Where the hell are we?
The silence in Gotham was unnerving. For a city that was never quiet you knew something was up when it was like this. A sudden boom echoed in the distance on the edge of Gotham and the noise picked up again throughout the city.
There was a new villain in Gotham. A meta to be exact and the Batclan wanted him gone. They raced towards the sight of the explosion finally able to pinpoint where he was, hoping there wasn’t too much damage or any casualties. When they arrived they all stood in shock for a moment before jumping into action. Nightwing, Robin and Batman immediately went to join the fight while Red Hood and Red Robin went to start checking on civilians.
“What’s the plan B?” Nightwing shouted over the noise of fighting. He was locked in battle with one of the goons the meta recruited, trying to defeat him so he could go for the actual meta.
“Defeat all the goons first, figure out an angle to attack the meta from and then strike” responded Batman to Dick’s question. He threw a batarang at one of the goons, pinning them to a wall before punching them in the face and knocking them out cold.
The other three members of the family at the scene were fighting the rest of the goons, making their way to the metahuman one by one after they made sure the civilians were okay. It was a blood battle as every goon had a knife and the Batfamily had scratches and slices all over them and were in pain but to them all the blood and pain was worth it to defeat the metahuman. Well to Jason it wasn’t so much but he won’t tell his family that.
Soon all the goons were down and they were surrounding the metahuman in a circular formation. They all had their weapons out and ready. Batarangs, escrima sticks, guns with rubber bullets, a bo staff, and a katana.
“Well well you managed to defeat my subordinates, not shocking though knowing who you guys are” spoke the metahuman. “Ah I haven’t introduced myself have I. My name is Hoax and I will be your doom.” The newly dubbed Hoax then gave them a smile after and closed his eyes even though they were not visible. Hoax had light blue colour hair that was long and flowy, a black trenchcoat which was form fitting on the top but flared so it wasn’t right up against his body at the bottom, a form fitting white dress shirt, black slacks, some black dress shoes and a light blue type of sash over his eyes that nobody could see into but he could see out of.
“So you gonna explain your evil plan to or…” replied Red Hood, fed up and just wanting this to be over.
“Absolutely not! Do other people actually do that?” questioned Hoax actually appalled that other villains would do that. “Then you would be able to figure out a way to defeat me right away! And I do not want that. I plan on winning against you all.”
“Tt finally a smart villain. You never really see those nowadays” spoke Damian a little haughtily.
“Why thank you! People never appreciate me nowadays!” replied Hoax enthusiastically. “Now I’m sorry about this but I'm going to have kill you all! Don’t want you ruining my plan! No hard feelings!” Hoax then summoned a ball of some type of energy and fired it at the ones in front of him which caused them to dive away to avoid being hit.
Energy after energy ball was being thrown at them and they were dodging left and right, trying to get closer to him but unable to but finally Jason was able to shoot his gun and hit Hoax with a bullet on the hand that was throwing the energy making the next ball fizzle out and make Hoax start cursing and shake his hand out.
“What was that for! I thought we were having fun but you ruined it!” Hoax exclaimed angrily. Just as he was about to say this next a flash of lightning appeared and knocked him over.
“Ha take that!” Kid Flash exclaimed as he stopped beside Dick. “Not so invincible now are you!”
“Kid Flash, what are you doing here? You know the rules.” spoke Batman angrily glaring at Wally before saying at the exact same time as Wally “No metas in Gotham/No metas in Gotham yeah I know but Nightwing radioed me for some backup!” Wally crossed his arms. “So if you are gonna blame anyone blame him!”
Batman turned his glare to Dick. “We were fine without him, Nightwing. We didn’t need backup.”
Dick put his hands up in a surrender position. “Hey he was already coming to hangout after! I just thought we could use the help and he could come out and help us!” As Dick was saying this Hoax had gotten back to his feet and shot an energy ball at Batman knocking him over and out.
“Batman/B!” five voices cried about before immediately having to dive out of the way from another energy ball not being able to check to see if he was okay.
“Red Robin, try to make your way over to B!” Yelled Dick dodging energy blasts left and right.
“On it Nightwing!” While dodging blasts Tim ran over to Batman and started to examine him. “He’s okay! It just knocked him out!”
All the boys let out sighs of relief and resumed the fight full force trying to avenge what happened to Batman and defeat the villain in general.
“You guys are starting… TO SERIOUSLY PISS ME OFF!” Yelled Hoax angrily. It was like his power multiplied by ten and he started to fire off stronger blasts with reckless abandon.
Nightwing, Kid Flash, Red Hood, Red Robin and Robin had just made their way closer, dodging the blasts still and having Jason succeed hitting Hoax with some bullets which threw him off a bit. Just as they were about to move closer a sound of impact and a body falling rang out.
All heads whipped to the direction of sound and there they saw one of the goons they had knocked out earlier standing over top of Nightwing with a metal pole in hand which was dripping blood.
“Nightwing!” The whole family plus Wally screamed out, louder and more worried then when they screamed for Batman.
“Oh- A pity. I really wanted to fight him. But oh well! Just one less obstacle.” Hoax had temporarily ceased his attacks when he saw what was happening before shrugging and resuming again.
Red Hood quickly ran over with the other three following him and he dropped to his knees in front of Dick, the other boys standing in front of them to cover them from the attacks.
Jason started to check Dicks head for the impact wound which he gasped and winced once he saw. His head had split open at the point of impact and there was blood flowing steadily from it. ‘Shit- Shit- Shit- We don’t have stuff to deal with this here and we can’t call the batmobile for him!’
While Jason was thinking this and checking the point of impact Wall, Tim and Damian were dodging and trying to protect the other two from the energy balls. All of them forgetting about Bruce who was about 30 feet away.
“This is getting boring! You guys are even putting up a fight! Maybe you’ll put up a fight elsewhere!~” All of a sudden a sinister smirk appeared on Hoaxes face and he started to charge up an energy blast that was easily four times bigger than the other ones and a darker purple compared to the light blue before.
The batfamily plus Wally look at it in semi-fear knowing there wasn’t really anything they could do against it, with them protecting Dick like this and Batman down for the count.
Hoax hurtled the ball at them and it engulfed them completely, all of them bracing for impact with Jason holding Dick up against his body to shield him.
One by one the boys that were engulfed started to disappear into tiny particles as if they were disintegrated by a laser.
As soon as the ball of purple started to disappear with the boys nowhere in sight, Batman began to regain consciousness and look up with the only groggy thought of ‘What happened?’ not noticing that Hoax had slipped away.
The 5 boys began to reform in an alley in New York. They were all extremely disoriented and wobbly while standing.
“W-What the hell?” stammered Wally when he realized they weren’t where they were before. Wally then suddenly gasped before turning sharply to where Dick and Jason were. “Dick!” He quickly rushed over and dropped to his knees beside him.
“He needs to get back to the manor asap!” spoke Jason in a rushed, frantic tone.
“I think that might be a bit of a problem…” replied Wally which prompted Jason to finally look up and around.
“Where the fuck are we?” Jason spoke angrily and worried. By this time Tim and Damian had finally regained their bearings and were looking around like Jason, thinking the exact same thing he just said.
“I have no clue… But nowhere close to the manor. And I can’t run Dick back to the manor if I don’t even know where we are” Wally spoke calmly, knowing he couldn’t panic in this situation. “I think we need to check outside and then maybe we can figure out where they are.”
So that's exactly what they did, Jason carrying Dick and the rest following behind them. As soon as they stepped outside their jaws dropped, not believing what they were seeing.
“Where is this even? And is that an Alien?-”