Somewhere in Asia
"How long have we been here?"complained Kid Flash, who was leaning on the wall, "Because it feels as if weeks has gone by."
"Oh for crying out loud, I don't know, but if I here another word out of you, I will personally drive your head your head into the wall."retorted Artemis, who was sitting right next to him, trying to find a way of escape.
"Oh, and here I thought that you loved me. Clearly, I was wrong,"replied KF crossing his arms over his chest.
"Look KF, I'm sorry. I shoudn't have yelled like that." Artemis then pulled Wally into a kiss.
"Ugh," groaned Robin, as he leaned against Nightwing, "get a room. There are other people in the room you know." Gesturing towards Batman, Nightwing, Aquaman, Superboy, and Miss Martian.
"And yet, I thought that you were past the annoying little brat that we met at the Batcave. But, yet again, I was wrong."countered Artemis, glaring daggers at Robin.
"And as I said before at said Batcave, I'm not a brat, idiot."muttered Robin.
"Now hold on, I will not tolerate you calling my fiancé a "idiot". Sure, she is sometimes, but either way, only I can call her that." KF then started to make his way toward the door.
"How is he doing?" asked Miss Martian, who was gesturing to Nightwing.
"He is doing alright, his wounds are nearly healed," replied Batman, who was standing in the corner of the room.
"How much longer do you think they expect us to wait? We've already been here longer than, at least, a week." Connor asked in a annoyed tone. He and Miss M were sitting together, hands intertwined with each other.
"I do not know,..." Aquaman was then interrupted by the sounds a keys being jaggled. Looking up, Kaldur saw Ra's Al Ghul, accompanied by several guards, at the entrance of the cell.
"Looks like Nightwing is doing better. Good. It is now time for the process to begin." Ra's Al Ghul then let out a dark chuckle.
"Bastard, you won't touch him," shouted KF. He then ran over to Nightwing.
"You don't have a choice boy," snapping his fingers, Ra's sent in the guards to retrieve Nightwing, "And next time you talk to me, I suggest that you use the appropriate manners to do so."
"Out of the way," commanded one of the guards.
"Like hell," retorted Superboy, who was now standing beside KF, along with Robin and the rest of the heroes.
"Move, or you will be moved," commanded another guard. Even though they were threatened, none of the heroes moved. The guard then let out a frustrated sigh, and then pushed Robin to the side and punched KF in the gut, causing him to fall down. Immediately rushing to his aid, Artemis landed a kick to the man's head. "Thank, Babe," said KF as he got up, "Let's do this." as more guards ran in, the rest of the heroes were ready to defend their friend, brother, and teammate.
"Out of the way Martian scumbag," threatened one of the newly arrived guards, who was now drawing closer to Miss Martian and Nightwing.
"Stay away from her," commanded Superboy, who was now clenching his teeth.
"What are you doing about it, you are just the stupid clone, who is now the pathetic weakling. You can't use your powers, since those collars are strapped around your neck." chuckled the guard, who was now getting closer to Nightwing.
"I may not have powers, but I certainly have the power to put you in a body cast." retorted Superboy. He then charged towards the guard and punched the guard into the wall. While Superboy was dealing with the guard, Miss Martian started to fight against the upcoming guards. Before you knew it, the room was filled with angry assassins and heroes defending their teammate.
As the fighting went on, Nightwing saw that the guards getting closer and closer to defeating the team. "I have to help." thought Nightwing. Just as he was about to jump into the action, Nightwing felt his body go numb. Looking around, he saw Ra's holding a remote and giving off a devilish grin. Nightwing then saw himself charging towards Batman. Batman just finished beating up a assassin when he saw Nightwing charging towards him.
Leaping out of the way, Batman watched as his oldest turn around and diasppear into the shadows. The next time Batman saw Nightwing, was when Nightwing was holding Tim in a chokehold.
"I advise that all of you stop fighting my men if you want to save the other little bird."
Turning their attention to the where the voice came from, they saw that Nightwing was holding a nearly unconscious Robin.
"Dude, what are you doing?" shrieked KF, who now let go of the man who he was beating up.
"I'm sorry, but Nightwing will not be able to answer you. Now, let my men go, let me take Nightwing whenever I please. If you don't, Robin here, will have a difficulty with his breathing." said Ra's al Ghul.
"Why are you doing this, can't you just leave Nightwing alone? You already have enough assassins, you bastard." Robin then felt NIghtwing's grip get tighter on his trachea.
"Alright, deal," replied Aquaman in a sorrowful tone.
"What the HELL?! Are you seriously going let Mr. 'Dragon head' take Nightwing?!" asked Kid Flash, now enraged that Aquaman was saying.
"Excellent," turning towards Nightwing, Ra's nodded. Nightwing then let Robin go. Rushing to his protégé, Batman immediately started to check Robin for any injuries that may have been inflicted by Nightwing. "Come now, Nightwing, we have much work to do, and so little time." Ra's and his guards, including Nightwing, made their way out of the of the jail cell. Turning the control chip off, the guards hancuffed Nightwing and led him through the dark and shadowy halls of the ancient fortress. Looking at several different windows, Nightwing observed hat he and the Team was somewhere in the Himalayas, and right now, if they escaped, they would be running aimless in the dark of the night.
"Ah, here we are." entering a code, Ra's and men went through the mysterious door, which led to a large training. Assassins could be seen sparring with each other, but as soon as they saw their Master, they immediately stopped what they were doing and walked off to the sides of the room. "You will be working with my daughter, Talia." Entering from another door, came out a tall, well built woman. She had on a tight leather body suit and her hair was resting on her shoulder. A sheath was hanging on her side, and ninja stars could be seen. Her eyes were green and deadly.
"Talia." hissed Nightwing darkly, his voice laced with venom.
"Nightwing, must you be like that. The only reason why you are here is to reach your fullest potential. In order for you to protect and uphold the honor of this family, you must be strong enough and be fully trained. That is why you will be trained by me and Deathstroke." and out of the shadows came out the man, that the team had to fight not too long ago. "We have to make sure that you will reach your potential before it is time for the final stage."
"Why the hell would I help you or do anything you say?!"
"Because," smirked Talia while walking closer towards him, "either you follow our orders without question, or your precious little family and team, which you hold so dear, will be killed."
"Fine, but if they get hurt in any way, this deal is off." agreed Nightwing, diminishing his anger, Nightwing hung in defeat.
"Excellent." nodding to one of the guards, Talia then walked away, leaving only Deathstroke and the guards left in the room.
"Before your training can truly begin, Ra's had given me permission to make you stronger than what you were before. So this means we will be giving you several doses of the serum that was given to me, along side with several other serums that will make you the strongest assassin this league will ever see. We can't have you be a failure when it will be your job to take care of the future leader." Snapping his fingers, Deathstroke lead the group of assassins, dragging Nightwing, into a different room. As Nightwing was carried out, a little shadow was seen.
"Damian, what are you doing?" Talia asked in a loving sorta way, "I thought you were in bed?" She reached down and scooped him up.
"I couldn't sleep." the child said before letting out a big yawn.
"Alright, How about you go back to your room and I'll come in and tell you the story about how to kill a man 25 different ways." Talia asked, as though there was no problem with that.
"Yes Mother," the child, Damian said reluctantly. He wasn't stupid, so he knew something was up, and he's going to get to the bottom of this.
In another room
"Set him over there, and get out of the way, the process is about to begin." Deathstroke shouted to the guards. Following his order, the guards set Nightwing on the table that was in the center of the room. The room wasn't very bright, it also looked as if no one had dusted in a while. There were no windows and the only light that could be seen came from the computers that were in the room. After being strapped down to the table, several men came anf started to inject Nightwing with numerous viles of different substances. As the substance got spread throughout Nightwing's body, Nightwing felt his body change, he felt as though he was a meta.
"You're going to be in some pain for the next few hours." Deathstroke said bluntly, "We'll start training in an hour."
Was this man joking? I felt as though my body was literally on fire. I felt the fire run through my veins. Inside I wanted to scream, but since Deathstroke was there, I knew I shouldn't. Unless I want severl more lashes on my back.
So without much argument, Nightwing just laid on the table, and waited
Alright, I'm sorry that I haven't worked on this for a while. But since I finished my story the Rise of the Dark Fae, I wanted to write something, and I decided to wirte this. Hopefull you like it, and sorry if this a little corny and sucky.