BLUDHAVEN (Nightwing Fan Fic)

Chapter 22 (EDITED)

~~SCARLETT~~

I felt a bright light blinding me where I felt my hands and my legs were strapped down to some sort of bed where I looked seeing I had wires connected to my head and chest. I wasn't too thrilled on having them on my skin but I could move to rip them off.

"Scarlett...relax, you safe." Dick replied coming into my sight where I felt even more anger pulsing through my blood. I could see I was in some sort of cave and if Dick was Nightwing that means I was in the famous Batcave I heard about. Everything was piecing together in my brain where I saw a figure dressed up in black come forward from behind Dick.

"Safe? I'm strapped to a metal table with wires attached to my head and brain waves are on that monitor. You're saying I'm safe?" I answered where I saw the pointy ears behind him and I knew who it was, it was the Dark Knight himself.

"I see the rage you mentioned." The deep voice replied where I squint my eyes almost like I could see passed his mask and I knew exactly who it was.

"Bruce Wayne I'm guessing?" I exclaimed where both Dick and the Dark Knight squinted slightly and I knew I was right where they both walked away to discuss something. That told me that I was correct with my guess. "I know I'm right it's obvious because if Dick is Nightwing and you adopted him that has to mean you trained him and you are the Dark Knight." Batman pulled his mask off revealing that I was right that he was Batman before walking back over to me coming face to face with his glares.

"Do I need to worry about you?" he replied in his normal voice where I looked back at him piercing his eyes showing no fear.

"Are you trying to threaten me?" I asked where he looked at me before giving me a sly smirk before undoing the straps on my legs and arms almost like he was confident enough to let me go.

"I know that Dick trusts you enough with his identity so I guess I should trust you with mine. We need to run our tests to find a way to create the Antiserum and with any information you have on Desmond please inform us." Bruce explained where I was still angry not wanting anyone's help but with the rage inside trying to control me I guess I had to tell them the truth now.

"What do you want to know?" I asked sitting on the metal table where Dick was leaning against the wall still dressed in his Nightwing gear without his mask on and I could see two others nearby. There was a young boy in what looked like a training area and there was a redhead by the supercomputer analyzing what looked like my DNA.

"Why don't we start how is your DNA looking like that it looks almost inhuman? Desmond's DNA was altered by the Serum but it doesn't look like that." Bruce recommended where I knew this was going to be a very long story.

"Well you learned about my father's murder and my mother was taken by Desmond in order to create the Antiserum that would revert Blockbuster back to normal while he retained his powers. She created the Antiserum a long time ago and then the explosion destroyed the compound and injured my mother. She became very sick until she gave birth to me and then she got better completely out of the blue. When I was born she noticed that there was something wrong with me and that seemed to catch Desmond's eye." I started where I could see the young boy and the redhead woman coming over to listen to my story.

"What was wrong that caught his eye?" the redhead woman asked where I looked over sighing that part was the complicated portion.

"That is the complicated part of this long story, one day my mother found me sitting on the blacktop as a baby during one of the hottest day in the summer and she freaked out because I had second degree burns on my legs but I didn't even feel it." I replied where everyone looked at one another where I didn't have the scars anymore since my healing fixed it.

"The doctor diagnosed you with CIPA didn't he?" Bruce asked where I turned nodding at him where everyone turned to look at him.

"What's CIPA?" the young boy questioned he looked about ten or eleven to be here, he must be the new Robin since Dick is Nightwing it made sense.

"Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and Anhidrosis it's a rare disorder that the effects the nervous system that prevents the sensation of pain, heat, cold or any real nerve related sensation. That explains how she didn't feel any pain when she was shot or when she dislocated her shoulder to break Dick's armbar." The red hair girl exclaimed where Dick seemed to remember me getting shot and punching my shoulder to pop it out without showing any sign of pain.

"You can't feel pain? That's amazing...can you prove that?" the little boy replied with a huge grin on his face where I looked at him giving him a smile.

"I could...but I need Dick or Bruce help?" I offered where Dick took a step forward not sure what I had planned where I lifted my arm for him to take. "Dick would you mind breaking my arm?" Dick was shocked by my request where I nodded at him signalling that it would be alright where he took my hand placing some pressure on my wrist until a loud snap echoed in the silence. I barely flinched to the pain showing the young boy my hand where he saw the bruising forming around the wrist. I then moved it in a circle three times until the bones reformed cracking all of the bones in my wrist until it was back to normal and the bruise faded.

"That's so cool." the young boy replied where I smiled at the little boys amazement where I returned to my conversation with Dick and Bruce. 

"Though that was not the only thing that caught Desmond's eye, he was watching me for years and saw that I rarely sick which my mother performed her own experiment finding out not only was I immune to pain but immune to all types of diseases and sicknesses. Desmond figured out that with my DNA to be like that it that is almost inhuman could only mean one thing." I explained where Dick went wide eye when I looked over seeing if he caught on with my explanation.

"The explosion happened when your mother was pregnant with you; she inhaled the viral chemicals mutating your DNA causing your immunity to both pain and diseases so Blockbuster knowing this knows that your blood is the key to the Antiserum. If he gets your blood then he can develop the immunity to disease and pain so he would be invincible." Dick explained where I nodded at him where I could see everyone' interest was now perking up.

"If Desmond gets my blood, he gets the Antiserum's final ingredient and my mother made sure that he would never get it." I explained where everyone stood there while I then sighed feeling a slight sigh of relief, telling that story made me feel a bit better since I hid this for so long.