why Talia was so interested in you or why I was interested in you?" He stated again. "Twenty two years ago, my daughter was attacked and severely wounded while being pregnant. When we put her in the pit it affected the child within her as well later on giving him powers beyond his imagination. My daughter gave the newborn child to his father, but he didn't want him. He said he was an accident that shouldn't have happened, hell he said it was the biggest mistake he ever made."

Jayden started to tremble as the gun in his hands started to get heavier by the second.

"So he gave that mistake to some friends who lost a child of their own and named him Jayden Warney." Ra's snickered.

Shadow fell to his hands and knees and he couldn't believe what he had just heard. He didn't want to believe it but it was all true. The way he treated him when he was Sparrow, the reason why he never reported him or turned him into the police the reason he always gave Jayden that pitiful look.

Jayden was the son of Bruce Wayne, no he was the son of Batman.

Just then the ceiling crashed down upon everyone as Black Beetle landed in the center of the room.

"There you are, I've been looking for you since you left the penthouse." He grinned. "Light would like to thank you for your services." He then looked over at Ra's and morphed his hand into his blade. "And he would like you to just die. Your soul will give Trigon a mighty boost for his coming arrival."

"You killed me once Bug." Ra's snapped as he drew his sword and summoned his assassins. "And that was one time too many."

Ra's let out a battle cry as he and Beetle fought it out. Shadow was still catatonic from his sudden realization that he didn't notice his friends go flying and he was now being held by his coat collar. He looked down to see Cyrus with his sword ready.

"Your services are no longer required." Cyrus snickered.

Before he brought his sword down a bolt of electricity hit him in his sides and knocked him on his ass. Jayden looked over to see the rest of his team ready with Breeze and Surge standing up front.

"Warriors go!" She shouted as they engaged the assassins.

In the mix of the battle Batman, Robin and Batgirl crashed the party and were about to help Jayden out of there when Shadow just snapped.

He drew his sword and brought it down on Batman who blocked with his gauntlets. The two locked blades while the warriors were swarmed with assassins and Reach Warriors.

"You never wanted me huh?" Shadow snarled. "I was a mistake you say and accident!" He then put a little more force on his blade and brought Batman to his knees.

"I was young Jayden." Batman growled while holding his son back. "I was still angry at the world. Steven lost his son and I wanted to help him and his wife. I never counted on being happy." He then threw Shadow over his shoulders and onto the ground. "But when your mom died and your dad was murdered. I wanted to make things right…but I still failed. I'm sorry."

"Not yet you are." Shadow then fired a burst of electricity at Batman and knocked him back as he engaged him again.

Ra's was still fighting off Beetle when Ronin and Thanatos got involved. Ronin swiped his scalers at Ra's who quickly blocked with his swords and Beetle was engaged in hand to hand with Thanatos.

"You really have no regrets do you?" Ronin asked as he locked blades with Ra's.

"If I did I wouldn't have become an assassin." He chuckled and put his knee in his stomach.

Thanatos was quickly beaten by Beetle who flew up in the sky and fired his sonic cannon at the ground. The entire structure collapsed sending everyone down a dark hole. Cyrus and Beetle quickly escaped before the Justice League could arrive and flew off together.

"You think that Shadow knowing the truth of his origins will really turn him against his father?" Beetle asked.

"It matters not, our plan will succeed with or without him." Cyrus snarled.

(!)

Back in the streets of Gotham the warriors regrouped and scolded the members who left them behind except for Shadow who was nowhere to be found.

"Where is he?" Breeze panicked.

"Don't worry." Ronin said. "His dad has him."

Down in the tunnels of the subway station Robin and Batgirl were walking down the tunnel together. Robin was carrying Shadow's revolver and Shotgun while Batgirl was playing with his sword. Robin and Batgirl looked at each other before laughing and looking back at Batman who was carrying Shadow on his back.

"You know you have gotten better with your sword." Batman said lightening the mood.

"Yeah, well I would have h=kicked your ass many times over if you didn't use your gadgets." Shadow mumbled over his shoulder. "Wimp."

"Don't get a big head you are my son you know." Batman said with a smile.

"You mean your accident." He muttered. That made Batman a little sad.

"I never should have said those things Jayden, I just wanted Talia to leave me alone with her order." Batman pleaded. "I never wanted this life for you."

"And yet here I am."

"Yeah, c'mon let's get you back home." He said as he picked up the pace. "I'll always have you back Jayden."

"Yeah and I'll always watch yours…father."