Present: The Battle That Starts To End Everything

The shouted statement was met with silence, until Winter Angel broke it before the questions or panic could start. "Nightwing." He nodded and quickly left. Some looked like they wanted to protest.

"Lucy, grab your weapons, you're going out into the field." Winter Angel continued, ignoring the heroes. Instead looking at her wrist where a type of holographic computer. Something no one else noticed was there, not even the bats.

"What?" Lucy looked surprised and excited by the statement.

"Suit up and get to The Workshop." Winter replied. Lucy's face lit up. "Yes!" She shouted, then cleared her throat looking serious. "Rodger." She too left.

Winter looked up with an raised eyebrow amused. "Did I just make a mistake?" She asked Fred.

He frowned, thinking. "We need to let her go, don't we?" He asked instead.

"She is the baby."

"That doesn't answer the question." He glared back.

Winter Angel looked sad. "We have to let her go. You have to let her go. Just like I had let you go. Can you go meet up with Nightwing, please?" She asked, not looking at him in fear for another argument.

Fred frowned and left without a word.

Winter closed her eyes, taking a deep breath.

"Something happened between you two?" Superboy asked, looking a little concerned. He remembered how Dick was back when he was Robin, and how he didn't like how Superman treated Connor. He asked thinking Dick wanted to help Winter Angel with her family problems. It seemed like Black Frost and Nightwing were closer than Nightwing and Winter Angel are.

Winter Angel looked like she was lost in thought.

"You're twins." Batman stated.

Winter Angel stared at him. "Yeah. I'm the older twin. The oldest sibling. The one who wasn't suppose to live longer than nine days." She sighed, stress weighing on her body.

"We should get going."

~

Wally was buzzing with energy. Once Winter Angel had brought them back into the room where they had used the zeta tubes to get to The Nest, apparently it was called The Workshop, and met with Lucy who was called Firecracker as a codename.

Winter Angel told us to go through the zeta tube to get to the fight, she had Lucy, or Firecracker, go with us. Winter's only condition being for Robin to stay at The Nest to recover and to help run mission base with Lou. Robin wanted to argue, but Daddybats told him to stay.

He stayed, and everyone else was off. Once they stepped through the zeta tube, they were in a field across from an old abandoned car factory outside of Gotham. Winter left at that time, answering her phone and explaining she had somewhere else she needed to be. Firecracker took over and explained what they would find when they went into the factory. When they went in, it didn't really prepared them too much.

~

The battle raged on. The last of the Talons that fell through The Nest's radar had banded together to try and take the residents of The Nest out for good. Until The Nest brought the Team and Justice League.

Since Nightwing and Black Frost took down the masterminds behind the Court of Owls, it was only the foot soldiers left. With no clear orders within the Talons it was chaotic.

Normally if they were just low-life criminals, it wouldn't have been that bad, but they were trained assassins. They actually knew what they were doing.

With the help of Robin and Lou, the heroes ran into the fray to join Nightwing, Fred who was called Snow Raven, Stan, Spike, and Black Frost.

~

As the battled continued around them, many noticed the residents of The Nest killing the Talons. Some wanted to call them out on it, until Beast Boy accidently bit a Talon too hard, causing him to bleed out did they find out why.

The Talon's wounds started to close up before he hit the ground, making Beast Boy tumble back in shock. The Talon moved forward, but a shot rang out, hitting him in the head, killing him instantly. Black Frost held the smoking gun, pointed at the scene. "They heal and come back! They're already died, go for the kill!" She shouted over the noise for everyone to hear.

Most nodded. Many hesitantly doing it, and some doing all that they can, while a few didn't listen to her.

And the battle continued.

~

At one point, Batman found himself back-to-back with Black Frost, fighting in sync as if they had been fighting for years.

Ducking down, Batman heard a shot go over his head, hitting a Talon that was about to slash Batman with his sword. "Did Nightwing teach you how to fight with me?" Batman asked, gravelly voice hinting suspicion.

"Relax, Bats-Duck!-I figured you out when I was little, back when you first started out. I have known all of the identities of the Justice League since everyone of you became heroes. Nightwing-Left!-didn't have to tell me." She answered, yelling out commands as she did.

Batman nodded, he figured she knew something along those lines. Black Frost's operations happened when a hero wasn't there like she knew they were busy with their civilian life.

"Can I ask you something?" He asked, punching a Talon that was going for her unprotected side.

"Of course."

"What is your relationship with Nightwing?" He asked, kicking another out of the way.

Before she could answer, a ball was dropped in the middle of the group that was surrounding them. Black Frost's eyes widened, pushing Batman away, the ball exploded.

When the dust cleared, Nightwing was kneeling in the circle that the ball had created, leaving dead bodies on the ground. "Winter, we need to-" He cut himself off, staring at Batman, who was staring at Black Frost.

She sighed and pinched her nose. "This is as good of a time as any..." She took off a bracelet that was around her right ankle. Her body shimmered until Winter Angel stood in her place, wearing a suit similar to the Renegade suit. "To answer your question, B, I'm married to your son." She answered, grabbing Nightwing's arm and leading him into the battle that was starting to slow down.

Disappearing into the crowd of heroes and Talons, Winter Angel lost Nightwing in the crowd as he left to confront the Talon who tried killing Robin, his little brother.

~MsPenguingirl1234.

Published: July 4, 2017.