"Hey, girl. Did you behave? Did you take care of your mom? I miss you too"
The magician and the acrobat magically appears on their apartment and their pet bunny, Pocus, happily jumps to her father.
"Mmm…Zee. I don't want to let you go or anything but I think I'm going to bleed out and pass out from the exhausti-"
Zatanna, without breaking her grasp from him, focus all her magic and starts healing him.
"Thanks, Zee but are you alright? I know that healing magic takes a tool on you and you heal me way too fast"
Zatanna puts her feet back on the ground but keeps her hands around his neck, makes a space big enough to look directly at his face and glares at him.
"You fucking scare me, Dick!"
Grayson jumps back a little at her outburst. Tears were forming on the magician's eyes.
"You don't call! I didn't know where you were! They took your tracker out! Batman and I went to rescue you and we only found your blood all over one room and your tracker…I was so fucking scare!"
Zee starts crying and Dick hugs her.
"I'm sorry, Zee. I try to find a way to reach you but they barely took their eyes off me, I barely saw the daylight. I was just out once and I was wearing the stuff they gave me and they were watching me"
He starts caressing her hair and kissing the top of her head.
"This is the last time that you go undercover or anything like that, do you understand?"
She was still buried on his chest.
"Yes, ma'am"
"No! I haven't seen you in a month. You are not calling me Ma'am. Call me baby, bae, Zee, love, wifey…"
"Zee…I'm here. It's over"
Finally, they kiss again after a month apart.
"Let's go shower"
The couple took a long shower and explored each other's body, without having sex, and they were on their bed in more comfortable clothes.
"I miss you so much, baby. The bed felt so cold without you"
Zatanna was resting on top of him, taking a good sniff of his scent, feeling his toned body.
"I miss you even more, Zee. It was hard been there but every time I close my eyes I could see your eyes, smile, hear your voice and that's what keep me going. I wasn't giving up until I have you in my arms again"
Zatanna straddles him before starting a heated make out session, their bodies were craving for the other's touch, Dick moves his hand to start groping her ass getting a moan out of her. The sorceress used all her will and might to break the kiss, leaving a confused Grayson.
"What's wrong?"
Dick keeps moving his hand from her ass to her hips to her waist.
"I want to make love to you so bad but I need to talk with you about something first…"
Dick tries to sit but Zee puts her hands on his chest and push him back.
"Are you alright, baby?"
"I know that you just back from the mission a-and that we need each other b-but…"
"Hey! You can tell me anything, any time, always"
Dick wanted to mark his ownership over her and for her to do the same but he knew it was something really important if she was willing to stop sex.
"I wanted to talk to you about this even before you went to the mission and I did not expect for the mission to last that long but…"
Dick opens his eyes in surprise after what Zatanna said to him.
Recognize: Nightwing - B01, Zatanna - 25
"Dick!"
Damian runs through the Batcave when he hears the Zeta tube announcing the arrival of the performers. The little Wayne jumps to Dick's arms and hugs him.
"I miss you too, Damian"
Zee smiles at the scene and waves at the other persons in the Cave. Waiting for them was: Bruce, Talia, Damian, Alfred, Tim, Jason, Artemis (Amazon), Donna, Cassie, Orphan, Spoiler, Oracle, Wally, Tigress, Oliver, Bart, Dinah, Clark, Conner, Diana, Kaldur, Megan and Will.
"I'm glad that you are back"
Damian breaks the hug and stands in front of the couple.
"Me too and thank you for taking care of Zee for me"
Damian puff his chest with pride. The rest greeted and celebrated the return of the first Boy Wonder.
"And here I thought that we weren't seeing you in another month or so…"
Tigress teases her friends.
"Yeah, dude. I know that you missed your wife but don't forget your bros. We went to your house like 4 times and we just give up"
Wally complains.
"Sorry but I have to make for the lost time with my beautiful and unbelievably wife"
Dick pulls Zatanna by the waist.
"And I need to be with my amazing and loving husband"
Zatanna pecks his cheek and everyone smiled at them.
"Freaks!"
Dick laughs at his friends comments before talking.
"First, I want to thanking all of you for taking care of Zee and never stop looking for me…"
"No need for that. We will always look for you and we never lose hope"
Kaldur puts his hand on his friend shoulder.
"Second, I want to apologize…this started as an undercover mission but got out of our hands soon enough. I'm want to apologize to Artemis, Steph and Roy, who isn't here, for scaring you guys and make you believe that you fail me or us and make you doubt of your skills"
"Well…I can't say much since I've been part of those plans so I kinda get you, bird brains but this help us a lot too. That guy was crazy strong a wipe the floor with us, we need to step our game"
Since Grayson's capture; Tigress and Spoiler doubled their training to honed their skill, Roy did the same but he joined the Outlaws.
"Also I want to apologize to Tim, Conner, Cassie and Bart. I hurt you guys at Wayne Enterprises and even put kryptonite in you Conner. I hope you guys can forgive me"
"It did hurt but right now I'm just glad that you are back"
Conner tells NW.
"Did you have to hit me that hard?"
"Sorry, Tim but you were figuring out who I was and I had to do it to keep you from harm's way"
Tim understood and smiles at his big brother.
"No problema, mi amigo. Fast healing, no biggie"
Dick looks over Cassie and sees her rubbing her arm. He decides to step closer to her and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Cassie. You are an amazing leader, friend and one of the greatest heroes. I'm so proud of you and I'm sorry that I make you doubt of your skills"
Cassie bear hugs him, hurting him in the process.
"Sorry, sorry"
"Don't worry. I hope this make us even"
The blonde smiles at the raven haired man.
"Also, I'd like to train with you more if that's okay with you…I'm want to learn a thing or two from you about leadership"
The first Boy Wonder looks to the second.
"Jay, thanks for protecting Zee and looking for me"
Jason scoffs.
"Don't flatter yourself, I just hate that british asshole"
"Dick, you haven't tell us anything about what happened and you still have to fill the report"
Bruce scolds his oldest son. Quickly, Dick puts everyone up to speed with everything.
"You are messing with us! You took that guy that took us down and Lincoln March at the same time!"
Spoiler couldn't believe Dick's words.
"More or less"
Zatanna couldn't be prouder of her man.
"Also, we have an announcement"
Chalant takes hands.
"Dick Grayson is joining the Justice League"
"That's amazing. It was long overdue but don't you mean Nightwing is joining the league?"
"Yes and no, Dinah"
The blonde arches her eyebrow.
"I'm becoming a public hero"
Everyone was caught by surprise. Dick walks them through the plan to get Bruce Wayne on the clear and his reason behind his decision.
"I'm looking forward to welcome you to the league"
Clarks congratulates him.
"And another thing…this is something that I've been discussing with Zee and I want to ask Damian, Bruce and Talia the following…"
The acrobat takes deep breath and comes closer to Damian.
"I know that you and Tim are having problems with the Robin mantle…"
"I don't have problems with Drake, he's the problem"
"In any case. Damian, I want you to be my Robin if that's okay with you, Bruce and Talia. Tim can be Batman's but I want you to be my Robin, what do you say?"
The little Wayne was conflicted. He wanted to train and spend more time with his older brother but he didn't want to leave his father side. Noticing his struggle, Bruce comes closer to Damian.
"I know what you are thinking, son. And you don't have to worry…yes, this means that we are going to spend less time fighting crime and training but this also mean that Bruce and Damian Wayne are going to spend more time together to make up for it"
Bruce looks over to Talia.
"I'm going to spend less time at Lexcorp so we can spend more time as family and as for Grayson…"
The Al Ghul looks to the aerial avenger.
"I'm sure that you can learn a lot from him but if something happens to my son, I'm killing you"
"Roger that. So, Dynamic Duo?"
Damian fist bump his older brother.
"I hope this doesn't get to your head. Just because you learned new skills and you are getting a new sidekick that doesn't mean that you can take me in a fight"
Jason wants to test his brother's new skills.
"You know…I want to see your skills as well and a little of payback for last time"
Tim steps forward.
"Who are you try to impress, Drake? You are by far the weakest…"
Damian just wanted to mess up.
"What about a tournament?"
Artemis, the Amazon, suggest.
"Sounds good to me"
Jason takes his jacket off.
"I want to see what you learned as well"
Everyone was surprised at Bruce's comment. And everyone was looking forward to see a fight between the Batboys.
"I have to get Lois!"
Clarks goes for her wife.
"And uncle Barry is going to kill me if I don't tell him about this"
Wally speeds out of there.
"Why does everyone want to fight my husband?"
"Afraid that they are going to break him"
The Amazon teases the Homo-magi.
"Please, none of them are at the level of Bruce or my son"
Talia joins the banter.
"And you shouldn't count Tim out!"
The blonde Amazon wanted some of that heat. Donna starts laughing her ass off watching the scene.
"What is it, Donna?"
Wonder Woman ask her protégée.
"I just realize of something…what is it with the men of this family and their obsession of getting a girlfriend that can kick their butt?"
That's when something click for everyone in the cave and notice that too. Soon enough the Batcave was filled with laughter.
"Okay. Since everyone can't fight Dick…we are making a tournament. It's the easiest way to handle this…"
Oracle tells a really pack up Cave. Superman came back with Lois and Little Johny, Wally came back with Barry and Iris.
"Since we have an odd number, Oliver was kind enough to join the fight and the final fight is going to be a 3-way fight"
Oliver wanted to test his skills against the Bats although everyone there knew that he wasn't winning the fight.
"Wonder Woman is going to be the referee for this fights and I'm going to make the match ups…"
Barbara announces.
"Are you going to use an algorithm to make the best fights?"
Megan asks.
"No. I'm just going to use a random number generator. Bruce is 1, Dick is 2, Jay-3, Tim-4, Damian-5 and Oliver-6"
Oracles shows in the computer screen the automatic match makes and shows the fights. The order was the following: Dick vs Bruce, Jason Vs Tim and Damian Vs Oliver. The spectators didn't expect for either Dick or Bruce to get out on the first round and everyone started to place their bets. Artemis, Will and Dinah felt bad for Oliver, they knew that he didn't stand a chance against anyone in hand-to-hand combat but at least he could've say that he lost to Batman or Nightwing and not a 9 year old.
"Are you ready for this, chump?"
Bruce smiles. Everyone was scared and confused to see him so happy and with that upbeat attitude. By popular demand, the Bats were fighting shirtless
"I just hope you don't pull a muscle, old man…but what about we make this more interesting?"
Dick starts stretching and everyone got intrigued at his proposal.
"What do you have in mind?"
"If I win…I keep the cent"
He points out to the giant coin.
"Hell no! You are not putting that in our home!"
Zatanna scolds him.
"The T-Rex in the other hand…"
Grayson smiles.
"You heard the boss. What do you say?"
"Alright but if I win…you'll have to always deal with the condiment king"
Spoiler and Orphan cringes at that. No one wants to deal with that annoying D-lister.
"Deal!"
Everyone got nervous as soon as the man got into fighting positions and change their laid back attitude to a serious one.
"Bruce, are you ready?"
He nods at his fellow leaguer question
"Dick, are you ready?"
He smiles.
"Fight!"