Author's Note: Damn, all this week I have been obsessed with Young Justice...don't know why but I was in the mood for it...now lets get going to find out what happens to Tigress and to the rest of the team.

Summary: After Nightwing gets back to the WatchTower, Kal'dur had been suspicious about where he was and the two got into a fight. Meanwhile, the alarm goes off indicating that a threat had appeared.

Chapter 13: Warnings

Nightwing cautiously took a step back as he stared at his friend, suddenly finding it hard to breath.

"Marvelous isn't it?" Luthor's voice came.

After a moment of tense gazing, Tigress took a step forward and in a second, she reached Nightwing with distrust look.

Tigress leaned closer to his ear as she whispered the word.

"Letos..."

Dick gave a confused look but before he could ask, she zipped away. Anger took place and he snarled at the evil being.

"How dare you use my friend like that!" he replied, furiously.

"Funny how things went down hill in a...Flash."

A thunk was heard and Lex looked at the silver staff from the corner of his eyes. It was just inches away.

Dick threateningly walked forward and pulled Lex from the scruff of his shirt.

"If you ever even dare reach one of my friends again, I'll make sure you will have a horrid death...personally."

With a sick amused smile, Lex spoke. "Are you threatening me? Funny...I thought your kind doesn't kill."

Nightwing narrowed his eyes. "Take this more as a warning. New rules are about to be changed."

With that, Dick harshly yanked his staff off the wall and walked out.

:(/\):

Aqualad stopped what he was doing and turned around (when the computerized voice announced his name) to see a messed up Nightwing.

He rose an eyebrow. "What happened to you? Where've you been? You've been gone for a long time."

"Not now, Kal'dur."

Something about his voice made him be even more suspicious. As Nightwing started to reach for the buttons on the keyboard, Aqualad grabbed his wrist, preventing him from doing so.

"Yes, now. I want to know what had happen to my friend. Why you got that cut..."

He motioned to the now dry blood cut.

"Tigress's disappearance." Aqualad felt the tightening of his muscles. "The only person who would know of such knowledge is you. Bart came back so he wouldn't know."

Night stared with a hard gaze at his friend. He really didn't want to tell.

"There's a fine line between knowing things and poking on other people's business." Night said.

"There's a fine line between keeping secrets and telling."

There was a tense atmosphere between the two. Neither of them wanted to talk.

After a long moment of silence, Nightwing spoke, hating himself for starting first.

"Our team is falling apart, Kal'dur. If we continue to go like this, we will be an easy target for Darkseid." he responded, carefully selecting his words.

"I know...I'm trying to keep of what's left of our sanity. This villain proves quite to be a handful although we should've expected it. This may be the calm before the storm."

Nightwing gave a stunned look. "Are you serious?" he asked, sharply snatching his hand away. "We don't have the "calm before storm". Things have already happen in the way it should not be. And you're telling me that what had happened now is easy? An relaxation?"

Kal'dur gave a hard stare at his friend. He looked broken in so many ways. Maybe it was a bad idea to bring him back but everyone had missed him.

However, something just doesn't suit the Atlantean.

"I'm going to ask you one more time. Where is Tigress?"

:(/\):

"Letos..."

The haunting voice of Tigress kept waking him up. Ever since he came back, Kal'dur and Night had a very nasty argument and both of them decided to keep distance from each other.

Kal'dur had threatened him to take him off the team but it wasn't till then that Dick reminded him that it was he, himself, who had brought him back here.

And that was there where the argument had ended.

Dick narrowed his eyes as that word Letos kept on repeating itself.

What does that even mean? A code?

Grayson hardened his gaze even more. With a frustrated sigh, Dick brushed his hair with his fingers in an aggravated way before he walked out of the training room, pulling off the towel that was around his shoulders.

Naturally, he was half naked if course as beads of sweat were rolling at the side of his forehead.

As he was walking to the changing room, he stopped when a mirror came along.

He had a well-toned chest with six pack from all the exercises he had been doing and they were well balanced.

He frowned when his eyes trailed up to the wound of what M'gann had fixed.

It wasn't a serious a cut at all but of course M'gann was being stubborn and refused to have it infected.

Dick tore his gaze away, entered the room to grab his shirt to pull it on.

"There you are. You keep on disappearing."

Upon hearing the voice, Night stopped what he was doing and walked of the room, still didn't wore his shirt on.

"Who's calling?"

"The one you call squirt."

Dick chuckled as he saw Tim with an raised eyebrow followed by a frown.

"Hey, there." Grayson ruffled his hair, making Tim struggle against him.

"Not the hair." he whined.

After a few struggling, Dick let go leaving Tim with his hair.

"Why are you here?" Dick asked.

"What? Can't I see my brother?"

"Adopted." he pointed it out.

Tim waved the answer in dismissal. "I think of you as my real brother."

Grayson made a crooked grin. "Aw, I'm touched."

He sneered.

"Anyways, I've got to get going. I've got stuff to do. You on the other hand still need training on your combat skills. A person can literally just you pick up and throw you across the hall without breaking a sweat."

"I'm not that weak." Tim insisted. "I don't need training now. I'm fine."

Dick raised an eyebrow. "Oh yeah? So if I did this..."

The former Robin walked up to the suspicious boy and without a warning, Dick swiftly moved his hands, striking him in the shoulders to have Tim stumble backwards then he got an impact in the stomach, causing him to fall.

"That was unfair. Hardly a warning." he scowled.

Dick smirked. "When you're out in the battle field, your enemies won't give you a warning. You should know that."

Tim grunted, pulling himself up and walked towards the door but stopped, turning around to face Grayson.

"You know...your name suits you. You really are a Dick."

And it wasn't too soon when something hard and heavy flew in the air towards him and it struck painfully at his stomach. Because of the throw, it made Tim fall back to the floor with a pained groan since the object had little knocked the air out of him.

"So...did the dumbbell met the dumb?" Cassie asked as she joined the fallen boy, staring down at him; hands on her knees.

He groaned.

She sighed, patting him. "There, there."

Cassie lifted her head up only to gasp then giggled. There was Dick who was naturally showing off his chest while having his shirt covering his two arms as it was in the process of being worn.

Nightwing raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"Ah, nothing." Cassie stifled a giggle. "Oh um Aqualad wanted to have you two back at the meeting room."

"Alright." he muttered.

Cassie pauses, deciding to have some fun. "Hey, Tim...how cone you're not this buffed?"

"Cassie, I thought you were with me." Tim complained after finally getting some air in.

"Its simple. Tim's a natural softie." Nightwing teased as Cassie agreed.

"I am not."

:(/\):

The group walked around the given location as they were trying to find out what the heck made the alarm trigger.

"Okay...does anyone know what we're supposed to find?" Beast Boy asked, being on the verge of irritation.

So far, the groups hadn't found nothing.

"I dunno. I think Aqualad is losing his mind." Blue Beetle replied.

"Or maybe you two just need a brain and look a little harder." Batgirl mumbled, making them scowl.

Superboy stopped unexpectedly which caused M'gann be curious.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"I sense something..." he muttered. His eyes searched the darkness and then his sense got sharpened as he sensed a presence up ahead.

"Don't move. Something is up there." he announced.

It wasn't too long since a voice was heard.

"Oh, very very good. You had managed to find me." a deep rumbling voice came.

Slowly but surely, the unrecognizable figure began to walk out of the shadows and when it came from the darkness, the team widened their eyes...

Author's Note: Dun dun dunnn...any in take on who this figure might be? And poor Tim...he always get the short end of the stick...what happens next? Find out!