"Who are we telling about this?"
Zatanna was tightly holding Nightwing's hand. Batman, Zatanna and Nightwing were in the Batcave.
"We need to keep this as close as possible…the three of us is more than enough. We need realistic reactions from the others…"
Zatanna glares at Batman knowing that he wanted to keep her in the dark about her husband's fake betrayal.
"Batman…one more thing before we continue with this…"
"What is it Zatanna?"
"Don't you ever try to talk my husband into keeping something from me or I'm going to make sure that you only batsuit available is a pink one…"
Batman grunts at the magician's words.
"Don't worry. I won't do it. I realize that it's useless to do that at this point"
"Zee and Miss M already put some extra protection to my psyche in case they try to recur to their own Psimon or someone like that"
Dick gets back on track with the plan details.
"No matter what kind of magic they use, there's no way that they will detect or work around my spell. And if Dick is in problems, our bond will alert me"
Dick squeezes her hand.
"Okay then we are doing this…"
"Damian Wayne! Didn't you bring anyone for the show and tell?"
The teacher ask the young Wayne. All the other classmates of Damian were already with their invite by their side. He was the only one alone.
"Yeah. She's coming"
Damian was smirking knowing that no one will top his choice.
"Alright then, lets get started"
One by one, the classmates of Damian step to the front of the classroom. There were famous singers, actors, car racers, scientists, among other professions and it was Damian's turn.
"Can you please come forth, Damian?"
"See! Damian was bluffing, not even his parents are here…"
"I'm sure that his father is cheating on his mother. My parents told me that Bruce Wayne is a playboy…whatever that means"
"No one likes him. That's why he's alone"
Damian ignores all the comments by Dick and Zatanna's advice and keeps his serious mood.
"Isn't your invite here already, Damian? You need to start now…"
The teacher was feeling bad for the Wayne. She has seen how much trouble the kid has to fit in and to make friends.
"Booo!"
"He has no friends!"
"Let's move to the next thing!"
Damian's classmates were attacking until a poof smoke appeared in front of them. From the smoke, a tall and beautiful raven haired woman in magician's outfit appeared.
"Sorry for keep you waiting but a good performer needs to keep their public on the edge"
Zatanna winks at the class. The adults in there were drooling over the magician and the classmates' jaw was on the floor.
"The name is Zatanna Zatara and It's my pleasure and honor be here as Damian's guest"
The magicians tells the class before messing with the kids hair.
"How? How did you get a leaguer and top performer to be here? How much did you dad pay for that?!"
One of Damian's rivals asks.
"Huh? He or no one is paying me anything. I'm here for Damian. He's the little brother of my husband…"
"What?! Your brother is Richard Grayson?"
The teacher couldn't believe those words. One of her mayor crushes were Dick Grayson but the only thing she knew about him was that he lived in Blüdhaven with his wife, Zatanna, and that he was working with the police as a detective.
"Yeah. My father adopted him when he was 9. I spend plenty of time with him and my sister-in-law"
Damian was puffing his chest with pride.
"Who wants to see a magic trick?"
The sorceress takes her hat off and pulls Pocus out of it, she was doing her best to put a happy face and smile since Nightwing's plan should be in motion at that moment.
"Alright, Team. Is everyone in position?"
Nightwing asks through the comms.
"In position"
Tigress answers.
"Ready for action, boss"
Roy was ready.
"Let's kick some ass"
Spoiler responds.
"Then let's get this party started. Remember, we don't know yet who the players are, we just know that they are messing with something big and dangerous"
The Team enters into a warehouse, they spot a lot people. From one side there were some men and women dressed in black robes and in the other side, they were dressed in suits with Owl's mask.
"It seems that the Court it's getting something but from who?"
Oracle tries to analyze the place but founds no match.
"Whatever they are getting is shielded and I have no idea what might be…be careful"
"Roger that, Oracle. Team engage!"
The heroes jumped into position and as a soon as they landed, the cloaked gang disappeared and the heroes were surrounded by an army of Talons.
"Join us or die?"
One of the masked man stepped up and give Nightwing a way out.
"No, thank you"
The heroes engage in fight with the multiple Talons. Arsenal was using his katana with one hand and the blaster in the other, knowing that they were zombies, he was free to blast them away and cut them in half. Tigress was using her crossbow, taking as many enemies as possible, her hand to hand combat help her getting through many of them. Spoiler used her fighting skills to keep the Talons at bay.
Nightwing was watching how his team was struggling against the Talons, his team was skilled but they were too many and the enemies were too strong. He used his eskrima sticks and throw them to help Spoiler with her attackers, the ritcochet effect help clean the path for her to go and help Arsenal.
"I'm calling for back up"
Oracles was panicking seeing the heroes getting overwhelmed.
"Team, let's gather up!"
Nightwing round house kicks the zombie in front of him before jumping into the rails and signals his teammates to do a team-up attack. Four enemies jumped at him but he easily took them out but when he looked up to his friends and saw a taller and stronger Talon beating Tigress in hand to hand combat and throwing her towards Arsenal knocking them down. Spoiler rushed to the assassin but was easily caught by him. Cobb was holding Stephanie's head crushing it.
"Last warning, Son. Join your family or I will kill this brat"
Spoiler wasn't able to speak as her body was going limp.
"Nightwing! Don't do it! Help is in th-"
Dick took his comm off and crush it.
"Let her go. Spare her life, my team's life and I will join you…"
The Talon lets the blonde go, Stephanie's unconscious body hits the ground.
"Good"
The other Talons came behind Dick's back and knocking him unconscious as they drag him.
"Tigress! Please, answer me"
Artemis' hears a voice and she couldn't figure it out who was it.
"What? What the hell?!"
She jumps but was calm down by Black Canary. She looks up and sees Green Arrow checking on Roy and Conner checking Spoiler.
"Easy. You got quite the beating…"
"I hate Zombies"
Roy holds his head as he tries to focus.
"Where is he? Where's Nightwing?"
Spoiler as the last one to fall, starts noticing the lack of his fellow bat brat.
"I'm sorry, Spoiler. They took him…"
Conner answers her with a somber mood.
"That was great, Zatanna. Thanks for coming…"
Damian thanks the magician as they were walking towards Chalant's place, Zatanna bought an ice cream for her and for the young boy.
"There's no need for that. We are family but now I get why you beat the crap out of them, these guys are so annoying"
Damian smiles remembering his classmates faces when Zatanna showed up as his guest.
"I thought that you didn't approved violence"
"I don't but those guys need to learn a lesson…that's why I'm going to teach you the art of sass"
The sorceress and the ninja were interrupted by an emergency call from the League.
"Sorry, Damian. I need to take this…"
As soon as she picks up the call, her ice cream falls to the ground and the Wayne looks at her.
"What is it?"
"The Court…they got Dick"