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I am Goldenrose, and it makes me exceedling happy that you are looking at my story. Please read and enjoy.

I do ask one favour though. Do not judge me too much if the characters seem a little out of character, I am writing from my perspective where Dick Grayson has a darker side to him.

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There was one thing everyone knew about Nightwing; he had a past with Deathstroke the Mercenary. But no one knew the details. Not Batman, not batgirl, and not even his best friend Wallace West. Everyone had their theories about what happened but no one knew for sure. M'gann and Connor said that Nightwing had been brain-washed by Psimon and had fought for control, Artemis, Aqualad, and most others believe that Nightwing had been blackmailed, Wally and Jason joked that Deathstroke was in love with Nightwing.

None of the theories were correct because everyone couldn't think that their beloved, little, sarcastic little Robin would go will Deathstroke willingly. But that is where their fatal sin hid. Because the young man that they had all know and love went to the mercenary willingly.

It was coming back into the light that Nightwing had to be convinced to come back too, but by that time he had been changed. He was still Nightwing but there was a difference in his manner. He was darker, more serious, and a force to be reckon with.

Nightwing had stated that he had never wanted to become the Batman, but when he came back from his time with the mercenary, he was worse.

It was a doomed mission to begin with. The arguments between the team had grown to unknown levels. Everything had turned ugly in the last few months. Tula had recently died, which had set Kaldur on edge. He had only recently come back from a well-deserved break. M'gann and Connor had just broken up, and it was one of the nastiest break ups that the team had gone through. Lagoon Boy had joined the team, along with the New Robin, Jason Todd, and to top it all off, this mission was against several big villains.

There was a tense silence and you could cut it with a dull knife. M'gann kept throwing glances over at Connor who was pointedly ignoring her. Lagoon boy was throwing glances back at M'gann for a totally different reason, and Nightwing and Robin sat in the back talking in muted tones.

"So what happened between those two?" The younger boy asked Nightwing with an uneasy glance from the Martian to the Clone. Nightwing glanced at his brother. This was one of the fourth missions Jason Todd had been on with the team. He had no idea the relationships that went on behind the scenes. There were a lot of relationships that had soured over the year. Raquel and Aqualad hadn't lasted very long, neither had Nightwing and Zatanna.

Nightwing just shook his head and tapped his ear with a nod to Superboy. When someone on the team had super hearing, it wasn't wise to talk about things in such close quarters.

"Fine then," Jason said with an exasperated sigh, "what's so hard about this mission that it needed Aqualad and Superboy?"

Nightwing looked over at his adopted brother. "Did you even listen in the mission briefing?" He said with a smirk. He knew Jason didn't. It was their pre-mission ritual; Jason would ignore the briefing and then have Nightwing fill him in on the way there.

"Do I even have to answer that, Dick head?" Jason said with a sly smile. Dick rolled his eyes at his brother's endearing nickname for him.

"We got intel from an unknown source that high caliber villains , Queen Bee, Vandal Savage, and Ra's Al Ghul were going to pick something up. It is supposedly their top priority," The ebony haired boy said to the younger. Jason knitted his eyebrows together.

"But why would they all flock together like that? Isn't that kind of a stupid move? I mean-"

It was just then that Lagoon boy decided that he just needed to be heard.

"Well isn't it obvious?" Lagoon boy said with a smirk. "They don't think anyone will be there to stop them. They think they're so invincible that no one could be able to find them. But thanks to M'gann we were able to find their meeting from a delivery boy."

Nightwing shot him a calculating glance. This boy really knew nothing about being a hero, did he? Jason looked over at Lagoon boy too. Jason couldn't figure out how someone so stupid could have made it to the team.

"While that might be part of it," Nightwing said quietly, "It is more likely that the object they are attaining is something that requires all three of their skill sets. The warehouse is most likely to be incredibly surrounded and intensely watched."

"That's why it's a recon mission," Connor said pointedly and without any kindness. The team nodded along and everything went back to silence.

"We're approaching the zone. Going into camouflage mode," Miss Martian said with a monotone voice.

"Miss Martian." Aqualad said with a nod, one that Miss Martian understood perfectly.

Everyone here? The green girl asked, and all responded with positive confirmations. Everybody know the plan? Once again the positive affirmations came rolling out.

The martian landed the plane on the roof and the team ran out of the bioship. Superboy and Lagan jumped off the side checking the perimeter, Miss Martian remained in the Bio ship and took to the sky, Aqualad stayed on the roof to watch for any criminals that might sneak up on Lagoon boy, and the two bats headed down into the warehouse to watch the transaction take place.

Little did they know how quickly things were going to change.

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