Chapter 25

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Flame watched as Darkness pretended to die. He watched her fake tears stroll down her cheeks and two men came running towards her dying body. The first man was older, much older than the second man. He was wearing a tux and he grabbed her trembling hand. The second man was wearing a kind of suit that looked familiar. Flame couldn't tell from the lack of streetlights in the area.

'This was not part of the plan.' Flame thought scolding himself for not thinking about every possibility. 'I didn't think about the civilians.'

Flame was wearing his 'new outfit.' It was red with a bit of orange, the color of fire. It's not the best for spying, but he never did need to spy. In the agency, all he needed to do was fight and drive. He did take some lives, but back then they were necessary for his survival. He put on his red mask that had flames on them.

'What do we do now?' Flame asked through the intercom. 'Who are they?'

'Go in as her partner. Act devastated.' Sibyl said. 'We can't leave without her.'

'Guys, the agents are heading towards Bruce and Nightwing.' Sparrow said. 'I'll pretend to shot them so they can run back to the van and leave.' Three loud bangs followed after Sparrow spoken.

Flame sighed loudly and prepared to get ready to run towards Darkness. He was never good at acting and hopefully he'll be convincing enough. "Darkness!" He yelled as he pretended to pant. "Where are you?" When Bruce and Nightwing had a clear view of him he stopped. Pretending to see Darkness on the ground with a small trail of blood that came out of her mouth. "Darkness?" Flame ran towards Darkness and took her 'dead' body from Bruce and Nightwing. He put her in his arms as fake tears streamed down his face. "Darkness... wake up. Please..." His voice began to crack. "Wake up."

Nightwing put a hand on his shoulder, "Was she your partner?"

"Yes... I am/was her partner." Flame said avoiding any eye contact. "She deserved better than me though."

"I'm sure that isn't true." Bruce said as he glanced at Flame. "I'm sure she was glad to be your partner."

"Yeah, until the end when I couldn't save her." Flame said finally making eye contact with both Nightwing and Bruce.

"You did your best." Bruce said putting a gentle hand on Flame's shaking shoulder. "That's all she could ask for."

"But it wasn't enough." Flame said as he picked up her dead body and stood up. He ran into the darkness leaving Bruce and Nightwing alone in the dark.

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Agent Black Bird parked the truck and Scarlet rush out. Blaze just coolly got off with his hands in his pants pockets. "Hurry up Blaze!" Scarlet yelled as she ran out of the room.

"Yeah. Yeah." Blaze said continuing to walk in the same pace as before. 'What will happen to me?' Blaze thought. 'I didn't kill Scarlet on the mission. I barely got to do anything. Is it alright to secretly hope that the shooter that shot at us would shot Scarlet. As mean as it sounds at least her blood wouldn't be on my hands and I would have never betray her. It would have been better, but now I'll have to suffer the consequences.'

Blaze walked a little faster to catch up to Scarlet despite of what could happen. He saw her waiting patiently for him outside of the director's door. Silently sighing to himself mentally preparing for his gruesome fate he knocked on the door.

"Come in." The director's voice said. Blaze hesitantly opened the door and walked in with Scarlet trailing behind him. He closed the door silently and turned back to the Director. "What do you want?" His voice sounded calm yet it made Blaze uncomfortable.

"We have to some information on Darkness." Scarlet said to him. She held her head up high as if she wasn't afraid of him and anything he can do. If only that was true. Scarlet was terrified at the aroma of the room and she would like to leave as fast as possible.

"And that is?" The Director looked at both Blaze and Scarlet with an eyebrow raised.

"She's dead sir." Blaze said with an emotionless voice.

"Dead?" The Director asked almost as if he was trying to confirm what they had said.

"Yes." Scarlet said. "We saw her get shot somewhere near her heart. There was no exit wound so the bullet is still inside the wound. If she did make it to a hospital before dying they wouldn't have been able to save her. She most likely would have had internal bleeding from the bullet wound."

"Do you know who killed her?" The Director asked.

Blaze shook his head, "No... Whoever they began to shoot us as well."

The Director began to think and said, "You may go."

Blaze and Scarlet nodded as they left the Director to think about his new enemy.

~~~

Dick sighed as he knew he was going to have to tell the team about what happened when they left. He was expecting all of them to arrive before telling them. He didn't want to repeat the horrible news he was going to give.

Darkness was dead, that's all that he thinks about. About the girl how saved Bruce, the man that gave him a home when his parents died and now she's gone. He wanted her to be on the team.

Dick didn't know she had a partner and his devastated when he saw her on the ground was truly heartbreaking. It looked like he really cared about her like a good partner would do.

"Why did you wake us up for?" Garfield asked drowsing. His eyes were half closed, but he kept himself awake.

"I'll tell you..." Dick looked at the others, "I'll tell all of you when everyone gets here." His voice was completely serious and everyone tensed. They knew this wasn't good news.

"Sorry I'm late amigo." Jaime asked wearing a blue hoodie on his head. He looked at Dick and immediately felt the tense atmosphere in the room.

"We're all here. What is this about Nightwing?" Bumblebee asked yawning slightly at the end of her sentence.

Dick took a deep breath. He didn't want to look or sound weak in front of the others especially with the news he was about to give them. "It's about Darkness." He tried to keep a steady voice. "When all of you left Bruce and I saw her running away from someone and... They shot her."

Megan gasped loudly, "Is she okay?"

Dick looked at his team. They all had worried faces except for Cassie. "She..." He didn't know how to break the news to them. "She's dead."

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