Time Against Time

Chapter Four

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Young Justice, folks! If I do, Wally West should never had ceased and Nightwing should never had leave the Team. Though, I own my OCs in this story.

WARNING: There may be foul word/s in this story (courtesy of one Jason Todd).

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Chapter Four:
The Missing Hero
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Barbara Gordon, most known by her teammates as Batgirl, sighed as she leaned against the chair by the Bat-Computer. She had been searching for any traces of Nightwing's disappearance. Well, he didn't really disappear, it has been half a year since he left the Team to take a "leave of absence" after Wally West's death.

Tigress, the former Artemis, was still on the Team. The problem was she was more aggressive and more reckless. She can't blame the latter, she would be exactly like her if the love of her life disintegrated in front of her. If Dick disintegrated in front of her. She loved the guy with all her heart, the only thing that was keeping her from dating him was that like she once said:

"Because in the immortal words of Wally West, you are a DOG, Dick Grayson. You're not ready for me yet."

As much as she loved him, she didn't want to have a broken heart. Sure, Dick said to her that he loved her so much he liked to enter a steady relationship, but she can't help but think that Dick was not ready yet. Not ready to enter a loving and steady relationship with her, Barbara. They may have shared a few loving kisses, but that's all of that for now.

A loud beep from the computer interrupted her thoughts, and she quickly pressed a key on the keyboard to check it out. It was a transmission, one from Tim, the current Robin.

The transmission started with a loud boom, which startled Barbara. Then, it was proceeded by coughing and wheezing. She heard a shouting of warning from the background and she quickly tried to pinpoint his location. A voice spoke through the transmission, "Batgirl, can you hear me? Anyone?"

"Robin, this is Batgirl. Can you hear me?" said Barbara in a serious voice. Even though she was not as good as Tim with the computers, her skill rivaled Dick's, she may even have surpassed him. But maybe one day she'll be the tech expert in the family rather than Tim.

"Loud and clear, Batgirl." he replied. "Batman and I may need backup right now. Bane and Killer Croc are proving that they can defeat us, and I think it can really happen. Send in backup, would 'ya?"

Barbara snorted, "Bane and Croc? Gotham has lousy villains this night."

"I don't-cough-think you understand! I-hyah!-said they're winning."

"All right, I'll send backup." The transmission ended and Barbara checked her comm. link. Who should she send? Batman will get mad once she send a League member on the field, so she erased the Justice League on her choices. It can't be possibly Nightwing since she's got no idea where he is. So Nightwing was out of the picture. Then, she got the idea, Bruce may not like it but he can at least be grateful he had a backup. She spoke to her comm., "Red Hood, do you copy?"

There was static, then a gruffly voice replied. "The hell, Gordon?! Can't you see that I'm asleep! Can't a fucking guy just get some nice sleep from now on?!"

"Nice to hear your voice, Hood." Barbara said sarcastically, ignoring Red's choice of words. She was used for his constant swearing and his aggressiveness when his sleep was interrupted. "I am just calling you 'cause Bats and Rob need back-up and your the only one I could think of."