Chapter five

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The first person up was Natasha, she was up at about five I think, but I was up all night because you know, Gotham never sleeps, I took my nightly doze at around six to wake up at eight thirty, when I would get up to go school.
By the time I woke up, the team was already in the kitchen eating breakfast.

I had taken my uniform off, and dressed in some of the clothes that were part of my emergency civilian clothes pack in my belt. There were some grey sweatpants that hung on my hips, slightly exposing, my muscular abdomen, with that I also wore a black T-shirt, and I was rubbing my exposed blue eyes when I walked in.

The older heroes seemed shocked that I was in anything other than my uniform. I waved them off in the hopes of finding some coffee.

Once situated at the table I finally addressed the stares.

"Could you guys please stop staring at me?"

"Your eyes are so blue!!!" I think his name was Hawkeye exclaimed.

"Yeah it kind of runs in my family..." I stopped in favor of sipping the caffeinated beverage.

"So last night you said you'd answer our questions" blondie trailed off

"Well ask away"

"Why did you finally decide to trust us?" Natasha asked.

"Because after close examination I determined that you were all trust worthy"

"Why did you choose to become a hero?"

Of coarse one of the hardest questions.

"After my parents died" my voice caught in emotion as their deaths played its self in my mind "a man named Bruce
Wayne took me in, he had experienced a similar experience when he was eight, same as me, except his parents were shot in a mugging, mine" I stopped for a second "m-mine died because, while we were in the circus our ring master refused to pay protection money towards a gang, while we were in a city called Gotham, this city is known as one of the most crime ridden cities in the entire United States, anyway the gang sabotaged the trapeze ropes, and while my parents were performing an act without a net, the rope snapped right before I was about to go on with them, they fell to their deaths, and I watched helplessly from the top of the platform" I paused and wiped tears that I knew were steaming out of my eyes only to look up and see everyone else doing the same. "Anyways after Bruce took me in, I found out he was what we call Batman, he has many names but he scares the crap out of any criminal lowlife, and so I decided to join him, I took my old circus costume, outfitted it with all sorts of gadgets and almost went after the man who killed my parents, Bruce found me however and helped me catch him, instead of kill him. After that we became known as the dynamic duo, we can read each other with just a look, and I have another team, so does Batman, they however do not know our secret identities, and it'll stay that way until Batman sees fit to tell them.

In my world Bruce Wayne is a very famous person, much like Tony, except nobody knows he's Batman, everyone thinks he's some idiot rich boy, and I am his ward, my name is Richard Grayson, but you may call me dick.

In Gotham we have the craziest of the crazy, one villain who takes the cake, his name is Joker, he's so crazy that every time he commits a mass killing, he laughs and then when he's caught, he pleads insanity and gets off death row.

We have other villains some aren't completely insane, such as poison ivy, who can manipulate any plants, two face, but he leaves everything he does up to a coin to decide especially if he's about to kill someone, there's penguin, who is just a rich guy who steals anything bird related, Harley Quinn is actually as insane as the joker and is his partner in crime, but she can be reasoned with, there's Bane who is amped up on drugs and broke Batman's back with his bare hands, and lastly we have the riddler who likes to have riddles to solve, usually to save someone's life, or to see what he's planning.

I've been captured many times, and beaten within an inch of my life, but it's all worth it if I can save someone or take their place."

I looked up, and saw shock and a little bit of awe in every person's face even, black widow but she seems like the kind of person who doesn't like to display her feelings.

I finished off my caffeine, and in walked another teenager, he was also rubbing his eyes.

He was dressed in some jeans, a science pun shirt, and a jacket.

He also had a backpack on his back, so assumed that he was going to school, being homeschooled, and going to an academy my entire school career, I have never seen someone dressed so casually for school.

"Peter!! This is Dick Grayson, he'll be staying with us for a little while, Dick this is peter, he lives at the tower, and was just heading off to school." Tony introduced.

"Dick if you want to, you can go to school with him." Blondie told me.

I considered it, I'm certainly more advanced than people who are my age, and I already go to high school, so why not.

"Fine, just let me go get dressed" I said, walking back to my room.

Once inside my room, I dressed in my other civilian clothes, and grabbed one of the collapsible backpacks, and stored my suit in one of the hidden compartments in it.

I then put my utility belt in stealth mode, and put the now expensive looking belt on over my clothes.

I put a blue jacket on, and walked into the living room, where peter was waiting

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I put a blue jacket on, and walked into the living room, where peter was waiting.

"Hi peter, I'm Dick, how're you?"

"Uh- I'm good, um listen at school I'm a nobody, people don't even know I live here, but they know that I intern at the tower, so just please don't say anything."

"Relax peter I've been doing this since I was nine, you'll be fine, let's go"

Peter nodded, and we got into the elevator to take us down.

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