Dick Grayson

1 Year Ago

Dick stumbled across the street, the rain pouring on him as his bare chest and legs seized up.

'Move.'

He clenched his teeth, forcing himself forward as his body healed once again, falling 10 stories didn't matter when you were virtually unkillable.

'Keep fucking moving, almost there…'

He let out a breath, the white cloud of air blocking his sight as his body slowly got used to the numbing cold.

3 years, he'd spent three years with the crazy clown. No one thought to look for him, he'd even been replaced as nightwing, no doubt Tim wanting to follow in his footsteps.

He didn't know how to feel, he wanted to get angry, hit something, but he knew his family would never forget him like that.

They… They had to have tried to look for him. Joker probably managed to keep him from their grasps.

Hope burned at his core as he saw the familiar gates of Wayne Manor, tucked into a far side of Illinois. The Batfamily protected all of the state after all, to the best of their ability.

He froze as he saw the familiar face of his father, Bruce Wayne, Batman…

"B-Bruce…" Dick said, smiling as he fully healed and ran up to Bruce, tears in his eyes as he looked at his adoptive father.

"What's you do to him…" He heard before a bone shattering punch slammed into his jaw, sending him sprawling to the ground.

"B-Bluthe!" Dick yelled, his jaw shattered as Bruce grabbed his collar.

"What'd you do with my son!" Bruce screamed, his eyes turning green as his form flickered.

"Hahahahaha! I didn't think my little bird would escape!" Joker yelled as Bruce let go of Dick, his form flickering back and forth between the villain and the hero.

"No!" Bruce growled, holding his head as The Joker slowly appeared in his place.

"I'm gone for a few days and you run?" Joker asked, laughing as he pulled a knife from the inside of his purple suit.

"Guess you still need training!"

"No!" Bruce's gruff voice replaced Jokers as his form flickered again, his eyes wide as the buff man appeared again.

"Come on now Bruce, you can't fight it, no one can fight my power~" Joker said, replacing Bruce once again as Dick widened his eyes.

"What'd you do to him!" Dick yelled, jumped toward Joker before feeling the knife tear through his ribs.

"Ah Ah Ah, you stay down, can't have my pets-" Joker didn't finish as Dick slammed a fist in his face, sending the man back.

"Little Nightwing… Do you really want to fight me?" Joker asked, smiling as blood poured from his nose, staining his impossibly white teeth as Dick tore the knife from his side, holding it in front of him.

"Wanna know a secret?" Joker asked, pulling out a gun and shooting.

"I have a Parahuman ability~"

Present Day

"Yo Dick? Are you even listening to me?! How am I going to teach you the health benefits of dark chocolate if you're nodding off while looking at Batman?" Jester said, scowling as he held up dozens of chocolate bars in his hands.

Jester

"Ungrateful Prick," I muttered, tossing the bars aside as I looked at Batman, tied up and looking at us.

There was guilt there, some hatred as well, but mostly guilt. Had he really killed Dick in this world then?

But I'd never heard anything about a Lazarus pit, and as far as I know Ras Al Ghoul doesn't exist either…

"You wanna explain it to me Bruce? I seriously can't wrap my head around this shit, try as I might, It's all coming up blank..."

"Don't bother... He's not Bruce anymore, he's whatever The Clown wants him to be..." Dick said to my right, his words hesitant as he looked at Batman.

"What's that mean?"

Dick sighed, standing up and pointing at Batman.

"The man known as The Joker has never been seen in his true body. He has the ability to posess people, he takes their strength, experience, and abilities and can use them in whichever body he's in, but he can use anything and everything when He uses his original body... That's how he explained it to me anyway."

"So... He's like a master 10 or some shit? Holy crap," I said, looking at Batman... Joker? Is this even really batman anymore?

I had assumed Batman had triggered upon his supposed murder of Dick Grayson, which Dick kindly informed me had just been Batman keeping his wits and killing him without knowing he has supernatural healing.

That's right, Dick is fucking Deadpool apparently, except more openly depressed and probably not as strong.

"So... How many can he master at a time? If he's unlimited than he could be anywhere and everywhere..."

How had I even completed that debut quest?

Maybe the quest was specifically for this Joker projection, and yes, this isn't Bruce Wayne or Batman anymore, it's a cheap copy made from The Joker's desire of what he wants Batman to be.

"Huh... Isn't this fucking wild. Here I thought I'd go with Blossom and sign up for that independent thing so they'll trust me. I was going to advance on the game as well... Is it too much to ask for me to do random bullshit?"

I stood up, begrudgingly opening my phone and going to my PHO dms. There were a few dozen, Jester had kind of lost his buzz for a while, yet there was Batgirl's handle at the very top asking to meet with me.

She'd been asking for two weeks now, but I'd just ignored it and avoided her whenever I saw her around Brockton Bay...

JesterLOL: Yo, come to this address. Bring your family with you, serious meeting… For once.

Most of the batfamily were around BrocktonBay, except for the female Robin, who had joined the Chicago wards a few months back. Red Robin was still a vigilante, and Batwoman had replaced Batman in the non-powered cape scene.

Batgirl: I knew you lived there. So my guess was right, you're the "wannabe gangster."

I didn't answer her rude message, simply putting my phone away and looking at Dick as he stared down at Batman.

"So... What about that one Robin who was killed by The Joker then? Another projection? Do you have any clue how many he has?"

"I've killed 14 this year, I only came to Brockton Bay to kill this one, but I didn't know he was still using Bruce... I thought he just killed him after transferring all the funds to himself."

I nodded, looking down at Batman. It made a lot more sense why I'd beaten him now. When I had fought him he didn't seem quite complete, as if something was missing, and he was trying to kill me at the time. Guess Joker wanted a pet Bat just because?

Still... 14 projections? Assuming The Joker can have unlimited, it'd be impossible to find him, especially on this little bit of information I had.

"Probably best if the rest of you guys don't see him like this, kind of fucked," I said, putting Batman back in my card and putting it with the rest of the deck.

Dick was apparently the last to see Bruce, his disappearance matched what he had told me about the night...

I looked at dick, dropping Jester. Batgirl figured it out, and my mansion was more famous than either of my identities simply because Scion paid a visit, so they'd know who I was even if I kept it up.

"He seemed guilty when I fought him. Like he regretted something... He said he killed you? But that was just The Joker right?"

I noticed the subtle clench of his fists that Dick did before he relaxed.

"No... Bruce got control for a little... He said it was better if I died so Joker couldn't get ahold of me. He acted like it was the best outcome, shoving a bomb down my throat..."

I grimaced, imagining Dick's head blowing up and them slowly reforming. Too much regeneration could be terrible. Especially if his power worked like he said it did. The pain only getting worse each heal? Fuck that man...

"So he just killed you? That's… rough buddy," I said, feeling kind of awkward.

Maybe it was the fact I only really talked to the girls, but I completely forgot how to talk to my peers.

"Anyway… Invited your friends over, most of them should show up…" My words trailed off as he just stared blankly at me.

"Victor-" Bubbles said as she stepped out of the hallway, pausing as she saw my guest.

Some people could say she blushed because Dick was attractive, but it was probably because she was only wearing a pair of panties.

"Ahh!" She squealed, stepping back out of our line of sight as I chuckled. Bubbles would always be cute and innocent despite how she acted in the bedroom.

"Are you cheating on that redhead from last night... Blossom?" Dick asked, a frown settling on his face as I continued laughing.

Bubbles came back a moment later wearing her maid outfit, which would probably only make Dick's opinion of me worse... Oh well.

"Who are you?" She said, glaring at him, and I almost laughed.

I mean, we were in my home, he'd been here for an hour at this point, yet here she was barely meeting The Dick Grayson.

Dick Grayson was always my favorite Robin, Nightwing is badass, better than Batman even, don't care about anything else I was already at the edge of fanboying.

"His name is Grayson, Dick Grayson," I said extra seriously, should have grabbed my sunglasses. It would have made this seem like some movie shit.

"Should I expect more... Guests?" Bubbles asked.

I'll admit, I'm an asshole. I'm a terrible person and I'll make mistakes, but if I'm being honest, I like all the girls, maybe I'd love them eventually. So, when I saw this, I immediately noticed what was different about bubbles.

She was shaking, her voice was quiet and she was trying her best not to break down.

"You can sit down and relax Dick, I'll be back in a second," I said, inwardly sighing as I grabbed Bubbles and teleported to my room.

She let out a breath, holding onto me tightly as I stayed quiet, letting her relax.

Bubbles had been raped, her innocence had been taken from her by men a long time ago. I should have realized just because she acted a certain way with me didn't mean she'd be comfortable with other guys around.

"You alright?" I asked after a bit once I noticed she'd stopped shaking.

"Sorry... I didn't think being in close proximity with other guys would mess with me so much... I'm so pathetic."

"Hey..." I said, grabbing her hand and smiling down at her. I guess I need to comfort people now, can't be a piece of shit all the time. "It's fine, relax in your room, there's no need for you to talk to other guys until you're ready."

She nodded and I let go of her hand, leaving her in my room as I went back out into the living room, seeing Dick using my TV.

He looked confused, downright shocked as he navigated the smart TV. I kept forgetting it was only 2011 in this world, of course they didn't have things like this around, there's a whole Alexa connected to the electronics...

"Don't think too much about it, I got an electronic tinker to make some cool shit, the tv's voice-activated too," I explained, hoping that would be enough to cover it up.

He nodded. "Bruce had something similar, just didn't expect normal people to have such... Advanced tech."

"I'm not normal, haven't you figured that out yet?"

He gave me a strange look, but before he could answer, a knock echoed through the hall.

"Looks like they're here."

He sighed, turning off the Tv. "Get on with it then…"

"Aww, don't be like that dick," I said, opening the door. "I'm sure they'll be excited to see yo-"

I stopped talking when a sword sliced down at my neck.

"Robin!" Batgirl hissed, pulling the young vigilante back as I snapped my attention to him.

Robin shrugged Batgirl off, staring me down. "He's a villain, I saw on PHO he's just a gang member-"

"This isn't the reunion I was expecting, didn't you promise there would be lots of hugging Victor?" Dick asked from behind me, revealing himself before the small Robin could get his ass kicked.

"Dick?" Batgirl said softly, her eyes widening under her mask as the older boy smiled at the two.

"Hey."

Batgirl rushed in, hugging the older boy tightly as Robin stood frozen behind her, his eyes wide behind his mask as he looked at his older brother.

"Heh," Robin said, trying his best to hide his emotions. "Should've known you wouldn't stay dead, next thing we know Dad will show back up."

Dick stiffened in Batgirl's arms as I turned my head, stifling a laugh.

"What's wrong?" Batgirl and Robin said at the same time.

"My bad, it's just-" I stopped talking, my stomach Lurching as it felt like I was pulled out of my body.

"The fuck?" I bit out as I watched myself continue talking to the batfamily, though my demeanor had completely changed.

"- He's fucking dead." I? Said.

"Dead? That's impossible we've found plenty of evidence he's alive!" Robin yelled before my body grabbed him by the hair and socked him in the face faster than anyone could move.

"Stop fucking yelling in my house… Or should I make sure you stay quiet for a long time?" My body said in a chilly voice as I cringed.

"Disassociate…"

You will occasionally find yourself unable to focus on reality, feeling like a passenger in your own body. Happens randomly once a month for 24 hours. Can be removed.

"This isn't the same as not focusing on reality!" I yelled at no one in particular.

I was literally outside of my body, watching as my edgy phase reached to the surface and multiplied itself by 100.

I was trying things out for a few months, and I recognized the rough way I was speaking. I thought I was so badass then…

"What the fuck are you doing!?" Dick yelled, pushing past Batgirl to grab me.

"What's wrong? Do you need a beating too… Fine, I'll fuck you up," My body said softly, smirking as I ducked under his arm and grabbed the bottom of his pants, yanking up with all my might and sending his head to the floor.

Dick caught himself, kicking out of my grip as Robin stabbed at me with his sword.

"I knew you were a villain, this was a trap wasn't it?!" The kid yelled as my body dodged the blade.

"Greatness doesn't need traps, just finally seeing for the first time, you people are trash, your lives are barely worth living…" My body said, reaching into my pocket before pausing.

"Fuck… No one's got a ciggy?" My body asked with a sigh as it grabbed Robin's sword and punched the side, bending the sturdy metal as I laughed.

"Fuck Fuck Fuck! Stop acting cool! It's embarrassing!" I screamed in my ear, though it had no effect as a quest popped up.

Quest Added

Destroy The Empire

Objective: Root out the members of the empire and destroy them all.

Bonus objective: Embarrass the gang in a public way.

My body threw Dick away, yawning as he transformed into Jester.

"Just got a better mission than kicking some kids ass. Make sure you clean up the place on your way out. It's time to make some laughs," My body said before teleporting.

I've teleported before, it's nothing special. It's a little different teleporting right into Max Anders house though…

Blossom

"So… You're basically a better Alexandria? This is so bullshit," Vista said, walking in front of blossom as the red head followed her younger senior.

They'd just talked about their powers on her first patrol, and with what little she knew of Alexandria, she had to admit Vista wasn't far off.

Strong, fast, able to fly, and basically impenetrable. She also had two elemental breaths which made her even better.

Victoria had said something similar when they'd talked about powers, but she didn't think others would put so much focus on it.

"Is that a bad thing?" She asked shyly, looking at the much younger girl trying to come up with things to talk about.

Vista reminded her of Bubbles, maybe not young bubbles, but the bubbles that struggled with talking to people after the incident, the one who was so traumatized and unconfident she could barely form a sentence.

"No it's… Good."

They walked in silence for a bit, not really seeing anything worth them stepping in for.

"So… How long have you been dating that clown guy?" Vista asked as they turned a corner, one block over and they'd be in Victors neighborhood.

"Not very long, it's pretty new," Blossom answered easily, blushing lightly as she remembered their first time together.

She still felt a little guilty, or she had that morning until Bubbles had hugged her and congratulated her on "Joining the dark side."

She'd have to ask Victor to watch those Star Wars movies with her eventually so she could understand her sisters new references.

"I can't imagine, everything we've seen of him shows he's kind of… Erratic."

Blossom nodded. "Yeah, he's a little weird until you get to know him. Sometimes I worry he fakes a lot of his personality. I hope that's not the case but i wouldn't be surprised."

Blossom stopped herself, she didn't want to reveal her insecurities to a 12 year old. If she wanted to talk about her worries she could go to Victoria or even Shadow Stalker.

"Fakes his personality? Thats not a red flag or anythi-"

Time slowed as Blossom flew forward, grabbing her teammate and shooting up into the air to dodge the razor sharp boomerang that would have killed her.

"Oi, I didn't hide all this time for the kiddy team, where's assault?" Captain Boomerang asked, catching his tinkertech boomerang and looking at the floating pair.

"Thanks," Vista said as they landed a dozen feet away from the villain.

"Don't thank me yet," Blossom said, frowning. She recognized captain Boomerang of course. Buttercup liked the Batman comics, Bubbles enjoyed reading more marvel stuff. Her though? She was always a flash fan.

"Boomerang's a terrible choice for a weapon you know?" She asked, stretching her legs as she began to feel excited. This would technically be the first real villain she took down in years.

Taking the merchants down had just left a sour taste in her mouth, but now she could take down a real villain.

"Oh? Is that so girly?" Captain Boomerang asked, pulling out a dark red boomerang from his satchel. "Then take… This!"

It was a blur. Had it been anyone else besides those with space/time abilities they wouldn't have been able to track it.

But the powerpuff's were beings that could fly around the entire earth in less than ten seconds.

She flew past the boomerang, grabbing it out of the air and throwing it back at Captain Boomerang with a loud crack of the air.

"The fu-" Was all he said as the blunt edge slammed into his shoulder, shattering his arm and collarbone and sending him tumbling down the street.

"Yes he's down now, she did great," Vista was saying by the time Blossom went back to her.

Vista turned off her comms, looking at the groaning villain with a smile.

"Nice work newbie," She said with a laugh, walking up to Captain Boomerang and restraining him quickly.

"Some enforcers will be here soon to take him away, when assault gets here you'll have to make a quick report-"

Vista cut off as the wall next to them exploded, several large chunks of rock slamming into the two faster than they could react.

Blossom shrugged it off, looking angrily at the opening.

"Where is he!" Hookwolf screamed, looking around the area before spotting something atop one of the buildings.

"Die!" The empire member yelled as he rushed past the shocked Blossom.

"Die? How can a mere mutt take me down? Just give chase like a good puppy," Jester said, cackling atop a building and holding a phone up, as if he was vlogging.

Blossom was about to call out, or stop Hookwolf before she reprimanded her boyfriend for his behavior, but she stopped mid word, her eyes widening as she remembered her partner.

Her way more vulnerable partner.

She threw debris every which way until she found Vistas small body, blood dripping from her head, her left arm torn to bits.

"Fuck!" Blossom cried out, grabbing Vista and checking her pulse.

'Still alive… Barely,' She thought, bursting from the scene as she flew to the only person she knew that would be able to heal this mess. She'd deal with Victor later. After her younger co worker was safe.

Eyepatch

"Monster," He whispered as he tore the new ghoul in front of him apart, ripping the abominations head off.

He always tried to be there for new trigger calls in case an abomination was born, it was the best he could do to make sure they didn't multiply.

Ghouls couldn't reproduce, so he didn't need to worry about the current ones too much, he'd kill them all one day…

"I still can't get used to how brutal you are, I get they're ghouls but even I wasn't that bad," Shadow Stalker said, leaning against the wall at the end of the alley, watching as Eyepatch tore the ghoul's body apart.

"Monsters deserve brutality, once they're all gone I expect the director to do the same to me…" Eyepatch said, kicking the mangled corpse aside as he pulled out a small flask of gasoline and lit a match.

Watching the would be abomination burn finally got him to calm down. He didn't always used to be so bloodthirsty, but it needed to be done, the monsters needed to die.

"Whatever… You hear about the empire?" Shadow Stalker asked, clearly happy even though he couldn't see under he mask.

He groaned. Jester was strange, he didn't act human. If he didn't have high intuition he'd say it was a psychological change from triggering, but he knew better.

Jester was an actor. He faked his personality, he wasn't happy, he wasn't a jokester, he was a fraud who wanted to be seen doing heroic acts.

"I saw. I didn't think they'd be beaten so easily, it's only Hookwolf left now right?" He asked, remembering the call from Pigot that had him, assault, and Miss Militia rounding up the beaten members of E88 only a couple of hours ago.

"Rune went into hiding, and Hookwolf is currently rampaging through Empire territory chasing Jester. You weren't answering your comms so they sent me to grab you, everyone's been activated to stop his bloodbath."

Eyepatch nodded. Hookwolf wasn't a ghoul, but he was a piece of shit. He would enjoy putting the beast in his place.

"And Jester?"

"Live-streaming the chase, making jokes and letting people donate to decide if he gets caught or not. He doesn't seem scared. I'm pretty sure he's not all there."

More acting… He'd need to confront the young "hero" soon. He had his own hunches, but he wanted to talk to the boy before taking action.

It'd be a shame if he killed him and he wasn't actually the Victor that was fraternizing with the ghouls.

'Traitor…'

"Let's go then," Eyepatch said a second later, flexing his Kagune and using it to climb the building.

Shadow Stalker was close behind him, moving as fast as she could as he rushed from rooftop to rooftop to get to E88 territory.

Batfamily

"I told you he was a villain!" Robin yelled over the comms as Batgirl and Red Hood wrapped peoples wounds.

"That wasn't normal, he was sane one second and all of a sudden he's destroying one of the biggest gangs in the city…" Redhood said, patching up a kid and then pulling out two glocks, loading them and looking at the destruction Jester had led through his neighborhood.

"Whatever is happening we need to take down Hookwolf, he's the one causing all the damage, Jester is just stringing him along," Red Hood finished, looking to Batgirl as she finished up her own patchwork.

She nodded, choosing not to add to the others words and pulling up Jester's live stream…

Jester

"Thanks for the 50 bucks Heisenburg, I'll make sure to use that to buy more chocolate!" My body said to the camera, jumping behind a car to avoid the corpse that Hookwolf had thrown at it.

"Stop running!" The villain yelled, his tone enraged as he stood about 50 feet from me.

"I'm just doing what the viewers decide Hookwolf, it's called an Irl stream," I said, dodging the Toyota Camry he threw at me.

"Stop playing games!" Hookwolf yelled, rushing forward as I tossed up my phone, cracking my knuckles and catching him in place.

"I would, but I really want those quest rewards~" He widened his eyes as I slammed him into a building, destroying the side of it and sending him flying through.

I'd been underestimating Demigods blood. It was a huge boon. If I had to guess I could be classified as a brute 6 at least, if not stronger.

It's too bad I couldn't do this shit myself. Dissociate would need to go as soon as possible. Two and a half weeks left until Behemoth was supposed to show up and I was still getting bitched by my drawbacks.

It was infuriating, but I really only had myself to blame.

I should have taken one or two drawbacks. Why had I treated a second chance at life like a game?

Well… I knew the answer to that, but fuck it was biting me in the ass now.

"You're so weak, this is the empires strongest enforcer? Stormtiger was harder to beat than you…" My body said, sighing as he slammed Hookwolf into the ground once again, except this time he stepped on his back and ripped off his right arm, tossing the torn limb into the air with a large smile.

"Agh! Fuck!" Hookwolf groaned underneath my body, squirming on the ground and trying his best to get up, only for my body to keep him pinned to the ground with ease.

Jester's Dodge deactivated.

What?

"That's how you do it!" My body yelled happily, jumping back from the injured Hookwolf and tossing my phone to the side.

"Fucking finally! A real fight!" He yelled, looking at the screen as he navigated through his other passives.

"How the fuck did he turn it off!" I screamed, ripping out my nonexistent hair as I watched my body get into a relaxed fighting stance.

"Let's do this empire scum, the darkness shall swallow you up today, every life ends with a laugh…"

"Kill me," I groaned. "He's saying gibberish so please Just fucking kill me."

"Have you always talked like that?" Hookwolf cringed as he rushed forward again, ignoring his missing limb and trying to grab at my body.

It jumped over the grab, landing on his well muscled arm and stabbing a finger into one of Hookwolf's exposed eyes, ripping it out before jumping a few feet away again.

"I spy with my little eye… A dead man!" My body yelled, throwing the eye with impossible force and making it rip through Hookwolf's outstretched hand.

"Why even bother blocking? You can't beat me…" That chilly voice of mine said right behind hook wolf, my body wrapped around him in weird angles, almost like a snake.

Crunch

"That's right, break, break!"

"D-Damn it!" Hookwolf yelled, grabbing my leg and chomping down on my arm, struggling desperately to break my body off of him.

"Keep struggling, it makes this more fun you Nazi fuck," My body said, twisting unnaturally and breaking Hookwolf's metal jaw.

"W-Why…" Hookwolf whispered, falling down as my body let him go, his body broken beyond repair. His metal form didn't save him from my demigod strength.

"Why? Just needed some rewards," My body said, digging in my pockets and snatching up a chocolate bar.

"I do love sea salt in the afternoon…" It said softly as the Prt, Brandish, Glory Girl, and a few other independent heroes surrounded me.

"I caught the bad guys everyone, no need to thank me…" My body said as Eyepatch stepped forward, looking at the groaning Hookwolf.

"17 dead and over 100 injured. This isn't the work of a hero," He said haughtily, standing right in front of my body as it just looked at him with a frown.

"I got the bad guys no? Has anyone ever managed to take down the empire? Much less in an hour. Face it, I made them my bitch. It's called playing the game."

"Are you an idiot?" An angry voice said behind my body as I turned, looking at Blossom's scowl as she touched down on the ground.

"Hey babe, why do you look so… Pissed?" My body asked, staring at Blossom.

She did look pissed. Beyond pissed really. She looked about ready to kill me.

"That stunt hurt a lot of people, you could have told me you were planning on taking them down. I would have helped-"

"Helped? You're part of the wards Blossom, you can't help independent heroes like me. It'd ruin your image…"

Blossom clenched her teeth, reaching out for my body like she was going to hit me.

Instead, she pulled me close and kissed my cheek. "Good job, but please be more mindful of civilians next time?" She asked hopefully, her tone softening.

My body looked away, coughing softly as he tossed away the chocolate. "Got it, I'll make sure there's less casualties next time. In fact, I'll make sure there are no casualties next time."

Next time… Unless things changed, next time would be behemoth. It had only been two days since I got that quest. I was almost done with leveling up Jester and Trickster classes to the next tier.

I cursed my cockiness, there was no chance I'd be strong enough to do every objective by the end of the week.

"Do you have anything to say for yourself?" Eyepatch asked angrily, pushing Blossom aside to stand in front of my body again, this time his kagune was out, as if he was ready to attack.

"My bad, in my quest to destroy the evil I forgot about innocents…"

"…"

"Fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!"

Taylor

He was a criminal.

Welll, that's what people were saying online.

Taylor sighed, shutting off her computer and laying on her bed.

Despite the weird introduction she had thought he was nice, seeing the things he'd done though…

Then again… He'd only gone after villains right? The merchants weren't good people, perhaps he had his own sense of justice?

'I plan to fuck you.'

She felt her face heat up as she remembered those absentmindedly muttered words he had said. A boy had found her attractive.

She turned in her bed, looking at the suit she had finished. She was planning to go out tonight, but now she wasn't so sure.

Her head was full of Victor, and now the new hero Jester had taken down one of the worst gangs in the bay.

The only one that she could reasonably go after were the Azn Bad Boys.

The cult were too hidden and no one had ever seen a member in person, and The ghouls would just devour her.

There was the new gang that had replaced The Merchants, but the worst they'd done so far was fight with some leftover Joker cronies.

Taylor glanced to the right of her new suit, looking at the shiny new IPhone 4 Victor had bought for her.

"So I can say I finally got a girls number," He had said.

Apparently it was fully paid for, the SIM card had been paid for as well, he'd even gotten the 8 gigabyte version. She new that wasn't cheap.

Taylor sighed, her thoughts shifting to her mother's death. A car crash simply because she was looking at her phone.

It had given her an irrational fear of phones for a bit, now though… She was overdue for a cellphone, she was nearly 16.

"Alright…" She whispered to herself, pushing her emotions to the bugs swarming in her vents. "Fuck it," she finished, slipping on her costume and taking the phone, seeing the only message in her messages.

Victor: No clue when you'll open this, added my number to your phone. If you get the time fuck up those Asian nazis for me, think of it as a pre class exam. Good luck Skitter.

Skitter… She wasn't sure about the name, it wasn't the worst, but it almost made her sound sinister, and her costume did that plenty enough already.

Would she even be seen as a hero?

She'd worry about that later, for now, she decided to slip her phone in her pocket and slip on a jacket and sweatpants over her costume, her mask tucked into her hoodie as she went downstairs.

Danny snored on the couch, oblivious to his daughter sneaking out, not that he noticed her when he was awake either.

Taylor left her house quietly, her 300,000 friends crawling around the block, waiting for her command as she walked down the streets toward ABB territory…

A/N: Just realized I made a mistake with the quests I gave him for behemoth. One, I added the objective to upgrade two brand new classes, that's supposed to be an optional/Bonus objective, not something he has to do to complete the quest. So changed that.

Another thing I realized is I haven't used Disassociate yet, so that's what this chapter was for. Set up for the future and showing disassociate before I zap it from existence.

The way I see it right now, the fic will go like this.

Current: 4-5 more chapters with the last one being the longest with The Behemoth Fight.

Interlude: Either a PHO interlude or a look inside the head of a bystander character after the behemoth fight.

Joker Arc: About 10 chapters of working with the Batfamily tracking down the real Joker to take him down and get Bruce to be normal, even if Victor thinks it's a waste of time.

That's what I have planned for now.

READ THIS PLEASE!

So, seen some complaints about victors character as well as the way the story is written, I'm always open to advice and suggestions to make the story better, so if you have any suggestions on how I can make victors character a bit better and stuff, go ahead and just say it.

Long ass Authors note time to go celebrate my birthday.