Terry punched the bag over and over. His fists turning red with every hit. Cold sweat trailed down his face like water down a river. In large beads it fell of the tips of his chin and nose. 6 hours in their makeshift barracks. Six hours beating the hell out of punching bag after punching bag, he shattered his staff into two halves and broke the halves into fourths.
This was his routine for years, he was turning himself into a lean fighting machine. Lian and Wally disapproved of him overworking his body. Dick, Terry could give two shits about his mentors opinion, he he could care less, he needed action, take out the reach. That was his only goal as the new Robin. After his dad was murdered and his mom and little brother were stolen from him by the reach he wanted revenge in every step and breath he took.
His rage was building up in him taller than the empire state building, or whats left of it anyways. Yeah the Reach destroyed all human national monuments and structures to crush the human races spirit. The whole world was under this damned regime. Terry only knew this. This horrible way of life, it was all he or Lian ever had known. Dick and Wally often spoke of a better time when they were his and Lian's age. Well it sounded great and all, but above all it sounded fake. They often said it wasn't perfect but it was better and Terry would quote, "Better than this shit hole."
"Can you take it easy on the damn thing?" Lian asked walking in. As Terry punched it one last time, pinching a hole through it, sand poured out of the side of the bag. Terry panted loudly, he wiped the sweat off his brow, and walked over to his friend.
"Can you take some initiative." Terry asked Lian, "Like I mean we only live in hell!"
"Terry, Dick and Wally have a plan to fix th-" Lian said, Terry slapped her.
"A plan you do not believe in!" Terry shouted in her face, spit flew out of his mouth. "Why should I have faith if you don't! Damn not even Wally has any!"
"Dick has faith, that's all we need." Lian said, getting in Terry's face, she pressed a finger to his chest.
"Well no amount of hope some circus orphan has can save us!" Terry said, "In fact we are all orphans!"
"Your mother isn't confirmed dead!" Lian said, "And neither is mine."
"They might as well be!" Terry said, "The one time anyone actually needs Cheshire she fucking disappears." Lian grew furious at this, he dared say that about her mom. She punched him in the mouth.
"Fuck you!" She screamed at him. Terry lunged at her, he wrapped his arms around her and pushed her to the ground. He punched her in the nose and pulled her hair. She punched him in the throat and kneed him the stomach. He punched her back in the shoulder and then the neck the in the chest. She kicked him in the hip then in punched him in the forehead, then in the balls. He dropped to the floor.
"This isn't going to stop being hell, if you don't learn how to control yourself." Lian said, "Now Nightwing needs Speedy and Robin. Not two fighting teenagers."
"What's he need the masks for?" Terry asked. Rubbing his crotch, as he stood back up.
"We are doing something, we are going to breaking out some meta-teens." Lian said. Grabbing a bow from the wall, she put a domino mask over her eyes, Terry grabbed another staff, the one that used to belong to Tim Drake, he promised Dick that he'd put it to good use someday. He retracted it it then put in in a holster on the back of his belt. Lian loaded up on arrows, and arrowheads, while Terry grabbed as many batarangs as he could physically carry.
"Now this is your first mission, the reach belive me and Velocity dead. So we can't help you, as much as we would like to." Nightwing said, Lian nodded, Terry scoffed.
"How much used would a speedster with one functioning leg be anyway?" He asked sarcastically. Wally rolled his eyes in hurt.
"Sorry Wally I meant-" Terry said, Wally stopped him, "No I'm used to you kids telling me how useless I am."
"Anyhow, we can't break out a whole prison, so you grab as many as you can and go." Nightwing said, the pair of young heros nodded their heads. "Now there is a possibility of one or both of you not making it back, so keep each other safe."
Short chapter, guys I need more OCs, I have gotten barley any submissions.