Puppet Master (A Robin Fanfic)

-Chapter 1- [Unedited]

7 men of the Joker filled up a ship near the docks with Jokers new toys, Dick Grayson who had been watching nearby unnoticed by the others watched amused as they fought with each other.

"I already loaded 5 crates!" Whined one of the goons as he fought with the others, "So what? Help us with the rest you idiot before the boss has our heads!" The other men had worked even faster after he had said that,not wanting to die, ya know?

One of the men looked around nervously, "did you guys hear about that new hero? Uh what was it.... Oh the Puppet Master!" Dick smirked as he heard his name, at first whenever his parents died he wanted to keep on the low in Gotham.

Well until he helped the kiddy league search Cadmus, after that word got out that he was there and living. One of the other men scoffed, "You believe in that? I bet its somethin' that those hero's wanted to use to scare us."

Dick frowned as he continued to listen wondering where this conversation could lead to, "Yeah maybe... But let's hurry up just in case it isn't fake, plus Batman could come in at any moment"

As the men continued to work one still tried to keep up an conversation, "I heard he was trained by Batman" Dick had to cover his mouth to keep from laughing, 'Batman?!' Dick thought as he tried to contain his laughter.

'I wasn't trained by Batman! I was trained by Ro.. Wait isn't the time focus on this..' Dick continued to watch as the other men ignored the other man.

Dick watched as the goons grew silent and continued to load up the boat, "well this isn't gonna go anywhere..." He whispered as he raised his hands letting a soft red glow come out of his fingertips.

You see Dick can control other people, like puppets, it's in his name. Well the only way he could control anybody is if he had physical contact with that person, and when he is done with that person after he leaves them alone they don't remember a thing that they did.

Dick looked to find the perfect target as he scanned over the working goons, "bingo.." Dick whispered as he saw a man that looked pretty strong, probably not as big as the rest but probably could get the job done.

Dick walked backwards for a running start, counting down silently in his head '3...' '2...' '1...' Dick ran towards the goon who he had thought would be the best as the other men shouted.

As Dick got closer to the goon he did a flip over him putting each hand onto the goons shoulder leaving red prints on his shoulder. Dick threw down a smoke bomb as he silently his on top of the nearby building where he got a clear view on the men.

"Dude are you alright?!" One of the men asked as he shook the other man who Dick had control over, Dick made him push the other man away, swing his leg until it made contact with the others head, before landing a punch onto his nose as the other man slumped downwards onto the ground.

The 5 other men got into battle stances as the goon who Dick had control over charged at them, Dick made him jump over one of the men as he swept his legs out under as the man fell down, holding his face in pain.

Dick made the man pick up the one on the floor and throw him onto 2 other goons which left only 2 of them left. Dick's crackle filled the air as he jerked his hand forward making the man jump onto one of the men as he was quickly kicked off.

Dick frowned as the man who he had control over was kicked in the side, after the first kick the man had tried to make another, but Dick had made the man grab onto the mans foot and break his ankle.

The man fell to the floor holding his ankle in pain as Dick watched the other man try to run away, Dick letting go of control of the other man, ran after the man soon catching him, "What's wrong? You don't look so whelmed!" Dick yelled as pressed his thumb onto the mans forehead a red print glowing before fading.

This would make Dick be able to take control of this man at anytime and not have to touch (heheh that sounds wrong ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) him again. The man fell unconscious as Dick left him and went to the other unconscious men, doing the same to them the man who Dick had control over had left already, but that was okay Dick had already marked him.

Dick started to walk away from the scene when a hand on his shoulder stopped him, Dick smirked as the person had been marked also, Dick turned around only to be met by none other than saltwater himself.

Dick smiled as he fully faced Aqualad, "Ohhh if it isn't saltwater! Long time no see!" Dick greeted as he watched Aqualad take his hand off of his shoulder the red glow leaving before he could notice it.

"It had been a long time my friend, but I am not alone I have my frie-" Aqualad was cut off as Dick looked over his shoulder shouting, "This day gets better and better doesn't it?!" Dick saw Miss Martian, Superboy, and Kidflash.

Dick waved to them as he continued to talk to Aqualad, "So what do you want? I don't suppose you came to me for a tea party?" Dick put his hands onto his cheeks and said over dramatically "Wait did you??"

Aqualad smiled as he continued, "We have been sent here to offer you a place on our team" Dick smiled as he started to walk away, "Sorry I don't do well on teams! I already have a handful in my personal life!"

Ashamed tried to continue to convince Dick to join ther team as Dick suddenly remembered something, "Oh yeah!" Dick turned around to face Aqualad as he pushed past him heading towards the other 3.

"Could I have a high five?" Dick asked as he grinned at the others raising his hand to the others, Miss Martian smiled as she high fived Dick as she pulled her hand away the red fading, 'marked' Dick thought as he waited for a high five from superboy, but got none so Dick just patted his shoulder. 'Marked'

Dick walked up to Kidflash who already had his hand up waiting for an highfive, "on 3!" Yelled Dick "1!" Started Kidflash, "2!" Dick said as he raised his hand to meet Kid's, "3!!" They both said in unison as they both high fived each other as hard as they could.

Dick held his hand in pain as Kid jumped around holding his hand yelling "ow!"over and over again, after Dick recovered he quickly said, "well this was fun gotta go now!" Throwing down a smoke bomb as he disappeared into the night.

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Hope you enjoyed this and happy 4th of July!! I will try and update this book every Monday! Note I said 'try'

Stay whelmed 🙌