Titans: City of Fear

Saving Carrot Top PT.1

Wayne Manor, Gotham City, NJ
December 20th, 9:41 p.m.

"Well, I suppose I should give some backstory to the situation, shouldn't I?"

"It was gonna be a cold night in Crime Alley, of course it was always cold there but it was never as bad as this." Jason's voice narrated as Helena listened intently. "It was said that there's going to be a blizzard that night, so the second I heard the word blizzard I immediately bolted down to the Batcave."

"As you know, that snow storm was supposed to be the worst Gotham's had in years and so that meant not leaving the house for the fortunate and possibly dying of hypothermia for the homeless and Bruce must have completely forgotten that I used to be among the homeless because he was confused as to why I was going down to the Batcave to suit up and at first I didn't think much of it, I had previously told myself that the reason for his confusion was because he was worried that I might freeze out there, but now I realize the reason he was confused as to why I was so intent on going to help them was because he had forgotten I wasn't Dick, that I wasn't already in an orphanage before he took me in."

"But I'm getting off track, so allow me to stop talking about how as long as I'm Robin I will always get compared to Grayson and continue to tell the story."
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Wayne Manor, Gotham City, NJ
December 20th, 9:45 p.m.

When Bruce and Alfred finally caught up to me in the Batcave, only Bruce still confused as to why I was fully geared up, that was until Alfred spoke up and asked me so Bruce didn't have to. "Master Jason, would you like to inform Master Bruce and I as to why you're in uniform getting ready to head into the city during a blizzard?"

"Because Alfred, like the meteorologist said, tonight's storm is going to be the worst Gotham has had in years and while the fortunate will be safe for the time being, the homeless don't have anywhere to go and no places for warmth, especially the kids."

"And how do you plan on helping? Because we most certainly can't bring them here, not only because we need to maintain our secret identities but also because the batmobile doesn't have enough space to transport all those people and isn't fast enough to get all those people here before the storm hits." Bruce had said that like he'd just crunched those numbers in his head, but given the fact that he's Batman he probably did.

Because of this I was inclined to believe him, but it wasn't like what he said would be any less true otherwise, so luckily I had already planned for the store ahead of time. "Then it's a good thing the Batcomputer had already alerted me of the blizzard a week ago, giving me the chance to prepare warehouses ahead of time." I said this while pulling up a map of Gotham on the Batcomputer and highlighting The 4 Warehouse locations.

"Jason, how did you pay for those warehouses?" Now I already knew Bruce would have eventually asked me that question, so I didn't have time to think of anything to lie my way out of the question, not that I think Bruce would have actually fallen for it.

"Heh, so you know how you have that trust bond for me? Yeah, I kind of took the money from there and bought the warehouses in your name."  I definitely ticked off Bruce that night, but I wouldn't get a scolding for it until a couple weeks later. "Anyway how I got the warehouses are beside the point, the point is I need to get to all of them and make sure everyone is accounted for."

Bruce looked impressed before showing visible confusion once again. "What do you mean to make sure everyone has been accounted for?"

"Right….. that. Alright so for the past week after I got the warehouses I started collecting info on all of the homeless in Gotham and started sorting them into the separate warehouses depending on where they were in the city, but the one on the outskirts of Crime Alley is special, why? Because I know personally that Crime Alley has the highest population of homeless kids and for a lot of them this is their first blizzard, which makes it even more unlikely that they'll survive it."