In another hall in the fortress
"What am I doing?" Nightwing thought to himself, "I have to get out of here." Using all his might, Nightwing tried to move his arm, but the chip that was implanted in his neck wouldn't allow it. Being led into a room, Nightwing could see that Ra's al Ghul and some of his assassins were standing in a circle.
"Well this would be fun, unfortunately, I will have to miss it. Do what you will, just make sure that he can be fixed when you are done with him." Ra's al Ghul then made his way towards Nightwing, and whispered, "Enjoy, and remember that everything I do is for a purpose." Ra's al Ghul then exited the arena. Now the only ones there was Nightwing, and about a dozen of assassins. "We're going to disable your chip for this part. We want you to remember this."chuckled one of assassins. Nightwing then felt his body go back to normal, but before he could think of a escape plan, he felt a pair of mighty hands come down upon his shoulders. Falling to the ground, Nightwing looked up and saw a very large assassin towering above him.
"I'm assuming that you are using Venom to get that big."groaned Nightwing.
"Yeah, Master gave some of us a upgrade so that we can be ready to move on to phase..." the assassin was immmediately interrupted, "Shut up," scolded another assassins, "besides we only have a half hour break, and Master wants us to play with Nightwing. So put him on the table and let's get started. Idiot."
Strapping Nightwing to the table, the assassins grabbed a car battery and turned it on. Knowing this all to well, Nightwing was prepared to get electrocuted. Even though he had witnessed electrocutions before, it still wasn't something that you can get used to. As the power was cranked up, it took everything that Nightwing had in him not to scream out in pain. After what seeemed like forever, the assassins finally stopped with the electrocutions, and started to just beat and stab the crap out of Nightwing. The smell of blood was strong, as Nightwing looked at himself, he could see that his blood was just pouring out of the wounds. Every hit was given with no mercy. As the time went on, Nightwing felt like he was ready to pass out, but his body wouldn't let him. Gaining enough strength, Nightwing looked up to see that he was no longer getting beaten, instead a large figure was coming up with what looks to be like a whip. As Nightwing got a better look, he could see the the whip was actually the cat of nine tails."Oh hell no" thought Nightwing, before being pulled into the center of the room. In the center of the room, there was a beam, pushing Nightwing against it, the assassins yanked off the top of Nightwing's suit so that the bare skin could be seen. Nightwing soon felt the whip come down on his skin. As the pieces of glass and metal dug into his skin, Dick's life flashed before his eyes.
(Dick's Flashback)
Dick age 13 (a month after his parent's death)
"It just like every Saturday and every other day," thought Dick, glumly, "Bruce stuck at work, Alfred cleaning the house, and it's raining, just like every day this month."
Interrupting his thoughts, Dick saw Bruce walk into his room, "Yes, I did my homework, Yes, I studied Gotham's most wanted, Yes, I did my training, and Yes I finished my paper about the Latin language."said Dick in a annoyed tone.
"I am glad that you finished all the things that you needed to do."replied Bruce
"Well, it's easy to finish everything when you didn't get to go to the office like someone promised."muttered Dick.
"I'm sorry, chum," confessed Bruce, "to make it up for it, you can come with me to see Flash, but it's only if you want to."
"Fine. But if Barrystarts acting like five year old on a sugar rush, I'm outta of there."
"You and me both, chum."chuckled Bruce.
After a long drive, Dick and Bruce, finally, made it to Central City. Knocking on Barry's door, Dick and Bruce was soon met with a exuberant boy, who had green emerald eyes, freckles that covered his entire face, and red hair. "What's up?"asked the cheerful boy.
"We need to talk to your uncle, Wallace." Walking in, Bruce and Dick stared at Wallace. "Ohhh, I'll get him."said the boy, "Yo, UNCLE BARRY THERE ARE SOME DUDE HERE THAT WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!!"
"NO, NEED TO SHOUT WALLY," Barry yelled back.
"YOU WERE JUST DOING IT!!"
"If you are done yelling back and forth, could we just move this along."interrupted Dick, who was losing his patience.
"Sorry," walking out, Barry saw the dark haired kid with sunglasses on, "who's the kid?"
"Barry, this is Dick, he's my ward."replied Bruce in a cool voice.
"And the 'kid' is standing right here." Dick muttered angrily, awkward silence then filled the room.
"Well, Dick, do you want to play some video games downstairs. I don't mean to brag, buut I have a pretty sweet gaming system." Wally said, trying to break the weird and tense silence.
"Fine. Is that alright with you, Bruce?"
"Go have fun. We won't be long."
While in the basement, Wally went on and on about the girl he had seen, the sports magazine that he was reading, and other useless and stupid subjects. "Look Wallace, I'm not much of a talker, and I don't care about useless stuff like that."
"Whoa, you do realize that you don't have to call me Wallace, Wally will do just fine. And no prob, we could just talk about something else." "Wally is different than most people, he actually is a pretty cool guy," thought Dick, "Do you like Star Wars?"
"Who doesn't?" Smiling, Wally and Dick started to get into a big conversation about how Yoda could take on Darth Vader. When Barry and Bruce came down, they saw the boys discussing on how Captain America was able to move Thor's hammer. "Boys it's getting late, Dick you need to get going."
"But Uncle Barry five more minutes. Actually, could Dick stay the night?"pleaded Wally.
"Can I, Bruce?"asked Dick
"I don't see how one night would hurt, but we would have to get back and grab your stuff."smiled Bruce.
"Sweet," said Wally
"That's asterous," smiled Dick.
"What?" Both Barry and Wally looked puzzled.
"I'll tell you later."
Dick age 15( at Mt. Justice)
"Happy Birthday Robin!!"shouted Wally, Artemis, Kaldur, Connor, and M'gann, who jumped out of their hiding spots. Looking around, Dick saw that the entire Mountain looked like a rainbow threw up on it. There were different color streamers thrown around, there were confetti on the floor, and there was table that held a feast of sweets, along with two ginormous cakes.
"Robin, How come you look like you're not surprised?" M'gann asked as a frown was forming on her face.
"You already knew, didn't you?" Artemis did not look surprised.
"Yeah, being trained by the World's Greastest Detective, I was bound to pick up something. besides, it didn't help that Wally talks in his sleep." Wally was then the focus of the teams glaring. "What? It's not my fault that my body wants to show everyone how pretty my voice is."
"Shut up, Kid Mouth."
"Fine, Arty Farty."
"Why you..." all of a sudden, Artemis's face was covered with cake. Letting out a laugh, Wally then threw a cupcake towards Kaldur's head.
"Wally, don't mess with Atlanteans. We have ways of getting back." Smiling, Kaldur started to throw strawberries at Wally.
"Ohh, strawberries. I'm so hurt." While Wally mocked Kaldur, he was unaware of M'gann levitating a pot of chocolate sauce, and before Wally could say anything else, he was completely doused with chocolate, "Mhmm, Delicious, Just like you Megalicious."
"Get him!"giggled M'gann. Licking his lips, Wally started to run but was immediately tripped by Robin, who gave out his signature cackle before the lights went out.
When the lights came back on, Wally was surrounded with the team holding different types of desserts, "Oh cake!" Wally shouted before he was completely covered with powdered sugar, flour, and more cakes.
Robin let out a laugh before having a cake thrown onto him, "Hey! We're on the same team." Robin shouted playfully towards Connor.
Smiling, Connor shouted, "Mutiny,"
"Oh no!"moaned Robin. "The best for the birthday boy!" laughed Wally, before pouring flour all over the Boy Wonder. Laughing the team started to attack Robin, until the Bird and a few bags of powdered sugar and flour disappeared. Crawling in the vents, Dick started to hack into the A/C, so that it would blow out the sugar and flour. "This is the best plan ever."thought Robin, before letting out a quiet chuckle.
While the team looked for Robin, they saw that Green Arrow, Black Canary, Flash, Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman came through the Zeta tubes. Just as they came through, the room was soon filled with white. "Yes!!"shouted Robin, "Was that great or... Hi Batman." He finished sheepishly.
Flash was the first one to speak up, "Kids, you do know what this means, Right?" The team were surprised when Flash shouted, "This means war."
"By Hera, you shall pay," shouted Wonder Woman playfully raising a baguette over her head, as if she was holding a sword.
"You kids really shouldn't have done that," Green Arrow said with a mischievous smile. Nodding in agreement, Superman, Martian Manhunter, and Black Canary had their game faces on.
The thing that shocked everyone was when Batman said,"You Leaguers should have been smarter, than to trust the Dark Knight."before throwing a piece of cake at Flash, "Run!!" Immediately, Batman and the Young Justice team started running as fast as their legs could carry them, but the rest of the League were right on their tail. Finally in a safe hiding place, Batman planned out a very strategic plan to take the leaguers down.
"Oh how the mighty have fallen," said Robin in a playful menacing tone. The leaguers were surrounded by Young Justice, who were all holding pieces of sweets. Robin continued, "Now, who's the leader." The league immediately pointed to Flash.
"Happy Birthday," Flash exclaimed sheepishly. Grabbing a pie, Robin immediately shoved the pie right into Flash's face.
Flash's voice was muffled, but Robin was able to make out,"Mhmm, Blackberry,"
After the rest of the food was gone, the war was officially over, and let's just say the leaguers and the team was covered with sweets, chocolate, and powdered sugar. Everyone was laughing, but then Agent A came through.
"What in the bloody hell happened?"exclaimed Alfred.
"Uhmm, We had a food fight." Robin explained
"Well, I will not allow us to sing 'Happy Birthday' looking like this. All of you wash up now, I will handle this mess." Following the butler's orders, both teams headed towards extra rooms to get changed into their civvies. While getting changed, Dick saw that Bruce was sittting on his bed,"Hey Bruce,"
"Hello Dick, did you have a good birthday?"
"Sure did." Dick then made his way over to the bed.
"Well, I wanted to give you my present, before you receive anything else." smiling, Bruce handed Dick a small box that was wrapped in the nicest wrapping paper.
After opening the box, Dick saw that the box held adoption papers. Looking at Bruce, Dick nodded and tackled, his now father, into a hug. Laughter soon filled the room. Hearing the laughing, the League Members and Young Justice made their way over to Dick's room. Seeing Bruce embracing someone and having a genuine smile on his face was not somthing that you would have recognized. Snatching the paper, Barry read what it said out loud. "Blah, blah, blah, a here it is. Here by, by the Court of Gotham City, Bruce Wayne will now be Richard Grayson's legal guardian. Wait, you're adopting Dick."
"That's marvelous," shrieked M'gann.
"The hall and the rooms are now clean. I am glad to see that you all cleaned up. Now, let's wish Master Dick a happy birthday." Alfred then turned around, and started walking towards the kitchen. As soon as everyone was there, Alfred had Dick sit in the center, and lite the candles. While everyone was singing, Dick looked around and was thankful for his friends, father, grandfather, and his aunts and uncles.
"Make a wish,"squealed M'gann. Closing his eyes, Dick, in one breathe, blew out the candles. After the cheering died down, Wally was the first one to ask, "So what did you wish for?"
Dick smiled and said, "That nothing would change!" And with that the rest of the night was spent with laughter and most of all love.
Dick 21 (At the Moutain again)
"The new recruits are coming soon, so KF get your face out of that sandwich, and get your butt over here NOW!!"shouted Nightwing
"Sheesh, who knew you were a total..."
"Wally, Dick, they're here, they're here!!" As M'gann squealed, The team started to line up in the debriefing room. In a few seconds, Dick, Wally, Kaldur, M'gann, Connor, and Artemis saw the new kids walk into the Mountain.
"Wow, this bigger than I thought."said Blue Beetle with awe
"Of course it's... M'gann!!" Running over to his sister, Garfield jumped into his sister's arms
"Gar!"squealed M'gann.
"Ohmygosh!! I can't believe that I'm here!!"shouted Wonder Girl.
"Welcome to Young Justice!"smiled Artemis
While everyone was mingling, Dick couldn't help but look for La'gaan. "Did he not want to come?"thought Dick. But then Dick caught sight of the green bodied Atlantean. Making his way over, Dick was able get to La'gaan. "Hi, La'gaan, I'm Nightwing. Its a pleasure to meet you."smiling, Nightwing let out his hand. "Um, I know who you are. I guess it's nice to meet you too, or something." La'gaan said awkwardly, before shaking Nightwing's hand.
After a hour or two passed by, Wally just noticed that he had know idea where Nightwing went. So after sending the kids to their new rooms, Wally had the team join him in the search. Hearing laughter come from the training room, Wally and the team rushed over. But what they saw shocked them all. Nightwing was no longer wearing his mask, and La'gaan no longer looked like that kid they met earlier. La'gaan looked happy. "That was cool! I can't believe that you were Robin when you were nine."exclaimed La'gaan
"Yeah well join the club. I can't believe that you are able to control yourself in you giant form. Not a lot of people can do that!"
"Yeah, well join the club." Smiling, Dick and La'gaan started to spar again.
"Well, that's unexpected." stated a shocked Wally, "Dick never let anyone new see his secret identity. Do you know how long it took for me to find out!"
"I guess Dick was right about La'gaan."said M'gann thoughtfully
"Yes, I have never seen La'gaan this happy. He will be in good hands with Dick." Kaldur responded.
Coming back to reality, Nightwing saw the whip come down again. Letting out a scream of anguis, Nightwing saw that Ra's al Ghul was now back. "Oh Nighwing, looks like you're as strong as we thought. I'm really excited when..." Ra's al Ghul was immediately interrupted when Nightwing spat some blood onto Ra's robe. "Why you... Give me the whip."and with that, Ra's started to mercilessly whip and beat Nightwing. Feeling the flesh being yanked out, Nightwing let out the biggest scream of his entire life, before being knocked out.
AN: thank you for reading, sorry if it was a little gory. I'm also sorry that this was long. Itried my best with the flashbacks. I really wanted to potray Bruce as a loving father, even though he is sometimes a jerkhead. But anyway please review, and thank you again for reading. Ph, and by the way, if you don't know what the cat of nine tails is, they are basically a Roman torture device that had nine whips on it, and had sharp glass and other things on it.